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GM "Agent Chromium." Commander Irons made his presence known in Chromium's earpiece. He was, as ever, stern. "That thing is an enemy. Prepare to engage at the first chance." As always, the commander's tone left little in the way of discussion. Chromium had been given his orders. The dragon breathed out, steam releasing from its nostriles. Levity could feel the winds blowing across her as it flapped its wings to stay airborne. "Anne Mistral." It spoke with the voice of an old man. "Do you stand in the defense of this city? Do you stand to keep things as they are? Or do you wish to embrace change? Do you want to free the shackled masses?"

Justice "Hey, ES!" Alright, this was good! Emerald Spider was here, and with the big guy with the water? Yeah, these goons didn't stand a chance! Dropping her gun into a portal, Justice readied herself, spinning up the servos in her gauntlets, while tiny portals opened around her, armor plating attaching. Time to see if it would be enough to stop those guns. She really hoped. Water guy was running for the people on the ground, after creating the water all around her and the vans, and well... "I'll go high." This was a new trick. She'd practiced, of course, but it was still pretty good. Jumping forward, she vanished with a body tight portal opening around her, then jumping out right in front of one of the gunmen on the roof. The motor in her right gauntlet spinning up, she punched, only to have the guy step out of the way... leaving Justice alone on the roof with a good number of bad guys. Alright. Not good. A quick adjustment on the fly, and tiny portals opened up for even more armor, bulking her up. She'd be slower, sure, but she'd deal with that.

The largest cluster on the ground are the three that ES failed to catch, there's none up close so far. Justice switches the M.O.V.E. array to the Armor Plating, Z-Space Arsenal to Justice strike and goes for a Combat Teleport, teleporting up to some of the shooters on the roof. Going on the attack, she has a possible 3 to hit if she KOs with her Justice Strikes and Takedown Attack: 14 15 11, which doesn't matter at all, cus she misses the first one! With that, using a free action to switch the M.O.D. array to +15TOU/+5DEF. Trying to sketch it out: There's about 8 men on the roof, including the one that barked out orders. They're in groups of 3, 4 and the one barking orders. There's 12 men on the ground. 6 on the left side of the building, 3 of those are stuck together with webbing, the other 3 are close together, with Kanunu engaging them in melee. The others 6 on the ground are grouped in groups of two in front of the building. 23 - Kanunu - 4HP - Unharmed 22 - Justice - 4HP - Unharmed 20 - Emerald Spider - 1HP - Unharmed 9 - Mafiya Soldiers x20 - 3 Snared 3x Transports: Protected by Water Dome, TOU 18

GM The preacher seemed to mull over Agnes' words, but he let it go. Jonathan looked like he was about to say something, but remained silent, as he led them further into the cave. They entered a larger cave. The stench was overpowering here. A large hole before them was filled with bodies in various stages of decay. The missing homeless. "Do you see?" The preacher preached, throwing a hand out to show the pit. "We save them! And in turn, the Lord empowers us! We are right, we are just!"

"The thump, thump, thump, of course." Pan replied, rather matter of fact. "There is a rhytm to it." And then, a splash? Pan was out of the room before he took any chance to explain more to Adam or Davyd, a trail of pixie dust being all that he left behind as he flew up to the main deck, then out, up, over, and around to reach the net, hovering above it and Lulu. He looked around, turning his head, listening intently, trying to find out whatever it was. Curiosity? Alarm? It was hard to tell. Unlike Lulu, Pan had not really taken the time to get dressed, hovering above in just his boxers, not that he seemed to care or notice. "What happened? What was that splash? And the thump, thump, thump?"

Ah, right. Terrifica was a Freedom Leaguer, right? No powers as far as Connor knew, but good enough that the high and mighty wanted her in their little league. Stepping away from the others, he remained silent for now. He didn't really have anything to add here, and Kronk seemed to have calmed down. No need for a fight, then. He kind of wondered if the old man ever fought anything like Kronk. Probably, wouldn't surprise him at least. "We're good here, then? No more trouble?" He didn't really want to stick around if any more leaguers showed up.

Wait, Salvo? Could that be StartASalvo, back from Terrifica's AMA? That was... that was really cool that she showed up, actually. Aw, Meta-Naut was here too. That was... that was really great, actually. Almost everyone she had met up with so far had showed up, and Robin would be lying if she said that didn't warm her heart just a little bit. Give her just that little bit more confidence in what she was doing here. And then Protectron stepped in and Robin completely lost her place. The Protectron was showing up for something that she had started? Wow. Yeah. She had to continue, right? The people here didn't seem to like the Ultio Suits either, which was kinda good, but also... made her feel kinda bad? "Err... yeah, yeah. The whole supers as a service thing, that's bad, right... but, yeah, Mars is pretty popular, so people seem to just love it. I dunno if you've seen those Ultio people in action, some are good guys, but eh... not really all of them?" ES talking about the corporations, corruption and all that, yeah, Robin had started seeing some of those cracks. Probably not nearly as much as ES or the others, she'd tried to just help people, but it kinda tied into the other bad part of everything? "But, yeah, that thing with corrupt corporate people and such, kinda brings me to the next bit of bad news. Those armors? Mars is using at least some of my tech for it, and something else. I... kinda managed to get a close up view of one of those suits, and they're kinda scary with all they can do? My tech alone is a lot, but these guys, and bundling in everything else Mars has put in them? Just takes one of those guys having a bad day to cause some major trouble." She scratched her arm. Obviously, Robin was feeling bad about this. Really bad. "That whole system they use to hide the armors and then suddenly appear? That's my stuff... and I got no idea how Mars got that." Robin really wished she could reply to everyone, but honestly, she just had to get through explaining this right now. Then they could damn her if they wanted to, at least it was out there.

@secondling @Nick @Ari Alice makes her move on Felix: https://www.freedomplaybypost.com/topic/12717-cosmic-love/?do=findComment&comment=296317

GM Leroy, Abby and Felix had been stuck inside the library for a while now. A joint assignment from a teacher. Something that had been taking forever, with their noses buried in the books. Research into the founding of Freedom City, long ago, they needed to have a report ready by tomorrow. The teacher expected minute details, cross references, the works. Of course, that meant they had completely missed the storm that Micah was conjuring outside. They had been alone in the library. After all, it was a nice day, and it was Valentine's, so everyone was busy, but now someone entered, slowly walking up behind Felix. She was short, with short dark hair. She looked Asian, maybe Japanese. She slowly walked up to them, stopping in front of Felix, with a little smile on her face. It was like she reminded him of someone, even if he couldn't quite place it. There was just something about the way she looked. Try as he might, he couldn't quite tear his eyes away from her. The assignment didn't really seem to matter all that much anymore. She reached up and brushed a few stray hairs away from her face. "Hi, I'm Alice, I'm new here. Any chance you wanna show me around?"

Pan shrugged at the question. He had been following the conversation, sure, but that was the future, this was the present. "Well, I hope for a lot of adventure, at least." He smiled slightly, looking at Eira for a second, before looking to Kam. "But no, no plans. I will have to find out when the time comes, I suppose." He stepped out of the van with the others, a grey duffelbag on his shoulder, dark green shorts that reached his knees but no further, a lighter green t-shirt with a dark grey jacket over it. He eyed the dojo before them. "Not really impressive looking, is it? Of course, appearances can deceive, no?"

GM "Nein!" Die Übermensch was angry. The ground shook around him as he struggled to rise. Despite the blows that the young heroes delivered, he seemed momentarily stunned at best. The small bruises that their assault had dealt him already seemed to be healing as he slammed a fist into the ground, burying it to stop himself from being sucked into the portal. "I will not be denied! Do you think a cave will protect you? I will tear the entire mountain apart on top of your heads!" Cosmic energies began to flare around him, as the last few villagers ran into the cave. Just Watchdog and Forever Boy still stood their ground, the rest of the time tossed heroes was inside the dark cave.

Alright, that's just Forever Boy and Watchdog that's not in the cave, everyone managed to last 2 rounds, which means all the villagers are gone. Once Forever Boy and Watchdog are inside the cave, we'll be out of combat, but until then... Übermensch recovers 1 bruised condition with regeneration, and recovers from Dazed at the end of his turn. @Avenger Assembled is up 29 - Forever Boy - 1HP - Unharmed24 - Specimen - 3HP - Unharmed, Inspired +5, Inside the cave22 - Übermensch - Bruised (x1), Tripped --- Round 2/2, villagers saved!18 - Rebound - 2HP - Unharmed, Inspired +5, Inside the cave17 - Watchdog - 1HP - Bruise (x3) - 3 assorted explosives used, Inspired +511 - Daystar - Bruise (x1) - Inside the cave2 - Legatus - 0HP - KO - Inside the cave

"I suppose Eira is doing well." He paused briefly, before continuing. "She did manage to become part of the schools new AV club and do morning announcements." Whether Pan didn't understand what Tarva meant or just played along, well, that was anyone's guess. He crouched down by the dog again, happily resuming petting the dog's belly. "What manner of strange little beasts are they, then?" He raised his hand, a bit of shadow following him from the dog's belly, before he resumed the scratching. "I do not believe I have ever seen any critter quite like this."

That's a hit. TOU: 17 That's a Bruise and a Daze for one of them, give me an IC. 16 - Thug 1 - Bruise (x1), Dazed 16 - Thug 2 - Unharmed 16 - Thug 3 - Unharmed 16 - Thug 4 - Unharmed 8 - Knight of Earth - 4HP - Bruise (x1) - Wall TOU+10 - Disabled, Injury (x1) 7 - Spectre - 1HP - Unharmed

GM It didn't take long for the cops to arrive, now that the bomb threat had been dealt with. The Contenders, aside from the escaped TKO, were carted off to secure holdings. Without the Roman to keep watch, they were just has-beens. Former villains trying to recapture their old glory. The kid, one Troy Jackson, claimed that someone had paid him to help the Contenders, had set up the whole plot to draw Facsimile out, film the entire thing. They wanted him humilated, for whatever reason. That had backfired nicely, as Archer remarked. In the end, the day was saved.

GM It was but a moment. The shadow in front of the sun roared, and soon, Levity would know where to look. The figure that blocked the sun spread out its massive wings. Its long neck stretched out, its tail hung behind it, waving as it slowed down in front of Levity. A massive dragon with grey scales, completely white eyes with no visible irises. It dwarfed Levity as it flapped its huge wings. For the moment, it just stayed there, staring at the flying heroine.

GM The kid raised his arms to the sky. "Alright, alright, sheesh. Just... don't hurt me, alright?" He didn't seem big on continuing the fight, not that he had been directly involved. "I'm just the tech guy, alright? Those old geezers paid good money, alright? Just, just don't hit me, I'll tell you everything."

REBELLION Right. Rebellion looked up at the minotaur. The alien minotaur. One thing wasn't enough, was it? It couldn't be just an alien or a minotaur, no. It had to be both. Alien. Minotaur. Because of course. And there was another one. She looked human, but her skin turned yellow. Could be human, could just be powers, but the way this Hazmat spoke? No, probably not. Rebellion reached into his jacket, pulled out a small notebook, quickly writing a few lines with a pen attached to it. "Right." He stretched his arm out, closed the book and placed it back into his jacket. "B'ka, and Hazmat? From... Coalition Space and the Praetorians? And alien smugglers with heavy weapons? Nothing I know of. Wouldn't surprise me if it happened here." He paused, took a deep breath. Right. "Can you track them?"

GM <"The hell!?"> The Mafiya soldiers looked up just in time to see the quantum webbing falling on them. Three dove to the side, rolling and quickly crouching, firing the assault rifles at Emerald Spider in mid-air. Three others were caught in the sticky quantum web, struggling to move. <"Get them! Fire!"> Another of the Mafiya barked orders, pointing ahead. All around him, everyone not stuck in the web or already shooting at Emerald Spider fired at Justice, Kanunu and the trucks. "What's going on out there?" Metamind called from his truck, the middle one. The last one, the one containing Dinostroyer, was starting to move and shake, like someone inside wanted out.

Let's say you get 6 Mafiya guys with that: 6x Reflex Save vs. DC19: 14 21 21 9 3 21 3 pass, 3 fail 3x Reflex save vs. DC19: 4 16 11 All fail 3x Reflex save vs. DC14: 17 16 16 All pass The 3 soldiers that ES tried to Snare shoots back at her: 10 6 21, that's one hit, give me a DC20 TOU save 2 soldiers shoot at Kanunu: 18 18, both miss 2 soldiers shoot at Justice: 17 24, that's one hit, so a DC20 TOU save for Justice The rest keep attacking the armored trucks, starting to do some damage. There appear to be at least 20 Mafiya soldiers around Rolling TOU for Justice: 24, safe @angrydurf, you're up 23 - Kanunu - 4HP - Unharmed 22 - Justice - 4HP - Unharmed 20 - Emerald Spider - 1HP - Unharmed 9 - Mafiya Soldiers x20 - 3 Snared

Leaning back against the counter, Robin looked up at the ceiling while she waited, before shooting an appreciative smile at Emerald Spider. "Yup, been a regular for a while now, the Paks are awesome. And I've been busy... lots of things happening all over. I'm just happy that you're here, ES. I was worried that no one at all was gonna show." Yeah, it would probably be just the two of them. She'd met Kanunu a while ago when she'd teamed up with him and Emerald Spider to protect those bad guys from the Mafiya and she knew the Meta-Naut was out there somewhere, there were scattered reports about others out there... and then the Ultio Suits, of course. She frowned a bit at the thought. And then it all happened fast. Someone in a huge armor entered the shop! Robin reached for her belt on instinct before stopping herself, just looking up at the huge armor with wide eyes. It was so big! "Woah... that's... that's a huge armor..." It looked kinda weird. Not quite just tech, right? Shaking her head, she snapped out of it and extended her hand, quickly shaking the massive gauntlet, while being happy that she'd come up with a costume for while she wasn't wearing an armor herself. "Yep! I'm Justice! Great to meet you!" And another in armor, and Kanunu... Excusing herself from the big armor, she quickly hurried over to Venomax, greeting Kanunu with a quick grin on the way, before turning to the other newcomer. "Hey, I'm Justice, come in, I've got some ideas, but I'll wait until..." Robin froze, looking at the woman as she stepped through. Alright. That... that was a thing that someone did. Cutting through the air, stepping inside, walking and giving people warnings about taking the bus. Yes, yes, that was absolutely a thing that some people did. "Oh, hey, welcome!" She could hardly not introduce herself, and at least she looked a bit less scary than the last one, right? Looking around, it was, well, a lot more people than she had expected. ES, Kanunu, the big armor guy, Venomax, the woman that cut through the freaking sky and the woman in gold and silver. Alright, seven of them in total, that was... that was a lot. She'd hoped for maybe 2 or 3 people showing up, herself included. She should say something, she really should, but she was just kinda stunned at the whole thing? Everyone showing up at all at once, some of them already knowing each other of course. Maybe this was a bad idea. She really wasn't good at stuff like this, maybe she should ask Emerald Spider to do it... But that wouldn't really be fair, would it? Steeling herself, she stepped up to counter and looked around at everyone else. "Alright, I'm really not good at things like this, so bear with me, please?" She glanced over at Emerald Spider, looking for some support, before looking back at everyone again. "First of all, the Paks were really nice and let me do this thing here, so please be nice to them. They're really good people. So, uh... I think I introduced myself to everyone already, but just in case, I'm Justice. I've been doing the hero thing for about a year and half now, and, well... I kinda thought it'd be time for us to try and get together? Try and get organized a bit?" She shook her head. Focus, focus. Don't worry, worst thing they can do is say no. Which would be bad enough, but... Right, right. "So, uh... I've been kind of looking at things. Emerald has its fair share of problems, right? But I dunno, seems like things have been changing lately. Its mostly been down to Earth stuff. Purse snatchers, organized crime, bank robbesr, that sorta thing, at least for me, but, its kinda weird. Like, those people that Emerald Spider and Kanunu fought, the Upstarts, and in the summer, when Devlin came alive and I helped stop that, and... well, then there's MarsTech's new Ultio Suits. Their "everyone can be super heroes" thing. You've seen that, right? I, um... I might have some kinda bad news there?" Robin trailed off, rubbing her left arm. It still felt weird to know that Max Mars had stolen her tech.

"Well, well, well!" Pan rubbed his hands together as Eira brought up the dog and petted it, quickly falling down on a knee and reaching out to scratch the shadow puppy's belly with great enthusiasm. "Now, what manner of adorable sin against nature are you, hmm? Are you a good little monster, are you?" In the middle of all the petting, he somehow found the will power to look away from the dark little puppy, looking up at Eira. "Now, why did you keep these adorable beasts a secret?" His grin and eyes lingered on Eira for a moment before returning to the puppy. He was brought out of the puppy-induced state when Tarva greeted him and Eira. Pan looked up and froze the slightest of moments, as he took her in. "Maybe, maybe not. It tends to be a bit difficult to decide whether one have or have not. All depends on the books you have read, I suppose." Pan stood up, leaving the puppy behind with some reluctance, though he still smiled his usual grin at Tarva. "Hello, I am Pan the Forever Boy. I suppose you are one of Eira's aunts?"

Pan's in.

Alright, Micah, Elizabeth, Judy and Ashley has scared Alice off from Micah for now! Next up, she'll see how Legatus is doing! Maybe Leroy and Abby will be able to help him, if you're still interested. If not, let me know and I'll find someone else. @secondling @Nick @Ari

GM It was like something just broke in Alice. Her eyes glazed over, her arms fell to her sides as she stared at Micah, mouth opening and closing like she wanted to stay something. "Yo-... you... You can't do this... you can't do this to me..." Her voice was small, any power she had over Micah just moments before was gone. "I love you, Micah... I truly do. Why can't you just accept that?" She barely seemed phased by the weather effects around them, only focusing on Micah's words. Her lip was trembling, before she stomped her foot into the ground and steeled herself. "Fine. Fine! If you don't want me, if you're all turning against me, then I'll find someone who will!" She glowed again. A brief, powerful glow. Then she was gone.