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"Absolutely not!" snapped a voice from behind the group. A woman came out of the shadows in a knee-length black dress with ragged edges. Her black hair was cut in a bob that only served to emphasise the anger on her face. As she came closer through the darkness, her heavily pregnant stomach came into view. In spite of the additional heft, Liz Lawlett still managed to stalk towards the group. "If you do that without knowing what you're doing, you don't know what'll happen. You could send a giant sized force bubble smashing through the rift and it'd explode all over the bunch of idiots." She turned to Dragonfly. "Have we tried a matter-based entrance rather than energy? Say, a drone with a cabled broadcasting system?"
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I'd like to request a picture of an adult Geckoman. This is a pretty old reference, but the basic costume design is the same, sans HeroFactory's idiosyncrasies. The goggle lack the little antennae, and the gloves lack the metal bars. He's also using a darker green costume (more like the gloves and boots on this image), with his belt, pouches, boots and gloves being dark yellow. The goggles are also all orange, the frame and lenses. Thank you~
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Equinox How to Build A Better Scythe (2) Geckoman So Great A Cause (3) Galvanic = Ref pp, plus Geckoman's posts And census tiiiime Ecalsneerg Veteran Progress: 156/180 Basic Character Slots: PL10/150PP: ArrowhawkPL10/150PP: UnusedPL7/105PP: Geckoman [Maxed]Veteran Rewards Used: 0/5 Spent PL10/150PP: EquinoxPL12/180PP: GalvanicGeckoman promoted from PL7/105PP to PL10/150PPUnusedUnusedRetired Characters: Scholar (PL10/150PP)
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Equinox walked over to Kimber, and put a hand on her shoulder. "Congratulations," she smiled proudly. "That was an impressive bit of work, I don't think any of us could do better." But then a frown spread across her features. "But I'm sorry. I'm so, so sorry. When you achieved corporeal form, it gives the rest of us... certain obligations." She unbuttoned her coat, reaching into it with a grim expression. "I'm sorry." Hayley burst out of the coat and leapt onto Kimber's shoulder, then bouncing up through her hair and onto the top of her head, showering her face in raccoon licks while making happy chittering noises. "Has to happen to everyone eventually. Start carrying food, Nick does it." Siobhan shook her head, struggling to maintain her sombre expression.
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Geckoman yanked on the 'reins' of the dinosaur. "Woahoahoah, easy, big guy!" he called down to it. It lumbered to a stop with huge clumping footsteps. He stood up in the saddle, leaning down to look at the men. "Guess we got lucky," he mused. "I haven't seen no flying machines. Might be something to keep in mind." Geckoman glanced at the team around him, and the giant dinosaur. Well, even if these guys were part of whatever or whoever had brought them here, or had Steve, they were outnumbered and in any case, probably couldn't fight a dinosaur. "We're looking for a friend of ours. Not from around here, might be a bit... clanky and metally, might not be. You heard of anyone like that?" While he was fine with asking these men, he didn't want to give away too many details. "We figured we'd head to where those other guys've got dinos too. Thought they might be the type to have... come across him."
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Geckoman looked down, patting the poor dinosaur's flank. "Oh, sweetie, he was mean to you, wasn't he? Don't worry, I'll look after you. Lizard bros." He turned his new friend in the direction of the mine, getting ready to ride off to go investigate and hopefully find Steve. He leaned over the edge of the saddle down at the two newbies. "Oh ignore him, he's grumpy when it gets weird and out there. Which is annoying, because that's the business. And I'm," he jabbed Erik hard in the side. "Not going to die. One of us can regrow our pancreas here, and it's not you, Swords Hard Guy." Geckoman gestured at him, riding atop a giant cyborg dinosaur with a trenchcoated magical swashbuckler. "Tell you what, guys. Come help us out, and you'll get to fight alien dinosaur robots and also ride this big-ass T Rex. Whaddya say?"
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Siobhan stood and withstood the woman's words, trying to not let the volume and fury of it rattle her, at least not visibly. She brought her hands before her, letting her magic reverberate and expand outwards from her, forming a semi-translucent shield between her and her armoured adversary. "It says a lot about you that you throw scholar and academic as insults, as ideas of weakness," said Siobhan firmly, letting her power trickle into her voice. It didn't magnify it to the same volume as the words that had been thrown at her, but infused them with a solid, sharp clarity. "To scorn the idea of learning, of striving to find out more, to do more, to be more. And that's really the point of it all, isn't it? To understand? To know? To build and improve? Why would I ever defend myself against failing to meet your standards when your standards are so clearly wrong?" She took a step towards the armoured woman. "Battle isn't the benchmark by which you measure accomplishment, it's what you do in achieving them, in defending them." Another step. "And rest assured, I have fought. I have fought so hard." Weariness crept into Siobhan's voice as she slowly closed the distance. "We, not merely myself, are going to forge this weapon. I have weaknesses. They're not the ones you think, but they're there, and so do my companions. And we make up for each other's." Siobhan was mere inches from the woman now, glaring up into her eyes. "And I think that's true strength, don't you?" she asked pointedly.
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Geckoman shot up the side of the dinosaur after Jack, leaping and spinning, hands and feet briefly gaining purchase on any available surface as he arrived seconds after the original pilot's speedy departure from his post. He looked down upon the mix of mechanical and organic arrayed around the saddle. "Huh. Well, this isn't what I usually drive. They didn't have dinosaurs down at the DMV." He settled himself down on the dinosaur, hands rummaging and wrestling with the saddle and the accoutrements around it, trying to get the dinosaur under control. It was like riding a horse, right? A big, angry, scaly death horse which a madman had put half a Prius into. Piece of cake. "C'mon, big guy, c'mon, you can do this, we don't want anyone eating anyone, right?" It was vague whether he was speaking to the dinosaur or to himself. Or both.
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Geckoman: Uninjured, 4 HP Move Action: Using Wall-Crawling and Acrobatics Skill Mastery for 25, Chris can also get on the dinosaur Standard Action: Gain control of the dinosaur. If it's Pilot, that's Skill Mastery for a total of 30. If it's Ride or Drive, he'll have to roll. For Drive, he'll just flat-out roll with his +10 bonus, with Ride, he'll spend a HP on Beginner's Luck for a +14 bonus: Controlling the dinosaur: 1d20 5 Eh, not great, but that means it's a 15 for Drive, a 19 for Ride, and a 30 for Pilot.
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Initiative: 1d20+12 17 Sorry, had a bad few days. I'll break the tie by electing to go after Jack.
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Equinox How to Build A Better Scythe Geckoman So Great A Cause Ref pp, rollover posts and Ref pp to Galvanic
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Equinox inclined her head slowly at the woman before her, making steady eye contact. She didn't know who the woman was, or why her helmet was so impractical looking. But it didn't do to show fear or doubt. Especially with this much magic running around. Although she didn't know where the branch was, she shouldn't assume that it wasn't somewhere. She took a languid step forwards and set her feet firm, shoulder-widths apart. "Greetings," she said, slowly and carefully. "We are performing a ritual, ma'am. If it's no trouble to you, interference at this stage wouldn't be a good idea for anyone." She held her arms at her side, palms facing forward. The gesture was twofold. It appeared as if she was leaving herself calm and open. She could, however, launch several offensive spells in a second from such a position.
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Geckoman shook his head ruefully. Man, he'd forgotten how cranky Erik could come across as until you got used to him. This dustbowl wasn't really helping that. He opened his mouth to maybe reassure the kids that papa was just being grumpy today when boom. Boom. Their ticket out of the ass end of nowhere appeared, looking over them. The most beautiful thing he'd ever seen. A giant semi-robotic dinosaur. "Jack," he said in a tone of awed reverence. "I will drive that dinosaur. I will drive it all the way back home if I have to." He pulled his staff from his belt, twirling the handle absently in his fingertips before squeezing it, the two halves of the staff shooting out, electricity crackling between taser prongs at either end.
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Chris groaned. He didn't know where he was, and Erik was shouting. He thought something might be bleeding. Well, those seemed familiar enough circumstances at least. He woozily looked down at a tear on his midsection, and wiped away some blood. Couldn't have been a bad cut. It wasn't even there any more. He accepted Erik's help getting to his feet, squinting slightly under the blazing sun even through his goggles. "Ugh. Where even are we?" Man, it was warm. His costume wasn't really designed for this level of heat. Geckoman pulled a slightly battered old remote from his belt, and started fiddling with some dials and levers. In response, he only got angry bleeping. "Um. Jack, bit of bad news. We're a lot further than signal range. I'm not even getting a faint response from it." He put a hand on Erik's shoulder. "But don't beat yourself up. I wasn't fast enough either, and apparently neither was she." He inclined his head at the recently returned speedster. "You're not all that fast next to us, man." He lifted his hand, clenched it, and gave Erik a quick punch on the arm before turning to the other two. "You see anything else on the trail, Ferrari Girl? Road signs, houses, cell towers? People?"
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Equinox took the branch, weighing it in her hand. Even without consciously looking for it, she could feel the waves of power reverberating through the wood. She held it reverently before herself, both hands out, and murmured to it briefly. She dropped her hands away, and the branch levitated in the air before her as she took a couple of steps back to the south of the circle they were forming. "Well, well. I think we all know what we're doing. I don't think we're going to get any more prepared." The witch pulled her wand out, and held it loosely in her right arm, the arm used for projecting energy. She could sluice a lot of juice into this, but without her wand as an aid, it was just going to run wild and disrupt an already delicate ritual. She'd prefer not to be sustaining a telekinesis spell during it as well, but this was the better of the two options overall, and levitating the pieces was already accounted for. "It's your show, Ghost Girl. Tell us when to start, and we'll fulfil our roles." She nodded respectfully to the young ghost, who a few years ago she wouldn't have thought capable of magic on this level.
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I'll take 10 for 25 on that roll.
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Equinox landed on the mountainside, finally pulling the raccoon out of her coat to send it snuffling about in the rocks and ice around the three mages. Well. Two mages and one vampire. She pulled out a crumpled packet of cigarettes from her pocket and set one in her mouth. "How us young people are? Prone to buy our own, you mean?" she said wryly, firing a brief burst of flame out of one finger to light it. "It's not the abomination I'm so worried about. We play fast and loose with the boundary between life and death all the time. I suppose I should be more concerned with that, but not right now." She frowned at Nick and Frost. "Who is this girlfriend of Kimber's? She has... anger issues. Are we fine with this? Are we fine with them?" The witch smiled ruefully. "I know all about teenage romances with the edgy cool one."
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Geckoman abruptly appeared out of mid-air in front of the window as the young man in the homemade costume ran out, having warned what he thought were the staff and customers of a liquor store. He peered out, examining the weird light show outside. Well, that was strange. The vortex was flickering enough that the light from it was clearly reflected in his goggles. "Well, get into the cooler is a terrible plan," he commented to his colleagues. "But Fearless Leader, try it anyway. It might chill you out. Or we can go go ask the swirling mass of light and energy if it knows anything about stealing." Geckoman checked his belt was securely fastened, before sauntering out the front door at a jaunty, yet rapid pace.
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Equinox + Ref pp How to Build A Better Scythe Temporiad: Save On Time Ugh, awful posting month, but also an awful month in general, so...
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Equinox stared sidelong at Tarva. She wasn't entirely sure of the specifics of their relationship. She'd known she was that protective of Kimber. She did not like the signs of being that protective. It was... an aggressive kind of affection. A kind she'd seen before. "We came here with a job to do, wiping our species for the actions of two isn't one of them," she said quietly. "Believe me, I read the manual before we came here." She hovered gently over to one of the great carcasses, unwilling to trudge through the debris and snow and dirt. "We just got here, I don't know if we need to stay to eat. We could take some meat with us, and if need be, I can conjure up something to cook it with." The witch looked around at the group. "I think what just happened is a good primer for here. It's dangerous, we don't want to hang around unnecessarily, but we should also come prepared. Ideally we don't want any more injuries or problems. We'll have them, but a back-up plan for hunger is probably a good idea."
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Hayley isn't going to do anything unless she specifically gets attacked or whammied. Equinox is going to plump for her usual method of ignore her toolbox of magical tricks and shoot enough elemental magic at stuff to level a city block. Use her Blast 11, with a descriptor of physical slashing/piercing/whatever because it's all sharp stuff, not actual physical cold. All-Out Power Attack for 2. Aim at the staggered auroch, not the one beset by winged birds. BLIZZARD TIME: 1d20+11 25 Assuming a 25 hits a giant monster, that's a DC 28 hit.
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Equinox raised her wand above her head, swirling it in a tight, small arc. She gradually widened and widened it, arm slightly pained as she tried to avoid jostling the raccoon hiding in the front of her coat. Wind whipped around and around, pulling up clumps of hoarfrost and ripping down icicles from the trees into a vortex of shards and splinters. "Chionothýella!" she yelled suddenly, quickly wavering between the two huge beasts. She decided upon the one not bedevilled by paper cranes. She flicked her wand at it, and the shards exploded downwards around her, then rushed towards the auroch, trailing frost and wind and glowing white sparks. The great beast was obscured for a moment or two as it was enveloped by the artificial blizzard, only a great thudding noise audible through the flurries of snow. When they cleared, it lay on its side, partially embedded into the ground beneath its feet from its sudden collapse.
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I'll chuck in a Skill Masteried Knowledge (Arcana) 25 and (Theology) 20, see if that yields anything about the horses or tears (doubtful)
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Equinox: Initiative: 1d20+1 9 Hayleynitiative: 1d20+3 22 Hayley'll delay until Equinox's for simplicity and also because she's inside her coat
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Equinox just blinked and looked around, unphased. She'd seen weirder. Hayley on the other hand was a bundle of nerves, twitching and spinning around down the front of her robes. Seemingly unconcerned with her surroundings, she fussed and patted the raccoon until she quietened and lay still. Interdimensional travel was never fun. She straightened up, and turned, surveying their surroundings. Yep. Definitely Jotunheim. One of the Nine Realms. Land of frost and giants. She imagined this was what forests on Earth looked like to smaller prey animals. Hell, on this plane, they probably counted as one of those prey animals. Especially next to the giants. Like the one Kimber floated next to. "Greetings," said Equinox formally, inclining her head enough to seem respectful, without being deferential. Kimber seemed unconcerned, but it generally did well to not seem weak on other planes. It was like facing sharks in the sea. Even if they had no interest, you'd still be much less at home than them. "My name is Equinox. Pleasure to meet you... ?"