<strong>Hero Points:</strong>1 (Sleeping Wyvern), 2 (Scarab), 1 (Hornet)<strong>Luck Points:</strong>0/5 Conditions: Injured -2 (Amy), Incapacitated (Mongoose), Incapacitated (Octaman)<br/><br/>The blow struck true, and hard enough to cause the mutant to list to the side. Half-conscious, he retaliated with another flurry of tentacles, all easily dodged and countered. The man fell back onto the wet ground, clutching his side in pain. He was alive and moaning, but in no more mood to fight.<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Crits &amp; Rerolls</div><div class="spoiler_body">Judging by your rerolls you should be at 0 Luck Points and 1 Hero Point.<br/><br/>Dodge: https://elliquiy.com/forums/dicebot.php?r=154729<br/>Unarmed: https://elliquiy.com/forums/dicebot.php?r=154731<br/>Unarmed: https://elliquiy.com/forums/dicebot.php?r=154733<br/>Unarmed: https://elliquiy.com/forums/dicebot.php?r=154734<br/>Unarmed: https://elliquiy.com/forums/dicebot.php?r=154735<br/>Unarmed: https://elliquiy.com/forums/dicebot.php?r=154736<br/>Feint: https://elliquiy.com/forums/dicebot.php?r=154737<br/>Counterstrike: https://elliquiy.com/forums/dicebot.php?r=154738<br/><br/>Critical Hits have one of 3 additional effects, chosen by you:<br/><br/><strong>Increased Effect:</strong> The critical hit increases the difficulty to resist the attack’s effect by +5. Against a minion, this bypasses the resistance check entirely; the minion automatically receives the highest degree of the attack’s effect.<br/><br/><strong>Added Effect:</strong> The critical hit adds another effect onto the attack, but its effective rank is 0, so the resistance DC is just the base value (10, or 15 for damage). The added effect can be anything the player can reasonably describe and justify as adjunct to the original effect: an Affliction (useful for all sorts of “gut checks,” blows to the head or vitals, etc.), Dazzle (blood in the eyes, boxing the ears, etc.), or Weaken, to name a few. The GM decides if the effect suits the circumstances of the attack. The target makes resistance checks against the attack’s initial and added effects separately.<br/><br/><strong>Alternate Effect:</strong> The critical hit results in an alternate effect for the attack, like a use of extra effort for a power stunt (see Extra Effort in The Basics), except the character suffers no fatigue as a result. This option can represent a “lucky” attack that does something completely different, like blinding a target, or imposing a condition such as those found under the Affliction effect.</div></div><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">OOC</div><div class="spoiler_body">Octaman Toughness 19, fail by 2 degrees (https://elliquiy.com/forums/dicebot.php?r=154753)<br/>Octaman Tentacle 14, miss (https://elliquiy.com/forums/dicebot.php?r=154755)<br/>Octaman Toughness 6, fail by 4 degrees, KO'd! (https://elliquiy.com/forums/dicebot.php?r=154754)</div></div><br/><div align="center"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 18pt;"><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: impact;"><strong>Third Round</strong></span></span></div><br/>“Okay, that’s one down,” Amy said, panting. “Where’s the other one?”<br/><br/>As though answering her call, a cloud of insects flew over the horizon. She reflexively ran for cover, but the creatures were uninterested in her. In fact, they flew over the building where Amrita threw the other foe. Not long after the mouse-woman dashed out of hiding, covered in a cloud of stinging bugs.<br/><br/>“Oh, ouch, get offa me!”<br/><br/>Another telepathic transmission came to Rakutsu.<em>I’ve got this now.</em><br/><br/>Amy seemed to receive it as well, and Amrita floated down as the insects dispersed. Covered in tiny bites, the mouse-woman screamed.<br/><br/>“You don’t know what you’re messing with!” she snarled. “It takes more than that to take down the Mongoose!”<br/><br/>Amrita just stared, although by her body language she was calm, making herself smaller, exchanging a glance with the stormstruck woman. That face of rage eroded away, replaced by a dawning realization.<br/><br/>“We don’t have to fight,” Amrita replied. “We’re just trying to keep safe in this crazy storm, same as you.”<br/><br/>“Yeah…” taking a deep breath, the woman who called herself the Mongoose began to fall back from exhaustion. Unlike the man she was caught and slowed down by an unseen force.<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">OOC</div><div class="spoiler_body">Amy summons an Insect Swarm which uses their Affliction on Mongoose.<br/>Mongoose Fortitude 24, Success (https://elliquiy.com/forums/dicebot.php?r=154756)<br/><br/>Amrita attempts to pacify the Mongoose with Emotion Control (calm).<br/><br/>Mongoose Will 9, Fail by 3 degrees (https://elliquiy.com/forums/dicebot.php?r=154757)</div></div><br/><div align="center"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 18pt;"><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: impact;"><strong>End of Combat</strong></span></span></div><br/>“She’s calmed down now,” Amrita said, speaking out loud for a change. “I don’t think she or the man over there were in the right state of mind.”<br/><br/>“Still, they could have hurt our friends!” Amy protested.<br/><br/>“I know that!” Amrita said, her tone raised suddenly. “Mask boy, you’ve done this kind of thing before. Head to where the others fled, I’ll get these two out of here.”<br/><br/>Forming impromptu stretchers from nearby material, the defeated pseudo-villains were lifted onto them, flying behind Amrita.<br/><br/>With just him and Amy left, she and Rakutsu continued to look for more survivors. Not seeming to realize he was her classmate, she tried to strike up a conversation. “I uh, didn’t know that my friend had superpowers! Or myself, really. Are you her partner or something? I think I heard you mentioned on the Gray Ghost, you must be-”<br/><br/>Her nose twitched. “Wait, Rakut-oh!”<br/><br/>Amy caught herself in time. “I didn’t recognize you at first but your smell...it’s distinctive now for some reason, no offense.”<br/><br/>Above them the storm continued to rage. “This is… this is way out of our league,” Amy said. “We gotta call the cops.”<br/><br/>She was about to dial 911 via the well-honed Generation Z reflexes of a lifetime of smartphone use, but she froze and stared at the screen with the realization that there was no reception.<br/><br/>“Holy crap! There was 4G coverage like five minutes ago!”<br/><br/><div align="center"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 18pt;"><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: impact;"><strong>Chasing Leslie</strong></span></span></div><br/><div class="floatleft">(https://i.imgur.com/DK6oRYA.jpg)</div>The rest of the class and zoo staff were safely evacuated, although there was no sign of the students with Mr. Vanderbilt. Amy flew ahead at first, although her flight was clumsy and after a few failed tries she opted to follow on foot. It seemed that Amrita was the only one among them who had a handle on the mysterious powers given by the storm. Overgrown foliage and jutting metal beams twisted in unnatural shapes paved a path of destruction to the survivors.<div class="floatright">(https://i.imgur.com/OuaOEOr.jpg)</div><br/>Shards of metal twinkled amidst the greenery in the enclosure of an artificial rainforest. A giant tree branch held a blonde woman in place who Rakutsu didn’t recognize. Leslie energetically danced right below her, mimicking a two-step shuffle that went viral on TikTok. “Hells to the yeah, girl! You got it!”<br/><br/>A nearby woman looked on with fidgeting hands. Her skin was green and amphibious, and on closer examination she had the same clothes on that Kaitlyn did as well as the slightly slouched posture she got during times of stress.<br/><br/>“Do you think they got out in time?” she asked.<br/><br/>“It’s been 10 minutes and I haven’t heard of any other lightning strikes!” Leslie answered as she checked her smartphone, a hint of pride in her voice.<br/><br/>The imprisoned woman above spat in the direction of the group. “Don’t think I’ll forget this!” she shouted. “We live in a world of iron and stone, this zoo but a museum to nature’s lost glory! You will grow weak and frail like the smog-sick forests, imprisoned in my tomb of iron will!”<br/><br/>Amy shivered, covering her face. “Oh shit, she sounds dangerous! Is she one of those supervillains like in that Freedom City documentary?”<br/>