Elixir
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Post by Elixir on Jul 6, 2010 11:05:07 GMT -5
"Solo, you do what you have to do, thanks for coming through when I needed it. We don't need that doctor guy spewing crap to the police and slanting the story the wrong way."
"Okay Windchill, here goes..."
Elixir will squeeze out a drop of the Kick onto his palm to "feel" the reaction that it's trying to cause. Then, he's going to reverse that reaction within Windchill's body.
Catalytic Control FEAT (In) - spending as much Karma as is necessary to ensure success.
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Post by shockwave on Jul 6, 2010 13:55:05 GMT -5
"You've got to be kidding me. That wasn't a direct shot. It was banked in...off multiple obstacles. If this guy is gunning for cops, all of them arriving outside are in danger as well. We need to protect them, as well as tracing where this bullet came from." Kneeling down on one knee, Shockwave tries to find the scuff mark at his feet where the bullet bounced up from, trying to get an angle it came from.
"There should be a stop sign somewhere that way." He points in a general direction out the door.
"The bullet bounced off that sign to the ground here, and then up at the poor officer's throat. Once we find the stop sign, we hopefully can find the car bumper used to richochet the bullet there. That should get us half way back to the shooter. We need to get moving before that car moves, or we'll never be able to find the street lamp that got the bullet to the car."
He steps out the door looking for a stop sign in the right general direction, also looking to see where the cops are. "I've got a really bad feeling about this. I could pick up five impacts before the cop was hit, but no gunshot."
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Post by Vendetta on Jul 6, 2010 15:13:06 GMT -5
"allright, so we have one hell of a crack shot on our hands." then turning to Spellbound he says "I'll take one of those bodydoubles yeah, and if you can could you make my bike a little less obvoius perhaps? I'd hate to have the cops impound it." then turning back to Shockwave. "lets get going. you wouldnt have any fancy trajectory calcualting gizmos in that suit of yours ? like a targetting computer we could reprogram?."
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Post by Deleted on Jul 6, 2010 19:27:34 GMT -5
Solo used the microphone to contact Shockwave and the others," Okay Elexir is helping Windchill the amulet is gone, I can teleport, what is the status? Do you need backup? I can go fast to my base and get some firepower, but I can also come now."
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Post by Dead Sidekick on Jul 7, 2010 3:45:26 GMT -5
Spellbound keys her communicator. "Solo? You lost the amulet? I'm not sure if that's good or bad. We've got a situation here. The place is going to be crawling with SWAT teams any second now, and the cop that was here has been taken down by an unseen sniper! We're probably going to wind up on New York City's Most Wanted list beside you. We may need you for a quick extraction out of here if things get too hairy."
Turning to Vendetta, Spellbound whips up a illusionary duplicate of Vendetta, which stands rather motionless next to the illusionary image of Spellbound. She says, "I'm going to need a lot of concentration to control these ghost images. But if our sniper is out there, I'd rather increase our chances of an illusion getting shot."
Spellbound seems rather shaken as she looks down at the dead cop, remembering her father, but is putting a brave face on it.
To Shockwave, she says "Ricocheting trick shots from a silenced weapon? That's insanely innovative. Sick @#$# betta hope I don't recover one of his bullets or a shell casing. I might learn his life story and where he lives, with a spell similar to how I found Windchill. I'll send out decoys. Can you scan for bullet impacts if we entice the sniper to fire again?"
To Flashdance, Spellbound says, "Can you put me on a rooftop across the street? I'd rather have a bird's eye view of my illusion show."
Flashdance nods. "Whenever you're ready."
Spellbound mutters, "I don't know how well we can sell a dead cop and a screaming amputee to the boys in blue. We're probably @#$@ed." No one remembers Spellbound using curse words ever before. She's quite agitated, and the illusions she has created ripple as her concentration upon them falters a bit.
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ooc: Elixir needed a Red FEAT to understand the [Amazing level] molecular complexities of the sample of Kick in his possession in order to isolate it with his Catalytic Control power, hence is spending 26 Karma
As Solo radios the rest of the group, Elixir squirts a dab of the Kick substance on his palm and concentrates on it.
He is amazed at how complex the chemical structure is. It's a hybrid of inorganic radioactive compounds and highly engineered hormonal steroids and Vitamin D sterols, definitely related to a cortisone family, but extremely volatile and reactive as an epigenetic resequencer. If ever there was definitive proof the "Weismann barrier" could be permeable and DNA structures could be rapidly rewritten, this stuff would be the compound to prove it. A whole new branch of molecular biology studies would have to be written to explain what this stuff does. "Hypercortisone-D" barely puts a psuedoscientific name on the reactants in this sinister compound. There's a lot of expensive and rare unknown chemical structures involved in this compound. The steroidal components seem based on osmium tetroxide and bile cholesterols, both are components used in the manufacture of steroids, and together quite as toxic as they are seperated. And the structure is irradiated by some sort of isocrystalline synthetic compound, perhaps the "artificial Kryptonite" rumored to be a part of this mutagenic compound.
It's a very dangerous substance, and were it not for Elixir's extreme concentration upon it with his Catalytic Control powers, even such a small droplet of it would have seeped into Elixir's pores and begun over-writing his DNA like a viscious retrovirus. Elixir shudders to think what this drug would have done to Vendetta, had the thug doctor been successful in stabbing him with the syringe. The evil mind that invented this stuff could likely walk away with a Nobel Prize in biochemistry and mathematics instead of creating what amounts to a highly sophisticated designer drug and terror weapon. Although the chemicals involved are relatively hard to come by, even a tiny random bit in the food supply would be a nightmare scenario.
Elixir decides to attack the chemical structures he's more familiar with, and try to inhibit and reverse their somatic bonding effects in Windchill, who is all but a human-shaped slurry of soupy snow struggling to solidify himself.
It seems an impossible task. As Elixir concentrates on Windchill's form, it's almost as if he were gazing upon a large mass of ice water. Hydrogen and oxygen in a polarized covalent bond, fluxing between molecular phase states of solid, liquid, and gas. Windchill has become living water, and is starting to evaporate, though it seems there is some sort of unseen force actively trying to slow down the molecules to refreeze him - perhaps Windchill's own cryokinesis powers. Elixir decides to assist this effort, decelerating the molecular interactions further.
It helps. Windchill's form becomes solid ice, and begins to lose its translucence, taking on a pinkish flesh color. Windchill's voice returns in a scream. "YEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH!"
Windchill whimpers in pain, and in somewhat ecstasy as well. "I haven't felt cold in years." Elixir notes that as he gestalts his Catalytic Control powers with Windchill's Coldshaping abilities, Windchill's molecular structure begins to alter back into chemical structures found in human physiology. Windchill's facial features shift slightly, becoming more flesh-like and expressive. Windchill cries "It hurts. Beyond my ability to survive cold...." But the colder the admixture of molecularly manipulative powers makes Windchill's form, the more flesh-like it becomes, and Elixir begins to detect the foreign Kick compound in Windchill's body enough to isolate its reactions. Windchill becomes fully flesh, but loses conciousness as his body reaches absolute zero temperature. Elixir's Catalytic Control power is left alone, fighting the pervasive influence of the Kick drug by itself, and with great strain and concentration finally breaks down the compound's hold on Windchill's DNA.
It is an ordeal that likely no other patient could survive. Windchill is very lucky that Elixir's powers could compliment his control over molecular deceleration.
After the Kick drug is expunged from Windchill's body, Elixir uses his powers on Windchill again, this time to bring his body slowly back up to normal temperature and rekindling suspended biological functions.
Moments later, Windchill wakes up. The only sign of his wound from the Dreadnought's spike is a small circular scar on his abdomen. Returning to human form seems to have restored Windchill's highly damaged intestines. He's going to require some observation, bed rest and healing time, but he nods appreciatively at Elixir. He says weakly to Elixir. "Thanks, E." Then he coughs a little joke as he grasps Elixir's arm, "Can I get one of those 'I was saved by a mutant' cards?"
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Post by Vendetta on Jul 8, 2010 11:12:31 GMT -5
/ooc I'll wait a bit with replying to see if any of my questions get answered ooc/
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Post by Elixir on Jul 8, 2010 15:03:21 GMT -5
"Welcome back to the land of people who have bodies dude." Elixir smiles wearily. "We need to get you in the back here; the shelter's already had one drive by. Hey Jenkins, you all got a cot I can put Windchill on?"
As he moves Windchill to a back room he remarks bitterly, "This mutant hysteria is getting out of hand. It doesn't matter which side we're on, both cops and robbers call us 'muties'. Anyway I got an invite to a pro-mutant meeting next month by a group called the Acolytes. I'm going and I imagine you'll want to come along."
"On a different note, apparently this is a Hydra plot and they’ve kidnapped others, including Oldschool to force into their hypno-teleport-thingy."
"And this stuff,” Elixir says holding the vial of Kick, "is bad news. I'm going to keep this for now to study."
I hope the others can handle the police, Windchill needs medical care for the time being.
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Post by Dead Sidekick on Jul 9, 2010 3:13:20 GMT -5
With a nod, Spellbound grabs Flashdance's hand and says, "I'm ready." In a flash of light, both disappear and reappear on a rooftop of a brownstone across from the doctor's apartment. The illusionary images of Vendetta and Spellbound walk out of the apartment past Shockwave and appear to be looking around at rooftops and alleyways scanning for the sniper. Moments later an illusionary image of the Avengers' Captain America walks out of the apartment looking around as well.
Flashdance drawls, "Now that's a bit over the top."
Spellbound jokes, "Nah. An image of Galactus dressed as a ballerina is over the top. Hopefully our sniper has an appetite for higher profile targets. If not, hopefully my pseudo-Cap can keep the SWAT teams that are coming at bay long enough for us to either find the sniper or keep ourselves out of jail."
Then she deadpans, "I hope."
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Shockwave's sonic sensors detect the racing SWAT team van and ambulances approaching through traffic, sirens blaring around a mile away and closing fast.
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Windchill
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Post by Windchill on Jul 9, 2010 3:17:52 GMT -5
Windchill says to Elixir, "I've read Acolyte literature before. A bunch of upstarts. Bargain basement nobodies, really." ooc: Windchill doesn't remember much of his experiences while seperated from the group, other than being in a lot of pain. He remembers seeing Oldschool strapped to a machine, and the green uniforms of the HYDRA agents that were probing him. "HYDRA's definitely stirring up the street gangs and organized crime families against each other. But why?"
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Post by shockwave on Jul 9, 2010 7:38:51 GMT -5
"Company is going to be here very soon. We need to find this sniper very quickly, before the cavalry become's the new target. There can't be many water towers around. I'm going to take to the air to see if I can skip ahead to that link. If this guy decides to take another shot, I may actually have better angles to hear where the sounds are coming from. From inside, I could identify what I heard, but all the directions were simply what I could hear from out the door. Everyone should clear out, but keep your eyes pealed."
Shockwave takes to the air, scanning for water towers on the area rooftops.
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Post by Vendetta on Jul 9, 2010 12:20:06 GMT -5
Vendetta nods and then heads out the back and up the fire escape to the rooftop. From there he will take a look around to see if he can spot a snipers nest, or the sniper himself.
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Post by Dead Sidekick on Jul 9, 2010 15:00:18 GMT -5
ooc: I'll work up a street map of the surrounding area sometime this weekend / early next week, but I gotta warn that the chances of catching the sniper (in Chapter 8) are reeeeally low.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 9, 2010 16:32:22 GMT -5
Solo Teleports back to his base to get a special suitcase, for sniper emergencies semiautomatic sniper rifle with holographic aim and silencer, a night vision googles. As soon as he gets it he teleports to a nearby rooftop, where he has a good vantage point. He does this as fast as possible
"Guys Ill be Sniper support". he says while doing so.
))((OOC Ill use Karma if needed to get fast to the rooftop))((
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Post by Dead Sidekick on Jul 10, 2010 2:09:57 GMT -5
ooc: Solo, give me a Resources FEAT to see what kind of party favors are available at your Brazil weapons cache. Sooner or later, Solo's going to have to go shop(lift)ing.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 10, 2010 6:55:56 GMT -5
))((OOC okay Ill do the shopping "Ahnuld style ;D ))((
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