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  1. Dr Archeville
    The stretched-out form of Doktor Archeville -- or whatever he was now -- hung several feet in the air, suspended as a marionette on invisible strings. A mad roaring, whistling sound could be heard as masses streaked in, from Germany, from South America, from all over, slamming into him at hundreds of thousands of miles an hour, fusing into a Gigantosaur-sized mass of arms and legs, tentacles and pincers, eyes and antennae, reaching, stretching, grasping, flopping, gibbering with a dozen mouths and a score of tongues. Mentally it reached, too, as a chaotic swirl of images and sounds flooded into the minds of every sapient being within five miles, one phrase alone coherent among the maelstrom: I AM The air around and ground beneath it warped and buckled, and an eerie piping filled the air, accompanied by flashing lights of mad colours that never existed on Earth and a mad whirl of disconnected limbs and eyes and other organs (some identifiable, some not). This thing's mere presence was a cancer on reality.
  2. Dr Archeville
    In cities across the world, men, women and children -- all relatives of Doktor Archeville, and all sharing in the pseudonatural taint that was strongest in his immediate ancestors -- were seized by a madness, and began attacking everyone and everything around them. Many warped and mutated in some way, sprouting extra appendages (or loosing them as limbs fused) or growing chitinous carapaces, but just as many retained a wholly normal (if crazed) appearance. Some, too, were yanked into the sky and streaked towards Freedom, but most remained where they were, assaulting all around them as they gibbered, shouted, and sang praises as the Blood of Archeville surged forth. "Hij komt!" "Il vient!" "Έρχεται!" "Viene!" "彼は来る!" "그는 온다!" "Vem!" "Он приходит!" "¡Él viene!"
  3. Dr Archeville
    In Ebersawalde, Germany, sits the Martin Gropius Krankenhaus, a neuro-psychiatric hospital which has stood since the 1860s. Originally commissioned by the Prussians as an insane asylum, an advisory board of psychiatrists was later installed, and the various tracts were built to the needs of patients with specific disorders and for specific therapies, mirroring the developing specialization of the medical fields. In 1945 the Red Army seized the main building and used it as an army hospital, pushing the psychiatric patients out to the auxiliary buildings until the Army's departure in 1994. Between 1997 and 2002 the main building underwent massive renovations, in part paid for by donations by Doktor Viktor Archeville, and now runs departments of neurology, sleep medicine, and various sub-specialized psychiatry centers, including child and adolescent psychiatry, psychosomatic medicine, geriatric psychiatry and forensic psychiatry. In 2006 it was renamed in honor of its original architect, Martin Carl Philipp Gropius of Berlin. In 2002 it gained a new inmate of note, Varick Heinrich Archeville. Committed to the Anstalt Bethel (Bethel Institution, a Protestant-charitable hospital for the mentally ill in Bielefeld, Germany) in 1990 after he tried to kill his son, Varick suffered from a host of maladies -- progressive neurological deterioration, speech and swallowing difficulties, unsteadiness of gait, poor muscle control, cognitive decline, and schizophrenic-like psychosis, as well as verbal tics, involuntary writhing, and repetitive motions of his limbs -- pegged as "a unique combination of late-onset Tay-Sachs disease and something akin to Lesch-Nyhan syndrome." Since his failed attempt to murder his son, he had taken to self-mutilation (the most striking feature of Lesch-Nyan, which contributed to the diagnosis), cutting off parts that he saw were sprouting tentacles or mouths that would gibber ceaselessly; several fingers were gone from both hands, as was his left leg beneath the knee, and his whole body was riddled with scars and gouges. He was restrained in a straitjacket most of the time, for his own safety; the last time he was freed, in 2001 (following complaints of chest pains), he managed to fracture his own jaw, bite off his own tongue, and pry out one of his own eyes before the orderlies could restrain him. The EKG the nurse managed to hook to him before his rampage showed his pulse never got above 85. But now his jacket lay on the floor, split as the growths only he had seen for years burst forth from him, and his body was hauled by some arcane force through the hospital's air ducts, out a vent, and across the ocean, towards Freedom. "Er kommt."
  4. Dr Archeville
    In a well-hidden laboratory hidden deep in the South American rainforest, a man in shadows overlooked an assemblage of monsters. The forests here held such a delightful variety of organisms to study and experiment on, animal, vegetable -- and people. The figure stepped forward, light gleaming off its bionic frame, a frame first build in the 1940s, and updated as time and whim permitted. Old and withered skin stretched taut over a bionic skull, giving the face a skeletal cast. Long, wispy tufts of white hair protruded from his pate. His right eye, one of his few original remaining organs, was magnified by the monocle over it to the size of a half dollar; the left eye, wholly bionic, scanned his handiwork through the visible, infrared, and ultraviolet spectrums. His audio filters tuned out the creaks and whines of some of his old SHADOW-tech parts which he was still waiting to get replaced, and bionic lungs drew in breath for the speech he was about to give. "," he threw his bionic arms wide, encompassing the menagerie of mutations below his catwalk, "" the top of the cyborg's head irised open, exposing a brain under a glass dome filled with a pale purple fluid, "" his head irised close, "" The cyborg body of Verrill Herman Archeville jerked back, as if on an invisible rack, as did all the beasts and monsters below him, for they all shared an imperfect copy of his pseudonaturally-tainted brain. All began to gibber -- some of the mutated creatures did so better than others -- as they were lifted up, crashed through the roof of the building, and flew through the air, their forms melding into a grotesque mass as they streaked through the sky at fantastic speeds. ""
  5. Dr Archeville
    EnviroControl = the power Environmental Control (specifically, the Distracting type). When it's your turn, and you do something with a Concentration or Sustained duration power, roll a Concentration check, DC 10. Succeed, it works, fail, the roiling chaos overwhelms you and prevents you from using that power that round. I'm not certain if this applies to Instant duration powers (like JoaB's swords or Colt's guns); I can't access my books (the comp I'm on won't recognize my USB stick ), so I'd appreciate some double-checking on that.
  6. Dr Archeville
    As Scarab raced across, she saw Deep Ones attempting to raze the city below, using the rivers to strike from multiple points around it. She also saw the Grue Drones, wielding what she now realized were the powers of the Interceptors, attacking and taking people. At several spots she saw these 'Metaceptors' and Deep Ones fighting over a victim -- perhaps these fish-men were not part of Mad Archeville's plans, but were just taking advantage of it. She knew magic as in his blood (and his brain), the same type of weird, preternatural magic the corrupted Atlantean/Serpent People hybrids used, and his new appearance implied such magics had surged within him somehow, warping his body to match his mind. As she crossed over the river, she sensed the arrival of scores of minds to the area, converging on the spot where she had seen Archeville. Soon after, she was almost overwhelmed as a psychic explosion heralded the emergence of a terrible mentality, both new and immeasurably old. She still sensed Archeville, but it was like a single matchstick inside a star.
  7. Dr Archeville
    +1 HP to everyone for this rather large setback. And another +1 HP to all for it gaining a surprise round. Keep the same initiatives from before. Evil!Dok has an init of +7, Giant Tentacle Beast has an init of -1, so I'll lower his init by 8. Sorus, I need an init roll for Willow. (And from Ecal for Gecks and Arrowhawk, though Ecal's said RL's beating him down so his chars can be NPC'd) quote, Ferros is getting bumped to another thread, as we'd discussed. 29 -- Dynamo -- undamaged -- 6 HP 28 -- Thrude -- Bruise -- 4 HP 23 -- Grimalkin -- staggered -- 8 HP 18 -- Colt -- undamaged, fatigued -- 7 HP 17 -- Jack of all Blades -- undamaged, fatigued -- 9 HP 10 -- R'K'Vll -- undamaged -- NPC 08 -- Jill O'Cure -- undamaged -- Sidekick + 2 HP 07 -- Fulcrum -- undamaged -- 4 HP Surprise Round Free Action: Throw up Impervious Toughness/Shield Uncontrolled Shapeshifting (1d20=5) Does not (mechanically) Shapeshift Standard Action: Activate Environmental Control (roiling chaos) Everyone within 250 feet of it must make a DC 10 Concentration check to use their Concentration or Sustained duration powers for as long as their EnviroControl is up. Need init from Sorus for Willow. But since I know she can't beat Dynamo (or Thrude or Grim), we'll move on to Dynamo's his turn.
  8. Dr Archeville
    ArchEvil's eyes went wide, the pupils dilating all the way open until the eyes were nothing but orbs of black. Suddenly his body was jerked up, as if on an invisible rack, head and limbs pulled -- no, stretching! -- in all directions, joints popping as they went. Tongue lolling out, he let out a stream of gibberish, with two words repeating. "He comes!" Throughout Germany and surrounding countries, long-still graves shuddered and bulged as their occupants strained to escape. From stony crypts, from potter's fields, from lakebed depths, the earthly remains of the Archeville's stirred, rose, and took to the air, melding into one grotesque mass of unliving flesh and bone and ash as they were pulled by some arcane force towards one place: Freedom City. [bg=#000000]He comes.[/bg]
  9. Dr Archeville
    Scarab's mental senses soon found the man she once called friend, and the team of heroes he had secretly assembled, now slaved to his mad will. She saw some of them run into the home of Avenger and Phantom (though those two, and their unusual child, had apparently heeded her warning and were long gone). She knew an attack was a likely outcome, and had prepared. But what she saw next was the first glimmer of hope: Archeville the Hero asserted itself, briefly, just long enough to free the Interceptors from his Mad Other's control. The tide of madness swept over him again, silencing his conscience once again, and he attacked the team, but their skill and teamwork saw them through, and he was swiftly knocked out and his armaments removed. Now they discussed what to do, and cooler heads began to dominate, despite the sudden appearance of a lightning-calling warrior goddess. Hope remained, though. As deeply as he had finally fallen into his madness, Viktor Archeville's heroic nature was not completely gone. If it could be brought up once, it could be brought back up again.
  10. Dr Archeville
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  11. Dr Archeville
    That's the in-game reason for the massive renovations! :science:
  12. Dr Archeville
    /me sheds a single tear at the beauty of it all.
  13. Dr Archeville
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  14. Dr Archeville
    First one (Dok's IRON FIST) was a DC 33. She got a 20, so failed by 13, so she was staggered & stunned. Second was a DC 27. Since she's stunned, she lost her Defensive Roll, so that 20 is actually a 16, which fails by 11. That's another staggered + stunned, but staggered + staggered = unconscious. Grim's KO'd.
  15. Dr Archeville
    Sorry to keep hogging the spotlight, but... well, Dok does have a +15 on Perform (Oratory)...
  16. Dr Archeville
    Not so! Colt's posts were counted as NPC posts, and if you'll check his sheet you'll see he didn't have any pps added. That 1pp was added to Covalent.
  17. Dr Archeville
    No, b/c there's absolutely no downside to him dropping his guns (since JoaB & Fulcrum KO'd ArchEvil, and he can pick them up before any more trouble starts).
  18. Dr Archeville
    "Yes, I think Centurion may have acted as a, a filter for Omega's energies," he replied, eyes still alight, "shaping those energies so that whoever received them would manifest powers similar to his own!" "As for the Children -- I really should try and devise an alternate name, 'Children of the Terminus' and 'Terminus Babies' sounds so... loaded," he said, beginning to drift off on another tangent but quickly snapping back, "the problem with studying them, their powers, is that terminus energy is a melange of the last ergs of energies from the universes it consumes -- common forms like light and heat and radiation, and who knows how many exotic forms unique to any given universe -- plus the energies generated by things within the Terminus itself. So every exposure of Terminus energy would be unique! Which adds another layer of complexity in studying them..." "I think you are shortchanging yourself, liebchen," he replied, stroking her cheek tenderly. "I still think that, with my help, your powers could be as diverse as Dark Star's. Perhaps not as potent as his, but just as versatile."
  19. Dr Archeville
    I can see this as valid, though the wording of the Restricted would, of course, need to be done carefully. Restricted (only people Redbird likes) is kinda wonky, since you'd need to figure out not just who Redbird likes/dislikes, but how others can make Redbird like them. (Bluff/Diplomacy/Intimidate? [if it's sapient enough to have likes/dislikes, Interaction skill should work on it.] Computers/Disable Device? Emotion Control?)
  20. Dr Archeville
    A good month for many: thirteen PL bumps, and one new Player Award! (Those 28 Vignette entries helped!) And congrats to Azuth65 for making the 100 Post Club! Arranged by Player, it looks like this: Aoiroo is now Silver :clap: Changeling: 4pp and is now PL 13 :clap: Silhouette: 5pp and is now PL 11 :clap: Arichamus King of Suits: 5pp AvengerAssembled Citizen: 5pp and is now PL 12 :clap: Edge [maxed]: 4pp Freedom Angel: 4pp and is now PL 11 :clap: Harrier: 5pp and is now PL 12 :clap: Azuth65 Ricochet: archived at player request Wisp: 7pp Breella Flora: 3pp Broseidon Satyr: 1pp Cubist Jubatus: 3pp Cyroa Dark Star: 4pp Torque: 5pp Dariusprime Animus: 1pp; archived at player request Fulcrum: 3pp Dr Archeville Dead Head: 4PP Doktor Archeville [maxed]: 4PP Protectron: 3PP Ecalsneerg Arrowhawk: 1pp Equinox: 4pp Geckoman: 2pp Electra Fleur de Joie: 6pp and is now PL 15 :clap: Miss Americana: 5pp Wander [maxed]: 6pp FelicitousFolly no IC posts all month Maelstrom: 0pp Fox Dragonfly: 5pp and is now PL 12 :clap: Gaian Knight: 1pp Wraith: 1pp Geez3r Atlas: 2pp Dynamo: 1pp Gizmo Ghost Girl: 1pp Jack of all Blades [maxed]: 3pp Midnight (II): 5pp Wail: 2pp Godiva Jade Dragon: 1pp Lotus: 2pp GranspearZX Arcturus: 4pp Griffalo no posts in 2 months; archiving Mercury: --- Thunderhead: --- Heritage Cubic: 2pp Gossamer: 1pp Grimalkin [maxed]: NPC'd at player request JackgarPrime Victory: 2pp KnightDisciple Cobalt Templar: 4pp Fenris: NPC'd at player request Gabriel: 6pp and is now PL14! :clap: Lone Star Mad Dog: 1pp Warlock/Kid Cthulhu: 2pp Zap: 1pp Lord Bayushi no posts in 2 months; archiving Lionheart: --- Quinn Crow: 3pp Overclock: 2pp Push: 3pp quotemyname Blueshift: 3pp Covalent: 1pp Ferros: 3pp Raveled Glowstar: 3pp Ironclad: 5pp Semi-Autogyro Myrmidon: 4pp Setzer Vanguard: 4pp ShaenTheBrain Scarab: 3pp Thrude: 4pp and is now PL 11 :clap: Sorus Sage: 4pp Willow: 1pp Sovem no IC posts all month Lucid: 0pp Supercape Lord Steam: 2pp Rene de Saens: 5pp Supercape: 7pp and is now PL 15 :clap: Taar Cheshire Blade: 2pp and is now PL 11 :clap: TiffanyKorta Revenant: 3pp trollthumper Cannonade: 3pp and is now PL 10 :clap: Nick Cimitiere: 3pp and is now PL 14 :clap: The 100+ Posts per Month Club Azuth65/Wisp (108)
  21. Dr Archeville
    Ah, no, I miscounted. /me consults the Brain So, pop an HP for an instant counter, then roll your grapple check vs. Evil!Dok's Str bonus Evil!Dok's Str check (1d20+12=20)
  22. Dr Archeville
    Broseidon! Godiva! Lone Star! Give up your threads!
  23. Dr Archeville
    Archived at player request.
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    Archived at player request.
  25. Dr Archeville
    1 (base) + 1 (Villain escape during Terrible Bosses) + 1 (betrayal of an Aesir by a once-trusted German) - (however many was spent in Load Bearing Bosses) ... and excellent point! Right, not tracking initiative orders, though I am tracking (roughly) how much time is passing. Also,
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