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  1. Avenger Assembled
    Oh Dagon and Hydra - the spawn! Aquaria had guessed what was happening the moment she 'heard' the deep, booming echo of the sacred chant, the call of an oppressed people for liberation from captivity. Some chieftan, or cult leader, had taken his people onto the Surface for loot and plunder with promises of divine liberation - when that liberation wouldn't come, he'd lead them below again and return 'when the stars were right' to some other Surfacer place with things to steal for the chiefs and their most powerful offspring. Sea Devil kept pace with Singularity as she ran, the 'fins' projecting from her back and the rear of her legs glowing a brilliant green as they intersected with Earth's gravitic field (or so the Praetorian scientists had told her - she didn't really understand any of it except that it flew) and propelled her forward, the whole suit lighting up with glowing lines that highlighted the general outlines of the being within. "I'm going to try and talk to them, Jessie - stay calm and follow my lead. Jump over those Surfacers!" she called, encouraging Jessie to avoid trying to run through a portion of the mob obviously half-crazed by their exposure to the powerful secretions of a Deep One's body. Sea Devil landed amid the middle of the Deep Ones at the center of the park - she didn't know the tribe's regalia, but she guessed the big old male with the scars, towering taller than Aquaria even inside her armor, and wielding a brilliant golden trident - was either the chief or tribal shaman. Taking a chance, she retracted her helmet, revealing the face beneath that was clearly that of a Deep One like them! The look of surprise on the chief's face, and the warriors around him, was certainly gratifying. Squeezing her hand together produced a projection of briefly colliminated ionic energy that bled off into triple blades at the rear to match the three projectors in her 'hand' - and one in the back. A glowing green trident made of pure fire was how she thought of it. "/BEHOLD!" she called, her voice a demand as she spoke to the chief, her voice echoing in a booming roar that filled the park. "/I AM WATER-BEARER-IN-HIS-MOUTH OF THE ISLAND TRIBE! WHY HAVE YOU COME TO THE SURFACE?/" To Aquaria's obvious surprise, stepping back and pointing her trident up, the warriors surrounding the chief pointed their tridents at the ground and declared, "/The one who comes from above! The Chosen One!/"
  2. Avenger Assembled
    "Oh, hello," said Comrade Frost, looking over the new fellow with great interest animating his face, almost alarming given the usual look of dry skepticism he had when speaking of League matters outside of the most urgent combat. "Yes, I know you, I have seen you in League writeup. Which I believe Fleur de Joie was kind enough to give us." He smiled with delight, red eyes flaring wide, and reached out to shake Sandman's hand with a firm grip inside his cold gloves. "So happy to have you on team for special mission. Yes, some sort of nightmare creatures from dreams of luau attacking Hawaii. But we'll set it right, eh?" He winked at Sandman, then stepped back against the wall.
  3. Avenger Assembled
    They wound up in Claremont's mixed-sex dorm, Riley leading the way onto one of the boys' floors. "Yer lucky," Riley opined as Lee found an empty, furnished room to inhabit. "Kids couldn't hack it first semester went home or t'schools in other places, left ya some space. You gotta nice roomie - Anibal's'a friend of us. We ever got a team name?" The last was a question sent Cathy's way. He twirled his hatchet as he talked, his eyes scanning the room automatically even as Lee set his stuff down on the bed. "Kid next door is Huang, nice guy, does magic stuff. Guy 'cross the way is Jay. You'll meet him later." Riley scowled at that name, dark brows furrowing. "So, you talk to squirrels, huh?" he asked. "Whadda they say?" It didn't sound like he entirely believed squirrel communication was a real thing.
  4. Avenger Assembled
    http://orokos.com/roll/388034 21, she takes a bruise! She feints vs. Bombshell: http://orokos.com/roll/388035 = 32 That's a check vs. 32 vs. Sense Motive. Then Attacks http://orokos.com/roll/388036 That hits! It's a DC 24 Tou save if she did render her flat-footed and get the Sneak Attack bonus.
  5. Avenger Assembled
    Aquaria put her hand flat against the cold, flat glass of the car window and pulled it away with a faint shlick, watching the three-fingered pattern left behind by her touch slowly fade against the glass. "You shouldn't have to stay long," she croaked, her guttural voice echoing oddly in the small space of the car. "I'm the one they want," she went on. She'd thought about wearing her armor for this meeting - but she couldn't justify it to herself when they weren't in space. So instead she'd worn her usual big, billowing hoodie and bell-bottomed pants, the former pulled up high to hide her Deep One features from any humans who happened to glance through the window of the van.
  6. Avenger Assembled
    The Plague of, um, Plague has come to the West End! http://www.freedomplaybypost.com/topic/8908-tov-vanity/
  7. Avenger Assembled
    Monday April 25 Trinity Hospital After the events in Ocean Heights, Rhode Island, and Mexico, the heroes of Freedom City (and indeed the world) are aware of the global threat of the Makot Mitzrayim - the Plagues of Egypt. The threat isn't just the Plagues, of course, but the people driven to hysteria (one way or another) by an apocalypse that seems ("but only seems" Seven stressed in her briefing sent to the major superteams) to correspond to that of the three largest religions on Earth. The Interceptors in particular, thanks to Harrier and Echo's report from down in Mexico, have gotten a strong picture of what's going on. But with only one attack in Freedom City proper, it's easy for most people to let life go on. In the West End in the last few days there's been a freakishly rare flu epidemic, one of those bizarre moments that can happen in a city full of people and exposed to all sorts of exotic chemicals, viruses, and other ailments over the years. Things are bad enough that the hospital is nearly full, getting them to send non-emergency cases home, and they've called out volunteer doctors from other hospitals to help deal with the crisis. The flu can be a scary disease for parents, the elderly, the unlucky - especially when it turns to pneumonia. So if the hospital chapel is particularly packed with people praying for their families and themselves, well, maybe it has nothing to do with the Plagues of Egypt. At least until you turn on the news - and catch the continued cleanup elsewhere in the city, the nation, the world. But the heroes of Freedom have dealt with worse than this...right?
  8. Avenger Assembled
    The Plague of Flies has come to Nuevo Laredo! http://www.freedomplaybypost.com/topic/8907-tov-terror-lunch/
  9. Avenger Assembled
    Sunday April 24, 2016 Nuevo Laredo, Mexico There have been some interesting reports from Freedom City for the last few days - but honestly the news from Freedom City is usually full of something interesting or another. Nuevo Laredo was a dangerous city - its status as the busiest inland port in Mexico made it a hotbed of cartel activity, crime and violence such serious problems that even families separated by the border only met on the American side to avoid the risk of street violence. And yet even so, the people that lived there lived better than any prole in the Terminus - better than those people could have dreamed. In the trainyards, as the local security monitored the loading of Dragonfly's new electronic decompilers into the cars of the Southern Pacific, Steve Murdock brooded on these thoughts, and more besides, his dark mood a strange contrast to the "Pixar-blue" sky overhead complete with perfect white puffy clouds dotted here and there. "Thank you for coming, Echo," he said in a moment when his speedy teammate joined him on top of the train where he crouched, watching the work. Of all the Interceptors, Echo was the one with the simplest passport card - no wonder, for a woman who could cross borders when it suited her fancy. "The men appreciate seeing an American superhero - and I appreciate a comrade here. I apologize I am not a better companion." And with that, as he had been doing so often since they arrived, he fell silent. - Getting assigned as a superhero 'ridealong' to the famous Asad had proven to be a real coup for Sparkler and El Huracan - the wealthy playboy had had no real superbattles to fight during a week when business had taken him down to south Texas to supervise the acquisition of Multimedios Radio, one of the largest Norteño stations in the region, a gateway towards making a real financial push into the relatively untapped media market that was northern Mexico. Now he'd crossed the border to actually sign the papers that would make this territory part of his business empire, bringing with him his business staff and the two teenage heroes who hadn't had very much to do this week. The Crowne Plaza Hotel might not have been very big at 12 stories high - but it was the largest building in Nuevo Laredo. From the penthouse suite that Asad's party had rented for the occasion, the group could see out over the struggling city. From this high up, and behind glass, it was impossible to see the city's troubles, or hear them; just to see a nice, sunny day and a thriving commercial metropolis below them. The streets all around here were crowded with semitrucks, thicker than any the teens had seen even back in major cities in the States, making things far easier for those who could fly.
  10. Avenger Assembled
    The door exploded inwards, blasting Henry off his feet and hurling him backwards against the rear wall of the corridor with a sickening crunch. Without his powers active, he was all-too-human - just like the original Human Tank. The figures who strode into the door and then on into the apartment looked all too familiar to the heroes inside, the giant warrior woman, the slinky acrobat (who was, shockingly, visibly pregnant), the icy genius in the parka, even the giant musclebound man of iron, but the green glow to their eyes and the lockstep way they moved showed that these duplicates were of an inferior vintage to the originals. "The Allies of Freedom have returned," said the other Bombshell, batons snapping open in her hands. "And it's time to destroy you bloody imposters once and for all."
  11. Avenger Assembled
    Bombshell: 22 Other Bombshell: 22 Klara: 21 Other Klara: 21 Titan: 18 [dazed and staggered] Other Titan: 18 Comrade Frost: 10 Other Comrade Frost: 10 Have an HP, everyone! Titan, you get a free one since this is your place.
  12. Avenger Assembled
    The Deep Ones were still singing, even as more and more of them made their migration onto the surface, gradually filling the streets of the city. Their song went like this - "/The one who comes from above will be our liberator. The oceans will be ours. The land will be ours. All will belong to the people of Dagon and Hydra./" Down below, Phantom and Reagent could make out what was happening where the growing crowd of Deep Ones met the fleeing humans down below - and it was bad. Whenever a human got close, one of the Deep Ones would lash out with a long limb or maybe a long, arms-length rubbery tongue, and touch bare skin. When that happened, the human reacted - sometimes babbling, sometimes stripping off their clothes, other times joining in an off-key, phonetic version of the chant, or a million other things. The Deep Ones were literally driving the city crazy in a growing anarchy that was beginning to bubble through the streets. "It'll be okay," Aquaria reassured Jessie, nervous as she watched her friend throw perfectly good food down the hole in the sink. "It can't be worse than the sea of stars." When their ride arrived, a serious-faced young woman who gave Jessie a long, intense look before opening up a hole in the universe for them to leap through, Aquaria moved through it without hesitation. "Let's go!" she croaked happily, diving through and landing between Teriffica and...Glamazon. "You!" declared the armored Deep One, only her active armor keeping the crowd from recognizing her nature, "what-what's happening here?" she croaked, demanding the question of Terrifica rather than the monstrous Atlantean.
  13. Avenger Assembled
    "You thought you could betray your world to dark gods!?" Tarva was demanding of the now-terrified parishoners. "Fools and miserable gutter trash! 'll show you DARK GODS-" She turned, interrupted, back to Kimber, and blinked as she seemed to come back to herself. "You are so beautiful, my angel of the night," she told Kimber with great sincerity. "I...I will go look for his lair. A real priest would have a way of calling his god," she said, turning to head down the aisle the way she'd come, the parishoners cowering from her the way they might a devil made flesh. As she did, one of the braver parishoners, a pale-faced fellow with old-fashioned round glasses and a beard that belied his youth, rose to his feet. "We weren't betraying our world. He Comes! He Comes Soon! We only sought an escape to the higher realms before we would be eaten!"
  14. Avenger Assembled
    Richard watched Val set up her amp as if he was watching a video on slo-mo, reminded of why he usually watched whole concerts on fast-forward. "We sure that's a good idea?" he commented before she actually started playing. When no one offered any serious objection, (largely because surely she couldn't be louder than the occasional desert thunderstorm hereabouts), he zipped around making sure their crews were all safe from any potential retaliation before the music started. After all, messing around on their own was one thing - but there were civvies about! He made sure Paige was somewhere she could concentrate on mentally contacting the rock formation (in the shadow of the van and away from anyone's immediate gaze), knowing she had her own ways of tuning out loud noise.
  15. Avenger Assembled
    Going downstairs, Kimber and Eira heard Tarva before they saw her, the latter singing as she made her way up the castle steps with the vocal freedom and almost overcompensating confidence that told Kimber she wasn't aware anyone else was there. "And if you look deep in her eyes, she'll put you in-oh!" Beneath them on the steps, Tarva gave Eira a startled look, her shadowy accompaniment slithering back beneath the folds of her dress, then looked behind her at Kimber. "H-hello. You must be Kimber's guest, the p-princess." "Countess, actually," said Eira cheerfully with a look back at Kimber, evidently misreading Tarva's tension. "I'm sorry we surprised you. You have a beautiful voice."
  16. Avenger Assembled
    McNider turned out to have higher security than Raina and Fred had necessarily been expecting - but announcing who they were there to see got them past the security guard posted at the roof access point. "Ah yes, from her school. - your headmaster said we should expect you." That got them directions to Robin's room, and by extension Riley as well - the two of them having been placed near each other in the small, albeit quite secure, metahuman wing. - "Look at you, smilin' when you took enough to fry somebody's skin off," said Riley, making a smile happen too. "I'm glad you're so tough, honey, because I've got plans that involve you and me and..." He decided there was probably a limit to the flirting Robin wanted to hear right now. "And not this damn place, that's for sure. Still, better'n the hospital back home. Least here they've got everything you want. You, uh, want the TV on? They've got some crazy channels in here..."
  17. Avenger Assembled
    "Yes, well..." Luckily, the call from Velocity saved Dimitri from having to respond to the thanks from his teammates. "Call says nightmare creatures in Hawaii, all bubbling up from volcano below," he said, tapping a few buttons to show his teammates what little footage had been taken of the strange events on the other side of the Earth. " Is wrong time of year and wrong continental shelf for teepical Ignean uprising, so I thought I call you in for suggestions before we depart for sunnier shores. Appears to be today emergency but not right this second emergency," he went on with a slight shrug. Truthfully, he had seen quite a lot of those in his time.
  18. Avenger Assembled
    "How unpleasant," commented Monsoon, carefully hovering just above ground level to avoid actually touching any of the blood. It was hard to tell if she was talking about the gory matter everywhere - or about Phaedra's dining habits. She'd seen blood spilled in her time, blood ripped right out of a man and sent spattering across an ornate marble floor, and didn't that bring up mental images that were best kept swaddled down where she didn't have to think about them? "Everyone out," she called, her Received Pronunciation accent sharp and crisp from the stress, drawing her sword for emphasis and using it to point people toward the exits. "Quickly! The monster who did this cannot have gone far." Despite herself, she was vaguely scandalized that someone would do such a horrible thing on a Friday, and kept talking. "But we will defeat him for you!" she added to the crowd.
  19. Avenger Assembled
    "We're in the Solar System," said Aquaria, slowly picking over the unfamiliar words that she only partially understood - though the swimming in the sea of stars they'd done recently had helped with that. "The place where the Sun and all the planets are. We will be on the Surface soon. Erin will be waiting for us," she assured her friend. "Tonight you will sleep in your bed," she assured her friend, acutely conscious of the lie she strongly suspected she was telling, "and I will be back in my pool. No more having to sleep in my armor," she croaked with false cheer. "And you will eat lots of food, and go to your classes, and you will be with Surfacers again. "
  20. Avenger Assembled
    As it happened, it was Comrade Frost on duty at 4 AM that morning. After all, he had no family to go home to - and no need to sleep. He let the League's automatic alert call the other League members to Freedom Hall, assuming that Fleur de Joie would provide the eventual transportation once they all got there for the full briefing. By the time the others had arrived, he was dressed in parka and uniform, ready for deployment - and also provided (thanks to a generous tip to the building's staff from his rarely-spent salary) their collective breakfasts. He had had a lot of night shifts lately - and had had plenty of chances to figure out what the rest of the League liked with their breakfasts. Around the briefing table by their usual seats sat Tarrant's bowl of hot oatmeal stood alongside Tiamat's pancakes and bacon, and across from that the chocolate chip pancakes that both Stesha and her daughter liked best. The latter two, wrapped up in aluminum foil, could even be eaten on the go - or put into a pocket, with a minimum of fuss. All he had was an extremely hot cup of coffee - well, not that he was drinking much of it, anyway. It was starting to freeze over at this point anyway. "Hello, all. Big excitement from Hawaii, eh? I have told them to expect our visit within meenutes."
  21. Avenger Assembled
    "We know Ace. Well, of him, really, but also for some time," said Dimitri, ticking off points in his fingers as they walked. Automatically he scanned darkened buildings as they walked past them, looking for the heat signatures that bespoke a working boiler. Whatever his views on a workers' uprising (or perhaps, he conceded, the rising of a would-be master race against the innocent workers and peasants of the region), he certainly had no desire to see further bloodshed. Well, perhaps a little, he conceded to himself. "He has survived all sorts of unfortunate things. Say, I suppose is unlikely he is general of your armies, eh?" He laughed. "We should be so lucky."
  22. Avenger Assembled
    Aquaria made a happy "krekreke" sound, hopping up to a bipedal stance again. "You could do one of your pictures," she suggested. "Or maybe our pod from space." Rocking back and forth on her big feet, she hopped over to look at the pictures on the wall herself, but kept a big yellow-black eye on the conversation between Ray and Jessie. She worried. One thing she did not do was suggest an elder sign for Jessie - after all, Jessie wasn't a believer in Dagon and even if she was, what place would that mark have on a Surfacer? That thought made her three-chambered heart flutter oddly, so instead she croaked, "You should make it green. You would look good in green."
  23. Avenger Assembled
    Okay, initiative time! That's a DC 20 Tou save for Titan, Avorez.
  24. Avenger Assembled
    I like it better when the "when powered up" values come first on a sheet, because those are the things a GM is going to need to see quickly.
  25. Avenger Assembled
    "Hey, little fellow," said Dimitri to the dog, his eyebrows creasing together for a moment. He missed dogs, sometimes. It was obvious that he was more interested in the dog than the men pointing guns in their direction. Rather than frighten what was obviously a combat-prepared animal, he said, "Yeah, good luck with your counter-revolution, buddy, but we just looking for Ace Danger. We take him off your hands, no troubles." He waved his hand, looking distinctly fatigued beneath his icy armor. Hey, at least language glamour still works. I don't really have an interest in learning steam-age Arabic or wahtever they're actually saying. Eying the guns, he went on, "I know it's warzone but you should point that thing at your enemy not at likes of us. And mind your trigger discipline." The last was not bark, not in combat, but a sharp retort.
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