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:cry: Malice want arch-nemesis too. He had Shinken for a while there, but he doesn't post too often anymore. *GASP* If Malice can't have an arch-nemesis, he can MAKE one. :harley:

The bit about was me stating that I intend to do full knock back should Spartan be stunned by the attack, which is 2,500ft or until he hits something solid.

Ordinarily, Malice would have just have shot Spartan and be done with it, but he couldn't get a clear shot at him. Back to basics then. mused Malice. He rocketed towards where Spartan and Captain Knieval were brawling, flying real close to the ground. When he got right up next to them, he planted his foot, and shifted all his momentum upwards, delivering a solid spiraling uppercut to Spartan, attempting to knock him away from the beleaguered Captain.

Well, failed the Toughness Save portion, the Will save portion, and the Reflex save portion. Though in my defense, out of the 11 rolls, I only rolled above a 10 once, at that was a Natural 20. And I got 2 natural 1's. So yeah, Malice got his butt handed to him in that test.

PART 2 There was simply no end to them. For every grenade thrown, every rocket fired and every clip unloaded, there were another 5 or 6 heroes waiting to smash Malice's face in. That wouldn't be so bad if they weren't so good at that particular task. As Malice unleashed a flamethrower spray over the crowd, a spider-looking thing had snuck around Malice, crawling along the walls and took the opprotunity to spit some nasty junk at Malice, who was overcome by the noxious smell. Doubled up and hacking his lungs out, Velocity whizzed past Malice, and grabbed one of his arms, while she ran circles around him, spinning Malice like a top. It didn't exactly have the desired effect. Malice was able to maintain his sense of balance, but the high speed spinning had thrown the noxious chemicals off of Malice as well as bringing in some fresh air into Malice's lungs. Malice took the opprotunity to turn the tables on Velocity, grabbing her arm, and using her own momentum to hurl her through the air right at the spider thing. Velocity was still in mid air when a piercing scream reverberated throughout Malice's skull. Malice was brought to his knees by the unnatural wailing. His mind was on fire, which is far more painful than it sounds. As Malice did his best to throw off the effect, the pain just intensified. In short order, Malice was at the mercy of this psychic scream. With all the screaming going on in his head, Malice couldn't even see who or what threw an energy net at him let alone avoid it. More and more bonds were being thrown at Malice who could do nothing against their ensnarement. Even as the reptilian part of Malice mind screamed at him that he needs to get out of here it was far too late for even that to work. But the heroes weren't done yet, Divine took the opprotunity to sock Malice right in the face with a right cross. As Malice staggered back from that blow, Nightrival took the opprotunity to leap over Divine's shoulders, and deliver a devestating drop kick to Malice's sterum, knocking Malice clean off his feet. Struggling to get to his feet, Malice is laid low from a blast from behind, he never even saw it coming.

Yes, do your roll and I describe what happens, then post your response on your turn.

Also a good reason to buy the Paranoid (they're all coming for me!) Complication.

Start of round 4, initiative is: CapK Moira DJ trippy stuff happened at end of round 3.

Taking a few liberties with Malice's weaponry, but seeing as how we're in his base, after he just made a bunch of weapons and it bear no actual in game repercussions, I figured I'd have a bit of fun with the cinematics and give Malice any weapon that I think is cool. Especially because I won't be at this for very long. I can only beat stage 3 with Extra Effort on a Nat 20 Remind me to put points into saves :D

PART 1 As Malice closed with the first wave, he unleashed a salvo of missiles at his assailants, putting about half of them out of commission, far less than he would have hoped. The remnants of the first wave assaulted him on a combined front. He recognized only 2 of the survivors of the first wave, Red Star and Arrowhawk. Red Star got there first and delivered a straight punch to Malice's chest, but the armor absorbed the entire impact. In retaliation, Malice struck Red Star in the face with an open palm, ejecting a grenade right down his throat. Not even waiting for the *BOOM* Malice rounded to to face his next adversary. It was one of those electrical controller types, he tried shocking Malice with an electrical pulse meant to stun it was a poor choice. He was dead before the shells even hit the ground. But before he could even think of a next course of action, Malice was almost overtaken by a sense of vertigo for the smallest of moments. The blue eyes of a budding mentalist were full of guilt as Malice turned to face his assailant. Malice rewarded him by forcefully removing the guilt from his skull, and hurling his body at another of the heroes. No sooner did some of the blood start dripping off of the suit, than Malice had to dodge a net shot by Arrowhawk. As his last act of retaliation, Malice blasted him with a concentrated dose of gamma radiation. The odds got a little more even. Malice didn't take the time to brag or gloat, there were still a lot more bodies to be thrown at him. All he did was fire randomly at anything that looked like it might potentially move someday. There were so many of them he was bound to hit something.

Prelude And that is when Malice's mind exploded. "How did they find this place?" "Why are all of them here?" "What the heck did I do to deserve this?" "@#$$& - &%%$#!!" " :shock: :shock:" "Who was behind all of this?" "Where is the nearest exit?" and thousands of other questions all demanded to be answered simultaneously in his head. And for once in his life, Eric Micheals had no answers. Not a single one. Unable to think of a single possible action to take, Malice stood frozen for a moment, contemplating his impending doom. There was nothing for it. He had to run away. He had to leave, he had to flee. He took a half step and turned to run away. He had to remain free. That is when Malice froze again. This was it. This is what all these years of training and suffering had been for. Hadn't he made this suit to combat these tyrants? Hadn't he dedicated his life to helping the common man? Would he turn his back now simply because he knew now that he was in the right? For what other force than the common fear of what Malice represents could bring them all here to do battle this day? Would Malice turn and run? No. If he ran now, he would be turning his back on Freedom City, his friends, the nation, his mother, his father and everything he had ever believed in. Now with his resolve strengthened, Malice planted his foot and turned to look at his closing adversaries. As his rocket booster ignited Malice bellowed "FOR FREEDOM!!!" at the top of his lungs, heedlessly hurling himself into the fray. The storm of his mind had quieted, there was only one thought in his mind right now Be the one standing on top of the pile.

Imma need Will saves from the both of yas. A +2 on this check for the Captain and a +6 for Moira. The DC is... hard to explain. Essentially you guys are going on a bit of a trip, your check determines what kind of a trip and the potential consequences there of.

Entirely caught off guard by the fact that Moira was able to evade his snaring flames, and that the Captain was able to burst out of his snare with sheer muscle along, DJ Anarchy was planted face first into the ground by Moira. Struggling vainly against her grip for a few moments he shouted "You shouldn't be this strong!" it sounded more of an accusation than anything else, with a small hint of desperation. With a roar he proclaims "I've waited to long for this day to fail now. She will be avenged!" and with that more purple flames erupt all over the ground, spreading outwardly from DJ's position on the ground, consuming all in its path. This flame doesn't burn like normal fire, or even like his previous incarnations. This fire alights your very soul.

From that alone I knew there would be trouble. But I seriously did not know how much. So does this mean that I auto-pass the first Toughness save effect? It being Rank 5, and my Impervious being 8? If so, awesome, only 47 more rolls to go Probably won't get this all up tonight.

Opposed Grapple = 25

Done and done. Now let's see what evil deeds you have planned for me in the FINAL TEST. And as an aside, I like the very last invention the best.

PART 5 And that is when Malice's arrogance came back to bite him in the backside. The last part to this exam was none other than Argo the Ultimate Android. "Uhhh huh. Yeah. That's cool... crap." Malice stared at the monitors long and hard. He watched every move. He studied every advance, and every set back. He got a point where he really felt he knew Argo inside and out, and it was at that point that Malice exclaimed "I GOT IT!!!" Malice went to work right away, grabbing several blank sheets of drafting paper, tape and a metal rod. In just a few moments Malice's work was completed. Truly, this was the greatest white flag that had ever been made. After waving his latest creation around for a few minutes, Malice calmed down and set it down on the table, with a bit of a laugh to himself. Malice looked over the 9 devices he had made (he's counting the flag, it could come in handy) with great pride, but there was something nagging at the back of his head. Malice realized what it was with a start, and jumped a clear 10 ft away from the table. "There is no way I made all of those inventions, and did the other 3 tests in less than 3 hours. It is not possible! Who is doing this!?" Malice shouted at the walls now entirely fed up with the games that were being played here, and of the power one of the players assuredly had.

Don't care. Why? Because I made a shrink ray!!! Totally going to give that to Malice next time I have some PP to burn, I need at least 1 wacky pants weapon to be a proper silver age villain.

:arrow: Pretty straight forward for both devices.

PART 4 The next task was one Malice was not expecting in the slightest. For this task, he had to try and find a way of taking down none other than Gigantasaur. How exactly would one fight a 100ft tall lizard? In all honesty, Malice had no idea what so ever. Far as he could tell, Gigantsaur was unstoppable. Malice had an idea for a moment, but it left just as he tought he was on to something. But just as he was getting desperate, Malice was struck by inspiration. You see, it was really impossible to stop a 100ft lizard, but stopping a 20ft lizard is much simpler. The answer was a classic for a reason, a Shrink ray could solve a whole lot of problems. The second device that Malice envisioned was the answer to the question that he often asked himself. "How am I going to stop some big, mean mother Hubbard from tearing me a structurally superfluous new behind? The answer? Use a gun. And it that don't work, use more gun." Malice truly loved that philosohy, but it wasn't always applicable. You see the more you shoot at a target, the more they shoot you. This is not an advisable strategy if the opposition has more gun and/or can take more gun than you do. But Malice found the answer in the belief that they cannot return fire at a target that they don't know is there. Coming up with the ideas was all well and good, but getting the ideas down on paper proved difficult. He was close on the cloaking device, but the shrink ray needed a lot more work. On his redraft of the plans, he made little progress on the shrink ray, but the cloaking device seemed like it would work. Now that the plans were complete for the cloaking device, Malice could concentrate entirely on the shrink ray and his determination was rewarded. On paper, Malice had just created a shrink ray. "I knew I was brilliant, but I'm surprising even myself today." But the problem with paper is that it often lies, and makes things seem much easier than they actually are. The wiring for the devices proved to be insanely difficult. After scratching his head for a few moments on how exactly to go about doing it, Malice thought of a new way to approach the problem and his ingenuity paid huge dividends. Still high on his previous success, Malice continued work on the devices but got careless at the very end suffering a demoralizing setback. Genius is a fickle thing. lamented Malice. After shaking out his hands for a few moments to regain his composure, Malice set to work again and completed the devices without further hiccup. "Am I awesome, or am I awesome?"

After the ruling my the refs about Impervious, here is the updated request of what I would like to spend Malice's points on. It's mostly verbatum what I asked for last time, but I'm reposting the entire thing so they don't have to dig through the thread to find where I posted it last. I'll spend a point to buy 2 ranks in Notice and 2 ranks in Search. After the abyssmal performance in Welcome to a Modern World, Malice has been running programs that improve his ability to pick up on details. Updated skills section: I'll spend 4 points to buy another rank in device. With those points, I'll bump up the Weapons Array to rank 18. Increase Enhanced Strength by 1 (Making his Str 38), and Super strength by 1 {3}. The points will filter through the array, bumping the other attacks up 1 rank. I'll then buy 1 AP for the array: Paralyze 12 Extras: Alternative Save Fort (+0), Range - Ranged :arrow: Decription - A sonic pulse at a certain frequency wreaks havoc on the body's internal systems. Furthermore, I'd like to buy an AP off Flight: * AP: Impervious 3; Immunity 2 (Critical Hits); Immovable 3; Super-Strength 1 Updated Powers section: :arrow: Upgrading the weapons array is just standard stuff. I got the idea for the Flight AP from StarCraft 2 honestly. There's a terran flying unit, that can change into a ground unit. Either Malice can fly all about doing whatever, or he hunker down into gun turret mode. Also, I would like to throw this description of Malice's arrays somewhere on his sheet for desciptor purposes, in case it every becomes important.

That'll hit. I'm busy right now, but the result will be posted soonish.

I hate you agile peoples, it's so hard to dump and entire magazine into you. So DC 27 total Ecal. Feel free to roll poorly.

OK. Arrowhawk is a crack shot. He can hit me with that stick thrower from a hundred feet out easily, while I'm flying. Judging from the nets on the poles and the EMP arrow he shot at me, he's got a whole slew of special arrows stashed away. I'd better give him a good dose of lead poisoning before I figure the exact extent of his marksmanship and trick arrows." Malice drops out of the sky, flying lower to the ground and circles around Arrowhawk, maybe 40 feet away and 10ft above the ground. He pops the 2nd Amendment out of his right arm, and bracing it with his left, and opens fire on Arrowhawk as he strafes by, aiming for the center of mass.

Future Weapon for Malice: Blast 12 Extras: Auto-fire x2, Flaws: Unreliable 5/day - MOAR DAKKA I'll tell you this, there's no such thing as diminishing returns for putting points into blowing things up.