Log:Overman, Scene 6

Overman 2020/10/23 	 Amelia Artemis Ascendant Baker Harlequin Magda Moonshadow Rosenbridge Victory Brainstorm Jet Shard Terra Tinman Wink Overman 6

The heroes have gone to Overman's Earth to see what can be done there - and to check on Overman's account of events. Overman, at request, stayed out of sight at Colonial Heights while the heroes checked out the American Freedom Front bunker. Overman attacked with a huge rock while the heroes were engaged in long parlay (in which the AFF maintained that they weren't associated with VIPER, other than buying eqip,ment from them, and that Overman was tyrannical) with the AFF colonel. A big fight has ensued, with six AFF metas and the heroes on one side and Overman on the other.

The six AFF meta's, meanwhile, had teleported outside, and set to attacking the momentarily stunned Overman, and the heroes joined in. Overman seemed increasingly irrational, and increasingly convinced the heroes had chosen the AFF's side.

The current situation (I give approximate locations in metres relative to the bunker mouth (lateral distances have been relatively small and can be igmored):

+30: Wink lies dead, and being wept over by Shard, whose powers have proved completely ineffectual against Overman. Jet is unconscious nearby, after doing a Move-Through on Overman.

+10: Baker has just regained consciousness. Terra has failed to re-grab Overman.

0: Rosenbridge has just ended up here by teleport mishap, and engaged Overman. Artemis has been using whip-grabs on Overman, though he's currently free.

?: I think somewhere between 0 and -10, but am not exactly sure where: Magda has discovered Overman's nervous system is contaminated by 'theta radiation' and is trying to extract the particles, theorising this is a contributing factor to his behaviour. Amelia is lowering Overman's Power Defence to aid this.

-6: Ascendant has placed himself 'between Overman and others' other than those engaging him in HTH. He has a held half.

-10: Victory and Tinman have engaged Overman in HTH combat. Overman has broken out of both mental and physical bonds.

-26: Brainstorm has just regained consciousness.

???: Moonshadow got work-fooed, so can be located wherever she chooses by this point. 

Overman perceives that Brainstorm has come to - and, regarding him as the biggest threat, flies over to punch him - a punch can't be deflected!

Harlequin enters from Battlefield District.

The telepath is knocked another 28m aways (@-54) and rendered decisively unconscious.

Victory isn't quite fast enough to keep up with Overman and actually strike him. Instead, he closes the distance partially and throws another charge from his energy shield. And...he makes a point of trying to antagonize Overman. After all, he'd rather be the target than let Overman target people who are barely conscious that he might kill. "You're a fascist, Overmen! Yes, I said it!"

Overman is knocked a further 10m forward. And seems actually to have felt that.

Overman rights himself in the air and glares back at Victory with red eyes.

Terra runs in further (@-10) and again tries to grab Overman with the earth itself.

Artemis flies towards Overman low to the ground, drawing her blade back. "Thy madness runs deep, Overman! If the healers cannot free thy mind, then we have no other choice in this matter!?" Her arm whips out in an arc, throwing her sword towards Overman. The blade travels in the same arc, going past Overman. It seems like a mess. She looks to Victory and nods, then angles her shield as a ramp. "If thou needst a boost to Overman, I can provide," she explains as she holds up her sword arm. The arcing blade halts its flight 4m past Overman, then zips back towards Artemis' summons...and towards Overman's back.

Overman is knocked back far, beyond Artemis toward the cluster of heroes. (@-4)

The Stranger grins as Artemis's might brings him a worthy opponent.

"It will be a great honor to still your madness, and while I take much joy in being able to cut loose upon a worthy foe it is a burden to be forced to, Overman." NNS says as he charges Overman & steps into a fighting stance the last moment.

He spins and lashes out with a thunderous kick.

Overman has barely reached The Stranger before being booted back toward where he came from. (@-24)

NNS calls out after striking Overman, "Sister! Your quarry returns with my love!" He laughs.

"And you have mine love eternal, Brother!" Artemis cheers back.

Baker only came to a few seconds ago, but has already realized a few important things. He feels like he was run over by a truck-sized rock. He doesn't think he's where he was, or everything else has moved. There look to be a number of people down, with one sobbing over another. That can't be good. Then there is Overman pummeling someone into the ground who just woke up. Baker just woke up. That's a frightening correlation there, too. He watches from the ground as Overman's bounced between the two Godlora after what must be the mother of all whiplash and a returning kick. Yet he's still up and glaring?! What is this guy, some kind of solar-powered alien from a long-dead planet?!

Baker's not sure how long he's been out of the conflict, but it seems way too long at this rate. The villain tennis alone suggested this guy's built like a Questionite Brickhouse. He gathers what 'oomph' he's got and focuses on Overman to try and shut him down. Literally.

A silvery-blue dot of flames appears then explodes outward in a soundless explosion of light into a silvery-blue flamed circle 2m in diameter. Out of the circle, stepping into this battle from what looks like a dimly lit room, framed from benind by a golden bronze metallic tree, is the Earth 1-A mage, Harlequin.

He tilts his head to one side as he surveys the battlefield. Then, as he nods slightly, many circular shields of translucent blue and silver swirl into existance around himself, erraticly orbiting him. "You called, Amelia my dear?" he says in Europena accented RP English after a moment while the Gate behind him collapses with a crystalling chime.

"Found the off switch," Baker manages hoarsely as he manages to disrupt Overman's conscious motor control. It just took all he had, and then some. Plus the juice he siphoned for a grin, as well. "Happy trails, you-" His eyes roll back and his head drops back into the dirt. It must've been the grin-energy that did it, but at least the expression lingers.

Amelia glances over at the arrival of Harlequin, "I did indeed, my love. Be wary though. This foe is fiercely fiendishly fearsome."

Amelia takes advantage of Overman's brief, in all probabilty, lack of movement to target him with another sapping draw of his power defense.

Amelia runs towards Overman and raises a hand. It looks as if she's drawing some form of energy from Overman, streamers of green and gold hues flowing through the air to Amelia's hand and then arcing down to the ground.

Overman takes another massive breath (no doubt sucking up some more radioactive dust) and blow in the direction of the majority of the heroes...

Victory braces himself with his shield, which absorbs most of the impact. He does topple backward a couple of meters, but rolls to his feet.

Artemis digs her feet and skids back one meter from the breath, but she's uninjured. If anything, she looks pumped from the assault.

Amelia is knocked of her feet despite employing the secret arts of the Shaolin and lands on her back 5 meters back, turning the momentum of her movement into a graceful back flip to instantly regain her stance.

NNS is caught laughing and hurled off his feet, but his agility is beyond that of ordinary man.

He flips up and over, denying Overman the honor of felling him & using his divine gifts to land him safely on his feet, some distance away from where he started.

Amelia laughs, "It's still true, Harlequin. You turn up and I get swept off my feet."

Up in the air, Korkoro is blasted dozens of meters away by the torrential gust of wind, flipping end-over-end as she tries to regain control. Fortunately, in the air there's nothing to hit.

The masked mage Harlequin is blasted backwards by the breathe of the mighty Overman nearly 19m. He avoids most damage, but does bounce off a few objects. While he ties to stay upright, he fails in the end, ending up on his side, his cloak wrapped around him.

Having to take the time to right herself, Korkoro cannot take the time to move; this man is simply /far/ too powerful, and despite all of the hammering upon him the others are doing, taking him down is ... just not /happening/. He's too fast, too strong, too /everything/. So she reaches out with her power once more, to see if she can't affect the radioactive particles embedded in his body from where she is -- but if she can't, well, she'll have to get closer. Again.

Harlequin fades from sight as his body is limned in a soft blue light. He then appears less than an instant later 15m closer to Overman from where he lay, standing upright as he brushes off his cloak. The mage raises a hand, quirks his fingers in a certain horned way then a blast of grey mist flashes from his hand towards Overman as faint scent of dust and dry decay fills the air for a moment.

Amelia shivers .oO(That can be a useful spell... but it sends chills up my spine.)

The grey mist strikes the titanic Overman and seems to wrap around him in a cold caress. Overman finds all of his muscles seizing up as if rigor mortis has set in. To ootsiders, all of OVerman's muscles are seized up as if he's straining for some reason.

Tinman is way too slow for this battle - but just close enough too take advantage of Overman being paralysed. He runs into him bodily.

Tinman's body gives off a loud CLANG!!! as he sends Overman flying back some 28m! (@-52)

Overman dives into the ground and pulls up a huge chunk twisted metal and concrete - no doubt part of the AFF base.

Victory is a fair distance away from Overman now. But perhaps he can actually knock Overman back and make him drop the rock. He runs forward and throws the enegy charge from his shield again.

Victory doesn't hit very solidly...but he still manages to hit his target nonetheless.

Overman manages to keep hold of the chunk of the base - which is heavy enough he doesn't budge significantly.

Terra runs in from where she was blown back to and makes another long-range attempt at grabbing Overman.

But she misses because it's so far.

Artemis holds up her hand as her sword finally flies back into her grasp. "Thy fascist ways will only lead to thy end, Overman! You cannot outlast us!"

Amelia moves closer to Victory while making sure she remains mostly between Overman and Halequin, and holds ready to react when Overman commits himself.

Magda too is a) too damn far away, and b) too damn slow, but she's at least c) got a brain in her head. Shedding armor to boost her speed, she closes with the flying brick while also gaining height to seperate herself from the other heroes; that wind blast knocks her just /too/ far. Still, she is focused on Overman, choosing to wait for a moment of vulnerability to try her extraction.

Artemis lands on the ground and hurls her sword at Overman, once again arcing it past him before summoning it back.

Overman is easy to budge, the mass he's carrying, less so. Still, he, with his load, is moved 6m closer to Artemis. @-46

Ascendant comes to a halt and pushes of- taking to the air once again & hurling himself by will alone at Overman. He looks plenty pleased. This is a battle worthy of their all and he'll have another helping still.

He summons his Soulbound Spear and sets it in motion before him, reaching out deftly and continuing its motion into a rapid rotation. The blade whistles menacingly as it slices the air.

He's got a great plan- a plan that gets knocked for a loop when Overman is sent sailing by Tinman. He smirks.

Nohrbor Nanuran Surryx loves chaos.

So instead of charging straight ahead, he decides to tip things in their favor.

He angles his flight to put himself between the Tauborn among them.

His spear stops spinning and its tip points to a large outcropping of the base opposite its wielder.

Overman, is seems, is just too strong to be so easily unabalanced. Still, it was a near thing!

Harlequin looks up at the flying titan than calls out, "Making up for some shortcoming, are we?" as he takes a step towards Overman. Between raising his foot and its fall, his body is again limned in a soft blue light and the mage appears 15m closer to the flying brick. He then raises his hands in a complex, flowing gesture which casues a bolt of sooty red black beam to flash out quick as thought at OVerman. "Weak in mind as well as weak in spirit, you failure!"

While she is not fast in acting, Rosenbridge thinks pretty fast. She associates Baker's ability to knock himself out with his ability to freeze Overman briefly. So she flickers, appearing at Baker's side as she scoops him up (stretching) and then they both vanish and appear inside the bunker's door. She sets him down gently, slaps the side of his face gently, "Come on. Wake up." she mutters before looking out over the battle. "I better stay here with him, just in case." she mutters.

Tinman runs faster than he ever has in his life, attempting to collide with the low-flying Overman...

Tinman slams into Overman so hard that his hands are torn free of his 'weapon, and goes flying back 28m! Then the chunk of base falls on Tinman.

Tinman is not to be seen under the pile of base-remains.

Being knocked flying on more time seems to have had its effect on Overman. For a moment at least, his rage is not his driving factor, nor his self-confidence. For perhaps the first time in his life, the battered Overman knows - fear!!! He flies straight upward 80m.

Amelia pulls her collapsible bow from the belt pouch and draws a flight arrow from the quiver slung across her back. Nocking the arrow she leads Overman and looses trhe shaft.

It's a rushed shot and just misses.

Ascendant flies after him as fast as he can.

Harlequin watches Overman fly up, up, and away. He mutters a particularly vile curse in Atlantean at this turn of events.

"Thou shall not flee this battlefield!" Artemis calls out as she surges into the air, flying after Overman at her top speed. As the wind blows her hair back, she utters, "Keter, grant me thy swiftness this day." She keeps her shield held to reduce air resistance, then draws her blade back and swings for Overman. The blade stretches out towards Overman in an attempt to ensnare him.

Artemis grits her teeth as she misses Overman. "If you truly be the hero you claim thou art, you will let our healers tend to thy poisoned mind and make amends for the injuries caused this day!" she calls out at him.

Victory only has a few charges left in his shield...but he tries anyway. He rushes forward and whips his arm upward like he's throwing a discus...sending one more burst of energy toward Overman.

At the last possible moment Amelia remembers she's a witch as well as an archer, and sends a spirit to nudge the arrow as it flies on its way.

Magda's up-angle is scarcely the steep climb of the native superhero; arrows are shot, swords swung, but none are slowing him down. She breathes out, then takes careful aim ...

Magda can /see/ the magnetic wave impact against the super, but sees also that it just ... bleeds away against his immense defenses, like a single wave against a mountain.

Ascendant focuses on Overman as he chases after him. "If you wish to live the life of a coward, so be it Overman. May your feet never find purchase." He says before trying to overide his target's mind with his will alone.

Overman looks momentarily disoriented. Then he's just gone, and the sonic boom hits the heroes.

Artemis tries to pursue after Overman, not ready to give up until she can no longer see him, which is very quickly.