Guardians -Welcome to the Wild Wild West

[Argent Silvermage]

Tornado, 4/4 4/4 0/S 0/L wind shield +8

ooc:Travis takes to the air and summons a storm.

Travis now a bit used to showing them all "just how big they grow them in Texas" is far more comfortable in the suit. He starts spinning in mid-air and lifts 40' above the group. Lightning cascades around his wind funnel and the weather turns nasty just above the enemy.

 

[Synchronicity]

Lightspeed, 4/4, 0S/0L

Chris grins at the appearance of the robots. "Y'know, we should probably spread out a bit in case they have explosives or the like. Robots love their explosives. And ladies and gentlemen...try to keep up." He bounces lightly in place for a moment as he speaks, and with a wink and a smile is suddenly gone, sprinting off at an angle to the robots. A trail of light glows brightly on the ground behind him for several seconds before beginning to slowly fade away.

OOC:
[Free action]: Declare Dodge vs. all enemies (Makes Defense 26)
[Half action]: Activate Super-Speed; free action to sustain hereafter.
[Half action]: Move up to 70ft towards the robots at an angle. Aim to end up to the right of the group, and about 40ft from the robot closest to me. See my crude diagram!

Robots

Lightspeed​

Group

 

[Super Girl]

Lucy gives a quick start at the telepathic voice in her head and then relaxes, it was weird having someone in your head, very weird. "We were, kinda, we went to a few partys together, but well, I'm here and not in LA, so we probably wont be, I mean, he could get here if he wanted, but the whole mutant thing kind of weirded him out. Oh well, its not like it was serious or anything, it was just fooling around." the starlet says, brushing it off. "Besides boy bands are a dime a dozen, I want someone who doesn't get called 'boy' all the time."

As she makes her way out to the Pod room and sees the men in their very clingy suits, she whistles at them, and winks. "Maybe these suits are less of a bad idea then I thought, I could get used to this." she jokes, doing her best to make the guys blush. When the Colonel invites them to the podroom one by one, she curses softly at the feeling of the ice running up and down on her. "This is just weird," she murmurs as she steps into her pod. "I got dibs on being General next time." she jokes before being sealed into the pod.

As the VR goes active and she finds herself in the Stadium, Lucy grins "Wicked." she murmurs. At the rise of the opponents, Karma chews at her lip in nervousness, before it had been like random, she hadn't done it consciuosly, she wasn't a soldier or anything, she didn't have any weapons, or attack powers, all she could think of was that she was glad it was VR otherwise she would be one dead star. Doing what came naturally though, she started calling out insults to Sgt. whats his name, trying to distract him, piss him off, make him charge blindly. "Hey sergeant, your momma wears combat boots, and your father is a son of a mother-less goat. I bet you couldn't even take me on without all these robots to protect you." she taunts, continuing on in a constant stream of verbal abuse that would make many of her fans blink.

OOC:
Half action, taunt 1D20+10, to get him to charge at me. If the others move, she'll use her move action to keep up, otherwise, she'll just weight there.

 

[Keia]

Phoenix (Brandon Laine) 4/4 0/S 0/L Armor +8

Hallway outside of the 'pod' room:

"Welcome Brandon Laine, Phoenix. Fire Control level Mu primary. VRT chamber 8 is assigned to you."

“At least that’s a good sign,” Brandon muttered, noting the chamber number, “8 . . . 80, close enough.”

"Please take off your sunglasses." As you remove your glasses the tech shivers slightly. "The patches go on your temples."

“Don’t worry, dude,” Brandon replied. “I get that all the time . . . now. It's not like I'm Ghost Rider or something.”

Roman Coliseum:

“Interesting,” Brandon replied, “At least we have numbers on them . . . .”

Brandon launched himself into the air, but didn’t quite feel the living fire burst to life within him. ’Guess it’s because of the simulation’ Brandon thought. Airborne, he moved the same direction as Lightspeed but climbed in the air at the same time, ending up 40 ft. to right, 40 ft. forward, 40 ft. in the air. Phoenix stayed wary, looking for incoming fire.

OOC: Flight, double move, gaining altitude and separation from the others. Dodge to all, fighting defensively (+3 to dodge - from 5 ranks in acrobatics).

 

[Calinon]

Linda Longhorn 4/4 full health, +11 deflection

Linda appears in black and white army fatigues. "That's better," she says.

Linda arches an eyebrow at Mason Kim's derogatory remark toward Colonel Savage. "I'm pretty sure god can still here ya, partner," she says. "I think we sh..." she starts before the others all burst away, then trails off as Lucy starts insulting Sergeant Brano. "Right. Well I better go meet the likely angry horde about to descend upon us," she says a bit of a laugh. "Stay with me, Lindsey, and behind me. I doubt you can affect the robots, but lets see about awakening the little girl inside the good Sergeant," she says with a grin. "And Steve, lets see if you can make them more likely to hit me and not the others, mkay?" she adds, her hands and feet bursting into pink radiance and her energy field becoming faintly visible, pink horns extending from her helmet. "If you got ranged attacks, thin the herd," she says, moving forward with little regard for cover or evasion.

OOC Stuff:

Move forward 30 feet, keeping between the Sergeant and Lucy. Readied action to attack (Strike +11) the first 'bad guy' that gets into melee range. Deflection requires no conscious effort, has no limit to uses or penalties for multiple uses, and is +11.

Use a hero point on any damage or reflex save that gets less then 16 total.

 

[Gideon]

Training Day- Most of round 1

This is the first combat I have ever run in this system. For this reason I will be placing the rolls in OOC under the descriptions. It is quite possible that I will make a mistake. Feel free to correct me if I am wrong.

Initiative: Leprechaun-25, Pheonix-24, Lightspeed-23, Aztec-20, Whisper-19, Tornado-15, Longhorn-12, Banjax-11, Sgt. Brano-10, Karma-8, MK 193s-5, Carbon-4


Coliseum:

BZZZZZ! A blinding flash of blue light streaks between the center robots turning the grainy field into smooth glass. As your eyes clear you feel the hair on your arm on end. "GAME ON!"

A wave of intense heat suddenly washes over you bringing the first itchy sweat. The flaming form of Phoenix streaks away leaving a mote of dust swirling in his wake.

A second burst of motion streaks out from somewhere in the middle of the pack leaving a growing dust cloud in its glowing wake.

The tiny form of Sandra seems to melt as the stench of burning metal washes over what remains of the arc. As the quickly growing form of Aztec marches forward large imprints of the massive golden feet are left in its wake.

A soft touch brushes against your minds as the quiet ‘voice’ of Whisper speaks
All of us can speak with our minds one to another.

The distinct form of Travis begins to blur as his body begins to rotate around itself. Soon the blur of motion leaves the earth and rises above your heads leaving only a cloud of choking sand in its wake.

The slight pink glow of Longhorn begins moving forward fists calmly held clenched by her waist.

“Oh goody, they brought me some toys.” Mason suddenly disappears to reappear far to the right of the group close to the curving wall.

Two streams of cackling energy blast into the stone wall some 6” behind the streaking form of Lightspeed blowing out huge chunks of wall. With a whoosh of super-heated air Sgt Brano lifts above his robot compatriots attempting to correct the angle for his next shots.

OOC: Attacks of 13 and 16. Misses.

"Hey sergeant, your momma wears combat boots, and your father is a son of a mother-less goat. I bet you couldn't even take me on without all these robots to protect you."

The torrent of insults almost makes you feel sorry for the guy, until you see his arm swing towards Karma.
OOC: Taunt 23 vs Sense Motive 8

Twin blasts of energy slam into the wall around Banjax’s glowing blue form.
OOC: 11 and 9. Misses

As if on some designated cue the five other energy rifles clasped in the MK’s hands spring to life showering small globules of metal into the group.

Two of the small globes fly towards Longhorn one skipping short and exploding into a blast of energy leaving painful bruises all along the skin. The force of the explosion throws the cowgirl off of her feet. Unable to effectively dodge the second globule, it strikes home blowing the girl back past Karma and into blackness.

OOC: Attacks 7 and 17. 1st misses-area effect. Ref Save 15 fails. HP used Re-roll 6 fails. DMG Save 6 fails by 13-Unconsious. Second attack hits. Deflection roll 17, succeeds. DMG save vs DC18 is 19 - succeeds. 1 stun and unconsious

The next two globes fly into the 10 foot tall gold Aztec. The explosive capsules smash into the ground and the golden body raising a cloud of dust around the metal giant. As the dust clears Aztec stands unharmed.

OOC: Attacks of 9 and 23. Miss and hit. Ref Save Failed. DMG save 23 unharmed. 2nd attack DMG Save 22. Ref Save 23 saves. Damage Save 21 unharmed.

Two globes explode against the Coliseum wall bathing Pheonix and Lightspeed in a shower of stone chips and blasting concussive force.

OOC:
Pheonix 1st/ 2nd attacks- Ref 20/21 succeeds. DMG 15 fails by 3- 1 stun hit/DMG 21 saves.

Lightspeed: 1st/2nd attacks- Ref 22 saves/17 HP used 25 Saves. DMG 11 fails by 7 - 1 stun hit and stunned/ 5 fails by 13 - 1 stun hit and unconscious.

Four globes come flying into the unmoved back row blowing large holes in the sand and washing waves of energy over the assembled group.

OOC: Leprechaun, Whisper, Karma, Carbon each get hit with two area effects each.

Leprechaun – Ref 8/8 fails both, DMG 29 saves/26 saves. Two sevens followed by double
17s. Oh boy.

Whisper- Ref 2/17 fails/makes. DMG 24/21 makes/makes

Karma- Absorbed 12 ranks of energy.

Carbon – Ref 8/8 fails/fails, DMG – 7-HP re-roll 16/17: fails by 5/ fails by 4 - 2 stun
hits

The last robot lets off a barrage of globules towards the slightly blurred form of Banjax. Blowing large chunks out of the wall and slamming the Mason’s body into the wall driving the air from his lungs and knocking him off his feet.

OOC: 16 misses/23 hits. Ref save 8 fails. DMG saves 14/24 - fails by 7/ saves: 1 stun hit and stunned

Initiative paused for tyrlaan and Carbon’s action

 

[Argent Silvermage]

"Now that was not nice. Keep your weapons off the starlette. Lord knows we wouldn't stop hearing about it if she breaks a nail." Tornado says as he flies into the midst of the enemy and lets fly with a bladestorm attack.

 

[Keia]

Phoenix [Brandon Laine] HPs 3/4, 1S / 0L Armor +8

Phoenix spared a glance back at his teammates after the barrage of shrapnel grenades. Seeing everyone in trouble, He streaked toward the robots, hoping to draw fire and allow his teammates to recover.

"So, you dudes like the big explosions," Phoenix called, "Let's see what happens when I turn up the heat!!"

Phoenix releases his control a bit on the living fire allowing it to spread in a much greater area than normal in his attack, hitting all of the targets in a 40' radius (he blasted just behind the group to avoid hitting any of his approaching teammates. With some strain, he regains control.

OOC: Half Action: Fly 40'. Half action: Attack, Energy blast To hit toal +5 (+7 base -2 defensively) DC 23 L, using extra effort to make it Area effect, HP to ignore fatigue, Dodge vs. all, fighting defensively.

 

[Synchronicity]

Lightspeed, 2/4, 2S/0L, Unconscious (somewhat supercedes Stunned)

"Unh!" The breath was driven from Chris's lungs as the explosions slammed into him - hard. He dropped to the ground, but groggily tried to retain consciousness. 'Teach you to get cocky, Jones...'

OOC: Spend HP for Recovery check (DC 10). If successful:
[Half action]: Reactivate Super-Speed.
[Half action]: Bluff the robots into thinking I'm still down until my head clears. (i.e, until next round when I'm no longer at a -2 to attacks and such, and when I'll actually have a full round of actions to play with.) Bluff +2*, plus any modifiers for it being an especially believable bluff (heck, they just pummeled me with nasty-ass explosions, I'm believing I should be down! )

If I fail the Recovery check, I'll keep trying every round until I succeed or run out of HPs. Finally, I will not re-roll any further reflex saves this combat, nor damage saves when I have the benefit of Evasion. Vs Area attacks, I'll re-roll damage saves if the roll is below 12.

*I could mention my Attractive feat, adding another +3 if the robots find me all sexy 'n such. But I'm not gonna. Honest.

 

[Super Girl]

Karma, 3/4, 0 S/ 0 L, Absorbtion +8

Lucy gives a surpised yelp as she feels a tingling run the length of her body. The fact that all she feels is tingling instead of being, say, dead, makes the starlet grin, "Wicked." she exclaims. Then she sees that Linda has been blasted all the way back to land in an unmoving heap at her feet, and her eyes widen in shock. Linda was suppoused to be super-soldier-girl. This, was what she was suppoused to be good at, if the Soldier could fall so easily, what chance did any of the rest of them have, and looking around onlyconfirmed it, Chris was done unconscious, Mason looked like he was seeing stars. This was not even close to a fair fight, and that pissed her off, how good of a test could it possibly be if those things could just kill everyone with no effort. No one had even attacked any of them, let alone hurt one.

Lucy felt the tingling through out her body intensify, and she willed it into her hands, like it was a ball or something, and she concentrated on it, on making it as wide as possible, not wanting her poor aim to waste it. She tenatively raises her hands and points them toward the group of robots. With an excited yelp, her body releases all of the negative energy that it had absorbed from the explosions, and sent the dark energy right back to those that had created it. With all of the energy she had absorbed, her retrun shot was even stronger then the individual blasts, and the effort she had put into spreading it out paid off. The energy burst from her hands and headed straight towards the robots. Even though her aim was off and the blast went too far, the explosion of negative energy turned into a howling sphere of destruction almost 80 feet around.

The starlet has also kept up her string of verbal abuse against Sgt Brano, though instead of trying to piss him off that he lashes out blindly at her, she varies the insults, making them more distracting, then infuriating.

OOC: HP to add Area Extra, Half action to fire off an energy blast 'targeted' at the group of robots, but should actually hit a bit behind them by about 10 feet.
Half Action: Taunt 1D20 +10 to get Brano to lose his dodge bonus to defense
Half Action: Area Blast +8, fighting defensively