3e: Earth-47: The New Guardians Reboot (IC)

[Walking Dad]

Gloom's Perception (1d20+9=11)
They still use Luck Control against me

[Neo-Paladin]

Ok...anyone with a perception check above 20 sees something in the smoke before it dissipates...the outline of an unnaturally gangly creature standing between them...

[Evolución]

"Beware, sere is another foe among us!" the wizard shouts a warning.

[Neo-Paladin]

---Prison---
The moment Trissa enters the cell, the nervous guard places the warding disk onto the floor inside the entrance and mutters the magic formula to activate it.

" How nice of you to join me. Now, we were about to embark on a small...journey, if you will", Morticus says, muttering a few arcane syllables that sound plain wrong to the amazon's ears. As he speaks, a fine greyish mist escapes from between his lips, quickly filling the interior of the cell...

---The Highway---

Besides reveal the unseen presence, the tear gas seems to have little effect on these five, all of them being used to physical hardships.

One of them, however, is affected severely by Hazid's magic, dropping to his knees and simply staring up at the genie. " You play with my brother's head, man?" One of the others, the most bulky one snarls, " let me play with yours!" He takes a running start while another steps in front of him, hands folded. A powerful jump brings him onto his brother's hands, which then propel him upward towards Hazid, foot held out in a fierce kick!

Attack against Hazid is a 25. If it hits, it's DC 27 to resist due to power attack

[Evolución]

Hazid is taken by surprise, having thought himself away from the brother's reach. He manages to lift his magical barrier at the last moment, not able to absorb the full might of the kick. He tales a step back, reeling. "Thou asked for sat, surrender and Ic shall release him from the mental trauma."

Toughness: 24-> Takes 1 bruised.

[Shock]

Trissa
HP: 1 LP: 0

"Make it quick, Morticus. We have important things to attend to." That said, Trissa inhaled deeply and held her breath.

[Neo-Paladin]

---Prison---

Slowly, Trissa's perception begins to change. It starts with a vague sensation of vertigo. not unlike being teleported, though she does not change her position. Instead, everything around her begins to move and...squirm. Something long and segmented twists just beneath the surface of the walls...the very air seems alive with slimy, writhing putrescence. For a brief moment, the touch, light as a feather, of something just as alien, is felt across her shoulders, then gone before she can truly react to it.
Even the skin of the guard outside the cell seems to twist and tremble under the machinations of unseen, inhuman limbs. Between the eyes, it parts and a bloody, twisted rose forms, with bones for a stem and half-liquid blood for a bloom....without him even perceiving it.
" Welcome to the world of my masters...", Morticus hisses, his grin unnaturally wide.

Please make a will check.

[Shock]

Trissa
HP: 1 LP: 0

Will check (1d20 + 10=23) I'll post reaction when I know what happens

[Neo-Paladin]

With a check of 23, you are simply feeling a vague sense of dread, as if you are being watched by something ancient, eternal and absolutely inhuman.

[Zen_Gypsy]

Apex / Jack Vandal
Hero Points: One.
Condition: Excited ... [3/3 Close Combat & Ranged Attack, 0/3 Enhanced Strength]

As the ground lurched beneath his feet, the monster staggered forward. Timber Wolf, always vigilant, leapt forward dropping pellets of smoke all over the expanse of the freeway, obscuring the brothers. The old man, now blue and more akin to a creature from myth and legend shouted a warning about a hidden opponent. He then was assaulted by a garishly dressed man, who landed a devastating kick as he somersaulted over his brother.

Apex wasn't averse to a little chaos, he'd created enough of it himself. He'd let Kirby smack him, and for all of Timberwolf's encouraging words, it stung. Now. This was his chance to cut loose, and that little guy that just smacked the old genie, he looked like a good target for the monster.

"YOU WANT FIGHT?!?"

His mouth twisted wide open as he screamed, his voice echoed across the freeway, drowning out the other traffic noises for a moment. He advanced on the luchadoras, his feet sinking at least 6" into the concrete as he stomped towards the little man. Stopping short of where the man who assaulted the genie had landed he towered over him.

"Apex been waitin all day fer a fight! Now he get what he wants, and you ... not so lucky." With that his massive hand reared back in a wildly telegraphed move, launching forward with the speed and power of one of those eighteen wheeler trucks roaring down the highway.

OOC: Extra Effort for one additional Standard Action. Free Action switch from Power Lifting to AE: Speed 2, Leaping 4. Move Action, move adjacent to the luchadora who hit Enlightened, Standard Action, use Daze (Intimidation). Daze(Intimidation) resisted by higher of Targets Intimidate, Insight or Will. Failure results in target being Dazed until the end of Apex' next round. (1d20+16=31). Second Standard Action, through Extra Effort, unarmed attack. All Out Attack (+5 Accuracy, -5 Active Defenses); Power Attack (-5 Accuracy, +5 Effect Value). Net Result (+0 Accuracy, +5 Effect Value (DC 32), -5 Active Defenses (Dodge -1, Parry 1) (1d20+8=20) If that hits, Free Action, Fast Grab. Applies same modifiers as Melee Attack, so nets +5 Effect Value for Grab Check. Strength or Dodge (at -5 due to Improved Hold) vs Escape DC of 27 (12 Strength, +5 Effect (Power Attack)).

[Shock]

Trissa
HP: 1 LP: 0

Trissa fought off an urge to shudder. She wasn't going to show weakness that easily. "It is a vile place, Morticus. But if you want to frighten me, you're going to have to show me more. Who are your masters, that I should fear them?"

[Zen_Gypsy]

OOC: Forced Luck Reroll; All Out Attack (+5 Accuracy, -5 Active Defenses); Power Attack (-5 Accuracy, +5 Effect Value). Net Result (+0 Accuracy, +5 Effect Value (DC 32), -5 Active Defenses (Dodge -1, Parry 1) (1d20+8=20) (1d20+8=26) Since I use the lower of the two, the initial 20 stands, see above post re: Fast Grab.

[Neo-Paladin]

---Highway---

With two already incapable of joining in the combat and two having just delivered a rather impressive bruise to Hazid, the one in the green mask is the last to act, charging Wolf and literally bowling him over. The young hero seems to slip on something, stumbling backwards, the back of his head connecting with one of the cars stuck in the sand.

While the sudden appearance of Apex, coupled with his bellowing shout, managed to get at least some hesitation from the five luchadores, his attack is even more effective, trapping the red-masked one in one giant hand.

Ok, Intimidate successful, as well as the attack and the grab. The red-masked one (Ricardo) also is staggered and at -1 toughness from the attack. Ouch
Hazid's turn

---Prison----

" Then let me show you more", Morticus hisses, clearly frustrated at Trissa's relative coolness in the face of the abominable.

Suddenly, everything goes black....but for Trissa, there are glimpses in the darkness, vistas of things beyond sanity...

...A sun, shedding light that does not warm, that only blackens and destroys
...A green god, a mass of throbbing vines, slumbering in a tomb beneath red sand and lifeless rocks
...Hulking shapes, the wings of a dragon, a man's massive bulk, tentacles where a face should be...
...Darkness, so vast and absolute that nothing will ever escape it, not even the essence of a man's soul

" Do you see them? Do you see my masters? The true inheritors of this world? We shall bring them forth and the world will scream and bleed..."

[Evolución]

Hazid blinks out of existence in a puff of bright sand, reappearing behind Apex. "Thy aid is greatly appreciated friend." he says. Extending his hand out, the mage calls again, his eyes ablaze. "Surrender!" he commands an still un-targeted luchador. With some luck, Hazid would drain all their willpower before Apex smashed them into pulp.

Surrender: Attack: 17 Will DC 18: 1st: Dazed 2nd: Stunned 3rd: Incapacitated. Progressive

[Neo-Paladin]

Quick note...Hazid saw the invisible tall creature standing between them as well with his perception check