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Multi-Girl The second Bernadette gave a small smile and shook Miri's offered hand. "Well, I was goin' ta drop yer bag off in yer dorm room while you go on the tour." She stated. "If you want ta carry it around fer a bit, your call." The original said with a small shrug as she began leading Miriam back down the hallway she had come from and out the side door onto the school’s campus. "Anyway, nice ta meet you Miri." The Irish teen added as her duplicate walked alongside the pair. Claremont's grounds were pretty much what one might expect of an East Coast boarding school or an Ivy League college, spacious green spaces and large, Victorian style brick and stone buildings. "Behind us is obviously the admin buildin'." Bernadette stated as she looked over to Miri with a smile. "Probably won' have too many reasons ta visit. Unless yer one that likes ta get inta trouble." "So, over there is the residential building fer staff that live on campus. Out past it to the north are athletic fields an' a pool." The duplicate Bernadette added, pointing to a building to the north of the path the three were walking along. She then pointed over to the northest where there were two similar buildings next to each other. "Those are the student dorms, we will finish up the tour there later."

Timeout gets a 10 on his toughness save, so will use a HP and reroll for a 21 so he's fine.

Timeout As several of them made their way towards the theater to confront the Starbright called Ashley, Lawrence looked out at the opponents that had seemingly been called down from the very constellations. There were a lot of them, including two large creatures and FX, who had clearly learned from their last encounter and was keeping his distance. The blond teen suddenly became blurred by temporal energy, as he moved over closer to the two large creatures and a group of the smaller ones. Once in the right position, he released a burst of temporal energy intended to try to capture as many of the creatures as possible. While it mostly succeed, one of the large creatures was unaffected. There was another temporal blur of movement as Lawrence moved back to where he had started near Baz and Michael.

Claremont Academy, Jasmin Summer Administrative Building Freedom City, New Jersey March 1, 2024, 9:30 AM Ever since Miriam Juarez had come into possession of her Star Knight armor and been contacted by members of the Order, there had been some question as to what was next for the young Star Knight in training. From what Miriam understood, over the last nine years (which many of the Star Knights seemed to refer to as cycles for some reason), the Order had increased recruiting of younger squires, taking them to a planet called Citadel (which was apparently the Order's headquarters) for training. There were several Star Knights that saw no reason Miriam should not follow this established procedure and leave Earth to undergo her training on Citadel. However, two Star Knights from Earth, Maria Montoya (a former police officer and member of the Freedom League) and Kyle Steward (who also used the title Cavalier) had supported Miriam being allowed to remain on Earth and attend Claremont Academy. This view was supported by A’lan Koor, whom Miriam had learned was an elder Star Knight (part of something called the Inner Circle) who had been a member of the original version of the Freedom League back in the 1970s. Ultimately, this view was accepted by Mentor, and Miriam was enrolled at Claremont Academy, with the understanding that there would be regular visits by members of the Order to check on her progress and that during her summer breaks, she would travel to Citadel for additional Star Squire training by the Order. So, after a few weeks of uncertainty, Miriam found herself with Sri Montoya at what appeared to be some fancy private prep school, but which she had been told was secretly set up to help young metahuman teens learn to control their powers, but also to help train those interested in learning to be a superhero. They had met with the school’s headmistress, Callie Summers, who quickly made it clear that she was fully aware of Miriam's background, but also clear that the teen was hardly the first to come to the school with a troubled past. Headmistress Summers assured Miriam that she was coming in with a clean slate, with only the headmistress herself knew of the teen’s past. After their meeting in the headmistress’ office, the three made their way to the foyer inside the main entrance to the building, with Sri Montoya turning to face the teen. "Remember Miriam, whenever you put on that armor, your actions reflect on the Order. Down here, that may not be all that important, but when you get up into space, the implications can be far reaching for the Order. So do not develop habits here that will not serve you well in space." She put one hand on Miriam's shoulder giving the teen a supportive smile. "Remember, the armor chose you for a reason. I firmly believe you got this." Removing her hand, he continued, "I am not sure it will be me, but someone will stop by in a few weeks to check in on how you are settling in. Mentor is always there if you need him." She then glanced over to Headmistress Summers. "Good to see you again Callie." "Always good to see you as well Maria." The headmistress responded with a small smile. Sri Montoya gave Miriam another smile and a nod and then made her way out the main entrance. "Well Ms. Juarez, it appears your guide for your first day here has arrived." Headmistress Summers indicated, looking to her left down a hallway that led to a side entrance to the building. Emerging from that hallway was a tall attractive redhead girl with green eyes who appeared to be about eighteen. She was dressed in a blue and black plaid skirt, a white collared shirt with a red tie, over which she had a blue sweater. But the older girl topped the school uniform look off with a black leather jacket. "Ms. Juarez, this is one of our Seniors, Bernadette O’Connell, and I will leave you in her capable hands." The headmistress said with a nod to Bernadette and a smile to Miriam before she headed back off towards her office. "Your Miriam right?" The redhead said with a smile and a very evident Irish accent. "Welcome ta Claremont. As the headmistress said, I'm Bernadette an' I'm here ta give you a tour o' the camps an' get you settled in." Suddenly an exact duplicate of the Irish teen popped into existence beside her, holding out a hand towards Miriam. "I can help you with yer bags." The duplicate said with a smile.

Velocity "No, still no communication from the lead vessel." One of the technicians responded to Artificer’s question. "Well, now we just wait." Stated Velocity, something Gaian knew the speedster at times found difficult to do. The speedster looked over to one of the technicians. "While we wait, let's make sure the Lor translators Deadalus installed are online. While some of the Praetorians speak English, many do not, so want to make things as accommodating as possible." Over the next several minutes, the Lighthouse technicians, tracked the first craft, which eventually entered Earth's atmosphere on the opposite side from where the Lighthouse was currently orbiting, appearing to descend down toward the West Coast of Africa. The information was relayed to the Praetorians as their vessel proceeded through the solar system. As short while later, Velocity, Gaian Knight, Ghost and Artificer were two levels down, near one of the airlocks set up for docking with vessels too large to fit into the internal hanger. The Praetorian ship came into view, a long, generally teardrop shaped spacecraft just over one hundred feet long. It had a sleek and smooth silver hull, the point of the teardrop apparently the front of the vessel. It was not long after the Praetorian vessel had docked that four individuals exited from the airlock. "Hey Traveller, Moonmoth, Galvanic, good to see you all again." Velocity said in greeting as the three Praetorians led the way in. She looked at the fourth individual, a tall individual wearing armor that seemed familiar to the Speedster but she could not quite place it. He had grey-blue skin, white hair and tapered ears and was carrying a large pike in one hand. His expression was not hostile, but certainly seemed a bit more serious than the others. "Hi, I don't believe we have met, Velocity from the Freedom League." She said with a smile and a small wave. "Justicar Vor'an." The figure responded, bowing his head slightly. Velocity gave him a small nod in return before more generally regarding the group. "These are my fellow League members, Gaian Knight and Ghost, and our guest, Artificer." She said by way of introductions. "Sooooo, not going to lie, the suspense has been killing us. What's going on?"

@Fox @RocketLord @Dr Archeville @Ecalsneerg @Tiffany Korta @Exaccus OOC for This thread. Making a Gather Info check for Velocity (thanks to Well Informed), only gets a 18.

@Spacefurry That hits, but he gets a 31 on his toughness save, so is fine. Go ahead with your IC post. @Poncho Go ahead with an IC post getting some people off the roof this round. @MoonSimply After Poncho goes, you can go ahead with La Puma finding a couple people on the second floor, near the fires and getting them out. Will be giving each of you a HP for focusing on the civilians for a few rounds and missing the fight (so far).

They are spread out around you, about 20 feet away in either direction (some on the ground, some up in the trees)

No, no rolls needed for this encounter

APPROVED

Okay, Timeout will move up to where he can catch as many as possible along with the two larger monsters. He will start with Paralyze (for a Will Save). He gets a 18 on the attack roll, if that hits, DC 20 Will save vs Paralyze.

Timeout Lawrence slightly raised an eyebrow as the former girl tore the manhole cover off, easily tossing it aside. Then both she and Baz dropped down into the sewers below. Glancing over to Parker, the blond teen gave a small shrug. "Guess we are heading down there." He said, before he moved over and began to climb down into the sewers. Once down, he moved out of the way quickly to allow Parker room to likely fly down after. "Okay, which way next?" Lawrence asked, looking over to the now older girl.

How many of the other monsters can Timeout get in his 250' radius burst along with the larger monsters?

Multi-Girl Bernadette could only return Charlie’s grin as he confirmed there was a jet for the team, and she chuckled slightly at Leon's suggestion for a name. She also smiled slightly at Charlie’s suggestion that he hoped they might one day possibly rival the Freedom League itself. Continuing along on the tour, the redhead moved away from Charlie as Vik asked to speak with him to the side for a moment, giving them some space. Moving over next to Pol, the Irish teen gave her a smile. "You an' Charlie really did a great job on the place."

Okay, almost there EV. Just slight issues in the armor. First, I am counting 71 DP worth of powers, so you need to shave one off somewhere, maybe another rank of Impervious? You also still list it as having 85 DP, when it should be 70DP. You have the offensive array priced wrong. should be 20 PP in the area, +2 PP for 2 alt powers, so 22PP total (even with this, still is 71 DP, not 70). You then need to correctly price the various alt powers. The one with supper strength is {20/20}, the other two are {17/20} With those corrections, will be good!

Timeout Lawrence had a relieved look on his face as Mizuki said that Consuelo was fine, who also insisted she was, including using her own power to remove any water from her lungs. And then it was realized that Baz was missing…again. Once again, Parker was on the case, fishing Baz out of the shallow waters inside the reef. "Well, I for one am glad you two are on top of things." The blond teen said to Mizuki and Parker with a smile. He then headed over to where Mizuki had set up the life raft and the waiting Vueriz. Soon Lawrence had opened a shed short distance from the beach and hooked up a hose which they used to fill the raft with water to which they added the ice Vueriz and Parker had collected.

Multi-Girl Bernadette looked up as Jonah’s shadow fell over her, sighing as the blue skinned teen mentioned going checking out the cliffs on the island and Owain and Neko spoke up about being interested in joining. "Goin' ta make me get dressed again." She muttered as she sat up and looked over toward her roommate. "I'm pretty shoor he means rock climbin'. But, still have ta hike out to 'em." She stated as she reached into her bag and got out her jeans shorts and T-shirt and began to put them back on over her bikini. "Yeah, I'm game." She replied as she fished around her bag for her cross-trainers. "Well, who's goin'?"

Okay, let's see: Round One 26 Jotunn 4 HP 24 Multi-Girl 2 HP 19 Gawain 19 Tengu (Spear) (3 unharmed) 18 Neko 2 HP 13 Tengu (Sword) (3 unharmed) 2 Starshine 3 HP So, @TheAbsurdist Jotunn is up!

@RocketLord @Heritage @Nerdzul @Kaede Kimura @Lone_Star @Spacefurry Okay, for THE THREAD as we are likely to be rolling soon.

GM It did not take Starshot long to get up to the cockpit and switch places with Doktor Archeville, who was transmitting to CoVic Station. Firing up the Xeno’s engines, Starshot soon had the ship airborne, carefully weaving his way back up through the solar collection arrays to where the young Star Khan was. "Ferrum, this is Elite of the Praetorians." Came a response to Doktor Archeville’s transmission. "I can confirm that Kinarr Khan was recently here on the station and did extend a peace offer. His ambassador is still currently engaged in discussions regarding the terms of any potential peace. Do not, I repeat, do not initiate any hostilities with Kinarr Khan. A group of Praetorians are currently in the Thuarus system and will be enroute when they can to speak with the Khan." Just about then, the Xeno cleared the last of the solar collectors, rising up above them. A short distance away, the young Star Khan could be seen, standing on top of one of the collection arrays, he stood nearly six and a half feet tall, and was dressed in teal armor, with a black under suit visible at the joints. On the armor's shoulder pauldrons was a black circle, with a yellow eight-pointed starburst inside and a similar, much larger white starburst on the front of the chest plate. He had grey-blue skin, high cheekbones and a flowing mane of white hair over tapered ears. Over at the mountain range, at least a dozen Sarcota were flying around the top of the mountain range looking almost like an angry hive of bees, had they not been so massive in size.

Okay EV, good work on a PC, just a few things to be addressed. First, fluff is all fine, but I noted at least one place with some colorful language. We try to keep the site PG13, so, would appreciate censoring it. Also, asked you on Discord if you wanted to use my Star Knight PC (Sri Kath'lana) as the Star Knight Miriam met after getting the armor or come up with a random NPC name? At the top of your sheet, she should be listed as PL: 8/10 (150PP) (as you are building her to PL 8 caps) So, for the crunch issues. One minor thing, we like to list all the point totals at the bottom of the sheet, yours would look like this (though there may need to be changes): 20 + 32 + 14 + 23 + 5 + 56 = 150/150 So first minor issues are in Saves: Toughness, you list +2 and +5 from Protection, to hit cap, this should be +6 (for +8 total). Also, you should list after toughness how much Impervious you have, which at PL 8 is capped at 8 like this: (Impervious 8 ) For Fort save, you spent 4 PP and have +2 from Con, so should be +6 Skills: Lot of skills for a 16 year old, but guess she grew up on the streets. This might need to be shaved down some (see powers below). For Languages 3, what is her native language? What are the three languages she speaks in addition? (need to indicate this) Feats: Fine, but, why have Quick Change again? You already have it in the armor. Might be better to use that point for a rank of Luck. Powers: here is where there are some issues. First big issue is the Device at the top level. Rank 14 hard-to-lose device gives you 70DP, not 85 like you list (that would be rank 17 and cost more, which you currently cannot afford unless you take points from somewhere else). Also, adding up all the stuff you have (some of which needs to be redone/repriced), I have you at about 78, maybe 80 DP, so, you need to find at least 8 PP from some other places to boost the armor to Rank 16. For the armor sub-powers: Comprehend: to be able to do everything you list (Speak any one language at a time; understand all; read all) is three ranks, not two, so costs 6 DP (not 4) For Protection, you are spending way too much here (and breaking PL caps), based on her Con, it should be Protection 6 (Impervious 8), costing only 14 DP. For the offense array, you have mispriced. The most expensive part of it is the one that has enhanced Str, Super Strength and the Strike. Based on what is in there, the array needs 20PP in it, plus 3 for the three alt powers., so it will cost 23 DP. Blast (with one feat) is {17/20 DP}, so is the Snare. Nullify as built, is {16/20 DP} As indicated above, the Str 12, Super Strength 3 and Strike 1 (Mighty) is {20/20 DP} So, even after the changes to Protection and if you want the full Comprehend (3 ranks) then it is 80 DP, meaning you need to find 8 PP in other places to increase the armor's rank (and available points). Let me know if there are any questions.

GM As the laser tag session began, the seven teens/young adults quickly went to work, many of them disappearing into the shadows as they began moving through the large warehouse area. The game of cat-and-mouse would at times quickly escalate into a shot out, as one team or the other spotted one of the less stealthy members and fired, revealing themselves to other hidden members on the other team. Overall, the boys' team (plus Pol), had an advantage, both in terms of numbers but two of the better shots in the arena. Unless Charlie or Leon were hit in a surprise shot, they were often able to quickly return fire and eliminate whoever got the drop on them, with Aoife better able to avoid Leon, but not Charlie in this regard. The group was about halfway through their allotted time, with the boys' team (plus Pol) taking a sizable lead, when suddenly there was a loud crash, as an armored AEGIS vehicle came smashing through one of the outer walls and part way into the arena, dim daylight shining in through the smashed wall.

GM Standing back up once again after shielding the woman and her child from the blast, Star Khan turned back towards where the orange and black dressed man was standing near the mouth of an alleyway, his black eyes narrowing as he looked at the man. The armored figured flew up into the air as he raised one of his armored gauntlets. "Coward!" The Khanate ruler called out as he fired a blast of energy at the villain, who managed to nimbly dodge to one side, a crater blasting in the sidewalk as the energy beam missed the intended target. Star Khan hovered in the air, waiting to see what Explodo did next.

Okay, starting combat up ROUND ONE 22 Star Khan (unharmed) 20 Predator 5 HP (1 bruise) 20 Golden Star 1 HP (unharmed) 15 La Puma Negra 3 HP (unharmed) 12 Explodo (unharmed) Star Khan will fly up into the air a bit and take a shot at Explodo, missing with a 18. @Spacefurry Predator is up!

GM "A pleasure to make your acquaintance as well Starshot." Kinarr responded as the hunter opened a line of communication. "I appreciate your generous hospitality, I believe you and the good Doktor may want to come towards my position, something appears to be happening with the Sarcota." Sure enough, as Kinarr transmitted, the Xeno's sensors picked up increase activity up towards the top of the mountain range, more of the Sarcota were emerging from the fissures and swarming around the area. Meanwhile, Dokor Archeville managed to boost the Xeno's communication system so that it had sufficient range to reach CoVic Station…