Mutant High Issue 1: The house that Xavier Built

[Victim]

Yeah, if one of us had an override, we'd obviously try to find a conventional exit instead of just using it. "How will holding hands do anything besides slow us down? The person finding the real door should just shout or otherwise signal the rest us." she replies to Colossus. So our perception of direction is going to be screwed up if we're supposed to close our eyes.

"We could easily use fast movement abilities to find a wall quickly. If Lightspeed can't do it, then just throw me, Colossus. That should reveal a wall quickly. Or I could shut my eyes and blast a few straight paths through buildings - then we could split up and explore them blindly." Temper comments. "But flight is probably the fastest way to find the door, and then tossing other tough people."

 

[Insight]

[sblock=OOC]
Could Gwen use her Clairvoyance to find the exit? Theoretically, she could try to see an area she knows is well outside the Danger Room, and then work her way back to find the entrance.[/sblock]

 

[Jemal]

[danger room]
Those remaining in the danger room argue and ponder for a moment as to what to do, while Gwen closes her eyes and attempts to use her mind to see the doorway. Instead, she gives a gasp and falls.. or at least, that's what the others see. To her, it appears as if the rest of the world has floated away, and she is standing in a strange corridor, the walls and ceilign made of some red web-like material. At the far end, she sees professor Xavier and Jean grey - Running towards her (Wait.. Xavier Running?), something unseen, but dark and obviously evil, chasing them.
The rest in the danger room see her drop, and still have no firm plan for escape.

[Mansion]
Miranda and Pyro continue Running for the Professor, but it will take a little while. He appears to be down in the observation room overlooking the Danger Room.

[Front Lawn]
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24 Wolverine
21 V-kid
20 Wi-Fi
18 Shadowcat
15 Princess Powerful
12 Calypso
9 Alchemist
8 Xi'an
3 Phase
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"JEAN!" Wolverine roars, leaping at the kid with such ferocity that the boy has little time to react, though he does so in a way that Alchemist and Calypso both find very familiar... A wall appears between him and the wolverine, mental energies deflecting the claws. In retaliation, he raises his hands and telekinetically throws Wolverine at Shadowcat, though she is unharmed as he goes sailing through her.. and into some bushes. He then returns his sights to Shadowcat. "Target Aquired." It fires a blast at her, electricity surging into her incorporeal form. She screams in pain, but remains standing (1 bruised, stunned).

Wi-fi marshals his mental strength and projects it at the kid, though it seems inefective.

Shadowcat drops to her knees in pain, stunned

With a shout, Princess Powerful runs up in front of the big bad guy.. who is only actually a few inches taller than her.

As the kid looks at Molly, water wraps around him and begins freezing, trapping him in place as Calypso uses what she has, Alchemist taking advantage of the kids imobility to cause the side-walk nearby to rise up and fall upon him. With his distraction, he is unable to defend properly(1 bruised)

Xi'an manages to revive Cyclops while Phase turns a large portion of the lawn into a pond.

[sblock=ooc] OK, here's where things start getting weird & hectic. Sorry bout the non-posting, we're back on track now.
ALSO once again , please include in the top of your post(but not in the title) where you are: Danger room, Mansion, Astral Plane(gwen), or Front Lawn.
BTW, Did I miss anybody on the front lawn?
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[Insight]

GWEN [ASTRAL PLANE]

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"Professor... Ms. Grey...?" Gwen calls out, trying to get closer to them.[/sblock]

 

[Shayuri]

Calypso grins at Phase. "Now that's what I'm talking about."

She backpedals onto the pond, walking lightly over its surface without sinking in. Looking much more confident, she lifts her hands to either side, palms up and fingers wiggling slightly.

The water surges upward in a series of 'tentacles' that surround her, each about as long as Calypso is tall, and as thick around as her leg. It looks almost as if there's an octopus under the water directly below her, reaching up to cage her in its legs.

One of the water tentacles snaps out, stretching to cover the distance between the pond and the strange boy. It swipes at the intruder, but can't quite reach him before attenuating too much to do anything. Calypso curses as it misses.

(another Snare hopefully to render him helpless. Rolled a natural 1...sigh. http://invisiblecastle.com/find.py?id=1265330 )

 

[Relique du Madde]

[Mansion]
It didn't take long for Miranda to realize that the professor was located in the Danger Room's observation room, which meant that Miranda and Pyro had to go down several flight of stairs. Miranda knew that they would take about a minute for her and Pyro to arrive at the room given their current rate of travel. Unfortunaltely, complicating the matter is that Miranda could sense that a small group was in the Danger Room. A minute would take to long. She had to get down there as fast as possible.

Miranda stopped running and quickly glanced at Pyro. Even though he must weigh about 20 pounds more then she, she knew he was too heavy for her to carry telekinetically while flying. If she was alone, she would have reached the room by now. If only he was able to dematerialize.... Maybe, if she concentrated hard enough...

"The Professor is in the Danger Room's observation deck and we need to go there as fast as possible.." She closed her eyes for a moment and took in a deep breath. "I'm going to switch to my ghost form; so if you can't see me, don't worry, I'm not going to ditch you." She smiled and placed her right hand on Pyro's shoulder. "I'm going to try to make you become insubstantial but, for this to work, we might need to keep in continual contact..."

She began to concentrate as her body, and hopefully his, became insubstantial..

[Sblock= OCC]
Extra Effort: Power stunt ----> Gain Insubstantial AP

Insubstantial 4 [24pp]: Alteration, Free Action, Personal Range, Duration: Sustained, Affected by Electricity. Extras: Affects Others (+1)
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[Drerek]

Danger Room

Colossus looks towards the others, "If you have better ideas, use them so we can get out of here."

 

[drothgery]

Quarterback (Danger Room)

Eric moves to catch Gwen, rather more worried about her than he was a few seconds ago.

"You guys can go bang your heads against the wall. I'm staying here until Gwen wakes up."

[sblock=OOC]
Quarterback's considering using his boost-powers ability again, mostly to improve Gwen's telepathic abilities, if it's not still in effect.
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[Victim]

Danger Room

Eric moves to catch Gwen, rather more worried about her than he was a few seconds ago.

"You guys can go bang your heads against the wall. I'm staying here until Gwen wakes up."

[sblock=OOC]
Quarterback's considering using his boost-powers ability again, mostly to improve Gwen's telepathic abilities, if it's not still in effect.
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Temper takes a step towards Gwen, then stops. If it's telepathic, then I probably can't help. "Good, I was going to ask you to take care of her anyway. Keep an eye on Julie too."

She spins away from the others and replies to Colossus. "I will then." Didn't like the 'Throw me!' plan, huh? That leaves... Temper closes her eyes, raises her arms in front of her, and dashes fowardly blindly.


[sblock]
drothgery, I thought that the more powerful the psychic, the harder they're hit by whatever the kid is using. Boosting might not be a good idea. On the other hand, it might give her the punch she needs to interact in Astral Space. Plus, from inside the Danger Room, our character's ability to observe what's going has been rather limited.

Full Action: Move All Out. 60' (she's at 1/2 speed for not being able to see). Acrobatics total 15 to keep her footing and orientation if needed.

If she hits something that seems to be part of the simulation and still has a standard action left then:

Standard Action:
Shapeable Area: Corrosion +11. 50 squares

top
        XXXXX
[T]XXXXXXX
      XXXXXX
side
        XXXXX
      XXXXXX
[T]XXXXXXX (35' distance)
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1x1X1+2x2x1+3x3x5=50 squares[/sblock]

 

[ShaggySpellsword]

[Front Lawn]

As Cyclops wakes up, Xi'an looks relieved.

"This kid isn't stopping. What should we do Professor Summers? I don't wanna kill him...if I went all out on him there may not be enough left to figure out what was going on. However, he doesn't seem interested in talking this out."