Log:Tranquility Lost, Scene 11

Tranquility Lost 2021/12/03 	 Azure Blok Dialydd Engelicus Golden Girl Griffin Grimm Magda Reactor

Blackbody Candela Captain Fish Chalk Cheese Flip Galaxy Ghoul Hertz Honeycomb Kelvin Lock Lube Minima Newton Ohm Pandora Pivot Quintessence Razor Runaway Second Snap Sword of Justice Tesla The Thinker

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The battle against the escaped prisoners on the underground level of Tranquility continues! CHalk and Cheese have agreed to help the heroes, in return for the heroes putting in a good word for them. They, most of the heroes and Galaxy (and unconscious Scorpionman) are in the stairwell. The much-cursed door to the bottom level has broken right out of its casing and squashed Tesla and Amp against the opposite wall; the barrier hastily erected by Grimm to replace it has also gone down.

On the lower level proper are, besides the bulk of the villains, Sentinel (encased, together with Mutilator, in a block of ice and gravitically held against the ceiling and opposite wall from the door), Blok (wrestling Blackbody). and Magda (in the Thinker's cell). Quintessence, who has been aiding Magda, is just outside that call, and somewhere Sword of Justice has just executed a second villain.

Magda stops arcing electricity from the walls. "Quintessence, fall back inside -- I need a way past. Stay holed up," she instructs the pair. "Thinker, if you can give me a distance and direction to the Eris-Dysnomia L1 point for fifty seconds from now, I won't have to calculate it myself." If, of course, he 'has' astronomy. She adjusts her powers and looks out towards the two guards she needs to save, judging her moment ...

The Thinker provides the coordinates instantly. It's almost like he anticipated the request.

Grimm calls out to the heroes, "Fall back to the stairs if you can. Now! We have to hold the line!"

Blok flexes his stony arms and breaks free of Blackbody's grip. He follows up with (appropriately) To The Moon.

Pandora and Lube barely dodge as Blackbody flies past them. The matt black villainess slides down the curved wall some 12m.

Engelicus flies back down the stairs, landing toward the bottom with a good view of the doorway to the lower level. His fiery wings dissipate after he lands.

Golden Girl flies back down the stairs to help restrain any villains from climbing them.

The Dreamer looks at Chalk and Cheese. "Try to keep up! We need to hold the stairwell against the other escapees. I will trust you to not attack us. Fight, defend as you will!" He then turns to head back and down the stairs.

"You told me to repair the door first," points out Chalk. Cheese nods.

The Dreamer smiles gently as he nods to Chalk. "In your time then, ser Chalk. Join us when you can."

Golden Girl recalls the scream she heard when she arrived. She squeezes, although stays alert for any yielding of ribs.

Second grunts - then grins. "You'll regret that. An interesting power I've taken on..."

Blackbody stands and tries to get back to Blok, but fails to get past the people in the way.

Azure peers down the stairwell and frowns, summoning an orb to carry her down to the ground floor and gets ready for another surge of prisoners to attack.

The Dreamer turns from speaking to Chalk and Cheese and sprints back to the stairs. He darts down them to get a line of sight of the door at the bottom of them.

Sword of Justice flies anticlockwise round the corridors, until she spots her next target. She bypasses Snap when she spots Ghoul! "Your time is done, demon!" says the vengeful angels, as she bears down on him...

The toothy demon avoids the angel's blade, but not by much!

Razor, next to the now-Free Blok, slashes at him with the razor-sharp scales he's covered with.

Blok roars, "I FELT that!"

Razor wonders if that was a mistake!

Hertz finally manages to get to the front, and shoots Blok in the back!

Blok screams as the cuts left by Razor start to bleed.

Cheese is good to her word and, though she's still feeling cooked goes downstairs and tries to encase Hertz in sticky but non-rigid cheese!

The cheese blob proves to be especially resilient!

Sword of Justice is getting worryingly close to Lock, so Lock turns about and shoots a bolt at the angel.

The elbow in the angel's sword arm locks up!

Chalk sets to repairing the door at the top of the stairs he damaged.

Candela tries to take down the lastest of Quintessence's barriers.

The barrier is almost down.

Ohm just tries to organise the villains. "Charge the stairs before they can bottle us up!"

Ghoul shows no inclination to face the angel with the holy sword. He retreats toward the door, leaping over the heads of other villains, but fails to get past Blok.

Galaxy indeed seems to have been angered(?) by Reactor's attack! It swarms at him, the sparks of it's body burning hot.

Runaway follows Ghoul's example of trying to get away from the angel and to the stairwell, running so fast as to run along the wall to do so. She makes it past Blok and too the door, which she just gets through.

Snap, too, teleports away from the angel and into the stairwell, now the door which blocked his teleporting is down.

Lube tries to outdo his brother Lock by making the angel's sword hilt too slippery to hold!

The sword slips from the angel's grasp!

... and then vanishes and reappears in its hand.

Quintessence tries to get one up on Candela by blast her through his own barrier without harming it.

The cosmic energy bolt, however, misses.

Reactor looks at the attack Galaxy just hit him with and .. well starts to laugh.. "For all that speed and stuff I thought you'd have a bit more bite to your attacks," as his body glows from Galaxy's blast and seems to absorb most of it. "Hard to hit you are, but not impossible," as he charges into Galaxy's, body,f you will, his shield flaring as it makes contact even as Reactor fires a blast from inside the vil's form. "Enjoy."

Galaxy, alas, is that little bit too fast. Each spark individually jumps aside, and Reactor never actually gets inside Galaxy, nor is there any Galaxy where he fires.

Golden Girl started angry at hearing screams, and is getting angrier. She heard Blok scream when Razor attacked him in the back. Pushing her strength as much as she can she throws Secord at Razor. Making sure that if/when she misses Razor, Secoend will have a close and personal encounter with a wall.

Golden Girl gets a smidgen of satisfaction as Second slams into Razor.

The two villains crash into each other and tumble into the wall.

Engelicus makes note of the teleporter, and releases a gout of soulfire at Snap. "You should surrender, lest you be seriously hurt."

Snap tries to snap his fingers to teleport out the way, but isn't quite fast enough.

Snap cries out as his soul-burning attack!

Pandora is fairly close to Blok, but the sorceress has is more concerned about the angel coming up behind her. She weaves her way back to where she can curse the angel!

Her aim, however, is less than true.

Tesla reverses the polarity (always a good trick, ask the Doctor) to throw the door which crushed her off - and in the direction of Golden Girl.

Golden Girl is pushed back a couple of meters when hit by the thrown door, although she didn't feel much more than a slight blunt thud against her. Still, it saves her having to go get the door, so generally positive.

Azure glances around at the ensuing battle, and takes a step back. Right, things are only going to get more chaotic, unless perhaps she can lull at least some of them to sleep. And with that, Azure begins to sing a soothing sleepy lullaby, hoping to make some of the inmates drowsy and easier to hit.

The Dreamer smiles as he enjoys Azure's singing, his starry gaze scanning for foes all then while.

Azure continues to sing her sweet lullaby, lulling the three thugs into a dazed stupor, hopefully making them easier targets for the heroes to take out.

Grimm decides to think with portals. She aims to open a large gate in the broken doorway. It's a portal with the open side facing the hallow side. The other side of the gate appears across the lower level, facing inward to create a loop trying to trap the villains (and any heroes) within for now. In theory. "If this works, regroup, work together, and focus down one villain all together. Then we take the lower levels again with the toughest of us in the front to hold the line and allow us squishier folks to attack from behind. I know most of you aren't used to it, but we need to act more like a team. Watch each other's backs, strike together." She glances at Runaway. If you dont want to get hurt, freeze! She says, compelling him to stay put.

Runaway is rather rudely frozen mid-run.

Captain Fish fires a supersonic haddock at the nearest target: Blok.

The fish thuds against Blok's chest and drops to the floor.

Only Golden Girl notices the teeny tiny Minima slipping through the tiniest of gaps there is between the portal and the stairwell.

Griffin senses things going on despite being encased in ice.

He frowns and then flexes, trying to burst free of his chilly cage so he can help hold the line.

He believes in his team, but he wouldn't put anyone up against the wall like that, so he is desparate to get back into the game. That desparation grows in magnitude at the sound of Blok's screams. His energy senses keep him abreast to at least some of the goings on, but not everything- so he has no idea which way the tide flows.

Golden Girl points and calls out, "There's a tiny little woman sneaking out past the edgeof the portal."

The Super Soldier, Sentinel breaks free of the ice- shattering his way out triumphantly. Not being one for taking it easy, or letting his allies take the brunt of any advancing force, he flashsteps back in front of the door. He'll hold the line here again if he can, to buy the team time to deal with those that squeezed through so far.

<> Griffin warns.

Griffin leaves Blok & GG to hold the line at Grimm's portal. He charges Kelvin instead. <> He says bravely over comms just before vanishing as the ice hits the ground.

He reappears next to Kelvin already mid-swing & crackling with plasmic energy.

Griffin's sudden arrival at Kelvin's door seems to have caught him unaware. That was his plan. His immediate overwhelming assault was intended to drop him quickly so he can sap the will to fight from those in his immediate surroundings.

Kelvin doesn't drop, much to Griffin's chagrin, but he's clearly dazed- which puts him in a better position than he was 2 seconds ago.

Pivot tries to grab Quintessence through his barrier.

The cosmic former hero is held again.

Kelvin blinks the stars from his eyes.

Blackbody pushes her way forward to punch Blok!

But she fails to connect.

The Dreamer takes a moment to assess the situation based on the yell from Golden Girl. He sweeps his starry gaze carefully over the stairwell before acting. The alien youth flashes a grin then focusses his mind. To those who can perceive the cosmic, magickal, or mental planes, 'hear' a chorus soft voices supporint the Dreamers sonorously murmuring, 'Sleep...Rest...Dream...' on Minima.

The surprised and stunned Minima involuntarily resumes full size right next to Golden Girl.

Honeycomb at last has a target - she tries to contain the crazy angel with the sword!

A transparent geodesic sphere of mostly hexagons appears around Sword of Justice.

Newton tries to bring Sentinel crashing down to earth - well, moon.

But he comes nowhere close with his gravitic blast.

Flip was going to attack Sword of Justice, but Honeycomb's barrier thwarts him.