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Post by Dead Sidekick on Mar 22, 2011 6:23:40 GMT -5
ooc: Ferine gimme an Intution FEAT
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Elixir
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Post by Elixir on Mar 23, 2011 7:42:18 GMT -5
"You know, money isn't a problem, but money can't cover your back, you know what I mean? Money can buy someone to hang out when things are good, but when things go sour, that someone walks. Even friends walk when things get real bad."
"What I'm looking for is folks who got my back. That's why I stood up against that guy with the knives. I'll cover your back, and I guess it'll sound cliche, but I'm looking for a family that will do the same for me."
Elixir downs another shot.
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Ferine
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Post by Ferine on Mar 23, 2011 9:30:10 GMT -5
Int feat:
[attack=563286447661253]
OOC: Sorry been hectic around here lately, hopefully will be able to start posting regularly again.
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Post by Dead Sidekick on Mar 23, 2011 13:56:08 GMT -5
Over the loud band playing, Ferine hears another disturbance at the front entrance of the Roaring Twenties club. Security is knocked aside as a woman in black leather and fishnet stockings strides into the restaurant dining area pummeling and whipping them with a steel tow chain that seems to dance in the air like a writhing snake. Each strike of the chain seems to drop people into anguished contortions of pain. She shouts "I have a message for Hammerhead! Where is that flat skulled little bitch?!" Behind the dominatrix with a chain, twelve thugs with baseball bats file into the club menacing the diners, scooping food off their plates and bullying them. ===== Joe pours Elixir another shot. "Man, you're knocking those back like a champ. Must have a cast iron liver. So, you do want to party with the big boys afterall. Mooks don't come to us for help unless they got big problems. You in some kind of trouble? It's a give and take world out here. For your problems to become our problems there's got to be an advantage to us. You want asylum we gotta know who's after you. What kind of problems do you have that makes you come to us for... hey what the hell?!" There seems to be some kind of ruckus at the front of the restaurant, and Hammerhead's goons push into the crowd to go investigate. FRom the bar area, it's difficult to see what is going on up front. Old Joe shrugs, "Probably another punk not wanting to pay to get in."
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Elixir
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Post by Elixir on Mar 23, 2011 20:25:46 GMT -5
"You know, it's not so much that I'm looking for protection, it's that you can only go solo for so long in this town. Sure I could fly to Miami and soak up the sun, but where's the challenge in that? So, yeah, you could say that I'm looking to play in the big leagues."
Elixir winces as he inadvertently brings up Solo's name in conversation, then hearing the commotion looks to see what's going on.
"Must be a real stupid punk to come in and start trouble. You get a lot of this, or is this just a busy night?"
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Post by Dead Sidekick on Mar 24, 2011 0:27:26 GMT -5
"Well, joining the family ain't something anybody off the street gets to do. Alot of these guys grew up on the streets, came up in the turf gangs. You look too old and too rich to be a purse snatcher or a hubcap lifter, too refined to join a turf gang. I'm datin' myself. Back in my day, people had hubcaps and they weren''t made of plastic. Back in the day, when scrap metal pulled a pretty penny. Mosta the copper plumbing pipes in this town these days been picked clean by the low lifes for crack money. Blow themselves out on drugs before they can advance in the organization. So, someone like you needs to buy their way in, if you know what I'm saying. Jumpin' on a cape is crazy, shows initiative. But this is a shark pool, and little guppies get eaten. Right now there's a lot of troubles. The turf gangs are gettting uppity. Kick junkies comin' up with superpowers musclin' in on operations. Someone like you has to knock on the right doors, be in the right places, do the right things to get noticed. Be willing to risk it all. Chokin' that cape out is one thing but he had a lot of stabs in on him before you got to him. But I'm talkin' big. It takes a lot to become made in this family, to get the priviledges. To command other people to get their hands dirty and take the falls. You gotta be willin' to risk takin' the fall. Now, I like you. You do good in the ring, and I'll see I can find work for you. Unless you got something else. Show us what kind of pull you got with that money you got with them fancy clothes. We got plenty of skullcrackers and leg breakers. Dime a dozen. What moves your resume to the top, as the sayin' goes?" A goon in a pinstriped suit rushes up to the bar and says to Joe, "We got trouble up front. Batboy turncoats bustin' in with one of them Faces of Fear bitches with a chain. She appeared in a flash of lightning in the street and led them in here. They're lookin' for Mr. H!" "Well throw 'em out! Mr. H ain't here! I'll buzz the big guy in." Old Joe reaches under the bar, pressing an unseen button, and from a door to the right behind the bar emerges a massive man in a gray leathery suit that make him look like a rhinoceros. Elixir recognizes him as the Rhino, a supervillain that the Daily Bugle has reported about, mostly in fights with Spider-Man. Around Rhino's neck hangs a glowing orange amulet. "Rhino! We got Faces of Fear trouble up front. Take 'em out on the street and paste 'em. Try not to wreck the club!" "I got this." Rhino says with a huff as he begins to push through the crowd of people, knocking aside those that don't step aside fast enough.
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Ferine
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Post by Ferine on Mar 24, 2011 8:04:30 GMT -5
Ferine calls back to base "Things just got a lot more interesting here, we have a crazy dominatrix lady with a chain trying to get in and Rhino just showed up and he has a medalion, what do I do?"
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Post by Elixir on Mar 24, 2011 17:51:10 GMT -5
Elixir whispers his response, "Because I'm a world class chemist too. Not a dabbler, but a pro. I can bust heads with the best of them, but I've got other skills to offer as well, if you get what I'm saying."
Then he sees Rhino and the amulet.
Oh crap, crap, crap. This just gets worse and worse. And the Faces of Fear are here too, that lightning sounds like the hypno-porter again. Keep it together man...stay focused...
Elixir looks through the crowd to see if he can spot Ferine to see if she's spotted the amulet too.
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Post by Dead Sidekick on Mar 27, 2011 14:34:25 GMT -5
Elixir spots Ferine in the crowd as it mostly parts to get out of Rhino's way, and he moves closer to her. As Rhino makes his way to the front area of the restaurant, the dominatrix with a chain [who Elixir remembers from the fight at Starky's Pool Hall, Tommy Bifrost's mother calling herself "Lady Anguish"] shouts "NOW! and ducks. The Batboys thugs bolt for the door. From behind Lady Anguish appears three balls of lightning, from which appears the Frankenstein's Monster and two others dressed exactly the same in red and blue costumes and skull masks... The rather grim looking matching duo throw pies at Rhino, hitting him square in the face. The pies explode, covering Rhino with a greenish creamy paste while similtaneously releasing a couple murders of crows that flap around and peck at Rhino. Rhino says "What the...." then falls to his knees, clutching his face in agony and terror and pain. "Get 'em off me! Get 'em off me!" he sobs. The Frankenstein's Monster strides forward towards the suffering Rhino, muttering "Must... get...amulet." ooc: declare action / initiative time
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Ferine
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Post by Ferine on Mar 28, 2011 10:02:41 GMT -5
Ferine calls back in to the group "You guys need to get here now, preferrably 10 minutes ago, Frankenstein just showed up with 2 men in skull masks."
Ferine looks around for Elixir as she tries to keep her eye on the amulet. Ferine calls on the spirit of the cheetah to try and run and grab the amulet from Rhino while he is busy with the crows.
Init roll.
[attack=81252438366265]
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Ferine
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Post by Ferine on Mar 28, 2011 10:03:24 GMT -5
Rolling again
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[attack=43631185756361]
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Ferine
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Post by Ferine on Mar 28, 2011 10:04:04 GMT -5
They say 3rd times the charm
Init:
[attack=355175681834966]
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Elixir
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Post by Elixir on Mar 29, 2011 20:44:05 GMT -5
Not waiting to hear what Joe has to say in response, Elixir mutters, "You got anything tougher than this whiskey back there...like say a chainsaw?"
How do I try to stay undercover but still help everyone?
Elixir looks around for any evidence of a sprinkler system or fire alarm in the dining area.
Initiative
[attack=512439998678435]
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Post by Dead Sidekick on Mar 31, 2011 0:52:42 GMT -5
ooc: NPC action declarations
03/31/2011 01:42:27 ‹Dead Sidekick› bad guy initiative rolls
03/31/2011 01:42:56 ‹Dead Sidekick› 1d10 » + 4 = 4 Lady Anguish runs into the crowd, towards the back bar screaming "Where is Hammerhead!"
03/31/2011 01:43:06 ‹Dead Sidekick› 1d10 » + 9 = 9 The Frankenstein's Monster attempts to grapple the Rhino
03/31/2011 01:43:16 ‹Dead Sidekick› 1d10 » + 4 = 4 The Brothers Grimm toss what look like spools of thread into the crowd...
03/31/2011 01:43:18 ‹Dead Sidekick› 1d10 » + 4 = 4 The Rhino swats at the pecking crows flapping around his face and charges towards the front door trying to get away from them...
03/31/2011 01:43:24 ‹Dead Sidekick› 1d10 » + 10 = 10 The Batboys thugs make their way into the street outside the front of the club, running for a nearby subway entrance...
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Post by Dead Sidekick on Apr 6, 2011 19:40:11 GMT -5
ooc: Ferine and Elixir... proceed to Chapter 9.9
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