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Yeah, that's right. He somehow manages a 24 on his Will save, so a third bruise. But the Fort save vs the coup de grace is a 14, which is a fail, so he goes down.

Slipstream "Yeah, spreading out sounds like a good idea." Lynn replied to Renee’s suggestion on how to try to address the whole situation with Gookgak. But before the blonde teen could add any more, Kadene spoke up, yelling to get the attention of everyone. Lynn was not entirely certain about the story with Kadene or her twin brother, but she had heard talk they were from some alternate dimension. The blonde teen regarded the other girl somewhat sternly. "You want to be bossy, that's all fine, but save the threats." She stated before turning away. "Come on Mattie, no sense standing around debating what to do." Lynn added before heading toward one of the exits from the pre-fab building.

@Kaede Kimura He is bound and helpless, you can spend a full round action to coup de grace him and auto hit/auto crit

@Tiffany Korta We will say that is the same one Serendipity just attacked. It makes its toughness save.

Slipstream Outside the gallery, the man in the top hat watched the young speedster as she quickly took down the remaining Avant Guard. Seeing an opening, he lunged forward, jabbing the teenager with the end of his walking stick. Lynn felt a powerful jolt of electricity surge through her, her muscles tightening from the shock as she stagged away from the man in the top hat, her vision darkening slightly. But she struggled against the feeling, managing to stay conscious, but still woozy from the attack. Back inside the gallery, OD tried to struggle against the icy claws that held him, but as large as the man was, Jack's bear form was larger and easily held him in place as he tried to free himself. "Let me lose." He replied, though there seemed to be less confidence in his statement than he had previously shown.

Forgot the top hat's attack: 27! Slipstream gets a 18, going to reroll: 21, just missed the DC 22, so dazed. ROUND SIX 34 Slipstream 0 HP (dazed) 23 OD (bruised x2, grappled/pinned) (-4 PP to all powers started Round 2) 21 Harlequin 1 HP (unconscious) 8 Arctus 1 HP (unharmed) 4 Renoir (unharmed) Okay, Slipstream will try to recover from the daze: 14 nope OD has failed to escape, so @Kaede Kimura you are up!

He tries to escape again, but only gets a 24

Okay, applying a penalty due to circumstances, but he still gets a 22, so a bit unnerved, but not ready to just surrender.

Slipstream Lynn breathed a slight sign of relief as her small whirlwind managed to catch the falling street can and bring it somewhat gently down to the ground. The teen had practiced this stunt before, but never quite in this sort of situation. Once the streetcar was on the ground, she skidded to a halt, letting the whirlwind dissipate as she watched the others going into action as well. But then her attention was drawn to the appearance of what appeared to be Captain Thunder. Lynn had met Captain Thunder….well, her timelines version of him anyway…before, but only had memories of him after his retirement. This did not look like the man she knew, looking instead considerably younger. She was momentarily confused by his appearance, glancing over to the others to see what their reactions were on the off chance this was some divergence of this timeline from her own.

Okay, going to start tracking HP and some other things. Gookgak HP 4 Bounce HP 3 Arctus HP 1 Cerebral HP 2 Quirk’s Boredom Score: 0

Multi-Girl At the appearance of this mysterious entity and the stand-off that unfolded, things otherwise seemed to calm down in the immediate area. While explosions could be seen in downtown Freedom City and new columns of smoke began to rise up, for the moment there were no enemies in the immediate area. Not that that made Bernadette feel any better as she regarded the dark robed figure. Now that her adrenaline was starting to lessen, she began to feel a cold emptiness inside her, but the redhead forced herself not to think about that at the moment, knowing she needed to remain focused on the situation around them and be ready to act if needed. Sensing Iris and Daniel moving over near her only served to help the Irish teen in keeping her composure and staying focused on the robed figure. For its part, the mysterious figure seemed unmoved by either the pleading or demands of the teens, continuing to simply hover above them. "This is no game, and what you choose to do matters little. Either way, death will find you." It replied in its cold, hollow voice, which continued to be heard by each present in their native language. Suddenly, the relative calm that had settled around the group was shattered, as a massive object crashed into a building down the block. Out of ruined building, another of the massive Terminus robots emerged, the furnace in its chest flaring to life as it stared down at the Claremont teens and Force Ops members. In the skies behind it, swarms of Omegadrones flying into view as they began to converge on the gathered heroes. Bernadette tensed at the appearance of new threats, taking a deep breath as a dozen of her duplicates popped into existence around her. Archer drew an arrow as the rest of Force Ops also prepared for a new onslaught of enemies. Suddenly, there was a slight ripple in the air between the heroes and the new threats, which quickly formed into a large temporal distortion. A figure streaked out of the temporal portal in a blur of white and black, heading directly at the Terminus robot. The figure slammed into the robot’s torso, smashing through it and sending the power core within flying out the back to crash to the ground a short distance behind it. The robot stood motionless for a moment, a massive hole through its chest, then it fell to its knees before crumpling to the ground with a loud crash. Hovering in the are was an orange skinned female in a while bodysuit with black diamond shapes on it, as well as black boots and a long flowing black cape. Carmen immediately recognized Paradigm, having just a few days earlier having fought alongside her. A number of other figures emerged from the temporal portal, various alien humanoids, quicky spreading out and cutting into the gathering Omegadrones, quickly clearing the immediate area of them. One of the figures that exited the portal was a female figure in a suit of high-tech power armor, wielding a power staff she used to blast some Omegadrones out of the sky. Again, Carmen recognized her as Traveller, one of the Praetorians she had met on the Lighthouse. Traveller flew down towards the Claremont teens. "You all must be the missing Claremont students." She stated. "Lawrence, Michael and your other friends are through that portal, ready to take you back to where you belong. We’re here to help sort all this and try to stop this Omega when he shows up."

Timeout It was not lost on Lawrence that for once Baz did not try to bluster his way around the issues with making further changes to both the timelines at issue and offered his full support behind whatever course of action Lawrence chose. The blond teen gave his roommate a warm smile, appreciating his support, turning his attention to the others and giving them similar looks as they also indicated their support. He then turned back to looking off into space as he seemed focused on the other timeline where their friends were still fighting for their lives. When Michael and Parker approached Paradigm, the Praetorian paragon regarded them with something of neutral expression. She seemed a bit more guarded than the older version of Paradigm Michael had met only a few days earlier (although physically they appeared identical). But then she gave a small nod. "You and your friends saved not only me, but my teammates from the Communion. We all swore long ago to defend those unable to defend themselves." In short order, Paradigm and the other Praetorians were gathered around Lawrence and the other Claremont teens. Between Lawrence, Deadalus and Captain Thunder, they were able to provide them information about the 1993 Terminus invasion and how Centurion was able to stop Omega, albeit at the cost of his own life. The Praetorians in turn provided the Freedom League members with information about their ancient battle with the Communion, should it be needed to deal with any further Communion threat. As the final preparations were made to send the Praetorians to the other timeline, the teenage Velocity looked at the gathered Claremont teens, having been somewhat unusually quiet. "Well, it has been a bit strange, but certainly been interesting getting a chance to meet you all." She finally said with a wide smile before zipping over to where the various members of the Freedom League had gathered some distance away to watch. Lawrence focused on an empty space in front of him, as ripples of temporal energy began to surround him. "Everyone stay close. When the Praetorians go through the portal and our friends enter on the other side, I will wrap it around us to take us all back home." There was a ripple in the air in front of Lawrence, as a distortion in the time-space continuum ripped open, expanding to wide portal of temporal distortions that hung in the air. Then, Paradigm and the other gathered Praetorians moved into the portal, disappearing from view….

@Tiffany Korta Centuria is up!

GM The superpowered teens quickly went into action, Gookgak and Iris heading around to a side to sneak into the bank when the other three took the direct approach and heading through the front doors of the building. The three acting as the distraction quickly dealt with the robbers positioned toward the front of the building as they moved into the large open lobby where there were several tellers and bank patrons. Up above, Gookgak and Iris had managed to make their way in undetected, and were just about in position to try to deal with the surprised robbers among the tellers and patrons. But before they could act, Gookgak was distracted by a plate of cookies, running over to gobble one up, before having his horrified reaction…which served to alert the robbers to their presence. When the nearest turned his weapon toward the Gobylen, Iris quickly took the man down with a mental blast. But the other alerted robbers had a chance to act, a couple grabbing hostages to uses as shields from the approaching heroes. Then a voice called out from the vault area. "Typical Freedom City, always inevitable that some do-gooders will show up." Stepping out into view was man dressed in a jester’s outfit, which was white and a checkered red-and-black pattern. Bells jingled from tassels on his boots and the jester’s hat. "Though, looks like they sent in the JV team this time." Added Wildcard, a member of the Crime League with a laugh. But even as the two sides faced off with one another when what sounded like a young girl called out from somewhere. "Ugh, so predictable. BOOOOORING!" Everything seemed to hang motionless in the air as the Claremont teens found their bodies refusing to move. The bank’s walls rippled like the tracking lines of an old magnetic VHS tape. Then a young girl blonde girl that appeared maybe five or six popped into view, she was wearing sweatpants and T-shirt emblazoned with faded logos and was hovering a few feet off the floor, an impish grin on her face. Another figure popped into view next to her, this one a blond-haired man that looked perhaps to be in his early thirties, similarly dressed causally as if relaxing on the couch to watch TV. He held in one hand an oversized TV remote, while the other jabbed at the hundreds of buttons that covered the remote’s surface. "Oh, I agree sweetie. Seen it!" He replied with an impish grin of his own. "Frankly, the original starting the Freedom League was WAAAAY better than this uninspired reboot." He looked down at the remote with a frown. "Ugh, with the cosmic wi-fi down, I can't stream our favorite universes!" The little girl floated closer to some of the Claremont students. "Oh! I love the one with the theme park robots breaking free! It's the best!" "I'm sorry sweetie." The male figure responded. "I know it's been so boring, so I went poking around the multiverse's attic and found a bunch of grandma's old timelines." From nowhere he pulled out a cardboard box filled with videocassettes marked "QHS." He then snorted. "Found this, but no way I'm watching this ancient garbage." He paused, and then looked up at the group of Claremont teens. "Unless….." A light blub appeared over the man's head and he snapped his fingers. Then the world turned to static…..

Multi-Girl The original Bernadette squeezed Charlie's hand lightly in return as her gaze remained focused on her friends as they discussed the next movie to watch. When Muirne spoke up about wanting to avoid anything with magic due to a past unpleasant experience with it, the redhead spoke up. "Shoor things Muirne, there are plenty o' horror movies without magic in them." She stated, before grinning slightly and adding. "Besides, I expect we all had our fill with magic fer the time bein' back in December." In the kitchen, the Bernadette duplicate had finished getting the pizza in the oven to warm up when Neko joined her and asked to talk privately. "O' course Neko." The Irish teen duplicate quietly replied with a warm smile to her roommate and friend. "Let's go out this way," she continued, indicating a door leading out of the kitchen into a hallway and away from the room the rest of the group was gathered in. As the pair left, another of Bernadette's duplicates arrived in the kitchen to watch the pizza. A few doors down from the kitchen, Neko and the duplicate she was with stepped into the mansion's library. "What's up?"

@Jack You are up!

Timeout Lawrence did not miss Sam's cold reception, while Jack seemed a bit uneasy with the change in her demeanor, the blond Junior did not let it bother him, simply giving her a polite nod in return. He gave Lacie another warm smile as she commented on his choice of outfit. "Hobbies? Oh, the normal life of leisure, dinner parties and the like." He replied with a grin, playing the part of a disinterested noble. "But more seriously, I enjoy reading, but also try to stay physically active. Though I would not profess to be an expert climber or especially skilled at parkour." He then added, his expression becoming more relaxed. It was then that Estelle arrived. "Good afternoon. Estelle isn’t it? Lawrence Harrow." The blond teen said in greeting with a warm smile, his upper-class British accent very distinct. "I have not, but was planning to go see them."

Slipstream Lynn's entire body seemed to tense at Lulu’s question and her expression saddened even further. "Yes…yes, something like that happened to me." She replied quietly. There was a brief pause, as she seemed to prepare herself to continue. "My….my timeline is gone, destroyed." Tears started to run down Lynn's cheek. "I understand you have been told about Collapse? From what everyone can tell, my brother…the Lawrence of my timeline…merged with Collapse and destroyed my timeline. I was barely able to escape."

Slipstream Lynn bit her lip nervously as Lulu asked if there was more to the story. "Y…yes." She managed to say weakly, clearly pained by the admission. The blonde teen followed Lulu as the Southern redhead lead the way into the living room, a large spacious room with a pair of leather sofas that faced each other across a glass coffee table. The teenage took a seat at one end of the sofa Lulu selected, taking a deep breath as she seemed somewhat apprehensive of the coming conversation. "I probably have something of an unfair advantage, having known you, well, my timelines version of you, for years. Though…I have been learning that there can often be differences with things here, even when things seem so similar." "Like, here my moth…this timelines Megan Howell didn't marry my father, only dated him for a couple months."

@Kaede Kimura That makes it, so you can go ahead and post coming back awake (which will be your action for the round). @Jack You just maintain the grapple, go ahead with your action!

Slipstream Lynn chuckled slightly as Mattie mentioned her experiences in her hometown after she gained powers and some of the other people in town gained powers as well. Although she had heard some of Mattie's stories over the summer, it was still rather charming to hear her friend's much more….innocent experiences with powers. Lynn certainly hoped Mattie would not be too shocked when she encountered more of the typical super criminals that were active in Freedom City and beyond. "Nice to meet you Estelle, I'm Lynn." The blonde teen had stated when Estelle arrived to introduce herself as Renee’s roommate. Soon the pair were off to get situated in their room as Daphne made her way to her room as well. Lynn looked over to her roommate. "So, you want to go get things unpacked as well?" Of course, the blonde speedster could do that in moments, so it was not as if she felt a particular rush. "Or did you want to try to meet more of our new classmates?"

Well, on one hand this was not an overly dangerous encounter, but sure, will give you a HP for staying true to character

Slipstream As Jack went into his rage and slammed OD to the floor of the gallery, the man in the top hat took in the scene, a slightly frightened look on his face. "I am sorry OD." He said before he also turned and ran after the two Avant Guard. Lynn also was slightly shocked to see Jack's rage, but recovered quickly. "I'll try to stop the others." She managed to stated before disappearing in a blur of motion, speeding past the man in the top hat and catching back up with the two Avant Guard that had run. *CRACK* *CRACK* Two more quick attacks took down the last two Avant Guard as the teenage speedster skidded to a halt in front of the man in the top hat. "Going somewhere?" Back in the gallery, OD once again struggled against Jack's powerful grip, trying to break free…

Okay, the guy in the top hat isn't going to try to keep fighting given Jack's range, so he is cutting and running as well. ROUND FIVE 34 Slipstream 1 HP (unharmed) 23 OD (bruised x2, grappled/pinned) (-4 PP to all powers started Round 2) 21 Harlequin 1 HP (unconscious) 17 Avant Guard (2) 8 Arctus 1 HP (unharmed) 4 Renoir (unharmed) Slipstream will chase after the fleeing bad guys, going after the Avant Guard first and catching up to them. She will again Take 10 to hit them (-2 atk/+2 dam): DC 25 toughness saves: they both miss, so the remaining Avant Guard are down. @Jack OD will try to break free from the grapple again, getting a 32 this time on his Grapple Check. @Kaede Kimura If you want to spend your last HP, you can get a recovery check (DC 10 Fort save) to try to wake back up.

@Dracostern @RocketLord @FlyingFresh @Jack Okay, we are not going to bother with initiative for this opening scene, go ahead and post IC with your characters going into action (will say those sneaking in are able to do so). You can post dealing with a normal thug or two in your IC posts (no need to roll, taking 10 they are just likely to go down). Will start having rolls after you are all in and encounter Wildcard.