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  1. Avenger Assembled
    There was a distant sound - like a bellowing, or a chanting, from the midst of the choking cloud spreading now to cover the temple like an ill-smelling fog. Whatever it was was happening over and over again; but everyone around and inside the temple had other things to deal with. For example, on the roof, the dark reflection (or was that transformation?) of Theodora stepped nimbly out of her brother's rings with an acrobatic grace, tentacles waving around her in the water. "They showed me so many things. Look." She raised her hand, the one with the brand, and this time the yellow sign in it crackled with arcane power, a promise of profound transformation that drew in Heroditus's eyes (even as Dalekos and the Harbinger exchanged blows and curses nearby) so deeply he had to forcibly turn his head away to avoid looking at it. Theodora staggered briefly in the water, raising her other hand to her head, and declared, "Wait, it's not supposed to be you...by the Gods Below, there are so many _voices_..."
  2. Avenger Assembled
    Down Below: Aquaria uses the Teleport on her Trident to get the surviving Deep Ones out of harm's way. Upstairs: Artificer is up, and down an HP! Inside: Okay, @Tiffany Korta and @Fox, looks like you should make those saves! Don't forget to take an HP for being good sports.
  3. Avenger Assembled
    Okay, last fight scene! Woodsman goes on 25 The baby monsters go on 11 https://orokos.com/roll/784171 You may absolutely all have an HP for all the backstory triggers that got pushed here!
  4. Avenger Assembled
    "I'm not from around here." Even through the mask, this was maybe the first time they'd heard Woodsman's actual voice - a young man's, free of the harsh gravel he always seemed to be speaking through. "I'm not like you." He racked the slide on his crossbow and shouted at the dark, tree-slain house and the monsters within. "Is that what you want to hear?!" He scanned the room, stepping back so there was something solid behind him. His voice cracked from little use, at least at this volume, and he added - "You've got nothin' I don't tell myself in the mirror every mornin'! You want a fight? We'll give you one! And you need to stop calling me boy, because I'm a Woods_man_." There, if he was going to Hell, he was going to go with some goddamn pride. At Woodsman's words, a figure took shape in the midst of the woods Persephone had shoved through the wall - a twisted, burning shape of a man in black and red, a suit as black as sin matched by a tie as red as blood. "So tedious," it sneered, flames crackling around its edges, "Talk of peace from the hero, psychotherapy from the child-killer, heroic speeches from the monster? _I_ am going back to bed - and if you want a fight, you can enjoy the company of...my children." And as the creature faded, the resolve of the united heroes having silenced its taunts, the already-cracked floor under Cheval began to fragment altogether as small pink hands pushed their way through...
  5. Avenger Assembled
    Eira squeezed under her jawline again, her face turning opaque again. "Most of those things are in my brain," she said softly, tapping the side of her head for emphasis. She hesitated a moment, then said, "Thank you for coming, Elizabeth." She crossed her arms over her chest, then took out her dark glasses to polish them, not quite able to look at Elizabeth as she spoke. "Would you like to come another time?" she asked. "We could talk about class, or listen to different kinds of music, or I could build more things you're not supposed to have..." She smiled at that.
  6. Avenger Assembled
    Eira gave a long, fixed stare at where the second Elizabeth had been, her slim shoulders tense underneath her shirt. After a moment she shook herself and seemed to come back to the moment. Then Eira slid her hands underneath her jaw, finding the pressure points behind her ears with practiced ease. "Miss Americana installed this so she could perform systems checks without having to remove my outer layers." She bit her lip, squeezed with faintly audible click, and her skin above her neck came off. No, became transparent, or nearly enough. Eira was explaining about the magnetic charge in her skin and how different electric fields could change its color, shape, and strength, but what was more important was the revelation of her inner workings. First there was a layer that was almost ominously organic; blue and red tubes moving through a pinkish blue mass that looked vaguely like chemically-infused meat slime, then further down, a skull of polished chrome with the flattened features of something partially human, pure white eyes that glowed ever-so-slightly, and moving numbers along her temples and cheeks that must have been internal readouts. "You can see my eyes roll in their sockets!" She demonstrated. "Not as good as two of you, but pretty neat, yah?"
  7. Avenger Assembled
    "Oh. Do you feel sorry for me?" Eira stared at Mia, her voice as cold and frosty as her super-conducting brain, then hen rose to her feet. "I will send the message to the Headmistress tomorrow morning. I am done." And with that, she stalked right out the door she'd come in before anyone else, opened it with just enough force that it didn't slam, and walked away.
  8. Avenger Assembled
    "I know what students do at Claremont," she replied evenly. "My...foster brother, the hero Citizen, is a graduate. I am glad they do not treat you solely as children." She looked at Lulu and clarified "What is there to do besides that? Are there...parties? What is good to know?" she asked with the baffled interest in her voice of someone discussing the behavior of fascinating aliens.
  9. Avenger Assembled
    Eira shot Abby an annoyed look - the sort one gives an irritating sibling rather than one of any real malice, then rolled her eyes. "I have not been a kid since I was eight years old," she said flatly. She folded her hands before her, unfocused her deep blue eyes, and said, "It's done. I have composed the team request for our trip to Lorspace and dispatched it to your group messaging service." Sure enough, phones with notification systems set to Claremont's group chat were chiming now with a painstakingly written message of several hundred words that argued for Orange Squad to make an urgent trip to space to further their intellectual and social educations. "I will dispatch it to the headmistress as soon as I have our leader's approval." She glared at Mia, then settled back wordlessly in her seat, giving the room a flat, empty stare.
  10. Avenger Assembled
    The good news is, that works on the cage! You'll have it open next round. The bad news is, well, have an HP for the Complication. You're up, @Tiffany Korta
  11. Avenger Assembled
    The guards swam towards the giant Deep One/Miss Grue in quick, powerful strokes. "Dark Mother," one croaked curiously, its voice a deep basso profundo that echoed under the water, "how did you find your way in here?" The other guard, equally watchful, cast big dark eyes up and down Daphne's altered form before adding, "Darkwater is that you? Are you trying to get some meat?" It laughed and said "You will get in trouble with the priests!" When the monster grabbed ahold of the cage and began eating it, the Atlantean prisoners looked up and began screaming in terror, clutching at each other and cowering away from the cage. Their panic didn't seem to make much sense, until a bald-headed young woman covered her mouth in terror and screamed in words only Daphne could make out, "Aagh! Oh by the Gods, _is that Theodora_?!"
  12. Avenger Assembled
    On the roof: Theodora Reflex save vs DC 17: 20 Harbinger Goes for Dalekos! A straight-up unarmed strike https://orokos.com/roll/783977 = that hits, since he hasn't gone yet Tou vs 27: 22 = he takes a bruised! Theodora fires a Cone Area effect at Dalekos! DC 18 Reflex save to avoid a DC 18 Will save. (What does the Will save do? fail it and see! =D ) Dalekos Pulls out an ax and hits the Harbinger https://orokos.com/roll/783980 = 24! Tou vs 27: 30 unhurt! https://orokos.com/roll/783981 Okay, let's see your roll, Dok.
  13. Avenger Assembled
    Eira asked several more questions about Liz's powers, most of them related to concepts that were a little beyond what was covered in Claremont's science classes but seemed to involve the physical mechanics behind her duplication. Finally, after the third one, she paused and took off her glasses. "That is a lot of questions. I'm sorry, I shouldn't ask so many. It is just so interesting here." She shot Liz a quick glance and asked, "Do you want to see something weird? It is gross," she admitted without sounding too guilty about it.
  14. Avenger Assembled
    "God cares," Daystar assured the priest with absolute certainty. She pointed to where the crucifix still stood behind the altar. "He's who sent us. We're going to do everything we can to make sure things come out all right." Ashley took cover, using a broken mirror shard to peer out a broken front window at the Ubersoldaten outside. This was of course quite literally a nightmare scenario - the idea that she would get Judy killed thanks to the insane world of superheroing that she'd dragged her into being something that had kept her up in a cold sweat more than a few nights. But one thing about nightmare scenarios was that you prepared for them. She set down the mirror shard and armed an explosive on her belt, then leaned out from behind cover and tossed it outside, a fastball overhand throw that sent it right out what had formerly been a front window and right into Donar and Madame Blitz's faces. As the charge went off with a flat bang outside, Judy yelled from her own position near and behind Ashley, "Just a little longer, boys! As long as they fight us, they're not looking for the treasure!" _The treasure?_ Ashley mouthed to Judy even as the building shook. The First Daughter shrugged, smiling cheekily through her fear.
  15. Avenger Assembled
    Watchdog: chucks a bomb out the window at the Ubersoldaten out the front (another use of the explosives) Daystar: really should get some feats she can use as a support character! But she'll yell a Bluff out the window, using her Skill Mastery - DC 25!
  16. Avenger Assembled
    Eira Katastroff was dressed for space. Her outfit was black and utilitarian, a long-sleeved shirt with magnetically-fastened pockets, a belt stuffed with small tools, and cargo pants. Her blue hair was cut short in a pixie bob, the better to avoid any problems in Zero-G, and she'd put a jagged white line through it like a bolt of lightning. Her eyes were invisible behind her dark glasses, now in frames like goggles that wouldn't come off in zero-G, and she hadn't quite stopped smiling since they'd gotten there. She'd spent every free moment in the engineering section of the station, talking system maintence with the attitude of someone who was right at home. As she stood there waiting for the arrival of the Praetorians, she stood with her hands folded behind her back and a smile of anticipation on her face, her head bobbing slightly as if in time with inaudible music.
  17. Avenger Assembled
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    "Press until you feel the liquid matrix separate - er, till you feel it 'squish'. Then again to reactivate it.," Eira clarified, gesturing with her fingers. She pulled off her glasses and peered at Elizabeth, her blue eyes wide with fascination. "You have a telepathic connection! That is delightful!" She stroked her chin and said, "Have you tested it over long distance, or at relativistic velocities?" As she talked, she circled the 'twins', staring at them unblinkingly. "When you act like two minds in two bodies, is that an affectation?" she asked. "Or are you genuinely a double-consciousness?"
  20. Avenger Assembled
    "I am sorry," she said again, looking away from Astrid, "I don't normally-" She closed her eyes and took the other girl's hand for a moment, her grip bony but human-warm. "...okay. Okay." She smiled as she looked at Astrid, releasing her hand. "The Katastroff family is one of the oldest in Sweden. We have had some, ah, dealings with the Aesir," she added, her cheeks coloring, "but not with yours, so I am sure it does not matter, ha-ha..." As she spoke, she began cracking the knuckles on her left hand, crack crack crack, her blue hair buffeted by the breeze until she pulled her hoodie up. "But that was my grandfather, not me. I have actually been to our universe's Jotunheim though - twice! It was a fascinating place, very different than the old sagas."
  21. Avenger Assembled
    Eira stared flatly at Mia, her eyes unfocused as if staring right through her head and then out the back. Then, she all of a sudden seemed to light up with a smile. "Many people on Earth have little experience with the intelligent life of the Galaxy. If you would like to know more about our stellar neighbors, I could arrange a tour of CoVic Station with the Praetorians," she offered brightly. "We have that forthcoming student-planned trip, do we not?" She rubbed the scar over the knuckles of her left hand and looked up at the ceiling. "I know some of you have been there before," she offered with a glance at Leroy, "but it is a very large place. There are many things to see."
  22. Avenger Assembled
    "It's non-regulation but not actually banned; it lets me-" Elizabeth's transformation got her a flat, featureless stare from her cybernetic friend - before Eira broke into a smile. "You're _that_ Elizabeth!" Eira stared at the Elizabethes, surprise on her face and the two of them reflected in the polished black lenses of her glasses. "That is...delightful!" she added after a momentary pause, an odd smile on her face. "But, ah, first let us do this!" She waited until the two Elizabeths had the patch fixed, then made a little gesture in the air. Immediately a peppy electro-swing began to play from no particular source, though it was clear enough to the device-wearing Elizabeth. "It has twenty-five hours of songs onboard," she said, still looking quite pleased with herself as she seemed to address the two of them at once. "And you can add more if you put it against a computer with Bluetooth. Do-do you like it?"
  23. Avenger Assembled
    Init on da roof Artificer: 19 Harbringer: 17 Theodora: 17 Dalekos: 15 Go ahead, Dok!
  24. Avenger Assembled
    "Your name will no longer be Jacob," Judy said with that far-away look she got when quoting Scripture, "but Israel, for you have struggled with God and with humans and have overcome." She smiled, nodding at the surety of the words. Ashley wanted to interject that it probably mattered to Midnight, his wife, and the people they'd saved from the Blackbirds, but that was hardly something Watchdog would say under the circumstances, so instead she leaned against the wall and watched the kids watch the movie. "There must have been fewer back then," Judy commented quietly. "A lot of bad things happened in the past." She leaned comfortably against Leroy, enjoying his closeness even if she did wish he'd take her hints and cut his hair back. "Sometimes you have to do good in secret," she said with a small shrug and a quick glance Ashley's way, "because doing it where people can see would do everything. Besides," she went on, "people do pay attention to what superheroes do. Remember when the Freedom League got that parade in New York, or when Lady Liberty and the, uh, President stood up there together?" She blinked and tugged on Leroy's shoulder. "Come here." When he did, she kissed him quickly on the lips, earning not so much as an Ahem from the chaperone priest.
  25. Avenger Assembled
    That'll let you sneak up on the guards despite their super-senses - though you also see the thing Tiff is doing!
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