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With Speed 1, she can get to Group #1 in a move action. Number 1 fails! and is unconscious, being a minion Do you want to keep going? She can hit all of group 1 if she takes 10 on her attack...
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Under siege from a bombardment of paper cranes, the helicopters crashed to the soggy Earth below amid muffled roars and explosions! Papercut couldn't see the crashes clearly from his vantage point, just catch glimpses of red and black armored vehicles tumbling to the Earth and falling to pieces on impact, at least until the last helicopter exploded on the ground with a deafening roar and torrent of flames! Lit by the continuous red light pouring from the burning, wrecked chopper, he could see a now truncated group of commandos pulling themselves out of the wreckage and gathering their high-tech looking weapons. The Nazi hit squad had come expecting a fight, but not from a horde of magical paper cranes! The broken chopper had fallen across the perimeter fence, knocking down a hole big enough for the commandos to advance through and sure enough they seemed intent to do just that. Inside the warehouse, Citizen called to the others. "Upload's at 65% percent! I can't leave this now, and if they use another magnetic weapon near the building, all of this could be for nothing! I'll stay here, you guys deal with the Nazis!" For their part, the Erde-Tronikians were grimly taking up defensive positions at the perimeter of the building, from their raised steel fists and improvised weapons like a whole car ready to strike lethally and fast against their attackers. From the damage to their bodies, and marks on the walls and floor near where they stood, it looked like this wasn't the first time they'd ambushed Nazis in this building.
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Crimson Tiger: 27 Papercut: 24 Ghost Girl: 23 Nazi Commando Team #1: 14 Nazi Commando Team #2: 14 Wraith: 11 Nazi Commando Team: #3 Glow: 10 I'll keep track of your HPs. Crimson Tiger is up first as soon as I make a GM post.
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"I do not notice the lack," said Steve truthfully as he considered Jill's words. "My parents maintained much about their old lives with me as a child, but we did not celebrate holidays for which there was no longer any purpose." His face grew clouded for a moment as a deep rumble entered his voice. "My girlfriend's life has been difficult. Problems with her parents," he said, sharing more than he ever had about the still-unnamed woman with whom he occasionally shared his life. "But you two, will you be with family this year?" he asked, knowing full well that Jill had access to the kind of extended family shared by no one else in a position at HAX: i.e., alive, sane, numerous, and not corrupted entirely by the forces of evil.
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"...I have seen this city before," said Steve suddenly, pushing past his fear and guilt to speak out. He'd mentioned it before, but they'd all been too busy, but the thought of Jill going into her brother's headquarters where his body might lie was enough to make him talk. "This city...and its like..." He walked away from the group for a moment, studying a long burn scar that lay across the center of the street. "I was confused at first, because so many of the bodies are gone, and the forges unbuilt, but...The scorch marks, and remains, there and there," he said, pointing to scars on the street and at the corners of buildings. "Those who fought back. With powers, and those without. The damaged buildings, the same. The damage to Freedom Hall, from a carrier landing on the roof. And the marks, and the Hall as it looked, and the Brownstone here...This is a city killed by the Terminus. I know because I was there." He pointed to the ground, and though he could look at Erin when he turned back he could not meet Jill's eyes, or even look at the girl with them. It was hard to hear his own voice over the screaming in his own ears."But that is impossible, because it is gone. This world burned to ash and I witnessed it with my own eyes." - "Oh, it's you, Barry," said Stratos sociably, putting his hand on the Bee-Keeper's shoulder in a familiar sort of way. "Little young for you, isn't she?" he asked before adding, "Heh-heh-heh! Anyway, it's good to see you, I thought you were in the nuthouse because you were CRAZY." It was easy enough for Blue Jay to make her way up to the building, despite a few hair-raising moments inside the shaft when Stratos' lightning jetted past her to fry the security systems where she was hidden. The grate turned out to be not even bolted down at the top, a decorative copper plate that led her up into an overgrown, sad-looking memorial garden on a dead world. It was getting dark overhead, and there were no lights in the open garden surrounded on all sides by Freedom Hall. Looking around to get her bearings, she found herself standing between a group statue of the Allies of Freedom on one side and another of a flying man with a cape in a heroic pose. DEDICATED TO OUR GREATEST HERO, CAPTAIN THUNDER, WHO DIED SAVING THE WORLD, 1996.
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"People are in the street with joy in their hearts, singing songs and embracing their families as they never have. That is something to celebrate," said Steve seriously. "As for the rest, I do not worship any of the gods celebrated in this season. I would only insult worshippers if I pretended to believe what they believe, and that would be unwise." He took a candy cane and began slowly unwrapping it, the plastic crinkling in his scarred hands. "As for my own holidays, I generally spend those alone, even now. My girlfriend prefers to take her holiday season alone as well, so I imagine I will spend it working with impoverished people at one of the feeding kitchens in town, and then rendezvous with her for the new year."
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None of them can beat that, so they all start falling. Go ahead and post, Electra: initiative time, everybody!
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50%... "Sides? What sides?" demanded Rogue of Glow. "We are alone on this planet. Alone in this part of the galaxy, even. The Grue have overrun all of near-space, and the stars are silent. We may be the last outpost of Lor civilization in the galaxy. As for the humans, would you have me believe that after twenty-five years of watching us do the dirty work of the Reich, the Resistance will just accept us with open arms!?!" She waved her hand in frustration. "We were used to kill them, you know, and they returned the favor. They've sent assassins after us in the past, you know. People with bombs. Magnetic powers. They were dealt with. And you tell me that they'll side WITH us, after all this?" Outside the warehouse, Koshiro heard the jets against the backdrop of the still, cloudy night a moment before there was a flash of light in the sky, bright enough that for a moment it was bright as day outside. A second later, every light in the Wonderbus went out and the door popped open. In English, a warbling voice said from the dead screen in front of him "Beginnning eeeeleccctrooomagnetic repaaaaaiirrssss..." Inside the warehouse, both Sharls, Rogue, and the other Tronikians screamed and clutched the sides of their heads when the light flashed in the sky. "EMP!" Citizen yelled as he pushed past the wash of pain that had nearly knocked him out, frantically checking the connections to make sure they were all secure. "We're still live here! Transfer underway!" "They've come for us!" said Rogue, her holographic eyes wide as she stared up at the warehouse roof. Sure enough, everyone could hear the distant sound of helicopters. "You children wanted to see the war?" she asked as she stepped into the armored robot behind her. "Well, here it comes!"
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Abilities: 0 + 4 + 4 + 0 + 4 + 10 = 22 PP Strength 10 (+0) Dexterity 14 (+2) Constitution 14 (+2) Intelligence 10 (+0) Wisdom 14 (+2) Charisma 20 (+5) Combat: 8 + 8 = 16 PP Attack: +4 (+7 Melee, +10 Magic) Defense: +8 (+4 Base, +4 Dodge Focus), Initiative: +2/+22 Grapple: +7/+20 w/Move Object Knockback: -11/-6/-3/-1 Saving Throws: 5 + 5 + 5 = 15 PP Toughness: +12/+6/+2 (+2 Con, +4 Defensive Roll) Fortitude: +7 (+2 CON, +5) Reflex: +7 (+2 DEX, +5) Will: +7 (+2 WIS, +5) Skills: 44r = 11 PP Bluff 5 (+10)* Disable Device 10 (+10)* Escape Artist 8 (+10)* Knowledge (History) 5 (+5) Languages 2 (German, Yiddish, English [base]) Notice 3 (+5) Sense Motive 3 (+5) Stealth 8 (+10)* Feats: 10 PP Attack Focus: Melee (3) Dodge Focus (4) Skill Mastery (Bluff, Disable Device, Escape Artist, Stealth) Taunt Uncanny Dodge (auditory) Powers: 32 + 10 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 20 + 1 + 2 + 1 = 68 PP Device 8 (Astrologer’s Ring, Flaw: Hard to Lose, 40DP) [32 PP] Enhanced Feats 2 (Fearless, Ritualist) [2DP] Enhanced Skills 16 (Intimidate 5 (+10), Knowledge [Arcane Lore] 10 (+10), Language 1 [Latin]) [4DP} Force Field 6 [6DP] Magic Array 15 (Flaw: Action [Full], Drawback: Distracting to Change Configuration [-2], PFs: Accurate 3, Alternate Powers 5) [21DP] BP: Damage 10 (Fury of Apollo, Extras: Area [Cylinder], Range [Ranged]) {30/30} AP: Move Object 10 (Grasp of Artemis; Str 50, Hvy Load 12 tons; Extras: Area [50-ft. Burst, General], Damaging; Flaws: Limited [Only To Pull Objects Straight Down To Earth Or Hold Them Off The Ground]) {30/30} AP: Snare 10 (Rejection of Mercury, Extra: Constricting) {30/30} AP: Impervious TOU 10 (Mirror of Venus, Extra: Reflective 2 [all ranged]) {30/30} AP: Move Object 10 (Metal of Mars; STR 50, Hvy Load 12 tons; Extras Damaging Range [Perception]; Flaws: Limited [diamagnetic materials only]) {30/30} Super-Senses 7 (Detect Magic 3 [visual], Direction Sense, Low-Light Vision, Precognition [Flaw]) [7DP] Enhanced Feats 10 (Defensive Roll 2, Evasion 2, Improved Initiative 5, Move-By Action) [10PP] Immunity 1 (Aging) [1PP] Quickness 1 [x2] [1PP] Speed 1 (10 MPH, 100 fpm) [1PP] Speedster Array 9 (18 points; PFs: Alternate Power 2) [20PP] BE: Enhanced Quickness 9 (to Quickness 10 [x2,500]) {9} + Enhanced Speed 9 (to Speed 10 [10,000 MPH / 100,000 feet per Move action]) {9} {9+9=18/18} AP: Feature 17 (mitigates Action Flaw for Magic 15 and Distracting Drawback) {17/18} AP: Strike 7 (goonsweeper; Extras: Area [shapeable, Targeted], Selective Attack; Flaw: Action [Full]; PFs: Mighty, Progression [Area] 3 [70 5-ft. cubes]) {18/18} Super-Senses 1 (Communications Link 2 [Hologram, Thoughtspeed] {mental}) [2PP] Super-Movement 1 (Water-Walking) (Flaw: Only While Running) [1PP} Abilities (22) + Combat (16) + Saving Throws (15) + Skills (11) + Feats (10) + Powers (68) - Disadvantages (0) = 142 PP
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Avenger Assembled replied to trollthumper's topic in Midtown
When Mark smashed Jason off the roof and down against the floor, the air around the man rippling briefly as invisible hands lashed at him to toss him up and down, he didn't see the hero of song and story anymore. Just a man who had let his own ambitions cloud the humanity who had once been his, one who had fallen from his lofty heights to become somebody who played with other people, other lives, for his own agenda. "Listen, buddy, I don't care whose father you are!" Edge shouted, the air around him beginning to hum ever so slightly. "We're taking you down, and we're not going to let you wreck this world for your own twisted ambitions! This is Freedom City, where we stop people like you!" -
"If you say so," said Stratos equitably. Having someone to talk to seemed to be calming him down, even if the look in his eye was definitely not healthy. "I think I saw a drain back up that way," he went on, pointing down the sewer line in the opposite direction from whence they'd come. "It leads up to their fancy garden of heroes or something, or as I call it the mushroom garden, because of what they have to fertilize it with!" He chuckled and said, "Anyway, sure, I can probably breach the defenses if I hit it with a big enough bolt of lightning from down here. A little tough of any of the old sewer gas, but they don't call me Dr. Stratos because I like to do things small! Aheheheh!" Dimming his lightning, he clapped Blue Jay on the shoulder and said, "Do you have anything to eat? I've been cooking those weird green geese whenever they fly over, but I think they're learning to avoid me. Too bad!" - "Mara has one of the most brilliant minds of your world. She and...the others will find us. It is only a matter of time. I am greatly reassured by the fact that we still live," he said seriously. "And face no horrors greater than this first one." He looked around at the city again and added, "Did I ever tell you how I was captured by piscine humanoids during that incident?" Steve was not a subtle guy, but he was trying hard to tell his friend something reassuring. "It was aboard their large submersible. They were very surprised indeed when I broke out of my restraints and began to beat them with my fists. And then I freed those roe into the harbor. That was...like this. Bad, very bad indeed, but it could be much worse." He smiled, but she could tell he was nervous too. Steve's mind was back on Earth too, thinking about Gina. Would she think he had simply left her if he disappeared? It was a grim thought, she knew he loved her, but doubted she could love herself. When they reunited with the others, Dorothy still carefully wolfing down the food Erin had set aside for her, it was Steve who said, "I think we should try and find the others. If not now then, then after first light." He could fly, and see in the dark perfectly well, but given how they had reacted to the sight of him in the day, Steve was no fool. "We have seen no sign of other survivors, no sign that there _were_ survivors, it..." He pushed himself past the thoughts that invoked and said, "We cannot leave them here. And they may have more answers than we have yet found ourselves."
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Hogrider (PL 10)- Gingerbread
Avenger Assembled replied to Gingerbread's topic in Archived Characters
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Sharl looked down at the upload readout again, thinking about the data that was now being transferred to the storage drive. For the people of this Tronik, it would seem as if impassable storms had locked them into their city until they were safely uploaded to the full emergency drive waiting for them in the Sanctum. 25%... Despite his focus, he looked up as Rogue addressed Mali's question directly. "They have made no such distinction with us, child. Why should I, we, not do the same to them? They have killed us in our number, they have killed us for fun, they have killed us for their science, they have warped bodies and minds and even _souls_ simply to see the consequences of the alteration of programmed life!" She took a moment to calm herself, cocking her head and taking a settled breath. "And so now we show them those consequences. This is a war, and how we choose to win it is our own affair." fired back Soldat immediately, but his counterpart heard that faint undertone of hesitation. He swallowed, shoving his hands in his uniform pockets. "
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"Ohhhh, you have to watch out for those heroes, they're a tricky, tricky bunch," agreed Stratos. "You hire them to fly a plane for you and suddenly they get these DELUSIONS OF GRANDEUR..." He waved his hands for emphasis, then coughed. "...ahem. What was I saying? Anyway, I can help you get inside, sure. The defenses outside still know me, but they probably don't know YOU if you're a goody two-shoes." He frowned, peering at her. "Where are you from, anyway? I thought I memorized the faces of all you teen hotshots but I don't know you. I even got home addresses sometimes!" he added with a chuckle. "Anyway, I don't like it down here, it's too dark. You never know when _they_ might be listening." He looked around at the darkness suspiciously before adding, "Yes, let's go upstairs and we'll get into Freedom Hall. I can keep the defenses busy by blasting them, and you can sneak in and look around and see what happened. I think I know what it was, though," he winked. - Steve was more grateful than words could express that Jill wasn't curious about the story he'd nearly told earlier. The story of why this particular version of Freedom City was so familiar, yet so terribly bizarre all at once. "Yes, we have seen the same," he said over the commlink. There are scenes of battle. The usual remnants of...of carnage, but the scavengers have not come." He looked up at the grey sky overhead and said, "There were birds earlier. Not many, but they were there. If we can find their nests, we can see from whence they came, and perhaps find food." He and Jill had done pretty well for themselves as scavengers of their own, and were already on their way back to the rendezvous point. "If we can create a power source, we may be able to start one of these vehicles."
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"The musicians will play soon," offered Steve as he continued to stoically sip his cayenne chocolate. "I believe they are setting up their instruments now." They'd found a science-oriented band to play, which struck Steve as a suitably aesthetic choice given the scientific surroundings all around them. "I brought up the resonant transformers from the electrical storage room, but they preferred to use their own equipment." Given the small, but real, risk of explosion, that struck him as a sensible precaution. "This is quite bitter compared to what people normally consume at the holidays," he finally confessed, "but it does have some charm." He studied the others and asked, "So, do you have holiday plans this year? There are a great many to celebrate."
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OK, so you do want her to have Mental Awareness itself? That's fine, I was just checking. We've raised the cost of Mental Awareness per our house rules (since otherwise it was a little too cheap) so Mental Awareness itself currently costs 2 PP. (so you'd need to spend one extra PP to have the effects you currently have).
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Not a build we'd approve for a PC, of course, but this is a bad dude! Er, lady. Normally we prefer to put Mind Reading outside the main array, as with the construction Doc uses on his builds like the Vampire Psion or the Psi-Soldier, but that's much less of an issue for an NPC: as long as the GM doesn't abuse her Mind Reading powers, it should be something scary! What game effect do you want her Awareness to have? I think you may be looking for a different power.
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Hogrider (PL 10)- Gingerbread
Avenger Assembled replied to Gingerbread's topic in Archived Characters
I like the build choices. A little cartoony, but not too bad: i.e., just about right for a game based on the DCAU. And a heroic distaff Lobo is an interesting concept. Powers look OK. Like the Container thing. Change up her skills; remember that Dex is the stat for Drive (so she has Drive 5 (+9)) and finish writing out what her knowledge score gives you. if she is supposed to have INT of 10 or greater, her Knowledge and Crafts should have a modifier of at least 0 -
Stratos whirled on Blue Jay, his eyes gleaming with electric intelligence and sizzling madness. "YOU! I...I don't know you," he admitted, peering at her suspiciously over clawed fingers shaped like electricity. "Who are you!?! Who sent you!?!" he demanded hotly. "You don't look like one of Orion's girls, you're wearing too many clothes," he said in a confidential whisper before he broke into a giggle. "Hah! Yes, I am trying to get into Freedom Hall, but Thunder has moved everything around, just like he did in all the other places. He's trying to drive me CRAZY you see." He looked around and whispered close again in that confidential tone. "But he won't get me, you see, because I've been above the clouds. I know his seeeeeeecret!" He jumped, doing a little splash in the water. "But I'll never tell! So, you want me to help you?" he asked Blue Jay seriously as if the conversation had just begun. "What do you need, child?" - Warped though the area was, between Wander and Harrier's expertise in scavenging for food and supplies, it was fairly easy to gather what they needed. They even managed to find Steve clothes, his muscular frame just barely fitting into the slacks and Freedom City T-shirt they found. There was food still in the cupboards of apartments and on the shelves of bodegas, albeit only what had been saved in bags and cans and bottles was still eligible. There was something shocking, and suspicious, about the hiss of carbonation when Harrier experimentally cracked the lid of a plastic Coke bottle left sitting alone and closed atop a massive pile of debris where two buildings had fallen down into each other. Just how recent _was_ this disaster? Much as it pained him, he let Jill test the ruined building first, his own great weight potentially a peril as they moved through darkened hallways and through broken doors. Quickstep clung close to Wander as they went, something the other girl was by now almost becoming accustomed to on missions like this. She was doing her best to be a loyal Claremont student, but she was very young, and from her occasional fearful glances at the sky, it was pretty clear she'd never faced a situation like this before. But had any of them? Neither group found any sign of survivors, nor any evidence of hostility. It was as if the people had simply all gone off and left the city behind after the great battle, taking all the animals and other large creatures with them, or perhaps the other way around. "
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Loyally doing his best to keep the new arrivals busy, albeit looking more and more reluctant as he spoke, Soldat said, "Well, we didn't make the stuff, that was just something the Nazis were cooking up. Bastards," he said with real heat, the tension in his voice fading. That was one thing he evidently shared with his local allies without reservation. "Anyway, we've worked really hard to keep this stuff secure, so there's no risk of you guys getting exposed while you're here," he said reassuringly to the visitors from another dimension. "They...they made us help with this, so we know about the containment systems." From the look on his face, Citizen desperately wanted to focus on the Tronikian upload he had just begun, but he couldn't ignore either the tone he heard in his counterpart's voice or the question his friend has asked. He was saving his people, he was doing the right thing no matter what the consequences...in his mind, he pictured an upload bar like those on Miss A's computers as they made the last connection. 10%..."So what are you guys going to do here?" he asked Rogue. "Are you uploading yourselves in here before we leave, or are you staying?" "Staying," replied Rogue in that mechanical voice, looking down at Citizen and the others impassively. "And if you're really that curious about the virus, it was Part 3 of the Nazi plan for escaping this war. First they finish their space fleet in the Rockies, a fleet they learned how to build from _us_, with _our_ science, and then they build their own version of Tronik for people in coldsleep. Enough that their population, or the parts of it they choose to save, anyway, can survive with their sanity intact." She stepped out of the robot suit and walked towards the box, a holographic projection pure and simple. "And then they go out into space with a bio-weapon adapted to Lor medical technology. They become a virus of conquest spreading through the cosmos. But that's not going to happen. The plague stops here, with us, with this planet. Whatever we have to do. And in the process..." She ran her hands over the box of bottled death and her smile turned cold. "if we use their weapons to take our revenge for twenty-five million men, women, and children, I think that's no more than we deserve, don't you?" "It's still genocide," said Soldat suddenly, making Rogue's head snap around to look at him. "You saw what this virus could do! It's a biosphere cleanser! On a planet this primitive, it could-" "It won't be that bad," she said with a wave of her hand. "We have the cure, after all, and the facilities to synthesize it if necessary. Foolish Nazis, using organic and on-site backups when we could rise. I am sure the anti-Nazi resistance here will welcome our assistance, just as the Nipponese will once we make it clear who has the power to save their world. And quite frankly, boy, you managed to fight this war without getting your hands dirty," she said to her Sharl sharply. "And that's very noble. But the rest of us, all of our people, have to live with what we have to do."
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Cobalt Templar cut her in half. Without a sound, the vampire fell apart in two segmented ashy forms, her eyes rolling back in her head and her teeth erupting from her mouth in the instant before wet, sticky ash hit Cobalt Templar's force field like a puff of flour. The storms abruptly stopped when she did, a last rumble of thunder rapidly turning itself into a gentle breeze as the clouds overhead began to part. At the site of his comrade's demise, Steel Sentinel didn't hesitate: Wander distinctly heard him swear "Screw this!" before he took off into the night sky with a roar of jets from his battered power armor. For a moment, anyway, as he disappeared into the night Wander and Cobalt Templar were left alone with the rescued robot and the wide-eyed scientist who'd witnessed the whole thing.
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17 Deaaaaad
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"Your girlfriend has a good mouth on her," taunted Bloodstorm. "You must not be doing enough to keep her in line!" Another blast of lightning erupted from the sky at her words, cascading downwards and blasting Cobalt Templar right through his force field in a hair-raising jolt of pure electricity that nearly knocked him out of the sky. Bloodstorm might be a showboat, but there was no denying the sheer unnatural power behind that bolt of elemental fury! "I'll soon fix that, and you as well, my pretty," she taunted. "Hades' will will not be denied! Soon we'll have you, the robot, and everything will be going so well! Ahahaha!" Down below, Steel Sentinel was much quieter: he'd grunted when hit, but otherwise made no sound as he swooped in to fire a laser blast from his outstretched palm in Wander's direction. It was a well-aimed shot, if Wander had been flying: as it was it missed by a mile as she fell back towards Earth. This time, she distinctly heard him curse.
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Bloodstorm: Blasts Corbin again And hits! 27 Nice. Her to hit is currently 13. KD, give me a DC 29 Tou save Steel Sentinel: recovers (have an HP, Wander) He flies back a few feet and tries blasting Erin 11 And misses!