<strong>Ace</strong><br/><br/><div class="floatright">(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/f/fa/Power_armor_girl_evil_resized.png)</div>If the guards had any notion that Ace was blushing as she exited the trailer, they didn't make any sign of it, but saluted and got to their business, the lead notifying the Warden in particular that the shock collar was a no-go. "Roger. The robot is breaking off from the gunship to come at us from another angle, you'll have a clean approach."<br/><br/>The city's skyscrapers blurred into lines as Ace accelerated, interstellar flight-speed quickly forming a mach cone as air resistance fought futilely against her before breaking with a spectacular boom, whipping up a fierce wind in her path. She had just enough time to catch sight of her target - a feminine face with at least heavy cybernetic augmentation and a black and red powersuit with personal jet boosters on the back. Really, anybody going with black and dark red as a color scheme with that look of menace in a situation like this was asking for a punching, right? Her eyes widened as she caught sight of the Venusian Vixen far, far too late to evade or defend. All she had time to say was a little gasp of, "wha-?"<br/><br/><strong>POW!</strong><br/><br/>She looked a little scorched already, but she had but begun to feel the pain! A shockwave spread out behind her, kicking up a great wave over the water as Ace's fist impacted her! The sheer force shot her back over the horizon, trailing parts, shattering her stabilizers, her flight system, her dampeners and most likely a number of her ribs and/or vital systems.<br/><br/>Ace's super-hearing could pick up a shopkeeper nearby shout to his customers, "NEXT!"<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Mechanics</div><div class="spoiler_body">Nephilim takes an angry d12 full of damage (well, physical stress) right to the face! That's not quite a ring-out, but it'll take it a while for her to get back into the fray. Taking Ace's opportunity, get ye PP. Gunship and tunneler are moving in!</div></div><br/><br/><br/><hr/><br/><strong>Darclight, Kanina, Tabs</strong><br/><br/>"Another challenger!" the Sultana clapped her hands together, "and a Queen of Hell as well!" She sniffed, "even if it probably is one of those ironic hells that are so popular nowadays.<em>We</em>were into Tartarus when it was still underground, you know?"<br/><br/>She pointed at both Tabs and Kanina. "Very well! We accept your challenge, and you..." Darclight made his request, and Sultana started to laugh uproariously, "that's cute. Oh daughter!" she called upward at the tower, "this young man has been very careless with his demesne. Would you be so kind as to FIRE THE LASER CANNON!"<br/><br/>A beam focuser near the top of the tower started to glow, and she shrugged at the heroes as an antipersonnel laser barrage rained down, providing an explosive backdrop for their conflict. "Childe these days are so technically savvy. Ah, if only they spent less time on their Twitters..." The vampire herself burst into a swarm of bats that quickly scattered and flew away, but her voice remained. "First, navigate your way into the tower! The moat should be child's play, aside from the spirits of the restless damned trying to drag you down, so We took the liberty of spicing things up a little! There will be some animated crushing blocks, some projectile saws. A few skulls shooting fire, a few gravestones trying to suck you in. We may have forgotten to enumerate a few, We went shopping and threw everything We could find into the cart. And mind the lasers. And the immortal alligators! Have fun!"<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Mechanics</div><div class="spoiler_body">Use the boost to get through! By which I mean roll vs doom pool (currently 6d10) to brute force your way through! Failure will result in being tagged with some sort of Complication, depending on how you fail and how badly! OR come up with something that results in not having to brute force your way through. Trap challenges are like that.<br/><br/>Tabs' stress relief roll doesn't succeed, but since it's self-help it doesn't hurt her any, and because of the prior scene change her emotional stress goes down to d8 automagically.<br/>Kanina gets 1XP, and Tabs has already noted hers.</div></div>