[IC] Four Horsemen: Wager

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Re: [IC] Four Horsemen: Black Gold

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Catastrophe

We have a 'range'?!?
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Re: [IC] Four Horsemen: Black Gold

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On the escape bat, Leon looks baffled at being told to lets go help people get out to now having Roger agree to stay on the boat. Still he takes it in stride though if only because he has no ida whats going on and deers int he head lights tend to freeze up sometimes. The "angel" simply nods as he seems to legitimately care about getting people to safety.

As Cognagion feels a sense of accomplishment of conning the two with him, that feeling of his thralls being ripped away comes back again. Someone with the dove necklace must be in the area and actively doing whatever the necklace does to counter his control. Roger may not know what the feeling is, but Cognagion has a good feeling that if the user of the necklace isn't found the assaults on his control will just keep coming.

Meanwhile, back on the rig, the alarms continue to blare as more sabotage measures start kicking in. Somewhere on the rig, immense strength usage can be heard wrapping some damage to a pipe and slamming metal oil bins together as if being forced together. Soon after, one of the alarms that was making a loud whirring sound goes quiet. "Roger" knows it as a broken pipe alarm.
Cognagion needs to make a power check for his mind control effect

AP 21
Kaito 20 <=====
LR 19
Garald 18
RG 13
Cognagion 4
MJ 4
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Kaito was all set to see some major butt-whoopage ad Garald rush-punched the illusionist.... then.... he just... shrugged it off.

"Oh Snap." the teenager swears under his breath.

He's never before used entropy ON a person before. Maybe it would help Garald get the upperhand. From what hidden position he can, Kaito explores what it would be to Catastrophe a person. No sooner does he think it than a dark purple cloud, about the size of a bowling ball drifts up then shoots off quickly toward the angel.
If it hits it tries to overwhelm the illusionist with the pain of massive internal trauma.
Stealth: 1d20+2 15,
Kaito's never used this before so here goes:
attack: 1D20+11 = [18]+11 = 29

AE: Breaking Bads; Affliction (Resist by Will, Impaired&Vulnerable&Dazed, Disabled&Defenseless&Stunned, Incapacitated), Ranged, Extra Conditions 2, Secondary Effect, Accurate 6, Homing 3, Split 1, Precise Ranged-Cover/Concealment, pr 13
If that Hits, Will DC23. And again on Kaito's next turn.
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Re: [IC] Four Horsemen: Black Gold

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The illusionist shakes his head as if shaking off the effects of something. Given the chaotic energies hitting him, it's a good bet that is what he's shaking off. Afterward, he seems unphased, for the most part. "I would have thought better of you because of your mother. What would she think if you someone told her what you were doing? All these innocents? I expected as much from the crazy Russian.", says the illusionist shaking his head sadly. He puts up his hand and pulls some shrapnel underneath him as he takes off towards the main system control offices leaving Garald and Kaito behind. The few who dare look out from their hiding place see the man surf the air and navigate to the main safety system entering in via one of the windows that he smashes through.
SA wise, since its been a few days,

The illusionist(LR) just entered the system control offices, angelstein(RG) is on the life boat, Leon is on the life boat, whoever has the dove necklace is likely in a central spot he can send out countering energies, and Ferrari Jacket guy(AP) sounds like he's trying to do some short term repairs on the damage.

AP 21
Kaito 20
LR 19
Garald 18 <=====
RG 13
Cognagion 4
MJ 4
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Re: [IC] Four Horsemen: Black Gold

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Catastrophe

They knew.

A moderate, Kaito-flavored dread permeated the Horsemen link.
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Re: [IC] Four Horsemen: Black Gold

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Garald Medvedev
HP: 2 - 1 rer-roll = 1
CND: Healthy


"Don't let him get in your head Kaito. He's trying to weaken your resolve."

... Garald sent out quickly after the exchange between Kaito and the mentalist. The opposition had tried to talk him down, it made sense they'd try to do so to the others as well. A fight avoided was a fight won, after all.

Seeing the mentalist make his way to the rig, Garald got the feeling that if they didn't already have possession of the bracelet, it probably wasn't on Leon. Three of the enemy were located inside the rig now. Not engaging with the Horsemen. Only one relegated to managing Leon. Cognagion still hadn't confirmed whether or not Leon had the bracelet on his person. That needed to change. They needed to move on from not knowing, so they could act with certainty, rather than fighting a pitched distraction against people their attacks had no effect on.

Given that Cognagion was being crowded in on by one of the Opposition, Garald resolved to give him some room to finish up with Leon. sailing through the air Garald flew over the rim of the oil rig, and came in from the opposite side of the Samaritain. With fists forward he aimed to plow into the man and drive him into the structure of the oil rig. Ideal into something akin to a support. Something that would weaken the stability of the rig, and hurt his foe on impact.

"I know you are trying to be subtle, but you need to speed things up Cognagion. We aren't even sure Leon has the bracelet on him. One of the Opposition could have it. Or it could be on the rig somewhere."
OOC wrote:Garald is going to try to move RG away from Cognagion. Ideally slamming him into a portion of the rig, so as to harm him and the rig's structure at the same time. But getting him away from Cognaion is the priority.

Here is an attack roll: Attack RG: 1D20+9 = [6]+9 = 15
HP to re-roll: Re-roll attack on RG: 1D20+9 = [17]+9 = 26 DC 30 Toughness if the structure or RG would take damage from his getting slammed into the rig.

If you want to treat what I am attempting as a Grab, that's DC 25 Strength or Dodge. Here is a Strength check, in case you want that instead: Strength Check: 1D20+15 = [9]+15 = 24
Dynamic Array wrote: Immunity 10 [Mental Effects ; Flaws: Sustained Duration (+0/r)] * 10
Flight 7, Enhanced Advantage 1 [Move-by Action] * 15 //I Edited this from Speed and Quickness to Flight, because Garald is obviously flying, and I has just C&Ped the Dynamic Array section from an earlier post.//
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Angelstein feels the powerful grasp of Garald starting to give him the strongest bear hug he's ever gotten, but somehow manages to wriggle out of it before the powerful Russian manages to get a good hold. It seems to be enough to get the angelic like mans attention whose maneuvering suggests he's trying to steer Garald away from Leon and "Roger" more than stand and fight with the two civilians. Garald has seen enough heroes to know when they are putting themselves in the line of fire for civilians.

Almost like a scene out of a wolverine comic, if Wolverine shone like and angel and hand angelic wings, Angelstein extends claws of light from his hands. "It didn't need to be like this. We could have stood together against the forces of heaven and hell to tell them no more. No more games.", says the man straining his voice in agony as he jabs the claws into Garald. It's a feeling like Garald has never felt before. His very essence, which some call a soul, aches in pain at the impact of the spectral claws.
Garald needs to make a DC 27 will save for a damage effect. It is not mental damage.

AP 21
Kaito 20
LR 19
Garald 18
RG 13
Cognagion 4 <======
MJ 4
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Re: [IC] Four Horsemen: Black Gold

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Image The Cognagion
2 HP | LP 2
Status: Normal
-—o—-

Rodger uses the flash of light as an excuse to stumble backwards, purposeful colliding with Leon. "Monsters- They're all monsters aren't there?" He mutters, eyes wide with the impression of fear and panic.

Extra Effort (+2 Circumstance) Sleight of hand: 21+2
Reroll to Help guarantee: ...11+2+10 for 24.

Move action to continue pushing towards the rig's inevitable explosion.
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Re: [IC] Four Horsemen: Black Gold

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Garald Medvedev
HP: 1 - 1 re-roll = 0
CND: Healthy


The faux angel works his way past Garald's guard and sinks his luminous claws into Garald's ribs. Even though Garald's physical form remains unharmed, not even his clothes are torn, he lets our a scream. Bellowing in pain, light blazes from his agape mouth and his straining wide eyes as his soul is pierced.
OOC wrote:Will DC 27: 1D20+9 = [2]+9 = 11
HP to re-roll: Re-Roll Will DC 27: 1D20+9 = [8]+9 = 17 +10 = 27.
Dynamic Array wrote: Immunity 10 [Mental Effects ; Flaws: Sustained Duration (+0/r)] * 10
Flight 7, Enhanced Advantage 1 [Move-by Action] * 15
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"Roger" feels the bracelet in the place most wallets get picked, the back pocket of Leons jeans. As they are both recoiling from the battle taking place near them, "Roger" manages to swipe the bracelet from the pocket drawing a surprised look from Leon who has other things to worry about then "Roger" grabbing his arse. Upon grabbing the bracelet, Cognagion feels a power run through him and instinctive ability to control earth based materials like dirt, minerals, and stone. It's still foggy what he can do with it, but the immediate effect is he feels a connection to raw earth materials.

Similar to before, Cognagion feels the grip his control on those on the rig being strained like parts of his metaphysical body are being torn away. Whoever is doing it, is focusing hard. On top of that, the alarm bells on the rig start fading even more as the damage being done is being corrected with measures good enough to shore up the rig.
Cognagion feels a Create 14 Limited to Earth materials like stone, dirt, etc power.

Cognagion needs to make a DC 25 power check for his mind control.

AP 21
Kaito 20 <======
LR 19
Garald 18
RG 13
Cognagion 4
MJ 4
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Re: [IC] Four Horsemen: Black Gold

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Image The Cognagion
2 HP | LP 1
Status: Normal
-—o—-

Rodger blinks back at Leon, effortlessly sliding the bracelet on and hiding it behind his sleeves as he holds his hands up to the man. "A-ah sorry, I was just- Right, no. Not the time for... any of that. We need to... Oh thank god, do you hear that? I think we might get out of this without the damn thing blowing up."

"I have it. Now focus on the bastard who's trying to wreck my control! Center of the rig, somewhere in the center-"

'Power Check: 13 Fantastic roll, of course.
Reroll: 28
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Re: [IC] Four Horsemen: Black Gold

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[Sorry, somehow missed it was mine.]
Kaito thought that whoever this 'wrecker' was would've been easier to find if he had his camera system operational and secure. He chokes off a curse at the failure and snaps to action.

Dissolving into mist form in an instant, Kaito sinks in through the vents and speeds through the system toward the center of the rig looking for the thought wrecker.

He doubted they would have a sign on their chest or an obvious halo but Kaito was still a fricken genius though and he should be able to figure this out. He looks for someone concentrating, in an unobtrusive place, sitting or not really engaged in what was going on around them.
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Kaito finds an area from the vents above with five people cowering who all look like workers in the standard work overalls with tools around the room. They looked to have been doing some maintenance work on the systems, but when all hell broke loose they must have took cover. Kaitos examination doesn't reveal any acting out of the ordinary. All of them are hiding, clearly hoping whatever is causing the mess doesn't come their way. Kaito knows he's in the center region of the rig however which would serve as the best place to send out a bubble to cut the ties Cognagion so treasures.

Meanwhile, the alarms on the rig turn off for some reason. If Cognagion reaches out to his thralls in the control room area, he finds the threads that bind him to them are still there, but the thralls aren't responding. Throughout the rig, it is not blaring alarms of craziness anymore. A few areas can be heard making noise, but what happened in the control room silenced the rig wide alarms. No one dares yet come out still.
AP 21
Kaito 20
LR 19
Garald 18 <======
RG 13
Cognagion 4
MJ 4
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Re: [IC] Four Horsemen: Black Gold

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Garald Medvedev
HP: 0
CND: Healthy


Garald was prepared, in his head at least, to leave the man with the light claws behind and allow Kaito to deal with him. That way he could employ his greater speed to search for the fourth member of the enemy group. But then Kaito left, presumably to carry out Cognagion's directive to hunt down the person with the Dove. Unfortunately, Kaito didn't know what fourth looked like.

"Kaito, be mindful. There is likely a fourth member of the Opposition."

At that Garald provided a description of the man he and Cognagion had seen loitering on the periphery of the earlier encounter inside the oilrig.

While he was communicating mentally, Garald grabbed hold of his attacker's right shoulder with his left hand. Pushing down, he leverages himself up over his winged, raises his right arm, and then endeavors to drives the point of his elbow into the center most portion at the top of the other man's head.
OOC wrote:Garald is going to use his Standard Action to Attack the clawed angelic guy using All-out attack +/-5 and Power Attack +/- 4 Attack the Samaritain AoA -5 Def/+5 Atk, PA -4 Atk/+4 Dmg: 1D20+10 = [7]+10 = 17 DC 34 Toughness if that hits.
Dynamic Array wrote: Immunity 10 [Mental Effects ; Flaws: Sustained Duration (+0/r)] * 10
Flight 7, Enhanced Advantage 1 [Move-by Action] * 15
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Re: [IC] Four Horsemen: Black Gold

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I'm in the middle where they should be.... no one here looks like their sending an anti-Whispers field. Kaito reports.
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