<div class="floatright">(http://i284.photobucket.com/albums/ll37/Geesaroni/spiderchick.jpg)</div>Doc Tabs' gems whizzed around the room in a high-speed and deadly gemstorm; it was Ace's quick thinking that turned a whirlwind of valuables into an impromptu lightshow; such a display had the Silver Spider's gang recoiling in fear (at least most of them, anyway).<br/><br/>"Oh my god I don't want leukemia!"<br/><br/>"Maybe it'll give you superpowers?"<br/><br/>"Yeah, maybe it'll give me breast cancer!"<br/><br/>"You're a... man, though."<br/><br/>"That's a real thing! Just because it's not as common doesn't mean- hey, I surrender!"<br/><br/>Whitney meanwhile nipped around the back to make another entrance, because doors were for suckers - or at least for people who couldn't make their own doors. There was a day and age when it was common for superheroes to operate in pairs or small teams. While it may have rankled some superpowered egos, it was a great boon to their fans as the various personality conflicts came out, and a great boon to them personally when it allowed them a solid tactical advantage over the more solitary supervillains.<br/><br/>It also allowed them to ask one of those universal questions (more universal, perhaps, than combustion or rotary transport). Namely, 'hey, does this look load-bearing to you?'<br/><br/>Whitney was not a person for such questions. The wall of the gallery crumpled like wet paper under the force of her precisely-calculated explosion, knocking the unfortunate Spider Gang near the wall flying and thoroughly out of the fight amid a shower of broken glass, metal, stone, drywall and electrical wiring.<br/><br/>The good news was that the resounding boom and flying shrapnel were enough to draw the Silver Spider out of hiding, the silver-haired supervillainess strolling serenely out of one of the back rooms, a bulging spider-silk satchel swinging 'round one of her arms (convenient<em>and</em>stylish transport, for the jewel-thief on the go).<br/><br/>"Hello, dears, I see you're having fun!" she clapped her hands, her eyes bright with all the cheerfulness of someone who found the immediate danger and collapsing buildings terribly exciting, "I'd love to stay and catch up, but it looks like things are," the gallery rumbled and cracks started to appear in the ceiling and on the walls, spreading quickly from the corners of windows and joists, "a little<em>shaky</em>between us?" She wasn't joking, they could hear the structure heave; the gallery was going to collapse sooner rather than later.<br/><br/>She started to make a hasty retreat out Whitney's convenient new exit, but turned back, putting a hand over her mouth as though in distress, "Oh dear me, you should save the employees, shouldn't you? Uhuhuhu, let me give you a reason to<em>stick around!</em>" From her kimono she pulled out a grenade, lobbing it between the two nearest of her assailants. Those further away had the chance to dive for cover before it exploded in a mess of sticky adhesive silk - Whitney, Ace and Tabs were less lucky as the strands wrapped around them.<br/><br/><hr/>Spider Gang has been emotion'd down twice by Ace and physical'd down one and a half times by Whitney, so they're at 4d6 and a d6 stress.<br/><br/>Silver Spider enters the scene!<br/>Silver Spider immediately declares her intention to ollies outie, attempting to impose a Complication: Web Entanglement! I, er... think I've set this up correctly? She rolls 3d8+6d6 (Solo d8+Webbing d8+Arachnid Trapmaster d8+area dice) from an area attack targeting the whole team, and keeps 6 effect dice. She gets a 10 to Complicate matters, and for effect die applies a d8 to Ace, Whitney and Tabs (Strong Webs d8), and a d6 to everyone else (Sort of Stuck d6), and activates 2 opportunities.<br/><br/>1 XP to Ace for a Super-Laser Light Show<br/>1 XP to Doc Tabs for explaining something that didn't need explaining<br/>1 XP to Whitney for millions of dollars in collateral damage<br/><br/>Doc Tabs, Ace and Whitney, collect a PP each. Doom Pool is now 2d6+1d8+1d10. The scene distinction<strong>And Now For Something Completely Different</strong>has become<strong>Why Does Everything Always Collapse Around Us?</strong><br/><br/>What's left of the Spider Gang (if there's any of them left left) will go at the end of the turn.