The Dream Team

[Mark Chance]

Fusion, Genesis, Tendril [End of Combat]

In the midst of the hissing, enraged swarm of monstrous wasps, the heroes fight on!

This won't work... Fiona thinks to herself, then she grabs the plant girl, Tendril, and moves her towards the door, trying to get her away from the swarm of stingy wasps, while Genesis seems to work on some solution to fight them back.

Fusion slips an arm under Tendril's arm, helping the hero stand, and starts to back away toward the front door. Fusion's costume protects her against the dozens of stings, but something about the hellish buzzing starts to work on her system. The walls seems to tilt, the floor seems to shift, and Fusion's stomach seems to roll over in her gut. It's all she can do to stagger with Tendril against the door. Outside, she and Tendril hear the storm's rage.

Genesis reels a bit from the poison, but her newly reinforced armor keeps the horrible bee-things away from her for now. She holds up the nozzle of the flamethrower and with a whir and twist of the barrel, makes it unsafe. "Just call me the Orkin girl," she snarls...and the hallway is filled with thick, heavy flames and smoke!

Genesis's defenses also prove more than adequate to defeat the swarm's stings, but only a little too late. Her flesh burns as her muscles begin to ache and stiffen. She brings her flamethrower to bear, and with remarkable effect. The fiendish wasps burn and writhe. The buzz of the swarm is replaced by a cacophony of falsetto shrieks and the foulest of curses.

Kelly groans woozy and moves back trying to get some space between her and the bugs. "Tendril what have you gotten me into," she thinks to herself. "Some hero I am."

Fortunately, Tendril appears to have little to worry about for the moment at least. Leaning against Fusion, she is relieved to see that the fight has ended as quickly as it started. Genesis's flamethrower has burned the hallway almost entirely free of the wasps. Only a few of the monstrous bugs remain, and they don't look to have any fight left in them. The three men within whom the swarms had hid still lie on the floor.

[sblock=Combat Block]
Swarms: destroyed; TOU saves for swarms vs. Genesis's flamethrower. (1d20=5, 1d20=8, 1d20=7)
Fusion: uninjured, but nauseated (ignore after a post or two); 3 Hero Points
Genesis: initiative 20; 1 bruise/injury, -2 Dex; 2 Hero Points [Impervious 10]
Tendril: initiative 17; staggered+disabled; 2 Hero Points
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[sblock=OOC]
Fusion will recover from being nauseated quick enough. I need another Fort save from Genesis for secondary poison damage. We're not in combat any more. The ball's in your court.
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[Thanee]

Fusion

“Uhhh...”

It takes a moment for Fusion to recover from the nausea caused by the hellish buzzing of the wasp swarm, she seemed to have fared better than Tendril, though.

“Everything alright? Can you walk? Or should we stay here for a moment, now that things have calmed down a bit?”

She then turns to Genesis, nodding to her in acknowledgement. “That was good work, I couldn't have done much against those wasps. And quite on time.”

 

[Shayuri]

(lol...lousy INvis Castle... Fort save 11 http://invisiblecastle.com/find.py?id=1427874 )

Genesis nods at Fusion wearily.

"Ome kind of...para...paralybik poison," she says thickly, unable to articulate her tongue quite right.

She glances down at the fallen men and adds, "Bebba call ambuwance."

The flamethrower stays pointed down the hall, ready to fire if anything bad happens.

"Webby to moob?"

(question! If gen swaps out the Invulnerable armor with the Sealed Armor, she'd get Immunity to poisons. I presume that wouldn't stop her from taking further damage from poison already in her system though.)

 

[Jemal]

"You got it, toots."
Rumble grins and follows.
(Sorry, bad connections lately, no posting time)

 

[Moon_Goddess]

Tendril holds herself up with the wall wobbily,

"I'll be ok I think.... It'll take time. I'm still really weak that hit me hard."

 

[Shayuri]

Genesis nods and moves forward, stepping on any wasps in the way. The heavier armor makes clomping noises with each step, and the alert listener might pick out the whines of tiny servomotors now built into the joints to help her move.

She pauses at the fallen human beings...if that's what they are...and kneels down to examine one more closely, to see if it's human, and see if it's alive.

 

[Mark Chance]

OOC: Hello! I'm off for Christmas holiday starting this afternoon. I shall get caught up with posting soon. I've also been given the early Christmas gift of suddenly finding out that my school is closing effective today. Consequently, I'm out of a job, and my children are out of a school.



If any of you are fabulously wealthy and would like to give me some money, I can send you my PayPal info.

 

[Mark Chance]

At the Lighthouse

"You got it, toots." Rumble grins and follows.

Dr. Lasky arches an eyebrow at the "toots" comment. She leads Rumble out of the lab through several corridors. Security checkpoints are frequent. After a couple of minutes, the pair arrives at a hangar of sorts. Lasky introduces Rumble to a tall, athletic woman with military style crewcut.

"This is Veronica Noonan, our ace pilot," Lasky says.

Noonan snaps a casual salute at Rumble. She is wearing a flight suit emblazoned with Astro Labs' corporate logo, and she sports one of the same unusual sidearms carried by the security guards.

In the center of the hangar room is a silver sphere about 15 feet in diameter. It floats motionless a few feet off the floor. As Rumble and Noonan enter the strange craft through an iris door, Lasky explains that the Stormjumper rides magnetic lines of force, employs advanced gyroscopes, and other things far too technical for Rumble. Noonan assists Rumble into the harness.

"Just sit back and enjoy the ride, toots," she says with a wink. "Once we're clear of the building, we'll be at the lighthouse in two minutes tops. Best of all, you barely feel the G-s in this ride."

A moment later, the pair are airborne, racing through the storm, the craft seemingly unaffected by the violent winds and rains. Just as Noonan said, the Stormjumper quickly arrives at the site of the lighthouse. As Noonan pilots the strange vehicle over the area, Rumble looks down. There are a few cars in the parking lot. It looks as if most of the lights are off in the building. Nothing seems terribly amiss.

Meanwhile, at the lighthouse...

The three heroes move cautiously into the fire-blackened hall. The last of living wasps lay on the floor, twitching feebly, apparently dying. Genesis pauses near the fallen men. All three are breathing shallowly and bleeding lightly from their mouths. As far as Genesis can tell, they are indeed human. Fusion slowly opens the door at the end of the hall. On the other side is a largish rectangle of a room. Most of the lights are out, but one set of flourescent bulbs flicker fitfully. The room is filled with various meteorological monitoring devices, but all of them have been shut off.

Suddenly, the three heroes hear a high-pitched whine piercing the din of the storm outside. Based on the Doppler effect of the sound, whatever made it has passed over or near the lighthouse.

[sblock=Shayuri's Question]If gen swaps out the Invulnerable armor with the Sealed Armor, she'd get Immunity to poisons. I presume that wouldn't stop her from taking further damage from poison already in her system though.

That'd be my take on it as well. The poison in her system has already done its damage.
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[sblock=Combat Block]
Fusion: uninjured; 3 Hero Points
Genesis: initiative 20; 1 bruise/injury, -4 Dex; 2 Hero Points [Impervious 10]
Rumble: uninjured; 2 Hero Points
Tendril: staggered+disabled; 2 Hero Points

N.B. Tendril is limited to a single standard or move action each round. Any strenuous activity causes her condition to worsen to dying. She cannot recover from being staggered until she is no longer disabled.
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[Jemal]

"Thanks for the ride guys. Time t'head on in and see what's what."

Rumble looks down at the ground and starts taking off his harness, intent on simply jumping out. "So any a youse followin' me? If so, I suggest stayin behind a ways in case there's more monsters."

(Can the door be opened while in flight? If so, Rumble does the following. Otherwise he waits for them to land)

With a low rumbling sound, he jumps out of the sphere, roaring towards the front door.

 

[Moon_Goddess]

[sblock=OOC] How do I recover from being disabled I don't think I understand. [/sblock]

"What was that noise, and why is everything off? Someone is trying to hide something about this storm."