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"Okay, I'm a, hoo, big enough man to admit that, huff, we may need a new plan," Jack of all Blades panted out with some difficulty, disengaging his grappling line and coming to a stop on a rooftop in the West End. Supporting one hand atop his knee, he wiped sweat from the gab between his royal blue bandanna mask and the edge of his black wig. "Take five, team," he told the rest of the Interceptors as he straightened and considered their options. Over the past couple of weeks there had been increasing chatter on the street about a new supplier for some variation of the drug commonly know as 'zoom', a potent concoction that overclocked the user's entire body, providing effective superspeed for as long as the high lasted but coming with the heavy risk of everything from heart attacks to paralysis. At first the Interceptors had had little trouble quashing the new variant, with Vince directing them to the most likely spots for drug deals in the neighbourhood before they could even happen. Unfortunately they'd had little success tracking down the actual supplier and in the past days the new zoom had flooded the West End, leading to a rash of superspeed B&Es and other crimes. This time they'd gotten enough warning to make it to the scene while a corner convenience store was being burgled but the thieves, still in the throes of the drug, had rapidly eluded the team as they sped off. Jack knew it was only a matter of time before they started running across the burnt out bodies of stupid kids who's luck had run out, assuming one of their petty robberies didn't go horribly wrong before that. It was time to call in the cavalry. "Hey, long time. It's your favourite swashbuckling pretty boy," he greeted into his phone once he had his breath back. "You got your sneakers handy? 'Cause I need a favour."
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"I'm on my way now, hun, just sit tight!" the response came as Ellie's voice over the phone catching noticeably in reaction to the stress radiating from Mara. Her inventor girlfriend rarely asked for help and never did so frivolously. Leaving her textbooks and notepad open on the bare bones reception desk of her brother's self-defense school, she took only enough time to sling her canvass messenger bag over her shoulder and hurriedly slip the sign on the door to 'CLOSED' before locking up and sprinting down the street to the nearest bus stop, scanning the road for a free cab at the same time. Balancing her cellphone between her cheek and shoulder she continued, "You're at the warehouse today, right? Is it your head? I thought those were getting better..."
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Without waiting for an analysis or go-ahead from the expert, LaMarr stepped up the carved circle with heavy footfalls, unconcerned by vibrations caused by his prodigious mass. Shifting his weight he raised on boot and stomped hard with his heel, violently cracking the foundation of the basement so that the section beneath him tore away from the rest of the cement and tipped upward at a sharp angle, breaking the etched ring. Around the subterranean room objects fell from the walls or off of shelves, the small earthquake manifesting the aging heroes anger. "Who?" he demanded.
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"Tsk. Stay down a moment, won't you, good citizens?" Set requested of the injured scientists, striding to the mouth of the alley and making a motion like rolling up sleeves over his bare arms. "Now, he of the blinding noggin, can you guess what claim you should not have made?" The godling stepped over the quickly recovering Fawkes, deciding to deal with one threat at a time, and raised his hands to the skies. As he did the clouds overhead abruptly darkened, rumbling with thunder. Tracing a line in the air with his index finger, Set singled out the offending sorcerer drawing forth a bolt of brilliant crimson lightning that lanced down from overhead. Diving to one side, Heka narrowly avoided the violent mystic attack, stumbling midair to right his flight and smooth his robes. "Bah! Your boasts mean nothing, boy, if you cannot even strike true at your target!" Set, for his part, looked unconcerned as a smirk grew across his face and his wrist flicked in a new arcane gesture. So commanded, the lightning arced about before striking the ground and curved back around toward Heka. "Waaaiiit for it..."
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"The gods...? Impossible!" Heka muttered to himself in a grandiose baritone easily heard by the rest of the superhuman combatants. "Bah! You play at things you could not hope to comprehends, striplings! A lesson on proper respect is in order!" Sekhmet looked over her shoulder at the flying, translucent sorcerer, leonine head cocked to one side as she regarded him flatly. "Wait thine turn, charrrlatan. The Mistress of Dread tis occupied dispatching thine fellow." "Charlatan?!" Heka snarled in arch fury, his substance solidifying abruptly as he gathered power about his fists. "Face the wrath of the ancient world's greatest magister!" Solid columns of arcane might blasted forth from his raised hands, striking the goddess like twin ball-peen hammers. The force knocked her off of her prey and into a pair of garbage cans in the alleyway with a clatter.
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Heka Move Action: Demoralize Sekhmet. (1d20+10=29) Of course, Sekhmet is, not surprisingly, Fearless. Standard Action: Mystic Force Blast vs. Sekhmet. (1d20+10=28) Sekhmet Toughness Save vs. DC 25. (1d20+7=8) Toughness Save vs. DC 25, HP ReRoll. (1d20+7=10) Well. Set Move Action: Taunt vs. Heka. (1d20+10=28) Heka Sense Motive check vs. DC 28. (1d20+15=18) Set Standard Action: Lightning Bolt vs. Heka. (1d20+7=17) Well, getting some using out of Homing, apparently! 27 - Guy Fawkes - Staggered, Dazed, Demoralized 27 - Errant - Uninjured, 1HP 23 - Heka - Uninjured, Demoralized 18 - Set - Bruised x1, 2HP 17 - Temperance - Uninjured, 3HP 14 - Sekhmet - Bruised x1, Dazed, -2 Defense 11 - Diehard - Bruised x1, Dazed 11 - Khania - Bruised x1, Dazed, Slowed 10 - Blackfire - Uninjured, Entangled 4 - Glamazon - Bruised x1, 1HP
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EDIT SWORD BY ECALSNEERG! HUZZAH! Jack of all Blades Complete overhaul of fluff including current formatting, updated history and revamped complications. +4 ranks of Equipment from unspent Orichalcum Veteran reward, -2 ranks of Equipment bought normally, freeing up 2PP. Net Equipment 4. Equipment becomes: Grappling Hook; Leaping 2, Super-Movement 2 (slow fall, swinging), Speed 2; [8EP] Interceptors Communicator; Communication 6 (Radio, 20 miles; Extra: Area; Flaw: Limited [Other Interceptors Communicators]), Super-Senses 1 (Radio, Communication Link [HQ/VINCE]); [7EP] 5EP contributed to >The Espadas School of Self-Defense and Swordsmanship +7 ranks of Sidekick from unspent Orichalcum Veteran reward, -4 ranks of Sidekick bought normally freeing up 4PP. Net Sidekick 40. Using 6 freed PP to replace Metamagi Super-Senses Container with: Super-Senses 22 (Mental; EM Spectrum Awareness [3], Detect EM Spectrum [Ranged, 4], Magic Awareness [3], Detect Magic [Ranged, 4]; Extras: Accurate 4, Acute 2, Radius 2) [22PP] Cleaning up formatting and notation throughout the sheet. What I'd like to do is put Jack's sheet on the first post of that thread and replace the contents of the second post - which is also by me - with Jill's sheet, allowing her to be linked to directly. Jill O'Cure Also getting an overhaul on fluff and formatting. +2 Strength, +4 Wisdom +2 Fortitude Save +1 Computers, +1 Bluff, +1 Disable Device, +1 Investigate, +1 Language [Cantonese], +3 Notice (2PP total) +2 ranks of Attack Focus (Melee), +2 ranks of Equipment, +1 Improved Initiative Equipment becomes: Costume; Protection 2 (Power Feat: Subtle) [3EP] Grappling Hook; Leaping 2, Super-Movement 2 (slow fall, swinging), Speed 2 [8EP] Interceptors Communicator; Communication 6 (Radio, 20 miles; Extra: Area; Flaw: Limited [Other Interceptors Communicators]), Super-Senses 1 (Radio, Communication Link [HQ/VINCE]) [7EP] Masterwork Medical Tools (Power Feat: Subtle) [2EP] - 1 Accurate from Autoimmunity Touch, +1 Improved Critical
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Khania Will Save vs. DC 17. (1d20+8=23) 27 - Guy Fawkes - Staggered, Dazed, Demoralized 27 - Errant - Uninjured, 1HP 23 - Heka - Uninjured, Insubstantial 4 18 - Set - Bruised x1, 3HP 17 - Temperance - Uninjured, 3HP 14 - Sekhmet - Uninjured, -2 Defense 11 - Diehard - Bruised x1, Dazed 11 - Khania - Bruised x1, Dazed, Slowed 10 - Blackfire - Uninjured, Entangled 4 - Glamazon - Bruised x1, 1HP
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If Wail went to boot the basement foundation hard enough to crack the circle, would Nick try to stop him on account of magic stuffs?
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Khania Toughness Save vs. DC 22. (1d20+10=17) Nice! Guy Fawkes Dazed! Errant is up. Don't forget that Toughness Save, Absurdist! 27 - Guy Fawkes - Staggered, Dazed, Demoralized 27 - Errant - Uninjured, 2HP, Toughness Save Pending 23 - Heka - Uninjured, Insubstantial 4 18 - Set - Bruised x1, 3HP 17 - Temperance - Uninjured, 3HP 14 - Sekhmet - Uninjured, -2 Defense 11 - Diehard - Bruised x1, Dazed 11 - Khania - Bruised x1, Dazed, Slowed 10 - Blackfire - Uninjured, Entangled 4 - Glamazon - Bruised x1, 1HP
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"Son, use your head," Wail chided Thinks with the gentle but firm tone of an adult who wasn't upset but expected better. "I don't imagine you bring up the finer points of egg laying around your saurian sisters, now do you?" He liked the young raptor's enthusiasm but if he was going to have any chance wooing the object of his affections, he was going to have to learn to avoid putting his clawed feet in his mouth. Still, the broad-shouldered human was careful not to do anything that might cost the preening Thinks any face as they entered the party. If anything, he allowed a small smirk to pull at one corner of his mouth; a flabbergasted valet was one of life's simple pleasures. "Alright now, you're our guide, you call the play," he told the raptor quietly, looking about without seeming anything but idly curious. "What are we looking out for here?"
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"Nngarh!" Khania let out a high pitched scream of fury and revulsion as she clawed at the sides of her head, massive tresses bunching up under her palms. "Grubby little mud fingers in my mind! Get out!" The alien princess' eyes abruptly shot open and twin lances on burning light struck Errant across his side, leaving parallel scorch marks across his Claremont uniform! Blackfire, meanwhile, had decided to make good on his original plan and fought against the tangling shadows hanging about his robotic limbs long enough to heft the much abused car next to him over his head. "You oughta learn to look both ways!" he called to Temperance, an oddly metallic quality in the rough snarl as he hurled the vehicle toward her. Fortunately the agile elementalist was able to leap safely out of the way as the car's hood crumbled against the pavement with a thundering crash!
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"Ahaha! 'Cool'!" Set applauded with hearty laughter. "A moment!" Producing his smart phone from somewhere in his shendyt, tapping away with both thumbs. Set, God of Awesome @readySETgo Whosoever reads this tweet if you be hip inform Comrade Frost he misses cold puns most excellent! Tis on the LiveJournals, methinks? #banter Between the sudden teleporting appearance of the godling, his boastful taunt and his disconcertingly incongruous behaviour, Guy Fawkes evidently decided he might have been better off out of the ally and back out on the street. However as he began to turn back around, legs muscles coiling under his cloaked frame, ready to spring back into motion, some two hundred pounds of ferocious lioness crashed into him, pouncing from atop a parked car. Sekhmet threw the full force of her weight against the distracted arsonist, one paw squarely atop his painted mask. Claws drove into unyielding ceramic until cracks fanned out across its white surface like spiderwebs, chipping away the artfully rendered moustache and rosy cheeks as Fawkes' wide brimmed hat went flying off into the alleyway, landing nearby the startled scientists. Bringing her feline muzzle right next to her prey's covered face, she roared savagely, exposing massive teeth. "RRROOAWWWR!" A flash of light and a faint click came from Set's direction as he preserved the moment for posterity. "Aaaaand uploaded! We shall have you trending yet, She Before Whom Evil Trembles!"
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Sekhmet Standard Action: Unarmed Attack vs. Guy Fawkes; All-Out Attack 2. (1d20+9=29) Guy Fawkes Toughness Save vs. DC 27. (1d20+5=16) Staggered and Dazed! Sekhmet Move Action: Demoralize vs. Guy Fawkes. (1d20+5=25) Guy Fawkes Intimidate Check vs. DC 25. (1d20+16=19) Diehard Dazed! Khania Standard Action: Eyebeam Attack vs. Errant. (1d20+11=20) I believe that hits. If so, it's a DC 23 Toughness Save for Elias. Blackfire Move Action: Pick up car! Standard Action: Throw Car vs. Temperance (1d20+6=14) That's a clean miss. 27 - Guy Fawkes - Staggered, Dazed, Demoralized 27 - Errant - Uninjured, 2HP, Toughness Save Pending 23 - Heka - Uninjured, Insubstantial 4 18 - Set - Bruised x1, 3HP 17 - Temperance - Uninjured, 3HP 14 - Sekhmet - Uninjured, -2 Defense 11 - Diehard - Bruised x1, Dazed 11 - Khania - Uninjured, Slowed 10 - Blackfire - Uninjured, Entangled 4 - Glamazon - Bruised x1, 1HP
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It will take the HP; Diehard's Defense is at 19 this turn after his All-Out Attack last round. The 22 does it, with +1 DC from the Autofire. Diehard Toughness Save vs. DC 25. (1d20+8=19) 27 - Guy Fawkes - Uninjured, Demoralized 27 - Errant - Uninjured, 2HP 23 - Heka - Uninjured, Insubstantial 4 18 - Set - Bruised x1, 3HP 17 - Temperance - Uninjured, 3HP 14 - Sekhmet - Uninjured 11 - Diehard - Bruised x1, Dazed, -3 Defense 11 - Khania - Uninjured, Slowed 10 - Blackfire - Uninjured, Entangled 4 - Glamazon - Bruised x1, Dazed, 1HP
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"Ra's glorious buttock, apparently looks can kill," Set muttered, holding his scorched pectorals as he forced himself back to his feet with more effort than he would have liked to admit. "Hoo! Sepermeru. That takes me back. Frontier town! Cowboys of the desert, haha! Tsk. You know, I have not had this body long; I'd prefer to keep it in one piece!" Dusting himself off and squaring his shoulders, the godling have Errant a gesture of gratitude as Khania was temporarily kept from attacking again. "My earnest thanks, oh silent sheik! Now for some thrilling heroics, yes?" With that Set abruptly slid away into the shadow of the car he'd been perched upon, sinking into the darkness as though it were a pool of water. He reappeared out of view of the battle, underneath a fallen support beam in the laboratory itself, smoke filling the room and crackling flames generating a heat that would have been life threatening to any ordinary mortal. Indeed Set's storm cloud grey eyes pierced the smog to spot a pair of people in lab coats, an older woman with greying hair and thick glasses and a younger man, presumably a student at the university with disheveled blond locks. The former was crouched near the latter, who had a leg pinned under more of the collapsed laboratory, shouting for assistance. A quick step around a falling ceiling tile brought Set next to them with a reassuring smile. "I admire your dedication to scholarly pursuits, citizens, but school be perhaps out for the day, yes? Haha!" Placing a hand on each of their shoulders, he pulled them both along with him into another shadow, coming back out in the darkened alleyway across the street. "Charles needs medical attention," the professor noted as soon as she'd regained her bearings, taking the unconventional method of extraction in stride even as the younger man was attempting to stutter out a disbelieving question. "And you mustn't allow those thugs to escape with that sample! It's from one of those alien, infiltrator automatons, who knows what they might plan for it!" Her warning coincided with Guy Fawkes seeking a hiding place in the same alleyway, quickly placing him between Set and Sekhmet in her leonine form, poised to pounce from atop a car. "Never fear, oh honored pedagogue! You are under the protection of Set, Prince of the Desert Winds, ever a friend to academia and an enemy to jumping men in silly masks! Follow me on the feed of tweeting!"
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Khania let out a cry of confusion tinged with outrage, weaving about in the sky as she fought through Errant's attack. Her alien mind was slick under the telepath's grasp, nearly slipping away from him and preventing him from taking the princess out of the fight entirely. Even so, her unsteady hovering suggested she was no longer operating at full capacity and it was becoming clear that the heroes needed every advantage they could muster. If any doubt as to that remained, it evaporated a moment later as Heka's eyes flared with arcane power from within his icy bonds. Turning as transparent as the ice itself, he slid back out and into the open air as if passing through a cloud, his entire body taking on the same phantom quality as the giant hand that had gripped Errant. "You shall rue that indignity, water witch!" he snarled, raising a fist and clenching so hard the popping of knuckles was audible. You shall-- hold. I... She Who Mauls? The Lord of Sepermeru? What blasphemy is this...?!"
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Bending backward from the knees until he was practically parallel to the floor, Erik dodged under the lower strike by a hair's breadth before twisting at the waist and snapping back upright. It was a flashy, visually impressive move but Eve knew she'd forced the older fencer to expend a considerable amount of energy with her feint, placing him on the defensive right off the bat. Not that one would have been able to tell from his relaxed tone as he continued their conversation. "Good to hear. About the protecting and the preparing, not the ticking people off part, obviously." Sliding back a half-step, he launched a trio of quick jabs to keep the white haired young woman occupied. "It happens. Not everyone is immediately endeared by my charms, either, if you can believe it."
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"Aye, well, perhaps spoken out of earshot of my divinely forgiving sister Isis, my fortunately less-feathered friends," Set suggested, coughing lightly into his fist. "For your own sake, yes?" Even with the hand in front of his face and the warning the young god could not hide a genuinely pleased expression at Hafet-Re's thanks, so much so that it seemed to have instilled some approximation of modesty. That uncharacteristic lack of boasting was not lost on his taller companion. "No claims of innate superiority? No instance only fools would doubt thy victory?" Sekhmet asked with a faint smile that might have seemed almost playful on a visage less given to ferocity. Shoving Set in the shoulder with enough force to send him stumbling a few steps over as he regained his balance, she snorted. "Who be thee, and what has become of the liesmith?"
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Khania Will Save vs. DC 17. (1d20+8=16) That means she's Slowed. Heka Move Action: Turning Insubstantial to get out of Snare. Tossing Temperance an HP for her trouble! Standard Action: Demoralize vs. Temperance. (1d20+15=16) Set Hero Point: Remove Daze. Full Round Action: Turnabout Teleport: Teleporting scientist out of lab and into alleyway. Taunt Guy Fawkes. (1d20+15=29) Guy Fawkes Bluff Check vs. DC 29. (1d20+13=19) 27 - Guy Fawkes - Uninjured, Demoralized 27 - Errant - Uninjured, 2HP 23 - Heka - Uninjured, Insubstantial 4 18 - Set - Bruised x1, 3HP 17 - Temperance - Uninjured, 4HP 14 - Sekhmet - Uninjured, -2 Defense 11 - Diehard - Uninjured, -3 Defense 11 - Khania - Uninjured, Slowed 10 - Blackfire - Uninjured, Entangled 4 - Glamazon - Bruised x1, Dazed, 1HP Still need an IC post for Errant, then one for Heka and Set. After that, Temperance is up.
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Jack of all Blades / Jill O'Cure (6) >Paying it Forward (6) Midnight II (9) >The Black Rainbow (2) >Grand Prix (2) >Vengeance from the Grave (5) Wail (10) >Your Spirit Lives On (2) >Ash and Dust (4) >Both Alike in Dignity (4) Ghost Girl Nada. Set / Sekhmet (7) >Under Wraps (4) >Fearsome Five by Five (3) GM (7) >Fearsome Five by Five (7) Whelp. Should be able to funnel enough down to Set to push him over 25. He can have the ref point, too.
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Flexing his fingers to shake off the shock of the front door, LaMarr looked at the one blocking the way to the basement with supreme annoyance. Magic wards, force fields, impervium alloys, it all came down to a bigger, better barricade. What he'd learned many years ago was that you could never barricade everything. "Stand behind me," he told Nick, cracking his neck to the left, then the right, "and cover your ears." Taking a deep breath, Wail let out a bass note that was felt more than heard, a concussive wave that turned the walls and floorboards surrounding the protected door into splinters instantly. In the space of second the first floor of the dilapidated building had been torn asunder, leaving a gaping hole into the basement below. "Little pig, little pig..." he called downward, punching into his opposite palm with a meaty noise.
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Backing away from the growling lioness, Fawkes tucked into a tumbling roll that brought him around to scoop up his thrown dagger and then behind a parked car. Using the ample distractions of the ongoing battle royale, the mask wearing demolition man managed to double back into the welcoming shadows of a nearby alleyway, quickly slipping out of view. Unfortunately for him the scent of sweat under a black cloak in summer heat still hung in the air, more than enough for Sekhmet to corner him once more, leaping about the concrete jungle as easily as savannah plains. Meanwhile, the phantom hand pinning Errant's arms to his sides and holding him in the air had begun to waver as soon as Temperance's attack had taken hold of Heka. As the young telepath continued to struggle, the digits finally disappeared in a great, rolling puff of thin blue smoke as is someone had suddenly blown on a pile of sawdust. Free once more, he dropped back down to the street nearby a discombobulated Set just in time to hear the roof of the university lab give way, one side falling inward at a steep angle while shouts of alarm continued from within!
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Guy Fawkes Move Action: Retrieve Knife. Move Action: Hide in Plain Sight - Stealth Check 22 with Skill Mastery. Sekhmet Notice Check vs. DC 22. (1d20+10=22) Also, should have done this as soon as he failed the Reflex Save, but: Heka Concentration Check vs. DC 20. (1d20+10=18) That means he doesn't maintain the Telekinetic grapple and Errant is free to act! 27 - Guy Fawkes - Uninjured 27 - Errant - Uninjured, 2HP 23 - Heka - Uninjured, Bound/Helpless 18 - Set - Bruised x1, Dazed, 4HP 17 - Temperance - Uninjured, 3HP 14 - Sekhmet - Uninjured, -2 Defense 11 - Diehard - Uninjured, -3 Defense 11 - Khania - Uninjured 10 - Blackfire - Uninjured, Entangled 4 - Glamazon - Bruised x1, Dazed, 1HP
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Apparently not ruffled by the perilously close lightning strikes, Sekhmet maintained her grip on the the chin of the final sorcerer, lifting him back upright and extending her arm so that his feet hung off of the ground. Her remaining hand clenched and unclenched twice as she scowled at the dazed and unresponsive mortal before she finally let out a flat snort of derision. With inhuman speed and strength she simply backhanded the necromancer across the cheek, letting the force carry him out of her grip to pirouette briefly midair before resting in an unconscious heap atop his peer. As the last opponent fell the raging gale began to peter out, the weather returning to normal in short order. "Well! A good showing all round, haha! Now, where did those ba get off to?"
