<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: Seriously<br/>Milestones: Riders on the Storm and...In the Name of the Moon.  (Cue Darclight Facepalm)<br/>2 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/>Reaction: Resist Blood Chains Complication<br/><br/>Dicepool: Solo (d8), Stormwatch Red Leader (d8); Superhuman Strength (d10); Cold Mastery (d10); Michael Myers Would be Proud (d10); Science Master (d10); Sultana's Stress (d6)<br/><br/>[Dicepool Amended: add in Jump-Jets (d10) through <em>Evasive Maneuvers</em> SFX]<br/><br/><br/>Action will be to remove the Blood Chains Complication.<br/><br/>Dicepool: Solo Affiliation (d8); Stormwatch Red Leader (d8); Superhuman Strength (d10); Cold Mastery (d10); Michael Myers Would Be Proud Asset (d10); Science Master (d10); Sultana's Mental Stress (d6)<br/></div></div><hr/><br/><tt class="bbc_tt">"Don't."</tt>Darclight warned her, a last plea for her to listen to reason and surrender now before things got out of control.<tt class="bbc_tt">"Don't-"</tt>And then she was behind him, in a move whose speed surprised even him, but he managed to regain his footing just in time for the chains to spring into being.  "Khaj, the chains, freeze and break!"  It was a common counter that they used in order to defeat those that might want to keep him bound up.  Darclight had drained a lot of his power, though, moving through the Stormwatch HQ so quickly to take Daughter - Sofiya, apparently - by surprise.  As such, the first attempt to break the chains failed.  "Freezerburn!"  That was the codeword for firing the Jump-Jets, hoping that between the rapid freezing and melting (from the heat of the jets), the liquid chains would fail to adhere to the armor.<br/><br/>Maybe it was just the fact that Darclight was trying to use science against magic, or maybe it was just the fact that he'd been carrying the team on an impressive streak for some time, and that streak was going to end eventually...but the chains held.<br/><tt class="bbc_tt"><br/>"ENOUGH!"</tt>Darclight shouted, and with a mighty heave, the bonds flash-froze in an instant before being shattered to little more than hand-sized ice blocks by the prodigious strength of the armor.  Hovering there in the air on his jets, he issued a declaration.<tt class="bbc_tt"> "If she is a mouse, and you are a lion, then I am a pack of panthers!  I am from beyond the stars!  I am the Master of War of 10,000 Worlds!  Your braggadocio means <em>nothing</em> to me!  A Queen, you call yourself?  I have slain <em>Empresses</em> by the pack-load!  Lords of things living and dead by the score!  Regicide is not new to me.  Now <em>cease</em> before I am forced to add you to their number!"</tt><br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Actual Dice Rolls</div><div class="spoiler_body">Reaction Roll<br/><br/>1d6 = 1<br/>2d8 = 1, 1<br/>4d10 = 2, 4, 5, 6<br/><br/>HOLY...okay, adding a d6 to the Doom Pool to invoke <em>Evasive Maneuvers</em>.<br/><br/>Reaction Re-roll<br/><br/>1d6 = 5<br/>2d8 = 3, 8<br/>5d10 =  3, 4, 4, 4, 4<br/><br/>Spending 1 PP to keep an extra die for the total.  Reaction 17, effect d10.  Failure to resist, but the Complication is kept from stepping up.<br/><br/>Action Roll<br/><br/>1d6 = 1<br/>2d8 = 3, 8<br/>4d10 = 4, 6, 7, 8.<br/><br/>Spending 1 PP to add an extra die to the total.  <strong>Action total 23, effect d10, 1 opportunity.</strong>  Vs total of 21 to establish Complication, Complication removed.<br/><br/>Spending PP from rolled opportunity to keep an extra effect die (d10).  Using as Complication: <em><strong>Facing the Master of War of 10,000 Worlds</strong></em>.<br/><br/></div></div>