Superheroes of the Trust OOC Thread II

[Elric]

At a guess, Hope could freeze Orion's gun and knife hand with the create Ice or Air power, so he couldn't hurt the little girl. Wren could do this as well with his own create object power.

The power you are looking for is called 'Snare'. Create Object will not do the trick.

Shooting at Orion and hopefully blasting him across the room would be my preferred version. However, looking at your character sheet, it seems like you don't have Precise Shot (I'm surprised; every ranged attacker should have this. Take it the next chance you get), which means that you'd certainly have at least a -4 penalty shooting at him while he's got a human shield.

If you can shoot at him effectively, he's unlikely to waste time killing the hostages; he'll probably just fight you.

 

[Victim]

The child is probably the Animus Serpent queen, hence the unusual behavior of the spore affected individuals while she's threatened. I'd guess that not only is Orion holding a knife to her throat, he's also giving orders for the afflicted persons.

The bad guys could have harvested spores for this, and may have a queen on their side. She'll be humanoid, but appearance and powers vary widely since they are all hybridized with their hosts' DNA.

If the child is the queen, she might not be entirely innocent (sorta, given that she didn't chose to born like that) or helpless.

But Star was KO'd when Optic explained the spores.

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And all these threats at once are going to be rough. After we deal with this fight, there's still the other stuff. And with all our bruises/injuries - each one requiring a separate Heal power use - we'll either have to delay our response while people are getting hurt to heal up, or go in beat up. Hopefully the baddies will have taken some damage or something fighting, so we wouldn't be going in at a huge disadvantage.

 

[Elric]

I didn't remember that stuff at all. Full quote:

Optic sends this information. This will come in handy quite soon. Meanwhile, he analyzes the spores while waiting for Wren to teleport him. He tells the group "These spores are from a Animus Serpent, a Queen. Aminus Serpents are small parasites that live in the human brain and feed off certain chemicals and brain matter that lead people to unreasoned hostility and violence, and telepathically suggest they act on these things. The queens reproduce by producing spores that enter people's minds and grow...this is just the first step. Eventually these things will take over their victims...and they can spread the infection through bodily fluids...and if two of them produce a child, that child will be a queen. The bad guys could have harvested spores for this, and may have a queen on their side. She'll be humanoid, but appearance and powers vary widely since they are all hybridized with their hosts' DNA. By the way, Devil Ray is Crime League...where there is one, there may be more..."

 

[kirinke]

The power you are looking for is called 'Snare'. Create Object will not do the trick.

Shooting at Orion and hopefully blasting him across the room would be my preferred version. However, looking at your character sheet, it seems like you don't have Precise Shot (I'm surprised; every ranged attacker should have this. Take it the next chance you get), which means that you'd certainly have at least a -4 penalty shooting at him while he's got a human shield.

If you can shoot at him effectively, he's unlikely to waste time killing the hostages; he'll probably just fight you.

I'd say the main reason why Hope hasn't taken the precise shot feat yet, is that she's not had the need for it until recently, most of her work in the past didn't include taking on super-villians on a regular basis, at least not in a combat sense. But yeh, next PP she gets, I'll spend some on precise shot and snare.

How about using a hero point to take a temporary precise shot feat? Would that work?

 

[Victim]

In terms of shooting people, it'd be nice if some people at the top of the round could exploit the stuns Star delivered last round. I guess that's Apollo and Optic. If my mental map isn't too far off, then Optic should be able to shoot Stratos since both were outside, while Apollo can fly into the building through the burning holes and laser arrow Shima - and hopefully get an angle that knocks him back outside.

 

[Elric]

How about using a hero point to take a temporary precise shot feat? Would that work?

It would work for 1 round (see the Heroic Feat HP function), which isn't worth much here because spending a hero point on Improved Roll would probably be superior.

 

[Victim]

I'd say the main reason why Hope hasn't taken the precise shot feat yet, is that she's not had the need for it until recently, most of her work in the past didn't include taking on super-villians on a regular basis, at least not in a combat sense. But yeh, next PP she gets, I'll spend some on precise shot and snare.

How about using a hero point to take a temporary precise shot feat? Would that work?

The real reason is that we don't have many close up fighters and tend to have target rich environments. So Hope hasn't yet needed to shoot someone in melee since there were other targets or because one party or the other didn't stay in close quarters due to knockback.

Yes, you can spend an HP to emulate a fight. You can also just shoot with a penalty and then spend the HP to reroll the attack if you'd miss.

 

[Victim]

ooc:
Foresight to see if her plan could work, or what might happen.

Your precog is uncontrolled.

 

[kirinke]

Your precog is uncontrolled.

I know that, she is attempting to see what will come to pass, given the current situation.

 

[DM_Matt]

I know that, she is attempting to see what will come to pass, given the current situation.

Not getting a vision here.