Defenders of the District (MSH) IC

[Phantom Genius]

Additionally, the machine silently admits, he was fond enough of Bolt that he didn't want to risk bludgeoning him in a standard attack, especially now that the overall space within the water-mud-beast was so majorly reduced

That's not exactly right. A waterspout rose up from the river, not from the mudigrade. But Angry's logic still somewhat holds and he can try to stop the visible threat, even if it doesn't act like it's controlling the waterspout.

[Phantom Genius]

Heroes win initiative.

AGR-01 and Fury both charge the shrunken, blackened, mud-filled monstrosity. AGR-01 gets naught but wet and muddy. (That new suit is going to need serious dry cleaning!) Fury lands a nasty blow and the creature collapses and crumbles back into the river. There is no sign of Bug here, but perhaps he will burst out of the river at 12.5% of his previous size at any moment.

Bolt was spun around so badly that he's not sure which way is up, but blasts out of the waterspout somewhat upwardly and somewhat more out over the river. The crowd goes wild and applauds...and then gasps and starts to retreat as a Tidal Wave, that wasn't there a moment ago, rises up and slams down on Fury and AGR-01, pulling them into the river.

AGR-01 takes ten points of damage after his armor. Fury takes none, but drowning is a real possibility.

Actions?

[paradox26]

Bolt comes out of the water and immediately realises he is not upright. He flips over in midair, trying to right himself, then moves out a little further away, to near the limits of his fire powers. He then launches another blast of flame at the water...thing, trying carefully to avoid those who have been engulfed in the water.

Spoiler: OOC Actions

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Bolt will launch another fire attack, since that is pretty much all he is capable of in combat. (1d100)[40] Fire Attack roll.

[MutantDragon]

"This is getting nowhere," the living computer thinks. They were going to need to find the animating force and soon. Otherwise, this was all going to be futile effort that leads only to their own deaths. Heh. "Death." Not really the case for him, is it? Just the destruction of a drone. His main computer would live on. Odd, how he's come to think of this remote body as such a large part of himself. Still, the humans, if they can still be called that, have no such advantages. If this carries on, they may well end up dead. AGR-01 cannot allow that to happen. Still, there's little he can do about it while trapped in the water, so he fires up his rockets and tries to grab Fury before bursting out of the water.

Spoiler: Actions

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AGR-01 is trying to escape the water and, if at all possible, take Fury with him. (1d100)[7]

[BananaPhone]

Lisa/Fury


Fury's towering figure was washed back into the river, hollering and howling her rage at the walls of water dragged her thrashing figure under the surface.

Roars muffled by the suffocating water, Fury instinctively reached out and slammed around with her large, powerful hands, doubtless in an attempt to propel her upwards towards a source of air and out of the river.

[Phantom Genius]

Heroes win initiative.

Fury uses her mighty strength to propel herself out of the water and back onto the shoreline, spitting up dirty water as she goes. Bolt blasts the entire area with flame, not doing any real damage, but turning the water in the area into super-heated steam which reduces all visibility to a few feet. (He loses sight of Fury and does not see AGR-01 either.)

AGR-01 tries to grab Fury and rocket out, but gets flipped over by the churning water and takes another ten points of damage.

Strangely, there are no new waves or waterspouts this turn.

Next turn's actions?

[paradox26]

Bolt decides that his fire isn't doing any real damage to the water thing. So he figures the best thing he can do is to try to rescue his companions. He launches down into the water and tries to grab Fury where he last saw her, then to reverse course and launch back out of the water again.

Spoiler: OOC Actions

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Not sure what I will need to roll for this, so I will just make a roll and you can apply it as needed. (1d100)[6]

[MutantDragon]

Well that was humiliating. Or it would be, if AGR-01 actually cared about that sort of thing. Which he doesn't. At all. I mean, why would he? That's just and illogical thing the organics worry about. He is beyond such petty things. Totally. Regardless, it is still abundantly clear that this drone will be destroyed if it spends much longer in this blasted water. So, gearing up for round two and trying to avoid any embarrassment he totally cannot feel, The Angry One boots up his rocket jets and attempts once more to free himself from the Dihydrogen Monoxide that seems intent on his destruction.

Spoiler: Actions

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AGR-01 essentially attempts to do what he did last time, except without trying to locate and grab Fury. (1d100)[1]

[BananaPhone]

Lisa/Fury

Plumes of bubbles exited from Fury's mouth as the red woman thrashed about...at first. Seeing she was getting nowhere, and seeing her companion was struggling, Fury reached out and...grabbed him by the leg.

She sunk just far enough for her feet to touch the bottom of the river, then she 'squatted' down and launched both herself and her friend up and, hopefully, out of the river...

[Phantom Genius]

AGR-01's rocket boots make an odd clunking sound and sputter out at the bottom of the river. This seems like the end of our beloved hero until suddenly the red giant spots the disturbance and pulls the drone to the surface. Bolt tries to pull her out, but comes up empty handed.

The river then recedes away from the heroes and starts to rise into the air. If it slams back down on them, it will cause massive destruction to them and everything around them.

Please declare your actions for next round. F&A are at the water's edge. B is flying above them, but low enough to be crushed under this looming tidal wave.

[paradox26]

Having no success at saving his companion, and seeing the tidal wave about to come down upon them, Bolt launches himself straight upwards in an act of self preservation. After all, he can't save anyone if he is sunk beneath the waves.

Spoiler: OOC Actions

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Not sure what I need to roll, but here is a roll you can use for whatever roll you decide on. (1d100)[92]

[BananaPhone]

Lisa/Fury

Her eyes flashing around in anger, her hair saturated, Fury bellowed out as her mind reached subconsciously into the earth around them...

[MutantDragon]

That's not good. Well, at least the being known as Fury saved AGR-01 from further damage at that particular time. Though, really, if that wave comes crashing down on him, it will likely be something of a moot point. Though, silently, the machine admits to a certain level of fascination with this animated water. Certainly whatever is controlling it must be powerful. Another soon to be moot point, the computer supposed. Or was it? How much power could be channeled into their watery destruction? How much water could be wielded against them? How quickly could the control expand? That last question seemed very interesting at the moment. How much water would come rushing towards them if the current volume was suddenly and drastically reduced? Reduced to, say, 12.5%? There was only one way to find out. So, of course, the experiment must be run. For science, of course.

Spoiler: OOC

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AGR-01 will attempt to fly above the soon-to-be-wave and hit it with his diminution spray. (1d100)[74]

[Phantom Genius]

This would be a terrible time to lose initiative. Either the tidal wave smashes down on the party, crushing two of them and maybe drowning the third, or it's reduced to 12.5 % of its size and flows into a hole as Bolt soars above it.

Let's see, true believers, if the dice favor heroism or death:
Heroes - 5 (+ 4 from Fury's bonus) => 9
Villain - Natural 1

Bolt soars above the scene, providing him with a fabulous view as AGR-01 shrinks the huge wave to a laughable 12.5% of its previous size and most of it drops into a large hole.

The wave tries to rise up out of the hole and splash Fury, but she is unmoved and unimpressed.

The bystanders laugh out loud.

Please declare your actions for next round.

[MutantDragon]

That was satisfying. After getting tossed around earlier, it felt good to show that water who's boss. Erm...that is...this completely non-emotional computer had decided that...uh...the optimal outcome for that action had been achieved? Yeah, something like that. In any case, the machine senses a bit of a respite to figure out what's going on, and decides to reflect on all prior data from this fight, similar events in the past, current patterns in the water, and whatever else a sentient computer might think of to determine exactly what is controlling the water, and, perhaps more importantly, where that controlling force is located.

Spoiler: OOC

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Essentially, AGR-01 is attempting to find out where the controlling force of the homicidal waves is located. Probably either a Reason or Intuition roll, right? Either way, the roll is [roll]1d100[/roll].

Edit: Take two on the roll. [roll]1d100[/roll]

Take three?
[roll]1d100[/roll] Welllll...gosh.

[BananaPhone]

Lisa/Fury

Fury narrowed her eyes as the tip of a wave rose out of that hole and engulfed her briefly - her black hair saturated back down her shoulders and back as her rib cage heaved in and out with her long, angry breaths.

Throwing her vision around, Fury searched for the source of this rivers animation, while reaching into the earth to collapse it over the hole, burying the water underground.

[paradox26]

Bolt watches the water collapse into the hole. Once Fury has covered it over with earth, he uses his fire blast to try to turn the dirt into glass, hardening the soil until the water cannot escape and renew its attack. His fire blasts out from his hands, as he lowers himself closer to the ground so that he can better and more fully torch the ground.

Spoiler: OOC Actions

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Bolt will descend closer to the ground, then will use his fire bolts to try to sear the ground into glass. (1d100)[82]

[Phantom Genius]

AGR-01 spots a figure near the edge of the Key Bridge in blue/green spandex, holding a trident and wrapped in a sheath of water. (Four areas away)

Fury does not see the figure, but sees, through the mud in her eyes, a large troll underneath the bridge, arms outstretched, perhaps about to throw the bridge at her. She also fails to get the earth to do exactly what she wants.

Bolt torches the area, but only creates more steam and some glass. The animated wave is now a puddle at best. He is also standing next to Fury.

Actions for next turn?

[BananaPhone]

Lisa/Fury


Fury's eyes widen and then narrow as her huge figure spots the troll underneath the bridge - his arms waving about.

"RAAGGHH!!' she bellows out ferociously, her towering figure leaping forward, sprinting and hopping to bridge the distance between them as she drew her right hand up to smash right into its face.

[MutantDragon]

Bingo! If the strange figure with a trident and water sheath wasn't behind this, nothing was. AGR-01's voice modulators pitch up enough to be heard by all and say "There! Atop the bridge! Focus your attention on that entity!" With that being said, AGR-01 turns his thrusters to the max and shoots towards his opponent, quickly closing the distance. He then launches a fist towards the figure, hoping to end this situation with his strength before any innocents are harmed.

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AGR-01 has TY flight which allows him to clear up to 6 areas on a given turn. He's then making a slugfest attack, so (1d100)[38]

[paradox26]

Bolt looks at where AGR-01 is pointing. He sees the figure, and immediately flies closer. Once he gets within range, he launches a firebolt at the figure, hoping that its water abilities and shielding won't disrupt the fire attack. He throws both hands out in front of him, pointing his hands and fingers at the target, and with a force of will, he launches the fire attack.

Spoiler: OOC Actions

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Fly closer to the target, then launch a firebolt. (1d100)[23]

[Phantom Genius]

The heroes win initiative again.

Fury begins moving quickly toward the bridge and, although hearing AGR-01 broadcast a different opponent, is fully prepared to smash the rusty-brown troll she saw from a distance. She travels three of the four areas, given her Incredible Endurance, and can now see that there is a rusty, iron bridge support with a graffiti monster on it taunting her... or maybe just holding up the bridge. She is one area from the bridge now, so she could move and attack next turn if she were to target the trident wielder.

AGR-01 and Bolt launch themselves toward the bridge; Bolt stopping short to blast the enemy with fire before AGR-01 can throw a mighty punch. But the blast misses and the enemy begins mocking his heroism, his aim, and even his manhood. "You point a flamethrower at the Mighty Mississippi? I have the power of a river god! I will pummel you, drown you, and then spike your body on the Capitol Spire!"

AGR-01 also misses the target, but receives a much more "pointed" response - a trident impaled in the leg, pumping cold water through his circuits, trying to short him out. (Twenty more damage after the armor.)

Please declare your actions for the next turn if you aren't out of health points.

[MutantDragon]

Ow. One more hit like that and this drone will be close to completely shorting out. But I can't just let this foolishly named superhuman hurt people, though the machine. No, there is really only one option at this point: fight until one of the two sides is unable to. So, with that, the machine launched a fist towards "Mighty Mississippi's" face.

[BananaPhone]

Lisa/Fury

Landing near the commotion, Fury's animalistic movements launched her forward as she closed the final distance in just a few long strides. Upon contact, she reached up and grabbed the trident-wielding woman and brought her own foot forward like a hooking blade, muscle-memory taking over to slam them over backwards...

[paradox26]

Bolt realised that the river god was right, and that he could not harm him in any meaningful way. But he saw his companion fighting the river god, and so he decided to continue the attack anyway, in hopes of distracting it to help his comrades, if nothing else.

Spoiler: OOC Action

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Fly to range of river god, then blast it with flames. (1d100)[58]

[Phantom Genius]

The heroes win initiative again.

Working with fine-tuned precision, the heroes all connect with their individual attacks. The water sheath protects Mighty Mississippi well and reduces the damage from each attack, but they are taking their toll on her health total. In response and maybe in desperation, she points her trident at Fury and says, "Begone!" A powerful spray of water appears out of nowhere and blasts her in the face.

Fury please roll an Endurance FEAT.

[paradox26]

Bolt moves around behind the river god, then launches another blast of fire, hoping it will have at least some effect.

Spoiler: OOC Actions

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Move behind god, then launch firebolt. (1d100)[46]

[MutantDragon]

Dialing up his excellent banter programs, AGR-01 exclaims, "If at any point you wish to surrender, speak up. Until then, the beatings will continue. That is all." He then throws another punch while silently thanking Fury for taking the brunt of the villain's attack.

Spoiler: Roll

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Just another slugfest roll. (1d100)[86]

[Phantom Genius]

The water is choking and almost blinding, but does not blast Fury off of the bridge and into the river.

Fury, go ahead and declare for next round. Also, please roll another END feat, in case you lose initiative and get blasted again.

[paradox26]

Bolt continues to blast fire at the river god, in hopes of distracting him if nothing else.

Spoiler: OOC Action

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(1d100)[73] Blast fire