Avenger Assembled

Go ahead and post IC, Az

Spoiler-free: Only the PCs already turned wrathful will do so. Not _too_ many NPCs will go wrathful, just enough that there are enough for PCs to have to deal with in their vignettes. You can still do a vignette if you're in a thread, just assume it's in interstitial time I will be posting additional (and spoilerly) content when PCs figure out the first levels of what's going on.

Harrier: Standard Action: Blast the security alarm, triggering the opening of all the cells in the psych ward Move Action: Fly inside the elevator shaft Gabriel is up as soon as I post IC.

Hammerhead's Tou save vs. 24: [urhttp]Injured and Bruised India Rubber's Tou save vs. 24: Unhurt Mr. M's Tou save vs 24: Injured, Bruised, and Staggered Blue Jay's arrows all miss Quickstep for some reason. Walsh: 8 Walsh is now dying; luckily he has the Diehard feat! Dave Walsh: 22 Dang it, now I have to make NPC posts. DW uses his move action to fly over to his father. He grabs him with his Telekinesis, and starts flying to the hospital as fast as he can. Mr. M uses his move action to retreat back behind and under the stage. Arichamus, I need a Tou save for Heraldo. Let's say, gosh, half a dozen people in the crowd are hit by arrows, half of them die. Kit is up as soon as I post IC.

Fixed. I'll post Tou saves when I get home.

Harrier's Init: 20 Hey, swank! Three blackguards: Who have the PL 7 stats here 12, 10, 6 Note that they are all minions Hokay: Harrier: 20 Gabriel: 16 BG 1: 12 BG 2: 10 Miss Americana: 7 BG 3: 6 I'll post Harrier's action when I get home.

Citizen: 18 OK: Notice at or over 20: -Sharl struck for the _gun_, not the man, but his hand passed through the first and electrified the second -Summers' corpse looks decidedly odd, but you'll have to get closer to figure out exactly how (i.e., actually describe looking) at or over 25: -Is that someone coming up the stairs!?!? Sense Motive at or over 20: -Sharl looked really scared when Summers started accusing him -He doesn't seem to believe the charges against him are true -He looks an exciting combination of baffled and horrified as he stands over Summers' electrocuted corpse. Disable Device: 28 is enough to either turn off the alarms or shut down Sharl's projector for a round, but not both. Initiative: Crimson Tiger: 24 Papercut: 17 Citizen: 17 Ghost Girl: 13 Wraith: 8 Glow: 8 Glow: 8 Go, Crimson Tiger, go!

Everything looks good here! Keep at it, team.

I'm going to go ahead and roll for init this round: Edge:17 Mystery Date: 17 So! Sage: 35 Wander: 26 Cobalt Templar: 24 Cannonade: 21 Midnight: 20 Edge: 17 Mystery guest: 17 Sage is up as soon as we get initiative for Cannonade.

Aaron Walsh: 16 Hammerhead: 16 India Rubber: 8 Mr. M: 19 Quickstep: 14 So it goes: Blue Jay: 26 Mr. M: 19 Kit: 18 Aaron Walsh: 16 Hammerhead: 16 Blod: 14 Quickstep: 14 El Heraldo: 13 India Rubber: 8 Warp: 6 Did I mention you were fighting Phineas and Ferb builds? Well, you are. Blue Jay is up. GO IN THE NAME OF WRATH.

As the crowd screamed in horror at the sight of a hero gone mad, suddenly there was a puff of smoke in the air in front of what was now the T-baby trio and a very familiar face appeared. Dorothy Langford was in black and red these days, having been expelled from Claremont and dropped off the radar, her new uniform cut like military fatigues. The girl raised her head and pointed at Blue Jay, calling out to the T-babies behind her. "Look what she did! She's a genocidal lunatic, just like all these psycho mundanes! They can't kill us without a fight! Come on, T-babies, I'm with you! It's time for vengeance!" And with a malevolent leer, she pointed to Warp. "I call dibs on the Judas goat who set us up to die!"

28 is enough to let him succeed in hitting Sharl's off button for the moment. I'll take an HP for the Complication, and choose to fail that Bluff roll by using Skill Mastery.

Are we in initiative? I dunno. Disable Device, Notice, Sense Motive, or Technology checks might also be prudent.

Ed: As they are not normal villains, the wrathful have exactly _2_ HP they may spend.

Ed: As they are not normal villains, the wrathful have exactly _2_ HP they may spend.

Ed: As they are not normal villains, the wrathful have exactly _2_ HP they may spend.

Ed: As they are not normal villains, the wrathful have exactly _2_ HP they may spend.

Ed: As they are not normal villains, the wrathful have exactly _2_ HP they may spend.

OK, Everyone who isn't Harrier, take an HP! Harrier's stats are adjusted upwards to PL 14 caps. Initiative? Maybe.

OK, Everyone who isn't Erin, take an HP! Wander's stats are adjusted upwards to PL 14 caps. Initiative may be a thing we do now.

OK, Everyone who isn't BJ, take an HP! BJ's stats are adjusted upwards to PL 14 caps. You may want to roll for initiative? Probably.

OK, Everyone who isn't Kill O'Cure, take an HP! Jill's stats are adjusted upwards to PL 14 caps. Jack is still up.

OK, Everyone who isn't BK III, take an HP! Bee-Keeper's stats are adjusted upwards to PL 14 caps. Silver Spider is still up.

January 15, 2013 9 AM Freedom City Courthouse "We now go live to the courthouse steps, where Star Knight has appeared to offer her opinion on the Yamashita verdict." The trial of the accused stockbroker had been a high-profile case of financial fraud in Freedom City, Greg Yamashita having plundered the pensions of several established Freedom City companies, and his acquittal had brought many demonstrators out with placards and catcalls. Yamashita was being ushered through the crowd by the police when Star Knight, the armored heroine and Freedom League member, swooped down from the sky overhead and briefly hovered over Yamashita and his police escort. The crowd fell silent for a moment as the heroine raised her hand, looking down from her faceless armor at the wide-eyed stock forger. "It's time," she said with perfect clarity before suddenly firing a deadly blast that instantly incinerated the criminal and sent his police escort tumbling like so many ninepins. "The day has come when the heroes of Freedom will no longer stand the existence of our enemies! You're next!" she yelled to the camera as the crowd began screaming in terror. The camera fell, tilting wildly, as a distant explosion sent the crowd stumbling. The last shot captured by the camera before a foot crushed it to bits was the heroine floating in the air and firing blasts into the side of the jail attached to the courthouse, laughing at the top of her lungs. "Hahaha! It's judgement day!" January Vignette: Day of Wrath On January 15, 2013 at 9 AM EST, a wave of violence sweeps through the heroes and villains of Freedom City, without regard for who and what they might once have been before. Some seem to go mad, laughing manically as they fall on their enemies alike like a rabid wolf gone among the sheep, driving some of Freedom City's worst to take shelter from the best gone evil. Some stalk their enemies with cruel, predatory intent. Their acts are showy and terrifying, sending the civilians in the street running in fear from their erstwhile protectors and criminals alike. Though deaths are largely limited to villains and criminals, the deeds are frightening enough, and deliberately, _mockingly_ public enough to strike at the very heart of Freedom City's trust in its heroes. As heroes and villains alike go mad, the heroes of Freedom must rally like never before to defend themselves, their families, and their cities from this unexpected attack. The 'wrathful', as the press has dubbed them, will happily tell anyone what they're doing: Freedom City has tolerated scum and villainy for too long, and now they're going to destroy the enemies of Freedom whatever it takes, and whoever they happen to be. It looks as though judgement day has come... Vignettes might include: Dealing with panicked mobs fleeing a particular crisis, or even one that has turned on another costumed hero in a moment of panic they will later bitterly repent Fighting a hero or villain 'gone mad', they are frightening foes who attempt to persuade the other heroes to join them in their campaign of violence before turning on their erstwhile ally with vicious intent. (make sure to get approval for the use of any canon NPCs in this capacity) If cornered, they will fight to the death. Helping investigate the crisis, looking for psychic spoor, computer linkups, poison or disease in the air, and whatever else might have caused this terrible transformation Reassuring the public, either on TV or in person, that they're going to solve this, and that they might even know who it is that's behind it. Blowing up one of the control boxes, and dealing with its various Foundry bodyguards [Note] Associated Threads: These Chains On Me: Miss Americana and Gabriel, and a mixed bag of allies, deal with an attempt by Harrier to blow up Blackstone Prison and kill the inmates there. Arms and the Man: It's Jill O'Cure vs. the Interceptors as she eliminates a jobber villain for them; permanently! Time and Chance: A battle between gangsters and bikers takes on a whole new terrifying turn as Jubatus, Velocity, and Silver Spider take on a Bee-Keeper gone bad! Pale Moonlight: Blue Jay deals with a battle between Congressman Aaron Walsh and some Terminus babies by shooting as many of them as possible with arrows while Blod, El Heraldo, Warp, and Kit take her on! Counterfeit Medications: When Wander kills Jonathan Grant during a board meeting, what will her lover Midnight, the rest of the Liberty League, and old friends Cobalt Templar and le Renard Bleu do? War of the Worlds: Young Freedom learns that home isn't necessarily where the heart is Checks: DC 20 Bluff, Perform, Sense Motive The 'wrathful' are obviously playing to the crowd, whipping up terror among civilians with their deeds as much as actually killing criminals, and specifically picking opportunities for showy, violent fights with other supers over general mayhem. DC 25 Computers/Technology There are radio signals passing between most of the maddened super-people emanating from various control boxes in Freedom City. Blowing them up should deal with some, if not all, of the 'wrathful' in the area. Careful, though, because those boxes have powerful robot guardians of their own... I will provide further information once one of the wrathful takes significant damage in combat. Send me a PM, or post here, with Vignette ideas or other stories you'd like to spring from this!

"You can stop wasting your time, Miss Americana," said Steve firmly as he strode up to face down Steelgrave. "I no longer believe that this version of Steelgrave has any knowledge of the events transpiring in Freedom City." He met the sly-faced Annihilist dead-on, gazing at him with burning eyes and a stone face through the steelglass that kept them apart. "For all his intelligence, he has allowed his self-worship to blind him to the real threat to the world that he has made his new home. Where he might have been an ally to the heroes here, instead he has been nothing but a sneering distraction for them. I find the misuse of your intelligence contemptible, Steelguard." he said with real animosity in his voice. Steelgrave looked a little surprised, but covered quickly. "Well, you've been eating your Wheaties lately, Steve. Are you always this forceful when the two of you are...together?" he added with a hasty wink, obviously a little rattled by the change in his former slave. Harrier suddenly smiled, an unfamiliar look for his warped face. "I warned you at our last encounter that your human arrogance would be the death of you, Shadivan Steelgrave." And then suddenly Steelgrave's eyes went comically wide and his mouth fell open, and frantically the former viceroy of the Terminus whirled wildly on Gabriel and Miss Americana. "Wait a minute, he's-" Faster than either Gabriel or Miss A would have believed, Harrier's pike snapped open in his hand and he shoved it forward and up, right through the glass with a hideous shattering sound, impaling Steelgrave through the head with a sickening squelch. As security alarms frantically began to blare and the prison guards at the other end of the corridor shouted into their radios, all three going for their weapons, Harrier smirked and pulled his weapon free as Steelgrave's ruined body fell to the floor. "Sic semper tyrannis."