<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 Former HQ<br/>Doing What: My Very Best Anthony Hopkins-as-Van Helsing Impression<br/>Milestones: Riders on the Storm and...In the Name of the Moon.  (Cue Darclight Facepalm)<br/>1 PP | 0 Physical | 0 Mental | 0 Emotional | 9xp (of 29xp total)<br/><br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Mechanics</div><div class="spoiler_body"><br/>Making that roll to brute-force through!<br/><br/>Stormwatch - OG Red Team Leader Distinction (d8); Team Affiliation (d10); Superhuman Durability (d10); Cold Weapons (d10); Combat Master (d10)<br/><br/>Pool Total: d8 + 4d10!<br/><br/>Second roll: Complicate the Vampire!<br/><br/>Kiss My Acid-Base Complex Distinction (d4 + 1PP); Team Affiliation (d10); Jump-Jets (d10); Cold Mastery (d10); Science Master (d10, changed out for 2d8)<br/><br/>Pool total: 1d4 + 2d8 + 3d10!<br/><br/>See Specifics Below.<br/><br/></div></div><hr/><br/>The armor<em>glared</em>at Kanina.<tt class="bbc_tt">"You just <em>had</em> to tell her it was formerly mine!  Next time you get the idea to talk about someone else's history, <em>ask first</em>!"</tt>It wasn't like he was going around telling every living soul that Kanina was heir to a<em>galactic civilzation</em>or such things.  Of course, such things fell by the wayside when the matter of gigantic laser blasts from the array came about.<em>Fuck</em>.  The centuries-old vampire had decided to grab someone from the more modern era - probably some idiot fainting Tumblr Goth who spazzed out about 'OMG, a Real Vampire?!  Are you, like, Dracula or Edward?' - to manage the tech-y aspects of the building.  Well, note to that, she had been here long enough that she knew about those parts of the building, which precluded her having moved in last week...<br/><br/><tt class="bbc_tt">"Get through, and meet inside!" </tt>On the trip over, they had agreed that Darclight's cold-projection combat systems - the last piece necessary for activation of the Absolute Zero Cannon - should be powered up.  However, Conway had nixed the idea of actually bringing the Cannon online.  ("We're going to Stormwatch HQ, the last thing I want to do is have it damaged in case my shot misses and I end up freezing over the whole damn building.  Or someone else.")  But it had been proven in their encounter with the Kraken that they needed to step up their ability to slow things down - or otherwise impair them - with his cold-projectors.  So, they had agreed to give them a little boost in that respect.<br/><br/>Powering on the combat-projectors, Darclight formed two large armblades out of his ice, and began utilizing them - as well as his natural toughness - to carve a path through the laser beams and reach safety at the front door.  On the way there, however, he spotted an opportunity.  The vampire - now a bat swarm - was flying away from the melee and using her new multiplicity to evade the laser beams.  Of course, a normal hero would have just tried to focus on staying alive.<br/><br/>But Darclight was hardly your normal hero.  This was his<em>home</em>, and some undead lady-of-the-evening was not going to keep it!  "Khaj!  Fire up the rest of the projector array, full power!  I have an idea!"<br/><br/><span class="bbc_u">"Sir, I do not think this is the time-"</span><br/><br/>"She's GETTING AWAY, and not expecting what's coming!"<br/><br/><span class="bbc_u">"Sir."</span><br/><br/>Disengaging one of his arm blades, he fired the jump-jets, rising into the air in the direction of the swarm.  When he was close enough, and the readout read 100%, Darclight threw a wall of cold at the vicinity of the bat swarm, hoping to catch them in place and freeze them solid.  Vampires might be dead, but they could still be deprived of motion, right?  Conway did think about how he was going to affect an undead creature with the science of the living, but...only for a moment.  This<em>*itch</em>had his<em>house!</em><br/><br/>Also, perhaps to prove that Darclight was Not So Above It All<sup>(TM)</sup>, this was the next thing that Kanina and Tabs heard from the space warrior:<br/><br/><tt class="bbc_tt">"VAMPIRE!  Mock me and mine, will you?!  You and your undead spawn shall not survive the night, for what you possess is rightfully mine!  I am Darclight, Master of War of the Ten Thousand Worlds!  And even that which is dead fears my wrath!  Flee now and know peace!  And take your blathering Twitter-bound Gothophile with you!"</tt><br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Actual Dice Rolls</div><div class="spoiler_body">Roll vs Doom Pool:<br/><br/>4, 5, 5, 8, 8.  Spending 1 PP to keep extra die for total - total 21, with d10 effect.<br/><br/>Roll to Complicate Vampire:<br/><br/>1, 3, 4, 6, 10, 10.  20, with d10 effect, stepped up to d12 by <em>Frozen Grasp</em> SFX.  1 opportunity.</div></div>