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Headmaster Summers had just been about to speak in response to Tona's comments when Cerys spoke up. The headmaster then gave a small nod. "That is quite accurate Ms. Pefr, and, perhaps more importantly, you would be hard pressed to find many active members of any Triad or Tong in Freedom City. Whomever was directing this operation, was doing so from some other location." "There is also the possibility that all of this may be part of a trap set for Raven herself. Dr. Sin has done something similar in the past. That is why I would like you all to start by getting to that apartment building and providing backup."

Giang had guided the raft over towards shore before Kazra leapt off to climb a tree and get a better look at the city and what was going on. Once she and Cerys had stepped onto shore, the Asian teen released her control over the water beneath the raft, as she turned to regard the Incan city while they waited for Kazra to come back down and let them know what she had observed. When the girl returned to the ground and gave her report, the Asian teen considered her suggestion. "That certainly sounds like a reasonable tactic to try to reach the temple." She agreed, glancing over to Cerys.

LIQUIDATED by GIZMO Okay, spending Tsunami’s 10 unused PP. 1) 3 PP spent on Super Senses, adding in Acute, Extended, and Radius to her Water Sense. 2) 1 PP spent on Skills. 2 ranks of Drive 2 ranks to Acrobatics 3) 2 PP for +1 BAB 4) 2 PP for +1 BDB 5) 2 PP for +1 rank to her Hydrokinetics Array

DISTANCE OVER TIME'D by GIZMO Okay, spending Velocity’s 20 unspent PP and making some adjustments in her superspeed array. 1) 2PP spent on +2 Charisma 2) 2PP spent on +2 Will save 3) 5PP spent on Skills: +1 Pilot +6 Concentration +5 Perform: Dance +3 Kn: Business +1 Notice +4 Sense Motive 4) 1PP spent on another rank of Luck 5) 2 PP spent on +1 BAB 6) 1 PP spent on +1 Dodge Focus 7) 2 PP spent on +1 Con 8) 2 PP spent on Equipment: Freedom League Communicator Communications 5 (Radio, 5 miles; Extra: Area; Flaw: Limited [Other FL Communicators]) [5EP] Communications Link 1 (Freedom League HQ) [1EP] 9) 2 PP spent on +1 rank to Super Speed Array 10) 1 PP spent on +1 Reflex save Below is what the Super Speed Array will look like, the updates being underlined: Super Speed Array 16 (32PP Array; Feats: Alternate Power 5) [37PP] BP: Strike 15 (Feats: Accurate 4 (+8 hit), Improved Critical 2 [18-20], Takedown Attack, Stunning Attack) {23/32} AP: Sonic Boom (Blast) 15 (Extra: 75-ft. Area Burst; Flaw: Range/Touch) {30/32} AP: Maximum Velocity: Quickness 4 (14 total: x50,000) and Speed 4 (14 total: 250,000 MPH) and Super Movement 5 (Permeate 3; Sure-Footed 2) and Concealment 4 (all Visual Senses; Flaw: only while moving) {22/32} AP: Insubstantial 4 (Affected by Vibration effects)and Concealment 4 (all Visual Senses; Flaw: only while moving) {24/32} AP: Rapid Fire: Blast 9 (Extra: Autofire; Feats: Accurate 5 (+10 hit)) {32/32} AP: Rapid Attack: Damage 8 (Extra: 200-ft. Targeted Area Burst; Selective; Feat: Accurate 5 (+10 hit); Progression 2 (x5 Area)) {31/32}

Okay, with both Synapse and Osprey approved, SC wanted to wrap up any details. Looking at the last version of the Relationship Map, I believe the only thing I need to add is the butler (on Synapse's side of the map). Also, any other information about the Blank Faces? (leave it open for now?) Anything else we want to add?

Okay Tiff, looked at the rules for the Disguise skill, and you can use it untrained (it is CHA based). You can also Take 20 on the check (which would take a little over 3 hours, but you have plenty of time in which to do that).

Velocity makes her fort save with no problem with a 32.

Giang was already moving when the torpedo that had been launched by the submersible exploded, dodging to one side as the explosive shockwave rolled out towards her. Avoiding any ill effects of the explosion, she swam off in the direction of the now retreating mini-sub, pausing a brief moment to glance back towards her roommate. Seeing Thaelia emerge relatively unscathed from the explosion, the Asian teen continued on after the submersible. Moments later, she was veering around the trail of bubbles left in the mini-subs wake as she closed to within a dozen or so yards of the vessel. Once again her hands thrust out in front of her and then swept out to either side, sending a barrage of quick blasts of water that arched through the ocean towards the mini-sub. One of the blasts caught the mercenary hanging onto the mini-sub, knocking him forward into the hand railing he had been holding onto before he slumped back again unconscious. Several of the quick blasts also struck the mini-sub, rocking it slightly and causing a small amount of damage.

Round Seven 20 Tsunami (bruised, fatigued, 1 HP) 20 Glamazon (unharmed, fatigued, 1 HP) 14 Manta 5 (injured) 4 Zeta Merc 5 2 Manta 2 (2 injured) Tsunami will pursue, keeping her stunted power in place. When she closes, she will attack (using Power Attack, -2 atk/+2 dam), getting a 19, good enough to hit the mini-sub and the last merc. The merc is out. The mini-sub just misses its toughness save vs DC 27, so it is damaged/injured. Glamazon’s action.

GM The last conscious mercenary was rocked by the shockwave created by the Atlantean teen, but otherwise managed to avoid its worst effects. Righting himself, he quickly glanced around, taking in the unconscious forms of his fellow squad members. Bringing his weapon to his shoulder, he tried to sight in the Asian teen, but she was moving too quickly, and the energy blast he fired passed well behind her. Turning away, he swam back over to the submersible, grabbing a hold of a handhold near one of the external sections designed to hold divers as he slid into the seat. "The rest of the squad is down, we need to fall back." He said over the radio to the diver to the mini-sub. The pilot of the mini-sub was already having a similar idea. Leveling the submersible out briefly, he fired a torpedo at a point directly between the two teens which should allow the blast to catch both of them. But even as the torpedo cut through the water, he was already moving, swinging the vessel back around and then accelerating off in the direction the damaged mini-sub had been heading. "This is Manta 5, almost all of Zeta is down. Falling back." He called out to those ahead. The torpedo exploded, the shockwave roiling out towards both Giang and Thaelia.

The last remaining merc will take a shot at Tsunami, missing badly. The mini-sub will fire a torpedo, catching both teens in the blast. Tsunami easily makes her Reflex save and avoids the effects of the explosion.

GM As Tsunami and El Herealdo reached the bottom of the ramp, they noticed that Net Fly appeared to still be somewhat out of sorts. He swayed slightly where he stood, the two men on either side of him keeping the teen on his feet. Once all three teens were lined up at the base of the ramp, one of the guards that had been waiting in the hanger glanced over to some of those who had been on the transport. <"Any problems during the flight?"> He asked in slightly accented Mandarin. <"None, they were sedated for most of the flight."> Replied one of the others. The original speaker gave a small nod as he looked at the three teens. <"These should help ensure their continued behavior."> He stated, as the other guards who had been waiting with him stepped forward to place some sort of electronic collar around their necks. The guards who had been holding the arms of the teens all tightened their grips to help keep the three as still as possible. Once the collars were in place, the entire group started off across the hanger towards the entrance to a hallway.

Nice, I will say that catches both the remaining mercs and the mini-sub as well. The two mercs actually make their Reflex saves. Against the DC 19 toughness saves, Merc 4 misses and is out, Merc 5 makes it. The mini-sub also makes its toughness save and is undamaged. Post away.

Meanwhile, in Southside… The first rays of morning has still yet to appear over the horizon as Raven sat on a building looking across at a rundown, six story apartment building that had some of its outer walls blackened by flames. There was no longer even any smoke coming from the building, and a few police and fire fighters were gathered on the sidewalks outside, cordoning off the building until the daylight when it could be more thoroughly inspected. By all appearances, the building seemed to be just another poorly maintained tenement building that had caught fire. Thus far, Raven was rather certain she had been able to identify the window Warp said El Heraldo had used to enter the building, and also the one for the room the teen heroine had teleported into. Already having an idea what Warp had encountered inside, the dark clad heroine decided she would start with investigating where El Heraldo had entered. Leaping from her perch, Raven fired her grapple gun up above her, the line going taunt as she swung over towards the smashed out window. Moments later she was in a large room that served as both a living room and a dining room, and was connected to a small kitchen. The room still smelled of smoke, and the area near the windows was still damp from being doused with water, but there was no sign that there had ever been any actual flames in this part of the building. As she looked about, Raven realized that the room was rather clearly staged. The furniture was all old and worn and the room was generally Spartan and just generally unlived in, with little clutter or the like. A few magazines stacked on an end table near a sofa were all several months old. She was rather certain that in the dark and smoke the night before, all these details would have been easily overlooked by a teenage hero looking for potentially trapped tenants. A few minutes searching, and the heroine located a pair of smoke projectors concealed within the room. But there was nothing to suggest that El Heraldo had spent any great amount of time in the room, if it was indeed where he had entered the building. Moving further in, following a hallway out of the large room, Raven entered a bedroom that was off to one side. Beyond the clearly staged decorations in the room, she found the first real sign that El Heraldo had been here, a large hole smashed in the floor. A few moments searching, and she found a few pieces of electronics scattered on the floor near the hole. Gathering those together, the dark clad heroine then jumped down the hole into the room below. Elsewhere… Warden had not been far away when alarms had sounded in his control room, alerting him to the presence of someone in the building he had set up in Southside. Returning to the control room, the supercriminal watched Raven over the monitors as she began making her way into the building. "So, my employer was correct after all. You would be the one to come looking for these missing students." He said to himself with a satisfied smile that was hidden behind his mask.

Okay, so, next posts, ask any questions you might have, if there are none, just a post about getting ready and such. I will be putting up a cut scene post about what is currently happening out in Southside with Raven shortly before I move you all there as well.

Headmaster Summers regarded Blodeuwedd for a moment, his expression generally unreadable as usual. "Yes, I am aware of that, and he is not the only one. When the others arrive, I will go over what I know thus far, and what will be done to find Subito and the others who are missing." When Tona arrived moments later, the headmaster glanced over and gave her a small nod. "Yes Ms. Baudin, please have a seat if you wish, we are waiting for just one more." He said, indicating one of the empty seats across from his desk. The three did not have long to wait before Morgan Crowe made his entrance. Headmaster Summer's gave him a small nod and then leaned forward slightly as he began to speak. "Thank you all for coming so quickly. I apologize for the early hour, but a very serious situation has arisen. As Blodeuwedd has already partially deduced, a number of our students are missing." "Last night, Mr. Sondo and Ms. Shade organized a patrol in parts of Southside. Accompanying them were Ms. Trang and Mr. Explinker. After a few small encounters with some gang members and drug dealers, the four came across what appeared to be a tenement building on fire. While Ms. Trang set about trying to douse the flames, the other three entered the building to look for anyone trapped inside." "Unfortunately, at this point, our information is currently incomplete. Ms. Shade teleported into an apartment located on the floor that appeared to be closest to the worst of the fire. Inside she found what appeared to be a young girl, but when she tried to assist the child, it turned out to be a robot that released some form of knockout gas into the air. Caught off guard, Ms. Shade took a breath full of the gas, but was able to teleport back to her dorm room before losing consciousness. She is currently in the infirmary, not having fully recovered from the attack." "What happened to the other three is currently unknown, though they have not returned to school, and it has been over seven hours since they arrived at the apparent fire." The headmaster paused a brief moment, his eyes glancing over each of the three students before him. "Currently, the police and fire department have the building in question cordoned off, for when the fire department arrived, there was no longer any evidence of a fire and they decided to wait until daylight to more carefully inspect the location. As we speak, Raven is on her way to investigate the scene, if she has not arrived already." There was another brief pause, before he spoke again. "Normally, I would be willing to leave this in her hands. But this involves three students from this school, and there is the distinct possibility that this could involve one of her most dangerous foes." Headmaster Summers paused once more, and this time Blodeuwedd was able to notice a sense of fatigue that appeared through is otherwise unreadable expression. "While it is certainly impossible to know exactly who was behind this at this time, one thing is clear, this 'fire' was a trap, intended to capture those who responded. It may well be that there was no intended target for this trap, there are various factors that I cannot ignore." "I know each of you knows Ms. Trang, at least in passing, and all of you have probably heard at least a few rumors about the incident on the Chinese New Year where she and Mr. Smith were attacked by a group of masked martial artists and a sorcerer in Freedom City's Chinatown. Those men were from a Hong Kong based triad called the Golden Serpent Association, and they were sent to capture Ms. Trang by her father." "Ms. Trang's father, a man named Kong Zi Khan, appears to the world to be a successful businessman, but in reality, he, like his father and grandfather before him, is one of the principal lieutenants in the criminal organization of Dr. Sin. It appears that Kong Zi had plans to break free from Dr. Sin's organization, and possibly even to attempt to supplant Dr. Sin, and that Ms. Trang was a part of those plans. Ms. Trang naturally has refused to be a part of these plans, and fled her father’s home back in November, which lead to Raven finding her on the streets of Singapore, pursued by some of her father's men." "In addition to Kong Zi searching for Ms. Trang, a number of Dr. Sin’s other lieutenants have learned about her, and are also searching for her. There is a very good possibility this trap could have been set up by Kong Zi, one of Dr. Sin's other lieutenants, or Dr. Sin himself." "So, I want the three of you to get suited up and get out to this building in Southside to back up Raven, assist her in tracking down those responsible, and locating and returning your fellow students."

Forgot to say, Glamazon is up!

Giang nodded at Thaelia's suggestion of working together against the mini-sub, a small smile on her face at her roommate's overly dramatic words. "That sounds like a plan." She replied, using a phrase she had heard from some of other friends at Claremont. Waiting for her friend, the Asian teen began swimming after the retreating mini-submarine. The pair were easily closing with the vessel, when suddenly a group of armored mercenaries and anther miniature submarine appeared before the pair, waiting for them. "Looks like we will have to adapt the plan some." Giang stated as she swam forward with several powerful kicks, her hands back down by her side as she began focusing on using her powers, her gaze fixed on the left most group of mercenaries and the mini-sub near them. Just under a hundred feet from the group, the Asian teen thrust her hands in front of her and then swept them out to either side. As they went, quick burst of water shot forth, streaking through the water towards the targets. Each of the three mercenaries were hit full force by the blasts, each being knocked back as they lost consciousness. But several of the bursts only glanced off the new mini-sub, not causing more than a bit of damage to the paint.

Okay, time to move things on a little bit. Tsunami will delay her action to coordinate with Glamazon, so my IC post will presume they are both swimming up together, when the run into the reinforcements that were being sent to help the fleeing mini-sub. Round Six 20 Tsunami (bruised, 1 HP) (dropped down to Glamazon’s Initiative on the idea of coordinating an attack) 20 Glamazon (unharmed, 1 HP) 17 Zeta Merc 4 14 Zeta Merc 1 14 Manta 5 13 Zeta Merc 3 10 Zeta Merc 2 4 Zeta Merc 5 2 Manta 2 (2 injured) Seeing the bad guys that are waiting, Tsunami is going to power stunt an area attack: Blast 10 (Extra: Targeted Area (cone); Flaws: 0 Range; Feats: Accurate 2). She will Defensive Attack, -2 Atk/+2 Def; she fires at three of the mercs and one of the mini-subs. Her attack roll is a 16, just enough to hit the mercs, but misses the mini-sub. All three mercs misss their toughness saves, so they are out.

GM The pilot of Manta 2 was sweating as he just managed to veer out of the path of the Atlantean teenager. Despite the damage to his mini-sub, he had managed to avoid additional damage, at least for the moment. "This is Manta 2, I have both teens right on me. Hope you're ready for them!" He stated over the radio, as he increased the power to the engines. The propellers on the submersible began spinning faster as the vessel sped forward, a trail of bubbles in its wake as continued to ascend towards the surface.

Nope, Velocity does not make her Sense Motive check.

Velocity had been waiting to see if something else happened, when something did. Lady Brazil appeared on stage, this time wearing a gaudy golden mask as she began speaking to the crowd in Portuguese, calling out to the crowd in a very charismatic speech. "What? Lady Brazil?" The speedster said at first, unsure what was going on, but then she focused on the mask. Again with the masks, just like those worn by the other women out there trying to incite the crowd, or that had been behind much of the problems earlier. There had to be some sort of connection. In a blur of yellow, Velocity crossed the distance with Lady Brazil. "Can I borrow that for a sec?" She said as her hand shot out and grabbed ahold of the golden mask. Lady Brazil began to try to pull her head away, but the speedster was too fast. Snatching the mask off the other superheroine’' face, she speed way once more, coming to a halt near Foreshadow.

Okay, Velocity will power stunt a disarm power off her superspeed array. It will basically be like her Strike power, but for a disarm effect. (For now, taking the Fatigue) Disarm 14 (Feats: Accurate 4 (+8); Improved Crit 2 (18-20); Takedown Attack 2) {22/30pp} She is then going to go try to snatch off Lady Brazil’s mask. She gets a 32 on her attack roll, which is also a Critical! So she will get a +5 on her disarm attempt. But she only gets a 25 on the disarm attempt.

Yeah, stormy seas can be tough to swim in! (unless you have the Swimming power and can always Take 10 ) Anyway, luckily Blod has a friend nearby that can make sure she doesn't drowned

Freebooter and Devil Ray already escaped! Just kidding, I am fine either way really.