[Necessary Evil] Episode 1 - Jail Break
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				Title: <strong>[Necessary Evil] Episode 1 - Jail Break</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>HairyHeretic</strong> on <strong>12-05-2007, 14:35:52</strong>
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				Sometime in the last two days, the aliens slapped you in irons. Nullifiers, to be precise. You were wreaking havoc in Star City when the aliens performed one of their random sweeps. Some of you were spotted by dumb luck, others were ratted out by someone who has a very bad day coming sometime in the near future.<br><br>You were transferred from one holding facility to another, and finally put on this M'buna, a weird alien transport ship that’s currently zipping&nbsp; down Central Avenue. Most likely, they’re heading for one of those big Man O’ Wars to take you off world. Rumor has it they like to dissect folks with super-powers to see what makes ‘em tick.<br><br>At least you won’t suffer alone. There are a few other capes in here as well. Some you recognize. Some you don’t. You’re all in the same boat now though.
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				Post by: <strong>Creeper</strong> on <strong>12-05-2007, 20:18:16</strong>
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				<em>Shhhhhhh</em>-<strong>Klunk!</strong><br><br>"Lame." Burbled the vat of goo. <br><br><em>Shhhhhhh</em>-<strong>Klunk!</strong><br><br>"Seriously lame."<br><br>Humour had been too careless of his last body. He jumped into one of the secretaries of a military base to steal some access codes and maps, then dumped her off at home, assuming that she'd be so traumatised and crap that she wouldn't do anything. Unfortunately, Miss-Alien-Collaborator called ahead the moment he left, and the aliens set a trap for Humour when he arrived a few hours later.<br><br>They tried to put the power nullifiers on him, but Humour just flowed out around them. If something like that could have fixed his condition, Humour wouldn't have gone into the villain business to begin with. No, his kryptonite was a goddamn huge air-tight vat. A vat that the Fins hadn't even bothered to secure to the floor, so he slid across the transport every time the vehicle turned, banging into the walls. It wasn't painful, but it sure was annoying.<br><br><em>Shhhhhhh</em>-<strong>Klunk!</strong><br><br>The inhuman mass forced a featureless purple eye to the side of the vat to get a good look at the other prisoners. Ah, there was Frenzy. He remembered pulling a few jobs with him when he was in town. Humour recognised Bast too, he'd paid her occasionally for her magical talents. Nothing fucked up Dr. Bright's mojo like magic. The others, though, Humour didn't know.<br><br><em>Shhhhhhh</em>-<strong>Klunk!</strong><br><br>"Man, we gotta get out of here."
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				Post by: <strong>Darwishi</strong> on <strong>12-05-2007, 20:26:15</strong>
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				To her, she was not causing havoc but instead about to wail on a few thugs for pinning a woman to a wall and...well before she could really get the gist of what was happening something, or someone, hit her over the back of the head. &nbsp;Dazed her something fierce and then the rag that was shoved over her face, it wasn't chloroform, but it worked just as effectively. &nbsp;Next thing she knows her hands are in some serious cuffs, she's floating around in a cell and lets not forget that even with her powers, in this particular place her speed powers would be next to useless. &nbsp;<br><br>"Nnnngh." Her dark brown eyes flutter open, the woman glad in gold and silver looks over to the others in the cell (or in other cells?) recognizing a few of them...Frenzy and Goo Guy (Humour but Goo Guy fits him much better)...and several of the other villains as well even if she, herself, hasn't fought all of them.
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				Post by: <strong>Jefepato</strong> on <strong>12-05-2007, 22:35:06</strong>
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				Two days ago, Jessie had been celebrating her newfound freedom and trying to plan her triumphant return to villainy and super-science.&nbsp; In retrospect, that time probably would've been better spent implementing some new security measures.<br><br>She looked up from her nullifiers -- given that she didn't have any actual super-powers, to her they might be as much a tool as an impediment -- to observe the others in the cell.&nbsp; Humour, Haste, Bast, and Frenzy...quite a bunch.<br><br>"Frenzy.&nbsp; It's been a while."&nbsp; Ten-odd years, in fact.&nbsp; "How did that signal dampener work out for you?"&nbsp; Eight-year-old Jessie had hypothesized that Frenzy would have a much easier time committing robberies if he didn't risk setting off alarms when he sawed through vault doors and the like.&nbsp; She'd sold him a fix for that problem at a 'reasonable' price in order to finance some parts she couldn't steal for herself yet, but she was captured hardly a week later, and that had been the end of that.<br><br>Idly, she wondered what had happened to her parents.<br><br>(OOC: Are the nullifiers like actual handcuffs, or do they not restrain movement other than negating powers?<br><br>Also, Amberghylles, this can be changed if it doesn't work for you.)
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				Post by: <strong>NightBird</strong> on <strong>13-05-2007, 04:32:04</strong>
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				Bast sat up and stretched as languorously and thoroughly as she could in the handcuffs, then sighed deeply. Drowsing was a way to pass the time when nothing was happening, but drowsing on the way to no-doubt brutal captivity was perhaps a waste of time. Not that she could think of anything to do besides pray with these disrupter cuffs on... and while on, did that mean the Goddess could not hear her? Shaking off the useless musings, she turned her head toward a sometime employer.<br><br>"Succinctly, if not eloquently put, Humour," she said, the stress of capture thickening the lilt of her Middle-Eastern accent. "The alternative will likely be... unpleasant."
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				Post by: <strong>Amberghylles</strong> on <strong>13-05-2007, 04:39:27</strong>
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				He's already tried a hundred times to phase his wrists and slip these thrice-damned cuffs and not surprisingly try number one hundred and one does work either. &nbsp;Even after two days the sensation of being restrainded is foreign to him. &nbsp;He looks up at the mention of his name. &nbsp;Cute little thing there... wait was that Jessie? &nbsp;<br><br>He can't help but laugh at the twist of fate.<br><br>"It worked like a charm, just like you said it would," he answers her, "Been a long time kiddo, and I see you've... ah... grown."<br><br>Maybe this isn't a total crock-up. &nbsp;Jessie's one of the smart ones. &nbsp;Humour's a solid guy in a pinch. &nbsp;He turns to see who else is there. &nbsp;Bast... too bad the cuffs obviously block magic but she's still the real deal. &nbsp;Is that Haste? &nbsp;He hadn't expected to ever see her again. &nbsp;Damn... if just one of them could get loose this would be done. &nbsp;Try number one hundred and two proves as futile as the rest. &nbsp;Goes it's not going to be him. &nbsp;Better hope somebody can come up with something. &nbsp;<br><br>"So, anybody got a bright idea how we avoid getting anal probed and dissected?" &nbsp;<br><br>(OOC: Works fine by me Jefepato )
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				Post by: <strong>Creeper</strong> on <strong>13-05-2007, 09:20:19</strong>
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				<em>Shhhhhhh</em>-<strong>Klunk!</strong><br><br>"Ugh. I dunno. I mean, if there was the tiniest crack or opening, I'd be able to bust free, but this thing's solid. Where they managed to get it so quickly, I haven't the foggiest." Spoke Humour's muffled voice from inside the sliding vat. "We gotta think of something. I mean, we're freaking supervillains! Escaping capture is a vital part of our careers!"<br><br><em>Shhhhhhh</em>-<strong>Klunk!</strong><br><br>"There's gotta be something that- Hey... wait a minute!" From the recesses of Humour's gooey body rose a dark object. He pushed it out of his form until it clattered against the side of the plastic vat.<br><br>"My comm-link! Faithful ol' Dr. Destruction designed it to avoid sensors, and I guess the Fins were too grossed out to go slushing through me looking for contraband! Heh, idiots, Dr. Bright would have-" He suddenly stopped speaking as a wellspring of uncomfortable emotions and memories rose from the back of his mind.<br><br>The goo quivered, then returned to a gurgling analysis. "But I don't know anyone who could bust us out of this mess. I worked solo. Is there anything we can do with it?"
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				Post by: <strong>HairyHeretic</strong> on <strong>13-05-2007, 11:54:24</strong>
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				Suddenly the world lurches as the M'buna flies into the air. It flips end over end, sending you tumbling across the enclosed hold into the other captives. The world is a jumble of color and cursing before you finally come to rest. Some strange smoke or gas seems to be leaking from a vent near the front of the transport.<br><br>The wall of the M'buna on your left is ripped wide open and you see smoke everywhere. Beyond it lies the hazy shapes of the city buildings, slightly tilted as the M'buna has come to rest on top of something and lies tilted.<br><br>A massive explosion rocks the wreck, tendrils of energy curling around the gap in the hull. You see what looks like most of a fin fly past.&nbsp; You’re stunned, trying to gather your senses, but something seems to be interfering, keeping you feeling weak and useless.<br><br>Then a familiar figure strides through the smoke holding a massive gun. There can be no mistaking the famous form of Earth’s most<br>powerful supervillain—Dr. Destruction!<br><br>“You want to live?” Destruction asks.
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				Post by: <strong>Jefepato</strong> on <strong>13-05-2007, 15:20:02</strong>
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				"Time will do that."&nbsp; Jessie considers the circumstances.&nbsp; "If we had appropriate means, these nullifiers could probably be re-routed through Humour's commlink and..."<br><br>She never gets the chance to finish the thought, as suddenly the M'buna starts to spin, sending her across the hold.&nbsp; Jessie clenches her teeth to avoid crying out (it wouldn't do to look weak in front of other supervillains, especially given her lack of practical experience), even as she's silently grateful that Humour is still stuck in that vat.<br><br>Dr. Destruction's question does not give her pause.&nbsp; "Yes.&nbsp; What do you need us to do?"
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				Post by: <strong>Amberghylles</strong> on <strong>13-05-2007, 21:19:43</strong>
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				Everything spins out of control, and Frenzy grunts as he's battered around inside the M'buna's hold.&nbsp; When it stops, he finds himself looking up at the ceiling and resting on something soft, which can only be one of the supervillianesses.&nbsp; He lifts his head as Dr. Destruction steps through the hole, preceeded by a nicely fragged fin.&nbsp; But something's off, his head feels so heavy he can't hold it up and sinks back onto the still unknown female so convieniently acting as a pillow for him.<br><br>"Whatever it is, I'm in," he says as he lifts his cuffed hands shakily, "Just get these damn things off me."&nbsp; &nbsp; 
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				Post by: <strong>NightBird</strong> on <strong>13-05-2007, 21:56:24</strong>
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				There was something about the idea of of Humour's precise state of being that had always made Bast rather squeamish, but this time the demonstration of it also gave the villainess a surge of hope... not that she could do much of anything with a comm-link that would matter, but Jessie might. She watched curiously to see what the genius might come up with, only to be tossed about with the others as something happened to the transport. There was a moment of pure disorientation, then a strange lethargy, uninterrupted even by the awkward weight of a shoulder in her solar plexus. She makes an undignified little "Ooph" as a head drops back onto her chest, but then she hears a very welcome voice, and struggles faintly to sit up.<br><br>"Of course I do," she mutters, sounding a little cross and out of breath, adding, "And once those are off of him, could I trouble you to get him off of me?"
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				Post by: <strong>indarkestknight</strong> on <strong>14-05-2007, 00:34:03</strong>
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				<em>Whiplash has remained silent throughout the exchanges, in the shadowy corner, thinking, and, as he wants to be for now, unnoticed. Frustrating, that when he needed those brilliant flashes of insight most, they happen to be beyond his capacity. Unlike most of the others, he is contained slightly differently, as the aliens have learned of his uncanny ability to slither out of most retraints without the use of his powers. As such, his nullifier is something more along the lines of a straightjacket, pinning his arms firmly to his torso and not allowing the vaguest hope of him wriggling free. He recognizes most of the others, either by reputation, or personal knowledge. Haste. A worthy adversary. Humour. One as malleable as himself, though, Whiplash knows, he typically uses his powers in other manners, lacking internal organs completely. Jessie. He finds himself a little surprised. It has been ages... and she's grown. A small part of him wonders in an almost conerned manner about how she got into a mess with this lot. Bast. Doesn't know her personally, but has heard of her. A mercenary of sorts, like himself, though renowned more for guile than honor. The kind with whom association is both very profitable and very risky. Frenzy. A kid who's fought a couple times with Haste, apparently. Phasing, molecular control. Potential, but never really the kind to be taken seriously on a consistent basis... yet, at least. Whiplash has seen some villains grow into their own in his time, after all.<br><br>Then the explosion. Followed quickly by weakness and, somehow unsurprisingly, Dr. Destruction.<br><br>When this is all over, he'd have to kill him, of course. It would hardly do to have all his plans for getting Mercury back, the heroes back to be foiled-- as they no doubt would be-- by this power-hungry madman. But, for the moment, if he didn't agree, he'd never live to see his plans executed anyway, with no guarantee everything would go right. Only one real choice.<br><br>His voice, quiet but clear, rings out, signalling to both the Doctor and his cellmates his presence.<br><br>"Yes."</em>
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				Post by: <strong>HairyHeretic</strong> on <strong>14-05-2007, 00:54:54</strong>
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				Dr Destruction nods his helmet, face invisable behind its polished surface. He glances behind him and issues a curt order. "Get them aboard." From behind him come half a dozen green suited and masked figures who quickly pick you up and hussle you into what looks like another Abuna, or similar class of antigrav vehicle. As they deposit you inside, they quickly press a small amount of greyish putty, set with a small electronic device, onto each of your restraints.<br><br>Once everyone is aboard the craft lifts off. Your stomach lurches as you can feel the abrupt changes in height and direction. That slight discomfort is forgotten when Dr Destruction strides forward to stand in front of you again.<br><br>“You might think I rescued you because I’m in awe of your amazing powers. You’d be wrong. You can all be cut into flank steaks on a V’sori examination table for all I care." <br><br>“No, I rescued you for two reasons. The first is because it draws the fins away from my real target. The second is because I can always use a new Omega cell. If you want in, and can prove yourself to me tonight, you’re in. If you’re not interested…well, let’s just say you will be.”<br><br>At that, Dr. Destruction slams a button on the wall. The back hatch opens, and each of you plummets out of the carrier and into the<br>darkness below.<br><br>“You’ve got precious few seconds before you hit the ground. Since I’ve touched each of you, I can now communicate telepathically at the<br>speed of thought. One of your few seconds will be gone by the time I finish my offer. I suggest you think fast."<br><br>“There’s a prisoner in the holding pens of the below facility named Mindjack. He’s in there somewhere, and I want him. If you agree to break him out and bring him to the center of the camp ALIVE I’ll bust open your nullifiers so you can survive the fall. If you tell me to go stuff myself, I can only say that I hope you hit a Fin on your way down." <br><br>“Find Mindjack, bring him to the center of camp. I’ll pick those who survive up after I deal with any remaining V’sori that fly in. It won’t end there though. I can find you wherever you go now. I can help you and show you how we can defeat the invaders who took over our playground, or I can point you out to them like wounded prey to a hound. It’s your choice. You have 7 seconds.”<br><br>His telepathic voice goes quiet, and your ears are filled with the wind rushing past your head.
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				Post by: <strong>Darwishi</strong> on <strong>14-05-2007, 04:36:57</strong>
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				<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=9814.msg349406#msg349406">Quote from: hairyheretic on 13-05-2007, 11:54:24</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Suddenly the world lurches as the M'buna flies into the air. It flips end over end, sending you tumbling across the enclosed hold into the other captives. The world is a jumble of color and cursing before you finally come to rest. Some strange smoke or gas seems to be leaking from a vent near the front of the transport.<br><br>The wall of the M'buna on your left is ripped wide open and you see smoke everywhere. Beyond it lies the hazy shapes of the city buildings, slightly tilted as the M'buna has come to rest on top of something and lies tilted.<br><br>A massive explosion rocks the wreck, tendrils of energy curling around the gap in the hull. You see what looks like most of a fin fly past.&nbsp; You’re stunned, trying to gather your senses, but something seems to be interfering, keeping you feeling weak and useless.<br><br>Then a familiar figure strides through the smoke holding a massive gun. There can be no mistaking the famous form of Earth’s most<br>powerful supervillain—Dr. Destruction!<br><br>“You want to live?” Destruction asks.<br></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br><br>She had been studying the villains she knew well, which includes Whiplash and Frenzy, and then those she'd read about at base before...well the base was destroyed.&nbsp; The gold and silver clad superheroine is hardly in the mood to rejoice with the villains.&nbsp; Since she's sure they'd only want to talk about how fine she looks in her suit, or their stories would turn into capture stories...of her or of other heroes and heroines.&nbsp; But that train of thought is derailed as it feels like the ship is derailed...or de-winged.&nbsp; She never did bother to figure out how these things worked. <br><br>Once all the spinning stops she looks at the ground.&nbsp; Her in her own cell for that just-in-case she got her powers back...they'd be useless with the way she's floating there in the zero-gravity chamber.&nbsp; All she'd managed to do thus far is pull her wrists in front of her and a fat lot of good that did.&nbsp; However when things stop spinning and the worst villain on the face of the earth appears and poses a question she figures she's got two choices.&nbsp; Be dissected by aliens, or go with this guy and pray that he doesn't dissect her with his manhood.&nbsp; "Yeah." To answer his question of remaining amongst the living.<br><br>When transported to his ship she looks at him, the putty in her cuffs and then she finds herself in a free-fall with the guy speaking into her mind.&nbsp; Join him, or go splat.&nbsp; <em>I'm joining.&nbsp; With this team we could get in anywhere.</em>&nbsp; It's telepathically sent to Dr. Destruction and the villains.&nbsp; She'd feel bad about freeing a villain but even she's come to realize that the villains really will be the last hope for the Earth.&nbsp; Thugs...on the other hand, just need to be put in their place...&nbsp; Well since after the attacks anyway.
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				Post by: <strong>Creeper</strong> on <strong>14-05-2007, 05:32:13</strong>
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				OOC: Abidged post due to internet eating my good one. Damn you internets!<br><br>Humour was quietly listening to the science-girl's suggestion, when his vat was thrown once again topsy-turvy by the ship being knocked off course. Disoriented, but still aware, Humour let off a cheer when Dr. Destruction showed up. <br><br>"Woo hoo! Ladies and gentlemen, the Calvary has arrived!" He bubbled with absolute glee. "Now get me outta this thing!"<br><br>They were carted off into his ship, when Dr. Destruction gave a standard 'I really don't care about you but yadda yadda yadda.' speech, one he had heard before but from a different person when he was brought into the rebellion. Just to prove his intimidating point, they were tossed from the back of the plane, and plummeted towards the ground.<br><br>'Uhh, boss? I'm already in Omega. I swore the oath and everything. I ain't stopping 'till every Fin on earth is being served with sushi. You want this asshole Mindjack? I'll get him for you, lickity split.' A puzzled Humour sent back. The fall didn't really scare him, not when he was made of sentient goo, so it didn't matter what Dr. Destruction decided anyways.<br><br>
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				Post by: <strong>NightBird</strong> on <strong>14-05-2007, 05:52:51</strong>
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				As the haze began to clear itself from her head, Bast sat up straighter and smoothed her hands down across the linen of her costume. It was dirty and torn, but the gesture was a comfort, a way of attempting to reclaim some degree of normalcy to a day that had moved far beyond such. But Dr. Destruction's way of handling them didn't precisely continue the sensation. Hissing and glaring as she fell, it was clear that Bast's instinctive reaction to the nature of the evil doctor's 'persuasion' had been one of pure rage. She couldn't quite prevent the first, vivid thought, as much emotive as telepathic, "Damn you!" <br><br>It was followed immediately by a sweeter if not perhaps gentler mental tone, "Melodramatics such as this are unnecessary. I'm no idiot. You're the best game in town, so of <strong>course</strong> I'll join one of your cells."<br><br>And then she prayed the cuffs would release in time for her to complete a spell on the fly...
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				Post by: <strong>Amberghylles</strong> on <strong>14-05-2007, 06:23:19</strong>
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				Frenzy actually started to relax as he was brought onto the other ship, which he quickly saw was a mistake.&nbsp; As he fell out of the anti-grav ship, he growled in anger.<br><br>"Not cool Doc," he hissed, "I mean I'm in of course, but this is more than a little over the top ain't it?&nbsp; So blow these damn cuffs already so I can fetch you this Mindjerk guy."<br><br>Then he twisted to try and look around for the others.&nbsp; Sure most of them were goo or tough or magic or something... but what about Jesse?&nbsp; He really didn't want to see her splattered across the ground.&nbsp; Of course he didn't want to be splattered either.&nbsp; <br><br>
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				Post by: <strong>HairyHeretic</strong> on <strong>14-05-2007, 11:10:34</strong>
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				As each of you agree in turn the light on the small receiver flashes once, and there is a sharp crack from the cuffs, which split apart and tumble away from you. The adrenalin surge blows the last of the lethargy from your minds, and you can see the shapes on the ground resolving themselves into a number of small buildings and one large one, surrounded by a fence of some kind.
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				Post by: <strong>Jefepato</strong> on <strong>15-05-2007, 03:24:29</strong>
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				A lesser mind would panic.&nbsp; Jessie hardly flinches.<br><br>She takes an extra 1.245 seconds or so to consider her plan before informing Dr. Destruction of her acceptance, and is quite ready to grab most of the important components of the nullifiers as they fall.&nbsp; It's not much to work with, but she doesn't need much...<br><br>Twisting a few circuits together -- they were never <em>meant</em> to work this way, but the theory is sound -- Jessie directs a low-grade magnetic field downward.&nbsp; It's nothing special, at least not by her standards, but it does slow her descent enough for her to land lightly on her feet instead of breaking every bone in her body.
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				Post by: <strong>indarkestknight</strong> on <strong>15-05-2007, 03:25:17</strong>
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				<em>"I can live with that."<br><br>As they plummet towards the ground, Whiplash muses to himself wordlessly that he could die with that, too, when the time comes. Admittedly, Dr. Destruction proves more melodramatic and less eloquent than he would have guessed, but, then, he supposes, given the Doctor's position of power, he's hardly in a position to point out such to the esteemed resistance leader.<br><br>As they fall, Whiplash quickly tries to calculate which of them can endure the fall, and which couldn't. Jesse... no. Not a chance. Bast? Possibly, if she has enough time, but unlikely. Frenzy he's unsure of. Haste, he knows, can endure some pretty impressive blows... but not this. But Humour can. Good. Just enough.<br><br>As soon as he's freed from the bonds that confine him, Whiplash immediately reaches out with his four limbs, stretching and expanding them to form protective cocoons of sorts about four of the others, covering every inch of them, leaving Humour to his own abilities, knowing his elastic flesh won't be harmed seriously at all by the fall, but that, if they are to succeed, every member of the team will undoubtedly prove invaluable.<br><br>"Don't struggle. I'll let go once we've hit the ground."</em>
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				Post by: <strong>Amberghylles</strong> on <strong>15-05-2007, 05:03:28</strong>
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				Free of the nulifier, Frenzy tries to scan the layout as he plummets towards it.&nbsp; It's going to be a bitch swimming back up from how deep his momentum is going to send his dematerialized body after impact.&nbsp; <br><br>But then he finds himself being grabbed and covered by Whiplash.&nbsp; He almost fades out of reflex, but stops himself.&nbsp; A soft landing is much better than falling half a mile through the ground.&nbsp; And he's never been one to ignore the power of teamwork.<br><br>As long as they can pull together this should be a snap.&nbsp; 
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			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: [Necessary Evil] Episode 1 - Jail Break</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Jefepato</strong> on <strong>15-05-2007, 05:21:12</strong>
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				Jessie reflexively winces at the sudden grasp, but chooses not to fight the encasement.&nbsp; "I was quite all right, Whiplash.&nbsp; But thank you."&nbsp; She pauses, apparently not about to let a near-death experience get in the way of her thought processes.&nbsp; "Is the weapon I contrived for you still working well?"&nbsp; She doubts Frenzy cares very much if anyone hears about how she helped him rob banks, but Whiplash's blades are a complex device and nobody needs to hear the details.&nbsp; "I've had 347 ideas for new alloys to incorporate into the design.&nbsp; I just wish I knew more about the resources we'll have access to after we collect Mindjack."
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			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: [Necessary Evil] Episode 1 - Jail Break</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>NightBird</strong> on <strong>15-05-2007, 05:37:08</strong>
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			<dd class="postbody">
				The cuffs released with a soft popping sound, and Bast threw them from her as hard and far as she could, expending a moment's time, but hopefully gaining something more of focus for giving her temper an outlet. Closing her eyes, she visualized the altar, imagining the scent of cedar incense, the golden statue with sparkling emerald eyes, the little statue of Horus shattering on the stone floor, releasing a trace of the god's essence... but it was no use. The whistling rush of air tearing at her clothes and hair, roaring in her ears... freefall wasn't good for concentration.<br><br>She'd changed to a prayer, a simple plea for assistance, half wordless mental wail of anguished frustration, when something enclosed her, gently, blocking the wind, moving with her as her arm flexed in reaction. She ran through a mental list of the others captured with her, initially coming up with no-one who could have done this, but recognizing the voice. "Whiplash..." she whispered, uncertain if he could hear her, but speaking as much to reassure herself as to thank him. "I am in your debt for this."
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			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: [Necessary Evil] Episode 1 - Jail Break</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>HairyHeretic</strong> on <strong>15-05-2007, 10:33:11</strong>
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				With your descent slowed enough, you crash down onto the roof of one of the smaller outhouses. The cheap fabrication crumples around you, and the large pile of boxes inside softens your landing further. You come to your feet amongst the ruins of the small storehouse, the contents of the boxes spilling out around you across the floor.<br><br>From outside an alarm has started to sound. Through the poorly glazed windows you can see one blockly looking small building, several small ones much the same as the one you stand in, and a large, secure looking building. The door to the smaller building opens and a handfull of drones appear. You've seen, or at least heard of those before. Cyber zombies, once living beings, now little more than robots under V'sori control.<br><br>They raise their arms, and from a recessed compartment of some kind appear short stubby barrels, and bolts of energy begin smacking into the walls of your shelter.
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			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: [Necessary Evil] Episode 1 - Jail Break</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Creeper</strong> on <strong>15-05-2007, 11:18:05</strong>
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			<dd class="postbody">
				"So! Opening this vat would be smart, doc." Said Humour as he plummeted to the ground. The wristbands of the other villains exploded and they were freed, but not Humour.<br><br>"Boy, this is going to be fun." Sighed the goo-guy, who had nothing to slow his fall. He crashed onto the ground, splattering everything with sticky blue liquid. Everything was still for a few moments, then the droplets of goop started to move together. It gathered into small streams along the warehouse floor, which ran into larger rivers. They all flowed together, forming one large light-blue mass. The mass became denser, shrinking to the size of a man, and gaining the vague features of a person...<br><br>"Fuck yeah!" Cried Humour as he was fully re-consolidated and free. "Tremble world, for we are still rockin'!"<br><br>As the sound of laser fire outside caught his attention, and a smile lit on his liquid blue lips. He had been in that freaking vat for a long time and he was itching for some action. His mass dissolved back into a pure liquid, becoming a massive pillar of fluid and smashing through the window. Since his body could not burn, he had nothing to fear from the energy weapons. His body rose up like a massive tidal wave and came crashing down towards the cyber zombies. Oh, he was going to make the Fins pay for ever stepping foot on his planet!
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				Title: <strong>Re: [Necessary Evil] Episode 1 - Jail Break</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Darwishi</strong> on <strong>16-05-2007, 04:05:05</strong>
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			<dd class="postbody">
				(Grumble, by browser, apparently ate my post)<br><br>Haste could take the fall, but it wasn't going to be pleasant, that entire fall would likely make her unconcious for a time before waking up with the migraine of all migraines.&nbsp; Fortunately for her, Whiplash's tentacle hand wraps around her like a cacoon and keeps her safe inside.&nbsp; She'd originally vibrated to get him off, but then it occured to her that he wasn't trying to kill her.&nbsp; Of all the villains here, he is (afterall) probably the most honorable of the group.&nbsp; He'd likely never kill her, just remove her from spoiling his plans.&nbsp; Hell he didn't even remove her clothes like Frenzy would.<br><br>Upon landing, she's released and she rolls off a box she's sitting on.&nbsp; &nbsp;Looking towards Goo Guy, she raises a brow just as he's crashing through the window.&nbsp; She thinks about helping, but figures if any of those guys get inside she'll be a second line of defense against those energy weapons.&nbsp; Hey, maybe they could even recover two or three for Jessie to take a look at.&nbsp; But for now she'll stay behind for that just-in-case scenario.
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			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: [Necessary Evil] Episode 1 - Jail Break</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>NightBird</strong> on <strong>16-05-2007, 04:28:40</strong>
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			<dd class="postbody">
				As they land and Whiplash releases the protective chrysalis around her, Bast rises to her feet and bows toward Whiplash, straitening again quickly enough to set the beads on her hair to swinging. Standing on her own feet, able to press her hands into the circle at her chest, it was so much easier to visualize, and the spell was a simpler one, a mere summoning of a swarm of scarab beetles, flesh eaters, to harry the misbegotten tools of the V'sori. She felt the warmth of the Goddess's power rising through her, smelled the acrid sharpness of the desert air, and knew that the spell had been granted. It was a familiar one, so it had more likely than not done what she wished.<br><br>That die was cast, however, and she had more need to generate defenses than to run and see if the casting had been true.
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			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: [Necessary Evil] Episode 1 - Jail Break</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>indarkestknight</strong> on <strong>16-05-2007, 05:29:48</strong>
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			<dd class="postbody">
				<em>As they land and he absorbs the impact, he only relinquishes his grasp after Humour and his cage have landed, keeping the others safe from any additional shrapnel. Contracting back, for now, to normal dimensions, he watches the viscous blue villain immediately charge into battle, and, beneath his mask, smiles grimly. Good, a distraction. It would give them enough time, at least, to gather themselves and form a plan.<br><br>He likewise bows to Lady Bast, a tad deeper than she does, even, as a sign of respect for the sorceress, and, seeing her immediately set to casting a spell, he decides to wait until after to adress her, instead first speaking to Jessie.<br><br>"They do. The V'sori, thankfully, were more concerned with my powers than any mere blades, and didn't think to remove them from my person."<br><br>With a single quick motion, the pair of compacted blades are in his hands, and, with a flick of both his wrists, they're deployed. He inclines his head to the debris of their cuffs, his restraints, and Humour's containment unit.<br><br>"If you should have need of these in whatever defense you're undoubtedly devising, they are at your disposal, as am I."<br><br>Next, he turns his gaze and words to Bast.<br><br>"Lady Bast, of all of us, I think your powers are most uniquely suited to locating our target. I should think it more productive to find him and seek him rather than have to sweep every inch of this Gulag of theirs."<br><br>Then Alexis. Not, of course, that she'd be pleased if he revealed her identity to the others.<br><br>"I find myself pleasantly surprised, Haste. If you would be so kind as to watch all of our backs? You could probably spot any serious threat before the rest of us, and I think both Jessie and Lady Bast would appreciate the defense."<br><br>And, finally, Frenzy. Whiplash extends a hand-- normally.<br><br>"Whiplash. Frenzy, if I've not mistaken. We've never met, but I've heard of you. Unless what I've heard of your powers is mistaken, you are likely the best suited to break out our target."</em>
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			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: [Necessary Evil] Episode 1 - Jail Break</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Amberghylles</strong> on <strong>16-05-2007, 07:46:49</strong>
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			<dd class="postbody">
				Frenzy takes the hand and gives it a firm shake.&nbsp; Whiplash, definately a take charge type but seems to have a level head so far.&nbsp; Might as well let him call the shots for now at least.&nbsp; Can't have a team without a leader after all.&nbsp; &nbsp;"Yeah, smash and grab is my speciality," he replies.<br><br>He glances over at the window and smirks.&nbsp; "Right now I think I should step outside and give Humour a hand, maybe collect a few parts for Jesse to play with.&nbsp; Let me know once Bast has pinpointed the guy and I'll slip in and grab him."<br><br>Stepping over to a section of soild wall his form blurs as if out of focus.&nbsp; "Thanks for breaking my fall," he says with a glance back towards Whiplash.&nbsp; &nbsp;"You too Bast," he adds with a wink.&nbsp; Then he steps through the wall and into the fight outside. 
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			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: [Necessary Evil] Episode 1 - Jail Break</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>HairyHeretic</strong> on <strong>17-05-2007, 01:41:28</strong>
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			<dd class="postbody">
				The drones scatter before Humours engulfing attack, one of them moving a little too slow, and is smashed to the ground. Two others turn and pour fire down into the struggle on the ground. While still weak, the concentrated fire is enough to cause pain, and were more to join in, it could actually hurt badly.<br><br>The remaining three advance on the remains of the building, blasts of energy striking the walls occasionally punching through. The swarm of scarabs that appear out of nowhere attract no attention, even as they swarm over one of the drones. Its fire falters, but does not fail entirely.
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			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: [Necessary Evil] Episode 1 - Jail Break</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Darwishi</strong> on <strong>17-05-2007, 01:57:31</strong>
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			<dd class="postbody">
				She jumps back as some of the blasts of energy start to penetrate their safe haven.&nbsp; "You think that telepathic stuff that Destruction gave us will still work?&nbsp; I just need the drones gathered around in one place and then for our people to back off." She pauses for a moment. "I can break the sound barrier and then cause an explosion that'll result from it." Granted she can also make it so that there's no explosion, but in this case she'd need one just to hope to take out a bunch of these guys at once.&nbsp; <br><br>She chews her bottom lip for a moment and then looks outside through one of the windows.&nbsp; "Alright, I'm going to go try and help out." She finally decides looking to the others. "When I get some weapons I'll bring them back to you." She speaks to Jessie, and then speeds out of the door hoping that she can tell/think to everyone to group the drones into a compact area.&nbsp; Then she'll try to run as fast as she can right into the middle of them and break the sound barrier...which should cause a sonic boom and hopefully lay waste to this drone army.
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			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: [Necessary Evil] Episode 1 - Jail Break</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>NightBird</strong> on <strong>17-05-2007, 06:58:32</strong>
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			<dd class="postbody">
				Bast's attention returns to the here and now with a smile for Whiplash, some part of her mind having noticed the courtesy of a bow returned. His request is reasonable, and quite accurate in how he phrased it, as far as she's concerned, though she has enough awareness of her own susceptibility to flattery that her smile turns wry as she nods. "I can do that," she replies, then finds herself shaking her head and laughing lightly at Frenzy's unabashed reference to their crash landing in the M'buna.<br><br>The energy bolts that penetrate their rather flimsy shelter, though, make her frown. "I'll need defense from that to be able to concentrate. If one were to hit me or even badly distract me while I'm casting... the results could be... unfortunate."
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			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: [Necessary Evil] Episode 1 - Jail Break</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Darwishi</strong> on <strong>17-05-2007, 19:57:39</strong>
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			<dd class="postbody">
				Of course, she never gets as far as the second paragraph of the last post as she's caught up by Bast's assertion that she needs some kind of defense.&nbsp; She sighs and zips back over to Bast and Jessie waiting there to see if anything will be coming through the walls.&nbsp; Great, she gets to nab anything that comes through the wall and get blown away by it.&nbsp; "I hope you're waiting on that location spell, seems to me we've got a bigger problem on our hands." She looks to Bast and then to Jessie.&nbsp; Oh joy.
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			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: [Necessary Evil] Episode 1 - Jail Break</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Amberghylles</strong> on <strong>17-05-2007, 20:10:18</strong>
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			<dd class="postbody">
				Three comming in... no, make that two and half... Frenzy grins as he surveys the situation.&nbsp; Gotta get their attention and draw fire away from the others.<br><br>And there's really no better way to get a zombie's attention than attacking it.&nbsp; He clircles a bit and charges towards the trio, trying to keep at least one or two of them from having a clean shot becuse of the others.&nbsp; Once he gets close enough, he charges up his hands.&nbsp; There's a faint buzzing noise as he swipes at the nearest drone on the run, keeping in motion.
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			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: [Necessary Evil] Episode 1 - Jail Break</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>HairyHeretic</strong> on <strong>18-05-2007, 00:32:29</strong>
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			<dd class="postbody">
				One of the drones tracks around to engage Frenzy, its energy blasts always just that little bit behind him. As he closes it swings a clumsy arm, one he barely has to avoid before his hands strike. A puff of acrid smoke erupts from somewhere in its chest, and it staggers back, attempting to bring its blaster arm up again.<br><br>The remaining two, one now half eaten by the scarabs continue to close on the others shelter, shots smacking through the walls as often as into them. Through luck, none come close to any of those within.
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			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: [Necessary Evil] Episode 1 - Jail Break</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>indarkestknight</strong> on <strong>18-05-2007, 01:27:40</strong>
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			<dd class="postbody">
				<em>Whiplash, beneath his mask, now assured that Jessie and Bast will have some modicum of defense in Haste, gets to work. Admittedly, the two need defense, but by negating the need for a defense, they'll have a better chance of both Jessie and Bast doing what they do best.<br><br>"I shall return momentarily."<br><br>Moving with the swiftness of a serpent, he leaps, slithering through one of the holes made in the wall by the drones' blasts. Spinning as he lands, he brings his blades to bear, limbs stretching as the blades whirl in his hands as he aims for the blasters of the two that Frenzy isn't fighting in an attempt to disable any chance for further damage the pair can do to the building, or any damage at all to those remaining in the building.</em>
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			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: [Necessary Evil] Episode 1 - Jail Break</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Creeper</strong> on <strong>18-05-2007, 01:44:49</strong>
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			<dd class="postbody">
				"Ow! Ow! Ow! Hey, quit that!" Grumbled Humour as the zombies put holes in his gell-like form. They didn't cause any damage, the displaced goo would just remerge with his body, but it did hurt a bit. He drew back his arm, and flung gobbets of goop at the faces of his opponents, hoping to blind them.
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			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: [Necessary Evil] Episode 1 - Jail Break</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Amberghylles</strong> on <strong>18-05-2007, 03:55:41</strong>
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			<dd class="postbody">
				Seeing the drone off balance, Frenzy moves in quickly trying to grab the thing's blaster arm with his deadly hands.&nbsp; With any luck he should be able to disarm the thing rather literally.<br><br>Judging from what he can see of the others, things seem to be under control for now.&nbsp; But he's sure there's plenty more of these abominations around plus the fins running this show and maybe if they're really lucky an actual V'sori or two.&nbsp; And that's not counting the reinforcements no doubt already in route.<br><br>
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			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: [Necessary Evil] Episode 1 - Jail Break</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Jefepato</strong> on <strong>18-05-2007, 04:56:00</strong>
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			<dd class="postbody">
				Jessie, of course, doesn't join in the battle just yet.&nbsp; Making sure she has ample cover, she quickly gathers up the debris of their nullifiers and Humour's containment unit, before double-checking the contents of the crates in case there's anything useful.<br><br>It's not much to work with, though.&nbsp; She keeps an eye out towards the battle, hoping for a chance to grab a fallen drone or three without exposing herself to enemy fire.
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			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: [Necessary Evil] Episode 1 - Jail Break</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>NightBird</strong> on <strong>18-05-2007, 05:33:47</strong>
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			<dd class="postbody">
				Assessing the situation as being as good as it's likely to get, Bast again settles herself to cast, eyes closing, her hands forming a circle that she brings up to her chest. The temple in her mind is the same, but her chanting this time draws the smoke of the incense into the shape of a falcon. When it had coalesced, each detail distinct but translucent, she leaned forward and breathed a whisper to the sacred bird. <em>Find Mindjack,</em> she bade the creature, embuing the name with the essence of everything she knew about that villain. As her breath merged with the falcon's phantom form, the bird ruffled its feathers, shrieked and took flight.<br><br>Dizzy with the effort she'd put into the casting, Bast sank down onto one of the boxes, blinking to clear her vision. If the spell had worked, she would soon have a sense of where the bird was going. If she'd done the ritual properly and in full, she would see through its eyes, but that much was doubtful in such strained circumstances. Her attention went to the sounds of battle continuing outside. There seemed fewer energy bolts now; hopefully, that meant they were wearing down the enemy's first response.
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			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: [Necessary Evil] Episode 1 - Jail Break</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Darwishi</strong> on <strong>18-05-2007, 08:01:08</strong>
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			<dd class="postbody">
				She looks to Jessie as she seems to be taking an inventory of what she has. "If you need anymore I can go out and grab something faster than you can blink.&nbsp; So it'd probably be best if I did so." She does keep an eye out for anything that might be coming their way so she can throw herself in front of it.&nbsp; It'd hurt but the sooner they find Mindjack, the sooner they can rescue him and get out of this hell hole.&nbsp; If Jessie just so happens to build a weapon of significance or shield to protect Bast in, that'd be great also.&nbsp; <br><br>Haste doesn't exactly like working with villains, but seeing as they're all working towards one end to defeat the V'sori she can handle it.&nbsp; That and none of them, as of yet, have tried to grab her butt...not like she could do much about it since they're supposed to be a team and fighting amongst themselves would likely end in certain death...
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			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: [Necessary Evil] Episode 1 - Jail Break</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>HairyHeretic</strong> on <strong>18-05-2007, 18:17:06</strong>
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			<dd class="postbody">
				In the courtyard, pandemonium reigns supreme. Whiplash dives out into the courtyard, blades flashing. The half chewed drones reflxes are not up to the task of avoiding the attack, and the blade slices through some kind of cabling connecting the blaster the arm. There is a high pitched whine, and the gun discharges a massive volley of fire, which saws through about a quarter of the building in front of it, and then detonates. When the smoke clears, the drone is lying on the ground, missing its arm and a section of torso.<br><br>The second reacts faster, avoiding the attack, and returning fire, a single bolt just catching Whiplash's thigh. <br><br>Inside the building, Jessies search comes up mostly empty, the majority of what is in the boxes seeming to be ex-military MRE packs. One small stroke of luck is finding a leatherman tool, perhaps lost by someone who put up the building. Its very dirty, having been tramped into the ground, but inside its casing the tools still seem useable.<br><br>Through the eyes of her spell, Bast's vision sweeps through the courtyard, and into the largest building, passing through the nearest wall. She has a second or two to note another half dozen drones advancing through a small room before it passes through yet another wall and into a cellblock. A few cells in sits a youngish looking man, wearing nullifier manacles very similar to the ones you had on. In the next cell appears to be another figure in similar restraits, but the spell ends before she can get a firm image of that one.<br><br>((OOC - humour, Frenzy, you've worn your drones down, see feel free to make with the Mortal Combat endings in whatever way appeals))
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			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: [Necessary Evil] Episode 1 - Jail Break</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>NightBird</strong> on <strong>19-05-2007, 06:22:50</strong>
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			<dd class="postbody">
				Caught up by the vision, Bast memorizes landmarks as the phantom falcon accomplishes what the spell had set out to do, though she wishes the falcon had turned its head more, so that they'd know who else is in the cell next to Mindjack. As her sight becomes her own again, she rises to her feet, the unsteadiness fading quickly as her perceptions re-synchronize.<br><br>"There are six more drones headed this way, from the largest of the buildings, between us and our target. The spell worked. I know roughly where we need to go if not the exact route to get there, but Mindjack isn't alone," she tells Haste and Jessie.
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			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: [Necessary Evil] Episode 1 - Jail Break</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Creeper</strong> on <strong>20-05-2007, 10:10:02</strong>
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			<dd class="postbody">
				"Ha ha ha!" Cackled Humour as he swallowed up all three cyborgs in his gooey mass. His formless face grimaced as he intensified the pressure on the thrashing zombies, breaking them apart inside him. The liquid form roiled and twisted, expelling the still-twitching parts of his opponents onto the ground.<br><br>Foes defeated, Humour resumed the form of a rolling wave, rushing to assist Whiplash with his opponents. He could only hope that the thinkers were coming up with a plan right now...
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			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: [Necessary Evil] Episode 1 - Jail Break</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Amberghylles</strong> on <strong>20-05-2007, 18:15:10</strong>
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			<dd class="postbody">
				Frenzy's hands close on the zombie's upper arm.&nbsp; As he buzzes, droplets of dark icor and flesh start flying.&nbsp; The drone swings to knock him away, but it's arm passes through Frenzy's midsection.&nbsp; Then little flecks of metal and bone as his grip tightens.&nbsp; With a thud, the arm falls away from the ragged stump.&nbsp; <br><br>Frenzy doesn't give the drone time to react, he pulls his right hand back and draws his fingers tightly into a spearhand.&nbsp; Then he thrusts forward.&nbsp; His buzzing hand liquifies the flesh as it touches, so it's like pushing his hand through oatmeal until his hand explodes out the drone's back with a spray of gore.<br><br>Wrenching free and springing back in case the damned thing is packed with explosives or something, he phases out to let the blood fall off his hands and face at least.<br><br>Then he grabs the severed arm and heads back towards what's left of their shed since Whiplash and Humour have things under control. <br><br>Stepping through the wall, he tosses the arm to Jesse.&nbsp; "Special Delivery for ya kiddo."&nbsp; <br><br>"First wave is down.&nbsp; What's the play?" 
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			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: [Necessary Evil] Episode 1 - Jail Break</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Darwishi</strong> on <strong>21-05-2007, 04:37:14</strong>
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			<dd class="postbody">
				She's busy making sure that nothing will be coming at the two she's protecting so when Frenzy comes inside she's made it about two feet before she realizes it's him and stops herself.&nbsp; She takes a step back and then looks over towards Frenzy his question causing the superheroine to cross her arms over her chest. "Well Bast did her mojo and there are six more drones on the way.&nbsp; I'd head them off but I've got to make sure these two are safe." She takes a beat. "And Bast found the guy but he's not alone so we might need to make amends to our strategy.&nbsp; I figure another good distraction besides this one should draw fire enough for the others to get inside."
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			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: [Necessary Evil] Episode 1 - Jail Break</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>HairyHeretic</strong> on <strong>22-05-2007, 16:52:25</strong>
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			<dd class="postbody">
				While you are talking, the doors to the main building open and four more drones emerge. These ones hold their distance, and start laying down concentrated fire into the already damaged building. Their shots are impacting all at one side and starting to work their way down towards the other, coming in roughly between knee and shoulder height.<br><br>It would seem they are trying to drive you into the open.
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			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: [Necessary Evil] Episode 1 - Jail Break</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Jefepato</strong> on <strong>23-05-2007, 00:37:20</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				"Thank you."&nbsp; Snatching up the tool and the severed arm, Jessie works at inverting the power flow on several of the broken nullifiers.&nbsp; Ducking behind what little cover remains, she attaches them to the arm and begins adjusting the circuitry.&nbsp; It won't be her greatest work ever, even by her standards of ten years ago, but it should be easy enough to make an effective weapon...
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: [Necessary Evil] Episode 1 - Jail Break</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>NightBird</strong> on <strong>23-05-2007, 06:38:28</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				"That's four of the six I saw, now... or at least they're coming from the same building," Bast said. "Mindjack is in there, with another prisoner."<br><br>She might have enough time... it was worth a shot at least. Moving to the place where the energy bolts would reach last, Bast again throws herself into concentration, eyes closed, envisioning the temple, the chanting, for this an acrid incense that stings the eyes, the prayers to Bast and Horus as the Defender, imagining the warmth of the Sun's protection around her. Even if it worked, it wouldn't last more than a couple of minutes, and she'd not be able to cast anything else while it lasted, but still, it was worth the attempt to make it to the main building.<br><br>As she opened her eyes, she braced herself on whether she'd have to throw herself flat to the ground to get beneath the level at which the drones were shooting, or if this third spell might have worked enough for her to run for the main building... hopefully with the rest of the others right along with her.
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: [Necessary Evil] Episode 1 - Jail Break</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Darwishi</strong> on <strong>23-05-2007, 20:39:58</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				Haste is busy gathering a vantage point that she'll both be able to look over Bast and Jessie, and protect both of them should the fire come into the building.&nbsp; Hopefully she'll just be able to run and throw herself in front of any blast coming at them.&nbsp; Of course, being unaware as to the type of spell that Bast is casting she doesn't know to offer up carrying the other woman into the main building.&nbsp; Not that she could leave Jessie here of course, but she's sure they could figure out something.
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: [Necessary Evil] Episode 1 - Jail Break</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Amberghylles</strong> on <strong>24-05-2007, 07:01:23</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				"That's all I need to know," Frenzy says as he turns, "Keep safe."<br><br>Stepping back through the wall he starts running towards the main building.&nbsp; "Cover me! I'm going in!" he shouts to Whiplash and Humour, "Target's in there!&nbsp; Plus one other!&nbsp; I'm gonna pull 'em both out."<br><br>Then he runs towards the corner of the main building, planning to run past it and step through the wall out of the drone's line of sight.
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: [Necessary Evil] Episode 1 - Jail Break</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Creeper</strong> on <strong>24-05-2007, 07:39:49</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				"Moving cover, coming up!" Gurgled the liquid villain, flowing over to Frenzy and forming a moving wave that protected his sides and back, but did not block his progress forward. His body shifted and twisted, absorbing and deflecting any plasma fire in their direction.
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: [Necessary Evil] Episode 1 - Jail Break</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>HairyHeretic</strong> on <strong>24-05-2007, 22:30:02</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				With the cover provided, Jessie quickly finishes her work, having cobbled together a small, but hopefully effective, blaster. Lacking the tooks for really fine work, it will have only a limited fire capability, but it should be enough to see her through this engagement.<br><br>Frenzy and Humour moved quickly out one side of the building, three of the drones immediately switching their fire to them, while the last kept watch for the others. The control on these one seemed better, and their fire more co-ordinated. Only Humours flowing movement prevented the drones fire from striking all in the same spot. Even so, those shots were hurting a lot.<br><br>Basts spell flowed out from the building, the fire from the sole remaining drone sparking off it to disappear across the compound.
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: [Necessary Evil] Episode 1 - Jail Break</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>NightBird</strong> on <strong>25-05-2007, 04:56:52</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				Starting to feel the first tug of fatigue, Bast was still pleased to see the sun's protection glow into life. She was used to it, but her head had become that of a black cat, sized proportionately to the rest of her body, the cat's eyes glowing, her lips moving in the prayers of praise and appeal that would maintain the spell, hopefully long enough for them all to reach the main building. <br><br>She walked to one of the larger holes in the side of the building and looked back at the others still present, and paused in her soft chanting only long enough to say, "We all should go. I don't know what else might be in the building, but there's not much cover here anymore in case something comes after us."
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: [Necessary Evil] Episode 1 - Jail Break</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Amberghylles</strong> on <strong>28-05-2007, 01:39:56</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				Once he's past the corner and out of sight of the drones, Frenzy moves to the center of the wall and pauses a moment.&nbsp; His form goes slightly out of focus and he nods to Humour.&nbsp; <br><br>"Thanks for the cover.&nbsp; I'm going in.&nbsp; I should be able to find and free Mindjack while you and the others keep those drones occupied."<br><br>Then he steps through the wall, stepping quickly to his right as he comes through in case there's anything hostile inside.
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: [Necessary Evil] Episode 1 - Jail Break</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>HairyHeretic</strong> on <strong>29-05-2007, 12:43:27</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				Two of the drones follow the pair around the side of the building, their shots leading the way. The others continue firing on Basts shield, the two moving apart in the apparent hopes of either getting around the side of the shield, or creating a crossfire.
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: [Necessary Evil] Episode 1 - Jail Break</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Jefepato</strong> on <strong>30-05-2007, 00:01:52</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				Jessie nods, rising to follow Bast.&nbsp; She keeps her blaster ready to open fire on any drone who might get a clear shot at them.&nbsp; "We should be cautious," she adds.&nbsp; "I estimate a 71.325% likelihood that their security measures include something more dangerous than these drones."&nbsp; Unfortunately, she's never had a chance to study actual V'sori security processes, making more precision impossible.
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: [Necessary Evil] Episode 1 - Jail Break</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Creeper</strong> on <strong>31-05-2007, 04:52:17</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				"Ow! Ow! Ow!" Grumbled Humour as he deflected the laser shots. "Hey, no, make a freakin opening for us!" He shouted, but Frenzy had already gone inside alone. Idiot, that's probably when there were waiting for them! Humour could probably seep through the wall eventually, but the blasts of his other teammates would be much quicker. Growling to himself, the gooey villain twisted around, and slammed his body down on the drones that were shooting at him. Hopefully the others would arrive quickly.
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: [Necessary Evil] Episode 1 - Jail Break</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Darwishi</strong> on <strong>31-05-2007, 07:52:04</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				Haste follows quickly behind Bast covering the side opposite Jessie making sure that their caster doesn't get hit.&nbsp; As a few drones seem to be forming a plan, and coming around the edges of the shield she moves, taking the one on her side and trying to drive her fist through it's skull aiming to break the sound barrier with her fist (and since the boom is based on mass, it's much less than if it were her whole body...enough to maybe explode the drone's head). She then looks over her shoulder to see how the others are doing.<br><br>Whiplash also moves his body to act as a second (or is it third) guard for bast moving in behind the shield to help out with things.&nbsp; Hopefully they'd be able to get inside the main building fast enough.<br><br>(Note: I'm subbing for Glab's until Finals week is over.&nbsp; Kind of a busy week myself though. &gt;.&lt;)
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: [Necessary Evil] Episode 1 - Jail Break</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>HairyHeretic</strong> on <strong>02-06-2007, 12:17:20</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				Humour managed to envelop one of the drones, the other avoiding his attack. Both continue firing into him though.<br><br>Around the side of the building, Haste lands a solid punch on one of the remaining drones, sending it flying through the air, down or destroyed. Either way, it doesn't seem to be in any hurry to rise. With only one remaining attacker there, its easy enough to keep the shield orientated on it.
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: [Necessary Evil] Episode 1 - Jail Break</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>NightBird</strong> on <strong>03-06-2007, 04:00:52</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				Seeing the flanking maneuver the two drones were attempting, Bast quickens her step and angles the shield to give Haste an easier end-run and delay the drones moving toward the other side of the shield from reaching it, then smiles in relief as the enemy count drops to one, as it's not likely for the shield to last much longer. 
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: [Necessary Evil] Episode 1 - Jail Break</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Creeper</strong> on <strong>04-06-2007, 10:52:27</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				"Ow, ow, ow! Quit that!" Demanded Humour as he continued his assault, crushing the droid inside him, and flowing out in a wave to engulf the other.<br><br>"Dammit! Hurry your asses up! Goddamn idiot frenzy went into the prision alone!" Yelled the gooey fellow as he lashed out with blue tentacles.
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: [Necessary Evil] Episode 1 - Jail Break</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>HairyHeretic</strong> on <strong>04-06-2007, 12:42:12</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				Frenzy passes through the wall and finds himself in a small cell. The walls are a dirty grey, and the room contains little in the way of amenities. A small bunk and toilet are about the only things in the room. Lying on the bunk is a rather bruised looking young man. He may be asleep or unconsious, it's hard to be sure. The man is not wearing nullifiers, so is unlikely to be your target.<br><br>Opposite is set a metal door, with a small hatch on it, currently closed.
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: [Necessary Evil] Episode 1 - Jail Break</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Darwishi</strong> on <strong>12-06-2007, 10:52:03</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				While the shield is focused on the last droid there's no doubt that Haste is ready for that shield to drop, should it drop at all, so she can have the last droid rendered useless.&nbsp; With Frenzy having rushed inside, there seems to be no indication of how they're getting inside.&nbsp; She could probably punch her way through, having bones that don't break, as well as skin that doesn't break...plus the addition of super speed would mean she could actually chip away quite successfully should the need arise.&nbsp; However with this group, it seems to her that there would be better ways than to punch a hole in the wall.<br><br>Besides, all the dust that would result couldn't be good for Humour.&nbsp; And whether she likes it or not, she is stuck with a group of villains for the time being.
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: [Necessary Evil] Episode 1 - Jail Break</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Amberghylles</strong> on <strong>13-06-2007, 04:41:15</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				Frenzy gives the young man a look and frowns.&nbsp; No super special cuffs means the guy isn't powered, but if he's here he must be an enemy of the damn aliens worth locking up rather than killing.<br><br>He kicks the leg of the bunk.&nbsp; "Hey, wake up sleeping beauty.&nbsp; This is your lucky day."<br><br>Then he sets his hands to vibrating and begins cutting away the door.&nbsp; It'd be faster to just step through, but he just can't leave this poor guy here.
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: [Necessary Evil] Episode 1 - Jail Break</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>HairyHeretic</strong> on <strong>19-06-2007, 16:36:55</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				The figure on the bunk stirs in response to the frame rattling, and coming fully awake as the door begins to be come apart.<br><br>"What .. who ..." he stammers incoherently over the noise in the cell. "Who the hell are you man?" he asks, raising a hand to shield his face.<br><br><br>Outside, Humour overwhelms the remaining drone, feeling its struggles eventually cease, and more importantly, its shots ceasing to fire into him. The pounding he has taken is taking its toll now.<br><br><br>The remaining drone near the other group is falling back to the doorway, sending a barrage of fire into the shield in an attempt to keep the villians back long enough for it to get inside and join the remaining pair.
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: [Necessary Evil] Episode 1 - Jail Break</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Amberghylles</strong> on <strong>19-06-2007, 16:41:29</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				"Random act of violence and destruction.&nbsp; They call me Frenzy."<br><br>He grins as the door gives way to his assault.&nbsp; He can't help it, it just feels good to tear apart something with your bare hands.<br><br>"You wouldn't happen to know where they're keeping the others would you?&nbsp; This is something of a rescue."
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: [Necessary Evil] Episode 1 - Jail Break</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>HairyHeretic</strong> on <strong>19-06-2007, 17:07:42</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				"There's cells all up and down here man." replies the young man, straightening up. "They grabbed a bunch of us yesterday, just a street sweep, roughed us up, tossed us in here. We didn't do nothing." <br><br>He stands up, moving behind you to try and keep any random debris from the door from hitting him. "I heard someone say there was a freak ... uh, like a villian or hero or something in one of those cells." His hand gestures deeper into the building, and his voice lowers to a conspiratorial whisper. "They said he can turn your brain inside out."
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: [Necessary Evil] Episode 1 - Jail Break</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Amberghylles</strong> on <strong>19-06-2007, 17:18:43</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				"Well you know, us freaks stick together these days.&nbsp; Somebody's gotta deal with these alien bastards after all."<br><br>Once the door gives way, Frenzy steps towards the wall leaving the way clear.<br><br>"You should see if you can open the other cells on your way out," he tells the young man, "And try not to get shot or anything.&nbsp; I'm not sure if my friends have killed all the drones yet."<br><br>Then he'll step through the wall into the next cell.&nbsp; 
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: [Necessary Evil] Episode 1 - Jail Break</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Darwishi</strong> on <strong>19-06-2007, 19:26:33</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=9814.msg373491#msg373491">Quote from: hairyheretic on 19-06-2007, 16:36:55</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">The figure on the bunk stirs in response to the frame rattling, and coming fully awake as the door begins to be come apart.<br><br>"What .. who ..." he stammers incoherently over the noise in the cell. "Who the hell are you man?" he asks, raising a hand to shield his face.<br><br><br>Outside, Humour overwhelms the remaining drone, feeling its struggles eventually cease, and more importantly, its shots ceasing to fire into him. The pounding he has taken is taking its toll now.<br><br><br>The remaining drone near the other group is falling back to the doorway, sending a barrage of fire into the shield in an attempt to keep the villians back long enough for it to get inside and join the remaining pair.<br></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br>Haste watches as the final drone heads for the door.&nbsp; "When it opens, I'm going to try and get us an easy way in.&nbsp; Just be prepared." The woman balls her hands into fists and then waits for just the right moment when/if the drone should open the door inside.&nbsp; At which moment Haste will speed out from behind the shield at top speeds and aiming to throw her fist through it's head and gut...thus trying to lift it should she need the meat/metal shield once inside.
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: [Necessary Evil] Episode 1 - Jail Break</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>NightBird</strong> on <strong>20-06-2007, 04:16:51</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				Bast nods. "Good plan," she murmurs, sounding strained. "I can hold the shield a little longer yet, I think, but not much more than a minute or two."
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: [Necessary Evil] Episode 1 - Jail Break</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Creeper</strong> on <strong>20-06-2007, 08:28:04</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				"Oh man..." Groaned Humour as he crushed the final Drone. He felt kinda sick of pulling his body back together whenever it was shot to pieces. "Bad pie... bad pie."<br><br>Still, the show must go on. The Gooy villain rushed back to rejoin the ladies at the door to continue with the breakout.
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: [Necessary Evil] Episode 1 - Jail Break</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>HairyHeretic</strong> on <strong>22-06-2007, 11:34:28</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				The next cell Frenzy steps into has a young woman in it. Her back is to him, as she is vainly trying to look through the small barred window, to see what is happening outside, and doesn't appear to notice his entrance.<br><br><br>At the other side of the building, the drone reaches the door, which slides open. At that point Haste makes her move, speeding out from behind the shield. The drone attempts to track fire at her, but the shots go wide. Something they hit seems quite volatile though, because one of the smaller outbuildings goes up in a massive fireball. If the V'sori didn't know you were here already, they do now.<br><br>Her jinking to throw the last shots off means her attack isn't quite on target, but a high velocity body slam works quite effectively too, and the drone flies back into the smaller room beyond.
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: [Necessary Evil] Episode 1 - Jail Break</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Amberghylles</strong> on <strong>22-06-2007, 12:14:30</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				Frenzy grins a bit and steps closer to the woman.&nbsp; "There's a bunch of crazy people breaking into a jail out there," he says when he's right behind her.&nbsp; 
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: [Necessary Evil] Episode 1 - Jail Break</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>NightBird</strong> on <strong>22-06-2007, 18:15:45</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				With the last drone down, Bast allows the shield to dissipate, her head returning to her own appearance as she does. Moving forward with the rest, she's drooping a little with the amount of magic she'd been working so quickly. 
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: [Necessary Evil] Episode 1 - Jail Break</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Darwishi</strong> on <strong>22-06-2007, 19:08:34</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				Haste's body slams into the drones and sends him flying back.&nbsp; And then she sticks herself in the doorway in case it should try to close before the others try to get inside.&nbsp; She also keeps a look out here hoping that no other drones come along, but if they should she'll at least be somewhat ready.&nbsp; Finally, if the door is too powerful she won't be able to stop it from closing unless it pins her to the wall.&nbsp; She doesn't bruise...or break, but then that might make it hard for the others to get inside.&nbsp; Right now she's just hoping the door won't close...
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: [Necessary Evil] Episode 1 - Jail Break</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Creeper</strong> on <strong>24-06-2007, 11:26:11</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				OOC: Short, crappy post.<br><br>IC: Now rejoined with the others, Humour saw an opening in the door. There was a flash as the hero was first to try to get in, but the goopy villain was close behind, trying to slide into the opening and hold it open for the sorceress.
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: [Necessary Evil] Episode 1 - Jail Break</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>HairyHeretic</strong> on <strong>24-06-2007, 11:34:25</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				The woman in the cell spins around, eyes narrowing as she takes in the appearance of another person in her cell. She looks Frenzy up and down briefly. "You're with Omega, right? Can you get us out of here?" She waves her hand at the walls of the cell.<br><br><br>As Haste smashes the first drone aside and positions herself in the doorway, she spots the remaing two drones, both leveling their weapons at her. If she stays in the doorway, she'll have almost no room to dodge, and while she may be immune to kinetic damage, energy blasts are a whole other ballgame.
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: [Necessary Evil] Episode 1 - Jail Break</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Darwishi</strong> on <strong>24-06-2007, 19:56:11</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				"Oh shit." She groans as she spots the other two drones.&nbsp; She runs straight at them, it's a get out or stay in sort of deal, and well if the door closes then Frenzy will be by himself if she goes back outside.&nbsp; As she moves forward she actually moves to run up the wall just to give her more area to dodge in.&nbsp; She finally launches herself like a missile right at the two drones aiming to plow through both of their heads!
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: [Necessary Evil] Episode 1 - Jail Break</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Amberghylles</strong> on <strong>25-06-2007, 04:53:51</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				"I can," Frenzy answers, "Be faster if one of you would open these doors for the rest though."<br><br>He moves up to the door and lifts his hands, setting them both to vibrating.&nbsp; "You should step back, this part gets messy."
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: [Necessary Evil] Episode 1 - Jail Break</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>NightBird</strong> on <strong>25-06-2007, 05:57:13</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				Bast follows behind the others, breaking into a run to catch up and make it through the door without delaying Humour. As she does catch up with him, she sees the predicament that Haste is in and curses, muttering "Balls of Osiris!" under her breath. There wasn't much she could do as quickly as something needed to be done, so she raises her hands, attempting to cast a bolt of pure divine, cleansing energy at the drone farthest from Haste. Normally it would heal a human being, but she's hoping it might disrupt the implants in the drone and at the least not hurt Haste or any of the others further into the building if she would miss.
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: [Necessary Evil] Episode 1 - Jail Break</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>HairyHeretic</strong> on <strong>26-06-2007, 18:20:16</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				The drones split as Haste launches herself at them. She manages to connect squarely with one, crushing it back into the wall under her impact, but the second is only glanced. It spins away, weapon firing wildly, managing to connect with both Haste and the other drone she'd hit. <br><br>As it struggles to right itself it is hit by another bolt of energy from outside, which crackles and dances across its body, but seems to have little other effect.<br><br><br>In the cell inside, the woman nods to Frenzy. "If I can, I will, but I think only those zombies have the keys to unlock the cells. Without one of those ..." she gives an eloquent shrug, then steps back, covering her face with an arm.
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: [Necessary Evil] Episode 1 - Jail Break</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Darwishi</strong> on <strong>26-06-2007, 20:11:37</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				"Nyah!" She cries out as the energy blast hits her square, firing her body back against all momentum and into a wall.&nbsp; She feels her body's muscles and fat bounce in the golden spandex once when she hits the wall and a final time when she lands face down on the floor.&nbsp; The superheroine for the time at least is slowed down enough that she's not a blur....and is slowly getting back up to her hands and knees.&nbsp; "Nnngh.&nbsp; You're going to pay for that."&nbsp; Just as soon as her world stops spinning...
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: [Necessary Evil] Episode 1 - Jail Break</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Amberghylles</strong> on <strong>26-06-2007, 23:00:09</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				Frenzy nods.&nbsp; "Well that would make sense.&nbsp; I guess I'll just have do this the hard way untill one of them offers to help."<br><br>As he speaks, he tears into the door.&nbsp; Having torn apart the other, he's got a better idea of where it's weak points are so it should go faster now.&nbsp; 
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: [Necessary Evil] Episode 1 - Jail Break</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>NightBird</strong> on <strong>27-06-2007, 05:40:38</strong>
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			<dd class="postbody">
				Bast appears truly vexed, then shrugs and casts the same spell again, this time aiming for Haste. If it couldn't disrupt the drones, at least it ought to help the heroine get back on her feet.<br><br><br><hr>&nbsp; edited to correct 'villainess' to 'heroine' after truly massive brainmelt on my part...&nbsp; ~ NB
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: [Necessary Evil] Episode 1 - Jail Break</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Creeper</strong> on <strong>28-06-2007, 07:00:16</strong>
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			<dd class="postbody">
				Humour followed the two women, flowing into the hall beneath their feet, and reaching up to entangle the drones in his stick blue mass.<br><br>"Goddamn it! I hope frenzy hasn't screwed the pooch already. Where's techno-girl?"
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: [Necessary Evil] Episode 1 - Jail Break</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>HairyHeretic</strong> on <strong>30-06-2007, 02:23:34</strong>
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			<dd class="postbody">
				The second bolt hits Haste squarely, and she can feel renewed energu flowing through her, the fatigue and pain washing away. Before the second drone can take advantage of her still prone position, Humour has envloped it.<br><br>Taking stock, you realise that Jessie has not joined you inside, and the last you saw her was just before the fireball that ripped through the outbuildings. <br><br><br>Inside Frenzy carves more quickly through the second door, realising that he only needs to remove the part of the door that the hinges and locking mechanism are attached to, and the rest can be literally pushed aside.
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: [Necessary Evil] Episode 1 - Jail Break</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Amberghylles</strong> on <strong>30-06-2007, 05:40:15</strong>
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			<dd class="postbody">
				Frenzy grins as he finishes and then pushes the door out of the way.&nbsp; "Ah, another job well done.&nbsp; Try not to get shot or anything out there.&nbsp; And who knows, maybe I'll let you buy me a drink for saving you sometime."<br><br>Then he moves to step through the next wall.&nbsp; At this rate he might be at this a while.
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: [Necessary Evil] Episode 1 - Jail Break</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>NightBird</strong> on <strong>30-06-2007, 06:42:53</strong>
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			<dd class="postbody">
				Bast glances back, sees that Jessie isn't with them, and looks back to the others there with her in the hallway. "Do we go back or move on?" she asks. "My vote would be to accomplish the mission first."
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: [Necessary Evil] Episode 1 - Jail Break</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Darwishi</strong> on <strong>03-07-2007, 01:42:50</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				Haste catches her breath as the healing orb hits her and well..heals her.&nbsp; She stands up not seeming to be much worse for wear and then looks back to Bast. "Thanks."&nbsp; A few seconds later (which with how fast she thinks is a pretty long time) it seems to register with her what Bast had mentioned.&nbsp; Jess is gone.&nbsp; The woman turns and looks back seeming in split decision.&nbsp; She could stay here and protect Bast or head back and try to look for the other girl.&nbsp; "We can only do one rescue at a time.&nbsp; If she's been captured then she'll find a way out.&nbsp; Let's get this guy and Frenzy out and then we'll go back for her." In the hero days she would have gone after Jessie alone, no questions asked.&nbsp; But those days are long over...
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: [Necessary Evil] Episode 1 - Jail Break</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>HairyHeretic</strong> on <strong>10-07-2007, 11:31:39</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				From beyond the door that leads deeper into the building you can hear some muffled noises, but not enough to really make out what is going on. The door itself seems to be locked, with some kind of electronic lockpad set on the wall beside it. It has a keypad and a small hole high up on one side.
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: [Necessary Evil] Episode 1 - Jail Break</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Darwishi</strong> on <strong>11-07-2007, 20:08:21</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				And of course they're faced with an electronic keypad that Jess could have taken care of in her sleep.&nbsp; She looks at it for some long moments and then to the others. "Unless we've got come explosives it's going to take a while for me to try every possible combination." There's a brief beat. "Unless you've got some kind of trick up your sleeve, Bast?" Now the golden-clad heroine is really contemplating going back to see if Jess is alright or not.&nbsp; "Or do you want me to go see if I find Jessie?"
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: [Necessary Evil] Episode 1 - Jail Break</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>NightBird</strong> on <strong>14-07-2007, 04:56:23</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				Bast smiles thinly and nods at Haste. "All we can do is the best we can do," she quietly said. "And we can't do much for anyone if we don't save our own skins by completing this mission."<br><br>She steps forward as Haste mentions a trick up her sleeve, her smile slowly warming. "Actually, I might, but I'll need the rest of you to watch carefully. With any luck, I'm going to create an image of the last person to use the keypad. It will probably look like a ghost." <br><br>For this, she kneels in the hallway, bowing her head, envisioning the altar, the lamps with their fragrant oils, the harsh incense for the dead. Her lips move without sound, but she hears a chanting in her thoughts, a plea to Anubis to reveal what the ka of the last person to activate the door had moved the body to do, promising offerings of myrrh if he would aid them.
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: [Necessary Evil] Episode 1 - Jail Break</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>HairyHeretic</strong> on <strong>14-07-2007, 21:39:27</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				A ghostly image forms in from of the keypad, one of the drones, though since they all look alike you can't tell which one it is. As you watch it retrieves a pen shaped cylinder of metal from a pouch at its waist, inserting it into the hole on the side of the keypad, and punching in 885394.<br><br>After a moment it retrieves the cylinder and steps forward, vanishing through the still closed door and disappearing from view.
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: [Necessary Evil] Episode 1 - Jail Break</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Eyeomancer</strong> on <strong>16-07-2007, 01:19:54</strong>
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			<dd class="postbody">
				She didn't sleep, not really sleep, since she'd come back.&nbsp; It was more like, dying, all over again, each night, when she closed her eyes and stopped breathing.&nbsp; She'd died twice since the Fins had captured her, and her death on the third night was interrupted by something. . .something new.<br><br>". . .who knows, maybe I'll let you buy me a drink for saving you sometime. . ." she heard as she opened her insane eyes.<br><br>Mei -- Ultrawoman -- stood up, the nullifyer cuffs on her wrists clinking against the steel bunk on which she'd been lying.&nbsp; They left the light on, all the time, so they could always make sure where she was; she had the idea that she scared them, and that pleased her, but it would have pleased her more to squeeze their necks until they popped.&nbsp; But from the sounds of things, that might soon change.&nbsp; Someone was assaulting the prison, someone was moving through the secure blocks.&nbsp; <br><br>Someone might be able to take these damned cuffs off her wrists.<br><br>Moving to the small window at the door of her cell, Ultrawoman looked down the hallway, to see what was happening.
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: [Necessary Evil] Episode 1 - Jail Break</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Darwishi</strong> on <strong>17-07-2007, 01:53:02</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				Haste moves to quickly retrieve said cylinder from one of the drones they were fighting (if they all have it) then moves back to the keypad to do what the drone did exactly.&nbsp; Put the cylinder in the hole, punch in the 885394 at semi reasonable speeds and then removes the cylinder and waits the door to unlock or just move out of the way so that they can enter.<br><br>Granted if the drone doesn't have the cylinder she'll look through the other drone in that small room for one.&nbsp; 
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: [Necessary Evil] Episode 1 - Jail Break</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>HairyHeretic</strong> on <strong>17-07-2007, 02:03:50</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				The drone, after a brief search, does indeed prove to have an appropriate cylinder, which, when used, causes the door to open with a slight clunk noise. It slides back into a recess in the frame, to reveal a fairly bare corridor, with a series of doors set either side. A single one of them is open, more or less, with a scruffy looking male head poking out from it.
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: [Necessary Evil] Episode 1 - Jail Break</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Darwishi</strong> on <strong>17-07-2007, 04:44:19</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				After the door opens, she does exactly as the drone had done and removes the cylinder from it's place.&nbsp; Assuming the door stays open for them, she'll head inside and then approach the man that looks slightly bewildered.&nbsp; "Hi, you work here?" She figured it was a good a question as any, though she does keep an eye on him.&nbsp; Should he run to get to a switch or something, she'll try to get in around him and stop him from getting further.&nbsp; 
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: [Necessary Evil] Episode 1 - Jail Break</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Amberghylles</strong> on <strong>17-07-2007, 06:07:32</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				Frenzy stops as he moves through the wall.&nbsp; He cocks his head and looks over the asian woman at the door.&nbsp; He spots the nullifiers and nods.&nbsp; The enemy of my enemy, right?<br><br>"Hey there.&nbsp; Just turn around and hold your hands out and keep them steady.&nbsp; I don't want to nick you while I get those off you."<br><br>She looks familiar, but he can't place her just yet.&nbsp; Not that it matters, he's not really inclinded to leave anyone in here if he can help it.
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: [Necessary Evil] Episode 1 - Jail Break</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>NightBird</strong> on <strong>17-07-2007, 06:24:35</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				Bast rises to her feet after thanking Anubis again for his aid, then follows after Haste, far more slowly and a good deal more cautiously as the heroine confronts the man peeking out at them.
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: [Necessary Evil] Episode 1 - Jail Break</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Eyeomancer</strong> on <strong>17-07-2007, 14:08:17</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				If she was surprised to see a fellow super appear suddenly in her cell, Ultrawoman gave no sign of it.&nbsp; She complied without a word, holding out her wrists, but kept her eyes looking at her rescuer.&nbsp; Taller than she, of about the same age, blonde hair, blue eyes.&nbsp; She looked at him with a disturbing level of intensity, as if she was trying to read words written on the back of his skull, and all that flesh just happened to be in the way.<br><br>"Mei," she said by way of an introduction, her accent thick, her pronunciation precise.&nbsp; "Why you come here?&nbsp; You looking for me?"
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: [Necessary Evil] Episode 1 - Jail Break</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>HairyHeretic</strong> on <strong>17-07-2007, 14:42:09</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				The young man gives a quick shake of his head. "No, uh, ma'am. I just got tossed in here by the fins, wasn't doing nothing. Then some guy came through the walls, wrecked the door and, like, disappeared again." His hands gesture further into the building. "I think he went that way. Went through the wall that way anyhow."<br><br>He edges out into the corridor, looking around him. "Where's the rest of the zombies? And the fins? You kill them all?"
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: [Necessary Evil] Episode 1 - Jail Break</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Amberghylles</strong> on <strong>17-07-2007, 15:25:48</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=9814.msg388930#msg388930">Quote from: Eyeomancer on 17-07-2007, 14:08:17</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">If she was surprised to see a fellow super appear suddenly in her cell, Ultrawoman gave no sign of it.&nbsp; She complied without a word, holding out her wrists, but kept her eyes looking at her rescuer.&nbsp; Taller than she, of about the same age, blonde hair, blue eyes.&nbsp; She looked at him with a disturbing level of intensity, as if she was trying to read words written on the back of his skull, and all that flesh just happened to be in the way.<br><br>"Mei," she said by way of an introduction, her accent thick, her pronunciation precise.&nbsp; "Why you come here?&nbsp; You looking for me?"<br></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br>Frenzy blinked, she had a disturbing stare that was for certain.&nbsp; But he reached out and focused his power into a single finger.&nbsp; He then moved to try and use it to cut away the nullifiers.&nbsp; <br><br>"I'm Frenzy," he answered, "Here because the Doc wants us to spring some guy called Mindjack.&nbsp; You wouldn't know where he is by chance would you?&nbsp; It looked less complicated in here on the magic cam."
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: [Necessary Evil] Episode 1 - Jail Break</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Eyeomancer</strong> on <strong>17-07-2007, 15:34:31</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				"Good," said Mei as Frenzy cut her cuffs.&nbsp; "I wouldn't have liked it if you came for me.&nbsp; People come for me and people die and they send more people for me.<br><br>"Mindjack the thief?&nbsp; You're close.&nbsp; Next cell."&nbsp; Ultrawoman went to the door, digging her fingers into the steel, and ripped it from the hinges, the metal screamed its protest.&nbsp; "I help."
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: [Necessary Evil] Episode 1 - Jail Break</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Darwishi</strong> on <strong>17-07-2007, 19:43:32</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				"Uh huh." She looks at the guy for some moments and then looks back up the hall.&nbsp; They needed to make a way for Frenzy and company to get out.&nbsp; "We took them out." She answers his question and then points in the direction where he said that Frenzy disappeared off to.&nbsp; "Alright, we'll check it out." She's still on the fence about just leaving the guy here.&nbsp; He could trip an alarm in the room, but then, he could lead them astray if they ask him to go with them.&nbsp; And effectively trap the rest of the group.&nbsp; <br><br>"You guys watch him real quick, I'm going to check ahead to see if I can find a good route for Frenzy to take out of here." A beat. "Or...Bast could you work up a spell to not fly through the walls that'll map out the fastest and shortest route to Frenzy, and also the fastest escape?"
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: [Necessary Evil] Episode 1 - Jail Break</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>HairyHeretic</strong> on <strong>17-07-2007, 20:49:05</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				From further ahead came a screech of tortured metal, and one of the doors almost folded inwards.
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: [Necessary Evil] Episode 1 - Jail Break</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Amberghylles</strong> on <strong>17-07-2007, 21:10:09</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				As she was tearing the door apart, Frenzy nodded.&nbsp; "Um... You're the one they were chasing all over the southwest aren't you?"<br><br>He nodded.&nbsp; "You're welcome to help out.&nbsp; The more the merrier and all that.&nbsp; Besides, I like anyone the fins don't right now."
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: [Necessary Evil] Episode 1 - Jail Break</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Eyeomancer</strong> on <strong>17-07-2007, 21:22:35</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				Ultrawoman turned to the left, and similarly demolished the door to the cell where the diamond thief was kept, taking part of the frame with it.&nbsp; "I like you too.&nbsp; You let me out.&nbsp; I remember when you did that.&nbsp; I'll kill fins for you, make soup dinner for you.&nbsp; Fin fin soup.&nbsp; Very good.&nbsp; You want Mindjack dead too?&nbsp; I can't remember."
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: [Necessary Evil] Episode 1 - Jail Break</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>HairyHeretic</strong> on <strong>17-07-2007, 21:32:47</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				The individual Mindjack is lying on the cot, much as Bast saw in her vision. A pair of nullifier cuffs are slapped on his wrists, and his eyes when he looks at you are glazed over. "Time for more happy juice?" he asks, his voice slurred.<br><br>From the cell opposite, you can see a pair of eyes staring at you through the slot in the door, open of those featureless ones it seems all prison doors have, for observation, or sliding in a tray of food. "Hey!" comes a female voice. "Are you Omega? If you can get me out of here, you won't regret it."
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: [Necessary Evil] Episode 1 - Jail Break</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Amberghylles</strong> on <strong>24-07-2007, 16:25:50</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				Frenzy had to stop and blink.&nbsp; The new girl's a little off-kilter, not that he hasn't worked with some real special people as a villian.&nbsp; And oddly enough, most of them did share a knack for tearing steel doors off their hinges.<br><br>"No, we want Mindjack alive and intact... um.. May wasn't it?"&nbsp; He smiles and points over at the other cell with the woman's voice comming from it.<br><br>"Tell you want, I'll take care of Jackie here.&nbsp; You go rip that door open and let the nice woman out of her cell, ok?"&nbsp; 
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: [Necessary Evil] Episode 1 - Jail Break</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Eyeomancer</strong> on <strong>24-07-2007, 17:15:25</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				"No," Ultrawoman said, looking at Frenzy with a hard line set in her mouth.&nbsp; "I think it would be better if you took care of Mindjack, and I let the other woman out of her cell."&nbsp; Oh yeah, she defiantly was playing solitaire without the two of diamonds.<br><br>She stepped out of the cell containing the drugged super, and stood in front of the door where the woman's voice came from.&nbsp; "If I do regret getting you out of here, I'm going to make certain you regret me regretting.&nbsp; Stand back."&nbsp; Another torn steel door later, and Ultrawoman peered in, curious to see was on the other side.
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: [Necessary Evil] Episode 1 - Jail Break</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Amberghylles</strong> on <strong>24-07-2007, 18:22:25</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				Frenzy has to resist a chuckle as he turns his attention to the nullifiers.&nbsp; But then he stops.&nbsp; A drugged psychic could be harmless... or he could be more trouble than a battalion of fins.&nbsp; Better wait till his head clears.<br><br>He reaches instead to help the man to his feet.&nbsp; "No more juiceboxes for you pal.&nbsp; We're going on a field trip today."
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: [Necessary Evil] Episode 1 - Jail Break</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Darwishi</strong> on <strong>24-07-2007, 21:30:12</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				Being the fastest in the current group she takes off down the hall, especially after hearing the squeel of metal bending.&nbsp; Frenzy can't do that, although he could very well just be cutting through and it's making some similar noise.&nbsp; Either way, unless she's impeded in some way she'll stop just short of Ultrawoman, her heart sinking.&nbsp; She's not sure if the woman would remember Haste as a goodguy but she's seen the asian on several occassions and the sheer display of power was intimidating...to say the least.<br><br>((OOC: I figured since Haste is a hero that they might have crossed paths once or twice?&nbsp; PM me if you want to say they battled or not.))
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: [Necessary Evil] Episode 1 - Jail Break</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>HairyHeretic</strong> on <strong>25-07-2007, 14:34:09</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				Frenzy has to put a bit of effort into lifting Mindjack, as apparently the drugs are affecting his body as much as his mind, and his control is somewhat lacking. After a couple of near topples, you get him standing more or less propped straight against the wall. Mindjack is currently staring hard at your left ear, and giggling.<br><br>The door to the other cell now torn away, a young woman, perhaps in her early 20s, with strange marks on her face stares back at you. "Thank you." she says, nodding. "Is there any sign of the keys the fins used? We can get everyone out of here, and make a run for it. If you can get us into the sewers, I can take you to just about anywhere in the city .. or close to where you want to go at least."
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: [Necessary Evil] Episode 1 - Jail Break</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Amberghylles</strong> on <strong>25-07-2007, 16:03:37</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				Frenzy nods, panting a little from having to drag Mindjack up like that.<br><br>"May?&nbsp; Could you carry Mindjack here please?&nbsp; But be careful, he's fragile and we want him intact."<br><br>Spotting Haste, he smiles.&nbsp; "So, you guys got one of these keys she's looking for so we can slip away into the sewers?&nbsp; Not your usual style I know, but you're hanging with us villians now.&nbsp; It's just one of those things we do you know, part of the whole skulking and sneaking routine."
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: [Necessary Evil] Episode 1 - Jail Break</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Eyeomancer</strong> on <strong>01-08-2007, 18:45:38</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				The small, dark eyes in the heavily scarred face look towards the running Haste as she approached, and, surprisingly, made the insane villainess lift a finger to her lips in the universal <em>Shhh</em> gesture.<br><br>"Brought enough to this party to make the Fins think twice," she said to Frenzy, taking the incoherent Mindjack over her shoulder like a ragdoll.&nbsp; "Good thinking."&nbsp; And then, about the meta she was carrying, she frowned.&nbsp; "Something's wrong with him.&nbsp; He's not all here.&nbsp; I'm not all here, either, though.&nbsp; I haven't been all here since I came back.&nbsp; I get confused.&nbsp; Don't think the same any more.&nbsp; Are we leaving through the wall or into the sewer, like my number one fan here suggested?"<br><br>Apparently, the strange marks on the woman's face were interpreted in Ultrawoman's tortured logic as being deliberate marks of identification with her own unusual profile.
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: [Necessary Evil] Episode 1 - Jail Break</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Darwishi</strong> on <strong>03-08-2007, 06:13:05</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				Haste, still uneasy around Ultrawoman, looks to the woman and then to Frenzy again.&nbsp; Why so uneasy? Well how would you like it if you knew the woman could punch her entire fist up into you and use you like a dummy?&nbsp; Not even to mention the pain of that experience, but she's pretty certain that if Ultrawoman recognizes Haste she won't be liked too much.&nbsp; "I can run on top of the sludge, don't need to worry too much about that." She then produces the key that they're talking about. "We should probably wait for the rest of the gang to catch up...and we lost Jessie.&nbsp; We might have to come back for her..."
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: [Necessary Evil] Episode 1 - Jail Break</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Amberghylles</strong> on <strong>04-08-2007, 01:39:29</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				Frenzy smiles a little at Ultrawoman's comment.&nbsp; "Don't sweat it May, coherent thought is overrated.&nbsp; You just carry Mindjack there, and try not to hurt him if he does anything since he need him alive and he's not thinking clearly right now."<br><br>He looks over at the newest prisoner.&nbsp; "You know how to use that, might as well get started opening the rest of the doors."<br><br>The others should have time to catch up while they're springing doors and such.&nbsp; And he frowns at the word that Jessie's gone missing.&nbsp; But she's a tough kid (well, sexy young woman these days) and he's as sure as he can be that she'll come out of it alright.
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: [Necessary Evil] Episode 1 - Jail Break</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>HairyHeretic</strong> on <strong>06-08-2007, 12:36:03</strong>
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			<dd class="postbody">
				Between Mays strength, Frenzys hands and a purloined key, it doesn't take long to open the remainder of the cells. By the time you're finished the corridor has grown crowded, with perhaps 35 or so people, in addition to yourselves and Mindjack. <br><br>With a crackle, Dr Destructions voice sounds on the comlink he'd provided. "You better be ready by now, as we're coming in hot, and the fins won't be too far behind us. Be in the open in 30 seconds."<br><br>A stir runs through the crowd at this, and a handfull begin to press for the doors to get outside. Those of you who arrived with Dr Destruction know that the craft he was in won't take more than perhaps half the crowd here, maybe not even that many.
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			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: [Necessary Evil] Episode 1 - Jail Break</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Darwishi</strong> on <strong>07-08-2007, 09:12:34</strong>
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			<dd class="postbody">
				She's quick to think about all the cells they've opened and all the people that they're bringing with them currently.&nbsp; Right now she knows about half, including the main group and Mindjack will fit on Dr. Destruction's ship, so she turns to the crowd and shouts out to them. "Alright! Half of you will go with May through the sewers," She looks to May to see if she's willing to guide, if not then she'll amend it to, "Or you can go to the sewers by yourselves and split up the Fins will be less likely to find you if we all split up.&nbsp; The ones we choose will come with us on the ship." She looks to Frenzy for a moment, how're they going to decide which ones to take with them?&nbsp; She can pick them out in about five seconds or less, she just needs to know which to bring with them.&nbsp; Hell with any luck they'll split off themselves and therefore they (she, Frenzy, and company) won't have to figure it out.
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			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: [Necessary Evil] Episode 1 - Jail Break</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Amberghylles</strong> on <strong>07-08-2007, 18:21:09</strong>
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			<dd class="postbody">
				((ooc: I hope I didn't start confusing people about Mai's name.&nbsp; Frenzy is mispronouncing it...))<br><br>"May's got Jackkie boy, so she's with us.&nbsp; Stripe face girl, you take the rest and get going to those sewers.&nbsp; I imagine the fins will be busy chasing us so you guys might have a good chance."<br><br>Then he tugs at Ultrawoman's arm and tries to guide her towards the way out.&nbsp; "Cab's waiting, time for us to go..." 
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			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: [Necessary Evil] Episode 1 - Jail Break</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Darwishi</strong> on <strong>07-08-2007, 21:48:24</strong>
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				((OOC: Oookay, well I meant the new girl that said she knew the sewers to take down.&nbsp; So yes you did confuse me. =OP&nbsp; Also, in that case there's no reason to correct Haste ~bonk~))
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			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: [Necessary Evil] Episode 1 - Jail Break</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>NightBird</strong> on <strong>08-08-2007, 04:32:42</strong>
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			<dd class="postbody">
				Seeing so many going free from a fin prison makes for one of the more satisfying moments out of the past few months. Wending her way through the growing crowd, she joins Frenzy, Haste and what seems a newly-acquired ally, at least for right now. A dull headache has begun crawling up the back of her neck to settle behind her eyes. Magically tapped out, or very nearly so, Bast is more than ready to leave, though it would be better if more of those who'd arrived would be here to join them.
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			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: [Necessary Evil] Episode 1 - Jail Break</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Eyeomancer</strong> on <strong>09-08-2007, 03:08:12</strong>
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			<dd class="postbody">
				Allowing herself to be tugged along, Ultrawoman frowned when she heard Doctor Destruction's voice over the Intercom.&nbsp; Without breaking stride, she kicked a soccer-ball size piece of rubble into the torso of a drone that had appeared at the end of the hall way to intercept them, the impact sending the man flying.&nbsp; "Cabs in this part of town?&nbsp; I'm not tipping the driver, I don't care how quick he get here.&nbsp; You work for Cab Driver Man?&nbsp; He a villain I not know about?&nbsp; What he want with happy man here anyway?"
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			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: [Necessary Evil] Episode 1 - Jail Break</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>HairyHeretic</strong> on <strong>12-08-2007, 16:54:35</strong>
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			<dd class="postbody">
				The group of supers and escapees flows out into the courtyard. The smaller outbuildings are pretty much smouldering rubble, and an eerie silence has fallen over the area.<br><br>It is broken by the whine of Dr Destructions ship dropping out of the sky and landing bare yards away, kicking up a small cloud of swirling dust as it does so. The escapees cough and shield their eyes as the ramp drops and the power armoured figure of Doctor Destruction emerges.<br><br>At the bottom of the ramp he halts, as a pair of his minions run past and take control of the still unsteady Mindjack, half dragging him into the carrier. Doctor Destructions helmet turns side to side as he takes in the rest of the group. ”Look at the villains playing the hero! How<br>amusing. I don’t suppose you bothered to check if any of them are actually useful?” he says. "Well, no matter, we have what we came for. Get on board, I'll deal with the rest of these."<br><br>You can see the gauntlets of his power armour beginning to glow as he steps forward, raising his arms and unleashing an energy blast. The nearest escapees duck amidst cries of alarm, but the bolts pass just wide of them, tearing a section of the perimeter fence apart. Doctor Destruction strides to it, leveling his gauntlets at the road and blasting a gaping hole in it. He turns back to the stunned escapees. <br><br>"Your sewer entrance. Use it." With that he strides back aboard the ship, and you hear the engines change pitch as it prepares to lift off.
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			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: [Necessary Evil] Episode 1 - Jail Break</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Eyeomancer</strong> on <strong>12-08-2007, 17:06:32</strong>
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			<dd class="postbody">
				Her hands closing into fists was the only indication that Ultrawoman was considering lashing out in violence against Doctor Destruction's condescension.&nbsp; Her expression was still one of bemused interest, eyes staring at a point a thousand miles away.&nbsp; In the end, she was sane enough not to lash out at the most powerful supervillain in the world, and opened her hands before she got on board his craft as if she had every right to be there.&nbsp; Beneath the bright prison lights, the metallic studs on her chest glimmered with a faint orange light.&nbsp; "Useful who cares?&nbsp; They go that way we go this way who do the Fins chase?&nbsp; Maybe us, maybe them, maybe both, but less for us."
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			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: [Necessary Evil] Episode 1 - Jail Break</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Amberghylles</strong> on <strong>12-08-2007, 18:56:34</strong>
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			<dd class="postbody">
				Frenzy reaches over and takes hold of Mai's forearm.&nbsp; "That's our ride.&nbsp; And, um, yeah I guess I do work for him.&nbsp; Best shot we've got of getting rid of the damn aliens.&nbsp; Come on, I know we can use your help."<br><br>Then he tries to guide her into the ship before it takes off.&nbsp; The doctor has not shown much in the way of patience and he doesn't feel like being left behind.
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			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: [Necessary Evil] Episode 1 - Jail Break</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>NightBird</strong> on <strong>13-08-2007, 07:18:00</strong>
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			<dd class="postbody">
				Bast's lips thinned at the evil Doctor's reaction to their freeing the rest of the prisoners. As far as she was concerned, it was good tactics, to confuse any retaliation and to get every possible prisoner out of their filthy, alien hands, simply because anything the fins wanted, she didn't want them to have. Before she could summon the words to argue, however, the large, oriental woman who'd helped them after they'd freed her put the basis of what Bast had been thinking rather more succinctly than Bast would have, and demonstrated that at least one from the batch was, in fact, quite useful.<br><br>It would have been stupid to show much more affront than her silence as she boarded the transport, then by the time she was seated, weariness made speech seem overrated, so she listened and watched through her eyelashes, trying to see who actually came on board, who was left from the group who had started.
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			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: [Necessary Evil] Episode 1 - Jail Break</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Darwishi</strong> on <strong>13-08-2007, 21:44:41</strong>
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			<dd class="postbody">
				Once out in the front of the building she opens her mouth to object to Dr. Destruction's lackluster attitude towards the other people in the prison.&nbsp; She glares at him with something that can only be seen in a heroine's eyes...one person that really hasn't given up the heroine role just yet.&nbsp; So far no one has slapped her ass or even groped her.&nbsp; She half expects Frenzy to become a human vibrator between her legs at any moment, but he's respectfully not done so yet.&nbsp; She pauses for a second and then runs inside the ship as he levels his hands at the crowd.&nbsp; She does stop to watch what happens, sees that he gives them escape and decides that she can't completely hate the guy just yet.&nbsp; She heads into the ship and then...for the first time really looks Ultrawoman up and down.&nbsp; She really is quite attractive.&nbsp; She herself has never had the opportunity to fight her, but she's decently sure she can take her...if it came down to it.
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			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: [Necessary Evil] Episode 1 - Jail Break</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Amberghylles</strong> on <strong>14-08-2007, 18:09:40</strong>
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			<dd class="postbody">
				Frenzy looks around from inside the ship.&nbsp; He's pretty much done, the rest of this escape is up to the Doctor and his pilot.<br><br>Noticing Bast, he moves over and cautiously moves to rest his hands on her shoulders, letting them buzz very lightly.&nbsp; "Takes a lot out of you doesn't it?" he comments on her tired expression.<br><br>He glances over to see who else is still with them, not sure if any of the others might have wound up going the sewer route.
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			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: [Necessary Evil] Episode 1 - Jail Break</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>HairyHeretic</strong> on <strong>14-08-2007, 22:08:35</strong>
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			<dd class="postbody">
				With everyone on board, the carrier lifts off, and screams away into the city. Judging by the jarring you feel even through your safety restraints, the pilot is either a genius or insane, as you are jostled by the maneuvers performed. A short time later, you feel the carrier slow, then settle to the ground with a slight thud. The rear hatch opens once more, and outside you can make down the run down buildings that comprise one of the tougher neighborhoods of Southpoint.Dr. Destruction points to an abandoned warehouse. <br><br>“You're to be congratulated. You performed better than I thought you would tonight.&nbsp; There's a tunnel in there leads to one of our boltholes. It's yours, as you’re an Omega cell now. I suggest you come up with a team name for yourselves. I’ll be in touch.”<br><br>With that, the hatch closes, and carrier rises once more into the sky, zipping off and disappearing behind a building.
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			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: [Necessary Evil] Episode 1 - Jail Break</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>NightBird</strong> on <strong>16-08-2007, 06:35:33</strong>
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			<dd class="postbody">
				Bast looks up at Frenzy with an inquiring expression as his hands come to rest on her shoulders, then she smiles and nods. "Yes."<br><br>His question is something of a surprise, though not an unpleasant one. Very few who'd hired her services have ever seemed to care how she does what she does for them, villains and heroes alike. Then again, she usually does what she does alone, in the privacy of her small temple, not out in the field with a team, where she would have to work harder and where that effort would be seen. Realizing she's been silent longer than she intended, she adds, "It's a lot harder when I have to visualize a temple for the casting."<br><br>Giving Frenzy one more quick, tired smile, Bast debarks with the others and takes a slow, deep breath. A new home. She's glad that it isn't turning out to be directly under Dr. Destruction's eye. This might not be too bad. Her eyes tracked the carrier as she realizes she'll have to find a way to get some things from her former home or start over again from the beginning at dedicating a space to be her new temple.
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			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: [Necessary Evil] Episode 1 - Jail Break</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Eyeomancer</strong> on <strong>17-08-2007, 03:17:44</strong>
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			<dd class="postbody">
				Watching the hovercraft vanish, Ultrawoman lowered her gaze to the group of supers that had come to her rescue; not that they'd come for her, but they had helped her out of a difficult place.&nbsp; Frenzy and Haste, in particular, were stared at by the unsettling eyes of the small Asian woman, whose scarred face smiled.<br><br>"Well.&nbsp; He didn't ask for tip.&nbsp; Didn't deserve one either, driving like a crazy person.&nbsp; You're Omega?&nbsp; I am too?&nbsp; That very, very good.&nbsp; We're the Devil Tigers, by the way."&nbsp; After declaring it so, Ultrawoman took to the air, flying low above the streets and out of sight of the group.
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			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: [Necessary Evil] Episode 1 - Jail Break</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Amberghylles</strong> on <strong>17-08-2007, 20:18:01</strong>
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			<dd class="postbody">
				Frenzy's additional comments are cut off as they're jostled and tossed about during the escape.<br><br>He watches the ship leave and then Ultrawoman's departure.&nbsp; "Devil Tigers... I like it, which is good since I wouldn't want to argue with a crazy woman about it."&nbsp; <br><br>Then he looks over at the others and starts walking to the hidden enterence.&nbsp; "Let's get our Devil Tiger asses out of the open eh?"&nbsp; With a smirk he looks over at Haste.&nbsp; "So, you going to join us in the luxurious villianious lair that no doubt awaits us, Haste?"<br><br>Then as they start walking he glances to Bast.&nbsp; "Temple huh?&nbsp; Guess that means you get your own room in the new place then.&nbsp; You gonna need help gathering things for that?"
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			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: [Necessary Evil] Episode 1 - Jail Break</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Darwishi</strong> on <strong>17-08-2007, 20:27:53</strong>
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			<dd class="postbody">
				She departs as well and then looks to Ultrawoman as she gets that unhealthy glare.&nbsp; "I don't like it." She says flat out and then watches the woman take off into the sky. "Uh, where's she going?" She shrugs a tad and looks over to Frenzy. "As if I have a choice?" She walks after him, hips in full swing as they descend into the lair.&nbsp; She's none too happy about having to room with a bunch of villains, though again, to their credit none of them have even so much taken a feel of her.&nbsp; Granted that could be due to they were on a mission and now the heroine is free game, but she'll just have to see.&nbsp; "I can help you get some things as well.&nbsp; Fastest woman alive... and all." A beat. "Well was still true when all the heroes were alive..." She sighs and seems to reflect on better times when it was just them fighting.&nbsp; No stupid alien menace that wiped out 99.9% of all heroes.
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			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>[Necessary Evil] Episode 2 - Trouble at 40 Fathoms</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>HairyHeretic</strong> on <strong>21-08-2007, 02:05:51</strong>
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			<dd class="postbody">
				After having gotten a few days to settle in to your new base, and start to arrange it to your own satisfaction, your comlinks go off, indicating a fresh mission. Doctor Destructions voice comes through clearly, with only a slight warbling echo to indicate the screening it is going through.<br><br>"Something strange is going on in the Carribean. As you're no doubt aware, the V'sori have a number of research stations set up, on land, in space and on various ocean floors. Hydrobase 11, near Aruba, recently went off the air. I sent a team to investigate. They've missed 2 scheduled check-in's, so they are also presumed lost. I want you to go to that base, and find out what happened. If there's anything useful to us, take then, then destroy the place. I've manage to fake some transmissions, so the V'sori don't realise yet that their station has gone dark.<br><br>Since I presume none of you have a submarine handy, I'm providing details of a small V'sori naval station on the mainland. You should be able to secure one of their mini-subs there."<br><br>There's a squeal, a burst transmission of data that the laptop you found in the safe house begins to decode, and then the line goes dead.
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