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"A very broad subject indeed," Ace said as he led the group down the hall. "The esential task is to create a brain trust of sorts." He explained as they walked, "A selection of experts in a variety of fields as well as promising young people," He flashe a wink at Alex and Twilight, "The primary tasks will be divided to sub-commitees. These will all be interdisciplinary to foster an outside th box way of thinking." He began to move through the crowd handing out folios with names of the attendees embossed upon them. Also listed were fellow members of the comittee as well as the conferance room set aside for thier use. Acheville, Alex, and Twilight Gryphon all found themselves in the same group as the other attendees sorted themselves out and filed into the provided rooms. Ace followed the small group into thier room and took a seat for himself as well. "The goal is to identify and begin work on problems early is my understanding." He said and gestured for his guests to seat themselves. "My own position is to act as facilitator for whatever research may need to be done." The opening page of the folio was entitled 'Proliferartion of Empowered Individuals in the Modern Era' followed by some basic facts and figures regarding the trend towards a larger percentage of 'Super' individuals over time.

With a mighty heave Phalanx threw the wreckage clear of the frieghter as well as Erin and Strongman. The flying fire controller was long gone, Phalanx scanned the surface of the water for Wander and flew at full speed to meet her at the surface of the lake leaving Strongman to make his own watery landing.

Ok, If I can I'll throw the wreckage clear of the freighter and wander/strongman. Has wander surfaced yet? If not I'll go after her, if she has I'll try and catch strongman as he falls. Nevermind, Not gonna surge to keep him from getting wet, I'll toss the wreckage free of the area and as a standard and use the move to find Erin. Throw the wreckage, shift array to 7 flight, move to Erins location and wait for Strongman to hit the water.

Was just waiting on Raylis I can move on though if you like.

Some confusion has come up in the Trial thread about the Dazed state. Dazed: A dazed character can take no actions, but retains dodge bonus to Defense. (PG. 171 M&M) Can you surge to act while dazed? For my own knowledge does this also block the free actions required to maintain sustained effects?

"Neat trick." Mike said in a friendly tone. 'Deffinately gonna have to warn Erin about this guy, maybe Hope too.' He thought to himself, not that there was anything wrong with Jadons behavior but those two in particular didn't react well to being startled. "We should go get you squared away so you know where you're bunking and all that, then we can show you around the more interesting areas." Though Mike was planing to keep the tour to the public areas the library and cafeteria and everything certainly was better than the admin paperwork.

Mike shrugged uncomfortably, "Yea I guess I come off a little too intense at times." If that wasn't the understatement of the year who knows what was but Mike seemed unaware of that fact. He really thought that he wasn't that argumentative and but for the several issues bound to come up when discussing heroics he was actually very even keeled. At the discussion of Alex once more Mike decided that there was some kind of serious misunderstanding of the nature of thier relationship, and not in the way he had first thought. It was an area Mike was both comfortable and very uncomfortable with so it was tricky to talk about but in light of what Eddie had said he made sure ot to come off angry like it was off limits. With a big sigh Mike tried to better explain his feelings for, and connection with Alex. He frowned in concentration, "Alex is," He struggled with the right words as he spoke, "my best friend, I mean she's been there through everything with me and I've been there for her the same way." He shrugged again saying, "I dunno really how to explain the connection between us, honestly I don't know if its because of our powers or if its something she did when we were infants, probably the later though." He looked up to his friends, "But ist been there as far back as I remember this ... feeling ... in the back of my mind. We can kind talk over it but theres more than that, I can feel how she's feeling, and her me. It's always been that way, theres no one I'm closer to than Alex, I don't think there could be, so yea if I had to put a word on it I would say yes I love her. How couldn't I?" Mike looked to his friends uncertain if he had said too much again.

Also with Arrowhawks reveal of the deception Edge gets a check to see through the disguise. Though it is still holding up to DS's scrutiny. Edge will be up as soon as we resolve Dark Stars Save

The lone thug flips a switch on his rifle and fires a stream of crackling red energy at the insubstantial hero pinning his companions. As the beam arcs towards Dark Star he remembers where he has seen these weapons before, they have been heavily modified but are definately based on Star Khan Pain Guns, the wracking agony throughout his body is an unwelcome reminder of the brutality of those far off interstallar conquerors. As the Energy coruscates over Dark Stars form the Thug turns and runs ducking around a corner.

Attack on DS (1d20+10=27) Autofire 1, Stun effect, DC 20 Fort save needed from DS (6 base + 4 from autofire 1)

The Armed men struggle against the sudden shift of the gravity field one managing to squirm free of its grasp. Several curse in russian as they try and bring their weapons to bear on the offending hero. The keen eyed scottish archer notes from his vantage point several inconsistancies in the 'police officers' outfit, it is surely some kind of ploy could this be the mysterious 'outside contractor'?

Reflex save for Gravity control (1d20+6=18) Thug Leader Strength check vs gravity control (1d20+2=3)Thug leader Reflex saves (1d20+6=21, 1d20+6=13, 1d20+6=17, 1d20+6=7, 1d20+6=8, 1d20+6=10, 1d20+6=9, 1d20+6=13) thugs have evasion so succes is no effect. Ok All but one of the thugs is gravity controlled Arrowhawk is up.

Best to wait till you come back up in turn order.

40-50 feet About half that distance It was but DS did not actually see him plant the bomb but judging from edges behavior its a safe assumption.

"Well your choice, theres plenty of time." Ace shrugged as he spoke. Considering her question for a moment he shook his head, "Unless you know the name Moiras parents know her by I doubt it unfortunately." He said finally. The sticking point on contacting Moira directly so far seemed to be knowing how to call her as an olympian as neither of the names Ace knew her by were going to work. "My friend is looking into the atter and may be able to find the name. If not she thinks that there may be others amongst the pantheon that might be willing to interfere on our behalf when the time comes." He explained.

So the surge would allow another chance to break free of the effect and allow Kneival to take the surge action if that attempt is succesfull? Seems fair enough to me.

As the car comes to a stop the young girls scream slowly fades though she continues to Maintain a white knuckle grip on the steering wheel while hyperventalating. The young man in the car with her pulls his seatbelt off and tries to get her attention, "Tasha baby, we gotta get moving. I don't know where they found these freaks but we gotta get to the boat, come on snap out of it baby." He pleads shaking her slightly. From his hidden vantage Arrowhawk takes note of the thugs he had tracked here steadying their weapons on the newly arrived heroes from their places of hiding, as does Dark Stars expanded senses. However before any of them can act a SCPD officer on foot hurries out to the side of the car.

OK Notice checks from Dark Star and Arrowhawk against the disguise check as they have reason to be suspicious. Edge knows you can always trust an officer of the law Girl is Vaporlocked her boyfriend tries to snap her out of it. Diplomacy check to snap his girlything out of it. (1d20+10=13) Thug leader takes carefull aim with his rifle on Dark Star (AIM action) And we are on to Dark Star.

"The Yacht Club is holding its summer reggata soon, I'm on the victory celebration design commitee." He said with a shrug. "I figured I'd forward on the table numbers et cetera and leave it to your excelent taste as far as design goes, general decor will be patriotic american most likely." He made a dismisive gesture, "It'll have to be better than last years debacle with the Wainwrights niece." Ace shuddered slightly at the disaster of nepotism. "I kid you are very talented and really I doubt I'd have much of use to say, but feel free to take the afternoon off for a hot bath and say I'm nitpicky and all that." He said with a grin.

I don't believe so you are Dazed: A dazed character can take no actions, but retains dodge bonus to Defense. But a ref is free to correct that.

"Its a small world overall." was Aces quick reply, "Too small to let the past get in the way of the future." "Taylors a big girl and can take care of herself." He said with a smile, "And if he hurts her she'll leave him unconcious somewhere and we'll make sure he learns the error of his ways. After all what are friends for?" He smiled at Stesha, she was so gentle and in some ways naive he couldn't say why but there was somethign about her that you just wanted to take care of her. "In the end he did you a favor as now you have Dark Star and are far happier than you ever would have been with some one like Jack, he may be more Taylors speed." He said with a wink. "Though he may impede her speed at other tasks, I'm not really one to throw stones in that regard." Convincing a disciple of Dionysis to help had been enjoyable but time consuming the night before.

Ok since Blink is going first and this is his first thread I'm gonna try and explain the process for posting and rolling here. Feel free to correct me on anything AA I think from your initiative you know this but just for completeness We use Invisible Castlefor rolling. In the name field put and Identifier for the thred in brackets in front of your character name. Like so: [sCL] Blink in the die to roll field it'll be 1d20+X where X=whatever your modifier is. Make sure to link any rolls you make and relevant DCs along with what power you are useing here in OOC and go ahead and post your own In Character part in the IC thread. I think that covers the basics feel free to PM me or hit me up in chat if you have any questions as to whats going on in the thread.

Mike shrugged, "Its not that big a deal." he said good naturedly to Jadon. Giving up on introductions entirely now Mike merely greeted James with a nod and "Hey James." "Who knows he might be your new roomy." Mike said with a small laugh, there was a small amount of jelousy amongst the boys over James managing to avoid a roommate so far.

Initiative Order - Round 1 Blink - 27 - 2 VP - Uninjured Man and Woman in Car - 18 - Uninjured Thug Leader - 16 - Uninjured Dark Star - 12 - 3 HP - Uninjured Arrowhawk - 10 - 2 HP - Uninjured Thugs - 7 - 8 Minions Edge - 4 - 6 HP - Uninjured Blink is up.

Fly into position to catch the airships remains then shift Array to 5 SS (W/ Bracing powerfeat) and 1 Flight, Extra effort on increase power: super strength +2 bringing the total to 7, Effective carrying strength of 67 heavy load of 100 tons Knockback resistance of -20.