Back in Bangkok
Ryan raises his hand and shoots a glowing blast at the staggered mistress, knocking her into the wall and she lands prone, unable to move. Leaving an indentation in the wall next to Anika, she is battered and unconscious.
Ryan rolls a 24 to strike the Mistress who is stunned. She is hit, and rolls a damage save of 12 total, she is now unconscious and has two stun hits to add to her injuries.
Anika focuses her power on Strength, but his will is as strong as his monstrous strength and he does not bend to the will of Anika’s attack not in the slightest! In fact he grins, looking at the young elite with clenched fists…
Strength rolls a 22 versus the DC of 18 for the Possession attack. He is not possessed.
The seven remaining thugs seeing that they are horribly outmatched take cover behind the tables taking shots at Anika, Kiyana, and Ryan, but none are fruitful in their actions, they are obviously frightened beyond their wits and just trying to not get killed in the process.
The seven thugs make horrible rolls, and just look horribly inefficient.
The Mistress is down, but Strength is still up, he shatters the watery bonds holding him back and charges Anika, after her attempt at trying to possess him with her elite sorcery! He charges sixty feet towards her and unleashes a powerful punch towards the elite! Anika is slammed through the wall out into the street, knocked back 35 feet and lands in a heap on the pavement, passer byes and the growing crowd gasp at the wounded elite.
Strength charges and gains a +2 to his roll; he rolls a 26 total strike. Anika makes a total Damage Save of 17 and is wounded, she takes 1 Lethal hit and is stunned by the blow!
Yoshi stumbles behind cover, trying to stay conscious, as Black Heaven descends the stairway floating down into the room, and immediately using his power to create a black misty fog, that obscures vision, blocking Ryan, Yoshi, and Mark’s view of Strength and Black Heaven. The thugs are still visible, as is Kiyana, but Anika, the main entrance and Strength is not.
Yoshi made a move action and took cover, one-half cover, while Black Heaven made a move action then created an obscure effect to hamper the heroes. It is now Mark’s turn.
Kelly
Tommy listens, “Interesting,” is all he says as he pauses to take her words in, “I did not think you were that civic-minded.”
“I don’t want to get ahead of myself though, if such a thing were planned or even envisioned it would be a massive undertaking, but something easily accomplished by elites especially with proper guidance, and incentives,” he paused, “but there are many that are not ready for something so different, many revel in their ties to humanity and prefer the lives they have now. But I digress, it would be an interesting experiment,” he finishes.
“Lets get something to eat, and I will give you a tour of the Hive proper, and maybe of a few choice projects that I have been tinkering with,” he says with a sly smile.
Karen
“I am sorry, I know it must be hard for you, that was the hardest lesson for me to learn myself, dealing with the death of a loved one. I lost my brother to a drunk driver when I was young,” he holds Karen close, “Look why don’t we head back to your room, and just relax, I know its hard, but we still have something important to do tomorrow,” he says.
Cassie
“Yeah, yeah I know we got off on the wrong foot, its my nature I just don’t get along well with people, never really have, they tend to annoy me. I guess I am just an angry person, but I am trying to change that, hard to do, being around all these dorks, but I am trying. And you are right, not too many elites can handle you, but I know I can take you,” he smirks, placing an arm around her, “why don’t workout some, blow off some steam before tomorrow night.”