<div class="floatright">(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/e/e9/Sexy_blonde_mermaid.jpg)</div>Name: Ace the Wonder-Girl<br/>Where: Simport City Harbor<br/>Milestones: My Wife is a Teenage Robot and Silver Age Sensibilities<br/>1 PP | 0 Physical | 0 Mental | 0 Emotional | 0 xp<br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Mechanics</div><div class="spoiler_body">I don't have any available plot points to take advantage of those opportunities, sadly, so rolling for my reaction first...<br/><br/>Solo d10 + Distinction d4 (The Best Laid Plans...) + Superhuman Reflexes d10 + Complication d10 (Resisting the Fishy Mistress!)<br/><br/>1d4 = 2 (https://elliquiy.com/forums/dicebot.php?r=92941)<br/>3d10 = 9, 6, 7 (https://elliquiy.com/forums/dicebot.php?r=92942)<br/><br/>Taking 1 PP for the activation of Ace's Sidekick Syndrome limit, so she only gets to add a single die to the total.  That's going to be <strong>2, with d10 effect</strong>. The d10 effect die steps the <em>Grappled</em> complication back by 1, but with Ace's low roll, it then gets stepped up twice, leaving poor Ace at <strong>Grappled d8</strong>.<br/><br/>Then, for Ace's action...<br/><br/>Solo d10 + Distinction d4 (Comic Book Superhero) + d10 (Superhuman Reflexes) + d8 (Venusian Hypno Ray) + d8 (Tech Expert) + d10 (Resisting the Fishy Mistress!)<br/><br/>1d4 = 3 (https://elliquiy.com/forums/dicebot.php?r=92944)<br/>2d8 = 6, 3 (https://elliquiy.com/forums/dicebot.php?r=92945)<br/>3d10 = 10, 5, 4 (https://elliquiy.com/forums/dicebot.php?r=92947)<br/><br/>Spending one of the three Plot Points I've earned to keep an extra die for the action, and one Plot Point to keep an extra effect die. <strong>10, 6, 5 = 21 total</strong>, with <strong>d10 effect for mind control</strong> and <strong>d8 effect to remove the Grappled complication</strong>.<br/></div></div><hr/><br/>The Venusian Hypno-Ray seemed like it was really working well, at first.  The great kraken out in the bay stopped moving and became docile, and assuming that her new gadget had done its work, the newly-minted mermaid swam a little closer, intending to ready the beast for the next step of her plans.  Unfortunately, the great tentacled beast managed to somewhat snap out of the trance that it had slipped into, and while its movements were slow and disjointed due to the lingering effects of the Hypno-Ray upon its mind, it still managed to reach out and catch Ace with a tentacle about her midsection.<br/><br/>The Venusian Wonder's invulnerability protected her from the crushing pressure of that slimy grip, of course, but she knew from long experience that she would have a difficult time of it if she tried to depend on her strength to get herself free of the bit of trouble she was now in.  Instead, since the arm that held the Hypno-Ray was still free from the creature's tentacled grasp, she angled it back up to the beast's eyes, doing her best to keep her aim steady, to hold that beam of coruscating radiation upon it, even as the tentacle holding her whipped her back and forth.<br/><br/>"I said<strong>OBEY!</strong>"  She called out, superpowered lungs booming the last word out at a loud enough volume that glass would likely have shattered if she were in the middle of the nearby city, rather than out in the harbor.  "Atlantia commands your obedience, beast!  Submit!  Obey!  And let your new mistress go!"