Log:Overlord - Antarctica, Scene 2

Overlord's Arrival 2018/05/25 		 Chen Overlord Sword Dancer Copycat Griffin Spirit Guardian Harbinger 12

The heroes, acting as a vanguard, landed in the Arena Valley of Antarctica to confront the would-be world consumer known only as The Overlord. And find him they did, in his building designed to transmit the energy of the core of the planet into his very form. There are drones flitting about, tending to their duties, not engaging the heroes as of yet...though that may change in short order, due to the heroes starting a fight only seconds earlier. A couple of the heroes have worked on trying to get the Overlord's attention and others have moved to try to cut the energy conduits which look effectively like hair coming from the Overlord's head.

Sword Dancer, bracing herself among the equipment in the ceiling, hacks at the energy conduit she has reached. She refrains from a battle cry, hoping to remain unnoticed.

Sword Dancer puts all her might behind the blow and cuts clean through the cable. But she can't keep powerful strokes like that up for long.

Chen continues with her efforts to keep the Overlord distracted and harrassed. However having seen the sheer brute power that Griffin was hit with she switches to martial mode, reasoning that not being hit is better than taking a hit that even with her highest defences would probably knock her silly.

Overlord is hit...and apparently felt that, because his massive head turns to finally regard Chen more directly rather than as an annoyance.

Chen reaches out with a looping uppercut to smash her fist into the Overlord's chin.

Chen snarls, "Felt that, huh? I'm the weakest of my family. If you abort and start running right now you might, just might, escape."

Griffin finishes patting out the fires on his clothes, smearing the bits that are now just ash. But he seems fine. Or at least pretends to be. He disappears in a flash, reappearing 15m closer as his eyes send out a cutting blast towards another cable.

The blast doesn't cut all the way through the cable, but damages it severely. It's slow going at this rate...there are dozens of conduits, after all. But so far, so good.

Copycat gasps as Griffin disappears in the all-consuming blast of the Overlord. She's never seen him take a hit that big. Her heart pounds, blood rushing in her ears as she looks for Griffin, eventually finding him singed but alive. It's a relief, but it doesn't soothe her nerves. Griffin can't take another blast like that, she thinks.

Worry turns to desperation. Copycat turns to look back at the Overlord, and reaches deep inside. She's never tried to mimic someone of this magnitude. "It's time to tip the balance," she says as she starts to wind up a punch, her voice deepening and altering as her body starts to grow and stretch until her feet touch the ground. There's a grunt of exertion as she pushes her abilities the furthest they've ever gone as she turns into the Overlord's twin. She throws a heavy, massive fist in a right cross at the world eater.

The Overlord is struck...much harder than expected. He's knocked sideways, causing a few of the conduits to snap, coming free. That might explain why he hasn't moved much up to this point. He's only turned, rather than actually knocked over, but apparently that got his attention fron Chen...and placed it firmly upon Copycat. << You are a pale imitation of us. The cosmic power you now wield is a flicker of light compared to what you are about to feel. >>

Spirit decides to try to press the Overlord as well, adding his power to the onslaught. He reaches out with both hands and unleashes an energy blast of his own.

Spirit's blast also tags the Overlord solidly, but doesn't draw his attention away from Copycat.

Overlord regards Copycat...and considers his options. Not wanting to lunge forward with a punch, he unleashes the same kind of torrent of energy at Copycat that he sent at Griffin moments earlier.

Those up near the conduits can actually see them light up as more power surges through them...and through the Overlord's hands - into Copycat. She's flung backward into the wall, her back hitting it solidly.

Spirit winces as he sees the energy output. . o O (Pretty sure...I can't take that kind of hit.)

Copycat flails slowly as she's flung against the wall, still conscious until the back of her head hits the wall. The Pretender Overlord slides down in a slumped heap, head drooping forward. With the copied lack of facial features, it may be hard to tell she's out.

Chen calls out, "Keep cutting his hair. I'll massage his face."

A couple of the worker drones move to engage the heroes cutting the conduits. Apparently they realize that there's a problem. Both Griffin and Kihzra have one each to contend with.

Spirit says to Chen, "If you get his attention, I might be able to keep him from hurting you."

Chen chuckles, "Nice trick if you can manage it."

Teh drones fire their energy weapons, a smaller version of what Copycat just experienced, and both miss entirely.

Sword Dancer wonders whether she should join the direct assault. But she still has the nagging suspicion, probably based on experience with sorcerors, that trying to cut off the source of Overlord's might is the better tactic. And those cables do seem to be powering the attacks. Content for now simply to dodge the drone's clunsy attacks, she makes her way to the next cable to hack at it.

Sword Dancer cuts through this one, too, with ease.

Chen is counting on her agility and hope that Spirit is correct as she forms a wrecking ball at the end of a extended arm and attempts to hammer the Overlord right between his beady eyes.

The wrecking ball slams into the Overlord's almost featureless face.

Overlord's attention is drawn away from his doppleganger and back toward Chen. << You wish to die earlier than your planet will. There are easier ways to accomplish this, little one. >>

Spirit waits nervously to see what the Overlord does, hoping that his plan is goign to work.

Chen cannot do that very often but it may get the Overlord's attention back on her and away from the heroes doing the useful task of cable cutting.

Chen laughs in the Overlord's face.

Griffin can only watch in awe and wonder as Kat copycats a cosmic being of unspeakable power. "Woah..." is all he can say as he watches the love of his life slug the Overlord. He has to remind himself he's on mission and to get back to work- something a Tier One operator never has to do, but this is something he doubts anyone anywhere has ever seen before. It is stunning.

Unfortunately so is the blast that the real Overlord hits her with.

Griffin is still crackling with little bolts of lightning as his body processes all that energy he was just hit with- but seeing Kat struck is enough to trigger a deeper anger in the SuperSoldier.

"Alright- coming here and starting a ruckus is one thing. Coming here to eat everyone is far worse... but you don't come to a man's planet, then start eating it and then blast a man's girlfriend in the face!" Or that was what he was planning on saying but all he manages it. "Alright- coming here is..." Before he realizes he cannot make this personal. He has to instead be ruthless to make sure that there is a world for Kat to return to. He frowns and flies straight for another cable, his eyes glowing furiously- his plan is to take a bit of what the Overlord has stolen.

The Overlord doesn't even notice as Griffin tries to draw off his energy. His being is apparently so...core...central...primal...that the energy is now like it is a part of him.

Copycat/CopyOverlord starts to become aware of the world again. A giant finger twitches and curls as she gives herself a moment.

[NPC]Overlord raises his hand and unleashes more energy in Chen's direction. Only this time when the beam is sent out...it meets resistance. A smaller wedge of energy appears in front of Chen...and the energy is directed around her entirely.

[GAME] 30d6 Blast vs. ED, but Deflected.

Chen can't help it. She flinches at the beam of energy lashes out. Only to breath a deep sigh of relief as Spirit comes up trumps.

The Overlord looks at Spirit. << You. You wield cosmic power. How has one such as you accessed such? >>

Spirit doesn't...really know the answer to that question himself.

Sword Dancer continues to evade the drone and presses on to the next cable.

The two drones continue to go after Sword Dancer and Griffin, diving under cables to get at their targets. Both miss entirely again.

Sword Dancer once more slices straight through a cable.

Chen grows a fifth arm and hand to give Spirit a thumbs-up: while swinging the wrecking ball fist up and over and around the Overlord's head to attempt to smash it into the back of her neck.

The Overlord doesn't move but the meaty thud of impact can be clearly heard.

Griffin also ignores the drone entirely as well. He can sense it with his energy sense and its' blasts. He's not concerned with it.

What he is concerned with how his attempts to drain this being have resulted in nothing. He frowns, but then dec and turns his attentions to the first strategy. It was at least working.

A rocky shore of Antarctica. There is snow and ice up the hill, away from the coast. Jutting out of the hill is a large cylindrical object, easily a couple of miles wide. It's closer to a building than anything else. Energy is coming in from various directions in a network...meeting at the central tower.

Again, Griffin mostly slices through a cable...but not quite. Enough to disrupt the flow of energy, at least.

Copycat stays on the ground but lifts her massive head to focus on the Overlord and his cables. She climbs arduously to her feet and raises her massive, foreign hand and starts channeling the powers Cosmic before making a sweeping gesture at the cables.

Copycat severs both cables with sweeping cosmic energy, but her arm wobbles with strain. She's never copied someone so powerful, and the strain is almost more than she can bear.

[NPC]Overlord reaches out toward Spirit, and instead of unleashing energy...it goes the other direction. Wisps of energy pull off of the SGG Commander toward the alien destroyer. << You would make a good Harbinger, human. I have a role for you. >>

[GAME] 10d6 Drain vs. END

Spirit moves back just far enough to keep his form intact. He lashes out with another blast of energy at Overlord, "Not today! Not ever!"

The blast doesn't seem to rock the Overlord much, though it's awfully hard to tell how much the alien is hurt at this point.

Sword Dancer still "dances" around the drone and moves to hack at the next cable.

Sword Dancer slices throught yet another "hair".

Chen says, "continues with her aim of pummeling the Overlord into pulp. "

The strike hits the Overlord cleanly, again rocking him slightly, but not really moving him.

Griffin stops trying the narrow beams and tries for something a bit less focused and more intense.

His eyes begin glowing so brightly that you can see the veins at his temples, for those who can stand the brightness at all as he charges up the biggest blast he can muster. The whole world is at stake- so he goes all the way.

Copycat doesn't have the strength to wield more power just at the moment. She gives herself a moment to rest while focusing on any borrowed memories that she may have from mimicking Overlord's body and mind.

Overlord again tries to draw off energy from Spirit, only to find the smaller hero too nimble to actually get a grasp on. << Enough of this...ENOUGH! >>

A huge burst of energy is released when Griffin finally let's loose. The blast radiates heat in every direction but the main blast is focused squarely on the conduit in front of him. The blast of Griffin's own brand of energy severs the connection between cosmic being and machine with ease.

There's an explosion outside. Further heroes have been arriving and finding resistance in the form of drones and Executors coming to help defend the building known as the Fulcrum. One such Executor lands on the floor near Chen...but on his back, unconscious. Standing just outside...is the Harbinger. << Overlord...it is time to settle this. >>