Superheroes of the Trust Game Thread II

[Jemal]

Meanwhile, Optic is studying the incoming ship.
[sblock=ooc]
I think you know the drill, but just in case:
+16 notice, Analytical extended sight, true sight, microscopic vision, x-ray vision (stopped only by gold). He also is attempting (with the help of his time sense) to get a grip on how fast this thing's moving and how soon it'll be here.[/sblock]

 

[kirinke]

(sorry if you're waiting on me...I thought there was some big ship coming at us, and was waiting to see what it was...it sounded like that would happen as part of the same encounter. Hee)

Viridian realizes they're close enough and says to Hope, "Excuse me...I need to get to the cockpit again. I'll be right back!"

She hurries forward, puffing a bit from the day's exertions, and raises the binoculars hanging from a thong around her neck up to her eyes. The Israeli base leaps forward in her vision, and despite the slight jostles from the plane, she manages to keep the gate in her sight as she starts to chant the invocations of the spell.

In front of the gate, an image of a woman wreathed in, and obscured by, green light appears. It announces in a loud voice, "My name is Viridian...I'm not really here. This is a projected image, an attempt to communicate without broadcasting at random. I cannot hear or respond to what you may try to say to me. We are enemies of Barrington, and are trying to stop him. You recently captured one of our number and are holding her. We wish to talk more. I will create an image of a secure phoneline to contact us at. Please write it down, because cameras won't record it."

Between the illusory "Viridian's" hands appears in little flaming numbers her secure cellphone information. She then has the image repeat its message.

Hope nods absently. By her faint, unfocused look, you can tell she's gathering her own personal energies.... Preparing for some major spell casting, just in case.

 

[DM_Matt]

(sorry if you're waiting on me...I thought there was some big ship coming at us, and was waiting to see what it was...it sounded like that would happen as part of the same encounter. Hee)

Viridian realizes they're close enough and says to Hope, "Excuse me...I need to get to the cockpit again. I'll be right back!"

She hurries forward, puffing a bit from the day's exertions, and raises the binoculars hanging from a thong around her neck up to her eyes. The Israeli base leaps forward in her vision, and despite the slight jostles from the plane, she manages to keep the gate in her sight as she starts to chant the invocations of the spell.

In front of the gate, an image of a woman wreathed in, and obscured by, green light appears. It announces in a loud voice, "My name is Viridian...I'm not really here. This is a projected image, an attempt to communicate without broadcasting at random. I cannot hear or respond to what you may try to say to me. We are enemies of Barrington, and are trying to stop him. You recently captured one of our number and are holding her. We wish to talk more. I will create an image of a secure phoneline to contact us at. Please write it down, because cameras won't record it."

Between the illusory "Viridian's" hands appears in little flaming numbers her secure cellphone information. She then has the image repeat its message.

Viridian receives a mental message (Someone is apparently capable of connecting with her upstream through her spell) "I am the leader of this base. Your friend was hurt badly, but we are tending to her. We are detecting other activity in the area, and believe that a major battle is imminent. You may send one member of your expedition into our base to aid in evacuating your companion if things go bad."

 

[DM_Matt]

Meanwhile, Optic is studying the incoming ship.
[sblock=ooc]
I think you know the drill, but just in case:
+16 notice, Analytical extended sight, true sight, microscopic vision, x-ray vision (stopped only by gold). He also is attempting (with the help of his time sense) to get a grip on how fast this thing's moving and how soon it'll be here.[/sblock]

He sees it as it comes in for a landing a bit beyond the opposite side of the base. It looks somewhat like a spider with overly-thick legs, surrounded by a crackling red force field. It has what looks like a tower through its central core. On the undersides of its legs and the central tower, it has gravity drives facing downward, as wall as some facing outward in other places.

When it lands, the legs expand, with thinner landing legs coming out beyond the thick legs. Then the thick part moves inward, revealing a number of mechs in each leg. The gravity drives in the thick part of the legs were in fact the one on the feet of the mechs. Metal hooks lower them to the ground. Similarly, the area around the tower expands as well, and a number of hovertanks (with their gravity drives similarly having been used to propel the larger ship), folding down. The bottom of the tower opens up, and crew runs out to man the vehicles.

At the top of the tower is what looks like a control station, but the shields are especially strong there (although the shields do form a bubble around the entire structure. It also seems that things are being beamed into the tower from space.)

 

[DM_Matt]

Optic and the plane's sensors meanwhile can see more details of what is going on in the bubble and the base. Some of the guys in the bubble are getting into vehicles, while others are setting up emplacements just within the shield. Mostly defensive machine guns and lots of mortars. Optic happens to be looking closely at the tower when a group beams in, and notices that the field around the top of the tower deactivates for a split second to allow the beam through.

Meanwhile, in the base, he sees that guards have donned battlesuits and taken up defensive positions within the base. Some of the base's railguns attack the shield bubble, but they fail to penetrate it. Optic spots two group of battlesuits cloaking and exiting through opposite sides of the base, after which he loses track of them.

The forces in the bubble begin to move, and it is clear that they can leave the bubble freely. Interestingly, Optic does notices that some individuals did, through swinging their arms when walking or turning/reaching backwards, reenter the field temporarily.

He also spots five important-looking individuals leave the tower, and cross-references them with the Trust database. There is a black woman in a leopard-skin outfit and a beret. Looking her up, its the Libyan Leopard, a Libyan government super with the power of massive growth. Next to her is the Egyptian-affiliated super The Pharoah, who wears a King Tut-style golden mask and headdress and otherwise wears very little and shows off a very strong body. He is known to be a powerful warrior with sand and necromantic-type powers. Then comes the Saudi-royal-sponsored Guardian of Mecca, a masked super in flowing white robes who wields a scimitar and sits atop a horse made of pure electrical energy. Finally comes the Jordanian super The Efreet, whose mostly fire-based powers closely match the mythical genies' ablities.

Not only is it known to be a powerful group, but it may be an extremely ominous sign that they are assembled here. If these supers represent their sponsors, it is likely that Barrington has persuaded much of the Mideast to join his cause.

 

[Vanifae]

Apollo chimes in, "So what the hell do we do now?"

 

[Fangor the Fierce]

Apollo chimes in, "So what the hell do we do now?"

"Either help defend the base, or evacuate it. Star's in there, and needs some help obviously since she's hurt. I can go in and help her get out, while the rest of you try and stall those forces from taking the base. The base should take care of most of the general defenses, but we'll still need to help them if they hope to survive those attacks.

Optic, see if you can override one of those mechanical things, and use it against their own forces. If you can do that, you can get in and out of their shield, hopefully. Nitro, there's plenty of sand to shockwave your enemies all about the place. Hope, I'm sure you have plenty of things to aid as well, with Viridian and you hopefully being able to work together if need be on some magical attacks or defenses. A little windstorm might throw off their advances, if you can manage to blind the enemy forces to stall them. I'll get to Star, try to heal her, and we'll both be back to aid. Hopefully the Super in the base will have some aid as well..."

"Any objections? The plane needs to be ready to get out of here on the fly, but not a sitting duck. Take cover if you can, or lay down some cover fire for the rest of us. This is going to be one long day..."

Wren awaits for any additions to the plan, before letting the magic users let the base know he is coming in for Star. He will fly there, low altitude of course, and work on healing Star as best he can. He will use another HP if needed to get her back to a manageable condition for combat.

 

[Shayuri]

Viridian nods at Wren. "They said they'd let one person into the base to help with Star. If things start going bad. And we have to help the base. We can't afford for Barrington to get his hands on that technology!"

 

[kirinke]

"Either help defend the base, or evacuate it. Star's in there, and needs some help obviously since she's hurt. I can go in and help her get out, while the rest of you try and stall those forces from taking the base. The base should take care of most of the general defenses, but we'll still need to help them if they hope to survive those attacks.

Optic, see if you can override one of those mechanical things, and use it against their own forces. If you can do that, you can get in and out of their shield, hopefully. Nitro, there's plenty of sand to shockwave your enemies all about the place. Hope, I'm sure you have plenty of things to aid as well, with Viridian and you hopefully being able to work together if need be on some magical attacks or defenses. A little windstorm might throw off their advances, if you can manage to blind the enemy forces to stall them. I'll get to Star, try to heal her, and we'll both be back to aid. Hopefully the Super in the base will have some aid as well..."

"Any objections? The plane needs to be ready to get out of here on the fly, but not a sitting duck. Take cover if you can, or lay down some cover fire for the rest of us. This is going to be one long day..."

Wren awaits for any additions to the plan, before letting the magic users let the base know he is coming in for Star. He will fly there, low altitude of course, and work on healing Star as best he can. He will use another HP if needed to get her back to a manageable condition for combat.

"I can use my wind ability to kick up a windstorm. Viridian and I might be able to take out that array that's beaming stuff from the Lighthouse using our combined powers. I don't think they have any defenses against it."

Hope agreed, coming out of her trance-like state. She looked calm, almost eerily so, considering that her last few battles she was out of control. She had seen what being out of control could do....

I won't let my emotions get the better of me, not when innocent lives, the lives of those around me are at stake. She thought, taking that lesson to heart.

"Let's see how they like tornadoes inside that shield." she said coolly, the wind around her chuckled and swirled around her subtly, the calm before the storm.

 

[DM_Matt]

(Still need more declared actions before I can adjudicate this.)