Mutants & Masterminds: The Indigo Children - 0 Phase: Danger Room #1

jameson (ST) · November 7, 2010

Saturday, May 15th, 2010

[initiate Combat Simulation AoA Level 1]

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[Load Terrain Skin Wasteland]

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[Load User Data]

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[Load User Skins]

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The VR immersion helmets settled on their heads and there was a quick flare of colored light that resolved itself into the VR simulation. The indigos looked around and found themselves in a wasteland of torn and scorched earth, and the rubble of homes and vehicles scattered around craters and patches of burning debris. Across the waste and rubble dozens of vaguely humanoid robots advanced. The forward rank marched toward them bearing heavy two-handed weapons, laying down suppression fire consisting of bolts and streams of blue-green energy that crackled as they sliced through the air around them.

Click to reveal.. (OOC:)

Telluris · November 8, 2010

"Taking them out isn't as important as coming home with all our bits intact." Rob called out as, suiting action to words, he reached out with one hand intendin to yank a burned-out bus from where it lay in a blackened crater and lower it into place between the Indigos and their mechanical nemeses.

"Wall coming up." he announced with a grin. He could have just EMP'd them all, but there was no guarantee that they wouldn't be shielded. Best to get defense taken care of first.

Click to reveal..

Tharra of the Katjaa · November 8, 2010

Jordan looked around the post-apocalyptic landscape and advancing robots, and realized Pete had turned her into more of a nerd than she had realized with his comics and video games. All she saw was Fallout, though infinitely more immersive than the glitchy game. It just needed to have, 'I Don't Want To Set The World On Fire,' playing in counter-point to the ruined landscape.

Jordan smirked as she looked inward, barely aware of the shifting bus, taking inspiration from the setting and the fact they were in a bloody Danger Room. Her body spasmed, then began to grow to super-mutant size, flesh turning a distinct green as did her her lengthening hair. Her skirt and blouse slithered over her skin and in seconds, Jordan transformed into an eight foot tall She-Hulk, voluptuous, muscular curves clad in the carefully tattered remains of a blue, Vault 13 jumpsuit.

She could have taken on the bald-headed, hideous, masculine appearance of a true Super-Mutant, but that would have taken more effort... And besides, she did have her vanity.

Click to reveal.. (War, War Never Changes... But Jordan Does)

Shifting [25/25]: Growth 4 (Permanent) [12pp], Strength +4 [4pp], Speed 2 [2pp], Leaping 1 [1pp], Dodge Focus 2 [2pp], Super-Senses (Extended Sight and Hearing x10) [2pp], Attractive +1 [1pp], Distracting Looks +1 [1pp]; Str 26 (+8), Dex 14 (+2), Con 26 (+8); Toughness +8, Fort +8, Ref +3, Will +4; Defence 16 (+6/+1 Flat-Footed), Speed 220 (25mph); Attractive 2, Distracting Looks 2

Shifting Disguise Roll: [8 +15 Modifier -15 DC = +8] PASS.

Initiative Roll: [6 +2 Modifier = Initiative 8] PASS.

~~*~~*~~*~~*~~*~~*~~*~~*~~

Up the Control Room, Jaime watched in bated excitement at the goings on in the VR Simulation on the various screens set up for just that purpose. I wonder if I can have a turn in it? Can it make so I have powers, in the game...?

Shirayuki · November 8, 2010

Melissa knew she needed training, she'd never fought before, not in any serious confrontation. To be honest she spent most of her efforts avoiding the fight, and running away.

As she looked around a thin sheen of ice seemed to coalesce over her skin, making her look almost like one of her ice sculptures.

"I don't know how much help I'll be guys, but I'll do what I can."

Click to reveal..

initiative, activating forcefield Roll: [5 +4 Modifier = +9] PASS.

She prepared to use a few of her tricks, glad that at the very least there was at least one thing she could do.

z-Isaac Ward · November 9, 2010

Isaac darted to the right and began to zag across the ground. He was no good in a distance fight; keeping his head down, he sought to close with them and start the dismantling process.

Click to reveal..

Roll: [12 +10 Modifier = +22] PASS.

SalmonMax · November 9, 2010

Tomoe winks out of sight, turning invisible and looking for some cover she can hunker down behind and start shooting robot heads.

Click to reveal..

jameson (ST) · November 9, 2010

Rob dropped the remains of a bus between the robots and the group, the plasma weapons began to pound into the metal and soon the wreck was emitting a sickly blue-green glow as the overwhelming power of the energy blasts began to burn and melt their way through. Tomoe took the chance to wink out. Invisible now she broke right and took cover behind what might have once been a section of a foundation, now just cracked concrete. Isaac took the direct approach and advanced toward the front line ducking and weaving and avoiding the plasma from the slow to react robots. He's find himself quickly outnumbered and overwhelmed without backup however. Melissa, one of the least combat experienced of the group took the opportunity to draw moisture from the air and condense it into a clear layer of crystalline armor over her body as Jordan's own form next to her writhed and re-shaped into that of a massive green skinned woman in a tattered blue jumpsuit with a barely readable 13 on the back. Tess meanwhile simply readied herself, she was uniquely capable against this particular foe.

Isaac, having taking the fight to the robots was the first in. Closing rapidly with the robots he had a choice, he could strike at one of the scattered gunners or charge through them and hit one of the two knots of unarmed melee fighting automatons.

Click to reveal.. (Da' Numbahs)

Click to reveal.. (Hero Points)

Click to reveal.. (Damage)

Click to reveal.. (Order of Battle)

Round #1

Isaac is up first, you have 48 hours...

z-Isaac Ward · November 10, 2010

Isaac charged for the closest robot. It was a ranged monstrosity with a gun longer than his leg but that didn't slow the feral mutant. With a growl, he closed with a small leap, putting him up high enough to met the thing's head with a closed fist.

Click to reveal..

Roll: [15 +6 Modifier = +21].

ST added note: Damage is +8

jameson (ST) · November 10, 2010

Isaac charged the leftmost of the 'bots, narrowly avoiding a glowing sphere of plasma as he covered ground toward it. Less than two yards from the target he bound up onto a hunk of rubble and propelled himself off of it into a ballistic arc that took his fist into a downward attack on the man-sized construct. His fist connected solidly and with a clang and the sound of tearing metal and snapping cables and wires the robot's head was driven down into its chest. Isaac rode the ruined mechanical to the ground rolling free as sparks began to leap from the mangled body.

Click to reveal.. (Da' Numbahs)

Click to reveal.. (Hero Points)

Click to reveal.. (Damage)

Click to reveal.. (Order of Battle)

Round #1

Tess is up next, you have 48 hours...

z012 · November 11, 2010

Tess smiled and held back for the moment. This was their first time in her private virtual Danger Room and she wanted it to be for them. Robots wouldn't be that hard, although she'd join in soon enough just to stretch herself; after the fiasco in Times Square, she knew she'd need more control and more range to keep her and hers safe.

At Isaac's triumph over one of the robots, she laughed. "One down! Who's next?"

jameson (ST) · November 11, 2010

Click to reveal.. (Da' Numbahs)

Click to reveal.. (Hero Points)

Click to reveal.. (Damage)

Click to reveal.. (Order of Battle)

Round #1
Tomoe is up next, you have 48 hours...

SalmonMax · November 12, 2010

Tomoe crouches down behind the rubble and concentrates. A point of light appears in front of her as she gathers the light around her into a narrow focus...then lances out in a straight, coherent beam at one of the ranged robots!

Laser blast - Damage DC 21

Click to reveal..

jameson (ST) · November 15, 2010

Tomoe, concealed from behind cover and a blind of diverted light, sent a beam of coherent light that left a dazzling streak across the vision of all who bore witness. The laser struck the robot square and caused it to explode as it's power core was breached. All that remained was a smoking crater once the smoke cleared.

Two of the rifle toting robots oriented on the attackers. The first pivoted and fired a blast of blue-green plasma at Isaac, the blast narrowly skewing wide and missing. Isaac could feel its intense heat as it passed by and singed the ends of his wind whipped hair. The second attempted to locate the source of the devastating laser attack but the glob of superheated material just impacted the rubble of Tomoe's position and sizzled and burned into the metal and rock.

Click to reveal.. (Da' Numbahs)

Click to reveal.. (Hero Points)

Click to reveal.. (Damage)

Click to reveal.. (Order of Battle)

Round #1

Rob is up next, you have 48 hours...

Telluris · November 16, 2010

Rob soared up from behind the molten slag that had been a bus, gesturing towards one of the energy-weapon carrying robots and sending it hurtling towards another rifle-wielder at high speed.

Click to reveal..

jameson (ST) · November 16, 2010

Rob easily grabbed the robot and hurled it at its closest neighbor. The first missed the second however and impacted into the ground on its own crumpling into an unrecognizable heap of metal and sparks. After a second the power core detonated lighting the area momentarily. Further down the line one of the rifles bearing robots turned and fired a gout of plasma at Rob. Behind the advancing line of gunners the second group of melee 'bots split up. Two of the robots stopped and grabbed chunks of flame scorched metal hurling them at Rob and Tomoe, or where Tomoe might have been, the first seemed on target, the second missed outright, foiled by Tomoe's optical camouflage. The other two bots charged Isaac and laid into the mutant with devastating piston driven fists.

Click to reveal.. (Da' Numbahs)

Click to reveal.. (Hero Points)

Click to reveal.. (Damage)

Click to reveal.. (Order of Battle)

Round #1

Isaac & Rob have toughness checks to make, Melissa is up next, you have 48 hours...

Telluris · November 16, 2010

Click to reveal.. (Ow-ow-Bloody OW!)

z-Isaac Ward · November 17, 2010

Click to reveal..

Roll: [19 +7 Modifier -20 DC = +6] PASS.
He's good.

Roll: [11 +7 Modifier -20 DC = -2] FAIL.
Fail by 2, Bruised

jameson (ST) · November 17, 2010

Click to reveal.. (Hero Points)

Click to reveal.. (Damage)

Round #1
Melissa is up next...

Shirayuki · November 17, 2010

Her first reaction was to run. It wasn't that she was a coward, but fighting wasn't her thing. She was taught to avoid physical confrontations as a child. She couldn't really do that now though.

To begin after seeing her allies already injured, she figured some cover was called for. Here eyes seemed to flash, and a cold driving snow began to fall, slowly at first, but picking up , quickly becoming a nigh-impenetrable whiteout of blowing snow and howling wind.

Suprisingly for her teammates, they could see and hear just fine, She just smiled, hoping this would buy them the time they need to get into better positions.

Click to reveal..

Activating Obscure providing cover for the party, and hopefully blinding and deafening the bots

jameson (ST) · November 17, 2010

With the abruptness that can only come from a power a blizzard whipped up from nowhere and blanketed the area in blinding white and howling winds. The others found themselves oddly able to see still and even hear as strange eddies and currents seemed to provide them with windows of still air.

Click to reveal.. (Da' Numbahs)

Click to reveal.. (Order of Battle)

Click to reveal.. (Hero Points)

Click to reveal.. (Damage)

Round #1

Jordan is up next, you have 48 hours...

Tharra of the Katjaa · November 18, 2010

Bounding in long, swift strides, the emerald-skinned amazon charged through the swirling, white snow, closing a hand into a large fist as she launched a straight-forward punch at one of the plasma-rifle bearing automatons, using the full length of her long arms.

Her lips tightened in wry regret. When she consciously shifted, she was precisely aware of her capabilities, which let her use her body as an effective weapon, but she had never really learned how to fight other than attending a few self-defense classes. She could punch and kick, but didn't know any fancy MMA tricks or have a professional fighter's keen edge.

Click to reveal.. (She-Hulk Smash!)

Full Action: Charge (+2 to hit; -2 Defense until the start of Jordan's next turn = Defense 14)

Roll: [5 +6 Modifier +2 Circumstance Bonus = +13] PASS.

Using a Hero Point to Reroll:

Roll: [12 +6 Modifier +2 Circumstance Bonus = +20] PASS.

Damage DC: 23 (+8 bonus)

jameson (ST) · November 18, 2010

Jordan's charging strike drove her fist into the robot with pile driver force. Metal crumpled and the robot fell from the single impact leaving a twitching and sparking corpse that started collecting snow nearly immediately.

Click to reveal.. (Da' Numbahs)

Click to reveal.. (Order of Battle)

Click to reveal.. (Hero Points)

Click to reveal.. (Damage)

Round #2

Isaac is up next, you have 48 hours...

z-Isaac Ward · November 20, 2010

Isaac snaked through the snow and around the feints of his attackers, his thick body moving with the grace that comes from muscle-driven movemnt. He barely felt the dull ache from where he'd been hit before - but he still remembered to give the tin-can that had hurt him a special gift: a knuckle sandwich.

Click to reveal..

Roll: [12 +6 Modifier = +18]

Damage Modifier: +8

jameson (ST) · November 21, 2010

Isaac's fist glanced off the robot accompanied by a sound like a gong being struck. The robot took a half step back before engaging once more, apparently unharmed by Isaac's powerful blow.

Click to reveal.. (Da' Numbahs)

Click to reveal.. (Order of Battle)

Click to reveal.. (Hero Points)

Click to reveal.. (Damage)

Round #2

Tess is up next, you have 48 hours...

SalmonMax · November 24, 2010

Light briefly coalesces again, and another brilliant, laser-intense streak paints a ruler-straight line through the air at one of the ranged weapon wielding robots! Immediately after firing, Tomoe ducks low and scampers away from where she'd been, trying to keep the robots guessing about her true location.

(Lasar!)

Click to reveal..

jameson (ST) · November 24, 2010

Tomoe's laser lanced out and illuminated the storm with a scarlet and orange blossom of fire as the robot was blow to smithereens. Nearby one of the last two standing oriented on the vector of the incoming laser and fired back blindly. The plasma blast sizzled through the air sublimating snow to steam in its wake but missed high and splashed harmlessly into an overturned car behind Tomoe.

Click to reveal.. (Da' Numbahs)

Click to reveal.. (Order of Battle)

Click to reveal.. (Hero Points)

Click to reveal.. (Damage)

Round #2

Rob is up next, you have 48 hours...

Telluris · November 24, 2010

"Dammit!" Rob cursed as he gritted his teeth and rolled with the impacts, his vision fuzzing up for a moment. With a heroic effort he kept it together and swept his gaze over the battlefield, taking stock of who was fighting what.

"Try and get the unarmed ones herded together!" he called down to Isaac, wondering if the big man would heed him. "Okay, once more with feeling." Rob muttered to himself as he reached out once more with his power, grabbing one ranged drone and trying once more to use it as a missile.

Click to reveal..

jameson (ST) · November 29, 2010

Shirayuki · November 30, 2010

Melissa cringed at the impact even though she wasn't involved. She focused on the Blizzard keeper her allies concealed within the wintry storm. she would only fight if pressed aganst the wall, instead focusing on maintaining her distance, and focused on defending herself.

Click to reveal..

maintaining blizzard, going total defense

jameson (ST) · November 30, 2010

The remaining robots, sensors fouled by the weather struck out randomly to locate their prey. Two wandered astray and found nothing but the other two located Isaac and Jordan and proceeded to close with the Indigo's and attack with their steel fists. Striking with bone breaking force and mechanical speed and accuracy they robots hit their targets.

Click to reveal.. (Da' Numbahs)

Click to reveal.. (Order of Battle)

Click to reveal.. (Hero Points)

Click to reveal.. (Damage)

Round #2

Jordan is up next, you have 48 hours...

Tharra of the Katjaa · November 30, 2010

Click to reveal.. (Taking it like a (wo)man)

Roll: [7 +8 Modifier -20 DC = -5] FAIL.

Spending a Hero Point to Reroll
Roll: [18 +8 Modifier -20 DC = +6] PASS.

Jordan grunted through gritted teeth, heavy bones anchoring dense muscle beneath emerald skin resisting the deep impact of the automaton's large, steel fist. Why am I doing this? It's easier not getting in these situations in the first place. But that isn't always an option, not anymore. Taking a deep breath, feeling a slight ache in the abdomen where the machine had hit her, Jordan balled her hand into a large, green fist and lashed out with a left cross at the robot that had hit her...

Click to reveal.. ( Green Fists of Fury)

Roll: [1 +6 Modifier = +7] Swing and a miss!

... Missing abysmally, not having fully taken in account her great height versus the shorter robot. I really need to learn how to fight.

z-Isaac Ward · December 1, 2010

Isaac saw the fist coming and had enough time to brace. He tensed his impressive muscles and readied his body. He'd still expected it to hurt - it did, a little. But a metal creature had just laid into him with steel hands and it should have bruised muscle and broken ribs.

It ached for a moment. But it didn't hurt.

Isaac was more than a little surprised. He'd never thought of himself as particularly tough - not more than the next healthy guy on the street. But those fists should have hurt and they didn't.

For the first time, Isaac thought that everyone else might be right: there might be something special about him.

Click to reveal..

Roll: [18 +7 Modifier -20 DC = +5] PASS.

jameson (ST) · December 2, 2010

Fists and flames. Energy beams and explosions. What was left that could be called combat was more of a mopping up of the remaining robots. Aided by the ever-present cover provided to them by Melissa's blizzard Rob, Tomoe, Isaac, and Jordan made quick work of the remaining opponents. Tess stood back, shivering despite the falseness of the cold, because the simulation worked. It worked and it felt as real as though they were actually here in the flesh. Some of the others had been hit, she wondered how it felt; was the pain real? The last of the robot's broke apart under the wrenching effects of opposing magnetic fields. Just like that the blizzard was gone, the battlefield was gone, the ruins of robots and cars and buildings were all replaced by a green and black plain, a grid upon which they all stood. A button formed from the nothingness and a voice stated, "Level 1 complete. Continue?"

SalmonMax · December 2, 2010

"That was AWESOME!!" shrieked Tomoe, dropping down off the wall from where she'd been clinging to a dangling chunk of skyscraper a moment earlier.

"How does it work?!" she demanded, nosy even in her enthusiasm.

z-Isaac Ward · December 5, 2010

Isaac jerked and blinked as his battlefield became a grid of nothingness. He'd gotten used to the scene around him: the sputtering and sizzling robots, the falling snow and his teammates fighting. For a long moment, he hadn't understood what had happened.

Then his rational mind caught up to reality and Isaac relaxed, rising from his crouch over the robot he'd been pounding on. Silently, he watched the others talk and exalt. For him, it was just another battle completed and this one hadn't meant anything. There was no territory to defend; no one in the pack was in trouble. It had been an exercise in exercising for him.

Silent, he waited for the others to be done.

Tharra of the Katjaa · December 5, 2010

With the post-apocalyptic battlefield scenario fading back into grid-lined plainness, Jordan felt overly conspicuous and silly standing around like an eight-foot tall She-hulk dressed in a tattered jumpsuit. Especially considering no one else reached her chest.

Chuckling ruefully, the exercise had been interesting even as it dawned on her how unused to physical conflict she was, Jordan tensed, reforming a habitual image in her mind. With something analogous to a flex, she began shifting back to the appearance she had arrived in.

She checked her nails - details were important in giving a persona/appearance that extra spice of life - Jordan waved at her sister in the control booth overlooking the Danger Room, then walked up to Isaac. Her lips quirked into a wry grin, but her turquoise eyes were amused.

"I think I need some pointers in how to fight," Jordan said, "it's not something I have much practice in. Care to give me lessons, you seem to know what you're doing."

z012 · December 5, 2010

"Yeah, I'm pretty much a zero in a fistfight as well, but somehow I don't think I've got your potential, Jordan." Tess stepped into the middle of the group, grinning. "That was fun to watch, I have to admit. I've never had others in a sim with this equipment before. I'm glad it was able to keep up with the programmed abilities. The entire program is still a bit simple right now: most of the higher levels are just tougher versions of this scenario or one or two others I've managed to get programmed. I'll have to find some time to come up with more, I can tell."

"Let's get out of the rigs and get something to eat while the computer goes over the combat data and you guys can tell me what you thought about it and suggestions for making it more realistic or fun or whatever you want, okay?" Fitting actions to words, Tess' VR avatar reached up to her temple and then froze momentarily before fading out completely. In the VR room, Jamie could see Tess pulling off the helmet and peeling herself out of the chair; she was smiling, a mix of excitement and contentment in her expression that made her look softer than usual and not as wan. She made her way around the room, helping the others unhook themselves from the VR rigs and reorient to the real world.

Shirayuki · December 8, 2010

Melissa nodded. "Fighting has never been my thing either."

She was exhilirated, in that nobody was seriously injured, and that her aid, as it was actually helped some. Removing the VR rig was an easy thing for her, she carefully replaced it where she'd gotten it.

"Abit humbling too. I was pretty useless."

z-Isaac Ward · December 8, 2010

Isaac shrugged out of his VR goggles, shaking his head to dispel the lingering sensation of having the rig on his face. "Yeah," he said to Jordan, continuing their conversation without missing a beat. "I'll teach ya."

He paused and looked up at the observation room, where Jaime was watching them. "I'll teach Jaime, too."

SalmonMax · December 8, 2010

"Teach me!" Tomoe demanded, already free of her VR unit. "We can have a dojo here and everything."

She then bestowed a wide grin around the room. "By the way, you guys looked hilarious twitching around in these things during the fight." With a nod at Tess she added, "And we've gotta figure out something better than these goggles for me."

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