Superheroes of the Trust Game Thread

[DM_Matt]

Heh, Nightweaver posted while I wrote that. Of course, Hope's action would trigger flooding that entire hallway, including the stairwell, with napalm, so her action alone would have triggered it.

 

[DM_Matt]

"Stay where you are, traps. I can come get you in a second Nightweaver calls back to the rest, shadow walking back to the group "Another hallway followed by a stairwell. There are lasers in the walls, probably motion sensored. There's an orange field blocking the door at the end of the stairs.

Before we go bashing through this I'd like to scout a bit more, I should be able to get to the other side of the door and there may be a way to disable both the traps and whatever is surrounding that door.

She cannot penetrate the shield, and this hallway is well-lit, so there are no shadows.

 

[kirinke]

Hope turns and calmly helps put out Viridian's burn, soothing it with cool wind, remembering how Star had soothed her hands with the Ice pillar she had created for the other superhero. You can't believe this is the same woman as before in the heat of battle, who acted so irrationally after she had cast that banishing spell. This was the Hellborn Saint.

"Everything has a weakness Scylla, even you." she says, motioning for the others to stay well away from the hallway. She studies it thoughtfully, looking for weak points that she or the others can exploit. The force field was a problem, if they entered that hallway, she knew it would close in on them like a vice. Then the lasers would take care of them easily. "And Ice isn't the only weapon in my arsenal,"

She looks at the laser tracks and motions with her hands, and the wind picks up, moving in a tightly controlled whirlwind, ripping and destroying the tracks. She'll also use her wind/ice ability to put out the Napalm fire, perhaps freezing it?

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Rapid Investigator
Master Plan
Hands of air to destroy whatever mechanical fun and games she can in the hallway. If she can, she'll use her winds to try to disrupt the force field from behind it, perhaps by causing pressure build up?
I don't have a clue on how to get past those force fields. I thought that using the moisture trapped behind the fields would help.....

 

[Raylis]

Nightweaver swore as the napalm filled the hallway, reflexivly covering her eyes with her arm, "Is everyone at Aegis lacking in patience or are you the exception." she snaps.

"We can't just blast our way though this, we need caution; Those force fields around the lasers are probably one way, we can't blast them but they can blast us. They may be stationary or they could rotate on an axis since the danger of striking the other is eliminated.

Optic, can you override one of those lasers? If it has enough of a rotating firing arc, I have an idea.

 

[DM_Matt]

Nightweaver swore as the napalm filled the hallway, reflexivly covering her eyes with her arm, "Is everyone at Aegis lacking in patience or are you the exception." she snaps.

"We can't just blast our way though this, we need caution; Those force fields around the lasers are probably one way, we can't blast them but they can blast us. They may be stationary or they could rotate on an axis since the danger of striking the other is eliminated.

Optic, can you override one of those lasers? If it has enough of a rotating firing arc, I have an idea.

As if responding to Nightweaver, the lasers turn on and begin traveling on their paths, in a complex pattern.

 

[Shayuri]

Still holding her arms where the flaming fuel had splashed her, though feeling better from Hope's healing, Viridian takes a breath and tries to think.

"Let me try something, guys..."

She concentrates and begins speaking in something that sounds like Greek or Latin. Whorls of blue and violet light begin curling lazily from her hands...diffusing like mist into the heavily trapped passageway.

She calls on Anteus and Vulcan, on Proteus himself...patron of change and chaos...she invokes the tenets of alchemist transmutation, of like to like, of the power to transform.

It takes some time, but slowly the edges of the napalm jets change color and start to bend inward.

(Using Transmutation to try to cause the stone holes around the napalm jets to fill themselves in. Full round to use the power, up to 4lbs of material affected per use, repeat as necessary/possible.)

 

[Victim]

The guy who zapped the office is coming? Well, a three-way might work to our advantage. Hey, if I thought the same thing would work again, I wouldn't have bothered to say anything. Megan hestitantly follows the rest of the group through the trapped hallway. As napalm sprays down, she flinches and rockets backwards up to the previous stairwell. No! She winces as heat conducts through Viridian's force field, but only turns away.

"I'm not going through that hallway as it is; it might have reloads or something," she says unsteadily. Once is enough. Too much. After recovering from her fright, Megan adds, "I might be able to shoot through the force fields. Also, they might not be one way barriers; they might be matched to the frequency of lasers so that those beams can pass through. Almost the same, but not quite." I want to HURT her. How can I do that to an AI?
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If there's a safe spot to 'land' we could also create a region of shadow there for Nightweaver's teleport. Standing someone/thing just short of the hallway then having Star fire off her Dazzle behind them should create a momentary shadow that Nightweaver could exploit. Of course, then the lighting level returns to normal and she loses her powers.

Doing things behind a force field barrier will likely require Indirect, and even that might not be sufficient for certain hardened defenses.

 

[kirinke]

Considering that my ability to generate ice has saved your ass at least twice in the past hour, I'd be... she shook her head, nixing that thought. It did no good at the moment.

"The tracks, if we melt them or foul them, the lazers won't have a path to track!" she said and then concentrated on the flaming oil, trying to douse them by freezing them or wind, whichever works best.

 

[DM_Matt]

Still holding her arms where the flaming fuel had splashed her, though feeling better from Hope's healing, Viridian takes a breath and tries to think.

"Let me try something, guys..."

She concentrates and begins speaking in something that sounds like Greek or Latin. Whorls of blue and violet light begin curling lazily from her hands...diffusing like mist into the heavily trapped passageway.

She calls on Anteus and Vulcan, on Proteus himself...patron of change and chaos...she invokes the tenets of alchemist transmutation, of like to like, of the power to transform.

It takes some time, but slowly the edges of the napalm jets change color and start to bend inward.

(Using Transmutation to try to cause the stone holes around the napalm jets to fill themselves in. Full round to use the power, up to 4lbs of material affected per use, repeat as necessary/possible.)

(It is my impression that Hope just was putting out the flames, which is a good thing, since it will counter the secondary effect extra on the napalm, but it won't negate the stun. Hope would need to spend a hero point or take exhausted to make healing work. Viridian can spend an HP to shake the stun though, and probably should, because it seems that the trap will keep attacking until negated (i.e. Optic can see that the napalm is still flowing in the pipes) )

 

[Elric]

"Wow, dodging napalm isn't much fun. Well, let me know if anything needs destroying." Nitro flexes his hands, which are sadly not being used to kick butt.