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"Well, sure. Masks are used for all kinds of things! They're cool," Liz agreed; her own mask was growing thinner and flatter as it spun, until a final rotation where it was so two-dimensional that it was all but invisible when turned away from the onlooker - at which point it disappeared entirely and she dropped her hand back into her lap. A perfectly normal way to put one's mask away. "We'll just have to keep our eyes peeled for mummies, ghosts, mummy ghosts, ceremonial inscriptions, and faceless or maskless statues that look suspiciously like levers or secret doors." She grinned, turning in her seat to peer out a window; it would have been a better option if she'd taken a seat where she could peer forward instead of back. "Do you know how far out we are?"
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"Nuh uh! You're cool, roomie!" Liz laughed, freeing an arm from the hug so that she could pull her mask off and tuck it into a robe pocket that was in no way large enough to hold it. "All those elves and the Krampus and you were all, 'pow!' Where do I get that kind of firepower?" She opened the hug up to look down at what was left of a winter wonderland battlefield, one arm still slung around her roommate's shoulder; the other flicked a mock salute at the assorted illusory duplicates, each of them turning to give a stage bow as they flickered back into snow and scattered light. "We're okay up here!" she shouted, waving her free hand. Abby hadn't seemed too put out by what little had gotten through to her - if she wasn't going to bring it up, Liz sure wasn't going to force the wind out of her sails. "No damage to the roof, I think, but we might want to check the windows later!"
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ooc Through the Mirrored Glass and Back Again (OOC)
Fox replied to Zeitgeist Blue's topic in Archives
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Elizabeth laughed, quietly, digging in her bag for her own mask. "That's kind of ironic, isn't it? Or at least, it's the opposite of a lot of masks," she said, contemplating the face of her artifact before turning it to look at the others. "They're usually to hide who you are, or make you look like someone else." She spun it on one finger and when it turned back around it had become animalistic, a totemic impression of a raven. "Or, ceremony, I guess, or to evoke something that isn't part of your own face." It continued to spin, Liz looking at it like it would answer her - a demon, a fox, a sock & buskin face, a spider. "I kind of like the Egyptian take. If the mask wasn't for the mummy, though, it makes me wonder if it's somebody else's face, or just a pure ceremony kind of thing. I don't think we should wear it if a soul might be looking for it, though, just in case?"
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"It was so many books!" Liz said, raising her hands in the gesture of one who had suffered so much, and yet still tasted bitter defeat. "So many dry articles and journals by people with terrible handwriting, and nothing worth mentioning. But!" She held up a finger, a smile crawling across her lips and a sparkle in her eyes. "But, that just means we get to solve a mystery and then we get to write the terrible journals and someone else will have to read them in the future, and that will be much better." Her smile broke into a grin, but she none-the-less bobbed the finger as if to make a very serious point. "If I write anything about this trip it's going to be a lot more fun to read and at least mostly true."
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Masque "...hmm. Oh dear. Ooh dear." Masque looked down on the chaos of the battlefield with no small dismay; so much happening to so many all at once, and it was almost impossible to track. She was pretty sure they weren't losing, but she felt pretty bad for anyone who didn't have a rooftop vantage point - she felt like she'd be lost if she was down there, trying to pick targets out of the chaos. "...hm." That was a thought. She spun her staff, shedding her and Abby's combined magic as she flicked another tiny point of light toward the face of the Krampus. "Here's a magic trick for you - no peeking!" The light went off like a tiny star, blinding the creature and casting shimmering light back into the surrounding snow. The star faded, but the snow did not, a rainbow of colors that coalesced into perfect images of all the students Masque could see, posed, fighting, and entirely insubstantial. "I always did like the house of mirrors," Masque confided to Arcana. Her brain and mask were practically vibrating with the effort of coordinating everything at once, but it was...it was kind of fun. "It'll be a great trick as long as he doesn't just hit everyone at once again."
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That should just be doable. Masque is going to extra-effort a power stunt on her trickster array, creating the following 'slot': Dazzle 8 (visual; Feats: Accurate 3) [19pp], Concealment 4 (all visual, 200' cone; Extras: Affects Only Others [0], Area (Cone) [1]; Feats: Progression 2, Selective) [15pp] (34/34pp) This is the 'mirror images' style Concealment, not the "you're all invisible" style. Sorry, folks! But if she can see you, enemies have a 50% miss chance, so that's something, and maybe you can spin it into a surprise attack. She'll also try to dazzle the Krampus before she free-actions the Mirror Images, to keep it from cheating at the ol' cups-and-balls trick: Ranged Attack Roll vs. Krampus: 1d20+12 19 DC18 Reflex vs Dazzle (blindness) if that hits, at least, and then the usual Fortitude saves to recover after.
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Hmm, may not go for the team-up attack this time. Let's see. Question since I couldn't catch you in chat, @Gizmo: how big an area effect (or, ideally, a cone from her rooftop position) might Masque have to do to cover all the students in the fight?
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Liz had been...somewhat less fortunate, having no credentials or family name to speak of, but what she did have were big grey eyes, and an innocent face, and an endearing story about how awful it had been and how she'd just managed to make it into a bathroom and listened to everything happen and wasn't it just horrible and weren't they all so lucky that those great heroes had shown up when they did, officer? "I'm not much good for politics, but I'll help with any research we want to do," she offered, smoothing her dress in the back of the limo. She'd never been in a limo. She could get used to it. "Count me in on the trip, though, if you'll have me! If this was just a museum, can you imagine the real thing?"
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"She got pulled in when Veronica did," Masque explained, twisting at her cloak with one hand; she still felt bad about that, recent though it had been. Why hadn't she been able to do anything about it? This place was too strange, too large for a suit of armor owned by a teenager like her. She'd take her mask any day. "Whatever it was just left me alone. Veronica made it out okay, though, so I'm really hoping...." The alternatives weren't really worth discussing. "She'll have made it out okay, she's pretty strong. If we can help her, we should, but we really ought to deal with that helmet and get out of here, too, before we all start disappearing into mirrors."
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Combat Flat-footed defense is half base defense rounded up, rather than down. Blame the game designers for this one, it trips everyone up. At +10 melee attack and +2 Strength, this character would have a +12 grapple bonus. At +5/+3 Toughness, this character would have -2/-1 Knockback. Feats Minor typo: 'Bsuiness'. I'm assuming the 'Commander Suit' will have powers that are only relevant per-thread, defined by the GM when it and if it comes up? Odd to see Attack Specialization in a device that isn't on the sheet.
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Combat +4 base Attack, and Accurate 1 on the staff damage powers gives it another +2. That'd be +6 total for the Magic Staff - did I miss a +2 bonus somewhere to bring it to +8? EDIT: Nope, I'm just blind and didn't realized you'd split the bonus between Accurate and Attack Spec. Skills What does the '84/88' represent in the tally? 88's right by my math, so the pp's fine, but what does the 84 correspond to? Powers For the sake of your GMs, you may want to note that the Magic Robes would give Hex immunity to cold and heat environments, rather than the descriptors themselves. The low cost makes it clear to people who know the power well enough, but that isn't always a guarantee. 'Transform flammable objects into burning objects' seems to stretch the limits of 'transform', since "on fire" isn't the state of an object so much as a condition inflicted upon it. That said, it's easy enough to hand-wave around (transforming a bit of the surface into something wildly combustible at room temperature, etc) so I'll let GMs adjudicate that in-thread.
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"Ooh! Yes, definitely," Masque said, perking back up. She'd flicked her scepter up to hold it lengthwise between her palms, and now she simply clapped her hands together, the length of it disappearing like so much legerdemain. "I am almost certain I can convince people to let me do that, or sneak away if I have to. That sounds amazing, and after all this I'm happy to help any way I can." Her own mention of 'all this' brought her back from future adventures to the present, and she cast a guilty look around the exhibit floor. "I, um, should probably go find a place to change back, too. If my parents hear about this on the news they're going to blow a valve if they can't reach me, and that's going to be any moment now. I'll catch up with you and Ouro!" The accompanying salute was the last bit of her that vanished into thin air.
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"That's...good?" Masque ventured, albeit a tad weakly, leaning on the handle of her mallet as the near-panic drained out of her. There was still no Abby, but if Veronica had been okay, Abby would be, right? Right. Right. She took a deep breath, mallet dissolving into nothing once more - though she held the pose, leaning on thin air before pushing off of the non-existent handle to sweep an arm across the room. "You, um, you didn't miss a lot, I guess. Arcana got taken when you did, but if you're okay I guess she'll be okay? Breaking the mirrors didn't do much but make me feel a little better, so I don't know if we have a lot of options there. Ouroboros is still off somewhere, and all the drones left which is probably not a good thing. We should regroup and then...figure things out."
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"I'm full up on masks," said Masque - she'd been approaching the case to peer at the target of their villains' avarice, but now she drew back, holding both hands up like she was trying to placate the thing. "One mask is great, but it's plenty for me, thanks! I only have the one face, and all." The other Masque, catching up with Lynx, cocked her head at the unspoken flaw in that statement. "....well, okay, sometimes I have two faces, but that isn't - that's not - you stop that." The other Masque shrugged, gave a deep and flourishing bow at the waist, and dissolved into light like sand before the wind. "I didn't mean...fiiine," the young magician said, drawing a hand down her face in mock exasperation at...herself? She turned back to the others. "Okay, so, it's a key. What's it a key to, though? I'm betting those guys knew, if they wanted it badly to hit this place while so many people were around."
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"What- Ab- Arcana! Veronica!" Masque didn't know what to do. Elizabeth didn't know what to do. She'd been out of her depth this whole trip, as interesting as it had been, but she hadn't been prepared for mirror-doppelgangers stealing her friends away and leaving her...alone. Inside the mechanized LSD trip. While her friends drowned, or got replaced, or.... "Nope. No," she said, reaching out - no sleight of hand, no clever pulling of weapons out of her sleeves this time. Light refracted and drew itself into an over-sized mallet, a cartoonish thing of black metal over simple wood, and she wound it up even as she planted her feet next to one of the walls that had stolen her friends. "Give them BACK!" If the shout hadn't been easily audible to anyone left, the blunt impact hopefully would've.
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The blast to her chest had caught Masque off-guard, but she'd come out no worse for wear...this time. She was a bit more ready for the second one, stepping aside and making a show of brushing burnt cloth off her robe as it flew by. Twice as brave as she felt but half as brave as she wanted them to believe, she closed the distance to the nearest Shadow and slipped a long, thin scepter out of her sleeve. "You don't get to choose whether your fail!" the young heroine announced. She spun the scepter sideways, driving the head of it across the Shadow's guard and into his temple with more force than a thin piece of blackened wood should probably carry. "The exhibit is now closed. No evil today!" Masque's meteor hammer snapped back up into her robe, weightlessly disappearing as if it had never existed in the first place. "Nice!" she said, pumping a fist. "Started and finished. C'mon - they might need backup."
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The Masque with Lynx will (assuming he's also coming with!) head toward the exhibit. No teleporting so that she doesn't leave him behind, but if she can reasonably take two move actions (to cover ~200 feet) or do a Move All Out full-round action (to cover as much of 400' as she can "in a fairly straight line"), she'll do that. The Masque in the exhibit will rush the Shadow that attacked her, and attack him right back. Melee Attack Roll vs. Wheel-in-Shadows (Power Attack -3/+3): 1d20+15-3 28 As ever, that's a DC23 Toughness save.
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Toughness Save vs. Thule Sorcerer, DC23: 1d20+7 23 Whew.
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ooc Through the Mirrored Glass and Back Again (OOC)
Fox replied to Zeitgeist Blue's topic in Archives
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Masque It was a lot to keep up with, and Masque was doing her best. The blast of freezing magic had been bad enough - she'd barely dropped behind a rooftop outcropping before it hit, bits of her robe freezing as they fluttered in the unnatural wind - but then came the creatures from the basket (at least Arcana had those well in hand!), and then an assault on the Krampus that looked good, but not for anybody else nearby. She'd reached out as best she could, the eyes of her mask shimmering as she just...tipped the die. She couldn't stop that attack but she could at least nudge the odds in White Lioness' favor, a butterfly beating her wings once against the gale. It'd have to be enough. And then she had a moment to breathe, and realized she had no plan. The Krampus hadn't been too impressed with her idea of firepower, but that wasn't really her area. Arcana's wave had been pretty good, though... She reached up her sleeve and Mary Poppinsed a six-foot shepherd's crook, old wood wrapped in white cloth for a grip, and gathered a soft white flame into the over-sized hook at the end. "You've got a lot more oomph than I do," she confessed, appearing a few feet from Arcana; she held the staff sideways, offering the wisp up like an offering. "Maybe we can work together?"
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Yep! Masque only has to be within +/-5 of Arcana's DC25 to give her a bonus, so let's err on the side of accuracy. Ranged Attack Roll vs. Krampus (Accurate Attack +2/-2): 1d20+12+2 20 ....huzzah for attack tradeoffs! That'll add +2 to the DC on Arcana's attack.
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ooc Through the Mirrored Glass and Back Again (OOC)
Fox replied to Zeitgeist Blue's topic in Archives
Concentration Check: 1d20+8 20 Survival Check (untrained): 1d20+0 8 Will Save: 1d20+7 25 Stealth Check (untrained): 1d20+3 19