The Amazing Avengers #3: "...What So Proudly Hated"
After faltering once, then again, Pyro rises to his feet, with a hunch, blood coming from his nose and mouth. Yet he straightens, as much as he can, and squares his shoulders to face Marvel. His red goggles are shattered and his mask is askew but he opens his mouth, revealing a hole where it was, with teeth replaced by bloody stumps and a stream of blood running down and over his chin. And he smiles. "Ike I shaid," he mutters, his arms stretching to his sides, "You don't hafe to be egzhact." When he makes fists with his hands, the generators on the back of his wrists come to life, exploding with enormous bursts of flame, dousing the room around him. The flames catch, spreading to a sitting couch and another rug and tasteful tapestries on the wall. Not yet an inferno but past the point of putting out minor flames to avoid substantial damage.
Pyro adds d8 to Doom Pool
Spend d6 from Doom Pool to add to Inside Fire Scene Complication, stepping it to d8
"Und now," he burbles, his eyes through busted goggles catching fire as he raises his hands to point at Captain Marvel. "Let'sh shee how ffflamable you are." Then the generators explode again, spraying a blaze directly at the blonde Avenger.
Pyro's physical attack on Captain Marvel:
Solo d4
Evil Mutant (beaten down) d4
(step up Doom Pool die)
Flame Thrower d8
Combat Expert d8
Indoor Fire Scene Complication d8
Pryo rolled 1,2,4,2,2 using d4,d4,d8,d8,d8 ((1,2,4,2,2)).
Total: 6, Effect: d8
1 Opportunity (available first to Captain Marvel)
Meanwhile, from the back of the foyer, a figure leaps from the shadows, bouncing along the debris-strewn floor to alight on Iron Man's shoulders. The armored Avenger's strengthened chassis supports the weight of a person on him like it was nothing and a new opponent is revealed: the gruesome Toad, now perched atop Iron Man, his elongated tongue catching up to his mouth, wagging then snapping back into his face. "Ah ha," he belches, looking around the room through dark goggles. "The battle is joined." He gulps. "And here we are." He looks down and his tongue, glistening and dripping with something that could charitably be called slime, slips from his mouth and slithers to the armored hero below him, waving in front of Iron Man's face then makes contact, licking the face-plate. Slurping audibly, the tongue leaves the armor with a sheen of clear mucous. "Clean. Or was," he burps. "Delicious."
Spend d8 from Doom Pool to add Toad
With her grotesque teammate entering the fray, Mystique sighs and her shoulders drop slightly. "You took your time," she says, her eyes still dart from side to side, surveying the room. She blinks, then brings up her sub-machine gun to her hip again and points it toward the heroes. "We may still get this done after all."
She steps past the Black Widow's body, closing some of the distance between her and her opponents, but also cutting off a clear path from the heroes to the Russian spy. And at the mutant's feet, the blood coming from the Black Widow's head streams down the now-inclined plane of the floor.
Spend d8 from Doom Pool to add Danger: Black Widow Down Scene Complication d8
Outside, Avalanche interrupts his own stammering by halting his retreat. "No matter. The old lady has been wrong before," he says, with a renewed confidence. "Whatever -- w-we can still do this." He plants his feet on the overturned ground below him and puts his hands to his side. The ground begins to shake. "We'll eliminate these fools," he says, bringing his straightened arms up in an arc. "We can beat them." The rumbling in the ground increases. The Quinjet capsizes, a wing plowing into the ground. "We... can... beat... them." The rumbling grows stronger and louder, declaring a great power rising from deep in the ground below.
Avalanche adds d8 to the Doom Pool
After some moments and a great effort, the Blob has turned his voluminous body around to face She-Hulk again, now that she stands alongside the young Justice. He looks down at her, across his wide swath of exposed skin. "I didn't think you'd ever shut up," he blubbers. His body stops its nervous shaking and his eyes go blank as his skin begins to liquefy, melting and moving toward She-Hulk, picking up mass and expanding as it slowly engulfs the jade Avenger. It starts at her feet and quickly rolls over her body, drawing her into its mass, covering her with soft, heavy flesh, as well as with the sweat and gristle that he has accumulated during the hot day. The weight of his fat bears down on her, challenging even her impressive, Gamma-radiated strength. His skin moves hard against her, pulling her into its deep recesses, rubbing her with perspiration and coarse, fine hairs, covering her with its grit, pressing into the open spaces of her mouth and ears, the molecules of his flesh invading even her pores. As the She-Hulk is forced deeper into him, she can hear a gurgling coming from the top of the putrid mountain of flesh, what could pass for a mocking, amused laugh. The sound is low and deep: "Huh huh huh huh. You ain't talkin' so much now. Huh huh huh huh." And then She-Hulk's head is
enveloped and she can hear nothing.
Blob's attempt to create Suffocated Complication on She-Hulk:
Buddy d8
Warm Late Morning in the Country d4
(step up Doom Pool die)
Superhuman Strength d10
Body Fat Expansion d6 (and stepping up Effect)
Combat Expert d8
She-Hulk Physical Stress d6
Blob rolled 5,4,1,6,7,5 using d8,d4,d10,d6,d8,d6 ((5,4,1,6,7,5)).
Total: 13, Effect: d10 (stepped up from Body Fat Expansion)
1 Opportunity (available first to She-Hulk)
Doom Pool: 2d6, 4d8, d12 +d8 (-d6/+d8) -d8 -d8 +d8 (-d6/+d8) = 6d8, d12
Reactions Needed: Captain Marvel, She-Hulk
Next Actions: Captain Marvel (pick for first in new round), Iron Man (pick for first in new round), Justice (pick for first in new round)