Supercape

Supercape looked at the factor 4 somewhat shocked. Who are these chaps? he wondered as he marvelled at Wanders fluid strength and speed. "Errr...." he started. "Please refrain from further illegal activity!" he declared in a loud voice, waggling a finger in a theatrical manner. "Your presence here is both unwanted and futile! you cannot hope to succeed!" He coughed. "I must ask you to descend immediately and turn yourself into the relevant authorities! what say you?"

GM Granite practically walked into Wander's furious assault. Electing to meet her fist with a skilled chin-block, he promptly sank to his knees and keeled over, his eyes glazed over. The rest of the factor 4 were clearly shocked but not without wit. "Out of our way!" proclaimed Fathom "this facility is ripe for the taking, and we won't be stopped!" he punctuated his declaration with a blast of water that streamed over Wanders head and lubricated the corridor behind her. The airy form of Slyph flew around Wander but could not match the speed of her target. "Stay still!" she moaned, as she tried to cut of the air supply to the heroines head.

Righty ho... 1d20+12=13 Could it get any worse? no! KO!

I may be missing the rules here, but I think the "Trick" action should have been the move component of your previous action and stated there against a particular opponent - its not a "reaction" as far as I can see. Having said that, as both missed, its fair enough that you would have tried to trick one of them - or indeed one of the other two. Could you specify who? I don't think you could trick more than one opponent from the rules [p42 you trick "an" opponent] - unless of course you are using two move actions to do two tricks.

1d20+10=20 Granite stunned one round! Slyph is going to do her suffocate thing one Wander.... 1d20+9=18... Miss Fathom will try and water blast 1d20+10=15 You are too fast for em! Do you want to edit post or add another, or shall I ?

OK For reference: Warder 26 - HP 3 - Unharmed Slyph 18 Unharmed Prof Fathom 17 - Unharmed Supercape 13 - HP 1 - Unharmed Pyre 8 Unharmed Granite 3 Unharmed

"Ummm, careful with that, dear" murmured Supercape, as he encased himself in a charged lattice of molecules that served as a force field. "Lot of fragile equipment around" he continued distractedly. Meanwhile, he concentrated, forming a quantum hole, the energy packets of information between his current location and the elevator becoming entangled. He closed his eyes, sensing the ebb and flow of data. "Two solid humanoids, one large. One high energy man shaped thing - insubstantial. Probably heat, given its IR spectrum. " He blinked as the hole collapsed. "In other words, unlikely to be your regular crooks. "

Its SMASH time For reference Initiative: Supercape: 1d20+0=13 Prof Fathom: 1d20+3=17 Granite: 1d20+0=3 d'oh Pyre: 1d20+3=8 Slyph: 1d20+6=18

"MAybe" replied Supercape, scratching his chin. "Maybe not. Lift camera is down. Some of the security protocols have been breached. I suspect a thief. How the hell did they get through the security door?" He paused, looking at the controls. "They are coming this way. Up. I can lock the lift at this level and we can see exactly what's happening..."

"Well, the Lab is still new. But potentially, we can do almost any research. Biological, chemical, physical. Even psychological and sociological. Most of the building is closed to the public, although we do have guest facilities. " He paused, and examined a flashing light on a computer terminal "that's odd..." he mumbled "lift shaft B... its registered as activated" he punched a few keys on the computer "but nobody else with that access clearance has registered at the ground level..."

"Depends on whose perspective you are taking, my dear" he answered. The quantum material snapped soundlessly in twain. Supercape examined the readouts "here, see. It was the absolute tensile strength similar to solid steel - but up until the point it breaks, there is zero deformity. As I suspected. So bullets won't move it a molecule. Not that it has any, but if it had, they wouldn't. " "Next up, radiation! and for this, we need those lead lined shields you kindly brought over. Nice work by the way, they weigh a ton. I would have done my back in!" he winked. He fiddle a few knobs on the lab equipment "multi phase harmonic laser" he motioned at a robotic arm that slowly wheeled its way to the centre of the room "powerful, takes a while to warm up, fires in all spectrum's... altered by this dial" he continued, giving her an elementary explanation. The laser fired up and started giving out short pulses of radiation, whilst Supercape examined the readouts, nodding at the results.

"Its made of... ummm.... quantum stuff" he replied vaguely "look, in many ways it doesn't technically exist. Its sort of pretending" this stuff was hard to explain without going into complex maths. "Its a false vacuum. It could potentially collapse at any moment. Although according to the many worlds anthropological interpretation of quantum events, if your life depended on it, it won't. Because in the worlds where it did collapse, you wouldn't be around to observe the collapse." Did that make sense? It did to him. "Most of the time it exists. Some of the super geniuses floating around Freedom City will make it collapse if they look at to hard. Or if you study it too hard. That's why I have to be careful not to think about it too..." He looked up. "Damn. There it goes. " Indeed, after his lecture, combined with all the readings, the quantum matter had vanished, and one robot arm was spinning helplessly. He groaned. "Right, lets try again. Without too much explanation about what it is... which it definitely is. I must remember it does exist. Which it does. Unquestionably. " He formed another sheet and reset the robot arms. This time they took up the strain and started to exert themselves on the sheet, electric motors whirring as they ramped up the pressure.

"Very good!" said Supercape "yes indeed it has those properties. Err...ish. Don't look at it too hard. By which I mean, don't examine its nth dimensional wavestring entanglement, or its false vacuum state may collapse. " "Ahem. Anyway. " He gestured to the heavy lead screening. "Would you mind bringing that over here. Radiation brings me out in a rash. " With another gesture, he formed a sheet of quantum matter in the centre of the lab. With a little knob turning, he manipulated the two robotic arms to take a good grip on it. "First of all - tensile strength!"

In case we are doing search checks Taking 20 Slicks check would be 23 If we are doing it fast: 1d20+3=15

Still breathing huh... I don't know if killing him would be a mercy, a justice, or just wrong... "We need to take some of his blood for anaylsis. Search the room, see what we can find. Stop it here. After that..." She prodded the flesh on the floor "...I'm not sure what to do with this... thing... It shouldn't be breathing. "

Mumbled voices in Latin!

Supercape opened up his hand and the slightly blue-purple crystalline substance he had termed quantum matter formed, in the shape of a sphere, in it. "Quantum matter" he said, and let his hand go. The bauble remained, glaring in the light. He gave it a prod, and it wafted over to Warder. "Go on, have a play!" he smiled as it floated towards her. He started adjusting some dials "I need to find out its physical properties. Not that it technically has any, but still. Best not to think about that too much..." he said aloud, more to himself than his audience.

Notice rolls at this point, hearing anything beyond the manhole. It is not easy DC 20. 1d20+10=18 Zip for SC.

Quentin dutifully followed behind Etain, trying hard not to think about the filth running past them, or the smell that assaulted his nose. He pitied any metahuman with supersmell coming down here. As they reached the ladder, it could be seen that it was rusted and in poor array. It appeared to lead up to nowhere, but by dusting off the wall and ceiling, another ancient iron manhole could be seen.

"Yes, we could do with some of those boxes being lifted over..." he mumbled off "...never mind all that, we have to get you that science certificate thingy don't we!" he beamed enthusiastically. He opened the door to Laboratory 19.3, a physics room, one of the larger ones, full of computers and power cables, and dominated by a central scanner, thrice the size of any electron microscope or MRI, and capable of both functions and more. Besides the scanner were some heavy duty robotic arms that could be operated from the computer console. Sensors and cameras littered the room, all pointing to the central device. "What we are aiming for, however, its extreme precision. To the precise number of pounds force per square inch. Varying both parameters. Testing for deformation and plasticity. And of course, we will then need to proceed to various other mediums - light, sound, heat, all sorts of electromagnetic radiation. " He pointed towards a think lead lined shield "for which we will need to use that. Please be careful!"

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Supercape sighed. Scratch subtle he realised. "Well, that would be very nice dear. Perhaps we can do that. " he coughed and looked away "however, that might not be very precise would it. Scientific method and all that" he tried to be as gentle as possible, without being downright patronising. Its all good P.R. for the Lab he told himself. Besides which, he actually quite liked teaching. His ward was no Einstein, but neither was she stupid. Ding! Floor 19! intoned the pleasant artificial voice of the lift. "Aha! here we are" he announced as they entered the floor. A network of corridors partitioned the Lab at this point, each corridor leading to a large laboratory. Everything was spacious, and light, with natural sunlight permeating most areas. The floor was not entirely spick and span, as the Lab (whilst fully functional) was still in the process of setting up its particulars. Heavy crates full of machines and instruments were strewn around, ready to be unpacked, and here and there were signs of fine tuning going on to the building. A few power tools lay around, as did some paint and plastic sheets.

"Pleasure to meet you my dear" he said, giving her a polite little bow (peppered with a superfluous hand wave). He gestured towards lift chute 1, the north side of the Lab. "Up we go then" he commented, and handed her a high tech electronic pass key "good for 4 hours" he commented "and attuned to your biometric signature. Which from all accounts is pretty unique!" "So, for today's project" he said, when they reached the lift "we are testing the physical and electromagnetic resilience of quantum matter" he explained. And we have some extremely heavy crates that could do with lifting he commented to himself. "How's your physics?" he asked politely.

Ok, So Supercape is Powerstunting with Extra Effort: Environmental Control (Bright Light), Perception Range, Continuous. This allows him Rank 28 in the Power - more than enough. Its 100,000 foot, so basically he can illuminate at his hearts content. He is fatigued. Not going to burn off an HP yet.

"" cursed Quentin. Of course he would be able to navigate perfectly well. The same could not be said for his lady friend. "" he called back, and concentrated deeply. Photons were complex things, and this wasn't going to be easy. Furrowing his brow, he started shifting some atoms this way and that. He hadn't done this before, and he could see why, elusive little particles. There! he said, as the subatomic jigsaw fell into place. Bright blue light filled the entire sewer as far as the eye could see. He wiped the sweat from his brow, and took a breath. That was hard, but he could hold it in place. "" he proclaimed.