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GM At Baz's reaction and words, the figure in purple turns around, their purple cape moving around them as they do. Their face hidden behind a reflective helmet, it is nonetheless clear that they are looking at Baz, Lawrence, Parker and the young woman. He raises a hand and points towards Gamma Buzz. "Get down from there right now." The voice is heavily electronically distorted, but nonetheless sounds annoyed, especially as he notices Timeout, Spaceman and the young woman. "You are not supposed to be here, but you did bring the wayward experiment back." While the man in purple continues, the girl starts heating up again. Another pulse goes through her body, just like before and once it is done, she has grown once again, easily looking like she is 40 years old now. The man scoffs. "Another disappointment."

GM As the group continue their trek through the desert the day, night slowly begins to fall. The light begins to fade as the sun passes beyond the horizon. With Carmen and Bernadette taking the lead, and, if Dr. Macedon manages to make them do the same Vueriz and Baz as well, they eventually make it to the spot that had been pointed out as their goal before all light is gone. The wind is picking out. "Alright, great job everyone," Alexandra says, as she puts her backpack down. "We've dealt with the heat during the day, and you did fine, but it's about to get real cold out here when the sun goes down, especially with the wind picking up like that. In other conditions, you should go forage for wood or something to start a fire, but what do you think we should do here?" The wind continues to pick up. Blowing stronger and stronger. Sand is slowly beginning to be moved about it, blowing around them.

GM The crowd goes wild as Neko blows up to gigantic proportions to introduce the band. Whether they are there for her, for the band or both, the show is off to a good start. When Multiplicity takes the stage, even those that were only here because of Neko Musume quickly joins in the cheers. It is a sight to behold, with whistling and hollering joining the cheers as the band plays the first song, all illuminated by the night sky that Neko has made for the show, and whatever else she might have come up with. But with a crowd this loud and dense, who knows what else might be going on?

ooc for this. @Thevshi @Spacefurry @Avenger Assembled let's get some Notice rolls while we get another round of posts in.

GM The program that is Haven had to compress itself to enter through the backdoor that the Woodsman had cut into the building. A program at his size will take time to unzip itself. Time that he does not have, time that he instinctively knows will lead to him being detected. His self is slowly restoring itself as he begins to move through the city. It is eerily empty. He sees just a few figures moving through the city every now and again. Faint figures, clad in green. In the center of the city, he can see a tower. It seems like it reaches all the way to the red planet that hangs above. As he moves, searching the directories in the Emerald City, he begins to find a path through the city's folders, he finds a place, a system folder that might serve his purpose. There seems to be activity in there. It looks like a seedy bar.

The STORMCROW What do you even say to someone that has lost a part of themselves like that? That kind of trauma? Charlie has been hurt before, but nothing like what Bernie must have experienced... "I'm here," he says, holding her close. "I'm right here. Just hold on to me." "What happened? I thought you were at Fiji with the other Claremonters?"

The STORMCROW Charlie is genuiely surprised when Callie shows up out of nowhere, so much that he almost forget to grin at Bernie's two duplicates in wigs as they look at him. Only almost. He gives them a quick grin, then turns to Callie, stretching his arms out. "Callie!" He sounds excited as he approaches. "It's been ages!" Keep up the pretenses. It's not like everyone there knows that he's Stormcrow, even if the former Claremonters might recognize him as Nevermore. "I went on a bit of a sabbatical myself. The boss man needed help with something, and that turned out to be a whole thing that just took forever." He turns to Bernie and the band with a wide grin, gesturing towards Callie. "Callie's pretty much family. Even if its been a long while."

I'm gonna wait until tomorrow morning and see if anyone wants to teleport along re: my message in discord, otherwise I'll post and bring Ghost to the reactor.

Notice: 28

Spaceman Parker's parents had always gone on about how he should broaden his horizons, take in everything that he could do, meet all kinds of people and experience all kinds of things, so his mom all but jumped when he wrote them about the permission. Parker himself had been mostly quiet on the ride. He honestly isn't sure how much he would like to be there or not. Unlike most of the others, it seems, he has experienced Deep Ones before, back when he was a child during in 2011, just 4 years old. He had not been hurt, but he felt afraid for his life. As they leave the van and Sea Devil appears and lowers her helmet, he flinches. He can't help it. The others introduce themselves, but he remains silent, staying a bit back. Intellectually, he knows that Sea Devil is a hero. She's trustworthy, she keeps people safe, but... She's also a Deep One, and he used to have nightmares about her people.

Space Ranger III "Makes sense. There's lots of Star Knights out there. I'm guessing it will be confusing whenever more of you are together like this." J'onn stops and turns to the machine, the massive propulsion unit. Did somebody aim this piece of rock at Korus? "Is it active?" J'onn asks, looking over the engine. "Anybody see a control panel?"

Alright, let's go for some heavy sabotage, then. Once through the portal, can Ghost find the ship's reactor using his x-ray vision? And how far away from it is he in a direct route?

@Thevshi I'll spend a HP to let you reroll that save.

Init: 20

GM The moment they are on the other side of the wall, the group finds themselves standing in a very different environment. Steel clad walls and floors in a massive area that seems almost the size of a warehouse. It doesn't seem like it should fit down here, and yet, it is here. It seems to be a bit of a chaotic mess, to tell the truth. Randomly located cages with a few people inside them, around the age of the now teenage girl. Computers in random locations, some connected to the cages, others to various vats that seem to have some sort of bubbling liquids. A massive device that seems to be the reactor that the girl had mentioned seems to be in the middle of the room. An armored figure in purple, with a purple cape, stands by it.

Spaceman "No idea," the girl says, trying to hold up the scanner, but with little effect. "I don't really know how it works, anyway." Parker looks back and forth between the girl that is now a teenager, the hidden door that he can sense and the scanner hidden on the wall. "Buzz, come here. We'll go first, then I'll grab you," he looks at the girl, "and then Timeout." There's too many of them for him to bring them all alone at once, but... its a door. And there's somewhere they can go on the other side. One by one, Parker changes the distance between himself and the other that he holds on to and the space on the other side of the door, bringing them over, until they are all there. "Now what?" he asks the girl.

The STORMCROW "Neko's got some serious stage skills," Charlie says to Leon, as they watch from backstage. He is wearing a pair of jeans and a dark red t-shirt with a white pattern of exclamation points and question marks on the upper right part of his chest, spreading over his shoulder to his back. He's looked into her. Of course he has. He knows how complicated her story is, he knows the files that Claremont got on her and what she can do (just a fringe benefit of Callie Summers being the headmistress), but that doesn't mean that he knows her. While Bernie and Multiplicity are rocking the stage, Charlie grins at Leon. Sure, they might have their issues, but he's not going to let that stop him. "You two seem to be doing alright. So, how did you get together?"

The STORMCROW Charlie's eyes go wide when Bernie all but tackles him, wrapping her arms tightly around him. This is not the Bernie he is used to. This is not... This is Bernie who needs him. He has already noticed her state. Scrapes, cuts, bruises, blood, but she can handle that normally. This is... This is different. He wraps his arms around her, holding her close, letting her cry. Letting her know that he is there, that he has her, that she is not alone. When she stops for a moment to explain, he looks down at her. Confused at first, then understanding. "Do you mean..." He pauses, not sure if he wants to even say it, but he has to. "One of your duplicates?" He can't even begin to imagine what it would be like...

GM Time passes, and the A.E.G.I.S. arrives to take care of the people that had ben injured and to contain the area. A breach like this, even contained, is something to be taken seriously. Some heroes are gone by the time A.E.G.I.S. arrives, others might not be. After letting the others know that he would be in touch, Stormcrow disappeared. The Conqueror Worm's puppets slowly awaken. They remember little of what happened, but they all feel tainted, violated to their core. No one escapes the Conqueror Worm's touch without a mark. Bluejay, once a promising hero, the daughter of a Claremont vice principal, is all but catatonic. She moves, she responds, but she refuses to take any action. Is she in control? Is she controlled? She cannot know. Not after this long. Toxin is angry. Where Bluejay seems to have given up, she is pissed off, angry at the world, and right now, especially angry at the A.E.G.I.S. crew that is bringing her in for questioning, as they try to figure out what actions she took willingly, and which she did not. Ms. Scorpion is taken into custody. Ranting, raving, swearing revenge against everyone and everything. Clearly far more unbalanced than she were before. She is taken away by A.E.G.I.S., yelling all the way, even as they attempt to offer her medical attention. Chump and Casanova are gone. Whatever might be left of Sebastian Shields are keeping them hidden, untraceable. Or maybe they are just that far gone. For now, the day is won. The Young Guardians stand triumphant. The Conqueror Worm is conquered. Everything is fine and resolved. Everything is over. --- The near future Eddie Fell doesn't like it. He doesn't like it at all. Everything was supposed to be over. Everything going back to the way it used to be, just him and his buddy hanging out, taking care of each other, keeping each other safe. He even got them an apartment while his buddy got better and got back to normal. Got a job to take care of them, plenty of food in the fridge and everything, and still... It just isn't working out like Eddie hoped. Eddie is leaned against the door frame by the bedroom. His friend is in bed, still out of it. Staring up at the ceiling with open eyes, without seeing anything. Eddie doesn't like it. He doesn't like it at all, but who can he go to for help? Things are supposed to be fine now. Everything is supposed to be back to normal. "... and the angels, all pallid and wan..." His friend is muttering that poem again. That terrible, terrible poem. "...uprising, unveiling, affirm..." Eddie looks at the bent police badge on the kitchen desk for the hundredth time this day. All he has left of his dad, and he let it get to this. What would his dad have done? Would he have tried to stop his friend? "... that the play is the tragedy, "Man,"..." As Eddie Fell watches, a sudden realization comes over him, when he sees Sebastian Shields close his eyes for the last time... "... and its hero..." A stranger's eyes open, where once was Sebastian Shields. Eddie Fell decides that today is not the day to live up his nickname. Chump turns and runs. "The Conqueror Worm."

As discussed on Discord, that means that the Immunity powers does not have the Flaw Permanent. I have updated the sheet to make it clear that they are Continuous instead.

The STORMCROW It's a quiet night, for once. Nothing on the scanners, nothing worth going out on patrol for or anything, so Charlie has been spending the evening and night so far, so time to work some personal projects, while the rest of the people in the mansion sleeps or does whatever they do at night. He barely even heard Bernadette enter, as she raised her voice. He turns around immediately, the concern visible on his face as he sees her. "Bernie? What's happened?" Charlie is on his feet almost before he talks, moving across the room towards her.

GM Looking at Baz, Doctor Macedon smiles lightly and pats her side. Or rather, pats the holster on her side that seems to be holding a revolver. Turning back to the two students that seem willing to learn at the moment, she looks at what Carmen is pointing out. "That seems right, Carmen. See those rocks over there?" she points out a formation that, if you squint, look sort of like a man with a top hat. "They're right there." She pauses, and points to another spot on the map. "So, if we need to get here," she points at another spot on the map, to the North, "what direction do we need to go then, if you look at the map and the compass?" Once Carmen and Bernadette figures it out, Doctor Macedon lets them take the lead through the desert, while she does her best to make Baz and Vueriz come along.

GM Slowly, slowly, ever so slowly, Haven moves into the hole. His body is only his perception, contorting and shrinking as he sees fit, but even then, the transfer rate through the firewall that surrounds the Emerald City is agonizingly slow. It feels like forever, as his body shifts and changes. Behind, he can hear the Woodsman. "Almost there! Almost there!" over and over, followed by "Don't forget about me!" It is like he is passing through the looking glass, into another place, one that requires that he shifts and changes. The moment that Haven finally makes it through, his body is stretched and shrunken, resulting in a strange, mishapen body. At least there is no one on the other side of the wall as he now finds himself standing in a majestic, futuristic city cast in emerald. Above hangs the red planet.

Spaceman "I kind of want to see how far you can get it if you really try," Parker says to Michael, crossing his arms. "I want to see how far out you can get it before I can grab it. Not like I can do like that at Claremont, in the middle of the city." A ball isn't easy, not at distance. He can feel anything out to a certain distance, everything around him. Like another sense, one that he's pretty sure the rest of them doesn't have, but a ball isn't big. It's not easy to grab hold of, and a place like this, where nobody can watch? That's the perfect spot. "Go for it, Carmen. I'll grab the ball before it gets too far away."

Spaceman "The burgers are pretty good..." Parker tries, even if he doesn't know if it matters at all, given Vueriz's potential dietary concerns. Michael calms down a bit, at least, but then already throws more questions at Vueriz, while she is still going with Consuelo. "How about you just pick a direction and go there, Michael?" he asks. "It's not like Vueriz knows where anything is, anyway."