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    Go ahead and make that Reflex save, Fox, and have an HP for bringing it up!
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    With his +13 Sense Motive, he passes the demoralization automatically. (21:25:25) System: AvengerAssembled rolls 1d20 and gets 15. +6 Fort save=21. He is undrained.
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    Lady Liberty gave Papercut a searching look, as if trying to sort out the meaning behind the boy's question. "Because right now, every resource on the Lighthouse is being used to its utmost to try and save every city on Earth from the Gorgon. We've got half the space-scientists on Earth up there, and more equipment arriving by the day for orbital cannons, emergency transporters, and everything else our best and brightest can come up with." She cocked her head, nodding towards the pictured manifest on the briefing room screen of all the Hall held right now. "If we had the time, we'd move all these well out of reach, if we had the people, we'd put adult heroes in here to guard this. We have weapons here that could change the balance of powers in wars; we have computers that store secret identities and classified information that could jeopardize the world if it got out. But we don't have the time to move it or destroy it, and we don't have the adults to guard. The only way we're going to marshal the resources so that everyone can help save the world this week is for all of us to work together."
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    Neither Koshiro nor Eve are snared. Ghost Girl is up.
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    Sorus, This is an area attack, so I don't think the Concealment miss chance applies. He's doing the mechanical equivalent of throwing a grenade into the space where she's standing, so her being invisible wouldn't matter. Might I suggest spending an HP on one of those Reflex saves instead if you don't want Snared? She'll autopass with an HP.
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    Though he wasn't scheduled to be part of the space mission, Citizen was there on Miss Americana's behalf, the lovely heroine having been temporarily distracted with a project of her own. "She's building a dimensional projector," he explained shortly. "For mass evacuation, if it becomes necessary." That was all true, but it was hardly necessary to dwell on _what_ was being evacuated to another dimensional axis: namely, Sharl's home city and the technological systems necessary to maintain it. "She'll stop by if necessary. All right, do you guys have a ship built?" he asked with a glance over at the members of the group not spaceworthy. "I guess you can probably get a Pegasus from the League and soup it up in a hurry if necessary..."
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    The reassuring words from the beloved duo seemed to calm the crowd, thus deflating the incipient riot that had been about to blossom. Whatever PR problems Jack and Jill might have with the rest of the city, this was their turf and these were their people, and there were no heroes with a better claim to being the champions of the West End than the Espadas siblings. But given the mood of the day, the crowd was still worrisome: while the match had been blown out, the gasoline was still there. From the crowd, though, someone (the press was too dense to tell who) did call out a question. "How do you know they're not just playing you, Jack?" came the cry, loud enough for everyone to hear. "What if they've sold out the heroes who care about the common man and left you here to die with the rest of us? Where are the rest of the Interceptors? Aren't there any heroes left who care about the people on the street?"
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    With no questions to ask, Sharl concentrated on his quiet radio communication with Miss Americana, with whom he'd had to part company while he took up a position alongside his friends. She'd helped him move Tronik somewhere safer than this dimension, and it had been great working with his best friend again. But he had to worry about Claremont now, for all that his room there had hardly been used. " When that was done, he tentatively did ask Lady Liberty, "How long can you stay here?" "I'm leaving as soon as we're done," said the all-American heroine seriously. "There are riots in Washington, especially now that the President and Congress have evacuated, and the Arsenal of Freedom has been pushed to their limit. I'm going down there to make sure we still have a government to come back to when we're done. Are there any questions?" she asked the group again.
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    September 21, 2011 Freedom Hall Under normal circumstances, Freedom Hall might be evacuating through the teleporters rather than through the garden, but then it was only recently that Freedom Hall had gained the services of the famous Fleur de Joie. Lacking the power to journey into space, and having freshly returned from his unsuccessful visit to Heaven, Freedom Angel was focused on the people now, moving through the small crowd of citizens who had been called up as part of the League's emergency evacuation program: there were heroes' families here and dependents, a sampling of survival experts and doctors, anybody who could help set up a camp on an alien world and maintain it long enough for the heroes of Freedom City to save the day. "God is watching everything we do," Freedom Angel assured the small group of families; mostly Navy families from Lonely Point, who were next on the list, "and He watches over us even now. Have no doubt that with His guidance and with the courage and skill of the Freedom League and the other heroes of the world, we will save this planet and everyone on it." "So why do we have to go?" asked a combative-looking girl of about 12, giving the angel a suspicious look. "If everything's going to be okay, why can't I stay with my mom?" Her dad was holding her, hands on her shoulders, but it looked like he had questions for the angel as well, and even as he heard the little fwoop that signaled a successful transfer of the other group, the angel knew he had to say something to satisfy these frightened people. "Because we need your mom to help save the world," replied the angel seriously. "The base at Lonely Point is helping coordinate the League's war with the Gorgon and her creatures in the depths of space. And if your mom knows, and if all your families know," he added, speaking now to the larger group, "they'll be able to concentrate on helping save the world, not just worrying about the ones they love. It's a tough duty," he added. "I know you would rather stay here with the ones you love. But this is a sacrifice we have to make the world that we know and love can be guarded. Sanctuary is a fine, green place," he promised the others as he opened the garden door. "You will love it. Fleur, are we ready for the next group?" he called.
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    Harrier is going to go ahead and All-Out Attack while taking 10 with these guys, inflicting a DC 28 Tou save on as many as possible with his Takedown Attack.
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    'Caradoc' could stand any bombardment if it meant helping his friends defeat this mechanical threat, particularly one that caused him no pain. "Ye have trespassed against the might of Camelot and the knights of Arthur!" exclaimed the former Omegadrone, drawing on the Saturday morning cartoons he had watched to research his character's mythological upbringing. He was very heated about it, even if something did seem just a little off to the watching heroes. "Ye shall be smited as would a dragon smite a knight!" And with that, he flew down towards the group below, glowing 'sword' in hand, ready to do battle with the robots here rather than at the heart of the nuclear plant!
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    There was dead silence as the heroes processed the sudden betrayal by their new acquaintance, and as the villains gloated over the new addition to their ranks. "Goddamnit," Citizen spat, turning around to shake his fist at Papercut. "I'm getting my ass kicked on your behalf here!" "Smart move, switching to the top dog," said Protector with jovial menace as he extended an armored hand to Papercut. "Don't worry, we'll go easy on the kids. I just had to have Firehawk fry your friend there in order to make an example of-" "Are you crazy!?!" spat Rustbelt, looking up at the others with something unreadable in his blank grey eyes, which close up were about the exact same color as an abandoned factory. "Don't let some punk off the streets play you! Kid, let me show you why you'd better change sides for real!" And with that, the street beneath their feet suddenly seemed to grow and swell like an expanding jelly, cement reaching up to harden beneath the feet of all the young heroes. "This is MY city, and don't you forget it!" "No, don't you hurt him!" yelled Black Goat, flying down to grab Rustbelt's arm. "Do you know how long I've waited to have a pretty boy to play with!?! This town is full of old fogeys and cokeheads who have no idea how to please a lady!" Whatever the moral merits of Koshiro's putative defection, he'd certainly gotten the villains arguing with each other instead of blasting the kids!
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    All but Rustbelt fails Since everyone else has been suckered in by Papercut, Rustbelt's the only one who's going to take any action. He knows he'll get in trouble if he hurts somebody Black Goat has a thing for, so instead he'll just snare him and the rest. I need a DC 20 Reflex save from everybody in front of the jail (this doesn't apply to Koshiro's family, since CT is getting them out of the way, and CT himself is busy doing that) vs. a Rank 10 Area Snare. (That also means that Evasion and such applies to avoid getting hit in the first place). Selective Attacks work by default, so he can take a stab at hitting invisible people even if he can't see them. This doesn't apply to Sharl and Kimber, of course, since Rustbelt doesn't have Affects Insubstantial on his Snare. Go ahead and make those saves, and Ghost Girl is up. Remember you're making the save vs. the Area attack and _then_ the save vs. the Snare.
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    Anyone in the party who can read Old Norse? (I'm not around my good computer and can't peek at sheets right now) If you don't read Old Norse, I need a DC 25 Arcane Lore/DC 20 Theology and Philosophy check.
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    The world-threatening apocalypse hadn't done much for Mark's peace of mind, particularly given his role as a putative protector of global peace. However, despite his great power, his youth and inexperience meant he just wasn't trusted with UNISON's big plans for how they were planning to ride out the disaster: he was on call, ready to step back to Geneva at a moment's notice, but he had enough free time to work with his friends and comrades here in his real home. Normally a trip to the Midnight Manor was a subject for squeeing and peeking around under the watchful eye of its usual inhabitants, but not when a serious emergency threatened. Instead he focused on the map and the data there, trying to make sense of things he honestly knew nothing about. "It's strange that there should be so much happening in North Bay," he hazarded. "I mean, you're not particularly high up, and I don't think there's a lot of conductive material around..." Well, except in places like Danger Manor and the Midnight Manor, but they hadn't been the targets of the storms to begin with.
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    Edge: League Rebirth (and GMing) Freedom Angel: Faith Protects, Kevlar Helps Animal Control: Breakout Harrier: Welcoming Committee Power Struggle Citizen: Detroit Minute (and GMing) Way to Go, Wendigo News Forum: The Gorgon is Coming The Gorgon Is Here Put my Ref point towards Edge, and my GMing points (if sufficient to push him up a category) towards Citizen.
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    September 26, 2011 9 AM The first mission of the new Young Freedom, at least upon their return from their world tour, was to guard Freedom Hall during what just might be the end of the world. Headmaster Summers, and the older students, had reassured the new kids that this was in the finest tradition of Claremont's premiere teen hero team. Sharl had been away for the last couple of days, and so he'd missed all those reassurances about what kinds of threats Young Freedom had faced before. Of course, for those students not used to world-threatening disasters, those words were not reassuring. What had been reassuring, in a martial sort of way, was the stern speech they'd all gotten from Lady Liberty before she and the rest of the Freedom League had departed. "Listen, all of you. I know you're teenagers, and I know you didn't sign up for this." She'd paced back and forth in front of all of them, meeting each gaze, even the ones who looked away. "But the world's in peril right now, and that means it's time for all of us who can help to do our part. The world's going to be saved, I can promise you that, but it's going to take each and every one of you to do that. The Freedom League needs to go into space to help organize our defenses on the Moon against the Gorgon. That means someone needs to watch Freedom Hall and make sure none of the artifacts here fall into the hands of supervillains. The last thing we need is a world where we've beaten the Gorgon but lost our homes to supervillains who've seized control of some of the most powerful items in the world. Are there any questions?" she asked them. "If any of you do want to back out now, now's the time." They'd have an adult chaperone for this one; Mr. Archer having left the gym behind to act as their guardian while they guarded the centerpiece of hero history in Freedom City. Things weren't pleasant outside, not with the demonstrators protesting the League's 'inaction', nor the continuing violence in the streets that Freedom City's adult heroes were doing their best to handle. Hell, there'd been an outright battle near the Claremont campus between the Irregulars and a Claremont graduate who'd gone berserk from the stress! Inside the League's briefing room, though, all was quiet as Lady Liberty's question echoed in the room.
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    North Bay September 22, 2011 While interstellar monsters weren't the specialty of anyone on the Liberty League these days, the new superteam was on high alert as the Gorgon's approach brought a dawning chaos the world. They'd only been back from Switzerland a few days, but those had been busy days for many of them between the Gorgon's coming, Edge's visit home, and of course various changes in Wander's general lifestyle. The wealthiest neighborhoods in town had so far avoided the panic beginning to gnaw at the poorer areas of the city, or at least that panic had been confined to the interiors of beautiful mansions rather than on the wide streets. North Bay, the home neighborhood of Ace Danger and the Midnights, had locally been the scene of one particular set of bizarre local disasters: localized thunderstorms had rocked the area for nearly 48 hours, flooding the streets, blowing tiles off roofs, and worst of all setting several homes ablaze as lightning strikes rocketed down from the sky in the middle of the 'North Bay storms' as the news was calling them. No one had died, yet, but several people had been hospitalized from electrical shock and at least one home, the Munoz manor near the waterfront, had burned to the ground with total loss of property. It couldn't be a coincidence, and so the new team had gathered together beneath Midnight Manor to discuss evidence and options.
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    20 Sharl is foooled!
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    September 26, 2011 The West End 9 AM Things were in a bad way in the West End, what with the upcoming apocalypse. The Gorgon was only about thirty-six hours from making contact with the Earth, her silvery shape as clearly visible as Mars in the clear Freedom City night sky, promising a doom for all humanity should she get closer. The Freedom League was fighting the Gorgon and her train in space; the Lab crew had gone into the sky to unlock the scientific secrets of the monster coming to devour the Earth. (Sure, that wasn't technically her mission, but good luck telling that to the man walking down the street listening to apocalyptic street corner preachers pronouncing the imminent doom of man to all passersby.) There was a war in space, but a battle on the streets was imminent. Street-level heroes had been busy catching crooks and putting down disasters, but there were so many threats. The heroes of the West End had reason to be a little understaffed these days, anyway...The flashpoint came outside a local bodega near the Espadas home, when two uniforms from the local FCPD station came out to move one of those doomsaying street preachers off the streets. This gentleman, though, a wide-eyed man with thick glasses and a "PRAY FOR MERCY" sandwich board hung around his neck, wasn't willing to give in. "What's the point of doing what you pigs say?" he demanded, his fear rallying the crowd of onlookers who'd been listening to his sermonizing (and, not incidentally, blocking the door of the San Domingo Market whose manager had called them in the first place) to shout at the cops. "We're all gonna die anyway! The supers have run off! They left us to rot down here on the streets while they ran away into space and into their fancy other dimensions. Don't we deserve the right to have a little happiness now before she takes us all!?!" he exclaimed, pointing to the sky as the crowd roared. Normally West Enders were a bit more skeptical than this, but nerves were fraying. "How dare these fatcat shopkeepers keep what they have when the end is coming. I say, let's take what we want and give them a taste of their own greed before we're all gone! Who's with me?"
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    September 20, 2011 The Lab With the Gorgon's announcement, it became transparently obvious to everyone at the Lab that their time was up. They had to get a team out to the Gorgon now and throw mortal science in the face of the all-conquering space god in order to save all of humanity from the threat in the sky. And so it was that, mere hours after the Gorgon's announcement, the Lab crew was working feverishly on their planned insertion into Gorgon space in order to gather the sample nanite packages that just might give them the information they needed to bring down the mighty Gorgon once and for all. Of course, since she had turned out to be an body with the dimensions of the Earth itself, now cleaving her way through the Kuiper Belt on a course directly for Earth. She was 40 astronomical units away, having appeared in the middle of the belt thanks to her gravitic warp, and would be close enough to Earth to begin its conquest in just seven days.
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    September Vignette (The Gorgon Comes!) For a week in September, 2011 from September 20-27, the World of Freedom sees among its darkest hours as the Gorgon, the all-preserving, all-transforming, comes to the Solar System to transform the planet Earth into a sterile ball of ever-devouring nanites. Though the heroes of Freedom do succeed in defeating the Gorgon before the planet can be shattered, the cost is high: there is global rioting and panic as she comes; weather disasters and tectonic shifts at her arrival, and finally the terrible chaos of her defeat. Worst of all are the threats that come from within, as the heroes of Freedom learn that the legacy of the Preservers may run far deeper, and be far darker, than they ever anticipated. Who: Any player who is interested. Characters who are involved in main threads may post Vignettes as well. What: Write the story of your character as they battle a world slowly going mad before incipient Armageddon. Threats include: Apocalyptic end-times riots in the Fens Giant plant monsters in the West End Incoming space debris (everywhere) Criminals, large and small, taking advantage of the chaos for robberies Space pirates raiding the Earth one last time Storms, earthquakes, tidal waves, and other disasters Plots include: Helping friends and family deal with the disaster Fighting bad guys Assisting with the evacuation of select people to other places Length should be at least one (1) page per character involved. When: The week of September 20-27, 2011. Your vignette is due September 30, 2011 at midnight EST. Where: Anywhere, as there are threats all over! Why: To stop the Gorgon from destroying all life on Earth, as well as to experiment with a big all-site event where everyone can feel included. How: Once your story is finished and proofed, post it in this thread. This way everyone will be able to see it, and play off it as appropriate. Bluesman Cannonade Nick Cimitiere Citizen Cobalt Templar Edge Flora Gabriel Harrier Ironclad King of Suits Lord Steam Rene de Saens Spitfire Supercape Wander Wisp
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    As they walked, Heyzel did his best to explain the world of angels to the mortal man. He spoke of the ancient chorus that stretched back to the beginning of time, the various messengers who had once gone to Earth wrapped in fire and flame, their limbs in a hundred directions at once. "Much there has been, ah, misinterpreted. As Hindu artists showed the beings they worship with a hundred limbs as a metaphor, so too did the ancient Israelites depict the messengers of Yahweh as other-than-human to show their otherworldly nature." By the time they had circled back around, the smith had indeed finished crafting his armor for Gabriel and with modest pride (if such a thing could be said to exist) presented it to the godly hero. "The finest work I can give a man who'll be going back to the mortal realm before this day is out," said the saint with a smile. "If you were going to stay and join the heavenly host, I could armor you to fight all the divine creatures of Creation." "Gabriel still has several decades before that day comes," the angel reassured the saint. "What you have will do. Now, I think we have but one more thing to find..."
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    With uncommon seriousness, particularly in the presence of a beautiful lady, Edge listened with interest as Ace and Bombshell made their presentations. But then, that was another trait he had in common with Jimmy. "Well, I don't know about the rest of you," he offered, looking at Wander, Midnight, and Cannonade, "but I'm ready to do this. I've got a suit waiting for me in my apartment in Geneva, and from there we can get out to the chateau. It's probably better if we arrive there separately and meet up, given that they may not be expecting an entire super-team to be there to confront them." He remembered the camaraderie they'd all shown in the fight with Meistermann on the plane. "And I guess we are a team," he added, looking from face to face in the crowd. "We all have personal reasons to fight Nazis, and we've all been in the business, or had family in the business, for a long time. Some of us have even been to Erde, and seen what a Nazi victory would be like." He put his hand on the table. "Let's do this. Not just for us, not just for the future...but for everyone who's come before."
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