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That's a good point, KD; just consider that as one bonus HP vis a vis the Terminus.
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There was no sign of Sharl at first, no hint that the electronic teenager was still there after the explosion. And indeed, a close inspection of the area revealed the ominous sight of Cobalt Templar's still-glowing power ring embedded deep in Citizen's holoemitter, as if shot there from the barrel of a gun. The ring glowed and sparked, blue electricity swarming over it like ants, and fell out of the crumbling electronic gadget, rolling along the floor and sparking like a child's toy. It rolled until the vibrations caused by Sage's abrupt impact made it fall, whereupon which it landed on its side like a fallen coin. And then the fire broke out. With a roar, blue flames shot through with sparks erupted from the fallen ring into a blob of six feet of azure flame still sizzling with electrical impulses like a fire shot through with lightning, the floor beneath it bubbling and scorching as tile melted or caught fire. With agonizing slowness, the flames gradually resolved themselves into a figure with arms and legs, then a head, then a recognizable humanoid body, then finally what was clearly Sharl, cast now in holy fire and scorching lightning like a ghost wrapped in hellfire. His costume still looked familiar enough, a blue glowing chest symbol with coat hanging behind him, but his body looked thick and bulky, his undercostume looking more like armor than anything else, his head wrapped in glowing fire with just his face visible. When he spoke, he seemed to be shouting in gibberish before the stream of words resolved themselves into something recognizable. "00101101011110100110010101101110001001110111001100100000010011010110100101100111011010000111010000100001! I DID IT!" He pulled himself to his feet, still standing among the smouldering remains of his transformation. He was at least nine feet tall. "I'M STILL ALIVE!"
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Edge spends an HP and seizes initiative; he'll go first in the regular round. But first! Surprise round time. I'm just going to go ahead and fiat that everyone is taken by surprise this round; everyone take an HP for your trouble! That'll give our ladies a chance to go. People with Uncanny Dodge are not, however, flat-footed! All the original members of YF get an HP here for the Terminus. Initiative for Madrigal and her Hounds: Discordia: 17 Hellstorm: 15 Nightmare Doom: 14 Omnibeast: 11 Razorwhip: 11 Madrigal: 10 Blood Diamond: 9 They're a veteran team; they wait to go until their leader has inspired them. (So Madrigal moves up to the top, and they all take 10 beneath her as their new place in the initiative order, yowsa.) Madrigal: Full Action: Inspire +3 (everyone take an HP for this) She then surges and shoots the Night Cycle. Normally deempowering equipment isn't worth an HP, but since Redbird's powers are sunk in there, I'll go ahead and call this a Fiat: Have an HP, Giz. (total of +2) Discordia: Move Action: Acrobatic Bluff Edge (I'll replace her Luck feat with Skill Mastery and Fast Bluff) Mark can't beat a 20 with a 3 She'll blast him with her proton stream A flat-footed Mark's Defense is 16, and his Tou is +5. Hmm. 13 Well, that's lucky! Too lucky. I'll fiat and have that hit Mark spends an HP on Ultimate Toughness vs DC 30. He's bruised and dazed, but surprisingly OK. There is also a snare in the mix. Mark is, for the moment, bound and helpless Hellstorm: +5 All-Out Attack's Sage with her Flying Fists 33 That hits by quite a bit. DC 27 Tou save (with Autofire) Move Action: Flies 5000 ft in the air Nightmare Doom: With Mark bound and helpless, Nightmare Doom turns her attention to Midnight with her Move Object. Grapple 34 Omnibeast: Standard: uses her gaze of Despair on Wander DC 20 Will save vs. Despair What does Despair do? Razorwhip: Standard: punches Wander I had to fiat this thanks to a bad roll, so take another HP, Wander. 27 Almost a crit! But not quite: that's a DC 30 Tou save for Wander, to be made after the Despair save. Razorwhip and Omnibeast both move into melee range with Wander using their Move Action. Blood Diamond: uses her opalescence attack vs. Cobalt Templar That's a DC 20 Reflex save vs. being blinded this round (as per Dazzle rules) and a DC 20 Will save vs. falling in love with Blood Diamond. Lot of fiating here, but it is supposed to be a dangerous situation! Go ahead and make your rolls first; Wraith, Custos, and Changeling have no attacks directed against them this round. Next round, we'll all be acting normally. That's +3 HP for Midnight, +3 for Wander (given her reduced power level complication, which is about to be broadcast to the whole freaking Terminus), +2 for Cobalt Templar, and +2 for Sage.
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19, 14 Stunned and unconscious, a two-fer!
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OK, give me initiative, JP.
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The sheer power of Nick's spell made the mask crumple and groan, the green scaly flecks crumbling away into blackly shimmering ash that somehow did the _opposite_ of glowing, absorbing heat and light as it burned away into a thin scattering of ash, the underlying iron warping and bending in impossible angles as it crumpled up like a piece of paper in a toddler's hand. When it was done and the spell had run its course, a thin layer of unpleasant-looking metal left behind. Staring down at the remains of the mask, Edge was left without much to say for a moment. Luckily, such moments passed quickly. "Well, that's one problem solved. I guess we'll go get that Christian burial for all the bones, and put that monument up to the Inquisitor." Said Inquistor was still standing when Nick and Mark returned, his bones in that familiar parody of humanity at their approach. As soon as Mark let the water close up behind them, he said simply, "pedro" before his skeleton collapsed to a pile of bones and Nick felt the all-too-familiar sensation of a soul passing onto its eternal reward.
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Edge: Faded Giant Double Date of Doom Lord of the Manor Old Bones and GMing Harrier: The Remade But What You Make It The Hard Hand of Fate Demon In A Bottle Citizen: Mile In My Shoes Pepper's Ghost Unfair Science Fair Future Soon GMing: Gathering Like Clouds Put extra points towards Harrier.
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"Pseudo, you've been out in space," said Edge, hands on the glass as he stared unashamedly at the unnameable thing in the deep black sky. "Have you ever seen anything like this before?" Most people didn't know Pseudo was a Grue with decades of experience in space and elsewhere; most people weren't the son of Rick Lucas. "...If you don't know, we need to get a Javelin out there. Maybe in suits." He drummed his fingers on the glass, feeling momentarily unsettled by the sight of so much raw, alien power. It was terribly alien; at the same time it was all terribly familiar.
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When Midnight gets close, his Notice is enough for him to see the 'gun' is smouldering-hot, with smoke rising from the barrel already: this is no gun, but an energy construct! (i.e., he has the Disintegrate power with the Subtle PF). What do, Midnight?
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That hits like a mofo. Erin's been through enough, I'll toss in one of Mark's HP there. 15 Meaghanmonster is unconscious!
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Once everyone's initiative is in, I'll post the various surprise rounds.
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Ahmed takes a full-round action to aim; both Wander and Midnight see him. New Round Wander is up; only snake monsters 1-6 are left of the original.
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A snake monster that had once been a uniformed waiter vaulted over the crowd, one of three left standing after Midnight's subsonic attack had driven the rest to either their knees or the ground, and went straight for Nina al-Darsah, vomiting up a ball of stinking, hissing venom that would have hit her in her lovely face if Mark Lucas hadn't intervened. His suit flashing over into Edge's costume, Mark grabbed Nina by the skirts and yanked her out of the way as the venom flew past her to bury itself in the wall beyond. Another woman might have screamed, but Nina was cursing in Socotran, tearing her tough, heavy outfit apart in her effort to get out of it. "Come on, guys!" Edge yelled to the others, arm around Nina as he took in the chaotic scene. "Maybe there are some hideous snake monsters here, but we're not going to let them ruin the party! This is Freedom City, we deal with awful stuff like this all the time!" Growing more confident now, he raised a hand and said, "First, let's clear the room!" He snapped his fingers and the air seemed to snap, and with a ripple all the helpless civilians in the room were safely deposited on the lawn outside, leaving the heroes alone with the the snake monsters and the royal family, Morakot having put himself between his bride and the snake monsters in the room. Nina can take care of herself...right? "Filthy stinking serpent-spawn," spat the princess, who was in no mood to judge who the creature had once been after its attack on her. "I will rip the scales from your bones and cook you for my soup!" A jet of champagne and coffee hissed up from the table behind her and smashed into the snake monster, blasting it against the far wall with a solid crunch that made the unconscious snakeoid fall to the ground. Snarling in satisfaction, Nina was turning back when another snake monster came dropping down from the ceiling to spit venom at her! She screamed in surprise as the venom splattered against her dress, but fast reflexes sent the poison flying away as she and Mark glared up at the snake-man above her head. Meanwhile, coming up behind Morakot and Nephthys, Meaghan's putative sweetheart was approaching, a pistol in his hand and sinister intent on his face.
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"Sorry, lady, I'm a boy of science, not like your boyfriend here," taunted Citizen, floating right into Sylph's attack and out the other side. He focused not on her, but on the leader he'd been addressing, keeping himself between Professor Fathom and the others, especially Papercut with his problems with water! "Listen, I know you guys are all ridiculously old, so much so that you probably flew here in something with transistors with a combustion engine, but if you don't know who I am, you're nuts!" He put his hands on his glowing chest symbol. "I'm Citizen! Miss Americana's sidekick? Helped save your city from alien brain-eating monsters? Living computer program, and not from the computers that are fifty feet tall and made of magnetic tapes? Here, let me show you what I can do!" He threw a wild punch at Professor Fathom, only to have the slippery water monster open up a hole in his own head and let Sharl's magnetically powered punch pass right through his body. "...Okay, maybe I was laying it on a little thick there, but don't they even get the news where you're from? I mean come on."
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Move Action: Taunt Professor Fathom, vs. DC 20 given the Move Action penalty Standard Action: +3 Power Attack vs. Professor Fathom 19 As annoying as missing by 1 is, I think I'll need that HP later in the story (plus I just spent one), so...
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"Are you all done? Good!" exclaimed Spiegel, looking unruffled by all the heroic preparation going on around him. As Mark reached up to take Corbin's hand, the red sky overhead turned black as fast as if a switch had been flicked. Clouds spilled out of nothing, lit through by flaring black lights that had to be lightning somehow cast into the ultraviolet. When Spiegel spoke again, it was in a voice like thunder, echoing in the ears of the heroes of Young Freedom, his toothy jaw opening wide as he boomed, "Ladies and gentlebeings of the Terminus, six ladies who NEED NO INTRODUCTION, let me present to you...MADRIGAL'S HOUNDS!!" "BLOOD DIAMOND!" A bolt of black lightning cracked from the rotting sky overhead, sparking against a pillar right next to the flying Cobalt Templar, the sheer power of the bolt disgorging a alien figure Corbin had never seen before. She was tall and pale, her lithe body covered in a sheen of reddish-tinted gemstones that glittered in the light from his ring, glittered with the frozen, screaming faces of human beings! Blood Diamond gave Corbin a look to freeze the soul and said in a voice like poisoned honey, "Your doom is here." "NIGHTMARE DOOM AND DISCORDIA!" Another bolt struck the Earth near Edge, disgorging two sinister figures, one in wine-dark robes the color of poisoned blood, only her hands and too-wide eye, another in pale pink like viscera, her dress stained with blood, a look of murder and laughter in her eyes. The first spoke with cold and calm assurance as she stared into the depths of Edge's soul. "Your doom is here," a moment before her sister in darkness exclaimed with a look of utter delight, pulling out from behind her a massive black weapon that could only have come from the forges of Steelgrave, laughing maniacally, "Your dooooom is here!" "OMNIBEAST AND RAZORWHIP!" Wander hit the ground rolling near the scrub forest at the edge of the beach and soon realized she wasn't alone; rising from the shelter of the forest was a woman in black and red, long, wickedly-curved claws growing from her wrists, leathery bat wings rising from behind her; and alongside her was another figure evidently more suitable to these rural climates, a smirking woman in red, a brown helmet on her head and in her hands a long, deadly looking razor whip that cut through the thick branches around her with just a flick of the wrist. The first woman didn't speak, simply growling as she approached, face half-hidden by her wild mane of hair, but the second smirked and said in an all-too-human accent, "Y'all are doomed, honey." "HELLSTORM!" Lightning crashed in the skies near Sage, and she found herself within feet of another flier; the source of all the atmospheric disturbances from the lightning cracking around her hands, a look of almost childish glee on her face as she danced in the air around her in an impossibly fast blur, her blue costume dotted with what Redbird had described as the multi-colored collection of the heroes she'd slain in her long career. "Your doom is here, slowpoke!" she yelled cheerfully. "And in a rare public appearance, one night only, THE MADRIGAL MARTINET!" A bolt of lightning crashed into the sky inches from where Trevor flew, and he found himself with company on Redbird, a cold-eyed beauty whose long raven hair flowed out of her golden helmet, its open eye slits revealing her sparkling blue eyes. Six foot tall and more, grapples in her hand latched onto the bike, and the Madrigal Martinet smiled at Midnight as she raised a weapon of all-too-familiar cast: a copy of the gun that had shattered Omega. "Hello, Travis. Your. Doom. Is. Here."
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Great! Go ahead and post IC, Sorus; they won't wake up but they will start to get better.
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Give me an opposed power check for that, would you, Sorus? 23 Your target is 23.
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Snake 4: Move Action: Heads for the royal family Attacks Nina with Drain All Ability Scores bite that hits Mark interposes, and it misses him. Edge: Full-Round Action: INSPIRE -1 HP Surge -1 HP Standard Action: Clear the room Nina: +5 Power Attacks Snake 4 http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/3542952/ = 14 DC 30 Tou save for Snake 4 Save vs 30 http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/3542953/ = 19 Since these guys are minions, that snake is out, peaaace! Snake 6 Move Action: Heads for Nina as well! Attacks Nina with Drain All Ability Scores bite http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/3542954/ = 23 That just hits Nina has a Fort save vs. DC 18, but Edge uses his Affects Others Ultimate Fortitude: she's fine, though he's down yet another HP.
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16, 11, 14, 22, 12, 22: saves 4 and 6 are unaffected, 2, 3, and 5 are stunned, 1 (Meaghan) is dazed. Fair enough! I'll move along in a bit here.
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[urlhttp]19 on Diplomacy
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Looks good! I'll get their responses up when I have time.
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MR, in that very conversation, I told you that 1 minute was abusive and edited the Oddball you were looking at to make it more fair.
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DC 25 Bluff check to distract these guys, what-what? I'l spend an HP to acquire the feat if you want me to.