<div class="floatright">(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/8/81/Superheroine-2.jpg)</div>Name: Ace the Wonder-Girl<br/>Where: New New Newgate Prison, Temporary Housing Complex<br/>Milestones: In the Name of the Moon and Silver Age Sensibilities<br/><del>1</del>0 PP | 0 Physical | 0 Mental | d8 Emotional | 11 xp<br/>Assets: None | Complications: None | Resources: None<br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Mechanics</div><div class="spoiler_body">Alright, the other dice rolls were handled in the OOC thread. For Ace's action this turn, we're bringing out a little-used but quite potent power in the Silver Age arsenal: Venusian Super-Hypnosis!<br/><br/>Solo d10 + Comic Book Superhero d8 + Psych Expert d8 + Venusian Super-Hypnosis d8 (Psych Stunt) + Impulsive SFX d10<br/><br/>3d8 = 3, 8, 1 (https://elliquiy.com/forums/dicebot.php?r=96433)<br/>2d10 = 9, 6 (https://elliquiy.com/forums/dicebot.php?r=96435)<br/><br/>One opportunity, which I'm using the plot point from to add that 3 to the final result.  <strong>20 total, d10 effect</strong>.  And what I'm banking on is that Minerva doesn't have much in the way of power traits or specialties that will allow her to build a dicepool against this attack, and it also hopefully isn't one where Ace's Petrified complication would come to bear.  Even so, I'm expecting that Ace's effect die is probably only going to be stepped up to a d12, but if Minerva gets unlucky and her total is less than 10, she's going to be complicated right out of the fight.<br/><br/>The d10 I borrowed is returned to the doom pool as a d12.<br/></div></div><hr/><br/>Ace tried to work fast, hoping to wrestle the spider-woman into submission in short order, so that she could turn and face the shapeshifter.  Unfortunately, Arachne proved just resilient enough to stay conscious and mobile in spite of her best efforts, and soon the Venusian Wonder found herself being wrestled away, Minerva coiled around her in a snake-like form.<br/><br/>"Great Venus! My body... is turning to stone!"  She exclaimed, as soon as she noticed what was happening.  Her movements were slowing, her limbs becoming stiff and sluggish, she could see the fabric of her outfit turning from brilliant blue to stony grey...  "Have to... move!  Only one chance!"<br/><br/>Arachne had moved around her, taking the time while she was being petrified to line up another shot with her webbing, but the instant she fired, Ace pivoted, her stony arms locked around Minerva's snake-like coils carrying the shapeshifter right into the path of the webbing spray.  It didn't wind up taking her out of the fight as the Venusian Wonder had hoped it would, but it did cut off the petrifying gaze, and force the sinister serpent-like creature to untangle herself from the blonde as she wriggled free from the webbing.  Desperate times called for desperate measures, and Ace could think of only one ability from among her phenomenal list of super-powers that could save her this time.<br/><br/>She locked eyes with Minerva and her petrifying gaze, willingly this time, and began to exert her will.<br/><br/>"You are growing tired,"  She stated, speaking in a calm, melodic, even hypnotizing tone of voice.  "So tired, so very tired.  Your eyelids are growing heavy, and even awake, you feel as though you are falling into a trance.  You are exhausted.  You need to sleep.  Go on... sleep... Fall asleeeeeep...!"<br/><br/>Venusian Super-Hypnosis.  A risky move, in the midst of a battle like this one, but since she had an opponent who wanted her to look them directly in the eye anyway, it was the best move she had available to her.