"Oh, that didn't last long."

Darien sighed angrily and glowered at the gunman.

"At least they dropped their guns."

And then he hit the second gunman with another mental blast.

11:46, Today: Darien Hooker rolled 68 using 1d100. Mental Blast: Feat of Psyche. -- Silver result.

So that's over with, the Spook thinks while silently creeping away from the spectacle at the mayor's office What was really going on at that rally? Could that lunatic really have been from the future? He hadn't gone far before the bank alarm cuts through his thoughts.

Deciding to poke in for a quick investigation, he immediately spots the fallen people and moves to action. For whatever reason the masked gunmen had dropped their weapons - and the Spook aimed to keep it that way. He vaults the bank goers in an effort to slide/snatch the guns from their hands. It isn't until he gets much closer that the Spook realizes they are not wearing masks...

OOC: The Spook rolled 30 using 1d100. I believe this would be an Agility check - going to spend 1 karma for a bronze result.
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A purple blur interposes itself between Darien and the rightmost robber, while the middle one hisses and collapses to his knees, his gun sliding across the floor (The Spook kicking it away.)

The rightmost one who had not yet spoken says "Forget thisss!" and fires his shotgun at the blur (bronze - 20 damage unless reflected).

The leftmost says "It'sss that boy, get him!"  and fires his pistol at the boy but shoots the wall behind him in his haste (white result).

The voice from the office spits "I told you not to ssssho..." trailing off as a horrific visage of what barely looks like a man, he towers at least 8 feet tall, a giant hooded cobra head replacing that of a man, who's arms and legs hang withered and almost useless from his sides, a gigantic tail supporting him, all covered in colorful scales and a white lab coat.  He quickly surveys the room with his forked tongue flicking out of his slit of a mouth. The Spook getting a chill as it's dead eyes stare at him for a moment, but he moves his gaze to Gyre who feels himself drawn into it's eyes, and starts slowing and closing his eyes but snaps himself awake with a quick slap to his own face (failed psychic attack)


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Devilgirl dropped out of the sky into the street in front of the bank and tried to enter without getting too close to a fleeing civilian and barbecuing them (or stepping on their feet - she was wearing stilleto heels after all.)

As she entered she looked at the 'robbers' in surprise. "Whoah... guess I'm not the weirdest looking one in the room for once!"

After a moment of hesitation she advanced on the giant cobra, her aura flickering around her.

Darien flinched when the gun fired, but he was distracted by the giant snake man. "Doctor Cobra!" Darien said. "Sad thing is, robbing banks is the least despicable thing you've done. Give up now! Use your science to actually heal people, not exploit and extort them."

He backed up his declaration with a mental blast.

22:38, Today: Darien Hooker rolled 99 using 1d100. Mental Blast: Feat of Psyche. --> Gold result.
And the dice have returned to me.

The Spook suddenly blips back into sight. It was his first monster, and he lost concentration out of sheer revulsion.

Not good. the Spook realizes he is in the midst of all three gunmen. Quickly regaining his composure he drops to a crouch and snatches the rightmost robber's leg and squeezes, willing his lanky fingers to pass through the man's flesh, into the nervous system.

OOC: The Spook rolled 22 using 1d100. Stun Power: Agility Feat. 10 karma used to achieve Bronze result.
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"That is one giant ugly snake."

Gyre's whirlwind doesn't manage to reflect the shot, but its robbed of all energy and does him no harm.  Figuring Devilgirl can take out the giant cobra, Gyre will focus on one of the gunmen and a small purple vortex is fired from the main swirling mass to strike him.

09:47, Today: Gyre rolled 6 using 1d100. Reflection (Great). => White Result
- He has a Great Force Field (basically what Force Control gives) so it reduces the 20 points of damage down to 0.
09:51, Today: Gyre rolled 60 using 1d100. Agility Feat for Attack (World Class). => Bronze Result
- 20 points of damage

"BANK ROBBERY FOILED!"

Doctor Cobra looks at Darien and laughs "Hsss! Hsss! Hss!  I'm not jussssst healing humansssss, I'm improving them!  They woulnd't fund me anymore, Sssso I'm taking the fundsssss.  Join me and I can give you all thissss too!"

As Devilgirl advances on him he turns to her and sizzles in pain with the heat
(rolled touch for Devilgirl gold result)

Distracted, Darien has no trouble blasting his now simpler snake mind to bits, he falls over immediately unconcious.  (resist stun - white result, 0hp & unconcious)

Similarly The Spook must have found a nerve as the gunman collapses grunting, while Gyre hits him with a vortex to the face. (resist slam, white result 0 hp fall over & must spend next action recovering).

The middle gunman recovers, but his gun isn't in sight, runs out the door fleeing.  The one left standing decides to join him, but fires a parting shot at Darien and says "Thiss iss getting too weird even for me!" (Gold result 20 dam to Darien)
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"Gah!" Darien cried out in pain and stumbled a few steps with his hand pressed against the wound. "Sonova..." he cut back on the curse and sucked in air between his teeth.

"She's very unusual."
"What, you've never seen a... demon?... before?"
"..."

"Hey," Darien said to the flame-shrouded woman. "Thanks for the assist."

Devilgirl's aura shimmered away and she walked over to Darien. Other than than the red skin, the horns and the three foot long tail twitching nervously behind her she now looked like any normal beautiful woman in a black minidress and heels. She looked confused but friendly and offered a slender hand - if Darien shakes it he finds her very slightly warmer than a normal human.

"Thanks dude, those weren't like any demons I know... uh are you alright?" She said, eyes widening as she notices his wound.

"I got shot. It hurts." Darien did his best to shake her hand, being mindful not to use the bloody one. He avoided looking at the woman and instead focused his gaze on the snake-people. "This ass... jerk... is Doctor Cobra." Darien lightly kicked the unconscious snake body. "I'll know more details when he wakes up, but he's some kind of scientist. You saw these guys..." he indicated the gunmen, "He's turning them into snake-people. I assume he already did it to himself... unless he's something different." He looked at her briefly and then past her. "Who's your friend?"

Seeing that the young man is at least partially looked after he will go bouncing after the escaping gunman but says something in his talking through a fan voice "I'm Gyre... going after the escapee." as he heads out the door he shouts "Someone call an ambulance."

If he catches sight of the fleeing snake mutant with a gun he will fire off another vortex of energy.

18:10, Today: Gyre rolled 56 using 1d100. Agility Feat for Attack (World Class). => Bronze Result
- 20 Damage
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The Spook briefly glances at the others before taking the opportunity to investigate the scene. He silently rummages through the coat pockets of this... "Doctor Cobra." He had questions for the other three, but they didn't seem to be leaving any time soon and he may as well use the lull to search for clues. After all, there were still a number of hapless people scattered across the floor - perhaps drugged and in need of an antidote.

OOC: the Spook is still visible from the last post :P

The spook finds an iphone 6+ in the pocket of the labcoat, an unused syringe and a couple of vials of clear liquid marked x65 and x68

Grye bounces out and finds the snake-men lifting a man-hole cover with a crow-bar.  The one who still has a pistol drops the cover ans says "Jussst let uss go man... thing, this wasssn't our idea." and fires at Gyre.  (Bronze result 20 dam absorbed by Gyre's bubble if not reflected)

The other one drops the manhole cover as well and squeezes through the gap left trying to get away.

Behind Gyre something appears, but his quick movements allow him to see everything, it'd be invisible to the human eye, but his senses being far better, something sharp coming at him, he only sees it as a line in the air. Whatever it is, doesn't even come close to hitting him (Attack white result)

Devilgirl feels a pull, it's weak but someone who has spoke her true-name is somewhere nearby... outside the door... she looks and sees Temere outside trying to karate chop Gyre poorly.  Something's different about him, he looks significantly younger, and healed from her last encounter with him, his clothes aren't quite as fancy either, though he still wears a dress-suit.

Karen gripped tightly on the side of the car door as her partner, Gary, drove madly towards the bank. They'd been out to get a bite to eat when they heard the alarm and the call. They were the closest unit and so they responded to the bank robbery.

As they came up on the bank, they slowed and quickly got out to assess the situation.

That's no antidote, the Spook thinks as he carefully pockets the contents of Cobra's lab coat Better keep this safe out of hand. With the mayoral debacle fresh in his thoughts the Spook was not inclined to trust the police or any political figure with this potentially deadly evidence.

He slowly picks his way to the two talking inside the bank "Sirens," he announces without introduction "We should move. You too," he points a bony finger at the freshly shot young man "We have things to discuss."

Without further delay he drifts towards the street, slowly fading back to the comforting realm of invisibility.

OOC:The Spook rolled 47 using 1d100. Super Senses, Intuition feat: Bronze result. Police car detection.

Darien was still trying to talk to the demon-lady, not really worrying about the man picking through Doctor Cobra's pockets. The important things were locked up in his mind. "Uh, sure," he said, confused, as the man made his pronouncement and disappeared.

"If he paused for a moment, we could have the discussion he wanted."
"I know. It's the city. Makes people rude. Still, I don't like the idea of being here when the cops arrive."
"But you're injured."
"There is that. I'm not going to a mob vet."
"The ambulance should be here shortly."
"What I am I going to tell Gram?"

"Did you know him?" He asked the very distracting, red woman.

Devilgirl seemed distracted, looking outside the door at someone. Gyre seemed to be dealing with it. She blinked uncertainly and looked back at Darien.

"The disappearing guy? Uh we met briefly...," she looked at Darien's wound and hesistated, clearly concerned about him. "Can you move or do you want to?" She offered a graceful red shoulder for him to lean on. "I can't fly without bursting into flames but I can run in high heels. Oh, I'm Devilgirl by the way."

"Oh, I can walk. Rather not go too far, though." Darien smiled. "Nice to meet you, uh, Devilgirl. I'm... well... I'm not so keen on giving out my name..." He glanced away, embarrassed.


"Ooo! You think they have code names?"
"Do you really think she's a devil?"
"She's certainly a girl."

Darien blushed.

"I... I don't want to leave until this guy is taken care of. I don't want him hurting anyone if he wakes up before the cops get here."

Gyre yells to the closing manhole cover "Quit shooting people and robbing banks and maybe I'll believe you." He could go chasing snake people through the sewers... but then someone tries to attack him from behind.

"You are really getting on my nerves Tremere and letting snake people escape." With that he lets loose another purple vortex blast at Tremere.

09:42, Today: Gyre rolled 75 using 1d100. Agility Feat for Attack (World Class). => Bronze result
- 20 damage

Gyre's vortex splits off and splashes against the line, he hears "I'm injured!  I'll figure out some way to defeat you! Perhaps I can go around your shield!  Enter quatuor dimensionum!"  His appearance changes from a line in the air to Gyre to again with the strange classic red & blue 3d shifting of colors.

The snake man with a gun sees Gyre's engaged and yells over the alarm "Good idea, I'm outa here, good luck!" and squeezes down the partially open manhole.

Karen can scarcely believe her eyes, a purple vortex fighting some guy from a 50's 3d movie, someone coming out of the bank who just disappeared into thin air, and snake men - maybe those guys are just wearing masks, but somehow she doubts it.  Her partner stares, mouth agape uncomprehending.

The Spook sees the whole scene as well when he steps out.  Devil Girl catches Temere's act from the corner of her eye.

With an apologetic look at Darien Devilgirl ran out to confront the guy who had messed with her mind.

"Hey you!"

Darien watched the flaming hot woman run off and sighed. "Was it something I said?" he asked to no one in particular. He glanced over to the unconscious Doctor Cobra and checked his mind. Was it even conscious enough to process thought? How many snake-men had he created? Where is his home base?

13:54, Today: Darien Hooker rolled 21 using 1d100. Mind Probe.

Nothing.

Unbelievable. Here he was trying to think of ways to pick up Temere's trail, and now the wacko had come to him, shifting red and blue just like before. The Spook draws his sonic pistol - it seemed to do the trick earlier, and maybe this time he would actually be able to catch the slippery weasel.



"Wait," he calls out over the sound of her clacking heels "Remember what happened last time!" Cursing under his breath, the Spook sprints towards Temere, hoping to intercept the 3-D man before he can cause the same problems.

Gyre sees Devilgirl coming out of the bank and thinks 'not again'

"I don't know why you keep stalking us, but I'm shutting you down before things get worse." After bouncing up into the air, he will fire off another vortex of purple energy... and the parking meter will never threaten anyone again.

22:08, Today: Gyre rolled 4 using 1d100. Agility Feat for Attack (World Class). => White