Twilight Corps RPG

[Lord Elcorion]

shadow will alter course to invistigate the office, keeping his cloak of concealing darkness drawn tight around himself.

[Sword]

Heat:There's two of you, with four magnums, against five of them shovels. Hardly a fair fight. And yet they insist on attacking you for the glory of Morgoth. A look deeper into the cemetery suggests that Morgoth is the dude with the darkballs of fire flowing from his hands towards you
(He draws Ace, Queen Jack. You draw Jack,Joker Ace for defense. Do you wish to use the Joker to sabotage his draws or increase your own?)

Shadow Demon: You find yourself on the fourth floor of the office, outside an open window. the voices inside are shouting at each other now.
"Look boss. This is a supercity.Your plan wouldn't have worked even if Midas hadn't gotten involved."
"My plan was perfect. Rough her up a little then she'll pay the price for protection."
"What part of Super City do you not get? I know you came from Philly to get this girl, but this is Sunset. You can't throw a stone without hitting a super."

[kkhohoho]

Heat:There's two of you, with four magnums, against five of them shovels. Hardly a fair fight. And yet they insist on attacking you for the glory of Morgoth. A look deeper into the cemetery suggests that Morgoth is the dude with the darkballs of fire flowing from his hands towards you
(He draws Ace, Queen Jack. You draw Jack,Joker Ace for defense. Do you wish to use the Joker to sabotage his draws or increase your own?)

I use Joker to increase my draws.

OOC: By the way, I thought that Duplication 3 gave me 5 clones for 5 turns if I won the round, or does combat work differently then that?  And do you mean 4 magnums for each clone, or 4 magnums all together?

[Lord Elcorion]

shadow demon will use his incredible strenth to blow through the wall of the office, roaring out "Sinners! I am here to claim your souls and deliver them to the depths of Hell!" fanning his wings and useing his intimidation to it's fullest, casting a shadow of fear to feed on the terror he is trying to invoke.

[Lord Elcorion]

Heat:There's two of you, with four magnums, against five of them shovels. Hardly a fair fight. And yet they insist on attacking you for the glory of Morgoth. A look deeper into the cemetery suggests that Morgoth is the dude with the darkballs of fire flowing from his hands towards you
(He draws Ace, Queen Jack. You draw Jack,Joker Ace for defense. Do you wish to use the Joker to sabotage his draws or increase your own?)

I use Joker to increase my draws.

OOC: By the way, I thought that Duplication 3 gave me 5 clones for 5 turns if I won the round, or does combat work differently then that?  And do you mean 4 magnums for each clone, or 4 magnums all together?

OOG: i'd say four guns all together, unless heat has more than 2 arms.

[Sword]

(OOG: You're right. Sorry. There's five of you, and thus ten guns)

Heat: You and your dupes manage to evade the fireball that Morgoth threw at you. The two dupes on the furthest edges of your pack begin slowly circling around.

Shadow:
(Now let's see: I can't very well give you twelve cards for the powers and stunt. I'll give you nine for using your highest power and a mega stunt. your draws are on the left theirs are on the right)
Queen   3
9   Joker
5    6
Joker   4
King   Ace
Queen King
6    6
King   Jack.
Jack    7
Your Opponents use the Joker to boost themselves. But you still succeed)

There's now two goons cowering on the ground at the fearsome visage before them. They're throwing up prayers to the ceiling. Neither one is able to reach for their guns.

(You gain 30 points for a complex stunt)

[kkhohoho]

(OOG: You're right. Sorry. There's five of you, and thus ten guns)

Heat: You and your dupes manage to evade the fireball that Morgoth threw at you. The two dupes on the furthest edges of your pack begin slowly circling around.

Shadow:
(Now let's see: I can't very well give you twelve cards for the powers and stunt. I'll give you nine for using your highest power and a mega stunt. your draws are on the left theirs are on the right)
Queen   3
9   Joker
5    6
Joker   4
King   Ace
Queen King
6    6
King   Jack.
Jack    7
Your Opponents use the Joker to boost themselves. But you still succeed)

There's now two goons cowering on the ground at the fearsome visage before them. They're throwing up prayers to the ceiling. Neither one is able to reach for their guns.

(You gain 30 points for a complex stunt)

"...I could just as well send you both straight to hell right now, but I could also let you live.  I'll give you to the count of 3.  1...2..." Before Heat can say the first sound of the word 'three', the two goons run away like it's the end of the world.  And for them, it may have certaintly been that.  "I couldn't get information because I can tell Mr.Demon is waiting and watching.  Arn't you, Mr.Demon?"  Heat and his clones turn toward to what Heat now refers to as Mr.Demon.

[Sword]

"They were not ready for the coming evolution. You have experienced it, have you not?" The demon smiles at you. "In your moment of indecision, I got what I came for. See you in the darkness, Heat."

HE takes wing, leaving you to read the tombstone of the desecrated grave. "Jason Granger, Omega Scientist. Died in the explosion."

[kkhohoho]

"They were not ready for the coming evolution. You have experienced it, have you not?" The demon smiles at you. "In your moment of indecision, I got what I came for. See you in the darkness, Heat."

HE takes wing, leaving you to read the tombstone of the desecrated grave. "Jason Granger, Omega Scientist. Died in the explosion."

Jason Granger?  Ah yes.  Jason. That son of a *family forum :P*.   Of course whoever that freak of nature was digged up his grave.  Anyone who worked on the Omega Project was bound to be buried with something vaulable from it when they died.  What better way to hide something that caused what was considered by the goverment to be one of the nations biggest blunders?  The lab got trashed, and all the prisoners escaped.  However, the goverment most likely couldn't deny that peices of equipment from it were vaulable, so they hid it in the sceintist's graves.  And now, someone has their hands on what is probally a valuable peice of equipment.  It could possibly be dangerous.  So now, it was time to track him down.  Heat ran off in the direction the supposed demon took off in, as he had no other leads.

[Uncle Yuan]

Green man:
What you see is an armored centauress, whose body is glowing green from some kind of phosphorus fire. She is fighting a twelve year old girl with bronze and silver bangles on her wrist. She rushes at the girl, extending a twelve foot lance. The little girl catches the lance in her bare hand and judo throws the centauress, armor and all, into another tree.
"You can tell Pendragon to shove it. He created the Omegas. There's no way I'll ever work for him."

Hmmmm.  Strong for such a little thing.  She may not need my help . . . still, better safe than sorry. Stepping into the clearing, cloud of stones awhirl, I gesture at the ground where the glowing centauress landed.  There's a dense green "explosion" as roots, grasses and small vines erupt from the ground and encase her.

OOC: I don't have a clue what to draw for this action.  Feel free to PM me with an explanation if you want me to do it.  At the very least I'd appreciate a detailed description of things if you draw on my behalf.

[Lord Elcorion]

(OOG: You're right. Sorry. There's five of you, and thus ten guns)

Heat: You and your dupes manage to evade the fireball that Morgoth threw at you. The two dupes on the furthest edges of your pack begin slowly circling around.

Shadow:
(Now let's see: I can't very well give you twelve cards for the powers and stunt. I'll give you nine for using your highest power and a mega stunt. your draws are on the left theirs are on the right)
Queen   3
9   Joker
5    6
Joker   4
King   Ace
Queen King
6    6
King   Jack.
Jack    7
Your Opponents use the Joker to boost themselves. But you still succeed)

There's now two goons cowering on the ground at the fearsome visage before them. They're throwing up prayers to the ceiling. Neither one is able to reach for their guns.

(You gain 30 points for a complex stunt)

since there on the floor, i'll use my sculpt power to pin there arms and legs to the floor, and then start asking questions. "who are you? why did you want to attack the woman? answer truthfully, and i might just grant you a reprieve from your eternal damnation." i'm going to keep the Indimidation up, playing my appearance to it's fullest.

[Sword]

Heat: You start searching. Granger was low on the Omega totem pole, so it's not like the gate blueprints were buried with him. Morgoth had said something about a power source. That's also weird. The whole city is powered by the turbines at the dam. Unless the Omega Gate had its own compact generator. You'll probably need some help on this matter. SAINT HQ and Pyramid Towers are two options for that.
Green Man:
(You're trying a rooted entangle. That's not a full power ability. It's at level 2. So you would draw two, and your opponent also draws two to evade. You draw Ace Queen, Opponent draws 2 9. 2 being a double failure drops the amount of successes to minus 1, causing four points(3 successes to -1 success) of damage to the centaur's legs. Her defense grid now looks like this:
[!!!!][!!!!][!!!!][!!!][!!]- Standard +2 Limit
[!!!!][!!!!][!!!][!!]-Current
Head:[!!!!][!!!!][!!!!][!!!][!!]
Left Arm:[!!!!][!!!!][!!!!][!!!][!!]
Right Arm:[!!!!][!!!!][!!!!][!!!][!!]
Torso:[!!!!][!!!!][!!!!][!!!][!!]
Left Leg:[!!!!][!!!!][!!!][!!]
Right Leg:[!!!!][!!!!][!!!][!!]- )
Understandably she's upset. She attempts to use her greek fire to burn through the roots.
(Draw 7 Jack 7 for her to 9 9 Jack for you. She is firmly locked in place.)
Shadow:
(Draw Jack 8 6 5 to 7 3 9 2) They are stuck in place.
They begin blubbering. The boos just tells you, in full confessional tone that he wanted all of the heiress' money and was going to charge for "protection" from "unsavory" elements. She refused the first time, so he sent his mark to get her. That's when Midas stepped in.
A voice speaks in your head. "Nice job finding them. This is the Voice and Midas talking to you. Their confession has been telepathically relayed to the police."

[kkhohoho]

Heat: You start searching. Granger was low on the Omega totem pole, so it's not like the gate blueprints were buried with him. Morgoth had said something about a power source. That's also weird. The whole city is powered by the turbines at the dam. Unless the Omega Gate had its own compact generator. You'll probably need some help on this matter. SAINT HQ and Pyramid Towers are two options for that.

Heat decides to go over to SAINT HQ and get some help.  He gets information from the locals, and finds the place.  Upon reading the name in giant letters, he think to himself what he is.  Certaintly not a saint, that's for sure.  But is anyone in the world truely a saint?  He gets back to business and goes into the bulding.  He walks over to the secretary, or whatever passes as one in that place.  "Hello, miss.  What's a fine thing like you doing in a place like this?"  "SAINTS HQ.  State your name and buisness."  says the lady.  "Cold.  I'll have you know my name's Heat.  And I just so happen to be in a fix involving some sort of demon or freak of nature, and I figured this was right up your alley."

[Lord Elcorion]

Heat: You start searching. Granger was low on the Omega totem pole, so it's not like the gate blueprints were buried with him. Morgoth had said something about a power source. That's also weird. The whole city is powered by the turbines at the dam. Unless the Omega Gate had its own compact generator. You'll probably need some help on this matter. SAINT HQ and Pyramid Towers are two options for that.
Green Man:
(You're trying a rooted entangle. That's not a full power ability. It's at level 2. So you would draw two, and your opponent also draws two to evade. You draw Ace Queen, Opponent draws 2 9. 2 being a double failure drops the amount of successes to minus 1, causing four points(3 successes to -1 success) of damage to the centaur's legs. Her defense grid now looks like this:
[!!!!][!!!!][!!!!][!!!][!!]- Standard +2 Limit
[!!!!][!!!!][!!!][!!]-Current
Head:[!!!!][!!!!][!!!!][!!!][!!]
Left Arm:[!!!!][!!!!][!!!!][!!!][!!]
Right Arm:[!!!!][!!!!][!!!!][!!!][!!]
Torso:[!!!!][!!!!][!!!!][!!!][!!]
Left Leg:[!!!!][!!!!][!!!][!!]
Right Leg:[!!!!][!!!!][!!!][!!]- )
Understandably she's upset. She attempts to use her greek fire to burn through the roots.
(Draw 7 Jack 7 for her to 9 9 Jack for you. She is firmly locked in place.)
Shadow:
(Draw Jack 8 6 5 to 7 3 9 2) They are stuck in place.
They begin blubbering. The boos just tells you, in full confessional tone that he wanted all of the heiress' money and was going to charge for "protection" from "unsavory" elements. She refused the first time, so he sent his mark to get her. That's when Midas stepped in.
A voice speaks in your head. "Nice job finding them. This is the Voice and Midas talking to you. Their confession has been telepathically relayed to the police."

i'll try thinking back at them, hoping they are listening for my mind, since i don't want to spoil the image i've presented to the goons "i just wanted to help. i was actually looking for Midas when i heard these 2 talking and just decided to take them down, i was hopeing to get the reward money for finding Midas to give to the childrens shelter over on Corby and Star.." i see no reason to lie, especially since i'm trying to earn these heros acceptance, and that i want to do good to keep from falling to the corruption i believe infects my body and soul.

[Sword]

Heat:
The woman at the desk looks up. "By our records, there are three demons in Sunset City. Could you be more specific?"

Shadow:
The voice telepathically chuckles. "After these goons tried their protection scam the first time, we made the whole thing a work. The heiress was played by a shapeshifter and Midas just "happened" to be there. The reward is real enough and for your part in this, you can do with it as you please. The police are coming to get the goons. Nice job, Shadow Demon.

[kkhohoho]

Heat:
The woman at the desk looks up. "By our records, there are three demons in Sunset City. Could you be more specific?"

"Well, he seemed to have wings, and he can throw fireballs.  I think his name is Morgoth."

[Lord Elcorion]

shadow demon nods slightly, moving out of the office "just send the money to the childrens shelter, that'll be enough for me. and.. if you ever want my help with something, give me a shout. i'll be there if i can make it.

[Uncle Yuan]

Green Man:
(You're trying a rooted entangle. That's not a full power ability. It's at level 2. So you would draw two, and your opponent also draws two to evade. You draw Ace Queen, Opponent draws 2 9. 2 being a double failure drops the amount of successes to minus 1, causing four points(3 successes to -1 success) of damage to the centaur's legs. Her defense grid now looks like this:
[!!!!][!!!!][!!!!][!!!][!!]- Standard +2 Limit
[!!!!][!!!!][!!!][!!]-Current
Head:[!!!!][!!!!][!!!!][!!!][!!]
Left Arm:[!!!!][!!!!][!!!!][!!!][!!]
Right Arm:[!!!!][!!!!][!!!!][!!!][!!]
Torso:[!!!!][!!!!][!!!!][!!!][!!]
Left Leg:[!!!!][!!!!][!!!][!!]
Right Leg:[!!!!][!!!!][!!!][!!]- )
Understandably she's upset. She attempts to use her greek fire to burn through the roots.
(Draw 7 Jack 7 for her to 9 9 Jack for you. She is firmly locked in place.)

As long as she stays put for the time being, I'm willing to let her struggle.  I'll keep an eye on her and throw on more layers as needed.  I regard the girl.  Is she noticably injured?  Panicing?  Closing in for the kill?  I heard the centauress say she's working for Pendragon, so I know she's a bad guy.  But that doesn't necessarily make the girl the good guy . . . I need more info.

[Sword]

The girl pulls out a cellphone. "SAINT, I've got one of Pendragon's goons here. Knightfire. In the Park. Allright,I'll see what I can do."

She walks up to you. "Thanks for the help. I'm with the icecaps. Name's Olympia." A communicator on her wrist starts to chime. "Olympia, Bayonet here. Did Pendragon send a goon after you?"
"Yeah, Knightfire, why?"
"Because he sent Blood Scarab after me."
"Divide and Conquer." Olympia takes a deep breath. "Bayonet, call for Corps backup. I've got to round up the rest of the gang.
"Will do. Bayonet to Garrison,  Come in, Garrison."
Once again, Olympia looks at you. "My team's in trouble.Could you subdue the horse over there at least until the Black Knights arrive?"

[Sword]

Heat: The woman looks up. "We've been looking for information on Morgoth's whereabouts for three weeks now. What was he doing?"

Shadow: As you leave the office, you feel a hand on your shoulder. "You did good out there." The man is standing next to you, smiling from under dark glasses. "Francis Kelly's been trying to run the protection racket for four months now. Because of your actions, we were able to bust him good. Midas walks away."If Ineed you, I won't hesitate to call."
(You get 5 extra points for stopping a crime)

[Lord Elcorion]

nodding, shadow demon allows himself a small smile.. it felt good to be given a compliment. perhaps finding acceptance with the other heros wouldn't be so hard after all. he moves to leave the building, and launches himself into the air once again, finding the highest point he can to land and perch. his kitten has plenty of food and water, and she was napping anyway, so shadow demon had time to find more good deeds to do. from his vantage, he would scan the city with his enhanced sences and try to locate any other trouble spots.

[Sword]

Shadow:
your senses pick up metal ringing against metal down below you. The word "Pendragon" is mentioned over and over. Your eyes pick out a steel silver person, about 6 feet tall, fighting with a humanoid beetle.
"You knew. You knew the 'Caps would be separate to day so you attacked all of us."

A bolt of grey surges down from the air. Garrison has joined the fight. Now as you listen again, the Scarab makes his backup known. Two gaseous entities, one that smells like almonds, and one that smells like rotten eggs. Or as they're better known, Prussic Acid and Sulfur. It's three on two down there. Garrison seems to be enjoying it, but the other one is having issues.

[kkhohoho]

Heat: The woman looks up. "We've been looking for information on Morgoth's whereabouts for three weeks now. What was he doing?"

"I saw him digging up a grave.  It read 'Jason Granger, Omega Scientist. Died in the explosion.'  Morgoth got some shiny metalic object from the guy's grave.  Why he wanted that object could be any number of reasons, but I'm bettin' on destruction."

[Lord Elcorion]

Shadow:
your senses pick up metal ringing against metal down below you. The word "Pendragon" is mentioned over and over. Your eyes pick out a steel silver person, about 6 feet tall, fighting with a humanoid beetle.
"You knew. You knew the 'Caps would be separate to day so you attacked all of us."

A bolt of grey surges down from the air. Garrison has joined the fight. Now as you listen again, the Scarab makes his backup known. Two gaseous entities, one that smells like almonds, and one that smells like rotten eggs. Or as they're better known, Prussic Acid and Sulfur. It's three on two down there. Garrison seems to be enjoying it, but the other one is having issues.

shadow demon gives a roar and dives off the building he is on, arrowing for the fight. he'll take a chunk of concrete with him and try to use his sculpting power to reform it into a gas mask. then once he gets closer, he'll try to take control of Sulfur's shadow and turn it into an air tight bag around him. ((presuming i can use shadow puppet in that way))

[Dweomer Knight]

I'll do a she asks.

DK

[Sword]

Heat: Now the SAINT Agent is worried. "According to the Corps, Mr. Granger was buried with one of the Omega Gate's power cores. Just one is enough to power a machine similar to the Omega Gate for three hours, You need to keep tabs on Morgoth if possible."
Shadow:
(King King to Ace 4 You've succeeded in entrapping Sulfur) Sulfur is contained by his own shadow and Mist's attempts to get at you are also for naught.
Umbral: Seeing no other option, you lick the jawbreaker. Very quickly, she gives you a pair of safety goggles. "This is going to get messy" Once their on, you let the jawbreaker fly. On impact with the ground, it sends up an explosion in a five foot radius and covers the crash dummy in constricting confectioner's goo.
Faith hands you a box of the Jaw Breaker Grenades for free.
"Thanks for this. I know you're busy and all but I feel like I'm going to explode if I don't show these things to somebody."
As you get ready to leave the store, you are confronted by Madame Morgue's undead servants. "Madame Morgue demands your company, Faith."
"Baby Grand Piano." As far as you can tell its not a curse word. There's a heavy creaking above your head and the instrument plummets down on the zombies.
"Clean up" Faith's voice again takes on the air of authority, and her command immediately removes all traces of piano and zombie goo.
"Sorry about that. Madame Morgue is always trying to convert me into one of her pawns. Enjoy your candy."

[kkhohoho]

Heat: Now the SAINT Agent is worried. "According to the Corps, Mr. Granger was buried with one of the Omega Gate's power cores. Just one is enough to power a machine similar to the Omega Gate for three hours, You need to keep tabs on Morgoth if possible."

"I would if I could, but he flew off.  I'll be sure to keep an eye on him though."  With that, Heat walks toward the door.

[Dweomer Knight]

(Free candy.  Mmmmmm.  Wait....I can't eat any of it.  Crap.)


I pocket the "candy" and leave the store.

DK

[Sword]

Heat: As you leave, you notice a bank of computers with a sign overhead "Omega Database Console." You might be able to learn more about Morgoth there.
Shadow:
Mist is trying to poison you. Since he is living cyanide, it might be easy.
3        3
Queen 2
8       Jack
Queen Ace
King    Ace-- Three successes to one. He has poisoned you. Lose one point from your torso grid per turn
Umbral: The candy can still be eaten. But the moment it leaves your hand, it becomes a weapon. You however have bigger concerns. A group of eight zombies now surrounds you, trying to get into the candy store which you are blocking.

[Uncle Yuan]

The girl pulls out a cellphone. "SAINT, I've got one of Pendragon's goons here. Knightfire. In the Park. Allright,I'll see what I can do."

She walks up to you. "Thanks for the help. I'm with the icecaps. Name's Olympia." A communicator on her wrist starts to chime. "Olympia, Bayonet here. Did Pendragon send a goon after you?"
"Yeah, Knightfire, why?"
"Because he sent Blood Scarab after me."
"Divide and Conquer." Olympia takes a deep breath. "Bayonet, call for Corps backup. I've got to round up the rest of the gang.
"Will do. Bayonet to Garrison,  Come in, Garrison."
Once again, Olympia looks at you. "My team's in trouble.Could you subdue the horse over there at least until the Black Knights arrive?"

Wonder how long that will take?  I don't know anything about Knightfire, or what she might do to get out in the mean time.  Still she seems pretty well under control.  For now.

"How long?"  My voice comes out sounding like two braches rubbing together; I still don't like the sound of it.  The wirling cloud of stones moves behind my back, at the ready.