<div class="floatright">(http://orig10.deviantart.net/3f32/f/2012/002/5/6/dust_and_smoke_by_shimmering_sword-d4l4dg7.jpg)</div>Name: Darclight<br/>Where: Malta, Stormwatch<del>Former</del>HQ<br/>Doing What: Video Games...Are You *ucking KIDDING ME?!<br/>Milestones: Riders on the Storm and...In the Name of the Moon.  (Cue Darclight Facepalm)<br/>1 PP | 0 Physical | 0 Mental | d4 Emotional | 11xp (of 31xp total)<br/><br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Mechanics</div><div class="spoiler_body"><br/>Action will be to go after 'Daughter,' hoping to freeze up Seras' weapons and thus remove her ranged capability and force her to close to melee.  In game terms, inflicting the Complication <strong>Useless, Frozen Weapons</strong>.<br/><br/>Dicepool: Team Affiliation (d10); Stormwatch - OG Red Team Leader (d8); Jump-Jets (d10); Cold Mastery (d10); Science Master (2d8)<br/></div></div><hr/><br/>This was ridiculous.  He was going to have to play video games against a vampire, her stupid daughter, and now that magicked-up dullahan from outside.  Conway was not pleased, not pleased in the slightest.  At least he might be able to turn this in his favor!  If they could make a strong enough showing in the first few rounds, MAYBE they could get passage up to the command center and get back his house!<br/><br/><tt class="bbc_tt">"Ladies,"</tt>Darclight responded as he picked up the controller in front of him.<tt class="bbc_tt">  "Here's the plan.  <em>Win</em>." </tt>Conway knew the three characters selected.  Lincoln?  If it was like the one in the movie, used mostly axes and the occasional Civil War-era firearm.  Sultana?  Probably had her own abilities.  Seras?  Had a freaking miniature howitzer that she carried around everywhere.  That had to go.  As the game started, Darclight triggered the immediate speed boost that flashed for his character on the screen, having come at the end of Hopkins' quote:  "The undead...the foe I have pursued all my life!"  And then started laughing.<br/><br/>He wished<em>he</em>was playing as himself, instead of as a movie character.  Granted, that character had a torch and a sword, but still wasn't quite his cold projectors...<br/><br/>...at least until he torch-bashed the platform he'd double-jumped to and discovered the sub-weapon pickup was the<em>Ice</em>spell.  Okay, that worked.<br/><br/>The speed boost was almost gone, he needed to hurry!  Double-jumping across three platforms, he turned at the last moment as his momentum carried him over the lip of the platform, and landed him on the ledge right behind where the three opponents stood.  Pressing the sub-weapon button, he invoked the Ice spell, which sent a wave of frost right at his intended target, Seras and her fancy modern firearms.<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Actual Dice Rolls</div><div class="spoiler_body">3d8 = 5, 8, 8.<br/>3d10 = 1, 3, 9.<br/><br/>Spending Darclight's last PP to throw in a final die for the addition: <strong>Action Total 25, Effect Die d12</strong> (d10 stepped up b/c of <em>Frozen Grasp</em>.<br/></div></div>