"Give it a chance, won't you, Crimsy? You might find you like taking things a little slower." Pulling out some rope, she grinned. "Now, let's get you restrained. Can't have you running off, even at a normal pace."

Goodwill landed near Green Dragon, fists at the ready.

"Surrender now?" he asked.


Goodwill rolled 12 using 2d6+1 ((6,5)).

"N... no... I... maybe I should... maybe we should talk this out..."

Then his eyes light up with a bright green light.

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"...WHAT? PARLEY FOR SURRENDER? GIVE UP JUST BECAUSE THIS FLYING INSECT HITS LIKE AN OGRE? I SAY THEE NAY! NAY, VERILY!"

Well, the whole point was to get the dragon to come out and fight...

(Add +1 to your roll results until further notice, buddy.

Annnnnd what with all this talking to his other-self... it's your move again now.)

It almost seemed unsporting to hit a guy while he talked to himself, but with Green Dragon distracted (and certainly not about to surrender), it sure was tempting. Still, being the nice guy wasn't just an act. Goodwill was a nice guy, and he didn't hit people who seemed unable to actually defend themselves.

He cocked a fist, but didn't let it fly.

"Come on out and let's play," he said instead.

Green Dragon screams and leaps, breathing a cone of fire...

(11:11, Today: The Grandmaster rolled 4 using 2d6-1 with rolls of 4,1.

Fail)

...and he misses, both with the cone of fire and the leap.

(You wanna counter-attack (for free, no rolling)? Or shall we try just treating it like the HOLD THEM OFF move (for free, no rolling), to ground him and see if Usagi can hit him with the special device?

(Which was supposed to be the flashlight in his eyes, but I got confused. We'll just pretend that Twist used the Ray Gun she was supposed to use. Mea culpa.))

Let's just treat it as the HOLD THEM OFF move.

Goodwill successfully just side-dodges for a second-- and then moves back at the right moment and slaps Green Dragon on the back, hard, knocking him to the ground.

Then Usagi makes her move--

(11:22, Today: The Grandmaster, on behalf of Ultima-Usagi, rolled 8 using 2d6+1 with rolls of 4,3.)

Usagi fires Professor Norwood's freeze-gun-- but it only hits half of him.

(WHICH HALF DOES IT HIT? Choose one:
--Top half: he's chilled to the bone but can still run around
--Left or right side-- he's slowed but still in the fight for the moment
--Bottom half-- he's all right up top but can't run around anymore)

Let's say Top.

(Wearing him down by degrees... he'll get easier and easier to hit. But for now...)


Green Dragon screams in agony, and blasts Usagi with his flame in retaliation.

She becomes transparent-- phased out of being solid. But the light has temporarily-blinded her for the moment-- she's staggering around-- not crying out in pain, but blinking and rubbing her eyes. She's headed over to the corner of the building-- probably because there's a limit on how long she can stay intangible... but how will she know she's not going to re-solidify in a wall, if she can't see...?

"Watch where you're going," Goodwill said quickly, although 'watch' wasn't quite within Usagi's capabilities at the moment. At least he didn't try to grab her. That would have just been stupid. "You might wanna move a little to the left there."

He turned back towards Green Dragon, and gave him a swift smack to the head.

Goodwill rolled 12 using 2d6+3 ((3,6)).
--Hit Hard
--Avoid Retaliation

And Green Dragon is down. By now, the guy serving as the dragon's host body would need a hospital, but the dragon possessing him keeps him going.

(GM rolls dice)

He tries to breathe fire up at Goodwill's face from the pavement... but it's just black smoke that comes out. That freeze-ray really did a number on the guy.

Goodwill hears Usagi call to him: "Goodwill-- come over here and cover for me, please--"

Having stayed a few inches off the ground, Goodwill simply pivoted and moved over towards Usagi. For the moment, Green Dragon wasn't going anywhere, and wasn't making any more trouble. Still, Godwill kept one eye on him.

Usagi holds up the freeze-ray. She tries to speak only just loud enough to be heard. "I can tell where you're hovering, but that's about all. You're a gray smudge in the sky. Things are slowly getting clearer, but you'd better finish this for now. Hurry, please..."

Goodwill takes the freeze ray (which I thought was supposed to be the flashlight, but whatevs) and whips around. He doesn't give any more prompts to surrender; he just fires.

What do I roll for this?

(Agile!)

Goodwill rolled 2 using 2d6 ((1,1)).

...Goodwill shoots himself in the face and dies.

Goodwill turns and fires--

--and misses, because Green Dragon has moved-- he's jumped up right in front of Goodwill, and he snatches the ray-gun from his hand.

Then he lands only slightly awkwardly on the ground-- and he fires it. At Goodwill.

WOW that's c-c-c-c-c-c-colllldddddd....

(Goodwill takes, mmm, just 1 stress, because it's bad enough he's lost the dragon-chilling gun for the moment...)

Cosmic Girl found little difficulty on her way to the Park to meet the contact there. After all, there were very few things around that were likely to be flying abouyt trying to get in her way, and those that tried would get a nasty blast of eye rays for their trouble. No, that part of the mission went off without a hitch. Since she had manifested her aura, even the occasional stray bug got zapped before it flew down her throat or into her eye. It was even a nice relaxing way to see the city from above. There were some very obvious differences to her own world, but it was similar enough that she would have had no trouble navigating on foot, even if some of the architecture was very strange to her eyes.

She landed by Agent Devil and held out her hand. "They call me Cosmic Girl. On account of my being a girl. And also cosmic. It's very much a functional and accurate description. I'm ready to deal with this, as and when he shows her ugly face. Seems simple enough in theory. Pour the gunge on the Mummy, stuff them into a box. Even I can't forget that plan!"

Not that she forgot many plans. But she did tend to go off book when startled. There were a fair number of exploded buildings back in her own universe that could attest to that fact.

That was bad. The weapon they were expecting to save them from this fight was now in the hands of the enemy. Now it was a fight. Goodwill gritted his teeth, mostly from determination, but partly because he was really freaking cold, and dove at the Green Dragon in a sudden flurry of fists.


Goodwill rolled 12 using 2d6+3 ((4,5)).
--Hit Hard
--Avoid retaliation

Agent Devil shakes hands... "Well I hope you're ready to deal with the Black Mummy. The thing you have to understand about her is-- Oops too late--"

Cosmic Girl turns to look where Agent Devil is looking...

Sure enough, a black-bandage-wrapped figure has come into view... she's small, though! Is the Black Mummy a CHILD? The form under there looks like she's maybe 9 years old...

Black Mummy wastes no time, but starts running at Cosmic Girl and Agent Devil... she's a little faster than you'd think a child would be...

---

POWWWWWW. And, he's down... but not quite out yet... He's trying to get back up...

However, he also drops the freeze-gun... and it breaks into about five pieces.

...Y'know what? Fine. FINE. It was just supposed to help, but it turned into kind of a liability. Goodwill is in the mood to beat this guy down anyway, freeze-ray or no freeze-ray... Honestly, the guy feels like he doesn't have a lot more fight left in him...

Goodwill wanted to punch the Green Dragon unconscious, but he couldn't bring himself to do it just yet. That wasn't his way.

"Give. Up." He cocked his fist, prepared to throw that last punch, the instant it was made necessary by the Dragon doing anything other than conceding defeat.

Goodwill rolled 5 using 2d6+1 ((1,3)).

Honestly, the guy is out. His eyes are open, but there's hardly any sign of him being conscious, as such, in there.

There's a dragon in there, though. It doesn't have enough control over the body to express its anger in words right now, but it manages to express irritation, at least, through the medium of breathing fire.

(Goodwill takes 1 new stress, ow, burny)

"Oh, for the love of Pete," Goodwill grumbled. The body was unconscious, but the dragon inside would still breathe fire at him until Goodwill took him out, too. No longer having the freeze ray, though, all he could do was punch the guy again.

Goodwill rolled 13 using 2d6+3 ((6,4)).
--Hit Hard
--Avoid retaliation

It was perhaps fortunate that Cosmic Girl herself was little more than a child, being a teenager. She actually had no particular compunction about kicking the ass of a little brat, if they deserved it. And Black Mummy presumably did, or whatever was she doing here in the first place?

But she was not there to get into a slugging match. So she zipped upwards into the sky, aura flaring. She held the gunge container in her hands, and strafed the area around Black Mummy with her eye beams. She was not aiming to hit. She was actually trying to corral the nasty looking thing. If she could force it to a spot of her choosing, it would be easier to speed dive and gunge it.

OOC:

HOLD THEM OFF


20:19, Today: Cosmic Girl rolled 9 using 2d6+2 with rolls of 1,6.  Forceful: Hold Them Off.

Result: they cannot attack anybody they were not already attacking.

THAT did it. The body is officially out. Dude is out, dragon can no longer act, if there's anyone else in there, they're not doing jack either this evening.

"I'll contact the professor and a couple of our other operatives," says Usagi. "We've got some ideas about how to restrain his arms and legs, and how to keep him from using the fire breath. The good part for now is that they've made the city their toy so thoroughly, the police won't interfere. Watch out for Delancey's agents, though."

---

(I'm going to say that while you're really irritating Black Mummy, you are also backing her toward a spot of your choosing. Describe this, please...

Remember, you've got that jar of oil or slime or whatever it is that you're supposed to try to use... (or is Agent Devil still holding it for you for the moment? I could see it either way at this point))