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Yep, I am using that bonus . Anyway, here's the roll: 20, if that's how I'm supposed to do it.

Marceau's eyes lit up at the idea of the wizard having a weakness. "If he does," he asked carefully "would it show? I mean, would I just have to look for something that if he wasn't vulnerable to he would have near him, like not having a any of a certain kind of metal cutlery or something?" he brushed a hand through his closely-shorn hair and winced, blinking furiously as a metal ring on a kite bounced a ray of light off the grill nearby into his eyes. Leaning his head down to get it out of the intermittent ray, he added "Also, how could I try to destroy the hideout? It seemed pretty non-conventionally built, a bunch of rings connected by portal doors or something, have to scout it a bit to make sure about that of course"

Understood, yes, going for a ranged Disarm. 24, natural 20 with an additional 4, due to the -4 Attack penalty.

"Does it matter if both of you are near it?" said Martin "Yes, especially in your cases, since we'd need to do some pretty careful testing to make sure of your operational area limits. For safety's sake, I think you two should stay as close as you can while powering it" he nodded to the rest of the passengers, who had been gathered to the front under the leadership of Sam "If this goes right people, nobody will be hurt, and we'll be home in seconds at longest!" he called cheerfully, folding out the recalcitrant stand and setting the Channeler on the snug circle at the top. He then stood back and bowed to the two heroes. At about that moment, an insistent knocking began on the windows next to Victoria and Brian. The walking void was there, and behind him was a lounge-like area with several enormous chairs, a coffee table covered with cups and a large kettle, and half a dozen gigantic black-armored knights surrounding it.

Alrighty, I'm going to spring to the left of the Silencer, and try to blast his gun in half. Attack roll: 15, hope that hits.

DONE BY SHAENTHEBRAIN Hokay, in light of your suggestions, I'll try to trim the cruft from the sheet: Dropping the Device down to 2, removing the two Blasts. Also to be removed: Handle Animal, Drive and the Force-Field. Relaxing the trade-off of Defense to Toughness by 2, and using 3 of the freed-up points to buy 1 extra Defence, and another rank in the Dodge Focus feat. I'd like to buy up 2 more points in Con, Dex and Cha. With four of the extra points, I'd like to bump up the Array to rank 10 and add the power Snare rank 10 with the extra Engulf to it. DONE BY SHAENTHEBRAIN I did everything except increase the array rank. KoS is PL8, and his total Attack bonus with his Cosmic Energy Blast is +8, so his Blast rank can't be higher than +8, which it already is. And another 2PP isn't enough to get another rank of his Continuous Create Object AP. So there didn't seem to be any point to it. I added the Snare AP, but why would it have the Engulf modifier? Honestly, this build still needs a lot of help.

I had no idea about that. Anyway, One quick question: how is the kitchen set up? Where are the doors leading outside, I mean?

The issue with the sheet is hardly just yours. Shaen's recently told me I should deeply re-work KoS to make him more efficient. Anyway, here's the the Intimidate counter to the Startle: 25. Natural 20, +5. And Defence: 8. Drat.

Activating Empowerment Array, Switching to Super-Strength and attempting a Grapple attack. Attack:19

Knowledge(Streetwise): 6. Darn. Initiative: 21. W00t!

Seeing the stink-eye and the departure of the dishwasher, Marceau whispered fiercely to the cook "<Monsieur chef, I must confess to the untruth of my words. Please forgive me, but I wished to see who, if anyone here, had tampered with the drinks being served. I belive it to have been your dishwasher, though of course I do not know, and I shall go now and catch him, and if you will be so kind as to call 911, I think a tragedy may be averted!>".While speaking, he had been moving quietly to the bins the washer approached, and when he had gotten close enough, tapped the man on the shoulder and asked politely(though loudly) "<Your pardon, sir, but may I ask that you come with me? There has been a problem in the dinng room that requires extra hands>"

Checks! Diplomacy: 21 Notice: 15 Sense Motive: 19

Marceau's vision seemed to swim before him for a moment. Shaking his head managed to clear it somewhat, but a deep feeling of sickness within told him that the pleasant time in the restaurant had come to an end. Staggering to his feet, a feeling of weakness going through him like a wave of sludge, he looked with horror about him at the collapsing diners, a realization going through his head like lightening that the only place to find an answer to why some brain-genius had put poison(isit poison, or something else?, he wondered briefly) in the drinks would be the kitchen. He set off purposefully for it, trying his best not to bump into anyone. Walking through the door with his politest expression, he walked up to the first cook he saw and asked in French "<Pardon me, monsieur chef, but what do you put into coffee here to make the steam blue? Quite remarkable effect, I would earnestly like to know hot it is done.>" He finished with his most winning smile.

Nah,If I used a Hero Point every time I rolled badly with KoS I'd need...a whole lot of Hero Points, more than I've got.

8. urgh, have got to increase KoS's blasted exotic saves.

Marceau took his dessert gladly from the waitress's tray, biting into his eclair with relish, having not tasted one since 2005. Chasing it down with a sip of coffee, he nodded in earnest agreement at Rene's grim diatribe. At the mention of something being "off" with the coffee, Marceau looked puzzled and took another, slightly longer sip of his. Unfortunately, he hadn't had coffee in the last two years at least, and thus didn't notice the difference in the slightest, never having been ka big drinker of coffee at any time.

Alright: http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/3100449/ Dangit.

Marceau listened with care, nodding when Rene said that magic existd no matter whether or not you wanted it to. He was well aware of the origin of his own gifts, and had held for the last several years the notion that significantly more of the threats facing the powered populace were magical than was suspected. Unlike some, he thought ruefully, he had never experienced that feeling of elation upon first discovering his powers that so many magic-users had, being practically born with them. He wondersed vaguely if he should ask a true mage what it had felt like to wish for something and have it happen beyond hope. Much more interesting, however, was speculation as to the presence of Lady Tarot and the Don. "<Again, I am hardly an expert on criminal matters, but perhaps the Don and his compatriots are here to intimidate the owner of the restaurant, or the owner is doing business with the Don>" a flicker of a glance followed his words. "<You have, I dare say, more experience with gauging people's motives than I, Rene. Do you think those two are waiting for someone?>". He relaxed against his chair, giving the room a once-over to see if, by some miracle, the place was getting more settled.

Martin looked apologectically at Jubatus and Zap " In short, yes. You'll both have to keep pumping out energy to keep the Channeler going. If you stop(it takes a lot of energy) the tunnel collapses into itself" he scratched his head "Maybe send out a couple of people to give that guy out there the idea we're interested in negotiation?" he took out a small hard plastic collapsable stand for the Channeler "So it doesn't give someone a nasty shock" he explained. Once done, he delicately tuned the instrument one-third of the spiral around and pressed three of the buttons twice. A sudden idea struck him: "What about the bus battery? How much charge could it contain? If it holds enough, you, Zap, could just recharge it every now and then, without needing to be here constantly"

The Void-Like Thing shrugged when the door was shut in its face, pulled an extremely real-looking lawn chair from nowhere and lay down in it, pulling an issue of Time magazine out of a similar nowhere and opening it. Raising a limb over its head, it snapped once. At this, a gigantic gate, black as pitch yet dimly perceivable as covered in sculpture, rose up from the ground in front of the bus. Opening with a groan, it showed an aerial view of Freedom City in all its shining glory. "This way would be quicker!" it called merrily, its voice sliding through the walls of the bus, "Come out, let's make a deal to all our satisfaction!" Martin laughed, obviously glad for the excuse. The Dimensional Channeler was a flattish disk, About four inches high and seven across. It had a deeply bizarre control scheme: a touch-sensitive spiral in the center colored grey, blue, yellow and red, and divided into fourths numbered at intervals. Additionally there were twenty-seven buttons, each marked with a vaguely Latin-numerical symbol. Contrary to popular myth in the extra-terrestrial division of A.S.T.R.O. Labs, the thing wasn't based on alien technology. "Operationally speaking, there's no known limit. Carrying capacity is set by this spiral here, you just press down here and depress here and you can set roughly how much you want to take with you. The thing's set at the metric system, luckily, so I won't have any trouble figuring how high it needs to be set" he looked up at the front window of the bus with a deep frown "Only one issue: if that Thing has the power to keep us here. The mechanism works by boring a 'channel' from one dimension into another, and if that guy can warp space/time he might be able stop us"

I know, but it's a pretty commonly used method for a specific aim that Siobhan and most any other knowledgeable magic-user would recognize, thus the lower check. The exact purpose is really the only thing in doubt.

DONE BY SHAENTHEBRAIN First, the 6 unspent PPs is an accounting error on my part,it ought to be 4 unspent PPs. With those four, I'd like to buy +2 to my Reflex save, which is actually +2 with my Dex, so that it'll actually be +4 for legitimate reasons. I'd like to replace the current Fool's Deck array with this: ]Device 3 (15 PP Container, Flaws: Easy-to-Lose 2)(Fool's Deck) [9PP] Fool's Deck 5(10 PP Array, PFs: Alternate Power 3)[13PP] Base Power: Blast 3(10 30ft. Range Increments, 300ft. Range, PF: Split Attack, Extra: Penetrating)[10PP] Alternate Power: Blast 4(400ft. Max Range, Extras: Area[General, Burst, 30ft Radius])[10PP] Alternate Power: Obscure 5(Visual Senses, 100ft. radius Area, 500ft. Range)[10PP] Alternate Power: Dazzle 5(Audio and Visual Senses, 50ft. Range Increment, 500ft. Range)[10PP] Also, three formatting errors needing fixing: there are 16PP in Feats, not 116. the Equipment aren't in the quote box and the DC Block isn't in a code box, as standards say they must. I believe this was caused by my putting the entire thing in a code box, for which I am deeply sorry. Toughness save is 5 in actuality, CON gives +2 now. I would like to change the 'Power Descriptions' section to this: Marceau's powers are granted by the combination of his ancestor's astrological birth-signs, which grants him access to mystical cosmic energy, which he can direct and form at will from rays of power, the creation of solid to increased lifting and throwing strength. He has managed by careful training to suppress the visual indicators of their use, which normally takes the form of massive translucent gold gauntletted hands surrounding his. Also, I'd like to replace the current Cosmic Energy Control Array to this: Sundered Cosmic Might 9(18PP Array, PFs: Alternate Power 3, Flaw: Noticeable)(Inherent, Magic)[21PP] Base Power: Cosmic Energy Control 8(10 80ft. Range Increments, 800ft. Range, PFs: Accurate, Ricochet)[18PP] Alternate Power: Create Object 6(Solidified Cosmic Energy, Extra: Duration(Continuous), PF: Progression)[18PP] Alternate Power: Super-Strength 8(PFs: Groundstrike, Super-Breath)[18PP] Alternate Power: Force Field 18[18PP] DONE BY SHAENTHEBRAIN

"<An eclair, please!>" came the eager response,"<With another black coffee for me>" when the waitress had left he turned to Rene, having recalled something he thought would make for good conversation."<Rene, you seemed pretty blasé when I mentioned that Lady Tarot might be a diviner. Are you acquainted with fraud magicians? Enough to see through one at a glance?>" he didn't recall that it was much more likely that the old man was simply blasé by nature, rather than it being a sign of familiarity with the subject.

Less actually, DC 18.

Marceau nodded eagerly "Alright, so attempt to negotiate first, and if that fails, try to destroy his hideout which he probably can't protect" he looked at Equinox with a puzzled expression "But what could I replace his chosen components with? Something like a strand of their hair, something with sentimental value like a beloved toy? The thieves said they were ordered to bring him things very close to the victims, and of value to them too"