Ultimate X-Force 2: Seven Deadly Sins

[ByteRynn]

After two weeks of hanging out aroung the Triskellion, aiding in the rebuilding of Triskillion facilities, and getting to know some of the denizens of the base, such as Steve Rogers, Janet Pym, and Wanda and Pietro Maximoff, you are called into Colonel Dougan's offices.

"Ah, good, I have something to show you."

He takes you down a corridor, into an elevator, and ultimately to one of the testing labs. In the lab room are four dummies, dressed in what can only be described as uniforms.

"This is Dr. Robert Langston. He has worked in our costumes and uniforms department for quite some time. He was responsible for Captain America's newest costume, as well as the costumes of some of our other Ultimates. He has now designed costumes designed to help you stay in touch when on missions, emphasize your powers, and grant you some protection when needed. Dr. Langston, it's your show."

A thin black man, dressed in a lab coatover a rumpled shirt steps foward and gestures to the first uniform.

"Ah, yes...first we have...Lewis Guthrie? Stonewall. There you are. Your uniform has been modeled heavily after the Captain America suit, though we opted to down-play the armor, as you don't so much need it. Also, we have augmented the helmet. This helmet should be able to scramble most low-level telepathic activity, as well as cause some interference with other psychic assaults. It also has a powerful encrypted comm system installed. Your com is amongst one of our most powerful personal systems, because if any of you is going to be alive and able to send back reports, we expect it will be you. The centerpiece of this costume, however, is the left bracer. You notice it is somewhat oversized, yes? That bracer is a aadamantine-vibranium composite, similar to Captain America's Shield. With training it should offer you some low-level ability to deflect blows landing on you. Also, it can serve as a sheath for that wonderful knife we gifted you when you signed up."

Description: [sblock] You have an Ultimate Cpt. America-style helment, but it is Metallic dark grey. Your tunic has a high neck, and is made of some leather-type material. It is form fitting and also dark grey, with deep red trim along the collar. The sleeves end just past your shoulder. There is a thick black leather belt. Your pants are tight-fitting dark grey leather with red stripes down the side, tucked into heave, shin-high black leather army boots. Your right hand has a thick lether combat-glove, dark red with dark grey trim. Your left hand is a massive, gleaming metallic grey bracer that ends in a grey glove. This bracer flares just a bit and flattens out, giving it extra surface area. Inset into the inside of the bracer is a place that perfectly fits your knife.[/sblock]
Stats: [sblock] Helmet: Mind Shield 2 (+2 on Will Saves against Mental Effects, immune to mental effects less than rank 2), and Communication 4 (Radio, Selective, Subtle, Area, 1 mile range); Bracer: Shield 1 (+1 defense)[/sblock]

 

[Byteme8199]

Sunspot glances at the impressive suit of armor and lets out a long whistle.

"Thats hot stuff Cap'n. Let's just hope all this attention wont go to his head..... get it... get it?

After a few seconds of silence...

"Oh shut up...."

 

[ByteRynn]

Dr. Langston walks down the row of costumes, and picks up another folder, and begins reading from it.

"Let's see...Roberto...Sunspot. Your powers offered us quite a trick. We wanted all of our operatives outfitted with mission radios, however, your power, unfotunately, interferes with most personal radios when in your converted form. We have outfitted your mask with a weaker personal comm system, but I believe that it will not work when you have shifted forms. You mask also has Psychis scramblers inlaid, and I believe this configuration of them has daunted our Psi-corps more often than even Stonewall's helmet. The mask also is flash-sensitive, protecting your eyes from most harsh glares, especially if you ever, as our tests predict, manage to discover ways to produce bright bursts of light with your powers. Finally, the aspect we are most proud of. This harness that staps over and into your uniform has a small shield generator inlaid into it. We could get a personal forcefield so small, because it harnesses your own solar energy. It will work whenever you are in sun form, however, it won't work at any other time. I think you will be quite pleased with it."

Description [sblock] Your mask looks like a metallic grey visor that goes across your face, in a fairly thin line, covering only your eye-line. The eye-holes have slightly-tinted glass in them, and when you move into areas of bright light, they darken. The rest of your mask rises high on your neck, and up around the side of your head, connecting to the heavier face-plate, anchored in the back, covering your ears (think, original Gambit's mask). Your mask ties right in to your tunic, grey/black leather with red trim, very similar to Stonewall's, but it goes all the way down to your fore-arms, tucking into a pair of dark red combat gloves. Crossing this tunic is a golden harness, Xing over each shoulder, meeting in the middle with a red crystal looking apparatus, and the crossing down to attach to a thick leather belt. It does the same thing in the rear. Your slacks and boots are identical to stonewall's. When you go into sunform, the entire uniform, minus the face-mask and golden harness fade to black, and the red shield apparatus starts to glow.[/sblock]

Stats: [sblock] Mindshield 3 (+3 on will saves against mental effects and immune to level 2 mental powers and below); Communication 2 (selective, subtle, area, 100 ft., doesn't work while in Sunform), Force Field 1 (selective (you may allow things to pass through), Impervious 1, +1 toughness, only works in sunform), Sensory Shield 2 (visual, +4 on saves against visual dazzles, automatically succede on saves against Rank 1 dazzles)[/sblock]

 

[ByteRynn]

The good doctor moves on to the next uniform.

"This is what we have for The Voice. We were told you were rather particular on your sense of style, so we tried to preserve some of that in our designs. You still have your leather jacket, and this one is a bit better armored than the one you currently wear. It is also a good deal longer, duster length, for resons that will soon become obvious to you. Ryans, run the simulation video, please."

He gestures to a screen, and a film begins, showing a man, standing on top of a tall ledge of a down-town NYC building, wearing a long, black leather jacket. The man jumps off the building, and then triggers something in one hand, causing the back of the jacket to flare out, solidify, and become a parasail, slowing the wearers descent to the growund.

"This could aid in certain infiltrations and escapes I imagine. Perhaps we've just seen Batman too many times. We also have a head apparatus that protects the wearer from over-loud sounds, and has installed a personal comm set of power equivilant to Stonewall's."

Description [sblock] Your mask is open-topped, letting your hair come out, but it covers almost your entire face, save your mouth. On either side, their is an ear-cover that fits snugly into your ear, housing your audio protection, and your comm system. This mask is attached to your tunic, which is fairly form fitting, and resembles the tunice of Stonewall and Sunspot. Yours, however is more simple and resembling old-school super-hero spandex. This is tucked into pant, worn with a thick leather belt. The pants are grey-black leather with a red stripe down the side, tucked into military-style combat boots. You have dark red light combat gloves that fit over your upper-body suit. Over this all, you wear a long dark grey-black leather jacket with dark red trim around the detail, arms, and collar. It is fairly heavy.[/sblock]

Stats: [sblock]Protection 1 (impervious 1, +1 toughness. Note, this does not stack with the toughness in your current jacket, but it does make you immune to any damage of +1 or less, something your current jacket doesn't do.); Super-movement 1 (Slowfall, must not be flatfooted to use), Communication 4 (Radio, Selective, Subtle, Area, 1 mile range); Sensory Shield 2 (hearing, +4 on saves against audio dazzles, automatically succede on saves against Rank 1 dazzles)[/sblock]

 

[Byteme8199]

Sunspot glances at the front then walks to the back of the suit. He looks it over approvingly.

"This will do Doc.. this will definitely do..."

With a very satisfied, and almost proud look, Sunspot goes into the corner and tries to superheat his power into a small area as bright as possible... but fails to get more than a candles amount of light.

"Tell me, how Im supposed to do this blinding light thing again?"

 

[Byteme8199]

"Hey Voice.. say "Whoa""

 

[ByteRynn]

"And finally, Mr. Oaksbridge. The Shadowjack uniform, while rather basic, will certainly help you, help us. First of all, you are being issued a small hold-out pistol. I know it is not your inclination to use lethal force, but sometimes it is required. Your belt is outfitted with a holdster, though, your right boot also has a concealed holdster, should you desire subtlety. Your bracers are the true state-of-the-art creation, adn I am afraid we spent most of what we had in our budget for you there. If you'll notice, the underarm of your right bracer is equipped with a touch screen. This screen is tied into and constantly updated by the U.S. government's files of world grography, road names, and locations. The screen will show you where you are, where you might want to go, which direction it is, how far you are to that thing, and also contains an accurate atomic clock. In addition, it is tied into the functions of the left bracer. This bracer has a small personal comm system built into it, as well as a blue-tooth/infared/USB port for computer access, allowing you to remotely access many coputers, and hard acces most others. The computer interface is brought up on your right bracer's screen. You interface with it just like a blackberry."

Description: [sblock] Your mask is a simple, dark grey molded face-mask, a-la movie Robin, but a little bigger. The edges of it are outlined in dark red. Your tunic is high collared, and the same style and cut as Stonewall and Sunspot's uniform tops. Your sleeves come all the way down to your forearms, tucking neatly into your light-weight dark red combat gloves. You have a thick black belt with a small gun holster, containing a super light-weight pistol. Your dark-grey pants are identical to the others, complete with the stripe all the way down to the combat boots.[/sblock]

Stats:[sblock]Datalink 1(infared/USB, 10 feet), The computer effectively grants you 4 ranks of knowledge (geography), and you can make knowledge (geography) checks as if trained), also, you have Super Senses (Direction Sense, Distance Sense, and Time Sense), Hold Out Pistol (blast 2, 20 ft.), Communication 2 (radio, selective, subtle, area, 100 ft.)[/sblock]

 

[ByteRynn]

Dougan speaks up.

"Well, we aren't quite sure yet Sunspot. Our luck with getting actual experienced mutant trainers to work with you has been somewhat low. The only truly qualified we know of have either been detained as madmen who abused the Weapon X program, have very recently broken out of the Triskellion to continue their reighn of Anti-human terrorism, or are running schools for Gifted Youngsters that the president is trying to distance himself from at the moment. Does anyone else have any questions at the moment? You have 4 days to work with these suits, and get used to them...then we are sending you back out."

Sunspot: [sblock]You can always do a powerstunt to get an effect with your blast that you havn't bought yet. You just use the stunt to get the feat "alternate power" which lets you spend the same number of points you have invested in your blast into another power, such as Dazzle. This use of extra effort would get you the temporary power Dazzle 10(Alternate Save-Toughness) linked to Blast 10. They fail their save, instead of being knocked back, they get blinded. You can do this with any other effect you might want your microwaves to do.[/sblock]

 

[Byteme8199]

"No Worries Col. Dougan, I'll probably pick it up on my own someday.. sort of like the whole flying thing. I think my powers are unlimited... its my imagination thats limiting my powers. Who knows, maybe one day I'll be able to cook hot dogs in my sun form instead of just bounce them around..... yea..."

[sblock] I'm really glad we're playing this online. it makes me very happy [/sblock]

 

[Shieldhaven]

Shadowjack picks up the uniform and vanishes briefly. About ten minutes later, he reappears, fully decked out. "Boots still need some breaking in. But the measurements are spot on." With a crooked grin, he adds, "Not a bad first effort."

Moving a few paces away from his new comrades, he practices drawing his pistol from its holster, apparently having watched a few too many spaghetti Westerns. "I'll be your huckleberry," he mutters occasionally.