She-Hulk defending from Fierce Brute's physical attack:
Buddy    d6
Jade Giantess    d8
Superhuman Durability    d10
Indoor Fire Scene Complication    d8

She-Hulk rolled 5,6,7,3 using d6,d8,d10,d8 ((5,6,7,3)).

Total: 13, Effect: d8

The creature that knocked She-Hulk back with its energy barrage lets forth a second volley, with blasts exploding around the dazed Avenger and the stairs. A number of the shots go wide, laying waste to the upper staircase and the balcony overlooking the foyer, and as the energy starts to dissipate and pieces from the explosions of ravaged home furnishings begin to settle, from a cloud of dark-creature energy in the unlit darkness, a form unfurls, growing as it rises from the dark mist, until its body overtakes the landing at the top of the stairs then the entire balcony, then overcoming the area to reach beyond it and into the room where the heroes and creatures have assembled. Free of the dark mist, a massive, unearthly dragon reveals itself atop the stairs.

It has a muscular body with a short, wide tail and neck. Its scales are umber, getting much thicker on its tail. It has long, thick limbs with six splayed digits on each foot that end in blunt claws, and fanlike wings that stretch between its forelimbs and the end of its tail. Its head is narrow and it has a tiny mouth. It has hooded eyes that are the color of varnished wood. This dragon has huge holes for ears. Bladelike bony plates sprout from its chin. Bony knobs surround its nostrils.


As it unfurls, flanked by quickly-spreading fires on both sides, it lets out a body-shaking roar -- "RRRRRRRRRAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRR!" -- then spreads its wings, extends its tail, and opens its jaws wide, displaying a hungry mouth full of the sharpest teeth, and its clawed hands reach out to rend all those before it.

Spend 2d8 from Doom Pool to add Unearthly Dragon

Emotional attack (intimidation) on Justice, Ms. Marvel, Captain Marvel, Fierce Brute, Dark Basilisk:
Buddy    d6
Den of Infernal Creatures    d8
Widespread Terror    d10
Area Attack    4d6
Menace Master    d10
Indoor Fire Scene Complication    d8

Unearthly Dragon rolled 4,8,7,6,5,4,2,1,2 using d6,d8,d10,d6,d6,d6,d6,d10,d8 ((4,8,7,6,5,4,2,1,2)).

Total: 15, Effect: d8 to Fierce Brute; d6 to Justice, Ms. Marvel, Captain Marvel, Dark Basilisk
1 Opportunity available

Doom Pool: 6d6, 8d8, d12 -2d8 = 6d6, 6d8, d12

Reaction Needed: Justice, Ms. Marvel, Captain Marvel, Fierce Brute, Dark Basilisk
Next Action: Justice, Ms. Marvel, Captain Marvel
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The brief quiet gave Carol a moment to collect herself after punching Iron Man's missles. Now Jen's compromised, and the one responsible is now showing itself, and probably not in its natural form.

Carol hates these kind of fights since she's better at punching than telepathic crap. But, whatever it is, is making a big show of things...

Carol will attempt to stand her ground.

Team: d10
Take-Charge Attitude: d8
Psyche Expert: d8

Captain Marvel rolled 8,6,6
1pp to add to the total

Total: 20 Effect: d4
Now to move on to her initiative action

Carol stands her ground, curious as to what this thing is trying to accomplish. However, she sees Sofen head for the ceiling and through, might mean one of two things: either there's something involved with the fight up there to deal with, or she's making a break for it. Carol mentally sighs, having to give Sofen the benefit of the doubt. So, she needs to make sure the "dragon" occupied.

Carol is going to blast the stairs the dragon is "atop" to create the asset "unsure footing"

Team: d10
Take-Charge Attitude: d8
Energy Blast: d8
Combat Expert: d8

Captain Marvel rolled 3,7,5,3

Total: 12 Effect: d10

0pp

Reaction: Watcher
Next Action: Justice

An Asset is an extra die created for you to use; a Complication is an extra die created on an opponent to use against them

Doom Pool (6d6, 6d8, d12) reaction to Captain Marvel's attempt to create Unsure Footing Complication, Total: 12, Effect: d10:
Indoor Fire Scene Complication d8

Watcher rolled 3,3,3,1,3,4,3,1,1,3,5,8,8 using d6,d6,d6,d6,d6,d6,d8,d8,d8,d8,d8,d8,d8 ((3,3,3,1,3,4,3,1,1,3,5,8,8)).

Total: 16, Effect: d8

Attack fails

3 Opportunities (available first to Captain Marvel; not to be used with current reaction rolls)

Captain Marvel takes the other side of the room from where the creature is blasting away at (or toward) She-Hulk and unleashes her own barrage in the same direction. Her energy blasts collide not with the roaring dragon on the balcony but the stairs below it, obliterating much of the steps in short order. She-Hulk falls through the resulting explosion, rising at ground level once the blasts clear, then stands atop a fresh pile of debris, though stacked enough that she is halfway near the balcony anyway, with the raging fire, now fully entering the foyer, behind her. She takes the same stance as on the stairs, standing fully but not in a battle-ready stance, and looking into whatever distance there is.

And yet, the dragon is not misplaced, standing its ground with its roaring, yawning maw and yearning claws, stretching out to easily access any point in the room, but keeping its place, as it sits on the balcony on the second level more than the stairs that now lie in wreckage and splinters.

As the dragon roared and made its crashing landing Justice felt a pang of fear in his hear. This was a real live dragon... a creature of myth in their midst.

He could feel the pressure on his mind growing stronger and stronger, someone or something was trying to creep into his mind turn him into a puppet like it did his friends he wanted this whole infernal place to burn... no he wanted to get away.

Than he remembered he was an Avenger, he was not a weakling, his force field flared up in bright purple taking the vague shape of an armor around the young hero. He will not break nor will he flee, he was Avenger and while he may not be able to stop those monsters he would sure as hell make sure they would pay a bloody price for their victory.

Strong with resolve he did not feel any fear only determination. He had to try to break this cursed illusion, using his Telekinesis he reached out but this time he did not tried to touch a thing but a concept, he tried to reach with his mental power and shake the illusions that surrounded the dragon and the demons forcing more and more powers into the constructs of the illusions even without seeing what he was doing, it was a tricky ordeal he had never performed before and with luck never again.

OOC
INTENT: Defend against emotional attack
POOL: Team (d10), Den of Infernal Creatures (d4),  Superhuman Durability(D10),  Psyche Expert (d8)
ROLL:21:51, Today: Justice rolled 4,4,10,7 using 1d10,1d4,1d10,1d8 with rolls of 4,4,10,7.  Defend against Emotional attack.
TOTAL:17/D10/-
RESULT: Resisted

INTENT: Break Illusion
POOL: Team (d10), Leadership Potential (d8),  Telekinetic Mastery (D10),  Combat Expert (d8), Telekinetic Stunt (1D10), Broken Illusion Asset (D6)
ROLL:21:56, Today: Justice rolled 9,1,9,5,1,4 using 1d10,1d8,1d10,1d8,1d10,1D6 with rolls of 9,1,9,5,1,4.  Break Illusions.
TOTAL:18+4 (spend PP)=22/D8/1D8
RESULT: ?

PP: 2 +1 (Distinctions) -1 (Stunt) +1 (Opportunity)=3

Next action: Any one of the demon things.

Add d8 to Doom Pool from Justice's Opportunities

Doom Pool (6d6, 6d8, d12) reaction to Justice's attempt to create Break Illusion Asset, Total: 22, Effect: d8:
Justice Physical Stress    d10

Watcher rolled 1,3,4,5,5,3,3,1,5,7,1,3,8 using d6,d6,d6,d6,d6,d6,d8,d8,d8,d8,d8,d8,d10 ((1,3,4,5,5,3,3,1,5,7,1,3,8)).

Total: 15, Effect: d8
Extraordinary Success steps acting Effect die to d10
3 Opportunities (available first to Justice)

Doom Pool: 6d6, 6d8, d12 +d8 = 6d6, 7d8, d12

Though his insides feel like they are crushed inside his body, Justice steps up against the monstrous dragon, using his mental powers to pull apart the horrible creature. His aim is vague, not focused on a particular task in relation to the dragon, and so it makes no physical effect against the opponent. The dragon is again unmoved, unaffected by the tiny morsels in front of it, and it waves its head to and fro in search of a victim to tear apart. "RRRRRRRRRAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRR!"
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"This -- this has to end," comes a metallic voice too weak to rise above the din. "And it's going to end now!" Iron Man rockets from the back of the room, straight toward the head of the dragon. The repulsors blasting from the bottom of his boots light up the area as he shuttles up toward the monstrosity dominating the space, but unfortunately, his most immediate trajectory and trust in a teammate comes within She-Hulk's mighty reach. "Jen!" his tinny voice cries. "Out of the wa -- !" But is cut off by a wallop from the jade giantess -- krACCCKKK! -- that breaks the straight line of the armored Avenger's flight from right into She-Hulk's range and away, into the dark mist surrounding the immense monster and disappears directly into the thing's huge, deadly mouth!

She-Hulk adds d8 to the Doom Pool

Doom Pool: 6d6, 7d8, d12 +d8 = 6d6, 8d8, d12
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After swallowing Iron Man whole, the dragon rears its blood-thirsty head to and fro in search of more prey, when the first creature that entered the room then left it repeatedly, again folds into the place it left in a burst of dark energy, filling the room again with the strong scent of peppermint, and now it is now directly in front of the roaring, hungry head of the dragon! RRRAAAAAARRRRRRRRR!


Next Action (new round): Justice, Ms. Marvel, Captain Marvel

The creature that appeared in front of the dragon disappears just as quickly, appearing again near the creature that earlier attacked Justice. They exchange garbled messages then disappear in a mist that also disappears as quickly.

The creature that attacked Iron Man gathers dark energy around it but only seems to scatter the debris in the room.


Dark Basilisk adds d6 to Doom Pool

Doom Pool: 6d6, 8d8, d12 +d6 = 7d6, 8d8, d12
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Fierce Brute adds d6 to Doom Pool
Dark Basilisk adds d6 to Doom Pool
Dark figure/dragon spends 2d8 and 2d6 from Doom Pool

The dragon roars around the room, throwing its head back and forth, snapping its massive jaws as it decides upon its prey. For each hero, its massive, toothed mouth comes within inches of closing over their heads, then pulls back at the last instant to find another. The creature that attacked Iron Man creates a ball of dark energy that appears on the face of the dragon then falls to the floor and shatters.

A burst of light flashes within the body of the dragon. Then the dragon disappears in the same dark mist from which it appeared. The monster's image and sounds are instantly gone.

"Ah," a voice comes from the landing, in the center of what would have been the dragon's body. "You finally decided to figure it out."

The dark mists around the room dissipate, so completely that even lingering clouds are gone as quickly. In place of the dark creatures on the landing above the destroyed stairs, Bishop and Nightcrawler appear on one side, with Ms. Marvel (in her original costume) on the other. Iron Man lies slumped against the back wall of the landing, a massive dent in the side of his helmet. On the pile of debris that was once the mansion's stairs is She-Hulk, once the green-eyed creature, staring blankly over the foyer. A young man in a very tech-inferring costume, revealed as the purple-eyed creature, and Captain Marvel, revealed as the blue-eyed creature, stand at the ready. Black Widow lies prone on one side of the room while Rogue lies still on the other, with an unconscious Toad somewhere between them, all amidst the wreckage of the front of the mansion. The mansion is still in shambles but the illusions are gone and everything appears clear once more. In the back of the place, fires still rage, coming closer.

The last mists to part are those around the figure on the landing, between those members of the X-Men and Ms. Marvel. It is revealed to be a man, old enough to have to hunch forward as he stands, wearing a long, brown jacket over a brown suit, and a natty inverness cape around his shoulders. His black & gray hair is greasy and matted against his head, a line of facial hair traces from the sides of his head to over his upper lip, and the features of his face seem ancient enough to sag off to the floor. "At last you have discovered me, heroes," he drawls. His sleepy eyes betray no emotion. "And I surrender." He holds out his wrists.



Doom Pool: 7d6, 8d8, d12 +d6 +d6 -2d8 -2d6 = 7d6, 6d8, d12

Next Action: Justice, Ms. Marvel, Captain Marvel, Bishop, Nightcrawler, or Iceman

"No"

The mansion was on fire.  Many of his team mates were seriously injured, and he didn't know yet if they were going to pull through or not.  And the man who was responsible for all the mayhem offered them his hands in a pitiful attempt to convince them to spare him his life.

"No"
Reaching down, he pulled the edged combat knife from a sheath wrapped around his shin. It was time to end this threat - for good.

Justice was panting, he was aching all over and he had a headache so severe he was sure his head would split in two if he shook it too vigorously.

The demons and fiends turned to be X-men, he felt relief there were no more demons but possible allies.

The man? thing whatever it was that played them so well against each other, he was surrendering... it felt wrong to accept his surrender, part of a larger play but until proven otherwise accepting it was the right thing to do.

When one of the X-men pulled a knife and was about to deal with a surrendering prisoner, Justice action seemed painfully clear.

His body was engulf with purple force as he moved between Bishop and the prisoner "This man, no matter how vile had surrendered. We do not harm prisoners." he said in a strong voice, to back it up dozens of shards started to glow purple and lifted in the air. If Bishop had a knife, Justice had two scores of knives ready.

Nightcrawler gaped; the fiend had almost made them do his work for them, and now, they stand here ready to do so of their own free will..?

"Dafür ist keine Zeit.  There are wounded.  I am going to get them out of here before the fire destroys what is left of our home.  Bitte," Kurt looks between Bishop and Justice, "act like heroes until I return, ja?"

With that, the Fuzzy Elf wastes no further time in BAMF!ing Black Widow and Rogue out to the front lawn from whence he had so recently come.

((OOC: Watcher!  To the laaawn!!))
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Iceman stood on his ice slide, standing still for the moment. The room was spinning enough without him adding to his own misery by actually moving.

"Do we have to do the whole team-up scuffle, or can we skip it to the part where we stop arguing?"

There was a glint of excitement in Bishop's eyes when the stranger threatened him with violence.  He had no intention of backing down; the so called 'prisoner' was malevolent.  A swift death was too good for him.   He already made up his mind about meeting the challenger head on, and his own body started to crackle with energy in readiness for an impending assault.

He couldn't get on with it.

Not out of fear of the hero, or clemency toward the villain.  He needed the x-men, and judging from the reaction of both the ice-man and the night-crawler, starting a fight now might endanger his real mission. And that he could not allow.

Grunting as he accepted he won't be getting his way this time, he returned his knife back to its sheath, then turned his back and proceeded to leap from the landing back down to the foyer.  Like the x-man said; there were people wounded, and getting them out to safety was a higher priority.

"Good..." Justice said, he felt relief knowing not all X-men were reckless bloodthirsty brutes. It galled him to protect the architect of this sad tragedy but there were lines you do not cross, especially when your enemy was involved.

With a wave of his hands he dismissed the force field and allowed the flock of knifes to clattered to the ground.

Cords of purple power slithered toward the "prisoner" binding him tightly "Now, who the hell are you and what is the reason behind this deadly charade?"

As Nightcrawler teleports away in a cloud of brimstone, with a stench that was once peppermint but now nauseating sulfur, Iron Man, slumped against the wall, begins to stir. The ice that had penetrated his defenses has already melted, leaving a puddle in his lap.

The fire from the back of the room has now fully entered the foyer. Half of the room has, from within and without, collapsed, leaving the front section of the space filled with debris and whatever crashed down from above in the wave -- or waves -- of destruction. On the rear side of the room, the fire rages, now fully in the area, and cutting off entry into the hallways from which the once-creatures/now-X-Men came. Neither way offers a form of escape.

Spend d8 from Doom Pool to step up Indoor Fire Scene Complication to d10

The man, calm despite the fire reaching the landing on which they stand, looks at Justice. "Apparently my reputation does not precede me. I am the Mastermind, the most powerful mutant manipulator of illusions." He smirks and puts a hand on his hip. "As for what I'm doing, isn't it obvious?"


Mastermind steps up die from Doom Pool

She-Hulk, previously looking blankly over the scene when she wasn’t pounding those who tried to pass by her, looks up at the landing from her place on top of the pile of wrecked stairs. Her brow furrows just slightly, but her eyes remain unfocused. It is a distance between where she is and the landing but nothing her mighty muscles could not handle with minimal effort. Slowly, she puts her hands behind her and leans forward in a squat.

Doom Pool: 7d6, 6d8, d12 -d8 (-d6/+d8) = 6d6, 6d8, d12

Mastermind was smart and cunning and with great mental powers but he underestimate young Justice.

Justice believed that once the man surrendered he should be treated humanly but that did not meant he had turned a blind eye to the man abilities.

The moment he felt the slimy mental finger trying to crawl into his mind Justice acted. He already held Mastermind in his telekinetic grasp so it was easy levitating the villain. Once airborne it was just the mater of lamming him repeatedly into the wall until Justice felt the mental pressure ease.

"Please try again use your mental power on me..." he told Mastermind "I am really eager to make pay for all you did."

OOC
INTENT: Reaction to Mental attack
POOL: Team (d10), Brave New Warrior (d8),  Telekinetic Mastery (D10),  Psyche Expert (d8), Mastermind Physical Stress (D6)
ROLL:12:09, Today: Justice rolled 3,8,6,3,5 using 1d10,1d8,1d10,1d8,1d6 with rolls of 3,8,6,3,5.  Reaction.
TOTAL:14/D10/-
RESULT: Resisted

Spend PP for counter attack, Effect D10


PP: 3   -1 (Add Counter attack)  =2

...down at the foyer, Bishop searches for anyone too injured to leave the mansion on his own.

Spend 2d8 from Doom Pool to eliminate Justice's Broken Illusion d10 Asset

Mastermind takes d10 Mental Stress

As Mastermind makes eye contact with Justice, he opens his mouth as if to speak but says nothing, then closes it. He is held aloft in front of Justice, showing clearly who is responsible, but makes no move to resist. "Fight if you want to," Mastermind says through teeth clinched against whatever pressure that Justice is applying, "But you had only a few ways to get to what you want, and they're getting less."


With Black Widow and Rogue removed from the dangerous area where flames are closing in, Bishop finds the Toad and Pyro, both unconscious, as the only injured bodies left among the wreckage of the foyer.


Doom Pool: 6d6, 6d8, d12 -2d8 = 6d6, 4d8, d12

Bishop looked disdainfully at the two creeps lying unconscious at his feet.  He considered giving them what they deserved (he even made the point of looking upwards at the 'landing' to check if anyone was watching) but eventually decided against it.

That didn't mean, however, that he would actively try to SAVE their lives.  If the mansion comes burning down on top of them; well - that's just karma.

"Though, little ol' me should be the least of your concerns," Mastermind continues, grunting slightly in Justice's telekinetic grip. "What you're after here will mean nothing if everything -- including it -- burns to very useless ashes." Indeed, the fire has reached from the back of the mansion and nearly surrounded the perimeter of the foyer. Over the sound of the crackling of flames, a creaking signals the portent of a wing of the mansion falling inward to destruction, through flames and smoke too dangerous to transcend easily.

Spend 2d8 from Doom Pool to step up Indoor Fire Scene Complication to d12

If the Indoor Fire Scene Complication goes above d12, the mansion will burn down and take everyone in it

Doom Pool: 6d6, 4d8, d12 -2d8 = 6d6, 2d8, d12

"Curse. The insurance premiums are going to skyrocket," Iceman tries to quench the flames, using ice "bowls" to hopefully cover the ice and stop oxygen.

OOC: Rolling Team d8 + Terrifying Potential d8 (trying to live up to it) + Ice Mastery 2d10 (using SFX: Omega-Level Mutant. Step up or double any Cryokinesis power for one action. If that action fails, add a die to doom pool equal to the normal rating of that power die.)

Today: Iceman rolled 5,7,7,10 using 1d8,1d8,1d10,1d10

Spending a PP to include a third dice (the 5). Result 22 with d10 effect.

PP 01, PS d10, ES 00, MS d6

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Doom Pool (6d6, 2d8, d12) reaction to Iceman's attempt to remove Indoor Fire Scene Complication, Total: 22, Effect: d10:
Indoor Fire Scene Complication    d12

Watcher rolled 6,4,6,3,4,3,5,6,2 using d6,d6,d6,d6,d6,d6,d8,d8,d12 ((6,4,6,3,4,3,5,6,2)).

Total: 12, Effect: d12
Extraordinary Success steps acting Effect die up to d12+; Higher reacting Effect die steps acting Effect down to d12

Indoor Fire Scene Complication steps down to d10


Blasting sheer cold into the air then manipulating it, Iceman creates inverted bowls of ice as massive as possible around the ruins of the mansion to contain the fires. The flames are minimally doused before the bowls melt before the inferno, providing a slight abatement but leaving only slightly less danger.

Bishop makes his way searching through the wreckage of the foyer for any survivors, stepping over the bodies of those he knew to be evil. The mutant steps around the debris, with his back to the landing above and, below it, the demolished stairs. On those stairs stood She-Hulk, a giantess whose physical strength could not be matched even remotely by anyone present, and who the mutant had attacked numerous times only moments ago. She may not have made the leap she had seemed to intend, and her silence may have removed her from the notice of the others, but she kept her place in the room.

Now, She-Hulk has stepped away from those stairs. Bishop feels a creeping shadow come over him fully, and when he turns around, he faces the full height of the powerful, emerald Avenger looming over him, saying nothing, staring down at him.

She-Hulk emotional attack (intimidation) on Bishop:
Solo    d8
Grand, Stately Mansion    d4
(step up Doom Pool die)
Godlike Strength d12*
Indoor Fire Scene Complication    d10
(* A defense power can be used in reaction)

She-Hulk rolled 7,4,10,1 using d8,d4,d12,d10 ((7,4,10,1)).

Total: 14, Effect: d8

1 Opportunity (available first to Bishop)

Doom Pool: 6d6, 2d8, d12 (-d6/+d8) = 5d6, 3d8, d12

Reaction Needed: Bishop
Next Action: Ms. Marvel, Captain Marvel, Iron Man