Dr Archeville

At the appointed hour, Jack and Taylor found themselves at the agreed-upon location, the main ArcheTech facility. The doors were locked, but one of the three security guards on duty hopped up from his station as soon as he saw them approach and let them in, and directed them to an elevator down one of the numerous hallways. "He's waiting for you on the sixth floor. You'll be needing these," he added, holding up two laminated cards on the ends of green lanyards; each had the ArcheTech logo, and they each had Jack & Taylor's names on them. The elevator ride was very smooth, and any noise it made was masked by the classical music playing softly over concealed speakers. When the elevator doors opened to more branching hallways and numerous doors. Before either could voice a question as to which way to go, a series of arrows of golden light appeared on the floor, creating a clear path for them. As they followed the path, they could see many of the rooms on this floor were dedicated to assorted biological and biomedical sciences. After a few moments they reached the end of the line, at a room with opened double doors. Inside was Dr. Archeville, face smiling and arms outstretched. Taylor felt that needle-in-the-brain feeling again. "Taylor! Jack! So good to see you both again!," he gushed as he approached. He gave a quick hug to Taylor, and shook Jack's hand. "Und how is de happy couple, hrm? Is mein vedding gift still vorking out?"

Ah, so Pressing Concerns & Growing Up Vampire is after White Wedding?

"Tonight? I believe... hold on a moment," Archeville said, then turned away from the phone. "Ladies, gentlemen, do you think ve can be done by 7:00 pm? Ja... ja... no, dat can vait until tomorrow... ja, ja... hello, Jack? Vill 8:00 be soon enough?"

Doktor Archeville News Thread (0) And Blackjack (1) Back to School (5) Brains & Brawn & Sandwiches (2) Checkmate (0) Childhood Dream (3) The Days of High Adventure (0) Growing Up Vampire (9) I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings (0) Invasion! - Hanover (0; closed?) Stocks & Bonds (0) "When They Hear Oom Pah Pah!" (0) White Wedding (5) 0+1+5+2+0+3+0+9+0+0+0+0+5 = 25 Dead Head News Thread (0) Carnival in the Park (0; closed?) Darkness Rising (6) Death Don't Have No Mercy (3; now closed) Holy Meeting (7) Invasion! - Riverside (0; closed?) Once Upon a Midnight (3) Training in the Wharton State Forest (0; closed?) White Wedding (1) 0+0+6+3+7+0+3+0+1 = 20 Things I'm GMing, Using an NPC in, and Non-Canon Stuff Belphegor's News Thread (0) And They Called Me MAD! (Non-Canon) (0) Angel's First Flight (0) Delivery at Pier 18 (0) Fire and Brimstone (0) Go For Broken (Non-Canon) (1) Teacher's Meeting (0) 0+0+0+0+0+0+0+0 = 0 / 2 = 0

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After three rings, Jack heard the line pick up. "Hello," his recorded voice said cheerfully, "I am sorry I am unable to answer you personally at de moment, but I am currently involved in either intense Scientific! vork or a life-und-death struggle against some misguided malcontents. If you vould leave your name und number, I vill get back to you as soon as I-" Archeville's prerecorded voice abruptly cut off, "Jack? Is dat you?" Avenger could hear a few voices in the background, and from the snippets he could make out he gathered that Archeville was at some sort of board meeting for his new company.

Doktor Archeville Some people on the dance floor felt the hairs on their arms and the backs of their neck stand on end. Others felt just the tiniest bit dizzy as nanogravitational fluctuations played havoc with their inner ears. A pinpoint of electric blue light suddenly winked into existence in the middle of the floor, which grew into an basketball-sized orb of swirling electric blue and eerily dull gray light. The orb then became a large flat disk, then a larger hoop, which slid back and revealed Doktor Archeville, bearing a large wrapped package. Once he was completely through the hoop of energy, it shrank back down and winked out of existence. "Oops! Need to vork on de targeting system! Sorry, volks!" The super-scientist quickly stepped over to the happy couple, hugged Taylor and patted Jack on the back (as best he could while holding the large gift). "so sorry to be late, vork has had me svamped, but I vas determined to be here, at least for a little bit! Besides, I had to make sure you both got dis!"

That puts me at 4 HP now. Will save, DC 22 (1d20+6=19) Must... fight... use... HP... to re-roll... Will save, DC 22; HP re-roll (1d20+6=12) That's a 6 on the die, +10 for being an HP re-roll, that's a 22 total!

"Get out of mah way!," Dead Head shouted at the zombies, readying his shovel to bowl them over. He saw the next target for his wrath -- the cultist who'd just picked up a very nasty-looking amulet -- but the gathering zombies were making that difficult. "Ah don't want to do any more damage to y'all's remains... but if I gotta disable some of ya to get to the fiends what did all this, then it's what ah gotta do!" Dead Head proceeded to beat down just enough zombies to clear a path for him to get to the cultist. He struck hard, fast, and clean, making sure to completely disrupt the foul magics animating the zombies, so as not to risk leaving any around still partially animated (and possibly with part of their original spirit still trapped within).

D'oh! Okay, on the one hand, you can Take 10 when attacking mooks, and if I did that and Power Attack for 5, that'll have Dead Head hitting Defense 16, and force a DC 29 Toughness save on all the lil' zombies. Which should take out all of 'em. On the other hand, to DH's mind, these zombies (assuming they're just animated shells) are innocents in all this, and it's the necromancers he really wants to go after. Particularly that cultist who picked up the "amulet wreathed in twisting shadow". But Dead Head can't get to the necromancers without clearing a path by knocking down some zombies... which is what he'll do. Knock enough down so he can stalk towards the amulet-holding cultist.

From this RPG.net thread, which is filled with ideas on how to twist DC and Marvel characters through this lens.

Remember what G'Kar did with his eye on Sheridan & Delenn's wedding night? ;)

Doc will be there. He may even arrange catering. Dead Head... will not be present, but he will leave a gift behind.

Indeed, much cheers for Cyroa and his ginormous adventures! :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap: So whatcha got planned next? Grue Invasion? ;)

:awesome:

The holidays appear to be consuming more of my time than I'd anticipated.

And when was that? :p

... "I'm monogamous, except when I'm raping those bad people I've beat unconscious" ?

Are the zombies being treated as Mooks? Will Dead Head's Takedown Attack 2 help him?

At the end of her action.

Yeah, but if he does, he obliterates it!

Patrolling barriers between this world and another? Puttin' right things what went wrong? Dealin' with angry spirits? "Heh, almost sounds like you an' me got more in common than I thought," Dead Head chuckled. "So what're we gonna call our lil' group?," the revenant continued. "An' do we get a fancy clubhouse? 'Cuz if we do, I know someone who might help with the decor."

"Aww, what's wrong, lil' graverobbers?," Dead Head chided as his shovel clanged against another cultist's head. "Was that lil' ward designed to keep that giant thing in as much as it is to keep folks like me out? I- oh... oh, crap!" "Hey, Witchiepoo!," he called out to Phantom, though he was already sizing up another cultist, "did you just make things better, or worse?!"

Anyone else got anything more for this?

Anyone else got anything more for this?