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  1. Avenger Assembled
    Fast-Forward cracked open the beer and took a drink. "Hey, you're a Brit, all right. We did a shoot there last year for our World War II special, first time I'd been back there since I was a kid. That first Britannia, she's a real firecracker!" Leaning against the store's old counter, he went on. "Listen, a couple of years back, I, ah, came into the possession of a magic artifact. I messed around with it, I got it to work, and now I want to make sure there's nothing grody about it. I did some busking back in the day myself-" he snapped his fingers and a coin appeared at super-speed, "but I don't know the first thing about real magic, and I want to make sure this isn't one of those soul-sucking things that'll mess me up. I've gotta set a good example for my kids, and if I'm running around with devil horns or something, I don't want them thinking that's okay."
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    The streets of Freedom City, alien though they still were, were at least a comfort to Sharl - at least here he wasn't alone the way he was back in Tronik, with only his own shoulders bearing the burdens of an entire world. Nobody had panicked despite the general awareness that there was a crisis in space; after all, these people were used to their heroes handling that kind of thing. Just like the people of Lor-Van had counted on the Star Knights... The holographic teenager carefully weaved his way through the -pre-Thanksgiving crowd, trying to get back into the feel of his projected body. With his emitter in his pocket, he'd only 'stumbled' once - and luckily the man who'd bumped him had been too busy to pay attention to the teenager whose body he had abruptly passed through. He headed into Eliza's restaurant, wrinkling his nose for a moment at the alien smells in the air (what was the point of coffee, anyway?) before lighting up at the sight of his hot alien girlfriend. "Hey, cute stuff." He headed over and pecked her on the lips, then pulled up a seat to join her at the table. "You look gorgeous," he told her truthfully.
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    Gah! "Gah!" exclaimed Fast-Forward as he was suddenly on the opposite side of the room, in fact with his back against the door as he looked at the hideous abomination. I thought I was being nice letting him come down at me that slowly so he could do the cool old expert thing, man! "Listen, pal, I'd have tried calling ahead, but you don't have phone service and they took all the payphones out of the neighborhood for those stupid Internet kiosks." Is that really his face? Hot damn! Phantasmo was a pretty hideous son of a gun, Richard had to say, but he'd seen some pretty hideous sons of guns in his day and he was a professional. "Anyway, are you Phantasmo the Unliving?" I guess you are, probably! "My name's Fast-Forward, and I'm looking to hire someone for a magical consultation."
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    November 26, 2014 Southside "Ugh." As the thunder rolled overhead, Fast-Forward stopped under a bus stop to change. "I hate running in the rain," he muttered to himself, "my whole front is soaked!" But it was less than a second, literally, for him to be in a fresh outfit. Sitting on the shelter's bench, he took out his hand-written directions, having as usual spurned advice to put directions on his phone. Don't need to carry that thing anyway. "OK, the guy is right here, and man, this neighborhood went to the dogs!" Southside had been a favorite hangout of his back in the day when he'd been young and stupid (and also awesome!) and this particular street had had the best spots. Vinny's is now a gay bar with no pub food and the old newstand is gone...oh man, this was the place where we got that costume of Paige's that - well, he certainly didn't mind his wife overhearing those thoughts (if she happened to be listening), but they certainly weren't productive for what was supposed to be a business conversation. "All right," he said aloud, "this place looks a little hinky, but magic people are always a little hinky." Not gonna burgle some guy's house unless he's a bad guy, so I'll wait till I know who's in there before I search the place. Phantasmo sounds like a legit name for a wizard, probably. Rechecking his black and white jumpsuit, cool shades, and high-topped sneakers to make sure he looked not just like a superhero but like a totally radical superhero, he headed over and zipped into the abandoned store at super-speed.
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    Inside the cockpit, Foreshadow was confronted by a variety of sights - most of them not very reassuring. The controls were easy enough to understand. It looked as though Wildcard had hand-written some notes to himself and stuck them on various unlabeled panels to indicate how to steer the plane, how to operate what he had labeled as "the clawwwww!" complete with hand-sketched green aliens, and all the rest. But various display warnings were frantically flashing as he took his seat - the plane beneath them had taken damage from an onboard explosion (the beeping graphic actually said EMBER PSION) and was losing air - they needed to drop down below 12,000 feet and fast! Worse, though, was the Atomcraft that had just dropped a cloaking device and was powering towards them at full speed. Normally, of course, the arrival of other superheroes was a good thing. But then again, Foreshadow _was_ psychic...
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    "After five on the appointed date," agreed Harrier, though come to think of it there was really no time he could not have met. Dragonfly would surely give me leave for a meeting about the Terminus! Such a thing had been part of his employment contract, now that he remembered. Nothing was more important than discussing the way entropy gnawed at the base of the multiverse like a hungry predator, aiming to devour them all and void them into the Doom Coil. "I will be there earlier to ensure our privacy." Perhaps I should invite Miss Americana - the employees will give even more space if they are acting under the orders of their employer. It had taken him years to use that word, even in his head, and not the one more natural to one born in Nihilor - "Master."
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    Comrade Frost's undead heart skipped a beat. Ah, what a woman! If only she could tolerate my appearance. And personality. And personal characteristics. Such a burden for the life of virtue I have lived! His laughter briefly interrupted the conversation before he went on, "Infodump!" he added brightly. "That is word young people know, yes? Simply release all information on holiday, porheps American Thanksgiving, and speak little of it. If voices in media wonder, let them wonder! We can swat any flies who bite us, even as a mighty dragon crushes her enemies, eh?" He winked.
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    "On it," said Solar Sentinel, who looked to have a healthy desire to avoid Lelak. "Let me know if you need any help," he added, tapping his helmet. "I can tap into your systems." He headed out through the narrow passageway as Lelak explained the situation to the Praetorians, the latter glaring after the departing Solar Sentinel for a long and ominous moment. On one of his screens, Lelak called up a jittery, faded image of Kestevan I - one old enough that grey-green oceans wrapped silvery continents covered with cities. The planet before the supernova; the planet of Lelak's birth. "The relays are here, at the poles, and the great city at our antipode. If you activate the systems by powering the graviton generators, I will be able to access the gateway network and transport Kestevan at the edge of the Cygnus Arm. Four galactic revolutions," he nearly choked on the words, "will have...no doubt changed the region, but there were no stars there before, and there will be none now." He showed them the relays, triangular outposts about the size of their starship, sure enough still buried in the shattered earth of . "Ensure that the...evacuation is complete before we leave," he added, nearly spitting the words out. "And leave yourselves," he added, a trifle more calmly. "Before the final activation. Other species will not survive the gravitic transfer. And I owe you my life. I will go to the antipode" he said before suddenly flying out - directly through the ceiling with a thunderous boom. From Moon-Moth's communicator came the voice of the Praetorian they had left aboard their ship. "Woah, guys, something just left your location at a hypersonic velocity! Everything all right?"
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    PL: 10 (150) Abilities: 10 + 6 + 10 + 0 + 4 + 0 = 30 pp STR 20 (+5) DEX 16 (+3) CON 20 (+5) INT 10 (+0) WIS 14 (+2) CHA 10 (+0) Combat: 16 + 8 = 24 pp ATK: +8 (+9 Melee [+14 Gravity Blast/+15 Gravity Punches/Gravity Squeeze/Gravitic Vertigo]) DEF: +9 (+5 Dodge Focus, +4 Base, +2 Flat-Footed) Init: +7 Grapple: +14/+12 Move Object Knockback: -5/-2 Saves: 3 + 5 + 6 = 14 pp TOU +11/+5 (+5 Con, +6 Force Field) FORT +8 (+5 Con, +3) REF +8 (+3 Dex, +5) WILL +8 (+2 Wis, +6) Skills: 72 r = 18 pp Acrobatics 12 (+15, SM) Climb 5 (+10) Concentration 5 (+7) Diplomacy 5 (+5) Knowledge: Theology and Philosophy 5 (+5) Languages 4 (English, Farsider, Galstandard, Grue, Base [Lor]) Notice 12 (+15, SM) Sense Motive 12 (+15, SM) Stealth 12 (+15, SM) Feats: 19 pp Acrobatic Bluff All-Out Attack Attack Focus: Melee Challenge (Fast Acrobatic Bluff) Defensive Attack Dodge Focus 5 Evasion Fearless Improved Initiative Move-By Action Power Attack Skill Mastery (Acrobatics, Notice, Sense Motive, Stealth) Takedown Attack 2 Uncanny Dodge (auditory) Powers: 7 + 8 + 25 + 5 = 45PP Flight 2 (gravitic alteration, 25 MPH/250 feet per move, PFs: Environmental Adaptation 2 [High Gravity, Zero-G], Subtle) [7PP] Force Field 6 (gravitic point defense, PFs: Subtle, Ultimate Save [Toughness]) [8PP] Gravitokinesis Array 10 (20 PP, PFs: Alternate Powers 5) [25PP] BE: Move Object 6 (gravity control, STR 30, Heavy Load: 1500 lbs, Extras: Area [burst], Damaging, Flaws: Range [Touch], PFs: Precise, Subtle) [20PP] AP: Blast 6 (gravity blast, PFs: Accurate 3, Improved Crit 2, Indirect 2, Variable Descriptor [bludgeoning/gravitic]) {20/20} AP: Enhanced Feats 8 (gravity-augmented punches, [Attack Focus (Melee) (6), Improved Crit 2 [unarmed]) {8} + Damage 0 (Extras: Autofire [5], Penetrating [5], PFs: Subtle 2) {12} = {20/20=20} AP: Damage 5 (gravity squeeze, Extra: Linked [Drain Toughness]) {5} + Drain Toughness 5 (Extras: Affects Objects, Linked [Damage]) {10} (PFs: Accurate 3, Improved Crit 2) {5} {5+10+5=20/20} AP: Drain Dexterity 5 (gravitic vertigo, Extra: Linked [Nauseate]) {5} + Nauseate 5 (Extra: Linked [Drain Dexterity], Flaw: Range [Touch]) {5} (PFs: Accurate 3, Improved Crit 2) {5} {15/20} AP: Damage 6 (gravity strike, PF: Improved Crit 2, Knockback 10 [as DMG 21], Mighty) {18/20} Super-Senses 5 ('detect gravity' [mental], Enhancements: Accurate, Acute, Radius, Ranged) [5PP] costs abilities 30 + combat 24 + saves 14 + skills 18/72 + feats 19 + powers 45 = 150 pts
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    "Champions is a respectable establishment by the standards of Earth-Prime," Steve replied, remembering the years he had spent working in the kitchen. "The volume of conversation there does offer a modicum of privacy, but we would be vulnerable to potential eavesdroppers." He remembered many conversations among the other busboys and dishwashers about the stories they had heard from other patrons, stories that he himself barely understood. "If privacy and a meal in an establishment are desired," he said, his tone suggesting a man baffled by alien, though not unpleasant behavior, "my...the owner of Gruen Tanzer's will be able to offer us a private room," he said, remembering when Miss Americana had used the space to conduct business negotiations. "There will be no charge," he assured Argonaut, "and the workers there are paid enough to live in comfort."
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    "If the other relays protecting the gateways are intact," said Lelak with great care, like the rumble of a simmering volcano. "it will be possible for me to remove this planet from this star system. Your enemies will be denied our technology - and the grave of my people will not be profaned by their touch. With your cooperation, the work can be done more quickly, before your enemies arrive. The technology is very simple; it should be within the grasp even of..." His teeth grated - was he simply a bad liar, or did the Masters not have _reason_ to temper their words before. ""Your species. Will you assist me?"
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    Harrier frowned. "The southern continent is four days away for Argonaut and I at maximum speed. We can buy tickets on one of your commercial airlines if necessary..." Miss Americana would probably have opened up one of the old Archetech teleporters for him under normal circumstances, but with the role she was taking in organizing the defenses of Earth against the Communion, he was loathe to tear her away from her work - at least for more work. "Is it possible for you to meet us on this continent? I am sure someone can be sent to retrieve you. I can also arrange a video-conference" a hard-learned word that he slowly picked out, syllable by syllable. "if that would be more convenient."
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    "What has happened?" inquired Harrier, all pretense of Caradoc's tone dropped. As he spoke he rose to his feet and closed the office door, not wanting to alert the scientist walking by - who he recognized as the refugee from Yolanda's home planet that had since relocated to work for HAX! "What new threat is there?" He could imagine no other reason why he would be called. Newman is silent in his cell and I have heard no broadcasted disasters from the southern continent. The heroes of Freedom City had of late been so concerned with the Communion that he had nearly forgotten the forces that would actually be their end.
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    "One million Omegadrones were destroyed during the initial incursion, as was the doomforge used for their initial deployment. Afterwards, the Doom Coil was directed into their dimensional axis, resulting in its complete destruction. Afterwards all Omegadrones were upgraded to be immune to-" When Caradoc's phone rang, Steve looked in surprise before pausing his recording. Looking around the HAX office he had temporarily occupied to make his recordings, Steve picked up the phone and pressed the green button. "Thou, uh, hast reached Caradoc."
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    "They have come to take what is ours. The work of our greatest minds, the very gateways of the Great Work. Miserable curs," said Lelak, grief and fury written large on his grey-skinned face. On the map a green shape was pulsing on the map; a shape vaguely like one of Lelak's hands, fingers reaching out to 'touch' each planet, with the thumb itself touching Kestevan. "Just as those creatures above did. But we will drive them away, just as you did them." "...hang on, those creatures above?" asked a curious Solar Sentinel. "You mean you can see them?" Solar Sentinel's question made the grey-skinned paragon spin around, his eyes as wide as they'd been upon his awakening. "You...what?" He stared at them, all of them, as if seeing them for the first time. "Now I understand," he said, pointing to the Traveler accusingly. "You said we were legends to your people, and your Lowlies, they are ignorant even of the most basic matters of the Great Work! And you, Terran, you know nothing of our most trivial abilities! You...you have FORGOTTEN!" His shout was enough to make the ground shake. "The Masters, the Great Work, the God-Children...all dust!" He looked around the room. "Like my mates. My children. All...all the dust of ages!" He stared at them and said as if pronouncing a sentence, "You came here looking for help with some...some gutter tribal war. Not for us. Not for my people."
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    Things look grim inside the Atomcraft - Chase Atom is down hard, his face bloodied and smashed, as if somebody head-slammed him into the console in front of him until he stopped moving. Professor Psion has shaken off the effects of his transformation at Richard's hands and is on his feet - he's taken some damage too and looks to have what must be first and second degree burns alongside one side of his face, but he is still in the fight. Worse, he is standing directly behind Tessa Atom - his hands splayed open across her temples and a look of furious concentration on his face. For her part, Tessa's face is pulled tight in a grimace as her fingers slowly, slowly work the controls of the plane...
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    Those of you who got above DC 20 on a Galactic Lore check earlier note that those indicated dots on the map match -Terra -Lor-Van -a location in Grue space you're not familiar with -Kestevan itself -a spot near the center of what you've heard is the Khanate And a few others. Moon-Moth; the dots match the directions that you plotted were the targets of the Communion.
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    Whatever translation effect was allowing them to understand the living Lalek applied to his monitors as well - gradually the speech there was becoming comprehensible. "Now we go again to reclaim the birthright that is ours - the Great Work will begin again, with us!" Lalek staggered briefly under the news. "A million! We thought to sleep for a thousand years, perhaps two, until our enemies had squabbled amongst themselves and could be driven from our home. Fear not, Traveler-child," he told the long-lived adventurer with an almost paternal air. "I will do what I can to save you and all our lost children. I owe you a life-debt of my own - and if I am the last of the Masters that yet live, then so do my people - and the universe!" "The galaxy will be redeemed from savagery and want! We will send our children out to find their lost cousins and bring civilization, order, and prosperity to the Lowly." He cocked his head and appeared to scan the ceiling, but after a moment went on - "The One Planet is dead. Our enemies, those who feared the hope and progress we brought to the galaxy, must have united indeed to destroy even the Star of Life." They were evidently getting a direct translation of what his people called themselves - and their homeworld and their star. "But now they are gone. Tell me," he asked them seriously, "was your empire centered on Terra?" He was working at the computer now, calling up a projected version of that galactic map emblazoned on the wall. And sure enough, as he zoomed in on one of those glowing dots seen earlier, it was the Traveler's own long-past homeworld! "You have certainly advanced _far_ beyond the lowlies that inhabited Terra when our probes first visited - they could hardly live fifty of their years, much less five thousand. But a million years..." He sighed, and despite everything else the agony was clear behind his eyes. "...is a long time. Even for the Masters."
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    We actually do have the wiki up and running, guys, if you want to PM Sorus about getting an account set up
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    Tomorrow Electra and I begin our big Thanksgiving trips!
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    That's all kinds of great news, KD - good luck!
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    "Lelak. I am Lelak, First of..." He shot a quick glance at the others, but seemed to dismiss them. He looked around at the scene of apocalypse all around them, his grey face grim, and worked a few hidden switches on the computers along the far wall, transforming the flickering monitors into a clear, steady image of that grey-skinned face speaking against a background of the galaxy. On closer inspection, that was _his_ face on the monitor - his black brows furrowed with stress in contrast to the look of barely-restrained grief on his high-cheekboned, grey-skinned face that made him look unsettlingly like a Terran corpse. His command of Galstandard was improving by the moment."the last. Hello, The Traveler-child. How long?" Standing amid the long-dead bones of his people, he didn't clarify his intent.
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    The man fell silent as he took in the effects his cry had had on the other beings in the room - even clapping a hand briefly over his mouth. He stared at them all, Moon-Moth, Dragonid, and the Traveler, but seemed to reserve the attention of his black and white eyes for the latter in particular. Slowly he slid off the slab, his black boots crunching slightly against the sand-covered Earth. He spoke in a low whisper, obviously trying not to hurt them any more, but it was still in a language no one spoke. "Lelak," he finally said after a moment, pointing to himself. "Lelak." He pointed to his mouth and spread his six fingers in a gesture that seemed to call for more communication.
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