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
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The other group of Hydra soldiers, tangentially aware of what their compatriots are doing to Iron Man, realize that it's not a bad idea and follow suit against the Greek god. To immobilize the hero would surely hasten his defeat!  "Hail Hydra!"

Attempt to create Pinned complication on Hercules:
Team    7d8
Large, Reinforced Training Room (now with wrecked floor underfoot)   d4
(Add to Doom Pool)
Grab    d8
Hercules's physical stress    d10

Hydra Soldier Army B rolled 4,7,2,4,8,2,1,4,3,8 using d8,d8,d8,d8,d8,d8,d8,d4,d8,d10 ((4,7,2,4,8,2,1,4,3,8)).

Total: 15, Effect: d10
Attempting d10 Pinned complication
1 Opportunity available
Area Attack against them is at standard d6 for each extra die

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

Reaction: Hercules
Next Action: Iron Man (after reaction roll from msg #219)
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Hercules tears a strip of metal from the floor panel he's torn up. A few twists of his wrists, and it's become a crude, but effective, club, with which he faces the new assault of the Hydra soldiers and knocks them flying. "'Tis not the work of lame Hephaestus, but 'twill serve well enough indeed for the likes of you!"



Spend 1 PP to buy Hydra Army B's opportunity and create a Makeshift Mace (d6) Resource.

Team d6
Prince of Power d8
Godlike Strength d12
Boundless Strength d12
Combat Expert d8
Makeshift Mace d6
Area Attack +2d6 (+2 effect dice)


15:56, Today: Hercules rolled 7,1,8,6,2,1,4,4 using d12,d12,d8,d8,d6,d6,d6,d6.  Reaction to grapple.

Spend another PP to add an extra die to the total. Total 17, with effect dice of d12, d8, and d6, and two opportunities.

Hercules: Are you intending to spend another PP to counterattack (though it would only take out one d8 from the Hydra Team)?

Also, that Makeshift Mace d6 could have been d8, or even d10 if you had claimed it as a power stunt, which I would have accepted. Unless you're intending to use it as a Resource (multi-use) instead of an Asset (one use), which I think is how the rules have it. For spending a PP, you ought to get more than a d6.

Not going to counter. And I did intend to use the Makeshift Mace as a resource -- I thought it might be better to get something I can use repeatedly now that I'm suffering some stress, rather than a one-off advantage.

Reaction to Bioplasmagenic Blob

Dice Pool
Buddy d6
Golden Guardian of Good d8
Using SFX: Multipower on Superhuman Durability & Superhuman Flight
Superhuman Durability d10 -> d8
Superhuman Flight d10 -> d8
Combat Expert d8

20:10, Sat 06 Feb: The Sentry rolled 2,5,6,3,8 using d6,d8,d8,d8,d8.  Reaction to Bioplasmagenic Blob.
Using PP to add 5 [d8] to toal
5 (d8) + 8(d8) + 6(d8)= 19
[Use d8 (3) as effect die if necessary]

   Peering over at the sludge, the Sentry witnesses a truly minuscule attempt of a wave coming towards him. Standing still, Sentry stands there, prepared to take the attack head on. Unfortunately, Sentry stands there, unaffected, as the splash breaks against Sentry's totally cut body. Disappointed in his choice of seating within the Splash-Zone, the ripped Sentry sulks, and gently flies through and above the tide pool created around him.

Next Up: Black Panther

T'Challa continues his relentless assault on the mad scientist.  Vibranium-tipped claws allow him to cling to the ceiling, out of reach of the blob.  After a brief second of analysis, he hurls a beaker of corrosive chemicals at Zola's optic sensors, intending to further blind him.

Dice Pool:

Buddy d6, World Class Intellect d8, Wall-Crawling d6, Enhanced Reflexes d8, Combat Master d10, Blinded d10.

 Today: Black Panther rolled 6,6,6,5,9,2 using d6,d8,d6,d8,d10,d10 ((6,6,6,5,9,2)).

Total:  15.  d10 Effect Die to increase Blinded on Arnim Zola.

Next Reaction:  Arnim Zola

Next Action:  Sentry

Reaction to attack of Hydra Soldier Army A in msg #219:
  Team d8
  Cutting Edge Tech d8
  Enhanced Reflexes d8
  Repulsors d8
  Area Attack 6d6

21:17, Today: Iron Man rolled 3,6,3,7,2,6,1,1,3,4 using d8,d8,d8,d8,d6,d6,d6,d6,d6,d6.  Reaction to Hydra Soldier Army A in msg #219.

2 Opportunities for the Watcher (+1 PP for the d8 The Watcher will add to the Doom Pool)

-1 PP to use 3 dice in my roll.

Roll: 17, Effect: d8, d8, d8, d6, d6, d4

-1 PP to activate opportunity to bring Supersonic Flight back online

"Flight systems restored, Mr. Stark."

Tony ignores the suit's verbal notice as the Hydra Soldiers close in, grabbing at the suit, his only thought being that of not being beaten by a bunch of...what's Cap call them...bullies? As quickly as he can, Iron Man spins a tight circle, firing repulsor shots which cause the Hydra goons to miss their mark for now.

Next Action: Iron Man
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Sentry (in msg #224) was rolling a reaction, not an action, so it was not his turn to pick the next action, so Black Panther's action will be taken from its place later in the round.

Reaction to Black Panther's attack (msg #225) to increase Blinded Complication, Total: 15, Effect: d10:
Solo    d6
Cybernetic Body (swimming within the creature he created)    d4
(add to Doom Pool)
Superhuman Durability    d10

Arnim Zola rolled 2,1,4 using d6,d4,d10 ((2,1,4)).

Total: 6, Effect: d4 (default)
Black Panther's attack succeeds with an Extraordinary Success, for a d12 effect die Blinded Complication increased to d12

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

Zola comes to the surface of the body of the creature just long enough for Panther's attack to land squarely, then back under again, such is the roiling nature of the monster's body in this enclosed space. The scientist resurfaces just long enough for one more cry: "Argh, I see no longer! Any hope of controlling this creature is lost! Lost!"

Next Action (in that group): Bioplasmagenic Blob

The blob roils back and forth in the room like a slow liquid being mixed in a fat beaker. If the waves that are its body could be considered gentle before, suddenly it rocks violently, lashing out with its dough-like but powerful tendrils as part of itself turns crimson in blotches with the tubes connecting it to the laboratory clashing as they strike the surrounding equipment. The makeshift eyes it has created suddenly turn downward in rage as it flails wildly, as if seeking to strike the heroes out of spite.

On the far side of the room, where the blob's body had began to bury the man strapped to the machine, it now reaches his neck and threatens to cover his prone face. If there is still energy coming from the man's it is hidden beneath the creature.

Physical attack on Sentry & Black Panther:
Team  4d8
Out of Control    d8
Biogenic Creations: Enhanced Strength    d10*
Biogenic Creations: Horde    d10*
SFX: Area Attack    d6
From Doom Pool    d10
(* I believe I stepped down these two dice unnecessarily in the previous attack)

Bioplasmagenic Blob rolled 8,2,3,6,6,1,6,6,5 using d8,d8,d8,d8,d8,d10,d10,d6,d10 ((8,2,3,6,6,1,6,6,5)).

Total: 14, Effect: d10 to both
1 Opportunity available

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

Reaction: Black Panther, Sentry
Next Action: Arnim Zola

Despite the numerous handhold and areas for him to leap to and from, T'Challa realizes he is quickly running out of maneuvering room against the blob's tentacles.  Only a burst of near superhuman speed coupled with his vibranium tipped claws allow him to escape it latest attack as he leaps to the side of one of the pieces of massive machinery.


Dice Pool:

Buddy d6, Advanced Biochemical Laboratory d8, Wall Crawling d6, Enhanced Reflexes d8, Acrobatics Master d10.

 Today: Black Panther rolled 3,3,6,6,2 using d6,d8,d6,d8,d10 ((3,3,6,6,2)

Spend 1 PP to add a die to the total.

Total:  15.  d10 Effect Die.

Next Action: Arnim Zola

Zola goes under briefly than back again: "My own fate is of no consequence, but you, and all your hero friends, are doomed! And you brought it upon yourselves!" Then the next round of cackling is engulfed by the creature's body as the villain goes back under again.

Grandstanding: Add d10 to Doom Pool

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

Next Action (in that group): Sentry (after his reaction roll)

"Okay, guys...say cheese." Tony holds his hands up, out to the sides, palms out, and the suit's guantlets surge, releasing a blinding flash of light.

Attempting to create a Blinded complication on Hydra Soldier Army A.

Dice Pool: Team d8, Cutting Edge Tech d4 (+1 PP, overconfidence), Repulsors d8, Area Attack 7d6

22:30, Today: Iron Man rolled 1,2,6,1,1,3,5,2,6,4 using d8,d4,d8,d6,d6,d6,d6,d6,d6,d6.  Attack on Hydra Soldier Army A.

3 opportunities(+1 PP for The Wathcer adding one die to the Doom Pool)

-1 PP to add a third die to my roll
-1 PP to remove Knocked into Hydra Soldiers Army d10 complication

Roll: 15; Effect: d8
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Adding d8 to Doom Pool from Iron Man's Opportunities

Iron Man quickly performs a minor miracle in rerouting the concussive power of his repulsors into a flash attack, but it works, as far as enabling the attempt. He stands among the Hydra army but, after failing to pin him, they give him some room, but only to redouble their efforts to assault him, this time using their trusted truncheons.

Reaction to Iron Man's attack (msg #231) to create a Complication, Total: 15, Effect: d8:
Team    7d8
Trained Soldiers    d8
Power-Truncheons    d8
Swarm    d8
From Doom Pool    d10
(subtract from Doom Pool)

Hydra Soldier Army A rolled 4,6,5,3,3,2,4,7,3,1,5 using d8,d8,d8,d8,d8,d8,d8,d8,d8,d8,d10((4,6,5,3,3,2,4,7,3,1,5)).

Adding an extra die to Total, -d8 to Doom Pool
Total: 18, Effect: d8
1 Opportunity available
Counterattack to deal d8 Physical Stress to Iron Man (-d8 from Doom Pool)

Doom Pool: d6, 2d8 +d8 -2d8, 5d10 -d10, d12 = d6, d8, 4d10, d12</b>

Next Action: Capt. Marvel

The flash attack from Iron Man is lost among the throng, and, indeed, the Hydra army closes in on the Armored Avenger, leaving him nowhere to run, and, as they did upon the Greek god across the room, rain their weapons upon him, blasting through his armor's shields and striking incessantly until he will eventually yield.
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The Sentry rises above the blob below him, puffing his chest and seeing what the monster will do next, confident he can deflect any attack. As he crosses his arms and glances away in disinterest, one of the creature's tendrils strikes him full in the face, staggering the hero slightly as he hovers in the air. The swipe is not enough to put him down, but the next one, then the one after that, then flurry that comes after, are enough to overwhelm him with attacks and those, gathered on top of each other, are sufficient to batter him, bringing him down from his hover, low enough so that the blob's arms can grab his ankles, then work their ways up his legs, to his torso, and drag him lower and into itself. By the time the golden Avenger is even aware that this could be a battle he could lose, the thing has covered him up to his neck. "Help -- " the Sentry gurgles, perhaps intending more words but his face then head engulfed before he can make a sound or do anything else. His hand is the last visible thing before he is enveloped completely, then soundless as if he were never there at all. And the blob surges on.

STATUS: KNOCKED OUT

Next Action: Black Panther
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"Uff!", Capt. Marvel cries as she flies through the air, recoiling from the blast of the Hydra soldiers' rifles. Whether it was a skilled shot or just their luck or her own blasted overconfidence, she's as badly damaged as she's ever been on a battlefield while still being conscious. This is a much more serious situation than she would have considered when they entered this place, and now her lack of scrutiny could cost this ad hoc team their very lives. She gathers herself, her entire body on fire and aching and weak, yet she still stays aloft, out of the range of the Hydra agents on the floor. She knows this position will not protect her from the minions with the rifles on the catwalks but she has no shelter and in the air she stays. She looks around, trying to lose her blurry vision, and realizes she is closer to the observation window overlooking the area than she thought. Movement through the darkened window catches her eye and, though she knows she should know better than to divide her attention from the opponents at hand, focuses on the obscured bodies through the glass, clearly in a fight of their own, when she recognizes one of the figures, not from any visible details but from the unmistakable movements of someone she knows nearly better than she knows herself. Reconciling the fact that this could be her last effort -- perhaps ever -- she calls the last iota of power from deep in her body, a literal energy that starts well inside her, rising in an instant from her chest to extend through her arms and into her fingertips to be unleashed in a torrent into the air directly in front of her to strike the dim glass, obliterating it to reveal the event and its participants inside.

Capt. Marvel's blast rips through the window, shattering it with the cries of a thousand angels.  The bodies revealed through it are sinister, with the heroic ones under their thumbs.  Front and center stands the notorious Baron Von Strucker, the head of Hydra’s entire organization, turning swiftly but without urgency to face the training area. He wears a formidable exo-skeleton, not a full suit of armor like the Dreadnaught but surely with its own power. One fist is held high, gripping the throat of your teammate, the usually more-than-capable Black Widow. Her body dangles tensely from his grip, her hands striking at his fist and forearm but finding no reprieve. On one side of Von Strucker is the dangerous Constrictor, who, smiling, swings his fists back and forth, his tentacles moving with his motion and shimmering with electricity.  On the other side is the corrupt Blizzard, though set back a step from them and standing stoically.  Behind them, in the middle of the room, are two massive blocks of ice, sparkling among the lights from the room surrounding them, not translucent but each holding a body, one wearing purple garb with arrows caught in the ice around him as they were sent flying through the air, the other with the familiar costume of a member of the Fantastic Four, usually aflame but now with that fire extinguished. The rest of the room, from what can be seen, is some kind of control center, filled with computers and monitors.  Von Strucker holds his head even higher. “Guten Abend, heroes!  So ve finally meet!” The Widow, caught in Von Strucker’s fist, grunts in pain, trying to breathe but barely managing a weak cough. “And it shall be your very undoing!” The Hydra soldiers surrounding the heroes halt, all of them facing the observation room above, silent in respect.  Even the Taskmaster is quiet. Von Strucker calls again. “Say hello… to the end!” With that, Von Strucker's other hand sparks to life, a white-hot electricity crackling from his fingertips and moving around his his palm. The Hydra army turns to the heroes, their confidence strengthened from the sight of their mighty leader.

Next Action: Iron Man

Seeing the Sentry fall, T'Challa knows that he has only moments to act.  Although his particular field of study was physics, he is also more than casually schooled in the other sciences.  His senses, both technological and natural, track down specific chemical compounds by smell and sight alone and he quickly cobbles together a narcotic agent designed to render the blob unable to maintain its cohesion.


Dice Pool:

Solo d10, World-Class Intellect d8, Cybernetic Senses d6, Enhanced Senses d8, Science Expert d8.

 Today: Black Panther rolled 10,7,3,4,7 using d10,d8,d6,d8,d8 ((10,7,3,4,7)).

Total:  24.  d8 Effect Die.  Spending 1 PP to add an additional die to the total.

Attempting to inflict Drugged complication on Bioplasmagenic Blob.

Next Reaction:  Bioplasmagenic Blob

Next Action:  Bioplasmagenic Blob

Reaction to Black Panther's Complication attempt, Total: 24, Effect: d8:
Team  4d8
Failed Attempt at Creating Life (doesn't know how to react)    d4
(Add to Doom Pool)
Enhanced Durability    d10
Horde    d10

Bioplasmagenic Blob rolled 2,3,8,5,2,4,8 using d8,d8,d8,d8,d4,d10,d10 ((2,3,8,5,2,4,8)).

Total: 16, Effect: d10
Higher Effect die is canceled out by Extraordinary Success, d8 Drugged Complication is applied

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

Now with only one opponent in the room, the blob focuses its huge, misshapen eyes on the Panther, who for the moment is able to leap away from its clumsy, flailing attacks. The Wakandian quickly assembles his noxious potion and the creature takes it in, just as the hero again nimbly leaps out of the monster's way just as its unwieldy limbs attempt to close on him. The chemicals are absorbed and it's easy to see where, as parts of the creature turn red and engorged, a swelling swimming on the outside of its skin, veins suddenly appearing and pulsing along its surfaces. The creature's internal reaction to it does not make it any more violent, though it seems to slow somewhat.

Please note that the Bioplasmagenic Blob is intended as a large-scale threat, as represented by being a Team xd8.

The creature, now digesting the Panther's hastily-assembled elixir, begins to tremble, its mouths -- more than one revealed as the rolls of its form roil -- issue a gagging then choking sound, and spits up a foul, pink liquid with lumps of white in it. The vomit sprays around the room, splattering on the few surfaces not already blanketed by the creature and sizzling and smoking as the putrid liquid eats through them.  The creature could not possibly be any more out of any control so it continues to slosh about the enclosed space of the room and, when its tumescent eyes finally locate the hero, it reaches out to crush him. Between its unpredictable movements and its acid vomit, the blob continues to close in and give the Wakandian hero less room to stay unharmed.

Physical attack on Black Panther:
Team  4d8
Out of Control    d8
Biogenic Creations: Horde    d10
Biogenic Creations: Enhanced Strength    d10

Bioplasmagenic Blob rolled 1,5,8,1,3,5,2 using d8,d8,d8,d8,d8,d10,d10 ((1,5,8,1,3,5,2)).

Total: 13, Effect: d10

Doom Pool: 2d8, 4d10, d12

Reaction: Black Panther
Next Action: Arnim Zola