Avenger Assembled

No serious issues here - on a PC I might want the gas grenades to be Devices, but there's no reason to be that picky with an NPC. APPROVED

Okay, we're going to say the Gorilla and Argonaut take each other out this round. New round! Firebreather targets Chrome. That hits! Give me a DC 25 Tou save, Rav.

The group wound up getting quite the tour of Claremont's facilities, though of course most of it wasn't terribly new to Nicole. Claremont had always been a fully accessible campus, but now she could access things with far greater ease. Jay and Sharl stuck with Koa as they took the Atlantean wereshark on a tour of Kord Hall, the men sticking with the boys, while Glamazon and Salvo headed to see the girl's floor. There were familiar faces there aplenty for Nicole, though most of them weren't as good at recognizing her as Jay had been. Passing through their rooms gave them time to put their stuff down for the rest of the tour, and to meet their roommates - or rather, hallmates. Koa's condition meant that he'd actually been given a single room opposite Huang Faretti, another boy with a "similar problem", as Jay described it, his lip curling slightly. Huang wasn't in his room. "Probably off screwing around," he said dismissively. "There are some irresponsible people on this campus, boys and girls who haven't mastered their own destiny in any meaningful way. I'm sure you'll do better," he said reassuringly to Koa as they headed outside. For her part, longer needing an accessible room, Nicole had been moved into a room she'd share with Faiza Saeed, a friendly British-Pakistani girl who Nicole remembered as a friend of Jay's. "So nice to see you!" said Faiza brightly, embracing Nicole with automatic affection even inside her Salvo armor. "We'll make a great team this last year, eh? Lot of trouble a girl on her own can get into on this campus, but I'm sure we'll make it work." Qualia and Faiza, aka Slide, were friends too, and the girls chatted for a moment. The friction controller couldn't join them quite yet, she was busy finishing up a summer art project that looked a bit like a great many shards of pretty pink plastic assembled together in a shape resembling a small dog. After their short tour of the dorms, the group met again outside the dorm. "Where to next?" asked Citizen curiously; the android having gotten a strange vibe off this latest class but not ready to make an issue of it. What do you think so far? he inquired of Salvo.

"It's a long story. But we kicked its ass." Woodsman grinned. "Let's get you to the doctor and then get you home, Birdman. Squirrel's on the menu tonight!" ~ Fin ~

"Can't swim 'n fight," commented Woodsman with a faint smile. "Not too well, anyhow." He raised the crossbow to his eye, peering through its magnifying sight down into the water. "Still can't see much," he commented. "Just gonna pop one magnesium flare 'n there, see what that lights up." Woodsman believed in coming prepared for any situation, a rule that had never once let him down at Claremont. He took a moment to load said bolt, a compact orange flare with a water-soluble exterior, and painstakingly wound the bow's lever to give it extra power. "Gonna try it there under that overhang, see if it gives us a glow bright enough to make things out." He lifted the bow, shifted so he could actually see the shadows he was aiming at, and fired a single shot deep into the heart of the flooded quarry. The glowing white magnesium flared to life as it hit the water, shooting down into the depths of the clear water. Sure enough, the glow illuminated underneath the rocky overhang under the water, clearly illuminating a dark passageway and odd, vaguely humanoid shapes standing outside said passageway. Shapes that began moving out from under the overhang, stirring up the water as they went, almost immediately making the bottom layer impenetrably murky with stirred-up sediment that gleamed with that same yellow pyrite glow.

"Got you, sucker," muttered Woodsman as he staggered towards Jann. Sitting down next to the fallen Avian, he looked him over, checking for severe bleeding and other injuries that needed immediate repair. "Hang in there, man, we kicked its ass." Reaching behind him, he pulled out his last flare, one that worked by impact rather than heat. Lighting up the glowing torch, he held it high, waving it to catch the attention of the approaching helicopters. "That was goddamned magnificent," he said, sounding pleased and exhausted at the same time. "But you gotta not kick your own ass so much. Need a friend like you around here."

Y'all missed!

"No." Black and trans, Woodsman was a double minority on the Claremont campus - but Fred had seen Riley argue in ethics classes that non-humans were by definition less trustworthy than humans, and that some things always were going to be monsters. Sometimes it was hard to tell when he was provoking the settled 21st century people around him and when he was speaking from absolute conviction. By the time she'd turned around, Riley had his crossbow out. "Not human." Scanning the area gave them several tracks of various vintage, all of them in areas where the ground was disturbed or broken by some reason or another. They all seemed to come back to the water, leading Riley to stand on the edge of the bank and peer down into the flooded crater. "I can see the bottom, but there are crevices n' the walls and overhangs. Could be 'n openin' there."

Glad you made it, cross-country man! =)

Okay, gonna move this along tomorrow.

Okay, edited my last two posts - you're up, @Nick! Let me know if there's anything I can do to help.

You forgot to fix the Grapple, though. Since I know you'll get that fixed, here's your first APPROVED

Sea Devil sang her song to the others of what they'd learned, though she did have to turn to Singularity to learn exactly how to spell ..Copperhorn Road.' Her verbal fluency was excellent, hampered only by her throat's inability to produce certain English sounds, but she sometimes had trouble arranging the letters. "We should strike quickly," she croaked as soon as she'd finished. "Hard and fast, before they have a chance to know we are coming for them." She drove one armored fist into another with firm enthusiasm. "If Singularity and I strike at their front door, Miss Grue and Miracle Girl can watch from the sky, while Terrifica awaits for them at their rears." She wasn't entirely sure yet what Terrifica's powers were, but she seemed very clever, and in her experience clever Surfacers were usually very sneaky. She looked from one to the other, moving her whole torso as her head didn't quite have the motion of broken-neck mammals. "I worry about their speed and their power - but we are quick, we are strong, we are united. They will not divide us."

Let me make a quick mechanical suggestion to you - Drop the Continuous extra on the Enhanced STR (it's not really worth spending PP on here) and pick up Super-Strength instead. You've got 40PP in there - with 16 PP in the Strength, you've got 24PP to play with. That could give you Super-Strength 5 (Effective STR 55, Heavy Load 24 tons). That'll also let you justify that high Grapple score, which doesn't seem to be paid for anywhere else. Once you get that done, I can give you Approval One!

The part of Citizen that had fought in the recent Atlantean invasion wanted to give Freeding Frenzy a hard state - the part that remembered being an awkward alien kept that look off his face. It wasn't like he'd never seen a humanoid with extra dentition, anyway. "That's a good super-name" he said, shaking Koa's hand with the practiced smile of a trained diplomat. "I like the look," he offered. "I think you'll do well here." He was equally friendly with Corinne, who reminded him of someone he couldn't quite put his finger on. Powers are interesting - atomic transformation? Matter manipulation? He'd have to look up and see if she was in the files at Archetech, but for now he had other business to attend to - because their escort had arrived. "Hello, everyone!" Two students walked over to join them, both in the formal blue and gold uniforms that Claremont students wore only for special occasions - a change from the armored jumpsuits that they typically wore on deployment. Citizen didn't recognize either of them, so he hung back and let Salvo make her own introductions this time. "Welcome to Claremont." The tall Asian boy in the lead stepped forward. "I'm Jayaman Panggabean, and this is Qualia," he added, indicating the dark-skinned young woman behind him with the striking purple hair. We're your guides today." He looked Salvo up and down and suddenly exclaimed brightly, "Nicole! Is that you?"

"Weird thing t'transmute..." After another few minutes, the sparking reaction had died down - leaving the rock pitted with the strange scars left over from the chemical's reaction with the 'pyrite' scattered along its surface. While Fred collected her samples of the ashy grit left behind by the reaction, Riley patrolled the perimeter - and it didn't take him long to find something. "Over here!" he called, realizing that Fred was too focused on her work of collection and analysis to see his hand signal. He'd moved down by the water's edge, where a small drift of sand was scattered through with deposits of the strange golden substance. "Looks like tracks." Closer inspection, with Riley practically down on his hands and knees, revealed other marks that looked oddly like footprints leading to the rock and back, albeit scattered too far apart to be more than just an incomplete trail. "'S'just on broken-up spots," he commented out loud. "The sand, the rock...can't be _in_ the stone, or the miners wouldn'ta left the quarry behind."

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Okay, go ahead and make this look like the sample sheet as far as notation.

Sea Devil hopped away from the others and crouched low, letting the Surfacers comfort the other Surfacers in their hour of need. She could have said something about the horror of being betrayed by your own blood, but somehow she doubted that the family of their target would understand what she was talking about. So instead she retracted the plates of her armor slightly, enough that she was listening to everything down below with her own ears. Ears made by the gods to hear in the depths of the deepest oceans - and to understand the songs that lay between the worlds, the ones whose melodies and words drove Surfacers mad just from a brush against them. If he is here - I will hear him.

"Yeah, that's actually why I'm calling." The older man sounded considerably more subdued than he'd been the last time he and Hyperactive had spoken - not upset as such, just reserved. "I've got an expert on your guy who'd like to stage a meeting. I know you're working with a guy on this one, so why don't we all get together? We've got a discreet spot in Bronson Canyon where we can hash out where you are and what the next step is."

How about biological, then? And you don't need Mighty on a Damage 0 effect.

Still prone, Woodsman peeked his head around from behind the boulder where he'd taken shelter. Thing's down. Where's Jann? He took stock of the situation and decided that his ally's welfare was a higher priority than putting down the creature that was at least disabled. There were heroes who could fight monsters in Freedom City but no one who could put a tourniquet on Bird of Arms if he was bleeding out somewhere. A quick self-inspection revealed that he was fine but that his crossbow, between the loss of its most powerful bolts and being knocked out of true by the blast, wasn't going to be particularly useful until he was able to sit down in his workshop and hammer its catch back into place. With a small, almost inaudible sigh, he strapped his weapon to his back and began moving, still low to the ground, towards where he'd last seen Jann. He didn't call out, not yet. Making noise was dangerous.

. Blood Cure: Nullify 10 (all physical effects; Extras: Duration 2 [Sustained]; Flaws: Distracting, Range [Touch]; Power Feats: Selective) - say whaaaat

I love it - and I love all the attention you've devoted towards researching the setting. This is a character I want to thread with. Some issues here and there, however, mostly mechanical. Continuous is not actually a Flaw on Enhanced STR, it's an Extra (Sustained is the default duration on Abilities). After all, he's not hurt by the ability to turn _off_ his Enhanced abilities whenever he wants. And Permanent costs as much as Sustained. If you want the easiest way to do it, I'd just put the Enhanced STR in as an AP in his Array, but that may not be what you want mechanically. What does the Power Loss drawback on the Flight mean? Is that the Gliding flaw, where you can't actually fly upwards?

That does hit! I'll go ahead and roll both the power check and the resist to speed things along . Power check: 21 vs. Dex: 16 Okay, that's going to knock her backwards about 500 feet, nice! Go ahead and edit your post if you want to make it sound even more badass. Okay, @Heritage is up with Miracle Girl.