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House Rules
- Prone people are +2 to hit hand-to-hand, absent cover.
- Regeneration with an advantage gives back Strength levels.
- You can use Fast Attack with all your powers, but it costs an Advantage to switch between attacks in a panel. (That is, you can punch twice, but it’s an Advantage to punch and blast.)
This builds off the scenes in Victory RPG’s Flying Solo, which was written by Fran Vaughan as an M&M Superlink module for Mutants & Masterminds 2nd edition. (When I converted characters, I used the same artwork as in the module, but I don’t see attribution on them. Anyway: no intent to infringe or take money; if it’s an issue, please contact me at jhmcmullen@gmail.com and I’ll remove the artwork.)
The adventure itself has been presented as parts a-c, but it’s more a toolkit for use in a campaign. So instead, I present a scene where I just bring almost everyone together. Because of what happens in the next part of Sewer Kings, this bonus part has to happen here; besides, I originally set it for the same day.
Raiders of the Lost Torc
Across the street, yellow police tape still marked the entrance to the museum. There were no obvious policemen, but they had seen the night watchman pass.
“Aubrey’s the night watchman,” said Succubus. “As may be, as a concerned employee, I spoke to Mort the Wart—” said Succubus.
“Who?” asked The Reach.
“Museum director. Emily, a co-worker, uses that nickname for him. Mort’s best guess at the target was a valuable necklace we store.”
“I hear a ‘but,’” said Flip-Flop.
“We also have on loan artifacts from an atypical Celtic grave, maybe fourth century. We have it on loan because Emily is brilliant at restoration of pottery from sherds—”
“Uh, Succubus?” prompted The Reach.
“Sorry. Emily’s quite good, so in return for her heading the restoration, we get to show the artifacts. The artifacts include a staff with sigils and a torc with silver, gold, and three gemstones.”
“Have you got a girl-crush?” asked Flip-Flop.
“Hush,” said The Reach. “You think that’s the target?”
“The archeologists who retrieved it were told by a local that it was mystical. And I do not.” She paused. “Much.”
“Uh-huh,” said Flip-Flop. Over Succubus’ shoulder, she noticed a woman flying, silhouetted against the moon. Flip-Flop could just make out a wand in the woman’s hand. She warned the others, “Harry Potter reject, visible against the moon.”
The Reach looked. “Oh, no. We have to move. Now.”
It was too late. “Wait for me!” shouted the woman in the air. The Reach sighed.
“Way to secrecy, dude,” said Flip-Flop. “Who is she?”
“She calls herself ‘Charmed.’ She wants to be a superhero,” said The Reach.
“And you did not consult us before letting her join?” asked Succubus.
“She did not join!”
“That voice… I know that voice,” said Flip-Flop.[1] “Can’t place it.”
The woman — blonde, it turned out — arrived and hung in the air to talk to them. Flip-Flop noticed that her costume was a modified cheerleader outfit, with the letters removed and a cape and mask added. The boots were almost Edwardian, not cheerleader. “I’m here! Let’s go fight some crime! We can split up. Reach, I’ll stay with you.”
“You’re not coming,” said The Reach. “I’ve said this before. It takes more than powers to be a superhero. It takes grit, tenacity, and a bit of luck.”
“I’m here, aren’t I? That shows tenacity and a willingness to hang out in a sketchy neighborhood until I see you.”
“That shows obsession,” said Flip-Flop.
“Like Half-Moon isn’t obsessed.”
The Reach said, “Enough! Half-Moon isn’t under discussion. You are not joining us.”
Charmed frowned at Flip-Flop. “Do I know you?”
Flip-Flop quickly shook her head.
“Fine,” she said. To Flip-Flop, she said, “I’ve heard your voice, though.”
Flip-Flop altered her cadence of words and said, “You’ve been asked to get out. Do so, or I’ll push you to the ground, and Succubus will suck out your soul.”
“I learned from the Dread Pirate Roberts,” said Succubus drily.
“Ewww. Okay, I see you’ve turned The Reach’s mind against me, but I’ll be back. You’ll need me, you’ll see.”
She took off, flew up to the moon and down until she was lost in the shadows. Succubus, who could see in the dark, said, “She’s over there, waiting.”
“Can you take us both to the back of the museum?” asked The Reach.
“It takes…some preparation.”[2] She put her hands on their shoulders and concentrated.
A minute later, all three disappeared to reappear a block away, behind the museum, in a line of sight from their previous location. “Quickly, before she returns there.”
“I hate to ask, but can you teleport us in blind?”
“I have a passkey,” Succubus said. “I can come and go from this building at any time of day or night. The guard will come. Reach, I will need an overcoat. Flip-Flop, you’ll have to hide.”
“Uh…an overcoat?”
“Yes.”
“I’m not sure I want to be that…intimate. Canoes. I’m better at canoes.”
“Canoes.” She regarded him for a moment. “Your parents will never know.” Succubus knew his parents were pastors. He blushed in the dark. “I have to cover the costume,” she said as she waved her passkey. “For the guard, Aubrey.” The Reach grumbled but flowed onto her in the form of a trenchcoat.
She pulled off the wig and swiped her passcard.
“What the heck is that thing?” he muttered once they were inside. “Far side of the room.”
“Wolf spider model. We’re changing displays on Monday, and they’re making final adjustments to it.” She didn’t turn on the overhead lights, just the light on her work table.
“Animator animates statues. That is a statue as big as a horse.”
“You exaggerate. Perhaps a Great Dane. And she didn’t see it this afternoon, so I’m sure we’ll be fine.” There were footsteps in the hall. She tucked the wig inside the “coat” and spent a moment fluffing her real hair. “It’s me, Aubrey,” she called out. “Couldn’t sleep and figured I’d make up for some of today’s lost time.”
“Oh, hello, Dr. Kleine. You just missed Dr. Morgan.”
“Yes. Emily said she’d be in tonight.”
“Well, I’ll see you in…” He looked at his watch. “Forty-five minutes, I have to do another round.”
“Well, I’ll let you know when I leave.”
“You can only stay an hour. Mr. Clarke stays nobody past midnight.”
“Oh, pooh. This is why Dr. Morgan calls him ‘Mort the Wart.’”
Aubrey tried not to grin. “I wouldn’t know anything about that. Anyway, I’ll remind you when I come through again.”
“See you, Aubrey.”
“See you, Dr. Kleine.” He headed back through the large doors.
When he was safely gone, she shrugged off the coat and let it re-form into The Reach while she went to her locker.
“Sorry if I…touched…anything.”
Tara laughed. “You were an overcoat. A trifle heavy, but entirely appropriate.”
“Just saying that I have photos,” said Flip-Flop, coming down from the ceiling.
“Do. Not,” warned The Reach.
“I’m kidding,” she reassured him, and then smirked. “Maybe.”
Succubus pulled out her lab coat. “I will wear this and log in, in case Aubrey comes by again.”
“Thank you. What other security is there?”
“Alarms on the doors and windows. Fire systems everywhere. No cameras back here except the vault facing out. Motion sensors in the display area. Aubrey turns them off when he makes rounds.”
“Do people know that?”
“It’s not general knowledge.”
“Flip-Flop, we wait near the vault. When Aubrey comes back, we slip into the display area and stay motionless.”
“And me?” asked Succubus.
The Reach shrugged. “Do some work. Then guard the vault.”
She brightened and buttoned her lab coat. She put the wig in a box on her work table so it couldn’t be casually seen. The Reach then said, “Crap,” which was the strongest swear word that he ever used. “What is that?”
She glanced at the rearing T. rex and then looked at the orders on the computer. “Ah. When everything stopped being animated, they were in different positions. The soldiers are just mannequins, we can adjust them, and the Apollo statue is marble, so it’s stuck that way. In that position, Doozy—the T. rex—is too tall for its room. If we can’t fix it, it will have to live in the foyer.” She gestured at Doozy. “See? Quentin’s tool cart is already over there.”
“Quentin?” asked Flip-Flop.
“Middle aged, sweaty, likes to explain simple physics to women with doctorates. Strangely single.”
“Strange, that,” agreed Flip-Flop.
“Again, Animator animates statues,” said The Reach. “There are two in this space, right by the vault. The vault that she is going for.”
“We can’t move them.”
Flip-Flop said, “I think the T. rex is too heavy for me.”
The Reach and Flip-Flop discovered that Tara Kleine muttered to herself as she worked. (As Succubus, she did not.) She had just become happy about something when there was a loud shout from Aubrey. “Get out! Doctor Kleine! Hide!”
Then there was a scream, and the stone-on-stone scraping sound that Succubus had heard earlier that day.
“She’s here,” said The Reach. “Flip-Flop, back me up. Succubus, guard the vault.”
The Reach and Flip-Flop moved through the large doors; Tara became Succubus. In the foyer, a large statue of Apollo had just run Aubrey through with a spear. The Animator was flying nearby. “Flip-Flop!” called The Reach. “Get him safe right now!”
Flip-Flop grabbed Aubrey and took off toward the front of the museum. She found her way blocked because the hole was currently full of Charmed.
“Out of the way!” Flip-Flop snarled.
“What?” said Charmed.
Flip-Flop[3] pushed her out of the way telekinetically and took off.
“Rude,” said Charmed.
The Reach looked at the large statue and its bloody spear, and at the Animator, floating there.
Animator’s the source. Get her, solve the problem, he thought. Innocents are gone and— He spotted Charmed. Aw, crap, she’s back. “Get out!” he shouted at her. “Too dangerous!”
“I can help—” she started but Animator[4] blasted her with a bolt of eldritch something. It did not knock Charmed back, but she hung there, gasping for breath. Then she hid behind the statue of Apollo, the largest thing in the room.
The animated statue of Apollo.
Crap crap crappity crap, thought The Reach. He stretched out an arm and flattened it so it formed a shield between the Apollo statue and Charmed.[5]
Suddenly Succubus was in the air by Animator; she grabbed the supervillain[6] but her grip wasn’t secure, and she slid off. Her movement attracted the attention of the Apollo statue, which tried to spear her in mid-air.[7] She didn’t quite manage avoid it by twisting in mid-air, and its spear grazed her, making a long gash along her side.
“You are a nuisance, woman, but Apollo will deal with you. I have a torc to take.” She flew to the big doors and opened one.
Four police women walked in through the hole in the front wall and marched toward the back.
“That won’t be necessary,” they said in eerie unison. Their voices had the slight pauses that meant they were synthesized, like Siri’s. Succubus could see that all of the women were identical except for hair color. “Robots,” she said.
The four robots fired at the Animator.[8] Their guns looked like flintlocks but fired decidedly modern electrical blasts. One hit blast bounced off her eldritch shield while the other shots scorched the doors.
“Robots are just more to animate!” said Animator.[9]
Deal with her first, The Reach thought. He spread his fingers wide like a net[10] and grabbed Animator. “I have this,” he said to Succubus. “You have an assigned job.”
Without getting up, Succubus disappeared.
The statue of Apollo stabbed at The Reach[11] but the spear pushed into The Reach’s stretchy flesh without breaking it.
Animator said, “You call them robots; I call them tools.” The police women lowered their weapons and turned to face The Reach.[12]
“Is this where I shoot one?” asked Charmed. She leveled her wand at one of the robots and discharged a load of magical energy.[13] The robot flew against a large door, knocking it open, and then got up, apparently no worse for the blast.
“And I told you to leave,” said The Reach, as he tightened his grip on the Animator.[14]
The four robots fired at The Reach.[15] His rubbery body was not a good conductor but the two shots together were enough to hurt him a little. Glad that was me and not Charmed.
Brigand chuckled as he rode his phantom horse through the loading dock door and dismissed it at the vault door.[16] “Animator’s attack earlier alerted me to the presence of something mystic, and my robots will keep her busy. Now to open the vault. I’ll need some light.”[17] He pulled out his ethereal sword and it began to glow more brightly.[18] He paused for a moment when the robot knocked the door open, then continued.
Succubus stayed hidden under the Tyrannosaurus rex. Is this the bloke that Flip-Flop fought? She mentally reviewed what he had shown in the encounter at the tech show: force field, spear-blast, ethereal sword.
She stole up to him[19] and touched him — but she couldn’t drain some of his life force; his will was too strong.
In the hall, behind the Apollo statue, there was a second grating sound. Charmed went, “Oooh, a lion statue!”
The statue of Apollo stabbed at her because she had spoken[20] and grazed her, drawing a long cut in her shin. She moved up higher, trying to get out of his range.
The Reach tried to pull Animator down,[21] but her flight was too strong. While he was trying, the four robots fired on The Reach again[22] ; only one hit, because they were aiming at his supporting arm rather than The Reach himself.
The lion leapt at the hands wrapped around Animator[23] and its weight dragged everything down.
Brigand turned to face Succubus. “Your little soul-draining trick doesn’t work on me, does it? But I can do this.”[24] He slashed at her with his spectral sword, and his sword sank into her belly.
Succubus vanished and appeared in the shadows behind him. “And I can do this.” She hit[25] him in the back, and in surprise he stumbled to the wall and fell down. He started to laugh.
“If I may say,” he told her, “you hit like a girl,” and he got up and threw his mystical spear at her.[26] It went through her, surrounding her with a nimbus of mystic energies and leaving a hole in her like a real spear, but not bleeding.
“I need help here,” she called to the next room. “I’ve got Brigand, and he’s trying to steal the same thing.” She didn’t know exactly what the thing was, or if they were both after the same thing, but it might start a fight between them.
The Apollo statue stabbed at Charmed’s feet once more,[27] and gashed her leg again. Charmed gasped.
From within The Reach’s grip, Animator said, “No! The torc is mine!” and pushed her way out of his grip[28] and into the back room.
Charmed said, “I’ll help in there,” and slipped through the doorway, away from the Apollo statue. She saw the Brigand guy there and immediately shot[29] — perhaps too immediately for she nearly missed; her magical energies were eaten by his mystic shield.
The Reach thought, Oh, great. Now I’m alone with four robots and two killer statues.
He grabbed[30] for one of the robots, but the lion was still on his arm, and he couldn’t judge his arm movement correctly: he missed.
The robots continued firing at him. All missed; the walls of the hall were becoming quite scorched, and lights flickered on and off as the electricity found wires. That gave him an idea, and the idea became a possibility when the lion jumped off his arm and walked through one of the large doors, leaving splinters and metal shards behind.
The statue of Apollo, however, turned to face him. It jabbed the spear at him[31] and hit him in the (flattened) arm, but didn’t manage to hurt him.
In the back room, things had gotten complicated.
Animator had animated the Wolf Spider. She was hovering near the ceiling, taunting Brigand. “Go ahead, open the vault. Then the torc is mine.”
Her various animated statues and robots were standing nearby, motionless. Clearly she wanted Brigand to open the vault; he was likely to be faster than she had been in the afternoon. Brigand, for his part, spread his hands apart and said, “As you wish.” He indicated Succubus. “I’d like to kill this one first.”
“No. You kill one superhero and then they’re all after you like stockbrokers at the morning bell. Worse, they don’t care if we kill each other.”
“Agreed. I suspect that’s why Succubus called you in here…so we’d fight each other instead of her.”
“Grab that one,” said the Animator. The animated wolf spider crawled up the wall and grabbed Charmed. The Animator said casually, “She can’t teleport unlike the sucky one there. We web this one to the wall and threaten her life. If we need to, we hurt her badly and it becomes more important for them to get her to a hospital.”
“I like your thinking,” said Brigand.
Keep talking, Succubus thought, while I recover.[32] “Sucky one?” I hope you’ll get to pay for that.
“We settle our differences elsewhere?”
“Agreed.” Brigand slashed at Succubus[33] but she managed to get out of the way. “Oh, she still has energy left in her.”
The robots took the opportunity to fire at Succubus.[34] Most missed but one hit, and she nearly fainted at the electricity coursing through her body. Need life-force. She ’ported to Charmed and said, “Sorry,” as she hit her for energy.[35] Charmed fell unconscious, and Succubus took a deep breath.[36] She wasn’t strong enough to get through either force field, but maybe, with a strength multiplier….
Outside, the Apollo statue took another jab at The Reach;[37] it hit but didn’t hurt the hero. The Reach said, “Excuse me, I need something,” and bounded to the nineteenth century room.[38]
Inside, Animator said, “I’ll deal with her; you get the vault.”
“All due respect, but you failed against her this afternoon. I’ll deal with her, and you get the vault. And we fight after we get the item.”
Animator bit out, “All. Right.” She was not going to admit that the vault had given her problems earlier; she had been hoping to take advantage of whatever Brigand’s abilities were. She said to the lion, “Protect me. Attack anyone who gets near.”[39] She flew to the vault door and started.[40]
Brigand said, “You, Succubus, are much easier to deal with than that other girl.” He threw the spear[41] but his aim was ruined when the “other girl” flew into the room.
“The name is Flip-Flop. Like computer operations. Or flipping things upside down.” She telekinetically grabbed[42] one of the robots and turned it upside down. To Succubus, she said, “I presume these aren’t actual cops.”
“Robots,” said Succubus. “Probably Brigand’s.” She ’ported to mechanic’s cart by the Doozy model. She pulled drawers rapidly[43] and saw what she needed. A big wrench.
Succubus grabbed it. If I can’t drain his energy and I’m not strong enough…well, I can fix the strength part. Thanks for the boring discussion of strength multipliers, Quentin!
However, the lion decided she was too close, and leapt for her.[44] She spun the tool cart into the statue.[45]
Brigand said drily, “Oh, a wrench. I am so frightened of a wrench.” He threw another spear,[46] but missed and hit Doozy, whose feathers started to smoke.[47] It was on fire.
Outside, The Reach got his equipment together just in time for the Apollo statue to arrive; he promptly left again, leading the statue to the robots.
Brigand threw his spear at Flip-Flop[48] — unlike Succubus, Flip-Flop had a force field and the spear did not hurt her.
The Reach burst into the room, covered with wire. “Hey, robots! I’m a nice easy target!” He reached out and grabbed the Animator.[49]
The robots fired; the wire around The Reach’s body attracted the electrical bolts so all four hit the wires; the bolts traveled down the wires to the Animator.[50]
The Animator screamed, in pain or fury. “Cut his wires!” she said, and the giant spider hopped off the wall and scuttled over to The Reach.[51] It bit through some of the wires.
The Reach tsked. “I wired this in parallel,” said The Reach.[52]
Doozy dove its head at him[53] and bit him, his teeth chomping on The Reach’s stretchy body and wires.[54] The Reach let go of Animator to deal with the more immediate threat.
“Uh…the tyrannosaur’s on fire,” pointed out Flip-Flop.
Poor Dr. Arain, thought Succubus. “We should put it out, then.” She ’ported to Brigand and hit him with the wrench.[55] “Perhaps beat it out with one of these villains.”
Flip-Flop flipped Brigand into the air to hit Doozy.[56]
The lion statue leapt at where The Reach’s arm used to be but hit the spider instead. Unfortunately, they did not fight, but the statue’s sheer weight broke a leg on the spider model.[57]
The Apollo statue crashed through the door. It couldn’t find The Reach, because the Reach was currently in the mouth of a tyrannosaur, so it stopped and stood there, awaiting orders.
“That one!” shrieked the Animator, meaning Succubus. “She’s on the ground, she’s hittable. Hit her! Lion—guard my back!” She blasted Flip-Flop[58] against the opposite wall.
Brigand took the moment to swing[59] his sword at Succubus, who managed to avoid the blow.
The Reach[60] oozed out of Doozy’s mouth and onto the ground, while noticing where everyone was. Too bad he had left the wires behind, but the wires drew the blasts away from Succubus when the robots fired again.[61]
Doozy dove for The Reach again,[62] but The Reach oozed between its teeth. Flip-Flop[63] avoided the spider's leap; the spider waited on the wall for another chance to pounce.
Succubus said, “I’d rather fight Animator,” and suddenly she was in the air beside the Animator, swinging the wrench.[64] Her hard, sudden attack stunned Animator, and both of them fell from the sky. Animator lost all of the spells she had been maintaining: force field, flight, and all of the animated statues and models. Doozy froze with its head low, grabbing at The Reach; the spider fell from the wall, because without magic it had nothing to hold it, and the lion statue became just a lion statue. The four robots continued, however, returning to their original programming. Succubus managed to land on her feet.
Flip-Flop grabbed the lion[65] and hit Brigand with it.
Brigand said, “Ow! I think departure is the sensible thing to do,” and his phantom steed appeared. Like that, Brigand was gone out the front of the building.
The Reach said, “You’re fastest, Flip-Flop, follow him—we’ll stop the fire!” He stretched his arm over and hit Animator so she was truly unconscious.
Flip-Flop took off after Brigand.
Sometime during the fight, the burning tyrannosaur had brushed against something flammable, and there were now three separate fires. Succubus knew that if the reagents would feed the fires, and if the fire got to the gas-boxes near the loading dock, the tanks would explode.
Why hadn’t the fire systems gone off? There was supposed to be a suppressive gas that dropped down to extinguish the flame without damaging artifacts— With the fighting and the people near the ceiling, maybe the sensors near the vault were damaged. Every workspace had small extinguishers.[66] She grabbed one and ’ported to the (thankfully motionless) tyrannosaur.
The robots were not under Animator’ s control.[67] Her movement attracted their attention; one managed to hit her, and she felt the burning tingle of electrocution. The Reach shouted, “You put out the fires, I’ll get the robots.” He was impervious to most of their blasts, and she was not.[68]
She hoped he would do his part and sprayed the base of the first fire.[69]
The Reach stretched out and enveloped all of the robots, turning himself into a giant sack.
Succubus ’ported to the next fire.[70] This one was more spread out, and she had to work harder. She was very aware of the third fire taking root near Emily’s sherds.
The Reach heard from the robots inside him, “Loss. Poison pill mode activated.”
“Wait—poison pill—”
They exploded.[71]
I hope he’s not dying, thought Succubus as she kept trying to put out this fire.[72] But if the fires continues, all of us die.
She ’ported to the third fire, now larger than the others had been. She squeezed the handle…and the extinguisher was empty.[73] She grabbed the one beside the workstation and sprayed.
Please don’t spread to the reagents. Reach, please don’t be dying.[74] It became her mantra, as she remembered all the work and safety courses.[75]
Finally she could check The Reach. His pulse was still strong, and though he looked bruised, there didn’t seem to be any major cuts. Both their phones had been destroyed in the battle, so she couldn’t text Flip-Flop. Instead, she went to Aubrey’s security guard desk and called 911.
The police and fire department had no idea that anything was happening; the alarms had been disabled. The ambulance arrived first, and while they were checking The Reach, the fire department came, and then the police.
Flip-Flop returned. “I lost him,” she murmured to Succubus. “How’s Charmed? I’m sure I’ve heard that voice.”
“They’re still cutting her down. They think she’s going to be okay.”
The Reach’s hand appeared on Flip-Flop’s shoulder. “Take the win.”
Cast
You've seen most of the cast, but these three are new or didn't show up before.
Highwaymen Robots
| PRW | 3 | Specialties | Power (Blast) |
|---|---|---|---|
| CRD | 3 | Qualities |
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| STR | 3 | ||
| INT | 3 | ||
| AWR | 3 | Powers |
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| WIL | 3 | ||
| Stamina | 6 | ||
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Apollo (Construct)
| PRW | 4 | Specialties | Spear |
|---|---|---|---|
| CRD | 5 | Qualities |
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| STR | 7 | ||
| INT | — | Powers |
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| AWR | 3 | ||
| WIL | — | ||
| Stamina | 14 |
Tyrannosaurus rex (Construct)
| PRW | 5 | Specialties | Bite (+1), Running (+1) |
|---|---|---|---|
| CRD | 3 | Qualities |
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| STR | 8 | ||
| INT | — | ||
| AWR | 4 | Powers |
|
| WIL | — | ||
| Stamina | 16 |
Giant wolf spider (Construct)
| PRW | 3 | Specialties | – |
|---|---|---|---|
| CRD | 3 | Qualities |
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| STR | 6 | ||
| INT | — | Powers |
|
| AWR | 3 | ||
| WIL | — | ||
| Stamina | 12 |
Stone lions from China (Construct)
| PRW | 3 | Specialties | – |
|---|---|---|---|
| CRD | 4 | Qualities |
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| STR | 5 | ||
| INT | — | ||
| AWR | 4 | Powers |
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| WIL | – | ||
| Stamina |
Game Mechanics (Footnotes)
[1] Intellect test: 3-3<4, so nothin’ but I’ll throw her a bone. Marginal would be “connected with Delta Eta Pi.” Moderate or better would identify her.
[2] She trades Lost Page for the extra Passengers.
[3] Charmed has a CRD of 5, so 4+2>5 to hit.
[4] 6+1>6, so moderate hit for (oof) 8 Stamina.
[5] He is blocking, using his 5 Damage Resistance
[6] Oh, she can hit 5+1>3 but can she do any damage? This time: 5+3>6, so 2 Stamina. Coordination roll difficulty 4 to land safely:5-2<4; she falls, but the failure isn’t so bad that I’m going to inflict damage. She’ll spend next page’s movement either teleporting from a prone position or getting up.
[7] Prowess 4+1+0=5, so marginal hit That’s 2 stamina, but no stunning/killing roll.
[8] Working together, but only one actually hits: 4+3>6 but 4+0<6 and 4+2=6.
[9] Meanwhile, Charmed recovers, trading a lost page for the Advantage.
[10] Prowess: 4+2>3, so partial hold.
[11] 4+1+2>4, but damage resistance takes all of it. No stun at 5+0=5
[12] She stunts group servants and The Reach gets a Determination Point.
[13] 5+1>3, so major success. Slam: 6+3>3
[14] 4+1>3 Another moderate success which moves him to a complete hold. Given the nature of her flight, she can still move around but she’s held immobile.
[15] Trying to work together again. 4-3<4, 4+5>4, 4+0=4, 4+1>4, and two succeed, so blast effect 6
[16] He stunts Phasing. Succubus gets a DP.
[17] Well, I just got strong Felix Faust vibes. But I can work with that.
[18] Also stunting Light Control to make light, because (duh) Succubus turned off the lights.
[19] She gets 5+1-2=4, so I’ll say she gets there but she gets no surprise bonus. Attack succeeds (5+2>5) but effect sucks (5-2<6)
[20] 4+1-1=4; marginal hit
[21] Strength vs flight 4-3<5-1. Nope. And she’s not trying to move yet.
[22] Only one hits moderate or better: 4-1>4,4+0=4,4+1>4,4-4<4
[23] And hit nicely: 5+4>4; slam result, so that brings the hands to the ground and we’ll say the heavy weight is a 6 damage, so 1 gets through. Strength roll 5+1=6, so let’s reduce the hold to partial
[24] He slashes at her with the sword: 5+1>5. 4 Stamina damage, plus 4+0<5 no secondary effect.
[25] Good hit: 5+5>7, slams him across the room (major success)
[26] Before I roll to see if he hits, she spends a DP and recovers, so she’s at full Stamina. Eww. He hits: 4+2>5, so 7 Stamina. No slam.
[27] 5-1=4
[28] Strength check: 3+4>4, so she’s free and he has a DP because she chose to push that by +2.
[29] 5-1=4, so graze: 3 Stamina damage, soaked by force field.
[30] 4-5<3 No, he’s not grabbing anything.
[31] 5-1=4, so marginal, and the Damage Resistance takes it.
[32] You could call it a Recovery, which I will. It costs a DP. She’s down to 0.
[33] 5-2<5
[34] 4-1,4-1,4-2,4+4>5
[35] Hitting is easy; Charmed is in a full hold and can’t move. Effect is 5+5>5, so she goes up 5 Stamina
[36] She wants to be on the defensive, but she just committed an attack action.
[37] 5+3>4 hits, but no slam effect (5-2<4)
[38] He’s going to need a slight retcon here, but he’ll spend a DP and activate “Not his first rodeo” for that.
[39] Suddenly the lockbreaking happens on-stage, so let’s call it a Pyramid Test of difficulty 7. Her first roll fails: 6-1<9
[40] Running the vault as a Pyramid Test, difficulty 7. First attempt: 5+1+1: Marginal, no effect.
[41] 4-3<5
[42] Fortunately, 6-1>3
[43] She’s trading difficulty with her next Energy Drain for a retcon: the wrench, which gives her Bashing 4 or damage Strength+1.
[44] 5-1<5
[45] Attempt at vault: 6+3>7, one moderate success.
[46] 4-3<5
[47] In order to generate some DP for the players, I am offering them Trouble: Doozy catches fire. They accept and get a DP each.
[48] 4+0=4
[49] 4+5>3
[50] Blast 7 vs Force Field 5, so that’s 2 Stamina; that stings
[51] 3+4>4+2, so it succeeds
[52] Slipping the GM a determination point.
[53] He gets a DP for her animating it
[54] 5+1>4, 6 stamina of which damage resistance eats 5.
[55] 5+5>5, but doesn’t stun him (6+0<7).
[56] 6+2>5, slam? 6+3>7 — in the action. 1 stamina after damage resistance.
[57] Six Stamina damage.
[58] 6-1>4, but force field absorbs 6 of it. Slam is 8+1>6
[59] 5-2<5
[60] Stunts alternate form, Fluid, tagging “Not my first rodeo” and oozes free.
[61] Rolls of 3-1,0,-2,-3.
[62] Doozy gets 5-1, which would be a marginal hit, but The Reach is still fluid, so let’s say that does nothing.
[63] The spider is leaping, call it a rushing attack vs her Coordination (because it's higher), so that's 3-1<4 .="" it="" misses.="" p="">
[64] And 5+4>3, stun possible, roll is 5+1-1>3, moderate: one page. But that’s enough, and both take 1 Stamina from the fall.
[65] Easy to grab the lion; hitting Brigand is 6+0>5, so it succeeds, and does 6 stamina, 5 of which are eaten by force field.
[66] The GM offers more trouble, and the player accepts it but spends a DP on a retcon.
[67] Robots fire: 4-1, 4-2, 4+0, 4+2: one hits.
[68] Stunts constructs on stretching, using “Not his first rodeo”
[69] This page, each fire is a difficulty 2 pyramid test. In two pages, difficulty 3. In 4 pages, difficulty 4. And so on, +1 difficulty for each two pages. Coordination 5+3, so 8>2, massive success. Next fire.
[70] Still difficulty 2, but it goes up next page. 5-1>2, one major success.
[71] No need to roll: they definitely hit him, and we’re going straight to Killing roll. Call it an Incredible (7) Slash, contained by him. At least 2 Stamina. The killing roll is 7-1>5 (his damage resistance), so he’s knocked out by the blast, but not dying.
[72] Massive success: 5+5>3. Yay. One more to go.
[72] Now difficulty 4. 5+1>4, moderate success.
[74] 5+2>4, major success. But now difficulty 5.
[75] She’s spending her last DP, activating “trying to be a hero,” for +2 effect on this roll. 5+0+2>5, moderate success…but it’s enough.
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