Superheroes of the Trust Game Thread II

[Vanifae]

Apollo focuses his efforts on trying to save Hope, he does not want her losing her head. He zooms to her aid and takes up a defensive position around her blasting Guardian with a Dazzling burst of Light.

Visual Dazzle 11 on Guardian.

 

[Elric]

Apollo focuses his efforts on trying to save Hope, he does not want her losing her head. He zooms to her aid and takes up a defensive position around her blasting Guardian with a Dazzling burst of Light.

"Good to see you Apollo. We're going to show these villains not to mess with celebrities. Just because we're rich and famous doesn't mean we can't kick butt!"

 

[kirinke]

Hope is blissfully unconscious. And like all unconscious creatures can't seem to make a snappy response or attack.

 

[DM_Matt]

Apollo focuses his efforts on trying to save Hope, he does not want her losing her head. He zooms to her aid and takes up a defensive position around her blasting Guardian with a Dazzling burst of Light.

Visual Dazzle 11 on Guardian.

Apollo flies towards the surface, only to find that the entrances are blocked by giant blast doors. He soon discovers why, hearing the rest of the buildings on the ground level self-destruct just like the prison did. Warmind says in Apollo's mind "Wait here, I will open the doors." Apollo delays a bit, and sure enough that one set of doors open, revealing a blasted landscape up top, with little evidence of the base remaining, and flaming wreckage of some tanks and mechs. He flies away towards the Guardian, and tries to blind her, but she manages to avoid it, already shielding her eyes from the dying sandstorm.

"Really?" Star taunts the super villain. "You didn't seem that great when I cracked your holographic projector in a few hours. Does having a power to directly control and interface with machines let you get away with sloppy coding?" He took out Optic just like that...

Wait after talking. Wait. Wait... Megan pumps energy into air between bee man and the others, then directs the shots toward Murder Mouse. Hopefully, the blinded enemies will be confused by the source of the fire and shoot one of their own.

[sblock]Standard Action: Shoot Murder Mouse: Plasma Control +8 Autofire 2 (1 for 1, max 4), Penetrating 3 (4/rank, +3) Triggered 2 (any trigger), Reversible (on latent triggers, not for undoing effects), Homing 2 (2 extra chances), Indirect 3 (any angle), Precise

Defensive Attack 2. Attack +11: 21

Move Action: Redirect. Acrobatics +14. 20

Defense 24/14. Toughness 9. Bruised 3. HP 2

If one of the enemies is stunned by the end of her normal turn, Star will Surge to shoot them too (or again, as the case may be).
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A torrent of plasma sends Murder Mouse flying, and Star follws up with another just as he strikes the wall (2 bruises, stunned)

"Interface this." Optic blasts CF full force with his eye lasers.

[sblock=ooc]
Eye Laser! (1d20+10=17)
Hero Point Reroll on Eye Lasers (1d20+10=26) Fort DC 27.
Since the suit is full-body but not connected to my visor or head in any way, I presume this action is allright? Optic should still have full control over his neck and head.
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Control Freak points towards Optic, and fires a rapidfire laser pistol integrated into his wrist at the immobilized super (fiat to reroll a miss, hp for Optic)

Optic manages to control his visor (he needs to spend that HP for it), and blasts Control Freak in the face, sending him flying (Staggered and Stunned!).

Before he can restart his suit controls, however, Battle Bunny manages to recover from the blindness, jumps at him and bashes him with his warhammer, sending him flying into the opposite wall. He bounces off painfully (also staggered and stunned).

Murder Mouse remains blind, so he throws a grenade down the hall in the general direction of the heroes. Wren and Star are lightly injured by shrapnel (1 injury/bruise each).

Battle Bee, not blinded, attacks Star, since Optic is already down and Wren and Viridian are around a corner. The Bee's feelers apparently given him some kind of ranged tactile sense, and he seems unaffected by her blurring ability. Battle Bee manages to lock on quite easily with both wrist-mounted dart guns. Star is thrown back (hp spent to reroll ko, stunned instead) into the wall at the end of the hallway, hitting her head very hard (staggered and stunned),and she bounces off. She lands face-first and starts fading into a stupor (if she spent her last hp to negate the fatigue from surging, she's just exhausted. Otherwise she's out.)

Viridian and Wren are around the corner, and they...(what do they do?)

Oops. That didn't help much. Well, LL probably had over a 50/50 chance to miss Hope's regular Defense of 21. So this wasn't a bad decision, just a bad outcome.

Nitro uses Extra Effort to get another swing at LL... and the roll is a natural 1. http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/1662689/ (Oops!)

Nitro takes another wild swing, somehow missing his prone, stunned, gigantic opponent.

"Hey guys. Hope got KOd by Leopard. My batting average is pretty bad at the moment and I'm getting a little tired out here. Plus Guardian is still up as well. If you can spare anyone really fast to come back over here, that might be good. If I don't report back in 6 seconds you'll know it's urgent."

(If Nitro gets hit for 15+ damage, use Ultimate Toughness on it)

"Don't worry Star, I'll do my best" Nitro gets out between breaths. "Ouch, lightning. That wasn't so bad but I can't take attacks like that all day."

(Take the fatigue, modified stats 20 Defense, +13 dmg, +7 attack, can't run/charge)

Nitro goes after a prone Leopard with a defensive jab and tries to maneuver Leopard into hitting herself with her reply (Nitro now at 25 Defense).

[sblock](OOC: Attack a prone LL, Defensive Attack for 5 and Accurate Attack for 1. +7 to hit (+7 - 5 DA + 1 AA + 4 Prone), 12 damage on a hit.

Defense 25 for a round. Roll an 8 for a 15 to hit total (counting the +4 prone bonus). http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/1663122/

Move action: Nitro uses Acrobatic Feint to Trick Guardian into attacking him, with the intention of Redirecting to Leopard on a miss.
EDIT- If Apollo has already blinded Guardian, I'd like to change this to before my attack Acrobatic Bluff to feint Leopard. I don't think this is abusive ex-post (I know I rolled high) as it's the best use of my move action and feints on Leopard have been working.

Rolled a 19, so total for Acrobatic Trick is 30: http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/1663123/. That should work.

Excessive contingency announcements for my one HP: Using Ultimate Toughness if hit for 15+ dmg, rerolling any result of staggered or worse in general, rerolling any result of Stunned or worse if damage is <=12, buying off any other stuns that occur.[/sblock]

He can't? She's huge and presumably clumsy

In that case, just Trick Guardian into attacking him and on a miss Redirect that into Leopard, assuming that Guardian will be flying close enough overhead such that Leopard won't have the +4 benefit for being prone (angle should matter for whether prone applies, e.g., see http://www.atomicthinktank.com/viewtopic.php?t=15258).

Nitro gets into the path of Guardian and LL, and gets LL to blast him, but sidesteps it at the last second so that she blasts LL instead (Disabled!), hitting her neck with the blade and cutting it open.

(I'll need new actions from Nitro for the rest of the round.)

Wren hears the new summons, and simply stares down at Thess. "You've still got some fight left in you... I gotta go help out Hope. She's been knocked out..."


[sblock=OOC]I started with 3HP this battle. Did any get subtracted from the healing on Thess?[/sblock]

(No)

 

[Elric]

Nitro, 1 HP, fatigued

Nitro gets into the path of Guardian and LL, and gets LL to blast him, but sidesteps it at the last second so that she blasts LL instead (Disabled!), hitting her neck with the blade and cutting it open.

(I'll need new actions from Nitro for the rest of the round.)

“Ouch” Nitro exclaims looking down at a gravely injured Libyan Leopard, who has a wound in her neck about the size of his arm. “Glad that wasn’t me.”

(OOC: Is Guardian using physical or energy damage? This seems like physical, but just checking- have we seen her using both physical and energy damage for attacks?)

Nitro turns back towards the other supervillain and shouts in a voice that can be heard quite clearly above the din [there’s an advantage to having super-strength and constitution]

“Hey! Are you from Hollywood? Because the terrorists there can’t shoot straight either!”

[sblock]
Use Distract (Intimidate) on Guardian as a Standard Action. +17 Intimidate vs. best of Intimidate, Sense Motive, Will save.

1d20 + 17, roll a 3 for total of 20 (http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/1666252/)

Also using Intimidate skill to Demoralize as a move action (if successful, she gets -2 to saves, attack rolls and checks until Nitro’s next turn comes around)

1d20 + 12, roll a 6 for a total of 18. (http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/1666253/)

Not so hot. Do I get a bonus on any of this because she almost just killed her teammate? [/sblock]

 

[Fangor the Fierce]

Wren can see that things aren't going well, as was the norm. Seeing the oversized bumble bee hit Star, Wren decides on a straight forwards approach. Spying Control Freak almost out of the fight, he opts to make sure that Freakazoid does stay out, permanently.

".. enough... it's time to end this..."

Flying towards the foes, Wren ignores the bee, and gets an angle to blast Freak Boy with his most potent blast. It's accuracy is hopefully enough to take out the foe, as he will then worry about the other foes. First things first...

[sblock=Cosmic Blast +11]Auto Fire +1, Partial Penetrating +3, Affect Insubstantial x3, and not counting anything for being prone, as I hope Matt can add in the factors for the bonus for being prone. Blast 11 (1d20 11=13) HP for reroll Blast 11 REROLL (1d20 11=31) Uh, now THAT'S a good HP roll! CRIT!!! [/sblock]

Turning to the bee, who obviously saw the potent shot, Wren can only narrow his gaze, "... next?..."

 

[Shayuri]

Viridian looks woozily at Wren, then snaps back to the battle with some effort. She lifts a hand towards Killer Bee (or Battle Bee or whoever ), gripping him with an invisible force born of magically amplified will!

(TK grapple on da Bee...will also surge and try to pin him this round, or if the first grapple fails, to grapple again. +8 bonus)

 

[DM_Matt]

Wren can see that things aren't going well, as was the norm. Seeing the oversized bumble bee hit Star, Wren decides on a straight forwards approach. Spying Control Freak almost out of the fight, he opts to make sure that Freakazoid does stay out, permanently.

".. enough... it's time to end this..."

Flying towards the foes, Wren ignores the bee, and gets an angle to blast Freak Boy with his most potent blast. It's accuracy is hopefully enough to take out the foe, as he will then worry about the other foes. First things first...

[sblock=Cosmic Blast +11]Auto Fire +1, Partial Penetrating +3, Affect Insubstantial x3, and not counting anything for being prone, as I hope Matt can add in the factors for the bonus for being prone. Blast 11 (1d20 11=13) HP for reroll Blast 11 REROLL (1d20 11=31) Uh, now THAT'S a good HP roll! CRIT!!! [/sblock]


Turning to the bee, who obviously saw the potent shot, Wren can only narrow his gaze, "... next?..."

Wren flies into the air and blasts CF with kinetic energy (KO!)

Viridian looks woozily at Wren, then snaps back to the battle with some effort. She lifts a hand towards Killer Bee (or Battle Bee or whoever ), gripping him with an invisible force born of magically amplified will!

(TK grapple on da Bee...will also surge and try to pin him this round, or if the first grapple fails, to grapple again. +8 bonus)

She successfully pins the bee.

 

[Fangor the Fierce]

Seeing his chance, and the bee pinned, Wren turns his attention to the chance to even the playing field, by blasting the Bee with another attack. Hopefully it would be enough to get the others a chance to recuperate.

Extra Effort to have another attack , Blast +11 Extra Effort Blast (1d20 11=30)

 

[Victim]

Star tries to rise and slumps back to the ground. I can't... Poison sting? Then she succumbs to the drug.

[sblock]I'll spend the HP to cancel fatigue if more of the enemies are KO'd or stunned before her turn, otherwise save it.[/sblock]

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Apollo smirks and replies to Nitro, hoping to help distract the lightning controling super: "Wait, she wasn't shooting the giant intentionally? I thought she was being punished for stealing her opponent, getting beaten up, or not wearing one of those lame burka things. I say if you've got it, flaunt it." He draws back on his bow of light.

[sblock]Move Action: Feint Guardian. Bluff is +13/+17 with Attractive, so that's +8/+12 as a move. Roll is 15, so that's 23 or 27.

Standard Action: Shoot Energy bow (Blast 11). Attack: +11: 15

Def 21/13. Toughness +11. Injured 1, Bruised 1? HP 1? [/sblock]

Questions: [sblock]I'm not totally sure about Apollo's current status.

Also: demoralize says it inflicts shaken (-2 on all attack rolls and checks), while the shaken condition in the combat chapter includes a penalty to saves too. ???[/sblock]