The most horrible evil on the entire planet lies dormant, as always, but only just so.  Machinations hide just below the surface until the time when that vileness rises to grasp the victory to which it claims entitlement.  When is that time?  Far too soon.

Fortunately for the inhabitants of that planet, if not the universe, there are valiant and noble heroes that rise to resist those villains.  It will not be easy and this may be their most formidable challenge yet but they will never stop until that evil is vanquished.  But that evil, also, will not stop, until it meets a greater force.  This, now, is that story.

​So often the greatest epics begin from the humblest beginnings.

The near-legendary hero known as Hawkeye has often been known as the loosest cannon of the Avengers but he has also been one of the most loyal. His dedication is known far and wide to a team that has changed over a great many years. The current incarnation is not commonly known to the public, as the Avengers have not had need to handle many global emergencies of late. It's not that the Avengers are not present in some form, it's just that they are not so necessary. A strange sort of calm has settled over the world this summer, a status that would seem odd if anyone had been more aware of it. As it is, life has continued for everyone without a particular threat. But that does not mean that danger is not present, that perhaps it is just not above the surface, and it certainly does not promise that there is not a great threat just over a near horizon. But the grandest sagas must take one event at a time, and there must be an inciting incident, perhaps one that is plain to the eye, or perhaps one that has been buried in the past, forgotten or not realized in the first place, but not minimizing its great importance.

Hawkeye has called together a patchwork of heroes to investigate and urgently shut down a Hydra base at the docks on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. A number of champions have taken the call, whether they be Avengers or otherwise. This combination of heroes, numbering perhaps as many as dozen, have not had cause to come together in the past but their teamwork and dedication to each other, as well as to the mighty name of the Avengers, could now be the thing that will allow them to triumph, if not simply just to survive to see another adventure.

Hercules was first to arrive at the location, despite not knowing exactly where he was meant to go.  The god was nearby and the location that Hawkeye inferred was not the most difficult to find: It's not a run-down part of town but it's certainly empty, even in this early, late June evening. A lot of buildings are boarded-up and uninteresting to tourists, despite their proximity to the Brooklyn Bridge. There is no one else up and down the shadowy street, just the occasional car down FDR, but Hercules found the one building with a few fellows in leather jackets smoking outside. The building does not look occupied but it's the only activity in the area.
Hercules strode up to the building and bellowed, "Ho, fellows! Hercules is here! Now where is my compatriot?" then glanced around to see if Hawkeye was on the scene as well.
The three very average-looking men gazed at him in something like surprise and disbelief but said nothing. The one to the side reached into his leather jacket then halted. The one in the back, closest to the building, raised his arm and spoke into his cuff, too quietly to hear. The only movement from the one in front, the one closest to Hercules, was the plume of smoke coming from the cigarette in the side of his mouth.
Hercules's brows knitted together and a frown twisted his beard. "Mortals, the son of Zeus has addressed you! Be warned, I brook no disrespect. Find your tongues and answer!"
None of the three men moved a hair. Their faces were still pulled blank with no expression but maybe the faintest disbelief. The cigarette in the front guy's mouth wavered just a bit as he spoke. "Uh...," he mutters. "Hail Hydra?"
A ferocious grin split Hercules' face. "That, mortal, was a poor choice of words indeed!" Then he reached a beefy hand for the man's jacket front.
Little does Hercules know that there is another figure lurking in the shadows, ready to strike. Is it friend... or foe?

Starting Doom Pool: 2d6
Scene Distinctions: DOWNTOWN AT NIGHT, WAREHOUSE ENTRANCE UNDER FDR DRIVE, EMPTY STREETS.

Initiative:
Hercules
Iron Fist
Hydra Guard A (with the cigarette)
Hydra Guard B (with the hand in jacket)
Hydra Guard C (with the cuff)

First Action: Hercules.
Put together your dice pool. ​Let me see your dice pool before you roll it. ​Post it as you normally would and I'll approve it then you can roll.​ You won't have to do this every time -- you can post your dice pools and roll results together when you take your turn, but just as we're starting out and everyone is getting used to the format and we have some players who have never played the game before, I'd like to look over dice pool intentions before they become set in stone. I could also catch any dice you might have missed to include.​

End the post with whose reaction will need to roll for your action then pick the next character to go. For the next player, you might want to wait until the first action is resolved, though I don't honestly know how best that would play out -- the next turn going regardless of the outcome of the action or waiting for it.

The rest of the heroes have not yet arrived to the scene. The Human Torch and Spider-Man are close. For others, please reply to private messages to resolve events to set up characters and get them to the location.

Hercules scoops the HYDRA agent before him, draws his arm back, and pitches the man into the other two. "I accept your surrender," he says magnanimously, "for even now my fair companions must be pining away to nothing in my absence."


I'm going with:

Solo d10
Party Animal d4 -- Hercules has had a few, and his head might not exactly be in the game
Area Attack (3 targets) 2d6
Godlike Strength d12
Combat Expert d8

... gaining +1 PP for using the d4 and keeping three effect dice for Area Attack.

Status: PS:00 ES:00 MS:00 PP: 1 XP:00

edited to add: This will require reactions from all three agents.

This message was last edited by the player at 04:05, Fri 06 Nov 2015.

That looks good to me. Roll it!

And pick who goes next.
This message was last edited by the GM at 05:50, Fri 06 Nov 2015.

01:17, Today: Hercules rolled 2,8,2,8,2 using d12,d10,d8,2d6,d4 with rolls of 2,8,2,5,3,2.  HYDRA bowling.

Okay, I'm taking the d10 (8) and the d6 (5) for my total, 13.

I'll use the d12, the d8, and one of the d6 for my effect dice. The d12 goes to Guard A since he'll get the brunt of the impact, the d8 to Guard B, and the d6 to Guard C.

Guard B can go next.

Status: PS:00 ES:00 MS:00 PP: 2 XP:00

Reaction to Hercules's Area Attack, Total: 13; Effect: d12, happening simultaneously with attacks to Hydra Guards B & C:
Team    d8 +
Goon (Hercules is a lot bigger in person)    d4 +
(+d6 to Doom Pool)
Hydra Armor    d6

Hydra Guard A rolled 7,1,3 using d8,d4,d6 ((7,1,3)). Total: 10, Effect: d4

Hydra Guard A takes d12 physical stress

1 Opportunity if you wish to activate it

Doom Pool: 2d6 + d6

Status: PS:d12 ES:00 MS:00

The lead Hydra guard, still reeling from a real-life hero walking right up to him, is now reeling from being lifted from his feet and thrown into his compatriots. He considers that every bone in his body has been broken and his vision starts to tunnel.

Reaction to Hercules's Area Attack, Total: 13; Effect: d8, happening simultaneously with attacks to Hydra Guards A & C:
Team    d8 +
Follower (no order to attack)    d4 +
(+d6 to Doom Pool)
Hydra Armor    d6

Hydra Guard B rolled 8, 3, 1 using d8, d4, d6 ((8,3,1)). Total: 11, Effect: d4

Hydra Guard A takes d8 physical stress

1 Opportunity if you wish to activate it. (Can you claim more than one opportunity?)

Doom Pool: 3d6 + d6

Status: PS:d8 ES:00 MS:00

Like a good soldier, the other Hydra guard would have drawn his weapon and viciously attacked the hero if he had only been given the order. Now he's trying to literally catch the fool that was chosen to head this squad and feels like his lungs are broken and he's on the ground. That moron is barely moving so maybe it's time to take the initiative and matters into his own hands and deal with this hero himself.

Since they already seem rattled, I'll spend the PP to  use Guard A's opportunity to create a d10 Stunt for my Menace Expert ability. Call it No One Said We Had to Fight a God!

I'll save my other PP, so I won't be activating any other opportunities just yet.

Status: PS:00 ES:00 MS:00 PP: 1 XP:00

Stunt: No One Said We Had to Fight a God! (Menace) d10

Reaction to Hercules's Area Attack, Total: 13; Effect: d6, happening simultaneously with attacks to Hydra Guards A & B:
Team    d8 +
Street-Level Flunkie (already called in an alert so hopefully help will be here soon)    d4 +
(+d6 to Doom Pool)
Hydra Armor    d6

Hydra Guard C rolled 3,2,4 using d8,d4,d6 ((3,2,4)). (They roll like Hydra goons) Total: 6, Effect: d6 + 1 Step, extraordinary success - 1 Step, higher Effect die

Hydra Guard A takes d6 physical stress

Doom Pool: 4d6 + d6

Status: PS:d6 ES:00 MS:00

Staying in the back has its advantages. The third guard almost dodged the next guard falling into him. He got hit pretty hard in his side but clearly not as bad as the other two. He followed his orders -- calling in anything out of the ordinary, and surely this counts -- so hopefully the others will show soon and this doesn't turn into more pain.
This message was last edited by the player at 02:13, Sat 07 Nov 2015.

No One Said We Had to Fight a God! (Menace) d10 Stunt is approved.

The realization that they might be fighting not just a hero, not just an Avenger, but a god is dawning on the three Hydra guards. Too bad it's not dawning fast enough for them to flee.
This message was last edited by the GM at 02:15, Sat 07 Nov 2015.

Forget this, he thinks. Forget this completely. That order isn't coming fast enough. Von Strucker would approve of taking the initiative and eliminating an imminent threat. He takes his trusted sidearm from his jacket pocket and aims it at the hero, just as he intended when this medieval buffoon walked up, then pulls the trigger. And that can't possibly be the real Hercules, could it?

Attack on Hercules with Kirby-like pistol:
Team d8 +
Goon (making a name for himself by taking out a hero)    d8 +
Small Arms d6

Hydra Guard B rolled 8,2,3 using d8,d8,d6 ((8,2,3)).

Total: 11, Effect: d8.

Status: PS:d8 ES:00 MS:00

Reaction Needed: Hercules, to Hydra Guard B attack
Next: Hydra Guard C

Doom Pool: 5d6

A blast zips from the pistol -- betraying its modest size -- and pelts Hercules square in his chest.
This message was last edited by the player at 04:13, Sat 07 Nov 2015.

Well, the blast certainly got Hercules's attention. Of course, the guard now has a very large and angry Olympian bearing down on him, seemingly unfazed by the blast...



Solo d10
Prince of Power d8
Superhuman Durability d10
Combat Expert d8


23:22, Today: Hercules rolled 10,3,2,7 using d10,d10,d8,d8.

Total 17, Effect d10.

Since I beat his roll by over 5, I'll spend my other PP to use my d10 as an effect to create d10 emotional stress on him.

Status: PS:00 ES:00 MS:00 PP: 0 XP:00

Stunt: No One Said We Had to Fight a God! (Menace) d10

Seeing the blast zim off of the hero's chest would normally send an assailant cowering away but instead it's only strengthened the resolve of the third guard. Their wills and abilities have been honed steel-hard after their Hydra training, after all. Maybe if they all shoot at this guy, they can take him down.

Attack on Hercules with pistol:
Team d8 +
Follower (mimicking the other guard)    d8 +
Small Arms d6

Hydra Guard C rolled 3,3,1 using d8,d8,d6 ((3,3,1)).

Total: 6, Effect: d4

Status: PS:d6 ES:00 MS:00

Reaction Needed: Hercules, to Hydra Guard C attack
Next: Hydra Guard A

Doom Pool: 5d6
This message was last edited by the player at 17:55, Sat 07 Nov 2015.

Hawkeye arrives flying low on a Quin cycle to where he is suppose to rendezvous with the rest of the other heroes. He was hoping that Iron Fist was able to do as he said and reconnoiter the base and its defense.

Hercules shrugs off the second stinging blast. "Beware, lest I lose my temper!"



Same reaction. If HG A shoots at me as well, I'll use the same reaction as well.

Solo d10
Prince of Power d8
Superhuman Durability d10
Combat Expert d8

13:05, Today: Hercules rolled 7,5,8,8 using d10,d10,d8,d8.

Total 15, Effect d10. No PPs to activate the effect, so I'm done.

Status: PS:00 ES:00 MS:00 PP: 0 XP:00

Stunt: No One Said We Had to Fight a God! (Menace) d10

The lead guard, the one who was in the front, lies prone on the ground, surely feeling his ribs ground to dust inside himself as he moves. Yet the other two had their shots on this hero and he's not going to let them show him up. He has his pistol, so with what could be his last, painful breath, he'll take his shot too.

Attack on Hercules with pistol:
Team d8 +
Street-Level Flunkie    d8 +
Small Arms d6

Hydra Guard A rolled 3,4,5 using d8,d8,d6 ((3,4,5)).

Total: 8, Effect: d8

Status: PS:d12 ES:00 MS:00

Reaction Needed: Hercules, to Hydra Guard A attack
Next: Iron Fist (once Hercules makes his reaction, Fist can go, you don't need me to approve it. The next round starts after that)

Doom Pool: 5d6
This message was last edited by the player at 19:04, Sat 07 Nov 2015.

Hawkeye had assumed he would be able to find the base that Cap directed him to without specific directions and this time it turns out he was correct. Flying low over the area, he hears the familiar bellow of his fellow Avenger Hercules. It takes a minute to find where he is, and thereby the Hydra base, but he gets there.

In reply to Hydra Guard A (msg # 16):

Unfortunately for the guard, his attack is no more effective than his fellows'.



Solo d10
Prince of Power d8
Superhuman Durability d10
Combat Expert d8

14:06, Today: Hercules rolled 5,8,2,3 using d10,d10,d8,d8.

Total: 13, effect; d8

Status: PS:00 ES:00 MS:00 PP: 0 XP:00

Stunt: No One Said We Had to Fight a God! (Menace) d10

Danny runs forwards as blaster fire erupts, striking Hercules.  It seems to be ineffective at this point, but why let the Olympian have all the fun.

Covering the ground quickly, he launches himself into a flying kick at the nearest Hydra agent.

"You guys should know by now that Avengers never travel alone."


Milestones in play: Immortal Weapon, Avengers and Allies

Dice Pool:
Buddy - d10
Young Dragon - d4 (danny's feeling cocky)
Enhanced Strength: d8
Chi Focus SFX: d8
Combat Expert: d10


13:34, Today: Iron Fist rolled 4 using 1d10 with rolls of 4.  oops!
13:34, Today: Iron Fist rolled 14,9,5,8,1 using d19,d10,d8,d8,d5 with rolls of 14,9,5,8,1.
(ignore the d19, mistyped.  rerolled as d10.  not rerolling d5, will let opportunity stand due to my bad.)

d10:9 + d8:8 = total: 17. effect: d10. one opportunity.

(2 possible milestone hits, 1xp level for both.)

Status:PS:00 ES:00 MS:00 PP: 2 XP: ?
This message was last edited by the player at 00:26, Sun 08 Nov 2015.

Randomly choosing which Guard Iron Fist attacks:
Watcher rolled 1 using 1d3 ((1)): Hydra Guard A.

Which two dice did you combine to make your Chi Focus SFX?

Buying the opportunity: Doom Pool: 5d6 + d6 = 6d6

+1 XP for you.
"Avengers and Allies" is an unlockable.
This message was last edited by the GM at 19:54, Sun 08 Nov 2015.

With the tunnel of his vision nearly closed, the lead Hydra guard doesn't even see Iron Fist's foot as it connects with his face.

Reaction to Iron Fist's attack, Total: 17; Effect: d10:
Team    d8 +
Goon (barely conscious)    d4 +
(+d6 to Doom Pool)
Hydra Armor    d6

Hydra Guard A rolled 1,4,2 using d8,d4,d6 ((1,4,2)). Total: 6, Effect: d4. Extraordinary success x2 so he would have taken him out even without the previous stress.

Hydra Guard A is stressed out.

1 Opportunity if you wish to activate it.

Doom Pool: 6d6 + Step up lowest die = 6d6, d8.

Status: Stressed out.
This message was last edited by the player at 19:55, Sun 08 Nov 2015.

As the goons shift their aims to ready their next shots and the heroes flex in preparation of their next move, a glow appears in the sky above them: an enormous, flaming "A," ringed by a gigantic circle. You've seen this before but it was a "4" instead of an "A." This is unusual but not particularly strange, this being New York City. You don't have time to be much phased by it as the villains ready their attacks.

End of round. Next action is Iron Fist's choice.
Iron Fist
Hydra Guard B
Hydra Guard C
Hercules
Human Torch (can complete creating flaming "A" as an asset)
Spider-Man
Hawkeye
This message was last edited by the GM at 19:58, Sun 08 Nov 2015.

Going to forgo the opportunity at this time.
Did you purchase the opportunity I had rolled?

Status:PS:00 Es:00 MS:00 PP:3 XP:1
This message was last edited by the player at 20:09, Sun 08 Nov 2015.

In reply to Iron Fist (msg # 23):

Yes, I bought it. I edited msg #20 as I was figuring things out. Sorry for any confusion.

In reply to Watcher (msg # 24):

It's cool.

Next up:  Hydra Agent C

The Hydra guard in the back really thinks he got close with that last shot. Just one more and he could take this hero down!

Attack on Hercules with pistol:
Buddy d6 +
Street-Level Flunkie (thinking he really has a shot)    d8 +
(+ 1 Step to lowest Doom Pool die)
Small Arms d6

Hydra Guard C rolled 3,7,5 using d6,d8,d6 ((3,7,5)).

Total: 12, Effect: d6

Status: PS:d6 ES:00 MS:00

Reaction Needed: Hercules, to Hydra Guard C attack
Next: Hydra Guard B (will wait for Hercules to resolve action)

Doom Pool: 6d6 + 1 Step , d8 = 5d6, 2d8
This message was last edited by the player at 22:02, Mon 09 Nov 2015.

Hercules swivels his head around, ignoring the ineffective blast, as other heroes begin to show up. "Hawkeye! My companion of a hundred battles! I looked for you but I could not find you, but I found these instead! Tarry only a moment, and they will be disposed of."


<Orange>

+1 XP for Immortal Friendship milestone.

Team d6
Prince of Power d8
Superhuman Durability d10
Combat Expert d8


18:17, Today: Hercules rolled 7,5,5,6 using d10,d8,d8,d6.

Total: 13, Effect: d8

Status: PS 00, ES 00, MS 00, PP 00, XP 01

<orange>

The Hydra goon smirks to himself with the realization that he almost got Hercules. About as close as possible. But the guy still shrugged it off.

And you could have used Guard C's stress die.
This message was last edited by the player at 01:22, Tue 10 Nov 2015.

What! Another hero! Well, this one with the sash and a lot fewer muscles would only be easier to take out. He looks like he's only human. Bah. Change focus to him. Can only be easier.

Attack on Iron Fist:
Buddy d6 +
Goon (surprised by hero; switching aim)    d4 +
(+1 Step to lowest die in Doom Pool)
Small Arms d6

Hydra Guard B rolled 2,1,5 using d6,d4,d6 ((2,1,5)).

Total: 5, Effect: d6.

Status: PS:d8 ES:00 MS:00

Reaction Needed: Iron Fist, to Hydra Guard B attack
Next: Iron Fist

Initative:
Hydra Guard B
Hydra Guard C
Iron Fist
Human Torch (can complete creating flaming "A" as an asset)
Hercules
Spider-Man
Hawkeye

Doom Pool: 5d6 +1 Step, 2d8 = 4d6, 3d8 </b>

The only sound in this neighborhood -- the Hydra guards' shots and Hercules's bellowing --  becomes a grand cacophony. It could make it easier for other heroes to gather on this spot but it can only be a signal to the other Hydra troops who are inevitably near.(/explanation of Doom Pool escalation)
This message was last edited by the player at 01:38, Tue 10 Nov 2015.

Danny somersaults to avoid the gaurds shot, letting his momentum carry him closer to the agent.

Die pool-
 Buddy  d10
 Young Dragon d8
 Enhanced Reflexes d8
 Acrobatics Master d10

19:47, Today: Iron Fist rolled 5,3,6,9 using d10,d8,d8,D10 with rolls of 5,3,6,9.

Total 15  d10 effect.

Spend PP to turn effect die into counterattack doing physical stress.

Danny's Somersault brings him up to a standing position as he drives a palm-strike towards the guard's chin

Status:PS:00 MS:00 ES:00 PP:2 XP:1

Next up, Hawkeye

You could have used the Guard's stress die.

And I forgot to note the opportunity I rolled. You can still activate it if you want.

The goon's chin, jaw, teeth, and nose fuse as Iron Fist's palm makes connect, with some shrapnel making it into other parts of his face. "Argh!" he cries.

Status: PS:d10 ES:00 MS:00

Hawkeye brings the Quin cycle low as he stands up on the cycle releasing two arrows in quick succession into both of the guard. "Oh yeah, I guess this is where you expected me to say just say Assemble Avengers."


OOC:
Team D10
Peerless Marksman D8
Weapon D8
Enhanced reflexes d8
Combat Expert d10
Stress D8

Action 13  Effect d10 (guard B, D8 (Guard c   spend pp to keep extra effect
21:41, Today: Hawkeye rolled 4,20 using 2d10,4d8 with rolls of 1,3,2,5,7,6.  against guards.


Next hero who has not gone.
This message was last edited by the player at 06:47, Wed 11 Nov 2015.

Now that archer guy, and that "A" in the sky only means there'll be more. This is getting crazy.

I'll buy that opportunity from you.
+1 PP to Hawkeye.
+d6 to Doom Pool.

Reaction to Hawkeye's Attack, Total: 13; Effect: d10, happening simultaneously with attack on Hydra Guard C:
Buddy    d6 +
Follower (overwhelmed by all these heroes showing up)    d4 +
(+d6 to Doom Pool)
Hydra Armor    d6

Hydra Guard B rolled 5,2,1 using d6,d4,d6 ((5,2,1)). 1 Opportunity if you wish to activate it.

Total: 7, Effect: d10 + Extraordinary Success = d12

Hydra Guard B takes d12 physical stress

Doom Pool: 4d6, 3d8 + 2d6 = 6d6, 3d8

Status: PS:d12 ES:00 MS:00

The guard grunts as he takes an arrow in the shoulder.

Now the other guy has taken an arrow -- this just isn't going well.  But hopefully they've made enough noise that the others inside will know the heroes are here.

Reaction to Hawkeye's Attack, Total: 13; Effect: d8, happening simultaneously with attack on Hydra Guard B:
Buddy    d6 +
Follower (starting to think they're not going to win)    d4 +
(+ 1 Step to lowest Doom Pool die)
Hydra Armor    d6

Hydra Guard C rolled 2,1,3 using d6,d4,d6 ((2,1,3)). 1 Opportunity if you wish to activate it.

Total: 5, Effect: d8 + Extraordinary Success = d10

Hydra Guard B takes d10 physical stress

Doom Pool: 6d6 +1 Step, 3d8 = 6d6, 4d8

Status: PS:d10 ES:00 MS:00

Argh! An arrow in the neck! Who shoots arrows anymore?

Next: Any hero who has not gone

Initative:
Hydra Guard B
Hydra Guard C
Iron Fist
Hawkeye
Human Torch (can complete creating flaming "A" as an asset)
Hercules
Spider-Man

While the two guards are distracted gawping at all the new arrivals, Hercules strolls in, grabs each of their heads in a massive paw, thunks them together delicately, and steps back, wiping his hands and hooking his thumbs into his broad leather girdle. "Well met, Avengers, though in truth Hercules had this fray well in hand!"





Was waiting for Torch or Spidey to jump in, but...

Team d6
Party Animal d4
Godlike Strength d12
Boundless Strength d12
Combat Expert d8
Area Attack d6 +1 effect die
Guard B's stress d10

22:10, Today: Hercules rolled 11,2,7,5,6,6,4 using d12,d12,d10,d8,d6,d6,d4.

Total 18, effect dice d12 (for guard C) and d8 (for guard B).

Status: PS 00, ES 00, MS 00, PP 01, XP 01

Stunt: No One Said We Had to Fight a God! (Menace, d10)


This message was last edited by the player at 03:16, Fri 13 Nov 2015.

Just over the docks, a burning form streaks through the air, writing across the sky in flame. Within seconds a gigantic Avengers logo burns overhead, recognizable across the city. The Human Torch bursts on the scene shortly after. "There you are, Hawkeye," he calls out from the air "Been looking all over for you!"


Attempting to create an asset to rally the troops and strike fear in the hearts of our foes. Avengers Assemble!

Solo d6
Hotheaded Hero d8
Fire Mastery d8
Supersonic Flight d8 (Multipower SFX)

13:45, Today: Human Torch rolled 3,5,6,3 using 1d6,1d8,1d8,1d8.

Total = 11  Effect = d8

Status: PS:00 ES:00 MS:00 PP:00 XP:00

Asset: Avengers Assemble!

Apologies for the delay - I believe that puts Spider-Man next!

Reaction to Hercules's Attack, Total: 18; Effect: d8, happening simultaneously with attack on Hydra Guard C:
Buddy    d6 +
Goon (given up trying to fight)    d4 +
(add to Doom Pool)
Hydra Armor    d6

Hydra Guard B rolled 1,1,1 using d6,d4,d6 ((1,1,1)). Opportunities if you want to take them.
I'd imagine that would be a critical miss, if he wasn't already taken out.

Total: 0, Effect: d4

Hydra Guard B is stressed out

Doom Pool: 6d6, 3d8 + Step = 6d6, 4d8
This message was last edited by the player at 22:16, Fri 13 Nov 2015.

Reaction to Hercules's Attack, Total: 18; Effect: d12, happening simultaneously with attack on Hydra Guard B:
Buddy    d6 +
Goon (given up trying to fight)    d4 +
(add to Doom Pool)
Hydra Armor    d6

Hydra Guard C rolled 5,4,3 using d6,d4,d6 ((5,4,3)).

Total: 9, Effect: d6

Extraordinary Success puts stress at d12+ so Hydra Guard C is stressed out

Doom Pool: 6d6, 4d8 + Step = 6d6, 5d8

Don't you have to use an opportunity-activated power stunt on the next action? I didn't think it was necessary to use it as a reaction roll since you didn't do that but do you have to use it on the next action (though it wouldn't have made a difference)?

The Hydra guards' skulls knock together with a satisfying CRACK. As they fall to the ground, they both mutter, in unison, a weak "Hail Hydra."

Doom Pool reaction to Human Torch's attempt to create asset, Total = 11  Effect = d8 (using Doom Pool from how it was when originally would have made the attempt):
Watcher rolled 6,2,6,3,5,5,7 using d6,d6,d6,d6,d6,d6,d8 ((6,2,6,3,5,5,7)).

Total = 13, Effect = d8.

You create the flaming "A" but it doesn't affect your opponents.

The two Hydra guards, skulls thoroughly cracked, fall to the ground under the glow of the Human Torch's flaming "A" in the sky. The street is as still and empty as it was when you got here but now there seems to a certain electricity, nothing from the powers of a supervillain, but a feeling that these goons were just the beginning and that this is going to be a long night.

Next: Spider-Man
And that will be the last action in the round, so pick who goes first in the new round:
Initiative:
Spider-Man
Iron Fist
Hawkeye
Hercules
Human Torch
Iron Man
Black Panther
This message was last edited by the GM at 23:15, Fri 13 Nov 2015.

This is where the action is happening:
https://www.google.com/maps/@4...h%3D0!7i13312!8i6656
Basically the conflict with the thugs was in the alley under the bridge and in front of that building.

Carol is streaking through the sky, the air blurring around her from the speed. She sees the commotion on the ground and recognizes the all-too-familiar shapes and colors of those she has fought side by side with, argued with, and triumphed with.

She lands to the edge of the gathered group, her mask retracting off her face. She realizes this as the familiar sight of a just ended battle, but everyone is on edge and tensed for more. She reacts to the anticipatory energy as she tries to see just who they just battled, but is blocked by a wall of dudes.

She doesn't say anything, she's fought with most of these Avengers long enough that words aren't necessary, but she does give a nod of acknowledgement to those who meet her gaze.

Then add Capt. Marvel to the next round's line-up, to make it:
Initiative:
Spider-Man
Iron Fist
Hawkeye
Hercules
Human Torch
Iron Man
Black Panther
Capt. Marvel

It's still Spider-Man's turn, then picking who is first in the next round.

Danny looks at the assembled heroes.

"Is it just me or does this seem like overkill for just three Hydra Agents?"

Skipping Spider-Man, then going to the next round.

First turn: Whoever posts first!
After taking your turn, remember to be sure to pick who goes next.
Initiative:
Iron Fist
Hawkeye
Hercules
Human Torch
Iron Man
Black Panther
Capt. Marvel
Spider-Man

"You know three Hydra agents could easily turn into a battle with the Struckers, Mentallo, the Fixer, and some Dreadnoughts on loan. We've cut these three heads, wouldn't be surprised to see six more pop up".

Carol starts walking into the building closest to where everyone is standing. She doesn't know if it's where they were from, but searching the area as quickly as possible to stir up the nest is the best course of action.

Status: PS:00 ES:00 MS:00 PP: 1 XP:00
Up next: whoever posts next, including the Watcher.
This message was last edited by the player at 01:13, Wed 18 Nov 2015.

Danny moves to follow Captain Marvel.  Whatever she finds, hfe's not going to let her face it alone.

PS: 0 MS: 0 ES: 0 PP: 2 XP: 1

Hercules looks over at Hawkeye. "'Twas you who summoned me here. Say now what reason you might have for taking Hercules away from his table?"


Status: PS 00, ES 00, MS 00, PP 01, XP 01

Currently you and the Hydra thug bodies are gathered in the alley between a warehouse and the Department of Markets.  Of the two, the fish market had some activity during the day, as it does, but the warehouse, where the goons were hanging outside of, is clearly dead, maybe overly so. There's a single access door near where you are but then likely a bigger, utility door in the back, behind a fence, nearer to the river.

That split second between thought and action is all it takes...for Iron Man to join the gathering, flying in low and near silent. But...is it Iron Man? The power core in the suit's chest glows an emerald green, and the usual shiny, reflective red and gold hues of his armor are muted, matte colors of black and gunmetal grey.

Landing, and looking at the bodies of the Hydra Guards, the faceplate of the suit slides open, revealing the sly, smirking face of Tony Stark. "Gee, guys...and Captain Marvel", throwing Captain Marvel an impromptu wave, "...looks like you started the party already. Sorry I'm late."

Status: PS 00, ES 00, MS 00, PP 01, XP 00
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Using the Panther raiment's built in microcomputer and his own senses, the Black Panther begins to compile a map of the surrounding blocks.  Pulling in information from traffic cams, CCTV cameras, power monitoring grids and even briefly tapping into a weather satellite tasked to remain in orbit over the region. He smiled at the last as it was only appropriate since the satellite was using a cheaper and much less effective knock-off of old Wakandan programming encryption.

Quickly, he compiles the data to make a map of the area, modifying it in several places to take into account the findings of his own enhanced senses.  It is not good to be overly reliant on technology.  Technology combined with the teachings of the old ways is the best.


OOC:

Dice Pool posted for Watcher approval

Solo d10, Peerless Strategy d8, Cybernetic Senses d6, Enhanced Senses d8, Tech Expert d10.  Replacing Enhanced Senses d8 & Tech Expert d8 with a d10 using SFX:  Focus)

Dice Pool:  d10, d8, d6, d10

To create an asset High-tech Map

Status: PS 00, ES 00, MS 00, PP 01, XP 00

Go ahead and roll that, Black Panther. You'll be going up against the Doom Pool.

A few of the late-night workers have wandered over from the fish market and are mulling about, seeing what happens next. They're likely Puerto Rican, gabbing to each other quietly in Spanish. Especially when Hercules speaks, they chuckle and natter with each other. A few of them are holding pens.

Additional Scene Distinction: Interested Bystanders
Doom Pool: 6d6, 5d8 - 1d8 = 6d6, 4d8


Approaching the side access door, you notice nothing out of the ordinary. It's a run-down warehouse that has fallen into disrepair over the years but nothing of note if you were driving or flying by. However, getting closer to the door, you notice the locks -- more than one -- are heavy, shiny, and new, with a tiny, red light on top. Which just turned to green.

"Okay.  I may be wrong on this, but I'm pretty sure that green is bad in this case."

Danny's flippant remark is contrasted by his slipping into a combat stance.  Lightly balanced on the balls of his feet, he looks ready to move in any direction.

"Ah, you worry too much," the Human Torch steps forward "Trust me - Reed's always playing with light up gadgets and green always means 'Open.' Observe." Johnny proceeds to reach out to remove the locks and open the door.

"Torch, your not Reed! Let's have the Billion dollar Tin Can take a look. Before we go in since there are so many of us I would like to break up into Squads. Herc and Captain M. are the Vanguard. Iron Fist, Panther, and Me will team up. Finally, Torch and Iron man will take the rear. When we hit trouble work with your squads. Communicate with each other." As Hawkeye finished he cursed himself. He was sounding like Cap. He never wanted to sound like him. He was the lone arrow in the night. A wild card with a bow. Definitely not, the soldier boy type.
This message was last edited by the player at 14:35, Thu 19 Nov 2015.

Colossus is not there.

Today: Black Panther rolled 5,1,3,1 using d10,d8,d6,d10 ((5,1,3,1)).

Total: 5 with d6 Effect die (only keeping 1 die for the total) (2 opportunities)

OOC:  Oh, RPoL RNG, how I've missed you...

Next:  Watcher roll
Next Player:  Human Torch


This message was last edited by the player at 23:48, Wed 18 Nov 2015.

I'll buy the two opportunities from you, to add a d8 to the Doom Pool and +1 PP to Black Panther.

Doom Pool (6d6, 4d8 +d8 = 6d6, 5d8) reaction to Black Panther's attempt to create asset, Total: 5, Effect: d6:

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

Total = 14, Effect = d8.

2 opportunities if you want them.

Going through the system once, then again, Black Panther still can't get a signal through. The Wakandan technology is sound but appropriating cheap, American satellites doesn't work as well. The last time this happened there was a massive, high-pressure weather system in the area, and, as he recalls, that was in the American summer as well. Perhaps it's just as well that the exterior of this area is not completely known, if the objective is inside this building.

Let me know where you are in that alley-way area (https://www.google.com/maps/@4...Q!2e0!7i13312!8i6656). The easiest way would be to state where you are in relation to the door to the warehouse, or toward the farther side of the alley, near the dumpsters closer to the fish market, or the knocked-out Hydra goons roughly between those two points.

From what I've gathered from the posts:
* The Human Torch has shouldered past Capt. Marvel to be first to the door;
* Capt. Marvel is close enough to the door to see the light on the lock;
* Iron Fist is just behind Capt. Marvel;
* Hercules is, presumably, near the Hydra goons;
* Hawkeye is parking his hover bike -- please indicate where;
* Iron Man could be near the Hydra goons;
* Black Panther could be anywhere around there.
Any of these can be adjusted, unless you've made a distinct action to arrive where you are.

The bystanders are mulling about closer to the dumpsters. There are only two cars in that parking lot, on the farthest side. Disregard Spider-Man.
This message was last edited by the GM at 18:33, Thu 19 Nov 2015.

"Really, Clint?", Tony started, standing next to the pile of goons, looking at Hawkeye, with the suit's external speaker on. "Billion Dollar Tin Can? That's not going to fit on a personalized plate...but it'll make a nice Twitter handle." Anticipating his request, the suit's A.I. spoke up in it's sultry, female voice: "Mr. Stark...I'm scanning now." "Good girl, Friday" was all Tony replied, satisfied that the new A.I. was performing well.


OOC:

Team d8, Cutting Edge Tech d8, Cybernetic Senses d6, Tech Master d10. Converting Tech Master to 2d8, and spending a Plot Point to kick Cybernetic Senses up to a d8.

Dice Pool:  d8, d8, d8, d8, d8

To create an asset Scan of Building

21:06, Today: Iron Man rolled 4,8,7,4,1 using d8,d8,d8,d8,d8

I'm going with a total of 15, and a d8 for effect.

1 opportunity for you to buy, Mr. Watcher.

Status: PS 00, ES 00, MS 00, PP 00, XP 00

This message was last edited by the player at 05:11, Fri 20 Nov 2015.

In reply to Watcher (msg # 61):

Iron Fist is in the position described.

Sounds reasonable to me, since Herc has just laid out the last two goons.

That's exactly where I pictured the Torch: first at the door

The PP wasn't spent correctly but I'll let it go this time, since the outcome from its use would have been the same (or more against the favor of the hero because it could have been used more effectively).

I'll buy the opportunity from you, to step up a d6 to a d8 in the Doom Pool. +1 PP to Iron Man. I will always buy opportunities rolled by players.

Doom Pool (6d6, 5d8 + d6 Step = 6d6, 6d8) reaction to Iron Man's attempt to create asset, Total: 15, Effect: d8:
Watcher rolled 1,1,1,6,6,5,3,8,1,2,4,2 using d6,d6,d6,d6,d6,d6,d8,d8,d8,d8,d8,d8 ((1,1,1,6,6,5,3,8,1,2,4,2)).

Total = 14, Effect = d8.

4 opportunities if you want to purchase them.

Iron Man created Scan of Building d8 asset.

Carol's mask snaps back into place as Johnny brushes past her. "Great, the Human Toddler is taking point,"she thinks.

She sees the green light. "I'm sure now that light isn't an invitation for us, more like letting someone know something's ready to come out and play".

Carol is on guard, and has taken Hawkeye's instructions. As soon as hell breaks loose, and it will, she'll co-ordinate with Hercules' action as a wedge to break whatever comes out.

Status: PS 00, ES 00, MS 00, PP 01, XP 00
This message had punctuation tweaked by the player at 01:29, Sat 21 Nov 2015.

[OOC: Black Panther will be on a nearby rooftop keeping an eye out for any incoming HYDRA reinforcements or goon movement.

Spider-Man’s head whips up and around and he looks back at the city.  He sits silent for an instant, perched atop the dumpster not far from the pile of Hydra, then quickly, “Hey, guys, looks like you have this wrapped up pretty well here.”  He shoots a webline into the far distant and is up and gone before he even finishes the next sentence.  “I gotta go.  I’ll try to be back later.  Have fun storming the castle!”

Spider-Man exits the game.

There are 4 opportunities from the doom pool roll that are available to anyone (assuming Iron Man passed).

The anticipation hangs in the air.  The green light has seemed to freeze everything in this alleyway, down to the air molecules.  It’s really only been an instant since it changed and now the door whips open, revealing a Hydra soldier in full and familiar garb, mask and red google and all, with a menacing and shiny rifle pointed at Johnny Human Torch.  “Hail Hydra!” he barks, as the rifle hums to life, anticipating eliminating one. A wall of Hydra agents behind him obscures your view of what's in there.

Intimidation attack on Human Torch:
Team d8
Dedicated, Ambitious Agent    d8
Combat Expert   d8
From the Doom Pool    d8

Hydra Sentry Leader rolled 3,4,5,8 using d8,d8,d8,d8 ((3,4,5,8)).

Total: 13, Effect: d8, for emotional stress

Status: PS:00 ES:00 MS:00

Additional Scene Distinction: Narrow Hallway (leading into warehouse)

Reaction Needed: Human Torch, from Hydra Sentry Leader Attack
Next: Human Torch

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

Yes, I pass on the 4 opportunities.

Status: PS 00, ES 00, MS 00, PP 01, XP 00

This message was last edited by the player at 19:24, Fri 04 Dec 2015.

Seeing the amount of power that the other assembled heroes have to bring to bear against the main force, the Panther begins to move like a jungle cat across the rooftops to deal with the new threat approaching.

[OOC:  The Panther will spend 1 PP to activate one of the Watcher's opportunities to create a Shadowy Stalker d10 stunt using my Covert Master d10 specialty.]

Status PS 00, ES 00, MS 00 PP 01, XP 00

"Gah!" the Human Torch cries as the door swings open.  Surely he's looked down the barrel of an exotic firearm before but this time just caught him unawares, with everything going on in the alleyway around him and the electricity in the air.  Yesterday was an island full of monsters and today it's masked terrorists -- it's a big shift.  He shudders and falls back, toward Capt. Marvel but, more, away from the gun. (Good thing Spider-Man wasn't here. Missed that humiliation by just seconds.)

The Human Torch takes d8 emotional stress and turn is skipped.

Next: Capt. Marvel (as she is next in line from the door)

As The Human Torch falls back, Carol's military training and honed reflexes kick in. Within the space of a second, she's behind Johnny making sure he doesn't fall back further, bracing him with her left hand (not that he really needed it) and punching her right fist out around him, firing a blast of energy. For a split second, it looks like she's got Johnny as a human shield and firing around him at the man with the gun. She's going to blast a line straight down the hallway while giving Johnny a chance to recover.
"Don't even think about it!"  Sound effect:BLASKT!
Carol is going to:
Team d10
Take-charge attitude d4 (She might be jumping the gun here)
Energy blast d8
Combat Expert d8

Captain Marvel rolled 8,1,4 using 2d8,1d10,1d4 with rolls of 4,4,1,4.

Going to spend the PP to keep the 4 from the d4, so total 12, effect d10
Total 8, Effect d8
Reaction needed from Hydra Guy, Opportunity (purchased) available for Watcher
Iron Fist goes next.
Status PS 00, ES 00, MS 00 PP 03, XP 00
This message was last edited by the player at 02:59, Thu 26 Nov 2015.

Opportunity purchased; Doom Pool: 6d6 + Step, 4d8 = 5d6, 5d8

(Hydra Sentry Leader stats changed slightly to correct an oversight)

Reaction to Capt. Marvel's attack, Total: 8; Effect: d8:
Team    d8 +
Dedicated, Ambitious Agent    d8 +
Hydra Armor    d6 +
Doom Pool addition (sinister confidence)    d6
(- d6 from Doom Pool)

Hydra Sentry Leader rolled 6,7,1,5 using d8,d8,d6,d6 ((6,7,1,5)).

Total: 13, Effect: d6
Capt. Marvel's attack fails
1 opportunity available to Capt. Marvel, then passed to anyone else

Status: PS:00 ES:00 MS:00

Next: Iron Fist

Doom Pool: 5d6 - d6, 5d8 = 4d6, 5d8

Initiative:
Hydra Sentry Leader
Human Torch
Black Panther
Capt. Marvel
Iron Fist
Hawkeye
Hercules (please pause before taking your turn)
Iron Man

Amidst the chaos, the Hydra leader is able to step to the side and Capt. Marvel's hurried force blast sails past, possibly taking out an agent behind him. He smirks to himself, targeting the next hero.

Iron Fist glides smoothly past Captain Marvel,  Moving closer to the Hydra Leader he attacks with a leopard's paw hand strike.

Dice Pool -
Team - d6
Living Weapon of K'un-Lun - d8
Enhanced Strength - d8
Combat Master - d10

Today: Iron Fist rolled 5,3,2,10 using d6,d8,d8,d10 with rolls of 5,3,2,10.

Roll - 15.  Effect - d8.

Status:PS:00 MS:00 ES:00 PP:2 XP:1

1 XP when you use your Combat or Mystic Specialties to aid another hero?

Next up: Hawkeye

Reaction to Iron Fist's attack, Total: 15; Effect: d8 (presumably physical stress):
Team    d8 +
Dedicated, Ambitious Agent    d8 +
Hydra Armor    d6 +
Doom Pool addition (wicked confidence)    d6
(- d6 from Doom Pool)

Hydra Sentry Leader rolled 8,3,6,5 using d8,d8,d6,d6 ((8,3,6,5))

Total: 14, Effect: d8
Iron Fist's attack succeeds

Status: PS:d8 ES:00 MS:00

Doom Pool: 4d6 - d6, 5d8 = 3d6, 5d8

The Hydra leader sees Iron Fist coming at him and attempts to side-step this next hero but he knows his luck has run out. Iron Fist's fist connects to the Hydra agent's face and sends him flying. He stumbles back into the Hydra squadron behind him and they support him, also with weapons at the ready.

Initiative:
Hydra Sentry Leader
Human Torch
Black Panther
Capt. Marvel
Iron Fist
Hawkeye
Hercules (please pause before taking your turn)
Iron Man (could go if action does not involve group at door)

Rising above the commotion at the door, a clamor comes the dumpster in the alleyway.  Sounds of pistons and gears cranking into place burst from the boxy object as the sides of it crash to the ground. A mechanical behemoth ratchets into place, taking no interest in being silent. In graceless fits and spasms it stretches and extends to full size, revealing itself as a full-bore, new-model Dreadnaught, dark green and emblazoned with the Hydra symbol. Its forearms, shins, feet, pelvis, and torso are comically large compared to a human, with thick cables connecting each section and a tiny, helmet-like head perched on top, with the whole thing larger than the dumbster from which it just transformed. A fist nearly as big as its torso locks into place at the end of one arm then a blaster instantly heats up on the other.  It locks into place and turns toward the nearest hero, though the bystanders, now rooted into place by fear, are a short distance from it.

Initiative:
Hydra Sentry Leader
Human Torch
Black Panther
Capt. Marvel
Iron Fist
Hawkeye
Hercules (disregard previous message about pausing before turn)
Iron Man (could go if action does not involve group at door)

Hawkeye's turn is skipped.

Next: Hercules.

Hercules stares at the Dreadnaught, and then lets out a bellow. <royalred>"At last, an opponent worthy of Hercules! Have at thee!" He hurls himself at the machine, fists hammering.



Team d6
Prince of Power d8
Godlike Strength d12
Combat Expert d8


22:50, Today: Hercules rolled 5,4,3,2 using d12,d8,d8,d6.  Attacking Dreadnaught.

Total 9, effect die d8.

Reaction to Hercules's attack, Total: 9; Effect: d8 (presumably physical stress):
Team    d10 +
Lumbering, Destructive Force (still locking into place)    d4 +
(+ step up Doom Pool)
Superhuman Durability d10 +
Combat Expert d8 +

Hydra Dreadnaught rolled 2,4,7,3 using d10,d4,d10,d8 ((2,4,7,3))

Total: 11, Effect: d10
Hercules's attack fails

Status: PS:00 ES:00 MS:00

Doom Pool: 3d6 + Step, 5d8 = 2d6, 6d8

Hercules's mighty fist slams into the Hydra construct with all the fury and glory it has ever exhibited, sending shockwaves that are felt over the entire block, even knocking one of the bystanders back, but the attack meets resistance.  The thing, its body still whirring and locking into place, does not move in the slightest. As it meets its full width as well as height, its tiny head seems to look up, at, then down its lengthy body at Hercules. As Hercules pulls his fist back, he feels a tingle in his fingers from contact with the automaton, more than just a sting and inferring that there might be much more than that.

Next: Iron Man (as he's the only one who hasn't gone this round)

Then pick the first to go in the next round:
Initiative:
Hydra Sentry Leader
Hydra Mob
Hydra Dreadnaught
Iron Man
Black Panther
Capt. Marvel
Iron Fist
Hercules
(Hawkeye)*
(Human Torch)*
* Holding off until they say they're back in the game.

Tony looks up at the roof, then to Human Torch, Captain Marvel, and Iron Fist at the door, and then to Hercules' and The Dreadnought. "Clint...I don't think that plan of yours is working."


OOC:

Tony's going to fly at The Dreadnaught, and punch it.

Team d8, Cutting Edge Tech d8, Superhuman Strength d10, Supersonic Flight d10.

Dice Pool:  d8, d8, d10, d10

12:34, Today: Iron Man rolled 6,3,8,9 using d8,d8,d10,d10.

Total: 15
Effect: d10

Status: PS 00, ES 00, MS 00, PP 01, XP 00

I need a reaction from the Dreadnought

Next: Iron Man (because it's ALWAYS about Tony)

This message was last edited by the player at 05:38, Sat 05 Dec 2015.

Reaction to Iron Man's attack, Total: 15; Effect: d10 (presumably physical stress):
Team    d10 +
Remotely Controlled (reconfiguring for an additional combatant)   d4 +
(+ step up Doom Pool)
Superhuman Durability d10 +
Combat Expert d8 +

Hydra Dreadnaught rolled 1,4,5,3 using d10,d4,d10,d8 ((1,4,5,3)).

Total: 9, Effect: d8
Iron Man's attack succeeds. Extraordinary Success raises Effect to d12
1 Opportunity

Using SFX: Heavily Reinforced. Spend a doom die to ignore physical stress or trauma except by [redacted]
Damage ignored; - d6 from Doom Pool

Status: PS:00 ES:00 MS:00

Doom Pool: 2d6 + Step; -d6, 6d8 = 7d8

A solid attack that equals the Greek god's yet the creature does not stagger and the pummel does not leaves even a scratch.

After striking the metal beast, you take an electric shock from the contact that scrambles your systems for a split-second, something no one else but you would notice. Up this close, you notice something like a shimmering on the surface of the thing's exterior, like a current going straight through it. And now it sets its sights on you.
This message was last edited by the player at 19:16, Sat 05 Dec 2015.

Hovering a few feet away from the Dreadnought, on the opposite side of it from Hercules, kicking on the suit's external speaker, and powering up the suit's repulsors, "Herc, our new playmate has shielding; punching it isn't going to work until the shield comes down."

OOC:

Tony's attacking the Dreadnaught again, this time with an EMP blast.

I'm passing on the 1 opportunity the Dreadnaught has up for purchase.

SFX:  EMP. Target multiple tech-based opponents. Add a d6 or step up the lowest die in the doom pool by +1 for each target and add them to a dice pool including Repulsors. Return added dice to doom pool and shutdown Weapons Platform. Recover power by activating an opportunity or during a Transition Scene.

Team d8, Hardheaded Futurist d4 (Tony's sure his tech is better than Hydra's; +1 PP), Cybernetic Senses d8, Repulsors d8 & d6 + 1 from the Doom Pool.

Dice Pool:  d8, d4, d8, d8, d8

22:26, Today: Iron Man rolled 5,1,3,7,8 using d8,d4,d8,d8,d8.
Total: 15, Effect: d8

1 opportunity for you, Mr. Watcher.

Status: PS 00, ES 00, MS 00, PP 01, XP 00

I need a reaction from the Dreadnaught.

Next: Hercules

This message was last edited by the player at 06:38, Mon 07 Dec 2015.

Iron Man gains 2 PPs (1 from the Distinction; 1 from the Opportunity) and Weapons Platform shuts down.

Reaction to Iron Man's attack, Total: 15; Effect: d8 (presumably physical stress):
Team    d10
Titanium-Steel Alloy Armor   d8
Superhuman Durability d10
Combat Expert d8

Hydra Dreadnaught rolled 7,2,4,4 using d10,d8,d10,d8 ((7,2,4,4)).

Total: 11, Effect: d10
Iron Man's attack succeeds. Higher effect die steps down Iron Man's effect die. SFX: Heavily Reinforced does not work against that kind of attack. Dreadnaught takes d6 physical stress

Status: PS:d6 ES:00 MS:00

Doom Pool: 7d8 + d6 = d6, 7d8

Iron Man sets his armor to surge with an EMP, which surges from his repulsor gloves at the behemoth. The thing staggers backward, only a bit, but it's progress. Before Iron Man can celebrate, a warning bursts his main monitor, warning of his weapons systems shutting down, from the redirection of power to the EMP in his system.
This message was last edited by the player at 22:39, Mon 07 Dec 2015.

I'll spend the PP to bring Weapons Platform back up, which also gives me +3 XP according to the Bleeding Edge Tech Milestone. Thought I had to wait till my next action to do that. Still learning.

Status: PS 00, ES 00, MS 00, PP 02, XP 03

Next: Hercules

"Weapons power restored, Mr. Stark."

"That's my girl."
This message was last edited by the player at 21:49, Tue 22 Dec 2015.

"Worry about how it is constructed later, Golden Avenger! For Hercules, all that needs to be known is that the toys of men break if they are struck hard enough!" Tearing up a chunk of concrete, Hercules charges the Dreadnaught again, intending to sandwich it between himself and the side of the building.



Once again, trying to cause physical stress.

Team d6
Brash Demigod d4 (hubris)
Godlike Strength d12
Boundless Strength d12
Combat Expert d8

10:57, Today: Hercules rolled 12,10,5,3,2 using d12,d12,d8,d6,d4.  Hercules attacks.

Total 17, effect die d12.

That's +1 PP for the d4, and +d12 to the doom pool if the action fails thanks to Boundless Strength.

Status: PS 00, ES 00, MS 00, PP 02, XP 01

Hydra mob can go next.


This message was last edited by the player at 16:00, Tue 08 Dec 2015.

"Golden Avenger? Is the new paint job not noticeable? All that work, and no one notices the new look."
This message was last edited by the player at 17:16, Tue 08 Dec 2015.

You could have used the Dreadnaught's stress.

Reaction to Hercules's attack, Total: 17; Effect: d12 (physical stress):
Team    d10
Titanium-Steel Alloy Armor   d8
Superhuman Durability d10
Combat Expert d8
From Doom Pool   d8

Hydra Dreadnaught rolled 8,5,5,6,8 using d10,d8,d10,d8,d8 ((8,5,5,6,8)).

Total: 16, Effect: d10
Hercules's attack succeeds. Using SFX: Heavily Reinforced. Spend a doom die to ignore physical stress or trauma except by [redacted]
Damage ignored; - d6 from Doom Pool (the attack still succeed so the extra die from Boundless Strength is not added)

Status: PS:d6 ES:00 MS:00

Doom Pool: d6 - d6, 7d8 - d8 = 6d8

Hercules hits the Dreadnaught head-on but the thing does not stagger. The concrete between the combatants explodes, sending chunks of rock in all directions, some landing just inches from the paralyzed by-standers. The robot rears up and the cannon that is its left fist lights into a blinding, quivering ball of force.

Back at the doorway, the mob of Hydra soldiers that are quivering with excitement and thoughts of violence flow around their leader and strike with truncheons that trail cracking energy, quickly overtaking the Human Torch then heading toward Capt. Marvel and Iron Fist. Their leader, nearly lost in the commotion, barks "Hail Hydra!" above the struggle.

Adding Hydra Mob, - d8 from Doom Pool

Physical attack on Capt. Marvel and Iron Fist:
Team 5d8
Street-Level Flunkies (initially confused without a plan)    d4
(+ d6 to Doom Pool)
Power-Truncheons    d8
Swarm    d8
Area Attack    d6 (and keeping 2 total Effect dice)

Hydra Mob rolled 1,2,3,2,7,4,4,8,1 using d8,d8,d8,d8,d8,d4,d8,d8,d6 ((1,2,3,2,7,4,4,8,1)). (That first roll at 21:20 was when I was refreshing the page. I didn't realize it would do that.)

Total: 15, Effect: d8 for both Capt. Marvel and Iron Fist, physical stress
2 Opportunities

Doom Pool: 6d8 + d6 - d8 = d6, 5d8

Reaction: Capt. Marvel, Iron Fist

The Human Torch becomes an NPC and disappears from the game until his player comes back.

Next: Hydra Dreadnaught
This message was last edited by the player at 16:31, Wed 09 Dec 2015.

The Dreadnaught, triangulated in a position between Hawkeye, Iron Man, and Hercules, pauses, as if it has to figure out its next move. The moment does not last long as it decides on the Greek god, lifting its concussion cannon and unleashing a blast on Hercules, who is now even closer to it. Meanwhile, Hawkeye sinks into the shadows.

Physical attack on Hercules:
Team    d10
Lumbering, Destructive Force    d8
Concussive Blast d8
Combat Expert d8

Hydra Dreadnaught rolled 9,5,3,6 using d10,d8,d8,d8 ((9,5,3,6)). (Again, that roll today, at 8:34, was refreshing the page.)

Total: 15, Effect: d8
Using Limit: Systems Failure. Shutdown Weapon Systems to add d6 doom die or step up lowest die in doom pool. Activate an opportunity to recover.  + d6 to Doom Pool

Doom Pool: d6, 5d8 + d6 = 2d6, 5d8

Reaction: Hercules

Hawkeye becomes an NPC and disappears from the game until that player comes back.

Next: Hydra Bazooka Soldier on roof

Die Pool:
team d6
living weapon of k'un-lun d8
enhanced reflexes d8
acrobatics master d10

10:53, Today: Iron Fist rolled 3,2,8,4 using d6,d8,d8,d10 with rolls of 3,2,8,4.

Spend 1 pp to add a die to roll.

Roll:15  Effect: d8


Status:PS:00 MS:00 ES:00 PP:1 XP:2

The concussion blast cracks against Hercules, driving him partway to his knees, but he springs up swiftly with a glint in his eye that few on Olympus ever want to see.



Team d6
Prince of Power d8
Superhuman Durability d10
Combat Expert d8


13:09, Today: Hercules rolled 9,6,8,3 using d10,d8,d8,d6.  Hercules reaction.

Total 17, effect d8.

Status: PS 00, ES 00, MS 00, PP 02, XP 01

Unbeknownst to Hercules and the heroes at the door, another squad of Hydra guards have assembled on the roof, intent on aiding their comrades below if not taking victory for themselves. For this they have the heavy ordinance, namely a full-sized and high-tech bazooka, with sights now aimed on the Formerly-Golden Avenger.

Physical attack on Iron Man:
Team d8
Carrying Heavy Ordinance    d8
Missiles  d8
Double Missiles from SFX: Rockets    d8
Combat Expert    d8

Using SFX: Rockets. Step up or double Missile Launcher... then shutdown Missile Launcher. Recover Missile Launcher by activating an opportunity.

Hydra Bazooka Soldier rolled 7,3,8,6,6 using d8,d8,d8,d8,d8 ((7,3,8,6,6)).

Total: 15, Effect: d8
Bazooka shuts down

Doom Pool: 2d6, 5d8

Reaction: Iron Man

Next: Black Panther

Initiative:
Iron Man
Hercules
Hydra Mob
Hydra Dreadnaught
Hydra Bazooka Soldier
Black Panther
Hydra Wingman A (on roof)
Hydra Wingman B (on roof)
Hydra Sentry Leader
Capt. Marvel
Iron Fist
(Human Torch)
(Hawkeye)

<Orange>
Die Pool
Team: D10
Homeland Security Hero D8 (these guys broadcast their moves like every other mook, ever)
PP spent on SFX: Multipower for Superhuman Durability D8 and Superhuman Strength D8 (hit me and that truncheon is going to bounce right back in your face)
Combat Expert D8

18:12, Today: Captain Marvel rolled 3,7,3,1,7 using d10,d8,d8,d8,d8 with rolls of 3,7,3,1,7.  Reaction to Hydra Mob trucheon attacks.

Spend PP to retain extra result
Total:17, effect die d10

Spent 2PP, gain 1PP for Opportunity for Watcher

Status PS 00, ES 00, MS 00 PP 02, XP 00

Seeing that he is unfortunately too late to stop the Hydra crew from firing, the Black Panther intends to make sure they don't fire again.  He launches himself silentlly from the shadows against the heavy weapons soldier, vibranium talons primed to strike

[OOC:

Team d8, Peerless Strategy d8, Weapon d6, Enhanced Strength d8, Combat Master d10, Shadowy Stalker stunt d10.

Black Panther rolled 1,7,5,6,2,3 using d8,d8,d6,d8,d10,d10 ((1,7,5,6,2,3))

Total.  13.  d10 Effect Die.  1 Opportunity.

PS:00 MS:00 ES:00 PP:2 XP:0

Next Reaction:  Hydra Bazooka Soldier

Next Action:  Iron Fist
This message was last edited by the player at 00:49, Fri 11 Dec 2015.

Reaction to Hydra Mob
team - d6
young dragon - d8
enhanced reflexes - d8
acrobatic master - d10

 Iron Fist rolled 6,5,5,7 using d6,d8,d8,d10 with rolls of 6,5,5,7.  reaction.

spend 1pp to add extra die to total.

total - 17  effect - d8

Danny nimbly avoids the Hydra agent's truncheons.  Dodging, rolling, and flipping past their attacks, he flows into a flying kick aimed at the leader of the goon squad.

Attack on Hydra Sentry Leader
team - d6
young dragon - d4 (these guys are nothing.)
enhanced strength - d8
combat master - d10

Today: Iron Fist rolled 5,1,1,3 using d6,d4,d8,d10 with rolls of 5,1,1,3.  attack.

(ack!)

Roll - 8. Effect - d4

+1 pp for d4 on young dragon, +2(?) pp for ones rolled.

PS:00 MS:00 ES:00 PP:2 XP:1
This message was last edited by the player at 23:33, Thu 10 Dec 2015.

You could have used the Hydra Sentry Leader's physical stress against him

Iron Fist: From what I can tell, PPs should go as:
1 Starting (msg #93)
- 1 adding extra die to reaction roll (msg #98)
+ 1 negative distinction
+ 1 adding d8 to Doom Pool (d6 + Step for 1 PP)
= 2 PPs
Unless you're spending an XP for the roll. If not, then you should have 2 XP as well

Doom Pool: 2d6, 5d8 + d8 = 2d6, 6d8

Reaction to Iron Fist's attack, Total: 8; Effect: d4 (presumably physical stress):
Team    d8
Dedicated, Ambitious Agent (surprised by hero's brief clumsiness)   d4
Hydra Armor    d6
Combat Expert d8

Hydra Sentry Leader rolled 7,1,4,3 using d8,d4,d6,d8 ((7,1,4,3)).

Total: 11, Effect: d10
Iron Fist's attack misses
1 Opportunity

Status: PS:d8 ES:00 MS:00

Doom Pool: 2d6 + d6, 6d8 = 3d6, 6d8

The Hydra squad leader watches Iron Fist come at him and expects another crack in the jaw but due purely to luck he zigs instead of zags, moving out of the way of the strike instead of into it. But it only strengthens his resolve and the finger around the trigger of his rifle tightens.

Iron Fist: Pick the next action

Next Action - Captain Marvel.

Reaction to HYDRA BAZOOKA SOLDIER

Dice Pool:Team d8, Hardheaded Futurist d4 (Overconfidence; +1 PP), Superhuman Durability d10, Tech Master 2d8

21:34, Today: Iron Man rolled 2,2,7,4,6 using d8,d4,d10,d8,d8.

Spend 1 PP to add a die to the roll

Roll: 17, Effect: d8

Status: PS 00, ES 00, MS 00, PP 02, XP 03

"Mr. Stark, we're being targeted from above." The suit's voice is unconcerned, and matter-of-fact. Glancing up, Tony sees the projectile launch and makes no move to avoid it, certain nothing in Hydra's arsenal is any threat to him or the suit.

The bazooka shot hits Iron Man square in the chest, producing a large amount of smoke. As it dissipates, all that can be seen is the emerald glow of The Formerly-Golden Avenger’s power core & eye-lights, the latter directed up at the roof where the Hydra Bazooka Soldier stands, suddenly realizing that he doesn't have any other weapons. “You want to play rough?", Tony asks, much too far away for the Hydra goon to hear him. "Looks like you're about to get your wish...”, he trails off, seeing the dark, cat-human shape of The Black Panther in mid-pounce, as he slowly closes the distance between himself and the roof.
This message was last edited by the player at 21:51, Tue 22 Dec 2015.

Doom Pool: 2d6 + Step (from Capt. Marvel's Opportunity), 5d8 = d6, 6d8

Reaction to Black Panther's attack, Total: 13; Effect: d10 (presumably physical stress):
Team    d8
Street-Level Flunkie (surprise at the hero coming out of the shadows)   d4
(add to Doom Pool)
Hydra Armor    d6
Combat Expert d8

Hydra Bazooka Soldier rolled 6,1,2,1 using d8,d4,d6,d8 ((6,1,2,1)).

Total: 8, Effect: d4
Black Panther's attack succeeds. Extraordinary Success takes Effect to d12
(I assume that Opportunity to reactivate the weapon has to be rolled by the heroes.)

Status: PS:d12 ES:00 MS:00

Doom Pool: d6 + Step, 6d8 = 7d8
(The Doom Pool has been a bit of a mess but it's in the heroes' favor so I'll leave it and go from here.)

The Hydra soldier screams in agony both from the attack and the surprise of the attacker suddenly appearing. He stumbles closer to the edge of the building, perilously close to going over, since the team of three was so close to begin with.

"That's it!"Carol yells, taking to the sky and bolting across the battlefield. She sees Iron Fist swing and miss at the Hydra Leader. She also sees the Hydra Leader about to shoot Iron Fist and she's had enough of these Hydra idiots. She flies straight at the Hydra Leader to grab him and fly him into the sky. "Time to put the fear of me into him", she thinks...


Team d10
Take-charge Attitude D8
SFX: Multipower. Use two or more Kree Genetics powers in your dice pool, at -1 step for each additional power. 1PP
Subsonic Flight d6
Superhuman Strength d8
Combat Expert d8
Hydra Leader's PS d8

20:28, Today: Captain Marvel rolled 6,7,2,7,2,1 using d10,d8,d8,d8,d8,d6 with rolls of 6,7,2,7,2,1.  Bring the pain to Hydra.

Spending another PP to keep a third die for a total of 20, effect: d8-Mental Stress

She hurtles like an energized missile towards the Hydra Leader, grabbing him by the lapels of the H on his shirt and arcing straight up into the sky. At about a quarter mile, she abruptly stops. She glowers menacingly, "You can't win! Give up and tell me what's inside the building! AND DON'T LIE!"

Status: PS 00, ES 00, MS 00, PP 00, XP 00

Need a reaction from Hydra Leader

Next action: Black Panther
This message was last edited by the player at 02:41, Sat 12 Dec 2015.

Since you're away from the team, you would use the Solo affiliation. For an intimidation attack you would use Menace or at least Psyche but we'll say since it was in combat it works this time. And it would be emotional stress.

The sentry leader gasps for breath. "Why don't you... find out for yourself... Ms. Marvel?" he spits. "He won't let you get out... alive!"

Reaction to Capt. Marvel's attack, Total: 20; Effect: d8 (emotional stress):
Solo    d6
Dedicated, Ambitious Agent (but suddenly realizing he's out of his element)   d4
(add to Doom Pool)

Today: Hydra Sentry Leader rolled 4,1 using d6,d4 ((4,1)).

Total: 4, Effect: d4
Capt. Marvel's attack succeeds. Extraordinary Success x3 takes the stress to over d12
Hydra Sentry Leader knocked out
1 Opportunity

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

The Hydra agent's head lulls back and his body goes limp. His rifle hangs from his finger.

Black Panther already took his action so it goes to either Hydra Wingmen.

The accomplices to the soldier with the bazooka whip around to behold the hero suddenly in their midst. Fortunately for them, they can now get a clear view of their attacker. Unfortunately for them, they must now contend with the legendary Black Panther. They raise their pistols.

Physical attack on Black Panther:
Team   d8
Goon    d8
Small Arms  d6
(I forgot to give them Combat Expert. These just aren't the very proficient Hydra agents.)

Hydra Wingman A rolled 8,7,2 using d8,d8,d6 ((8,7,2)).

Total: 10, Effect: d8

Reaction: Black Panther

It's Hydra Wingman B's turn but I'm going to wait until after Black Panther makes his reaction roll. Hydra Wingman B will go, then there will be the reaction roll from that, then that round will be over. Hawkeye's and Human Torch's turns will be skipped (but they can be reactivated in proper order if their players return).

Since the group is fairly separated, and to keep this going, I'm going to move forward into the next round and with the next turns. Chronologically these will take place in the correct order but the actions might be a little out of place. Though once all the pieces connect together again, they will go in the correct order. I'll slow it own if it gets overly confusing.

Since Iron Fist moved through the mob of Hydra Agents to get to their now-absent leader, he finds himself on their other side and furthest down the hallway leading into the warehouse. The dark hallway is a short distance but the light at the end is too bright to see far into. The air does not feel still so there must be a large, open space at the end, which is not a surprise since this is a warehouse. The group of Hydra agents and the commotion from outside mask whatever sound comes from inside the building. Looking back to the outside, the squad of villains squeeze into the narrow hallway, pushing the hero further inside and creating a wall of bodies and truncheons that would be formidable to move through.

Creating asset from Doom Pool: d8 Wall of Hydra Agents (currently 5d8)
This must be overcome to move through them, or the Mob must be defeated to at least Team 1d8. If you roll to move through them (from either side), state whether you are breaking up the wall, which means you will stay where you are but the asset will no longer stand, or if you are moving through them, which will be movement to the other side but will leave the Wall intact.

Doom Pool: 5d8, d10

Next: Hydra Dreadnaught

Initiative:
Hydra Mob
Hydra Dreadnaught
Iron Fist
Iron Man
Hercules
Capt. Marvel
Black Panther
Hydra Wingman A (on roof)
Hydra Wingman B (on roof)
Hydra Bazooka Soldier
(Human Torch)
(Hawkeye)

The lights in the Dreadnaught's face flicker as the function in its cannon-arm goes dead, but only an instant later those lights flare and it pivots to swing with the other arm, bringing its oversized fist crashing down on Hercules, with debris flying only feet from the bystanders.

Physical attack on Hercules:
Team    d10
Remote Controlled (slight glitch)    d4
(+ to Doom Pool)
Superhuman Strength d10
Combat Expert d8

Today: Hydra Dreadnaught rolled 4,1,3,3 using d10,d4,d10,d8 ((4,1,3,3)).

Total: 7, Effect: d10
1 Opportunity available for Hercules

Doom Pool: 5d8 + Step, d10 = 4d8, 2d10

Reaction: Hercules

Next: Iron Fist

With all of the grace of his namesake, T'Challa leaps into the midst of the Hydra goons, maneuvering to keep them from getting a shot with their pistols.  He weaves about them, even taking to clinging to the edge of the rooftop to evade their attacks.  Despite the exertion, he's not even out of breath as he greets Iron Man.  "My apologies, Tony. I was unable to get into position to attack them before they had the chance to fire their very big gun.  I hope your armor is as effective as always and you took no harm?"


[OOC:

Black Panther:  Team d8, Peerless Strategist d8, Wall-Crawling d6, Enhanced Reflexes d8, Acrobatics Master d10.

Black Panther rolled 7,3,3,7,8 using d8,d8,d6,d8,d10 ((7,3,3,7,8)).

Total:  15.  d8 Effect die.

"T'Challa!", Tony cries out, keying the suit's external speaker, and rising in altitude to get a better view of the attackers on the roof. "Yeah, I'm good. Hey, look...", he says, gesturing to the suit's power core,"...I run on biomass now, produced by algae. No more unstable isotopes or exotic matter. Hey! Behind you!" It's no use. The Hydra goon has a clear shot at T'Challa's back.
This message was last edited by the player at 05:28, Tue 15 Dec 2015.

I imagined that Iron Man was farther out, hovering over Hercules, who is across the alleyway. He would be close enough that it he could see what's going on on the roof but close enough that he couldn't have a casual conversation. If we don't say that Iron Man just glides in closer when he sees the Panther then you guys can decide your relative distance or placement. In whatever case, I would judge that the Panther isn't far from the Hydra guys, and vice-versa.

If Iron Man is helping out Black Panther on the roof and he's away from Hercules, then those two have the Buddy Affiliation, and Hercules is Solo. Depending on who Capt. Marvel comes down to help (assuming she does), then this can be adjusted for Buddy or Team. I'm assuming that those on the roof and those on the ground are separated and cannot communicate casually with each other, which establishes which Affiliation they're under.

Regardless, while Iron Fist is in the warehouse away from the others then he's Solo. (If you're in the midst of writing out your turn, you can reroll that die.

While the Black Panther settles into a conversation with Iron Man on the edge of the roof, the Hydra agents, just passed through by the hero, lift their weapons, with one of them getting an easy bead on the hero's back. It's cowardly but also the best shot he has.

Physical attack on Black Panther:
Team   d8
Street-Level Flunkie    d8
Small Arms  d6

Hydra Wingman B rolled 5,2,5 using d8,d6,d6 ((5,2,5)).

Total: 10, Effect: d6

Reaction: Black Panther

Die Pool:
buddy - d10 (assisting hercules)
living weapon - d8
enhanced strength - d8
sfx: iron fist - d8
combat master - d10
dreadnaughts ps - d6

21:19, Today: Iron Fist rolled 4,1,8,4,7,1 using d6,d6,d8,d8,d8,d10.
21:39, Today: Iron Fist rolled 1 using 1d10.  reroll.
the d10 scored the same as the lowest d6 - it has no effect.

spend pp to add die to roll.
roll - 19  effect - d8
physical stress from mystical (chi) attack.

2 opportunities.

PS:00 MS:00 ES:00 PP:1 XP:1

Danny runs toward the dreadnaught.  as he does so he summons the power he earned by plunging his hands into the molten heart of a dragon.  His fist flares as it is flooded with chi, becoming like unto a thing of iron.
This message was last edited by the player at 03:41, Tue 15 Dec 2015.

As the hammer comes crashing down on Hercules, he reaches up to grab the descending arm. The impact drives him partway into the concrete, but he bares his teeth as his fingers dig powerfully into the Dreadnaught's arm, forcing it back upward.



Reaction to Dreadnaught attack:

Team d6
Prince of Power d8
Superhuman Durability d10
Combat Expert d8

00:11, Today: Hercules rolled 3,8,1,1 using d10,d8,d8,d6.  Reaction to Dreadnaught.

Well, that's an 11 with a d4 effect die.

I'll spend a PP for the Dreadnaught's Opportunity to create a Got a Grip On You stunt (d10).

Iron Fist: As stated in msgs #106 & 110, you're in the warehouse. You could assist Hercules but first you'd have to fight through the Hydra mob, and that would take at least one turn.

I've been trying to get myself into the habit of underlining the name of anyone who is affected by anything other than a reaction roll. I missed that in that message so I apologize. Normally I would just figure out a way to write around it but there is nothing but a plain obstruction to what you want to do. You can redo your action, stating what you're doing, Solo, from the hallway leading into the warehouse and blocked from the outside by the mob of five Hydra guys with armor and truncheons.

"Excuse me for a moment, Tony..." with that the Black Panther nimbly dodges the Hydra gunman's attack and launches a counterattack against the man's arm, striking several pressure points that will render it useless for several hours...and cause it to hurt quite a bit. He faces the Hydra goons.  "My friend and I were having a conversation.  Wait your turn."


Buddy d6, King of Wakanda d8, Cybernetic Senses d6, Enhanced Reflexes d8, Acrobatic Master d10

Black Panther rolled 3,7,6,6,10 using d8,d8,d6,d8,d10 ((3,7,6,6,10)).
Black Panther rolled 3 using 1d6 ((3)).

Rerolled using Buddy d6 affilliaion.

Total:  13.  d10 Effect Die and spend a PP to inflict d10 physical stress on Hydra Wingman B with my reaction roll.

PS 0  ES 0 MS 0  PP 1  XP 0

With all actions from the previous round taken, we are now all in the same place in time with the current round.

As Hercules grips the Dreadnaught's appendage, a shock drives up his own arms. This is what he felt before when he struck the robot, like the thing is sheathed in electricity, but considerably stronger now. The monster's power must be on the fritz, as when it flickered just now, but it might not be something to count on. One thing is for sure: contact with this thing is inadvisable. If there's grappling going on, it will be unbelievably painful.

Iron Fist: It is still your turn, to redo your action.

Like the Human Torch just before him, Iron Fist is swept up among the mob of Hydra agents and dragged into the warehouse and out of sight of the combatants in and above the alleyway.

Iron Fist's turn is skipped, his previous action (from msg #111) is negated, and on to the next action. Iron Fist can take his place in the scene again when his player returns.

Next: Black Panther

Still feeling somewhat perturbed by the terrorists audacity in interrupting him, T'Challa keeps hold of the immobilized arm from the one HYDRA agent, digging his claws in slightly to give him a better grip, and swings the man as a bludgeon into h is comrade.  The more efficient method would have been to immobilize just the one man and leave the other for Iron Man, but a King must maintain his majesty after all.

Dice Pool:

Team d8, King of Wakanda d4, Weapon d6, Enhanced Strength d8, Combat Master d10

Black Panther rolled 1,4,3,2,5 using d8,d4,d6,d8,d10 ((1,4,3,2,5))
Black Panther rolled 5 using 1d10 ((5)).

Total:  10.  d8 Effect Die vs. Hydra Wingman B and spend 1 PP to keep a d6 Effect die to attack Hydra Wingman A, both to inflict physical stress.

Next Reaction:  Hydra Wingman B & A

Next Action:  Iron Man
This message was last edited by the player at 19:22, Sat 19 Dec 2015.

How did you get the 10 for the total? I see the two 5s from the d10s but then that would leave a d8 and d6 for the Effect Die(s).

Buying your 1 Opportunity to un-activate Bazooka Soldier's Missile Launcher SFX

Reaction to Black Panther's attack, Total: 10; Effect: d10 (physical stress):
Team    d8
Goon (goon)   d4
(add to Doom Pool)
Hydra Armor d6

Hydra Wingman B rolled 3,3,3 using d8,d4,d6 ((3,3,3))

Total: 6, Effect: d8
Black Panther's attack succeeds
Stress goes to d12 after d10 added to d10 (would have been the same if it was a d8)

Status: PS:d12 ES:00 MS:00

Doom Pool: 4d8 + Step, 2d10 = 5d8, 2d10
This message was last updated by the player at 19:34, Sat 19 Dec 2015.

Reaction to Black Panther's attack, Total: 10; Effect: d8 (physical stress):
Team    d8
Goon (goon)   d4
(add to Doom Pool)
Hydra Armor d6

Hydra Wingman A rolled 7,4,3 using d8,d4,d6 ((7,4,3)).

Total: 11, Effect: d6
Black Panther's attack fails

Status: PS:00 ES:00 MS:00

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

The first goon, flung towards the second one, comes as close as he possibly could while missing. The thrown thug crumples into a barely-moving pile while the one intended as a target looks up, more surprised than you are that he's still standing. Meanwhile, the soldier with the bazooka, though torn and bloody, seizes the chance to take a missile from his satchel and hurriedly reload his weapon.

The suit's targeting system highlights the two remaining Hydra goons on the roof, and Tony, operating on mere reflex, fires a Repulsor blast at each of them. Tony almost pities these dimwits, but they're Hydra...and they have really crappy tech.

Activating SFX: Area Attack. Target multiple opponents. For every additional target, add d6 to your pool and keep +1 effect die, to target Hydra Wingman A & Hydra Bazooka Soldier with a physical attack (Repulsor Blasts).

Dice Pool: Buddy d6, Hardheaded Futurist d4 (Overconfidence; +1 PP), Cybernetic Senses d6, Repulsors d8, Area Attack d6, Hydra Bazooka Soldier's PS d12.

18:55, Today: Iron Man rolled 2,4,3,1,6 using d6,d4,d6,d8,d6
19:21, Today: Iron Man rolled 7 using 1d12.

Spending 1 PP to add a third die to my roll.

Roll: (4 + 6 + 7) 17, Effect: d6, d6

1 opportunity

Status: PS 00, ES 00, MS 00, PP 02, XP 03

Next: Captain Marvel

Reactions: Hydra Wingman A & Hydra Bazooka Soldier
This message was last edited by the player at 21:51, Tue 22 Dec 2015.

Reaction to Iron Man's attack, Total: 17; Effect: d6 (presumably physical stress):
Buddy    d6
Goon (but a lucky one)   d8
Hydra Armor d6

Hydra Wingman A rolled 5,1,6 using d8,d8,d6 ((5,1,6)).
Hydra Wingman B rolled 4 using 1d6 ((4)).

Total: 10, Effect: d4 (default)
Iron Man's attack succeeds. Extraordinary Success bumps the damage to d8
1 Opportunity

Status: PS:d8 ES:00 MS:00
This message was last edited by the player at 16:29, Mon 21 Dec 2015.

Reaction to Iron Man's attack, Total: 17; Effect: d6 (presumably physical stress):
Buddy    d6
Carrying Heavy Ordinance (highly dangerous weapon, now freshly loaded)   d4
(add to Doom Pool)
Hydra Armor d6
Combat Expert    d8

Hydra Bazooka Soldier rolled 6,3,3,1 using d6,d4,d6,d8 ((6,3,3,1)).

Total: 9, Effect: d6
Iron Man's attack. Extraordinary Success bumps the damage to d8, though it's moot
1 more Opportunity

Status: KNOCKED OUT

Doom Pool: 6d8 + Step, 2d10 = 7d8, 2d10

The repulsor beams stream from Iron Man's hands, one for each target. The targeting system is dead on: The first blast hits the so-far luckiest goon square in the chest, while the other one hits the already-bloodied and battered one in the face. Unfortunately, his arm is free, and on the end of that arm is a bazooka, and as he falls to the ground, the weapon goes off, sending a freshly-loaded missile sailing over the ledge of the roof, past Iron Man, over the heads of the bystanders, then crashing into a lone, parked car, which explodes into a fiery wreck.

Carol sighs at the Hydra Leader passes out. Maybe she laid it on a bit thick, but it sure felt good. She sees the rocket blast from the periphery of her vision. She worries that the moments she spent up in the sky are giving the bad guys time to push forward. Time to get back to work.

She bolts earthward back towards the battle. As she flies towards the roof, she throws the Hydra Leader at Hydra Wingman A. Once on the roof, she starts gathering power in her hands to blast a way into the building. It's time to end this.

Throwing HL into WMA
Solo: d8
Take Charge Attitude: d4 (she's reacting pretty off the cuff)
Superhuman Strength d10
Combat Expert d8
Hydra Wingman's Stress: d8

20:53, Today: Captain Marvel rolled 6,7,1,6,2 using d8,d8,d8,d10,d4 with rolls of 6,7,1,6,2.
total:13, Effect:d10 Reaction from Hydra Wingman A needed
1 Opportunity

Status: PS 00, ES 00, MS 00, PP 02, XP 00

Next up: Iron Fist

Captain Marvel sails over the heads of the bystanders, who have been directly in this combat zone nearly since it started, who now jump, startled, by the explosion behind them, in a place that blocks where they could have run to, if they could move at all from their paralyzation from fear.

Buying both Opportunities from Iron Man and Capt. Marvel, though separately.

Reaction to Capt. Marvel's attack, Total: 13; Effect: d10 (presumably physical stress):
Solo    d4
Goon (resigned to the fact that it's just about over)   d4
(add to Doom Pool)
Hydra Armor d6

Hydra Wingman A rolled 2,1,1 using d4,d4,d6 ((2,1,1)).

Total: 2, Effect: d4 (default)
Capt. Marvel's attack succeeds. Extraordinary Success x2 pushes Effect to over d12
2 Opportunities

Status: KNOCKED OUT

Doom Pool: 7d8 + Step, 2d10 + 2d6 = 2d6, 6d8, 3d10

The Hydra Leader, now used as a weapon, slams into the Hydra flunkie, who actually seems to somehow move into the way of the attack. Clearly any luck that flunkie had has run out. The two goons, now wrapped around each other, fall to the ground near the bodies of three other Hydra goons which have been defeated and left there.

Iron Fist is still AWOL, so choose a different action.

Eyeing Captain Marvel, whose hands are starting to glow, "Hey, Capt...wow, that's weird, 'cause you're not him...but you do use 'Captain' in your name...", and then shaking his head to regain focus, "thanks for the assist, but maybe we should save the nuclear option for later?"

"Mr. Stark, there are people in danger on the streets below, a car on fire, and Hercules is trying to subdue the Dreadnought with brute force."

"Okay...thanks, Friday. T'Challa, Carol, could you give Herc a hand with that tin can down there? I'll see what I can do to disperse the crowd."

Status: PS 00, ES 00, MS 00, PP 02, XP 03
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Next: Hercules

Hercules's eyes narrow and his teeth grit at the burning pain his grip on the robot causes, but he will not let go. The robot's armor may be immune to his fists, but the Lion of Olympus is no mindless brawler. Even the strongest foe can be broken with the right leverage... He digs his heels in and starts to twist the hammer arm.



Gonna try to create an Overstressed Joints complication on the Dreadnaught.

Team d6
Prince of Power d8
Godlike Strength d12
Combat Expert d8.

23:50, Today: Hercules rolled 5,1,2,5 using d12,d8,d8,d6.  Overstressed Joints.

Total 10, effect die d8, with one opportunity.

The bystanders, huddled together, shiver even in the summer night's warm air. Surrounded by the burning car on one side and the dangerous robot and his adversary on the other, they have few options to hide.

Purchasing the Opportunity. You could have used the Dreadnaught's stress in your dice pool.

Reaction to Hercules's attack,  Total: 10; Effect: d8:
Team    d10
Remote Controlled (unprepared to not be attacked head-on)    d4
(+ to Doom Pool)
Superhuman Durability d10
Combat Expert d8

Hydra Dreadnaught rolled 1,1,3,2 using d10,d4,d10,d8 ((1,1,3,2)).

Total: 2, Effect: d10
Hercules's attack succeeds. Extraordinary Success pushes Effect to over d10
2 Opportunities available

Status: PS:d6 ES:00 MS:00

Doom Pool: 2d6 + d6 + Step, 6d8, 3d10 = 2d6, 7d8, 3d10`

The robot's arm creaks then a fissure around its elbow opens, with wires and sparks popping from it. From there it's a short matter for the arm to come unattached from the body, though electricity still flows through it. Just as Hercules drops the attachment to the ground, a jolt of pure power surges through it, something that could even incinerate a god himself, then fades.

(Post edited to omit picking the next action since all the bad guys have gone. One more hero to go then a new round starts.)
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When out of nowhere, a surge of power strikes the air, commanding the attention of all those in the vicinity. Ascending from the sky, Sentry appears before the warehouse, with such intimidating pure might, as if God himself needed to correct the failures of mankind. After hovering in the upper atmosphere, for an unknown period of time, Sentry noticed the flaming "A" over lower Manhattan. Sensing unknown dangers, Sentry accepted the necessary use of his authoritative power, and rocketed towards the surface, yet landed daintily between the Dreadnaught and the possibly Puerto Rican bystanders, focusing intently on the two, paying no attention to Hercules. Enraged by the apparent lack of interest in Puerto Rican safety, Sentry, facing the people, bellows a loud, "LEAVE" into the sky, radiating such intense light, shining brightly to deter their attendance.

Dice Pool:
Solo d10
distinction- Guardian of Good d8
Light Mastery d10
Use of SFX: Unleashed, to roll another d10
Psych Expert d8

16:15, Today: The Sentry rolled 3,4,5,10,5,1 using d10,d8,d10,d10,d6,d6.  Remove Civilians from Area
Gain 1+ PP
Spend 1 PP to add my 5 (d6) to my total:
 10 (d10) + 5 (d10) + 5 (d10(from my PP))= 20
Use remaining d10 for effect die

PS:00 MS:00 ES:00 PP:01 XP:00

Next Up: Sentry

Buying the Opportunity from Sentry: +1 PP to Sentry; +d6 to Doom Pool.

Doom Pool (2d6, 7d8, 3d10) reaction to Sentry's attempt to remove bystanders, Total: 20, Effect: d10.

Watcher rolled 3,3,3,6,2,4,1,2,4,6,6,10 using d6,d6,d8,d8,d8,d8,d8,d8,d8,d10,d10,d10 ((3,3,3,6,2,4,1,2,4,6,6,10)).

Total = 16, Effect = d10.

1 Opportunity available.

The Sentry removes Innocent Bystanders distinction.

Doom Pool: 2d6 + d6, 7d8, 3d10 = 3d6, 7d8, 3d10

"Madre dios!" one of the bystanders yelps as this god of light stands illuminated before them. They finally find the courage to get out of there, running near the flaming car, close enough for it to be a danger if they were staying, far enough from it and this battle to get to safety. They scatter but they'll be safe.

Next Round Begins.

Initiative:
The Sentry
Hydra Dreadnaught
Hydra Mob
Iron Man
Hercules
Capt. Marvel
Black Panther
Mystery villain
(Iron Fist)
(Human Torch)
(Hawkeye)

Seeing the arrival of The Sentry, and the way it affects the crowd below: "Okay, new plan. Let's just pile on the tin can."
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From over his broad right shoulder, the Golden Guardian watches the frantic civilians flee towards safety. With their presence removed, Sentry instantly thrusts his head in the direction of the Dreadnaught, shooting a piercing, sharp gaze directly at the emotionless machine, still heeding no attention to Hercules. Still enraged by the past
potential danger, Sentry lifts a heavy fist in the air, aimed directly at the robot. With virtually no effort, Sentry shoots a burst of bright, raw energy towards the nuisance, possibly powerful enough to explode the mechanical menace into molecules of its previous components.

Dice Pool:
Solo d10
Golden Guardian of Good d8
Light Mastery d10
Combat d8
Dreadnaughts PS d6

09:15, Today: The Sentry rolled 3,1,5,1,4 using d10,d8,d10,d8,d6.  Destroy the Dreadnaught.
5 (d10) + 4 (d6)= 9
Use [3] d10 as effect die.
PS:00 MS:00 ES:00 PP:02 XP:00
Next up: Hercules
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The Dreadnaught turns from Hercules to the crowd, now dispersing, then back to Hercules, then to the Golden Guardian in front of him, then rights its own balance to compensate for the sudden and violent loss of a limb. An expression understandably does not appear on the mechanized menace's tiny face but its eyes glow red anew.

Purchasing the Opportunities, to add a d8 to the Doom Pool.

Reaction to the Sentry's attack,  Total: 9; Effect: d10:
Team    d10
Lumbering, Destructive Force (unbalanced due to losing its arm)    d4
(+ to Doom Pool)
Superhuman Durability d10
Combat Expert d8

Hydra Dreadnaught rolled 5,4,2,7 using d10,d4,d10,d8 ((5,4,2,7)).

Total: 12, Effect: d10
The Sentry's attack fails

Status: PS:d6 ES:00 MS:00

Doom Pool: 3d6 + Step, 7d8 + d8, 3d10 = 2d6, 9d8, 3d10

The Sentry's beam illuminates the entire block but the light shines off the dreaded robot's hide. However, it's now no danger to nearby innocents.

"Stand aside, mortal," booms Hercules. "Flashing lights and pretty sparkles have no place on the field of battle. The day will be won by strength and strength alone!" So saying, he swings the torn hammer arm in a wide arc, slamming the Dreadnaught amidships with its own limb.


Aiming to cause physical stress:

Team d6
Prince of Power d8
Godlike Strength d12
Boundless Strength d12
Combat Expert d8
Dreadnaught's stress d6

21:39, Today: Hercules rolled 5,4,1,8,2,5 using d12,d12,d8,d8,d6,d6.  Hercules attack.

Spending 1 PP to add another die to total, giving me a total of 18 with a d12 effect die and one opportunity.

Status: PS 00, ES 00, MS 00, PP 02, XP 01

Next action: Black Panther

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Purchasing the Opportunity.

Reaction to Hercules's attack,  Total: 18; Effect: d12:
Team    d10
Titanium-Steel Alloy Armor    d8
Superhuman Durability d10
Combat Expert d8
From Doom Pool    d8

Hydra Dreadnaught rolled 4,1,3,5,6 using d10,d8,d10,d8,d8 ((4,1,3,5,6)).

Total: 11, Effect: d10
Hercules's attack succeeds. Extraordinary Success pushes Effect to over d12
1 Opportunity available

Status: KNOCKED OUT

Doom Pool: 2d6 + Step, 9d8 - d8, 3d10 = d6, 9d8, 3d10

The Dreadnaught stands strong, as much as it can against a Greek god, but it does no good. Hercules bashes the thing with its own arm, which explodes -- both the arm and the robot itself! The menace, now just wreckage, falls to the asphalt with a thundering clatter. A few jolts of electricity jump through it, from tiny head to massive toe, the power increasingly weaker until it dies completely and whatever light was in its eyes fades to nothing.

Seeing that the Dreadnought has been defeated, the Black Panther pauses for a moment and tunes his jungle-honed senses to the building, listening for the flow of water through old sprinkler pipes.  He rushes across the rooftop looking at the machinery until he finds one that looks suitable.  Slashing out with his claws, he severs several important connections in hopes of causing the sprinkler system to activate and perhaps break up that mob of Hydra agents.

Dice Pool:

Roll vs. the Wall of Hydra Agents asset (trying to activate the sprinkler system to cause their formation to break up basically)

Team d6, Peerless Intellect d8, Weapon d6, Enhanced Senses d8, Tech Expert d8.

Today: Black Panther rolled 6,5,1,3,5 using d6,d8,d6,d8,d8 ((6,5,1,3,5))

Total:  16 (spending 1 PP to add an extra die to total).  d8 Effect Die.  1 Opportunity.

d8 Effect Die for attempt to remove Wall of Hydra Agents d8 asset.

Next Action:  Iron Man

Doom Pool (d6, 9d8, 3d10) reaction to Black Panther's slashing pipes, Total: 16, Effect: d8.
Adding extra d10 from Doom Pool.

Watcher rolled 4,4,6,3,4,3,7,7,3,10,4,1,5 using d6,d8,d8,d8,d8,d8,d8,d8,d8,d10,d10,d10,d10 ((4,4,6,3,4,3,7,7,3,10,4,1,5)).

Total = 17, Effect = d10.
d10 Effect Die steps down BP's Effect die; Effect is not greater than Wall d8.
Black Panther's attempt fails.
1 Opportunity available.

Doom Pool: 3d6, 7d8, 3d10 -d10 = d6, 9d8, 2d10

T'Challa slashes away at the pipes but has no way of telling if his action is producing the result he planned. The mass of Hydra agents is wedged well inside the warehouse, outside of an angle of anyone outside looking in, unless that hero enters that dark, ominous hallway leading inside. Unfortunately, they have taken Iron Fist in there with them.

Seeing the explosion, and destruction of the Dreadnaught, in the streets below, Tony realizes his latest plan is futile. "Okay...we'll just play it by ear."

"Mr. Stark, there are still a few more Hydra soldiers to deal with below, and we should probably look for Mr. Storm and Mr. Rand."

"Thanks, Friday."

Iron Man jumps down to the street below, and immediately turns to face the wall of Hydra goons. "Let's see what we can do about your weapons."

Activating "SFX: EMP" to target the Hydra goons' weapons (truncheons?), in an attempt to render them useless. Iron Man's Weapons Platform will be shutdown until reactivated.

Dice Pool: Team d8, Hardheaded Futurist d4 (Overconfidence; +1 PP), Cybernetic Senses d6 (Targeting), Repulsors d8, EMP d6.

Spending 1 PP to add a third die to my roll.

22:01, Today: Iron Man rolled 4,1,1,5,6 using d8,d4,d6,d8,d6

Roll: (5 + 6) 11, Effect: d8

2 opportunities (Grrrrr...)

Status: PS 00, ES 00, MS 00, PP 03, XP 03

Next: Captain Marvel

Reactions: Hydra Mob
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Seeing the crowd dispersing and the destruction strewn about the battlefield makes Carol realize that it's more important to get everything outside under control. She narrows her gaze towards the Hydra mooks and their sparking weapons. Tony's doing something, probably running his favorite program: His Mouth. He's the first punch, she'll be the second in a one/two combo.

Captain Marvel goes ahead and blasts at the mob of Hydra Goons. She's blasting at the ground between them, though, as to disperse and demoralize them right after Iron Man's attack.

Team: d10
Take-Charge Attitude d8
Energy Blast d8
Combat Expert d8

15:39, Today: Captain Marvel rolled 4,6,8,2 using d8,d8,d8,d10 ((4,6,8,2))

Spend a PP to add one more result to my total= 18, Effect Die d10

Reaction: Hydra Mob

Status: PS 00, ES 00, MS 00, PP 01, XP 00

Next up:Hercules

Iron Man fires into the hallway leading into the warehouse in which the goons are ensconced. The group are keeping well within the shadows filling the area, so the Armored Avenger can only hope that his blast will connect.

Purchasing the 2 Opportunities: adding d8 to Doom Pool; +1 PP to Iron Man.

Reaction to Iron Man's attack, Total: 11; Effect: d8:
Team    5d8
Moderately Well-Trained Goons    d8
Hydra Armor    d8

Hydra Mob rolled 2,8,7,4,2,1,8 using d8,d8,d8,d8,d8,d8,d8 ((2,8,7,4,2,1,8)).

Total: 15, Effect: d8.
Iron Man's attack fails.
1 Opportunity available.

Iron Man's attack lights up the hallway for an instant, only to reveal the agents scattered and the blast missing them widely. That brief illumination reveals that they are moving into the warehouse, but is it a retreat out of fear or of strategy? And where have they taken the Human Torch and Iron Fist so quickly?

Reaction to Capt. Marvel's attack (an intimidation attack, though that would normally use Menace Expert), Total: 18; Effect: d10:
Team    5d8
Moderately Well-Trained Goons    d8
Hydra Armor    d8

Hydra Mob rolled 4,8,2,7,8,1,6 using d8,d8,d8,d8,d8,d8,d8 ((4,8,2,7,8,1,6)).

Total: 16, Effect: d8
Capt. Marvel's attack succeeds, removing a d8 from the Hydra Mob.
1 Opportunity available.

Doom Pool: d6, 9d8 + d8, 2d10 = d6, 10d8, 2d10

Capt. Marvel's attack has better luck but it is ultimately for naught. Her blasts tear up the ground outside of the hallway and leading into the warehouse, missing the Hydra agents as intended but stopping only one from their machinations inside. The agent furthest back lets out a surprised yelp as the blast misses him by inches, but before he is left behind his teammates drag him into the building with them, now completely inside the facility.

It is at this moment that Iron Man and Capt. Marvel both notice the bow, broken, in a puddle of blood on the ground in the furthest area of the alleyway.

Next action: Mystery villain (since Hercules already went)

While the Black Panther goes about slashing the pipes on the roof, a body stirs behind him. The last, forgotten Hydra agent, prone and beaten to within an inch from unconsciousness, slowly cranes his head toward the hero, who also happens to be within his line of sight. With his last ounces of strength, he raises his pistol toward the Son of Wakanda and, with all the effort he can muster for this last shot at honor and duty to Hydra, aims at Black Panther's back. "Hail... Hydra...," he mutters so silently as his finger closes around the trigger.

Physical attack on Black Panther:
Solo    d4
Goon (shaky aim)   d4
(add to Doom Pool)
Small Arms d6

Hydra Wingman B rolled 3,2,4 using d4,d4,d6 ((3,2,4)).

Total: 5, Effect: d6

Status: PS:d12 ES:00 MS:00

Doom Pool: d6 + Step, 10d8, 2d10 = 11d8, 2d10

Reaction: Black Panther

NEW ROUND

Next: Black Panther

T'Challa feels a bit chagrined at his failure to remember the battered Hydra agent, but that doesn't prevent him from noticing the man's movement and deftly dodge out of the way with the reflexes of a jungle cat.

Dice Pool:

Buddy d6, Peerless Strategy d4, Cybernetic Senses d6, Enhanced Reflexes d8, Combat Master d10.

Black Panther rolled 2,2,3,4,10 using d6,d4,d6,d8,d10 ((2,2,3,4,10)).

Total:  14.  d6 Effect Die.

Next Action:  Black Panther

This time he takes no chances and launches an attack against the Hydra agent whose attack he had just dodged, hoping to take the man out of the fight for good so that he can concentrate on the situation unfolding below.  As part of his dodge, he hurls the electrical junction box that he'd just slashed through at the man intending to strike the blow which would render him unconscious.

Dice Pool:

Buddy d6, Peerless Strategy d8, Weapon d6, Enhanced Strength d8, Combat Master d10.

Black Panther rolled 2,2,6,2,7 using d6,d8,d6,d8,d10.  Attack vs. Hydra Wingman B.
Black Panther rolled 1 using 1d12.  Forgotten physical stress.

Total:  13.  d8 Effect Die to inflict physical stress vs. Hydra Wingman B.  1 Opportunity.

Next Reaction:  Hydra Wingman B

Next Action:  Captain Marvel

"Weapons Platforms is back online, Mr. Stark."

"Thanks...", Tony starts, distracted by what he assumes is Clint's bow & blood on the ground. "Now how did that happen?"

I'm using the opportunity I was granted in msg #140 to reactive Weapons Platform.

Turning to Captain Marvel: "You see the bow and the blood right?"
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Reaction to Hercules's attack,  Total: 13; Effect: d8:
Solo    d4
Goon (greatly injured)   d4
(add to Doom Pool)
Hydra Armor d6

Hydra Wingman B rolled 1,1,6 using d4,d4,d6 ((1,1,6)).

Total: 6, Effect: d4 (default)
Black Panther's attack succeeds. The Extraordinary Success pushes the Effect die to considerably more than it needs to be to take out the goon.

Status: KNOCKED OUT

Doom Pool: 11d8 + Step, 2d10 = 10d8, 3d10

The junction box hits the goon squarely in the arm, enough to knock both the pistol from his hand and the man out.

Black Panther stands amidst the bodies of seven Hydra goons lying prostrate. As he swiftly scans the area he notices the access door to the roof is ajar. Only darkness shows through the opening, with stairs leading down into the warehouse.

For the moment, with the Hydra gang retreated into the warehouse and the other group defeated on top of the building, the area is silent and still.

Carol looks from the bow to Iron Man, "Dammit, Tony, yeah. I know he can handle himself, but this looks bad. Can your sensors pick up anything? We have to find him, but we can't let those Hydra finish whatever they're doing in that building!" Carol is torn between going after Hydra and trying to find Hawkeye. She knows Hawkeye would want them to get the Hydra goons, because he's just that way, but with Black Panther, Hercules, and...The Sentry (that may cause more problems than it solves, she thinks) the Hydra goons might be in check. That blood, however, means that something nasty and dangerous might be nearby and ultimately, Hawkeye just isn't in (she looks at Iron Man) their class of power.

Carol makes her fists glow, both to have a blast ready in case it's needed, but also to illuminate the alley if necessary. Her intent is to see if the blood creates a trail and to determine whether or not this is related to the Hydra stuff.

"We should go after Clint. This doesn't look good."

Next Up: Iron Man

Just at that moment, the relative silence is broken by the sound of a man's scream, breathy and full, coming through the hallway from inside the building. It stops abruptly.

Tony whips around and stares into the long, dark hallway, momentarily torn between rushing in and not -- but that scream...it certainly affects the decision. Turning back to Captain Marvel, the suit's faceplate slides up and over the suit's head, exposing Tony's face, his look of urgent concern apparent to the most casual observer. "My earlier scan of the building showed this door and one on the other side -- both of them are heavy, and reinforced. There's also a door on the roof. The building as a whole has been shielded from scans somehow, so I can't say for certain what's inside...but they took Johnny and Dan inside, so Clint's probably in there too. T'Challa will probably go in through the roof. He's quiet and stealthy. He'll do well. Me...well, I'm not the quiet type."

With that, the suit's faceplate snaps shut and Iron Man turns and walks towards the the foreboding hallway. "Friday, run another scan. See if you can find our missing guys, or any more information about what's inside."

Dice Pool: Team d8, Cutting Edge Tech d8 (the scream nullified Tony's overconfidence), Cybernetic Senses d6, Tech Master d10.

16:55, Today: Iron Man rolled 5,6,2,9,8,8 using d8,d8,d6,d10,d10,d10.

Roll: 15, Effect: d8

Reaction: Watcher (Results of the Scan)
Next Action: The Sentry
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You could have used the Narrow Hallway distinction.

Doom Pool (10d8, 3d10) reaction to Iron Man's attempt to scan the hallway, Total: 15, Effect: d8.

Watcher rolled 6,8,2,4,1,4,4,6,1,3,6,8,8 using d8,d8,d8,d8,d8,d8,d8,d8,d8,d8,d10,d10,d10 ((6,8,2,4,1,4,4,6,1,3,6,8,8)).

Total = 16, Effect = d10.
2 Opportunities available.

Doom Pool: 10d8, 3d10

Iron Man's scan of the hallway reveals nothing more than anyone else could get from looking into it: It is a narrow shaft leading into the warehouse. It is clean, and the walls of it are made from some kind of metal, likely not the original material when the warehouse was built, which indicates that there has been interior work done recently. Shadows filling the hallway obscure seeing clearly to the end of it, though there is light on the other side. Also eerily quiet, assuming there is something inside the building.

The stoic Sentry stands tall, floating in the night sky. He sees no need for his power, yet. He shoots a quick nod to Iron Man, letting them know he is there to help. But sees no need for his might.

PS:00 ES:00 MS:00 PP:02 XP:00

Next up: Hercules

The air hangs still as the heroes pause before the warehouse. Of the heroes in front of the door leading into the facility, Sentry has ascended above while Capt. Marvel, the natural leader, is closest to the entryway. Hercules lingers at the back but suffers nothing for the position.

Hercules shoulders his way forward, pushing into the hallway. "One side! If there are foes before us, they will answer to the might of Hercules!"

Hercules strides into the darkness of the empty hallway. It lets out into a large room, the light in it so bright that it's almost blinding. A voice disrupts the silence. "Enter, heroes! Welcome!"  The sound is familiar to Iron Man, even if he doesn't remember it right away. "Please come in! Not like I could stop you."

Next action: Iron Man
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Disbelief and curiosity wash over Tony at the same time. "It can't be...can it?", he thinks, as he runs down the hallway and through the doorway at its end, stopping just a few feet inside, the suit's visor adjusting for the glare.

Next Action: Captain Marvel
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Carol flies in, making mental notes of the environment, noting places people can hide, enter, or exit. She also looks at ceiling quickly to judge if it's too strong to blast out of in case that's necessary. If possible, once inside, she makes a triangle, Hercules on point, flanked by Iron Man and herself. After this, her attention is on whomever is calling out to them...

Next action:Black Panther
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True to prediction, T'Challa chooses to take an avenue of stealth.  Seeing the access door leading downward into the warehouse, T'Challa takes a moment to examine it before stealthily slipping into the warehouse by what is hopefully an unguarded route as he slides into the shadows within.  His senses, enhanced by the heart-shaped herb that is the birthright of the King of the Wakandas, are at maximum as he moves.

[Dice Pool:

Solo d10, Downtown At Night d8, Wall-Crawling d6, Enhanced Senses d8, Covert Master d10.

Black Panther rolled 8,8,1,8,3 using d10,d8,d6,d8,d10 ((8,8,1,8,3))

Total:  16. d10 Effect Die.  1 Opportunity.

Attempting to create a Stalking The Prey d10 asset.

Next Reaction:  Doom Pool

Next Action:  If I'm reading the actions and Status Tracker right, we're on new round?  If so, then Iron Man will be next.

After stalking the sky for who knows how long, the Sentry grows more and more impatient from his lack of action. Requiring more stimulation from a high-stakes battle, the Sentry positioned himself closer, hoping to assist the team better. With most already positioned within the building, this glowing guy places himself on the roof, to accompany Panther-Man. Unfamiliar with a team up, the Sentry senses he would damage the Panther's ability to hide in the shadows, assuming that his dark, shady costume comes equipped with sneaky skills. Even so, Sentry felt a flow of loneliness and sadness within the darkness- possibly even from Panther himself- leaving Sentry with the decision to stay a determined distance from the man, able to lend his power when needed, yet giving Black Panther a suitable environment to maneuver

Next Up: Mysterious Villain (?)
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Buying the Opportunity, add to Doom Pool.

Doom Pool (10d8, 3d10) reaction to Black Panther's attempt to create Stalking The Prey asset, Total: 16, Effect: d10.

Watcher rolled 1,2,4,3,8,1,4,3,6,5,8,8,6 using d8,d8,d8,d8,d8,d8,d8,d8,d8,d8,d10,d10,d10 ((1,2,4,3,8,1,4,3,6,5,8,8,6)).

Total = 16, Effect = d10. The tie goes to the hero.
2 Opportunities available.
Black Panther's action succeeds. Stalking The Prey asset created.

Doom Pool: 10d8 + d6, 3d10 = d6, 10d8, 3d10

As the Black Panther moves into the stairwell leading down into the building, he feels the Sentry move in behind him. Luckily that bright, shining hero doesn't hinder the Wakandan's stealth, as it's more than just staying in the darkness, but he knows the hero following him is a liability, though his sheer power should balance it out, even when they lose the element of surprise (such as it is).
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NEW ROUND

In the large multi-purpose room that makes up most of the warehouse, renovated with thick, shiny metal walls, a sea of Hydra are lined up in neat, synchronized rows, from the back of the place up to just below where the heroes stand on an elevated landing.  The soldiers stand perfectly still, with their legs and arms stretched to an X.  They are silent.  Catwalks line the sides of each wall, reaching to the back of the room where there is a door, and beside it a huge window overlooking the area, though it is mostly opaque.  A few more soldiers stand on catwalks on each side, legs and arms also outstretched, like the ones on the floor.  Above this all floats a platform, set toward the back of the room, the figure on it clear in the distance: the treacherous Taskmaster!  At his feet lies the bloodied, unmoving body of Iron Fist.  "You've found the place, might as well come in and trash it!  Or maybe this time we'll trash you!"

As the heroes step into the place, the army of Hydra agents seem to activate in perfect harmony, all of them barking their familiar mantra, starting as a modest sound but progressing quickly to a clamorous roar: "Hail Hydra. Hail Hydra.  Hail Hydra!  Hail Hydra!  HAIL HYDRA!  HAIL HYDRA!"

As the heroes take this in and tense their muscles and fists to ready for the onslaught, a huge, gleaming door slams behind them, the sound as loud as thunder, now trapping them with these villains and no escape.

Over the din, the Taskmaster cackles and raises a bloody sword to the sky. The soldiers pull out their weapons and move toward the heroes, surrounding them utterly, as the Taskmaster's throaty laughs crackle in the background.

Adding LARGE, REINFORCED TRAINING ROOM and FLOATING PLATFORM distinctions, -2d8 from Doom Pool.

Both groups of heroes are now separated, so both can have actions at the same time. The main group with the Hydra army are now all at Team affiliation.

Doom Pool: d6, 10d8 -2d8, 3d10 = d6, 8d8, 3d10

The stairwell is dark but leads into a bright hallway.  The florescent lighting shines against the walls of reinforced steel.  It is a nondescript hallway but what is in it is notable: There are bodies of six Hydra agents strewn about, each of them prone on the floor, one with his head propped against the wall, just where he landed.  On a slightly closer inspection, the two security camera attached in corners against the ceiling on each end of the hallway, are hanging from wires in pieces.  The hallway ends at a solid, metal door, but to the right of that is an open doorway, leading into a room from which a flickering light comes.  There is no movement in the hallway and the only sound is the muffled but clear shouting of "HAIL HYDRA!  HAIL HYDRA!" presumably coming from the main area of the facility.

Adding UPPER LEVEL OFFICES distinction, -d8 from Doom Pool.

Black Panther and the Sentry now use Buddy distinction.

Doom Pool: d6, 8d8 -d8, 3d10 = d6, 7d8, 3d10

Black Panther creeps along, his heightened senses, both natural and artificial,  tuned to their utmost as he follows the trail of destruction.  He moves towards the sounds of the shouting, hoping to come at his foes from ambush, taking a moment to patch the electronic devices within his upgraded Panther raiment into the security systems using the opportunity provided by the broken cameras.

[OOC:  Spend 1 PP to create a Security Feed d6 resource using my Tech Expert specialty.]

Next Action:  Iron Man

Purely on instinct, Tony triggers the suit's propulsion system, intent on taking Taskmaster off his floating platform and putting him into the wall. As he nears Taskmaster, Tony can't help himself, kicking on the suit's external speaker: "Hey, Skeletor...does He-Man know you left Eternia?"

Dice Pool: Team d8, Floating Platform d4 (+1 PP), Superhuman Strength d10, Supersonic Flight d10, Tech Master d10

21:42, Today: Iron Man rolled 7,1,10,4,4 using d8,d4,d10,d10,d10.

Roll: 17, Effect: d10 of Physical Stress
One opportunity (+1 PP)

Reaction: Taskmaster
Next Action: Hercules
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The hallway contains only two doorways, one ahead with a closed door and the other on the side leading into a room, neither a stairwell. The shouting comes not from either room but its sound travels just so through these metals walls, so it is loud enough to be heard in spite of not being in the immediate vicinity, though its is muffled for its travels.

At that moment a short cry comes from the room with the open doorway. It is a voice low and gravely, and the tone seems to be one of anguish, not distress. At that same time, lights from inside the room flash wildly in a full range of colors, spilling into the hallway.

Next Action: Sentry

"Hey, that's a good one! Does the real Iron Man know you're a crap version?  That color is awful! You're not trying stealth mode, are you?  I'm sure it'll work -- if everyone's blind and stupid!"  Then continues his maniacal laughter, this time directed right at the charging, armored hero.

Adding d6 to Doom Pool from Opportunity.

In combat, use Combat Expert/Master instead of Tech Expert/Master, or none if you have no Combat skills.

Reaction to Iron Man's physical attack,  Total: 17; Effect: d10:
Team d6
Villainous Mercenary    d8
Superhuman Durability d10
Enhanced Reflexes    2d8
(-d6 from Doom Pool for Library of Moves, doubling Enhanced Reflexes)
Acrobatic Master d10
From Doom Pool    d10
(-d10 from Doom Pool)

Taskmaster rolled 6,8,7,4,3,3,1 using d6,d8,d10,d8,d8,d10,d10 ((6,8,7,4,3,3,1)).

Adding an extra die to total, -d6 from Doom Pool
Total: 21, Effect: d10
Iron Man's attack fails
1 Opportunity available

Status: PS:00 ES:00 MS:00

Doom Pool: d6 +d6 -d6 -d6, 7d8, 3d10 -d10 = 7d8, 2d10

Taskmaster's nimble side-step out of Iron Man's way is so graceful and effortless that it makes the Avenger's charge look like a clumsy, amateurish attack. For a finishing touch, the Taskmaster waves his cape over the passing Iron Man like a matador's red cloth, at the same time a quick scraping sound comes from the vicinity of their brief closeness to each other. "Olé, lame-o!"
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Hercules crouches, leg muscles swelling, and leaps off the landing. He arcs through the air -- but he has not aimed himself at the Taskmaster's platform. The metal flooring rings as he lands amid the Hydra soldiers, scattering them like bowling pins, and a roar of "HAVE AT THEE!" echoes off the walls as he starts laying about himself with hamlike fists.


Spending 1 PP for a Flying Leap (d8) stunt and attacking the Hydra army with intent to do physical stress.

Team d6
Brash Demigod d8
Godlike Strength d12
Combat Expert d8
Flying Leap d8
Area Effect d6 (+1 effect die)

12:32, Today: Hercules rolled 9,1,7,6,1,6 using d12,d8,d8,d8,d6,d6.  Hercules attack on Hydra mob.

Total 15, 2d8 for effect dice and two opportunities.

PS 00 ES 00 MS 00 PP 02 XP 01

Reaction: Hydra
Next action: Taskmaster

    After hearing the ear-piercing shriek, Sentry's attention shifts directly into the hallway. Thinking critically about the unknown environment, Sentry takes a moment to land on the roof, standing upon his two sturdy feet. Walking slowly in with a powerful stride, Sentry walks directly into the hall, so focused on the echo's location that he heeds no time to avoid shrugging his massive deltoids against the Panther. While in the middle of his step, Sentry suddenly stops, as he faces an epileptic patient's worst nightmare: a door filled with flashing lights. Caught off guard by an intense array of light, Sentry stands still with largely dilated pupils, facing the frame, deeply mesmerized by the colorful patterns. With a slight twitch, the Sentry returns to the living, but with a noticeably different state of being, as if his chakras had been swiftly realigned,
      Sentry- the compelling, forceful powerhouse- turns his line of sight towards Panther. Sentry reaches behinds his cape, pulling out a pair of sunglasses from his belt. Still looking at Panther, he opens the spectacles, placing them over his ears and eyes. Releasing a sly smirk on his face, Sentry says to Panther, "Lets party", as he strolls directly into the room: to party.

Next Up: Black Panther

With a sigh, Black Panther will follow Sentry into the room with the flashing lights, trying to maintain a stealthy posture.
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Buying 2 Opportunities from Hercules: +1 PP to Hercules, add to Doom Pool.

Reaction to Hercules's physical attack, Total: 15; Effect: 2d8:
Team    10d8
Large, Reinforced Training Room (so much space)   d4
(add to Doom Pool)
Hydra Armor    d6
Swarm    d8

Hydra Soldier Army rolled 2,7,3,1,5,5,8,6,3,6,1,4,6 using d8,d8,d8,d8,d8,d8,d8,d8,d8,d8,d4,d6,d8 ((2,7,3,1,5,5,8,6,3,6,1,4,6))

Total: 15, Effect: d8
Hercules's attack succeeds but Effect is not enough to remove member of Hydra Team.

Status: Team 10d8

Doom Pool: 7d8 + 2 Steps, 2d10 = 5d8, 4d10

Hercules lands explosively in the middle of the sea of Hydra minions. Seismic ripples issue forth, rattling anything that isn't nailed down.  A few of the soldiers are knocked off their feet but such is the compression of all the bodies in this area that they recover.  If some of the agents are knocked out from Hercules's attack, they are quickly replaced by more from the myriad of bodies around them and the continue to surge forth, now within striking distance of the Greek god.

"What's that 'quick scraping sound,' you ask?"  Then the Taskmaster's head rolls back and issues forth a fresh stream of maniacal laughter, this now coming from a deeper place, like he's convinced that what he's laughing at is actually humorous.  As Iron Man repositions himself for his next action with his back momentarily to his compatriots, Capt. Marvel gets a look at the source of Taskmaster's ridicule: a jagged stripe of silver going the length of Iron Man's back, from his neck to down his thigh as it tapers off, the paint of his armor taken off by Taskmaster's sword during the attack.  It's only cosmetic, no deeper damage to the armor, but embarrassing Iron Man was the villain's goal, and judging from his laughter, he has succeeded.  "Bring it, Trash Can! HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA !"

Grandstanding: add d10 to Doom Pool

Doom Pool: 5d8, 4d10 + d10 = Doom Pool: 5d8, 5d10

Next Action: Hydra Soldier Army

The Avenger now in their midst, the crowd of soldiers moves in, stretching with their truncheons and bludgeoning with them, arcs of energy cracking above their heads, blows being dealt to the hero. Still they chant, aided by their brothers, who await on the outside of the crowd, too many to attack the god all at once, their voices rhythmic and loud , approaching a certain rhythm: "HAIL HYDRA.  HAIL HYDRA.  HAIL HYDRA."

More Soldiers in the Army addition:
Hydra Soldier Army rolled 5 using 1d6 ((5)).
Hydra Soldier Army now 15d8, but Area Attack used on them (including the reaction roll) can be rolled with extra d8s instead of d6s.

Physical attack on Hercules:
Team    15d8
Followers (mindless, disorganized automatons)    d4
(add to Doom Pool)
Power-Truncheons    d8
Swarm    d8

Hydra Soldier Army rolled 1,5,6,6,7,8,3,7,5,2,1,7,3,2,3,8,5 using d8,d8,d8,d8,d8,d8,d8,d8,d8,d8,d8,d8,d8,d8,d4,d8,d8 ((1,5,6,6,7,8,3,7,5,2,1,7,3,2,3,8,5)).

Total: 16, Effect: d8
2 Opportunities available

Doom Pool: 5d8 + Step, 5d10 = 4d8, 6d10

Reaction: Hercules
Next Action: Hydra Rifle Squad A

Now with the battle in full effect, the squad on the catwalk fall in, readying their rifles and quickly taking shots, orchestrated together as they have been taught, attacking the armored Avenger who hovers awkwardly near them. The air around Iron Man is suddenly filled by laser-rifle fire as well as with the "HAIL HYDRA" chanting and Taskmaster's laughter.

Physical attack on Iron Man:
Team    3d8
Ranged Weapons Specialty (but firing before getting good aim)    d4
(add to Doom Pool)
Focus: Hydra Rifle/Combat Expert    d10

Hydra Rifle Soldiers A rolled 2,4,4,4,7 using d8,d8,d8,d4,d10 ((2,4,4,4,7)).

Total: 11, Effect: d8

Status: 3d8 Team

Doom Pool: 4d8 + Step, 6d10 = 3d8, 7d10

Reaction: Iron Man
Next Action: Capt. Marvel

Meanwhile, in the offices above: The open doorway leads into what could only be described as a manic laboratory.  Scientific devices and video displays fill the expansive room, equipment beyond even the Panther's advanced comprehension. Monitors fill the walls to the ceiling, with mechanical tendrils branching everywhere, to keyboards to smaller monitors to containers of liquid to beakers, into the walls and through the ceiling, and all of it back again and crossing over each other this way and that in a seemingly-chaotic mess.  All the screens seem to be turned to their full brightness, all of them flashing hysterically with blocks of letters and numbers and computer code and read-outs, in numerous languages, all appearing for instants before switching to the next then the next. Many of the screens hold status displays of boxes and red bars, many of them almost full. The place is lit only by the strobing lights coming from the LEDs of the monitors and the green glow from the tubes on the other side of the room. There is a strong, musty scent of ozone and the taste of copper, almost as overwhelming as the visual overstimulation from this room -- a sensory overload on all counts.

On one side of the room are four large tubes, each of them filled with a murky, slow-churning liquid and thick bubbles rising to the top.  Moving through the bubbles in each is a body, slowly revealing itself as human.  Each are nude, covered only by a complicated device clamping around their mid-sections.  When they see someone enter the room, each of them, in unison, move closer to the front of the glass, pressing their palms against it and drawing their faces nearer, all in the slowest of motions.  Their faces are handsome and distantly familiar, their expressions changing simultaneously, from the blank stare before anyone else was there, to, upon seeing someone enter, surprise, then joy, then terror, then finally to a wanting, sorrowful desperation, their mouths, filled with the liquid, open wide but not moving to mouth a word.

There is also a man, similarly unclothed but a decidedly different person as the ones in the tubes, who is attached to a very complex apparatus that takes up the rest of the room and itself connected to more monitors.  He is laying spread-eagle with his wrists and ankles bound, his body jerking as spasms seem to rock through him, eyes shut tight, the expression on his face going from high annoyance to great pain and back again.  There are concentric circles emanating from his body, dissipating as they move away from him.  If this is energy he's giving off, it's coming out in streams and is powerful, if the opaqueness of the circles is any indication.  The apparatus seems to light up whenever a surge of circles comes from him, with the monitors flashing and beeping.

Yet, it is all oddly silently, the only sounds being the strains of all the machines working at the same time, no louder than a personal computer, and the footsteps of a man on the far side of the room scurrying in front of the biggest block of monitors in the room. On one bank of screens appears to be the views of multiple cameras, showing the outside of the warehouse from various angles, the area of which the heroes are familiar.  The man's body is misshapen, a hunchback, his silhouette, seen in the near-dark, seems to have a small box atop his shoulders instead of a head.  Upon hearing the voice of someone entering the room, the man whips around, fully facing the heroes, though that face is grotesquely large and sits in the center of his chest.  Enter: the brilliant but nefarious Arnim Zola!  He points an oversized hand at the Sentry and points.  His voice, like his cry heard just a moment ago, a low and gravelly sound, barks, "You!"  In the dark place he seems focused on the light-bearing hero and does not look to notice the Panther in the shadows.


Adding ADVANCED BIOCHEMICAL LABORATORY distinction, -d8 to Doom Pool

Note to players: Both groups are separate at the moment, divided in different locations in the warehouse.  If there is a noise loud enough, like the Hydra soldiers chanting, the other group can hear, but each group does not know what is going on with the other and are not able to cross over to participate in the other group's situation.  We can have actions happening at the same time since members of each group are acting separately.  Please choose someone in your group for the next action.

Next Action: Sentry

Doom Pool: 3d8 -d8, 7d10 = 2d8, 7d10

The suit's internal visor flashes an alarm seconds before the Hydra Rifle Soldiers open fire. Still operating on muscle-memory, Tony executes a series of rolls and banks, now traveling towards the men firing at him. As he lands in their midst, Tony launches a counter-attack in the form of a formerly-golden fist aimed at the closest goon in the group. "Hail Hydra", Tony chuckles to himself, anticipating success.

Reaction to Hydra Rifle Soldiers A

Die pool: Team d8, Large Reinforced Training Room d8 (lots of room to maneuver), Superhuman Durability d10, Supersonic Flight d10 (Iron Man moves quickly)

Spending a PP to turn my effect die into a counter-attack, doing physical stress

21:18, Today: Iron Man rolled 5,5,6,2 using d8,d8,d10,d10.

Total: 11, Effect: d10.

As the blows rain down on Hercules, even the Lion of Olympus feels his strength faltering. The Hydra soldiers crowd around him, each one eager to be the one who lands the final hit.



Hercules will spend 1 PP to buy one of the Hydra Soldier Army's opportunities, creating a Combat stunt: Target Rich Environment d10. Basically, there are now so many around him that he can't swing his arms without connecting.

As for his reaction:

Team d6
Prince of Power d8
Superhuman Durability d10
Combat Expert d8

11:21, Today: Hercules rolled 10,4,5,1 using d10,d8,d8,d6.

Total 15, effect die d8, one opportunity.

PS d8 ES 00 MS 00 PP 02 XP 01

Carol decides that once this is over, she won't want to wear green for at least a year. Tony seems to be completely disoriented by Taskmaster, but she's sure he's got something up his iron sleeve. Right now it looks like Hercules is in a spot of trouble. She's also got an idea...

She flies up to the catwalk and ignoring the Hydra agents, rips the catwalk off the wall to use as a weapon.

Carol is going to create an Asset: "Catwalk propeller"

Team d10
Take-Charge Attitude d8
Superhuman Strength d10
Combat Expert d8

Captain Marvel rolled 6,3,2,1 using d10,d10,d8,d8 ((6,3,2,1)).

Total:9 Effect d8
Opportunity for Watcher


PS 00 ES 00 MS 00 PP 02 XP 00

Reaction: Doom Pool
Next Action: Hydra Rifle Soldiers B
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"Is that really the best punch you can throw?" Taskmaster barks toward Iron Man. "All these years and Captain America hasn't taught you how to fight like you don't have severe mental damage?" Then a guffaw before the manic laughter again. "HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA !"

Buying the Opportunity, add to Doom Pool.

Supposing that Capt. Marvel is affecting the catwalk nearer to the Hydra Rifle Soldiers B group.

Capt. Marvel uses her not-inconsiderable strength to tear the catwalk from the wall but it quickly disintegrates into an unwieldy mess that was already barely usable as a platform, much less a weapon. The catwalk itself, while of shoddy material, seems shiny and new, compared to the exterior of the warehouse.

Doom Pool (2d8, 7d10) reaction to Capt. Marvel's attempt to create Catwalk Propeller asset, Total: 9, Effect: d10.

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

Total = 19, Effect = d10.

Doom Pool: 2d8 + Step, 7d10 = d8, 8d10

The Hydra soldiers scurry from the area of the catwalk being torn away by Capt. Marvel to a safer spot where they aim their rifles at her and fire.

Physical attack on Capt. Marvel:
Team    3d8
Ranged Weapons Specialty  d8
Focus: Hydra Rifle/Combat Expert    d10

Hydra Rifle Soldiers B rolled 1,7,6,1,2 using d8,d8,d8,d8,d10 ((1,7,6,1,2)).

Total: 13, Effect: d10
2 Opportunities available

Status: 3d8 Team

Reaction: Capt. Marvel
Next Action: Taskmaster (new round)

"If you don't know how to fight, Iron Mange, why are you here?" Taskmaster cackles. "Didja see that robot outside? Probably based on your designs. Mebbe Hydra could get more of 'em and kill more people!"

Emotional attack on Iron Man:
Team d6
Villainous Mercenary    d8
Menace Expert    d8
From Doom Pool    d10
(-d10 from Doom Pool)

Taskmaster rolled 1,2,2,5 using d6,d8,d8,d10 ((1,2,2,5)).

Total: 7, Effect: d8
1 Opportunity available

Status: PS:00 ES:00 MS:00

Doom Pool: 2d8, 7d10 -d10 = 2d8, 6d10

Iron Man shudders, if just for an instant. Everything else out of Taskmaster's mouth is immature nonsense but that one hurt. When the weapons designs Stark made his fortune on got out to the black market, there was a lot of rogue technology created that did a lot of damage, including a number of fatalities. Long ago Stark swore to make no more weapons but he'd already let the genie out of the bottle and it wasn't going back in. Taskmaster could be bluffing but it doesn't matter -- if Hydra doesn't have his technology designs already, they could acquire them easily enough. But that jerk is saying that just to jar him. Tony Stark -- Iron Man -- is better than that... isn't he?

Reaction: Iron Man
Next Action: Hercules
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Annoyed by the crumbling (new and shiny?) catwalk, Carol is in no mood for the Hydra Agents' attack. So instead of dodging by flying away, she barrels towards them, spiraling like a tight skein as she avoids their attacks and getting into a positing to bring the hurt.

Team d10
Homeland Security Hero d8 (she understands shooting patterns commonly used by people with terrorist training)
Subsonic Flight d8
Combat Expert d8

Captain Marvel rolled 7,4,4,6 using d10,d8,d8,d8 ((7,4,4,6)).

Spending a PP to add a die to the total. Total:17 Effect:d8

PS:00 MS:00 ES:00 PP:00 EXP:00

As she flies towards them, she can see she's starting to unnerve them, their shots growing wilder as she gets closer. Good, she thinks, as she lets a vindictive smile appear.

With a roar, Hercules surges up from beneath the Hydra soldiers piling onto him, sending green-clad bodies cartwheeling in every direction as his fists smash through their ranks.



Physical stress attack on Hydra army:

Team d6
Prince of Power d8
Godlike Strength d12
Boundless Strength d12
Target Rich Environment (stunt) d10
Combat Expert d8
Area Effect d6 (+1 effect die)

15:38, Today: Hercules rolled 6,11,9,2,2,4,6 using d12,d12,d10,d8,d8,d6,d6.  Hercules attacks.

Total 20, effect dice d12 and d8.

PS d8 ES 00 MS 00 PP 02 XP 01

Reaction: Hydra army
Next action: Iron Man


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Standing within this "rave" room, the Sentry analyzes the room through his sexy aviators, determining how easily he could destroy the room, yet calculating the potential damage caused from the reactions or combustions of chemicals within the room. Peering over at the morbid life tubes, Sentry's smirk falls, replaced with a bummed-out grimace. Standing, chest puffed and hands folded, Sentry cocks his head, looking directly into Arnim's screen face. "You know," he starts to say, "two's a party-" as he suddenly twirls his body, shifting his weight to rest on his left knee, spinning in a circle with his arms taut during the swing, "But six is a crowd," he says, as he releases four energy bursts from his toned forearms, hoping to erupt the life tubes, to release the four organisms from within.

Dice Pool:
Buddy d6
Golden Guardian of Good d8
Light Mastery d10
Combat Expert d8

13:36, Today: The Sentry rolled 1,1,8,1 using d6,d8,d10,d8.  Destroy the Life Tubes.

8 (d10) + 1 (d6)= 9 total
Use [1] d8 as effect die.
PS:00 MS:00 ES:00 PP:02 XP:00

Next Up: Black Panther

Correction to Sentry's attack roll: Total: 8, Effect: d4 (default). Purchasing the 3 Opportunities, as d8 to add to Doom Pool.

Doom Pool (2d8, 6d10) reaction to Sentry's attempt to destroy the tubes, Total: 8, Effect: d4.

Watcher rolled 8,8,6,8,7,10,4,3 using d8,d8,d10,d10,d10,d10,d10,d10 ((8,8,6,8,7,10,4,3)).

Total = 18, Effect = d10.

Doom Pool: 2d8 + d8, 6d10 = 3d8, 6d10

The tubes stand up to the incendiary lights coming from the Sentry's hands, but as the illumination subsides, there are tiny cracks that appear in the glass. The forms inside the tubes see the fractures and their eyes grow wide. They place their palms on the glass and begin to push on it.

"You fool!" Zola cries, his distorted face curling into a mask of fear as he twists toward the tubes. "You know not what you do!"

Recognizing the danger that Zola represented, T'Challa launched himself from the shadows to strike the Nazi scientist.  Talons extended, he slashes at the small box atop the mad genius' shoulders, hoping to both blind the foe as well as disable any sinister weapon that he may have equipped there.

Dice Pool:

Buddy d6, Peerless Strategy d8, Weapon d6, Enhanced Strength d8, Combat Master d10, Stalking the Prey d10, Security Feed d6.

Black Panther rolled 5,2,3,6,7,1,2 using d6,d8,d6,d8,d10,d10,d6 ((5,2,3,6,7,1,2)).

Total:  13.  d8 Effect Die. 1 Opportunity.

d8 to inflict Blinded complication vs. Arnim Zola

Next Reaction:  Arnim Zola

Next Action:  Captain Marvel

Reaction to Taskmaster's emotional attack in msg #179
Taskmaster's Total: 7; Effect: d8

Tony's dice pool:
Team d8
Hardheaded Futurist d8

21:52, Today: Iron Man rolled 5,8 using d8,d8.

I'll spend a PP to use my effect die to inflict emotional stress on Taskmaster

Total: 13, Effect: d4
Extraordinary success. Effect steps up to a d6, so Taskmaster takes a d6 of emotional stress.

"You're right, Skeletor, but I'm atoning for the damage I've done by taking down organizations like Hydra...and bullies like you."

Next Action: Iron Man
This message was last edited by the player at 05:07, Sun 31 Jan 2016.

Could have used extra dice for Area Attack. And could have used higher Area Attack dice for Disorganized Limit.

Reaction to Hercules's attack (msg #181), Total: 20, Effect: d12, d8:
Team    15d8
Followers (disorganized minions)    d4
(add to Doom Pool)
Hydra Armor    d6
Swarm    d8

Hydra Soldier Army rolled 5,6,6,6,3,2,4,4,6,1,6,7,4,2,1,4,3,3 using d8,d8,d8,d8,d8,d8,d8,d8,d8,d8,d8,d8,d8,d8,d8,d4,d6,d8 ((5,6,6,6,3,2,4,4,6,1,6,7,4,2,1,4,3,3)).

Total: 13, Effect: d8
Hercules's attack succeeds, with one Effect stepping up to d10 due to Extraordinary Success, 2 from Team removed = 13d8
2 Opportunities available

Doom Pool: 3d8 + Step, 6d10 = 2d8, 7d10

Hercules's strike sends the Hydra soldiers reeling, including one whose skull he liquefies, but there are so many of them, they only fill in their fallen ranks and surge back upon him.

Reaction to Black Panther's attack (msg #185) to create Blinded Complication, Total: 13, Effect: d8:
Solo    d6
Laboratory (trapped in clutter)    d4
(add to Doom Pool)
Superhuman Durability    d10

Arnim Zola rolled 3,3,10 using d6,d4,d10 ((3,3,10)).

Total: 13, Effect: d8
Black Panther's attack succeeds; d8 Blinded Complication added to Arnim Zola

Doom Pool: 2d8 + Step, 7d10 = d8, 8d10

Next Action: Arnim Zola

Black Panther's claws meet their mark and the device replacing Zola's head is severed, swinging back and forth as it hangs from a lone wire. Zola flails about, shrieking -- "Fools! Fools!", the sound of his voice increasingly becoming more like static. His hand strikes a button on the console in front of him and immediately a series of intrusive lights around the tubes flashes red and a klaxon emits a sound that can mean only one thing: serious danger.

Note to players: Both groups are separate, divided in different locations in the warehouse. Both groups act separately.  Please choose someone in your group for the next action.

Taskmaster's amount of self-pity is exactly zero. It doesn't pay. He just thought this was going to be more fun. Iron Man has turned out to be just as witless as everyone says he is. That "Skeletor" line is older than Devil Dinosaur. At least my mask has a nose, he thinks. I'll just have to do this the old-fashioned way. Shoulda taken 'im down when I had the chance. Oh well.
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Tony suddenly becomes acutely aware of the fact that he's ignored the two remaining Hydra soldiers with rifles on the catwalk with him. He whips around, the suit's targeting system locking in on the hands holding the rifles. It's like Rhodey always says: "Aim small, miss small."

I'm activating Taskmaster's opportunity and spending a PP to create a stunt die: Aim Small, Miss Small d10

Dice Pool: Team d8, Cutting Edge Tech (Overconfidence) d4 (+1 PP), Cybernetic Senses d6, Repulsors d8, SFX: Area Attack d6 (+1 effect die), Aim Small, Miss Small d10

23:30, Today: Iron Man rolled 5,2,2,2,3,5 using d8,d4,d6,d8,d6,d10.

Spending a plot point to pull a 3rd die into my total.

Roll: 10, Effect: d8, d10

Next Action: Captain Marvel
Reaction: Hydra Rifle Soldiers A
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After his strike against Zola, T'Challa's leap carries him up and atop one of the cracking canisters, hopefully out of the reach of any of Zola's counterattacks.

Next Action:  Sentry
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As energy blasts pulse past her, making her feel vaguely like she was at one of the raves in her party days, before joining the Airforce. Now that their shooting is so wild she's able to indulge in pointless nostalgia...now it the time to strike.

Carol is going to punch Hydra Rifle Soldiers B so hard they will eventually indulge in pointless nostalgia from a time before the punch.

Team d10
Take-Charge Attitude d4 (She's maybe getting cocky)
Superhuman Strength d10
Combat Expert d8 (though it should be Vehicle Expert d8, 'cause she's coming like a freight train)

Captain Marvel rolled 7,10,6,2 using d10,d10,d8,d4 ((7,10,6,2)).

Total:16 Effect:d10

Reaction: Hydra Rifle Soldiers B

Next Action: Hydra Rifle Soldiers A

"Fools!" Zola's voice, now only slightly more than static, falls under the sound of the screaming klaxon, with the flashing red lights now dominating the disconcerting visual nature of the environs.

The liquid inside the tubes seems to churn and fill to the top and the bubbles inside that were previously so active come to a halt. The tubes themselves seem to tremble and the floor rolls slightly. The cracks in the glass expanding then noticeably creaking only emphasizes that a great pressure is building inside. The eyes on the faces of the men inside grow to cartoonish levels and their mouths gape in horror and pain. Only an instant later, the pressure inside the tubes becomes far too much and the glass gives way, the cracks finally bursting open. The green, toxic sludge from inside floods out, a thick ooze that spills across the floor and up to the ankles of those standing on it. Black Panther, perched atop a tube, avoids this until there is nothing to support the top of the container and he falls into the mess of sludge and computer equipment as well.

The four men from the tubes, recover and stand then step out of the carcasses of the tubes. Their attentions focused on the Sentry, they make their ways slowly to the hero, arms outstretched and their mouths forming some kind of words but issuing no sound. They shamble forward, still attached to a mechanism inside the tubes by a foot-wide cable running out the back of the apparatuses around their mid-sections. The sludge drips from them but is soon replaced on each by a stream of sweat from their bodies, and quickly they are washed clean of the toxic junk by it. Just as they are about to reach the Sentry, to embrace him in their soaked arms, the features on their faces fall off, melting down their necks and chests, then the rest of their bodies melt as well. Mere inches from the Sentry, their bodies become a thick pudding on the floor, coalescing into each other, seeming to gain more mass, and rising from the floor into a shiny, pink glob. The texture of the monstrosity is something between flesh and plastic, gaining enough volume to eventually block the doorway to the room, overcome Arnim Zola himself, and approach the apparatus with the trapped man who is giving off circular energy. Within the creature floats the features of the four men -- eyes, shapes of ears, a random hand or foot, fingernails, clumps of hair -- until a face, or a simulation of one, seems to form in the center. A makeshift mouth appears and still seems to try to make words but no sound, and the eyes are as sad and desperate as before. Yet the thing creates tendrils of itself to snake up the heroes' legs just as it rises as a mass before them, instants away from collapsing itself upon them.

From somewhere in the back of the room, now filled with the blob, comes Zola's now-unmistakable cry: "My greatest creation has been ruined! Ruined! And now it is unleashed and cannot be controlled!" until he, himself, is engulfed by the grotesquerie.

Grandstanding: Add d10 to Doom Pool

Adding Bioplasmagenic Blob as character

Adding Green Toxic Sludge to Scene Distinctions, -d8 from Doom Pool

Doom Pool: d8 -d8, 8d10 + d10 = 9d10

Next Action: Sentry

Reaction to Iron Man's attack (msg #190) , Total: 10, Effect: d8:
Team    2d8
Trained Soldiers    d8
Hydra Armor    d6
Combat Expert    d8

Hydra Rifle Soldiers A rolled 8,3,3,1,6 using d8,d8,d8,d6,d8

Hydra Rifle Soldiers A rolled 2,4,8,3,6 using d8,d8,d8,d6,d8 ((2,4,8,3,6)).
(Rerolled because of getting the wrong dice pool initially.)

Total: 14, Effect: d8
1 Opportunity available, add to Doom Pool

Status: 2d8 Team

Doom Pool: 9d10 + Step = 8d10, d12

The Hydra soldiers sidestep the repulsor blast as Iron Man misses big. Repositioning themselves on the catwalk, they redouble their aim on the Avenger and all Avengers.

(Post edited to revert to original roll, which was changed due to an error that turned out to not be wrong after all.)
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Reaction to Capt. Marvel's attack (msg #192) , Total: 16, Effect: d10:
Team    3d8
Trained Soldiers    d8
Hydra Armor    d6
Combat Expert    d8

Hydra Rifle Soldiers B rolled 4,5,8,1,1,3 using d8,d8,d8,d8,d6,d8 ((4,5,8,1,1,3)).

Total: 13, Effect: d8
Capt. Marvel's attack succeeds, eliminating 1 from the Team
2 Opportunities available

Status: 2d8 Team

One of the Avenging Marvel's blasts hits full-on, striking one of the Hydra agents and sending him flipping over the catwalk rails then falling to the floor.

One of the members of their small squadron lies at their feet but the other two know that if there was any time to strike, it is now.  Their shots lined up, they focus and pull triggers.

Physical attack on Iron Man:
Team    2d8
Ranged Weapons Specialty   d8
Focus: Hydra Rifle/Combat Expert    d10
From Doom Pool    d10

Hydra Rifle Soldiers A rolled 1,7,2,8,8 using d8,d8,d8,d10,d10 ((1,7,2,8,8)).

Total: 16, Effect: d8
1 Opportunity available

Doom Pool: 8d10 -d10, d12 +d6 = d6, 7d10, d12

Reaction: Iron Man
Next Action: Hydra Rifle Soldiers B

The rifle soldiers on the other catwalk take no time lamenting their fallen comrade. As Capt. Marvel rushes toward them, they carefully track their target, knowing this is the time for guts, and, soon, glory.

Physical attack on Capt. Marvel:
Team    2d8
Ranged Weapons Specialty   d8
Focus: Hydra Rifle/Combat Expert    d10
From Doom Pool    d10

Hydra Rifle Soldiers B rolled 5,1,6,10,4 using d8,d8,d8,d10,d10 ((5,1,6,10,4)).

Total: 16, Effect: d10
1 Opportunity available

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

Reaction: Capt. Marvel
Next Action: Hydra Soldier Army
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Newly confident after their blows visibly damaged the God of Might, the Hydra army surge forward, their truncheons striking with fresh vigor but no greater organization.

More Soldiers in the Army addition:
Hydra Soldier Army rolled 5 using 1d6 ((5)).
Hydra Soldier Army now 18d8, but Area Attack used on them (including the reaction roll) can be rolled with extra d8s instead of d6s.

Physical attack on Hercules:
Team    18d8
Followers (mindless, disorganized goons)    d4
(add to Doom Pool)
Power-Truncheons    d8
Swarm    d8
Hercules physical stress    d8

Hydra Soldier Army rolled 1,4,7,8,5,8,1,3,5,8,8,2,4,2,4,4,8,5,2,2,5 using d8,d8,d8,d8,d8,d8,d8,d8,d8,d8,d8,d8,d8,d8,d8,d8,d8,d8,d4,d8,d8 ((1,4,7,8,5,8,1,3,5,8,8,2,4,2,4,4,8,5,2,2,5)).
Hydra Soldier Army rolled 1 using 1d8 ((1)).

Total: 16, Effect: d8
3 Opportunities available

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

Reaction: Hercules
Next Action: Taskmaster (new round)

Reaction to Hydra Rifle Soldier B's attack: Total:16 Effect d10

Team d10
Homeland Security Hero d4
Superhuman Durability d10
Combat Expert d8

Captain Marvel rolled 5,8,5,4 using d10,d10,d8,d4 ((5,8,5,4))

Spending a PP to add another die to my total: Total:17 Effect d10

Carol, having sped by and punching the crap out of a Hydra Soldier, gave them a chance to blast her. She can feel the blasts fly past her, the heat of the lasers making her want to reach out and touch the energy. It takes her back to the days of being Binary, consuming stellar energy and flying out into the space between the stars.

Maybe one day, she will again. Today she has to kick some Hydra butt.

Trapped in a room, filling up with toxins and goop, Sentry decides the most immediate danger is the overflowing Bioplasmagenic Blob. Needing to contain the fluid, Sentry analyzes the consistency and characteristics of the blob, observing a  low viscous appearance. Considering the property, Sentry beings to fly in a  circular pattern in the middle of the room. Travelling a such an intensity, his speed creates a contained vertex in the middle of the room, creating such intense centripetal force that the low-density could be sucked in- yet not so fast that the metal or people in the room would be sucked in as well.

Dice Pool:
Buddy d6
Golden Guardian of Good d8
Using SFX: Multipower (Use two or more Power Of A Million Exploding Suns powers in your dice pool, at -1 step for each additional power.) on Superhuman Strength and Superhuman Speed
Using SFX: Unleashed (Step up or double any Power Of A Million Exploding Suns power for one action. If that action fails, add a die to the doom pool equal to the power die you unleashed.) on Superhuman Speed
Superhuman Strength d10 -> d8
Superhuman Speed d10 -> d8 -> d10
Combat Master d8

23:18, Today: The Sentry rolled 6,5,4,9,6 using d6,d8,d8,d10,d8.  Containing the Blob.
Using 1 PP to add 6 (d8) to total
9(d10) + 6 (d6) + 6 (d8)= 21
Using d8 to create Containing Complication on Bioplasmagenic Blob


PS:00 MS:00 ES:00 PP:01 XP:00


Next Reaction: Bioplasmagenic Blob
Next Up: Black Panther

Hercules' advantage quickly evaporates as the soldiers crowd more closely around him.




Reaction to Hydra army:

Team d6
Prince of Power d8
Superhuman Durability d10
Combat Expert d8
Area Attack d8 (+1 effect die)

13:56, Today: Hercules rolled 1,3,1,5,4 using d10,d8,d8,d8,d6.  Reaction to army.

ugh. Total 9, effect dice d8 and d4 and two opportunities.

Although the blob creature needs to be dealt with, T'Challa also realizes the danger of allowing a mad genius like Zola free rein in his laboratory.  As the evil HYDRA scientist reels from the Black Panther's previous strike, several darts of Wakandan manufacture strike, each with a electromagnetic disruptor designed to further wreak havoc with Zola's tech.


Dice Pool:

Buddy d6, Advanced Biochemical Laboratory d4, Weapon d6, Enhanced Strength d8, Combat Master d10, Security Feed d6, d8 Blinded complication

Black Panther rolled 4,3,5,1,8,2 using d6,d4,d6,d8,d10,d6 ((4,3,5,1,8,2))
VToday: Black Panther rolled 7 using 1d8 ((7)).

Total:  15.  d6 Effect Die to increase Blinded Complication on Arnim Zola.

1 Opportunity.

Next Reaction:  Arnim Zola

Next Action:  Bioplasmagenic Blob

Reaction to Sentry's Containing Complication attempt (msg #200) , Total: 21, Effect: d8:
Team  4d8
Senseless Creature    d8
Horde    d10

Bioplasmagenic Blob rolled 6,2,3,2,7,5 using d8,d8,d8,d8,d8,d10 ((6,2,3,2,7,5)).

Total: 13, Effect: d10
Extraordinary Success but reacting Effect die goes over acting Effect die, so they cancel each other out
Sentry's attack succeeds, creating d8 Containing Complication

Somehow the Sentry is able to whip up enough suction in the cramped and cluttered room to contain the blob, but to what end?  The thing still moves and burbles and shifts and spills everywhere, even seeming to gain mass, so this containment might only be temporary, and dangerously so.

Reaction to Black Panther's attack (msg #202) to increase Blinded Complication, Total: 15, Effect: d6:
Solo    d6
Laboratory (trapped in the chaos going on)    d4
(add to Doom Pool)
Superhuman Durability    d10

Arnim Zola rolled 6,2,2 using d6,d4,d10 ((6,2,2)).

Total: 8, Effect: d10
Extraordinary Success but reacting Effect die goes over acting Effect die, so they cancel each other out
Black Panther's attack succeeds; Blinded Complication increased to d10

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

Even amidst the chaos of the Sentry flying around the room, Black Panther's dart hits its mark, right on Zola's hide. Immediately after the mad scientist is engulfed by  the roiling blob and he goes under, only his hand rising above, as if to grip some kind of safety that is not there.
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Meanwhile, back in the main room, the Taskmaster raises his sword anew above the din. "Rise up, men! We are close to victory! Eliminate one of them and the rest'll fall!" The fact that he has ceased his maniac laughter could indicate that his confidence in his charges has sunk or, more likely, that he has new and even more deadly focus on leading these soldiers to finally ending these heroes once and for all.

Grandstanding: Add d10 to Doom Pool

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

Next Action: Hydra Rifle Soldiers B
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The rifle soldiers have new courage: they know their shots got close. Another barrage and surely they can take down this accursed hero!

Physical attack on Capt. Marvel:
Team    2d8
Ranged Weapons Specialty   d8
Focus: Hydra Rifle/Combat Expert    d10
From Doom Pool    d10

Hydra Rifle Soldiers B rolled 5,4,8,10,6 using d8,d8,d8,d10,d10 ((5,4,8,10,6)).

Total: 18, Effect: d10

Doom Pool: d6, 8d10 -d10, d12 = d6, 7d10, d12

Reaction: Capt. Marvel
Next Action: Hydra Rifle Soldiers A (once Iron Man rolls his reaction)

Reaction to Hydra Rifle Soldiers B Total:18 Effect:d10

Team d10
Homeland Security Hero d4
Superhuman Durability d10
Combat Expert d8

Captain Marvel rolled 5,3,6,4 using d10,d10,d8,d4 ((5,3,6,4)).

Total:11 Effect:d10

Carol, spinning and jinking, finally has her luck run out. A blast sears through the air and slams into her, causing her to falter and finally fall.

IS THIS THE END OF CAPTAIN MARVEL!?!

Reaction to the attack of Hydra Rifle Soldiers A in msg #196

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

17:07, Today: Iron Man rolled 7,7,2,8 using d8,d8,d10,d10.  Reaction to attack by Hydra Rifle Soldiers A (2d8).

I'll spend a PP to hold a third die in my roll.

Roll: 22, Effect: d10

I'll spend another PP to use my effect die on Hydra Rifle Soldiers A, in the form a physical stress. My roll of 22 makes it an extraordinary success which kicks the d10 of stress up to a d12.

Tony, still a little irritated that he missed with his last counter, sees the Hydra Goons coming...but it matters not. Their shots fail to hit any of the vulnerable parts of the suit and he counters again, this time thrusting forward and slightly up to connect the suit's knee with the closest goon's face."Two down...one to go" he sneers, after landing back on the catwalk, eyeing the final soldier of the former threesome.

Hercules: Buying your 2 Opportunities (from msg #201), for d6 to Doom Pool and +1 PP for you. Also, their attack was an Extraordinary Success, pushing their Effect die to d10, to be your current physical stress level, though if it had been lower it would have pushed it up to the same.

Capt. Marvel: The Hydra Rifles Soldiers B had an Extraordinary Success on their roll, so the Effect die steps to d12 for your physical stress. And to answer your question from the Status Tracker thread, your Effect die would have to be higher than theirs to step it down.

Doom Pool: d6 +d6, 7d10, d12 = 2d6, 7d10, d12
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Back in the upper offices, Sentry and Black Panther look up to the plastic-like, fleshy blob that towers above them, seeming to be twice the size it was when it first constructed itself, knocking over computers and, from the sound of it, threatening the integrity of the walls that it is pushing against, already blocking the exit from the room, and certainly spilling over the restraints of the containment set against it. Its mismatched, deformed eyes look down at the heroes as it finally releases itself and the wave that is its monstrous body splashes and crashes down upon the hapless inhabitants of the laboratory.

Attempt to create Swimming Inside Creature complication on Sentry & Black Panther and eliminate Contained complication:
Team  4d8
Out of Control    d8
Biogenic Creations: Enhanced Strength    d8
Biogenic Creations: Horde    d8
SFX: Area Attack    d6
From Doom Pool    d10

Bioplasmagenic Blob rolled 8,2,5,8,8,2,2,2,10 using d8,d8,d8,d8,d8,d8,d8,d6,d10 ((8,2,5,8,8,2,2,2,10)).

Total: 16, Effect: d10, d8
Attempting d8 Swimming Inside Creature complication
d10 Effect die eliminates Contained complication

Doom Pool: 2d6, 7d10 -d10, d12 = 2d6, 6d10, d12

Reaction: Black Panther, Sentry
Next Action: Arnim Zola
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Samuel Jans graduated at the top of his class. If that class had been in a scholastic institution or the armed forces, that could have been a great achievement but instead it was in training for Hydra. Either of those other directions might have been acceptable in the real world but Hydra promised better pay, especially for when they finally dominate the Earth. Not only that but Hydra offered many chances to handle firearms, for which Samuel Jans always had a certain talent. It stretched from when he was a young boy and learned to hunt, on that first day when he so-accidentally had to shoot his father in the shoulder, to the bank heist job that went bad, leading him to flee from that annoying Spider-Man. Hydra offered the sanctuary he needed... and all the guns he could shoot. He quickly excelled at the Hydra shooting ranges and received praise from his instructors. Just lead him to a target and he could shoot it from any distance, reasonably close to a bulls-eye. And so he uses those talents now. With the other two in his squad taken down, it's up to him. But he's already tried to shoot this accursed Avenger. Perhaps there is another way. Perhaps it doesn't have to be a shot from this rifle that will take down the do-gooder. Maybe his comrades, those peons who couldn't stand the pressure of Hydra training and instead were given a simple weapon and told to engage face-to-face, those now on the training floor in a chaotic swarm. If only the Avenger would get closer to them, they would do all the work and Samuel Jans could once again rise to the top of his class and be recognized by the great fathers of Hydra. Once more he aims and squeezes the trigger, with even greater purpose than ever before.

Attempt to create Knocked Into Hydra Soldiers Army complication on Iron Man:
Solo    d8
Ranged Weapons Specialty   d8
Hydra Rifle    d8
Combat Expert    d8
From Doom Pool    d10

Hydra Rifle Soldiers A rolled 3,6,2,5,10 using d8,d8,d8,d8,d10 ((3,6,2,5,10)).

Total: 16, Effect: d8
Attempting d8 Knocked Into Hydra Soldiers Army complication

Doom Pool: 2d6, 6d10 -d10, d12 = 2d6, 5d10, d12

Reaction: Iron Man
Next Action: Hercules

Reaction to attack by Hydra Rifle Soldiers A in msg #211

Hydra Rifle Soldiers A's Total: 16, Effect: d8

Dice Pool: Team d8, Cutting Edge Tech d4 (overconfidence; +1 PP), Superhuman Durability d10, Supersonic Flight d10 Repulsors d8.

11:05, Today: Iron Man rolled 2,1,3,8 using d8,d4,d10,d10.  Reaction to Hydra Rifle Soldiers A in msg #211.
19:59, Today: Iron Man rolled 2 using 1d8.  Removal of Supersonic Flight from reaction dice pool.

Roll: 4, Effect: d10
1 opportunity for the Watcher (+1 PP)

I activate the Limit on my Weapons Platform power set, and shut down Supersonic Flight. (+1 PP)

Reacting to what he surmises will be another shot, Tony throws his arms back, with his palms facing back, expecting to thrust forward. That's when the shot arrives, hitting the suit's power core. A surge flows through the suit, triggering the thrusters in the suit's left leg, sending Tony, and the suit, into a cartwheel over the railing, and down to the training floor below. As he falls, the suit's AI chimes in: "Mr. Stwaaaaark...flight systems...inoperative."
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Iron Man plummets from the catwalk and hits the floor. His fall is cushioned by the bodies of a few combating Hydra soldiers but he also finds himself in the middle of a plethora of them, a number of them who turn to them from the group piling on Hercules, though there are plenty to make up a division, and more to come to add to the mountain of soldiers.

Iron Man: You have a d10 Knocked Into Hydra Soldiers Army complication. (I don't know whether the higher Effect die is compared before or after the Extraordinary Success is applied so I sided with the hero until I can find out which goes first.)
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Struggling to get his bearings, Tony suddenly notices Hercules, looking more weathered than he's ever seen the demi-god. At the same time, he realizes he doesn't see Carol.

"Wait...seriously...how are we losing?"

Next Action: Hercules
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Are there really enough mortals here to challenge the Lion of Olympus? Such a thing is barely imaginable. But Hercules is no mere lout, despite what some may think of him. It took more than brute strength to overcome his legendary labors, although his strength is not to be sneered at.

Bending under the blows, Hercules sinks his fingers into the metal plating of the floor and straightens with a bellow, ripping up a floor plate from beneath the feet of the Hydra soldiers crowding around him and sending them toppling back in a wave as their footing vanishes abruptly.



Attack to reduce Hydra army.

Team d6
Large, Reinforced Training Room d4 (+1 pp)
Pulling the Rug Out from Under Them (combat stunt) d8 (-1 PP)
Prince of Power d8
Godlike Strength d12
Boundless Strength d12
Combat Expert d8
Area Attack +3d8 (+3 effect dice)

00:34, Today: Hercules rolled 7,2,7,4,8,5,8,2,1,1 using d12,d12,d8,d8,d8,d8,d8,d8,d6,d4.  Hercules attack on Hydra army.

Spend 1 PP to add another die for a total of 23 with effect dice of 2d12 and 2d8 and two opportunities.

Reaction to Hercules's physical attack, Total: 23, Effect: d12 (2), d8 (2):
Team    18d8
"If A Head Is Cut Off, Two More Will Take Its Place" (clearly expendable)    d4
(add to Doom Pool)
Hydra Armor    d6
Swarm    d8

Hydra Soldier Army rolled 5,5,6,8,8,7,6,7,6,4,3,7,8,1,2,3,3,3,4,1 using d8,d8,d8,d8,d8,d8,d8,d8,d8,d8,d8,d8,d8,d8,d8,d8,d8,d4,d6,d8 ((5,5,6,8,8,7,6,7,6,4,3,7,8,1,2,3,3,3,4,1)).

Total: 16, Effect: d8
2 Opportunities available
Hercules's Extraordinary Success steps Effect dice to over d10, removing 4 from Team

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

The chants of "Hail Hydra" pause shortly when the much of the mass of agents are knocked off their feet, some sent flying, some pulverized, but many of them staggering back to their feet and now, with Iron Man among them, considering what to do next.

Next Action: Hydra Soldier Army

The creature's turbulent body is no match for the trial of swimming the Piranha Cove as part of the trials to prove worthy of the Panther mantle.  T'Challa grabs hold of a piece of machinery and uses it to pull himself above the mass to end up atop a piece of Zola's machinery.

Dice Pool:

Team d6, King of Wakanda d8, Enhanced Durability d8, Enhanced Strenght d8, Acrobatic Master d10.

Black Panther rolled 6,7,3,4,3 using d6,d8,d8,d8,d10 ((6,7,3,4,3)).

Total:  17.  d10 Effect Die.  Spend 1 PP to add and additional die to total

As the blob sloshes and careens and swirls around the room, gaining mass that will fill the space moments from now, Zola bobs to the top of the body of the creature, his heavy, robotic frame making a feeble attempt to swim but the material of the thing buoying him well enough for the villain to come to the surface, wave his fist defiantly and cry, "My greatest creation! And now it shall be your end!" before going under again with only the sounds of chokes and gasps as he disappears back into the frightening monster.

Grandstanding: Add d10 to Doom Pool

Doom Pool: 3d6, 5d10 +d10, d12 = 3d6, 6d10, d12

Next Action (in that group): Bioplasmagenic Blob (new round)
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With two heroes among them now, the Hydra soldiers divide, deciding spontaneously which hero to attack, their numbers surprisingly even between both targets, but creating even more chaos in the meantime. The gang of soldiers split in two, one going after Iron Man, the other continuing on the wounded but valiant Hercules.

The soldiers who can switch tasks gather around Iron Man, crowding the Avenger and, instead of bludgeoning him, knowing that immobilizing him could be more effective. They each grab at a part of the hero, to hold him down, making him a much more open target. Once the massive group of soldiers start to cohere, the chants begin again: “Hail Hydra! Hail Hydra! Hail Hydra!”

Attempt to create Pinned complication on Iron Man:
Team    7d8
Trained Soldiers    d8
Grab    d8
Iron Man's Knocked Into Hydra Soldiers Army complication    d10
From Doom Pool    d10

Hydra Soldier Army A rolled 1,7,5,1,5,2,6,7,4,9,5 using d8,d8,d8,d8,d8,d8,d8,d8,d8,d10,d10 ((1,7,5,1,5,2,6,7,4,9,5)).

Total: 16, Effect: d10
Attempting d10 Pinned complication
2 Opportunities available
Area Attack against them is at standard d6 for each extra die

Doom Pool: 3d6, 6d10 -d10, d12 = 3d6, 5d10, d12

Reaction: Iron Man
Next Action: Hydra Soldier Army B
This message was last edited by the player at 00:07, Fri 12 Feb 2016.