Log:Halcyon Daze, Part 1

2008/09/27 	 Diamond Halcyon Narosia Sable 1

Over all the news networks and over the police band and on HeroNet as well, a report goes out. There's a robbery in progress. A super-villain named Blowhard is in the process of robbing a jewelry store, and the police are helpless to stop him...

Diamond manages to hear the report and hurries to where it says it was. She changes into full diamond form, and leaps to the extent of her strength to get there as quickly as possible.

Halcyon arrives, carrying her parasol when she notices the trouble. She heads for the nearest nice officer, making inquiries concerning the details of their presence.

Diamond gets a bit closer to the store, but she is still a distance away, she can probably get there with another leap, she blinks at the devestation she sees.

In front of the jewelry store, a van is parked, and it's attended by four men with pistols, in ski-masks. They appear to be In front of them, facing away from the front of the store and towards the open end of the street, there's Blowhard. He's keeping the police at bay with his super-powered breath.

16" away from Blowhard, police are pinned down by Blowhard's gale-force breath. One police man squints and stares into the wind while shouting into his radio: "This is Unit Adam-14. We need backup! Robbery in progress at the Grand Street Jewelers!"

Halcyon finds an officer easily. He explains the situation. "They're robbing the back, and we can get anywhere close to them!"

Getting a view of the problem, Halcyon nods to the officer and vanishes from in front of him, aiming to bypass the entire trouble under cover of being out of the view of everyone inside.

Diamond cocks her head a bit and seems to be looking at it a bit. She nods, "See what we can do." she is actually going to try to leap onto one of the taller buildings right here, and once there, try leaping down at the bad guys.

Diamond cocks her head to the side and leaps onto a rooftop and then leaps towards him, not quite getting all the way there, but enough for most purposes.

Suddenly, Halcyon experiences a strange twisting sensation as space warps around around her. It's a vertigo inducing trip. Halcyon finds herself trapped between landscapes: the first is the bank robbery where events seem to be proceeding with out her. The second scene is something completely different. It's a darkened interior room where a wild-eyed man stares back at Halcyon. There's a spark of electricity from behind him, and in that moment Halcyon can see her reflection in the glass that separates her from the man. He's surrounded by monsters and beasts: werewolves, vampires, mummies, axe-murderers.

To everyone one else, it simply appears that Halcyon has gone invisible.

GM Note: What Halcyon sees is listed in Part 2.

Sable suns to her left, steering around the influence of blow-hard's attack, steering to a building further down the block onto which she tries to leap.

Sable says, "What sort of a name is blow-hard? Is he going to beat us with boring stories of bravado?"

Blowhard stops to take a breath for a moment and watch Diamond land in front of him. "Not bad," he says. "You must be pretty strong to get this far. But are you strong enough to deal with my direct power?" He sucks in a deep breath and then blows right at Diamond. The wind sweeps up and then down at her with hurricane intensity, making it hard to leap.

Sable leaps up onto the rooftops and runs along the edg of the guttering to close the distance to the unfortunately named super-villain

Halcyon looks scared, though has to investigate. 'why...?' is about all she thinks to express.

Sable races along the rooftop but even up here is clearly affected by Blowhard's whipping tornado, her pace flagging visibly as she hits the wall of air but she manages to close the distance somewhat.

Blowhard spots Sable approaching. He stops blowing downward on Diamond. Instead he inhales and unleashes a chilling wave of air from his lungs, threatening to freeze Sable solid.

Sable interrupts her run to stutter-step and twist abruptly, her body weaving out of the way of the hissing stream of icy droplets which scratch and spatter against the roof-tiles behind her.

Diamond blinks as first she can't leap and then he is focusing on blowing at Sable. She cocks her head to the side, big mistake, she thinks as she leaps to just behind him, and moves to slam her fist at him.

WHAM! Diamond's punch connects solid with Blowhard. He flies backwards and crashes into the side of the van. The van tips, but stays on it's wheels, though Blowhard leaves a giant dent in the side. He falls to the ground next to the van, on his butt.

Sable's lips purse as Diamond lays waste to Blowhhard.. "Great work Diamond." She smiles. "In fact I think I'd call that a gem of a hit."

The bandits who are loading jewels into the van take notice. They draw their guns and prepare to fight their way out.

From out of relative nowhere skulks out Narosia in full dark reglia, assessing the bandits and their bid for freedom with upmost caution.

The four robbers come to the aid of their Champion. They all fire their pistols at Diamond.

Diamond gets shot by the two bandits the but bullets almost seem to just glance off her diamond skin, not looking to really have even made her flinch.

Sable's knees flex as she springs over to the nearest of the thugs in the store, her elbow cocks and briskly unwindlys lashing a sharp punch at the man's navel

Just like the horde of policemen struggling to push forward Narosia skids backwards, hair plastered flat upon her head from the turbulent current. However unlike them, the girl manages to scrape herself forward enough to locate the nearest pencilled shadow, and emerge behind Blowhard in a flurry of whisps.

Sable's glived fist smashes powerfully into the man's belly, folding him double as he crumples to the ground.

Blowhard stops blowing enough to say to his mates, "Leave this one to me. Take care of the others." And with that, he looks at Diamond. Instead of blowing this time, he sucks in a deep breath. The resulting wind draws a set of downed power lines towards Diamond's back.

Diamond cracks her neck as it doesn't really seem to even do anything to her, not a single thing. She looks at Blowhard, "That all you got?" she asks and looks a bit pissed, she moves over, "Time to take you out for the count."

Blowhard grunts as Diamond cracks him with another solid punch. Again, he's slammed against the side of the vehicle, and this time it's enough to tip van. It falls against the massive stairs leading up to the jewelry, coming to rest at about a 45 degree angle.

Narosia walks among the remaining bandits, recalling the frightened octopus when one lashes out at her slipping into their dead centre suddenly it gushes out a blind, muffled darkness two feet in radius.

The bandits fan out, trying to find their way from the unnatural darkness. They manage to emerge from the shroud, each one popping out from a different section of the blackness.

Sable navigates through the darkness with unerring accyracy, in fact staying inside it to giv herself cover to the last possible second when she lashes out of the edge of the inky shado to attack another thug.

Blowhard manages to push himself up to his feet. He shakes the cobwebs from his head and raises his eyes to look at Diamond. He breathes, hoping to sweep up Diamond in a gale force blast of air.

Blowhard's gust of wind sweeps Diamond into the air and then dashes her down to the ground right where Diamond used to be standing.

Blowhard's gust of wind sweeps Diamond into the air and then dashes her down to the ground right where Sable used to be standing.

Sable weaves in a swift arabesque to sway out of the way as Diamond as she hurles past,

Diamond tries to break free but does't manage to, though she does manage to get to her feet.

Narosia sends the moving shadows into one cohesive blast of physical effect onto the nearest bandit within range, letting the inky cloud dissapate slowly into a murky aftercolour.

Narosia observes the bandit fold in half and crumple like paper, his injuries hidden by his back being towards her line of sight.

Sable moves toward another of the agents, this time unleashing a smooth forward kick aimed at the middle of his sternum.

Sable's boot thumps into the final agent's chest, smashing him abruptly to the floor and smashing the breath from him.

Narosia walks to stand in front of Blowhard, tilting her head to examine him for what feels a dragged out moment. Then fast as whiplash her shadow pulls out, snapping vicously at him to curl and draw a line of blackened energy across his ribcage. Not before of course, she tries to deliver a restrained speech. "Will you give up?" Only if he acts does he retaliate on pure reflex.

Down Blowhard falls, probably using his last consious thought to curse the meddling little wrench.

The wind storm that was ravaging the street dies down, as does the mini-cyclone that was holding Diamond.

The police are now able to move forward and apprehend the bandits.