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  1. Avenger Assembled
    So, a thread in Japan beginning in early April. It's gonna require the commitment of a few in-game weeks by PCs - and may be a little grim! Middlin' PL - 8-12
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    After you post IC, this is what Nina will do. Nina wants this woman to suffer. So! Standard Action: Ranged Paralyze Attack 32 OK; that's a DC 18 Fortitude save. I believe she is currently at -3, since she's currently recovered 1 PP worth of her Fort save. Thanks to that +2 All-Out Attack, the DC to hit Nina is now 21. She will keep moving backwards on her action, making sure to keep the Empath between her and Cannonade.
  3. Avenger Assembled
    The Computer Science building was a high security installation built into a warzone. The walls were reinforced concrete and the windows armored, the bulletproof glass now covered by the same steel shutters that had slammed shut over the doors as well. But for all the effort that had gone into the construction of the building, it had been designed to keep out armies and heavy weapons (i.e., the usual threat in this war-torn nation), not two very determined computer experts. The alarm box by the wall was easy enough for Terrifica to defuse. Rewiring the power inside the building to demagnetize the window locks was a little harder - but once that was done, all it took was some careful application of leverage by means of her staff to open a door and let her inside the Computer Science building. The lights were off and the labels in French, but a flashlight here and a photographic memory there, and soon she was on her way downstairs towards the archaic old computer system in the sub-basement that had been the cause of all this trouble. It was cool and dark in the building, with the faint snatches of movement and conversation in French coming her way she she began descending the emergency stairs that were one of the few ways down to the recently discovered building - and also the only way up the fleeing scientists had taken!
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    "Come on! Come on!" From the perspective of an outside observer, the fight was undramatic. First the robot went silent, its eyepieces turning black. Then the compu-jackals, winged and otherwise, suddenly fell to the ground, splashing apart like Jello sculptures made of liquid computronium that was either absorbed by the silvery medium beneath their feet or sank into the sand that still lay all around. After a moment while the heroes wondered exactly what was going on, the mound and the surrounding layer of computronium began glowing again: a brilliant, electric blue that spread and warped until it matched the glowing blue wi-fi symbol on Citizen's chest! The robot, at that moment, sprang to life again, leaping in the air and exulting with a wild exclamation. "-not this planet! Not these people!" And after that, he collapsed, falling backwards with a heavy thud as his rounded posterior made contact with the metal floor beneath them. Laughing almost hysterically, he put his round head in his big hands. "We did it! Hahaha, we did it! You stopped the constructs and I crushed the node interlinks! With my mind! With my mighty brain! I..." He tilted over onto his side. "Oh man, I think I'm hurt." He rolled over onto his back, hands on his fat robot belly. "We did it. They don't get this planet, damn them. We did it."
  5. Avenger Assembled
    Opposed Computers check, extra-efforting another two ranks: 34
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    Reflex vs 22: 10 Will vs 22: 26
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    Monsoon took off running when she saw the look on Cannonade's face, images of Joe's fantastic strength flashing through her mind with terrible speed. She didn't run away, though, she ran directly towards the shadowy empath who had maddened her ally and smashed shoulder-first through the smoked glass, using her hydrokinesis to keep her flesh together in an instinctive gesture. She rolled as she landed and came up fighting, abjuring her sword and instead grabbing the woman by the face-mask and lashing one arm behind her neck. "You thought the big muscleman American was the big threat, didn't you, fool?" she hissed like a snake, ignoring the woman's frantic struggles to get away. "Well, you miscalculated. You should have feared me MORE!" She reached out and squeezed, feeling cells break and hearing the other woman scream in agony as blood suddenly gushed from her eyes and mouth. Blood dripped onto Nina's hands, where her automatic hydrokinesis made the liquid pool and drip right off, leaving her completely immaculate. The other woman pulled away, just in time to dodge a blow from Cannonade, and Nina knew this would have to end fast. One punch from Cannonade could finish her. "Do you see what you've done, slave?" she sneered at the bleeding, half-blind mind controller. "You've removed the inhibitions from a man who hates your loathsome kind and can put his fist through a tank wall! Surrender now and save me the trouble of removing your blood from our clothes!"
  8. Avenger Assembled
    Nina will Taunt the Empath as a Move Action for a DC of 24, and use her Standard Action to raise her Defense to +17.
  9. Avenger Assembled
    "Claremont training is excellent," agreed Steve, equally seriously. "Both with unarmed combat and all forms of weaponry." His own visits to the campus had been sporadic, but he had been called in as an expert consultant on the combat style of Omegadrones. "I am sure you will learn well - and have much to teach the other students with what you already know." He gestured to the girl. "Now, come at me, show me your speed." She went at Steve with a fast, hard-hitting style that was certainly inappropriate for an elementary school student in most situations. Under her breath, she muttered as she pounded at Steve, "Shin," a kick, "instep," a stomp, "nose," she couldn't reach the standing Steve's face, but he obligingly bent low so that she could hit the bridge of his nose with her hand, "groin!" A solid knee, with all her seventy-pounds of weight behind it. "Fine work," he told her, pleased at how well she'd learned her lessons. Turning to Ellie, looking none the worse for wear for a solid pounding, he asked, "Is the birthing going well?"
  10. Avenger Assembled
    So what does the Empath look like, TT?
  11. Avenger Assembled
    Fighting Style: Aquaria fights with kicks, kicks, and kicks! Whether she's planting her hands on the ground and kicking straight in front of her, kicking the legs out from under some fool surfacer, or otherwise kicking some ass, she fights like a born savate fighter - if a savate fighter could climb straight up walls or across ceilings thanks to sticky pads on their hands. She doesn't use her poison much in a fight; the icky white fluid making her skin look unsightly and dangerous to touch, but she'll pull it out there if she needs to. Her biggest surprise in a fight is her tongue, a massive organ as long as her arm. She can use her tongue like a whip, pulling people down, dragging them towards her, or she can deposit her venom on their skin with it!
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    Description: Pale green belly, mottled dark green and black skin on her back. Elaborate ritual tattoos on her back and her face. Long arms, long, long legs. Big black and yellow eyes, set high and wide on her face, with a nose and jaw that jut strongly forward. Webs on fingers and toes, both of which are very thick and long by human standards - toes in particular are very very long by human standards, requiring that she wear oversized shoes that she strips off when she needs to go into action. Long arms, long, long legs. Rounded body, smooth skin like a frog or a seal's. Thin crest on her head that looks vaguely like a Mohawk. When angry or upset, her throat expands like a bellowing frog when she talks. Her neck is thick and muscular.
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    Frog Felon: Aquaria is a convicted criminal who could potentially go back in Project Freedom, or even to jail, if she gets in trouble with the cops. Frog Fear: Aah! A Deep One! Archevil wasn't that long ago and the general public - not to mention superheroes, have long memories. Frogger: Aquaria is always up for something new - even if it might be a bad idea! Frog Foreigner: Aquaria doesn't know much about Surfacer customs, even now - but she's eager to learn! Frog Family: Aquaria feels a special loyalty to her fellow Deep Ones, except when they do evil stuff! Frog Foes: Aquaria hates and fears Atlanteans. Frog Friends: Jessie, Project Freedom, the Liberty League Frog God: Aquaria still worships Father Dagon and Mother Hydra - a difficulty given the reputation those deities have on the surface. Frog Hunger: Aquaria sometimes gets distracted and snatches up a passing bird or other small animal to eat. This is the human equivalent of stress eating.
  14. Avenger Assembled
    PL: 10 (150) Abilities: 14 + 14 + 14 + 4 + 4 + 2 = 52 pp STR 24 (+7) DEX 24 (+7) CON 24 (+7) INT 14 (+2) WIS 14 (+2) CHA 12 (+1) Combat: 10 + 10 = 20 pp ATK: +5 (+13 Melee) DEF: +13 (+8 Dodge Focus, +2 Base, +2 Flat-Footed) Init: +7 Grapple: +20/+22 Knockback: -3 Saves: 1 + 3 + 5 = 9 pp TOU +7 (+7 Con) FORT +8 (+7 Con, +1) REF +10 (+7 Dex, +3) WILL +8 (+2 Wis, +5) Skills: 12 pp=48 r Acrobatics 3 (+10) Climb 3 (+10) Craft (Artistic) 3 (+5) Handle Animal 4 (+5) Knowledge (Arcane Lore) 3 (+5) Language 2 (Atlantean, English, Base: Lemurian) Notice 8 (+10, Skill Mastery) Sense Motive 8 (+10) Stealth 3 (+10, Skill Mastery) Survival 8 (+10, Skill Mastery) Swim 3 (+10, Skill Mastery) Feats: 25 pp Acrobatic Bluff Attack Focus: Melee 8 Dodge Focus 8 Environmental Adaptation (Underwater) Evasion Move-By Action Prone Fighting Takedown Attack Track [visual] Skill Mastery (Notice, Stealth, Survival, Swim) Uncanny Dodge (auditory) Powers: 1+2+8+1+2+9+8+3=34 pp Additional Limb 1 (tongue) [1 pp] Comprehend 2 (speak to and understand animals, Flaw: Limited [underwater]) [2PP] Drain Dexterity 7 (poison, PF: Incurable) [8PP] Enhanced Feat 1 (Extended Reach 1 [10 ft total, on Unarmed, tongue) [1PP] Immunity 4 (drowning, environmental cold, high pressure, poison, Flaw: Limited [Half-Effect]) [2 pp] Movement Array 4 (8PP, PFs: Alternate Power 1) [9PP] BE: Super-Strength 2 (Effective STR 34, Heavy Load 1.5 tons) {4} + Swimming 4 (25 MPH/250 fpm) {4} AP: Leaping 4 (x25, Running Long Jump: 425 ft, Standing Long Jump: 217 ft, Vertical Jump: 106 ft) {4} + Speed 4 (100 MPH/1000 fpm) {4} Super-Movement 4 (Slow Fall, Swinging, Wall-Crawling 2) [8PP] Super-Senses 3 (Acute Scent, Darkvision) [3 pp] costs abilities 52 + combat 20 + saves 9 + skills 12/48 + feats 25 + powers 34 = 150 pts
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    All right, people - Give me a Disable Device check, Terrifica, to open the alarm box outside the building.
  17. Avenger Assembled
    The antibody attacking Tiamat crumbled to frozen ash as Frost's cloudy form passed right through it. "Lady Tiamat!" he suddenly opined, sounding no more than mildly annoyed at their change in circumstances. "There are far too many of these fellows. I have perfect scheme." He reached out and tore open a nearby firehose locker, casually wrapping it around his waist all heedless of the battle going on around them, solidifying himself into solid form. "Take other end of hose and we will find exterior wall arguably!" He waved a pale hand. "Come on, is fun, you can hurl me into depths of space if you so choooose..." He winked.
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    Tarva pulled her hands onto her lap for a moment, her face immobile and her body tense, before she finally rose to her feet, dusting mud and leaves off the lap of her stolen raincoat with a distracted look on her face. It was pretty clear the dress underneath was going to need some serious washing, as would the bedraggled shadow-witch herself. "We...we should go back. The sunrise was very beautiful, but I have to go back and explain myself to Lady Martel - and I would bathe and refresh myself before such things must happen." She smiled thinly. "I must look an awful fright after all those tears, and we must look our best after our employer has seen us at our worst." And indeed she had, long, messy black lines ran like scars down her pale face. "Oh, I envy you, Kimber," she said, her smile broadening. "You never have to worry about those things. You will be lovely forever."
  19. Avenger Assembled
    "Seventy years now they have been dead and gone. The smallest boys and girls they...we, rescued are grandfathers and grandmothers twice over by now." Frost stepped away from the pair, staring up at the Allies of Freedom monument. "I was so...so vile, then. A lying coward who thought of nothing but himself, even with the blood of Hel in me. It was they who taught me heroism. And honor, and compassion...and then they were gone, and there was only Frost." He folded his hands behind his back, composing himself, and when he turned back to the others he was every inch the old monster. Except for the eyes. "My apologies, young man. Things were left unsaid between Henry Griffin and myself that cannot be said now." He pulled up his hood. "But fact remains. That is no resemblance. That is face of Henry Griffin, or close enough as makes no difference."
  20. Avenger Assembled
    "I ammmm thethe Ultimate Prpreeserver!" The projection drew its head back imperiously, its voice rising to stentorian tones. "My intinterior projection units have not been used have been neglected have been forgotten in .01034 Galactic rotations. There has been interior dededecay fromfrom..." She was seen to turn and look, just once, at the lonely corpse in the middle of the room. "Youyou mayyyy repair the projection units holographic display pilot vox if this form is too frightening for you, briefbriefbrief one. I, however, am Eteteternal!" She vanished again and reappeared before the 'throne', facing the group like a monarch despite the grim circumstances suggested by her location, and slowly one of the darkened panels on the dome overhead slid away, revealing a tangle of unknown technology beneath that looked like a liquid merger of flesh and steel, except the liquid was black and sludgy and the flesh an unwholesome shade of white. She vanished again, and this time reappeared sitting in the chair, macabrely projecting the indistinct hologram directly over the corpse, right down to the tilt of the mummified head. "Youyouyou came seeking aid help assistance preservation salvation. In recognition understanding sympathy of your cricrisis I have granted you a rare unprecedented alone audaudieeence. Where are your fleets vessels starships?"
  21. Avenger Assembled
    It was Harriet Wainwright who saved her, the Project Freedom director having heard something of the Deep One female who had fought the police and superheroes without doing any more than property damage and turning out to be the culprit behind a chain of petty thefts. Visiting the prison with a translator, Wainwright gradually won Aquaria’s trust (the frequent dips in the unchlorinated pool helped!) and the Deep One opened up about her life. It took the long, slow process of years for Aquaria to gradually open up to life in Project Freedom - first learning English, then learning to read, then finally earning a GED, all the while doing community service work and helping take care of the other residents who needed more help than she did. She did restitution for her crime, including doing enough work to pay back the medical bills for the police officer she’d thrown through the windshield of his car in the fracas at the Waterfront. She made friends - but her best friend of all was Jessie White, a strange, sad girl who was assigned as her suitemate after several got tired of the constant baths and smell produced by the froggy Deep One. An old hand now, she took the girl under her wing, doing her best to show her the ropes while trying to put a smile on that withdrawn face. She usually wasn’t successful at the latter, but the two struck up a bond, one tempered by incidents with time-lost Frenchmen on one hand and the constant low-level murmurs of “Frog-Face” around the kitchens where they worked on the other. They both were monsters in their own way, even if Aquaria didn't really see herself that way and was determined to make sure Jessie didn't see herself that way either. Halfway house or not, it was a good life.
  22. Avenger Assembled
    The realm's crisis, exposed by a high priest only too glad to share their plight, was a serious one. Lord Angstrom, a foul, demonic figure scorched into the High Priest's memory, had escaped his confinement in a lower realm and escaped to the Nano Realm with sinister intent. Raising an army of demons, devils, and other foul creatures of the Pit, he was building an army to march on the city - one that had already defeated the greatest champion of the Realm! <A quick flash of brave warriors, falling beneath infernal flames!> The Nano Priests had been summoning warriors for weeks now with no success, despite summoning magics that would have allowed them to bring whole vast armies to this place! It wasn't hard to put two and two together, and realize exactly what those tiny portals must have meant, and why the little boy who'd lived near them had been able to hear the sounds of fierce battle. The High Priest, whose name was Kwis, thought a simple, "Will you help us?" to Miss Grue when it was all done, a message carried immediately to the others.
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    The team stepped through the vessel's hatchway and found themselves in a cool, dark place with a faint, barely perceptible aura of must and decay. Lights flickered on as they entered, slowly, a patchwork of glowing blue-white that cast the space they entered into an eerie combination of shadows and darkness. They were under a dome, big enough to serve as a grand ballroom, dome and floor alike made of the same glowing blue-white stuff marred by patches of inky blackness. In the center of the room stood what looked like a high-backed throne, its sole piece of furniture. Sitting in that throne was something shocking in this vast cathedral of unfathomable technology. The almost-pitiful remains of a mummified corpse of a species none of the crew had ever seen, a three-eyed humanoid with the dessicated remains of snaky hair scattered about its tilted head, clawed fingers still gripping the arms of the chair, jumpsuit a moldy shade of grey still wrapped around its body. Slowly, fitfully, a form flickered to life before the corpse. She was hard to see, her projection indistinct and her voice blurry, but the form could be made out clearly enough. With the snakes projecting from her head and three staring eyes, occasionally visible pointed ears and long white hair, she looked...she looked like a cross between Willow and the Gorgon herself! The jumpsuit had once been white. "So-so, yyyoooouuuu have come to offfffferrrrr yyoouurr services against the Isopterans/Communion/Star Plplplplplpl." Suddenly the projection blinked forward until it was practically in the middle of their little group, practically nose-to-nose with Dragonfly, and stuttered in a voice that was clear as a bell. "You. I rrrremeememmber you. Did you bring my sistersistersistersistersister? Did you bring my sistersistersistersistersister here?!?"
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    http://orokos.com/roll/267632= 21 +2 All-Out Attacking as before
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    "...what?" It took a little while to puzzle out that the last thing the people on the other side of the gateway remembered was being rescued from the nightmarish world of their birth. It seemed the younger Daniels had arrived there upon his 'vanishing' from this Earth, some trick of the timestream depositing him with the people left over from his home timeline rather than leaving him in the altered world. "It is awkward situation, yes," admitted Frost as he rose from the side of his aged counterpart. "Buuut, you know, we have saved day!" He smiled, spreading his hands wide to the other heroes. "We saved dimension from Anopheles and made sure their families did not die in horrible agony. It is difficult way to end the day, but a good way to end it all the same!"
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