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Fair enough. At least with bows you can see the mechanism for 'em.

I actually like the idea Doc posited of heroes and villains racing to get this poor confused girl under this wing. Arrowhawk hasn't been getting as much play as Gecks, so I can see him watching this on the news before costuming up and showing us all how fast that ol' bike can go. Would her culture recognise archery?

"I suppose I better go as well. I designed those snares specifically not to be undone, STAR may have some trouble with them," commented Arrowhawk, falling into step beside the group.

"Well, at least should we run into the guys later, I can recognise their scent. Suppose all we can do now is disrupt the robbery next week without any intel on ity, unless you've got an idea?" "I'll help him find the guy, alright?" smiled Chris at the man at the desk, grabbing Gordy by the shoulders and whirling him around, before dragging him off some distance from the desk. "I'm Geckoman, although secret identities, man? Really? Chris Kenzie around here" He proferred his hand to the other teen.

It makes sense that it doesn't add to rolls, simply because it reduces DCs. -5 to their DC is the same as +5 to your Toughness saves.

"Below... OK, we'll abandon searching this deck for now. We need to go downstairs," said Arrowhawk, disguising his shock at the blast. He strode over to another staircase and walked down onto the lower deck. "Not nearly enough smoke here... it's the lower deck," he said absent-mindedly, looking around before heading for the next set of stairs.

If you want to further speed things up in future, just assume all my Notice checks are using Skill Mastery. Not that I mind rolling an 18. :D

Has Geckoman ever seemed entirely focused anyway? ;)

I'm around.

I'm not actually sure why super-smurf is more acceptable than super-squid. I just think he is.

It's also not exactly going to rely on people who're fans of Watchmen to make a profit. Non-comic fans may not take kindly to giant mutant squid. I'm a huge fan of Watchmen and I found it a bit out-of-tone with the book, imagine what Joe Average going to see that new Batman-esque flick is going to think.

Dammit, Sandy, agreeing to help but making me submit a request anyway. 1) Geckoman 2) Following Geckoman's brutal defeat at the hands of Reaver, and my idea of having Geckoman have a teenage crush on the Raven., I had the idea of the League being concerned over a teenage hero being injured in that way. Thus, they sent the Raven to teach the teenager how to stay cool and collected, rather than a cocky amateur. 3) I was sort of hoping to keep the whole thread based around the awkward Geckoman-Raven dynamic. 4) 2. I'm hoping the use of a canon NPC'll be allowed, it shouldn't be a big plot event but rather more of running with the idea of FC's realistic timescale leading the league to worry about younger heroes more. The Raven is also related to Geckoman's headmaster, if you need more reasons other than the comedy value. :D

I've also got an interest in this, as the Pitchoo has Toughness +10 despite being PL 6, and I'm not sure how vehicles and HQs relate to the PL rules. I mean, I can't see it being a problem, but the ref's rulings may differ ;)

Oct 7th, 2008 Notes on the Pitchoo By Chris Kenzie, input from Darian Cale. The Pitchoo is inexplicable in many ways. I don't understand exactly how it works. The basic design is a sort of egg-shape the size of a bus, with large frontal windows and an area at the back and underside dedicated to what appears to be the power supply. Oh, and weapons turrets come out the bottom, using rapid-fire electric zappers (Note: come back and reference up-coming article on zappers). They rotate. The cockpit area has a couple of sofa-esque seats, two stand-alone ones and my swivelly-awesome chair at the console. There is too much on the console to truly list, but there's weapon controls, a computer, CD player, autopilot... It's quite mad. The controls aren't as intuitive as I found them apparently. We've got three levers. "Left thrust, middle steering, right brakes". The left is a simple forward and back thing, in resting position it barely moves, full forward the speedo says 500 MPH. The middle is like a joystick, at rest it moves forwards, left and right turn it and up and down let me ascend and descend. The stick on the right is the brake, as far forward as possible it locks in place like a hand-brake, pull it back and forward to apply more or less brakes. It's simple to me at least. But Darian's meant to be a genius. Boy just can't fly I guess. The power supply continues to elude us. It seems all the waste is recycled to fuel, so it doesn't need refuelling. Probably needed fuel added to initially get it going, but now its self-sustaining. Credit crunch be damned, my wheels don't need no fuel. Or wheels. And it presumably has fuel, I just don't buy any. Hmmm... Darian fitted these lightflier things to the ship. It hasn't effected power supply. It means I can conjure up this holographic, 'hard light' flying surfboard. It's slower, it's exposed and only carries one person, but it's good for dropping down gaps the Pitchoo can't fit through. Future notes: Darian does not react well to people dropping out of vehicles at high altitudes. Best to heed this in future. He builds things. Glorious, terrible things. Makes Daedalus' battlesuits look archaic. Although is that his schtick? Could be. Bet he calls his suit I.C.A.R.U.S. pattern mk-22 or some other stuff. Why not zippy, catchy names? ZAPPER! PITCHOO! GECKOMAN! All this dark and edgy stuff makes me nauseous. Except the Raven. She's cool. I should stick that poster up... but what if I get the opportunity to work with her. That'd be awkward and not cool. Hmmm...

Aug 24th, 2008 I'm starting a diary. So I can reminisce later, or write a book. 'The Adventures of Geckoman'. Could be a comic series. Or a film. TV serial? Dunno. Met some guy called Warren, girl called Lucy, guy called Darian. Some girl called Lullaby. Warren was an asshole, Lucy nice but dim. Lullaby seemed spacey. Darian was cool, we're gonna meet up and chill out. Eat pizza. Or bagels. I like bagels. Anyway, so I went to school, got a tour, got a dorm room. Not great, not terrible. We'll see how this super-school goes. Aug 26th, 2008 I failed this placement test bad. Everything was going pretty great. Zap! Targets hit! Buzz! I light up a bulb using sticky hands. Then I crash the Pitchoo into metal obstacles. A lot. I mean, new paint job a lot. New classes in piloting seem imminent. Dammit. I don't think they want me to fly unsupervised. But the Geckoman fears no adult figure of authority!

"Oh, man..." said Geckoman, waking up just as they were wheeling him into a hospital about fifteen minutes later. "I do not want to confront him on the ground again." He rolled off the trolley and walked on, to the bemused look of several nurses and doctors. "Nobody took any stuff off me yet, did they?" he asked, to silent head-shaking. Geckoman gave them a thumbs-up and went to get transport home. "Supers," sighed a doctor in exasperation.

No, go look at the damage charts. '10 or more' has Staggered + Stunned beside it, no Bruised results. And now I've been staggered twice and am actually unconscious... the ship arrives next round, but be warned if you steal it. You. Die.

"Ladies and gentlemen, enjoy your shows for this evening," bowed the Geckoman, standing up and sidling off. "Yep... lost the trail... going into that alley to hide now... mmm'kay?"

Round #4 Reaver, 1 VP, Absorption (Energy, Regen) Geckoman, 0 HP, -5 toughness, bruised, stunned, staggered, prone, 1 round of obscure left, had to re-roll toughness It actually took me until now to realise that being staggered doesn't actually bruise you any further, you're 'only' staggered and stunned if you fail the save by 10... I'd also have lost 8 points of Toughness, but only objects get to go below 0.

The attack hitting him square in the ribs, and knocking him for six, the Geckoman was slammed back down into the ground after he tried to roll away from the strike. My head... someone... help... His vision started hazing over, and he passed out on the ground

Yeah, lightweight materials/non-lethal chemical weaponry would be physical sciences, and of use to Hawky.

Thing is, you did a similar thing by not letting him react to you feinting a kick at his head.

Yep, same date as the USA. Remember, Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons were Brits, y'know :P

Ok... he can be classified as Robin. But not Batman!

"Well, probably not forever," mused Geckoman, hand sliding to a remote in his belt and pressing a button. "But long enough, I think. Maybe just stay for the ceremony, but not the reception. Save me some cake." Ok, Pitchoo, hurry up. I need big, electical cannon-y back-up!