Superheroes of the Trust Game Thread

[kirinke]

Dreams were the bane of anyone with the Sight, for they brought hints of the past and warnings of the future, dreams were never dealt with lightly to those who walked with their eyes wide open. And since she was unconscious, she couldn't wake up from those dreams on her own.

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Why don't you remember your past? Stephan, her old partner asked curiously. They were nowhere, in a realm of gray without distinct features. You never forgot anything that I know of, so why this? Why can't you remember anything past your seventh year?

I don't know. Hope turned, finding herself in the filthy alley where she had been found, it was cold, bitingly cold. She knelt, touching the ground, but could find only the memories of strangers, of people she did not know. For her, there was no trace of the child she had been.

You're hiding. A small voice said as she jerked back, seeing a grime-covered girl sporting old and new wounds, a track-record of abuse. Her hair could have been red, but it was hard to tell. They're hunting for you, you know. Your dad knows the truth, The girl cocked her head, looking at the older woman, the woman she would become with old, knowing eyes. So does the freedom league. Why do you think they've done their best to keep you out of wearing a mask and joining them? It's not out of dislike, but out of.... Fear. Of what you could become.

I am Hope Winters, Aegis Agent, daughter of Alexander Winters. It doesn't matter who my parents are. Alexander Winters raised me. He is my father in every way that counts. Hope snarled back, angry, backing away.

You can't run forever you know. They're closing in on the truth, of where you are of who you are. They will claim you. The little girl said quietly.

And they will not succeed. I make my own choices and my own path. Blood doesn't matter. Hope snapped back.

It's always about the blood. the girl giggled. It's always in the blood that makes you what you are. [/sblock]

 

[Fangor the Fierce]

... oops

 

[DM_Matt]

Still need Shayuri and Raylis.

 

[Victim]

Megan allows herself to be distracted by the new arrival: "Hi? Bonjour?" and gets nailed by a variety of attacks. She groans after bouncing her head off the hard floor of the factory. [i[Ow. It hurts. I'm done. We'll be okay if I just lie down anyway; nothing seems to phase Nitro. Megan, if you don't get up and start moving, that teleporter will hammer you and then the AI will dump boiling metal on you. Dammit A, why do you always have to be right?[/i] Megan, although unable to move too quickly and still badly injured, recovers sufficiently to pay attention to the battle and defend herself.

Megan abruptly jerks herself upright and wobbles unsteadily.

She squints at the 14 blurry spider drones, and lashes out wildly. Shooting Star pushes her ability to vastly increase the rate of fire; plasma orbs appear around her, fly upwards and strike. She'll sweep her plasma blasts across everything within short range - except people (and the area around them). She yells, "Badrobots!"

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Spend HP to become unstunned.

Free Action: Stand from Prone (Acrobatics +19, take 1)
Standard Action: Extra Effort for power stunt!
Move Action: N/A

Strike +8 Area (Targeted) Selective Autofire 1 Acccurate 6 (+14) 38
Pen 3 (41) Indirect 2. Progression 1 (80'). 44 points

Attack +13. Take 10 against objects and minions: 23.

Def 22/14. Toughness +9. Bruised 4. Injured 5. Staggered. Fatigued. HP 2. Becoming exhausted at the beginning of the next round.

 

[Shayuri]

Viridian, seeing Hope's plight, heads towards her position to try to help. Abruptly she remembers the knight and pauses to look around paranoidly. Too many things to do...help Nitro, help Hope, counterattack...

Maybe she could consolidate a bit...

(Ok...two possible paths. If Nitro breaks free, Vi will ready an action to try to TK the knight into the paralysis bot, hopefully damaging both. If he doesn't, she'll TK Hope to someplace where she's out of immediate danger as far as she can tell...ie - no bots or kettles of liquid hot magma can get her. Not much she can do against the knight in that case, but she'll try.)

 

[kirinke]

ooc
Thanks Shay, you know Hope'd do the same for Viridian if their places were switched.

 

[Raylis]

Nightweaver throws a globe of darkness over the unconcious Aegis agent, "You worry about the robots, Nitro I'll...get her outside" she calls, moving towards the darkness as fast as her exhausted body will take her.

 

[Elric]

Nightweaver throws a globe of darkness over the unconcious Aegis agent, "You worry about the robots, Nitro I'll...get her outside" she calls, moving towards the darkness as fast as her exhausted body will take her.

(Given that this is Nightweaver's action from the round before the one where Nitro next gets his action)

After yelling "I'll save you, Hope!" Nitro realizes that Nightweaver is already doing that. So instead of doing that, he'll use his position of height thanks to the crane to Shockwave as many of the robots as he can without hitting any of his friends. After that, Move Action to see if I can Acrobatic Trick (rolling at +17-5= +12) the most destructive looking robot into shooting the crane while trying to target Nitro (Redirect, note that Grappling Finesse means Nitro keeps his Dodge Bonus if the crane is considered Grappling him ).

 

[Victim]

(If Nitro gets off the Shockwave attack and destroys most of the enemy stuff, then Shooting Star will just use an ordinary attack on something.)

 

[DM_Matt]

Nightweaver throws a globe of darkness over the unconcious Aegis agent, "You worry about the robots, Nitro I'll...get her outside" she calls, moving towards the darkness as fast as her exhausted body will take her.

The knight appears in the computer room, and attacks Optic, but Optic manages to keep hacking (bruise...yay toughness-shifted regenerators)

Shayuri can't move Hope from the darkness (since Nightweaver needs it to TP out), but she CAN TK Nightweaver the rest of the way over to the darkened area, sending Nightweaver gently flying through the air and giving her a soft landing.

(I assume she'll tp somewhere with Hope this round?)

Nitro actually has to break free of the snare to use a shockwave, and he does, prying the crane's jaws over and snapping them, then jumping onto the ground before it reached its destination and dumped him in a cauldron full of molten metal. He fails to bluff the robot (rolled a 1 vs rolled a 20!).

Ignoring the battle raging around her, the new super runs to the door marked "Reactor," actually phasing through it.

Severely injured an half-crazed, Shooting Star manages to rise and initiate the most powerful and controlled plasma attack she as ever performed. Many dozens of plasma balls appear around her and streak towards numerous targets "BADROBOTS!" she screams.

The plasma barrage destroys all seven robots, the whole mess of welding bots that had been troubling Nitro, wrecks the track in several places, and severely damages the computer system in the center of the room.

The room cleared of threats, other than one more blinking knight, everyone momentarily breathes a sigh of relief...and then the shooting starts, as the windows coming from the research lab explode into shards of glass. Normals from the research lab (with possibly a few security bots mixed in), equipped with targeting headband+monocle setups and shotguns and rifles, come out from cover and pepper the floor with slugs and bullets, from all three floors, and the door swings open. It seems that several are making a run for the warehouse, firing as they go. There are well over a dozen shooters, even twenty perhaps.

(I assume that Hope and Nightweaver have jumped to the hallway or somewhere else safe, and they cant hit Optic in the other room, and most can't hit Viridian in the front of the hallway, so mainly Shooting Star and Nitro will take the brunt. Optic did not see them with x-ray vision because they set themselves up when he was already hacking in the other room)

Viridian sees two rifle flashes on the third floor, and sees a bullet hit the floor near her. The other one hits her in the shoulder and brings her down (1 injury, bruise, stun...missed by exactly 5)

Star is already reeling when bullets rush past her and two big shotgun slugs and a bullet hit her in the back. (injury/bruise for the first one, autohp to reroll avoid Dying result from the second, but still gets another injury/bruise, yet another injury/bruise from the last one)

Many shots bounce off Nitro or miss him altogether, but one slug hits him square in the chest (crit, hit, stunned, staggered) and takes him down.

As some run and shoot, a pair in the middle of the group seem to be carrying a large metal cube, each then firing a pistol at Star with their extra hand. Both miss.

The facility's power suddenly goes down and it moves to backup power. Scylla says to Optic "Thanks to your new friend, you will be able to defeat me, but you will never get out of here alive. She has altered the nuclear reaction in my reactor and destroyed the safety devices. Meltdown is imminent."

Optic, already overpowering Scylla due to direct physical access to her core, can indeed take near-full control of the system now, and is finding the useful information, downloading as much useful stuff as he can fit into his suit's storage.

Meanwhile, Wren blasts the central railgun, as missiles from the plane's two missile tubes destroy the other two. Topside is clear.