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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Calinon" data-source="post: 2155650" data-attributes="member: 13737">EPIC HeadquartersMega-city of New YorkOctober 27, 2120OUTSIDEJay quickly pulls on his helmet and spots a figure in black leathery armor quickly dashing down the wall.  The figure, easily a few hundred feet away, glances back, and turns to dash through the underbrush, away from the wall.  With no chance to grab hold of someone so distant, you pull your rifle off and, flipping a switch, attempt to incapacitate the person.Attack roll:  17 (includes -4 penalty for range) hitsFortitude save (DC18):  12 fails (target is fatigued and can no longer sprint).Michelle and Tara see a black beam strike mid-air.  There is obviously someone fleeing along the wall, several hundred feet ahead.  Tara leaps ahead in a pair of jumps, trying to close ground on where the beam struck and pretty much ignoring Michelle's direction.  She's still quite some distance away however.  Thunder, however, hears what you say and shouts back, "I can't see a damn thing; they must be cloaked somehow!"OOC:  Jay:  Being warned, he was well on his way away from you, and moving quickly.  Rather than wasting your boost on a person so distant, you had this nifty gun...Michelle:  You can try to hit him, but with range penalties and him being invisible, and not being exactly sure how far ahead he is, it will be hard to do.  Basically, you need to tell me how far ahead you are aiming for, and probably will need to use an area attack to have a hope in heck of hitting anything.  Your forcefield is now up.The M-Tac agent dashes into the trees, but only Jay can see him.  He has nearly full cover from the underbrush.Initiatives:  Thunder 20, M-Tac 18, Jay 17, Michelle 14, Tara 13Jay is up.Speed DemonIniative order: Speed Demon, Kodiak, Rebound, M-Tac (2S, 1L, stunned, fatigued)Across the institute, Speed Demon bursts out of the girls dorm, the swinging door launching into the field.  Quickly looking right and left, he spots the M-Tac operative dashing towards the wall and gives chase.  The man is running full out, forgoing all hopes of defense for a hope of escaping over the wall.  Of course, he is trying to outrun one of the fastest people alive, but he's doing an admiral job.Vince charges after him, shooting his tail past his own hip to stab the M-Tac operative in the back.  The barb shoots into the man, through his armor, and Vince lets loose a dose of poison to try to paralyze the man.  Somehow, the man keeps from being frozen by the poison injection.Attack roll:  14 (includes +2 from charge) hitsDamage save (DC19):  15 fails (1L)Will save (DC11):  9 - VP becomes 11 (succeeds)Breathing hard and with several hundred feet to go before reaching the wall, he continues to run, stumbling a bit from the exertion, in a futile attempt to get away.  As you give chase, a soccer ball flies from slightly to your right, impacting the man with surprising force and a nice SPROING sound, he reels from the blow, nearly falling.Kodiak hurls a soccer ball from about 300 feet awayAttack roll:  Natural 20Damage save (DC21):  15 fails (1S, stunned)"I got him!  I got him!" shouts Rebound as he bounds along towards the staggered man.  He's not going to reach him this moment though.Vince is up again.  This poor fellow has yet to be able to use his dodge bonus to defense.CAFETERIALoki 22, Neutron 14, M-Tac 12 (snared), Raisa 11, Johan 3A cord appears out of thin air, and instantly cinches itself around the woman's torso.  Her arms get pinned effectively, but her legs are still free.Attack roll:  17 hitsReflex save (DC17):  10 fails (snared [-2 attack, -4 dexterity])She uses her free legs to make a break for it, charging through the door, then immediately re-entering and bolting for another exit for some reason.  She nearly makes it.Raisa, holding her plate in one hand, rips a support post from the ruined buffet table and sends it spinning across the room at knee height.  It hits the M-Tac operative in the leg with painful force, knocking her to the floor.  Raisa considers walking over to club her, but the point is moot as the tied up, flour covered, prone woman is jumped by a gang of students and pinned to the floor.  Then she is pounded six ways to Tuesday.  There is a chance for more than casual injury going on as more students get in on the fray...From somewhere in the midst you hear a shriek of "Ow!  By dose!"Meanwhile, Carl has Mr. Bunny pinned to the ground and is proceeding to feed him... a bunch of punches to the head.TARMAC"Nothing the others cannot handle, I am sure," Jun Po replies to X12.  "A few uninvited trespassers by the sounds of things.  It is good to see you well, X12," Jun Po says.  "I was telling Michael of the events that lead to his being sent to Master Wen's academy."  She seems to ignore Monica, and is obviously not happy with the girl.</blockquote>

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