MarkK

Been bedridden and doped up on painkillers the last few days from having had a Crohn's flare up come at a bad time otherwise healthwise. Coming out of it, and I'll be trying to catch up on my threads tonight, sorry.

It just has a vibe of a character intended to be someone else's sidekick, is I suppose to put it another way.

Okay, I'm taking a look here.. your character can't really remember things from one day to the next, is inclined to be a follower of others, and is probably going to die soon.

These things do not exactly scream long term playability to me, you know?

What do you see the role/function of this character as?

He didn't get in the message carving on the dumpster, they amended to fleeing before the police arrived.

Ahh, right.

It had been an epic battle with paperwork and his day planner, but the Emissary had managed to work in the time for another patrol of the city during the evening. The fading rays of sunset glimmered across his silvery form as he flew just above the skyscrapers, focusing keen senses on the city below.

Things were quiet so far, and it let him indulge in the simple joy of flight, hitting a few wind currents and letting the air flow over him, taking in that sense of being one with the sky.

And then a cacophony of panicked yelps and sizzle of energy flares imposed themselves on his serenity in a demanding sort of way. He angled over to take in.. well he wasn't sure what he was taking in really.

A group of people he didn't recognize, one of them having apparently been blasted at, all flailing around and screaming.

Well, nothing for it but to be polite and hope for the best.

"Attention presumably superpowered beings! Please calm down and do not start any kind of fight that could send chunks of masonry down onto the people below. I am sure none of you want that."

Okay, giving em a day and then we're just going ahead.

Maze, Doc A's internal conversations are going on in his head, your character wouldn't hear them. They're his inner monologue.

Not exactly sure how to bring Emissary into this.. I guess I'll just have him flying nearby.

For one thing, turning the immunity to mental effects into, say, a will save of +10

That's fine too if you want to take the hand in running the thread basically, Emissary and Dark Star haven't met, no.

His across the board defenses make him seem difficult to affect with much of anything, while his all out attack+high attack bonus make for that he will generally smear what he hits. That ontop of this it is a tier 2 npc makes it feel a bit like your own private Doomsday, goes the concern.

To be completely honest... We will probably just end up taking off. I doubt Malice will want to deal with the SWAT team... after all, they ARE fine upstanding non-mutant members of freedom.

Characters might not /want/ to deal with them, but in Freedom they have stuff that can make them pesky and difficult to just roll on away from. It's the point behind the theme "factor in the cops some". Like I say, if you guys want to amend posts to "and then we hightailed it" after turning Spartan to a baseball as opposed to hanging around, sure. Otherwise, police encounter.

He smiled with a nod in response.

"Alright, the thing about patrols is that, much like with the police, you may often encounter a whole lot of nothing as you do a regular circuit. But it's not always the point to so encounter something you can put your fists into. Like again with the police, part of this is continuing a chain of effort, one that lets people know and have the reassurance that they're being watched out for. That if they call out for help, it isn't in vain. That there are those out there for them, trying to be there."

A pause.

"I mostly say this so you have something to remind yourself of in the in the times where it does get entirely boring."

He points out a series of nearby rooftops.

"We'll start with these. As you jump from one to the next, take time to look around from the building's roof, look particularly to alleyways, many things often seem to go wrong within their recesses."

Um, what do you see as the general campaign use of this npc?

I can bop Emissary along for that, sure.

Been busy with the long weekend like a few others, sorry.. honestly they'd be rolling up about now if you took the time to mess around with prone bodies and write on dumpsters. I'd have otherwise brought them in on the init pass after Spartan went flying.

If you want to deal with the police and SWAT, I'm fine with running them, if you want to avoid the encounter, it's an easy fix to just say the lot of you relocated after Spartan went flying.

I'm giving Quark and Twilight Gryphon a little bit to post their arrivals, if no one minds?

It was a struggle, but he managed to entirely distract himself from all the touches by focusing on her joke and rolling his eyes with a smile.

The moments she spent adjusting herself afterwards made him thankful that she couldn't see his face or his starting to fluster. It occured to the Emissary at that point, with the wrap of toned legs around him, just exactly /why/ so many of his fellow fliers carried others around by the underarm, but it was too late now.

He began to float upwards slowly at first to give her time to acclimate, accelerating once they cleared his embassy, wind whistling about them as he then took off in full for the clear blue of the sky, at least for a few brief moments. He flew with her above the city's tall and shining towers, before settling back down over the roof of an apartment complex and hovering just above it.

"We can start here, lots of buildings in jumping range."

well, just let me know how you'd like to wrap it up really

Particularly for the way the thread started and the events before init happened and general time for em.. yeah, the police are necessary. It's a thing of public brawlery. Cops will eventually show up, and there was enough time for this one for news networks to pick it up and get it on the air. It's maintaining a sense of being in a setting.

Right now it's the sirens that herald them, just so incorporate.

"Other than feeling like a shiny silver pony?" A light smile for a moment. "No, that's fine then."

He floated up a bit more from the ground at that, beginning to angle his body so that she could get on.

Alright, just seemed wierd.

He nodded and rose up to his feet.

"If you'll come with me then?"

Presuming she did, he lead her through and outside of his embassy, then paused at the door with her.

"I should say.. there's a sort of joke, or halfhearted gripe that floats around the League about heroes carrying other heroes while they fly somewhere. The complaint goes that we who fly often carry people by the underarms, and there's apparent soreness and a whole thing. 'Armpitting' they call it. I was deeply chagrinned to hear that. So I usually offer if there's some other way you'd prefer to be carried, to so mention."

Well Ok, Prodigy has quickness 20, and with the super memory benefit, she cna use herself as a library for knowledge checkes. So if I take 20, I should be able to get at least a 31 in any given knowledge check.

So since she does it 5 million times faster, I should be able to take 20 on multiple knowledge checks, right? Following with that, I'll take 20 on Knowledge (current events) knowledge (history) and knowledge (technology), getting a 31, 33 and 33 respectivly.

Then, Daedelus is a superhero of unknown origin who's been with the Freedom League since its founding in the 1960s until 1975, where he left Earth to explore the galaxy in a starship of his own making, the Icarus. He returned around the time of the Terminus invasion, fighting in it, and helping to rebuild the city after it, as well as rejoining the League on its refounding. He's developed or helped develop all the technology the Freedom League uses, from Freedom Hall to the Lighthouse. His technological expertise also helped construct Blackstone Prison. He has a particular facility for robotics, and the android vigilantes the Furies Three are of his making, and the way Talos has yelled at him a few times points to some kind of connection in refurbishing. Some people speculate the current Daedelus is the son of the original guy, as it otherwise looks like, for those paying attention, that he hasn't aged a day since then. Daedelus himself hasn't really commented on the matter.

Were you looking for something more particular?

Given the way the entire encounter started and that there's been news broadcasts and so forth, I'm not seeing it, there'd have been more police en route as is.

So.. as I said: For the moment let's just say you all hear a very loud cacophony of many incoming police sirens.