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By this point Nevermore had lapsed into silence, settling into the quick back-and-forth of close combat with this all-too-experienced mercenary. He was annoyed at the fight taking as long as it had, but he had to acknowledge both his still-growing frame's limits, and the somewhat-greater limits of his current skill base. It just made him want to train all the more, really. But that would come later. For now, criminal scum to stop. He suddenly reached back and grasped at his cape, taking just a moment to swirl it around himself to hide just a fraction of his movements, before springing forward. His right leg snapped forward and hooked the taunting man's ankle, before yanking it forward. Of course, the man recovered, but it gave him that split-second opening that Nevermore exploited ruthlessly. Moving in a blur, the young hero quickly grabbed one of the man's arms, twisting it painfully behind the man's back. Nevermore's other arm looped around the man's neck, even as he leapt up and grappled the other arm with his legs, leaving the two of them to fall to the ground in a not-quite-tangle of limbs. For at least a few moments, the would-be thief was left too weighed-down to stand, and unable to do much of anything with his arms or torso, beyond "breath".
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It looks like he'll break out (check result of 15 beats bonus of 12), but it will take until his turn to do so. Long-delayed IC post shortlyish.
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Sun Walker gave a slight smile as Typhon whined about his demigod status (or lack thereof). "Deity proper or not my honored ancestor is in no way an ordinary mortal, and neither am-" And then Set yelled his warning and energy began pouring forth, and the scion of the Monkey King began pushing away even as he spoke. "Oh bot-" And then there was just dust and explosions, before there was roaring, and smashing, and beams of energy flying everywhere. The other heroes were all but swarming the beast, clawing it, punching it, and flinging explosives at it. And then, from one side, as the dust settled, a voice was heard that seemed, finally, to have some emotion. Anger. And maybe a bit of righteous indignation. "Not only was that rude, it was uncivilized, uncalled for..." Sun Walker stands tall, defiant, no more than a couple of scratches and scorch marks on his flawless, hairy body to show the effects of that explosion he had been at ground zero for. Truly his ancestor's prodigious good fortune was with him. Also, he appeared quite mad, and was moving into a stance that seemed odd for one so far back from the action. "You murdered the person whose body you stole. You've erased any chance of them coming back. This crime, and all your other crimes, are unforgiveable." And then he was off like a racecar, dashing across the sands at incredible speed, kicking up two small contrails behind himself before he was airborne just as he reached the great blasphemy of a monster. His leap took him into the air, high enough to reach the three roaring heads of corpse and steel and terrible magic. To the first head, he delivered a pair of punches to the underside of the neck, cracking metal and bone. His tail lashed out and for a moment wrapped around the third head's neck, giving him the leverage to deliver a powerful double kick to the largest, middle head, right on its terrible snout. Using the momentum he had left, he swung out by his tail, using that swing to deliver a quick, crushing grasp to the third neck before releasing it and going into the most graceful free-fall anyone there had ever seen. A single tuck-and-roll later, he was crouched in a low stance, arms held out to his sides, tail lashing angrily and extended to nearly its full length, eyes narrowed, and mouth actually parted in a slight snarl (that was somehow, bizarrely, still at least marginally polite) that displayed his small fangs. It was clear in this moment that Sun Walker was truly displeased with Typhon. The way all of his hair bristled as he gazed upon the Titan was proof enough of that, even aside from all of his other body language.
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Boo! This is why he's getting a Giant Ape Form eventually! Hm. Alright then, scratch both HP expenditures. I will make that Standard Action into a Power Attack: 18. Which is *just* enough, it seems like? So that'll be a DC 25 Toughness Save. Just assume I spend an HP to make him reroll if he makes the save.
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Hrm. Move Action: Get up next to/on the Anti-Hydra. Standard Action: Melee Attack to initiate Grapple: 21. Going to assume that hits? Looks like an 18 hit, so yeah. Grapple Check: 36. Surge for another Standard Action: Attempt to win another Grapple Check to render the Hydra bound: 25. Boo! Hero point reroll: 30, which with the bonus becomes 40. If you're not kosher with me doing 2 Grapple checks like this, Giz, then just drop the surge. I'll wait until you rule on this to do an IC post. If you do allow it, I'll be burning another HP to negate the Surge Fatigue next round, which effectively leaves me at...2 Hero Points, I believe.
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"Stay safe, my friends." And with that echoing in the air, Gabriel was off in a whirl of white leather and silver, streaking through the tight corridors as fast as he could manage. His pace didn't match Velocity's, but it took him only moments to flit down an open stairwell and arrive at another impact site, where more Communion drones were rushing from their landing pod. Gabriel only slowed himself marginally at first as he spotted an outlier of the pack. Instead, he braced his holy spear against his body and adjusted the course of his flight. A few seconds later, his weapon was embedded a couple of inches into the wall (thankfully an interior wall, so nothing beyond some cosmetic damage), holding a struggling drone in place by its torso as the energy animating it slowly ebbed away. A quick twitch of the spear caused a *crack* to sound out, and the drone went fully limp. Gabriel's face, meanwhile, was no longer the calm confidence he'd shown on the bridge. Now, it held anger and disgust. "Judgment comes." Not exactly his friendliest message to a foe.
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Keepin' the crit, I've got HP to spare.
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SPEAR AND MAGIC HELMET! OR AT LEAST SPEAR! Melee Attack: 16. Blurgh. Burning another Hero Point (should put me at 4) to reroll that sucker. Reroll: 32. THE LORD IS WITH HIM TODAY. So that will be a DC 32 Toughness Save. Will wait for IC post until I see how badly I skewered that one, so I know how to fluff this.
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Going to echo what AA and TT have said here. Speaking as likely one of the more conservative members of the forum (if not the most, generaly speaking), and a RL-devoutly religious person playing a devoutly Catholic person (the aforementioned Gabriel), this guy is not quite the right approach to this. It's one thing to play an occasionally-cranky type like Hawkman who makes toothless jokes about "commies" once in a grand while, but generally doesn't do much beyond that, and is entirely willing to help and save anyone and everyone. Or, to use a more personal example, Gabriel has some pretty firm and specific religious beliefs that inform what he views as moral behavior or not. This does absolutely nothing to change how kind and polite he is to everyone, or his willingness to help and save everyone. But taking it a step further, I try my best to not use any IC threads as a space for him to preach on that matter. My view, and the character's view, is that when he's dressed as a superhero, he's supposed to do super-hero-y things. He can have calm debates about religion and morality and society and all that when he's in his civilian guise. Off-screen. Because that's not what this board focuses on. I should mention that Gabriel's build means that if he wanted he could use game mechanics to force other characters to think the way he wants them to think, and there's nothing 99.99% of the population of Earth Prime could do to stop him, especially since he wouldn't even be using the Mind Control power. Being aware of that, I find myself being extra cautious how he speaks on most any matters in any and every thread he is in. I once had him defending the rights of some teenagers to be practicing pagans, spellcraft included, despite his personal beliefs and convictions. He did this alongside a woman who's a devout pagan. It's one of my personal favorite threads precisely because of the balance he walked. At one point he talked one-on-one with one of the teens and told her that while he didn't necessarily share her beliefs or even think they were the best choice, he would absolutely defend her right to have them, and that she should never, ever fear believing what she chose. That's the standard I hold any and all of my characters to, or at least attempt to do so, and that's the standard pretty much everyone sticks to. We have characters of all sorts of religions and politics and races and so on here, and they all get along pretty well, because at the end of the day a.) they know not to preach while heroing, and b.) they're not jerks about it. But also c.) they don't hold to beliefs that are quite as...angrily hostile...as this character's seem to be. It's 1000% fine if your character isn't impressed with how Hollywood or the media go about presenting their messages, or think there are mistakes being made by the government. But a "festering anger" that could just as easily lead him to "destroy Hollywood and half the Federal government"? That's....less fine, gonna be honest.
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I would also like to request the same if possible.
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Gabriel will trust the rest of the team to handle the 1 drone, and take a couple Move Actions with his Flight power engaged to go further down the station than Velocity or Gaian Knight. If 1 Move Action will get him to a god cluster of enemies, let me know and I'll roll a Melee Attack.
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1.) How many Drones are left in the command center room? 2.) Don't have my book handy; Inspire is a Standard action, yes?
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And this may be my largest Inspire to date. I can't recall if there's a hard numerical limit on how many folks can benefit from it. If there is and it's tied to Charisma, assume he's running in his Maximum Charisma array configuration. So if it's based on Cha Bonus, then at least 20 people get the +5. So that's the 5 PCs (GK, Tia, Fleur, Frost, Vel), pluse 15 NPCs. Thus our first round we'll be Inspired and I'll be down an HP, if that's cool.
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Gabriel's face went flat as he saw the enemy ships warp into place all over the globe. Most worryingly for some, one of the ships seemed to be on a collision course with the Lighthouse space station! Yet for all that, the Irish hero remained calm in the face of what some of the station crew seemed to be regarding as imminent death. He simply strode over to the communication console, hit a couple of buttons, then took a single step back, planting his feet as he did. He then raised the heavenly spear in his right hand just a couple inches off the floor, before striking the butt of the weapon against the deck, creating a ringing tone that was almost like a church bell that just happened to get picked up by the intercom and broadcast all across the station. It was the most pleasant, and most attention-getting, intercom tone anyone had ever heard. Then, Gabriel began to speak. "This day is call'd — the feast of Christmas: She that outlives this day, and comes safe home, Will stand a tip-toe when this day is nam'd, And rouse her at the name of Christmas! He that outlives this day, and sees old age, Will yearly on the vigil feast his friends, And say, "To-morrow is Christmas Day;" Then will he strip his sleeve, and show his scars, And say, "These wounds I had on Christmas Day." Old men forget; yet all shall be forgot, But she'll remember, with advantages, What feats she did that day. Then shall our names, Familiar in her mouth as household words, — Gabriel, Tiamat, Fleur de Joie, and Gaian Knight, Robert and Samantha, Carol and Frost, Be in their flowing cups freshly remember'd. This story shall the good man teach his son; And Christmas Day shall ne'er go by From this day to the ending of the world, But we in it shall be remember'd, — We few, we happy few, we band of brothers and sisters. For he to-day that sheds his blood with me, Shall be my brother, my sister; be she ne'er so vile, This day shall gentle his condition: And gentlemen in England, now a-bed, Shall think themselves accurs'd, they were not here! And hold their manhoods cheap, whiles any speaks, That fought with us upon this Christmas Day!" There wasn't a man or woman in the station that didn't somehow, in some way, inspired, uplifted, and generally ready to fight after those words. In his mind and heart, Gabriel just hoped that would be enough today.
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Gabriel continued to sound the battle call on his weapon-turned-instrument, taking a few moments to let his voice echo out once again, the words, and the sheer force of personality behind those words, making the geokinetic, the dragon, and the giant bees (fire-breathing or otherwise) feel infused with courage and determination. The group knew, from the bottom of their hearts, that they could win this! "Stout hearts, my friends! We have the strength to purge this putrescent pestilence from our presence today! Fight on, and purify this land of their taint!" With that short but sweet speech he went back to providing rousing battle music that kept the morale momentum of his words up, the powerful notes lifting the spirits of his fellows and infusing them with just a bit more strength.
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Gabe will continue to Inspire for another round, assuming we're still doing rounds. IC post up shortly-ish.
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Reflex Save vs DC 20: 21. Toughness Save vs DC 20 (25 would be base 15 +10, so half of 10 is 5, thus 20, yay math?): 9. Um. Part of me likes the drama of that but I am not really a fan of having 2 of us down and out! Thus, spending a Hero Point to Reroll: 24. The luck of his ancestor continues!
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As the tail of the horrific machine-beast raced toward him, Sun Walker simply stood there, calmly, his hands grasped before him in a meditative position, his own tail barely twitching behind him. And then the dust and sand and debris were swirling around, real and not imaginary, and he was obscured... Until it settled enough to show him still standing there, fully intact, not so much as a hair harmed. The snake-monster's tail had embedded itself in the sand right next to him, having clearly missed him by an inch or less. The ape-man seemed utterly unperturbed. He glanced at the tail, and then up into the air toward Typhon, then nodded. He then spoke to the snake-creature, oddly enough. "I thank the tormented souls tied to your desecrated body that they will forgive me for this, but I need some assistance." And with a graceful flip, he was standing on top of the bony creature as easily as if on flat ground. At which point he proceeded to quickly hit a speed equivalent to a high-performance car that's on a racetrack or desert highway, quickly reaching the shoulder of the now-stunned monstrosity, before ever-so-carefully placing one foot on top of its roaring head before going airborne. The speed he had built up, combined with the use of the lamia-construct as a ramp, allowed him to actually reach Typhon's rather distracted personage. At which point his tail lashed out and wrapped around the waist and neck of the so-called Father of Monsters. Sun Walker himself quickly followed suit, his arms wrapping up in a classic full nelson hold, while his legs locked around the Titan's own. His tail, showing its true length and strength now, continued to wind about the neck, waist, and torso of the desecrator of the dead until he was rather thoroughly (and a bit fuzzily) bound. "You are quite rude, did you know that? On top of desecrating those resting in peace, I mean. Your manner of speech is most unflattering for one of such a supposedly high station."
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Okay, so, here we go. Gonna get a little kung-fu movie with this one. Move Action: Use Wall-Crawling to run up the Anti-Lamia as a sort of ramp to then Leap up to Typhon. Standard Action: Melee Attack vs Typhon: 35. I'd like to add that +5 to my Grapple Check. Free Action: Grapple Check vs Typhon (to establish Grapple): 43.
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Cobalt Templar blinked. He had not expected this, he wasn't going to lie. He sighed, and mumbled mostly to himself (though likely audible over the comlink). "Worst Christmas ever? No, guess that'd be the one in that one jungle..." In a blur, he circled wide around the battlefield, before coming to a stop well behind the rest of the team, the monster in front of him. He hovered there for a moment, eyeballing the creature, the distance, and so on. Then he re-positioned himself, metallic arms in front, and suddenly was screaming through the air at supersonic speeds. "Making my attack run now. Try going for its eyes, Wander." With a mighty crash and a splash of a few flickers of blue flame, he struck the monster directly on the belly, just as Wander was assaulting its eyes. He struck with incredible force, the momentum of his motion augmented by the might of his magically enhanced muscles.
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Right then! CT is gonna Charge! Thats -2 Defense, +2 Attack! He's in Giant Form still, but there's also Master Plan, which is another +2. So that's +11 to attack. Buuuuttt... Free Action: Power Attack for 5 (-5 Attack, +5 Toughness Save DC) Standard Action: Charge and Melee Attack: 16. Exactly enough. So, he's providing a DC 37 Toughness Save. He and Wander are doing a Combined Attack, so we'll see who hits it, fluff-wise, in a bit.
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Gabriel (All posts to Nevermore for whatever that's worth) >Incursion: Stop-Thrust ; 1 IC Post >What's Eating You? ; 3 IC Posts Thoughtspeed Vignette: >The Love Of A Brother Nevermore Vignette: >Fear Is The Mind-Killer >Got This On Anti-Lock ; 2 IC Posts Cobalt Templar >Incursion: Drop The Needle ; 4 IC Posts Sun Walker >Incursion: God Squad ; 4 IC Posts
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Who's up at this point?
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What If They Were Transformers? Thoughtspeed: Tricked-out Mazda RX-8 R3; done up like a street racer, including spoiler, body lights, undercarriage lights, etc. Primarily black with green highlights. Robot form is small and nimble, wields two swords that can be charged with energy, as well as a gizmo that emits blinding light pulses. Equipped with a cloaking device that doubles as a blinding strobe system, usable in robot or alt mode. Loves speed. Nevermore: A fully-custom armored motorcycle. Equipped with a short-range jump pack. Forearms in robot mode contain multitools. Excellent in hand-to-hand, but only armament is two light stunner cannons. Raven III: Upgraded to an armed and armored car. Greater array of both tools and weaponry at his disposal. Able to fly for short distances in robot mode now. Sun Walker: A Subaru Baja. In robot mode, wields a staff that can turn into a multi-section whip, as well as emitting energy from either end. Able to stick to most surfaces. Gabriel: An AgustaWestland AW139 helicopter done up in the Irish Air Corps color scheme, equipped with several Long Range Acoustic Device sonic weapons. In robot mode these merge into a powerful sonic rifle he wields. Helicopter blades merge into a large spear. Forms an arm on the Freedom League Combiner (name pending). Cobalt Templar: A Triple-Changer, capable of being either a helicopter (A King Stallion that can mass-shift to be able to carry other Transformers, as well as switching to a gunship mode similar in configuration to the Direct Action Penetrator variant of the UH-60 Blackhawk) or a wheeled APC (either the ICV or MGS variants of the Stryker IFV, and again able to mass-shift to carry other Transformers). Often serves as a the transport for the Liberty League. In robot mode he is heavily armed, able to reconfigure his weaponry on the fly for most any situation. Forms the torso of the Liberty League Combiner (name pending) (yes I know he's not really the leader but he's the beefiest guy among them). Which Lantern Corps Would They Belong To? Cobalt Templar: Green Lantern, because Will and Constructs. Sun Walker: Indigo Tribe, sweet staff included. Just, ah, no brainwashing. Nevermore: Sinestro Corps, again minus the brainwashing. Thoughtspeed: Harder to say, possible Star Sapphire Corps. Gabriel: Blue Lantern Corps. What If They Were Pokémon? *Pending* What If They Were An Apple Product? *Pending* What If They Were A Spider-Man? *Pending* EDIT: Point conceded, I am uncreative! I shall add Apple Products and Spider-men to both the Master Post and this post!
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So this is inspired by on-and-off conversations in Chat over the last few days, plus some brain bugs of my own. (And a bit of inspiration from >this thread.) The idea here is to make a post where you just throw up some quick descriptions of a fun/wacky alternate version of your character, a sort of "What If" thought exercise. I'll start it off, but if you come up with another "What If" scenario, feel free to add it to your post as a sort of "challenge" to the rest of us! Character Alternate Version Ideas: -"What If They Were A Transformer?" Mainly about "what sort of vehicle or object would they turn into"; per our "rules", it has to be a vehicle (real or fictional), or an object (like a gun, stereo, etc), and cannot be an animal (not even a dinosaur or dragon or whatnot), except perhaps as a 3rd or 4th form, or as your robot form (so you could be a humanoid who turns into a jet who turns into a dragon, or a jet that turns into a dragon, but not a humanoid who turns into a dragon). -"What If They Were A Pokémon?" I feel like this one explains itself! -"Which Lantern Corps Would They Belong To?" We're including all 9 (Black, White, Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Violet, Indigo), but if you pick White there's got to be a reason (since they're theoretically the most flexible/powerful but also the rarest)! Heroic Black Lanterns are permissible. -"What If They Were An Apple Product?" Don't feel constrained to a normal apple product! Make something up, come up with some whiz-bang features for it. -"What If They Were A Spider-Man?" Specifically going with the idea of the Spider-Verse here! -?? As more ideas come, they'll be added! Remember, this is for-funsies, though if you get an idea for a thread or whatnot, hey, more power to you!