New Vindicators Academy of Europe #30: Allegory of Prudence (M&M 2E - IC)

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Re: New Vindicators Academy of Europe #30: Allegory of Prudence (M&M 2E - IC)

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BERLIN (NPCs: The Drifter, Fach, and Magnitude)
The flight to Berlin was uneventful, which the trio were thankful for. Magnitude knew his way around his native Berlin, so navigation wasn't much of an issue, once the Drifter told him where they were going. Still, he was a bit surprised. In his world, the Berling Palace had been demolished in 1950, having sustained extensive damage during the Second World War. Of course, such a war had never happened here, so it stood to reason that the residence of the royal dynasty of Hohenzollern still stood... and was the residence for the Kaiser.

As they flew towards the palace, shapes rose up to greet them. "Ritter," the Drifter explained. "They're the lowest nobles--knights who serve the empire and act as a glorified security force."

Magnitude slowed the group and brought them to hover above the city, patiently awaiting the envoy. <<"Greetings!">> he said enthusiastically. He was hiding his nervousness well, he believed: never mind that, given how Sophie had aged, his double should have been in his twenties--if anyone here knew of his doppelganger's exile to Pandora, they were done for. <<"I am Herzog Kasamir of House Flaegler. To whom do I have the pleasure of meeting?">>

<<"Ritter Andreas Wagner,">> the lithe man with leathery wings, curled horns, and a prehensile tail said.

<<"Ritter Wagner,">> said Magnitude, <<"I have urgent news for the kaiser. I graciously accept your escort to the residence.">>

<<"What business have you with the Kaiser?">>

<<"What business is it of yours?">> It felt wrong to be so rude, but if he was going to sell himself as the herzog, he needed to act the part. <<"I wasn't aware the kaiser differed to a ritter on matters of national security.">>

<<"My lord. I shall escort you to the palace. Erzherzog Mueller will speak with you.">>

<<"Lead the way, but with haste. As I said: my news is urgent.">>

The ritter bowed and led the procession towards the palace.

ISTANBUL (NPCs: Ashworth and Fiore)
"This is magnificent," Mister Ashworth said as he snapped another photo with his mobile phone. "In our world, only fragments of the Sacred Palace's foundation survive, but here, the nobles used their powers to restore it to its former glory and make it the residence for the Pasha."

He was oblivious to the agitated look on his student's face. "Any other time, I would be very interested, but you suggested that time was of the essence."

Ashworth seemed not to have heard Fiore: "I can't even fathom was it must be like to be the Drifter--to regularly traverse time and space and find yourself in locals where history--forgotten history--is on display! Oh, to be able to have that device for even a week..."

"As I understand it, the Astrolabe is as much a curse as it is a gift. She builds relationships with others, but only out of necessity. The Astrolabe conscripts people into saving these worlds and then leaves them back home. Such an existence seems so lonely to me."

Again, the educator ignored Fiore. Instead, he continued to document this once-in-a-lifetime experience. If Fiore didn't need the man for his power--his ability to absorb the knowledge the locals had and cross-reference history as they knew it against their world's version of the last century--he would have left him here to sight-see and go speak to the Pasha himself. Unfortunately, the lithe youth needed his companion to navigate them through the oddity they found themselves in. Otherwise, how was Fiore to gain an audience with the ruler of this empire?

LONDON (Current and Taheka)
Lex walked up to the fountain and sat down, trying to catch his breath. With a pop and a snap he felt his knees both pop out of and back into position as he sat down. He was getting better at pulling in ambient static electricity to repair the damage, but he hadn't gotten the trick down pat yet. A cursory glance around told him no one was paying him any mind: most people were too busy trying to get the perfect picture. It was nearing dusk, and the sun was painting an orange and violet portrait all around them.

Folding the flap back, Lex reached into the bag for Tamati and felt his fingers close around a liquid-appendage. With a yank, he pulled the Kiwi out of the extra-dimensional space and into the city.

Thankfully, Tamati wasted no time in dropping his other form. "Now that was faster than I thought."

"Welcome to London," Lex said, breathing hard, "home of the fish and chips." He moved to straighten a jacket he wasn't wearing and frowned, feeling naked without it.

"Yum, fish and chips! I haven't had real fish and chips since I left New Zealand. Once we have got everything sorted we will have to grab some, but mushy peas is a big no from me."

"Anyway where are we exactly?"

"Well, I have some good news and some bad news: the good news is we are right in front of Buckingham Palace, which is where the royal family lives in my dimension; the bad news is I don't have any money from this dimension, and I suspect my UK money is probably about as good of legal tender as monopoly money here." He sighed, only to realize he was carrying the Drifter's bag. Did she have money from various dimensions on her? Back home, he still had her mp3 player--presumably filled with songs that didn't exist in his home dimension. She had so many things, she had to have money, didn't she?

Thinking of money, he reached into her bag and his hands closed around a handle. With a yank, he pulled out a small brief case. Curiously, Lex set it down on the fountain and opened it up. Inside were British bills--some he recognized and some he did not--of varying denominations and from various time periods. Some were bills with swastikas in the corners; others depicted King Arthur, Merlin, and Headmaster Newton. His eyes froze on a bank note that depicted an older Kirstie, wearing a tiara.

"If we run into Mister Arnett we might be in some trouble," he said as he shut the case and returned it to the bag. "So you know Kirstie's powers right? Bouncing back elemental attacks and doubling up the shot that goes back. He might also have the bounce everything back at you variant." He ran his hand through his hair. "Also, he's a scary SOB in our world, I can only imagine he's the same or worse here. If we run into him there's a slim chance I might be able to convince him we're from another dimension, but chances are we'd be smarter to just run. Then again, meeting with him might work easier than trying to find the King. Who might be anywhere. I don't know. Anyways, don't try to hit Mister Arnett: it never ends well.

"Hopefully his second in command isn't trying to overthrow him in this dimension."

"So, no hitting, but drowning okay then. Do you think he will listen first or is he more hit ya hard first?"

The idea of drowning his girlfriend's father's otherworldly double made Lex wince. "He's been fairly nice to me, but I get the feeling he's a scary son of a bitch. You don't get his kind of job by being nice, ya know? Honestly, he'll probably chat us up so his troops can get in place, or try to trick us into attacking him. His abilities don't do much if we ignore him, but he's probably got a gun.

"I think." The American shrugged. "I mean, I think he might, but England has this thing with people having guns. Or trying to defend themselves. It's weird."

"Yeah, England is a lot like NZ. Police don't carry guns, as a matter of course, and unless you are hunting or at a shooting range you never see anyone with a gun, but it seems to work." Tamati simply stood for a moment, taking in the sight of the palace. "I wonder, back home they used to do tours of the palace so you could go ohh and ahh at the fancy pictures and other shit. If they do that here it may be a way inside and then we could leave the tour party when we felt like it?"

"Two problems," Lex said, "one, they probably track the tourists every moment they're in there with cameras and headcounts, and two, what time is the last tour? Looks like the sun's going down here. We're a couple of hours behind where we landed. We could always just take a walk around the outside and see if anything jumps out at us."

"Okay a walk sounds like the plan, and you never know we may bump into this guy."
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Imago created an illusion over himself, altering his appearance to look a few years older, with black hair, no piercings, some dark fuzz over his lip and chin, adding couple extra inches of height, and tightening his face a little too. "So, if anyone asks, my best friend, girlfriend and I are tourists sightseeing in historic Moscow, and happen to be in the vicinity of the Kremlin." With a quick incantation of "Nimor Racetion," Imago conjured up a small portable camera. He had no idea if it would actually work, but as a prop, it would certainly support his cover. "Agreed?"

"You're assuming zis world 'as a zriving tourist industry," said Martin. "We should observe to see if such is ze case. If zey challenge everyone for papers we do not possess zis will go just as poorly for us. If we do go ze tourist route we should zrow off our numbers. If discovery occurs eet eez to our disadvantage if zey know exactly 'ow many we are. I can be a coat zat one of you wear. Or Dennis and I be boyfriend and girlfriend wiz Puck invisible nearby. Shall we watch for a moment before proceeding?"

"I'm partially with Martin," Puck intoned. "I think we should scout ahead--find out what we can about how things work here. Maybe we see an opportunity to adopt someone else's face? We take a few people out of the picture and steal some identities?"

PARIS (Shiver; NPCs: Sidestep)
"It's fine, Abe. It's only a couple of miles to the Élysée Palace from here. I've been a couple times." Violet's pronunciation was distinctly British. Nobody was going to confuse her with a native. She looked around for a few seconds and pointed the way, towards the river. "And we're not in a rush anyway, right? For all we know, we're not even getting in today, if ever. How often do a couple of teens pop in on the Emperor of France?

"I hope you got a good look at the shack before we left. We might have to get out of here in a hurry and that might be the only safe place in this dimension."

Abe said nothing. He simply walked along beside Violet, keeping his eyes on the ground. It was abundantly clear that something was troubling him.

TOKYO (NPCs: Benson, Sophie, Stephen)
Sophie took the hit of flames and the metal platform she had been carrying them all on dropped from the sky. As they began to plummet, Stephen let out an obscenity. Frantically he tried to grab for the hand holds ratcheted into the sheet metal. His eyes flashed to Mister Benson. In an effort to stabilize himself the man had slipped his foot into it. Now, as it dropped out of the sky, his leg had been twisted around.

Before Stephen could react, they hit the water. It was dark--it was barely dawn in Japan--and their transport was sinking fast and threatening to drag Benson under. Stephen looked up to the sky--Sophie was still airborne and trying her best to survive against Jack. Every so often, the sky lit up as the man breathed another jet of flames at her. He looked back to see Mister Benson's head dipping under the surface.

Stephen took a deep breath and dove down. Swimming towards the sinking platform, he could barely make out the man frantically trying to free his leg. He was wearing that belt and gauntlet--the ones that looked so weird on his skinny body, but let him wield that unruly hammer that he was now pounding against the metal. Stephen grabbed his foot and pushed it through. Slipping an arm around the man, he held him swim up.

Their heads broke the surface and they ravenously drunk in the air. "What happened?"

"Jack attacked us. He's older, but-"

"A doppelganger," Benson realized. "It's not our Jack, but the Jack of this world. They said Americans sometimes expatriate to other countries, hoping to catch the attention of nobles who want to breed their powers into their bloodlines."

"Yeah, yeah, yeah," Stephen said. "Stop talking and go help her!"

"I can't!" Benson barked. "For one, I can't fly. I used to be able to, but I lost the bracelets that-"

"Feel free to stop babbling incoherently at any point."

The former member of the Thule Society narrowed his eyes at the young boy. "Two," he growled, "I'm pretty sure my leg is broken. I don't think I can fight."

"Then what the hell are we supposed to do?"

"I don't know," Benson said helplessly. "I've got nothing."
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Re: New Vindicators Academy of Europe #30: Allegory of Prudence (M&M 2E - IC)

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[In Moscow, after watching for a few moments up to half an hour: Are we seeing people on the streets? Does there seem to be tourists? What seems to be likely ways in? Are there security checkpoints? Martin was advocating seeing what they can find through such observation before making themselves visible and prominent. Dennis' idea is a good one if we need a closer look though.]
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Violet Lear
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Violet didn't know Abe very well but something was clearly wrong. He didn't seem scared. More like worried or sad. She glanced at him a couple of times as they walked but was quiet for a few minutes. "I know this is bollucks but even though the Astrolab boned us, it won't leave us stuck here. We can go back." As she finished, she realized that didn't help Abe all that much.

As they crossed the river, she made a small chunk of ice in her hand and skipped it across the surface. "To the school anyway. How long have you been with us?" She didn't really want to play shrink to the kid but she did know what it was like to get uprooted. She still hadn't seen most of her friends from back home.
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Alex "Current" Murphy
HP: 1 CND: Normal

Lex hesitates, running a finger across the bill with Kirstie's face. A moment later he's tucked one of the bills in his pocket, replacing it with a somewhat crumpled bill of his own.

Turning his attention back to Tamati he stands and shrugs, "I don't really know anything about her. She knows me, but I don't really know her name, I don't think. I know that a Lex Murphy teaches her daughter to play the guitar. Still not sure if that's me or not."

"Though she did kind of leave us all of her money, problem is, well, I don't know which stuff is which. I'm guessing the nazi bills are probably not right, call it a hunch," He rolls his eyes, "Oh well, if we're not in jail in a few hours maybe we can figure it out."

"Now remember, we are loud obnoxious tourists, we take pictures of stuff, talk loudly, and do things that are stupid and strange," He grins at Tamati, "Pretend you're American, you'll fit right in!"

He wanders the area with Tamati, pulling out his phone and taking pictures of the area, Tamati, or both of them, all the while scanning the area trying to pick out where they hid cameras around the building, and where going over the fence might work for them. Truth be told, sneaking into places wasn't something he'd ever really spent a lot of time doing, and he couldn't help but feel a bit in over his head.

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Tamati "Taheka" Stevens
HP: 2
Condition: Normal


"A loud yankie, I can do that pardner" Tamati grins back as he finishes his sentence with one of the worst attempts at a Southern accent possible.

Keeping up a running commentary about how small and quaint everything is, Tamati really didn't take much notice of anything at all, he was having too much fun been in character.

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BERLIN (NPCs: The Drifter, Fach, and Magnitude)
The door opened and Ritter Wagner stepped through and to the side. His body became rigid as he stood at attention, keeping his eyes forward as a man decked in some sort of regalia stepped through. The wore a similar uniform, but with epaulettes so large, they almost dwarfed the lines of medals adorning the mustachioed man's chest. <"So, you are to have us believe you are Herzog Flaegler, yes?">

Kasamir cringed. It was entirely possible that Erzherzog Mueller had seen through the ruse.

<"Who are you, really?">

<"I am Kasamir Flaegler,"> Magnitude insisted.

<"I strongly doubt that.">

Was it his age not adding up, or did Mueller know about his double's banishment? <"Sir, I have been sent here by Queen Sophie herself with an important message for the kaiser!">

<"Then what did I give you for your tenth birthday?">

Magnitude froze. It was something he had not considered: his doppelganger was a noble, and he might have known the Erzherzog personally.

<"Your age is not right. Further, Kasamir is dead.">

That made him freeze. He had not considered that his family--or rather, Herzog Kasamir's family--might have told the world he had died than risk explaining the crimes he had been banished for.

<"That you thought you could come in here, wearing my godson's face without any repercussions-">

Fach inhaled and screamed.

ISTANBUL (NPCs: Ashworth and Fiore)
The pair showed the queen's letter to some guards, who summoned a higher noble. Fiore and Ashworth braced for the worst. There was no telling how far Locus' infection had spread and this man could very well be loyal to him, rather than to the Pasha. The man looked over the letter and nodded. "Come with me," he told them.

They were led straight to a receiving room where a man in a white suit greeted them jovially. "Welcome to Istanbul, my friends. I am told you bring word from Queen Sophie?"

Fiore looked to Ashworth. The man stepped forward. "Sir, there is so much to tell you. So much of it will seem farfetched, but I promise you, it's the truth." The noble that had met them took the letter, crossed the room with it, and offered it to his ruler.

"I trust it will be," said the Pasha. He looked to the man standing beside him and the two shared a grin that put Fiore on his guard.

"My name is Cecil Ashworth and this is Fiore Caspian. We are not from this world. Rather, we hail from a timeline where events unfolded differently. We have the same history until about a century ago, but in our world, Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated, and a great war unfolded from that moment. Further, we both have abilities. I myself have the power to instill despair in others, while Fiore can manipulate plants." It wasn't a lie--just not the whole truth: Ashworth certainly had the power to do what he claimed, but he worried telling a head of state that he could know whatever he knew would paint him as some sort of security risk.

"We were brought here by an enigmatic device that may have a mind of it's own. We believe we were brought here to help save your world from a war similar to the one that ravaged our world. You see, there is another alien here--a man known as Locus came to your dimension and married into one of the noble houses of the Persian Empire. He then conspired to murder those between him and the throne. He has taken power and, we believe, he seeks to expand his absconded empire. He had planted men in the Romanov Empire. When Queen Sophie and Shahbanu Gabrielle tried to warn Tzar Volkov, they were attacked. They have sent my friends and I as envoys to all of the great houses to both warn them of the looming threat and to implore them to aid us in fighting against this threat."

The Pasha did not hesitate. "What do you need from me?"

Ashworth looked to Fiore incredulously. Fiore seemed just as perplexed at how easy that had been. "I apologize, my lord," Ashworth said. "It's just... I expected our warning to not be so received."

"It's a farfetched tale, yes, but I am forced to believe you." Again, he looked to the man beside him. "Agha Ayvaz's ability prevents anyone within his vicinity from lying. Either you're telling the truth, or you believe you are. Either way, I cannot ignore this.

"What do Queen Sophie and Shahbanu Gabrielle require from the great Ottoman Empire?"

LONDON (Current and Taheka)
They made for a good team. No one paid them much mind and the two were able to seamlessly blend in. More important than that, they complimented each other: while Taheka would pose for a picture--always under a camera he had spotted--Current had noticed security mingled with the throng. There were several men trying to look inconspicuous and all with the same haircut.

Closing his eyes, he felt out with his powers and noticed all of them wearing the same, nigh-invisible communicator. Like this, it was like a radar screen: there were countless small blips--cameras and cell phones and watches--but the radios they were wearing were something else and it pinged differently to him. There were eight on the grounds.

Current looked around for them. He doubted that the head of security for the king would be down here, but it was possible that he might recognize one of them. Scanning their faces yielded nothing: some looked familiar, but none he recognized... until he saw her.

She was older--maybe in her twenties. There was no mistaking her face or the tight braid her hair was pulled into. Ellen Wolfe was a member of the king's security, and she was paid at it. While the others were clearly trying to blend in, there was no doubt in his mind that she was looking for something.

MOSCOW (Fluxx and Imago; NPCs: Puck)
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PARIS (Shiver; NPCs: Sidestep)
"I know this is bollucks but even though the Astrolab boned us, it won't leave us stuck here. We can go back." As she finished, she realized that didn't help Abe all that much.

As they crossed the river, she made a small chunk of ice in her hand and skipped it across the surface. "To the school anyway. How long have you been with us?"

"Ever since your friend sacrificed my dimension to imprison the Armada and my mom got stuck on the other side trying to bring over as many innocent people as we could. You know, about four months or so."

TOKYO (NPCs: Benson, Sophie, Stephen)
Sophie covered her entire body in ice, only for her attacker to melt it almost instantly with a stream of flame. Seconds later, he dove in and hammered a fist in her stomach. The force of the hit knocked her for a loop. It didn't hurt--her skin was nigh-unbreakable--but the power of it left her slightly staggered.

There was no doubt in her mind is was Jack Rexroth--her world's version of him. He was an American. He must have migrated to Japan and became their version of a ritter: a ronin--an ex-patriot who gave his loyalty to the emperor in the hope of raising his station. If given the chance to show off his powers, he might catch the eye of a niece of the emperor, or the daughter of a cousin. That level of tenacity was what was driving him, but maybe she could appeal to it... "Jack," she managed, "you have to listen to me." Evoking his name had the effect she wanted: he hesitated--no doubt confused how she knew him. Now it was time to the roll the dice and hope Locus had not won Jack over to his side. "I am Queen Sophie Hapsburg of Austria. I have an important message for the emperor."

"Lady, I don't know how how the hell you knew my name, but there is no way in hell a queen shows up in the night, riding a big manhole cover!" He flexed his hands and claws appeared on his figner tips. He charged at her. She had only a moment to react. She took hold of what limited armor he was wearing and flung him across the sky.

With the limited breathing room she had, Sophie dove for the bay. "William!" she screamed. "Steven!" Her eyes scanned the surface of the water for any sight of them bobbing about. She prayed that hadn't been drug under; she prayed they were all right.

Jack tackled her from behind and pulled her into a bear hug. She felt multiple hands on her--he had sprouted extra arms, she realized--and then realized he was turning her around. She looked down, only to see him spinning web around her. He had grown spinneret glands and had sticky silk lines spraying on her from his abdomen.

She summoned her arctic aura once more. He growled as the cold bit at his flesh. Insulating fur grew over his body as he snarled at her. She felt out with magnetic waves only to find him devoid of anything ferrous. He had figured out what she had done and adapted--ridding himself of anything she could use against him.

The two were in a dive, spiraling towards the water. She watched as gills formed on him and realized his new plan of attack was to drown her. They hit the ground and she pushed her aura--trying to freeze them both in ice.

As the water around him began to solidify, Jack's eyes darted back and forth, calculating. He narrowed his eyes at her before unleashing an electrical discharge--how, the queen had no idea. She only knew that whatever he had done, it had stopped her from trapping them both. With her momentarily stunned once more, Jack grabbed her and sped them through the water.

In seconds they were beached. Shot up the shore, Jack turned so that he was sitting on the small woman's body. He sat up and began punching her in the face. Her impervious flesh took the brunt of it, but the volley was wearing her out. She felt dizzy. She felt her hold on consciousness slipping...

Something hit them and knocked Jack off of her. Sophie rolled aside and onto her hands and knees. She pushed herself up and took in the sight. Steven Murphy stood between them, staring down the ronin.

"Get away!" she screamed in warning. "You can't take him!"

Jack charged at Steven and the young boy twisted at the waist. That's when she saw it: the belt, the gauntlets, and...

"Guess my brother had it right..." Steven swung Mjolnir into Jack's face and sent the ronin arcing through the air. "Powers are a goddamn hammer."
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[Gather information is Charisma based, it represents talking to people to get rumors and such. Martin is more observing and figuring out relationships and heirarchies from body language and such.
Gather Information: 1d20+0 14, since you asked for one, but I'll also include:
Notice: 1d20+10 28, seeing what/who is in the area
Sense Motive: 1d20+7 27, Seeing the relationships between folks.]
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Fortunately, Dennis has the Gather Information angle covered.
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Violet Lear
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"He's not my friend. We tried to stop him." Violet ground her teeth, remembering. "I was in the control room. We tried to stop him but he pushed the button. We barely made it out." She fell into a glum silence. Violet and Jack were also the ones that enabled Jason to push the button in the first place by defeating the Admiral of the Elpis. Not like they had a choice though. Everyone knew what was going to happen. "I'm sorry."
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Alex "Current" Murphy
HP: 1 CND: Normal

"Well, I have bad news, worse news, and good news," Lex says cheerfully as he holds up his phone for Tamati to look at some pictures.

"The bad news is, and please don't look for them, security is moving through the crowd looking for something. The worse news is that Ellen, you know Jack's girlfriend? Yeah, well, her this-dimension version works for them. This is bad because her whole power is about trapping people inside some extradimensional maze, or something. Basically if she zaps us she can probably walk us out to wherever, dump us out surrounded by god knows how many neos, and nobody'd even know we were here," He grins, "The good news is that if they're looking for us they don't know who or where we are."

"Of course this kind of kills any plans we had about just talking to somebody and asking to be let in. If Ellen is working for the bad guys we're screwed. Do not pass go, do not collect two hundred dollars,"
He shrugs, "I think we're going to just have to go for it. Question is do we split up or stick together?"

"Gotta be honest, I'm not really sure what you can do, man. But that whole water thing? You might have an easier way or getting in, or sneaking around than I would," He flips through the pictures on his phone, "I mean, I'm going to have to go over the wall, which shouldn't be a problem, but even if I got a great entry point it might be pretty noticeable, even going as fast as I can."
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Tamati "Taheka" Stevens
HP: 2
Condition: Normal


Tamati just managed not to do his impression of a meerkat at the news of people looking through the square Bugger, so if they are not looking for us who would they be looking for? Could be anyone for all we know."

Looking up from the phone as to compare the picture just taken with the real thing Tamati looked back over to the palace

"Well there is the bag trick again if we stick together or if I can find a sewer or a water pipe then I should be able to get into the palace that way. Once I am in the water I am invisible to sight and don't have to worry about breathing."
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Greystone:
[Jack Rexroth]
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Jack didn’t like splitting up everyone, but he didn’t see much another choice for them. If they were going to deal with Locus’ world takeover, then they needed more allies.
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Gabrielle led the group into her brother's walk-in closet. "Here," she said, taking a shirt from a hanger and passing it to her companions. "That should be enough to get you Gabe's scent."
Jack had already shifted his nose when Gabrielle transported them to her brother’s room, he knew the plan and didn’t intend to waste time. Taking the offered shirt he breaths in the scents it held then offered it to Ursa to do the same.


OOC wrote:So Search check, right?
Search: _: 1D20+8 = [16]+8 = 24.

If you’d prefer that be a Notice check the skill rank total is the same.
Jabroniville wrote: Tue Jul 13, 2021 11:45 pm
LOl- "The Tattooed Man"? What kind of ABSOLUTE DILDO would refer to himself as "The Tattooed Man" :P!?!
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Re: New Vindicators Academy of Europe #30: Allegory of Prudence (M&M 2E - IC)

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Alex "Current" Murphy
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Gilliam wrote: Thu Oct 08, 2020 5:18 pm Tamati just managed not to do his impression of a meerkat at the news of people looking through the square "Bugger, so if they are not looking for us who would they be looking for? Could be anyone for all we know."
"Yup, but my luck is kind of garbage, so I just assume everything going wrong is pointed my way," Lex says with a smirk, "Murphy's Law, ya know?"


Gilliam wrote: Thu Oct 08, 2020 5:18 pm "Well there is the bag trick again if we stick together or if I can find a sewer or a water pipe then I should be able to get into the palace that way. Once I am in the water I am invisible to sight and don't have to worry about breathing."
"If we do the bag trick we need to get you back out ASAP. If anything goes wrong you might get stuck in there," Lex says, "Either way it's kind of do or die, longer we wait worse it's going to get. You want to go over the wall with me, or split off looking for a pipe? Wall is probably going to get their attention right away, but finding a pipe is probably going to involve getting past security."
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Re: New Vindicators Academy of Europe #30: Allegory of Prudence (M&M 2E - IC)

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"Since you have the letter, it makes sense to stick together, now if there was a way to hook up a gaming console in the bag then I wouldn't want to leave" Tamati finished with an attempt at a joke.

When Lex was ready Tamati would fall back into the magic bag.
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When all of our choices are bad, sometimes you go with the bad choice that feels better. The north side seemed to have far less people to notice what they were doing, but it also had far less ways of hiding what they were doing. In the end the chances were that they'd be spotted instantly either way, but at least going to the south would give them cover from the agents by sticking with the crowd.

The plan was painfully simple. Walk to a point at the south fence where the cameras weren't on them, try to obscure Tamati and get him back in the bag. From there? Jump the fence, try to land in a tree, traverse the trees and jump to the building. Hopefully to the roof, or at least a landing higher up and then climb. Once on the roof, pull Tamati back out.

And hopefully do that without being noticed.

On a scale of one to ten of dumb to smart plans... this was a three at best. But every other plan was a 2. And in the land of the blind...

Lex grinned.
OOC: Stealth Check to try to avoid attracting too much attention: 1D20+6 = [9]+6 = 15
Acrobatics to get over the fence: 1D20+15 = [2]+15 = 17
Acrobatics to get up the side of the building: 1D20+15 = [15]+15 = 30

So the first Acrobatics check gets exactly twenty feet in height, which isn't high enough for the fence on the north, but the one on the south does look far shorter.
Not sure if the second one should be for climbing or jumping but either way it should be more than enough to get him to the roof at a fast rate.
Climbing would be at around 1100 feet per round thanks to Speed and Monkey Climber feat.
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