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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mark Chance" data-source="post: 3959137" data-attributes="member: 2795">At the LighthouseDr. 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.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown    :("  data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" /> [/sblock][sblock=Combat Block]Fusion: uninjured; 3 Hero PointsGenesis: initiative 20; 1 bruise/injury, -4 Dex; 2 Hero Points [Impervious 10]Rumble: uninjured; 2 Hero PointsTendril: staggered+disabled; 2 Hero PointsN.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.[/sblock]</blockquote>

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