Superheroes of The Trust OOC Thread (Accepting Alts)

[Victim]

Stunned means that you lose your action, and dodge bonuses. Sustained Powers have a chance to collapse depending on your Concentration check. And attackers have a +2 bonus to hit. So Hope has basically 8 defense because all her defense is Dodge Focus, and may have lost her Force Field.

So you should really hope that Shooting Star's trap hits and stuns the Black Knight when it ports back to finish the job.

 

[Elric]

Stunned means that you lose your action, and dodge bonuses. Sustained Powers have a chance to collapse depending on your Concentration check. And attackers have a +2 bonus to hit. So Hope has basically 8 defense because all her defense is Dodge Focus, and may have lost her Force Field.

So you should really hope that Shooting Star's trap hits and stuns the Black Knight when it ports back to finish the job.

If Matt had the knights attacking simultaneously, then Hope will become un-stunned right before their action next round, so she won't have a lower defense score against their attacks.

Also, Hope actually has 2 ranks in base defense and 9 in Dodge Focus. So she has effectively a 9 defense (still not so hot ) when stunned. Lastly, we should be keeping track of HP in our posts better- I'm guilty of this as well. Matt probably tracks this stuff, but he shouldn't have to do all the work himself.

 

[Victim]

If Matt had the knights attacking simultaneously, then Hope will become un-stunned right before their action next round, so she won't have a lower defense score against their attacks.

Also, Hope actually has 2 ranks in base defense and 9 in Dodge Focus. So she has effectively a 9 defense (still not so hot ) when stunned. Lastly, we should be keeping track of HP in our posts better- I'm guilty of this as well. Matt probably tracks this stuff, but he shouldn't have to do all the work himself.

Yeah, if they went at the exact same time, then that's good for us.

Or maybe Scylla waves them off for now because of the mine orbs. She'll have plenty of chances to have her puppets wage guerilla war on us as we move around the complex; there's little need to have her prototypes jump back into prepared defenders. That could be really annoying. Especially if their next attack comes in the middle of a battle with another set of defense drones.

It probably is a prudent move not to dunk the knights into the metal at this point.

Tracking temporary status effects from like a month ago can be pretty tough. Having a handy status line at the bottom of each combat action has been useful though. In the short run, I can just look at my last post for a starting point. And repetition has made it easy to remember that I have an extra HP. Plus the rather decisive smackdown that earned it.

 

[kirinke]

All things considered, I don't think you should hesitate long to dump them into the molten metal, even if they have people inside the suit, after all, they are enemies at this point, so are fair game. At least, that's how Hope considers it. She is pragmatic after all.

 

[Shayuri]

Yes, well, Viridian is not a hardened killer under that mask.

 

[Jemal]

I was under the impression that they were robots..

 

[kirinke]

Yes, well, Viridian is not a hardened killer under that mask.

Lol. Neither is Hope, but she has been trained to think first of innocent civilians, then of her team mates. The bad guys well-being fall way down on her list of concern, unless of course they have valuable information. Y'gotta remember, she's used to dealing with super powered individuals who want her and everyone around her not only dead, but messily and painfully dead. So if she can prevent that from happening, she'll prevent it and if that means using lethal methods, she isn't gonna loose sleep over it.

 

[DM_Matt]

I was under the impression that they were robots..

Actually, I just realized that Optic would not only be under that impression, but he'd just plain know it. X-ray vision will do that.

 

[Victim]

Lol. Neither is Hope, but she has been trained to think first of innocent civilians, then of her team mates. The bad guys well-being fall way down on her list of concern, unless of course they have valuable information. Y'gotta remember, she's used to dealing with super powered individuals who want her and everyone around her not only dead, but messily and painfully dead. So if she can prevent that from happening, she'll prevent it and if that means using lethal methods, she isn't gonna loose sleep over it.

Yeah, the other characters have only been dealing with the ice cream man, not anyone actually dangerous.

With powers and supertech devices offering A) reliably non lethal attack forms, and B) effective non lethal attacks, the guidelines on using lethal force for empowered agents might be somewhat more strict. Shooting to kill is hardly ever going to be Hope's only effective option. And not losing any sleep sounds pretty hardened to me. And one might that that someone working for a law enforcement agency would prefer to arrest and bring people to trial whenever possible.

Besides, you have to think of the splashing that could result from dunking the knights. Dripping molten metal on to technicians or characters is not going to be healthy.

 

[kirinke]

True in most cases, but the folks she's been sent to um... deal with haven't exactly wanted to be apprehended. And were at the time trying to either open a portal to hell or something else equally unpleasant. So, she's had to compromise between bringing in guys who can do that and the safety of the populance as a whole. If she can bring them in safely, she will. And while she will 'shoot to kill' as it were, it's not her first choice. But she won't hesitate if she sees that it's the only option she has left.

Don't worry, she's not gonna use the molten metal gambit if she doesn't have to.

And after having a crazy group of super criminals (Faust, Black Cobra and Sister Thorn) send you videos of your partner being tortured to death as a taunt, you'd feel a bit different about super-villains too.