Previous Threads: http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive.html?searchall=homeless+mutant+questPastebins:http://pastebin.com/UuVeJFighttp://pastebin.com/98mpGLrhYou are John James Green, mutant vagrant.Responding to a bunch of calls from Peter, you interrupted his school day and were promptly informed that had to tell you something about Ben – Ben as in Ben Urich, as in the guy who wrote that article on you. The one that picked over ever bone of Creeper’s organization you could think of on the spot. And you’re pretty sure you heard the word ‘emergency’ crop up there at some point…You have a bad feeling about this.“…What about him?” You almost wish you hadn’t asked.“He wasn’t in this morning, which is…” Peter pauses, and you get the impression he’s mulling something over in his head. “…weird. I checked around, and apparently no one’s seem him since midday yesterday.” Oh Christ. Wait. No. Could be nothing? “Anyway, it’s just not like him to vanish like this. I tried calling, got nada.” ‘Nothing’, for you, evaporates right about there. Into the myriad possibilities of something. “Obviously, I’m kind of at school…” A deep, long sigh fills your ear. “…and I’ve already used all my emergency cards for the last month… so I was just wondering if you could check out his apartment, maybe?” A hopeful twinge enters his tone.“It could be nothing.”>Current Funds: $112.3>Present Time: 10:49 AM>Hunger Level: 4>[ ] “Sure, I’ll get on it right away.”>[ ] “Sure, I’ll stop by his apartment this afternoon.”>[ ] “I’ve kind of got my hands full. Could nobody else check it out?”>[ ] “You sure you’re not overreacting here?” >[ ] Write in.
>>30176818>[ ] “Sure, I’ll get on it right away.”
>>30176818>>[ ] “Sure, I’ll get on it right away.”
>[x] “Sure, I’ll get on it right away.”Seems like the stakeout at the new Creeper's place will have to wait
>>30176818>[ ] “Sure, I’ll get on it right away.”>[ ] “You sure you’re not overreacting here?”
>>30176818"If I do this do you know anyone that could give me a decent haircut for free? I need one for a ting at 6."
>>30176818>>[ ] “Sure, I’ll get on it right away.”>>[ ] “Sure, I’ll stop by his apartment this afternoon.”We can use his shower and shave.
>>30176818"Sure, I'll get right on it,"
>>30176818>>[ ] “Sure, I’ll get on it right away.”"In the meantime, have you called that place your girlfriend works at? Seems like their purview."
>>30176888>We can use his shower and shave.That's awful, but damn it, it's genius too.
>>30176818>>[ ] “Sure, I’ll stop by his apartment this afternoon.”
>>30176818>[X] “Sure, I’ll get on it right away.”Obviously we bring Laura but do we bring someone else to?
>>30176818>>[ ] “Sure, I’ll get on it right away.”Crusty would it be frowned upon on using the guys shit to groom our selves?
It could be either Creeper or the Facility. they both have motivations.leaning towards Facility, they've sniffing around the bugle and we're long overdue a confrontation with those jerks.
>>30176936IKR? we could totally just take a shower at Ben's
>>30176942Ben didn't even know the Facility existed. They have no reason to take him out. But, he did just out Creeper.
>>30176936Yes.Willful contamination of evidence. Also, skeevy.We track him down, rescue him, get him home, and then ask him if we can use his shower. Karma and a shave.
>>30176991we warned him about them on the way out
>[X] “Sure, I’ll get on it right away.”Ack. Ack ack ack. God, you may be getting a bit ahead of yourself here, but you hope to Mary and some other saints you don’t know the names of that they haven’t cut off his balls yet.“Sure.” Well, what else can you say? This is at least 70% your doing. Maybe more. “I’ll get on it right away.” “Thanks, man.” Peter breathes out a long sigh of relief. “I’ve called Chat too, so don’t be alarmed if some random birds start showing up. Hopefully it’s nothing.” “Yeah.” Yeah, it’s not nothing. How could it be?You say goodbye and hang up. Looks like you have a busy and potentially very harrowing day ahead of you. What a change from your usual schedule. However will you deal?>[ ] Head to his apartment immediately. >[ ] Grab some breakfast first.>[ ] See if [insert] wants to come too.>[ ] Write in.
>inb4 Tombstoneand his daughter
>>30177023Yea, because of all that evidence in the shower.
>>30177059>>[ ] See if [insert] wants to come too.Laura
>>30177059>>[ ] Grab some breakfast first.>>[ ] See if [insert] wants to come too.Laura, combat is highly probable
>>30177059>>[ ] Head to his apartment immediately.
>>30177059>[ ] See if [insert] wants to come too.Crusty, can we get a reminder of some of our gaggle of misfit's powers? Obviously, Laura is coming. I don't think Noriko and Kevin have enough control yet. Layla is too young. Beaver teleporter girl isn't very combat capable. What about some of the new arrivals?
>>30177111Lucas can absorb and project energy as localized force bursts. He works best with heat but can do kinetics as well. You have no idea what Greychild can do.
>>30177059Tell the guys you'll be off for a couple of hours. Don't namecall Laura, I don't want to strongarm her into this. You guys have been taking her for granted, but your mesmerizing blue eyes and scales are only gonna work so far.>[x] Head to his apartment immediately.
>>30177059>>[ ] Head to his apartment immediately.>>[ ] See if [insert] wants to come too.Laura, maybe Lucas.We can eat on the way.
>>30177059>Let the gang know what's going on. Grab Laura in case the Creeper has someone watching the apartment. Talk to Laura about contingencies in case this is a Facility ploy to lure her out.
>>30177059>[ ] Head to his apartment immediately.Alone because why not
>>30177059>>[ ] Grab some breakfast first.>>[ ] See if Laura and someone else wants to come too."This is going to be dangerous, and I'd rather only have three people tops. Any of you feel like you want in on some investigating?
>>30177059>>>[ ] Head to his apartment immediately.>>>[ ] See if [Laura] wants to come too.
>>30177059>>30177153I know people will get butthurt for asking this but could we get a quick revote for point spending?The last threads voting was implemented terribly, and a quick vote in between story posts can't hurt.Just a simple 3-4 options with like a 3 minute timer or something.
>>30177167>implying she has better things to do
>>30177215I'm disappointed with how it went to anon but just let it go
>>30177215This will only cause a shit storm.
>>30177215Enhanced Senses is extremely helpful and leads to Enhanced Muscle Memory, so no.
OKAY Lucas and Laura seem to be the most popular options for back up. Post L for Laura, L2 for Lucas, or LL for both.>>30177215Possibly, lemme get this first bit out of the way quickly.
LL
>>30177215Let it go, Anon. The time has passed. No whining.
>>30177296L
L
L2
>>30177059>Grab some breakfast firstWe need the food, we can eat as we go.
>>30177336look at this anon and laugh
>>30177296>Possibly, lemme get this first bit out of the way quicklyNo, please don't unless you want people to request them all the time
>>30177363I was confusedI thought Laura was number 2
>>30177296No this is opening a can of unneeded worms.
>>30177296Good man, you can't split up options into multiple posts in a vote without a ton of problems.In the future it might be easier to just split up point spending votes into 2 rounds. Nominate powers to vote on then a strict 123 vote on the frontrunners.
Votan closed.Post incoming.
>>30177296Just don't, leave it alone.
>>30177446>>30177296I think to avoid situations like this there should be 2 votes.the first on whether to spend points or just bankif spend wins, then 2nd vote on power options
>>30177412Power vote is kind of redundant since people don't like the idea of creeper being able to walk right up to John put a gun to his face and pull the trigger without John even knowing. Senses level 4 will win again.
>>30177488Crusty can just use a different method next time.
>>30177296Don't do it, Crusty.I dislike the sense buy as much as the next guy, but if you cave here it'll just end in a shitstorm.>>30177488That's usually what happens.>>30177490Stop shitstirring. Seriously.
>>30177296^ ^ v v <><> BA
>>30177488this is how it was done in every thread other than the last one. The reason he did it the way he did was that in the three threads leading up to the last one everyone wanted sense level 4. He was just confirming that is still what we wanted. The votes for other things kind of came out of nowhere.
>>30177490plus, spider senses soonalso, superstronk taskmasteralso, body language mind reading...i dont think i need any more alsos
>>30177535>>30177623my recollections of previous votes are 2-3 options and bank all at once. divides the want to spend crowd imo.the x-point drought might have buggered with memory of the process.>>30177633still need some oomph behind JJ's blows if you wanna deal with Kimura
>>30177693>oomphPretty sure last time we fought her JJ didn't have Strength 2 and could punch down a tree
>>30177693creeper is a more immediate threat than Kimura. Even if the Kimura situation was more pressing I would go enhanced agility over enhanced strength anyway.
>>30177718We need to be able to punch her miles away, might now I think we can only hit her a couple blocks.
>>30177774Fuck why am I always so late with these
>>30177718>>30177693we're never going to have legit enough omph to fuck that hoe up. what we will have is the speed and kung fu skills to toss her a half a mile in any random direction and run away till we can figure some way to drown her or something. and super senses which will warn of her arrival pretty much like magic. those are good things.
>>30177760we aren't going to hit her at all. Martial arts is treated as a super power in the marvel universe. Without another level in agility Kimura will be able to dodge any punch we through at her. She will then break our arm and snap our neck in one fluid motion.
>>30177798...I'm not the fastest myself, but fifteen minutes is pushing it, anon.
You head down the stairs, making little attempt to disguise your hurry. With the fugue of sleep fully withdrawn, you finally spot Layla still asleep beside the fire. “Hey.” You get a few nods in response. “I’m, uh… heading out for a bit. Hopefully I’ll be back soon.” Laura glances up from her food. You note that, again, she’s not bothering with cutlery. “Okay… where’re you going?” Asks Noriko, her tone a little suspicious. Whatever. You guess you better tell ‘em.“I just got a call about the guy who wrote my article. Apparently he’s gone missing.”Lucas sits up. “…Anyway, I’m just gonna stop by his apartment.” Probably. Possibly. There is a chance that that’s all you’ll do. “Hopefully I won’t be long. You want to come, Laura?” Honestly, you just want her to come. But you can’t exactly say that. She nods curtly and rises to her feet, flexing her arms experimentally. “Me too.” Volunteers Lucas, jumping upright. “That guy was alright.” Well… you guess he’s just as much a part of this as you are. Maybe moreso. “Sure.” The three of you set out, trudging across the fresh, undisturbed snow in relative silence. You’re not feeling particularly chatty – this Ben guy could be in serious trouble because of you. You tell yourself that it comes with the territory, that he wrote the article, that he chose to write the article, but none of it absolves you of your guilt. You have to stop and check the address on your phone occasionally, but you make good time, finding yourself standing outside the sleek, modern apartments you visited Ben at in just over an hour. Laura sniffs trepidatiously at the cold air, wrinkling her nose. You smell it too...“Blood.” Lucas says something, but you barely hear it.Oh, here we go…>[ ] Go in alone.>[ ] Go in with company [insert]. >[ ] Go in invisible.>[ ] Write in.
>>30177866>[ ] Go in invisible.With Laura.
>>30177718>>30177828which brings up something that's been bugging me.pic, from new x-men 36, shows Kimi can survive getting tossed over 27 miles. a few threads ago an anon was crunching the numbers on the force needed to kill Kimura. I asked for calculations for 3 tons, 5 tons, and 7 tons ( I think strength 3 would net us an increase 5 to7 upper limit, pure speculation on my part. I admit. any physics minded anons in the thread tonight?>It's looking like an average benchpress of ~600-700 pounds for boxers, so giving a significant jump for SHW, 1000 lbs for 1000 psi sorta kinda maybe. Thats a half ton, so we can probably just multiply that by 6, 10, or 14.>JJ isn't a boxer however, so lets say 4, 8, or 12.http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/30082748/iirc he said her terminal velocity was 150 mph
>>30177866>[x] Go in alone.NOBODY disturb the scene crime
>>30177866>[ ] Go in invisible.>[ ] Go in with company [insert]. Laura
>>30177866>[ ] Go in alone.>[ ] Go in invisible.
>>30177866>[ ] Go in invisible.With everybody. Can we manage that?
>>30177866>>[ ] Go in with company [Laura]. >>[ ] Go in invisible.
>>30177866>>[ ] Go in invisible.
Where's the dead looking kid we brought back that one time?
>>30177866>>[ ] Go in alone.>>[ ] Go in invisible.We need Laura on lookout, and Lucas is.. not subtle. Don't want him disturbing the scene.If we don't find anything, we can call in the expert (Laura).
>>30177914>bringing physics into Comics ever?Your joking right?
>>30177960Still at the hide out. (he/she) is mute and uncommunicative.
>>30177965its educational and beats the average stupid argument
>>30177997I think xhe's an alien
>>30178032>xhe10/10 made me cringe and have tumblr flashbacks.
>>30177914That's why I say electricity is the best way to take her down. Bypass all that invulnerability shit and go right for the organs.
>>30178003Well then get your facts straight, she can survive a lot of shit from strength, but taser hands can get her down quicker and safer.
>>30178162She isn't immune to electricity the way she is with physical attacts but she is highly resistant.I think it would take level 3 electrostatic touch to do any real damage.
>>30178162>>30178219Crusty has said her skin mitigates electricity as well.and we got no idea how voltage much it would take to cook her innards. at least lv 3 imo, minimum 5 pointshttps://archive.foolz.us/tg/thread/27347899/#27353468
>>301782312 is enough to stun her long enough for luara to do the killing blow, 3 is for when we need to do the deed our selves.
>>30178248Wolverine was able to knock her out by stabbing her and an electric box.I don't know how many volts of electricity it was.
>>30178162Excepts invulnerability also extends to electricity, so,that doesnt really follow.
>[X] Go in with company. >[X] Go in invisible.Right. God. You just think for a second, running those scaly fingers of yours along your forehead. You feel that dull ache coming on again… Should you really be doing this? What if Creeper’s just waiting up there? What if he’s rigged the whole place up with plastique? What if Mortimer, or that Geldoff fuckhead is up there, ready to throw down again? You don’t want that kind of exposure. You don’t want that kind of hurt. Christ, this is such shit.“Lucas.” He straightens up at the sudden mention of his name. “Mind waiting out here for a bit? I can only bring one person into my invisifield.” “Invisifield?” An eyebrow rises. “I just made it up.” You extend a hand to Laura. She takes it without hesitation, and you draw the both of you in to the muted reality of invisibility. You consider the obstacle of the locked door for a moment before just pushing hard on the latch, snapping it right open. You’ll pay for it when you can afford to. So, never. The two of you head upstairs, stepping quietly. It doesn’t take you long to retrace your steps up to Urich’s door. Experimentally, you close your fingers around the doorknob and turn. Unlocked. And the smell is thicker up here. Fresher. Slowly, painstakingly, you shift the door open. What awaits you inside is a wreck. Papers lie strewn in haphazard clumps across the floor, flung from upturned desks. The centre table you sat at appears to have been hacked clean in two, and the sofa is all but ripped to shreds. The one item of furniture that hasn’t been thrown down or dismembered is a small, wooden chair, placed very deliberately at the centre of the room. There’s a little box sitting on it. “Shit.” >[ ] Open the box. >[ ] Don’t, don’t, don’t, aaaaaaaaaa– >[ ] Just smell it, man, maybe you don’t need to see it.>[ ] Write in.
>>30177914welp, i'm bored, so here goes. napkin math, so liberal use of 'about to be flung 27.2 miles (43,500m) she'd need, assuming she was launched at an optimal 45 degree angle, to be launched at approximately 653 m/s, if she wasn't being slowed by air friction. That's around 1400 MPH (or around 1.9mach)She was flung faster than twice the speed of sound. the Heat alone she experienced from moving that quickly would been disastrous to a less invincible human. Amazing she didn't suffocate, really.
>>30178296>[ ] Just smell it, man, maybe you don’t need to see it.if its not a bomb or something then:>[ ] Open the box.
>>30178296>[ ] Just smell it, man, maybe you don’t need to see it.
>>30178296>[ ] Write in.Use heat vision on it.>[ ] Just smell it
>>30178296>>[ ] Just smell it, man, maybe you don’t need to see it.
>>30178296if this is a pair of benballs, imma be so sad we didn't healing vitae.
>>30178296>[ ] Just smell it, man, maybe you don’t need to see it.It's totally his dismembered testicles.
>>30178296>>[ ] Open the box. >>[ ] Don’t, don’t, don’t, aaaaaaaaaa– >>[ ] Just smell it, man, maybe you don’t need to see it.
>>30178296>[x] Don’t, don’t, don’t, aaaaaaaaaa– HAVE YOU GUYS NEVER SEEN INDIANA JONES!?
>>30178296>>[ ] Smell it, man.>[ ] Open the box.
>>30178365>dismemberedAhh, pun.
>>30178296>[ ] Just smell it, man, maybe you don’t need to see it.If it seems ok then open it.
its either a severed ear or finger or an actual message wrote.or maybe its another supervillain than Ben managed to get on the bad side of. he was trying to take down the kingpin...
>>30178296>>[ ] Just smell it, man, maybe you don’t need to see it.Do not let Laura smell it. If this is Kimura's lot, then I suspect trigger scent shenanigans.After scent, go through the eye modes. We've got heat vision, enhanced regular... is there anything else? I forget.Then, if there's nothing amiss, open it.
>>30178296Box filled with triggers cent maybe?
>>30178447we don't know about trigger sent yet brah.
>>30178296
>>30178296>[ ] Don't open it yet. Use senses to check it out first.
>>30178296>smell it brah>dickinabox.avi
>>30178504we open ithttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABrSYqiqvzcthen Creeper fades in, naked except the box covering his junk
>>30178468We don't?Shit. Disregard the anti-Laura sniffage then.And that's a very odd sentence to type.
>>30178466>trigger scentHoly shit. I didn't even think of that.
>[X] Just smell it, man, maybe you don’t need to see it.Treading softly over the ruined carpet, you reach out for the box. It’s a delicate little thing, the kind you’d get a bunch of Belgian chocolates in, all pink and pretty and topped with a dark red bow. You bring it up to your nose and breathe in, dread buzzing in your head.Blood, fat, skin, hints of wax. Yep, that’s a human ear. You don’t recognize the faint hint of aftershave clinging to hit, but you bet you’d find a matching brand in Urich’s bathroom.Oh man. You set the box back down and run your hand through your hair. Oh man oh man oh man…Creeper cut his ear off. And packaged it for you. With a bow and everything. “It smells like an ear.” Notes Laura.“Yep. Ear.” Fuck fuck. You guess this was a message, or something? Shouldn’t there be a note?>[ ] Check around for some kind of message.>[ ] See if there’s one in the box.>[ ] Get Laura to see if there’s one in the box.>[ ] Maybe you don’t need one. Blood leaves a trail. Your nose is pretty good.>[ ] Shit man no just leave.>[ ] Write in.
>>30178536>3. >Make her open the box.
>>30178574>[X] See if there’s one in the box.>Have Laura check the other rooms.
>>30178574>[ ] Check around for some kind of message.
>>30178574>[x] Get Laura to see if there’s one in the box.>[x] Maybe you don’t need one. Blood leaves a trail. Your nose is pretty good.follow your nose while Laura double checks
>>30178574>>[ ] Check around for some kind of message.>"See if you can't spot anything I don't. Creeper, he's got to have something else to gloat about here."
>>30178574>[ ] Get Laura to see if there’s one in the box.>Check the rest of the room while she does.
>>30178574We are totally using gloves, right? Let's not leave our tracks all over this shitI'd say the note should be inside the box.>[x] See if there’s one in the box.
>>30178574>>[ ] See if there’s one in the box.>>[ ] Maybe you don’t need one. Blood leaves a trail. Your nose is pretty good.>>[ ] Write in.Use his shower and shave.
>>30178574>>[ ] Check around for some kind of message.
>>30178574Are our finger prints all over the room? Because if not we make this the cops problem. If the Creeper's bringing enough heat the Kingpin might hang him out himself.
>>30178574>>[ ] See if there’s one in the box.Guess we got to. Head to the fridge first and find some ice to put it in. Hell, maybe there's a chance it could still be saved.
>>30178642>>30178682we have gloves, remember the mini shitstorm when we didn't pay for them?and its not like we're in their system anyway.
>>30178647>Use his shower and shave.For all he know John just got an innocent man killed. And, the killers could still be around. I don't think so Tim. We could ask Peter to use his bathroom after school when we tell him about Ben.
>>30178647>Use his shower and shave.Don't fucking do this.
>>30178574>>[ ] Check around for some kind of message.What your Lizard-Elf eyes see, JJ?>>[ ] Maybe you don’t need one. Blood leaves a trail. Your nose is pretty good.Laura's is better. You look for a message, she can look for a trail.>>30178647No to the shower. Seriously, dude. Not cool.
>>30178708Oh yeah.
>>30178574>>[ ] Check around for some kind of message.>>[ ] See if there’s one in the box.>>[ ] Maybe you don’t need one. Blood leaves a trail. Your nose is pretty good.
>>30178711Most schools gets out around 3pm. We ask peter if we can meet him at his house to talk about Ben. While we're there ask to use his bathroom.
>>30178647You want to put JJ all over the crime scene. Really?
>>30178647>Use his shower and shave.No, you dumb faggot.
>>30178745Laura did have a better nose until we got to level 3. We still didn't have her experience but since we just got to level 4 senses we are as good or better.
>>30178711>>30178738>>30178785Yet all of you still are supporting it... I just don't get your logic. Oh well may as well do it too.>Use his shower and shave.
>>30178842excpet that they're saying "dont do it" and crusty actually reads posts.
>>30178842No we're not, retard.And we are not going to do that.Just look around for a clue or a message
>>30178842>Yet all of you still are supporting itNo we fucking weren't. The > was quoting what the previous poster said. The sentence following was us saying no. Do you even 4chan?
>[X] Check around for some kind of message.>[X] Get Laura to see if there’s one in the box.“This is…” You bite your lip and glance around the tattered room. “…this is a message. Or something. There’s gotta be a note…” “The box, perhaps?” Laura notes. You nod. Yes. Yeah, that’s a bright idea. “Mhmm.” You look at that box for a bit. Oh yes, that’s an ear box. With an ear in it. There’s an ear in that box. After a full minute of considering the box and its contents, you think you actually hear Laura huff very slightly as she leans by you to open it. Well, you’ll just… just look around and stuff… all these smacked-up bits of furniture could be valuable clues…As you lean beside the desk upturned in one corner of the apartment, Laura raises her voice. “Ouch.” “Hmm?” You glance up. “You step on something?” She shakes her head slowly, and holds out a bloodied scrap of paper.“It says Ouch. With an exclamation mark.” No… address? No ‘be here at so and so time or the reporter gets it’? No puns about ears and possible testicles?What the hell? That’s not how you do ultimatums. Is Creeper just… fucking with you? >[ ] See if you can follow Ben’s scent.>[ ] See if Laura can follow Ben’s scent.>[ ] Phone the police.>[ ] Phone or text Peter.>[ ] Write in.
>>30178863>>30178893>>30178939>Use his shower and shave.
>>30178816Nope. Laura's nose is STILL better than yours.You just have better Everything Else when it comes to senses.
>>30178955>>[ ] See if you can follow Ben’s scent.>[ ] Phone or text Peter.Let's get serious. Maybe consider tipping off the police that reporter Ben Ulrich has been kidnapped.
>>30178955>[ ] See if Laura can follow Ben’s scent.her nose is better ours, our everything else is better>[ ]text Peter."shits bad yo. talk after school. the park.
>>30178955>>[ ] See if you can follow Ben’s scent.>>[ ] See if Laura can follow Ben’s scent.>>[ ] Phone the police.>>[ ] Phone or text Peter.
>>30178955>[X] See if you can follow Ben’s scent.>[X] Phone or text Peter.Update him on the information>>30178967We'll come back later.
>>30178955>[ ] Phone the police.>[ ] Phone or text Peter.>[ ] Follow Ben's scent
>>30178955>Phone he police.
>>30178955>>[ ] See if you can follow Ben’s scent.>>[ ] See if Laura can follow Ben’s scent.>>[ ] Phone or text Peter.
>>30178955>>[ ] See if Laura can follow Ben’s scent.Regardless of our respective nasal prowess, she's more experienced.>>[ ] Phone or text Peter.He needs to know
>>30178967>Use his shower and shave.Too late, faggot.
>>30178967OK dokey>>30178955>[x] See if Laura can follow Ben’s scent.>>30179012Good idea. He might know people at the Bugle who know good people at the police. Plus we owe him that much for bringing this to our attention.
>>30178955>>[ ] See if you can follow Ben’s scent.>>[ ] See if Laura can follow Ben’s scent.Two noses are better than 1.>>[ ] Phone or text Peter.Calling the police is a horrible idea guys.
>>30179049>>30179012Nope senses level 4 niggas we have a better nose now.
>>30179040Oh? And what's that little vote you have on your post rite there? A vote that is most definitely in line with my particular motives? Oh yes! >Use his shower and shave.
>>30179074Crust him fucking self says otherwise, do even read?>>30178978>>30178978>>30178978
>>30178955>>[ ] See if you can follow Ben’s scent.>>[ ] See if Laura can follow Ben’s scent.>>[ ] Phone the police.
>>30179074Haaaaaaaave you seen >>30178978?
>>30179074uhh, the QM himself said otherwise.>>30178978>>30179087Right after we PAY FOR THE DAMNED GLOVES
>>30179087
>>30179074...Crusty just straight out told us Laura's nose is better.
>>30178967>leaving our DNA behind at a crime sceneplease no
>>30179103>>30179099>>30179091Ah i didn't see that, and i was going off from what he said in the past threads when asked about senses level 4.
>>30178978I could swear you said we'd be even at lvl 4 with our nose and better with everything else in a old thread.
>>30178955>[ ] See if Laura can follow Ben’s scent.We shouldn't be bothering peter. He is still in school and we don't actually know if Ben is dead or not.
>>30179161He did, but changed it now.
>>30178955>>[ ] Phone or text Peter.>>[ ] See if you can follow Ben’s scent.>>[ ] See if Laura can follow Ben’s scent.>>[ ] Phone the police.
>>30178955>[ ] See if Laura can follow Ben’s scent.Don't call the cops, we'd have to sit through an interrogation
>>30179203>>30179094>>30179033>>30179014Don't call the police, thats a huge mistake.
>>30179239Don't call anyone until we know whats up. Peter can't leave school so why bother him.
>[X] See if Laura can follow Ben’s scent.>[X] Phone or text Peter.You swallow hard. This is a little ways beyond your area of expertise, if an area of expertise is even something you have. “Laura.” You stand up and head for the door, throwing one last cursory glance across the apartment. “Can you follow him? His blood?” She samples the air, her nose twitching. “Yes. The trail is relatively fresh.” So this was recent. “How fresh, would you say?” This could actually be important, you realize. She cocks her head to one side in silent consideration. “Six hours. At most.”Okay…Dragging out your phone, you send Peter a quick text, giving him the Cliff Notes on what you’ve walked yourself into. You tell him you’re working on something, but he should probably inform the Bugle at some point. With that, you take your leave, gnarled, sickly imaginings gnawing at your heels. >[ ] Follow that scent. Urich may not have much time.>[ ] Call the Hellions. Maybe you can meet up with them. Creeper might be there after all.>[ ] Wait for a reply from Peter. >[ ] Write in.
>>30179275>>[ ] Follow that scent. Urich may not have much time.
>>30179275>[ ] Follow that scent. Urich may not have much time.We hero now
>>30179136I'm against the shower too but Forensics isn't fucking magic.JJ's prints, hair, etc have to be in the system and I'm willing to bet money he is not in the NYPD files.They might trace any evidence JJ potentially leaves back to his records in Michigan, where JJ is from, but he was most likely legally declared dead by now and they do not know that he's a mutant so any potential description they release would be off, assuming they bother to search Michigan records for a match at all and that would take time not just search Michigan files but get work their way to Michigan through other states.also fuck calling the police. Ben can file the police report himself when we free him.
>>30179275>>[ ] Follow that scent. Urich may not have much time.>Keep an eye on your phone. This has to be a trap on Creeper's terms.
>>30179275>[ ] Follow that scent. Urich may not have much time.
>>30179275>[x] Follow that scent. Urich may not have much time.
>>30179275>Follow the scent. Urich may not have much time.
>>30179275>[x] Follow that scent. Urich may not have much time.time is a factor.also ask Lucas how long he can hold the energy he absorbs
>>30179300>I'm willing to bet money he is not in the NYPD filesHow do you know muties don't get their shit put in the system or that after being a drug mule for years they have his prints, but not a name?
>>30179239Sigh. These silly narcs, don't know how to be hardcore motherfuckin gangstas.
>>30179338Seconded.>>30179356To most people he's a ghost story.
>>30179378>To most people he's a ghost story.Are you sure you aren't talking about Creeper?
>>30179364FUCK IT'S NOT CREEPERIT'S BARRACUDA
>>30179275>[ ] Follow that scent. Urich may not have much time.Don't forget about Lucas. >>30179338 could be good to know.
>>30179418...somehow better than Creeper.I kinda want to throw down with 'cuda
>>30179412I thought you were talking about Creeper.Didn't realize you meant JJ.My bad.
>>30179418That actaully fits his character.
>>30179275>>[ ] Follow that scent. Urich may not have much time.Keep an eye out for birds. See if you can flag one down to pass a message on to Chat. Pete said she might be nearby.
>>30179412According to Crusty, John has never been in jail so there's that.
>>30179364>>30179418fuck yeah. The big guys got some Punishment coming to him too. So maybe we might meet up at the spot.
>>30179356JJ was on the run for 2 years before we became a mutie and have never been arrested doubt our mugganess is on official record. and an alleged random print with no name face etc to place, which would most likely mixed with countless others, isn't helpful and that's assuming the NYPD found something illegal with JJ's smudged prints on it.>>30179451well if that does happen, overkill will be necessary.
>[X] Follow that scent. Urich may not have much time.You practically fly out of the apartments, coming face to face with a very surprised and slightly unnerved Lucas.“Uh… in a hurry?” You don’t stop. No time to stop. Urich probably has a few hours, maybe less. If he’s even alive at all. “Pretty much.” You look Lucas up and down once more, reminding yourself that, mutant or not, the kid is a kid. What is he, fourteen? Thirteen? You can’t remember. Useful as his ability is, you’re not quite sure how he’s going to handle Creeper in the flesh. You hate to admit it, but part of what comforts you about Laura is that she is, as far as you can tell, near enough to invulnerable. Creeper slits her throat? It closes up. He cuts her arm off? She grows a new one. Unless he’s hiding one hell of a powerset, Lucas is not going to grow back any arms. One stray bullet, one knife in the right place, hell, one hard shove in the wrong direction, and that’s it. That’s a dead thirteen-year-old. Or fourteen-year-old. Whatever. >[ ] Bring him with you. >[ ] Don’t.
>>30179364>>30179506THEY GONNA SAY THEY HARD, I'MMA SAY I'M HARDERTHEY SAY THEY GONNA GRIND, I'MMA GRIND SMARTER
>>30179664>>[ ] Don’t.
>>30179664>[ ] Don’t.
>>30179664>[ ] Don’t.Tell him why though.
>>30179664>[X] Don'tHe does know how to get home, right?
>>30179664>>[ ] Bring him with you."We're probably going into a bad trap, Lucas. You still up for this?"
>>30179664can we ask him? tell him shit is getting heavy, bring up the ear.if not>[x] Don’t.I do not want him anywhere near Barracuda
>>30179664>[x] Bring him with you. If he can get one surprise hit in, it's gonna be a gamechanger.
>>30179664>[ ] Don’t.It's not really his fight.
>>30179713Seconded.I deleted my vote, 'cause I also thought they might have done this to get us out of our hiding spot and then go in to kill the others.
>>30179664>[ ] Don’t.He needs powers to absorb to even do anything. Creeper's goons could wreck his shit in an instant and he can't even keep up with two (Laura and JJ) people with superhuman speed. We're in a hurry. Give him a rundown first though, I guess
>>30179664>>[ ] Don’t.Tell him to wait around for a girl with way too many animals, and to tell her we're tracking Urich. Gets him mostly out of trouble but lets him feel like he's helping.
>>30179664We don't wan't to make him feel left out. It would be better to give him a job to do than just ditch him. Tell him to warn the others that they should be on guard.
>>30179976This
>>30179976Seconded.
>>30179976THis.
>>30179976>lets patronize him!
>[X] Don’t.“Where we going?” He asks, lagging a little behind the two of you.Nah. No. You’re not killing a child. Not directly, not indirectly. No. “You’re not going anywhere.” You pause, and quickly add: “Except back to the scar. You know the way, right?” “What!?” He picks up his pace. “Why!?” “You’re like twelve, man.” You really should not have to explain this. “Or close enough. Go home.” “But I can”– “Go home, Lucas.” He slows to a stop, watching you go. You feel a pang of guilt rip through your chest, but it’s nothing compared to what you’d feel if he went and got himself shot in the head. The scar is – for now, at least – safe. Where you’re headed, wherever that may be, isn’t. And that’s all there is to it.You follow Laura for a good two hours. She keeps up a relatively constant pace, making mechanical, inerrant turns through the urban mazeways of Queens. Occasionally, she stops very briefly, to taste at the air, but soon she’s on the trail again. Gradually the roads widen and the buildings fall deeper and deeper into disrepair, and you realize that you’re headed deep into one of the decaying skeleton neighbourhoods left in the wake of urban shift. Eventually, you come to a huge, grey tombstone of a building – an old apartment block, long condemned. Laura leads you to the desolate parking lot at its roots, now populated mostly by towering rubbish bins and loose debris. From where you’re standing, the place is a sheer wall of foreboding brick and mortar, windows gaping like wounds across the second floors and upwards. You don’t think any of them are even glassed anymore. “In there.” Laura states, narrowing her eyes at the building. >[ ] Go invisible.>[ ] Go in through the front doors.>[ ] You adhesive touch through the windows, Laura waits. >[ ] Circle the place.>[ ] Write in.
>>30180169>[ ] Go invisible.>[ ] You adhesive touch through the windows, Laura waits.
>>30180169>>[ ] Go invisible.>>[ ] Circle the place.kinda feel bad now, hope we explain later when we get back. hope Lil' Bishop doesn't take this too hard...
>>30180169Is JJ retarded? Why didn't he just tell the kid why he had to go back or at least not brush him off and probably make him follow us anyway?
>>30180169>>[ ] Go invisible>[ ] You adhesive touch through the windows, Laura waits.>[ ] Write in.Heat vision
>>30180169>>[ ] You adhesive touch through the windows, Laura waits.Well that's what they won't be expecting right?
>>30180169>tombstone of a buildingCalled it!>>30177061
>>30180169>>[ ] Go invisible.>>[ ] You adhesive touch through the windows, with Laura CLINGING ON YOUR BACK.JJ stronk.Stupid idea, but I like the image.
>>30180169>>[ ] Go invisible.>[ ] You adhesive touch through the windows, Laura waits.
>>30180254well, he most likely never completed the 8th grade...
>>30180169Call the location in to the cops.
>>30180254Very possibly. A large percent of homeless are mentally ill. Though if it's a result or the cause of their status I couldn't guess on.
>>30180254Rush of the moment. It was a tad bit too brusque for my tastes too, especially considering JJ is a nice guy.>>30180169>[x] Go invisible.>[x] You adhesive touch through the windows, Laura should keep an eye in the entrances>>30180311Never gonna arrive on time, fucking pigs.
>>30180169>[ ] Go invisible.>[ ] You adhesive touch through the windowsLaura rides on our back!
>>30180311"Can you tell me your name and address sir?"
>>30180287>>30180397We could carry Laura on our back even without super strength.
>>30180311Don't do this, it's a stupid idea. Police would be too slow, too loud and definitely wouldn't do very well against muties.
>>30180410DOOM need no introduction!
>>30180397>>30180287this
>[X] Go invisible.>[X] You adhesive touch through the windows, Laura waits. You hunker down beside one of the larger rubbish bins, taking in the breadth of the place. It’s a big building. Lots of places to hide a de-eared prisoner. Lots of places to hide in general. “Okay…” You lick your lips. You want this to be in and out. If you had the time, you’d have the Hellions by your side, and you’d be dropping a ton of shit down on Creeper’s imperceptible head, but you don’t. “If I can find him, I can get out with him in tow.” Laura narrows her eyes slightly and glances past you, at the crumbling building. “You have fifteen minutes.” Nodding, you fade from sight, darting out from behind the bin and making a brisk jog for the nearest surface you can climb. You flatten your palms against the old brick lattice, suddenly remembering your first attempt at breaking and entering via adhesives, and…>Climb Check>DC12
Rolled 11>>30180559comedy ensues
Rolled 5>>30180559
Rolled 1>>30180559
Rolled 14>>30180559Rolling
Rolled 19>>30180559
>>30180579karma pointBen is in dangerclimbing rolls has never gone well though...
>>30180559DICE GODS I BELIEVE IN YOU
>>30180579>JJ can't climb even with adhesive handseverytiem
>>30180579So it begins...
Rolled 9>>30180579There is the crack bitch we love.
>>30180579do we have karma?
>>30180504>Impersonating DoomThere's no way this could possibly backfire on us!
>>30180617we have 2 still iirc
>>30180603Apparently they don't believe in you.>>30180579Karma Y/N? By the by, you should be getting a +1 agility modifier. 4chan just didn't like it, apparently.
>>30180637Y
Y
>>30180637>Y
Rolled 18>>30180623Oops.
>>30180623Have you never read these threads? JJ constantly tells people that he is DOOM. It kinda is a running joke
>>30180637>Y>Y>Y
>>30180579>Karma-karma-karma-karma. Karma Chameleon!>It comes and goes! It comes and goes!
>>30180646>>30180648>>30180649>>30180663>>30180671>>30180673>>30180689Well then. Gimme that reroll.
Rolled 1>>30180698
Rolled 12 + 1>>30180698
Rolled 15>>30180698RED GOLD AND GREEEN
Rolled 1>>30180698DICE GODS WE STILL COOL
>>30180673>>30180649>being retarded>Year of our Lord 200+1814Why?>>30180707kek
>>30180707Why?
Rolled 9 + 1>>30180679>Karma ChameleonGentlemen, we have found our name.>>30180698
>>30180665I'll be honest, I fell kind of behind around just before we started working at the Tabbycat. Trying to catch up via sup/tg/, but there's about 25 more threads to go.
>>30180707
Rolled 14>>30180723FUCK YOU DICE GODS!
>>30180707>>30180723...I know we're not supposed to be able to fail rerolls, but this might over rule that.
>>30180707FUCK YOU
>>30180707CRITFAILS DO NOT EXIST IN KARMA RE-ROLLSWE MADE IT!!!>>30180723but the dice still want us to die!
>>30180707>>30180722>>30180723No modifier. Doesn't count.
>>30180755>>30180726>>30180725Relax, Natural ones don't count in a karma reroll
>>30180743>Trying to catch up via sup/tg/,Why are you participating in a quest when you haven't read the archives? Leave, read them and the come back.
>>30180760why? only one of them counted>>30180791That's never been a thing in HMQ
>>30180728You string along! You string along!
>>30180743We even did it in the last thread. The one that was today.Also I think we did it early on too so you should have seen it at least once, but I may be wrong
>>30180792Just shows that crackbitch JJ is just waiting to come back
>>30180791Crusty counts wether you remember your mod or not.
>>30180707Seriously?You guys are so lucky you can't critfail Karma rolls.
>>30180812First one was when we almost threw down with Spiderman Bruce Wayne in the first Creeper job. Just before the piano shenanigans I think.
>>30180791Does that mean You don't count? You know because you have no dick?
>>30180854So, did we still fail it or are we rolling with the 15?
>>30180864everybody knows Spider-man is Kryptonian, stop harassing billionaires
>>30180854We can't critfail, but do 1s still take precedence?>>30180867Mature. Really. Well done.
>>30180976>>30180920No, why would Crusty say we were lucky if it had any real effect?
>>301809761s only take precidence when they're critfails, otherwise itsjust a roll
>>30180722>15>successYou feel that uncanny, electrical buzz spread along your palms, the stone below sticking fast to your skin. Great, it still works. You were kinda worried that it might’ve faded or something, and you’d just be slapping the wall like an idiot for a few minutes. Haven’t used it in a while, after all. One tentative arm after another, you climb your way to the closest window, taking a peek inside. Inside is a bare, dimly-lit landing, festering stairs progressing up and down. On either side a pair of doorways – now without doors, which, judging by the twisted hinges, were purloined for some reason or another when the neighbourhood went to shit – lead on into the rest of the building. >[ ] Go in. >[ ] Keep searching from the outside.>[ ] Write in.
>>30181104>>[ ] Go in.
>>30181104>>[ ] Keep searching from the outside.>>[ ] Write in.Heat vision
>>30181104>[ ] Keep searching from the outside.Why didn't we put Laura on our back?
>>30181104>[x] Go in.Inside, it should be easier to follow the smell of blood>>30181000Surprisingly, that's relevant way more often than you think it would.
>>30181143Can we go back and do this?
>>30181104>>[ ] Keep searching from the outside.Creaky stairs are a nono. Heatvision, see if you can smell blood, then move on.
>>30181104How much Karma do we have left?
I don't wanna spidey our way out. today was our first successful spider-manning check and it took a karma point to make it so. stakes are too high for to attempt with no bonus to climb.we find Ben and invisifield our way out
>>30181167No....At least not until we know what floor they're on.
>>30181212should have 1 left
>>30181104>>[ ] Keep searching from the outside.
>>30181212Just one.
>>30181104>[ ] Go in.
>>30181104>[ ] Keep searching from the outside.Go back and get Laura after we find them
>>30181104>>[x] Go in.
>[X] Keep searching from the outside.Nah. Deciding to keep this gecko thing going, you crawl further up the building, making sure not to look down. The scent of blood waxes and wanes, but it’s generally pretty easy to follow – it’s distinctive, after all, and everything else here smells of so much dust. Eventually it leads you to one of the windows on the third floor, looking in on a procession of battered old doors, their numbers shorn away long ago. You filter your vision into the thermal range, and can’t help but smile to yourself when a quivering blob of body temperature manifests behind one of the doors. Whoever it is, they’re slumped down across the floor, mostly still. But they’re still warm, so there’s that. You do a quick sweep, and realize that there’s three vague coronas of warmth idling on the floor above. Too far to take any notice, probably. >[ ] Go in, check Urich.>[ ] Go in, sweep the corridors.>[ ] Write in.
>>30181471>>[ ] Go in, sweep the corridors.
>>30181471>[ ] Write in.Go get Laura
>>30181471>>[ ] Go in, sweep the corridors.He is still good.
>>30181471>[x] Go in, sweep the corridors.find the path with least resistance, that's our exit path
>>30181471Signal Laura, then>>[ ] Go in, check Urich.
>>30181471By the way, thanks for doing the double feature Crusty.
>>30181471>>[x] Go in, sweep the corridors.>[ ] Write in: Go get the Punisher.
>>30181583Why not just send him a text?
>>30181568Signal Laura how? We're invisible. Does everyone think we can take out barracuda without Laura?
>>30181629God no. Maybe we can scratch something on the building? She has super hearing so she should know where to look.
>>30181629We could shank his ass while invisible. But if we fail that roll we die.
>>30181629our top priority is getting Ben out of there and if we are unlucky enough to run into Barracuda we only have to stay alive long enough for Laura to come running cuz she'd hear the gunfire and or our girlish scream
>>30181659her sense of smell is hr only super sense IIRC
>>30181659I think we gave her a phone we could text her.>>30181661Judging by how we've been rolling... Let's go for it!
>>30181629...I'd forgotten we were invisible, I admit.Why are we invisible, again? We're outside the building.
>>30181701ounce of prevention, pound of cure
>[X] Go in, sweep the corridors.You slip your way in, flinching a little as you set your feet down on the ancient, discoloured flooring. You’re expecting a creak, or a squeak, or something, but instead there’s just nothing. That’s all this place is – lots of nothing. Endless houses of dust and ether, one after the other, sitting in almost reverent silence. You can’t help but be a little unnerved by it. Creeper certainly found himself a nice little haunted house. But you’ve been inside a real haunted house, or something close enough, so no vaguely creepy vibes are gonna stop you in your tracks. Especially not after that rather nerve-wracking climb.Deciding that caution is one of your greater virtues, you pad a short distance along the corridor, periodically scanning for heat signatures. Aside from a small pocket of radiance you assume to be cat, you get nothing. The corridor ends abruptly, and you turn back, checking the other way. Your exercise in paranoia (no, caution. It’s caution) takes you to another landing. A quick glance in the thermal spectrum reveals two fiery silhouettes a level down. Normal body temperature, by the looks of things. So far you haven’t seen anything you’d peg as a Mortimer. Though, you never did get a good look at Geldoff’s thermal shadow.>[ ] Go check Urich. >[ ] Get the drop on the guys below.>[ ] Write in.
>>30181701>We're outside the buildingHave you ever heard of windows? Or thought that we can't always see people that might see us?
>>30181663Good point if we carried Laura up we wouldn't be able to carry bot down... I suppose Laura could just jump it's not like it would kill her.>>30181686all other sense are peak human. Same as John's were at the beginning of the quest. (level 1)>>30181701What happen if someone walks by and sees someone clinging to the side of a building?
>>30181753>[x] Go check Urich.there might be another way out, check the target before engaging.
>>30181753>>[ ] Get the drop on the guys below.
>>30181753>>[ ] Go check Urich.Get in, grab the target, get out. Nice and smooth.
>>30181753If we get Urich, can't we just pick him up, punch through a wall, jump to the ground, and then run for it?
We must get theseENHANCED CONTORTIONRequires: Level 2 Enhanced AgilityCost: 1JJ becomes superhumanly flexible, able to manipulate his joints and navigate through enclosed spaces in ways that would prove crippling to mundane human beings. AUTONOMIC SEQUENCINGRequires: Level 3 Enhanced Agility, Level 3 Enhanced SensesCost: 2JJ may activate a short term ‘recording mode’, allowing to repeat any action he observes within this duration down to the finest detail. This does not actually enhance his memory – he may execute the action, but he does not remember anything more than normal. Additionally, he can execute that action and that action alone. For example, he could perfectly copy a man’s signature after ‘storing’ that motion, but he could not write a new sentence in the same handwriting. ENHANCED MUSCLE MEMORYRequires: Level 4 Enhanced Agility, Level 4 Enhanced Senses, Autonomic SequencingCost: 3JJ’s rate of learning when it comes to physical action skyrockets. He does not immediately perfect an action after observing it, but his muscles retain certain reflexes far more efficiently and his ability to extrapolate how an action is performed in sequence with others (unlike Autonomic Sequencing, which simply stores and repeats one action) is heightened to superhuman levels.
>>30181753>>[ ] Go check Urich.We might be able to avoid a fight for now.>>30181787>What happen if someone walks by and sees someone clinging to the side of a building?I presume they would think "Hey, Spidermans new costume sucks."It's not a common power.
>>30181844>ENHANCED CONTORTIONWasn't expecting this one.Why do you think this is a priority? I completely agree with the other two though, they be OP.
>>30181753>[ ] Go check Urich.They are probably sitting on the level below because they aren't expecting people to come from above. We could just slip out without them knowing.
>>30181753>>[ ] Go check Urich. ENHANCED KINESICSRequires: Requires: Level 4 Enhanced Agility, Level 4 Enhanced SensesCost: 3JJ’s senses become attuned to the fine details of human locomotion. He becomes capable of accurately predicting a person’s mood and immediate actions based on the subtle flexes and tensions of their physiology. In some cases this ability can reveal more than just mood, and stops just short of reading another person’s mind.Forgot this
>>30181753So, did we bring the ear with us to give back to Urich?
>>30181868Easy escape and they are expecting limbs to bend a certain way so say she has us in a hold, or tries to hurt us we can slip out easily.
>>30181844That would cost 15 x-point's total. So it probably not happening. This is including the points needed to get to level 4 agility
>>30181933I just want contortionist and ENHANCED KINESICS, since those 2 are very helpful.
>>30181917Contortionists don't do that. Wouldn't be worth it compared to the others anyway. EMM would make as a ridiculously good fighter in a short amount of time, even without the real experience.
>>30181889I think its been too long to reattach it, especially if Creeper's goons didn't leave it in ice
>>30181917Also, depending on the extent it may help to avoid or mitigate, say, a broken neck.The other two, not sure of. Too high a cost to get there.
>>30181966>contortionist + more marital arts lessons= vidhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYWYSVOLM6s
>>30181987I know, I just wanted to be all likeOh, here's your ear by the way."
>>30181969Human contortionist maybe, bu not mutant.>JJ becomes superhumanly flexible, able to manipulate his joints and navigate through enclosed spaces in ways that would prove crippling to mundane human beings.>ways that would prove crippling to mundane human beings.We could dislocate our joints easily to get out of holds and squeeze through tight spaces.
GEOINTUITIVE VISIONRequires: Level 4 Enhanced Senses.Cost: 3>JJ’s visual perception becomes rigorously attuned to geometric patterns, trajectories, and pathways. He can intuitively know how best to aim an object so that it gets from point A to point B, predict the trajectories of moving forces in visual range, and know exactly the angle and velocity required to ‘bounce’ an object along a predetermined pathway.Crusty did confirm that this plus another level or two in enhanced agility and we will be able to literally dodge bullets.
>[X] Go check Urich. You follow the scent of gore back to your entrance, quickly identifying the apartment from which the scent is freshest. It’s not locked, of course – you don’t think there even is a lock anymore – and you gradually slide the door open, peeking out into the shadowy decrepitude of the place. It’s an old studio apartment, just a thin corridor flanked by a pair of meagre incisions that must’ve served as bathrooms or closets at some point. Ahead, in the remains of the living room, Ben Urich lies strewn across an old, barely-stuffed mattress. Even in the dark, you easily make out thick bands of duct tape around his wrists and ankles, and more of it plastered across his mouth.The smell of blood hangs over him like a bleak, coppery mist. He doesn’t look remotely conscious, but his chest rises and falls in slow, promising heaves. >[ ] Try to wake him up.>[ ] No time. Just lift him up and find your way out.>[ ] Take off his bindings. >[ ] Check him for more injuries.>[ ] Write in.
>>30182102Honestly I want this one and Spidey senses the most
>>30182107>[x] Try to wake him up.hand over mouth. don't wanna risk him waking up on the way out.
>>30182107>[ ] No time. Just lift him up and find your way out.
>>30182107This is a trap designed for us. See if we smell,paint fumes.
>>30182107>>[ ] Take off his bindings. >>[ ] Check him for more injuries.
>>30182107>[X] Check him for more injuries.>[X] Llift him up and find your way out.leg it!
>>30182069>get out of holdsWe have super strength and we can taze people. >squeeze through tight spacesHow often would we really need that? We can already turn invisible for hiding and use adhesive touch to stay outside of most field of vision by latching on ceilings
>>30182107>>[ ] No time. Just lift him up and find your way out.
>>30182107Just make sure he doesn't have like... a bomb strapped to him or something, and then we leave.
>>30182107>Check him for more injuries.If he's seriously hurt and we move him, he can die.
>>30182107>[ ] No time. Just lift him up and find your way out.LEG IT
>>30182107See if we smell sulfur, or gunpowder or notice any wires or shit. There's a chance this might be the whole, leave the hostage in a room unguarded, connected to a bomb that explodes when you try to move him, trick.
>>30182107Just so we are clear. This is Ben Urich and not the fucking 'cuda who smeared himself in blood and got tied up just to mess with us, right?>[x] Try to wake him up.If we try to climb down with him on top of us, the dice gods will laugh. Heartily.
>>30182107Are his hands tied in front of him or behind him? If they are tied in front we could just wear him like a backpack.
>>30182189Just for escape and hiding/smuggling purposes.>>30182218>>30182195>>30182175Seconded.
>>30182107>>[ ] Check him for more injuries.If he's not too bad off,>>[ ] Try to wake him up.>[ ] Ungag him
>>30182257>>[ ] Ungag himDon't do this. If he screams we throw out our attempts at stealth
>>30182218He's not actually unguarded. There are people down below. The main entrance probably has either booby trap or has alarms. Creeper doesn't know we can crawl on walls so they have no reason to keep guards upstairs.
>>30182147>>30182220>>30182257If we wake him up he will be more likely to make noise and give away out position.
>>30182292the fucker could be waiting in the corner of the room with a gun at hand.
>>30182323Creeper knows not of our super senses. He has no reason to believe JJ could find Ben Urich. I doubt he thinks we even know about Ben's abduction. I don't think its been reported to the police yet even.
>>30182323Too personal for him. I think the booby trap option is on the money.
>[X] Lift him up and find your way out.>[X] Check for traps.>[X] Check for bombs on Urich.>[X] Check him for more injuries.You know what? This is insanely suspicious. You know Creeper. He’s a bastard and a class A monster, but he’s not incompetent.You hang back for a moment, sniffing the air for sulphur, paint fumes, anything that could give you any manner of trouble. You’re reading negative on anything but blood, dust, and sweat, so it seems as though any trap Creeper may have set for you, it doesn’t have an obvious olfactory component. Checking each of the flanking indents, you edge your way in, making your way to Urich’s prone form. When you’re certain you’re alone, you drop down to check his injuries, flinching at the sight of that mangled ear. Christ, you can almost feel that – and you can most certainly smell it. One of his eyes is ringed by a huge, puffy blossom of bruised tissue, but the skin isn’t broken anywhere save his ear, which seems to have been stemmed rather efficiently.You prepare to lift him across your shoulder, when another wave of (perfectly justifiable) paranoia hits you. What if he has a goddamn bomb shoved up his shirt? Yeah, better check that. That’s some Creeper shit right there. And possibly some Barracuda shit, too. You pat him down for unusual shapes. Aside from a really, grossly nasty bruise running along his midsection, he’s clean. Huh.Grunting a little, you finally get round to heaving him onto your shoulder, and… …and that’s when you here the sharp, metallic click beneath your feet. Oh. Oh…The bombs weren’t on Urich. They were in the mattress.>Reflex Check>DC14>+3 sensory modifier.
>>30182031>at least he's facing MeccaI know India has a great Muslim heritage, but he really looks more hindi to me.
Rolled 10 + 3>>30182518pls
Rolled 6>>30182518
Rolled 11>>30182518
>>30182539Barely made it
>>30182539whew, just made it and that probably got Laura's attention...
>>30182518FUCKFUCKFUCKFUCKFGUCVUFGDXK;LJV CXZKJ
>>30182539Ooh, just barely
>>30182539Barely won counts as a win!
>>30182539http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-WHW-QNswE
>>30182539
never felt so good about a slightly above-average roll.
I hope this thread doesn't end on a cliffhanger...
>>30182707I know but it's clearly the best time to thread end if he wants to cliffhang.Maybe 1 more post if he wants to conclude.
>>30182740Yeah, we may have survived the trap, but that explosion sure as hell alerted everyone else in this building, so I can see him ending it on that cliffhanger.
>>30182740hoping against hope reallyits like what? 5am over there?
>>301827736:30 I think?
>>30182539>14>SLIM successHoly God.You’re going to die. You’re– You throw yourself. You’re not sure where – anywhere is fine. And, if what you’ve learned of explosives from B-list action flicks is even remotely accurate, anywhere will be equally dick as anywhere else. You tumble down onto the screeching wood with Urich slumped across you, thoughts manic with impending doom, memories crashing to the surface, filling your vision. A sudden rush of vapour crashes over you, stinging your eyes. You feel tears push uncontrollably at your eyelids and find yourself coughing loudly, your silent, final scream swallowing a good lungful of the stuff. You slowly become aware of the low, constant hissing, and the muddled, cloudy universe of an apartment full of gas, and the fact that you are, in fact, quite alive. Alive, alive… but… kind of… drowsy… The scent of it buzzes in your head like a lump of hot coal, sticking your thoughts together, pulling down at your eyelids. You feel a strange, seductive numbness tickle at the tips of your fingers…It’s almost enough to distract you from the click of rounds being chambered upstairs. You push yourself up against the nearby wall as gunfire rips through the ceiling, riddling the patch of floor you previously inhabited with bullet-holes. Oh, man… man… No. No, no, on, oe nol...>[ ] Try to carry Urich to the exit.>[ ] Drop him, run.
>>30182773Is he English? It's 6.29 in London
No way we jump out of the way. Kick the mattress bomb like a soccer ball.
>>30182803>>[ ] Try to carry Urich to the exit.
>>30182803>[x] Try to carry Urich to the exit.we don't punk out when others safety is at risk
>>30182803No one gets left behind.Carry Urich out.
>>30182803Invisible and carry
>>30182803>[ ] Try to carry Urich to the exit.
>>30182812Shhh, don't remind me.It's okay. All my appointments for tomorrow/today/BLAH are cancelled.
>>30182803>>[ ] Try to carry Urich to the exit.We did not come this far to lose him. Save the writer.
>>30182803>[ ] Try to carry Urich to the exit.in for a penny in for a pound
>>30182803>[x] Try to carry Urich to the exit.NEVER DESPAIRNEVER SURRENDER
>>30182803>[X] Try to carry Urich to the exit.
>>30182846>All my appointments for tomorrow/today/BLAH are cancelledCrusty confirmed as the second coming of Christ
>>30182803>CarryWe owe him.>>30182846You're a mad man, I love it!I'm just glad I can join in. I usually just miss these.
>>30182846I like you magic writer man
>>30182846Don't forget
>>30182846onetime AzureEarth ran HollowQuestRedux 3 times in a 24 hour period iirc. Crusty and Azure, Iron men QM
>>30182803invisible and hide until laura shows up with a distraction
Has anyone ever died while QMing?
>>30182803So, would Healing 3 given us a resistance to sleeping gas?
>>30182960WHILE QMing? no
>>30182937Gas. Bullets. Gas and bullets. Heavily armed bastards. Possibly with grenades and/or mutant abilities. We don't have healing 3 yet.There are many reasons to move. Moving is good. Moving lets us Not Die.
>>30183015>WHILEIs this implying that you know of QMs who have died while not QMing?
>>30183064I remember a rumor I heard about one that got in a car accident, it was from qtg take that as you will.also that silly QM curse thing(various QMs claimed misfortune and accidents impeded them. injuries, car accidents) this was months ago though.>>30183024an object in motion cannot be stopped!
>>30183116WE'RE THE JUGGERNAUT, BITCH!
oh dear...pls tell me we are not getting captured....I always sucked at the torture minigame thing in MGS1
>>30183116>QM curseWow, that's a new thing to hear about for me
>>30183145That picture always cheers me up
>>30183145Is there context to this?
>>30183179it was just something I pulled off co's drawfagbooru.I found it amusing
>>30183157The curse is a very real thing too.
Come on Crusty we were JUST praised your fortitude!I need my fix before Gym. I'm twitching over here!
>>30183202>crusty just died
>[X] Try to carry Urich to the exit.>+1 Karma!Your thoughts reel. You feel your sister hoist you up in her arms, smoke clotting your lungs, blood filling your nose. You slump down on the floorboards/beach/tarmac/something and realize that you can’t stop coughing, something in the air, eyes are full of water, feels like your dog dying, feels like bullied at school, like missing Christmas. “…not gunna end like this…” You slur, the Lake opening up before you, blood tumbling, crashing, churning. You teeter to your feet, Urich over your shoulder. The world swoons under you.You don’t know how long it takes you to make it to the door. Just that you do. You stumble through the sifting time, the gas, the shadow, until you cut out into the cold winter light. Leaning heavily against something (it’s a wall, isn’t it? Feels like barely anything), you plod your way to freedom, to reality, to life, to light. And then someone kicks you in the stomach. The air rushes from your lungs, legs tumbling out from under you. Urich slips off your shoulder as you drop straight down to your knees, wheezing for breath. “Hi there, honey.” ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------->THREAD 50: ENDHMQ will continue… soon.
>>30183222the tea was poisoned!
>>30183229>soonSOON Let's beat this bitch
OH NO IT'S THE RED SHEHULK!
>>30183229FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCCCKat least we got karma
>>30183229http://marvel.wikia.com/Kimura_(Earth-616)AH SHIT. THINGS GOT A HELLA WORSE.
Rolled 6Archive, please.
>>30183229Yep. Only two heat signatures.
>>30183229how soon?
>>30183229
>>30183229>soonAre you a bad enough dude, Crusty Jones?
>>30183229Okay Niggas prepare to lie."Oh that bitch?After I told her about you she stole ALL of my money and left. Said some shit about Alaska. Fuck her."
>>30183229poor laura
>>30183297Yep. She's going to kill the fuck out of us when she smells us.
>>30183253looks more like Magenta She Hulk imo
OK CJ, in a scale of 1 to 10, how big was your grin when we thought we were after The Barracuda?
I'm so glad we didn't bring the kid.
Rolled 20Test
>>30183363Fuck you.We coulda used that twenty later on
>>30183229Oh. Look. Kimura's here. How surprising.Gee, sure wish we could heal right now, rather than taking the incredibly specific anti-Creeper advantage.Next thread, we need to stall like a champion until we can get the hell out of here, or we are beyond fucked.
>>30183324It was this exact grin. The pose too.
>>30183414Oh wow I really wish we knew which enemy we would be facing without any chances of being wrong :^)Go fuck yourself namefag
>>30183229>>30183438How soon is soon?>>30183357ditoo. any semblance of guilt just poof gone! when Kimi showed up.>>30183363we really could have needed that 20 anon...>>30183414well... she doesn't know about the super strength...one lucky first roll maybe... knock her away for a bit and fucking scramble....
>>30183414We should do what this guy said.>>30183288Then she'll still have to kill us but we can eff off and she'll have more important things to do than hunt us.btw: what time is it for you lot in the states?
>>30183414That gas was meant for Laura. The facility has had a lot of experience with healing powers. Healing would NOT have protected us from the knockout gas.
>>301834721:04 am Central US time
>>30183438To be fair. Im more scared of Baracuda
>>301834721 AM in Chicago
>>30183472Here in Texas it's just past one in the morning.
>>30183466We probably aren't going to have use of our arms or legs next thread. Not necessarily because she cut them off mind you (though that's certainly possible) but because she already broke every major bone in our limbs while we were passed out. She's impatient like that.
>>30183466>How soon is soon?Not today/tonight. I'm just a man, /tg/. >>30183473>That gas was meant for Laura.Correct.
>>30183466>one lucky first roll maybe... knock her away for a bit and fucking scramble....Except for the whole knock out gas thing. Since the gas was meant for Laura we can assume non-of the powers we choose from would have protected us from it.
Ìf only I had reconsidered. The blood trail was designed to specifically lure Laura in. Then again, it's just good practice to boobytrap your secret stashes just-in-case.
>>30183530Well if we die, at least Laura can get away
>>30183473Oh shit for real?!Then next thread we need to sprint like a motherfucker so we can give the gas time to dissipate.>>30183530But.. I'm not ready to leave. And Jays not ready to leave.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gG_dA32oH44
>>30183530so we're playing as Laura next thread?
>>30183582>playing as LauraCan we let JJ give us the J?
>>30183530>Not today/tonight.This makes me sadYou were planning to end it like this the whole time.
>>30183581I just realised how appropriate this song is."Muggas' in Paris" is the new thread song.
>>30183582No.
Oh great and powerful Crusty! as token of thanks for your continued awesomeness I bestow this gift of a crass product placement comic!http://www77.zippyshare.com/v/35159629/file.html
>>30183708is that like one of those Sergio aragones comics?
>>30183730Think Hostess Fruit Pie ads getting an 11 page comic
>>30183738I LOVE HOSTESS® FRUIT PIES!
>>30177914Guy who was doing that, apparently according to the guestimations I was doing, falling at maximum velocity is equivalent to being Mike Tysoned over your entire body.With that and >>30178311That page greatly overshot he supposed endurance, and so said writer is just bad.
>>30183808so once again comics can't into science.so maybe strength 2 is all we need...maybe.... I hope
>>30183879But does Crusty use comic science or real science?That is the true factor here
>>30183930real science doesn't have X genes sooo...
>>30183952That's just the setting though, what logic he applies to it mat be different
>>30183808Do we even have a supposed endurance for her? I don't think there's been a comic panel where Kimura has actually been hurt.
>>30184000It might. It might not. I can only offer speculation. Crusty is the only one that can answer that for realz.
>>30184112So should we plan what to do with Kimura now?Her insides are normal right? Gas or drowning then should work right?
>>30184055She gets stunned by normal shit all the time, and her insides are still squishy, so it really shouldn't be very high. Our strength should be at least 5 mt (mike tysons), we can stun her at least, maybe ever render her unconscious, and she can certainly be strangled.
>>30184183Blunt force trauma is our only hope now.
>>30184183There might be more gas bombs here somewhere
>>30184226I've always wondered if we can punch with taser hands on, but its never happened.Would give us a little extra kick.
>>30184298I don't think it will do much but what the hell? Why not!
>>30184196she cannot in fact be strangled. her neck skin can deflect tank shells. drowned, or otherwise suffocated, certainly. but not strangled
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdZd-FwYWVwJJ warp spawn theme
>>30184183CC the tank, kill healer and dps first.
>>30186198Though there's no healer, so just kill the redshirts first.
