Thevshi

Okay, while waiting for Moon to post IC, will move forward with rolls. 

Bruiser leaps at the giant robot, All-Out-Attacking -2 def/+2 attack, and Power Attacking -2 atk/+2 dam. He just hits the robot, so DC 28 toughness save: 20, so again injured and dazed! (2 injuries on the giant robot now)

Archer will move over near Daniel and ready an action to use his Trip arrow (with full Power Attack) and coordinate with Daniel to have Daniel try to trip it with his telekinesis at the same time so they get a combined attack.

Then it will be Neko's turn @Avenger Assembled

@MoonSimply Are you attacking the Omegadrone that is attacking you? Or something else.

If the omegadrone, it fails its toughness save, so is down. (remember, the Omegadrones are minions, so you can take 10, you could even power attack to do more damage (as long as you can get a 14 to hit while taking 10).

They are all spread out (as the PCs are spread out), so none are close enough for Takedown.

@Avenger Assembled @RocketLord Just wanted to confirm where Neko is (and thus the Elite Ninja), I thought she had remained where she was backstage and just used her obscure without moving?

@RocketLord The two that hit me need to check the 50% miss chance from Timeout's concealment (miss chance only).

Okay.

@MoonSimply La Puma is up!

Southside

Freedom City, New Jersey

Tuesday April 9, 2024. 4:30 PM

Lexa Venn was busy in her new garage, located not far from Jordan International Airport in the southern part of Southside. The young woman had recently made the relocation back to Freedom City after some time in Bedlam in the mid-West. It had taken a bit of work, but she had been able to open the Chop Shop to start trying to provide souped up vehicles to the large number of superheroes active in the city.

Of course, to help pay the bills until she could get that line of business established, she was also taking more typical mechanical work on sports cars and other non-stock vehicles. Lexa was just finishing up work on a Porche when she heard a voice call from the open door to the garage.

"Pardon me, do you service electric vehicles?" It was a male voice, speaking with a distinct British accent. Turing around, Lexa saw a teenager, about sixteen, maybe seventeen, standing at the open bay door, he was just a bit under six feet tall, with short blond hair and bright blue eyes that seemed almost to burst with energy. Standing next to him was a teenage Asian girl about the same age, who was about Lexa’ s height with dark blue hair.

It took Lexa a moment, but as the teenage boy smiled, she recognized him, although the last time she had seen him was when he had been ten years old. "It is good to see you again Rev. Been awhile." Lawrence Harrow said with a wide smile.

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Lawrence had invited Mizuki to join him this afternoon after classes had finished to visit an old friend who had recently returned to Freedom City and opened a garage in Southside. On the drive over, he had explained that Rev had been one of the Claremont students that had been watching him when he was ten and the cosmic entity they had recently encountered had first tried to kidnap him, leading to them all ended up on CoVic Station 25,000 light years away.

@RocketLord Stormcrow is up!

Okay, per chat in Discord, Paper will also use the base -2/+2 Power Attack. So auto-hti/auto-critical hit, for +17 damage, so DC 32 toughness save for Big Horn: 31! another bruise.

But, also a DC 27 Fort save to avoid being knocked out: 20! so he fails and is Knocked Out!

@Huckleberry Rot is up.

Multi-Girl

Starshine's hard light struck the towering robot squarely in the chest and glanced harmlessly off its armor. The robot barely seemed to register the attack as its glowing eyes swept over the increasingly chaotic battlefield seeming to note the various targets in the area.

Down on the ground, Bernadette looked up at the new threat before glancing over to where Iris had taken cover, seemingly starting to panic. "Calm down an' stay focused." The redhead called over. "Stay behind cover an' try ta pick off some o' these Omegadrones before they get lucky."

The Irish teen then focused back on the giant robot from the Terminus. Taking a deep breath, she ran forward a couple steps and then leapt into the air a short distance. Bernadette’s leap brought her up next to the robot's left knee as she delivered a right hook aimed at the side of the mechanical joint.

WHAM

Bernadette’s punch landed solidly on the side of the robot's knee joint, bending some of the metal and sending sparks as the robot’s leg buckled to the side. The knee gave way just enough to cause the robot to fall down onto its knee, its left arm reaching down to brace it from falling over completely.

The redheaded teen meanwhile had landed back on the ground and moved aside just as the robot fell onto its knee. While pleased with actually managing to damage the thing, she was still kept her guard up for any counter-attack or any Omegadrones.

A short distance away, Bernadette’s duplicate that had been shot by one of the Omegadrones seemed to come back to her senses as she partially sat upright.

That does hit and bounces right off its Impervious.

Multi-Girl will attack it, hitting with a 24, DC 27 toughness save: 21 Injured and dazed!

Multi-Girl's duplicate will clear her daze.

@Avenger Assembled Copper Knight is up!

@MoonSimply La Puma right after.

Still 9 Omegadrones in the area, 4 on the ground, 5 in the air.

GM

While Golden Star managed to deal with one of the telepaths that had been harassing the heroes, that meant that he was suddenly not near any enemies and close to several of the troopers. Six of them turned their weapons on the teen hero and opened fire. However, only one managed to actually score a hit on the teen.

Over near La Puma, the towering Khanate mecha raised its plasma blade once again and brought it down toward Fleur de Joie. This time the green-haired heroine dodged to one side, the blade slashing a wide gouge in the cracked pavement of the ruined parking lot.

Okay, Golden Star has volunteered to be shot. Six of the troopers open fire on him: only one hits.

DC 20 toughness save @Poncho

The last hunter will try to hit Fleur with its plasma blade again, but misses

ROUND FOUR

26 Justicar Wryy (bruised, dazed)

22 Fleur de Joie 3 HP (bruised)

22 La Puma Negra 1 HP (bruised)

21 Justicar Har’al (bruised, prone)

20 Paradigm 3 HP (bruised, weakened -1 all stats rnd 1)

19 Star-Khan (fatigued)

18 Boran Lieutenants (x2, one facing Predator bruised 2, staggered, prone)

13 Predator 2 HP (bruised 2)

10 Sovereign (bruised) 

10 Tough Aliens (x3, one on Fluer, one on Predator, one on La Puma)

10 Troopers (two groups: 20 to the left and 20 to the right)

9 Hounds (1 telekinetic on right, one telepath on left bruised)

8 Golden Star 0 HP (bruised 2)

6 Hunters (x1 in melee with Fleur)

The Justicar has to clear his daze, so that brings up Fleur @Electra (after her DC 20 Will save (with +2 from the Inspire (after adjusted by her bruise))

He gets a 11, we will just call it KO'd

Sri Kath'lana

Kath'lana listened as Cavalier gave his analysis of what they seemed to be dealing with. The F'terrix Star Knight scowled behind the mask of her helmet. She glanced over to J'onn as he mentioned Korus not having enemies that were likely to want to make such an attack against the world. "No long standing disputes? She asked. “Or old history with more aggressive local sector groups?"

She paused a moment, then added, "but, if this is not likely the work of an external actor, what about any groups from Korus? Are there any that would have an interest in causing a planet wide catastrophe?"

Star Khan was still studying the equipment in the cavern and finally spoke up. "Whether an external or internal actor, could we try to use the current path of the asteroid to triangulate its path to this point? Could be that whoever is responsible is still somewhere along that path, monitoring their makeshift weapon to ensure it achieves the desired result."

GM

Dovox's eyes went wide for a moment as Kinarr crushed the crystal that had been weakening Paradigm. The Boran then gripped his glaive tightly as he stepped towards the young Star Khan, rising it above his head. "Then you are weaker than I thought, time to kill you and be done with this."

But as the self-styled Sovereign brought his weapon down with all his might, there was a WOOSH of air as Paradigm put herself between Kinarr and Dovox.

WHAM

Dovox's glaive came down, striking Paradigm's left forearm, which she had raised up above her head to intercept the weapon. Despite the powerful impact, Paradigm's arm did not budge, the weapon glancing off harmlessly.

"Not today."

Sovereign took a couple steps back as he brought his weapon back up in front of him in a defensive stance.

A short distance away, the Boran that had been attacking Paradigm moved over to where Fleur was engaged with the remaining Hunter mech. Swinging its large melee weapon, the League member was able to duck under neath the awkward attack.

The Boran that had been fighting Predator chassed after the armored heroine as she moved over and took out one of the Hunter mechs. But he his attack also missed its target.

Over near Golden Star, the Boran that had shrugged off La Puma's attack raised a large club and brought it down toward the Claremont student. However, she was easily able to dodge aside, the club slamming hard into the worn pavement. But even as La Puma dodged aside, she felt a jarring sensation in her mind as one of the alien telepaths launched a mental attack on her.

Meanwhile the other telepath attacked Fleur with a psychic blast once again…

Okay, Sovereign will attack Star Khan, 

Paradigm will interpose and is hit. DC 31 toughness save. terrible first roll, so will HP for a reroll: 35, much better.

A tough alien will attack La Puma: Missing very badly.

Another chases after Predator: also missing

The last (which has been attacking Paradigm) will go to attack Fleur: and, another miss

The troopers do not have a free target that isn't in melee for once, so a number will ready an action.

One telepathic hound will mind blast Fleur again: DC 20 Will save (don't forget the +3 from Golden Star's inspire) @Electra

The other will mind blast La Puma: DC 20 Will save (again, +3 from the inspire). @MoonSimply

And then it will Be Golden Star's turn @Poncho

Timeout

After failing to catch the drone in a bubble of frozen time, Lawrence had shifted his powers so that his bright blue eyes went completely blue and glowed with cosmic energy, reaching out with his cosmic senses. As those senses swept the area around the group, the blond teen responded to Daniel. "Do not worry about it Daniel."

After a moment, the teen's eyes returned to normal and he looked to the others. "There are three people not from this dimension down near the river, a couple of miles that direction." He pointed in the direction he had sensed the individuals. "Would seem the logical place to start investigating what is going on, and possibly where Kazra might be."

Okay, the tide is turning the good guys' way!

Round Four

26 Paper 3 HP (unharmed)

25 Stormcrow 6 HP (unharmed)

19 Shadowborne 2 HP (bruised 2)

18 Ghule 2 HP (injured 2)

16 Sureshot (unharmed, bound and helpless)

16 Multi-Girl 1 HP (bruised x2)

15 Legion (unharmed x3 / one near Ghule bruised / two near Ghule bruised x2, prone / 1 near SC bruised, prone / one near SC bruised 3, prone)

13 Shift 0 HP (injured 2)

10 Visor (bruised x2)

10 Star Khan (unharmed)

10 Mindfire (unharmed, -2 toughness drain (round 3), bound and helpless)

9 Nightscale 5 HP (bruised 2)

6 Big Horn (bruised, grappled; Bound and helpless)

@Spacefurry Paper is up. He is still near Big Horn, who is now bound and helpless, so, he could coup de grace him (full round action). But, there is also an unharmed Legion duplicate on Shadowborne, or Visor and another unharmed Legion duplicate near him; there are six others, four still prone, one on Ghule/Multi-Girl and one on Stormcrow.

GM

As Nightscale took to the air once more and snatched up Mindfire in one of his claws, Big Horn struggled against the snake-like arms that were wrapped around him. Although the armored villain was very large and strong, Shift planted her feet in place and managed to continue to hold him firmly in her grip. The tide of the fight certainly seemed to be turning the Young Guardians' way, with three of their opponents, including the muscle, all restrained and helpless and most of the Legion duplicates still recovering from Multi-Girl’s counterattack…

@Spacefurry

The Mecha is not that much bigger than a person (like 7.5 feet tall).

The Hunter gets a 11 on its toughness save, which will KO it!

Multi-Girl

Bernadette was quiet as Ryan talked a bit about his background, revealing that he was an orphan. "I'm sorry." She said, giving him a sincere and sympathetic smile. "It is not really all that uncommon here. One o' my best friends that graduated last year is an orphan. It seems your class has several as well. But I'm shoor not all have the exact same experience." The redhead added.

"But again, this is the time ta start tryin' things outside yer comfort zone. You never know which o' the connections you make here will be the most impactful, or long lastin'."

@Avenger Assembled @Tiffany Korta @TheAbsurdist

Moving us ahead in this. Condensing stuff so we can work to get this wrapped up

Multi-Girl

Bernadette and her duplicate glance around a moment, the misty forest had gone quiet after Neko had driven off the last of the Tengu. "Doesn' seem like much ta do but press on." The redhead stated, nodding in the direction of the path that led further into the grounds around the fortress.

The group of teens began moving along the path once more, the stealthier members taking the lead to scout ahead, while Bernadette's duplicate remained behind with the others, so they had a means of communicating between the two groups. This allowed them to coordinate reaching the next inner wall along a side away from the main gate and when no guards were nearby walking along the wall.

Working together and concealed within Neko's illusions, the group managed to get over the wall and into a large area of gardens beyond. Again, the group managed to avoid small patrols of soldiers that were actively patrolling the gardens, apparently alerted to the previous encounters with the teens.

Eventually they had reached the base of the tall castle that had been identified as their goal, along one of the side walls and away from the guarded main entrance.

Looking up at the tall stone wall that eventually gave way to the intricate wooden castle, Bernadette looked back at the others. "Well, unless we want ta just force our way in through the front, might be a better idea ta get up there somehow an' enter on one o' the upper levels?"

Multi-Girl

Bernadette looked at the Star of David Vik pulled out and quietly listened to her thoughts, giving her a small smile. "Thank you fer sharin' that. You may be right, I certainly hope you are. All I can really do is keep goin' with the faith that it will all be considered in the end."

When Charlie suddenly spoke up from the door, the redhead just gave a small grin, not showing any signs of being surprised by his sudden appearance. Glancing up at him as he came over to take her hand, Bernadette gave a light squeeze in return. "I'm doin' okay. Figured spendin' all mornin' in bed was more than enough." She replied.

The Irish teen then considered what he had to say about her being a martyr. "I'm certainly no expert either, but not shoor it quite works that way. I believe that my duplicate would have needed ta be killed out o' hatred o' my faith. An' I think there is somethin' about willin' acceptance o' that sufferin'." She responded.