Log:Overman, Scene 9

Overman 2020/11/13 	 Artemis Ascendant Baker Golden Girl Harlequin Magda Moonshadow Spirit Overman

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Near the orbit of this world's Mars, near the asteroid Overman is bringing to Earth, the battle continues! Harlequin has gated to the far side of the the asteroid and is (very slowly!) converting rock to air. The other heroes are in a battle which is inclined to scatter people about, what with the lack of people holding them down! Most recently, Ascendant has accidentally (probably 😀) mind-blasted Artemis, and Spirit has blasted Overman, sending him (and Artemis, who has Overman entangled in her whip) further into space. 

Baker isn't -too- concerned as Overman and Artemis tumble away from him and the asteroid. Overman away from the asteroid is a good thing, and Artemis can fly. On the downside, if they're floating too far away, him managing to help in restraining or otherwise inconveniencing Overman is that much less likely. So he floats out after the pair, and projects mental feedback at Overman.

Overman clearly felt that. His frown may not be easy to make out at this distance, but he looks straight at Baker with glowing eyes. Evidently the mentalist has got his attention!

Overman accelerates sharply, aiming himself at the person who just assaulted his mind!

Linda sees Overman accelerate and bursts into a speed run of her own. She's aiming to intercept Overman before he reaches Baker and just slam headlong into him herself.

Linda slams into Overman, stopping him from significantly hurting Baker. After the impach she reels away broken with blood steaming from her mouth and nose.

Overman, tumbling head over heels with Linda, does not show a scratch. But he is dazed by the impact!

Korkoro's frustration at the increasing range of the fight is abruptly cancelled as it returns to within arm's reach of her. She doesn't actually touch Overman, but ...

At last, SOMETHING is working right!! Under Korkoro's fine magnetic control, the microscopic theta-radiation-carrying particles start shifting away from Overman's brain and back into his bloodstream. If she has to, she'll remove them from his body entirely, but with luck his own resistance will purge them when they get to his lungs.

Harlequin continues slowly eating awat the rock by turning it to air.

Overman shakes his head till the circling birds stop tweeting.

Ascendant will need to make up for lost ground. Backstabbing is delightfully good fun- but only when there is Glory to be hoarded. Overman's might & the extreme environment is more than enough intrigue & danger for the Doj'on- and so reattempts his strike, this time with added focus.

He looses his typical flourish in exchange for expediency.

A razor-edged thought appears on the tip of his finger, hilt and all as NNS flies upwards (relative to Overman). Hit balances there a moment before flinging itself blade first at Overman across the inky blackness.

Hopefully, he can keep his mind on target this time.

Overman looks up, angry and confused as two mentalists mess with his mind at once!

Clearly NNS is very concerned with hitting someone else. The blade zigs and zags through everyone before finding his target and sinking into Overman's aura and then through to his energy body, causing pain but no physical harm. The knife shatters and the fragments evaporate.

Artemis gets dragged along with no way to stop Overman. All she can do is try and tighten her grip to squeeze the villain with all her might.

Overman seems to be slowing - the constant battering finally getting to him!

Linda drifts unmoving slowly away from the scene of conflict, trailing a series of blood droplets as she goes.

Moonshadow allows the darkness to dissipate, and throws a Dark Blast at Overman

Overman is knocked away by the shadow magic - and seems to have been knocked silly!

A bolt of pure darkness spears through the fading shadow of the darkness sphere to strike Overman in the chest.

Artemis gets dragged along with Overman.

Spirit flies over toward Overman to try to get on the far side of the former hero from Moonshadow. He tries to pour as much energy at Overman to make sure the man is put out.

Baker can see again, now that the lights in space are back on. Overman looks down and tumbling, but one can never be too sure. Besides, Baker can't kill him with a little mental feedback, so no risk of that.

Spirit flies over toward Baker and Ascendant. He says over the Comms, "Baker, can you confirm his mind being restored once he's purged?" He also generates the same message for Ascendant, but with visual letters in space, formed from energy from his fingertips.

Artemis drags Overman's unconscious form to Magda. She points to Magda, then points to Overman pointedly.

NNS reaches out and attempts to connect his mind to Spirit's with telepathy to pass along the message:

"Aye, Guardian Commander- I can scan his mind, but only deep aberation would be apparant to me as I had not scanned it before- though I should htink him being asked and allowing us would be evidence enough."

Baker gives Spirit a thumb up following the visual letters. Since he's not in an air bubble at the moment, he can't hear his own comms even though its receiving just fine. He's not keen on delving into this psycho's mind, but he will, if just to see if maybe he's less psycho.

Spirit nods to both Ascendant and Baker, given them a thumb's up. He creates another visual message: 'Thanks. I want to know if he's going to need to restrained before we find out the hard way.'

With a gesture of both hands, Korkoro re-establishes her 20-meter life-support bubble, enabling conversation. "Let's move him out of direct sunlight," she says, but allows the others to make that happen; she herself otherwise focuses on a complete purge of the theta-radiation particles from Overman's system.

The contamination takes a long time - even unconscious, Overman's body takes some fighting! But, slowly but surely, the purge is completed.

Artemis blinks as she can suddenly hear. "Thy plan is yet to be proven. There still be a chance the radiation did not take his mind. What do we then if he should attack once more?"

Spirit shakes his head, "Not sure. We have the ability to move him from world to world. Exile him someplace where he can't do any harm? Trying to hold him would be...difficult at best."

NNS nods at the COmmander and once in the bubble he laughs aloud at Artemis' question. "I should think that obvious. We trounce him again!" He is in good spirits clearly. "You have all performed marvelously! You bring great honor to your whole realm, Tauborn of Urth!" He claps Artemis on the back.

"Was that not a most thrilling engagement, Sister?" He asks as he alters his focus to move the bubble they are in with his TK and manuever them to the far side of the asteroid.

Korkoro replies coolly, "There may be a way to neutralize him in the long-term, and analyze his mental state. Otherwise ..." as the last of the particles are purged, Korkoro is left with a small ball of microparticles, smaller than a marble; her suit's particles contain it, blocking the radiation it contains. She looks at Artemis. "What do you propose??"

"Aye, though I note ye did try to keep the glory for thyself by assaulting my mind, Dear Brother," Artemis chortles.

Artemis motions to Spirit in answer to Korkoro. "We take him to a realm he cannot destroy. A lifeless void for him to wake to and for us to ascertain his true intentions. For if we fall the next time, an entire world will suffer."

"Ah- I only wish that were ttrue, but Overman was a difficult enough opponent that surely there was enough Glory for both of us on this day." NNS replies a bit sadly as if the wind were suddenly yanked from beneath his wings.

"Nay, my concentration did slip and so did my blade. Though now that it is over, I wonder- mayhaps it was not a mistake." He chuckles but nods at Artemis' reasonable suggestion.

That would be a wise course of action."

NNS halts the bubble spotting Linda in the distance and reorients to bring them around to catch her- keeping them in the shadow of the tumbling asteroid if possible.

Spirit notices Linda, "Damnit. This is on me. I'll be right back." He flies over to grab Linda with a tendril of light and pull her over to the bubble.

Moonshadow says, "How is she?"

Baker notes the tumbling Linda, but isn't near quick enough. Seriously, Spirit darts after her way faster than he could ever move.

Spirit grabs a hold of Linda and returns back to the bubble, getting her inside it. "Is everyone accounted for?"

Moonshadow says, "How is she? I can get her to the Steinburg Clinic pretty quickly."

Linda appears to be either dead or very close to it. Her hands and arms are shattered in multiple places from hitting Overman, her skull misshapen and her chest flailed.

Baker scowls as he looks Linda over and decides there's no time for charades. The Commander can reprimand him later as he nudges at Spirit's mind. <>

"Does she yet live in such a state?" Artemis asks solemnly.

Moonshadow says, "She can be healed, if she lives to reach the healer."

Spirit nods to Baker, "I've seen your skill set. You're more skilled than I am with first aid."

Korkoro glances towards the wrecked Linda, then shoves Overman at Artemis. "Keep him out," she orders, and shifts patients. "This isn't paramedics, this is emergency medicine."

Artemis keeps Overman tied in her whip just in case, but has enough slack to observe. "I will make sure he remains out, so that the pup's sacrifice be not in vain."

Spirit finds himself counting to make sure everyone is here.

Harlequin is nowhere to be seen. From this vantage point, anyway.

NNS releases his telekientic grip on the bubble nad summons a dagger instead. He stabs the restrained Overman in the forehead with it. Ther eis of course no blood and a second later the blade shatters into ever smaller peices. He'll keep the bubble oriented in the shadow of the asteroid and alternate stabbing Overman in the head.

Spirit nods. "I'm getting Harlequin too. I'll be right back. No one's getting left here." He takes off again and zips around to the far side of the asteroid.

Harlequin, sure enough, is still working on converting the asteroid to gas in small chunks, unaware that it's no longer needed.

"What do we need to do for her now?" Moonshadow asks Korkoro.

Korkoro thinks as her suit creates scalpels, clamps, forcepts, braces in her hands. "Moonshadow, put a blackout on Overman. Whomever can get both of us to Steinberg, do so STAT." The cloud of her suit's particles race to be two, three, four different people at once as Dr. Gutzu races to save the life of anheroine who saved a world. At one point, two fingers have to apply a precise amount of an electrical charge to restart Linda's heart, and it's a close thing -- but she shifts aeay and says, "She -should- make it."

Moonshadow says, "I can only take one at a time."

Moonshadow says, "And it will be to the Travellers' base, several floors up in the same building."

Spirit gets to Harlequin and gives him the message with a light construct, 'He's been beaten. I'll take you there.' He then gently grabs Harlequin and carries him around to where hte others are.

Artemis frowns as Nohrbor uses his method to keep Overman unconscious, only because he does what an Ashildr cannot.

Korkoro's lips tighten. "All right," she says as she works. "Can you establish a location here? To one of us?"

Baker is ill-equipped to offer much assistance in transport, or much in the way of medical. He's, at best, an EMT, not an emergency surgeon. He overs in the vicinity near enough to aid if asked, but not near enough to get in the way.

Spirit nods. "Moonshadow, are you able to get her to the Steinberg building?"

Spirit says, "To get her the medical attention she needs?"

Korkoro can get Linda to the point that she'll be stable under care, and with Sasha's spell to keep her that way long enough for another competent trauma surgeon to take over in Steinberg Tower, Magda will let Moonshadow whisk her away.

Once taken to the Steinberg medical facility, Linda is immediately given treatment by both converntional and mystic healers. Such severe injuries will take time to heal but she's now firmly on the road to full physical recovery.

Korkoro finally floats back to let Harlequin cast his spell. The silvery-black strands of her suit alloy ripple away from Linda as she goes. "Take her. Immediately."

Moonshadow carefully moves up against Linda, and her cloak wraps around them, and collapses inward, vanishing. She lets her memories draw her to the Traveller meeting room, where she asked Radical to dance, so long ago.

Korkoro returns her attention to the unconscious Overman. "Thank you, Nohrbor, for keeping him quiescent." And she resumes her extraction of the theta radiation and the particles carrying it from the superhuman's system.

Eventually, the last trace of theta radiation is removed from the unconscious Overman.

Once they arrive, she casts Left Hand of Darkness, cradling Linda in the shadowy hand as she races to the elevator, and down to the clinic.

Spirit feels anxious. But there's no time for that. As the process finishes, he looks to Ascendant and Baker, "Please...check his status."

NNS nods to Magda. "It was no trouble." He says with a shallow bow.

He looks to the commander and nods before turning his attention to the unconscious Overman to see what might spring from his mind.

NNS reaches out and delves into the depths of Overman's mind- hoping to find evidence that he is restored to the man he once was.

Ascendant uses the final moment to instead place the informaiton of Ameila's efforts into his mind so he knows that he can return once the job is done.

After a long moment he speaks. "I beleive the man is changed- or returned to his old self, but he has reason to fear the AFF. His memories have trace connections between them and the organization of the Serpent... I mean, 'VIPER'. So while he may not strike out with no thoughts of collateral damage, he will no doubt still strike out against them directly."

Korkoro considers the information, and slowly nods. "All right. Well, let's see what his conscious mind says -- and if he's willing to talk."

"Truly, the Bomb broke him not just in mind, but in spirit too." NNS replies. "He had jsut left the city of Washington when the bomb split his world in twain. Between that, and the dastardly radiation- it was too much, even for this powerful mortal." He sighs and puts a compassionate hand on Overman's shoulder while he pools his energies once again- likely to prepare anotehr dagger... just in case.

Spirit nods in agreement with Korkoro. There aren't many good options right now.