Seeing his teammate struck does not deter the group of Hydra agents.  "Get her!" the next one hollers, moving in on the feline Avenger as if her being in the middle of their circle would give them any advantage.  He turns his side-arm around to use it as a club (as Hydra knows teaches a unit on preventing firing into a circle made up of your teammates) and brings it down on the hero, hoping for luck.

Physical attack on Tigra:
Team d8
Goon    d8
Small Arms d6

Today: Hydra Guard C rolled 6,6,5 using d8,d8,d6 ((6,6,5)).

Total: 12, Effect: d6

Reaction: Tigra
Next Action: Hydra Guard A

Purchasing 2 Opportunities from Iron Man, add to Doom Pool

Doom Pool reaction to Hercules attempting to create Remote Control asset (msg #287), Total: 8, Effect: d10:
Doom Pool    4d8, 9d10, d12
Iron Man physical stress    d8

Watcher rolled 6,3,8,6,8,6,8,9,9,2,6,2,7,7 using d8,d8,d8,d8,d10,d10,d10,d10,d10,d10,d10,d10,d10,d12 ((6,3,8,6,8,6,8,9,9,2,6,2,7,7)).

Total: 18, Effect: d12

Doom Pool: 4d8, 9d10, d12 +d6 = d6, 4d8, 9d10, d12

With the raging chaos in the building, Iron Man's radio systems cannot even detect if there is a floating platform, much less take it over.  He might as well being trying to take over the explosions, flames, and swirling disaster all around him.

Samuel Jans is no fool.  There is chaos everywhere but if he can stay focused than perhaps he can pull a victory from this disaster.  If this arm of the great Hydra army is trapped in here, at least so too are these blasted heroes, and they all function under the same rules of this pandemonium.  If he could use this situation to finally remove a hero as a threat he could stand out as the one to rescue if options for that are limited and, even better, he could rise through the Hydra ranks at a greater speed.  His fellow agents might running around like frightened fools but he recalls his training in keeping concentration in stressful situations, this one being greater than even they were told to expect.  But he redoubles his focus, relying on muscle-memory, and raises his rifle, putting the catastrophe surrounding him out of his mind and looking through the rifle's scope, placing in his cross-hairs the Avenger who has been motionless in the air above the fray.  "Hail... Hydra..." he whispers as he slowly squeezes the trigger.

Physical attack on Iron Man:
Team    1d8
Trained Soldiers    d8
Hydra Rifle     d8
Combat Expert    d8

Today: Hydra Rifle Soldiers A rolled 7,2,6,7 using d8,d8,d8,d8 ((7,2,6,7)).

Total: 14, Effect: d8

Reaction: Iron Man
Next Action: Hydra Rifle Soldiers B

An explosion rocks one end of the catwalk, then the other, separating it from the wall and ending hope of escaping from it. The Hydra agents on it, seeing no other option for action in their panic, fire their weapons in the air, emptying full clips in no particular direction, hoping that perhaps they can shoot their way out -- though the question is from where, since there is clearly no escape from this chaos.  They scream while they fire, knowing the remainder of their lives will soon be measured not in years or months or minutes, but in seconds.

Severe Chaos: Add d8 to Doom Pool

Doom Pool: d6, 4d8 +d8, 9d10, d12 = d6, 5d8, 9d10, d12

Next Action: Timer

Timer steps to d10
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Black Widow jumps to her feet and automatically drops into a fighting stance, feet spread, fists to her face.  She stands across from the Constrictor, the two squaring off against each other but neither making a move, not even necessarily looking like they will, but cautiously waiting to see what the other will do.  She glances backward then back to the villain.  "What's our play here, Marvel?"

Support action: Add Black Widow's Combat Expert d8 to a dice pool when making a physical attack against the Constrictor

Next Action (new round): Capt. Marvel
This message was last edited by the player at 01:11, Wed 06 Apr 2016.

First we punch this guy,gesturing at Constrictor,then we get the heck out of here.

Carol is going to deck Constrictor with the help of Black Widow and the Strucker arm.
Team:d10
Take-charge Attitude:d4 (she's acting a little reckless, doing this quickly because she wants to get them out of here)
Superhuman Strength:d10
Combat Expert:d8
Assistance from Black Widow:d8
Strucker Arm:d10

Captain Marvel rolled 9,5,5,3,1,2 using d10,d10,d10,d8,d8,d4 ((9,5,5,3,1,2)).

Spending a PP to keep an extra die for a total:19 Effect:d8

Reaction: Constrictor

One Opportunity for Watcher

Plot Points: 2
Experience: 0

PS: d12, MS: 00, ES: 00
PT: 00, MT: 00, ET: 00

Complications: None.
Assets: Strucker Arm d10.

Carol swings the Strucker Arm with massive force while Black Widow likewise strikes out at Constrictor, who tries to whirl his forearm cables defensively. The double attack overwhelms Constrictor as he staggers back.

Carol looks around, hoping to find a way to get herself and Black Widow out of this chaos, but part of her is holding back from a quick escape to make sure these villains get what they deserve...
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Tigra sees the Hydra goon coming from a mile away, his clumsy swing revealing his inexperience lack of practice in close combat. She sees his arm swinging with the butt of his cumbersome weapon, and Greer slides effortlessly around the goon's attack, raking her claws savagely into the Hydra agent's side.

After she hacked away at the punk in the green suit, Tigra growled, "Good on ya, She-Hulk. I have these lightweights!"


Reaction to Hydra Goon C:

Gaining 1PP because Hydra took my opportunity. Spending it to add a die on the result.

Buddy 6, Underestimated d8, Reflexes d10, Acrobatics 2d8
Pool: d10, 3d8, d6:
Roll: 3,6,4,6,3
Result: 16, d10 effect

Throwing Pounce into the mix, delivering d10 physical stress to Hydra Goon C. Yay!

You could have added the Hydra Guard C's physical stress to your dice pool

Hydra Guard C takes d10 physical damage

The attacking --  now defending -- Hydra goon spins away and cries in pain as the next guard falls in to pull the same move, focusing his assault as he's been trained but more hoping that the same fate -- and agony -- won't befall him. Though blood from the earlier attack falls into his eyes, he still brings his weapon down, hopefully in the general direction of the feline hero. "Hail --" he grunts, cut off by the force of his own violent effort.

Physical attack on Tigra:
Team d8
Goon    d8
Small Arms d6

Hydra Guard A rolled 6,4,5 using d8,d8,d6 ((6,4,5)).

Total: 11, Effect: d8

Reaction: Tigra
Next Action: Hydra Guard B
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Reaction to Tigra's physical attack (msg #295), Total: 19, Effect: d8:
Solo (since Blizzard isn't helping him)    d4
Self-Destructing Facility    d4
(Add to Doom Pool)
Superhuman Durability    d10
Combat Expert    d8
Captain Marvel's physical stress    d12

Constrictor rolled 1,1,9,7,3 using d4,d4,d10,d8,d12 ((1,1,9,7,3)).

Total: 16, Effect: d12
2 Opportunities available
Higher Effect die steps attacking Effect die down
Constrictor takes d6 physical damage

Doom Pool (inside): d6 + Step, 5d8, 9d10, d12 = 6d8, 9d10, d12

Black Widow's deft feint helps Capt. Marvel's attack connect, as she plows through the Constrictor's barrier of electrified coils, now forced aside.  His defense minimizes the attack but still the robot arm that Marvel wields bonks him solidly in the head.  He brings his forearms in front of his face, expecting more but he does not offer his own attack.  "What are you doing?  There's worse happening here than I could do.  I'm not in on this -- I didn't know this was going to happen.  I'm in this with you!  You gotta save us!"  He lowers his arms slightly so his pleading face can be apparent to the heroes.  "Don't worry about me -- be a hero and save us!"

Still that robot head chatters on the floor: "NO ESCAPE. NO ESCAPE. NO ESCAPE. NO ESCAPE. NO ESCAPE."  With the deafening destruction imploding the structure around everyone trapped within, it becomes clear that there will be no quick escape.

Next Action: Black Panther

Reaction to attack by Hydra Rifle Soldiers A

Dice Pool: Team d8, Cutting Edge Tech d8, Superhuman Durability d10

20:43, Today: Iron Man rolled 4,2,6 using d8,d8,d10.

The attack succeeds.


Tony's unfocused...and that gives Janis the opening he needs. The shot rings out and finds it's mark.
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Using several pieces of the laboratory equipment broken in the struggle, coupled with his panther-like skills and agility, T'Challa tries to wrest the blond man that he'd seen strapped to the Nazi doctor's arcane machinery from the insensate mass of the bio blob.

Dice Pool:

Solo d10, Advanced Biochemical Laboratory d8, Wall Crawling d6, Enhanced Strength d8, Acrobatic Master d10, Security Feed d6.

Today: Black Panther rolled 10,5,4,5,6,4 using d10,d8,d6,d8,d10,d6 ((10,5,4,5,6,4)).

Total:  21.  d10 effect die.  Spending 1 PP to add an additional die to total.

Next Reaction:  Doom Pool
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Iron Man's physical stress steps to d10 (msg #299)

Samuel Jans looks up from his scope as Iron Man's head recoils from the rifle's blast. It... hit... he... This hero is... mortal?  He can be hurt.  The Hydra agent shakes the sudden confusion from his mind and looks around.  Pandemonium is erupting from all sides, the whole place is on the verge of collapsing in flames, and his compatriots are disregarding their hard-fought training, but if everyone here is going to die this night then he will take a hero with him.  Jans smiles to himself and readies his rifle again.  He smiles to himself, knowing his direction is clear.  Though there is no reason why Iron Man would know his name.  "Hail Hydra!" he yells, though it is lost among the increasing noise around him.

Doom Pool reaction to Black Panther attempting to free blond man (msg #300), Total: 21, Effect: d10:
Doom Pool    6d8, 9d10, d12
Black Panther physical stress    d10

Watcher rolled 8,7,2,2,1,1,10,8,4,8,8,1,2,8,10,12 using d8,d8,d8,d8,d8,d8,d10,d10,d10,d10,d10,d10,d10,d10,d10,d12 ((8,7,2,2,1,1,10,8,4,8,8,1,2,8,10,12)).

Total: 22, Effect: d10
3 Opportunities available
Black Panther attempt fails

Black Panther uses his strength and the jury-rigged tools to dig through the blob and he finally reaches the blond man and just barely uncovers his face -- still breathing, still alive, no longer giving off the cosmic energy, but still unconscious.  Just as quickly the blob's mass caves in on the hole that the Panther has created and the man is buried again.

Next Action: Arnim Zola

Zola, crawling from the blob's body, with chunks of the things attached to him, trudges to the far side of the room, near where he was originally, and furiously pushes buttons and turns knobs on the equipment which is exploding and, for some of it, on fire. The perilous state of the machinery and the room seem to mean nothing to the scientist, as he appears intent on overloading any equipment that has not already been destroyed in the alarm. At first, with his back to the rest of the room, he flails with seemingly no direction to what he is doing, creating as much chaos as possible, but his motions seem to slow as the chaos around him and the Panther in this room only increases.

Grandstanding: Add d10 to Doom Pool

Doom Pool: 6d8, 9d10 + d10, d12 = 6d8, 10d10, d12
This message was last edited by the player at 23:09, Mon 02 May 2016.

While Tigra pauses for half a moment as she is surrounded by the hostile Hydra soldiers, the Dreadnaught finally turns to She-Hulk and lifts its mighty weaponized arm toward the hero. The energy that had been building in the appendage since the scuffle began is now unleashed (showing the rare bit of wisdom by concentrating on one hero and not both, thereby avoiding getting its teammates caught in the blast), the charge mounting until finally it bursts forward as a focused, concussive explosion. Kar-bloosh!

Physical attack on She-Hulk:
Team    d10
Lumbering, Destructive Force    d8
Sensors d6
Concussive Blast d8

Hydra Dreadnaught* rolled 4,8,4,6 using d10,d8,d6,d8 ((4,8,4,6)).
(* Mistakenly called Hydra Guard A in the Die Roller text.)

Total: 14, Effect: d10

Reaction: She-Hulk; Tigra (from msg #297)
Next: Hydra Guard B
This message was last edited by the player at 00:54, Fri 29 Apr 2016.

She-Hulk crosses her arms in front of her to try to block the brunt of the Dreadnought's energy blast. She grunts and feels her footing slip slightly as the force of the blast exceeds what she expected. With some second effort, she digs her heels in and makes the blast part around her and dissipate into the night.

<orange>Buddy d6, Jade Giantess d8, Durability d10, Combat d8

11:06, Today: She-Hulk rolled 10,4,4 using d10,2d8,d6.  block dreadnaught blast.
11:06, Today: She-Hulk rolled 10,4,4 using d10,2d8,d6 ((10,2,2,4)). I need to tell the roller to record each die. Watcher, you could set that as a default I think.

Can't afford to take a d10 stress right now, so will spend a PP to add a third die.
16/d8</orange

The three Hydra agents, injured but angry and determined, come at Tigra and the Avenger being overcome for just an instant is enough for one soldier to get a lucky shot in, then the others fall in, piling on top and pinning her to the ground. She is able to fend off further harm for a moment but blows to her head quickly steal her consciousness.

Tigra takes d8 physical stress; knocked out.

Next: She-Hulk (new round)
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Looking through his rifle's scope, Samuel Jans does not see the armored Avenger, he sees only victory -- riches and prizes and treasures under the Hydra banner. Surely this will be his entry to the higher echelon of Hydra power, to put the head of an Avenger upon the mantle of the great organization, a step toward putting this world under its heel. Even as the building around him and the catwalk under his feet fall apart, he smiles as he lines up his shot. His call is so joyous it throws off his aim: "HAIL HYDRA!"

Physical attack on Iron Man:
Team    1d8
Trained Soldiers (overconfident)    d4
(add step to Doom Pool)
Hydra Rifle     d8
Combat Expert    d8
Iron Man physical stress    d10

Hydra Rifle Soldiers A rolled 2,1,3,6,5 using d8,d4,d8,d8,d10 ((2,1,3,6,5)).

Total: 11, Effect: d8
1 Opportunity available

Doom Pool: 6d8 + Step, 10d10, d12 = 7d8, 10d10, d12

Reaction: Iron Man
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Where the floor of the building's gigantic training room was a sea of neat rows of lined Hydra soldiers when the heroes entered, it is now a horrific sea of those same bodies, now panicking and terrorized with no way out as the place falls apart under gut-shaking explosions, ready to either implode or explode at any moment. The hole that Hercules created provides little use as the walls around it cave in, impaling the first few soldiers who attempted to use it for escape, then its mouth quickly becoming a bottleneck as those agents tried to use it to leave. Escape from here would be only a miracle. The shrieks of the alarm -- WHEEEK! WHEEEK! WHEEEK! -- are mixed with the sounds of the destruction as it happens -- Ker-BLAMCK! ShhhPLAM! Korrr-BLAXSH! -- all combined with the screams of the soldiers whose very lives hang in the balance. "AAARRRGGGHHHHHHHHHHH!"

Hercules, who once stood against the mountains of these henchmen just moments ago, now finds himself overcome by them, the ocean of them rolling over him, covering him in terrified bodies, like ants on a melting popsicle left in the sun. They are too concerned for their own lives to strike at him but their blanket of bodies suffocates him more effectively than any attack they could devise. The god is positively buried, taken over not by individual might but by sheer numbers in the mind-numbing chaos.

Hydra Soldier Army B: Severe Chaos: Add d8 to Doom Pool
Hydra Soldier Army A: Severe Chaos: Add d8 to Doom Pool
Hydra Rifle Soldiers B: Severe Chaos: Add d8 to Doom Pool

Hercules is knocked out

Doom Pool: 7d8 + 3d8, 10d10, d12 = 10d8, 10d10, d12

Capt. Marvel drops the robot arm and rises to her feet. She cradles her ribs, feeling them move in detached pieces under her chest. She breathes in, pain shooting through every nerve in her body, but steadies herself. Black Widow, now with a relaxed stand as her enemy admitted no intention of harm, looks back to her and the heroes' eyes meet. "You take care of them," Marvel mutters, the sound of her voice strong enough to rise just barely above the immense din around this group. They both glance around themselves, to appraise their surroundings just before falling into action. Marvel looks up at the ceiling as it bows and splinters inward, ready to collapse its tons of metal roof upon them. "I'll get us out of here," her voice comes, this time not rising above the noise, and ending in a personal whisper. "I hope."

The Blizzard backs away from the blob taking up the doorway then catches himself moving closer to the heroes and moves away from them, edging toward the outside of the room. He looks over the edge of the shattered window to the chaos below and sprays a sheet of ice over them. While his intention might have been to cover some of the flames from the explosions with a cooling agent, instead the force from the blast removes supporting columns and invites even more heavy pieces of the ceiling to fall inward, sealing the fates of dozens of agents on the floor. "Blast!" he exclaims.

Severe Chaos: Add d8 to Doom Pool

Doom Pool: 10d8 + d8, 10d10, d12 = 11d8, 10d10, d12

The Constrictor looks around nervously as the observation room falls apart in a horrific clatter around him, as if there's something he could do but suddenly realizing that his only ability is to fight and this imploding building is not an enemy he can pummel with force. He does nothing but jump as each metal piece falls from the ceiling and the keyboards and monitors around him pop in tiny and bigger explosions, he becomes relaxed as he looks to the heroes, his saviors. His face is pleading, waiting for them to do something to save him.

Black Widow looks at him, then his hands, then back to his pathetic face. Her eyes narrow first in disgust then with an idea. "Right now we need what your brought more than we need you." In less than the space of an instant her relaxed posture drops into an explosive coil for a roundhouse kick that connects her foot with the villain's face. His nose shatters inward from the force of the attack then his suddenly-unconscious body falls backward, tumbling amid the shattered junk from around the room and the ceiling.

Constrictor is knocked out

"Dang it, Greer." She-Hulk says as she sees Tigra go down, pummeled by the Hydra guards. She really wanted to take out that Dreadnought but rescuing Tigra took priority. With little hesitation, she jumps into the midst of the guards and starts punch and kicking away.

Solo d8, Impulsive d4+1, Strength d12, Area attack 2d6, Combat d8

20:06, Today: She-Hulk rolled 13,5,7,1 using 2d8,2d6,d12,d4 with rolls of 7,6,4,1,7,1.  jump into the mob and punch.

14/d8,d6,d4/2opps

Does this qualify as a direct approach to a complicated problem for 1XP?

If Taskmaster is concerned with the pandemonium around him, his mask does nothing to show it. He stands his ground, brandishing his sword even though he is well out of reach of the peons on the floor or the collapsing catwalk. He looks to his feet and the body of Iron Fist lying at them. "Heh!" he cackles as he pulls back his foot. "This steaming pile of hero ain't doing me any good up here!" Then he kicks the gi-clad body from the platform and it falls, as if in slow motion, to the morass of chaos below, to disappear among the mass of crazed agents running and screaming every which way.

Grandstanding: Add d10 to Doom Pool

Doom Pool: 11d8, 10d10 +d10, d12 = 11d8, 11d10, d12

Next Action: Iron Man