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Initiative Rolls, Gaian Knight & Tiamat (1d20 + 0=3, 1d20 + 1=15) Hahaha. Oh, GK. You are simply terrible. GK goes on 3. Tiamat goes on 15.
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Arichamus El Heraldo: 3 PP King of Suits: 2 PP Red Moon: 1 PP Wave-Eye: 1 PP AvengerAssembled Citizen: 1 PP Comrade Frost: 2 PP Edge [maxed]: 1 PP Harrier: 1 PP Azuth65 Silver Spider: 1 PP Siphon: 0 PP Wisp: 0 PP Blue Rose Kit: 1 PP, and can now be up to PL9! Stormbreaker: 1 PP Dr Archeville Dead Head: 1 PP (Ref point) Doktor Archeville [maxed]: 1 PP Ref Point (because we love him and miss him) Protectron: 0 PP Electra Fleur de Joie [maxed]: 3 PP Miss Americana [maxed]: 1 PP Papercut: 4 PP, and can now be up to PL15! Wander [maxed]: 2 PP Fox Dragonfly: 1 PP Gaian Knight: 2 PP Wraith: 0 PP Geez3r Maxima: 3 PP Gizmo Ghost Girl: 1 PP Jack of all Blades [maxed]: 2 PP Midnight (II) [maxed]: 2 PP Wail: 2 PP Set: 3 PP GranspearZX Arcturus: 2 PP Crusader: 1 PP JackgarPrime Victory: 1 PP KnightDisciple Cobalt Templar: 0 PP Fenris: 1 PP Gabriel: 1 PP, and is now MAXED! Quinn Crow: 1 PP Raveled Blue Jay: 1 PP Ironclad: 0 PP Starlight: 0 PP Sorus Blue Fox:1 PP Willow: 1 PP Supercape Bloody Mess: 2 PP Lord Steam: 1 PP Rene de Saens: 4 PP Supercape [maxed]: 5 PP Pitch: 4 PP The Absurdist Asad: 1 PP Errant: 1 PP Thevshi Velocity: 3 PP Tsunami: 1 PP Thunder King Crimson Tiger: 1 PP Solar Sentinel: 1 PP TiffanyKorta Blodeuwedd: 1 PP Merge Trois: 1 PP Revenant: 2 PP Young Britannia: 1 PP trollthumper Cannonade: 2 PP Cavalier: 2 PP Nick Cimitiere: 1 PP Temperance: 2 PP Vahnyu Hronos: 3 PP Net Fly: 3 PP Any players or characters not listed above didn't post counts for May. All edits have been made; as always, please let us know if you see anything out of place.
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"Oookay, early stop, folks," Gaian Knight announced as their platform slowed to a mid-air halt. "I can't quite see it, but there's something in--" He cut off as the platform lit up slightly - Tiamat's grinning face was cast in an eerie glow as fire trickled out of her mouth to cast flickering light and shadow across the area. "--in this underground pocket with a probably poor air supply, if it gets fresh air at all," he emphasized. His partner in crimefighting grumbled something about magic, but the world went dark again as her fire died out. "Thank you. The great thing about a coat like mine is that you're never short on pockets; I should have, somewhere...aha." He flicked his flashlight on, shining its beam across the room until it landed on.... "....well. That's....grim."
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Quickly hiding her hands behind her back, Mara was the very picture of thumbs-up-less innocence as she watched Ellie pull out the marshmallows. "S'mores! Yes. Essential, or so I read. Probably need to save them for after other food, but...hm. Need sticks? Think sticks are traditional. Sharpened." She pulled her odd, custom-built multi-tool off her belt, absently flicking it open with practiced fingers and pulling out its small but serviceable knife blade. "If you can find us straight, strong sticks nearby or from the stuff Ellie and I gathered, Yolanda, I can start getting them ready for later. One for everyone, unless Erik wants to eat off a sword. Which he might - seems like him."
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Dragonfly disabled her radio transceiver for a moment and muffled her audio, though it didn't stop the sharp-eared from hearing a noise of strangled frustration though her suit's face plate. "You do not power important things with people," she said, mentally flipping communication back on. "It is not a good idea. But, somewhere to start - local first. Do not like the idea of people like this hiding in the city." The heroine's plated gauntlets flexed open, little tools on articulated arms folding out as she took stock of the ship. "Will help you - tell me what you need. Apparently not short on salvage parts if required."
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"That is one tough bird," Gaian Knight observed from his position above the bound creature. The base of his platform blossomed, looking like nothing so much as some overly-spiked flower or pinecone, before the individual pieces broke away to rain down on the Kaiju in a flurry of blunt missiles. Each flew unerringly toward the Simurgh, striking with as much force as he could manage from his vantage point where ever feather and flesh could be found exposed between Fleur's plants. "Very tough," he added, frowning down past the edge of his platform at the somewhat less-than-spectacular results of his volley.
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Welp, too far to coup de grace, so he'll try to wear it down the old-fashioned way. Ranged Attack Roll vs. Simurgh (autofire blast; Power Attack -2/+2) (1d20 + 12 - 2=28) Goodness. Base DC27, +2 power attack +5 (assuming it has 18 or less defense when bound) = DC34 Toughness vs. damage.
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Gaian Knight >Leaves in the Wind (2) >Set Up (4) 2+4= 6 posts Dragonfly >The Man Who Fell to Earth (1) >Odd Jobs (1) >Spring Thaw (3) 1+1+3= 5 posts Wraith - 0 posts NPC Tiamat - >Here There Be Dragons (1) 1/2= 0 posts Ref point to GK, please.
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Happy birthday, Dr. A!
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"Good job," Mara agreed, briefly resting a hand on Yolanda's shoulder, and offering her an increasingly less rare combination of a smile and a voice with genuine - if characteristically muted - pride. "Good attitude. Just remember that you're allowed to be happy and do things for you, too." To Erik she shot a quick thumbs-up, though for the sake of the charade of subtlety she waited until Ellie was looking away. "Beans, yes. Authentic camping food, I think? Also other foods. ....hoping you packed more than beans."
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"Fair enough," Gaian Knight agreed, gesturing at the man - at his beckon the doctor's cocooned form floated into the air to join everyone else on the platform. "We'll hopefully see you there, Willow - take care of yourself. And the floor...nah." He gestured at the already-lengthening tunnel into darkness below the building, where the concrete could already be seen giving way to dirt and stone as their platform descended. Above them, earth closed up the tunnel over their heads until those without exotic senses had only the moving air and their own inertia to tell them they were moving...and moving increasingly fast. "Concrete used to be stone and clay. It's not great to work with, but ultimately it remembers where it came from. It still knows how to listen."
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"Mmh - chairs. Useful," Mara complimented, setting her collection of wood down not too far from the pit. She stretched, rubbing her arm where a branch had dug into it a little, and looked around at the tents. "Water - yes, please. Been busy, apparently. Yolanda helped out?" Not that she had any doubt the young girl was every inch as helpful as she could be - and that lack of doubt came through in her voice - but it never hurt to find an opportunity to remind the refugee adoptee that she was pretty great.
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12pp of feats in the feat section, but 14pp listed in the final tally. The final point tally (once corrected) is indeed 180pp, though, and it's the only math issue I see, so it seems silly to make you fix this yourself before approving. I've taken the liberty of editing your sheet to correct the Feat tally. :approved:
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"....yeah, okay," Gaian Knight said, slowly, as he took in the conversation. "Going to need a second, though." He'd once told Fleur de Joie, jokingly, that the trick to finding things in the earth was to think small. It was a little more true than he could easily explain: only a few seconds after he sat down, cross-legged with his hands in his lap, the hero's eyes snapped open with a glow so powerful his goggles lit up like miniature soft spotlights and he just...wasn't there anymore. His body was exactly where it had been, sitting on the dirt and cracked tiles, but- -it was infinitesimally tiny, a fleeting mite on an ancient being. The Earth Below was vast and old, a lithic plate riding an ocean of molten stone that it had been birthed from, and that it would one day return to in the great cycle. But this piece of The Earth had seen interesting times in the cycle; the animals had formed and reformed to walk upright, built surprisingly large above-ground caverns and dug deep into their giving host for metals and gems. And lately, in what was barely a fraction of a moment of the cycle, something had taken root; The Plants were sustained freely and happily by The Earth but this was more curious than most, roots large even on the plate's scale, drawing toward- Gaian Knight frowned, shaking his head to clear it. "Got her," he announced, ground cracking sharply as a large piece of the floor broke free and rose up an inch or two, earth underneath it silently melting out of the way. The dirt in a circle around the hero had pulled itself into a curious pattern that was ruined by the motion, but he was either ignoring it, or ignorant of it. "All aboard the subterranean express. I can't guarantee this Mother won't notice our approach, with all the roots in the way, but we'll be less exposed to other heroes and I'll avoid what I can."
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I was all worried about GK trying to find the Mother until I remembered he had a 40pp array. So! Stunting off his 40pp array: Burrowing 4 (25mph; Extras: Affects Others, Penetrating; Feats: Subtle) 21pp, ESP 8 (Visual, Tactile, 2000mi radius; Flaws: Medium (Earth); Feats: Subtle, Rapid 2 (100x)) 19pp The general idea being he can try to find the Mother or Fleur, and then take the whole group there. 25mph isn't amazingly fast, but he can go all-out and take it to 100mph if he has to, depending on where they're going. If my math is correct (and I have no guarantee that it is), ESP 8 should take 500x normal search time; a search is a full-round action, so that's almost an hour. Rapid 2 is 100x faster, or 5 rounds, or half a minute give or take dramatic timing. He's looking for the Mother, where ever she may be hiding - trying to find suspicious-looking pockets of plant matter or anywhere that a whole lot of plants and roots all converge. If he can find out where Fleur went while he's at it, all the better! Though he's limited to what the earth could reasonably 'see' - if it's in the air, he's probably blind to it.
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Gaian Knight didn't like the idea of all that power floating around somewhere either - especially Set's, as it sounded like at least Sekhmet's godly might was safeguarded - but Fleur had a point; there wasn't much the lowly mortals could do about it at this point. Just one more thing to keep him up at night, he supposed. "We can likely offer some help with setting up a modern identity, as well, if you feel the need for one - it's useful to be able to blend into society sometimes rather than standing out as heroes 24/7. It wouldn't be immediate - there's a lot of paperwork - but if you think you're going to want the help we'll probably want to get started sooner rather than later. I'm told it's a lot harder to hide in mortal guise than it was in the good old days," he chuckled. "At least for any length of time."
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Random Notes The Elongation and Super-Strength in the Tentacles AP also apply to your grapple bonus, should you choose to use them. Just a heads-up for when you run into that during play. +2 Impervious Toughness won't save you from much - even your average thug with a knife can get through it - but I can see this as something you build up later or stunt to boost. Things To Look At Looks like the first chunk of your sheet repeats itself - after the first Complications set, it goes back to Player Name. Fort is con-based; with 14 Con out of the suit, and 2pp spent on boosting the save, your out-of-suit Fort save is +4. As long as you're editing, please note the rank of Super-Senses - rank 5, if I'm not mistaken. Everything else looks okay to me, though. Let me know when the sheet's been touched up.
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Tiamat didn't bother following the bird down to ground-level, watching with satisfaction as it was bound in place. Instead she flew back toward the earth-and-plant cage and circled, cutting a slow, lazy spiral into the air over the assembled hero and monster. That didn't mean she was passive, however: on the third turn she bellowed, a deep, powerful sound driven by lungs accustomed to fueling fire - a noise you felt more than heard, vibrating in your bones and in the earth. That and her circling shadow casting patterns on the grasping leaves sent a message that was universal in this or any other animal kingdom: stay down. The air was now owned by a greater predator than you.
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"Ulterior motive?" Mara questioned, doing her level best to sound offended and look hurt. She only mostly succeeded. "Research is for science," she insisted, carefully putting her own sticks down and dusting off her hands. "Never need ulterior motives for science." She stepped into the arms of her girlfriend, the young engineer wrapping her arms around the medic's waist as she tilted her head up for a kiss. "Seriously, though: your butt is nice. Can't focus on it too much; won't make it back with firewood in time."
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Gaian Knight opened his mouth to say something, but didn't get a chance - behind him, Tiamat broke out into laughter; so great was her amusement that her whole body shook, lips pulled back over suspiciously-pronounced canines as she nearly doubled over. "You did, didn't you?" she managed, looking at the pair with unapologetic (if somewhat more sympathetic, for Sekhmet) amusement. "I thought you smelled thin for gods - you brought yourselves low. You took all that ego and all that power and shoved enough of it aside that you could slip through the cracks." "In which case," Gaian Knight cut her off, shooting the woman a look that she politely acknowledged by shutting up, though she looked no less delighted, "In which case, any enemies you might have are less likely to follow you but a lot more likely to send things like those snake women, to try to attack while you're relatively weak, once they find out...if they haven't already."
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Dragonfly didn't reply or visibly react to Fenris' message, though she did let the topic drop; as Miss Americana delved into the ship's computers she went straight to the business of assessing the ship itself, and the...fire. She wasn't sure what to make of that fire. For that matter, she wasn't sure what to make of the ship itself. It all seemed fairly straightforward as she started building a mental model of the design and layout, but while carefully inspecting the stasis chambers and trying to trace power lines back she came to realize that there was something missing. Something rather important. "....there's no power," she said, sounding perplexed and a little doubtful of her own conclusion. "Obviously engines, I mean - conduits, cables. Or equivalents. But no...power source. Fuel. Potential energy. Nothing. It's...what? No. That- obviously had to have power somehow. ...what did this ship run on?"
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Tiamat heads toward the cage, circling in the air and attempting a Demoralize. Intimidate Check vs. Simurgh (Demoralized) (1d20 + 22=41) Note that this includes the size bonus to Intimidate; if Simurgh resists with its own (size-modified) Intimidate, it'll even out. If it resists with Sense Motive, the DC is actually 37.
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Dragonfly takes a look at the flame, trying to determine if it's science or magic. And if science, how it works! Guessing one or both of Physical Sciences and Technology may be useful there, but let me know if you'd like something else: Knowledge (Physical Sciences) Roll (1d20 + 17=20) .....that is awful, Dragonfly. Knowledge (Technology) Roll (1d20 + 15=31) That's better.
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"On the bright side, anyone who watched today's show is probably going to think twice before striking out at you, too," Gaian Knight added, gesturing vaguely. A couple of the rocks that were still floating near him waved in an unconscious mimicry of his hand. "They know you have contacts, now, and you may be weakened but it's pretty obvious you aren't pushovers. But Fleur's right - the more we know about how and why you're here, the better-off we all are, just in case." "It'd also explain some kinda important things," Tiamat added, arms crossed as she leaned against the wall. "I'm no master wizard or whatever, but I'm pretty sure gods aren't supposed to be here. I've got some theories about how you managed it, but if you snuck in maybe others could too - because of you, or just because they found out they could - and a lot of the gods I've known are stupid or jerks. We wouldn't want them hanging around."
