Through a window, this could be the perfect summer day: green glass swaying slightly in the breeze, flowers in full bloom, just enough clouds in a deep blue sky to make it picturesque. However, when venturing out into the day, the downside is clear: the heat is oppressing, enough to bear down and fry whatever is foolhardy enough to move under an unforgiving sun. It’s a dry heat, enough that the escalating temperature balances with the lack of moisture in the air, though the news report says the humidity will come in the next few days, at its worst on the holiday. This isn’t even as bad as it will get.

Westchester County is, as always, postcard-ready, and quiet. The heat keeps the kids in the neighborhoods inside but the birds make their presences known, calling in the summer air.

Meeting in the subterranean rooms of the Avengers Tower, the Black Widow, with Hawkeye, laid out the mission: To recover Wanda Maximoff, the Scarlet Witch, from a school in Westchester County. A melange of heroes gathered: the Black Cat, from an invitation by the Vision; the young Justice, a reserve member called in by Hawkeye; Iron Man, coming out of a hermit-like existence elsewhere in the building; She-Hulk, arriving with Captain Marvel; and Ms. Marvel, who, upon sharing the space with Captain Marvel, all but came to blows over their shared names and history. Once the Widow laid out the objective for the mission and Iron Man contributed a plan, they broke to load into the Quinjet and fly to Westchester County.

Iron Man and She-Hulk traveled separately by limo, driven by Stark’s aide Happy Hogan, though the Quinjet got there first. The drive to Westchester County would normally be close to an hour but traffic is light getting out of the city before noon and Happy knows shortcuts, cutting the travel time. The advanced GPS shows the way there, and around every possible pot-hole.

The mansion, a massive and ornate dwelling, dwarfing even Stark's homes, is visible at the end of a long driveway, through a thick, railed gate that stands tall and closed. A gold plate to the right of the locked entrance, on the brick wall that surrounds the place, states “XAVIER SCHOOL FOR GIFTED YOUNGSTERS.”

Getting to Westchester was in haste but now that the Quinjet has arrived, the Widow pulls it into a hover. If the ship is moving at all, it feels like it is staying still. Through the window is only white that subsides occasionally in a fog before appearing again. A read-out on the dashboard states "STEALTH MODE ACTIVATED." The Widow keeps an overhead view of the mansion, apparently directly below, on the cockpit’s monitors, similar to what she kept in the meeting room. One monitor shows a circle of static surrounded by green.

In the time spent hovering, the silence is broken intermittently by snippets of the Widow’s side of an ongoing conversation:
“I’m being a hard-ass because Wanda disappeared without a trace and it’s been weeks, Barton. This is the only lead we’ve had and I don’t want to waste it.
“No, I don’t, and you know it. She’s the worst idea we could have. But we might need the firepower. We can talk more about that situation when we get back.
“The limo is Stark showing off, as usual. If he’d come with us in the jet he’d already be here. Now we’re waiting on him, as usual. I haven’t seen anyone leaving this place but they could have other means. I just hope she’s still there. And safe.”

After long moments of only hearing the Quinjet's quietly-rumbling engines, the Widow clicks over: “What’s your play, Stark? We are literally in a holding pattern. Awaiting your word.”


* Remember that every post with a dice pool must have the current tally of Plot Points and a choice for next action if it's your turn.
* Each hero starts this scene with 1 PP.
* Also remember that I automatically buy all Opportunities rolled, at a rate of 1 PP per dice pool (to be translated into Doom Pool dice).
* I'll add the other two starting Scene Distinctions when we get further along.
* When the heroes are split into group, in the narrative, respect that unless there is an open line of communication between them or they are near each other, each group will not know what is going on with the others.
* Note that not all heroes included in the character roster are included in this adventure.

Doom Pool: 2d6
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I'm right here, Widow," Ms. Marvel spat in a solemn tone. "If you're going to talk about me, afford me the decency to do it behind my back."

Karla sank back further in her seat, her jaw set firm. If Barton were here, she would feel much better about being in this Quinjet surrounded by Avengers. He vouched for her, and for now that was sufficient to stop Carol and the She-Hulk from attacking her.

"It wasn't that long ago, Natasha, that you were a Russian spy and considered a villain. For Christ's sake, Hardy is a career thief, and not a one of you has said a word about her being here!" Karla knew she ought not to press the point in such confined quarters and while outnumbered, but she was nevertheless defiant. "You're no better than me. Not really."
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Jen looks at Happy with concern on her face. "What happened?" Then she turns to Stark. "Sooooo we ring the bell?" She scanned the gate for a bell or intercom switch while waiting for Happy to reply.

Happy looks up from the hairs standing up on his arms and to She-Hulk. He looks confused and/or expectant, until he shrugs, blinks, and turns toward Stark.

Through the limo window, embedded in the wall under the name-plate is a small monitor with a series of buttons underneath it.

As the group in the Quinjet awaits Stark's word, the Black Widow does not react to what is going on in the interior of the plane and seems particularly transfixed on the monitor with the image of a circle of static surrounded by green on it.

“Stark,” she says, pressing the headset into the side of her head. “Are you there?”

Tony sighs and rubs at his chin, "Sorry guys I was putting some puzzles together." He straightens himself, " Okay Happy. They'll know we are here by now so ring the bell before they send a scout."

"Uh..." Happy blinks numerous times. "Bell?"

Keen looks at Happy, alarmed look on her face. "Tony, there's something wrong with him. Something zapped him a second ago."

"I'm fine," Happy says. "Just a lot of static in the air. Is it always like that here? I've never been so far upstate."

Tony blinks, "Normally the only static you get upstate is from not having enough land or money. You sit still, it might be some residue from Wanda's powers if she was distressed. Kind of like waves or something."

He opens his door to go to find the buzzer thing on most gates, "Of all the things I end up doing. Feel like one of those witness guys."

Vance was still not sure why he was there, it seem like he was still dreaming having a suit made by Tony Stark. Flying shoulder to shoulder with the Black Widow in the Quinjet.

His gaze traveled between the Captain and Miss Marvel, this was not trouble brewing this was a storm ready to strike. "It is not my business and I don't know what you did Miss but I think that if you got invited here and agreed to come than you made the choice to take a second chance at redemption." hell, he felt that way as well, he was a convicted murderer so whatever she did couldn't be that bad.

Outside the comfort of the limousine, the heat bears down. Not a good day for wool.

The sole instrument comparable to a buzzer is the series of buttons below the monitor to the side of the gate. It's a horizontal numerical pad, clean but not out of the ordinary. There is no indication of which button could be a buzzer, but any could be as good as any other. Touching any of them and -- "SPAK!" -- suddenly a spark enough to nearly cause pain. That feels a lot more like science than magic.

However, the button is pressed for the monitor to come on. A monochrome image moves across the screen, far too fast and too soon gone to register, then blinks to noise, which stays for a few moments then goes to black. There is no sound from it. The gate stands still.

In the Quinjet, Black Widow switches over the monitor with the circle of static to a view of the huge expanse of green between the mansion and the gate. "What's your situation, Stark? I'm going to need to put the 'jet down soon. We could -- "

The Widow’s head snaps away from looking at the instrument panel to through the window. She says nothing but looks outside, then to the sensors on the dashboard in front of her, then outside again. She hits a button and one of the monitors switches from a view of the dwelling below to something with a line circling clockwise from the center.

* If Iron Man is in contact with the Black Widow, his Affiliation is Team.
* If She-Hulk is not in direct contact with the Widow and only with Iron Man (Happy does not count in this instance), her Affiliation is Buddy.
* All heroes in the Quinjet currently have an Affiliation of Team.

Tony reaches up to his ear, "Keep it on simmer. I'm still going with the calm approach but the gates out to much static eletricity, someone is producing a ton of power or alot of magnetic flux. I'm suiting up to hop the fence but going helmet down as I walk to the building."

He goes to the trunk of his car and armors up and heads back towards the gate pausing at the window, "Jen just let me carry you over the fence. Still keeping it low key but everyone knows Tony Stark likes to show off."

Jen gives Stark a nod. "Careful where you put your hands." she warns him.

Stark pulls the travel case for his armor from the trunk and, with the flick of a button, the case opens and the suit envelopes him -- a function where tiny segments form to cover him (something that could be hard to believe that Stark did not design solely to look impressive) -- and he becomes the invincible Iron Man. The interior of the armor is cooler than the outside temperature, but while it deflects the sun’s rays it also becomes highly reflective (showing off without trying harder).

Women that Stark puts his arm around are usually much less plain than Jen Walters, relatively speaking, but at the moment, carrying her over the gate is the easiest way to the front of the mansion. The air is still, the environment is quiet, the grass is green -- almost too still, too quiet, too green. If there was any expectation for something to happen as Stark made his way levitating by repulsor-propelled boots and carrying Walters, it dissipates when he lands in the middle of the driveway on the other side of the gate and the day continues. There is a long, wide path that divides the yard in two, and runs up to the building, then around, presumably to the back, but another walkway leads to the massive, oaken front door. There is no movement from anything. With no breeze in the air, even the grass does not sway. If looking hard enough, the clouds might be seen to move across the sky, though as minimally as could be.


The Black Widow taps buttons on the dashboard, the monitors switch but with no new images, and she keeps her attention out the Quinjet’s window. She speaks through her headset but it could also be to herself. “Stark,” she says. “We're going to need to set down. It's not good to be sitting up here.“

Nearer to the ground, a bird chirps in the distance.

Mysterious d8 added to Doom Pool.

Doom Pool: 2d6 +d8 = 2d6, d8
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Black Cat sat watching the sky through the windshield. "Where do you park a jet around here anyway?" she mused aloud.

Tony sighs, "Nat sit it down. The area is undergoing a massive amount of magnetic flux. Stay seated, unless you see Eric floating nearby this isn't Wanda."

He shakes his head and lets his helmet retract, "Well now. Magnetic flux, high heat, and static electricity. If this was AIM I'd say they were playing with a new form of reactor. " He chuckles and a bit sluggish but determined he walks on, "I'm intrigied now and this is even more fun. Two deering do gooders setting off into the unknown! Why its practically medieval with me the knight in shining armor striding fowward with his legal beagle to save the damsel."

OOC:

I'll take it the PP now. Thematic as hell.


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Karla flashed a sly grin, pointing down for effect. "On the basketball court."

"Stark," The new Ms. Marvel offered, "You want I should phase out and make a recon run?"

He shakes his head despite knowing she can't see it, "No. I've not the equipment to check it but the gravity might be having more effects as we get closer to the mansion.
 If you have to scout only around the jet. If I have to go inside we'll revisit it." He takes a breath and walks with a little faster reaching for door.
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Iron Man takes Sluggish Armor d6 Complication

Please note PP tally in posts (preferably at end)

“Quiet, Sofen,” the Widow says, as if to someone who has tried to mercilessly kill her and her friends multiple times. “You do not get to contribute here. And Avengers communication equipment is not available to you,” she says, switching it off with another button.

She turns her attention back to the ship. “Avengers park where they need to." Before Captain Marvel can open her mouth to protest, the Widow pulls back the altitude lever and flips a series of switches to set a landing in motion. “It was Stark’s idea to be subtle but now he’s blown that himself.” She sighs. “Damn you, Barton,” she mutters, under her breath. Then to Marvel or herself or anyone, “If we’ve already been made then we’re just sitting ducks up here. And we’re going to be stronger when we’re not split up.”

The Quinjet lowers, losing the white obscuration of the cloud through the window as it drops from the sky. Shortly, it touches down on the ground, pointed toward the mansion, with a full view through the window, but still a few dozen yards away. Iron Man and Walters are visible at a distance, close to the mansion. And still, no movement, nothing happening save what the heroes do, no sound but birds.


As the heroes disembark the jet to set foot on the wide expanse of grass between the gated wall in one direction and the mansion in the other, the Widow, striding past Ms. Marvel, calls to her. “Sofen,” Black Widow says. “A word?”


As the Widow and Ms. Marvel stare each other down in their huddle outside the Quinjet, the Vision, to this point stone-face and upright, rises into the air, his synthezoid eyes fixed on the mansion. The jewel in the middle of his forehead catches a ray of sunlight and it flashes brilliantly for an instant. “Wanda,” he utters quietly as he silently makes his way toward the building.

The Widow turns toward him, breaking from her conversation. “Vision!” she calls.

Ms. Marvel lets the Russian superspy have her moment. The sentiment was not unexpected, especially from a hard-ass like Widow. Aside from Carol Danvers, Karla knew that Natasha would be the hardest Avenger to convince that she had made a face turn.

Widow was tough, but Karla already had her defenses up. The Russian droned on about puffed-up threats, and that Sofen was being watched. As though that wasn't predictable.

Ms. Marvel let the Widow have her say, and was about to offer a rebuttal when Vision opted to blaze a trail towards the mansion on his own. Based on her reaction, Widow clearly disapproved.

Karla smirked, "Are you certain you're in charge here? Because the android just decided to storm the castle."

I'll skip the extra PP. Still at 1.
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Carol can feel the tension in the air. One of their own is possibly in danger, but this place seems so...innocuous.  It holds secrets, that's for sure, but what if Wanda is here of her own volition?

As the Quinjet descends to the ground, Carol looks over the passengers. Fellow Avengers all, like family except for Black Cat (she doesn't know much about her except that she has some connection to Spider-Man) and Sofen (Sofen can go to hell if she thinks she'll <tr>ever</tr> refer to her as Ms. Marvel. At least if she was outfitted as Moonstone that would be slightly honest.) A flash of intense anger flares, but she's disciplined, as life in the Air Force taught her. It's pushing the envelope of her trust in Hawkeye's decision making ability, but for now...she'll be a good soldier and put her emnity aside. She can't afford the distraction of having to watch her back constantly.

The tension lessens as Widow takes Sofen out of the Quinjet. Carol is slightly annoyed by the  waiting for Stark, yet doesn't want to just rush in again.

However, as she watches Vision suddenly rise up and drift out of the Quinjet, Carol instantly has a bad feeling about what is about to happen.

Black Widow shoots Ms. Marvel her most heated glare yet but it’s tinged with impatience. “I’ll deal with you later,” she remarks. The Vision has already gotten a head-start on her and she can’t cover the distance to him before he’s already gone.

He had given the assembled heroes around him a short look before he began drifting, then flying to the mansion. “Wanda,” he had said, looking at the building after he turned from his companions. “She is in there. I must go.” Then he was away.

“Vision!” was the last thing the Widow could call to him. He did not reply. Well before she could catch up to him, he had reached the mansion and, without sound, had phased into it, disappearing like he was never there.

The Widow stops and looks after where he had gone, as if to find something, but there is nothing. The only trace the synthezoid left is the memory he was there. She breathes with exasperation. But her sprint has brought her to the proximity of the mansion, not far from where Iron Man and Jen have reached in their walk there, within a short distance of the front door. She looks to her teammates, ready to follow what they are to do next but ready to take over if they become adrift.

Karla sighed heavily, conceding the last word to the Russian superspy. For now, it was enough that she stood up for herself. Despite their protests, she really intended to give this Ms. Marvel gig her best shot.

Barton vouched for her, and while it pained her to admit as much, that counted for something. If nothing else, she owed him the courtesy of sticking with this for the time being.

"I'll go fetch the robot," stated Karla flatly. She did not wait for a response, as the new Ms. Marvel went immaterial and followed the Vision's flight path to find Wanda.

---

I'll create a "Ghostly Defense" Asset, representing my phasing state helping me skulk about and, if necessary, to protect against attack.

Team d8, Moonstone d8, Intangibility d10, Combat d8
Dice Pool: d10, 3d8, rolled for 4,1,3,8.
Total: 12, d8 effect, 1 opp. If successful, I'll spend a PP to extend the Asset for the scene.
1 opp = 1 PP, so I'm still at 1 PP.

Jennifer walks briskly up the path to the mansion's door. "C'mon, Stark. Let's try to do this semi-legit before the B&E starts."

Feeling like a roadie to a backup singer, Black Cat kicked back and listened. Let me know when you need me.

Tony chuckles, "Of course. Still I'll really enjoy Friday pouring over these sensor readings later. Gravimetric distortions and time dilations that don't seem to affect but a certain area, why figuring out how that is happening could improve clean energy ten fold."

He reaches up as if to straighten his tie and remembers he's in his suit and shrugs and looks to ring the door bell if there is one.

+d6 to Doom Pool from Ms. Marvel's Opportunity

Doom Pool (2d6, d8) reaction to Ms. Marvel's attempt to create Ghostly Defense Asset, Total: 12, Effect: d8 (msg #25):
Watcher rolled 4,5,6 using d6,d6,d8 ((4,5,6)).

Total: 11, Effect: d8

Ghostly Defense d8 Asset created by Ms. Marvel

As Ms. Marvel draws attention to herself, the Widow sprints after her before she phases into the structure. “Sofen! Stop!” Once the Widow has gained ground to be close enough to communicate, she barks, “You will not enter this place before I say, and especially not illegally. The Vision is not your matter to tend to. If you want to make a go at heroing and teaming with the Avengers, you're on my leash. You run off again, you will be treated as an enemy. Once again, are we clear?”

With the Widow off after Marvel, Iron Man, Walters, and the other heroes who have approached the building are left at the door. From here, the mansion could be any building, albeit an ornate, massive one. The doorbell could be attached to any dwelling. When Iron Man presses it, it emits a chime like any other, the sound muffled as it comes from inside. There is no sound to replace it as its echo recedes.

A breeze rustles from nowhere, created suddenly by the speed of a person who has run up at great velocity. It is the veteran Avenger and mutant, Quicksilver. His blue costume is scuffled and dirty, his hair tousled beyond being wind-blown, and he is out of breath, a rare state. His eyes are wide and wild and he looks behind him more than he looks at the heroes at the front door. He gasps: “Avengers. You must leave immediately. It is far too dangerous for anyone here. She may already be too far gone. Go. Now. I implore you. Please go.”

The front door opens. In his classic blue-and-gold uniform with a mask leaving his perfectly-combed hair exposed, it is Cyclops, leader of the X-Men. “Hello!” he says, with a welcoming smile.

Looking back at Quicksilver, the speedster is gone, so far removed that it is like he was never there.

Doom Pool: 2d6, d8 +d6 = 3d6, d8

Vance felt like his feet were stuck in cement of indecision. He could relate to Black Cat notion and his own sense of dread was growing. It was not something specific it was more a gut feeling no it was more, they were not even a full team at this stage just random people with a lot of baggage.

The unusual phenomena surrounding the house and Quicksilver abrupt appearing disappearing sending ominous warning act did not aid his sense of dread.

He stood by Black Cat and Captain Marvel knowing that this is a critical moment for the team and sometimes you need to swallow your ego and do what is best for the team.

"I am ready when you give the go..." he said only to noticed his comm was off, switching the thing on he tried to hide his embarrassment and spoke to the comm "Justice is ready on your call Widow."

Tony smiles, "Greetings fellow possible human wearing what is obviously a uniform. I'm Tony Stark and originally I was going to pretend to want a tour of the school to offer possible investment opportunities. "

He chuckles, "But now I'm just asking to please go see my friend Wanda and hopefully calm her down before her powers keep increasing the magnetic fields around the area and bend time and space so much that she generates a blackhole."

“Tony! It’s good to see you again. No need to be so formal.” He extends his hand to shake Iron Man’s and looks around at the  heroes assembled on the stoop. His gaze seems to pause on Black Cat, but her provocative costume could halt any heterosexual man. “Uh, I’m not sure about any powers or magnetic fields or black holes. But there’s no shortage of heat. Please, come inside. We can talk in there. It’s a bit warm out here.” He sweeps his arm toward the doorway, welcoming the heroes inside.

Now that the Widow has dealt with Ms. Marvel once again, she makes her way back to the group at the front door of the mansion. She stops and looks at Iron Man, waiting for him to enter the place before she does. “Better than breaking and entering,” she mutters. She looks up at the sky again, blinking away the sun.

Tony shakes his hand, gently of course, "For now lets stick with formal. Some of my spy friends noticed one of my friends come here and never leave. They are paranoid, and then outside the mansion are gravitational effects leading to time and heat distortions. So I'm a bit concerned I will have to start blasting up my godfather's mansion. And its a we bit early in the year for the annual rebuild."

Jennifer's eyes narrow. There was something wrong here. They'd gotten the cold shoulder at the gate, there was the static and gravimetrics Tony kept going on about, and now the laser-eye guy was all buddy buddy with Tony. Then there was the ominous warning that Quicksilver had given them...

She offers her hand to Cyclops. "Jennifer Walters. Tony's lawyer. Sort of. Is there something wrong with your gate?" she asks pointing with her thumb over her shoulder back towards where Happy was chilling with the limo. "We tried calling you from there, but didn't get an answer."

A brow arches visibly around Cyclops’s visor. “You’ve been spying on us?”

Natasha glares at Stark and hushes slightly. “These are the X-Men. We’ve fought beside them. We can trust them.”

Walters interrupts Cyclops’s visible suspicion. Cyclops turns to her and shakes her hand. “Ah, the famous She-Hulk. Though you don’t seem savage to me, ha ha, um, ahem.” He scratches his chin and changes his tone of voice back to serious. "Is the gate-buzzer on the fritz again? Sorry. It does that."

The Widow steps to the two, near the door. “Don’t mind him too much. I don’t think his personal air-conditioning is handling the weather.”

Cyclops returns to his original, friendly disposition. “Well, I can get to the bottom of the heat problem for you: It’s summer. It's a heat-wave everywhere. As for gravity,” Cyclops says as he looks up in the sky, tracking two birds chasing each other. “Looks like it’s working fine to me.” He turns back to Stark, though it’s hard to see what exactly he’s looking at through the visor. “As for a problem with time, I can’t speak to that.” He looks at his wrist. “But at the sound of the beep it will be 11:57. A.M." He smiles. "Any other science I can solve for you?”

Natasha looks back to Iron Man. “Don’t overthink it, Stark,” she says, hiding her voice slightly in a lower volume. “Let’s just find out if Wanda is here, find the Vision, apologize that he went in without asking, and get out of here. The sooner we do, the sooner you can get back to your godfather’s mansion, whatever that means.” She looks back to find Ms. Marvel, then, with Captain Marvel in tow, strides past Stark then Cyclops, and enters the mansion.

For those walking into the mansion or looking through the front door, a grand staircase leads up ahead of the foyer splitting into two walkways on the way to the second floor, and various rooms break off of the landing on the first floor. A coolness wafts from the inside, exposing a comfortable respite from the heat outside.

"I was just about to make some lemonade," Cyclops says, welcoming the heroes into the building. "Would anyone like some?"

The air hangs still. The sun shines down without restriction. A bird chirps in the distance.

Mysterious d8 added to Doom Pool

Doom Pool: 3d6, d8 +d8 = 3d6, 2d8

"Xavier's school is meant to be a sanctuary for mutants but our doors are open to humans in need as well. Everyone has something to give to the cause."

Cyclops walks past the foyer and to the left, talking as he walks, his voice carrying, as he goes through a doorway.

Every surface is so spotless and polished, even Moon Knight would have trouble finding dust. There do not even seem to be motes floating through the long sunbeams coming through the high windows. The stillness is almost disconcerting. The only breaking of silence on either side is the birds through the door outside on one, Cyclops pouring water on the other.

Mysterious d8 added to Doom Pool

Doom Pool: 3d6, 2d8 +d8 = 3d6, 3d8

Karla followed the others toward the door, remaining immaterial for the time being. She slipped inside even under the Widow's protest--no, surely because she knew it would peeve Natasha. The Russian was mistaken if she thought that, because she was trying to live right, that she was somehow willing to put up with abuse.

Ms. Marvel had no direct experience with the X-people, but it did not take a genius to see that things were too perfect.

"We're grateful for the hospitality," Karla poured on the charm, presenting subtle physical cues that mirrored Cyclops, "But we really must see Wanda. Please...indulge us." She then flashed a thousand-watt smile that made most men buckle, giving off nearly imperceptible glints of light as she snared the man's attention.

---

Pressing Stark's point for him, with a woman's touch. Inflicting mental stress to convince Cyke to show us to Wanda.

Team d8, Manipulative d8, Blinding Flash d6, Energy Blast d10 stepped up to d12, Psych Master 2d8
Dice Pool d12, 4d8, d6, rolled for 5,4,7,4,4,3.
Spending a PP to add a die.
Total 14, d12 effect, 0 opps.
0 PP remaining.

As the group makes their way into the mansion, the Black Widow takes Iron Man aside to talk for a moment.


They are interrupted by Cyclops walking out from the kitchen.

* Physical powers would not be available for a mental attack.
* A blinding attack would be more of an offensive assault, not a flash of a smile.
* Please note why a die is stepped up (i.e., “Energy Blast d10 stepped up to d12”).

Defending from Ms. Marvel's mental attack, Total: 14, Effect: d12 (msg #38):
Solo    d10
Grand, Stately Mansion    d8
Superhuman Stamina    d10
Psych Master    2d8
From Doom Pool (predicted)    d8

Cyclops rolled 5,2,10,2,7,4 using d10,d8,d10,d8,d8,d8 ((5,2,10,2,7,4)).

Total: 17, Effect: d10

Doom Pool: 3d6, 3d8 -d8 = 3d6, 2d8

Cyclops walks out holding a pitcher of iced lemonade and a stack of glasses. No one can see his eyes through his visor but upon hearing Ms. Marvel’s comments, he seems to wince. “There’s no need to be adversarial, Ms. Marvel.” At least he doesn’t have a problem with the name. “I can look up the records on your friend -- Wanda, was it? But the school is out for the summer, and I’m afraid I can’t give out any information that could break confidentiality. But there's no need to fight. We’re all allies here.” His smile comes back.

He stops in front of the Widow and Iron Man and pours her a glass, which she accepts. He starts to pour one for Stark as well. “Anyone else for lemonade?”

Please state if you are going into the mansion or purposely staying outside, preferably in the narrative. (Ms. Marvel and Captain Marvel are already noted to be inside.) Anyone not posting before the next Watcher post will default to being outside.

Tony pauses and nods, "Yeah...thats Scotty used to chase Marvel girl and pull her hair..." He takes the glass, "Capsicle's clone I'm gonna have a seat while I debug this all. I passed through something out there and its affecting me and the tech I'm linked to." He puts the glass to his forehead, "Could be residuals from a throw down with Magneto that my sensors picked up."

He pats Scott on the shoulder and walks into find a chair.


OOC:
PP: 2

I won't disagree that Energy Blast is a weird one to add. However, this comes from Moonstone's actual writeup in the Initiative book:

SFX - Dazzling Burst: When inflicting a "Blinded" complication or mental stress on a target, add a d6 and step up your Energy Blast die.

Please advise.
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Iron Man locates a lone chair nearby, like how in an old person's home they have seats arranged randomly, for when they can't make it all the way across the house. The chair looks like an antique, but if it was of great value it wouldn't be sitting out here in the open without a sign on it. It's comfortable enough. Next to it sits a tiny table with a flower in a small vase sitting atop it.

Cyclops makes his way to the back of the group and closes the front door, shutting out the heat bearing inside. "I can give you a tour of the school, if you like. Though you came at a bad time since there's no one else here today."

As if on cue, an unembodied scream erupts, at such a volume that the frames on the wall seem to rattle: "EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE -- ARGGGH!"

Instinctively, the heroes drop into defensive positions, searching quickly for the source of the scream, but while it certainly is not in this room or immediate vicinity, it seems to come from everywhere and nowhere at once.

When the the scream ends, the Black Widow catches it first: "That's -- "

Then, KRAK!

By the time the heroes have turned from locating the source of the scream to the sound of the sharp explosion in their midst, the Widow's body has hit the floor, like so much dead weight, where it stays, moving only to come to an inert rest.

The Vision steps back, looking around him, as if searching for the Widow’s attacker.

Communication devices -- those equipped outside of Avengers mission parameters -- had some kind of static interference upon entering the mansion, something that could be dismissed as a bad signal this far out in the country. But now they all screech with a deafening, high-pitched whine for a moment then go dead.

Ms. Marvel, Captain Marvel and Iron Man (inside) use the Team Affiliation (but separate from other group); Black Cat, Justice,and She-Hulk (outside) use the Team Affiliation (but separate from other group).

Vance felt very unease with the whole situation, the unbearing heat the silence it all made his gut turn to ice and raised the hairs on the back of his neck.

Then thee screamed followed by the attack on Widow, Justice just reacted taking into the air trying to spot whomever attacked them and pose a target as well. "I am going to try spot the assailant, if they attack me make sure to identify where they are hiding."

This is weird, the whole situation. But most of all, her memories. Carol knows that this the the same ground the mansion has always stood on, but the place has been rebuilt so many times that is only a "version" of the mansion she stayed at so many years ago. But, having been rebuilt with the memory of past mansions in mind, it's like a dream where you see something unfamiliar but your mind struggles to make it familiar. Maybe this is all a bad dream.

Carol doesn't say anything about Cyclops, though. As she takes in the strange/comforting environment in slight confusion and reverie, she realizes that Cyclops isn't acting as he usually does. The practiced professional and all-business attitude she associates with him isn't here. It's more like he's putting on a front after being told by Jean that he has to be more gregarious with others. Or just someone doing a bad imitation of Cyclops.

Then, that scream! It pulls Carol out of her drifting indulgence and snaps her into defensive mode. Arms splayed and hands glowing, eyes searching for trouble as her ears try to discover the direction of the scream.

KRAK!

Carol turns to see Widow on the ground. She shifts her senses to try to feel for energy she doesn't recognize.

"Hey!" Jen was just about to step over the threshold and into the house when the door slammed in her face. She hears Justice and Black Cat come up behind her and casts a quick look back to see who they are. She turns back around and is just reaching for the doorbell when they all hear the scream from inside.

"What the HELL is going on here?!" she asks. She was trying to play this one cool after going off half-cocked on the Wrecking Crew had ended... badly, and her suspicions about Widow. She was just about to go green when Justice took to the sky. That distraction was enough to remind her that Carol was in there, so maybe it wasn't quite time for that yet. She gives Cat a look, then motions up to the roof with her eyes. "Might be a good idea to find another way in. Just... be careful. We don't know what's really going on here."

+d8 to Doom Pool from Justice's Opportunities (posted privately)

Doom Pool (3d6, 2d8) reaction to Justice's attempt to create Spot the Attacker Asset, Total: 14, Effect: d4 (msg #45; posted privately):

Watcher rolled 1,4,6,2,4 using d6,d6,d6,d8,d8 ((1,4,6,2,4)).

Total: 10, Effect: d8
Higher reacting Effect die steps acting Effect down, to 0

Attempt fails
1 Opportunity (available first to Justice)

Doom Pool: 3d6, 2d8 +d8 = 3d6, 3d8



The front door shuts, separating the group of heroes: Black Widow, Captain Marvel, Ms. Marvel, and Iron Man on the inside; Jen Walters, Justice, and Black Cat on the outside. It could be surmised that it was only on accident that Cyclops left a number of the heroes outside as much as he intended to divide the group, but regardless, the big, heavy door is shut, and firmly.

Justice happened to be standing on the lawn in a spot that afforded a look into the foyer of the mansion, where the heroes had entered and were talking. As the young hero bettered his position by taking flight, he saw Cyclops emerge from the kitchen with a pitcher of what looked like delicious refreshment, then the mutant leader disappeared into the side of the window pane. For just a moment there was no activity, then the Black Widow fell from that side in an arc across the pane then out of sight to him under it. Then a moment later a figure appears from the side of the pane but instead of Cyclops it is the Vision.

Inside, the glass once in the Widow's hand rolls across the floor to stop at Captain Marvel's foot, bringing her out of a reverie while she decides what to do. The receptacle leaves a trail behind it, spilling out the lemonade offered by Cyclops. As the liquid settles on the floor, it begins to smoke and sizzle quietly, eating into the surface beneath it.

Outside, before Walters is able to transform into her alter-ego, the ground starts rumbling.

Ms. Marvel shimmers in pale white light, her feet lifting from the ground as she floats up by a foot. The beautiful blonde spins around to take in their environment, quick to defend if she spots any sign of direct attack. "Rings of Hala!" Karla exclaims, then nearly reaches for her own mouth in shock. Why would she ever say that phrase?, she wondered, but for now was willing to skip the self analysis. She recovered, "What the hell is going on?"

Justice eyes went wide, how did the Widow get inside? and what was going over there.

Tendril of white blue force surrounded him as he pushed himself higher so he would have the height advantage.

"I am going to slam that door open..." he shouted to the people below. A certain level of calm took him as he focused his mind. The tendrils of light around him manifestation of his will shape themselves around him into a protective cocoon, he knew he would probably get beretaed later by Widow for acting rash and recklessly but that would be later.

Than without another thought before he would lose his nerve he dived down toward the door using his force field as a battering ram.

OOC:
Spend 1 PP to use Opportunity - create asset height advantage D8
Gain +1PP (from distinction)
Spend +1PP to add 3 dice into score
Score 13 (5+4+4)
Effect: D10


1 PP

Doom Pool (3d6, 3d8) reaction to Justice's attempt to become battering ram, Total: 13, Effect: d10:

Watcher rolled 5,4,2,2,8,7 using d6,d6,d6,d8,d8,d8 ((5,4,2,2,8,7)).

Total: 15, Effect: d8

Attack against door fails

Just before Justice makes an impact against the door, he remembers that the Black Widow and Iron Man engaged Cyclops, who met them at the door after opening it, in conversation, then followed him inside, with Marvels Ms. and Captain following, then Cyclops closing the door, separating the group, leaving the others outside, whether he meant to or not.

The memory does not sit at the fore-front of his thoughts for long until the young hero in his force field slams against the front door then bounces right off it -- BRAK! -- staggering back with all the force with which he attacked it. The door stands just as it was, unaffected, with not a scratch of harm. One might think it odd that a door to a school should be so fortified.

Rising after the attempt on the door, Justice is not steady on his feet for long until the rumbling starting at the far end of the spacious yard catches up to him and manifests as a full tremor. His compatriots outside feel it too and must also make a minor struggle to stay on their feet.

RRRrrrrrrrrrmmmbbbBBBLLLLLL...

Inside, Ms. Marvel spins around to realize there are no signs of aggression against her or the heroes she stands among. The mansion still sits, the air still hangs, and the liquid is eating into the floor at the assemblage's feet.



The Vision steps back slowly, palms out, his head turning back and forth as if in search. The Black Widow lies prone on the floor beneath him and, possibly, his notice.

Inside, a rumbling from outside can be heard then felt, something that causes the floors to vibrate then creak slightly. It becomes loud enough to overcome the sound of the liquid sizzling on the floor. As the heroes look around and at each other to try to figure out what is going on, the Vision takes another slow step back.

Outside, the rumbling continues, becoming louder.

"What the hell is happening?" asked Ms. Marvel sharply. The low, dull ache crept into her head and writhed against her temples. She wondered to herself if this was stress-related, or brought about by some unforseen external force.

Either way, Karla flashed her powers, letting energy pour from her hands like brilliant fonts of power. "Stark? Danvers? What's our next move?"

I'll take d6 Mental Stress for a PP.

Current PP: 1

"That's it." Jennifer declares as the rumbling grows. She starts disrobing, carefully folding and stowing the borrowed (and expensive!) suit in a corner near the door. As she does, she racks her brain for some mutant with earthquake powers but comes up blank. Mutants weren't her normal group of villains - they tended to fight with each other.

She looks up to Vance, "Don't worry about inside. They can take care of themselves. See if you can figure out what this rumbling is all about. Do you know of any mutants with earthquake powers?"

I as a player have someone in mind, but I don't think She-hulk would think of someone that obscure.

Tony rubs at his temple and tosses the glass to the side, "Ohhhhhh. It is that time of the month! I get to be here to help with a mansion destructione event!"

He roll his neck and then his helmet starts reforming, "Secure Widow and create a exit strategy. Vision scout full intangilibty but stay hidden. Not alot of groups that like magnetic flux fields and earthquakes that are good guys." He turns his head back towards Cyclops his palms up ready to fire, "Okay last chance before we have to exchange highly destructive excited light particles. Take us to Wanda."


OOC:
Intimidation attempt

15/d4/ 1 Opp

Team d8, Cutting Edge Tech d8,
16:57, Today: Iron Man rolled 1,5 using d8,d8 with rolls of 1,5.  poor intimidation check.

PP:2

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Someone that Jennifer would recognize as Captain Marvel -- not the male one, not the one inside, and not in her traditional costume -- lands on the lawn and walks non-threateningly toward the mansion. She waves and smiles. "Where you at?" Giving the traditional New Orleans greeting. "Mind if I come up and chat for a spell? I'm not here for any trouble, mon chère and cher."

Ms. Marvel takes Mental Stress d4


+d6 to Doom Pool from Iron Man's Opportunity

Please post current PP count at the end of any post with a dice pool

I'll assume your Total is 5, not 15

Doom Pool (3d6, 3d8) reaction to Iron Man's attempt to intimidate Cyclops, Total: 5, Effect: d4 (msg #55):
Sluggish Armor d6 Complication

Watcher rolled 3,2,1,4,1,3,4 using d6,d6,d6,d8,d8,d8,d6 ((3,2,1,4,1,3,4)).

Total: 8, Effect: d8

2 Opportunities (available first to Iron Man)

Doom Pool: 3d6, 3d8 +d6 = 4d6, 3d8

Iron Man -- fully armored yet still a fraction of a percentage point off his usual game -- feels his repulsors come to full power and aims them at Cyclops, only to find the mutant leader is not there, and hasn't been since the Widow hit the floor.

The Vision does not act save for taking one more slow step back.

Outside, the group of heroes witness the far side of the lawn rising, pushing aside the trees at the periphery of the forest surrounding the mansion, and roll toward them in a wave, gaining size as it approaches.

RRRRRRRRRRRRMMMBBBBBBLLLLLL...

"Auntie Monica is not amused." She says under her breath before turning into pure light and remaining visible. She rises into the air and begins to glow - a miniature sun on the lawn of this mansion.

"Before something stupid happens that can't be reversed can we all put down our guns and talk? Downtown Manhattan is a pile of debris right now so let's not add another one to the mix, sound fair mon chers?"

As Iron Man threatens Cyclops, Carol takes to the air. Not much off the floor, though, as there isn't much room to go up or around. But now Cyclops is gone and her head hurts, putting her on edge and ready for a fight. She flies through the doorway that Cyclops came through when he was bearing drinks. If he's (whoever he is, Carol is positive it's not Cyclops they're dealing with) still in the mansion, she'll find him.

"I'll get him, he can't have gone far! And somebody open that front door!

Captain Marvel zips around the rooms of the lower floor of the mansion. She finds a standard kitchen and no other living beings.

The Vision stands in front of the door. His further hand moves behind him.

"On it," declares the new Ms. Marvel, putting aside her personal challenges with Danvers. Sofen opens a wellspring of her personal power through her connection with the Kree Lifestone. The energy swells through her body, erupting forth as a white-hot cascade of photons that Karla directs with her hands.

Karla trains her blast at the door in annattempt to vaporize it without punching holes through the door. The Lady Hulk, Hardy, and the psychokinetic man-boy were all somewhere on the other side. Ms. Marvel did her best to avoid accidentally blasting them in the process.

---

If it's another round, I'll bump up my headache to d6 Mental Stress for another PP. Startibg PP would be 2.

I'm going to use a precision blast to vaporize the front door.

Team d8, Moonstone d8, Energy Blast d10, Combat d8
Dice Pool d10, 3d8, rolled for 6,3,4,7.
Spending a PP to add a die.
Total 17, d8 effect, 0 opps.

1 PP remaining.

Doom Pool (4d6, 3d8) reaction to Ms. Marvel's attempt to vaporize front door, Total: 17, Effect: d8:
Ms. Marvel mental stress    d6

Watcher rolled 5,5,4,6,6,3,1,1 using d6,d6,d6,d6,d8,d8,d8,d6 ((5,5,4,6,6,3,1,1)).

Total: 12, Effect: d8
Extraordinary Success steps acting Effect die to d10
2 Opportunities (available first to Ms. Marvel)

Ms. Marvel's blast not only vaporizes the door but much of the wall surrounding it, producing a sizable hole in that side of the mansion. As the hot air from outside blows in, the three heroes, with another in an energy form among them, have only a moment to look in before their attention is taken elsewhere.

The Vision, having given Marvel's blast a wide berth, takes one last step back. Upon reaching his carefully-considered destination, his hand reaches to pull a Heckler & Koch HK33A2 assault rifle from behind a curtain near the front door. He aims the slender barrel at the heroes. The strap clicks against the body of the weapon. "Idiot humans," the voice coming from him says, one not atonal or robotic or familiar or male. "I could have taken you out one at a time," the female voice says, as the body that appeared as the Vision warps, starting from the feet and moving quickly upward, to reveal a lanky, blue-skinned shape-shifter. "But you've bored me with your senseless confusion. I'll drop the subtlety so I can save some time," Mystique says, revealed in all her glory. Standing over the prone body of the Black Widow, she aims, and smiles, white teeth appearing around her red lips and dark azure skin. Then, pulling the trigger on the rifle, unleashes a fiery barrage of full-automatic bullets at the heroes, in particular the closest one to her: Ms. Marvel. PPPRRRaaaKKKKKKKKKTTT! PPPRRRaaaKKKKKKKKKTTT! PPPRRRaaaKKKKKKKKKTTT!

Subtract 4d6(/d10/2d8) from Doom Pool to add Mystique

ASSAULT RIFLE
Weapon    d8
Full Auto. Against a single target, step up or double Weapon. Remove the highest rolling die and use three dice for the Total.

Mystique: Physical attack on Ms. Marvel:
Solo    d10
Fickle Deceiver    d4
(+d6 to Doom Pool)
Shapeshifting    d8
Weapon    2d8
Combat Expert    d8
Ms. Marvel mental stress    d6

Mystique rolled 1,3,2,4,2,2,4 using d10,d4,d8,d8,d8,d8,d6 ((1,3,2,4,2,2,4)).

Total: 9, Effect: d8

1 Opportunity (available first to Ms. Marvel)

Outside, the insistent rumbling manifests itself as a wave of green grass and ground and trees pulled from the earth, rolling toward the heroes. It measures a staggering girth, gaining more volume as it swiftly approaches the heroes, finally crashing upon them, scattering their number and obliterating the ground that was once beneath their feet, aiming to crush or bury them. While this assault could possibly be dodged with some nimble footwork, an object is hurled from the center of the seismic wave, sent with enough force for a huge mass to fly through the air -- and not an object but a body, one with an unbelievable weight confined to a single form. Not just any body but the Blob, his grotesque form living up to every meaning of the name. He is flung in an arc with deadly accuracy, for his massive form to land among the heroes, exploding the wave of earth already upon them. "Surprise, you skinny, ugly punks!" the massive mutant mutters, his mouth lost among the rolls of fat in his face, as his sickening form makes an impact to shatter the ground in the center of the gathered heroes. Even those in the sky cannot avoid the assault of mutated cellulite and churned earth. Walters has only the barest instant -- if that -- to transform into her giantess alter-ego, and even then perhaps with no time to arrive at her desired dress. As the glacier of dirt hits, the Black Cat, caught unawares, is thrown from the debacle.

Somewhere behind the mound of moving earth, Avalanche snarls, walls of ground surrounding him.

-2d8 from Doom Pool to add Blob and Avalanche

Avalanche with Blob: Physical attack on the outside heroes:
Buddy d6
Coward    d4
(+d6 to Doom Pool)
Earth Mastery    d10
Area Attack (on three heroes)    3d6
Blob Godlike Durability    d12

Avalanche rolled 3,4,10,5,5,4,6 using d6,d4,d10,d6,d6,d6,d12 ((3,4,10,5,5,4,6)).

Total: 16, Effect: d6 to She-Hulk, Justice, Spectrum

Black Cat is knocked out

The wave of earth spreads wide, its immensity rolling into the mansion, caving in the front of the building. Ms. Marvel's efforts to vaporize the front door are for naught, as that side of the mansion's foyer collapses but leaving no opening, keeping the two groups of heroes separated.

-d8 from Doom Pool to keep Team Affiliation (as in posts up to here)

Doom Pool:4d6, 3d8 -4d6 +d6 -2d8 +d6 -d8 = 2d6

Reactions Needed: Ms. Marvel, She-Hulk, Captain Marvel, Justice
Next Actions: Ms. Marvel, Spectrum (don't forget to pick the next turn)

Jennifer sees the wave of earth hurtling towards her and stops her undressing and simply transforms into She-hulk, ripping the skirt of the expensive suit she was wearing. That's all she has time for before the wave and Blob slam into her. The jade giantess is bowled over and slammed into a bit of mansion wall. She's bruised, but not badly.


INTENT: Reaction vs. Blob-a-lanche 16/d6/0
POOL: Team d10, Jade Giantess d4+1PP (taking d4 for the last minute change), Durability d10, Combat Expert d8
ROLL: 16:15, Today: She-Hulk rolled 11,1,4 using 2d10,d8,d4 with rolls of 7,4,1,4.  react to blob-a-lanche.
TOTAL: 11/d10/1
EFFECT: Crit fail, but then effect stepped down for effect die, so cancels out: just d6 Phys stress

STATUS: D6 phys stress; 2PP

+d6 to Doom Pool from She-Hulk's Opportunity

The Blob guffaws heartily as his odious girth forces the She-Hulk aside and into the outer wall of the mansion. "Huh huh! We got a Hulk! I ain't ever fought a Hulk b'fore! Too bad we ain't got the real -- " Then something catches his eye -- the Black Cat, having landed a short distance from the swell of the moved earth. His eyes get notably wide. "Who's... that?" he mutters to himself, but still in a volume for anybody to hear. Then his monstrous mouth closes as well as it can and he looks back at She-Hulk, his bulbous face slack, his eyes still wide.

Correction to the list of Reaction rolls needed (and updated):
Reaction Needed: Ms. Marvel, Spectrum, Justice

Doom Pool: 2d6 +d6 = 3d6
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Starting PP: 1
I'll spend that PP to exploit a Watcher opportunity. I'll hold onto a d10 "Surprise Opening" stunt for my next action.

Reaction: Defending against Mystique's gunfire with Intangibility.
Team d8, Moonstone d8, Intangibility d10, Combat d8, Ghostly Defense Asset d8
Dice Pool: d10, 4d8, rolled for 10,3,1,8,8.
Total 16, d10, 1 opp=+1PP
Result: Defense was successful!
Current PP: 1

Karla's instinct at gunfire was to render herself further into its immaterial state. Seeing the blue-skinned shapeshifter unleash a spray of bullets, the new Ms. Marvel wills her body's molecules to shift fully out of phase. The bullets blaze through and past her harmlessly, and the Avengers' newest member wonders aloud to her new team, "I'm sorry. Who is this?"

+d6 to Doom Pool from Ms. Marvel's Opportunity

Doom Pool: 3d6 +d6 = 4d6

The bullets soar straight across Ms. Marvel's body and tear through the foyer. A picture frame shatters, a tapestry is ruined by two fresh, hot holes, the banister on the stairs is busted, one ricochets off Iron Man's armor and into the wall. Though the strike did not affect her target, Mystique's sly smile does not fade.

Starting PP: 1
Action: Blast the bejezus out of Mystique!
Team d8, Moonstone d8, Energy Blast d10, Combat d8, Surprise Opening Stunt d10
Dice Pool 2d10, 3d8, rolled for 6,5,3,4,1.
Spending a PP to add a die.
Total 15, d8 effect, 1 opp=+1PP
Current PP: 1
Reaction: Mystique

Ms. Marvel's hands erupt in a pale yellow light, her scowl unmistakable from behind her mask. Though the gunfire proved harmless,  Karla does not savor the idea of people shooting at her. "Actually," muses Sofen, as she unleashes a powerful burst of violent energy towards the blue-skinned shooter, "Never mind. I don't care who she is."
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Remember to pick the next action during your turn

+d6 to Doom Pool from Ms. Marvel's Opportunity

Defending from Ms. Marvel's physical attack, Total: 15, Effect: d8:
Solo    d10
Grand, Stately Mansion    d8
Enhanced Durability    d8
Combat Expert    d8
Ms. Marvel mental stress    d6
From Doom Pool (predicted)    d6

Mystique rolled 4,4,8,1,2,2 using d10,d8,d8,d8,d6,d6 ((4,4,8,1,2,2)).

Spend 2d6 (d8) from Doom Pool to add third die to Total
Total: 16, Effect: d8
1 Opportunity (available first to Ms. Marvel)

Before the blast has left Ms. Marvel's hands, Mystique has already moved her lanky body from the impact center, pulling herself up on curtains behind her to do a cartwheel in the air to dodge well out of harm's way. As the blast trails her, wrecking the interior walls of the mansion, she stays ahead of the force, the smile still on her face as if this were all child's play. "Just like clockwork," she says as she sticks a landing with flourished ease, energy fading from the air while pieces of the walls fall to the mansion's hardwood floor.

Doom Pool: 4d6 +d6 -d6 -2d6 = 2d6

Next Action: Captain Marvel

"Oh hell." Spectrum said as she saw the the very nasty and well known mutants burst out of the ground and began attacking.

Knowing this was a most dire situation she doubled her efforts to figure out what this particular type of energy field was so she could drop it or get through it.

Vance still was not sure what had happened and how come he is on the earth. He was about to stand up when he heard the shouts, his eyes grow wide as the first thing his fuzzy gaze settle on is She-Hulk as she transforms... all the ripping is very distracting...

The Blob shock waves hit him hard and as he is flung in the air he summon his power cocooning himself in protective wraps of glowing energy that keep him rattled but mostly unharmed as he bounce several times before coming to a stop at the mansion wall next to She-Hulk.

OOC
INTENT: Reaction vs. Blob shock wave 16/d6/0
POOL: Team D10, Bravo New Warrior D8, Durabilit D10, Combat Expert d8
ROLL: 17:53, Today: Justice rolled 9,3,3,6 using D10,D8,D10,D8 with rolls of 9,3,3,6.  Defend against Blob attack.
TOTAL: 15/D10/0
EFFECT: D4 Physical Stress

STATUS: Physical Stress D4, 1PP

Spectrum's concentration seeking the source of the energy is broken by the assault by the mutant villains, one possibly disrupting her energy form irreparably.


The Blob gurgles with laughter when he sees the young Justice pin-balled away as he brings his mighty feet down. "Huh huh huh," bubbling from his massive maw. Then bored just as quickly, he looks back to where the Black Cat limply rolled.

Inside, Mystique pivots on her feet and crouches in a ready, defensive position. "I know that's not all you got," she smiles.

Finally, the last pieces of the debris from the wall come to settle on the floor and on Black Widow's still body.

Inside, Mystique puts her weight on her other foot, her body's low crouch shifting its defensive position and keeping her flexible in anticipation for what happens next. Her yellow, pupil-less eyes track the heroes but do not give away which one she has her focus on. "Come on, you predictable humans..." she hisses.

Outside, the ground starts to rumble again.

Carol is still on the other side of the house, still sensing that strange energy. So in the grim silence, she utilizes her energy abilities to pull at the ambient energy around her, to maybe pinpoint from where it's originating and figure out how it ties into all this weirdness.

Carol is going to try to create an Asset: Known Quantity

Solo: D8
Take-Charge Attitude: D8
Energy Blast D8, spending a PP to use SFX:Energy Absorption
Cosmic Expert D8 (to identify the energy)

Captain Marvel rolled 1,8,1,5

Total:13, Effect: D4

PP:0
+1xp for first time using SFX: Energy Absorption in a scene.

Carol reaches out with her senses and draws in the surrounding energy. Then she hears the blast of automatic gunfire...

+d8 to Doom Pool from Captain Marvel's Opportunity

+1 PP to Captain Marvel for rolled Opportunities

Be sure to include your choice for next turn in your post

With Captain Marvel separated from other group, Ms. Marvel and Iron Man have Buddy Affiliation and a new Initiative order is created

Doom Pool (2d6) reaction to Captain Marvel's attempt to create Known Quantity Asset, Total: 13, Effect: d4:

Watcher rolled 3,5 using d6,d6 ((3,5)).

Total: 8, Effect: d4 (default)
Extraordinary Success steps acting Effect die to d6

Known Quantity Asset d6 created

Captain Marvel does not have to steel herself for long before she gets a reading on the energy around her, which comes on so prickly and thick that it makes her skin itch even under her uniform. The hairs on her scalp start to stand and she feels herself charged from the dense force around her. Then the sound of gunfire draws her out of her meditative trance. Once she comes back to this physical reality, she feels a disruption in the energy field around her.


Doom Pool: 2d6 +d8 = 2d6, d8

Next Action: Iron Man (and will choose first turn in new round)

d6 physical Stress to Spectrum

Spectrum had not even a moment to think before the Blob flew directly through her. An object passing through her energy-based form would normally be a painless occurrence, but with such a massive, organic form providing the assault, her concentration elsewhere before the attack, the summer sun's rays beating down unhindered, and being so close to a gigantic, unbridled energy field, the atoms making up her body stay dispersed. Her consciousness remains intact enough to know that she can pull herself back together in time, but each atom reconnecting to the familiar form of her existence is an agonizing sensation, excruciating and dividing her focus anew. For the moment she exists as a blurred image above the fracas, barely noticeable in the daytime light. The Blob says nothing of eliminating the former Avenger, if he noticed at all, his attention instead in the direction of the Black Cat.

Inside, Mystique slows her vamping as she turns her attention to Iron Man. She pauses, but the armored Avengers makes no move. He stands at the ready but does not act. She watches for a moment, her face turning from waiting expectation to blank confusion to impatient focus. The mutant turns back to Ms. Marvel and she bares her teeth again. "What about you?" Her voice hides the slightest stammer and she looks at Iron Man then back to the female Thunderbolt. "What next?" At her feet, a pool of blood spreads slowly from the Black Widow's head across the debris-laden floor.


Next Action: Ms. Marvel, She-Hulk
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She-hulk points to the grounds where the waves of earth seem to be coming from. "See if you can take out whoever is making waves, kid." she directs Justice. He was the most mobile of the heroes outside, so he'd have the best chance to close in on whoever was doing that.

She then gets up and dusts herself off as she steps up to Blob. She remembered this guy was some kind of mutant, and by the looks of him, probably fairly tough. She had been trying to keep this whole thing peaceful after the debacle with Wrecking Crew, but the gamma was pumping now. She started to cock her arm to take a swing at him before she noticed the way he was looking at Black Cat. A fat guy like this, he could take a punch, but what about a come-on? Dropping her arm, she instead took a little step up closer to him. She looks at Black Cat then back at Blob "She's a looker, isn't she? Too bad she's into skinny guys like Spider-Man. Me, on the other hand, I'm freak. You understand, a FREAK. And I like... no NEED ... a guy who can take some abuse. You know what I'm saying?" she taunts as she indicates her massively muscled (yet surprisingly still curvy) hulk-body.


Rather than throw my strength die in this pool, I'm going to call this a stunt.
INTENT: Put mental stress on Blob
POOL: Team d10, Jade Giantess d8, STUNT off Strength: Muscles are sexy d8, Practiced Argument SFX: d6 + move team down to d8, Psych Expert d8 = 4d8, d6
ROLL: 13:30, Today: She-Hulk rolled 20,3 using 4d8,d6 with rolls of 3,6,3,8,3.  come onto blob.
TOTAL: 14 total, d8 effect die stepped up to d10 for practiced argument
NET -1PP; 2PP total now

Be sure to include your choice for next action in your post

Defending from She-Hulk's mental attack, Total: 14, Effect: d10:
Buddy    d10
Immovable (distracted)    d4
(step up Doom Pool die)
Superhuman Stamina    d10
She-Hulk Physical Stress    d6

Blob rolled 7,4,4,4 using d10,d4,d10,d6 ((7,4,4,4)).

Total: 11, Effect: d10

Blob takes d10 mental Stress

The Blob scoffs. "Dumb witch, you think I got the h-hots f'r her or somethin'?" he blurts, the attempt to hide a stammer only making it more obvious. He finally looks back at She-Hulk, his fat face scrunched like he smells something bad he stepped in. "I got enough dates. And even if I wanted to do something out here, it wouldn't be with a... human," he says, spitting the last word. He may not have come to the desired effect -- falling under the jade giantess's charms -- but he is suddenly distracted, his eyes skittering, looking away and blinking, his huge mouth open like there's a question he cannot ask, his gelatinous body quivering as if a case of the nerves has gripped him.


Doom Pool: 2d6, d8 (-d6/+d8) = d6, 2d8
Next Action: Justice (and pick for first on next round)

"I am on it..." Justice said automatically, I am suppose to know what I am doing and what do I do, I stumbled about like some a rookie with his first time in spandex. If want this not to be my last Avenger mission I better get my act together and fast.

He shot into the air to get enough altitude so he would be able to spot Avalanche. He recalled the name but could not place it, was he a Hellion or part of the Brotherhood.

He concentrated and held his hand stretched making a grabbing motion with it. Meanwhile the moving earth began to glow with a faint purplish aura and slowly start to levitate upwards.

"Let's see how good you are moving earth from high in the sky."

OOC:

INTENT: Create Complication Levitated on Avalanche.
POOL: Team (D10), Leadership Potential (D4 - leadership crisis), Telekinesis Mastery (D10), Combat Expert (D8), SFX: Grab D6
ROLL: 3,4,2,3,2
TOTAL: 9 (4+3+2) (spend PP to take an extra die), Effect: D12 (D10 step up)
STATUS: D4 Physical Stress PP 1 (1+1-1=1)

Next action is Captain Marvel

Only choose for next action those who are in your initiative group (i.e., "Outside" in this case)

With Black Cat and Captain Marvel knocked out, the Affiliation for She-Hulk and Justice is Buddy

The mutant Avalanche, clad in a suit of rounded silver plates, emerges from a place inside the fresh mound of earth. He calls to the Blob, "Keep it together, Fred! The old woman could have been wrong! We can still do this -- th-they can't -- " Then is abruptly interrupted by the force conjured by Justice from above.

Defending from Justice's attempt to create Levitated Complication, Total: 9, Effect: d10:
Buddy d6
Coward    d4
(step up Doom Pool die)
Earth Mastery    d10
Science Expert    d8
Justice Physical Stress    d4

Avalanche rolled 2,1,2,8,3 using d6,d4,d10,d8,d4 ((2,1,2,8,3)).

Total: 11, Effect: d10

1 Opportunity (available first to Justice)

Avalanche gazes at his feet as the ground moves below him. He looks up with sudden confidence and stretches out his hands. The ground shudders then moves downward again, finally settling.

Justice feels a pull against the forces he is controlling, a resistance to his telekinesis.

"Wha -- ?" Avalanche barks, "W-what are you, kid -- stupid? Whatever you're doing to the ground, I'm the master of earth -- you'll fail every time!" The ground shakes but stays still.

Then he clinches his fists while staring down Justice and the ground rumbles again.

Doom Pool: d6, 2d8 (-d6/+d8) = 3d8
Next Action (in new round): the Blob

The Blob cowers, his flabby arms going up to shield himself, but when a full, physical attack from She-Hulk does not come, he steps back up and straightens as much as his vast form will allow. His face goes from gnarled in fear to red in anger. "Nothing from you? Nothing, you green cow?" His eyes vibrate from either terror or rage, or both. A new coating of sweat breaks out from his forehead down to his jowls. His enormous fists come down upon his emerald-hued opponent, seeking to drive her into the freshly-plowed ground. "Fight me! Fight me! LET ME BEAT YOU!"

Blob attempts to create Pounded Into Ground Complication on She-Hulk:
Buddy    d10
Former Carnival Strongman    d4
(add d6 to Doom Pool)
Superhuman Strength    d10
Combat Expert    d8
She-Hulk Physical Stress    d6

Blob rolled 6,3,1,8,2 using d10,d4,d10,d8,d6 ((6,3,1,8,2)).

Total: 14, Effect: d6
1 Opportunity (available first to She-Hulk)

Doom Pool: 3d8 +d6 = d6, 3d8

Reaction Needed: She-Hulk
Next Action: She-Hulk

She-hulk raises both arms above her head and absorbs most of Blob's blow. Between the force of the blow, Blob putting his weight into it, and the softened ground from Avalanche's previous attack, he manages to drive her ankle-deep into the ground.

Overhearing Avalanche's call out, she drops the vamp act, puts on her best cross-examination schtick, and keeps up the banter rather than fighting back like you'd expect when a super-powered mutant felon was slamming on her for all he was worth. "Frank is it?" she says politely. "Sorry,  Frank, but I gotta call bullshit on the dates thing. It's just not internally consistent. You gave me the 'just human' stinkeye (and I let me tell ya, I'm SUPER-human)" she says with a wink, "AND say you've got plenty of dates?"

She shakes her head. "See, that just doesn't add up. If you're limiting yourself to only mutant girls, that's cutting your eligible pool WAAAY down. Plus, you're a felon, so we're talking fellow criminal, mutant girls. That's a pretty exclusive club..." She starts counting off on her fingers, ignoring the extra body blows that Blob is delivering to her. "There's that blue chick. But she's your boss. I don't think THAT'S happening. Then there's that six-armed chick who used to run with you guys. Nope. She's not your type. That second-string Spider-Woman hung out with you guys for a while, right? Ok, that's one. She's certainly off the list NOW though. Let's see... that chick in the white lingerie? No. Just No. That will never, EVER happen for you." She throws up her hands, "Yeah, that's all I got. One. In the rearview mirror. Even if I threw in all the X-men chicks I know about, it's still not more than a few, and they've all been on the scene long enough now that even if you DID manage to date them once, it's over. So sorry, Frank, I think it's just you and your hand. Know what I mean?"


INTENT: Defend against Blob's attack
POOL: Buddy d6, Jade Giantess d8, Durability d10, Combat d8, Blob stress d10
ROLL: 10:39, Today: She-Hulk rolled 6,9,4 using 2d10,2d8,d6 with rolls of 3,3,3,6,4.  defend vs. blob.
TOTAL: 10/d10/0
EFFECT: Blob puts d4 complication on She-Hulk.

INTENT: Drive up Blob's mental stress or change it to emo stress
POOL: Buddy d6, Crusading Attorney d8, Blob's stress d10, Psych d8
ROLL: 11:47, Today: She-Hulk rolled 2,11,4 using d10,2d8,d6 with rolls of 2,5,6,4.  cross-examine Blob's dating life.
TOTAL: 11/d10/0

NEXT: I think Avalanche has an action available, right?

This message was last edited by the player at 16:53, Wed 18 Apr 2018.

Be sure to post current PP count at the end of any post with a dice pool

Defending from She-Hulk's mental attack, Total: 11, Effect: d10:
Buddy    d8
Warm Late Morning in the Country (hot day out)    d4
(step up Doom Pool die)
She-Hulk Physical Stress    d6

Blob rolled 6,3,3 using d8,d4,d6 ((6,3,3)).

Total: 9, Effect: d6

Blob's mental stress stepped up to d12

It is only toward the end of She-Hulk's diatribe do the Blob's blows finally begin to subside. By that time, he slows and pants heavily, now awash in yet another layer of sweat over his enormous body, which is clad in only a pair of immense, orange trunks, making it easier for some of his perspiration to splash on to the She-Hulk. He does not show a reaction to She-Hulk's words but eventually his punches halt, when the jade giantess has been pushed to her ankles in the ground below, not enough to immobilize her but perhaps to slow her for half a second.

You may spend a PP to eliminate the d4 Complication.

Doom Pool: d6, 3d8 (-d6/+d8) = 4d8
This message was last edited by the player at 07:45, Thu 19 Apr 2018.

"You want some earth moved, punk?" Avalanche says as he moves his hands, palms down, over the ground in front of and around of himself. "How about this?" The earth below Justice, dense with rocks and grass and endless dirt, tumbles in a violent cascade but not downward like the mutant's namesake but upward, shooting straight toward the New Warrior, covering the distance between him and his spot in the air, intending to bludgeon him if not engulf him entirely.

Attempt to create Buried Complication on Justice:
Buddy d6
Destructive (doesn't care what's destroyed around him)    d4
(add d6 to Doom Pool)
Earth Mastery    d10
Science Expert    d8
Justice Physical Stress    d4
Constructs    d6

Avalanche rolled 4,3,7,4,4,5 using d6,d4,d10,d8,d4,d6 ((4,3,7,4,4,5)).

Total: 12, Effect: d10 (stepped up due to Constructs)

Doom Pool: 4d8 +d6 = d6, 4d8

Reaction Needed: Justice
Next Action: Justice (then pick for first in new round)

"ENOUGH" Justice shouts, he had enough of these bullies and their total disregard for female members of the team.

His eyes flashed violent violet and his hands flex windows shatters as he summons every glass shard nearby creating a fast rotating saw to cut the earth pillar in two. Only he was too slow the saw start cutting at the pillar raining dust and pebbles on the courtyard when the pillar slammed into Justice swallowing him in dirt and stone.

A moment silence and than thousands of glass shards began to fall down.

The rock ball that was Justice began to fall down when suddenly it began to glow violet cracks appears across the stone as Justice expand his force field trying to break free.

OOC:
INTENT: Resist Avalanche attack
POOL: Buddy (D8), Struggling Idealist (D4), Telekinesis Mastery + Versatile SFX (2D8), Combat Expert (D8), Telekinesis saw (Stunt + Opportunity) (D10)
ROLL: 10:54, Today: Justice rolled 1,1,5,6,1,1 using 1d8,1d4,d18,1d8,1d8,1d10 with rolls of 1,1,5,6,1,1.  resist attack.
TOTAL: 11/D4/D12
EFFECT: Buried Alive complication D10

PP:2 (1 -1 +1 +1)

INTENT: Attack Buried Alive complication
POOL: Buddy (D8), New Warrior (D8), Super Human Durability (D10), Combat Expert (D8)
ROLL: 11:15, Today: Justice rolled 8,5,1,2 using 1d8,1d8,1d10,1d8 with rolls of 8,5,1,2.  Attack complication.
TOTAL: 13/D8/D6
EFFECT: Depends on Doom pool

PP: 3 (2+1)

Eeek

Next action: She-Hulk

This message was lightly edited by the player at 08:56, Tue 08 May 2018.

Adding d12, d6 to Doom Pool

Doom Pool (d6, 4d8) reaction to Justice's attempt to remove Buried Complication, Total: 13, Effect: d8:
Justice Physical Stress d4

Watcher rolled 5,7,5,8,4,3 using d6,d8,d8,d8,d8,d4 ((5,7,5,8,4,3)).

Total: 15, Effect: d8

Tons of rock and dirt envelope Justice in a tight cocoon, one that continues to draw closer to him, constricting the hero and forcing the breath from his body. An attempt to fashion the mansion's windows into tools to free himself is for naught, ineffective against the solid material of the natural earth. Between his struggle to free himself and the air expelled from the cocoon when he was wrapped in it, Justice may not have long for oxygen... or life.


Doom Pool: d6, 4d8 +d12 +d6 = 2d6, 4d8, d12

Inside, the floor rumbles, tossing about anyone without solid footing, and the front side of the foyer pitches upward, enough to send the prone form of Black Widow tumbling from face-down to face-up. A moment later, the windows of the mansion explode outward with such force that no shards blow back in. SsssKRSSSH!

Elsewhere in the mansion, Captain Marvel's concentration is broken by the crackle and heat of flame around her. At the other end of the room in which she found herself is Pyro, the mutant master of fire.

His hands are outstretched, flame fading momentarily from the generators on the backs of his wrists. He sneers. "Lucky with fire you don't have to be close," he says as flame around Captain Marvel catches and spreads to nearby curtains and a rug underfoot. Flames from his wrists jump to life again and his mouth spreads with a smile dark enough to stand against the fiery light rising in front of him. "But, fair dinkum, you won't like a direct hit."

Spending d8 from Doom Pool to add Pyro.

Spending d6 from Doom Pool to create Indoor Fire Scene Complication d6 (to be applied to anyone in that vicinity).


Doom Pool: 2d6, 4d8, d12 -d8 -d6 = d6, 3d8, d12

Next Action: Captain Marvel

Pyro stands in front of Carol, the room on fire. She's taken aback a moment as she pulled up from flying straight into him. She rolls her eyes.

"You gotta be kidding me,"She says,"I've flown into stars, what makes you think you can bring the heat to this party?"

Carol needs to get this punk dropped NOW so she can get back to her friends to lend a hand. She keeps it simple: Fly up and punch this guy in the face as hard as she can!

Carol is going to straight-up haymaker this dumb guy.
Solo: d8
Take-Charge Attitude: d8
Superhuman Strength: d10
Combat Expert: d8

Captain Marvel rolled 5,8,1,3

Total: 13, Effect: d10
(And yes, I forgot to add the Asset die to the roll)
1 Opportunity to Watcher

PP:2

Reaction: Pyro

She-hulk looks over and sees Justice is completely engulfed in a ball of dirt. She sighs and looks back briefly at Blob, who she almost had on the ropes, shakes her head then back to Justice. "aw, kid." she whispers.

Gathering herself up, she tells Blob, "Hold that thought, big guy." Then launches herself at the ball of earth engulfing Justice. She pounds on it with her gamma-strength hoping to punch it into dust.


INTENT: Attack down the complication on Justice
POOL: Buddy d6, Jade Giantess d8, Godlike Str d12, Collateral Damage d12, Combat Expert d8
ROLL: 19:24, Today: She-Hulk rolled 12,9,5 using 2d12,2d8,d6 with rolls of 3,9,6,3,5.  free justice.
RESULT: will spend a PP to add a third die, so that's 20/d12/0

Down to 1PP

Next: Avalanche

Add d6 to Doom Pool from Captain Marvel's Opportunity

Defending from Captain Marvel's physical attack, Total: 13, Effect: d10 (msg #87):
Solo    d4
Overconfident Lackey    d4
(step up Doom Pool die)
Combat Expert    d8
Indoor Fire Complication    d6

Pryo rolled 4,1,2,1 using d4,d4,d8,d6 ((4,1,2,1)).

Total: 6, Effect: d4 (default)
Extraordinary Success steps acting Effect die to d12
2 Opportunities (available first to Captain Marvel)

Pyro takes d12 physical Stress

Captain Marvel's punch could not land more squarely in the middle of Pyro's face. His nose and the area surrounding it feels soft, as his skull caves under the force of her fist. The mutant pyrotechnic staggers backward, both from folding under the pain as well as the sheer power exploding into his head and body. Teeth and blood arc in the air before dropping to the floor. For a moment it seems as if he might also fall to the floor. But instead, on wobbling legs, he stands.

Doom Pool: d6, 3d8, d12 +d6 (-d6/+d8) = d6, 4d8, d12

+d6 to Doom Pool from She-Hulk's Collateral Damage

Doom Pool (d6, 4d8, d12) reaction to She-Hulk's attempt to remove Buried Complication from Justice, Total: 20, Effect: d12 (msg #88):
She-Hulk Physical Stress d6

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

Total: 13, Effect: d8

She-Hulk vaults past the Blob, leaving the big mutant to stare at where she was and, as he must, turn slowly to face her again, and lands before the earthen cocoon in which Justice is encased. She plants her hands within the mound of grass and dirt and rips it apart as if it were paper, revealing the young hero inside. The earth from which he emerges falls to the ground.

Avalanche steps back from the heroes, then again, then looks at the Blob, then back at the heroes, and takes another step back. "But -- but -- they weren't supposed to -- "

Doom Pool: d6, 4d8, d12 +d6 = 2d6, 4d8, d12

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)

"Wha? She-hulk mutters as Blob liquified, then engulfed her. She didn't know much about this guy, but she was pretty sure liquifying himself was not one of his known abilities. Just add it to the weird column.

Caught off guard, he manages to fully engulf her before she can react by moving. "... and EWWWW!" she thinks as she realizes, she's swimming IN a fat guy. She has to stifle a gag reflex when she realizes that. She starts to panic, which she allows to turn into anger, to give her a burst of strength. Then she brings her hands together in one of her cousin's signature moves, her gamma-strength allowing her to slap her hands together superhumanly fast despite the thick medium ("EWWWWW!" they were traversing.

The resulting shockwave...

INTENT: Resist Blob's attack (13/d10/1)
POOL: (grossed out) Crusading attorney (d4+1PP), buddy d6, godlike str d12, lose yourself d12+d6 emo stress, combat d8 = 2d12,d8,d6,d4
ROLL: 16:01, Today: She-Hulk rolled 16,7,3,2 using 2d12,d8,d6,d4 with rolls of 5,11,7,3,2.  react to blob.
TOTAL: 18/d12/0opps
I'll use the PP I just earned and Blob's opportunity to do a counterattack to put a d12 physical stress on Blob. It'll probably get invulnerabilitied away, but it fits the narrative of him exploding

0PP +1PP -1PP = 0PP
and d6 Emo stress on me now


... blows Blob into a million little bits, spraying liquid fat-guy around the mansion grounds and all over Justice and Avalanche. She-hulk, dripping Blob and now a little pissed off, suggests to Justice, "Hey kid, maybe put a mental whammy on fatso to make sure he doesn't pull himself back together. I'll take care of Mr. Earthquake here." She turns to Avalanche and cracks her knuckles menacingly.

Blob takes d12 Physical Stress from She-Hulk's counter-attack


The Blob explodes away. His body isn't blown into pieces since the separated bits are still connected by stretchy connective tissue, like the hardest but most malleable rubber ever devised, but he might as well be in fragments. Though his face is not visible under the piles of blubber sent flying away from the She-Hulk, there is a sound of gurgling underneath the mountain of his own deflated mass.

Vance was covered in dirt, earth choking him into oblivion. He knew he was about to die in the crushing darkness slowly suffocating.

Then the earth crumbled around him as a goddess of Jade reduce his prison into pebbles. He looked at her eyes wide with awe and gratitude. Vance was a long time fan of the Avengers but at this second She-Hulk became his number one Avenger for life.

Standing up he gave the Green giantess a weak smile "One whammy coming up." his eyes glew purple as the different pieces of Blob started to float in the air.

"I wanted you to listen to me, you are a blotch on all mutant-kind leave now or I'll tangle your parts so much your inside would be your outside and you'd spend the next month sorting yourself out."

The Blob parts began to spin and tie themselves one into the other creating a monstrosity that barely resembled a human being "Am I CLEAR!"


OOC
INTENT: Cause Mental Stress to Blob
POOL: Buddy (D8), Brave New Warrior (D8), Telekinesis Mastery (D10), Psych Expert (D8), Blob Mental Stress (D12), Blob Physical Stress (D12) (Cost 1 PP)
ROLL:16:33, Today: Justice rolled 11,11,8,2,8,3 using d12,d12,d10,d8,d8,d8 with rolls of 11,11,8,2,8,3.  Making the Blob retreat.
TOTAL: 30/D10/0 (spend PP to add third result)
RESULT: D10 Mental stress

PP 3 -2 =1
Next Action: She-Hulk

Justice’s telekinesis picks up the pieces of the Blob, still connected but fragmented and spread over the mansion’s porch. The massive mutant says nothing and does not react in any way. The halting of his muffled blubbering is a sign that he is adamantly done resisting.

Blob knocked out

After moments of merely standing among what is becoming the destruction of the mansion’s foyer, Iron Man finally springs back to life. He says nothing and does not react to the mutant on his back. The armored Avenger raises his hands out in front of him, his palms alight, but instead of a repulsor attack, the plates on his fore-arms open to reveal an array mini-missiles, which he points at the super-powered female in the room.

The Toad, from his vantage point on Iron Man’s shoulders, has a view of Iron Man’s target. “Heh heh,” the Toad slurps, shifting from one of Iron Man’s shoulders to the other one. “Now we got us some action!”

Her assault rifle at the ready, Mystique narrows her eyes. “It wasn’t supposed to be like this. They were supposed to -- “

But her comment is cut off by the launching of Iron Man’s missiles, launching toward the female, but not Mystique. Instead, they explode around Ms. Marvel, threatening to bring down the mansion down around her!

Iron Man attempt to create Bringing Down The House Complication on Ms. Marvel:
Team  d8
Hardheaded Futurist    d4
(step up Doom Pool die)
Cybernetic Senses     d6
Missiles          d6
Ms. Marvel mental Stress    d6

Watcher, on behalf of Iron Man, rolled 2,3,2,1,3 using d8,d4,d6,d6,d6 ((2,3,2,1,3)).

Total: 5, Effect: d8

1 Opportunity (available first to Ms. Marvel)

Doom Pool: 6d8, d12 (-d8/+d10) = 5d8, d10, d12

Reaction Needed: Ms. Marvel
Next Action: Ms. Marvel

Reaction to Toad/Iron Man
Being that Iron Man and Widow are otherwise no longer allied, am I Solo?

Solo d10, Moonstone d8, Intangibility d10, Combat d8, Ghostly Defense d8
Dice Pool 2d10, 3d8, rolled for 6,3,8,3,8.
Total 16, d10 effect, no opps.
Current PP: 1
Result: Pretty sure I avoided being effected.

Karla scowled behind her mask as she witnessed the missiles erupt from Stark's weapons systems. Before she could speak, Ms. Marvel acted from instinct, willing her body to phase out of contact with her environment.

As the missiles erupted around her, Sofen decided she had enough. Widow was down and bleeding out. Stark was a useless puppet of the strange toadish man. Was it really up to her to save the day on her first mission out as an Avenger?

Ms. Marvel swept up a few feet into the air, a nimbus of cool white light shimmering from her skin. A moment later, and Dr. Karla Sofen reached into her own wellspring of ancient Kree power. A cascading burst of brilliant light poured from the reforming supervillain, her energy filling the nearby area with a powerful dazzling effect!

Action: Inflict "Blinded" Complication on Toad and Mystique.
Solo d10, Moonstone d8, Energy Blast d10 stepped up to d12 for Dazzling SFX, Dazzling SFX d6, Area Effect SFX d6, Combat d8
Dice Pool d12, d10, 2d8, 2d6, rolled for 7,3,8,2,2,6.
Spending 1 PP to add a third die.
Total: 21, d10 effect vs. Mystique, d8 effect vs. Toad.
Current PP: 0
Next up: Mystique, I guess, to get it over with.

She-hulk was angry now. She was done talking. She steps up to Avalanche and swing a double-fisted overhand chop to his shoulders.

Just gonna punch this guy out.
INTENT: Physical stress
POOL: Buddy d6, Jade Giantess d8, Strength d12, Combat 2d6
ROLL: 15:38, Today: She-Hulk rolled 5,1,18 using d12,d8,3d6 with rolls of 5,1,6,6,6.  punch avalanche.
TOTAL: 12/d12/1

PP: 0+1=1

REACTION: Avalanche
ACTION: Avalanch

Carol is furious. This is what makes these idiots evil. Not the grand plans, not the grandstanding, just the sheer, unrelenting determination to harm others and tear down what ordinary people have worked so hard to build. The sad thing is that it doesn't gain them anything. They just expectorate hate like it's the black plague and they want to spread it around as much as possible.

EDIT:Adding a reaction roll vs. Pyro's attack.
Reaction to Pyro's attack
Solo: d8
Take-Charge Attitude: d8
Superhuman Durability: d10
Combat Expert: d8

Captain Marvel rolled 2,5,8,9

Total: 13 Effect: d10
2pp


Through the fire and the flames Carol pushes, the gouts of orange and white flame being alternately absorbed and arcing off a physique that had once shot through the hearts of stars when she was known as binary.  Carol, having faced solar storms in Shi'ar space, Pyro has no idea of how much a joke he is to her.

"Fine, Pyro", she thinks, "You're done."

Carol is going to physically engage with Pyro. She's going to grab him and slam him on the ground so hard the shockwave puts out the fire.

Solo: d8
Take-Charge Attitude: d8
Superhuman Strength: d10
Combat Expert: d8
Asset (Known Quantity):d6
Pyro Physical Stress: d12
Activate Opportunity (Stunt)1pp
              Comic Book Physics:d8

Captain Marvel rolled 6,1,3,2,1,1,7
3 Opportunities to the Watcher
Total: 13 Effect: d8 PS to Pyro, 1pp to add d8 Effect vs Indoor Fire Complication
3pp

Reaction: Pyro, Watcher?
Edit: for the confusing descriptive text.
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Defending from Ms. Marvel's Blinded Complication, Total: 21, Effect: d8 (msg #98):
Buddy    d6
Cunning    d4
(step up Doom Pool die)
Enhanced Reflexes    d8
Combat Expert    d8
Ms. Marvel Mental Stress    d6

Toad rolled 5,4,4,3,4 using d6,d4,d8,d8,d6 ((5,4,4,3,4)).

Total: 8, Effect: d8

Extraordinary Success steps acting Effect die to d12

Doom Pool: 5d8, d10, d12 (-d8/+d10) = 4d8, 2d10, d12

Defending from Ms. Marvel's Blinded Complication, Total: 21, Effect: d8 (msg #98):
Buddy    d8
Adapt or Die    d8
Superhuman Stamina    d10
Combat Expert    d8
Ms. Marvel Mental Stress    d6
From Doom Pool (predicted)    d8

Mystique rolled 4,1,7,8,4,8 using d8,d8,d10,d8,d6,d8 ((4,1,7,8,4,8)).

Spend d8 from Doom Pool to add third die to Total
Total: 23, Effect: d8

1 Opportunity (available first to Ms. Marvel)

Doom Pool: 4d8, 2d10, d12 -d8 -d8 = 2d8, 2d10, d12

"Arrrggghhh!" the Toad cries, clutching his face as the flash from Ms. Marvel's fingertips penetrates even his dark goggles. Losing his balance, he falls from Iron Man's shoulders, dropping to the debris-covered floor behind the armored Avenger. "Even worse than I thought it would be! I'm blind!"

Mystique avoids the blinding attack by turning her head and closing her yellow eyes, in plenty of time. She sighs, looking back to cover the heroes with the rifle at her hip but not firing it. She stands still, sighs again, her lip snarls, the index finger on her hand holding the rifle taps steadily, looks over the room, keeping attention on the heroes but her yellow eyes glancing at corners. "Any minute now..." she hisses quietly, eyes narrowing.

Mystique adds d8 to the Doom Pool

Ms. Marvel and Iron Man are now at Buddy Affiliation again

Doom Pool: 2d8, 2d10, d12 +d8 = 3d8, 2d10, d12

Next Action: Iron Man
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Even hidden behind the orbular helmet, Avalanche's eyes go wide as She-Hulk trundles toward him. He puts up his hands, as if his meager strength could provide any defense to the gamma-radiated giantess. "Wait! Wait!" he cries, stepping back to stand down. "I can tell you how we know what you're going to d -- " But She-Hulk's anger -- and fist -- cuts off his offer.

Add d6 to Doom Pool from She-Hulk's Opportunity

Defending from She-Hulk's physical attack, Total: 12, Effect: d12 (msg #99):
Solo    d4
Coward    d4
(add d6 to Doom Pool)
She-Hulk Mental Stress    d6

Avalanche rolled 2,1,5 using d4,d4,d6 ((2,1,5)).

Total: 7, Effect: d4 (default)

Extraordinary Success steps acting Effect die to d12+

1 Opportunity (available first to She-Hulk)

Avalanche knocked out

Avalanche's helmet explodes and, nearly, his skull. The mutant flies backward with the force of the attack, his body still when it hits the churned ground he overturned himself. His nose is flattened against his face but the bloody bubbles rising and popping from it show that he is still breathing and, indeed, still alive.

In the mansion behind the two heroes, beyond the collapsed front side of the building that offers no immediate entrance, a dark, gurgling cry rings out.

Doom Pool: 3d8, 2d10, d12 +d6 +d6 = 2d6, 3d8, 2d10, d12

Next Action: Justice

Add d10 to Doom Pool from Captain Marvel's Opportunities

Defending from Captain Marvel's physical attack, Total: 13, Effect: d8 (msg #100):
Solo    d4
Overconfident Lackey    d4
(step up Doom Pool die)
Combat Expert    d8
Indoor Fire Scene Complication d8

Pryo rolled 3,3,1,6 using d4,d4,d8,d8 ((3,3,1,6)).

Total: 9, Effect: d4

1 Opportunity (available first to Captain Marvel)

Indoor Fire Scene Complication stepped back to d6

As planned, the impact of Pyro's body hitting the floor is enough to douse some of the flames -- but not all. The flames reduce but there is still a burgeoning inferno reaching around the lushly furnished room.

Though many of the bones in his body audibly crunched when he hit, it is the gurgling sound of the mutant's laughter that rises over the sound of the flames. "Heh heh," he laughs, spitting up blood and teeth with his chuckle. "No witty banter, hero? Jush punshing yer way out'iv any sitchawayshun without thinkin' why it'sh happenin'?" Even with his face nearly split open, the madman continues to smile.

Doom Pool: 2d6, 3d8, 2d10, d12 +d10 (-d6/+d8) = d6, 4d8, 3d10, d12</b>

Justice quickly scanned the area, She-Hulk did the Hulk SMASH trick and turned Avalanche into pebbles. He was happy, although the villain last words bothered him.

"We need to get inside..." he called to the Jade Goddess "I'll open the way and you get everyone out before this building drops."

Justice floated a few feat in the air a purple nimbus surrounded him. He drifted in space letting his mind touch all the derbies and remain, feeling them as he was running his mind finger on them. Slowly the ruined area began to glow in purple as more and more of it came under his influence.

Justice raised his arms and the derbies began to float, slowly and gently he did not want to cause more harm and collapse the building. In his mind he was holding thousands of items rotating them and setting them aside to create a path. The complexity was not in the weight, it was in the fine control needed to move and not cause further structural damage.

By the time he finish he was sweating under the hot sun "Clear..." he said "...I'll follow you."

OOC
Action to allow entry to the house.

PP: 1

Next action: She-Hulk

What were once the windows in the front of the mansion have been gone, crushed under the wreckage that has become that side of the building, leaving little light coming into the room, providing more shadows and pools of darkness than illumination. From one of those pool comes a dark figure, folding into the space from the murk. It seems humanoid, but is surrounded by swirling clouds, as if pulling any light in the room into itself to leave its immediate surroundings a color black as pitch. Its slender body shifts and slides as it moves, as if it were a wiry sinister funambulist. Its eyes glow purple as it looks over the assembled group in the room. At the same time, the space is suddenly overwhelmed with the scent of peppermint.

Spend d10 from Doom Pool to add Shadowy Demon

Then light floods the room when the wreckage of what was once the entrance to the mansion begins to open, the debris lifting from the bottom up, and Justice and She-Hulk are revealed to enter from the outside. They enter near the limp body of the Black Widow, laying prone on the floor among the rubble.

Mystique gives d10 to the Doom Pool


Doom Pool: d6, 4d8, 3d10, d12 -d10 +d10 = d6, 4d8, 3d10, d12

Next Action: Iron Man, She-Hulk, and/or Shadowy Demon

As Justice and She-Hulk enter the foyer, so too does another combatant: a figure looking much like the demon that appeared in the center of the rough circle made by Ms. Marvel, Iron Man, the two from outside, and, squatting on the floor, Toad, with the swirling darkness wrapped around it and with sinister eyes glowing green, coming from the far hallway, hovering a foot above the floor. This violent wraith quickly takes in the scene then fully enters the room, leading with its fist.

Spend d8 from Doom Pool to add Violent Wraith

As Pyro gurgles with laughter under Captain Marvel’s fists and the space around them simmers with fires waiting to either die or catch for additional damage, a figure appears across the room, from the far hallway. It is another mysterious figure, the others of which being unknown to the captain but now facing one of them in all its dark glory. As the darkness moves around it in a compressed cloud, the figure holds out its hands, which crackle with electricity. Its eyes glow intense and white. A noise comes from its head, a sound like a wet scraping, but words are alien and indiscernible. It leans forward, focused more on the combatants in the room rather than a concern for the fire around them.

Spend d8 from Doom Pool to add Electrified Specter

Doom Pool: d6, 4d8, 3d10, d12 -d8 -d8 = d6, 2d8, 3d10, d12

Next Action: Iron Man, She-Hulk, Captain Marvel

With Pyro prone, Carol can concentrate on damage control. There's no reason to let the mansion burn, this Avengers team needs to stop letting everything get destroyed. Not this time.

And as Carol concentrates and takes the energy from the extant flames into her body, she feels other energies around her and she knows things are going to get worse.

Carol is going to put out the flames completely.
Note: Carol only has 1pp currently, misunderstood Opportunities in msg #100

Solo: d8
Take-Charge Attitude: d8
Energy Blast (SFX:Energy Absorption 1pp): d8
Cosmic Expert: d8

Captain Marvel rolled 7,4,6,1

Total: 13 Effect: d8
1 Opportunity for Watcher

pp:1

Reaction: Indoor Fire Complication

Just as She-Hulk enters the foyer fully from the hole in the mansion's wreckage that Justice has created, the jade giantess stumbles, hesitates, looks around with her face drawn in confusion as if she had never seen the interior of a building or the combatants that she could call her a teammate, and her body shakes. She towers over the Black Widow's prone body, close enough to crush it should the mighty She-Hulk fall.

At the same moment, Iron Man careens and nearly drops to the floor on top of Toad but catches himself, clutching his head when he comes back up, making no sound but the clacking of his armored limbs against his body.

With the presence of the infernal creatures in the room, the interior grows darker, even with part of the area opened to let in sunlight and the rest of the team. The wraith that just entered the foyer may have paused when it was in the hallway but now charges in, flying at full-force and leading with its fist. With Iron Man hunched over, the most immediate active target is Ms. Marvel, who now has the figure, trailing wisps of dark ether behind it as it flies at full velocity toward the female Thunderbolt, intending to plant a fist in her face, immaterial or otherwise. It makes a sound like a shriek and attacks!

Spending d8 from Doom Pool to add Den of Infernal Creatures Scene Distinction

Violent Wraith's physical attack on Ms. Marvel:
Buddy    d6
Den of Infernal Creatures    d4
(step up Doom Pool die)
Enhanced Strength    d8
Combat Expert    d8
Danger: Black Widow Down Complication    d8

Violent Wraith rolled 4,4,2,8,3 using d6,d4,d8,d8,d8 ((4,4,2,8,3)).

Total: 12, Effect: d8

Doom Pool: d6, 2d8, 3d10, d12 (-d6/+d8) = 3d8, 3d10, d12

Reaction Needed: Ms. Marvel
Next Action: Toad

Toad, crouching on the floor, seems oblivious of the happenings in the room, only looking around frantically after casting his goggles aside, and striking randomly with his grotesque but dangerous tongue. The body part used as a weapon whips around the room, either trying to sense what is going on around him or to keep any opponents away, not hitting anyone yet, but also destroying more of the mansion's property, what little is left undamaged. One strike whips around, blasting a support behind him, then the wall creaks, showing that there might be more damage to the building than could have been inferred before, and perhaps teetering precariously before it all comes crashing down.

Toad adds d8 to the Doom Pool

Doom Pool: 3d8, 3d10, d12 +d8 = 4d8, 3d10, d12

Next Action (new round): Shadowy Demon
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The next dark creature to enter the room from the back hallway halts in the doorway and lets out a warbling shriek, taking a defensive stance with feet planted and a bladed weapon in front of it. It stays still, though the black cloud swirling around it gives it motion, as if it is an apparition within the fog of darkness around it.

Spend d8 from Doom Pool to add Bladed Wyvern

Doom Pool: 4d8, 3d10, d12 -d8 = 3d8, 3d10, d12

The shadowy demon surveys the inhabitants of the room, then a growl to upset the hardest stomach emanates from it before it turns to the Toad and pounces. The villain on the floor, still shaking his head and looking around, does not witness the demon until the figure is on top of him, with the dark smoke around the demon encircling both of them in short order. Toad has only time to yelp -- "Ulp!" -- before the demon pushes them both into the darkest corner of the room, and in a cloud of smoke that dissipates as quickly as it appears, they are both gone.

Defending from Shadowy Demon's attack, Total: 17, Effect: d8:
Solo    d4
Cunning (but blinded)    d4
(step up Doom Pool die)
Enhanced Reflexes    d8
Acrobatics Master    d10

Toad rolled 2,3,7,9 using d4,d4,d8,d10 ((2,3,7,9)).

Total: 16, Effect: d4

Instantly, the creature and Toad appear above the room, hanging from the ceiling. The dark cloud around the demon holds Toad upside-down, while appendages emanating from the creature viciously strike the mutant villain's face over and over.

Doom Pool: 3d8, 3d10, d12 (-d8/+d10) = 2d8, 4d10, d12

Next Action: Justice
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Justice eyes grew wide as the shadowy demon took toad. This was turning to be a very surreal scene with demons and hell sipping into earth.

He just wanted to bolt and run away from this place of evil but how could he do that, not when She-Hulk and Ironman, his two icons, were watching him.

Instead he marshaled his shaken nerves and closed his eyes as he motion forward with his hands. Purple glow surrounded Black Widow body as Justice covered her with a sparkling force field before he gently took her body and tried to sneak it away from the foyer toward his position.

OOC

INTENT: Remove Black Widow in danger complication
POOL: Team (d10), Den of Infernal Creatures (d4), Use Multipower to use Teleknesis (d10=dD8) and Superhuman Durability (d10=>d8),  Crime Expert (d8)
ROLL:10:00, Today: Justice rolled 3,1,1,7,6 using 1d10,1d4,1d8,1d8,1d8 with rolls of 3,1,1,7,6.  Save Black Widow.
TOTAL: 13/D10/D8 opportunity (+1 PP)
RESULT: D10 effect to remove complication

PP: 1+1+1=3

Next action: Toad
 

Be sure to post current PP count at the end of any post with a dice pool

Add d6 to Doom Pool from Captain Marvel's Opportunity

Doom Pool (2d8, 4d10, d12) reaction to Captain Marvel's attempt to remove Indoor Fire Scene Complication, Total: 13, Effect: d8 (msg #109):
Indoor Fire d6 Scene Complication

Watcher rolled 3,7,7,1,2,9,6 using d8,d8,d10,d10,d10,d10,d6 ((3,7,7,1,2,9,6)).

Total: 15, Effect: d10

1 Opportunity (available first to Captain Marvel)

Attempt fails

Captain Marvel reaches out to pull the flames into her but cannot find any inherent energy within the chaos. The fires still rage and Pyro still laughs, lying at her feet.

Doom Pool: 2d8, 4d10, d12 +d6 = d6, 2d8, 4d10, d12

Next Action: Electrified Specter

The specter across the room from Captain Marvel growls again, like metal nails against a wet chalkboard, and the electricity goes from crackling around its hands to shooting forth, blasting over the distance and right at Carol!

Physical attack on Captain Marvel:
Solo   d6
Den of Infernal Creatures    d4
(step up Doom Pool die)
Electrical Blast   d10
Combat Expert   d8
Indoor Fire Scene Complication d6

Electrified Specter rolled 1,1,3,5,2 using d6,d8,d10,d8,d6 ((1,1,3,5,2)).

Total: 8, Effect: d6

2 Opportunities (available first to Captain Marvel)

Doom Pool: d6, 2d8, 4d10, d12 (-d6/+d8)  = 3d8, 4d10, d12

Reaction Needed: Captain Marvel
Next Action: Pyro

Add d8 to Doom Pool from Justice's Opportunities

Doom Pool (3d8, 4d10, d12) reaction to Justice's attempt to create remove Danger: Black Widow Down Scene Complication, Total: 13, Effect: d10 (msg #114):
Danger: Black Widow Down Scene Complication d8

Watcher rolled 4,2,3,4,2,9,4,8 using d8,d8,d8,d10,d10,d10,d10,d8 ((4,2,3,4,2,9,4,8)).

Total: 17, Effect: d10

Spend d10 from Doom Pool to step up Danger: Black Widow Down Scene Complication to d10.

Doom Pool: 3d8, 4d10, d12 +d8 -d10 = 4d8, 3d10, d12

Justice uses his considerably telekinetic abilities to lift the Black Widow, as gently as possible, a distance off the ground to transport her to a safer place but is suddenly faced with the dilemma of where that could be, in a room that is becoming a maelstrom of chaos in all corners. As he pauses, the ghastly tongue of the suspended Toad whips around, hitting a lighting fixture, sending it crashing to the floor, pulling with it other debris from the ceiling. The destruction is enough to disrupt Justice' concentration, obscure his line of sight, and add to the wreckage in the room. The body of the Black Widow falls back to the floor, hitting with a noticeable thud. The fact that she could be harmed further is only one more threat among many in this environment of discord.

The Toad continues to be bludgeoned while hanging from the ceiling by the shadowy demon. He gets out a frantic cry: "Help me!" he screams. "For all that is ho -- " spitting out blood mixed with the abundance of mucus from his mouth " -- holy, help!", in between his tongue lashing out in all directions, hoping to secure some safety but more disrupting the debris around the room, including sending lighting fixtures crashing to the floor and threatening supports in the walls holding up this wing of the mansion.

Toad adds d8 to Doom Pool

Meanwhile, at floor level, another creature enters the foyer. It comes from the same entryway as the bladed wyvern, floating into the room while leaving a trail of dark energy behind it. It travels toward Iron Man, spreading its dark glow around the area.

Spend d10 from Doom Pool to add Dark Basilisk

Doom Pool: 4d8, 3d10, d12 +d8 -d10 = 5d8, 2d10, d12

Next Action: Dark Basilisk

The newest entrant to the room moves across the floor, leaving a trail of solid, dark energy behind it. It charges toward its nearest enemy, who happens to be Iron Man, blasting the Avenger with streams of dark energy, deadly enough to possibly pierce armor. In its travel it lets out a quick bark, the sound like a grinding of rocks and gears.

Dark Basilisk's physical attack on Iron Man:
Solo (error)    d6
Den of Infernal Creatures    d4
Energy Blast    2d8

Dark Basilisk rolled 3,4,2,8 using d6,d4,d8,d8 with rolls of 3,4,2,8.

Total: 12, Effect: d10

Reaction Needed: Iron Man
Next Action: Ms. Marvel
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Reaction roll first vs. Total: 12, Effect: d8
Team d8, Moonstone d8, Intangible d10, Combat d8, Ghostly Defense d8
Dice Pool d10, 4d8, rolled for 9,1,7,1,4.
Total 16, d8 effect die, 2 opps = 1 PP for a d8 to the Doom Pool.

Ms. Marvel narrowed her gaze as the shadowy creature erupted towards her. While the monster might not affect her out-of-phase form, Karla selected not to chance it. Her body was infused with powerful photonic energy--pure light--and she did not want to find out that this shadow demon's darkness somehow cancelled that out. Sofen shuddered to think what fresh hell happened if that were to happen.

Instead, the new Ms. Marvel slipped effortlessly into the floor, intangibly drifting downwards just as the shadowy creature reached her. Karla thanked her quick thinking, then moved quickly towards the general direction of where the demon first manifested. She rose up into the room once again, light dancing across her exposed skin.

"Stark, what's the plan?" demanded Sofen, as she fired a scattered, careless blast towards the shadow demon!

Action: Blasting Shadow Demon with Light, hoping to dispel him!
Team d8, Moonstone d8, Blast d10, Combat d8
Dice Pool d10, 3d8, rolled for 3,1,1,4.
Total 7, d4 effect, 2 opps = 1 PP for d8 to Doom Pool.
I can't imagine that's successful.

Total PP: 2
Next up: She-Hulk

Carol, reaching out with every sense, realizes that the energy she's trying to deal with isn't what she thought it would be. There's not even a hint of the cosmic, or the ordinary, in this fire. But that would only leave...

Carol suddenly notices the Electrified Specter across the room. Things that aren't making sense are suddenly making as much sense as it can. This whole battle, possibly this entire situation has been something less than and more than it seems.

The creature sends an arc of electricity shaped power straight at Carol. Carol lets the blast hit her. "Let's see what this energy really is." She thinks.

Carol is going to take the brunt of the electricity blast and resist it.
Solo: d8
Take-Charge Attitude: d4 (+1pp) May not be the best decision to let the blast hit her
Superhuman Durability: d10
Combat Expert: d8

Captain Marvel rolled 7,2,3,10

Total: 17 Effect d8

2pp
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Add d8 to Doom Pool from Ms. Marvel's Opportunities

The sliding creature's attack on Iron Man sends the armored Avenger doubling over, stumbling and threatening to tumble to the floor. Stark makes no sound, but keeps one hand gripping his head, the other with his arm wrapped around his fresh wounds, courtesy of the creature moving past him.

Realizing She-Hulk has said nothing since she entered the mansion with Justice, a look at her reveals that she has stopped in her tracks and is standing straight, staring blankly but with wide eyes a thousand yards ahead.


Doom Pool: 5d8, 2d10, d12 +d8 = 6d8, 2d10, d12

Defending from Ms. Marvel's physical attack (as it was not noted what kind of attack it was), Total: 7, Effect: d8 (msg #120):
Team    d8
Den of Infernal Creatures    d8
Transporting Power    d8
Acrobatics Master    d10

Total: 14, Effect: d8

Shadowy Demon adds d6 to Doom Pool

With a guttural bark, the shadowy demon turns easily from Ms. Marvel's burst of light then enters a cloud of darkness in the ceiling, disappearing into it.

As he is no longer held in the creature's clutches, the Toad falls hard to the floor. "Argf!" he bleats when he hits the surface. The mutant villain feels around the debris, clear that he survived the drop.

Doom Pool: 6d8, 2d10, d12 +d6 = d6, 6d8, 2d10, d12

Next Action: Violent Wraith
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Ms. Marvel's attacker will not abandon their scuffle but it switches its mode of attack. The creature follows Marvel toward the ceiling, its arms wide and a dark cloud between them, aiming to ensnare the potential-hero in its bleak grasp. A shriek comes from it just before it makes contact with the female Thunderbolt!

Attempt to create Grabbed Complication on Ms. Marvel:
Team    d8
Den of Infernal Creatures    d8
Enhanced Strength    d8
Combat Expert    d8
Danger: Black Widow Down Complication    d10

Violent Wraith rolled 8,7,1,5,1 using d8,d8,d8,d8,d10 ((8,7,1,5,1)).

Total: 15, Effect: d8

2 Opportunities (available first to Ms. Marvel)

Reaction Needed: Ms. Marvel
Next Action (in new round): Justice

In the foyer, the shadowy demon folds in from the shadows next to the dark basilisk, the dark energies drifting around their bodies conjoining them in a bleak fraternity.

Meanwhile, near the back of the mansion, when the crackling sound of the blast of electricity that Captain Marvel resists starts to subside, Pyro's laughter floats around the room again, interjected with spewing blood and spit. He is still darkly jovial. "Ye -- ye shtill don't get what'sh really goin' on, do ye, ya bloody moll?" he sputters, then arc another tooth toward the hero towering above him.

Mental attack on Captain Marvel (to confuse her):
Solo    d4
Overconfident Lackey    d8
Psyche Expert    d8
Indoor Fire Scene Complication    d6

Pryo rolled 2,6,2,2 using d4,d8,d8,d6 ((2,6,2,2)).

Total: 8, Effect: d8

Reaction Needed: Captain Marvel

Next Action: Captain Marvel

The two creatures now assembled next to each other communicate using sounds like grinding machinery and blades scraping against rusted metal, then one [the Dark Basilisk] -- the one that launched blasts that sent Iron Man reeling and slid into the room leaving a path of darkness behind it -- lifts its arms and clouds of dark energy coalesce around its hands.

Things were getting worse and worse in the foyer, Justin glanced back spotting that both Iron Man and She Hulk were in trouble.

The young mutant eyes glowed violet, this was it the thing he trained for as a New Warrior, fighting against terrible odds against horrendous foes.

Purple aura surrounded Toad, what was his role here? it did not matter he was not one of the team hence the enemy. The nearly blinded Toad flew into the air, purple tendril pulling his elastic tongue and making it like a snare to slither around the rest of the demonic beings and trap them.

Meanwhile Justice lifted his hands summoning more purple tendrils that encased the demons in a cage made of fleshy tongue and telekinetic force.

The young hero was shaking from the effort, beads of sweat run all across his face staining his new, gravel covered, custom "Get our people out... I'll hold them as long as I can." he called to Ms. Marvel.

INTENT: Inflict immobilize complication on Bladed Wyvern, Dark Basilisk, Violent Wraith, Shadowy Demon and Toad
POOL: Team (D10), Brave New Warrior (D8), Telekinetic Mastery (D10), Combat Expert (D8), Blinded Complication (D12) - 1PP, Area effect (5D6), Stunt using Toad tongue as a snare (D10) -1 PP and opportunity
ROLL:13:37, Today: Justice rolled 9,6,8,4,1,5,2,5,4,1 using 1d10,1d8,1d10,1d8,1d12,1d6,1d6,1d6,1d6,1d6 with rolls of 9,6,8,4,1,5,2,5,4,1.  Immobilize area effect. + 13:43, Today: Justice rolled 3 using 1d10 with rolls of 3.  stunt I forgot to roll.
TOTAL:23 (9+8+6) (- 1 PP)/D12/D10/D8/D8/D8/+D8 Doom pool
RESULT: D12 Immobilize effect on Toad, D10 on Shadowy Demon D8 effect on all the rest (step up SFX included)

PP: 3 -1 (Toad blinded complication) -1 (use extra dice for effect) -1 (Stunt dice) +1 (opportunity)= 1

Next: Ms. Marvel

Reaction: Evade the Grabbed complication.
Current PP: 2
Team d8, Moonstone d8, Intangibility d10, Combat d8, Ghostly d8
Dice Pool d10, 4d8, rolled for 2,7,6,4,7.
Spend 1 PP to add a die to total.
Total 20, d10 effect die, 0 opps.
Ms. Marvel evades!
Current PP: 1
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Ms. Marvel saw the shadow's attack coming from a mile away. Karla slipped further out of sync with the local timespace, shimmering with golden light as she slipped well past the shadow demon's grasp.

Karla Sofen was not a kind woman. When hard times came calling, Karla was a survivor--but she had no sympathy for the weak or naive. The world was a tough, unforgiving place, and it had forged Sofen into an ever-composed, self-serving hardcase.

The Moonstone had been a game-changer. Ever since she coaxed it from Lloyd Blochs, the intoxicating power the coursed through her body became an important constant. Never again would she be vulnerable or dependent on others.

To some degree, Barton changed everything. The Thunderbolts had been a scam at first. Even when Melissa and Eric and Abe all decided to give heroics an honest go, Karla had hung on in the hopes of steering the Thunderbolts towards some eventual score. When Hawkeye took the others under his wing, though, her subtle command of the others slipped from her grasp.

She couldn't lie to herself: Clint's passion for fighting the good fight affected her, too. Even now, she was straddled between lives. Karla had been a high-end operator in the supervillain set. She had earned some serious clout as a Thunderbolt, too. And once again, Clint vouched for her to join the Avengers.

One of her biggest detractors was now bleeding out on the floor. Ms. Marvel certainly had no love lost for Natasha, but dying this way was beneath the Russian superspy. The Moonstone thrummed in her chest, vibrating at a powerful frequency as it guided her.

"Don't be an idiot, Marvel Boy" teased Karla. Ms. Marvel swept up the Black Widow in her arms. "We fall back. We don't know the territory--" she silently cursed herself for reciting a Barton quote, "--which means we can't win against people who do. Cover our escape, kid, but this is not the time to be a hero. We pull back, regroup, figure out a different play."

Karla did not wait for a response, instead turning to get the Widow out of danger. Ms. Marvel decided the running in an evasive pattern was better than the possibility of further harming the Avenger in her arms in high-speed flight.
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Action: Trying to remove the Widow complication by moving her off panel.
Current PP: 1
Team d8, Moonstone d8, Reflexes d10, Combat d8
Dice Pool d10, 3d8, rolled for 4,1,2,7.
Total 11, d8 effect, 1 opp (d6 to doom pool for 1 PP). Blerg!
Current PP: 2

Next up: Captain Marvel

Add d8 to Doom Pool from Justice's Opportunities (msg #127)

Just as Justice swings Toad around the room, the creature that brought Iron Man low, holding its appendages in the air, summons tendrils from its hands that shoot forth, bringing ensnarements and its dark cloud around the rest of the room. Its tendrils intend to entangle, aimed at Justice, as well as spreading around She-Hulk, then Toad, even as the mutant and his tongue are tossed around the air. The creature grumbles a low, chilling rumble as it performs its dark work.

Dark Basilisk's attempt to create Dark Tendrils Complication on Justice, She-Hulk, Toad:
Team    d8
Den of Infernal Creatures    d8
Dark Powers    d10
Area Attack    d6 + d6
Danger: Black Widow Down Complication    d10
(No Opportunities)

Total: 15, Effect: d10 to She-Hulk, d8 to Justice, d6 to Toad

Doom Pool: d6, 6d8, 2d10, d12 +d8 = d6, 7d8, 2d10, d12

Reaction Needed: Justice, She-Hulk, Toad
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Defending from Justice's attempt to create Immobilized Complication, Total: 23, Effect: d12 (msg #127):
Solo    d4
Not A Hero    d4
(step up Doom Pool die)
Multipower/Enhanced Reflexes    d6
Multipower/Enhanced Strength    d6
Combat Expert    d8
Danger: Black Widow Down Complication    d10

Toad rolled 3,3,4,4,2,2 using d4,d4,d6,d6,d8,d10 ((3,3,4,4,2,2)).

Total: 8, Effect: d10
Extraordinary Success steps acting Effect die to d12++

Doom Pool: d6, 7d8, 2d10, d12 (-d6/+d8) = 8d8, 2d10, d12

Defending from Dark Basilisk's attempt to create Dark Tendrils Complication, Total: 15, Effect: d6 (msg #129):
Solo    d4
Not A Hero    d4
(step up Doom Pool die)
Multipower/Enhanced Reflexes    d6
Multipower/Enhanced Strength    d6
Combat Expert    d8

Toad rolled 1,4,1,5,7 using d4,d4,d6,d6,d8 ((1,4,1,5,7)).

Total: 12, Effect: d4

Doom Pool: 8d8, 2d10, d12 (-d8/+d10) = 7d8, 3d10, d12

The Toad twists and wriggles in the air as he is tossed about by Justice's telekinesis, then the dark creature's tendrils wrap tight around him. The mutant struggles for air as he is ensnared, his engorged tongue, used as an offensive tool by Justice to aid in entangled the creatures in the room, blocking his mouth. As the coils snake around him, Toad is just barely able to gasp: "You foolth! Don't you thee who ith -- " before his body and face and mouth are engulfed by the dark tendrils and mist.

Toad knocked out

Add d6 to Doom Pool from Ms. Marvel's Opportunity

Doom Pool (7d8, 3d10, d12) reaction to Ms. Marvel's attempt to remove Danger: Black Widow Down Complication, Total: 11, Effect: d8 (msg #128):
Danger: Black Widow Down d10

Watcher rolled 6,1,2,8,5,5,5,10,4,9,5 using d8,d8,d8,d8,d8,d8,d8,d10,d10,d10,d10 ((6,1,2,8,5,5,5,10,4,9,5)).

Total: 10, Effect: d10

1 Opportunity (available first to Ms. Marvel)

Danger: Black Widow Down Complication removed

Doom Pool: 7d8, 3d10, d12 +d6 = d6, 7d8, 3d10, d12

Next Action: Shadowy Demon

Ms. Marvel nimbly drops from near the ceiling to the floor, over Black Widow's prone body and the debris strewn about it. Her thoughts her own, she grits her teeth and lifts the body. The Russian Avenger bleeds from the back of her head but is now safe in the Thunderbolt's arms -- as safe as could be in the middle of the maelstrom around them.

Defending from Justice's attempt to create Immobilize Complication, Total: 23, Effect: d10 (msg #127):
Team    d8
Den of Infernal Creatures    d8
Disappear    2d8
Acrobatics Master d10

Total: 10, Effect: d4

1 Opportunity (available first to Justice)

Shadowy Demon receives Immobilized d12+ Complication

The creature that previously attacked Toad looks around at the chaos in the room and shudders as if in confusion. Toad falls unconscious but Justice's telekinetic attack no longer needs the tool of the mutant tongue. The dark creature disappears in a dark cloud but reappears in the same place instantly, turned around, then is immediately smashed against the floor by Justice's invisible force, pressed so tightly that it does not move in the slightest.

Next Action: Bladed Wyvern

Justice saw the tendril coming toward him, he could feel the dread of this infernal place. Lift both hands he shoots dozens of rays of purple force blasting at each tendril before it could reach him.

INTENT: Defending from Dark Basilisk Dark Tendril complication
POOL: Team (d10), Den of Infernal Creatures (d4),  Superhuman Blast(d10),  Combat Expert (d8)
ROLL:12:31, Today: Justice rolled 6,4,8,3 using 1d10,1d4,1d10,1d8 with rolls of 6,4,8,3.  Defend against Dark Tendril complication.
TOTAL: 18/D8/-
RESULT: Avoid complication

PP: 1 +1 (D4 Aspect) -1 (use three dice for effect= 1

Pyro just keeps mouthing off. In Carol's head: "We're Avengers, we don't kill. We're Avengers, we don't kill"...etc. as she rolls her eyes away from the broken and battered Pyro to the sparking and menacing threat across the room.

"Anytime you want to tell me who these creatures are, you're welcome to tell me! The mind reader isn't in the house today!"

Carol is going to shrug off Pyro's taunting. He IS getting tiresome, though.
Solo: d8
Struggling Identity: d4 (Pyro's taunting and not knowing who these enemies are, as well as being the in the X-Mansion where she spent a very rough time in her life are all coming together)
Psyche Expert: d8
Known Quantity: d6 (1pp)

Captain Marvel rolled 1,1,2,3

Total: 5 Effect: d4
2 Opportunities to Watcher
pp: 3


The team isn't making any headway. This is bad, mainly because with all the firepower at their disposal, they should be able to pull out a win. They should, but they're not acting like a team.
Carol's head is spinning from all of this. She knows she needs to get it together, they all need to get it together.

They need to assemble.

Carol is going to fly straight out of the room to the others and bring the electrical being with her before it can realize what she's doing. It's time to regroup. (Intent: to move out of the room back to the others and bring the bad guy with her)

Solo: d8
Take-Charge Attitude: d8
SFX Multipower (1pp)- Subsonic Flight: d6/ Superhuman Strength: d8
Combat Expert: d8

Captain Marvel rolled 8,4,4,2,5
1pp to add to the total
Total: 17 Effect: d8

1pp

Reaction: Electrified Specter
Next Action: She-Hulk

Add d8 to Doom Pool from Captain Marvel's Opportunities

d8 Mental Stress to Captain Marvel

Doom Pool (d6, 7d8, 3d10, d12) reaction to Captain Marvel's attempt to leave room, Total: 17, Effect: d8:
Indoor Fire Scene Complication    d6

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

Total: 16, Effect: d10

Higher reacting Effect die steps acting Effect down, to d6, but attempt is still successful
2 Opportunities (available first to Captain Marvel)

As much as Captain Marvel wants to disregard Pyro's taunting, his words cause her pause. His sinister teasing infers that there are more to these creatures than just pawns but he offers no further help or details, only laughter through a smashed face. It might be her weakened mental state being in a place where she has such a stressful history, but his evil smile has gotten into her head.

Leaving behind Pyro, the electricity-wielding creature, and the burgeoning fire, Captain Marvel shuttles from the back of the mansion into the fray in the foyer. In the room that Marvel just left, Pyro's sinister smile slides from under his broken mask as the dark creature intensifies the electricity crackling around its hands when it faces the fiery villain.

Doom Pool: d6, 7d8, 3d10, d12 +d8 = d6, 8d8, 3d10, d12

Next Action: Bladed Wyvern
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Defending from Justice's attempt to create Immobilize Complication, Total: 23, Effect: d8 (msg #127):
Team    d8
Den of Infernal Creatures    d8
Enhanced Speed    d8

Total: 6, Effect: d4

Extraordinary Success steps acting Effect die to d12+

1 Opportunity (available first to Justice)

Defending from Justice's attempt to create Immobilize Complication, Total: 23, Effect: d8 (msg #127):
Team    d8
Den of Infernal Creatures    d8
Flight    d8
Combat Expert    d8

Violent Wraith rolled 6,8,7,2 using d8,d8,d8,d8 ((6,8,7,2)).

Total: 15, Effect: d8

Extraordinary Success steps acting Effect die to d10

Defending from Justice's attempt to create Immobilize Complication, Total: 23, Effect: d8 (msg #127):
Team    d8
Den of Infernal Creatures    d8
Psychic Resistance    d12
Combat Master    d10
From Doom Pool (chaos in room; psychic sensitivity)    d8

Bladed Wyvern rolled 2,8,10,1,7 using d8,d8,d12,d10,d8 ((2,8,10,1,7)).

Spend d8 from Doom Pool to add third die to Total
Total: 25, Effect: d8

1 Opportunity (available first to Justice)

Activating Justice's Opportunity (and rolling back die added to Doom Pool) and spending d8 from Doom Pool to Counterattack: d8 mental stress to Justice

Doom Pool: d6, 8d8, 3d10, d12 -d8 -d8 (+d6/-d8) -d8 = 2d6, 4d8, 3d10, d12

Just as the creature that attacked Toad went down, so too does the one that attacked Iron Man. Both creatures are pressed hard to the floor, just as the one that attacked Ms. Marvel mid-air falls to the ground, visibly using all its strength to stand, shaking in the effort.

The last one to react would be the one across the room in the doorway to the hall, but it does not falter nor does it react to any telekinetic pressure put upon it. Instead, it turns, pointing its long, bladed weapon at Justice, its target clear even in the distance across the foyer and the chaos between them. Just as Justice might redouble his efforts on the creature, there is an explosion between them, in the middle of the room, and a blast of feedback rips through not the ears but the minds of everyone in the room. Justice's telekinetic hold shudders as he is forced back in the wake of the burst of the feedback, and a lance of hot, searing pain pierces the depths of his skull. It is everything the young mutant can do to keep control over the three other creatures he has pinned with his powers. Then the creature that evaded his grasp makes its very deadly move.

Before Justice can fully recover to his feet, using all his mental faculties to keep his hold over the creatures he has pinned to the floor with his telekinesis, the creature from the far side of the room with the bladed extension vaults across the space in a blur, upon the young mutant before anyone, least of all him, can comprehend that it has even moved. It swipes its weapon through the air, looking for purchase in the body of the former New Warrior. As it strikes, a loud garbling emits from it -- "SSSKGGGRRREEEEE" -- perhaps a battle cry or a promise for more violence to come.

Bladed Wyvern's attempt to remove Justice's Immobilized Complications:
Team    d8
Den of Infernal Creatures    d8
Telekinetic Blast    d8
Telekinetic Weapon    d6 (and Step Up Effect)
Combat Master    d8 (Stepped Back from Telekinetic Weapon)
Justice Mental Stress    d8

Bladed Wyvern rolled 8,7,4,2,7,3 using d8,d8,d8,d6,d8,d8 ((8,7,4,2,7,3)).

Total: 15, Effect: d10 (Stepped Up due to Telekinetic Weapon)


Reaction Needed: Justice
Next Action: Violent Wraith

Justice eyes grew wide as the demonic being with a huge psychic blade charge at him. He rolled back into standing position. Slamming both hands in a clap. The spinning Dark Basilisk and Shadowy Demon both encased in tekelentic snares flies toward the Bladed Wyvern slamming it from both sides and preventing it from reaching Justice.


OOC
INTENT: Defending from Blade Wyvern's attempt to remove Immobilized Complication
POOL: Team (d10), Den of Infernal Creatures (d4),  Telekinetic Mastery (d10),  Combat Expert (d8), Telekinetic body slam Stunt (D10) (Cost 1 PP and opportunity)
ROLL: 21:29, Today: Justice rolled 5,3,2,5,6 using 1d10,1d4,1d10,1d8,1d10 with rolls of 5,3,2,5,6.  Defend.
TOTAL:11+5 (Spend PP to add third dice for effect)=16/D10/-
RESULT: Defended

PP: 1 + 1 (Distinguish) -1 Boost stunt - 1 use three effects dice = 0 PP

Justice manages to avoid the attack by the creature from the far side of the room, though it is by the most narrow of margins. The young mutant can feel the blade of the creature come within a breath of his face, though it is by his battle-honed reflexes that he is able to lift the two creatures he has immobilized and use them in his defense, hurtling them toward his attacker. The attacking creature dodges them, then they are sent skittering across the floor, still pinned. The assaulting creature is not stopped but it is given pause and it drops into a defensive position in front of him, its blade in front of it. Justice's concentration is thrown for a moment but he keeps his focus to pin the pair of creatures as well as slowing the third.


Just at that moment, Captain Marvel enters the room to see the fourth creature zoom across the space to follow its ally's lead and attack Justice. The creature flies close to the floor as if attached to a great weight, still under Justice's telekinetic purview, even if his focus could be fleeting, due to the piling of foes upon him. It flies right at Justice, leading with its fist, a straight-forward charge not attempting anything other than taking down the mutant hero.

Violent Wraith physical attack on Justice:
Team    d8
Den of Infernal Creatures    d8
Enhanced Strength    d8
Combat Expert    d8
Justice Mental Stress    d8

Violent Wraith rolled 6,6,7,4 using d8,d8,d8,d8 ((6,6,7,4)).
Violent Wraith rolled 2 using 1d8 ((2)).

Spend d8 from Doom Pool to add third die to Total
Total: 19, Effect: d8


To add to the pandemonium in the room, another creature enters the arena, from the same doorway from where the bladed creature came. It is the same kind of dark figure, with swirls of fog around it, though this one is larger than the rest.

Spend d10 from Doom Pool to add Fierce Brute

And a smell of smoke fills the foyer, even over the odors of sweat, metal, destruction, and violence.

Spend d6 from Doom Pool to step up Indoor Fire Scene Complication to d8

2d6, 4d8, 3d10, d12 -d8 -d10 -d6 = d6, 3d8, 2d10, d12

Reaction Needed: Justice
Next Action: Ms. Marvel
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Justice barely was able to turn aside the Bladed Wyvern when all of a sudden another assailant jump on him. A screen of purple force covered the young mutant as he tried to defend against the new attack while maintaining control all over the enemies he snared and pushing the Bladed Wyvern away from him.

It was not enough, the strike vibrated through the shield he raised sending shocks ways through it pushing him backwards.

"Wait..." he cried "Something is wrong... you are not the demon we think you are... everyone stop fighting..."

OOC
INTENT: Defending from Violent Wraith attack
POOL: Team (d10), Den of Infernal Creatures (d4), Superhuman Durability (d10),  Combat Expert (d8), Immobilize complication (D10)
ROLL: 12:09, Today: Justice rolled 2,3,4,8,5 using 1d10,1d4,1d10,1d8,1d10 with rolls of 2,3,4,8,5.  Defend from Violent Wraith attack.
TOTAL:13+4=17/D10/-
RESULT: Failed take D8 step down to D6

PP: 01 + 1 (Distinguish)  - 1 use three effects dice = 0 PP

Justice takes the brunt of the creature's attack but it still batters him, forcing him back, yet he still keeps the hold on the other creatures, including his assailant, if barely. It shrieks in his face, a high-pitched squeal coming from its head, and stands with fists ready for another attack.

Once the next creature moves into the room, it too readies its own attack. The newest creature crosses its two appendages that could be called arms to form an X, then extends them both forward, fists first, and unleashes an energy blast of fierce, dark energy, aimed at the young mutant. The blast just barely misses the creature who most recently attacked the hero but the nearer creature keeps its attention on Justice.

Physical attack on Justice:
Team    d8
Den of Infernal Creatures    d4
Energy Blast    d8
Combat Expert    d8

Total: 7, Effect: d8

2 Opportunities (available first to Justice)

Reaction Needed: Justice

Justice nose is bleeding under the multiple assaults but still he hold the line. The barrage of fist drop him to his knees when a new demon send a force of dark magic at him. Without thinking the young hero lift his left hand pointing it at the dark energy and release a bolt of purple force that cleave through the dark energy and strike demon straight in the chest.

"I said ENOUGH!"

OOC
INTENT: Defending from  attack
POOL: Team (d10), Den of Infernal Creatures (d4), Force Blast (d10),  Combat Expert (d8),
ROLL: 112:25, Today: Justice rolled 6,3,5,4 using 1d10,1d4,1d10,1d8 with rolls of 6,3,5,4.  Defend against attack.
TOTAL:10/D10/-
RESULT: Defended

Activate Opportunity Counter and inflict D10 Physical Stress

PP: 01 + 1 (Aspect)  - 1 Counter attack = 0 PP

In the blink of an eye, Justice's telekinetic defense sends the creature's dark energy back at it but, before it can reach it, even faster than the speed of the energy itself, the creature that sparred with Ms. Marvel and was Justice's most recent assailant screams, a shriek coming from its head, and, moving minimally since it's close, but quickly, puts itself in the path of the energy blasting back at the other creature. The brunt of the attack exploding into it forces it back but, even with Justice's telekinetic hold pressing against it, still rises to its feet and turns toward Justice.

Physical Stress d10 to Violent Wraith

Ms. Marvel heard Justice call for a ceasefire. It went against her nature to not lash out at the monstrosities attacking them, but the Marvel Boy apparently knew something she didn't. With the Russian superspy still in her arms, Karla was hardly in a position to put up much of a fight.

Instead, the new Ms. Marvel erupted in a powerful wave of quasi-solid light to keep her greatest critic safe.

---

Action: Create a "Protective Light Field" asset for me and Widow.
Current PP: 2
Team d8, Moonstone d8, Durability d10, Combat d8
Dice pool d10, 3d8, rolled for 5,3,8,3.
Spending 1 PP to add a die. Spending 1 PP to make it last the scene.
Total 16, d8 effect, 0 opportunities.
Current PP: 0

Be sure to pick the Next Action at the end of each turn

Doom Pool (d6, 3d8, 2d10, d12) reaction to Ms. Marvel's attempt to create Protective Light Field Asset, Total: 16, Effect: d8:

Watcher rolled 2,1,7,6,6,6 using d6,d8,d8,d8,d10,d10 ((2,1,7,6,6,6)).

Total: 13, Effect: d8

1 Opportunity (available first to Ms. Marvel)

An orb of energy grows around Ms. Marvel and the Widow in her arms as she floats above the din in the foyer below, though the wild creatures below her seem to be spending their focus elsewhere.


Next Action: Violent Wraith, Bladed Wyvern

Just as the creature who had made the cross with its arms starts pacing menacingly toward the area of the room where Justice stands, yet another creature bursts in from the same hallway where many of the other creatures have come. It is identical to the others but more animated, zooming in to the foyer, wailing at a volume that could break glass if anything fragile in the room had not already been obliterated -- "SSSHHHRRREEEEEEEEE SSSHHHREEE SSSHHHREEE SSSHHHRRREEEEEEEEE" -- then pushes its arms toward Justice.

Spend d10 from Doom Pool to add Fierce Brute

As combatants are added and make their moves, the two creatures in front of Justice hold their positions and stay still, even as the dark swirls of mist around them pull toward their target, vowing another assault imminently, one even more vicious than the previous one.

Violent Wraith, Bladed Wyvern add 2d8 to Doom Pool

Doom Pool: d6, 3d8, 2d10, d12 -d10 +2d8 = d6, 5d8, d10, d12

Next Action: Ebon Fiend, Captain Marvel

Shaken and now kind of confused, Carol sees her companions in a bind, but she also sees in the enemy, something she recognizes. Once Justice yells for them to all stop fighting, she understands just a bit more that there is definitely something amiss.

Carol flies behind Justice, so they're ready to defend back to back. Ready to fight if another assault, but ready to stand down. She makes the X sign with her arms to whichever "infernal beast" can see her.

"I get it, Justice. I don't know what they're seeing, but we have to find out who is making this mess in the first place."

An instant after Captain Marvel takes her new position next to Justice and mentions her intention, the newest combatant in the arena makes its move, taking little time on its way to burst from the hallway across the room and thrust Justice against the wall with force, exhaling another wail on its way there: "SSSHHHRRREEEEEEEEE!".

Ebon Fiend's attempt to create Shove Complication on Justice:
Team    d10
Den of Infernal Creatures    d8
Heightened Senses    d8
Super Strength    d8

Total: 12, Effect: d10

Reaction Needed: Justice
Next Action: Justice

Justice allowed himself to be shoved but as the Ebon Fiend shoved him the young hero encased the both of them in protective shell of force. The force field took the brunt of the force and when they slowed Justice moved, just like Cap showed him once long ago and broke the hold. He and the fiend were staring each eye to eye or whatever it had for eyes.

"We are not your enemies..." he said slowly, the next step took much courage as he relaxed his hold on his captive. He closed his eyes and sought his power, gently bathing all the demons in a purple light touching everything creating a mental image of his surrounding. It was an aspect of his power he never tried before using it to sense and to feel trying to pill the layers of illusions that distorted his sight.

Meanwhile another tendril of force picked up debris and bits of wood and plaster to form the symbol of the Avengers in the air.

OOC

INTENT: Defending from Ebon Fiend's Shove complication
POOL: Buddy(d8), Den of Infernal Creatures (d4),  Superhuman Durability (d10),  Combat Expert (d8)
ROLL:12:31, Today: 12:07, Today: Justice rolled 5,1,2,8 using 1d8,1d4,1d10,1d8 with rolls of 5,1,2,8.  Defend Ebon Fiend's shove.
TOTAL: 13/D10/1
RESULT: Avoid complication

INTENT: Break the illusionn
POOL: Buddy(d8), Leadership Potential (d8), Telekinetic Mastery (d10),  Psychic Expert (d8), Telekinetic Fingers stunt (D10) (used second opportunity from msg #144)
ROLL:12:13, Today: Justice rolled 7,2,7,4,8 using 1d8,1d8,1d10,1d8,1d10 with rolls of 7,2,7,4,8.  See through illusion.
TOTAL: 15+7=22/D8/-
RESULT: ?

Remove Immobilize complication from everyone.

PP: 0 +1 (Distinctions) +1 Opportunity - Stunt -1 Add 3rd dice=0
Next: Ebon Fiend
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Add d6 to Doom Pool from Justice's Opportunity

Current Affiliation for heroes in foyer is Team

Justice rolls with the force that the creature brought on him, letting his force field take the brunt of the attack, and comes close to the creature but the mist swirling around the thing's body is impenetrable even at the short distance. Stepping back to put distance between his attacker and himself, the young hero turns to the room and brings his telekinetic power to his team's foes but whatever force he spreads is engulfed by the ubiquitous, dark mist around them and his action seems to come to naught.

Doom Pool (d6, 5d8, d10, d12) reaction to Justice's attempt to create Break The Illusion Asset, Total: 22, Effect: d8:
Justice Mental Stress    d8

Watcher rolled 3,5,7,1,4,8,4,2 using d6,d8,d8,d8,d8,d8,d10,d8 ((3,5,7,1,4,8,4,2)).

Spend d8 from Doom Pool to add third die to Total
Total: 20, Effect: d10

Higher reacting Effect die steps acting Effect down, to d6
Justice creates Broken Illusion Asset d6

1 Opportunity (available first to Justice)


Quickly switching his tack while drawing away from his most immediate opponent, Justice telekinetically moves chunks of debris in the middle for the room, lifting the debris from the floor and levitating them into the air. Slowly they come together to form a symbol in the air: the rod from a lighting fixture as one side, crossed at the top at 45 degrees by a slat of wood to come together to form an upside-down V, then crossed horizontally in the middle by a piece of a broken window pane, then an almost-circle of plaster behind it, a rudimentary symbol of --

Then it drops in a smashing clatter to the floor when the creature that had blasted Justice upon entering the room rushes toward Justice, its upper appendages wide and hungry enough to capture the New Warrior and envelop him in its darkness.

Fierce Brute Physical attack on Justice:
Team    d8
Den of Infernal Creatures    d8
Enhanced Strength    d8
Combat Expert    d8
Justice Physical Stress    d8

Total: 13, Effect: d8

At the same time as She-Hulk begins a slow and silent walk toward the opposite side of the room, fire that was previously just a stench catches on an antique chair on the far side of the foyer.

Spend d8 from Doom Pool to add Indoor Fire d8 Scene Complication to common scene

Doom Pool: d6, 5d8, d10, d12 +d6 -d8 = 2d6, 4d8, d10, d12

Reaction Needed: Justice
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It was a simple move, fly up while the force field push back the attack, it would have worked if Justice was not distracted by the many fiends in front of him. He simply could not find a place to land and in the end veered left instead of right and smacked right into the crushing attack.

OOC
INTENT: Defending from Brute attack
POOL: Team (d8), Den of Infernal Creatures (d4),  (use multipower) Superhuman Durability (d10 => D8), Subsonic Flight (D8=>D6) Combat Expert (d8)
ROLL:15:29, Today: Justice rolled 1,2,2,1,1 using 1d10,1d4,1d8,1d6,1d8 with rolls of 1,2,2,1,1.  Defend against attack.
TOTAL: 4/D4/D10
RESULT: Take D10 Physical stress

PP: 0 +1 (Distinctions) + 1 (Opportunity) =2

Add d10 to Doom Pool from Justice's Opportunity

Correction: Justice's Mental Stress d8 was used in dice pool against him (msg #153), not Physical Stress (but same result)

The creatures that had been pinned by Justice's telekinesis rise, their dark mists spreading around them anew, but save for the one that now stands over Justice, they do not move forward in aggression. One has turned to spreading its dark force over the fire that has encroached from the back of the mansion into the immediate vicinity, but while it cools the flames that had overtaken the chair, it does nothing to the rest of the danger. From the thick smell of smoke, there could be an inferno in the rest of the mansion but hidden from sight here, ready to launch a fresh assault to overtake the foyer, and an attempt against it does not help.

d8 removed from Doom Pool; d10 added to Doom Pool

The creature that had attacked Toad calls to the one that attacked Ms. Marvel: "Shie unnnn ah ummm. Weeei ei ah, eh ooo on-eh awwweeewww uh weh oh, ovah eeeeee. I-ooo eh eh reah eh, ooo ah eee shoooa eh-eeein innissss rankess, nicht wahr. Fiiitwah, thhhsssomeinks wonnaerrr, sssomeks awsssie-uh isss kanlik." Its ally responds in a similar nonsense language, at a pitch high enough to rattle teeth: "AAAhh-ing is riiih-ke someks win ah ih -- weh zhuh gah fih ah wah. Wah ah ing. Wah wah ink-eee maie ihie ayah."

Doom Pool: 2d6, 4d8, d10, d12 +d10 -d8 +d10 = 2d6, 3d8, 3d10, d12

Next Action: Ms. Marvel

<Orange>Action: Creating a "Not Your Enemy" Psych Resource.
Team d8, Psychotherapist d4, Energy Blast d10, Psych Master 2d8
Taking the PP to sink into Puppets on a String SFX: Spend 1 PP to step up a Psych Master stunt or resource and recover mental or emotional stress.
Dice Pool: d10, 3d8, d4, rolled for 10,5,6,5,3
Total 16, d8 effect stepped up to d10, 0 opportunities. Mental stress is recovered.
Current PP: 0
Next: Any "opponent"

Karla Sofen was more than a world-class supervillain on the path to atoning for her crimes. She was, in fact, Doctor Karla Sofen, a well-educated and accredited psychotherapist. Her ability to percieve aspects of her patient's psyches that are often hidden even from the patient themselves is nearly an art form, and Karla has been developing her skill for much of her life.

Justice was taking heavy hits while contending that what Ms. Marvel saw as monsters were actually something else. She could not see past whatever force was behind this effect, but Karla figured that the boy had no reason to lie.

And so the new Ms. Marvel took a risk. It would be easy for her to lash out with her amazing alien powers, but that route seemed to be accomplishing nothing. As her hand flared in white hot energy from the Kree Moonstone, Sofen turned towards the wall behind her. With a single index finger guiding her aim, Ms. Marvel laser-etched words--

AVENGERS
NOT YOUR ENEMY

--into the wall's surface. She hoped that this might quell further attacks, though she braced for the worst nevertheless.

Doom Pool (2d6, 3d8, 3d10, d12) reaction to Ms. Marvel's attempt to create "Not Your Enemy" Asset, Total: 16, Effect: d10:
Indoor Fire Scene Complication d8

Watcher rolled 6,6,1,3,8,1,9,3,6 using d6,d6,d8,d8,d8,d10,d10,d10,d8 ((6,6,1,3,8,1,9,3,6)).

Total: 17, Effect: d10

1 Opportunity (available first to Ms. Marvel)


With precision greater than just that needed to transform light into a heated weapon, especially while holding a fit, grown woman in her arms, Ms. Marvel etches the words into the wall. As she does, one of the creatures, the one that had most recently assaulted Justice in a forceful body-check, turns, barks something in its infernal vocabulary, then breaks from the room, the same way it came in. When Marvel finishes the words, the creatures have not changed their actions, casting doubt that they even understand the English language... or even care.

The dark creature -- the one that grappled near the ceiling with the Toad and was immobilized by Justice -- now stands to one side of the room, with a full view of Ms. Marvel's message on the wall. It makes no sudden move, but lifts its hands slowly, as if to say it has no hostile intent.

Then: BOOM! The sound of a blast can be heard from the back of the mansion over the crackling of the roaring flames.

Fierce Brute adds d6 to Doom Pool

Doom Pool: 2d6, 3d8, 3d10, d12 +d6 = 3d6, 3d8, 3d10, d12

The creature that attacked Iron Man and many of the others in the room, including producing a dark cloud that still stays around She-Hulk, crouches at the ready facing the creature that put its hands up, which now turns to each of its opponents, then slowly reaches a hand to motion toward the fire that rages near the back of the mansion, with flames threatening to overtake the foyer in which the combatants stand, silent and largely unmoving.

Next Action: Justice, Captain Marvel

Justice nodded approvingly at Ms. Marvel writing "Excellent thinking Ma'm..." he said as he measured the reaction of the fiends.

Something clicked in his mind "They want us to help put the fire out..." he told her "I'll cover the whole area with force field and try to smother the flames."

Lifting both hands in the air Justice flex his fingers, he never tried to create such a large force-field nor did he try to smother fire with it before. The flame begun to glow with purple glow as he wove thread of force into the pouring more and more power creating a force-field so tight not even oxygen can pass through it.

OOC
INTENT: Remove Fire complication
POOL: Team (d10), Brave New Warrior (d8),  Supernatural Durability (d10),  Combat Expert (d8), Force field stunt Stunt (D8) (Cost 1 PP)
ROLL: 18:16, Today: Justice rolled 1,2,10,1,6 using d10,d8,d10,d8,d8 with rolls of 1,2,10,1,6.  Remove fire complication.
TOTAL:16/D8/D8
RESULT: ?

PP 2 - 1(Stunt) +1 (opportunity)
Next: Ms. Marvel

Carol is sensing the newfound cooperation between them and the "monsters" that are most likely allies instead of enemies. It's good to finally make a situation better rather then worse. She also is going to help eradicate the flames again by taking the flame energy into her body.

Carol is going to absorb the fire's energy.
Team: d10
Homeland Security Hero (however, she's still a bit shaken): d4
Energy Blast (SFX Energy Absorption 1pp): d8
Cosmic Expert: d8

Captain Marvel rolled 6,7,4,1

Total: 11 Effect: d8
1 Opportunity

2pp

Reaction: Indoor Fire complication

Add d8 to Doom Pool from Justice's Opportunities

Doom Pool (3d6, 3d8, 3d10, d12) reaction to Justice's attempt to remove Indoor Fire Scene Complication, Total: 16, Effect: d8 (msg #160):
Justice Physical Stress d10

Watcher rolled 4,1,6,5,8,1,2,4,10,6 using d6,d6,d6,d8,d8,d8,d10,d10,d10,d10 ((4,1,6,5,8,1,2,4,10,6)).

Total: 18, Effect: d10
Higher reacting Effect die steps acting Effect down, to d6
2 Opportunities (available first to Justice)

Attempt fails

*****
Add d6 to Doom Pool from Captain Marvel's Opportunity

Doom Pool (3d6, 3d8, 3d10, d12) reaction to Captain Marvel's attempt to absorb fire, Total: 11, Effect: d8 (msg #161):
Captain Marvel Mental Stress d8

Watcher rolled 3,4,6,5,4,5,3,8,7,5 using d6,d6,d6,d8,d8,d8,d10,d10,d10,d8 ((3,4,6,5,4,5,3,8,7,5)).

Total: 15, Effect: d10
Higher reacting Effect die steps acting Effect down, to d6

Attempt fails

Doom Pool: 3d6, 3d8, 3d10, d12 +d8 +d6 = 4d6, 4d8, 3d10, d12

The visual representation of Justice's telekinesis glows purple over the flames in the foyer, and Captain Marvel moves into position to absorb the fire as energy, but, as clever as the heroes' intentions are, the blaze in their vicinity represents only a fraction of the total fire -- which Marvel saw begin -- and even as they ably extinguish the flames near them, the fire rages on in the back of the mansion.

"Get away," a voice says from the back of the room. The sound is quiet, one that can barely be heard over the crackling of the flames nearby, and metallic, as if it escapes from an old, computerized voice-modulator. Iron Man has been silent since entering the mansion, with a chance that the attack by the creature sliding through the room had been critical, yet the Avenger has stayed standing, but hunched over, as if nursing a great pain in his torso, holding his stomach with one arm and his head with the other hand, his movements jerky and his joints creaking. "All these monsters... have to... get away..." he says, the voice, already low, cracking through its modulation. His head turns, surveying the room, but his helmet hides the life within his eyes. "Get away..." he says, rising to stand upright, revealing a lower torso plate that has been broken open, spilling wires like human innards, with dangling, sparking cables. "Get away," he says, the voice clear and loud now. His arms reach to his sides and fingers stretch at the ready, and illumination bursts from the center of his chest, lighting the room more intensely than the nearby fire. "GET AWAY FROM ME!" he cries, then promptly stretches his arms before him, and thin pods click and pop from the backs of his forearms. Before any of the figures in the room can decipher what is happening, missiles launch from the armor's pods and scream through the room, crashing and exploding into foe and friend alike. The missiles are tiny but carry an impressive, explosive payload -- surely one of Tony Stark's most effective, and deadliest, creations, now used against all on view in front of him, including his own allies.

Spend d10 from Doom Pool to add Iron Man

Iron Man physical attack on Justice, Ms. Marvel, Captain Marvel, Shadowy Demon, Dark Basilisk, Ebon Fiend:
Solo  d10
Cutting Edge Tech    d4
(step up Doom Pool die)
Cybernetic Senses     d6
Missiles    d8 (Boost: Step Up Missiles; Shutdown Supersonic Flight)
Area Attack    5d6
Tech Master      d10
Indoor Fire Scene Complication    d8

Iron Man rolled 2,2,4,1,5,3,4,2,2,4,8 using d10,d4,d6,d8,d6,d6,d6,d6,d6,d10,d8 ((2,2,4,1,5,3,4,2,2,4,8)).

Total: 13, Effect: d10 to Shadowy Demon, Dark Basilisk; d6 to Ebon Fiend, Justice, Captain Marvel, Ms. Marvel

1 Opportunity (available to whoever claims it first)

Doom Pool: 4d6, 4d8, 3d10, d12 -d10 (-d6/+d8) = 3d6, 5d8, 2d10, d12

Reactions Needed: Justice, Ms. Marvel, Captain Marvel, Shadowy Demon, Dark Basilisk, Ebon Fiend

The creature nearest to Iron Man -- the one who has taken a defensive stance in front of Justice after attacking the young hero with a blade -- takes the brunt of the explosive attack, as well as being assaulted from its blind-side and likely surprised by the action. The missiles erupt into the creature in a direct hit, the dark cloud around it offering no protection from the volley of launched projectiles. "Aaah -- !" the female creature gasps in no alien language as it falls to the floor, the savage attack tearing apart the dark mist around it and likely the body underneath it but masked by the explosion. The katana it was holding falls to the floor, dissipating into the same dark smoke when it leaves its grasp.

Bladed Wyvern eliminated
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Reaction to Iron Man's missile barrage.
Team d8, Moonstone d8, Durability d10, Protective Light Asset d8, Combat d8
Dice Pool d10, 4d8, rolled for 10,7,8,8,7.
Total 15, d10 effect, no opportunities.
Current PP: 1

---

Calm down Iron Man (inflict mental stress)
Team d8, Psychotherapist d8, Energy Blast stepped up to d12, Blinding Flash d6, Psyche 2d8
Dice Pool: d12, 4d8, d6, rolled for 11,6,6,1,7,5. Spending 1 PP to add a die.
Total 24, d8, 1 opportunity (d6 to Doom Pool for 1 PP)
Current PP: 1

Ms. Marvel snarled at the sight of Iron Man's barrage of high-tech weaponry, and she steeled herself against the impact. Karla swept her body over a still-unconscious Black Widow, and willed her protective field to take the brunt of Tony's attack.

Ms. Marvel rose up effortlessly into the once she was sure Natasha was safe and the impact subsided. She quickly glided to the forefront of where Iron Man was evidently losing it.

As Moonstone, Karla Sofen often dealt with unhinged people, and it was her talent for getting them under control that kept the villainous psychotherapist in demand. Now, Karla hoped she could translate this skill into coralling Tony into submission.

Ms. Marvel gave off a subtle shimmer if gold-white light, radiating the energy as a series  calming pulses. She bathed the entire area in this soothing light, and Karla spoke in a low, methodical tone that she developed from hard-won experience. "Iron Man--" began Ms. Marvel, before correcting herself, "--Tony. I need you to get yourself under control. You are hurting people, and you are endagering Natasha. Someone is screwing with our minds, our perceptions, Tony. I need you to right yourself and fix things, because that is what you do, Stark. Fix. Things."

Karla held her breath, hoping that her words and the shifting cascade of light would be enough to shut down Iron Man's assault.

Typical Tony, Carol thinks, most likely to be a threat to his friends as not at any given moment. But, yeah, either he's out of control or his armor is. Typical Tony.

Carol is going to defend against the missles by swatting and punching them hopefully before they have a chance to explode.

Team: d10
Take-Charge Attitude: d8
SFX: Multipower (1pp)
     Superhuman Strength: d8
     Superhuman Durability: d8
Combat Expert: d8

Captain Marvel rolled 2,6,8,4,10

Total: 18, Effect: d8

Leaving the Opportunity for someone else to use

1pp

Justice eyes grew wide with shock and sense of betrayal "No Mr. Start they... we are not the enemy..."

It was too late the missiles trailed away leaving a trail of carnage and destruction in their path.

Today Justice powers were stretched beyond anything he ever did, not even in the deadliest fight with the New Warriors did he found himself so strained, physically, emotionally and mentally. Whenever the young man thought he had reached his limit he found he needed to push more and push he did.

He grabbed the missiles, all of them... all he could see and hold... he could not hold them together, not for long so he aimed them high into the sky into a force funnel he created directing their explosions away from the people in the foyar away where his forcefield could bear the brunt of the attack.


OOC
INTENT: Defend against Iron Man attack
POOL: Team (d10), Struggling Idealist (d4),  Supernatural Durability (d8) + Telekinetic Mastery (D8) (Multipower),  Combat Expert (d8), Iron Man Physical Stress (D10) force field funnel (D10) (Cost 1 PP)
ROLL:22:13, Today: Justice rolled 2,2,4,7,7,6,9 using 1d10,1d4,1d8,1d8,1d8,1d10,1d10 with rolls of 2,2,4,7,7,6,9.  Defending Ironman attack.
TOTAL:15/D10/-
RESULT: Deflected

Spend PP to create Deflected Missiles

PP 2 + 1 (Distinction) -1 Stunt -1 Asset = 1

The heroes are able to take care of Iron Man's missiles -- deflecting off Ms. Marvel's force-shield, avoided by Captain Marvel, Justice sending them upward -- but while there is no bodily harm done from them, the foyer and mansion in general takes a beating. In particular, the ceiling where Justice sends the deadly projectiles blasts apart, letting much of what was above come crashing down onto the ground floor. The wreckage is away from the beings in the room -- Justice sent the missiles away the combatants -- but the crashing of what was above to where they are shrinks the room with debris. The detritus that Justice was able to lift with his mind is now itself buried. If there was little hope for escape through the front of the mansion before, there is even less now.

Meanwhile, the creatures that were also targets of Iron Man's attacks rally unto themselves. The one that attacked Toad seems to disappear between volleys of missiles, its dark mist swallowing it, then reappearing in mist at a different location across the room, in repeat succession. The scent of peppermint momentarily overrides the stench of smoke from the nearby fire. When the launching of missiles finally end, the creature finally comes to rest near its fallen ally, the one first taken out by Iron Man's weapons. The creature who originally attacked Iron Man on its way into the room creates a barrier of darkness around it but it comes too late, with missiles evading the defense and exploding around the creature, bringing it low, but it still stands.

Add d6 to Doom Pool from Ms. Marvel's Opportunity

Defending from Ms. Marvel's mental attack, Total: 24, Effect: d8 (msg #164):
Solo    d10
Hardheaded Futurist (knowing he's falling apart)    d4
(step up Doom Pool die)
Superhuman Durability    d10
Indoor Fire Scene Complication    d8

Iron Man rolled 6,2,9,3 using d10,d4,d10,d8 ((6,2,9,3)).

Total: 15, Effect: d8
Extraordinary Success steps acting Effect die to d10

The pods that launched Iron Man's missiles click repeatedly -- his ammunition perhaps empty, but before he can order another wave of weapons, Ms. Marvel is in front of him. He looks up at her, his helmet still covering up the life his eyes might show. His hands close over his palms, his arms lower, his body betrays a guard dropping. "What..." he stammers through the crackling voice-modulator, and looks at his hands. "I..." he sputters, looking back up at Marvel, then around the room that is coming down around them or in the process of doing so, with that disaster on one side and fire on the other.

Just as Iron Man silently lifts his head toward the top of the stairway leading to the second floor of the mansion, a figure stumbles from the back of the mansion. The costume exhibits the presence of Pyro, the mutant master of fire. His mask is askew, his goggles shattered, and the lower of his half of his face covered in blood, but more notably is his orange-and-red outfit singed black and smoldering. He may have been able to resist whatever energy had been brought to bear against him, but he could not fully defend against it. As such, as he stumbles into the foyer among the other combatants, he spits a mouthful of blood then falls face-first to the floor.

Fierce Brute adds d6 to Doom Pool


Doom Pool: 3d6, 5d8, 2d10, d12 +d6 (-d6/+d8) +d6 = 4d6, 6d8, 2d10, d12

Next Action: Justice, Captain Marvel

The creature kneeling by its ally who was felled is enveloped by its surrounding mist, along with the other, and when the obscuration clears they are gone, leaving only the overwhelming stench of peppermint.

Following Pyro from the back of the mansion, a creature walks back into the foyer, matching the same one that attacked Justice then left, holding another creature across its shoulders, their dark mists intermingling, lit from behind by the raging fire in the back of the mansion.

Karla looks around, trying to make sense of what's going on around her.

Justice gaze follows Ms. Marvel "I think there is a third... or fourth party involved. The Brotherhood seemed to have a plan and beside, those demons attacked Toad. If someone is masking their appearance from us. He must be invisible or very powerful telepath to do this remotely. Any idea how to break his illusions?"

"I'm a bit stymied, to be honest," admitted the new Ms. Marvel. She knew the monsters she saw seemed to be working collaboratively, showing mercy, even avoiding combat with her and the other Avengers in an uneasy, vague truce. Ironically, the woman who spent her adult life studying the human mind was at a loss to explain what amounted to mass hallucinations targeting the two different factions. "But I believe our focus needs to remain getting this fire under control. This, sadly, is well out of my wheelhouse. Is there anyway you can use your mind powers to deprive the fire of oxygen on a large scale?" offered Karla, before explaining, "My talents are more...offensive."

The creature that removed an ally from the foyer reappears next to the creature that re-entered the room carrying another. The smell of peppermint mixes with that of smoke.

Iron Man shudders, stumbling back and holding his head then looking at his hands. “I... I don’t know what happened. I saw... saw... horrible things. Things I thought were coming to... to... I thought they were --” His head jerks up toward the top of the staircase, as if hearing or seeing something that no one else senses.

She-Hulk stops her silent climb up the foyer stairs and turns to face the rest of the room.  The steps have been surprisingly intact through the fighting, enough to still gain access to the upper floors of the mansion, and enough to make a stand. The jade giantess had been covered by a thick layer of the same mist that swirls around the enemy creatures, applied by the same creature that attacked Iron Man initially, not enough to disguise her as a creature, but enough to slow her movement. Now, as she turns and flexes her mighty muscles, the mist explodes around her, falling in pieces.

Spend d10 from Doom Pool to add She-Hulk
Spend d10 from Doom Pool to remove Dark Tendrils Complication from She-Hulk


Doom Pool: 4d6, 6d8, 2d10, d12 -d10 -d10 = 4d6, 6d8, d12

A woman’s cackle from the top of the room shatters any tranquility that had come over the room with its momentary dearth of violence: “HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.” The fire still crackles as it rages but the laughter instantly rises above it, challenging it as the greatest threat in the immediate vicinity.

The creature that sparred with Ms. Marvel and that Justice kept under his telekinetic hold turns to the stairs and issues a garbled proclamation. It hops into the air then shuttles straight to the top of the stairs but its path is a collision-course with the silent, assured She-Hulk. There is a chance it could have sped past the giantess but She-Hulk's dexterity is great and her reach is greater. In an assured move, She-Hulk's backhand glides through the air to collide with the creature just as it comes to pass by, causing an explosive impact -- KRAKKK! -- and sending the creature in a faster trajectory across the room, straight into a wall. The creature crashes into the interior structure, not going through it but leaving a massive dent before falling, unconscious and battered, to the littered floor.

She-Hulk adds d8 to the Doom Pool
Violent Wraith eliminated

She-Hulk, making no sound and with a look of tranquility across her face, recovers her certain stance on the stairs, blocking any way to the top, from where the cackle erupts again: “HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.”

Doom Pool: 4d6, 6d8, d12 +d8 = 4d6, 7d8, d12

Next Action: Justice, Ms. Marvel, Captain Marvel

That cackle was unnerving, worse it seem that whomever obscurate their vision also controlled their teammates "I'll create a distraction you two get upstairs and takeout whomever it is..." he told the Marvel duo.

"I am sorry She-Hulk..." he said to the woman who saved his life just a few minutes ago, he created a torrent of debris spinning it around the woman and the stairs, he did not try to harm her just have her distracted to let the Marvel duo pass her unmolested.

OOC
INTENT: Create Distraction asset
POOL: Team (d10), Den of Infernal Creatures (d4),  Telekinetic Mastery (D10),  Combat Expert (d8), She Hulk Mental Stress (D6)
ROLL:21:24, Today: Justice rolled 5,1,7,2,2 using d10,d4,d10,d8,d6 with rolls of 5,1,7,2,2.  Create asset.
TOTAL:12+2 (spend PP)=14/D10/1d6
RESULT: ?

PP: 1 + 1  (Distinctions) -1 (Add effect dice) +1 (Opportunity) =2

Add d6 to Doom Pool from Justice's Opportunity

Doom Pool (4d6, 7d8, d12) reaction to Justice's attempt to create Distracted Complication on She-Hulk, Total: 14, Effect: d10:
Justice Physical Stress   d10

Watcher rolled 1,5,3,5,2,8,1,7,3,2,4,10 using d6,d6,d6,d6,d8,d8,d8,d8,d8,d8,d8,d10 ((1,5,3,5,2,8,1,7,3,2,4,10)).

Total: 18, Effect: d8
2 Opportunities (available first to Justice)

Doom Pool: 4d6, 7d8, d12 +d6 = 5d6, 7d8, d12

Justice shifts the debris with his mighty telekinesis, not clearing it but moving it, possibly in someone else's way. He lifts it to float around his teammate but She-Hulk, staring out at the room with glassy, unblinking eyes, is unphased by the junk moving around her. Since it would scarcely harm her irradiated hide, it is not likely she would have been moved by the trash around her anyway. Still she stands in the way toward the location of the ghastly laughter at the top of the stairs.

Meanwhile, the creature who just re-entered the room with the other creature on its back and which had previously body-checked Justice, steps up and turns toward the stairs, with dark energy forming around its hands, arms, and torso, pointed toward She-Hulk.

Fierce Brute Physical attack on She-Hulk:
Team    d8
Den of Infernal Creatures    d8
Dark Energy Blast    d8
Combat Expert    d8
She-Hulk Physical Stress    d6

Total: 15, Effect: d6

Fierce Brute adds d8 the Doom Pool

Doom Pool: 5d6, 7d8, d12 +d8 = 5d6, 8d8, d12

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 6,2,1,4 using d6,d8,d10,d8 ((6,2,1,4)).

Total: 10, Effect: d8
Extraordinary Success steps acting Effect die to d8

She-Hulk takes Physical Stress d8

The creature that gathered energy unto itself at the foot of the stairs finally unleashes an onslaught of dark energy from its fist, hurtling toward She-Hulk and blasting her with such concussive force that she staggers back, cracking the steps around her and leaving the staircase visibly unstable. Then She-Hulk recovers her footing and comes to stand at full height again and, smoldering from the blast, resumes her position of standing tall and silently looking blankly at the rest of the room, still blocking the way to the top of the stairs.
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"We don't have time for this," Ms. Marvel grumbled, her will shifting her body into an immaterial state. "Stark, get those fires under control! I'm sure you have some kind of high-tech fire suppression system somewhere in that suit if yours!"

Karla floated upwards. "Marvel B--Justice," she corrected herself. She needed the young man to cover her, and denigrating him was not useful. "Keep She-Hulk busy. I'll deal with whatever's upstairs, hopefully stop this...illusion mess."

With that, she phased through the the ceiling and into the room Jen Walters seemed to be guarding.

I guess I'm creating a Sneaking Up asset. I'm leaving Black Widow on the ground, I guess.

Team d8, Mansion d4, Intangibility d10, Ghostly d8, Combat d8
Dice Pool d10, 3d8, d4, rolled for 7,3,6,5,4.
Spending 1 PP to add a die.
Total 18, d8 effect, no opportunities.
Current PP: 1

Captain Marvel Next!

Ms. Marvel sets the prone Black Widow on the floor near the kitchen, the only place where there is not part of the structure around the team falling to the floor or anything on fire... at least not yet.  Then she rises through the ceiling where it becomes the floor of the landing at the top of the stairs and the entry to the upper floor of the mansion.

Doom Pool (5d6, 8d8, d12) reaction to Ms. Marvel's attempt to create Sneaking Up Asset, Total: 18, Effect: d8:
Indoor Fire Scene Complication d8

Watcher rolled 2,4,4,4,3,5,7,8,3,4,7,1,7,5,6 using d6,d6,d6,d6,d6,d8,d8,d8,d8,d8,d8,d8,d8,d12,d8 ((2,4,4,4,3,5,7,8,3,4,7,1,7,5,6)).

Total: 15, Effect: d12
Extraordinary Success steps acting Effect die to d6
1 Opportunity (available first to Ms. Marvel)

Sneaking Up d6 Asset created

+1 XP to Ms. Marvel for d12 in Doom Pool used in reaction roll

Other than the fire, there is no other activity in the room, and the sudden calm is unnerving, as if it carries the promise of a storm. You all know all too well that in a world like yours, the calmer the environment, the more calamitous the oncoming disaster.

The creature that attacked Justice then left the room then returned switches its lower appendages and gains a sturdier stance, done with one volley of blasts directed at She-Hulk on the stairs, and steels itself, arms outstretched, for another.

Fierce Brute Physical attack on She-Hulk:
Team    d8
Den of Infernal Creatures    d8
Dark Energy Blast    d8
Combat Expert    d8
She-Hulk Physical Stress    d8

Total: 10, Effect: d8

Fierce Brute adds d6 the Doom Pool

Doom Pool: 5d6, 8d8, d12 +d6 = 6d6, 8d8, d12
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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

‘And that what happens when you grow soft’

The she-hulk was obviously still under the control of the man upstairs, but that didn’t matter.  He wasn’t going to wait till she made her move on him; he had no qualms about throwing the first punch.  OR hitting a woman, for that matter.

He stared into the eyes of the amazon just long enough to figure something was off.  Once he did, his training kicked in: setting his entire body in motion, he stepped forward and threw a vicious punch right at her gut, intending to catch her by surprise and end the fight quickly



OOC:

Solo 1d6, Uncompromising 1d8, Enhanced Strength 1d8, Menace Expert 1d8, She-Hulk physical stress 1d8

Today, Bishop rolled 5,7,5,4,5 using 1d6,1d8,1d8,1d8,1d8 with rolls of 5,7,5,4,5 resist intimidation

Using 1 PP to add 1 dice to the total.  Total: 5+7+5 = 17, effect 1d8.  Intimidation attack resisted.

Using 1 PP for opportunity to inflict 1d8 physical stress on She-Hulk, stepping up her physical stress to 1d10

PP total: 4-2= 2

She-Hulk takes d8 Emotional Stress from Bishop's counter-attack


Bishop throws his punches at She-Hulk but he soon finds the only damage done is to his own hands, against the indestructible hide of the jade giantess. She does not move in the slightest, but looks down at the mutant, without a hint of recognition or emotion in her eyes. As Bishop's punches connect to the stone wall of her guts and the bones in his hands threaten to splinter, the Avenger blinks.