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Give me some Notice checks, ladies!
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"Hrn. Troy Hunter and Terminus slave." The shadowed paragon turned on Hematite, eyes burning with malevolent intent as it raised hands that glowed with black light. The field around its body seemed to focus around those hands in a crackling display of shadowy magic. "Could have told you the day rash actions would kill you and all that come after you. But now that is today." It fired a devastating beam of dark energy that cut through to Troy Hunter's very soul with a burning, shadowy touch! The visible effect was as if black tentacles had erupted from its hands and pierced the young hero's armor - a shadowy glimpse of his straining face half-pulled out of the armor was visible before the very stuff of Troy Hunter's personality went rocketing back inside his battered body.
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White Hunter Startles Hematite as a Move Action - DC 30 check for Hematite to make. He then targets Hematite with his Drain Charisma 15 (Extra: Ranged) http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/4513856/ = 19 Well, that hits if he is flat-footed. DC 25 Fortitude save, which he's currently rolling at +5. Woof.
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All right, that's a DC 20 Fortitude save for Hematite (listen to your mother, Hematite!). http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/4513148/ = another bruise! The barrier fails by ten = I'll say another good hit will take it down.
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http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/4513136/ = 8 Hah-hah... http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/4513137/ = 30 Frost is unhurt
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"We enter the city," said Frost, his boots crunching in the salty sand beneath their feet, "and confront Sixtus. Beings like her, bonded to items of great power, will have weaknesses that we can exploit and...ah." As they crested a hill, he fell silent at what at first looked like a roadblock along the narrow two-lane road that led to Mo'ynoq. A closer inspection soon revealed the grim reality behind the troop carrier, the soldiers standing by the wooden barricades, even the dimly-glowing searchlights. The men did not move, did not speak, did not breathe, do anything other than stand straight ahead and stare in front of them. "I will speak to them," said Frost suddenly, and with that he was boiling down the hill in a cloud of smoke, one that made a bee-line for the troops. When he formed up again, he was nose-to-nose with armed guards that stared straight ahead like the corpses they were - unblinking sentinels of the dead around the dead city. "Look at me! I am intruder! I am..." Frost stepped back and studied the zombies, signaling the others to join him if they had not already. "Not even mobility. Ah..." He put a hand to his face, then touched the soldier he was facing off with. "And cold as the grave. Leave them intact. Perhaps there is hope yet." He put his hand down and put it back inside his pocket, not looking confident of that assertion. Overhead, the sign that welcomed visitors to the town still stood, the bulk of the town itself silent and grey perhaps a mile's walk distant. "Come, let us go."
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http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/4513015/ He also rolls a 12, and so is not flat-footed - but he still is hit. http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/4513020/ = 22 All right! That is a little much in the first round, so I will say he is bruised (have an HP, Wander).
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"It is a shame this people will die," agreed Irdonozur. "In this galaxy, in all our ages of exploration, we are the first people to have left their world and found others - some may join us in their time, but so many others have fallen and been lost. We have seen plague, and war, and resource depletion, but a natural disaster, with none to blame but the <deity> is terrible to witness. But if it is not witnessed, then this people will be forgotten." The other Space People, still in their suits, nodded a silent agreement. They were removing their helmets now too, each one that same hauntingly familiar triple-eyed, snake-haired form that bespoke creatures long gone from the world - though ones that had left a legacy behind. "Are you from one of the clouds?" Irdonozur inquired of Gaian Knight. "Or the great cluster..." It began to point in the direction of the blue sky overhead, no doubt indicating something in deep space, before it shook its head - hair-snakes seeming to hiss and sniff at each other. "No matter. All that can be determined later. What matters is that the great work has been completed." Was that a smile in that alien face, joy in that mechanical voice? "After generations of searching, we are not alone in the universe!" "May I scan you?" A green-skinned one was studying Mali with fascination, bending down from its seven-foot-height on a backwards-bent knee to wave a crescent-shaped instrument over her body. "Irdonozur," it exclaimed excitedly after a few moments. "They are bi-gendered! And endothermic!" It was hard to tell, but was that a young one's joyous voice at the sight of a new discovery?
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http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/4510067/ = 14 Wander: 29 [HP 3+] Knightfall: (wasting a nat 20) 27 Sojourner: 24 Hematite: 17 Daybreak: 15 Tensile: 15 White Hunter: 14 Midnight: 11 [HP 4+] Mystery: 7
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That hits! And I lost the link, but it leaves him bruisedx2 and dazed. Go ahead and post
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"We'll run some tests with these blood samples once we get back to the present, but right now it looks like Crime FOILED - Dromiceiomimus may have been the fastest dinosaur, but they still only topped out at 40 miles an hour, even when we stole their eggs. I guess Dr. Dromiceiomimus may be a mutate after all. This is Fast-Forward, signing off." Richard handed the hand-held camera over to his son so Thoughtspeed could sign off too and stretched his legs. The morning's run had been enjoyable enough - he and Will had run up onto the mainland of North America, down in the lower foothills of the Appalachian Mountains, and found a Dromiceiomimus colony pretty early in their search. They were resting on a rockface high above the tropical pine tree jungle, eating the lunch that Paige had packed for them. The distant star that was the oncoming asteroid was an unpleasant reminder of what lay behind what had otherwise been a pretty rad father-son bonding day. They hadn't seen any of the sentient dinosaurs up north - maybe they were all down in the tropics. This whole forest'll be on fire in a couple of days. Jeez. "You know your nana took me back here the first time," he commented. "She and August Roman were doing that thing in Lemuria with the giant gemstones. We oughta bring her back a souvenir."
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Hope we didn't lose the new guy! Okay, Crimson Tiger is up.
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Acosm (PL 10) - shatterspike1
Avenger Assembled replied to shatterspike1's topic in Archived Characters
All right, the issue I had was addressed - SC? -
You can go ahead and post here, KD - I don't think I need to post for Frost. O:)
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The lead alien stepped forward and reached up with three-fingered hands, removing what after a few moments turned out to be a helmet. Inside the helmet, a face was revealed that was at once a new, alien thing and terribly, terribly familiar. >Triple green eyes set in a triangular pattern stared at the heroes, while a long horn protruded back so far it must have been scraping against the inside of that bulky helmet the whole way. The most distinctive feature was unquestionably the serpentine 'hair' that rose up fitfully from the back of the skull to peer querulously at the heroes. When the creature spoke, the lips moved out of synch with the voice, which came by a tinny, mechanical tone from inside the suit itself. "Traveler!" it exclaimed, even that mechanical voice full of something like awe. "I am Irdonozur of the Space People. Long we have awaited our first contact with an advanced species. And you are so many species at once!" declared the alien, pointing first to Gaian Knight, then Tiamat, then Paige and Kit, and then more broadly at the group behind them. "We came to this planet by interstellar gravitic voyage. How did you come to be here?"
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After a moment's pause, the twenty-sided craft overhead seemed to settle into place directly over the camp. There was a slow shimmer of light in the air in the middle of the time travelers' camp, one that made the air crackle and pop with static electricity and the electronics in the camp fizzle and wash out in static. They were all familiar with teleportation, Kit more than most, but this was no superpower or magic spell. It was clearly a slow, deliberate technological process, the very stuff of the air itself being reformed into something else entirely. Animals near the camp hissed and fled in terror, a brief pandemonium in the jungle as even insects zipped away as fast as they could. The shimmering electrical glow, orange and gold against the blues and greens and browns of the jungle, gradually resolved itself into three humanoid figures - either machines or space-suited creatures, given their mechanical forms and flat, reflective, nearly featureless faces over huge round heads. As the cameras came back to life, the lead figure, who towered at nearly nine feet tall above its two companions, stepped forward, head rotating a spine-cracking 270 degrees with a click-click-click as it took in the group, first backwards and then forwards.
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Seems all right. APPROVED
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Acosm (PL 10) - shatterspike1
Avenger Assembled replied to shatterspike1's topic in Archived Characters
You gotta get some skills onto this sheet, man. More generally, I have no real objection to the backstory, but you can trust he probably will have a chance to not be a hobo pretty fast. -
"Hey, everybody," said Edge, who was securely wrapped in a blue and white UNISON fur parka, pants, and winter gear over his usual costume. "Sorry it's so cold, but our weather controller guy is tied up doing a thing in Southeast Asia!" He turned and headed for the nearest way out of the cold - in this case, the door to one of the underground shelters dug by an earlier team's power equipment (some years earlier) to stay out of the cold. "I could summon a fireball or something, but that's silly until we get a chance to scout out the situation! Can't blow anything up again!" Dr. McGregor's office is supposed to be just through this door here..." His heavy boots crunched on the icepack beneath their feet as he pounded on the heavy iron door. "Dr. McGregor! Dr. McGregor, it's UNISON!" He looked up at the sky and called, "Cobalt Templar, Sunset, can you see or sense anything up there? " This close to New Freedom, whose superpowered mercenaries occasionally 'went rogue' and raided the bases of other powers for glory, gold, or just plain evil intentions, it never hurt to be careful.
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Frost is going to keep doing what he's doing - same DC 34 Tou save for Famine
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Harrier and Newman came together again, blades clashing against each other - but Harrier came out the worst, a sizzling Terminus blade slicing deep into his chest and sending him staggering backwards. Their armored feet crunched and scraped against the tiled floor, shattering stone stained with the blood of a hero murdered as casually as one might swat a fly. And as one might have been as well - Harrier knew well enough how to take down another drone, and knew that pike slash could easily have cut open something final. Gina will be very angry with me if I am killed he thought woozily as he faced down his eerie mirror image, who had taken a hard blow to the head from the blunt end of Harrier's pike but was otherwise unhurt. Newman was focused on him and ignoring Argonaut; a mistake he was determined they would make the other drone pay for. He pushed aside thoughts of love as he faced down the now-eerily silent Newman, who in his armor and with his bloody pike was a reflection of all his nightmares brought to life. Over the bodies of the fallen, there was no time for love. For his part, Newman moved to close again with Harrier, who he had evidently decided was either the greater of the two threats or the one he most wanted to kill - the two big drones had focused on each other to the exclusion of all else, leaving one open for attack by Argonaut. The air was rife with the sound of screaming pikes and bloody death, the stink of entropic ozone thick as air molecules were torn to pieces by Terminus radiation. All of a sudden, the rarified office had become like something from an invasion all over again.
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After another fish breakfast, Richard and Will suited up and zipped off the dinosaur island - Richard reluctantly hanging back to let his stealthier son plant the hidden cameras in the dinosaur city. And city it was; the communal nest turning out to hold hundreds upon hundreds of young dinosaurs engaged in a variety of activities. Some were sharpening sticks en masse as an older, feathered dinosaur paced among them, calling out syllables in a hissing voice and occasionally smacking one with his tail. Across the room, a big ditch in the middle of the room turned out to be the 'cafeteria' - other of the fish-raptors (as they had been dubbed) were eating what looked like a communal store of fish, crabs, and the occasional wild plant, with a few hardy souls tossing in salt crystals and what might have been small rocks to season the 'pot'. The smaller huts scattered throughout the island were obviously families - single-pairings (with the occasional exception) with young dinosaurs or eggs. Their friend the fisherman was one of these, recognizable by his distinctive orange headscales and feathers, in a small hut with another dinosaur near the beach nearest Isla del Supercrime. There were statues and hissing barks that might have been singing, children chasing each other down footpaths or around the beaches. It was a bit like walking through a Polynesian village - if the villagers were all omnivorous raptors. "They're ravens!" said Cliff, one of the scientists on the launch team, as the group on the island gathered around the live feed from the team studying the dinosaurs. "They pair off to mate and have babies, then the kids go live in flocks. Damn!" As grim as the fate facing these dinosaurs was, the scientists on the crew were studying them with fascination, frantically taking notes and arguing amongst each other over what they were seeing. They paused to let Paige do some footage around the launcher itself, talking about the upcoming deployment, while Richard and Will left their cameras behind to zip off to the mainland to do their "speed test" alongside the dinosaurs they had come to study. By mid-morning, they'd been gone for about an hour, long enough for the boys to be at the mainland of North America by now, even as truncated as it was by the high ocean waters. It was hot and steamy and the bugs were out in full force - And then suddenly, directly over the island, a greenish-brown icosahedron the size of a large house suddenly appeared out of nowhere from the thick Cretaceous air, arriving with such subtlety that it wasn't until birds began frantically screaming that most of the people on the island looked up to see the unidentified flying object hovering directly over their heads!
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Initiative time!
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"Hrn." As the vase bounced off with an oddly metallic thunk, 'Nightmare Moon' seemed to straighten up - 'her' head suddenly looming a good seven feet off the ground. "I had planned to fool the Liberty League with the face of their old enemy, but the tattered loose ends of my enshadowed family tapestry deserve to know me for who I am. No matter." The illusion was fading, replaced with something that was hard to make out clearly - a matte black, nearly featureless humanoid form with no mouth, nose, or hair, one that would have looked like a bad special effect brought to life if not for the all-too-human eyes that glowed with a sizzling, malevolent fury, colored an inhuman red against swirling, inky black. From that mouthless face came a voice like nothing the others had heard before - or maybe it was all too familiar, the cold, insinuating voice of the shadowy darkness itself. As it spoke, through threats and worse, it never raised its voice above an echoey grate. "I am the alpha and the omega; the first and the last and the greatest of the line. Come and die now, in the place that you began."
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It bounced off! Made a thunk sound.