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Post by Dead Sidekick on Dec 13, 2009 19:47:21 GMT -5
Karma and Popularity updates for Chapter 5 through 5.5 (with some overdue bonuses from previous chapters) Shockwave: Starting total: 266 Karma spent modifying Flight as a separate power -36 Karma spent for shotgun microphone power stunt first use -112 Stopping violent crimes (gang fight between Bat Boys and Flashing Blades) +30 Defeating Dansen Macabre (teamwork assist) +50 Defeating Frankenstein's Monster (teamwork assist) +50 Defeating Werewolf By Night (teamwork assist) +50 Rescue of 15 bar patrons (teamwork assist) +100 Arrest bonuses (various wanted Flashing Blades thugs) +50 Role-play bonus: +15 Overdue 10 point per week game session Karma gain (September 14th to December 14th) +130 GM assistance (making cheat sheets) +50 Shockwave current Karma total = 643
Due to good media resulting from stopping the Central Park driveby shooting / bus hijackings and the attack at Hank's Tavern, Shockwave's Popularity is now Poor (04)===== Oldschool: Starting Karma: 297 Karma spent assisting Shockwave Flight power modification -36 Defeating Dragon-Beastie +50 Defeating Werewolf By Night (teamwork assist) +50 Rescue of 15 bar patrons (teamwork assist) +100 Arrest bonus (various wanted Flashing Blades thugs) +50 Role-play bonus: +15 Overdue 10 point per week game session Karma gain (September 14th to December 14th) +130 Oldschool current Karma = 656
Due to good media resulting from stopping the Central Park driveby shooting / bus hijackings and the attack at Hank's Tavern, Oldschool's Popularity is now Good (14)===== Flashdance: Starting Karma: 192 Rescue Chris (Flashing Blades thug with broken arm) +30 Defeat Werewolf By Night (teamwork assist) +50 Rescue of 15 bar patrons (teamwork assist) +100 Arrest bonus (various wanted Flashing Blades thugs) +50 Role-play bonus: +15 Overdue 10 point per week game session Karma gain (September 14th to December 14th) +130 Flashdance current Karma total = 567
Due to good media resulting from stopping the Central Park driveby shooting / bus hijackings and the attack at Hank's Tavern, Flashdance's Popularity is now Poor (04)===== Elixir Starting Karma: 50 Defeat of Werewolf By Night (teamwork assist) +50 Rescue of 15 bar patrons (teamwork assist) +100 Arrest bonus (various wanted Flashing Blades thugs) +50 Role-play bonus: +15 Overdue 10 point per week game session Karma gain (November 14 to December 14) +40 Elixir current Karma = 305
Elixir's Popularity is still 0===== Spellbound: Starting Karma: 50 Defeat of Dansen Macabre (teamwork assist) +50 Defeat of Werewolf By Night (teamwork assist) +50 Rescue of 15 bar patrons (teamwork assist) +100 Arrest bonus (various wanted Flashing Blades thugs) +50 Role-play bonus: +15 Overdue 10 point per week game session Karma gain (November 2 to December 14) +60 Spellbound current Karma = 375
Spellbound's Popularity is still 0===== Windchill Starting Karma: 30 Defeat of Frankenstein's Monster (teamwork assist) +50 Rescue of 15 bar patrons (teamwork assist) +100 Arrest bonus (various wanted Flashing Blades thugs) +50 Role-play bonus: +15 Overdue 10 point per week game session Karma gain (November 14 to December 14) +40 Windchill current Karma = 285
Windchill's Popularity is still 0===== Solo Starting Karma = 50 Karma spent -50 Defeat Yakuza guard (x2) +20 Defeat Dreadnought #1 +75 Role-play bonus +15 Overdue 10 point per week game session Karma gain (September 14th to Decenber 14th) +130 Solo current Karma = 240
Solo's Popularity is -5, still wanted by the policeAlso note that as Chapter Six merges with the events of Chapter 5.5, Solo's current Health is still 22.===== Also note that normal Karma rules (loss of all on hand Karma for killing) is in effect for this Chapter. Everyone aside from Solo will be meeting at Oldschool's homeless shelter and discussing among themselves for a few rounds before they hear Solo's Bor rifle go off down the street twice, followed by grenades exploding, and the big kablooey of Deadpool's truck bomb... wait for it
Take this time to start Karma Advancement pools, start up a group Karma pool, and RP a bit before Solo's / Deadpool's bomb goes off giving the heroes something to do
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Post by Dead Sidekick on Dec 13, 2009 20:23:31 GMT -5
A colorful ice cream truck drives by playing a cartoony rendition of "Pop Goes The Weasel" as Windchill and Elixir step off a bus and walk down to the homeless shelter in a Lower East Side warehouse district not far from the Port Authority waterfront piers.
Several homeless people piddle around the shelter.
Windchill and Elixir walk up to Oldschool, who is wearing a threadbare T-shirt with a logo that says "NAPA Auto Parts" in place of the shirt he had on fighting the Werewolf. Flashdance is there, in a brand new silvery-white and red costume. Shockwave is there too, in his blue metallic armor.
Spellbound is there drawing looks in a purple hooded cloak over a dress cut to expose both cleavage and her leg.
(ooc: I'm running Spellbound as an NPC for now)
An old man named Jenkins approaches, offering the heroes a carton of milk.
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Post by Dead Sidekick on Dec 13, 2009 22:17:26 GMT -5
[ooc: I'm running Spellbound for a bit] Spellbound looks at Windchill and Elixir and says, "Sorry I missed you guys at Sparky's. My Advanced Quantum Principles class was cancelled without notice this morning and then I finally ran into Dr. Lancaster and we got to talking and I lost track of time. Then that anti-mutie rally in the quad..." Spellbound looks at Flashdance, Oldschool, and Shockwave and says, "This is what I needed to discuss with you three. This book you're looking for, the 'Madman's Muttering's' grimoire, is very dangerous. My mother had a vision yesterday... of myself and the three of you and another with a bunch of guns finding the book. And her vision placed me in just the right place to meet you guys. Except the gun guy? Where's he? I don't know how Frosty and Titanium Boy fit in to it. Um, yet." "My powers manipulate raw universal magic energy. Last night I tapped the Darkforce Dimension to enshroud the dancefloor. That girl, Shockwave, that you carried out of the bar, was Dansen Macabre, a dangerous priestess of Kali. Her dance can hypnotize and kill those who watch it. The others were the Frankenstein's Monster, yes Mary Shelley wasn't writing fiction, and Jacob Russoff, aka Jack Russell, aka the Werewolf By Night. They're real monsters, but not what I see 'Madman's Muttering's' being able to summon. As powerful as those monsters are, that book can call up far worse. Besides, those three have been around a lot longer than the book has been missing. Something else was wrong as well. Normally Russoff can control his transformations into a Werewolf. Only on full moon does he lose control. Last night was off-the-scale weird, but it wasn't a full moon."
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Post by Windchill on Dec 13, 2009 22:30:52 GMT -5
Colin bristles a bit and says, "Out of control or not, that Werewolf gutted my friend. WHERE does this Russoff live?! I want payback."
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Post by Dead Sidekick on Dec 13, 2009 22:39:27 GMT -5
Spellbound replies to Windchill with a flippant tone, "I don't know where he lives. But what are you going to do, blow on him and make him cold? Nothing outside of silver can ham him. Hit him with a nuke, you're going to wind up with a pissed off radioactive Werewolf eventually."
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Post by Elixir on Dec 14, 2009 20:51:00 GMT -5
Elixir declines the beverage with a smile, “Thanks Jenkins, but I just ate.”
Elixir takes in the information shared by Spellbound. Well, complete darkness might not have been so bad after all if seeing the goth girl dance kills…
After Spellbound shares what she knows, “My powers are chemical in nature; I have the ability to control chemical reactions, create chemicals, and to mimic compounds. I still haven’t mastered them yet, but one basic form that I’ve got down is to turn my body into titanium. While I was trying to affect the wolfman’s biology, I noticed that his body wasn’t organic, it was more holographic, but still very much solid. I don’t think they were really live monsters that we fought.”
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Post by shockwave on Dec 15, 2009 1:07:49 GMT -5
"I'm not quite sure what it was we were fighting. When I was carrying...Dancing Macabre...was that her name? Well, when I was carrying her out of the bar, I found myself somewhere else for just a moment. I was with her, Franky, and the werewolf. They were all strapped to machines. The odd thing is as soon as I got back, the werewolf was still fighting outside the bar. The holograph theory seems to fit whatever it was I saw. Perhaps they were strapped to the machines projecting themselves. I'm not quite sure of the scientific theory behind it, but what I wouldn't give to tear into that machine to check it out. Dr. Klaw actually found sound could be used to create solid objects that could interact with others, but it couldn't project powers into those objects. This goes way beyond MATTER theory. If they can basically project anywhere, that would probably explain getting past security at the museum, as well as ambushing all of these bars. I'm not quite sure how the gang with bats fits in, but I find it too convenient that they showed up as the monsters did. I wonder if they were spotted at the previous attack the other night as well."
OOC: I'm going to drop 250 karma into my advancement pool. My plan for it is to raise resources upon taking the ESU teaching job to cover teaching pay, likely grants, and availability of a lab that I don't have access to now. I figure it will cost a total of 950 to get to Excellent(16). (100 + 110 + 120 + 130 + 140 + 150 + 200=950)
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Post by Windchill on Dec 15, 2009 9:05:54 GMT -5
Windchill seems a bit miffed at Spellbound's dismissive tone.
"All I know is that I was playing with my band 'Snotch' at Hank's Tavern last night when out of flashes of lightning the Werewolf and Frankenstein's Monster appeared on stage. The Werewolf hit Brad and knocked him through the loading dock door, disemboweling him. The Frankenstein's monster smashed Fred, my drummer, in the head, knocking it clean off."
Windchill grimaces a bit. "That's when the rest of you showed up. It got dark in there while I changed into costume backstage, while you were fighting those monsters. I used my powers to make it deathly cold in the bar to drive everyone out. I don't know if that dancing girl was there all along or if she showed up with the attacking monsters."
"I'm a 'cryokinetic' mutant. By rapidly removing either ambient heat energy from an area or specific thermal energy from an object, I can cause air pressures to drop, creating high speed wind forces I can direct or cause things to freeze rapidly and create constructs made from solidified water vapor or elemental gases. I can even drop the temperatures of a targeted object or my surroundings to 'absolute zero' rendering electrical activity impossible in most machines, but I'm unable to protect myself from such temperature extremes. I start getting uncomfortable around 150 degrees below zero Fahrenheit."
"You say these attackers weren't really there? Some kind of illusion or holographic projection? The rips in Elixir's and Oldschool's shirts were real enough. The deaths the monsters caused were real enough. The knife left behind by that dancing b*tch was real enough... Maybe if we could get the police to let us examine the knife taken as evidence we can learn more about it. I have some friends in the NYPD, but I don't know if they're that good of friends..."
"But what do these 'holographic' monster attacks have to do with that 'magic book' Spellbound says you're looking for? What made you all come to Hank's to look for it? I mean, I'm glad you showed up when you did, but I'm not seeing a connection here."
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Post by shockwave on Dec 15, 2009 10:21:00 GMT -5
Shockwave nods a bit listening to the Windchill, starting to put some more connections together. "That explains the cold. I guess the woman, and I would definately assume she appeared with the monsters based on the fact that I saw her with them in that machine, seemed to be connected to the darkness, although our witch here may have been responsible based on what I saw of the dragon attack outside."
"As for connections, the book was stolen from the MET by someone who was able to pass all of the security. Teleportation was a theory Flashdance came up with, he's somewhat of an expert on the topic, but physical projections would explain it as well. Whoever was inside the museum was able to likely create darkness much like we saw in the tavern. That's all the cameras picked up where the book was stolen. Evidence onsite implicated the maggia, although to be honest, it seemed too convenient, and somewhat planned. If you are looking for more connections...the book was rumored to allow summoning of monsters. I'm not sure how it's connected to whatever the machine is though. Perhaps they are summoned into the machine and it is used to teleport them to where they will be used."
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Post by Dead Sidekick on Dec 15, 2009 11:11:09 GMT -5
The old man named Jenkins that offered the heroes a carton of milk earlier walks back into the homeless shelter's general dining area, and places a patting hand on Oldschool and Flashdance's shoulders, cheerfully congratulating them as he says "Look, it's on again!" Jenkins points a remote control and turns up the volume on the large old 1970's console television hanging from the ceiling on a bracket with a digital converter duct taped to its side that sprouts various coaxial cables and RF switches rigged together with metal coat hangers, aluminum foil, and bread bag tie wires... [ooc: the homeless shelter has patchwork digital TV out of an incompatible console thanks to Oldschool's ingenuity with spare parts and boredom ]...the developing story of drive-by shootings throughout Manhattan. Lex News has obtained footage from the police car dashboard camera involved in one of last night's driveby shooting in Central Park...The scene changes to a behind-the-car view of black sedan speeding around the corner near the Met Museum at 5th Avenue and the 86th Street Transverse Road. As it passes, a man in a black ski mask pokes his head out of the back driver's side window and firing an AK-47 full automatic rifle into a crowd on the sidewalk to the left as it passes. Suddenly there is a flash of globules of light on the back of the sedan that trail off of the back of the speeding car, filling the view of the camera for a moment. The car explodes as a man rolls on the pavement in front of the police car's view. The police car swerves to miss the man in the road and into the path of a transit bus, and swerves again, running into a tree. "After allegations and eyewitness reports of the man seen in the road being shot by Broad Daylight Killaz gang members being one of the driveby shooters and his subsequent resisting arrest and assault on a police officer with a flashbang grenade while continuing his relentless attack on the BDKs, local Lex News affiliate Channel 38 has digitally enhanced the footage of the man seen in the road just moments before the police car crashed."The scene changes to a pixellated view of the globules of light coming off the back of the sedan, blurring them out to reveal they are being cast off the back of a man wearing combat fatigues and a mask strapped with all manner of guns and grenades as he jumped from the side of the car and rolled on the pavement. "The suspect shooter in the driveby vehicle that likely exploded when BDK members returned fire remains at large. Witnesses report he vanished into thin air when confronted by last nights new debut heroes, Oldschool, Flashdance, and Shockwave."
"Police suspect the new artificial Kryptonite-based designer drug called 'Kick' which briefly causes metahuman powers to emerge in users is fueling an upsurge in organized crime along the East Coast. But others see a different threat."
"Senator Robert Kelly of Massachussetts cited last night's disappearance into thin air by a drive-by shooter as the ultimate example of the threat posed by mutant terrorists. Lex Luthor, CEO of Lexcorp Technologies headquartered in Metropolis, Maryland has charitably provided the police department of the city of Metropolis with mutant detection gear as a matter of national and homeland security and continues to lobby Congress in support of the Mutant Registration Act..."Jenkins turns the TV's volume back down as a commercial for an upcoming episode of a controversial daytime talk show with an ape-like guy with blue fur debating 'mutant rights' with another guy in a hazmat suit that won't appear on the panel with a "mutant" without the hazmat suit to symbolize the danger of mutantkind. Jenkins pats Shockwave, Oldschool, and Flashdance on their backs, but speaks to all the heroes gathered. "You all done good last night. Bask in your glories, but remember it's still an ugly world out there." ===== ooc: Continuity notes - Flashdance would recognize the man in the digitally enhanced police car dashboard cam footage as the armed whacko the BDKs were shooting before they hijacked the transit bus that Arc identified as "Solo."
Shockwave remembers the appearance of the man on the back of the sedan (from the description of his aerial view in Chapter Three and Four) differently than the skewed news report. Shockwave at least knows for a fact that the man was not the driveby shooter as the news is smearing him to be (with the gratuitous feeding of the anti-mutant hysteria monster to boot)
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Post by Dead Sidekick on Dec 15, 2009 11:37:57 GMT -5
Spellbound blurts out, "That's him! The guy with the guns in my mother's divination that seemed to suggest he's a part of finding the book with the four of us. Or I guess the six of us now, with Windchill and Elixir aboard. If he's a mutant, I sure as heck don't want the police getting ahold of him. Not if he's part of the puzzle of this missing grimoire. Bartholomew Jacobs could unleash hellish nightmares and extreme violence upon the world at a distance from the comforts of a jail cell with that book. If a machine has been built that can decipher it..." [ooc: ] Turning to Elixir, she says "If you can transform into silver, it would be very helpful against werewolves."
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Post by shockwave on Dec 15, 2009 16:24:47 GMT -5
"I don't think that guy is going to help find the book. He's actually a suspect of who may have stolen it in the first place. If the machine is projecting these monsters using the books, someone would actually have needed to steal the book before hand. With his teleportation abilities he demonstrated, he certainly could bypass museum defenses and security. The timeline is still off for me with the book, since I believe the first reported 'monster attack' took place before the book was stolen. Without knowing the details of that attack, I still can't come up with a theory that matches everything together in a logical fashion."
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Post by Dead Sidekick on Dec 15, 2009 17:15:10 GMT -5
Spellbound says, "The Darkforce Dimensional energies I summoned forth at Hank's last night are also on tap to certain other schools of magic,. It definitely could supress the flash associated with the teleportations we saw at Hank's last night. When I manipulate the Darkforce with my powers, I can still see negative images of everything in the darkness and shadowed areas are lit up like a floodlamp to my perspective. Last night, I saw the Frankenstein's Monster disappear in a flash of darkness, indicating a bright flash of light, after he was taken out within my Darkforce field. You say the book was stolen under the cover of darkness in the museum. I wonder if residual Darkforce energy can somehow be detected in the library at the museum? Might be worth looking in to." "It's definitely possible that this gun guy is responsible for the theft of the book, but my mother's divination seemed to suggest he's part of finding the book with us, not the thief of it."
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Post by Elixir on Dec 15, 2009 23:36:35 GMT -5
"Okay, so what I hear so far is that there are three horror story monsters strapped into a weird machine that seems like it can project them anywhere in range as if they were real, like you said this Klaw guy could do with sound. This Jack person normally can control himself, but clearly wasn't. I also can't imagine that he's strapped down willingly. Could he have been abducted? Is there anything else in common between the three monsters? Is there anything in common between the targets of the monsters? Are all the target gangs working for the same mob family?" "Getting a closer look at the knife could be useful, it might provide a clue about how the projection works." "A teleporting mutant laden down with firepower sounds like a disaster, so probably better that we get to him before he does something truly insane." "I've never tried silver, but it could be worthwhile, I'll have to put that on my to-do list!" (OOC - putting 100 karma into an advancement pool for increasing Elixir's Catalytic Control (to get to 41 will cost 41*20 = 820), leaving 205 in the character pool) --Edit, replaced Chemical Control with Catalytic Control, this was a typo, there is no such thing as Chemical Control
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Post by Flashdance on Dec 15, 2009 23:39:59 GMT -5
Flashdance looks around the soup kitchen. After the GM plant closed in Danville there were a lot of places like this that sprung up. A lot of people who were living large in the factory's buck suddenly found themselves in places like this - people who never dreamed they would be there. His old boss for example. The one with the brand-new Yukon in his driveway. Looking at the food stores, Leroy sees somethings on the shelf that somehow seemed familiar: Generic Mac and Cheese, Ramen noodles, Hamburger helper, peanut butter, cheap day old bread.
Then it hit him - these were the things that showed up in Mom 'n Dad's cupboard after the plant closed. Dammit; the old man told him they were fine after the plant closed. He said GM took care of them.
Suddenly he felt bad about the wad of cash in his boot. ----------
Sitting with the others, Flashdance says :
"oops, I think all that pizza and bleeding did a number on my system. Excuse me y'all, I need to go drop a load; be right back"
Getting up from his chair, he doesn't run to the bathroom. Instead as soon as he is out of site he instead makes a beeline to the management office to find someone in charge. He goes into their office and closes the door behind him. Then he pulls out a wad of cash out of his left boot, and gives it to the person in charge he finds.
"Hey, um, looks like you guys could use this. Just don't tell the news. I gotta freewheeling rep to keep up. I'll give more later if I can. So... I guess I'll see you later"
Not waiting, or really not wanting a response - Leroy quickly leaves the office and rejoins the group, all smiles on his face.
"Wow - sorry about that guys! Now, where were we?
(OCC - in keeping with the character, FD isn't really keeping track of the money he's going through. He took 1000.00 with him this morning and gave it all to the person he found. It's very possible he will find he went through all his cash in short order...)
Watching the footage, Flashdance says to Jenkins:
"Thanks man; I definitely found out how hard the world is up close last night - yo Spellbound, you saved my bacon last night. Your next bad-guy whacking is on me. Hopefully my new threads will give me a bit of a better fighting chance against sharp objects that seem to want to meet me up close and personal"
**Flashdance tightens his grip on his shiny new bat, and gets a look on his face that looks like he tasted something bad**
"I, uh, don't think Armour boy there stole the book. Don't get me wrong - I want to kick his @ss seven ways to Sunday, but it wasn't him. He thinks he's on our side. Maybe we need to try and talk to him. After we beat him down."
"Shockwave - been doing some thinking about about where we both went. Does the name "Hydra" ring any bells with you?"
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