Avenger Assembled

Citizen can't use his Online Research, so no automatic 25! Instead: Pop Culture: Nat 20, nice! 24 Technology: 14

Reflex vs 19: 10 Tou vs 24: 23 Injured! OK, the joke is wearing thin for Citizen. He'll fly out to the dance floor, right through the walls, as a move action. He'll then stunt the following power off his Tronik Array: Damage 8 (Extras: Autofire, Secondary Effect) [24 pp] This will represent causing a major electrical disruption in the body of the bad monster. 19 OK, that's a DC 23 Tou save + whatever Autofire bonus he gets, this round and next round. Let me know if she makes the initial save, as Sharl is willing to hit her again.

"Miss Americana's personal life is none of my business," said Sharl with an embarrassed half-smile. And that was certainly true, and he didn't even need to fake the embarrassment. After all, it wasn't Miss A and Steve Murdock who were dating, but Gina and Steve, a mental image that was best left in the back of his mind with the other disturbing things he'd contemplated as a superhero. "Anyway, the base stuff is good, and I think we'll do fine wherever we end up. I...actually had another reason for calling you guys together." He shot a look at Koshiro; his roomate hadn't known about this either, but Papercut had been there for the encounter that started it all. "Here, let's use the conference room." The conference room was reasonably high-tech as well, with a new glossy wooden table and wall computer slaved to the main unit for everyone to see, but this room Sharl didn't do much to show off. Instead he waited until everyone was in, fluttering about nervously, before he took a seat at the head of the table. "A couple of months ago, Papercut, Cobalt Templar, Riff, and I, had an encounter with a team from another dimension. On Erde-J-Nazi-1, a government called the National Socialists conquered the world in the 1940s using technology given to them by Superior. Though their rule has been slipping in recent years thanks to heroes from Earth-Prime, they still control much of the planet's population. The people that we met were, well...the versions of us from that dimension." "It was pretty grim. It was very grim, in fact. And I made a promise to the other Sharl. I promised him that we would find a way to save his Tronik." He looked around at his teammates and went on, "The National Socialists have been using them...using them like sentient lab mice with superpowers for years. His sister is dead; half his family is dead. Hell, from what I gathered, his Tronik is a mostly-restructured National Socialist prison. They lost twenty-five million people! We can't just leave them there to be experimented on unto death, with the lucky ones as slaves to the pitiless butchers of their own people!"

Citizen goes on 24.

Electra and I are going to spend the next week out of town at her sister's wedding: Electra is the matron of honor and Robert is the ringbearer, so it's very important. We'll be on, albeit at a significantly reduced volume.

Danson is out, and we are out of initiative.

At this display of power, Golem 4 runs off too! Whoop whoop whoop! Bee-Keeper is up.

6 She is unconscious.

Since it is a golem, I'll go ahead and treat it as a construct like TT did in Pepper's Ghost: Whoops, I messed up the first batch of rolls! Here are the correct ones: Reflex vs 20 15 OK, drained by 5; Tou is at +10 (+10 Impervious) Tou vs 25: 11 Golem 1 is gone

Round 2: Golems 1 and 4 are still up. Golem Attack: 25 Oh noo DC 35 23 Tree one, interposing for Stesha, gets ded. Stesha is up.

Harrier will shout for Wave-Eye to help the crew stabilize the ship. He will then stab the monster in the face again. 13 We can't have that! Another HP, running low! 27 AAPA, as usual DC 32 Tou save.

Trees: Attack rolls vs. Golems 1, 4, and 5 (they will double up on 1 and 5) Trees 1-2: 13, 26 Tou vs 24: 27 Golem 1 is fine Tree 3 vs Golem 4: 23 That hits 28 Blargh Tree 4 + 5 vs Golem 5 Tree 4's Aid succeeds Tree 5 All Out Power Attacks and hits automatically. (I don't recall if minions can take 10 vs. minions, but I'll let it go here) 17 Skidoosh! OK, Golem 5 is down. All the golems around Baxter are defeated.

29 It's down! That's minions for you! Coins and bills go flying everywhere as it explodes in a shower of lucre.

As the battle was joined, two of the giant golems took the occasion to flee the scene! Two of the massive money monoliths turned and ran right out through the bulletproof glass at the front of the bank amid twin explosions of safety glass and shattering noise, leaving behind massive craters as they raced down the street! They were fast, very fast, despite their tremendous bulk, and soon despite the noises of crumbling asphalt and shrieking car alarms they left behind them (as well as the trail of coins and small bills!) they were gone and out of sight. Of course, even with the holes in the wall and absent bad guys, the heroes still had lots to deal with! Another golem threw a massive punch at Fleur de Joie, only the quick action of one of her summoned trees helping her avoid that metal-backed punch, while another concentrated on the bound Bee-Keeper. It might have been Baxter's imagination, but as the nickel-fingered man-mountain tore him free from his flowery bonds with obviously hostile intent, he distinctly heard the eight-foot mighty money monster growling at him like an angry animal!

Golems 2 + 3 scarper with the loot! They have Speed 5, so they can both run a quarter-mile away as a move action. (They use Total Defense as their standard action, raising their to-hit to DC 19) Golem 4 punches Fleur de Joie! 17 Another miss! That's good for those Interposing plant minions, at least. Golem 5 punches Barry, but the Snare saves first. 20 Not bad! The snare is damaged and disabled. Barry will be able to get out on his turn. He'd better make his case fast, though!

Papercut's paper airplane took the team to the 15th story of one of the towering Archetech buildings that had fallen into Miss Americana's custody the year before; the skyscraper of science looming over the Hanover neighborhood that held it. The plane landed them all neatly on the rooftop helipad, and one there a quick trip on the elevator took them to the area Miss Americana had actually set aside herself for her sidekick's team. The rooms here certainly were luxurious, and didn't smell of chemicals or have old Cholaxian hair on them either: there was an advanced wall computer and basic, albeit well-equipped, general science lab and workshop for Citizen and anyone else they might recruit with scientific aspirations, what looked like a nice rec room with a big screen TV and couple-year-old game system, a little kitchette, library, and all the other sorts of gear you'd expect to find around a well-furnished teen science hero's place. There was even a small room with bunk beds! There were sensors enough to track through security cameras all over the city, and a communications system that tapped right into the city's cell grid. "The computer's one of the biggest outside of Miss Americana's personal labs. It's got room for me, for Lora, and enough processing power we could maybe hack into the school's computers if we wanted. You can put a cell number in here, or wherever, and people can call your supername and it'll reach you anonymously. It's even armored enough that you'd have to work to mess with it, Kimber." The whole place had a nicely glossy chrome feel, though not quite mirrored enough for the teens to see their reflections as they explored the small complex of rooms. For his part, Citizen seemed to have something on his mind, crossing from corner to corner as he switched off a couple of monitors. "Miss A's real busy today with a...thing, so we shouldn't have to worry about anyone disturbing us while we're here."

Ooh noo! Bound and Helpless. Have another HP, SW!

Unfortunately, that does hit, since he is momentarily grappled. Stupid money golems! Good thing it's got Reversible on it. DC 28 Reflex save, SW>

Despite the dastardly Bee-Keeper's denials, one of the money golems turned on the newly-arrived heroine with what looked to be sinister intent, for all that the tiny bees allegedly making it move had to be so tiny that they weren't even making any noise!. It was tough to tell the intentions of giant beings made of stolen money, but under the circumstances it was pretty easy to guess that they had a sinister intent in mind. A figure made of what looked to have been loose change and small bills, bigger than a person, advanced on Fleur de Joie and threw a mighty punch in her direction, one that only her Freedom League combat training helped her evade.

Golem 1: 19 Fleur de Joie: 18 (5 HP, same same!) Golem 2: 15 Golem 3: 12 Golem 4: 11 Golem 5: 11 Bee-Keeper III: 10 (5 HP, so many complications!) Golem 6: 9 Animated Trees: 4 SpicyWaffle, I'll go ahead and say Golem 6 will relent on the Grapple (since it'll be busy with other stuff :twisted: ) and Baxter will be able to escape on its action. Golem 1 walks up to Fleur de Joie and attempts to punch her. 16 That's a miss! Fleur is up.

When Quo-Dis floated downstairs in a t-shirt and jeans some time later, it was as if no drama had happened at all. "Okay, everybody!" she said, clapping her hands together and smiling brightly. "I was thinking maybe we could go downstairs and watch the football game, or take in some of Corbin's recreation room," she added hopefully, reaching over to put her arm around Corbin's shoulder. "We can order pizza, or do something else conventional, for our lunch. There is a very fine place near this house..." She looked nervous as she talked to Corbin's friends, obviously afraid she was about to chase them out of the building.

The flying zippy robots shuddered under Glow's telekinetic assault, shells cracking and electrical lines sparking, they didn't quite fall down, but they were certainly losing their battle with the Australian teen. For her part, Danson wasn't doing well out of the battle either, blood was dripping from her nose, drip drip, staining her uniform and badge, but she was still breathing and twitching in what looked like sleep. Citizen tried to respond to Glow's suggestion, but he was too busy being attacked by humanoid robots! Another blast of flame scorched past him and incinerated a passing flier, the nimble Tronikian dodging and weaving to avoid taking hits from those powerful blasters. Evidently the robots were getting tired of missing Citizen and Miss Americana, as they turned their attention to the other two heroes! One blast from the leering mechanical women flash-burned the wall behind Keith LaMarr without actually hitting him; another was closer, at his feet, driving him forward into the arms of one of the fire-tossing robot women. "Why didn't you stop her!?" it yelled, looking him in the eyes with a look of pure flaming hate, an instant before hurling a blast of flame that enveloped the sonic-controlling powerhouse.

I'm fine with the PL 9 sheet, and that does hit. Tou vs DC 24: 17 Injured and dazed again! They're not doing so well. Robot 3: Blasts Citizen 25 That's a miss! Robot 4: Turns her attention to Wail and fires another blast! 11 That's a miss too! Robot 5: Aids an attack vs. Wail. 27 Robot 6: 28 Woof. OK, that's a DC 32 Tou save with the crit. Lemme get an IC post up, and Wail will be up.

Fort vs 22: 24 Just made it!

OK, go ahead and roll init, Fleur. Golems go on: 1. 19 2. 15 3. 12 4. 11 5. 11 6. 9 I'll say it's Golem 6 that has Baxter.