Manmirror watches one hostage freed from the snake run off, and sees the second one threaten the hostage. He tosses the pinto over his shoulder, shrugs, and says, "Fine. I'll just let you discuss it with this nice masked man and head over to that restaurant for a bite."
Turning, he walks towards the restaurant. As he approaches the door, he says, "You mind if I come in and get some coffee, or something? I'm a little parched."

Titan takes the assault rifle like candy from a baby, breaking it like a saltine.  The snake-man almost bites his hand but his strike just misses as Titan adjusts his hovering.

13:47, Today: R. Race Rasmusen, for the NPC Snake-man, rolled 54 using 1d100 ((54)).  Bronze, reduced to white.


Titan sees inside the restaurant a from his new vantage next to the broken window & covering.  He sees 2 more armed snake-men inside along with their misshapen leader, with more than a score of people hunkered down with hands above their heads.

The two other snake-men don't fire not wanting to hit their brother, but the leader spits at Titan, who easily maneuvers out of the way.

13:56, Today: R. Race Rasmusen, for the NPC Lumpy, rolled 41 using 1d100 ((41)). Bronze, reduced to white.

The snake-man in the street with a hostage hisses at The Spook "Give me that! I let human go!"

The leader hisses deeply after Darien's mental feint "I feel you again boy, you won't essscape thissss time!"

Devilgirl drops to a landing a little way away from the Spook, hoping he knows what he is doing. Given her powers are so destructive she's not going to try and blast the hostage taker just yet - too risky.

"So... what exactly? I'm standing right here." Darien said as he spread his arms out, palms facing the snake-man. "C'mon. Take your best shot, lizard breath."

00:23, Today: Darien Hooker rolled 1 using 1d100.  Test of Psyche as a taunt.
And that's what the universe thinks of that idea....

Manmirror continues his expressed course, heading right through the front door of the restaurant. "You have made coffee, right?"
He ignores the snake men and looks for a coffee pot.

The Spook smiled, this seemed promising. "Good! Let her go, send her to me and I will toss you the vial. Same time, yes? Yo understand?"

The snake-man says shaking his hostage "Vial firssst! Bring it now!"

The Spook's blood boils "Stop it!" he clenches his fist around the vial and gives it one more try "I'm trying to help you, but we can't pull this off if you don't let her go! I'm coming over there - and if you are still holding her in three steps... well." The Spook raises the vial above the pavement with just his thumb and index finger. He wobbles it tantalizingly "You will be sorry."

The Spook then begins to walk towards the snake and his hostage with long, confident strides. He counts the steps in his head One.... Two...

"Hold this!" Titan yells as he throws one half of the gun at the leader, but misses high.

Darien stretched his neck and adjusted his hood, pulling it down so that he could just barely see out from under it.

"I really don't understand these guys."
"Their actions do seem... confused. Chaotic and disorganized."
"I wish I could help them, but they aren't giving me anything to work with."
"Maybe a change of tactics is called for."
"Sure. What the heck."

Darien scoffed and reached out with his thoughts to the snake-man before him.

22:30, Today: Darien Hooker rolled 89 using 1d100.  Telepathy (WC).
Silver. Should be good enough.

"Dude, I am in your head now. You want to tell me what your deal is? Or do you want me to pull it out by force? Let me help you."

The snake-man with a hostage re-emphasizes his position by squeezing his captive's neck, and Hisses even more emphatically "Vial FIRSsssssst!"

The two assault rifle holding snake-men inside the restaurant fire, once at each of their  targets. "Rattatatatat"  Blowing holes in additional windows. While the unarmed one near Titan tries ineffectually to bite him again.

14:10, Today: R. Race Rasmusen, for the NPC assault vs. Titan, rolled 38 using 1d100 ((38)) white - miss
14:12, Today: R. Race Rasmusen, for the NPC assault, rolled 26 using 1d100.  vs. Manmirror. white - miss
14:14, Today: R. Race Rasmusen, for the NPC Snake-man, rolled 21 using 1d100 ((21)). Whit - miss

Meanwhile their leader stands concentrating, if he could sweat, he'd be sweating bullets.


14:15, Today: R. Race Rasmusen, for the NPC Lumpy, rolled 29 using 1d100 ((29)).
14:17, Today: R. Race Rasmusen, for the NPC Lumpy, rolled 22 using 1d100.  Hypnotize Darien. - white no effect

"Yeah. Not so much," Darien said. He pushed back mentally.

15:58, Today: Darien Hooker rolled 19 using 1d100.  Mental Blast: Feat of Psyche.
WHITE. Ugh.

Well. I tried. Here goes nothing... the Spook thinks to himself as he approaches the Snake Man. He stops directly in front of the villain and holds out the vial in his open palm. "Here."

The Spook focuses on his outreached hand, channeling his powers. He plans to snatch the Snake man's wrist when he grabs for the vial. With any luck, he would be able to hold the monster long enough for the hostage to escape.

OOC: This is important, so I'm using Karma to get at least a silver result.

10:26, Today: The Spook rolled 30 using 1d100. Stun Power: Feat of Agility. 40 Karma spent to get Silver.

"Okay, now I'm getting annoyed," Titan ays as he dodges the bullets fired his way.  He takes a look at the other half of the gun in his hand, then drops it and flies headfirst at full speed slamming into the leader.

Okay, so I don't know if a 1 is an automatic fail or not.  If not, using karma to raise the Charge to a bronze result (40 karma).

12:18, Today: Titan rolled 1 using 1d100.  Charge Leader+Karma for Bronze.

Devilgirl stood by waiting, unwilling to intervene at this most delicate moment, given how poorly she had done so far. As soon as the spook did his mojo, she'd get aggressive...

Manmirror walks into the restaurant, ignores the bullets flying, and marches right up to one of the gun toting snakemen while saying, "hold on there, we can't start until  me and snakey get the rules straightened out."
Once he reaches the snakeman, he puts a finger in the end of the assault rifle and asks if "anyone here knows the mark is of queen berry rules for gun fighting?"

OOC: I just spelled it out in the way Manmirror pronounces it, blame him, not me.

13:22, Today: R. Race Rasmusen, for the NPC Snake-man w. hostage, rolled 72 using 1d100 ((72)) Bronze. - Stunned loses 1 round

The Snake-Man with hostage reaches for vial The Spook holds out, dropping the hostage as he does so. Then the Snake-Man hisses in pain as The Spook grabs his scaly hand, then drops to his knees eyes closing.  The Hostage gets up says "Thank you masked man!" and runs off away from the madness.


<Red>(OOC no automatic fails on a 1)

13:36, Today: R. Race Rasmusen, for the NPC Lumpy vs. Titan, rolled 94 using 1d100 ((94)). Silver - lethal, possible stun - need to make a feat of endurance check.  30 damage, and lose 30 points of strength from poison.
</Red>

Darien's mental scream barely registers as a tongue flick from the giant Snake-Man.

However it gave Titan a moment to recover after careening past as he dodged a bullet, and hit the Snake-Man in the back of the head "CRACK!" Unfortunately not a soft spot on the snake, who recovers and strikes back, biting him right in a major artery on the leg, pumping venom into him!

13:55, Today: R. Race Rasmusen, for the NPC Assault-rifle, rolled 81,76 using d100,d100, unique dice ((81,76)). Bronze result on both each Manmirror & Snake-Man take 30 damage.


Manmirror's action takes the gun toting Snake-Man utterly by surprise, for a moment he stares at Manmirror, then fires his rifle anyway, causing it to blow up in their faces.

13:57, Today: R. Race Rasmusen, for the NPC Snake-Man, rolled 93,45 using d100,d100, unique dice with rolls of 93,45.  vs. Titan.  #1 Silver downgraded to Bronze - 30 lethal damage, white on the other.

The last gun toting Snake-man fires at Titan riddling him with bullets, while the one now weaponsless launches himself at Titan, but finds him too difficult to get hold of.

"Batting a thousand, here," Darien grumbled. "How about you?" he turned to face the snake-man with a gun. "You want to Sit Down!?"

18:54, Today: Darien Hooker rolled 85 using 1d100.  Mental Blast: Feat of Psyche.
SILVER result

The Spook deftly snatches the vial out of the air after releasing the Snake Man. He quickly pockets it again.

Lucky. Stupid, but lucky. the Spook thinks to himself with a savage grin as the Snake goes down. As soon as the hostage runs, he jumps backwards himself, as if the Snake Man were on fire. At least he would be soon.

"Clear!" he shouts to Devil Girl "Now, all clear!"

14:31, Today: The Spook rolled 90 using 1d100. Agility Check. Silver result.
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Manmirror tells the snake man, "Well, that wasn't very smart, was it?" before backhanding the snakey dude.

OOC:23:54, Today: Manmirror rolled 75 using 1d100.  backhand snake man, bronze result
I think that's 50 damage

"Ow, that huuuurrrr..." Titan slurs as he falls to ground, unconscious.


16:04, Today: Titan rolled 25 using 1d100.  Feat of Endurance. - White, knocked unconscious.

Devil girl grins and summoning her aura sends a fireball from her palms straight towards Spook's snakeman.

OOC: 22:05, Today: Devilgirl rolled 41 using 1d100.  Aura (Alternate Power) - Blast (World Class).

14:47, Today: R. Race Rasmusen, for the NPC Assault-Snake man, rolled 20 using 1d100 ((20)). White - out for good.

Amazingly Darien's command to sit down sends the gun-toting Snake-Man into a cataleptic state, sitting on the floor where he stood.

The Snake-Man outside recovers from The Spook's effect, screaming "No! I need the vial!" Just as he starts to leap at The Spook he's hit by Devilgirl's blast of fire, It's not enough to stop him as he grabs The Spook and wrestles him down trying to get in his pockets with an insane frenetic grip it seems impossible to resist.

14:38, Today: R. Race Rasmusen, for the NPC Snake-man, rolled 98 using 1d100 ((98)) - Gold result - full hold, silver feat of fighting or strength to escape

Manmirror's casual backhand sends the blackened Snake-Man flying across the counter to land in a display of pies, he slithers slowly to the floor, face covered in whipped cream, a marked improvement, and doesn't move.


15:01, Today: R. Race Rasmusen, for the NPC snake-man, vs. Manmirror rolled 15 using 1d100 ((15)). - White result - miss

The smaller disarmed Snake-Man hisses at Manmirror and throws himself at him, but only succeeds in landing in a mess of broken glass, pies, and Snake-man.


15:16, Today: R. Race Rasmusen, for the NPC Lumpy, rolled 90 using 1d100.  vs. Darien. Silver, 30 damage, -30 strength, must resist stun.

The larger Snake-Man ignores Manmirror and bulls through the tables, chairs and wall below the broken window, saying "Run home to momma boy!" suddenly leaping at him arms folded to his side, almost flying like a flying snake fangs barred, and sinks into his belly almost all the way through, and pumps poison into him.

Manmirror sees Lumpy run away, says, "shoot", and whips his head back and forth looking for something. Finally he decides on an appropriate projectile, grabs whichever downed snakeman he can and flings it at the biggest snake in the place.

OOC: not sure what the result is, but I rolled
20:55, Today: Manmirror rolled 66,67 using 1d100,1d100.  grab snakey, throw snakey at snakey.

19:00, Today: Darien Hooker rolled 38 using 1d100.  Feat of Endurance.
WC --> Bronze (barely!)
But his Strength is now below zero.

Darien recoiled from the strike and cried out in pain. His knees buckled and his mind reeled from the pain and the poison.
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