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12:22 AM Isn't the night time supposed to be cooler? That's all Taz can think as she walks the streets of Inspiration. She's on the East Side of the city where villainy is rampant and the war for territory had left things in rougher conditions, but the section she's in is just as vibrant and flashy as the west side. The buildings are tall, with shining lights and window panes. There aren't many cars on the island yet, but this is an area where those rich
12:22 AM enough to have them reside so some pass her with shining headlights from time to time, but she can feel their tires come and go for some time before and after they leave her sight. She'd gotten her invitation not too long after her meeting with Chamber, and Temper a location for a dropoff point where she'd picked up a small badge. A small circular pin with a refractive surface, like chamber's effects. She was supposed to wear it and then be near an
12:22 AM address (but apparently at least 25' away for safe distance) and to be ready to 'watch the show'.
12:22 AM She'd planned to meet with Ben beforehand, and she was coming up on their designated meeting spot, an alley behind a car charging station/convenience store, with a smaller bank nearby. She can feel his heartbeat in the alley as she comes up on the charging station. Its bright synthetic lights, and the ones from in the store illuminate everything in the lot. She feels footsteps and muttering voices with his. He has friends with him it seems.
12:22 AM ((Faust, and then after that I'll get a brief post in, then Side))
12:22 AM ||
12:22 AM -||
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12:23 AM <ColdGold|GM> ColdGold The lot is mostly empty save for one person idly kicking the ground near their charging car, and a clerk inside the store who might or might not be snoozing at the register.
12:23 AM ||
12:23 AM <Faustus|Hazard> Faustus ...
12:28 AM Taz plays with a knife, focusing on it intensely, the thing meticulously sharpened and shining and her new eyepatch reflected in the metal. A few golden bracelets and necklaces adorn her under her coat, which she leaves undone for now. The cloth around the bottom of her face is the only thing making her sweat right now... well that's not entirely true. This whole thing is just so exciting and the knife is all she can use to keep
12:28 AM calm.
12:28 AM Then she feels the heartbeat and sits bolt upright, putting away the knife and just feeling it for a moment. Hazard stands up and begins walking towards the sound, keeping her breathing steady in the night air, the situation making her feel alive again.||
12:28 AM <ColdGold|GM> ColdGold ...
12:36 AM The heartbeat leads her straight to him, and as she follows it she sees him when she turns the corner. He looks sort of different, and not different like he did in the dream. His posture straighter, he looks rougher even. His company does too. Standing next to him, slouched against the wall with his arms crossed, is a tall lanky figure. He's dressed in combat tanktop, with black cargo pants. He has metal panels with edges on his bicep, and forarm
12:36 AM and on his knuckles, as well as his shin, calves, knees, and shoes. He's wearing a bearcage around a face done up with gray metalic covered warpaint, and his deep black hair is slicked back. He sizes Taz up and down, and a small smile crosses his face before glancing at Ben. Behind them at the further end of the alley there are some other men next to a Jeep, dressed similarly to the cape. They're all playing dominos and only glance at her before
12:36 AM going back to their game.
12:36 AM "Hey, Chip. You been holding out man, you didn't tell me your friend was so..." He looks her up and down again while sauntering up to her.
12:36 AM "...refined." He finishes with a lilt to his voice while making eye contact with her, he gives her a wink before offering her his hand.
12:36 AM "Names Chopper. Me and Chip have been running the game on our side, you should pay a visit sometime." He says, before waiting for her reply, and then stepping out of the way to let Ben have his word.
12:36 AM ||
12:37 AM on the bare skin of his bicep...*
12:37 AM ((Side's go))
12:37 AM <Side|Chip> Sidezero ((Will do))
12:38 AM <ColdGold|GM> ColdGold ((Or wait))
12:38 AM ((Nah Side's go works, was just thinking Chop talked to Faust. Maybe say hi, and describe your appearance for now))
12:38 AM ((Sorry don't mean to dictate too much, just micromanaging))
12:38 AM <Side|Chip> Sidezero ((You want me to describe my appearance or Faust?))
12:39 AM <ColdGold|GM> ColdGold ((You))
12:39 AM ((He already did his))
12:39 AM <Faustus|Hazard> Faustus ((My appearance barely changed))
12:39 AM <Side|Chip> Sidezero ((aight))
12:39 AM <ColdGold|GM> ColdGold ((Just say what you been doing in the alley and give me an intro and shit))
12:39 AM <Faustus|Hazard> Faustus ((Just new eyepatch design and jewelry))
12:39 AM <ColdGold|GM> ColdGold ((I'm assuming you look a tiny bit different but I don't need a huge paste of the last))
12:39 AM ((Just a small update maybe))
12:53 AM <Side|Chip> Sidezero He can feel his face upturn at seeing Taz. Leaning against the wall in a black Gi, his blonde hair is slightly matted to his forehead from him sweating. This time, he had holes placed at the elbows and knees of the costume, so that the blades would have a hole to come through when he needed to.He already has the tips of black blades peeking out of skin from the holes already, prepped. He glances at Chopper before turning back to Taz.
12:53 AM Can’t say he’s surprised, but doesn’t mean he has to like what that just was. They’re not together so he shouldn’t be acting like this, but fuck it. He walks over to Taz and takes her by the shoulder, trying to smile from underneath the face mask as he looks at her. “It’s nice to see you. Haz. Sorry it’s been so long.” He turns to Chopper for a moment before waving him over to walk with them. “Been working with
12:53 AM Chopper in the meantime. Sorry it’s not one-on-one like we wanted, but that can wait till after the Pow Wow.” He turns to Chopper for a moment while hanging on to Taz. “Want to head over now that we have everyone?”||
12:54 AM <Faustus|Hazard> Faustus ...
1:11 AM Reacting to the arm more like a hot coal has touched her, Taz moves it way quickly. "I saw you in sleep like yesterday. It is not long at all." Calming herself down afterwards and keeping her eye on the blades a bit too long, Hazard looks at Chopper. "I am Hazard. Appreciate hand but do not need, do not wink at me it makes me wonder if insult." Staring at Ben again, she sighs. "You startled me."
1:11 AM Chopper's cute though, completely on the scale of "people trying to pretend to be in a video game" with the headgear. Her breath is uneven for a second for another reason before she looks at her badge. "Okay. I am chill." Hazard trying to use that term sounds wrong to say the least. "Chopper, is good to meet you, if you have drinks I will visit always."||
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1:19 AM <ColdGold|GM> ColdGold Chopper chuckles and puts his hands up by his sides lightly as his shoulders move up and down with the laughter, he casts a sly glance at Ben trying to put his arm around Taz's shoulder, but seems to take everything well in stride. He's already the first one walking ahead as they gather themselves.
1:19 AM "But you're always winking at me that isn't fair." He says over his shoulder with a half smile, but he doesn't wink thankfully enough. He turns back around.
1:19 AM "We always got drinks and other fun stuff. Lots of fun stuff going around over on our side, you'll see." He turns  to his crew. "Wrap that up, we're heading out. Remember hang on the edges, you don't have invites, but if you see the signal go off you know what to do." He instructs them as he passes them by, leaving Ben and Taz to catch up. The crew begins to pack of the dominos relatively quickly upon being commanded but not before some trash talk
1:19 AM between them. There's a tall skinny one with a long face and dreads, another still tall man with a bald head and tattoos all over his head, face, neck, and just about anywhere else Taz can see skin. There's a woman with a shorter neck length haircut tied into a very small ponytail. There's another woman, though Taz doesn't notice immediately considering her hair is almost all buzzed except for some on the top, she's bordering on overweight, and
1:19 AM nothing about her dress or demeanor is feminine at all. She moves just as quick as the rest as they gather their things and hop in the jeep. Farther up, Taz can see they have another one set up at the end of the alley, Chopper is already hopping into it, revving it to start with the twist of a key.
1:19 AM ||
1:24 AM <Side|Chip> Sidezero ((My go?))
1:24 AM <Faustus|Hazard> Faustus ((Yeah))
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1:40 AM <Side|Chip> Sidezero Ben tilts his head as he nods at Taz and follows Chopper. He just nods along as he listens to Chopper talk about their side of town. No point in talking after that last move of his. He sighs a little bit as Taz shrugs his hand off. Can’t say he wasn’t expecting it, but not from Taz. He’ll figure it out. No worries. He can fix this later. He waves at Taz with a smile. “We’ll take the jeep if you don’t mind.” Ben turns to
1:40 AM Chopper, raising his voice so he can hear him from where the two of them were walking. “We’ll hop in the back of the truck.” He hops in the backseat of the truck as he turns to Haz. “Are you ready for this?"||
1:42 AM <Faustus|Hazard> Faustus ...
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1:58 AM <Faustus|Hazard> Faustus Hopping into the other side, Taz sits a bit awkwardly, not putting on her seatbelt. "Yes." She glances at him. "You just startled me." This feels bad, she was in his head just a bit ago and now she kind of feels how he is. It's not good. But there's other things too, the same reason she was so upset at the council, or why she pulled him aside when she was. "Please don't touch me during the meeting." A twinge of envy leaks in from
1:58 AM the council memory and Taz gets a bit closer.
1:58 AM "I feel you inside me more... in a not gross way. Shit is weird."||
2:00 AM <ColdGold|GM> ColdGold Chopper seems to vaguely hear what they're saying and casts them both a raised eyebrow and a smirk. He maneuvers his vehicle out of the way to let the crew move ahead. They toss everyone salutes as they head out. Their destination to be wasn't a destination persay, just a radius of locations around a zone they weren't to enter under any circumstances.
2:00 AM ||
2:03 AM , but he definitely hears the inside of me part, and casts...*
2:03 AM <Side|Chip> Sidezero ...
2:13 AM He feels himself exhale as he looks at her. That’s… actually a lot more reassuring than what he thought previously. Power incontinence. He can deal. This puts into question a lot of what she was asking him to do when they were back on their island though. All that knife stuff. Whatever. It is what it is. He can just smile from underneath the face mask. “No worries. Just happy to see you for real this time. It’s not really a
2:13 AM reunion if Claudia is eyeing us from across the fire.” Ben just stretches from the back of the jeep as he nudges himself deeper into the seat. “No need to dwell on it.” Chopper can hear, but it’s alright. Unless Taz says something, he won’t either.||
2:14 AM <ColdGold|GM> ColdGold ...
2:17 AM There isn't much traffic to contend with as they pull out behind the other jeep and follow it for minute into the city before it turns a corner and Chopper keeps going. He flips through stations as Ben talks before settling on classic rock station. One of Voyagers first steps had been getting radio up and running.
2:17 AM "So I was going to ask how you got invited, but then I remember this guy has been braggin' about you makin' that wave nonstop." He says, casting a thumb back in Ben's direction.
2:17 AM "That was pretty impressive though not going to lie. You got something just as pretty for us tonight? Me and Chip, are coming with the heat. Right Chip?" He asks.
2:17 AM ||
2:18 AM <Faustus|Hazard> Faustus ...
2:21 AM "Making was easy, stopping took work. Should have seen me make island, that was impressive."||
2:22 AM <Side|Chip> Sidezero ...
2:31 AM Ben looks Chopper for a moment as he nods in agreement. He brushes his hair as he sharpens his fingers slightly so he can comb his hair a bit better. “Being the first villains on the west side of the island will do that Chop. Should be a good bargaining chip when we meet with them.” He smiles once Taz mentions the island. That was a fun day watching her do it. He looks back to Chopper in the front seat as he reclines his head to look
2:31 AM up to the car’s roof. “Would Aftermath want an island? That might be an interesting trade.”||
2:34 AM <ColdGold|GM> ColdGold "I'm like that too. Hard to stop me once you get me started." Chopper suggests from the front seat and they can see his little grin through the rear-view mirror.
2:34 AM "But you got your own island, huh? Heh, fancy. You could maybe the favor by showing me around after you see my spot." He says back to her with a wider smile behind the cage like bars at the section of the cage over his mouth and nose. He glances over at Ben, including him in things as well.
2:34 AM "There are lots of interesting things someone, or some people can done on a private island. I'd say its something." He glances around at a couple signs, and then down at a map in the console next to him.
2:34 AM "We're actually not far at all. About to pull up to a spot in about a minute I think." He announces.
2:34 AM ||
2:36 AM get done*
2:36 AM <Faustus|Hazard> Faustus ...
2:39 AM Hazard smiles under her cloth. "Friend promised to make not garbage eggs this time so I hope. Where you even get cheese and why the fuck in eggs. Just eggs. Is not hard. Tomato with would be good though." She looks up. "I miss coke. Can't get enough anymore. Rum no fun without coke."||
2:40 AM ((Rum is*
2:40 AM ))
2:44 AM <Side|Chip> Sidezero This conversation’s going to start irritating him at some point. He should’ve asked Claudia if he wanted to meet Chopper. He would’ve loved to meet her from the sound of the conversation. That might go along better.actually. He’s liable to get agitated if this keeps going. Ben starts shaking his head the moment Haz starts mentioning the eggs. “The cheese is a binding agent so it keeps the eggs in fluffy clumps. You get the milk
2:44 AM so it’s soft and then the butter is just cause. The tomatoes are noted though. Will do.” He looks out the windows as he tries to see if there’s any telltale signs of where the meeting would happen. “I’ll put Coke on the list. See if we can snatch them from someone.”||
2:46 AM <Faustus|Hazard> Faustus "Just. Eggs."||
2:46 AM <ColdGold|GM> ColdGold ...
2:51 AM Chopper just makes an evident weird face at Taz's rum and coke comment, and seems to be thinking on something for a bit. Inspiration at night matches the beauty of a city in the pre-apocalypse in its sheer size, and beauty. Even in the night there are signs of life in the buildings as they pass. There are people walking to and from clearly dressed for the night life, even on a Monday night. Some are in business attire, passing through the business
2:51 AM sectors of the city. There are signs that everything is not perfect here though. The stray gang tag, a set of working girls openly hawking their wares in cut tops and short skirts on the corner. Some bagboys riding bikes in a circle around a few spots. These all pass as Ben explains the perfect way to make eggs.
2:51 AM "Scrambled or sunny side up, no need to get crazy with it, in my opinion. Cheese ain't bad on it though, you should try it Hazard. If its so bad you can just spit it out." He jokes, as they turn a corner and the car begins to slow to a stop.
2:51 AM "We're here by the way." He says, though he seems confused as they look around, and when they look out the with him they see why. There's... not really anything here, just more buildings and streets like normal. There however don't seem to be any people around in sight at all, in or out of costume.
2:51 AM ((Awareness Faustus|Hazard))
2:51 AM ((From your power))
2:52 AM <Faustus|Hazard> Faustus $roll 1d6-1 Hmm? Sorry, distracted.
2:52 AM <[ATM]> ATM Faustus|Hazard "Hmm? Sorry, distracted." [6] -1 = 5
2:53 AM <ColdGold|GM> ColdGold She can sense footsteps in the alleys and crannies nearby, but there are nearly none at all in what she can feel in the designated area she's been notified of. To Ben it just looks like a ghost town.
2:54 AM Chopper comes to a stop, parking parallel to the sidewalk in a way where they can get a clear view. He opens the sun roof.
2:54 AM "Huh, well this is quieter than expected of something called a 'Pow Wow'. I guess they did say to wait and watch." He muses.
2:54 AM ||
2:54 AM <Faustus|Hazard> Faustus ...
2:56 AM <ColdGold|GM> ColdGold in its sheer size and scale*
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3:06 AM <Faustus|Hazard> Faustus "Why would I waste it? Hard to get in Inspiration." Oblivious to the context, she lets out a breath of air. "Everyone else is keeping hand close to chest, all here. Smaller than expected but not much. No sense of how to do it, have to make big show to impress." Hazard shifts a bit as she uses her power to pull Chopper's cage down. "You make self look like idiot to them. Like meerkat or something."
3:06 AM Making a disgusted face and putting her legs against the front seat to stretch, Hazard explains it. "People look for you, not other way. Look like strong. Pretend you are one with finger on the trigger, and look dangerous. Not like missing student." This is all so simple, everyone should know it. "Might as well bow tie and suspenders otherwise."||
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3:10 AM <ColdGold|GM> ColdGold ((Side|Chip))
3:11 AM <Side|Chip> Sidezero ((I saw.))
3:12 AM ((Really forgetting the periods tonight. Sorry boys.))
3:12 AM ...
3:14 AM Ben just keeps mumbling as he gets out of the car and looks around the area. “...we don’t have cooking shows anymore and I need to hone my craft. I’d make an Iron Chef reference if you had that in Russia.” He looks to Taz as he crosses his arms, lengthening the blades at his joints slightly in preparation. Might as well test out the boost and follow her lead at the same time. He lets a small blade start growing out of the bottom
3:14 AM of one of his feet. Discreet, but still helpful if they need to do something. “Sounds good to me.” Let’s follow her lead and look menacing Chop.” He walks over back to the jeep and leans against it as he looks around. If they need to move suddenly, his heel blade in the ground will feel the vibrations.||
3:14 AM <ColdGold|GM> ColdGold ((Awareness from both of y'all))
3:15 AM <Faustus|Hazard> Faustus $roll 1d6-1 I am aware
3:15 AM <[ATM]> ATM Faustus|Hazard "I am aware" [1] -1 = 0
3:17 AM <Side|Chip> Sidezero ((One second))
3:18 AM ((Does my tremor sense apply or nah?))
3:18 AM <ColdGold|GM> ColdGold ((Nah))
3:18 AM <Side|Chip> Sidezero $roll 1d6+1 A Fighter never loses focus
3:18 AM <[ATM]> ATM Side|Chip "A Fighter never loses focus" [2] +1 = 3
3:21 AM <ColdGold|GM> ColdGold Hazard pulls Chopper down by his cage, and as she explains it to him, he turns to her with a scowl on his face. The first time she's seen him not smiling. Ben sees it too. Did she piss him off or something? She finishes what she's saying, and Ben gets out of the car but Chopper doesn't immediately follow. That is until a look of clarity appears on his face.
3:21 AM "Ohhhhhhh." He says, a smile quickly taking the scowl's face as he looks between Ben, and Taz.
3:21 AM "I was so confused when she was talking not being able to get coke. There's a surplus of coke in the apocalypse. /We'd/ know." He laughs hitting Ben in the shoulder lightly with his elbow as he follows him out of the car. Chopper takes up place next to Ben before he leaps lightly, and then spins his arm rapidly over his head like a helicopter blade even whirring for a second, enough to lift him over the jeep where he sets himself down into a criss
3:21 AM cross apple sauce position. He places one fist down on the roof next to him.
3:21 AM "Sounds good to me though." He says with another bright smile to them before replacing it with a look like he's brooding. Taz doesn't notice anything immediately, and at first Ben doesn't see it either, but then he feels some of the footsteps in the nearby alleys turn and face a certain direction. He turns the same way, and Taz and Chopper seeing him do that, do the same.
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3:24 AM <ColdGold|GM> ColdGold Above the buildings is what looks like a large red pane of glass, spreading and spreading to take up a huge radius of space over the empty section of buildings where both Ben and Taz can feel barely anybody moving. Floating above the pane there's a large multilayered metal platform... no a shield? The bottom of it, its face, is flaming a bright blue. There are three minuscule figures standing on top of it.
3:24 AM "Perretti's the deadline is now. You've stretched it to the last possible moment but we have a Pow Wow we need to hold. Will you concede?" A loud gruff voice blasts over the near empty clearing like its on a loud speaker. Taz recognize's it as Temper's voice at first.
3:24 AM "Damn y'all think we're gonna see a fight?" Chopper asks, perking up to get a bigger look of the expanding pane.
3:25 AM Pow Wow we need to hold here*
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3:25 AM <Faustus|Hazard> Faustus ...
3:26 AM <ColdGold|GM> ColdGold near empty section of buildings*
3:31 AM .../We'd/ Know. But she meant coca cola, wow haha."*
3:32 AM scowl's place*
3:33 AM <Faustus|Hazard> Faustus "I don't know what..." Taz suddenly turns extremely red before turning away. She mutter a little. "Not drunk enough." Speaking with a slightly louder voice, she turns back up to the display. "Is Temper's voice."||
3:34 AM <Side|Chip> Sidezero ...
3:40 AM Ben just rolls his shoulders as he watches the entire thing unfold, leaning against the car as he smiles from underneath his mask. Seeing the big capes of Aftermath will be pretty cool. He gets to see Aftermath at work and if he does well tonight, he might be able to work something out with them. No skin off his back if he just watches the fireworks. He lets the fingers on both his hands sharpen into black claws. “Probably. Let’s
3:40 AM just relax and watch.”||
3:50 AM <ColdGold|GM> ColdGold Chopper doesn't seem to need to be told twice as he leans forward, shuffling in place anxiously as he waits for something to hit the fan. The pane continues to grow silently until its a large circular shape stopping out several feet but still somewhat close to where they're watching from. The designated radius to show up to had been set to be just outside the outskirts of this big red pane huh? As the pane forms they can see three people creep out
3:50 AM of the buildings. Capes. One flies out of a building, and the shards of glass follow behind him like they're chasing him. He goes through a car too, and then crashes through a pole, and a fire hydrant. All the hydrants water follows with the metal. The chasing objects circle around him like a violent ring around a planet, and they can see his costume is  roman in design. His helmet has small red wings on the side of it, and a small buckler and
3:50 AM sword hang at his waist. On top of a nearby building a woman is standing in a toga with leaves around her head, and playing a harp which lets out a beautiful symphonic tone across the empty space. A shape is starting to coalesce from dust and energy above her head and its quickly growing to something like a portable moon. On the ground next to the building she's standing on is a large hairy man in a toga, and wearing a circlet. His hair and beard
3:50 AM are either all white or dyed that way. He has a large lightning shaped spear in hand. He begins to grow and grow until he's taller than the building he's standing next to and the spear he's holding grows with him. Around them foot soldiers with guns in hand pop from the windows raising them and pointing them above.
3:50 AM "There will be no concessions. Aftermath has no hold here." A voice calls back loudly, from the woman with the moon they realize.
3:50 AM "My father left me our organization to bring it to a golden age, not to let fools like you roll in and take it from us. Our family has survived for many moons, and under mine it will survive for many more." She continues to call up defiantly.
3:50 AM There's silence for long moments and then Temper's voice comes down once more.
3:50 AM "So be it." And then the red glass looking pane begins to drop slowly...
3:50 AM "Oh shit, it's gonna be a fight." Chopper says, sounding excited about the prospect.
3:50 AM ||
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3:51 AM <ColdGold|GM> ColdGold ((Gonna let y'all get one more round in, do mine then pause))
3:52 AM ((With bows arrows, and crossbows*))
3:52 AM ((No guns))
3:52 AM <Faustus|Hazard> Faustus Holding up a pebble and looking at it with one eye, Taz looks over at Ben. "You dare me to shoot the moon?" A manic grin crosses her face under her cloth.||
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3:57 AM <Side|Chip> Sidezero Ben just smiles from underneath the cloth as he holds up his black claws, lengthening them in the process. He rolls his head as he looks up to the fighting capes. “Shoot it down and I’ll make sure it stays that way.”||
3:57 AM <ColdGold|GM> ColdGold ((Aim if you want Faust))
3:58 AM <Faustus|Hazard> Faustus $roll 3h6+1 Whoops
3:58 AM <[ATM]> ATM Faustus|Hazard "Whoops" (2) [3] (1) +1 = 4
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4:07 AM <ColdGold|GM> ColdGold Chopper casts her a quick glance. "Oh hell yeah!" He says excitedly before turning back quickly.
4:07 AM "Attack!" The woman with the large moon screams, and then it turns red and all of her people begin to enter something of a frenzy and scream as the beautiful tones from her harp become ugly and discordant. They level their bows and crossbows sending volleys of arrows raining upwards with precision at the glass pane. Some of the arrows are doing weird things like exploding, leaving marks as they hit, but they dissolve and burn into dust as they go
4:07 AM through the pane. A force-field then? The moon moves slowly up as the arrows fly, and Taz finds herself marking the trajectory, calculating the speed of its movement. She doesn't even need to close one eye with her eyepatch in play. She holds, waiting for the perfect moment to fire.
4:07 AM As none of the arrows seem to be working, the capes move in next. The flying one with the ring around them flies up next to the forcefield and punches at it, only to draw their fist back quickly after in pain. They fly back before starting to pelt the forcefield with a barrage of pieces from their ring. Pieces of car, shards of glass, water from the hydrant. All of it sizzles harmlessly, forcing the cape to retreat lower and lower as it
4:07 AM relentlessly drops. The flying cape changes tact turning to fly paralleled to it so that he can go around the field rather than try to go through it, but then some pieces fall off of Temper's shield platform, and then through the red pane as if it isn't there. Taz feels instinctively to let the pebble go there and she watches it go as it starts low towards the ground, picking up speed and debris around it as it goes getting bigger and bigger on
4:07 AM sight towards the target. The red moon rising towards a red pane.
4:07 AM The pieces that dropped off Temper's field turn into small plane looking objects which dog the flying cape as it tries to escape, he crashes through one breaking it and sending it trailing, even as it sets him alight with the blue flame. But even though the flame rips off of him like its slipping off of him as he flies, he can't see to put it out no matter what he does. He crashes and burns into the corner of a building. The giant acts next bracing
4:07 AM himself as the field goes right above him and then it hits him.
4:07 AM $roll 1d6+5 Giant Brawn
4:07 AM <[ATM]> ATM ColdGold|GM "Giant Brawn" [3] +5 = 8
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4:19 AM <ColdGold|GM> ColdGold He lets out a loud groan, and there's a sizzling and smell of burnt hair as he manages to somehow hold the huge platform above his head. He screams as he exerts force back, but it seems to be taking all of him.
4:19 AM "Give me your anger, family. Our moon will drive them back!" The woman with the harp screams, her tune reaching a fever pitch as the moon, the deciding factor is about to crash into the pane. And then that's when Hazard's pebble comes into play, now a rockslide going in the opposite direction rockslides were supposed to go. Up. The pebble, now surrounded by a cluster of debris making it a boulder slides up the side of a building, stripping its
4:19 AM metal and glass too and taking that as well. Its almost the same size as the moon itself when it zips past the building tops up, a cascade of materials that send cracks through the moon with a breath taking crack. A moment later when the shield collides into it there's another impossibly loud crack and then the moon explodes into a million shards that start to go everywhere, even towards them in the alley...
4:19 AM But before any can land they pause, and Taz can see the telltale effects of Chamber's effects holding all of the moon's shards, and even the remainder of Taz's attack up in the air paused amongst the glass refraction. A moment later they all crash down and rain down death on all of the foot soldiers, they pelt down onto the giant brutally bringing him to his knees. The moon wielder manages to avoid that fate though, she points her heart at the
4:19 AM floating shield above her as the pane sets just above her head. She seems to be trying to make another moon, even though its more then clear she won't have enough time.
4:19 AM "You'll never take us, we're a family, our ancestors conquered Italy, our..." Her words are interrupted by a cut short scream. She isn't sizzled like the objects that the field had hit, rather the building under her is and she falls and falls until she hits the ground with a bony smack as she's deprived of footing. The giant is forced to shrink as everything around him, his whole family's section of buildings is reduced to dust, and then nothing.
4:19 AM When the red pane is done dropping there's only a circular pit in the ground, a very deep one. Chamber's field expands over it as the shield drops to float there just above the ditch. The red burning field disappears, and a blue one takes its place, this one a dome as tall as the tallest building around. Inside the dome in Chamber's effect an encampment is being built at rapid paces as the process is fast forwarded. There's a jarring quiet for long
4:19 AM long moments.
4:19 AM "Don't attempt to step through the field without your pass pinned on. It won't work out very swimmingly. Everyone who's been invited... Welcome to the Pow Wow!" A cheery female voice calls from atop Temper's shield.
4:19 AM "...Holy shit." Chopper mutters under his breath, sharing a wide eyed look with his companions.
4:19 AM ||
4:20 AM ((Okay y'all can post one more time if you guys want, but that's it for me. Sorry for the long ass post))
4:20 AM ((Haha))
4:22 AM small, black, jet-like drones, kind of shaped like paper airplanes, but made of heavy deep night blue metal. They dog the cape...*
4:22 AM trailing behind him*
4:24 AM Chamber's power*
4:24 AM points her harp*
4:25 AM The troops stationed in the nearby building's suffer the same fate as their master as the buildings they're nested in are all destroyed sending them tumbling down to their doom.*
4:26 AM <Faustus|Hazard> Faustus Thinking a little about what the family that conquered Italy would even be, Taz realizes it doesn't even matter. Instead she looks over at Ben and holds out her pin. "Feel free to do honors, I need to rest for moment."||
4:33 AM <ColdGold|GM> ColdGold ((Side|Chip you typing?))
4:34 AM ||PAUSE||
4:34 AM <Side|Chip> Sidezero ((My b. Didn’t get the notification. Switched over to my phone from comp. ))
4:34 AM <ColdGold|GM> ColdGold ((Oh okay no worries))
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4:34 AM <ColdGold|GM> ColdGold ((You get to do the honors then))
4:34 AM <Faustus|Hazard> Faustus ((You gonna type your post or should we just pause for now?))
4:36 AM <Side|Chip> Sidezero ((I can type my post, won’t make it too complicated))
4:38 AM Ben nods to Taz as he waves her off for a moment, turning back to Chopper. “The field’s going to be a problem since we don’t have another pin do you. You want to wait outside or how do you want to play it?” He turns to wave off Taz so she knows to go ahead while he takes care of Chopper.||
4:39 AM Faustus|Hazard → Faustus
4:40 AM <ColdGold|GM> ColdGold Chopper glances down at them, blinking, and then his face goes deadly serious.
4:40 AM "You said you can sense people nearby right?" He asks both of them looking back and forth between them. He leaps off the room of the jeep, and then cracks his knuckles. This time his scowl is a real one.
4:40 AM "Point me in their direction."
4:40 AM ||PAUSE||
4:40 AM ColdGold|GM → ColdGold
4:40 AM <ColdGold> roof*
4:40 AM Faustus → FaustAsleep
4:42 AM <Side|Chip> Sidezero -|| “ooh. Wait one sec.” Ben rushes over to pin the pin on Taz before turning back to Chopper. “Sorry, trying to not forget everyone.” ||
4:43 AM <ColdGold> ((Ed note: After "...while he takes care of chopper"*))
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12:37 PM Channel mode set to +r by ChanServ
12:37 PM •ColdGold set the topic: A mini post-gm multi trigger campaign to get me back in the groove || Setting Doc: https://goo.gl/ebKbPo || Sessions: https://goo.gl/7SeHZs
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3:53 PM ColdGold → •ColdGold|GM
3:53 PM <•ColdGold|GM> ColdGold --||
3:53 PM ((Awareness checks from both of y'all please))
3:53 PM <Faustus|Hazard> Faustus $roll 1d6-1 Prepare for suck
3:53 PM <[ATM]> ATM Faustus|Hazard "Prepare for suck" [1] -1 = 0
3:54 PM <Side|Chip> $roll 1d6+1 I never freeze
3:54 PM <[ATM]> ATM Side|Chip "I never freeze" [1] +1 = 2
3:56 PM <•ColdGold|GM> ColdGold All they sense around them are groups from their respective powers. A few bigger than their group of three also. Its hard to tell if there's anyone on the ground they can single out at all.
3:56 PM ||
3:57 PM <Faustus|Hazard> Faustus ...
4:02 PM Taking a moment to refocus, Hazard looks at Chopper. "Hmm? Oh, check rooftops." Messing with the pin on her coat a little, she puts her hands in her coat pockets. "Good luck." Feeling the points in her coat sets her at ease a little and she stands up straight again.||
4:09 PM <Side|Chip> ...
4:10 PM Chipper just rolls his head on his neck as he looks around the area, letting the black claws on his fingers form fully into black knives in the meantime. He stands up off of the jeep he was leaning on to look back at Chopper. “How do you want to play this? You said you were strong when we first met. Do you think you want some help taking one of these guys down?” He squints at the tops of the rooftops for a second. “You can fly and
4:10 PM I can climb to the top of one of the buildings easily enough. Scout some people if you think you need the help.”||
4:13 PM <•ColdGold|GM> ColdGold ...
4:15 PM "We'll play it by ear, but I probably got this." Chopper says as he walks over towards the back end of the alley away from where the dome is and the encampment is being built inside of it.
4:15 PM "I figure everyone will be looking the other way." He comments with a sly look and a shrug as he circles to the backhalf of the building the street behind it is empty, and Ben doesn't feel any errant vibrations there.
4:15 PM "Let's go up, quietly." Chopper says pointing before he begins manually scaling the side of the building without his power.
4:15 PM $roll 1d6+1 Chopper Base Ath
4:15 PM <[ATM]> ATM ColdGold|GM "Chopper Base Ath" [6] +1 = 7
4:16 PM <•ColdGold|GM> ColdGold He scales the wall like he's a gecko not even needing his power to make his way up quickly towards the lip of the roof where he's already nearly peeking his head over by the time Ben starts.
4:16 PM ||
4:17 PM <Faustus|Hazard> Faustus ...
4:17 PM ColdGold|GM → •Anansi|GM
4:18 PM Anansi|GM → •CG|Anansi|GM
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4:22 PM <Faustus|Hazard> Faustus Taz rolls her eye and pulls some rocks from the ground before sticking them to her arm, feeling a stronger connection to this power than before and focusing on her arm intently, then Hazard jams it into the wall and starts using it to ascend quickly. "I keep eye out I guess, Chip can stay with me unless you need." Her focus on the growths from the rocks is laser-tight as her coat jangles with knives.
4:22 PM She'd spent some time finding this many, but it'll be worth it.||
4:24 PM <•CG|Anansi|GM> ColdGold ((He's already near the rooftop haha))
4:24 PM <Side|Chip> ((Chopper or me?))
4:24 PM <•CG|Anansi|GM> ColdGold ((Chopper))
4:25 PM <Side|Chip> ((Sounds good))
4:29 PM ...
4:29 PM Ben holds his black claws to his forehead as he sends off Chopper saluting. No point in saying anything if he’s not going to hear from up there. Besides, if there’s any trouble, he should be able to scale the wall quickly enough to do something about it. He already has his heel blade and claws, but he might as well grow a knife on his other heel if he needs to climb quickly. Ben turns to Taz after Chopper reaches the roof and is
4:29 PM already out of hearing distance. “Do you think we’ll be waiting long? Haven’t had a chance to really see him fight yet, so this’ll be interesting.”||
4:30 PM <•CG|Anansi|GM> ColdGold ((You guys can do a couple lines back and forth))
4:31 PM <Faustus|Hazard> Faustus ...
4:35 PM "Don't know." Hazard continues looking at the growths. "This is... did you-" She looks down. What is she even doing? "-why did you touch me?" It's probably the most comprehensible question she has right now. Can't exactly ask Ben if he was trying to die on that island.||
4:40 PM <Side|Chip> Oh no. This is nerve wracking. He just tries to casually lean against the wall with his hand, digging into it so he can sense the building’s vibrations as well if need be. “You know. Just uhh... “ He wipes his head for a second as his brow furrows for a second. “I didn’t particularly appreciate the way he was talking to you. Thought it might fix that.” he just nods as he tries to look around the area as casually as he can
4:40 PM after that. ||
4:41 PM <•CG|Anansi|GM> ColdGold ...
4:42 PM As both of them talk knowing where Chopper is already it isn't hard to keep track with a little extra focus. He seems to be creeping and then sensing forward a bit onto the rooftop a buildings down they can feel the lone vibrations of a talking voice. He's moving in obvlivious to their conversation.
4:42 PM ||
4:43 PM <Faustus|Hazard> Faustus ...
4:48 PM "I see." Hazard looks ahead. "Tell me next time. It was not bad, just shock." She looks at him and has to look away very quickly, her first instinct being that something is wrong with her, but if what Tara said is true... "I thought about what Tara said. If is true... then I trust you." Hazard keeps her eye closed as she avoids saying anything else. Maybe this is something wrong, like Tara said, but given the alternative.||
4:53 PM <Side|Chip> Ben just nods as he smiles back at her. “Will do.” He just lets Taz be as she turns away from him for a moment and then turned to look back at him. He can just let her have her space for now. He still needs time to figure how this all works. “Tara means well, but I think we’re fine. Whatever’s happening now was a thing before we had powers. It’s just more complicated now that we have the means to make it much worse.” He
4:53 PM lets the silence hang in the air for a moment before talking again. “And for what it’s worth, I trust you too. It’s nice to know that I have someone watching my back”||
4:54 PM <•CG|Anansi|GM> ColdGold ...
4:58 PM $roll 1d6+1 WC. Wits
4:58 PM <[ATM]> ATM CG|Anansi|GM "WC. Wits" [1] +1 = 2
4:58 PM <•CG|Anansi|GM> ColdGold $roll 1d6+1 Chopper Sneak
4:58 PM <[ATM]> ATM CG|Anansi|GM "Chopper Sneak" [6] +1 = 7
4:58 PM <•CG|Anansi|GM> ColdGold $roll 3h6+2 Chopper dropdown, undetected bonus
4:58 PM <[ATM]> ATM CG|Anansi|GM "Chopper dropdown, undetected bonus" [6] (3) (3) +2 = 8
5:01 PM <•CG|Anansi|GM> ColdGold The man on the roof had nobody to watch his back though as Chopper gets closer and closer and then his footsteps disappear from the rooftop. Then all of the sudden there's a thud that reverberates through the building and then several rapid fire thumps. Taz is particular can hear the wheezing breath being knocked violently from the victim's lungs.
5:01 PM ((Awareness please both of y'all))
5:01 PM <Faustus|Hazard> Faustus $roll 1d6-1 RIP that dude
5:01 PM <[ATM]> ATM Faustus|Hazard "RIP that dude" [5] -1 = 4
5:02 PM <Side|Chip> $roll 1d6+1 Pour a 40
5:02 PM <[ATM]> ATM Side|Chip "Pour a 40" [5] +1 = 6
5:02 PM <•CG|Anansi|GM> ColdGold in*
5:04 PM They both also sense something else. Motion in the alleys and streets nearby out of sight. Not a lot but a couple other skirmishes breaking out. Seems some other people thought the same way Chopper did.
5:04 PM There's a pause and then a loud noise they can hear with their ears as well as next to the victims head. A sound like a drill. The sound stops and then there's a brief moment before they can feel one of the victim's body parts crack a couple time a couple times against the lip of the roof. Another few moments pass and then they can feel Chopper breathing a bit more heavily as he strolls to the side of the rooftop.
5:04 PM ||
5:04 PM -a couple times*
5:05 PM <Faustus|Hazard> Faustus ...
5:08 PM Deciding to err on the side of caution, Hazard starts placing more growths around her body with rocks while she walks towards the field slowly so Chopper and Chipper can catch up. "Was fast, impressed, might take him up on offer if not careful." Clearly a little sour about something, she looks back and waits. "Hope he can get down on own."||
5:10 PM <Side|Chip> ...
5:14 PM Wait, why is she angry again? Cause the moment was ruined maybe? He can figure it out when they’re inside. He turns to Chopper on the roof as he waves him to come down. No point in sticking around now. “He’ll be fine. We should get going now that he’s finished.” Alright just smile and wave maybe? He just smiled back at Taz as he gives her a thumbs up.||
5:21 PM <•CG|Anansi|GM> ColdGold ...
5:27 PM There are others crawling out of the woodwork and those that have already gotten in and up to the wall nearby. Chopper shoots them both a victorious thumbs up and leaps off the roof, lowerig himself carefully to the ground with a helicopter arm. He lands with a short huff before taking stride with them and displaying his own pin.
5:27 PM "Told ya, it'd be no big deal." He says to Ben before proudly pinning it onto his chest.
5:27 PM "Oh!" He turns to Taz. "I see you got a fetish for knives and sharp things." He casts Ben a sly glance with that comment before reaching into a pocket and producing a curved dagger, like small scimitar with a glittering sapphyre colored gem blade and a sleek sliver handle with a button on it.
5:27 PM "It'll probably break after a few days or something, but the dude pulled it out of him before I dropped him. Its Tinkertech, figured you'd like it." He says flashing her a smile before confidently moving to stride just ahead of the both of them.
5:28 PM Up ahead they can see what looks like a kid with a small Dome around his head arguing with a member of Aftermath next to the forcefield's wall.
5:28 PM ||
5:28 PM <Faustus|Hazard> Faustus ...
5:31 PM <•CG|Anansi|GM> ColdGold small dome*
5:35 PM <Faustus|Hazard> Faustus Looking at the dagger, Hazard starts examining it almost immediately, giving the blade a small lick and finding it not like any other metal she knows of. She quickly puts it away like someone will definitely come after it if they see it, turning red as a tomato. "Thank you." She starts walking again for the field with a definite skip in her step now. It's not got any history, but the design is intriguing.
5:35 PM She looks at the small argument and quickly struts over. "You okay kid?" Maybe she's just looking for an excuse to avoid letting the other two companions see her expression. Or it's a cute kid that needs help. Who knows? She doesn't normally fancy herself the helping type. Huh.||
5:36 PM <Side|Chip> ...
5:46 PM Bastard. He can feel his claws lengthening by themselves for a moment. Checking himself, he forces his claws to go back to normal finger length for now. He glances at Chopper, tilting his head towards Taz, before walking over to join her. He’s just been pissing her off about eggs and he comes in with the Tinker knife. He’ll top that. Somehow. Fucking bullshit. He needs to go to the mainland and rob a museum or something. He just
5:46 PM walks silently over to join her. Nothing he can do at the moment. Just take the situation in stride.||
5:46 PM <•CG|Anansi|GM> ColdGold ...
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6:08 PM <•CG|Anansi|GM> ColdGold ((Yo back, sorry. You still good Side|Chip))
6:09 PM <Side|Chip> ((Probably))
6:11 PM Have an hour left still I think
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6:23 PM <•CG|Anansi|GM> ColdGold Chopper gives her a funny smile as she licks the blade, but doesn't comment instead following her and Ben along as they walk towards the kid with a "No problem at all."
6:23 PM As they get closer they can kind of make out what the two people are arguing about.
6:23 PM "...last time I'm telling you, punk. Back off, before I make you." The older of the two says, the Aftermath goon. He's wearing a simple set of jeans a shirt with a denim jacket on, he has the Aftermath logo on his back. He looks like the basic bodyguard type. The kid before him is a pretty short scrawny young kid in a baby blue bodysuit and white gloves. Around his head is a dome the same color of his bodysuit with many sides, kind of like a die.
6:23 PM "Last time I tell you, its counterproductive to send people away who were invited to your event." The kid retorts in a whiny know it all voice.
6:23 PM "No pin, no entry. Beat it." The guy replies again quickly crossing his arm, the kid retorts in frustration before wheeling around when they approach like he sees them coming. He looks them up and down pausing for a second before raising his arms in the air and approaching them. He seems to be sizing Taz specifically up and down behind his dome.
6:23 PM "I'm only okay if your definition of okay involves being denied entry to every interesting thing in this city ever." The kid complains. Chopper barks a sudden quick laugh at his expense behind them and the kid puts his hands on his hips.
6:23 PM ||
6:24 PM <Faustus|Hazard> Faustus ...
6:30 PM "Is how it is for kids. But there is way."  Taz leans over and whispers. "He did not have pin to start either. Go find someone with and take." Realizing how open she's being, she draws his attention to the inner lining of knives on her coat. No funny business. She doesn't even like kids. But it is good to have another ally. "Be quick and we go in together, in company of Ripper and Hazard nobody laughs at. Got it?"
6:30 PM She stands up straight again. "Have ten, before go in."||
6:42 PM <Side|Chip> ((Will pop in when I can. Thing’s starting))
6:47 PM <•CG|Anansi|GM> ColdGold ((No worries take your time))
7:01 PM <Side|Chip> ((Thing is actually staring now, will try and be back once it’s over))
7:01 PM <•CG|Anansi|GM> ColdGold ((Okay))
7:01 PM <Faustus|Hazard> Faustus ((Let's pause for now?))
7:01 PM <•CG|Anansi|GM> ColdGold ||PAUSE||
7:01 PM CG|Anansi|GM → •CG|Anansi
7:01 PM Faustus|Hazard → Faustus, Antioch|GM → Antioch
7:14 PM CG|Anansi → •ColdGold
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10:57 PM <Side|Chip> Not sure why a someone would show up at the Pow Wow without a plan to get in. Still, if Taz is down to wait for the kid, he can make time. It’s kinda sad that the kid’s trying so hard to get in. He can sympathize a bit, but no reason not to have any fun. Ben just walks over and looks at the kid, smiling at him. Before he opens his mouth, he morphs his teeth so they’re sharp and black. If he’s going to show up at the Pow Wow with
10:57 PM uninvited guests, he might as well look scary. ||
10:57 PM ColdGold → •ColdGold|GM
11:03 PM <•ColdGold|GM> ColdGold The dome does a lot to obscure the kid's face, but Ben can distinctively make out the vague impression of his face scrunching up into a 'what the fuck?' look at Ben's teeth which are making it very hard to close his mouth the proper way. The kid looks back at Taz.
11:03 PM "Last person who told me they'd wait for me just left, I saw them leave too. We'll see I guess..." He sounds doubtful about it and harumphs as he turns around before casting one more glance at the guard behind her.
11:03 PM "You and everyone in that Pow Wow is gonna rue the day you spurned me if I don't get in."
11:03 PM "Yeah whatever small fry. Why don't you go back home and keep reading that dictionary of yours." The bodyguard replies quickly.
11:03 PM "Freaking ageist assholes." the kid mutters exasperatedly under his breath as he turns to wander off towards the alleys.
11:04 PM When the kid disappears from sight the guard and Chopper share a laugh and then they both break into laughter.
11:04 PM "Man, haha. That kid. Whew. That was too much." Chopper finally says after a few moments, wiping at the corner of an eye.
11:04 PM ||
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Saturday, May 26th, 2018
12:06 AM Feastus → Faustus|Hazard
12:09 AM <Faustus|Hazard> Faustus ...
12:15 AM Taz puts her hands on her hips, rips a chunk of stone out of the floor, and sits on it. "A-gist? Is German?" Trying to puzzle out the kid's meaning, Hazard calmly sits. "Cute. Like little car bobbly head toy." She uses this time to test out her new toy, flicking the switch with the knife pointed away from her, some secret part of her hoping it's like a lightsaber. "I wonder what ass told kid would wait and leave?"
12:15 AM Hazard suddenly looks ashamed for even caring, she doesn't even like kids. "Do not be mean. Is try his best." She smiles a bit, agreeing with Chopper and the bodyguard only a little in her body language. It is kind of silly. But there were plenty of kid capes in the days before all this.||
12:18 AM <•ColdGold|GM> ColdGold ...
12:18 AM ((You can go actually side))
12:19 AM <Faustus|Hazard> Faustus ((Don't forget your dots))
12:19 AM <Side|Chip> Ben smiles as he morphs his teeth back so he can talk. “I don’t know. He was pretty fun to see. It’d be fun seeing him inside if he actually beats someone up for their pin.” He shrugs as he looks to Taz. “If you want to wait for the kid, no worries. There’s 3 of us so we shouldn’t have to worry too much about surprise attacks.” He turns to Chopper. “You mind? If we do? You earned yours so you can go on ahead if you
12:19 AM don’t feel like waiting.”||
12:19 AM ...
12:19 AM <•ColdGold|GM> ColdGold ...
12:24 AM Chopper finally finishes laughing and picks himself up from where he's propped against a wall. He turns to Taz.
12:24 AM "Ageist, like racist except against age haha.
12:24 AM As she plays with the blade and hits the button it begins to emit a contained fog around the blade, but thats not the right word. More like a cloud of frost running with a current of electricity. She finds she has to focus, but she can hold it with her mind. Chopper sits seeing her sit before looking back over at Ben.
12:24 AM "Nah its all good. Its gonna be mad crowded until everyone shows up anyway." He says turning back to watch Taz play with the blade again.
12:24 AM "That kid's not gonna beat up shit, he tried to tap me and I shoved him right out of the way." The guard laughs again before wandering to go sit on a nearby crate, he pulls out a cigarette and lights it, seemingly quite content with himself.
12:24 AM "Who knows maybe he'll do it." Chopper comments to himself. "I always root for an underdog." He adds with a grin, he shoots Ben a friendly smile.
12:24 AM ||
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12:36 AM <Faustus|Hazard> Faustus ...
12:39 AM "Aww." Hazard doesn't even realize she made the noise for a moment, then she pulls another rock out of the ground and slashes at it, curious what the knife does and slightly angry that she slipped like that.||
12:41 AM ((Side|Chip Dots))
12:41 AM <•ColdGold|GM> ColdGold ((He's eating I think and you're... distracted :^)))
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12:42 AM <Faustus|Hazard> Faustus ((I can't complain))
12:43 AM <•ColdGold|GM> ColdGold ((I know it))
12:52 AM <Side|Chip> ...
1:00 AM Ben just waves down the guard and Chop. He just crosses his arms as he looks out to the street where all the fighting is. “I can dig it. He seems like he’d be fun to have at the Pow Wow.” He chuckles a bit as Ben squints, trying to see into the darkness. “Seems like he’d be a lot more fun than some of the villains in town.”||
1:04 AM <•ColdGold|GM> ColdGold ...
1:07 AM Chopper chuckles at the noise Taz makes. He seems equally curious about what the blade does exactly too. She can feel her teeth lightly shaking for some reason and the handle is cold. The rock she pulls out of the ground flies and hovers in front of her and then she slashes. The blade cuts through it cleanly leaving a light blue glowing streak on the rock. A moment later the rock begins freezing over and running with a current.
1:07 AM ((Awareness please Side))
1:07 AM <Side|Chip> ((Tremor sense count?))
1:08 AM <•ColdGold|GM> ColdGold ((Of course))
1:09 AM <Side|Chip> $roll 2h6+1 I want to watch my favorite Kid Villain in Action
1:09 AM <[ATM]> ATM Side|Chip "I want to watch my favorite Kid Villain in Action" [4] (2) +1 = 5
1:17 AM <•ColdGold|GM> ColdGold Side watches as the kid strides in the direction of a small skirmish going on barely in sight in a far off alley. With the vague impression he gets, and from the tremors he can feel one person bouncing around all over the alley, and another cursing and letting loose projectiles that hit the walls with 'plops'.  The kid makes a sharp turn well before the alley though, and instead starts circling around the large forcefield.
1:17 AM "Like I need to get in. Man they're gonna be so mad when they find out. They're gonna see." Ben hears him kick a rock. "This dome is a shitty version of my dome. My dome... going t... bett-" Is all he makes out before the kid steps out of range. He does feel some others before they round the corner of a nearby unaffected street. A woman with long midnight black curls under a red hood. She's surrounded by a crowd of people who's voices intermingle
1:17 AM to the point he count understand him but they all walk comfortably and easily in their demeanor towards the wall of the large barrier.
1:18 AM "Damn that things cool, kind wish I kept it myself." Chopper says to Taz, giving her a side smile. He doesn't notice or care about the approaching crowd. The guard next to them stands, flicking his cigarette away still lit. He puts his bouncer face on before positioning himself next to the barrier with his arms crossed.
1:18 AM ||
1:22 AM <Faustus|Hazard> Faustus ...
1:24 AM <•ColdGold|GM> ColdGold can't understand them*
1:24 AM hears and feels him kick a rock*
1:25 AM whose voices intermingle*
1:26 AM <Side|Chip> ...
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1:27 AM <Faustus|Hazard> Faustus "It is a bit much. The metal is most impressive part." Flicking it off, Hazard checks her phone, the background being a picture of her stash for the time and for how long she has to wait more. She shouldn't have said she'd wait, she's bored. But a promise is a promise. Her eyes wander to Ben again and she frowns before turning back to Chopper. Fine. She's going to force him to do something.
1:27 AM Completely unsure why that thought even popped into her head, she licks the knife again, looking straight at Chopper. "It is nice gift. Will remember." She puts it away, desperately hoping she didn't do that for nothing. It makes her feel dirty. Why the hell did she even think that was a good idea?||
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1:37 AM <Side|Chip> He should look for the kid later if he doesn’t end up coming back. He’d probably be in bad shape after trying to mug a villain for their pin. He shrugs as he looks at the oncoming crowd. He’s caught in his thoughts as he notices Haz. He looks back at Chopper, gauging his reaction. This is starting to piss him off. He doesn’t get pissed off usually, but this is really doing it. Ben curls his fingers into fists so they don’t
1:37 AM accidentally start lengthening by themselves. He’s barely talked to her the last week so he has no right to be angry, but it feels wrong for him to just watch Chopper do this to him. He was off gallivanting to get into the Pow Wow and she’s been lonely. Taz is a very pretty girl and probably isn’t a stranger to dating. He shouldn’t be angry if she decides to have fun if he’s not paying attention to her. He hasn’t even gone in
1:37 AM and Ben’s already fully tilted. No. He still has a promise to keep. He’ll take care of this later. No reason for him to do anything rash.||
1:38 AM <•ColdGold|GM> ColdGold ...
1:38 AM ((Social check from both of you please))
1:39 AM <Faustus|Hazard> Faustus $roll 1d6-1 help
1:39 AM <[ATM]> ATM Faustus|Hazard "help" [1] -1 = 0
1:39 AM <Side|Chip> $roll 1d6-1 I’m an Incel and I’m screaming
1:39 AM <[ATM]> ATM Side|Chip "I’m an Incel and I’m screaming" [5] -1 = 4
1:39 AM <•ColdGold|GM> ColdGold ...
1:42 AM Both of them can see Chopper sort of freeze for a moment as Taz licks the blade, and she's sure its more than her just being self conscious when she feels she made herself look really weird while doing that. Ben can see its not him being weirded out though, he legitimately isn't sure to react. The person who put the bear trap on his head and called himself Chopper was freezing.
1:42 AM "Yeah." He starts, before trailing off and looking up at Ben for a moment.
1:42 AM $roll 1d6 Chopper Social
1:42 AM <[ATM]> ATM ColdGold|GM "Chopper Social" [5]  = 5
1:47 AM <•ColdGold|GM> ColdGold He seems to look Ben over, and then he looks at Taz noting the both of their discomfort. He seems to calm down a little. There's an easy small smile when he looks at Taz next.
1:47 AM "Yeah keep me in mind when you use it. Make sure you do something badass with it." He smirks at her before standing up and going to stand next to Ben where he just gives his friend a couple of wide 'o' shaped eyes behind his warpaint and mouths the word
1:47 AM 'Woah' at him.
1:47 AM As he steps away the crowd approaches them. Taz recognizes the girl in the middle with her copper toned skin and her blade emblem croptop. Her book is propped under her shoulder and she has a flask in her hand with that knife at her belt, and another smaller blade like a screwdriver that looks like its made from nail chitin or bone. They're laughing and talking, and stop when they get close letting Murder She Wrote step in front of them. Murder
1:47 AM turns her head to Taz giving her a knowing smile, and brushing a lock of curls from out of her face.
1:47 AM "I knew I'd run into someone interesting if I came this way." She says to Taz.
1:47 AM "Hazard." She adds, in greeting. She looks around at the other capes with her. "And friends too, huh?" She asks.
1:47 AM Her tone is friendly but there's something vaguely confrontational about it also, that Taz can barely put her finger on or note on more than a subconscious level. Ben can definitely hear it though.
1:47 AM ||
1:48 AM <Faustus|Hazard> Faustus ...
1:56 AM "Yes, hello." Uhhhh, shit what's her name again, she's blanking as she tries to mentally recover from what she just did. And the frustration that it didn't work. "Is Chip and Chop, have another coming but he is wearing out patience." Have to look tough. Hazard's eye keeps falling on the flask and blades though. "You are doing well?" Oh fuck what was her name?||
1:59 AM <Side|Chip> ((Do I know who she is?))
1:59 AM <•ColdGold|GM> ColdGold ((Know 4 check or higher if he's been on VoyagerNet))
1:59 AM <Side|Chip> $roll 1d6+1 Gimme the Gamer Gear
1:59 AM <[ATM]> ATM Side|Chip "Gimme the Gamer Gear" [6] +1 = 7
2:00 AM <Side|Chip> ((Well that’s fun))
2:04 AM Alright. There. Didn’t have anything to worry about. Chopper was a friend in the end and respected the boundaries. Ok, no worries. Just need to uncurl his fists now and stop looking like a jackass. He reluctantly moves his fingers out of the position, making sure they stay finger length so he doesn’t get them tangled. Deep breaths. He feels his chest go forward and back as he slows his breathing. Nothing to worry about. He looks at
2:04 AM Murder as he stands next to Chop, crossing his arms. Guess she’s not a fan from the way she said that. That’s fine. He’ll need to keep an eye out for her in the long run if she has it out for him. “Hello. Didn’t realize you already met up with Murder She Wrote Hazard.” He nods at the cape. No reason to speak to her anymore than he has to right now.||
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2:12 AM <•ColdGold|GM> ColdGold "Chopper" He says simply, putting his hand out in a 'put er there' gesture.
2:14 AM Murder reaches out and takes his hand gracefully and starts to speak.
2:14 AM $roll 1d6+2 Chopper Manshake
2:14 AM <[ATM]> ATM ColdGold|GM "Chopper Manshake" [6] +2 = 8
2:14 AM <•ColdGold|GM> ColdGold $roll 2h6+1 Murder Finesse
2:14 AM <[ATM]> ATM ColdGold|GM "Murder Finesse" [6] (2) +1 = 7
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2:17 AM <Side|Chip> ((The fuck))
2:30 AM <•ColdGold|GM> ColdGold "Its a pleasure Ch-" She starts but her words are cut off as Chopper's eyes begin winding her hand into the most intense handshake of all time up and down rapidly, so fast his arm sends a breeze out she's almost tripped but manages to catch herself and match his pace for a second before he lets go. He gives her a wide borderline nasty, but still somehow passable friendly smile.
2:30 AM "... to meet you Chopper." She finishes, clearly trying to keep from losing her composure. For her credit she doesn't get flustered. She straightens and tries to take it in stride as she turns to Ben while also opening her book with one hand and pulling out the bone implement which she dips into a hanging ink well on her other hip. She begins scrawling in her book.
2:30 AM $roll 2h6+2 Murder She Wrote
2:30 AM <[ATM]> ATM ColdGold|GM "Murder She Wrote" [5] (4) +2 = 7
2:30 AM <•ColdGold|GM> ColdGold ((Social or Willpower please))
2:30 AM $roll 1d6+1 Chopper Willpower
2:30 AM <[ATM]> ATM ColdGold|GM "Chopper Willpower" [4] +1 = 5
2:31 AM <Faustus|Hazard> Faustus $roll 1d6+1 I don't have my drunk bonus rip
2:31 AM <[ATM]> ATM Faustus|Hazard "I don't have my drunk bonus rip" [1] +1 = 2
2:32 AM <Side|Chip> $roll 1d6 I’m an Incel and I’m screaming.
2:32 AM <[ATM]> ATM Side|Chip "I’m an Incel and I’m screaming." [4]  = 4
2:32 AM <Side|Chip> ((Make that a 3 forgot s minus 1))
2:40 AM <•ColdGold|GM> ColdGold The people who are behind her, her crowd seems to get angry on the outskirts of the alley. But when they see her open her book they seem to calm, and even whisper and giggle to each other like she told a joke.
2:40 AM "Yeah she's not too bad." She turns her head to Taz. "Not bad at all." She looks them all over again before closing the book and smiling at them all.
2:40 AM "Keep making waves Hazard, keep Chipping away at the natural order." She says in farewell to Ben and Taz before turning to Chopper.
2:40 AM "Don't end up on the chopping block." She says a musical lilt to her tone that betrays the content of what she's saying.
2:40 AM She starts to stride up to the guard, pin on her chest and he's already stepping out of her way.
2:40 AM "I'll be back soon." She calls back to her crowd, who go to move in directions like they know exactly where they are going.
2:40 AM ||
2:41 AM <Faustus|Hazard> Faustus ...
2:43 AM <•ColdGold|GM> ColdGold as Chopper's arm begins winding her hand*
2:43 AM -||
2:44 AM They all feel an inexplicable ominous feeling come over them just at the back of their minds as she carelessly strides away. Chopper scratches the back of his head.
2:44 AM "Oh... damn..." Chopper says.
2:44 AM ||
2:44 AM <Faustus|Hazard> Faustus ...
2:48 AM Hazard calls after her. "Talk to me if want to make farms! Will clear out jungle near territory!" How nice, telling Chopper to keep his pants on for her. Hazard sits back down and pulls up another rock right next to hers for Ben and Chop. "I hope kid is okay."||
2:55 AM <Side|Chip> Ben just sighs as he shakes his head and holds the bridge of his nose as he looks at Chopper. “That was… not the best outcome. Chop. No worries about it. We’ll deal with it later, but that’s not a good sign.” He sits on the side of the rock closest to Haz as he pats the other side for Chopper. “We’ll figure out a plan for that later. We can just wait for the kid for now.” He stops for a moment before turning to Taz. “He
2:55 AM seemed scrappy. We can bail him out if he gets in too deep.” ||
3:07 AM <•ColdGold|GM> ColdGold Murder holds up a couple fingers in the air over her head with her back turned, and then she walks through the forcefield like it isn't there with no sign of pain or anything whatsoever.
3:07 AM "She was dissing us man, I couldn't help myself." Chopper says rubbing the back of his head. He goes quiet for a little as they continue to wait and as a little more time stretches on they can see the kid coming back. He's walking slowly, and as he approaches they can see he has a couple rips in his bodysuit and a crack in his dome over one eye. He's holding a shining pin triumphantly in his hand as he trudges back.
3:07 AM ||
3:07 AM <Faustus|Hazard> Faustus ...
3:15 AM Hazard smiles and jostles Ben a little excitedly. "We told them! Good job." Part of her knows she should be standing up but her legs just aren't moving right now. "I am Hazard, this is Chip and Chop." She's... not normally this way, but something's been happening to her the longer she's been out and about today. It's weird, but in a good way that makes her want to keep on keeping on.
3:15 AM She finally goads herself to stand up and bends at her waist in front of the seat to be a little bit closer to the kid's eye level. "We were wait anyway because only people with pin would come near field. But we did not move!" She stands up and turns 180 to face Ben again. "You ready?"||
3:24 AM <Side|Chip> Ben's just smiling as he sees the kid walk to them, but his smile drops and his brow furrows as Hazard stands up. Oh no. This is not something he knows what to do about. Does he look or does he stare at the sky awkwardly for a couple seconds? If he was a Chad, he'd look, but Taz isn't looking for a  Chad. Oh no. Uhh. He just smiles and waves at Taz as he sees her turn back. Alright. No issues here. He really needs to get back to that
3:24 AM island at some point. He stands up with her as he holds out his arm. "Would I be alright in asking if I could escort you?" Oh no. This is a bad idea. If he gets turned down, Chop and the bodyguard is going to see this. No problem. This is a risk he's willing to take. He's asking to touch her this time. Alright then. He's good maybe? He really needs to stop overthinking this.||
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3:31 AM <•ColdGold|GM> ColdGold ((Faust post a quick reply please and then I'm gonna pause there))
3:36 AM <Faustus|Hazard> Faustus "Escort?" That's... does it have another meaning? She's not complaining, it just seems a bit out of the blue. "Ye- okay." Stopping herself from another outburst, she looks back at the kid. "Stay close, don't think Chop bites." Her laugh is a little off-kilter before she stifles it as well.||
3:37 AM <•ColdGold|GM> ColdGold ||PAUSE||
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Sunday, May 27th, 2018
12:36 AM Faustus → Faustus|Hazard, Sidezero → Side|Chip
12:36 AM ColdGold → •ColdGold|GM
12:36 AM <•ColdGold|GM> ColdGold ...
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12:47 AM <•ColdGold|GM> ColdGold The bodyguard crosses his arms as the kid walks up to him. The kid nods his head at Taz's introductions but his one visible eye, a green one with a brown eyebrow above it and some freckles beneath it meanmugs the /shit/ out of the guard as he walks up and then stops in front of him. The two stand there looking at each other for a few long moments before the kid suddenly throws the pin clattering against the man's chest where it bounces off and
12:47 AM falls to the ground.
12:47 AM "I told you I was invited, /bitch/." The kid says victoriously, crossing his arms smugly. The man just looks down at the pin before looking back at the kid again.
12:47 AM "You still need to have it pinned on to go in."
12:47 AM "You know what!!" The kid replies quickly in a flustered sounding high pitched voice before scooping the pin off the floor. It takes him a few tries to shoves it on before he turns back to the group.
12:47 AM "Name's Dome. Let's blow this popsicle stand." He says decisively, and he's obviously trying to make his voice sound deeper. He doesn't wait for them before scurrying into the dome. The guard just sighs and pulls out another cigarette.
12:47 AM Chopper is cracking up again quietly to himself but, he gestures as he goes to follow himself.
12:47 AM "Come on, you heard the boss."
12:47 AM ||
12:47 AM <Faustus|Hazard> Faustus ((Side was next))
12:48 AM ((Dots))
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1:03 AM <Side|Chip> Sidezero Ben just shakes his head as he looks back at Chopper, smiling. “Staying with this kid is already paying dividends. I’m liking this kid more and more as time goes on.” He turns back to Taz with a grin as Dome walks into the field. “Nice of you to think we should stay with the kid. We ought to follow him before he leaves us in the dust.” He checks himself one more time to make sure that his pin is on him before he holds his arm
1:03 AM out for her. “You want to hold onto my arm so we go in together or nah? It’s fine either way.”||
1:04 AM <Faustus|Hazard> Faustus ...
1:08 AM Seeming more than a little out of it, Hazard suddenly focuses and grabs on quickly, almost hitting Ben with the blade on her arm. "Come." She starts walking forward quickly, the pin hanging onto her coat where he pinned it. There's a new sureness in her step and an enthusiastic smile hides under her cloth. Any faster and she'd be running, but Ben can keep up. "Ready, been waiting."||
1:09 AM <•ColdGold|GM> ColdGold ...
1:31 AM Chopper shoots the guard a salute who tosses him two fingers back before he steps in after Dome. The two step through the barrier and they feel a light tickling and just the smallest bit of resistance before they're inside of it. The encampment is mostly done and they're greeted with a scene out of an old midevial movie. There's a large pit with a large independently burning blue flame illuminating everything in the dome. Around it a large circular
1:31 AM set of benches where capes are taking seats in sections. They can see Murder she Wrote sitting on her own in corner writing something in her book. On the other end is a large man, halfway through six feet easily. His skin is white but sunbeaten, and he has blonde hair on his arms and chest above a simple form fitting black tshirt and some combat pants and boots. What sets him apart is his mask, like a tiger's face on the top of his head, and his
1:31 AM hair is done to twist into a messy peak where his blonde hair is dyed to a fiery orange at its tips. His arms are crossed and his facial expression is severe. Also in the stands is a Tinker with a sleek green metalic body suit with turbines built into the shoulders and its chest. She has a long rifle on her back with a turbine in its stock, and a side arm with no handle and a large opening in the back of it at her waist. She lounges back easily in
1:31 AM her seat. There are also a number of people in regular dress. Formal suits, dresses, and the like. They all seem to be either wealthy or criminals. Or both. The heads of the benches saved for the hosts of the events and the sections to the sides of them are currently empty. There's a cape lounging near the side of the benches blowing smoke and the smell wafting from him shows it isn't cigarette smoke. They're dressed in an old english explorers
1:31 AM outfit, without the hat and monocle, but they don't fit the look at all. He has slicked back black hair, and a 5 o clock shadow, his eyes are hidden by a khaki sash with eyeholes on it. On further look it seems he has a leash on his wrist that's jerking back and forth underneath the stands. Up above them in the rafters of the construction of seats there's what looks like a large spider's web with a feminine figure perched atop it looking down.
1:31 AM There's a large green glowing floating head with long hair framing it talking to her silently.
1:31 AM Dome is waiting for them next to Chopper who's smiling widely while reaching towards him. Dome slaps his hand away.
1:31 AM "Come on I just wanna see it, who'd you get it from?" Chopper asks with a giggle in his voice as he annoys the kid.
1:31 AM "It doesn't matter its mine. Stop trying to touch it." He protests in irritation.He turns as soon as they walk in.
1:31 AM There are some stands nearby them offering drinks and refreshments with some plain clothes workers working the event. Some Pow Wow.
1:31 AM ||
1:31 AM All this in a crater. Some Pow Wow for sure.*
1:32 AM ((Sorry that took so long a lot to put in the post))
1:32 AM <Side|Chip> Sidezero ((No Prob))
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1:33 AM <•ColdGold|GM> ColdGold A leash around his wrist that's leading under the stands, jerking back and forth*
1:33 AM <Faustus|Hazard> Faustus ((Side dots))
1:34 AM <Side|Chip> Sidezero ((Will do, just reading it rn.))
1:34 AM ...
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1:42 AM <Side|Chip> Sidezero Oh boy. It really feels like they made it with all these capes around them. Still, he’s not exactly sure if it’s a good idea to just spend their time socializing with the others. Might humanize them when they’re trying to look menacing. He tilts his head to Taz while his eyes roam the area. “You want to go try and talk to someone or just hangout at one of the benches.” On second thought, it took them awhile to get in here. When
1:42 AM is the thing actually starting? Ben’s head swivels to Chopper for a second. “Did you source mention when the thing’s starting or nah? I’m kind of wondering where the Aftermath capes are at.”||
1:43 AM <Faustus|Hazard> Faustus ...
1:51 AM This isn't that strange, just a bunch of criminals. Hazard strides forward, pulling Ben along and not at all listening to what he's saying. "Dome." She passes the kid a knife from her coat quickly, a black military knife. "Clean when done and bring back. Is very important to me." It's not. But it is. It's not her favorite. But it's a good one. He needs something to protect himself with, and shoving people won't help.
1:51 AM Hazard stops as she realizes she doesn't really know where to sit, so she just lets Ben decide, he should lead for a while. She awkwardly waves at Murder, a little clearer on her name now.||
1:52 AM <•ColdGold|GM> ColdGold ...
1:59 AM Chopper tries to touch Dome's pin again and this time when he smacks Chopper's arm again it has a small blue dome around where his elbow is so he can't bend the joint.
1:59 AM "Huh?" Chopper says, a puzzled expression crossing his face. He swings his arm up and down, at a regular speed at first and then so fast his arm is a blur but the dome still won't come off.
1:59 AM "Stop that! You're hurting my head." Dome complains, and the dome on Chopper's elbow disappears. Dome walks over begins to walk over to them. As he's walking Murder makes a somewhat surprised expression at her book but waves back at Taz without looking.
1:59 AM "Woah." Dome says, as he reverently takes the knife. He looks it up and down. "This thing is sick, super sharp. I bet it would fuck someone up if I stabbed them with it." He says, playing with it a little before putting it back down to kind of mess with it and look with it as he lets them take the lead. He's distracted and content with that for the time being. Chopper finally takes the place in as he moves over to their side.
1:59 AM "I have no idea when its starting man. Maybe they're just waiting for everyone to show up. There were still people fighting right?" He shrugs.
1:59 AM "Who cares, they have drinks. Who wants one?" He asks, already walking over to grab himself one.
1:59 AM "I do!" Dome says, suddenly perking up his head.
1:59 AM "Yeah right. Show me some ID kid." Chopper says over his shoulder with a laugh.
1:59 AM They can see some of the other capes taking note of them as they come into sight. Watching them, measuring them.
1:59 AM ||
2:00 AM Dome begins to walk over to them*
2:00 AM look at it*
2:00 AM <Faustus|Hazard> Faustus ...
2:01 AM ((CG, is Dome tall enough to see over the bar))
2:02 AM <•ColdGold|GM> ColdGold ((Just barely))
2:10 AM <Faustus|Hazard> Faustus "Eh. American drinking law was always stupid, he is tall enough." Picking up two drinks with her power, she holds one down for Dome. "Sip. Is taste you need get used to. Will taste like shit first time." When the kid is done with his sip, she retrieves it with her power as well to begin her own. This stuff has just been getting better lately, maybe it's the apocalypse. But a good buzz helps her resolve.
2:10 AM "Is end of world, who gives a fuck anyway? You cop, Chop?" Subtly giggling at the rhyme for no real reason, she instead jostles Ben. "Would tell you to grab too, but know you are no good at hold drink." She's not even sure why she's prodding at him so much... maybe a little, but not the time.||
2:15 AM <Side|Chip> Sidezero Oh right! He promised Taz he’d get drinks with her. Is it alright if they do it now? He’s pretty sure they’ll need their sobriety if they do whatever the equivalent of a villain interview is in here. “Do you want to grab some drinks on the way out for the island? We can drink again then if you want. I don’t have the chart with me and we’re also working right now.” He furrows his brow for a moment as he pauses, lowering his
2:15 AM voice this time so Chop can’t hear.. “How exactly does this work exactly if I want to take some home? Do I like ask for a cup or something or do I have to just buy the bottle?”||
2:16 AM <•ColdGold|GM> ColdGold ...
2:16 AM $roll 1d6-1 Dome Guts
2:16 AM <[ATM]> ATM ColdGold|GM "Dome Guts" [5] -1 = 4
2:25 AM <•ColdGold|GM> ColdGold The dome disappears as Dome accepts the proffered drink with a
2:25 AM "Hell yeah." Under his breath. He has pale skin with freckles on his cheeks and the bridge of his nose, his face is still kind of round and his brown curly hair is messy and sticking up all over. He's wearing a white domino mask under the dome. He sticks his tongue out at Chopper before giving the drink a sniff and then an experimental sip. He almost immediately coughs and almost spits it back up, but then soldiers through it and swallows it. His
2:25 AM eyes are watering when he speaks next.
2:25 AM "That was nothing." He says his voice a raspy whisper.
2:25 AM "Hey you couldn't float me one over also and save me the trip?" Chopper calls over his shoulder as he gets to the bar. Some of the attendees get out of his way as he saunters up. He talks animatedly with the bartender for a couple moments before she fishes him out a drink /and/ and a bottle. He turns around with a his regular smile on his face as he walks back over holding it out to Ben.
2:25 AM "Listen man. I'm Chopper, and you're Chipper the Ripper. We made it, we're at the Pow Wow." He shoves it in his arms before turning to lead them to the stands. As he walks they look up and can see people walking up onto the head seats. The first person to emerge is a man who looks like he's made of refracted glass, Chamber, and more are following behind him. Looks like stuff is getting started.
2:25 AM ||
2:27 AM <Faustus|Hazard> Faustus Quickly shotgunning her beer as well as the one Dome had a sip of, Hazard prepares for whatever this is.||
2:28 AM <Side|Chip> Sidezero Alright then. So he'll just hold the bottle then until they get home? Not a problem. He just holds the bottle in his other hand as he leads Haz by the arm towards the seats.  No sense in wasting any more time.||
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2:41 AM <•ColdGold|GM> ColdGold The rest emerge and sit as they take their seats. Chamber takes the head seat, his posture straight. To his right a woman in a solid blue bodysuit the same color as the forcefield in tall blue high heels stride out to take a seat next to Chamber. She's wearing something like a motorcyle helmet but with something like circular tinted window at its front, like a diver's helmet. Blonde hair hangs from inside the helmet. Temper emerges in his own
2:41 AM elevated box next to Chamber's with an assortment of goons wearing smaller suits of armor made from the same material as the shield. All of them have small shields at their wrists as well. In another box to Chamber's right a couple of cape's in suit's and gas masks emerge and take seats. One has a red tie and has the jacket taken off with his sleeves rolled up to reveal white skin and several golden bracelet. The other isn't wearing a tie and had
2:41 AM the top button undone but he's still wearing the suit jacket. He has one thick gold chain on and a shiny gold watch. He has a sling at his waist with a belt full of canisters and projectiles as well. Behind them Tara can feel more footsteps entering the forcefield. Dome is kind of staggering and half leans on Taz as he moves to sit down next to her. "This is weird..." he comments half to himself with a small giggle as a dome reappears around his
2:41 AM head.
2:41 AM Chamber stands and his voice is easily heard by everyone as it echoes and reverberates through everything.
2:41 AM "Welcome. Window is telling me that the last of the pins have just entered the forcefield and the rest of our guests should be joining us shortly." He announces, the cape in the blue body suit waves by curling her fingers at the crowd when he mentions Window.
2:41 AM "For those who are already assembled though. I welcome you to the aftermath..." He begins to pace as he continues to speak.
2:41 AM "This world is not the one we once knew. That world ended, and I have learned my lessons. But not everyone has. I believe anyone who was worthy of earning a pin, has as well. That's why today, even as we compete and put our ambitions forward I want you all to remember..." The effects of his power begin snaking out to touch every corner of the benches in this center area and then past them.
2:41 AM "Us coming together to move towards a greater purpose, an unrestrained future. That means this is a celebration." He says and then the glass effect around everyone hardens and everyone sinks deep into their minds...
2:41 AM "Celebrate!" Is the last thing they hear Chamber declare before everything rewinds and Ben and Taz are individually recalling memories. Memories of celebration.
2:41 AM ||
2:41 AM ((Give me a memory of fun, celebrating))
2:42 AM <Faustus|Hazard> Faustus ((I'll cede to Side and type mine up))
2:51 AM <Side|Chip> Sidezero ...
2:53 AM They were finally all gone and he was alone. He’d gone to his high school graduation expecting to feel something at least, but eh. It is what it is. He’d slogged through the whole ceremony, went with his family to eat at a nice Chinese restaurant and came home.  No point in going to any parties. It was the last time he’d have to see most of the those people and that was alright. No one he particularly wanted to keep around in his
2:53 AM life anyway. Some friends here and there, but he was he. So, he’s just sitting in front of his console at 3 in the morning by himself while everyone’s sleeping, holding the newest release in his hands. No one to bother him. No one he needs to impress or put on a face for. It’s his graduation, might as well do something he actually wants to do today. He slides the disc into the console as he waits for the game system to boot up. He
2:53 AM can dig this. A smile creeps up on his face as the game appears on screen. People were irrelevant.||
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2:55 AM <Faustus|Hazard> Faustus Recalling a time many years ago, Taz feels the warmth of her old winter coat and the chill of home on her face. There'd just been a shift, something with her father's business, an old great uncle had finally decided to retire or something and everyone was giving him a stellar final showing. It was probably somewhere she shouldn't be at her age, but she wanted to go and her dad wasn't about to pry her off his leg so there she was.
2:55 AM In the cold of snow with a roaring fire and rowdy gangsters, she was as out of place as could be, but she was sitting in her corner playing darts with some of the less social people in the celebration. A small pat on the top of her head brings her out of focus as she opens her left eye and misses the dartboard entirely. Slightly upset, she feels something cold on her neck and turns around angrily. "Calm down, Ana. Don't tell your
2:55 AM mom."
2:55 AM Her dad's smiling face hands her the freezing bottle and she takes a sip, spitting it out almost immediately before getting embarrassed and trying again, this time successfully, to stomach the alcohol. The laughs around her make her cheeks turn red from something other than cold and she quickly hands it back. "That's my girl, now come on, you have to congratulate your uncle. He'll be so happy."
2:55 AM  Anastasia walks off with her dad, and the memory ends.||
2:55 AM <•ColdGold|GM> ColdGold ...
3:10 AM The memory fades and with it the powers effect, and with it there's a pronounced quiet as reality returns and they're sitting in their benches again, illuminated by the blue bonfire flame's glow. Then the sound of slight chatter begins to take up again in the arena and Chamber and his associates are all toasting in their respective sections.
3:10 AM "I'm so glad I was drunk for that." Dome comments to Chopper who's sitting on the other side of him. Chopper is basically using a few rows of seats to lay down at something of an angle. He lazily turns his head to Dome.
3:10 AM "You took one sip man, you aren't drunk."
3:10 AM "I totally am. How are you going to tell me how I'm feeling when I'm feeling it, are you me?"
3:10 AM "Bro, you're not slurring your words. You're not throwing up, you're not passed out. You're not drunk. What I just remembered. Now /that/ was drunk." Chopper says lolling his head back, and closing his eyes. He lets out a contented sigh.
3:10 AM "I read online somewhere that smaller people have less blood for the alcohol to spread through, and I fought, and I didn't eat all day. I'm like 5'1"..." He continues on, and the two continue to argue between each other.
3:10 AM As they talk, some of the other capes seem to be loosening up too. The man with the tiger mask has a drink in hand and a woman on his arm now. The woman in the Tinker armor is tweaking one of her weapons openly while chatting animatedly while pointing at it to a regularly clothed person nearby. Up in the webs the feminine figure and another person are swinging about still chatting. Murder she Wrote has a spacey smile on her face and she's kicking
3:10 AM her feet while flicking her wrist around writing something in her book. The guy with the weed is sitting in the stands now, and the leash is attached to a small little thing that can only be described as a mix of a dog and a raptor. He blows some smoke in its face, and it seems very relaxed for a small little monster. Some others begin to come into the arena as well and take seats at benches. Other capes. One of them is dressed in what used to be a
3:10 AM nice pair of jeans and a button up but are now in tatters. He has an executioners bag mask, and a noose hanging around his neck but those are ratty and in poor quality too. What skin is showing is dark midnight brown and it looks like its breaking at the seams slightly with a moving glow just underneath the surface. Another person she almost doesn't notice slinks into the very back of the crowd, they're thin, just wearing a hoodie, some jeans, and
3:10 AM some converses but their fingernails and hands are bloody and hang in strips like they'd been flayed and mangled. He's splattered in blood but too much to just be his own. He has a nasty smile on his face despite the condition of his hands. There's one more arrival coming but they're just out of sight, still walking, or almost limping up even.
3:10 AM ||
3:19 AM <Side|Chip> Sidezero ((Shit, didnot notice))
3:19 AM ...
3:29 AM He lets out a big exhale as he looks around the room with a smile. That was nice for once. Didn’t have anywhere to be. Didn’t have anyone bothering him. Just him. Alone. He turns to Taz next to him as he stops for a second. He’s not alone anymore, but for once, that’s alright. Things are better now than how they were. Even if he’s living in the post-apocalypse, he’s still doing better now than he was back alone back then. He
3:29 AM has Taz, Tara’s pretty chill and Claudia’s not too bad when Taz’s in a different room. Even after the vanilla villain thing turned sour, Chopper’s been pretty chill with him. He can dig this. He exhales again as he sinks into his seat before looking at Taz. “You good?” He can afford to just hang for now. No reason to ruin the moment.||
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3:31 AM <Faustus|Hazard> Faustus ...
3:39 AM "Chop." She glares daggers, not literally, at the man. "Are you seriously arguing with child?" Looking at Ben again, she grabs the bottle and zips up her coat, then puts it in there. "Warm is easier swallow. I am good." Also the cold glass is nice, but he doesn't need to know that. A bit more full of confidence after her drink, she stands up in front of Ben again and starts walking for the Tinker.
3:39 AM "Hello, I am Hazard. Have thing for you check if not busy. Am curious." Also the armor is very flattering but that would be improper to say, she knows that. Hazard pulls out the knife. "Do not know what metal is, but design is odd for knife of length like this. Not curved enough or straight enough." Weapons. She doesn't know a lot about people, but she knows weapons.||
3:40 AM <•ColdGold|GM> ColdGold ...
3:41 AM ((Social please Faust))
3:41 AM <Faustus|Hazard> Faustus $roll 1d6-1 I'm drunk, you're drunk, who gives a shit
3:41 AM <[ATM]> ATM Faustus|Hazard "I'm drunk, you're drunk, who gives a shit" [5] -1 = 4
3:51 AM <•ColdGold|GM> ColdGold Taz gets up and walks away leaving Ben with the arguing Chopper and Dome whose argument only redoubles at Taz's comment. The woman immediately drops stops her animated conversation with the man next to her, and puts her gun down to lean forwards and take a closer look. The man next to her raises a finger before closing his mouth and making a sad face and turning back around.
3:51 AM "Wow this is fine craftsmanship. Did you make this? I can think of a few ways you could allow the current to run better. I'm not sure what you mean about the curve though, its already perfectly shaped for its intended purposed." The woman says in a somewhat high toned voice, jumping right into things with no hesitation. She doesn't seem to have any qualms talking to a strange villain.
3:51 AM As she talks the final arrival enters the arena and takes a seat across from where her friends are sitting. He's in a suit of armor like Spanish meecernary's but with a sleeker more modernized design. Where the chest plate would be is an open gap where his chest is made of metal and there's a small silvery glowing hole in its center. His armor is dented near the collar and around his helmet, there's a bruise on one of his eyes. He glares daggers at
3:51 AM Chopper and then his eyes zero in on Taz too. Chopper gives him a nasty smile and then nudges Ben and Dome. "That's the guy I robbed." He laughs. "Looks like he made it." He comments.
3:51 AM "Why's he looking at us like that?" The tinker asks Taz.
3:51 AM ||
3:52 AM <Side|Chip> Sidezero ((My go?))
3:52 AM <Faustus|Hazard> Faustus ((I'll take this))
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3:59 AM <Faustus|Hazard> Faustus "I did not. It is well good knife, but maybe not familiar with style that use slash for small knives, normally jam in and yank, so like talon shape or straight with edge. But..." It takes her a minute to catch up. "Oh! Is not need to push, just slash for effect. I see." Hazard looks at their observer, then cocks her head. "You are very pretty, maybe is reason? I do not know. Wait, maybe is his knife?"
3:59 AM She holds up the knife, shakes it, and makes a shrugging gesture before pointing at the other cape.||
3:59 AM <Side|Chip> Sidezero ...
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4:10 AM <Side|Chip> Sidezero Well then. This is the second cape after them today. At least Chopper’s just as inflammatory as he apparently is. The moment was nice while it lasted, but so be it. He stands up from his seat, glancing back at Chopper with a shake of the head. No reason for him to lose someone today. He swivels his head to look back at the Tinker, standing close to Chop to make it clear that the thief is with him. It might be obvious that he’s with
4:10 AM Chop, but it’ll hopefully dissuade him from coming over here. In the worst-case scenario, it should count as self-defense if the guy tries jumping him and Chop.||
4:14 AM <•ColdGold|GM> ColdGold ||PAUSE||
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Monday, May 28th, 2018
12:07 AM ColdGold → •ColdGold|GM
12:07 AM <•ColdGold|GM> ColdGold ...
12:07 AM Faustus → Faustus|Hazard, Sidezero → Side|Chip
12:09 AM <•ColdGold|GM> ColdGold "I look pretty in this?" The Tinker asks, mostly to herself. She looks the other Tinker up and down.
12:09 AM $roll 1d6+1 FW. Know
12:09 AM <[ATM]> ATM ColdGold|GM "FW. Know" [6] +1 = 7
12:11 AM <•ColdGold|GM> ColdGold "That's Weapon Chest. How'd you get that?" She asks, sounding curious than anything else. As they talk Weapon Chest is still staring Chopper down, and seeing Ben stand he sizes him too, his eyes narrowing. He looks angry, there's no other word for it, but he seems restrained as well. He's not going to start anything, but his eyes don't leave them.
12:13 AM "Everyone has arrived!' They hear the bubbly voice from earlier chime in, and looking up they see the woman in the blue bodysuit, Window, standing at the head of the stand.
12:13 AM "Everyone listen up!" She announces gesturing to Temper who's walking up to the head of his stand. He takes his place there, propping his shield which is about the same height as him down next to him where its tip digs into the ground.
12:13 AM ||
12:13 AM <Faustus|Hazard> Faustus ...
12:17 AM "Person gave me it. Will return, is not quite style." It's too fancy and doesn't have any story behind its design. Not even that great for her. And she's a little against making too many enemies in this room.  "Cannot not know how look." Cracking a good-natured smile, she looks ahead at Window.||
12:19 AM <Side|Chip> Sidezero ...
12:25 AM Ben crosses his arms while he tilts his head to Chopper, keeping his eyes locked on the Tinker. He can figure this out. This is too soon after Lawman for him to pick fights, but they can probably dodge it for now. With his head tilted towards Chopper, close enough for him to hear, he whispers. “We’ll watch out for him on the way out, but we should just go along with the rest of the Pow Wow. It seems like he’ll wait for later.” No
12:25 AM point in worrying about the Tinker for now. Can’t do anything in front of all these capes. Best option for now is just to watch the rest of the presentation. He turns his head away from Ben to look at Window, still crossing his arms and standing.||
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12:32 AM <•ColdGold|GM> ColdGold "Oh. I mean its a suit of armor. But thanks!" The Tinker replies, nodding at her comment and settling in place as the Aftermath capes get in their respective places.
12:32 AM "I'm not worried." Chopper says, crossing his arms. But that smile is still there. That vindictive, /nasty/ smile. Its trained right on Weapon Chest even as Temper begins to speak.
12:32 AM Its hard to tell what Dome is paying attention to, but he doesn't offer anymore comments. He seems to be in his own dome for now.
12:32 AM "This is a time for celebration. But its also a time for preparation. All of you here by attending have the opportunity to be a part of our conquest." He gives a slow look around the arena to everyone arrayed.
12:32 AM "Are you all willing to do what it takes?" He asks, generally.
12:32 AM ||
12:32 AM <Faustus|Hazard> Faustus ...
12:35 AM Taz, a little over-enthusiastic, shouts back. "Fuck yeah!" She doesn't back off on this, it's her best ticket to getting in tough with her family again so she has to.||
12:36 AM <Side|Chip> Sidezero ...
12:38 AM Ben just slowly nods his head as eyes drift from Window to Taz enthusiastically shouting. He was willing to do it earlier. He’ll just have to be willing to do it again now. He has a job to do and he’ll do it this time.||
12:38 AM <•ColdGold|GM> ColdGold ...
12:46 AM As Taz shouts other shouts begin to take up in the arena and Dome seeing Taz shout stands up himself. The entire web above shrieks with an alien noise, and an overloud amplified woman's voice yells from above.
12:46 AM "The west is ours!" He screams in his most villainous voice. Chopper nods along with it and the smile leaves Weapon Chest for a time.  It takes a minute or so for the hype to fully calm down before Chamber walks to the front again, leaning over the railing to address everyone.
12:46 AM "We have seeds placed all over the west. All of you will strategically move on our day, our blitzkrieg to take the west once and for all, taking strategic points and destabilizing things to the point they /cannot/ recover." He slams his fist down on the railing and it echoes with his voice. His voice is harsh and resolute.
12:46 AM "Some of you will follow, and some of you will lead. That's the way of things. And tonight you'll all fight to earn your places in Aftermath. Three of you will leave with a personal favor from me and the resources to fund your own sect. The rest will be assessed, placed, and yes rewarded if you do well." He nods, and stands back, tall looking over everyone.
12:46 AM "Any one person here may be challenged to a fight in a ring. The winner comes up here." He gestures to another stand nearby high up. "Then the winners will go again."
12:46 AM The capes in the arena all immediately go on alert and begin to size each other up.
12:46 AM There's a tension in the air now. The air of celebration is there now, but the stakes are high now and the challenge has revealed itself. Even the Tinker next to Taz spares her another glance.
12:46 AM ||
12:48 AM <Faustus|Hazard> Faustus ...
12:51 AM Antioch|GM → Antioch
12:58 AM <Faustus|Hazard> Faustus Looking back towards the Tinker, Taz stays calm in the face of this. "I did not catch name, but do not worry. I only want favor from Chamber." Currently at a high of confidence and motivated to succeed, Hazard stands up and starts doing Eenie Meenie on the people in the stands before settling her finger on a random wealthy person. "You! Get in ring so can bury you!" She doesn't challenge Eenie Meenie's authority.
12:58 AM Besides, getting the favor and passing the resources on to whoever's making a gang would be helpful, so winning here is a must.||
1:00 AM <Side|Chip> Sidezero ...
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1:09 AM <Side|Chip> Sidezero His heart’s beating, almost out of his chest as he tries to keep his cool in front of the crowd of capes around him. He feels his breath quickening as he can barely contain himself like this. All these capes around him are hardened criminals, even Chopper was quick to congratulate him for almost murdering someone. No matter what he did to Lawman, he still feels Vanilla. He rolls his neck as he turns to Chopper, no sense in losing his
1:09 AM grip now. He needs to do it again. “You’ve already got your pick Chop. I’ll watch for mine.” He has the boost from his cluster. He has their power in him, their trust. Taz is counting on him just as much as everyone else and he can’t let them down again. If he wants to become the big man on campus, then he’ll take down the biggest one here. He lengthens the black knives reaching from his fingers and heels, bit by bit as he
1:09 AM walks around the table. He had a bucket of paint last time to indicate who he’s challenging, but he’ll make do this time. He more or less already saw who he wants to fight, but he’ll wait for some of the others to challenge first, see how things play out.||
1:10 AM <•ColdGold|GM> ColdGold ...
1:21 AM "I'm Favorable Wind. And no worries. Even if we do end up fighting..." She trails off and the tone of voice suggests a friendly smile of her own.
1:21 AM "Don't think that means I'd go easy on you though." She adds.
1:21 AM The arena is quiet at first as people to continue to size each other up, and Taz's challenge is the first to go out. The random person she'd pointed out is a fairly average looking person in a suit and tie. He has a long face that kind of reminds her of a donkey. His eyes bug out, and he almost falls over standing up. He looks up at Chamber in a panic. But then, takes a deep breath and calms down. He realizes he can't show weakness in front of his
1:21 AM leader.
1:21 AM Chamber just looks down at her for a moment before letting out and echoing, hearty belly laugh. He shakes his head and points his finger sweeping amongst the capes.
1:21 AM "One of them." He laughs again.
1:21 AM "Yeah that's against the rules." Window adds indignantly.
1:21 AM Dome is standing peeking his head out, he kind of cranes their neck in their direction.
1:21 AM "This is kind of like prison right? I just pick the biggest person and stab him." He turns his head and his eyes are looking around but don't seem to rest on anyone. They rest on the Tiger cape for long moments before he something about him doesn't satisfy him and he continues looking.
1:21 AM "Kinda like that. Someone will challenge me." Chopper says with a smug grin.
1:21 AM Before any other challenges can go off there's a movement that immediately captures everyone's attention because of how violent, hostile, and sudden it is. Its just the Tiger man leaping off the stands, he tucks into the air and then lands on all fours. In each of the movements there's a flash and a bang of thunder, and the impression of something. Not something they can see. But something they can feel behind him. An angry thunderous lion prowling
1:21 AM just beneath the surface. He lands right besides the flame, and then slowly straightens.
1:21 AM "I'm looking around... and I don't see anyone who even deserves my challenge except..." He turns and raises his finger wavering until it suddenly lands on Temper.
1:21 AM "Huh." Temper grunts, before he lifts his shield from the ground, and he seems like he's about to leap down to meet the challenge, but then Chamber speaks again.
1:21 AM "One of them." He repeats, this time his voice not having any humor in it. "I respect your ambition, Thundercat." He adds, nodding. A chance.
1:21 AM Thundercat nods taking it in stride before turning around and raising his arms to the sky.
1:21 AM "Challenge me then!" He roars, and the lion behind the bushes roars with him.
1:21 AM ||
1:23 AM <Side|Chip> Sidezero ((want me to take it Faust?))
1:23 AM <•ColdGold|GM> ColdGold ((If you want it then hit them dots dawg))
1:23 AM <Side|Chip> Sidezero ...
1:23 AM ((Can I roll for knowing who Thundercat is?))
1:23 AM <•ColdGold|GM> ColdGold ((Sure))
1:24 AM <Side|Chip> Sidezero $roll 1d6+1 Chad Thundercat vs Incel Chipper
1:24 AM <[ATM]> ATM Side|Chip "Chad Thundercat vs Incel Chipper" [4] +1 = 5
1:24 AM <•ColdGold|GM> ColdGold -||
1:26 AM Thundercat was on Ben's list. Someone he'd been considering, this was an opportunity even. He'd learned some things, putting his ears to the street, and weeding out the fake testimonials online. They called him the heavy hitter neutralizer. He was known in for coming in, moving fast, and hard, and /destroying/ the strongest person on the field before anyone else could even react. Most groups didn't recover after that. As for his actual power, that
1:26 AM was all up in the air. Speculation abounded, but the general consensus agreed on a quick and beefy breaker of some sort.
1:26 AM ||
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1:28 AM <•ColdGold|GM> ColdGold -||
1:29 AM As all this goes on, and Ben thinks, the man who Hazard had challenged has already taken the opportunity to take a seat as far away from her as possible.
1:29 AM ||
1:40 AM <Side|Chip> Sidezero Oh boy! He already brought himself up to the stage. This is going to be really embarrassing if he challenges him and he gets crushed. Chipper takes another look at the guy’s stature and size and internally winces for a second. Christ that man is buff. He already went through College and this is the same thing, but with powers, fast, scary powers. Both of his heel blades are long enough to dig in the ground, fingers sharpened, and the
1:40 AM beginnings of blades already peeking out his elbows and knees. About as ready as he’ll ever be. How does he do this? Does he just wave him over or does he announce his own kind of thing? He’ll figure it out. Chip just walks through the crowd silently as he walks over to the flame, waving his claws to indicate his intent. Ben would just play this quietly and politely, but if he’s going to be Chipper the Ripper, he’ll need to keep
1:40 AM up his image. Silent Killer it is. He walks over to flame with intent now, trying to speak a bit louder. “Will do. Anything we need to do beforehand or are we good to go?”If Thundercat hits hard and fast, then the only way to play it is to be just as hard and fast. Guy’s the most enthusiastic out of all the capes here. If he’s going to hit first with a preemptive strike like the net says he would, he’s going to find a big thorn
1:40 AM in his paw.||
1:41 AM <Faustus|Hazard> Faustus Hazard puts her finger to her chin and sits down, then tries to do her eenie meenie trick again before giving up and pointing at the one in the hoodie with the mangled fingers. "You! Too smiling! Am hurting you!" There's a logic to this, a thin one, but a logic. If his fingernails are bloody, and he's smiling, he liked maiming a person which means taking him out for Dome's safety, she doesn't want the kid dead.
1:41 AM And it means whatever he did was close range and didn't stop him from being hurt.
1:41 AM Hazard looks at Favorable Wind and nods her head in Dome's direction. "Please take child, he is going to get self killed and will be easy win for you. He already hurt on way in." It's partially a favor, and partially to keep Dome safe from the people like this tiger fuck.||
1:44 AM <•ColdGold|GM> ColdGold ...
1:53 AM Nobody jumps to challenge Thundercat, and even though Ben takes his time and has a lot of time to lose his opportunity nobody challenges Thundercat before he gets into the ring and Thundercat levels his eyes on him. They're blue behind the mask, and then he feels the lion's black eyes boring into him from somewhere, like he's prey being stalked. He laughs.
1:53 AM "Don't make this boring for me." He says, his tone plainly mocking him.
1:53 AM "No." Chamber says, he nods and takes a step back. "You may commence." Hazard also lets her challenge loose, but Window stands and looks at her.
1:53 AM "One at a time." She says before she sweeps her arms and a transparent blue dome appears around Thundercat and Ben.
1:53 AM "Nobody may enter, nobody can be forced from the force field while they're still awake. Leaving of your own accord is surrender, leaving is loss. The conditions have been set." Window declares and then the forcefield clicks into place.
1:53 AM "Damn I was going to challenge him!" She can hear Dome complaining through the vibrations from his butt on the bench.
1:53 AM Inside the dome as soon as it clicks and Thundercat hears them speak he begins to sidestep around the edge of the pit slowly angling to put the fire between him and Ben but he doesn't make any immediate moves, instead content to step like he's prowling, and size Ben up and down. He laughs again, and points at Ben and there's a feeling like he could be pounced on in that moment, but it instantly goes away.
1:53 AM "I know you! You're the Ripper." He nods. "You should turn and walk out now. That's more than I'd tell most people." He warns him. Its impossible to know when or if he'll move as he masks his intentions completely, not even his footsteps betray him, and there's something weird about his footsteps.
1:53 AM ||
1:54 AM -||
1:55 AM <Side|Chip> Sidezero ((How large is the dome?))
1:55 AM ((My bad, was going to save the question till you were done.))
1:57 AM <•ColdGold|GM> ColdGold As the fight commences inside the dome the smiling cape looks at Taz and she can see he isn't even wearing a mask, his face is just painted in the blood of the victim he'd attacked. His smile widens, and then his eyes widen too, until they're both wide white points, and a mouth of pearly white teeth like a shark's. She can see there are bits of skin and blood in his teeth too. He seems to be zeroing in on what she's saying to Favorable Winds and
1:57 AM then he suddenly jerks his head over to where Dome is sitting. He holds the look until he's sure she seems him doing it and then he looks back again at Taz his smile someone widening even further. It looks like his lips are going to stretch off of his face.
1:57 AM ||
1:58 AM <Side|Chip> Sidezero ...
1:58 AM <•ColdGold|GM> ColdGold ((As tall as the seats in the arena are, and as big as the pit. Think a big circular pit about 25-30' in radius with a big blue flame in the middle. Big walls all the way up to the sky))
2:02 AM sees him doing it*'
2:02 AM Thundercat laughs*
2:08 AM <Side|Chip> Sidezero Well, he seems nicer than he did earlier. The warning’s interesting to say the least. What’s he basing that off of? The footage from the Lawman fight? No worries. He just waves off Thundercat’s comment as he crouches down to his feet. “Thanks for the concern, but you know how it is. Gotta do what I gotta do.” He surrounds himself with a bubble, letting him gain some distance from the floor of the arena. He’ll need some space
2:08 AM while he thinks of something. The guy’s all about rushing in, so seeing how high he can jump would be good to know. “And you’re Thundercat. You’re pretty spooky from what I hear.” He starts growing another blade on his calf as Ben lets himself get taken up in the air by the bubble. If the cat’s going to pounce into the air and pop his bubble prematurely, he’ll just have to let himself axe kick the cat on the way down.||
2:10 AM <Faustus|Hazard> Faustus ...
2:20 AM Hazard pulls the knife she gave to Dome towards her to hopefully get his attention. She turns to Favorable Wind. "If you do not, smile idiot will." She starts pulling the knife towards herself to hopefully beckon him over. She doesn't care, it's just easier to get Favorable Wind's favor with this, maybe establish a connection. And the kid seems to like her enough, so she should look after him so he can be useful later.
2:20 AM Her eye focuses on Ben and she feels his heartbeat through the ground. If he loses, she'll be pissed off, he doesn't deserve to lose here. She shifts in her seat and looks back at Favorable Wind.||
2:22 AM <•ColdGold|GM> ColdGold ((Social please))
2:22 AM ((From Hazard))
2:25 AM <Faustus|Hazard> Faustus $roll 1d6-1 Please don't make me pull out plan b
2:25 AM <[ATM]> ATM Faustus|Hazard "Please don't make me pull out plan b" [5] -1 = 4
2:25 AM <Faustus|Hazard> Faustus ((phew))
2:34 AM <•ColdGold|GM> ColdGold The knife wiggles in Dome's hand and he gives it a weird look.
2:34 AM "What the heck?" It starts to jerk in her direction and he looks up at her.
2:34 AM "Stop, what are you doing?" Dome says.
2:34 AM "He's doing what we talking about, picking a fight with the biggest dude in the room. Don't worry he's a badass, he's got this." Chopper says to Dome, misinterpreting his comment.
2:34 AM "Listen, I get what you're saying. And I see that's probably your friend, but that's not an optimal move for me. If I challenge the kid and get an easy win that won't get me any respect here. It will do the opposite. I don't think you mean it this way, but you could be talking me into this to make me look bad. And I won't rule out that you are either. Besides helping the kid out, what's for me. Pretend we're making a deal." She offers. Dome
2:34 AM continues to resist the pull on the knife as they talk.
2:34 AM Ben is oblivious to what's going on in the stands as him and Thundercat continue to circle and then suddenly he's being lifted up slowly by a bubble, looking down at Thundercat and his mind begins racing with ways to leverage his height to hurt his opponent. Thundercat looks up at him and smiles.
2:34 AM "I'm not concerned about you. But I am concerned that when I'm leading the aftermath we will need soldiers to run the tasks, and I'd prefer those who serve me not be broken before they can be useful." He says, a growl entering his voice. Thundercat doesn't pounce as he floats higher and higher instead moving until Ben's sight of him is obscured by the tall flame. He'll need to fly at least another story higher before he can see over the fire.
2:34 AM ((Awareness from both of you, no power boost from Side))
2:35 AM and he cocks his dome covered head at it*
2:35 AM <Side|Chip> Sidezero ((How high am I? Like 2 stories?))
2:35 AM <•ColdGold|GM> ColdGold ((Like one, you just made the bubble))
2:35 AM ((And you aren't climbing))
2:36 AM <Side|Chip> Sidezero ((A ok))
2:36 AM <Faustus|Hazard> Faustus $roll 1d6-1 Tremors
2:36 AM <[ATM]> ATM Faustus|Hazard "Tremors" [5] -1 = 4
2:36 AM <Side|Chip> Sidezero $roll 1d6+1 It's over! I have the High Ground!
2:36 AM <[ATM]> ATM Side|Chip "It's over! I have the High Ground!" [1] +1 = 2
2:36 AM <•ColdGold|GM> ColdGold $roll 3h6+1 Sneak
2:36 AM <[ATM]> ATM ColdGold|GM "Sneak" [2] (1) (2) +1 = 3
2:37 AM <•ColdGold|GM> ColdGold Hazard doesn't see the smiling cape disappear as her eyes leave him, but she just barely feels his footsteps amidst the crowd, on the move to somewhere. He has literally the quietest footsteps she's ever felt. So quiet that if she lost track of him for a second it'd be hard to find him again.
2:37 AM ||
2:38 AM <Faustus|Hazard> Faustus ...
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2:51 AM <Faustus|Hazard> Faustus A little annoyed, she closes her eye and focuses on the smiling cape's footsteps, then stops pulling Dome's knife. "I am sorry if that is what you think, is not my plan. Understand, is not even good idea." Hazard lets out a sigh. "Do not do, you have been nice already. But you saw wave I made, and you seem smart enough to know how I stopped too. I would be grateful, and I control island."
2:51 AM She's focusing now. "Will not hold against you if not, is much to ask."||
2:51 AM <Side|Chip> Sidezero ...
2:53 AM What are the chances that Thundercat can’t see him from behind the flame? He looks around the bubble for a moment, examining the size. Alright then, mediocre if it’s big enough to cover his entire body. Diving through the flames are also a bad idea if they’re made by Temper. He also can’t stay in the bubble forever or else he’ll have no way of getting down. Hmm. Might be a good time to try and test out the boost he got. He
2:53 AM looks down at the ground for a moment, before looking again at his foot. Experimenting right now is going to be risky, but he’d preferably have the height advantage against the guy and he can’t do much if he’s not attacking the bubble. He looks back at the forcefield behind him, should be close enough if he wants to do what he’s planning. He raises his leg in the air, stomping his heel blade into the bottom of the bubble before
2:53 AM it gets any higher. The moment it pops the bubble, he keeps extending the blade until it’s the full length, stabbing into the ground so he can use it for support. While he extends his heel blade, he puts his hands behind to reach for the forcefield, so he can use it for support as well. Thundercat’s out of his view right now, but he can probably see what he’s doing. He can probably stave off Thundercat charging his legs, if he
2:53 AM releases a bubble right before he hits them.||
2:56 AM <•ColdGold|GM> ColdGold ...
2:56 AM ((Social please, Hazard))
2:57 AM <Faustus|Hazard> Faustus $roll 1d6-1 I DON'T CARE ABOUT THIS RANDOM KID
2:57 AM <[ATM]> ATM Faustus|Hazard "I DON'T CARE ABOUT THIS RANDOM KID" [5] -1 = 4
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2:57 AM <•ColdGold|GM> ColdGold ...
3:00 AM Favorable Wind looks at Dome again and then back at Taz, and though she can't see her face she gets the sense she's contemplating it.
3:00 AM "I'll think about it. I can immediately just say yes without giving it some consideration. We have the rest of this fight before another challenge can happen anyway." She says.
3:00 AM With her eyes closed everything else goes to the wayside, and her tremorsense is everything. She feels the waves and vibrations but focuses in specifically until she can feel the smiling cape's footsteps like her own heartbeat. He's circling around the outside of the seats towards where Chopper and Dome are sitting.
3:00 AM ((Ath please Ben, Acrobatics))
3:02 AM <Side|Chip> Sidezero $roll 1d6+1 If you fall, Try, Try Again
3:02 AM <[ATM]> ATM Side|Chip "If you fall, Try, Try Again" [1] +1 = 2
3:26 AM <•ColdGold|GM> ColdGold There's a brief moment when he doesn't feel like he's being stalked and he used that moment to test his maneuver out. As soon as the bubble pops gravity takes effect and he begins to fall, but then the blades in his feet shoot down like stilts. One blade catches the floor before the other and he slips backwards clapping heavily against the forcefield. Luckily he doesn't just fall straight through. But its lost time. Enough lost time.
3:27 AM ((Reflexes please))
3:28 AM <Side|Chip> Sidezero $roll 3h6+1 Gamer Reflexes
3:28 AM <[ATM]> ATM Side|Chip "Gamer Reflexes" [6] (3) (2) +1 = 7
3:29 AM <•ColdGold|GM> ColdGold $roll 2h6+3 Thundercat Blitz
3:29 AM <[ATM]> ATM ColdGold|GM "Thundercat Blitz" [6] (6) +3 = 9
3:29 AM <•ColdGold|GM> ColdGold ((GIve me evade or withstand anyway))
3:29 AM ((For the passed reflexes check))
3:31 AM <Side|Chip> Sidezero $roll 1d6+1 Gamer ReflexesX2
3:31 AM <[ATM]> ATM Side|Chip "Gamer ReflexesX2" [2] +1 = 3
3:38 AM <•ColdGold|GM> ColdGold Thundercat rounds the flame on all fours, and as he runs a yellowy orange energy envelopes his shape and grows larger with every step he takes. As the size grows its shape does too, like a large lion's body pounding forward on all fours. Every step shakes the ground and echoes like thunder. Ben sees him coming, but even with the presence of mind he can't bubble himself or step out of the way before the shape of a lion ten feet tall looks like its
3:38 AM going to crash into his legs to knock them out from under him. Ben's eyes catch him slide to the side at the last second with no movement of his legs, he just simply slides to the left like a game piece being moved by an invisible hand, he then rotates on an axis so he's facing ben, whips a large clawed energy hand out, and grabs hold of one of his leg blade stilts like it doesn't even hurt to grab. The pressure exerted on the leg pushes ben's face
3:38 AM into the wall of the field for a moment uncomfortably. With the blade in hand  he spins around, without moving. All these motions happen in a moment, and Ben manages to catch them all and register but fails to do anything about it as in the next moment Thundercat lurches forward, the stilt of Ben's leg still in his hand.
3:38 AM $lesser rend
3:38 AM <[ATM]> ATM [Arm] [Part] Sprained Arm: Limb DISABLED.
3:39 AM <•ColdGold|GM> ColdGold ((Roll me a d2, right or left arm))
3:40 AM <Side|Chip> Sidezero ((Gi's armor doesn't soak it?))
3:41 AM <•ColdGold|GM> ColdGold The way he holds the blade, he's simultaneously shoving Ben against the wall with his stilt while also putting distance between him and Ben. The resulting effect is Ben being scraped down the side of the forcefield wall until he smacks until the ground. His arm feels sore and the sleeve of the gi is completely burnt off.
3:41 AM ||
3:41 AM ((Forgot about it, armor point gone))
3:41 AM <Faustus|Hazard> Faustus ...
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3:44 AM <•ColdGold|GM> ColdGold -||
3:45 AM Thundercat still has hold of the blade and doesn't appear to be slowing down.
3:45 AM ||
3:47 AM <Faustus|Hazard> Faustus Hearing what's going on, Hazard's eye shoots open and she sits bolt upright, ignoring the smiling cape now and focusing on the match in front of her and...oh. She sits forwards and realizes that this is what she needs to be watching. Who cares about the kid? She gave him a knife and a beer, that's good enough. "Do what you will, I am sorry for souring talk. I have been making crops on island I made, do you have territory on coast?"
3:47 AM Making a bit of small talk with Favorable Wind, Hazard watches anxiously at the fight going on.||
3:47 AM <Side|Chip> Sidezero ...
3:51 AM Oh no. Everything hurts and he’s actually being scraped against the forcefield. He feels his heart beat in his ears as he soaks everything in for a second.Experimenting over. He needs to make up for that clever display of work somehow. Options are kind of limited when he’s that fucking fast. His knives might be able to cut Thundercat, but if it does, then he’s not acting like it is. Issue is that he’s fast, real fucking fast.
3:51 AM Right now, he needs to figure out how to get Thundercat off of him. He looks back at Thundercat for a moment to see him grabbing the blade. Huh. Interesting. He immediately heats the heel blade Thundercat’s grabbing on to, releasing a bubble from it at the same time. Ideally, he can brand the fuck out of Thundercat's hand and capture him, but he'll take either.He needs to get his bearings after that rush. No wonder he runs over teams
3:51 AM with that speed of his.||
3:51 AM he's actually being smeared against the wall*
3:52 AM <•ColdGold|GM> ColdGold ...
3:53 AM As Hazard opens her eyes the smiling cape's footsteps are lost to her. Next to her Favorable Winds nod, and the two begin to exchange small talk, but she zeroes in on the fight, focusing all her attention on Ben, who's currently having a hard time.
3:54 AM ((Withstand or Athletics/Acrobatics please))
3:54 AM ((And also Wits please))
3:55 AM <Side|Chip> Sidezero ((Does Reflexes count for wits?))\
3:55 AM <•ColdGold|GM> ColdGold ((No))
3:57 AM <Side|Chip> Sidezero ((can I sprout spikes and lessen the damage instead?))
3:57 AM $roll 1d6+1 Wits
3:57 AM <[ATM]> ATM Side|Chip "Wits" [4] +1 = 5
3:57 AM <•ColdGold|GM> ColdGold ((You should have said that in your post))
3:57 AM ((Too late now))
3:57 AM <Side|Chip> Sidezero ((My bad. Will do))
3:57 AM $roll 1d6+1 Ath
3:57 AM <[ATM]> ATM Side|Chip "Ath" [4] +1 = 5
3:57 AM <•ColdGold|GM> ColdGold $lesser rend
3:57 AM <[ATM]> ATM [Head] [Any 3] Ruined: Wound results in SCAR.
3:57 AM <•ColdGold|GM> ColdGold ((Just the effect))
4:04 AM As Ben focuses on the long blade jutting from his foot it begins to superheat and turn red in Thundercat's grip, but he still moves despite it.  The first tug snaps his head against a rock, and then its like he's watching himself from outside of his body as his arms and legs with blades on them do their best to push himself up off the ground with the blades rather than skin. He manages to get one good look at Thundercat. Just the back of a huge
4:04 AM golden beast, more sliding forward on its hands and feet than running. Ben notices that with every step the cape takes the lion energy shape becomes more still, needing less motion to move. The game piece analogy comes to mind again as this time he loses his holding on the floor and for a brief second his cheek is dragging against the ground, enough to rip part of his mask to shreds and burn his cheek right under his eye. He can feel the skin start
4:04 AM to rub and tear but before it can he feels the pressure give up and his motion cease as the hand around his foot blade shatters and disintegrates from the heat of his blade. A moment later the whole shell of energy breaks the same way, and Thundercat is running as a person again, the lion out of sight. He turns on his heel, and drops. And then he's running, already charging Ben again, a loud angry roar echoing through the arena.
4:04 AM ||
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4:07 AM <Side|Chip> Sidezero ...
4:12 AM ((How far away is Thundercat right now?))
4:13 AM <•ColdGold|GM> ColdGold ((The far wall of the arena and you're closer to the middle, just past the other side of the center divider by the flame))
4:18 AM <Side|Chip> Sidezero Shit, he has to be careful extending his blades like that otherwise Thundercat’s just going to drag him along the floor again. He reaches a hand to cradle the side of his face that got road rash as he notices the charging Thundercat, still doing despite losing his shell. He’s not going to be able to do fucking anything if the guy just keeps charging him. Right now though, he has a chance. No lion-shaped shell to cover him until he
4:18 AM builds up enough speed again. He can’t wait for moments of opportunity like he did with Lawman, he’s going to have to create them this time or he’s done for.  He heats up his black claws to swipe the air in front of him, taking its properties for his heel blade. He needs to do something decisive or the guy’s just going to ragdoll him again. While he’s still low to the ground with his heel blade extended, he swings his gaseous
4:18 AM heel blade, aiming for the guy’s legs. He just needs to get lucky once for this to work. If it goes on like this, he’s going to end up a smear.||
4:23 AM <•ColdGold|GM> ColdGold ((Attack roll please, MA applies for this attack but not finesse since you're kicking))
4:25 AM <Side|Chip> Sidezero $roll 2h6+1 The Karate Kid, but worse!
4:25 AM <[ATM]> ATM Side|Chip "The Karate Kid, but worse!" [6] (3) +1 = 7
4:25 AM <•ColdGold|GM> ColdGold $roll 1d6+2 Forming Shell, Evade
4:25 AM <[ATM]> ATM ColdGold|GM "Forming Shell, Evade" [2] +2 = 4
4:28 AM <•ColdGold|GM> ColdGold Thundercat's body is already forming again as he moves, and his movements become more jerky and unnatural as he goes but Ben quickly swipes at the air ripping the molecules from it into his blades and suddenly its like the blade on his foot isn' there anymore, hard to see. But its there, sharp as a wind. Thundercat doesn't see the blade sweep below and literally break the growing legs out from under him. He sails through the air for a moment on a
4:28 AM collision course towards the ground.
4:28 AM $roll 2h6+1 Thundercat Base Acrobatics
4:28 AM <[ATM]> ATM ColdGold|GM "Thundercat Base Acrobatics" [2] (1) +1 = 3
4:29 AM <•ColdGold|GM> ColdGold $lesser bash
4:29 AM <[ATM]> ATM [Torso] [Part] Winded: All lesser abilities with need for refreshers or a stamina cost are put on cooldown.
4:29 AM <•ColdGold|GM> ColdGold ((Effect only, Staggered also))
4:31 AM <Side|Chip> Sidezero ((Is he on his knees or something?))
4:31 AM <•ColdGold|GM> ColdGold He manages to turn the soaring fall into something of a shaky roll that puts him wobbily on his feet, right in front of Ben. There's a fire in his eyes as he drops down to the ground in front of Ben on his fours again, getting ready to act, but he's almost shelless save for a small membrane of energy and he's struggling to catch his breath, winded. Cheers and boos go off in the crowd at the several rapid fire turns of events.
4:31 AM ||
4:32 AM <Side|Chip> Sidezero ((Dang, you had that ready. Nice.))
4:32 AM <•ColdGold|GM> ColdGold membrane of just forming energy*
4:34 AM <Side|Chip> Sidezero ...
4:37 AM Ben shakes his head as he lets his black claws drop from his face. No point in making any witty quips or comments. He has a job to do and he needs to do something definitive to this guy. Thundercat’s too close to build up any speed to charge him and he’s just shelless right in front of him. If he wants to make use of this, he better do it now. He’s in close-quarters without his shell. Ben turns everything up from the elbow of his
4:37 AM arm into one solid, obsidian blade, aiming to slash the guy’s leg. He needs to cripple this guy if he wants to stop him from smearing him again. Hit the weak point or he’s done for. While he’s trying to slash the guy, he lowers himself while doing it, getting ready for the guy to swipe at him in response to getting close.||
4:38 AM <•ColdGold|GM> ColdGold ((You know aiming for a specific part is a -1 right?))
4:38 AM ((Just checking with you before you do it again))
4:38 AM <Side|Chip> Sidezero ((Yeah.))
4:38 AM <•ColdGold|GM> ColdGold ((Okay finesse please))
4:38 AM <Side|Chip> Sidezero $roll 2h6 I just need to get lucky once
4:38 AM <[ATM]> ATM Side|Chip "I just need to get lucky once" (2) [3]  = 3
4:39 AM <•ColdGold|GM> ColdGold $roll 1d6+1 Thundercat Base Evade
4:39 AM <[ATM]> ATM ColdGold|GM "Thundercat Base Evade" [2] +1 = 3
4:39 AM <•ColdGold|GM> ColdGold $moderate cut leg
4:39 AM <[ATM]> ATM [Leg] [Any 2] Butchered: Counts as moderate plus lesser wound, inflicts SCAR.
4:40 AM <•ColdGold|GM> ColdGold Thundercat leaps from his crouched position, but Ben is already ready for him, and chops forward with a heavy axe blade on his arm, tearing a chunk out of Thundercat's bare leg, he screams, but the scream turns into a lion's roar as the step brings his shell up to the next level and a mane, ears, and a tale pop out of his energy shell.
4:41 AM $roll 2h6+2 Thundercat Attack, Warming Up
4:41 AM <[ATM]> ATM ColdGold|GM "Thundercat Attack, Warming Up" [4] (3) +2 = 6
4:41 AM <•ColdGold|GM> ColdGold ((Reflexes please, and then Evade or Withstand))
4:41 AM <Side|Chip> Sidezero $roll 3h6+1 Here we go again.
4:41 AM <[ATM]> ATM Side|Chip "Here we go again." [6] (2) (6) +1 = 7
4:42 AM <Side|Chip> Sidezero $roll 1d6+1 I need to do this for Taz
4:42 AM <[ATM]> ATM Side|Chip "I need to do this for Taz" [2] +1 = 3
4:42 AM <•ColdGold|GM> ColdGold ((Okay give me another Evade roll))
4:42 AM ((Hold up 1 sec actually))
4:42 AM ...
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4:46 AM <•ColdGold|GM> ColdGold Thundercat doesn't even touch the floor as he's falling, instead Ben can see his body shift, he's reoriented so he's floating with his belly to the ground, and then he slides straight up like he's being yanked up by strings and swipes down. Ben moves to dodge out of the way from the blow clearly coming from overhead, but as he ducks, he feels a lurch in his heart as his peripheral vision catches the claw swinging from the side, not the top. What
4:46 AM the fuck?
4:46 AM ((Now evade again please))
4:47 AM <Side|Chip> Sidezero $roll 1d6+1 I have the power of God and Anime on my Side. HYAH
4:47 AM <[ATM]> ATM Side|Chip "I have the power of God and Anime on my Side. HYAH" [6] +1 = 7
4:49 AM <•ColdGold|GM> ColdGold His duck takes him under the unexpected claw from the side, but the one from the top is still coming, and then as the slice misses, he sees that there's no Thundercat from the side to be seen, and he can't dodge two attacks at the same time.
4:50 AM $moderate rend
4:50 AM <[ATM]> ATM [Torso] [Any 2] Mangled: PAIN, but affects all activity/parts.  Wound SCARS.
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4:52 AM <Side|Chip> Sidezero ((Think that's my last armor point. ))
4:53 AM <•ColdGold|GM> ColdGold ((How does your cloth costume have two armor without encumbering the shit out of you))
4:53 AM <Side|Chip> Sidezero ((Oh yeah. good point. nevermind.))
4:54 AM <•ColdGold|GM> ColdGold ((I don't mind if I overlooked it and let you take it, I can't exactly just say you don't have it now. But I don't really get how it would work))
4:56 AM <Side|Chip> Sidezero ((It rounds down I think. Cloth base gives armor to one body part and I took 2 partial units of armor which equate to one full armor. It gives 1/3 encumbrance for each armor point and rounds down, doing nothing until armor is taken 3 times.))
4:56 AM ((Might've done the math wrong.))
4:57 AM ((I might be misunderstanding that though))
4:59 AM <•ColdGold|GM> ColdGold ((Lightweight, with no real penalty/bonus to anything; has ⅓ encumbrance, with no effect unless stacked with the armor quality, described below.))
4:59 AM ((You have armor twice which would fill you up))
4:59 AM ((So you can either -1 Ath for all activities except running or lose the armor))
5:00 AM <Side|Chip> Sidezero ((Ahh I see. ))
5:01 AM <•ColdGold|GM> ColdGold ((Fuck. I lost the post I copied to past that for you...))
5:01 AM <Side|Chip> Sidezero ((I think I've failed all of my Ath checks this session, so I don't think it'd change anything if I took the -1 Ath penalty?))
5:01 AM ((Shit.))
5:02 AM <•ColdGold|GM> ColdGold ((You'd fail the last check))
5:02 AM ((Which would mean you're still going to take a wound anyway))
5:02 AM <Side|Chip> Sidezero ((Ahh ok. Doesn't matter then. I don't want to rules lawyer you any how.))
5:02 AM ((Throw me to Cashy!))
5:08 AM <•ColdGold|GM> ColdGold The swipe from the side catches Ben across his back, ripping ragged bloody trails across his back through the now ruined Gi. As the pain washes over him and he almost drops to a knee Ben realizes he gets what's going on. The feeling of the lion behind all of Thundercat's actions is what the trick is here. Thundercat wasn't just moving fast, he was moving more than once, and then shifting between the motions. The ones that worked for him best. The
5:08 AM floating motion carries Thundercat another few feet where he drops back to the ground and his shell breaks leaving him kind of hunched as he tries not to put too much weight on his hurt leg. He spits on the ground, cursing very quietly beneath his breath. They've both drawn blood now.
5:08 AM ||PAUSE||