Superheroes of the Trust Game Thread

[Shayuri]

(use HP to reroll fort save vs gas, please)

Oh sure, I'll 'keep him down', Viridian thought as she nearly fell to her knees in the haze of gas and sudden weakness. She gritted her teeth and grabbed the wall to hold herself up, trying to ride it out. Nevermind it was probably pure luck that... Abruptly she realized that with wolfboy on his knees, hands at his head, the eye contact was broken. He wasn't looking at her anymore.

He was battered though, and the curse was working. He'd thrown aside her Voice at full strength, but now? No...too risky. She saw now that ordering him to assume human shape in the middle of a battle was tantamount to commanding surrender. It was against his nature...he had resisted it.

But maybe there was another way.

Werewolves derived much of their power from their rage; their fury. Maybe she could take that fury away...replace it with something that would make him more...suggestible.

She shaped the spell in Latin, murmuring under her breath and releasing the incantation in such a way as to include the lycan leader and any followers that might be close, but miss her allies. The spell itself was silent and without visible effect, but so that the sudden feeling would have a plausible origin in their minds, she called out then...

"Lycan! We are stronger than you by far! Your best efforts have failed! Your forces are not enough!"

Like an invisible smoke, Despair filled a large bubble of area...a rank psychic miasma that dug up the oldest, most wretched memories of failure and inadequency and paraded them before the sufferer's eyes.

Then a question from outside caught her ear. Nitro? She looked hollowly at the towering man and shrugged. "I assume so, Johnny, but I've never actually fought one of this power. Still...all the references mention that silver is deadly to them...there must be SOME grain of truth in that."

(Emotion Control has a Burst area. I'll place it so #1 is at the edge, and the rest projects away from PC's. If I can squeeze any lackeys in there, so much the better, but main concern is avoiding PC's. Despair is Will DC 21 to avoid. If failed, it inflics -2 to pretty much all rolls made. If failed by 10 or more, it renders subjects helpless with sheer misery.)

 

[Fenris2]

OOC: With Angel stunned he is down for the count I suppose. So no help on this end, finish the baddie off... ;-)

Angel in a fog can't believe he forgot to move by and gain enough altitude to avoid chiuahua man's attack after his own. He allocates his defensive attack to -5 AB +5 def and wooziely tries to regain focus to help his comrads.

edit: guess i can't defensive anything ahhh well...

 

[DM_Matt]

Thess' reroll gets her a 17+8 = 25, so she is unaffected.

 

[DM_Matt]

Everyone w/ power attack go after Uno while he is stunned

Is that thing weak against silver Nitro asks Vi. Vi should reroll fatigue btw

If Uno is still stunned Nitro attacks PA 2. If Sheik is stunned Attck him normal and Imp Grb. If neither, Acc 2 Uno.

Well, someone clearly has internet on his cell phone.

 

[DM_Matt]

Still need posts from Salix and Nightweaver (she's awake now)

 

[Raylis]

Nightweaver shadow walks to the roof of the building, surveying the scene. (OOC: any mooks up here? )

 

[DM_Matt]

Nightweaver shadow walks to the roof of the building, surveying the scene. (OOC: any mooks up here? )

Three. Blind. Mooks. Three. Blind. Mooks...

Also stunned Numero Uno, but even now it is possible that you will have trouble hurting him much.

After this combat, btw, you may want to buff up Nightweaver's combat stats.

 

[Blind Azathoth]

Salix grimaces as the gas invades his nostrils, slowing his movements and his reaction time. He glances up towards the Heroin Sheik, raising an arm to point at the Sheik as he does so. He pauses for a second, attempting to think of a snappy one-liner, fails to do so, sighs inwardly, and then fires a Stunning needle from his forearm at the flying freak.

(OOC: Ranged Stun, attack +10, Fort save DC 20. Fatigue's -1 to attack is already factored in.)

 

[DM_Matt]

Getting up painfully, Nightweaver teleports to the roof (I assume she turned her concealment back on?), grabs two blind wolfmen with her electrified gloves, then, energy surging through them, she bashes their heads together. Both fall.

"Nice moves!" Optic congratulates Viridian "Keep him down if you can, we'll take care of the rest and then we can concentrate on him." With that said, he turns, scanning for the Sheik, and trying to time his shot to coincide with Shooting Star's plasma balls... hopefully he won't know which way to doge.

Oh sure, I'll 'keep him down', Viridian thought as she nearly fell to her knees in the haze of gas and sudden weakness. She gritted her teeth and grabbed the wall to hold herself up, trying to ride it out. Nevermind it was probably pure luck that... Abruptly she realized that with wolfboy on his knees, hands at his head, the eye contact was broken. He wasn't looking at her anymore.

He was battered though, and the curse was working. He'd thrown aside her Voice at full strength, but now? No...too risky. She saw now that ordering him to assume human shape in the middle of a battle was tantamount to commanding surrender. It was against his nature...he had resisted it.

But maybe there was another way.

Werewolves derived much of their power from their rage; their fury. Maybe she could take that fury away...replace it with something that would make him more...suggestible.

She shaped the spell in Latin, murmuring under her breath and releasing the incantation in such a way as to include the lycan leader and any followers that might be close, but miss her allies. The spell itself was silent and without visible effect, but so that the sudden feeling would have a plausible origin in their minds, she called out then...

"Lycan! We are stronger than you by far! Your best efforts have failed! Your forces are not enough!"

Like an invisible smoke, Despair filled a large bubble of area...a rank psychic miasma that dug up the oldest, most wretched memories of failure and inadequency and paraded them before the sufferer's eyes.

Then a question from outside caught her ear. Something about werewolves and silver vulnerability. Nitro? She looked hollowly at the towering man and shrugged. "I assume so, Johnny, but I've never actually fought one of this power. Still...all the references mention that silver is deadly to them...there must be SOME grain of truth in that."

(Emotion Control has a Burst area. I'll place it so #1 is at the edge, and the rest projects away from PC's. If I can squeeze any lackeys in there, so much the better, but main concern is avoiding PC's. Despair is Will DC 21 to avoid. If failed, it inflics -2 to pretty much all rolls made. If failed by 10 or more, it renders subjects helpless with sheer misery.)

The wolf hears, still in pain from her last attack, but seems unfazed.

Optic times his shot to coincide with Shooting Star's plasma balls coming around for a second run. Both attacks hit, but the Sheik twists and turns in flight to avoid anything more than a basic scorching (Bruised, (He rolled an 18 on his d20 for his save)

Optic is also looking out for vehicles to control. There are the manned two security trucks and three unused big rigs in the OxCorp compound. He also sees with his supervision that the two raptors are bearing down fast on this location. What appears to be a medivac helicopter is as well. Unfortunately, his radio senses notice some disturbing transmissions across many bands "Holy sh*t. Something has control of my plane. I thought these things were hardened!! Oh Jesus. Oh Sh*t --- They're powering weapons!!" There is a second similar transmission. He also hears "Medivac 381 to Freedom City Tower, I am having steering difficulties. My flight computer is not responding. Please advise!"

"How could he? He has to flap has ugly petals or something," Shooting Star says. I change directions which a thought. Without real superspeed like Rocket, it should be impossible. Well, I guess he just guessed I'd shoot him in the back.

"Then the Sheik fires his toxic seeds. Hmm, I don't feel any worse. No effect?" Shooting Star thinks, ignoring the fading pain in her extremities. She laughs, "maybe I should show off a bit, let my new allies see what I'm capable of. 'I want Chihuahua Man.' Funny stuff, I wonder if she knows what she said."

"A superfluous gesture, and more orbs join the ones attacking the Sheik. Did some of those just wobble a bit off their path? Bah, a bit of random movement will just make em harder to dodge."

"Hey, check this out." Megan says immediately before rocketing upwards to roughly 6000 feet - she can only guess - and kicking herself inverted.

Shooting Star's volley is much more effective. It hits the Sheik full on (Damage= 15+8+5autofire = DC28, Save = 22, Stunned!.), Causing him to crash into the dock in front of his boat. A nimble type like him is extremely vulnerable in such a state, and his alarmed guards come to his aid.

Nitro jumps towards Numero Uno and slams his fist into his stomach. The wolf is surprisingly tough, however, and is only lightly injured (Bruised...he rolled a 20)

Both the big bads are stunned, but the Sheik's poison continues to function (Secondary Effect Extra)

Through somewhat able to ignore the initial effects of the poison, Nightweaver finds it difficult to stand or think straight, barely managing to keep from passing out (missed by 4). (Exhausted)

Optic manages to avoid further harm.

Viridian continues to spin, having as much trouble the second time as the first (I presume a hero point to avoid going down, but she's still exhausted.)

Shooting Star suddenly feels the drugs hold on her getting much stronger, just as she is flying downwards very rapidly (Exhausted).

Nitro remains unaffected.

Angel remains immune.

Salix continues to get worse (Exhausted...after this battle, perhaps you should replace Immunity: Disease with Immunityisease (Limited to diseases that do not normally affect plants) and Immunity: Poison (Limited to poisons that do not ordinarily affect plants). I don't feel right giving you free immunity here and now, but a plant being affected normally by opiates is just weird.)

Seeing their leader fall at their feet, the vizored guards on the boat begin firing back at Shooting Star. Red-hot, pointed, metal arrow-like slugs stream out of their drum-loaded shotguns, with some kind of metal debris flying a short distance out of the barrel as well. (Superscience Automatic Shotgun w/ Tungsten Sabot Rounds, Blast 6, Autofire 2, Penetrating) Through some frantic flying, she manages to dodge the streams of deadly steel.

Meanwhile, the security trucks are in position to attack the roofs. From one comes a bunch of stray gunfire and two RPGs aimed at the roof with only one standing mook and Optic, Viridian, and Salix. Optic dives out of the way but takes some shrapnel to the torso (Injury+Bruise). Salix takes a lot of flames, not even coming close to dodging it, but his tough body manages to limit the damage (Injury+Bruise). Veridian's clumsy dodging is also ineffective, but her force field entirely protects her from the explosion. The extra damage causes the roof to collapse completely, however, dumping the three of them down three stories as the chain reaction collapses the entire top half of the building other than some of the stronger supports. Veridian and Salix remain entirely protected from the fall and the debris by their armor, though Optic takes a bruise. The Cholo mook is nowhere to be seen, but he probably isn't doing too well.

The other one actually has a flak gun in it, and it fires up THROUGH the building, lightly wounding Angel (Injury + Bruise). Some regular gunfire from the truck is also ineffective.

Angel cannot do anything, but Salix can. I am going to let him change his action because a Stun dart is just about useless against an already-stunned opponent.

 

[Elric]

Acrobatic Bluff on Num1 as a move. If succeeds, PA 2. If fails, Acc 2.