Log:Forget Me Not, Scene 3

Forget Me Not 2014/06/12 	 Ellbeth Paragon Physique Snow Anthony Quinn|Quinn Porter Fox Choukaizer Domina Enemy Ace Ruger

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Like most 'quiet before the storm' moments, the farmland outside of Colonial Bay is serene and calm. The heroes have tracked Enemy Ace to this location though, with the aid of The Senator. The latter claimed that Mortua, acting on Ace's behalf, was supposed to assassinate Mayor Cangelosi for some unknown purpose. It's reasonably to assume that Ace's goals have not changed, even though his original plan has already been thwarted. The heroes have started to gather down the road from the farmhouse and barn, to strategize how they are intending to deal with the situation...

Ellbeth turns up in her young guise, all cheerful and bubbly. "So... anyone encountered him before? What's he like? What can he do? Likely to be any others with him?"

Snow got a message to meet here and so Rae has arrived sliding on an icy ramp in her icy armor. She looks around.

Although he's sure that Enemy Ace's sensors will pick them up before long Quinn shuts down his radar for the moment. No point in being an active radio transmitter. He looks at the building with his thermographics. From this distance it is probably too far for him to isolate the individual signatures of people but he still might be able to pick up some kind of interesting tidbit.

Physique, having been on the scene in the city centre, arrives with other heroes. She's a bit downcast. o O (THe things I could do last time I was in these parts...)

Porter is thankful for such helpful things as verbose Senators, thoughtful hackers, and the like. Otherwise, they might never have known the truth. Porter's investigative methods are very similar to, and about as effective as, the toe and shin method of finding hard objects in the dark. He heads for the not-so-secret-now alleged hiding spot of Enemy Ace.

Arriving through flying, Choukaizer is a bit slower than most heroes, but he was brought along by Paragon. And his idea of arriving was pretty much... falling? Yep. Falling from one hell of a height. It's not until he sees the heroes that he angles his fall with some green plasma rockets to land near them. Another burst of the green flames slowing him down to land nearby before walking over. "So... just what is the situation, or do I want to know? I am not familiar with this... individual that I was told of?"

Paragon tries to fill in Choukaizer, chatting with him for a bit. "...and get this, one of their members represents the right to bear arms. Because he's an armed bear," Paragon finishes telling Choukaizer about Liberty, the odd patriotic team that helped them find this place. After getting over her amusement at having finally gotten a joke, she straightens up and gets serious, looking to the others. Paragon folds her arms over her chest and puts on her game face. Not that anyone can tell behind the helm. She then jerks a thumb to Choukaizer and introduces him to the group. "Hey everyone, this is Choukaizer, an alien robot that helped some of us fight against Event Horizon. He's pretty tough, so I thought he could help."

It is Porter that has a Fox following him, from very close proximity! She is tagging along as a helper, bodyguard, transport specialist, tackler, rending claw-er, or any number of other jobs that do not involve reading or speaking much.

Choukaizer's introduction by Paragon causes the sound of a metal face palm. "I am not an alien robot."

Ellbeth sounds good. So, like I asked, anyone know this guy or come up against him before?

[To Choukaizer] Physique says, "An alien? Where are you from?"

[To Physique] Choukaizer says, "Earth."

Paragon's eyes blink off and on a few times as she tilts her head curiously. "Oh! My apologies," she says sincerely.

"There seem to be people both in the barn and in the house," Quinn says to the assembled heroes. "I can't get a count from here but there seem to be more in the house than the barn and I'm not picking up any signs of underground structures." He looks over at Choukaizer and gives a nod.

Ellbeth says, "Want I should take a look, guys? I can do the remote viewing thing and it's not likely to be detected."

Physique nods to Ellbeth. "Sounds good."

Quinn gives a nod to Ellbeth. "Always good to have more data before you charge in," he says, "that way you can be sure to maximize the chaos."

Choukaizer gives a nod to Ellbeth. He then looks to Quinn. And blinks a few times. "Huh... aren't you that Quinn guy?"

Choukaizer(#2641PeACcF?)

This figure is definitely imposing, as it's total height with the apparent helmet on it's head is definitely above that of an average human being. The head itself is roughly shaped with a five pointed star swept backwards, the upper most points putting it's height at roughly six and a half feet in height. The center of the top point is a violet piece that may be attached to a helmet or something underneath. A red pane of material is situated in the piece. Gold color flows around the brow of the robotic looking individual, with a distinctive line showing where the golden color of the face is. Solid crimson eyes look out at the world from the average looking face.

Impressively, the armor keeps the black with violet accent theme to it's appearance. The chest is decorated with a large starburst that starts with violet and ends up with a second gold star in the center, fitted with apparently gold accents on the area where the ribs would be on a human. The lower ribs, however, have an odd patchy crystal in the same violet crystal as if holding in a seam or possibly hiding something. Violet with gold accented vents decorate the shoulders complete with what looks like miniature turbines fitted firmly into the shoulder pauldrons, leading to thoughts that there isn't room for a human being inside it. Notice worthy is that the majority of the arms are in the same black coloring with accents in violet and gold again. The fists in particular are in black with violet knuckles on the back. Of course, the fact that the forearms appear to be a bit oversized is probably just a designer oversight.

From the back of the robot, a series of rockets are hidden under a second larger star design on the back, lacking the gold accents of the chest based star. The back mounted star happens to be missing the upper point, however, using the head as the fifth point. The lower points of the star are noticeably slimmer and apparently used as wings. The legs are accented by solid violet over the front with a set of gold accents on the knees and gold "toes" on the robot's design. Whoever designed the robot apparently went for an imposing and regal look to it. Possibly even more disturbing is that it doesn't have the bearing or acting of most robotic designs. In fact, it seems almost as alive as any other organic being.

Ellbeth closes her eyes and protects her mind's eye across the the house first and then the barn, taking a look at anyone she sees and any other items of interest. You know, things like giant death lasers, etc.

Ellbeth(#2336PeACcF?)

Ellbeth's fusion of racial backgrounds has created a youthful exotic beauty that tends to draw the eyes of most males and a fair number of females. She's slim, graceful and athletic, with a model's physique. Her eyes are emerald green behind semi-mirrored sunglasses with a devil-may-care glint of mischief in them. Yet there's also a impression of determination in her posture. That whatever she starts she'll be determined to finish.

Ellbeth's long snow-white hair is brushed back to hang free and unbound down her back. She wears a shimmering full length hooded mid-grey damask robe hemmed with dark sable fur, belted at the waist with a white slash and open at the neck, a classic Guns and Roses tee-shirt partly visible beneath it. The hood is thrown back. A long polished oaken staff inscribed with arcane runes is held in her left hand and a ultra modern micro computer resides in a bulging pocket at her waist.

Paragon(#1641PenACcF?)

This tall figure stands at about 6 feet tall, covered in articulated, form fitting high tech heavy armor. It gleams like bluish-gray metal. The body is broad chested, muscular and athletic. The plating along more flexible areas, such as the abdomen and sides of the torso, are banded and flexible. The front chestplate has angled edges and looks like a solid piece, save for some hairline seams. In between the plates and in areas where there is no armor, a black armor mesh material shows through that doesnt quite look like fabric. This can be best observed on the figure's hands. The backs of the hands are plated, but the rest is just covered by the resistant armor mesh like gloves. The front of the helm has a flat profile with no nose, a thin line seam that represents a mouth, and two black eye-slots covered by dark glass that reflects surrounding light and a solid faceplate, completely encasing the head. From deeper within the helm, one can see the "eyes"; two glowing white orbs with a red fringe that blink out in unison from time to time or narrow into lines of determination.

When Paragon talks, the voice is tinny and echoes from within the metallic helm. But the tone of the voice doesn't match the imposing figure. It sounds young and not very deep, and has friendly overtones, which sometimes boom with heroic or chivalrous overtones. There's a robotic quality to Paragon's actions, but also a humane aspect.

Physique(#2624PenACcF?)

Physique stands 6'2" tall, with a lean, athletic build. Her jet black hair is in a short, practical style, and the eyes in her red domino mask are grey. Her costume - a bright red sports bikini with a yellow phi insignia on the chest - shows off her toned body. Her hands are bare, with moderately long unpainted nails. On her feet she wears red trainers with yellow laces. She carries herself with the powerful grace of a big cat.

Long, largely straight roads, often in poor condition, stretch across the low-lying farmland, interrupted by lines of tree delimiting fields and acting as windbreakers. Traffic is thin, most long-distance traffic preferring the major highways to the south and east. Small villages and isolated farmhouses hold the human population, while fields and hedgerows have the animals.

Q(#1396PeACcF)

At roughly six and a half feet tall Q wears a battle suit of advanced design. Sleek and aerodynamic his armor is a highly polished black with a silver faceplate. Twin eye slits glow with a bright blue light within the highly reflective faceplate giving the armor at least minimal facial characteristics when the faceplate is not retracted.

The armor is in the basic design of a classical hardsuit as opposed to being designed of a flexible material though its articulation seems to allow for excellent mobility. Centered in the middle of the chest is what seems to be almost a circular window which gives view to an eerie sight, the Q-Drive. Energy swirls within the Q-Drive in patterns that cause the eyes to hurt if you stare at them for too long and seems to brighten and dim like some sort of pulse. Surrounding the Q-Drive is a broken circle which glows with a bright blue light and contains the emitters for the shockwave blast and thunderclap charge as well as the holographic projector and spotlight. Feeding outward from the ring are lines which clearly carry energy throughout the suit, energizing the various systems and glowing with the same blue light.

Small circular emitters sit on the back of each gauntlet containing the circuitry for the neural blast systems. The gauntlets themselves are slightly oversized with a slight bubble shape along their backs and snap open at a mental command to reveal the smartwave missiles inside. Larger emitters sit in the palms of each gauntlet housing the emitters for the force bolts, utility lasers, and his often used quantum bolts.

Snow(#2461PenACcF?)

This young woman stands just over five and a half feet in height and is covered in ice. It almost looks to be an icy armor, sculpted to her body.

Fox(#2570PeACcF?)

Fox looks like a teenage girl, small in stature and adorable beyond words. Big, green, round eyes, often wearing a perpetually curious look, long bright silver hair that falls messily around her shoulders. She could easily be taken for human, though she has a pair of silver fuzzy ears that stick out to the sides, and a thick silver and white fluffy tail that resembles the animal which is her namesake.

She is wearing no clothing, though she has fur covering her to keep her from being arrested for public indecency, white and thick that runs from her breast to her hips, providing almost the bare minimum of covering. Curiously, she does have a pair of highly-advanced looking bracers strapped to her wrists and what seems to be a decorative necklace, beaded with multiple colors and coming to a medallion depicting a fox which rests at the crest of her chest's fur.

Domina(#1120TOn)

This woman in blond, with her medium length hair tied back into a pony tail. She wears tall leather boots that go above her knees, as well as leather shorts and a matching haltter top. They're not overly revealing, but do give a certain...impression.

Enemy Ace(#1632TOn)

His face is partially metal. And he appears to be in a sleek outfit of ACRO-designed power armor. The suit looks quite aerodynamic, with decent sized shoulderpads, gauntlets, and boots.

Ruger Mk. III(#1803TOnp)

This is a tall suit of power armor, entirely the color of gunmetal, aside from the black letter 'R' on the left side of the chest. It's relatively form fitting, but still quite solidly built. The helmet covers the wearer's full head, and has a blackened visor, as well as several slits in the front where the wearer's mouth would be. The feet are large metallic boots. The left gauntlet is similar to the feet...but the right forearm looks like a large revolver cylinder, with one of the holes at the top.

"Sort of. I think?" Porter speaks up. "Just thinking about this guy on the way over. Some kind of fighter ace, like the Red Baron. Mostly a cyborg, now, which is why he's still around. We know he knows Mortua, but she'ss still locked up, right? Also heard about Domina, who messes with minds." He thinks some more. "Oh! And There was an armor guy... Ruger! They were tag-team characters in Ultimate Villains IX."

"Scout?" Fox asks, after Ellbeth offers and seems to go into a trance.

Quinn nods to Choukaizer and extends a hand. "Anthony Quinn," he says. His mask renders his face rather inscrutable as he examines the large robot. "Alien robot?" he says. "You're from ACRO, aren't you? I've seen that shoulder linkage before. It's based on work stolen from Dr. Yoshida and unless I miss my guess those jets are paired induction plasma pods, aren't they?"

Ellbeth speaks as she remote views, relating what she is seeing. "There's a suit of power armor out in the barn. Looks like it is currently occupied. There are a couple of technicians working on it. A cyborg type guy in Nazi gear appears to be inside the house itself, along with three men who appear to be military sorts...mercenary commandos, maybe? And also inside the house in a woman dressed in black leather: Tall boots, shorts, halter top."

Snow moves over to everyone, "Hello, here to help where I can."

Fox grins. "Can...break," she mentions.

Commandos(#2404TOn)

These are six individuals dressed in black fatigues and carrying automatic weapons slung on their shoulders. All male, and in their 20s or 30s. Two are Caucasian, one is Asian, one is Hispanic, and two are African-American. And they all look like they're in good shape.

"Was ACRO. Involuntary procedure. Human mind in a robotic body. And... actually, they're more singular linked. I can pair them quickly, however." Choukaizer pauses, then looks at Quinn. "Who is Dr. Yoshida? Might be able to help me understand more about the whole robot body." Turning to listen to Ellbeth, the robot gives a shrug. "So, power armor, a cyborg, and commandos? What is this guy? Hold over from history?"

Physique says, "With that name, sounds like it!"

Ellbeth opens her eyes and shrugs, "I think so. Harlequin said he was old. First or Second World War old."

"And a leather dressed mind controlled," Quinn says. "We might want to try and take her out first."

Ellbeth creates an image of the power suit and of the woman, "Anyone recognise either?"

"Aaand that last one would be their mentalist. Why is it always telepaths?" Paragon comments cheekily. She lightly pats a plated fist into an open hand. "I may finally get to cross off 'fighting nazis' on my list of heroic exploits."

Images by Ellbeth: The woman in leather: This woman in blond, with her medium length hair tied back into a pony tail. She wears tall leather boots that go above her knees, as well as leather shorts and a matching haltter top. They're not overly revealing, but do give a certain...impression.

Ruger Mk. III(#1803TOnp)

This is a tall suit of power armor, entirely the color of gunmetal, aside from the black letter 'R' on the left side of the chest. It's relatively form fitting, but still quite solidly built. The helmet covers the wearer's full head, and has a blackened visor, as well as several slits in the front where the wearer's mouth would be. The feet are large metallic boots. The left gauntlet is similar to the feet...but the right forearm looks like a large revolver cylinder, with one of the holes at the top.

Images by Ellbeth: Power armor: This is a tall suit of power armor, entirely the color of gunmetal, aside from the black letter 'R' on the left side of the chest. It's relatively form fitting, but still quite solidly built. The helmet covers the wearer's full head, and has a blackened visor, as well as several slits in the front where the wearer's mouth would be. The feet are large metallic boots. The left gauntlet is similar to the feet...but the right forearm looks like a large revolver cylinder, with one of the holes at the top.

Quinn turns to Porter. "Do you know anything about how her powers work? Does she need eye contact, does she only have to see or target, or is there a whip involved?"

Porter looks at the images. "Yeah, that looks like them..." He shrugs at Quinn. "No idea. Guess maybe we'll find out?"

Snow shakes her head, "I don't know much about them if anything, just here to offer what I can." she is watching all the images though."

Porter turns to grin at Fox and nod, then looks at everybody else. "We are going to come up with some kind of a plan, right? Fox says she can be a good can-opener for Ruger."

"If someone wants to open up the side of the house I could toss a thunderclap in there," Quinn says. "That might be a good way to start off. It will probably take the guy in the barn a little time to get himself together."

The approach to the farmhouse is mostly open land with soft rolling hills. You can see the house and barn clearly from where you stand, though it is some distance away.

Physique says, "Might be hard to approach without being seen."

Paragon nods to Porter. "I'm sure we can figure out how to approach this. We can either all team up at once on Ruger at the Barn and take him down fast and hard while he's still getting maintenanced, but that may give Enemy Ace a chance to escape. A two-pronged attack may be best," she throws in her thoughts.

Fox looks at the barn, for any open windows or door or anything else.

Quinn shrugs slightly. "Fox's teleportation gates?" he suggests. "If she puts one against the side of the house it probably wouldn't be seen by anyone looking out."

Ellbeth says, "I can cloak a group moving towards the barn or house. It's not perfect but they probably won't spot it's happening."

"Yeah, her portals," Porter offers up... or agrees, since he's a bit late. "Could get us alot closer fast, at least. And I do kind of think we should go after Domina quick. I don't want any more people in my head, and soembody can smack me if it happens."

Physique says, "Domina - right ok."

Ellbeth says, "Who's the important target here. Like, if you can only catch one, which one do you want to end up with?"

Paragon says, "Enemy Ace is the leader, right? So probably him."

"Enemy Ace is the one to catch, but Domina might be the person who needs to be targeted first," Quinn says.

Paragon sounds a little dismayed as she says, "Because from my recent experiences with Event Horizon, just catching the accomplices doesn't seem to help in past experience. They're replacable."

Ellbeth says, "So you know the group to go after. The guys in the house. Enemy Ace, who I still don't know what he can do. Domina, a mentalist from what I've heard, and the three mercs. Right?"

Enemy Ace(#1632TOn)

His face is partially metal. And he appears to be in a sleek outfit of ACRO-designed power armor. The suit looks quite aerodynamic, with decent sized shoulderpads, gauntlets, and boots.

Commandos(#2404TOn)

These are three individuals dressed in black fatigues and carrying automatic weapons slung on their shoulder. All male, and in their 20s and 30s. One is Caucasian, one is Hispanic, and one is African-American. And they all look like they're in good shape.

Images from Ellbeth: Enemy Ace: His face is partially metal. And he appears to be in a sleek outfit of ACRO-designed power armor. The suit looks quite aerodynamic, with decent sized shoulderpads, gauntlets, and boots.

Fox moves around to get a better look at the house too, for unoccupied rooms with windows that happen to be open.

Images from Ellbeth: Commandos: These are three individuals dressed in black fatigues and carrying automatic weapons slung on their shoulder. All male, and in their 20s and 30s. One is Caucasian, one is Hispanic, and one is African-American. And they all look like they're in good shape.

"Hm." Choukaizer looks considerate. Then shrugs. "I'm more of a hard to take down... that's an ACRO design, isn't it?" The robot says.

Porter nods. "Ok. Got it." Though he keeps one eye on Fox when she moves up ahead. He doesn't try to follow. She knows her portals better than he does, and he knows she's way more sneaky than he is.

Paragon looks over to Ellbeth curiously. "That cloaking spell sounds interesting. We should probably do that and start heading out."

"Staying not see is good with me. Please." Porter will wait for everybody else to start moving, and then move. And hope to not step on dry leaves, dry sticks, or dry bear traps.

Someone (a technician, perhaps?) comes out of the barn and heads toward the house. He looks around briefly before heading inside.

Ellbeth nods and cast the spell, overlaying the area with an image of the same area sans heroes.

Fox moves laterally to get a better idea of what is in the room with the open curtains. She stays low, her small frame making it easy to avoid detection. That and she's trained to do exactly this.

Fox can see that it's likely a bedroom. From this angle, she can see the ceiling of that room, along with the spinning ceiling fan.

Snow is just sticking in the background till she is needed.

"She found an open window and empty room, but it has a ceiling fan," Porter tries to let people know as quietly as possible. While trying to move as quietly as possible. "She thinks the roof may be the only clear spot big enough."

The same person that walked from the barn to the house...comes back out, and heads back toward the barn. He glances around again, but this time, he looks primarily in the direction that most of the heroes are. A secret agent...he is not.

"Can she just put it on the side of the wall or the ground?" Quinn asks. As he asks he manuevers into place so that if the side of the building gets peeled off he will have a clear shot at those inside.

Physique stands ready to move as soon as we're moving, as it were.

"Crap. Fox thinks we've been made." Porter hesitates, not sure whether to completely stop, or run for it. "What do we do?"

Ellbeth says, "Charge?"

"Then the whole concealing bit's over with. Not really my style anyways." The robot says before he flies off. Straight for the barn. Choukaizer isn't hesitating at all on that note, and the green plasma thrusters are sending him straight for the barn at that. Apparently he plans on making one big noise now.

Physique sprints in the direction of the person who seemingly spotted us!

Ellbeth tries to mind lock the agent before he can give the alarm.

Fox sets a portal near the heroes, then turns to aim one at the roof of the house. Her plan will continue as intended.

Porter starts running, now, too. He's just not very good at it. He's aiming for somewhere between the house and barn. Since he knows there's people in both and others are already going for the barn.

The technician topples over, landing on the ground with a thump that's barely audible from this distance.

Snow starts sliding after the others since people are moving in.

As the suspicious workman falls to the ground with nary a sound and Fox sets the first of her portals several other heroes go bursting forward toward the house. "Oy," Quinn says, the palm of his gauntled making a metallic 'thunk' as he presses it to the faceplate of his helmet.

Paragon rubs the back of her head and sighs as the plan becomes 'Charge!'. She looks to Quinn and shrugs. "Well, it was worth a shot."

"Just once," Quinn says, "it would be nice to have a plan that doesn't seem to have been created by Leeroy Jenkins."

Paragon half crouches and grins behind her faceplate at Quinn's comment. "That's also on my list of Heroic To-Dos. Someday I'll get to cross that one off. Aaand I guess Fox isn't doing the portal thing either, so we'd better hoof it!" With a powerful kick, she's leaping off towards the house.

The curtains on the lower level windows move slightly, and the windows themselves get pushed open. Best guess...the technician might have spotted the team on the way into the house rather than on the way out.

Ellbeth quips to Q, "On, come on now. Where's your sense of fun." The young Elly doesn't seem to have the same cautious approach that the older, and wiser, Ellbeth has.

"Portal!" Porter is slow. He knows it. With that called out, he goes for the portal nearby. Why run when you can teleport? "And I think we got people at the house windows!"

As everyone goes charging forward like a scene out of Braveheart Quinn sighs, his voice system making him sound suspiciously like a certain paranoid android. The jets on his boots flare to life and he takes off towards the house.

Physique dashes faster toward the building to get there as soon as possible.

Snow continues to slide forward, covering quite a bit of ground, putting her 20m out.

After moving closer, moderately, Fox sets another portal, this one on the roof of the house. Now that they are linked, one can easily step through and be where they were not.

Porter can now see... sky? in the portal. Which is better than the nothing before, so he jumps in. always guaranteed to be interesting. Like finding himself on a roof.

Harlequin enters from Outside Harrisburg.

"You know," Quinn says, talking out loud, "my original plan had been to gain a significant amount of altitude and then just smash in through the roof and detonate." The just in his boots rumble and leave twin streaks of actinic blue as he cuts through the sky. With no danger of loosing surprise from radio emissions he turns his radar back on. "There's something seriously wrong when that was the 'good plan'."

Automatic gunfire erupts from the windows of the house, with quite obvious muzzle flashes. Bullets stream toward the three closest targets to the house that the gunmen can see: Physique, Snow, and Paragon.

As the bullets begin to stream the circle in the center of Quinn's chest begins to glow. With a quick bit of math he realizes that the shooters could be in 1, 2, or 3 rooms. If they are in 2 rooms there is no way that the left and right shooters could be in the same room, leaving the middle shooter by himself, and if they are in either 1 or 3 rooms it won't matter. He lets the charge fly from his chest plate, aiming it at the middle window.

The window itself is blown out, and you can head the shouts of at least a couple of people inside the building. A large portion of the wall around the window is also destroyed, leaving a gaping man-size hole in the wall. The gunman who had been right behind that is still crouching.

"Hi," Quinn chirps brightly as the section of the wall gets torn away. "Have you considered changing your long distance telephone company?"

A silvery blue Gate opens about a hundred meters from the house. Through the Gate one can see a dimly lit room which only reveals a deak on which a skull sits facing a conputer console. Harlequin then steps through the Gate which snaps shut behind him as silver then blue disks swirl into existence and orbit the mage.

Choukaizer flies forward, aiming instead of for the house, he aims for the barn. Once he's close enough, he brings himself up to standing tall as he flies forward and brings his fists up, "Chou Release: Plasma Blaster!" The star on the chest slides open, revealing a port that glows green before launching a ball of explosive material at the barn itself from his position. It's obvious he's not too caring about which wall blows, so long as something blows and whoever is inside happens to see him in there.

The ball of energy strikes the side of the barn, blowing a hole in the wall...and giving Choukaizer a good look at Ruger, who is looking back at him through the debris.

Paragon seems completely unphased as bullets spark off her armor. She lands in the field, then shifts into a sprinter's pose before leaping again straight forward with all her might, gliding low over the ground.

Ellbeth runs forwards closer to the house as she reaches out with her mind once again and strikes at the mind of the gunmen in what used to be a window. She casts a Mage Shield spell also noe bullets are flying.

The commando's mind is easily hit, and he slumps to the floor. The combination of the explosion and the mental attack are too much for him.

Ellbeth thinks. o O (I need more power. I can blink or mind strike. Not both.)

[NPC]Enemy Ace steps into view where the hole in the wall is. He raises a hand, and a plasma burst lashes out at Paragon, who is quite close to the house at this point.

[GAME] Half move to get a shot, then Blast vs. ED

Snow sees the one they are waiting for appearing in the hole in the wall. She slides closer, putting her about 10m from the house and then raises her hand, frost forms around it and a blast of powerful frost flies towards Enemy Ace.

Paragon lands after her last leap, about to take another step with her fist cocked back. Before she can take off again though, Enemy Ace's blast slams into her chestplate. It sends her flying back several meters, tumbling in the field's soft earth and digging up a nice Paragon-sized groove along her path. As she slides to a stop on her back, she stares up at the beautiful blue sky and says, "Oof."

Snow's icy blast goes over Ace's shoulder...striking the wall on the far side of the room he's in, blowing that out as well.

[NPC]Ruger says, "Ruger doesn't bother to leave the barn. Choukaizer is his primary target, as that's the one he can see. He steps up to the hole in the wall, and fires his large cannon at the oncoming robot."

[GAME] Half move, Fire at Choukaizer with an AP shell.

Fox moves to position herself at the surprise angle of the nearest person she doesn't like, in sneak!

A small *BOOM* comes out as the robot is hit, and knocked over. He lays there, and calls out towards Ruger, "That's it!? You didn't even get through the armor!" Suicidal robot, anyone?

Ruger calls out, in a modulated voice. "Maybe your armor is tougher than I thought. I'll try a different kind of shell next time, mate!"

Porter is on a roof, and now must get off of it. He shuffles to the edge and kicks a leg over... No, make that both. And two arms.. and there goes the rest of him. On the bright side? He still gets off the roof. Unfortunately, he falls. Fortunately, he lands on something soft. Unfortunately, it seems suspiciously like manure.