Tilting at Windmills

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Cannonade and Monsoon punch fascists in Amsterdam.

[Avenger Assembled]

All right, that's a DC 24 check for the guy to resist punching Nina. 

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All right, I'm going to use the stock SWAT Officer from p. 229 of the corebook for this one, because he's seen some stuff. And... with that build, he cannot possibly make a DC24 save to resist Bluff, so punching it is!

We've got this guy at PL6, and let's say the rest of the crowd - fifteen in all - are PL4 Terrorist (no comment) Minions. Time for Initiative!

Leader goes on 6.

Angry Mob goes on 9.

Cannonade goes on 7.

[Avenger Assembled]

http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/4735668/ 

 

Nina goes on 13 

[trollthumper]

All right.

Monsoon: 13, Unharmed, 0 HP

Angry Mob (15): 9, Unharmed, 0 HP

Cannonade: 7, Unharmed, 3 HP

Leader: 6, Unharmed, 0 HP

Monsoon is up first.

[Avenger Assembled]

Move Action: Monsoon flies 100 feet straight up in the air 

Standard Action: She reaches out and grabs the leader with her Damaging Move Object. 

http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/4735670/= 17 

She will grapple him and lift him up in the air

Grapple

http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/4735671/= 35! 

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Yeah, there's absolutely no way he can beat that or get less than a Bound, so he's Bound.

Monsoon: 13, Unharmed, 0 HP

Angry Mob (15): 9, Unharmed, 0 HP

Cannonade: 7, Unharmed, 3 HP

Leader: 6, Unharmed, Bound, 0 HP

The Angry Mob, denied something to hit, decides to go for hurling debris at Monsoon. As they've all got +2 ATT at range, one of them would need to crit to hit her... and they're all Minions, so that's out of the question. So, they instead cause a huge boatload of environmental damage. Cannonade, meanwhile, moves to the front and uses Super-Breath to try and convince everyone to desist. That's a DC21 Reflex save to halve, and a DC14 STR or DEX save to resist. None of them halve it, and only four of them hit the ground. Oh, Trip checks.

Monsoon: 13, Unharmed, 0 HP

Angry Mob (15): 9, Unharmed, Prone (4) 0 HP

Cannonade: 7, Unharmed, 3 HP

Leader: 6, Unharmed, Bound, 0 HP

The Leader just spits in Monsoon's face. As one does in this situation.

Monsoon is up next.

[Avenger Assembled]

Nina maintains the Grapple: (Free Action) 

She Taunts as a Move Action, using her Fast Taunt

DC 24

She inflicts damage 

DC 23 Tou save 

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The leader is rightly Taunted, and gets Bruised and Dazed.

Monsoon: 13, Unharmed, 0 HP

Angry Mob (15): 9, Unharmed, Prone (4) 0 HP

Cannonade: 7, Unharmed, 3 HP

Leader: 6, Bruised x1, Dazed (Monsoon's Action), Bound, 0 HP

The Angry Mob keeps hurling things, but now at Cannonade. Given the whole PL4 vs. PL11 w/ Impervious 11 thing, four of them will stand up from prone, six of them will form a Combined Attack to hit +12 Damage modifier, and five of them will keep wrecking things. That still needs to hit, though... aaaand it misses.

Cannonade decides to respond with a smackdown. Shockwave attack, DC21 Reflex to halve, DC26 TOU to resist. Only one of them manages to halve that, and then they all go down.

Monsoon: 13, Unharmed, 0 HP

Cannonade: 7, Unharmed, 3 HP

Leader: 6, Bruised x1, Dazed (Monsoon's Action), Bound, 0 HP

The Leader is Dazed, so all he does is spit and curse uselessly. Monsoon is up next.

[Avenger Assembled]

Man, this guy's tough! 

 

Monsoon will put the squeeze on again - that's another DC 23 Tou save. 

[trollthumper]

Given that the rest of the Angry Mob is down, I'm willing to say he goes down. We're out of rounds.

[trollthumper]

Well, this got messy! Sense Motive checks for both our heroes.

Cannonade gets a 26.

[Avenger Assembled]

Nina gets 24 with Skill Mastery

[trollthumper]

Both Monsoon and Cannonade can realize that he's got the crazy eyes, and that for someone who was trying to creep away from the gathering horde who'd been calling him the creeping emissary of Eurabia just a few minutes before, he seemed to jump very quickly to slitting the guy's throat after a fairly weak round of more of the same.

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Search checks for Nina and Joe. I'll make mine second.

[Avenger Assembled]

http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/4777473/= 19, despite not actually having Search and having an Int mod of +0 

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Hey, better than Cannonade's. Nina is able to find a small latch in the wall, buried behind a hefty can of cleaning supplies. It looks like there's some sort of biometric readout on it, but it's not the strongest of locks. It could likely be jimmied or forced open with enough pressure - like, say, the pressures a powerhouse or a water controller could generate. 

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Notice checks!

 

Cannonade rolls a 22.

[Avenger Assembled]

http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/4788318/= 18 for Nina

[trollthumper]

And Nina is Shaken, as she failed an Emotion Control (Fear) save of DC22. I'll let you get a post up showing her response before the next thing happens. 

[trollthumper]

All right, now is the time for Notice checks!

 

Joe gets a 16.

[Avenger Assembled]

http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/4793522/= 18, since shaken does not apply to ability scores

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Both our heroes are able to see the mindscrewer who's been doing things to their heads. Which means we've entered initiative. And, due to a slight slip-up about mixing up roles, noticing the person screwing with heads is enough to get Nina back on track. 

 

Cannonade goes on 15.

 

The assailant, who will be repped by my at PL12, goes on 18.

[Avenger Assembled]

http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/4794321/= Nina goes on 15 

 

Curses!

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Assailant: 18, Unharmed, 0 HP

Nina: 15, Unharmed, 0 HP

Cannonade: 15, Unharmed, 3 HP

 

Assailant goes first. She drops a Confuse on Nina and Joe. DC22 Will saves for both of them. Cannonade... makes a 12, and will be attacking the nearest creature. Which... um. 

 

Assailant: 18, Unharmed, 0 HP

Nina: 15, Unharmed, 0 HP

Cannonade: 15, Unharmed, Confused (Attack Nearest Creature), 3 HP

 

Nina is up next.