Log:Portraits of Power, Scene 2

Portraits of Power 2008/03/02 	 BadaBoom Blue Angel Ellbeth Girl Wonder Halcyon Heavy Metal Princess IQ 	 Kihzra Peregrine 2

The woman in the power armor says, "You know the plan. Young Warriors -- let's stop them!"

HMP curses as she sees the group and should of known this was going be to ease. Her helmet forms under the sky mask and she takes fighting stance ready for battle.

Kihzra charges right at IQ and attempts, with deft swordsmanship, to take his rifle from him. She stays silent, as part of her disguise, though she is ready to parry any incoming attacks.

Kihzra flips the rifle from IQ's grasp before he can even tighten his grip on it and catches it in her left hand.

The woman in power armor says to the thin man with the rifle, "It looks like your theory was right, IQ. Peregrine is right on schedule. I didn't think he'd have quite so much help though." She looks to the girl in black and says, "Boomer, you know what to do."

Peregrine pulls device from his belt and dashes it to the ground, causing it to explode into a cloud of smoke that blankets him.

When the smoke thins, Peregrine is nowhere to be seen.

"Gaah!" IQ yelps as Kihzra easily takes the weapon from him. "Girl Wonder! Help me!"

The girl in the Colonial era garb rushes forward to confront Kihzra. "Don't worry! I'll protect you!" She tries to throw a punch at Kihzra.

The punch misses.

BadaBoom eyes HMP, standing with one hand on her hip. "A sword, huh?" She snaps her fingers and flicks a mote of energy at HMP.

That tiny blip of light explodes in a blinding and deafening explosion.

Kihzra restrains herself from commenting on IQ's lack of manliness in having Girl Wonder protect him. Disguises are annoying!

The powersuit woman looks around frantically. "Where'd Peregrine go?!"

The power armor woman gives up her search for Peregrine and focuses on Ellbeth. "If I'm right, you're the escape plan. Let's see how you like a little taste of coherent light." She opens her hands and fires a pinkish beam of energy at Ellbeth.

Ellbeth hurriedly casts a protective spell. "No, young lady. I'm the not the escape plan. I'm the person trying to stop the world being overrun by demons."

Ellbeth is lifted off her feet and slammed back into the wall by the beam of light when it hits her. She sighs, "Sometimes I feel more like a pinball than a mage."

IQ grabs a device from his belt - it /looks/ like a run of the mill taser. With it, he tries to zap Kihzra.

He swipes wildly, and he misses.

On her way to help out the heroes, to prove she can be of use to everyone, Halcyon follows Ellbeth, remaining under shadowy concealment while she sizes up her apparent foes. When Princess is obviously blinded from the bright burst, Halcyon draws near Blue Angel and makes her immediate vicinity completely blackened and silent.

HMP Back up until she feels a walk on her back she not sure what happen but she blide and there no sound at all.

Kihzra whirls her sword about her defensively while trying to hear where her foes may be.

Ellbeth is thinking fast and hard about the unexpected presence of these metas here in the Gallery. "There is something not adding up here..." She muses audibly.

Kihzra, so doing, walks forward in a direction she hopes will lead out of the darkness.

Blue Angel flies out of the area of darkness, flying carefully. She lands next to the Potrait, but her caution has cost her the ability to act any further right now.

Peregrine drops down from the ceiling, beside Blue Angel. He shifts his hands beneath his cloak. Then he tries to punch Blue Angel from her blindside with an electrified set of brass knuckles.

Peregrine strikes, and sparks fly with the impact. Blue Angel's armor seems to absorb the worst of the attack, and she turns to face him.

Surrounded by darkness, BadaBoom snaps her fingers. She sends another flicker of energy towards where she last saw HMP. To people outside the Darkness a tiny blip of light appears and floats in HMP's general direction.

KaBoom! The blip of energy explodes right where HMP was standing.

Girl Wonder emerges on the heroes side of the Darkness field, running out with her shoulder lowered, and carrying IQ. Once clear of the darkness, IQ says, "Thanks, Wonder!" Girl Wonder smiles. "Don't thank me, thank my inertial guidance package..."

Without bothering to move away from the small dent in the wall she occupies Ellbeth studies the painting for a few moments letting her magic awareness pick up whatever aura it is radiating.

Ellbeth sighs, "This painting is a forgery. There is no purpose to be served by further conflict. Let us talk instead."

Taking aim at the one who makes explosions, Halcyon tries to enwrap her in shadowy binding, serving to immobilize and blind even if she stops making everything dark.

IQ says to Ellbeth. "We'll settle for catching an art thief!"

On the other side of the darkness, Blue Angel tries to grab Peregrine.

Peregrine ducks beneath her grasp and counters with a punch.

Zark! More sparks fly as Peregrine slips within the reach of Blue Angel's grasp and hits her with a left cross across the helmet.

KaBOOOOM! There's a thunderous explosion as BadaBoom detonates her shadowy entanglement. Smoke wafts up from around her, and she shouts: "Just you wait until I can see you -- !"

BadaBoom stamps her foot in frustration.

HMP looks around as if she can see something, "okay this is not fair. Fight me one on one and stop this trick of yours.

Ellbeth starts the long slow process of accessing Girl Wonder's memories.

Kihzra isn't sure what we're doing now, if the painting is a fake. "But where is ve true painting?" she says, trying to speak her best English.

Girl Wonder sets down IQ and turns towards Kihzra. "Somewhere where you won't be able to get it!" She steps forward and tries to grab Kihzra.

Kihzra dodges the Girl Wonder's attack, if not spectacularly.

Ellbeth is intigued by Girl Wonder. But curosity can wait. Since there's no living mind, maybe her interface spell might be effective. She'll try it, not forgetting to keep the mage spell active.

Halcyon says, "Adjusting=:tactics, Halcyon thinks that she has a good idea of whom to keep in the dark for a while. She focuses the inky darkness upon Boomer, keeping with it the eerie silence."

Girl Wonder points an accusing finger at Ellbeth. "You...! Stop that!"

HMP frowns and chargest forward at girl wonder with a fist.

Ellbeth nods and smiles, "Ok. That's a wonderfully designed mind by the way. I'm impressed."

HMP she swings hard and hits girl wonder in the face

HMP's punch turns Girl Wonders head, but does little else. She rights her gaze on HMP, wearing a slight frown. She's a lot sturdier than she looks.

Badaboom finds her way out of the darkness, ending up close to Kihzra, Ellbeth, HMP and the others.

BadaBoom wanders is on direction, trying to find her way out of the darkness.

Badaboom wanders towards the larger group of people, plunging Girl Wonder, IQ, Kihzra, Ellbeth, and HMP into darkness.

Ellbeth asks "... ...... ... ... .....?"

Halcyon realizes perhaps she put a bit too much into her confusion-instilling ability, already working on lowering its intensity...

Kihzra decides in that case to swing her sword about her defensively again and walk clear of the darkness again.

Ellbeth waits a second or two to see if the darkness will move away again before she goes wandering in the darkness.

The area of darkness shrinks so that it's just BadaBoom who's enveloped in darkness.

With the Darkness reduced, the fight over by the portrait is revealed. Blue Angel has Peregrine by the collar of his cloaked and pinned against a slightly cratered section of the wall.

IQ looks around for a moment regaining his bearings. He spots Ellbeth and rushes for her with his taser. He shouts. "You! What are you doing to Wonder?"

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Girl Wonder holds a hand up to her temple. "I ... I think she hacked me...?"

HMP curse as her last attack did little she hate to do it but she forms her nano sword in her hands, "Fine we will do this the hard way" She chargest girl wonder this time ready to use her full power.

Girl Wonder gets hit with the punch and crunches through a display case. She shakes it off and doesn't seem too hurt from the attack.

Ellbeth yelps at the taser zaps her extremely painfully. She quickly casts a Glamour spell "OK! That's ENOUGHT!" Her voice is raised commandingly. "You are protecting Mr Broome's painting. Commendable but a mistake. It's magical and there are evil cultists after it. If they get the painting the world is doomed. Mr Broome won't be enjoying possession of the painting when he is disembowelled and has his soul ripped from his body. So stop fighting and let's go talk to him."

Blue Angel seems willing to listen, but she still holds onto Peregrine. "What the heck are you talking about?"

"Is evirr demonic painting!" says Kihzra, impatient of holding her tongue.

Ellbeth explains, as Persuasively as she can, "The original of this painting is one of a set of five by the artist. If brought together in one place they can be used to open a gate from Hell to our world for the five demon princes shown in the portraits."

IQ says, "Maybe we ought to listen to her... She's at least 20th level by my estimations."

Halcyon waits for everything of the chaos to stop utterly before she lets Badaboom see again. With the explosive ability she demonstrated, Halcyon wants nothing of it happening...

Ellbeth says, "Fout of the five painytings have already fallen into the cultists' hands. The original of this one is the last."

BadaBoom says, "... ..... kill you when I get my hands on you!"

Peregrine hisses, "Listen to her! She is right!"

Kihzra says, "No fighting, ven?"

Blue Angel says, "How do I know it's not you who're after the paintings? This one here is wanted by Interpol," she says, shaking Peregrine a little.

Ellbeth looks at Girl Wonder, "If you canaccess the net, check on The Portraits of Power by the artist Pucni.

Ellbeth says, "We want to render the paintings harmless. If that means destroying one then that was our intent. If the enchantment can be broken ever better. Peregrine took one of the paintings from the Louve. That is why he is hunted by Interpol. But that painting was stolen on its way to me."

Girl Wonder looks to IQ who gives her an approving nod.

Ellbeth adds Mr Broome is in danger. Three of the owners of the paintings have died in strange circumstances.

"Alright," Blue Angel says. "Assuming that I believe you, who is the real thief?"

Ensuring that BadaBoom is facing one of her non-fighting teammates, Halcyon lets the dark around her fade.

Ellbeth says, "I don't know. Sorry, but that's the truth. Obviously cultists given the only reason to gather the paintings is to open the gate, but which group..? There are so many, all seeking the falsely promised power if they do thier demonic master's bidding."

Girl Wonder says, "I've checked on the other paintings. She's right about the other owners being killed."

Blue Angel says. "Well, then we wait. We set a trap for Peregrine and got you. We set it again for the cultists. If it's the painting that they're after, they've got to come here to get it."

Halcyon steps into BadaBoom's sight after everything is cleared, unconcealing herself from sight, offering a little wave.

Kihzra says, "Unress vey can terr where rearr one is."

Ellbeth shakes her head. "It took me one look to tell that wasn't the real painting. If they haven't seen it yet your plan will be effective. If they have found some way to see it, or they are able to detect it's falseness from a distance, they will go after the owner."

Blue Angel lets Peregrine down. "What do you mean, 'not the real painting?'"

Ellbeth points to the painting on the wall. "That is a forgery. Mr Broome has the real painting hidden away, probably at his house out of the city."

"That's not good." Blue Angel says. She's quiet for a moment. "He's at his second home now, and everything is alright. I told him to expect us."

IQ says, "But what about the trap here?"

Kihzra frowns. "Are two praces fieves could go."

Halcyon offers her hand in a gesture of friendship toward BadaBoom, smiling.

Ellbeth nods. She looks over at Girl Wonder. "You are a masterpiece. The design of your brain is exquisite and your consciousness has surpassed what I would have thought was possible. May I ask who your designer was?"

BadaBoom folds her arms and brushes past Halcyon. She walks over to Blue Angel's side.

Ellbeth suggests to IQ, "The Princess and Peregrine can stay here with some of your team. The rest of us can go and speak to Mr Broome. Thatway we cover both locations."

Halcyon looks hurt, nearing Ellbeth. SHe isn't very surprised by the reaction but she would prefer to have a different outcome.

Ellbeth pats Halcyon consolingly on the back if she accepts the gesture but doesn't maintain contact needing to hear what is being head.

Girl Wonder smiles proudly and rocks forward on the balls of her feet. "I was designed by IQ." She looks over to IQ, who smiles. His cheeks redden a little bit.

Ellbeth nods to IQ, "Magnificent."

Peregrine says, "I got where the painting is."

Ellbeth nods, and starts working on Peregrine's mind aiming to see his true intentions.

Kihzra says to Peregrine, "How you know?"

Ellbeth says, "I understand Peregrine. We can discuss the make up of who goes and who stays if the idea is accepted."

Blue Angel says. "There's no way I'm letting Peregrine go to Broome's house."

Ellbeth is happy to extend the discussion giving her time to insinuate her undetectable probe into Peregrine's mind, "He's been on this case from the start. Tell they what you've told me, Peregrine."

Peregrine says, "Very well. I will stay here. The painting is one of a series of five rumored to have the power to summon the Devil when all assembled in one place."

Halcyon makes her exit then, stepping behind Ellbeth into her shadow and she is gone.