Well, that proved less than useful, Henry thinks as he straightens up. He draws out his boom gun and adjusts a setting. Snakes are ectothermic, and brumate in cold weather; perhaps a blast of cold will slow the blur down.

Careful to aim between the two heroes, Blackthorne releases a blast of frigid energy at their interposing foe.

OOC: Today: Henry Elias Blackthorne rolled 89 using 1d100 ((89)).

Silver result: HIT

Damage is Great Gt [20], Cold Energy
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Manmirror and Destiny's dazzling only effect is to light the otherwise dark underground up.

15:13, Today: R. Race Rasmusen, for the NPC Coral, rolled 25 using 1d100.  Reflect Cold.

While hit by Blackthorn's cold blast, Coral seems unaffected (resist 20) Coral says "None ssshall passsss! I alwaysss wanted to sssay that."  Coral tries to become more of a wall (dodge)


15:40, Today: R. Race Rasmusen, for the NPC Coral, rolled 32 using 1d100.  Dodge. White - no effect


15:37, Today: R. Race Rasmusen, for the NPC Snakeman, rolled 23 using 1d100.  grapple Henry's gun.

The Snakeman who came ahead of Blackthorn turns and looks at him, "How'd you get here hollywood?" He's unsure of what to do, having been totally ineffective against him before, but at last tries to take Blackthorn's gun, but is equally ineffective.

Coral says "There's no point to thisss, just go home, humansss, before sssomeone's hurt."

The person at the computer continues muttering.

male: Stop interfering.
female:  What's the matter, finding it hard to type?

Destiny Dame starts up spin as she speeds over the one of the lizards and delivers a solid strike.

Clearly this is going no where.

ooc:  18:26, Today: Destiny Dame rolled 69 using 1d100.  fighting punch.  - 75 damage
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Manmirror steps back a few paces and says, "I made it perfectly clear that I wasn't going to jump to conclusions, so if there was nothing wrong with what's going on in there you could've just told me. You didn't."
"Coral, my apologies."
As he sets himself into a football stance, the flooring beneath his feet buckles a bit. Then Manmirror charges Coral in an attempt to get through the door.

OOC: Pushing his density back to maximum gives Manmirror Astounding Strength.
Using a charge maneuver (the lesser of fighting or endurance)
00:47, Today: Manmirror rolled 64 using 1d100.  Charge Coral (Fighting FEAT).
This is a bronze result, slam possible (Astounding Strength means fifty damage).

Interface concentrates not on the code, so much as the keyboard itself, willing to act in defiance of the snake man's attempts. She need ed to get her hands on the computer, to find out what exactly they were looking for, and what else they might have hacked in, so she can alert the rightful authorities


OOC: Spent 100 Karma to upgrade her Machine Control to Astounding (40)
Today: Interface rolled 73 using 1d100, unique dice ((73)).

Henry looks down at his gun, and reconciles himself to reality that he has some more work to do to make it an effective weapon.



"It doesn't take much to follow someone as careless as you, Spitter," Blackthorne quips as he pulls his gun away from the snake-man's grasping hands. He attempts to follow it up with a quick strike, but their close proximity gives him little room to maneuver and he ends up only be able to swat his opponent's arms away.

OOC: Holster boom gun, Blunt Melee against "Spitter" (Fighting Fa[40]; Strength Wc[30])
Today: Henry Elias Blackthorne rolled 14 using 1d100 ((14)).

15:50, Today: R. Race Rasmusen, for the NPC Coral, rolled 100 using 1d100.  Resist slam. Gold - resisted.

16:14, Today: R. Race Rasmusen, for the NPC Coral, rolled 18 using 2d100, unique dice with rolls of 15,3.  Reflect Destiny and Manmirror's attacks. Both White, unable to reflect.  (OOC: I'm not sure if you should be able to reflect melee, but it just says physical and energy attacks, so going with being able to for now.)

Bam!  Pow!  The spinning Coral gets double-teamed hard by Manmirror and Destiny Dame, their strikes breaking some of his hard scales, but he stands - or spins his ground.  He says stumbling his words "Quiksss... a... coot... Dar, I can't hold them muccch longer!"

16:10, Today: R. Race Rasmusen, for the NPC Coral, rolled 5 using 1d100.  Bite Destiny Dame. White, miss

He says to Destiny Dame "Sssorry new girl, but you're clearly more dangerousss." then bites at her, snapping his fangs mere inches from her.

The person at the computer says "What'sss going on, the keyboard isssn't working?!" as he starts smashing the keys.

He spins his chair around, revealing a horifying two-headed snake man, one head is green and brown patches and looks oddly somewhat familiar to the heroes, especially Manmirror, can he place it?

The other is the size of a child's, purple and and has extremely large entirely black eyes even for a snake, and a very small mouth.  It doesn't even remotely resemble a human, but seems to be half-snake half something else.  The purple head says in a female voice "Manmirror, please stop him, he is not himself!"

The green and brown head says in a young masculine voice to Coral "It's Quetzzzalcoatl now! How hard isss that to sssay?  Nevermind. I'll ssshut them all up." and starts to put his claws up to his head in the classic mentalist pose.  (OOC: I'll wait until the next round for his attack as he was busy fighting the keyboard this round.)


16:24, Today: R. Race Rasmusen, for the NPC Spitter, rolled 98 using 1d100.  grab Blackthorne's \armor'. Gold - full hold and crush (Henry takes -2 RS to any action other than escaping (feat of fighting) or breaking out (feat of strength) silver required to end.) 20 str not sufficient to break through armor on the crush, but it's close!

Meanwhile Spitter yells at Blackthorne "I'll rip you out of that fancy armor!" throws himself at Blackthorn and wraps himself around him somewhat like a boa constrictor while ripping at the back of his armor with his claws, his armor starts to flex near its design limits.

OOC: Escape via Fighting (Fantastic Fa[40])
Today: Henry Elias Blackthorne rolled 71 using 1d100 ((71)).
Silver Result. (Escape a Full hold)

Thankful for the engineers he hired to design the ADLAR* material, Blackthorne takes a brief moment to assess how the snake-man has him held.

A little pressure here, a twist there, and the hero works his way out of Spitter's grasp. He takes a step back, grinning broadly, throwing his arms out in a cheesy ta-da! pose.

*ADvanced Light ARmor - Davy
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Destiny Dame tries to knock out the lizard, but the lizard manages to duck the swing easily.


17:21, Today: Destiny Dame rolled 10 using 1d100.  fighting punch. – 10

Manmirror's eyes narrow when the snake starts to act 'mental'. The solid one mumbles "Darien" before backing up and charging a second time... straight at the wall beside the doorway blocked by the aforementioned Coral.

OOC: Not sure what else to do, but spend 100 karma to get through
00:51, Today: Manmirror rolled 66 using 1d100.  smash through wall.

When the snake man stopped touching the keyboard in rage, Interface made herself known , looking into the room, trying to spot any piece of machinery, other than the computer, that she could take over, and strike the two-headed snake man.

14:48, Today: R. Race Rasmusen, for the NPC Spitter, rolled 8 using 1d100.  Haymaker. White, miss

Spitter fumes, hissing at Blackthorne.  He winds up a haymaker but telegraphs the move so badly Blackthorne has only to step slightly to one side to completely avoid it.  Spitter breathes hard from all the exertion and pain he's already in.

Manmirror blows through the concrete corner, getting him past Coral and into the two headed snake's face, both heads looking momentarily surprised.

15:14, Today: R. Race Rasmusen, for the NPC Coral, rolled 18 using 1d100.  Bites at Manmirror.

Coral says "What?!" spinning and biting at his back, but the cloud of concrete dust blinds him long enough to bite at only air.

The bigger head of the two-headed snake says "I'm Quetzzzalcoatl now!  How many times do I have to explain thisss?"  He stares at Manmirror intently

15:11, Today: R. Race Rasmusen, for the NPC Quetzzzalcoatl, rolled 5 using 1d100.  Sleep vs. Manmirror.  White

Manmirror feels a slight urge to yawn.

Interface glances around quickly, she sees a couple of wheels, behind a chickenwire fence, it looks like a manual train car - the ones that look vaguely like a see-saw.  What's that doing here she wonders? Pulled from some nearby connection to subways perhaps?  In any case it's heavy and iron, and will make a good target, her mind grabs hold of it.

15:21, Today: R. Race Rasmusen, on behalf of Interface, rolled 81 using 1d100.  Control Train Car. Success.

Destiny Dame still locked up with the lizard lands a punch again.   Hopefully enough to drop him this time.

07:38, Today: Destiny Dame rolled 67 using 1d100.  fighting punch : bronze [75damage]
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Interface smiles at the two-headed snakeman "You might be Quetzzzalcoatl, but you might want to look to your right." Just as the train car rushes him, and strikes a solid blow.

OOC:
Today: Interface rolled 71 using 1d100, unique dice. Possible Slam

Fighting and Agility WC (40)
Strength equal to Material Strength

Henry watches the snake-man nearly exhaust himself from the effort. It really isn't sporting to beat him down like this, so, he instead just nudges him with a push. "Come on, man, put some zeal into it!"

OOC: Today: Henry Elias Blackthorne rolled 9 using 1d100 ((9)).
I figured that 9 just means Henry isn't trying at the moment. ;)

Manmirror says, "yep, sure aren't Darien. Darien would've been WAY too angry if something tried to mess with his mind. Plus, you barely made me yawn. Nope, you were never Darien. No way he would've done less than knock me out."
Then the solid one tosses a backhand at Quetzlcoatl.

rolled a bronze feat, astounding strength

Destiny Dame's slams Coral one last time, he's laid out like roadkill, and doesn't move besides a thin hiss.


14:56, Today: R. Race Rasmusen, for the NPC Quetzlcoatl resist slam, rolled 10 using 1d100 ((10)) white, knocked down.

15:03, Today: R. Race Rasmusen, for the NPC Quetzlcoatl, rolled 24 using 1d100.  Sleep - area. white, no effect.

Manmirror's backhand knocks back Quetzlcoatl more fully into the train car's path, he's run over lying on the floor too, but he lets out some half-hiss half-scream sending a wave of weariness out, but again it it has no real effect.

Both of it's voices say "Help... me."

Spitter hears, looking over his shoulder and spits at the closest target, Destiny Dame, but hits only the doorjamb as she instinctually spins away from it.

15:07, Today: R. Race Rasmusen, for the NPC Spitter, rolled 2 using 1d100.  spit at Destiny Dame. White - miss

Manmirror grabs the edge of the train car and desperately heaves it away so he can get to the downed snake-twin. "If that IS Darien, maybe he can be saved," he says.

karma spent to guarantee success (if applicable) is either fourteen points or ten points if athletics is also applicable
07:18, Today: Manmirror rolled 12 using 1d100.  heave train car feat.

Interface looks at Manmirror. He seems to be a contardictoty in terms, but she shakes her head, and orders the train car off the snake man, if Manmirror doesn't force it off.

And she heads to the computer, to see about preventing his software from hacking, and to find out who and what else they hacked.

OOC: For the purpose of using computers when she physically using them, she has a Reason equivalent to Single Shift (150)
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Destiny Dame speeds over to the one that spit at her, Didn't your mom ever tell you it isnt nice to spit at people?


07:29, Today: Destiny Dame rolled 98 using 1d100.  fighting punch. – gold result [stun?] for 75

It's a nice hit. Really nice; proper form, good technique. There's a lot to appreciate in Destiny Dame's punch, without delving into the visceral realm of thought. (Or, non-thought, as it is.)

It'd be a shame if he didn't express his appreciation, so Henry does.

"Oh, very nice. Do you use a specific art, or just good ol' red-blooded American brawling?" he asks of the heroine.

OOC: In the (unlikely?) event that Spitter is still conscious, he'll add a strike of his own (mid-conversation) to try to finish him off.

Henry Elias Blackthorne rolled 57 using 1d100 ((57)). Fighting Fa[40]
Bronze Result, Strength Wc[30] damage.

If Spitter isn't conscious after Destiny Dame's strike, he'll instead use his R5SI suite to see who from the team most needs their help. If a roll is required for Spatial Awareness Gt[20]...

Henry Elias Blackthorne rolled 98 using 1d100 ((98)).
Gold Result

While the handcar is sturdy heavy steel, it still only weighs about 500 pounds and Manmirror casually tosses it aside. He wasn't paying too much attention to where he was tossing it and it ends up breaking the majority of the chemical lab equipment to the right where the room opens up.  The chemicals start mixing, some opaque sickly green cloud coming out of a portion of it that starts filling up the room.

15:43, Today: R. Race Rasmusen, for the NPC Quetzlcoatl, rolled 57 using 1d100.  sleep vs Manmirror 2.  Bronze, it's feat of psyche vs. psyche, his is higher so it succeeds.

Quetzlcoatl says weakly "fool" as the other head dangles from his neck unconscious.  At last his mental power unimpeded by his other head overcomes Manmirror, who yawns and lies down for a nap.

Interface thinking he's entirely out has started looking through the computer finding evidence of trying to also break into a Foresite Cancer Center's computers, but they don't seem to be up.  The attack on the FBI had already found information on Agent Made and her whereabouts, but were searching for the high security facility, but had not succeeded.  There's also encrypted files that appear to be names such as processes for the 'cancer treatment' though they hadn't been successfully accessed since Dr. Cobra was apprehended.

Destiny Dame creams Spitter so badly he slides up the curved tunnel opposite the hatch and falls again from the top splashing in the thin stream of sewage and not moving.

Blackthorne finds no damage among the heroes, besides Manmirror's bad timing for a catnap - and readings consistent with being in REM sleep.

Destiny Dame zips over to the last lizard standing Guess its like the cops, not sure whats going on but well just knock everyone out and sort it out later

Her punch was clearly thrown off by the dangling head as it misses.

07:54, Today: Destiny Dame rolled 29 using 1d100.  fighting punch. – 29 - white

With Destiny Dame taking on the twin-headed snake-man, Henry rushes over to where ManMirror is napping. He crouches down and gives him a more-than-gentle-nudge.

"Come on, M, wake up. This doesn't reflect well on you," he quips.

Interface bends her mind to crack open the files. Whatever security they might have, She was confident they are no match for her enhanced knowledge of computers.

OOC: Today: Interface rolled 25 using 1d100, unique dice ((25)). Bronze result