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Yep. Give me some Initiative rolls.

Little Mermaid II Mette was going to tell Gilles that she spoke French, but stopped herself. That was probably a good idea to hide, at least for now, right? "So... you want us to go and do what exactly?" Kids were getting hurt, that was... bad. But aside from the fighting, this all seemed more like an issue for social workers. "Find the guy that's running this movement and kick his ass? What do you think that'll do for the kids?"

Justice Robin stared and... wow. Ultra Girl was going on and on just... just like her. Oh this was great. She stopped herself from laughing at the absurdity of it, and then they were in the garage that housed most of her gear. "Magic, actually." Robin grinned from ear to ear. "But there's a bit more to it than that. C'mon, I'll get you patched up and explain." Leading the way and supporting Ultra Girl as she needed, Justice led her through a small common area with a table and a kitchen, further into her headquarters and towards a small infirmary, including a bed and some machines. Along the way, Ultra Girl would be able to look out a few windows, seeing a rainbow sky. "This place is called Z-Space. From what I've figured out so far, it's basically the space between universes. So, a multiversal buffer zone of some kind. All kinds of stuff ends up here, like this place I found that I'm using as my HQ. I call it the AnneX, with a capital X." She paused, grinning sheepishly. "Y'know, Z-axis and X-axis and all that... yeah, I know, I know... anyway, anything broken? Just bruises? Need me to check for internal bleeding or anything? I'm not sure exactly how tough you are."

Nevermore II "Magpie?" Charlie asked, a small laugh in his voice. Really, Magpie? That was... kinda weird. He couldn't help but wonder if she had any relation to the old guy, or just liked the name. He looked after Callie for a second... then reached into his belt and pulled out a pen and paper, quickly scribbling WE'RE BAD AT THIS WHOLE ROBBERY THING, PLEASE PUT US IN JAIL, placing it on the guy's upside down chest and then firing a grappling line up into the rafters to follow Callie. Landing up near her, he merged into the shadows alongside her. He really wasn't supposed to be out here either, but, y'know... Callie didn't need to know that. Just made him look a bit cooler if she thought that Alek let him go out on his own. "So, Magpie, huh? I'm pretty sure the old one was a guy. Guess you got your own legacy bad guy!"

Can't make that save, he's down.

GM Luke saw her first. Then Leon. She was, to put it simply, beautiful. Green eyes, freckles, long red hair. A little bit short, but not too much. She was dressed in a dark crimson dress that hugged her body tight. It ended just above her knees, with a slit on each side. Her shoulders were bare, but she wore long crimson sleeves that stretched up her arms to just under her shoulders and left her hands free. She was chatting with a man with shoulder length brown hair, dressed in an open purple jacket with the sleeves torn off, wearing nothing underneath it. He was grinning, before giving her a thumbs up and wandering off. The young woman looked after him and shook her head, before smiling as she spotted Luke and Leon.

GHOST This was not Casper's kind of party. Really, he wasn't sure what kind of party was his party. This was just... not it. So why was he here? A man in thirties, standing awkwardly to the side with an open black jacket standing off to the side, just watching what was going on? Well, he had heard that something was going to happen here. And besides, this was Kingston. Who knew what could happen to all these kids when they were this close to the Doomforge. He kind of felt like he should keep an eye on them, just to be on the safe side.

Nevermore II Guess they knew whow was the guy in charge, then. "See-through isn't good..." Charlie muttered, looking at the group. There was a lot of bad guys here. Traps or not, these were gonna be a pain to deal with. "Watch out for those things. They might be, y'know, untouchable. They're all yours, Shadowborne." Reaching into his utility belt, he pulled out a small capsule and threw it towards the gangster they had gagged, hanging upside down. It started making a noise calling for help. At the same time, he activated some of the noisemakers he had hidden out in the street. Everything was ready to take down at least some of the bad guys. "Nightscale, hold off a moment, then go full dragon on them. We need them surprised and panicked, then we throw a dragon at them."

Keeping track of stuff in the spoiler. I'll throw a Noisemaker near the bound gangster, having it call out for help. That's a DC18 Will Save to avoid being tricked by the sound. Just loud enough that group 1 can hear it. As they get near the gangster, that should activate the proximity trigger of the Tripwires. I'll activate one a noisemaker out in the street at ground level near group 2, having the gangster calling for help as the sound. Same thing with group 3. If they get close enough, I'll trigger the first 2 of the freeze snares. I'll trigger any snares if anyone gets too close to them.

GM The underground hallway was brightly illuminated. It didn't take long before both Archer and Fascsimile noticed a few security cameras and point them out to Shooting Star, seemingly avoiding detection. The hallways seemed old. Featureless concrete, they had probably been here since the warehouse had been built, but there were traces of much more recent use, aside from the active cameras. Moving closer, the group came to a junction. One path continuing ahead, the other turning to the right, both ending in closed doors. They could hear muffled voices from the path ahead. Fascsimile couldn't quite place it, but there was something familiar about those voices.

Archer II Shooting Star went first. Fine. She was bulletproof. Could take a few shots if necessary. With the others moving in first, Connor took care of keeping an eye on their backs. Just because they hadn't seen anything up there didn't mean they were alone, after all. It wasn't dark in there. There were few places to hide, but still, he moved as silently as he could, keeping close to the walls.

Archer's notice: 25 Archer's stealth: 27 Results in IC.

Nevermore II Charlie had given El a quick response about the best kind of trouble, and that she'd get to meet the rest of the team, then. He was pretty sure she had met at least a few of them already, but hey, they could always do introductions later. Giving Luke a quick wave, he waited for everyone to show up and... well, it seemed like the whole gang aside from Shift was here. Pretty good so far, then. His ideas for this little group might work out after all. Not that he was planning on sharing any of those ideas just yet. "Wait, Muirne's hanging out with Shields now?" He really should've kept a closer eye on Shields, like they'd asked him to do, but... only so much he could do between classes, Grey Squad stuff, patrolling with the Raven, that whole thing with the Ushers and everything else... He was sure that Alek would get on his case about that later. Couldn't exactly let the others on all that, so instead, he grinned slightly. "You sure you're not just afraid he'll steal your girlfriend?" Yeah, no. This was much more serious. "Do you mean the Hunter Museum? I've been a few times. Security's alright, but not too tight. Haven't heard any rumors about any planned heists, but not like Raven knows verything." Or tells Charlie everything, for that matter. He looked straight at Luke, his mischievous grin returning. "So, what do you want us to do about it, Nightscale?"

GM "Ugh, lots of people. I just told you, we'd had half a dozen offers." Thomas glared at Jennifer. "Like, ASTRO Labs talked to us just last week, we got an angry email from somebody at Bastion Technologies that wanted a response a few days ago... Can't stand those Bastion guys, they're not offering even half of what we want." Thomas shook his head. "Plenty of things that'd show its ours, but that'd be if they used it here, or, y'know, made it available to the public."

GHOST "Yeah, I've, uh, heard of him." Heard the shark-man-thing bit, at least. And the killing for fun. Everything else was new to Casper. He frowned under his mask. Mad science on babies? That was just wrong. He kneeled down and looked at the symbols, making sure not to actually touch anything or do something that could disturb Kermit. "So he's the standard mad scientist turned monster type deal, then? Doesn't really sound like a magic type." Ghost looked over at Kermit. She looked so weird. "I might be able to help out." Focus his power into stuff around him, just needed to figure out what to go...

Ghost will aid, then! Let's take 20 just to be on the safe side, then!

Intimidate to resist: 21 He's feinted. And that's a hit. Fort save: 26 UNHARMED Red Death is, however, revealed! Since he was just hiding and is now fighting, he'll have to get away from Shadowborne to hide again! @RedSpine is next! 22 - Shadowborne - 2HP - Unharmed 22 - Howl - 3HP - Unharmed 19 - Nightscale - 2HP - Bruise (x1), Def -2 until Init 19, Grappling (No Dodge Bonus) 16 - Beekeeper - Bruise (x2) 14 - Red Death - Unharmed 13 - Madame Raven - 3HP - Unharmed 12 - Trawler - Unharmed, TOU-3 (1 restored at Init 19 each rnd.), Grappled by Nightscale, Bound and Helpless 10 - Nevermore II - 1HP - Unharmed 07 - Fearmaster - Bruise (x1), Dazed

ROCKET Jay stood there for a second as Melissa returned to normal. There was that electricity crackling around her again, but grounded towards the ground. That was... pretty smart. He kind of wondered if she'd shocked herself or something like that, before slowing down to normal speed. "Sorry, sorry. I was in a hurry. Kind of a family thing, I guess." Uncle Johnny had tried to help him with getting better at stopping, but... yeah. Hadn't really worked out entirely so far. "Sounds like that might be it, if you're here for the academy too?" His words were coming faster now. Jay was getting nervous. He had to slow down. He took a deep breath and centered himself, then smiled and shook Melissa's hand. "Sorry, this is all just, a lot. I'm Jay."

Taking a full action to Aim at Dama Maravilla.

Archer II "Yeah." Dama Maravilla. Connor would be lying if he said he had any idea what that meant. Probably something important. All of these super types wanted some fancy name that meant something. Couldn't just be something simple. "How fast do you want this shut down? Want the plan first?" Connor picked out a couple of arrow, placing them on his bow and took aim at Maravilla. "Give the word and I'll blow the arrow in the middle of the crowd. I got Maravilla in my sights." Merge had worked this. She could call the shots, then.

Little Mermaid II It had finally been time for vacation! Mette had been busy this last year. Busier than she had ever felt before. The Rurland stuff, joining Vanguard, the whole thing with the fairy tales, fighting King Crab a few times... Yeah. It had been a busy year. Kinda like she had just suddenly gained some kind of cosmic narrative importance or something like that, but that was just silly. New Zealand was the destination! She'd wanted to go since her parents had shown her the Lord of the Rings movies, so now she finally had the chance, and... Then giants. Because of course giants. She couldn't really not help, after all. People were in danger. She was already heading towards Christchurch when the call went out, so she just made sure to get there faster. Seemed like she was the first to arrive, waving with a grin at the military liason. "Happy to help, sir! Which of the giants do you want me to hit first?"

GM Victor looked at Eira, flinching slightly at the tight grip on his arm. His breath grew heavy, his lips twisting just ever so slightly into a slightly mad smile. "I have dreamed of things you could not imagine, Miss Katastroff, but I will accept that challenge. Now, show me your science! Show me what you can do really do!" Turning away from Eira, Victor hurried down the halls, leading her towards what could best be described as highly advanced steam punk laboratory. Machinery of all kinds, anything she had expected to find in a fantastical version of a Victorian fairy tale laboratory, it was there. Crude machinery, bubbling vats filled with strange fluids. A table covered in a white tarp, a row of automatons in half-finished states, more advanced than the ones she had encountered outside. She would find what she would need in the laboratory, as Frankenstein watched with a careful eye. *tick*

They're standing in front of a building that can easily be reached. There's the broken street lamp as well. Getting to that will bring you closer, but also make you easier to spot.

What's the current positions of everyone?

Archer II: 3 posts + 4 GM posts + 3 Titanium Posts = 10 posts = 2PP Original Gangster (Remix) (2) The Eye, the Bird and the Arrow (0) The Southside Sentinels (Posts marked Archer II) (1) Freedom Eagle ∞: 1 posts + 0 GM posts = 1 posts = 1PP + 1PP [Extracurriculars] = 2PP Future Freedom, Today! (Posts marked Freedom Eagle ∞) (1) Extracurriculars Face the Music (10 songs) [+1PP] Ghost: 8 posts + 2 GM posts = 10 posts = 2PP Breaking the Bastion (Posts marked Ghost) (2) Feels Like Freedom (1) Party Rocking (Posts marked Ghost) (3) Shark Week: Baby Shark (2) Justice: 1 posts + 24 GM posts = 25 posts = 3PP The Mars Connection (Posts marked Justice) (1) Little Mermaid II: 6 posts + 19 GM posts = 25 posts = 3PP + 1PP [Guide Point] = 4PP Assassination Classroom (1) Mirror Mirror (Posts marked Little Mermaid II) (0) Te Whakaekenga mai i te Tonga (5) Nevermore II: 8 posts + 2 GM posts = 10 posts = 2PP Brimstone and Bullet Casings (1) Family Takeover (0) Hearts and Heroes (Posts marked Nevermore II) (3) Rough Cut Diamonds (2) Survival Class: Silver Lining (Posts marked Nevermore II) (1) The Shadow of the Doomforge (Posts marked Nevermore II) (1) Rocket: 2 posts + 0 GM posts = 2 posts = 1PP Meanwhile, at Atomic Tower! (2) Titanium Characters Forever Boy: 2 titanium posts Return to Neverworld: Make a Wish (Posts marked Forever Boy) (2) Rebellion: 1 titanium posts Big Trouble in Little Jadetown (Posts marked Rebellion) (1) Ruminations: Mission to Mars (0) GM: 26 GM posts = 52 posts to divide Bank Job (0) Big Trouble in Little Jadetown (Posts marked GM) (0) Breaking the Bastion (Posts marked GM) (1) Freedom Fallout (2) Freestyle! (3) Future Freedom, Today! (Posts marked GM) (1) Hearts and Heroes (Posts marked GM) (2) Little Bird, Come Out and Play (1) Mirror Mirror (Posts marked GM) (0) No Dreams (3) Party Rocking (Posts marked GM) (3) Return to Neverworld: Best Intentions (2) Return to Neverworld: Make a Wish (Posts marked GM) (2) Survival Class: Silver Lining (Posts marked GM) (2) The Mars Connection (Posts marked GM) (0) The Shadow of the Doomforge (Posts marked GM) (1) The Southside Sentinels (Posts marked GM) (1) 3 Titanium posts to Archer II 4 GM posts to Archer II 2 GM posts to Ghost 24 GM posts to Justice 19 GM posts to Little Mermaid II 2 GM posts to Nevermore II Guidepoint to Little Mermaid II That should be 1 GM post extra. In case I did any miscounts that the GM post can't handle, take extra posts away from Archer II.