Log:Tranquility Lost, Scene 10

Tranquility Lost 2021/11/19 	 Dialydd Engelicus Golden Girl Grimm Judith Magda Reactor Sentinel

Amp Blackbody Blackout Candela Captain Fish Chalk Cheese Flip Galaxy Ghoul Ignite Kelvin Luck Lube Minima Mutilator Newton Ohm Pandora Quintessence Runaway Second Sword of Justice Tesla

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The battle against the escaped prisoners on the underground level of Tranquility continues! On the level itself, Blok is wrestling with Blackbody, and Magda is recoovering in the shelter of the Thinker's cell, while the hero-prisoner Quintessence tries to fight off villains who might attach her while she's down (though he is currently wrapped up by Shrinkwrap and held by Pivot). Far from everyone else, the vigilante Sword of Justice is fighting Ignite one on one. Meanwhile Sentinel holds the door to the level against most of the escaped villains! At Ohm's command, combatants who have failed to harm him are beginning to draw back to let people with wider attacks approach.

On the other side of the the armoured door is the stairwell in which the other heroes are facing off against Galaxy, Chalk and Cheese. Chalk's barrier dividing this group in two is down, and he has almost blasted through the door to the ground floor level - though Grimm has reinforced it. Cheese is blinded and has defensively liquified herself. Galaxy so far remains at the base of the stairs. 

Sword of Justice strike Ignite again, though his armour is holding

Engelicus sees what's going on between the two, and since he can finally see once more, he raises a hand...unleashing another gout of soulfire at Chalk.

Chalk grimaces under the assault.

Galaxy swarms up the stairs, easily dodging the various people in the way, till it comes to the Grimm's barrier before the door, which it flies into, trying to harm it.

But it does no harm: the individual tiny sparks of Galaxy seem not hot enough to burn through the darkness.

Out of sight, Sword of Justice cuts deep into Ignite and knocks him back into a wall.

Lube advances but still lacks a clear shot at Sentinel.

Cheese changes tactic, solidifies and, stretching herself forward, tries to punch the shadow barrier.

The barrier is damaged.

Quintessence, astoundingly, breaks out of the plastic wrap *and* the telekinetic hold and has time left to reestablish his barrier!

Golden Girl flies up the stairs and pushes her way past people to block access to the hole in the upper door. "To get out you have to go past me. That's not going to happen. You should cease trying. That will taken into account during the investigation of this affair."

Reactor seeing that Cheese has dirverted her attention and that Chalk is seemingly occupied with other hero's Reactor does his best to recoup and takes a deep breath to recover his spent up energy.

Candela gives up trying to shoot Sentinel and, backing off, shoots Quintessence's force field instead.

Ohm does an acrobatic flip back over the ranks of villains, in order to follow his own advice and give others a shot at Sentinel.

Engelicus throws his other hand forward, and sends more soulfire Chalk's direction. "You may wish to surrender sometime soon. 'Tis but a suggestion."

Chalk grimaces again and says, "My country's only hope is my escape. I shall not yield."

Chalk attempts to fire past Golden Girl and at the shadow barrier.

Seeing that the goal is to blast through the barrier, Judith simply strides forward, turns and leans into the blast as it lashes out. It breaks around her, taking the shoulder of her costume with it.

Chalk sighs. "Why do you side with the oppressors instead of those who fight for justice?"

Amp lays his hands on Newton's shoulder.

"The law is the law. You know what that means. Now stand down and don't make things even worse." says Judith.

Pandora once again tries to curse Sentinel, despite Ohm's instructions!

The blast hits the door behind Sentinel again. The panel for entering the pass code explodes into sparks. As does the one on the other side.

Tesla advances to near Sentinel. This time she tries to magnetise the floor instead of Sentinel's boots, so she doesnt have to be so accurate.

Griffin's feet are magnetized thanks to his steel-toed boots. Now he understands the enrgy patterns he sensed being thrown at his feet.

It doesn't bother him- he doesn't wear the shoes to protect anything but his sense of modesty & fashion. He literally steps against the force- ripping the shoestrings and leaving teh boots where his feet just were.

Grimm frowns as Chalk makes some good progress. "Everyone, focus down Chalk first. Golden Girl, you're doing great. Don't let them past you," she says as she stares down Chalk.

Grimm motions to Chalk for those who don't recognize the villain.

Engelicus definitely doesn't recognize any of the villains here. And he was already focusing on Chalk. But he nods in agreement with Grimm's instruction.

Chalk passes out from pain. He drops to the ground, his force field dropping. And, in fact, revealing very dark skin without his powers.

Ghoul stalks away from Sentinel still further.

Grimm motions to Cheese. "She's next. I bet she melts under fire."

Captain Fish has finally made it to the front of the line! He holds out his arms - and shoots a huge pile of smelly fish from them to bury Sentinel!

The fish pile up on the electromagnetic barrier Griffin hastily raises!

Minima was secretly inside the barrier with Griffin. Once again she grows, attempt an uppercut!

Griffin looks like he was rocked by that one. He definitely felt it from the looks of how his head snapped upward. He slides back an inch now that he no longer has the tread of his boots to asssit with traction.

His head snaps back into place and he glares at Minima.

Minima suddenly wonders if she did the right thing. After all, she's stuck in here with Sentinel...

Kelvin stops cooling the place when Griffin stops heating it - but waits till someone takes care of that pesky electromagnetic shell.

Magda gathersbin energy from all around her, suffising it through her body; as she does, electricity arcs into her from the light fixture, the door, the very walls.

Mutilator scowls. He can't even try to touch Griffin with that shield up.

An electromagnetic shell. Just the sort of thing *not* to use with Blackout around...

The electomagnetic shield drops. So do a lot of fish.

Mutilator wades through fish to try to touch Sentinel...

Griffin feels his skin crawling. Literally. It seems to be crawling to try to block his mouth and nose. But it's not done it yet!

Kelvin lowers the temperature about Griffin, trying to entrap him in ice.

The sudden freeze entraps Minima and Mutilator as well as Griffin!

Golden Girl speaks up talking to Cheese, "Your companion has been downed. Will you surrender now and stay with him?"

Second shouts out, "That's it! Now we can get him away from the door!" He goes matt black as he copies Blackbody's powers, and tries to push the block of ice, with Sentinel and the two villains inside, away from the door!

Griffin updates his team over their communciations channel. <>

<> Griffin asks as part of his follow-up from within the block of ice.

The block of ice proves strangely hard to push - since it's being held to the magnetised floor by Griffin boots. Even using Blackbody's strength, Second only manages to push the block 1 metre.

Cheese isn't stupid. She holds up her hands. But says, "I have a better offer. I'll help - we'll help against these *real* villains if you can get our sentences shortened."

Engelicus looks to the others at Cheese's offer. It is clear that he does not understand the odd legal system here, and he has already been admonished once on this expedition.

Golden Girl says, "I don't have the authority to make that garrentee. But if you help I will speak up on your behalf. That I will do whether or not someone among us does have the authority to make that decision."

Dialydd looks at the remaining conscious vils in the upper hallway. "If you honor your word, sera, I will speak on your behalf, yes," the alien youth says to Cheese.

His gaze turns to Galaxy as he murmurs, "Just rest if you can, sera'a..."

As he speaks, Galaxy feels a wave of lassitude washing over it and may hear a chorus of soft 'voices' all murmuring 'Sleep, rest, dream' echoing in the vaults of her mind. And indeed, anyone with Mental or Magick powers within range 'hears' the same ethereal voices.

Newton take the lead from Second, however. Suddenly down in is a different direction, and the block of ice (complete with Sentinel, Minima and Mutilator) falls up and across away from the door, exposing the exit!

Sword of Justice swoops down upon the unconscious Ignite. With the images of the victims of his arson burning in the angel's eyes, it decapitates the unconscious villain.

Cheese asks, "Are we good then? We'll help against the others in exchange for you having a word on our behalf?" She knows that there's no good asking for promises.

Chalk has come round in time to hear this negotiation.

Dialydd looks to Grimm as the senoor SG person right here. "If you allow it, Agent Grimm, I will watch over them."

Candela takes down Quintessence's most recent barrier.

Golden Girl nods, "I will if I survive this. You have my word."

Ohm shouts out, "Get that door open! Anyone who has a power that can!"

Lock does nothing. His power does the other thing.

Galaxy maybe hasn't grasped the power shift here? Because it just tries to attack the shadow barrier again.

Golden Girl moves into the way of Galaxy's hot sparks.

Golden Girl is only slightly affected by the heat from Galaxy. She is knocked back into the door having broken her brace to interpose herself.

Grimm nods to Dialydd at his offer. "Just watch your back." She looks to Cheese and Chalk. "I'll speak up for your good behavior and leave out the incident with you being involved in trying to destroy that door if you really do help."

Chalk looks at the door. "If you want, I'll repair it. I have no desire to let the dangerous criminals escape."

Runaway warns the other villains, "Guys - there's a scary angel with a big sword coming this direction!"

Dialydd nods to Chalk. Please do, ser Chalk." His gaze shifts to Cheese. "The others are now trying to break through the lower door. Cheese, can you aid in stopping them?" He smiles as speaks to both of the the villainous allies.

Quintessence restores his barrier yet again, giving Grimm further time to recover and protect the guards.

"Once I feel a little less cooked," says Cheese.

Grimm looks to the gathered group and says to Chalk first, "Repair the door. Then we move down as a group and take back ground.." She then thinks and says to everyone, "We need to get back to the other heroes still trapped behind that next door below. I'll get us past it...WITHOUT breaking it down. So wait on me once we've cleared the stairwell and are ready to move on."

Reactor finds that he's running out of people to blast, now that Cheese, and Chalk have stepped down to await the final verdict of this fight. So Reactor turns to see the every present and hard to damage Galaxy and grins. "Oh well guess you're next on the list. " as he powers up to blast at the being.

Galaxy *felt* that, anyway. It turns to look(?) at Reactor.

Engelicus doesn't know that his cage that he created earlier didn't seem to do much to Galaxy. He couldn't see it, after all. But clearly Galaxy needs to be stopped...so he tries to do so. He reaches out, and he attempts to engulf Galaxy with flames that leap outward.

The dancing lights avoid the flames!

Powered up by Amp, Tesla tries to move the heavy door aside into its slot in the wall...

Crack! The internal mechanisms that stop the door from sliding give under the magnetic forces, though it took all the enhanced power of Tesla to do so, and the door isn't actually open yet....

In fact the whole door just got magnetised, meaning it's going to be nearly as hard to budge anyway. :P

Pandora tries cursing the door some more. At some point its bad luck has to favour them, right? Right?

Right. Well kind of. All this cursing seems to have cause massive metal fatigue. And there's a highly magnetised door. And a highly magnetised villain near it. And with opposites attracting - well, the door's frame breaks clean away and is thrown toward Tesla and Amp. Lucky for the villains - except Tesla and Amp.

Both villains are stunned, unsurprisingly.

Grimm grits her teeth as the door rips open. "Well, there goes one of our options. I guess we'll just have to hope for a bottle neck. Any tough guys, head down and take point." She teleports to the first landing on the stairs so she can see the broken door. She calls out to the heroes that were holding the line, "Heroes, fall back and hold the line a little longer! I'm going to try and and hold the wall temporarily." She draws her hands up, trying to patch the hole with a dark wall.

Minima shrinks her way out of the ice prison.

A solid black wall that can't be seen through is erected in place of the broken door. Grimm doesn't think it'll hold long and will only buy a few seconds, if that.

Captain Fish tries to blast through the shadowy replacement door with a supersonic cod!

The wall is badly damaged, but stands yet.

The Blackbody-mimicking Second steps forth to punch the shadow wall

The wall goes down.

Newton just holds the block of ice where it is - but with increased force - to make sure Sentinel won't be interfering with the escape.

Flip starts running toward the exit.