"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
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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.