The Sailor

Levity

She burst out through the flames, but it licked at her flightsuit. She patted out the small candle-like fire on one of her arms as she got outside of the fire breath. Obviously she'll have to talk to the engineers to improve her suit's flame retardant design. She looked over to Chromium. "Hey, buddy! You still alive down there? I think we need a strategy here!" She shouted, before turning back to the dragon.  "Treachery? Really? That sounds like slander..." She thought.

Reflex Save (+9, Evasion 2): 1d20+9 14 Hero Pointing this roll...

Reflex Save (+9, Evasion 2): 1d20+9 14 How the hell... Of course since I rolled under 10 on the second I get +10 to the result. So, I rolled in total a 24 on this one.

Reflex save made, no damage. I'll have my actions posted in a little bit.

Levity

She knew at this point with no bystanders and his apparent capabilities, he would have to be taken down. No other choice in the matter. Levity starts going down the qualifiers in terms of what sort of action to take in her head, and decides. "To be honest if we're at these loggerheads, who's the real hero... at this point, you're on US government property. A trespasser. You were asked to leave and you didn't comply. So... here we are."

"If that makes me one of the bad guys, guilty as charged!" She shouts, tossing another ball of gravity his way.

Well, he was nice enough to clear out the bystanders. Keeping at best range of the big guy, while keeping in visual for Chromium so he knows where I am.

Blast 7 (Gravity Blast), Ranged DC 22, Toughness Damage (Gravity): 1d20+7 17

Opening fire. He's a trespasser, on government property, who has refused to leave, then showed himself willing to take hostages. At this point this is a shooting match.

Levity

She turns on the speaker to her helmet again. Sighing out of frustration she decided to just let it out. "Whom are these evil men? For that matter... who is this wizard you speak of?"

"And additionally, you've taken hostages to "calm us down", when really we're just trying to figure out what you're on about. If anything what this sounds like is you've been lied to, and you yourself aren't that big of a hero."

"And note, I gave you opportunity to leave peacefully. The only thing correct was you were attacked first. But if you're claiming you're a hero, the issue is heroes don't take hostages."

"I think it can be stated you're... not behaving like you can be trusted."

She figured the dragon was stalling at this point. She kept her distance, Hovering right at the edge of where she knew she could get a quality shot in while being outside of it's physical reach.

Levity

Joint Operations (7)

I'm delaying until after the dragon acts. Wither it be him attacking bystanders, or any of us. If nothing happens I'll act after the dragon in the initiative order.

Levity

"That's a paddlin'" she thought, calculating out her move.

Almost reflexively she keeps behind her target, remembering some old wisdom in simulator training while learning some dogfighting tactics. Gravity warps around her hands, before it surges from them in a concentrated orb of lensed spacetime, created from the warped gravity under her control flying at her target's back. She sees the orbs burst, she hopes because they made contact. "Oh no you don't, you don't help people by tryin' to barbecue 'em!"

Ok, time to be like my favorite D&D class to play and get some tasty flanking. (I know I get no bonuses, but dem backstabs doe.)

Keeping a 60M distance so I'm within my first range gradient I keep behind the dragon, and now it's my time to do my best Tracer impression.

Blast 7 (Gravity Blast), Ranged, DC 22 Toughness, Damage (Gravity): 1d20+7 22

I'll take it.

Levity

Using her enhanced mobility from "ground skating" with her flight, she gets behind a heavy cement barrier. The Draconic thing was something motivated by anger it seems, and now that silvery guy wanted a piece. She needed a moment to assess the battlefield. Going in and shooting wild might pose too much a risk. That and seeing her trying to hold the beast down didn't work out as well as she thought. But she wasn't above taking a pot shot, but she needed an idea and right now there wasn't one coming to her. If the second guy entering this conflict was THAT strong, she'll come in for backup.

Patience... Let the Dragon develop tunnel vision, then fire a shot up his tailpipe. Classic strategy.

I'll be moving to cover for now, to observe the dragon. Will do a IC post doing so.

Levity

"How rude!" She says, before moving back from the raging dragon, but while in range she holds out her hand and what looks like the air lensing around the dragon starts to happen.

"Gravity... is a harness... I have harnessed the harness." And in a moment it seemed the smoke the dragon snorted was slammed to the ground. But will it also hold the beast? "You've underestimated the gravity of your situation. Stand down and surrender. This doesn't have to end in a full on brawl."

Going to move back to about 65 feet from the beast as my move (flight, hovering just above the tarmac like I'm skating), then use Gravity Bind on the dragon.

Gravity Bind (DC 17 Reflex, Snare (Gravity)): 1d20+7 10
And I think I'll HP that.

Gravity Bind (DC 17 Reflex, Snare (Gravity)): 1d20+7 10
EXACT SAME RESULT, but since this was a re-roll that 3 I rolled becomes a 13 which means a result of 20. (No crit)

Initiative (+5 Dex, Improved Initiative 4(+16 INI)): 1d20+21 31

The initiative is REAL.

Levity

Joint Operations: 4 Posts

Levity

She quirks her eyebrow before flying back down to the ground, hovering just a couple inches off of it. She turns off the speaker to her helmet. << I don't think this thing is friendly... He's talkin' like a cult leader. I wager weapons free is probably the name of the game? >> She says over her radio before powering herself up, the air around her distorting light like a lens. Her helmet speaker turns back on. "Yes. I defend the lives of this city. And I'm telling you this. Stand down and leave. This is the only warning you get."

<< Evacuate all non-essentials. I think it's about to turn D&D here real quick. I got his attention. Could use a wingman. >>

Levity

Levity cocked her head, the dragon hovering in place in front of her was NOT part of the show. <<"Uh, disregard, I have visual.">> What she did was the right call. If she was gonna have to duel this thing, it would have to be without her plane. But she can't engage just yet. Not without a clear threat being posed. <<"Do not engage it. It isn't known if it's a friendly, but it hasn't attacked yet. I'm gonna attempt to communicate.">>

She turned on the speaker to her helmet. "Okay... I wager you're not here for the show, aren't you?"

She loosens her stance looking at the majestic... and slightly terrifying beast. "The name is Anne Mistral. What brings your travels here?"

"Most dragons are quite intelligent and at least they can speak human language... at least in fiction... maybe this is one of them?" She thought, while minding an escape vector if it looks like she might be it's meal.

Levity

Anne pushed her throttle, rocketing back into the sky. The cleanest transition she's pulled yet before heading into the blue. Then something on her radio crackled, that she caught from the corner of her hearing. <<...we have someone ...coming ...hot. ...in the air, get the pilot out of there.>> Damn engines... louder than she thought.

Levity wasted no time, setting her aircraft into it's auto pilot bringing it level, then opened her windscreen, in one smooth motion she disengaged her restraints and entered some commands to her auto-pilot. <<NA-Emerald, sending Perigrine back to base, security protocol Black.>>

She jumped out at 5000 feet as the windscreen closed. Once she was clear of any back-blast the aircraft followed it's pre-determined flight path out of the area at top speed. She slowed herself down to a stop at about 500 feet. Who needs a parachute... Well, as long as your flight power didn't get pushed too hard... <<This is Levity, please repeat ground. What is inbound? Give me a location.>>

She didn't know where to look... Not yet.

Good for you! My personal identity is still a quest I'm chasing, but I'm glad your journey actually has a road.

Notice Check (+10): 1d20+10 15 Got a 15.

Levity tagging in.

Levity

Levity sat on the Tarmac, spinning up her engines. Planning out her routine. In Airshows Nolan Aeronautics would let her plan out her routine for airshows compared to the prescribed test routes and maneuvers that the hard-hats at the hanger would want. Her G-suit system tensed up in anticipation of movement, as she slowly rolled out... then moved the thrust to the VTOL system, bringing up her wheels. She hovered there motionless, compensating for cross-air flow from the slight wind, almost like a ghost.

<<This is NEAR 1, Hovering to 75, then following the taxi in front of the stands to give the VIPs a look.>>

The control tower responded. <<Wilco, thanks for letting our hotshot get himself out of the sky.>>

She pushed forward on the stick, guiding her pride and joy along the taxiway. The crowd was amazed at the stark difference in airframe design between the F-15 doing it's thing and the advanced fighter moving along to the runway. Many cheered knowing that was the Peregrine. Nolan Aeronautics' pride and joy, clad in the trademark blue with golden yellow on the leading edges of the wings, tail surfaces, and canards in front. The prominent Nolan Aeronautics roundel on the tail surface was more an advert, but even a firm known for humanitarian and charitable efforts has to advertise.

Anne missed the chatter from the back seat. Jaime, her usual backseat was over at Site II which was still under construction off shore... She didn't get the flight clearance Anne did for this particular show.

That was the one thought in the back of her mind.

Soon she was hovering at the take-off position after the last pilot did his rounds and got himself off the runway.

She pushed her throttle and with just a quarter of the runway used was at a 90 degree angle and was already at flight speed. She was at 1000 feet before she leveled out, using the unstable geometry of the aircraft and the VTOL system's thrust vectoring to move like a ballerina, the geometry of the craft blunting the sonic boom into something akin to a car door closing loudly. Eventually she came back down, going back about 150 feet, going sub-sonic, but as fast as would impress the crowd, before heading to a hovering stop, dead center in front of the crowd. She tipped the forward ailerons and dipped her nose a little, like a gymnast doing the pose they do when sticking a landing.

The crowd cheered as she patched in to the event speakers. <<That was just the start everyone. Callsign's Levity, Chief test pilot for Nolan Aeronautics, and this craft is the Peregrine, a fast crisis-response design and loadout. Equipped to deliver rescue supplies to a scene at a moment's notice.>> She said before returning comms to the emcee of the event.

She heads upward with the vtol system, activating her blue smoke on her wing tips as she goes back to standard flight rocketing up into the sky, twisting in the air as she flies through one of the circles still in the sky left by the last pilot, looking like a double-helix thread, then again doing what looks like a stall, pulling off a flip before using the VTOL and thrust vector system, to get back in control and fly by the stands once more.

Even with her suit and her own powers, she did feel those G-Forces. As she flew by she used every ounce of talent to do a skid-stop like move 200 feet above the runway, over the pond. She demonstrated the rescue system by dropping a rescue pod into the water deploying it's life raft and supplies. There was a pilot in the water who was part of the only planned portion of the event, they got the short end of the straw, but they didn't mind considering they were in a pretty comfortable spot now to watch the rest of the show. She could hear some cheers and laughs from the crowd... seems the emcee of the event was putting on a show as well.

<<Heh, had to show off to the crowd before dropping that?>> The appreciative but impatient "survivor" quipped.

<<Well you hired me for a show didn't you?>> Levity said with a giggle before pulling away. Centering herself again above the runway.

She knew after this she would be getting a message from the tower, probably either an advisory to head back in or to go freestyle depending on weather conditions.

"Just another day in the circus, eh Anne?" She whispered.

I can definitely see Nolan Aeronautics and their Nolan Emergency Aid and Response initiative coming into conflict with MARS at least on a rhetorical level (Nolan trains and has screening to ensure supers under their umbrella are good types to be patrons of), and Levity herself might be in a situation where she may have to clean up after someone else's mistake. Which could turn a shouting match into something less... friendly. At least in Mars' terms. Nolan genuinely wants to help (and has a good history with heroes in general) and this difference in philosophy could be a friction generator.

<<Levity here, ready for sortie.>>

I would be more than happy to help as a player (since I have a character in Emerald City), and I might be able to help with ideas.

Torpedo Lass

She crossed her arms, watching their ship closely for a few moments.

She then went to the Bridge of the ship, to check on whoever was there, and to get a hold of Engineering. "Hey guys still okay down there?"

Looking around she scratched her head. "Would be easier to know who the captain was if everyone was in Navy uniforms... Who's the captain here?"

All she needed... and wanted to do... was to make sure there was no one on the crew severely injured. If the ship was otherwise in working order would be a good idea to know where they were going. And to get permission to stay on board until the ship made it to port.