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The security guard was dead, his broken body looking as though he'd been driven through multiple floors by the sheer power of the flying Star Knight's armor. Fleur knew his face, but he'd been a new hire, not someone she'd had the time to get to know at Freedom Hall. Upstairs, Tiamat found Freedom Hall that looked as though it had been through the apocalypse, smashed walls and injured people showing where Star Knight had rampaged her way through the building. There were people up here who needed Fleur de Joie's help and that of other people with first aid training, broken legs and burns showing the effects of super-strength and energy blades, others who had been injured by debris in the melee. Worst of all was the situation room, a space Star Knight had repeatedly trashed: from live feeds across the city, Tiamat could see carnage across the city on her working monitors as heroes she vaguely recognized turned on each other and on their citizens like so many starving younglings in an abandoned nest. Though the worst of the actual fighting was dying down, the city was still in danger: there were unfought fires and chemical spills going unchecked, rampaging gods in the state forest, and people were still terrified by the outbreak of madness and violence that showed no cause.
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Something seems strange about Harrier's corpse. Though there's a layer of burnt flesh over the metal, there's much much less than Gabriel would have expected. This looks like a metal body with flesh over it.
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Give me Notice, Technology, and Medicine checks, KD.
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Harrier is destroyed. Miss A is destroyed; Gina is unconscious. We are out of initiative.
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Just assume we are out of combat for now.
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"What were you expecting, Gabriel?" sneered Harrier as he raised his pike high, staggering under the impact of Gabriel's spear and Miss Americana's laser blasts. "Some pathetic fantasy of redemption and renewal, where a murderer of tens of thousands could be accepted among the heroes of Freedom City!?! Perhaps in the name of your dead god?" He laughed, his voice full of bitter, mad hate. "No, it doesn't end that way," he said fiercely, speaking as much to the still-live cameras over their shoulders. "It ends in the only real truth. Suffering, agony, and death, terrible and everlasting. And if I die bringing such a fate to the thousands of criminal scum of Freedom City, so be it! With one blast, I shall slay them all!" And with that he raised his pike and plunged it deep into the heart of the reactor control systems, sparks erupting from the ceiling as the system began to overload. "And this place shall be my TOMB!"
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Harrier: Power Attack the reactor. Let's say it has Tou 20 He does his max Damage +5 Autofire, +5 Power Attack: DC 39 The reactor takes ten and is injured and 'dazed'.
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Sharl's world was falling apart. He'd reactivated the router in the office enough to send signals in and out, but all it had given him were horrors: heroes turning on each other and on the population around them, death and carnage in the streets, reports of a security lockdown and electrical disaster at Blackstone, where he knew Miss A had been visiting before their scheduled return, a vision of Freedom City on the verge of collapse. And now the very school itself had turned against them, with an unknown enemy outside the door and electrified nets on the windows, and Wraith still bound by the icy tomb that imprisoned her despite that fantastic effort from Ghost Girl. Not like this! Not like this! he screamed inwardly as he grew to his full size amid the shattered remains of Summers' office. "What is he yimmering about out there, some stupid TV show?" It was Kimber who shook him out of his funk, his eyes going wide as he saw the device she was pointing out. "It's a bomb! Kimber! Get out, now!" he shouted a moment before shoving his hand inside the device and concentrating hard. There were no active batteries in the place so instead he made his own juice, sucking electricity out of the network and lighting the building up by sheer force of will as energy poured through the building and into every crevice where electronic devices were stored, overloading them through sheer overpowering. "What they need more of is SCIENCE!" Outside, it was as if lighting had struck the building from beneath, sparks and currents of blue-white electricity pouring up the sides and the windows, the net across the office window flying away and sparking as it hit the brown grass outside. "Go go!" Sharl yelled, and followed Kimber out the window a moment later. Outside on the lawn, the Wonderbus's camouflage circuits flickered and died for a moment, the seemingly innocous-looking hippie van appearing out of thin air where it sat on the Claremont Academy lawn. Just as Koshiro and Mali reached the doors, there came a choking roar from the upper stories of the administration building as an eerie green fire exploded from the windows as the place burst into flames!
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Okay, I need a DC 25 Tou save from anyone still in the building. (Good thing Darren didn't open the door, and wasn't in the room!) Assume that all the electronics in the place and outside on the lawn are temporarily fried. The upper stories are currently in flames, but it shouldn't be hard to put them out for anyone who has a water-based effect (oh my ) and I think Darren should be able to make that Tou save easily enough. Sorry for all the confusion here, guys, I tried an experiment but it didn't work too well. No big deal! Everyone take an HP for the inconvenience; don't worry, guys, you'll need them. A couple of posts from YF 2.0 working on their escape/getting into the bus, and then they''ll hit the road while the First Line is left with a new series of problems...
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Free Action: Nullify Technology 12 (Extras: Selective, Targeted Area [burst], Flaw: Action [Full], Selective) {24/24} Standard Action: Power Attack vs. immobile targets - Nullify rank of 17 vs the snare on the window and the remaining electronic devices in the building. 36 That's enough to fry the snares and remaining countermeasures. Surge for a Standard action: Fly out the window.
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Cobalt Templar is up. -
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Woof, good thing there's a teleporter/vehicle booster chasing her. OK, go ahead and post IC. -
Okay, Since some things here aren't working out, I'll tag here later with lots of movement, HP, and posts
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26 All right, he is currently bruisedx2.
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Okay, it's equipment, so it loses 12 Tou automatically: vs 32 w/Autofire: 13 The nullifiers are all gone. Snare + office: Tou vs 27: Snare around Indira: it takes ten on its Tou save, and so is injured Office: The office walls and such take 10 (with a base Tou of 15) and are injured as well. Snare around office window: Takes ten and is also injured
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Pocket'd, for now!
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Wraith had helped design and test some of the security systems Summers had installed in the vents, so she knew exactly what was happening when she slid her way past what had to have been one of the pressure checkpoints and felt the sudden, spreading eruptions of cold along her flanks: packets of ice-nine had erupted in the tube around her, instantly freezing and taking the water vapor in the air with them, fixed points that adhered to her metal skin and pinned her down and to herself as surely as glue would someone less flexible. The gas was new; something opaque and foul that poured from behind her and forward, filling the tunnel and blocking her vision and her smell. There was no risk of the Kinigosi choking, but until she oriented herself there was also no right or left. - Outside, in the now sealed-off office, the remaining teens could hear the faint paffs of exploding packets from inside the vents, and feel and see the sudden rush of cold, black gas pouring from the vent Wraith had just taken outside.
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16: Bruised and dazed
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There were two guards at the reactor; armored and armed by the best Freedom City had to offer. When a rampaging Omegadrone appeared at the bottom of the elevator shaft opposite them, with no more warning than the brief shriek of alarms from overhead, there was no time for anything at all. Harrier closed in with his jets roaring behind him and brought his pike forward into one's mid-section, cutting deep through vital arteries, then whipped around and on the backswing impaled the one behind him through the heart with a single shrieking stroke of his blade. With hardly a thought, as the first guard he'd stabbed collapsed, Harrier brought the pike forward and cut off his head. It was a brief moment of shocking carnage, but it was enough to do the job. "They shouldn't have stood in my way," he growled at a nearby security camera before striding through the open door, stuck open by the body of the second guard. From there, he disappeared into the heart of the pocket fission reactor that powered Freedom City's most secure prison, dripping blood as he went like something from a low-grade horror movie that was nonetheless all too real.
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Harrier: Move Action: Fly up to the reactor room doors Standard Action: Attack the two guards there. They're PL 7 minions with a Tou of +9 and a Defense of 15. He can power attack for +5 with his pike and hit them without having to roll. +1 DMG added from his autofire. Tou of 35 18, 18 Welp, they're dead now. Lemme post IC and Gabriel will be up. There we go. Take an additional HP, Gabriel and Miss A.
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Wander and Bee-Keeper arrived at the crash site first; the emergency rig of Harrier towing Blue Jay, Jill, and Quickstep inside an abandoned compact car not far behind. It was easy enough to find the impact site in downtown Chicago, the crater and rising clouds of smoke were some of the few things moving in the dead and deserted city. The fallen object was nowhere near the Defenders' headquarters in the Loop: rather it lay in a great crater in the heart of Daley Park, having clipped City Hall on the way down. It was not a bomb, or at least not distinctly so: on first glance it was immediately recognizable from its triangular construction and narrow, birdlike posture, even at ground level looking vaguely like a bird of prey seen distantly from below in its lines. This fallen black spaceship was one of the automated Curator ships that had stolen Freedom City right out from under (or rather, over their noses): but now it lay still and dead, without so much as a tremor of movement, beneath the dappled alien sky of the now bright and sunny morning on the Curator's world. "He has no need to draw us out," said Steve in his conference with the others, after they'd all hidden themselves away from the quiet wreck. "If he knew our route this well, and sought to stop us, he would deploy these ships, or his alien slaves. And he has the power to bomb a place like this to rubble. I don't understand what this could mean," he confessed.
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Initiative: Star Knight: 14 Myrmidon: 34 Fleur: 19 Tiamat: 15 Star Knight: 14 GK: 8 Myrmidon is up. What do you do at the sight of two Freedom League members fighting each other in a world gone mad?!?
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Sage: 35 Wander: 26 Cobalt Templar: 24 Cannonade: 21 Midnight: 20 Edge: 17 Flying Brick: 17 Redbird: 13 -
To hit the lava? Sure, though that effect has faded somewhat from its initial arrival. (Since it didn't have the duration extra or anything, but the descriptors make sense). I'll call it a DC 20 check to hit the lava, and then a DC 22 Tou save for Kit if she does hit.
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We'll call that, oh, a half-dozen people or so killed as Quickstep incinerates most of those watching from windows or doors. The building is now in flames.