Beta what? Head swimming, you take stock of your surroundings. The top of the building has been levelled, erupting outwards. The others – Paige, her dog friend, the candy-pink girl – lie strewn through the rubble. You don’t see the punk chick, Marrow, anywhere.

“Come on, come on…” Paige mutters frantically as she lifts the dog boy off the ground, running her hands through his fur for injuries. She appears unscathed, though it’s kinda hard to tell – looks like she’s shifted into some kind of granite-like form upon hitting the ground.

The vampire – the girl, she’s just a girl – caves inward, clawing at her head, a deep whine rising through the air, like a moan stretched out into its every constituent intonation. She’s just some chick with running makeup and dumb dyed hair and – and she unscrews her eyes, and they’re like muddy waters, and they go on and on…

>Hunger Level: 5
>Current Funds: $0.00
>Present Time: ow man your head ow

>[ ] Retreat. You’re not equipped for this.
>[ ] Try to get close and taze her.
>[ ] Make sure all the wounded get out of the vicinity.
>[ ] Try to chuck something at her, if you can’t K.O. her maybe you can at least distract her.
>[ ] Try to talk her down.
>[ ] Write in.

>>32200240
>[ ] Try to talk her down.
"We arn't hear to hurt you, take a deep breath"

Move slow, speak steadily.

>>32200240
>>[ ] Try to talk her down.

>>32200240
>[ ] Try to talk her down.

"Hey, would you please calm down? We're not going to hurt you."

>>32200240
>>32200296
>[ ] Make sure all the wounded get out of the vicinity.

I'm 296, and do that too.

>>32200240
>[ ] Try to chuck something at her, if you can’t K.O. her maybe you can at least distract her.

Pretty sure she is out of it atm

>>32200240
>[ ] Make sure all the wounded get out of the vicinity.

>>32200240
>[ ] Try to talk her down.
Because we're not going to go Paige on her.

If JJ gets the Warp Spasm power, can he still get severe riastrad in a really angry and emotional moment?

Does Al-Qaeda exist in the HMQverse?

If JJ were in the DCU, what would his power level be like?

In the Spider-Man film(s) made in HMQverse, what is Spidey's origin story? Or origin stories?

What is Peter's IQ in the HMQverse? I really hope it's not that "north of 250" bullshit, 'cause that sounds like something that would come from a comic in the 1960s or 1970s and not 2009.

I mean like how does JJ feel about very human looking mutants hiding the fact they're mutants? And getting away with it clearly, acting like normal superheroes and having a "perfect" life?

>>32200320
While she is, i doubt making ourselves an obvious threat and thus causing an instinctual action of self defense with a power she cant control would be a wise thing to do.

>>32200240
>>[ ] Make sure all the wounded get out of the vicinity.
>>[ ] Try to chuck something at her, if you can’t K.O. her maybe you can at least distract her.

Time to discover Geointuitive vision. I honestly don't see talking working here at all.

>>32200240
>>[ ] Make sure all the wounded get out of the vicinity.
First priority. Everything else can wait until it's done.

>>32200230
>[ ] Make sure all the wounded get out of the vicinity.
>[ ] Try to talk her down.

Possible songs for the playlist:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10yrPDf92hY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJt7gNi3Nr4

I think the video for the second one, with more superpowers at least, might be very relevant at some point in time.

>>32200393
Seconded

(Not really much of a vote, just testing to see if posting is fucked)

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>>32200240
>[ ] Try to talk her down.
Do we still have that piece of rebar we grabbed before. We were going to use it like a hobo sword/conduit for our taser hands so we don't need to touch her.

>[X] Make sure all the wounded get out of the vicinity..
>[X] Try to talk her down. You can do it Nicky.


Those eyes. Like vast, frothing swamp waters. No end, just deeper and deeper shadows.

It takes you a moment to find your voice.

“O-okay!” Okay what? What were you going to say, again? Snip-snap, everything stretches out, and in, and then your thoughts roll back into focus. Oh yeah. “Paige, get your friends out of here! Now! Laura, Kevin needs to be out of here too!”

Laura nods and drags Kevin up, eliciting a pained groan from the boy. As she backs away from the stairs and the crackling figure, she turns toward you momentarily, her expression blank. “Be careful.”

Nodding back, you check your left to make sure Paige is getting her friends out (speaking of which, the pixie girl appears to have just upped and vanished) and step forward, gingerly making your way toward the base of the stairs.

“Hey!” How are you supposed to go about this, exactly? “Hey, we’re not here to hurt you, we’re not attacking you or anything! Just calm down! We’re”–

Her neck twists awkward, and her eyes focus on you. A clash of distorted sound bubbles up in her throat, eventually resolving into a voice:

“No! No! Nowthere’sth r r r e e e e e e on the sh e e lf”– What? Strong accent. Accents. She keeps bumbling in and out of different regions, different tones. She stops suddenly and clutches at her head. “They are coming for us, Irma! They are!”

The air twists. You see the fire slashing across the horizon, the lake, the dunes. Then you’re back, and she’s screaming.

>[ ] Okay.jpg
>[ ] Words seem useless here. Deploy tasers.
>[ ] Or rocks. Are good for stopping things.
>[ ] Maybe you should just get the hell out.
>[ ] Or grab her and take her further from the others? You got wings, after all.
>[ ] Write in.

>>32200561
>[ ] Or rocks. Are good for stopping things.

gravity makes it hard to be near her

>>32200561
>[ ] Words seem useless here. Deploy tasers.


LEAP

>>32200561
>[x] Okay.jpg
'You feel like you just want to get out, to dissapppear and leave all your problems behind? Yeah, I've been there.'
>[x] Or grab her and take her further from the others? You got wings, after all.
I can show you the world

>>32200561
>>[ ] Okay

>>32200561
>[ ] Words seem useless here. Deploy tasers.
But damn well make sure we use a metal rod, or don't touch her.

JJ knows that somehow she managed to do something to knock other folks out, but not how, so he would not risk skin contact.

>>32200561
>[ ] Or rocks. Are good for stopping things.

Mother fucking Stepford_Cuckoos took control of Rogue.
>http://marvel.wikia.com/Stepford_Cuckoos_%28Earth-616%29

Forgot we had the metal rod.

Changing >>32200641 to
>[ ] Words seem useless here. Deploy tasers.

>>32200561
>Okay.jpg

Well, we've already stepped on this path. I'd also like to mention that trying to fly her away will result in bad things.

>>32200561
>>[ ] Okay.jpg

>>32200561
>[x] Okay.jpg
"Just relax. My name's John. Can you tell me what your name is? Do you know where you are?"

We must assess the level of crazy we're dealing with.

>>32200561
>[ ] Okay.jpg
Keep on the diplomancy train. We are JJ Green: Hobo Therapist.

>>32200561
>[ ] Okay.jpg

>>32200410
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0t4i7frhNUs&feature=kp

>>32200561
>>[ ] Or rocks. Are good for stopping things.
Keep ranged if we can. If we have to melee,
deploy tasers through a conduit.
Preferably a very long conduit that keeps us out of her reach.

Okay. Getting a little creeped out.
Wondering if the jumbled headspace is because of her power or outside interference.

>>32200561

changing vote from: >>32200639
to just:
>[ ] Okay.jpg

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Sometimes I feel you guys would try to talk a bomb out of exploding....

>>32200748
We are JJ motherfucking Green, a bomb would most certainly listen to our words of wisdom

>>32200719
See >>32200507
A few threads ago we grabbed a 1 meter long piece of rebar and stuffed it in under our coat.

>>32200748
Nah, I'm just pretty sure a rock would be TK'd back at us and tasers puts us in range.
Although if we had a bomb that could talk back...

>>32200814
if we did the bomb would be sassy and back talk

>Nah, I'm just pretty sure a rock would be TK'd back at us and tasers puts us in range.

and JJ himself is TK proof?

>>32200719
Seconded

>>32200871
We'd be in range of TK, is what I meant. Well, more in range of the immediate effect. Also Rogue touch range.

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>>32200910
>Also Rogue touch range.

That's bad

>>32200934
But then she could have JJ's voice in her head

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>>32200719
>jumbled headspace is because of her power

That's what I wager. She absorbs memories too. guess she's still getting used to powers and drank too deeply too many times.

>>32200561
>>[x] Or grab her and take her further from the others? You got wings, after all.

>[X] Okay.jpg
>[X] Deploy tasers.

Somehow, you get the impression you’re not getting through to her.

Casting your eyes about, you sift through the rubble for that length of rebar you brought along, dust stinging in your ey e e s – sand slithers off you as you heave yourself up, wind high overhead, tide sighing in and in and in and in and –

…and… and… when did you pick up that rebar? The cold, metallic weight sits uneasily in your grasp. Did you just lose a few seconds? How did you…

You shake it off, shoving it back. Gotta get up there and switch her off, or something.

Rushing up the stairs, you jab at her with the rebar. You’re not gonna hit her or anything, just send a few volts down the end. She doesn’t seem to notice you till you make contact, a sharp, electrical snap filling the air as the metal touches her bared midsection. Releasing a terrified shriek, the girl throws herself back, flatting her back against the wall aaaaa a a a nnn dd d d d d –

The fire rips through you, you hit the sand, oh Christ, maggots, they feel like fire under your skin, spewing through the stringy lengths of your arms, up your shoulders, popping and squirming in your stomach –

“JJ?” You hit the wall, suspended in a vice of invisible force. She’s looking you. Where are you? Are you – “Jay Jay?”

Her voice sounds like Jo – o – o –

“Okay!” You shout, desperate. The invisible hand drops you, depositing you unceremoniously to one side of the stairwell. “Okay, okay! You’re clearly, you’re clearly… having some trouble… just calm down and”–

The empty air closes around your throat. You’d gasp if you could. Can’t breathe. Can’t –

“J-j-j-jj-j-j-jjjjjjjjjJay Jay…?”

Sounds like –

>[ ] “Yeah it’s me it’s Jay Jay…” [just go with it, whatever]
>[ ] “You don’t know me.” [try to talk some sense into her]
>[ ] Still got that rebar. She’s in range for another zap.
>[ ] Write in.

>>32200953
that's probably worse.

>Ah have so many screamin' voices in mah head!...and one voice that tries ta say somethin' but always gets interrupted by all the screamin'."

>>32201058
>[ ] “Yeah it’s me it’s Jay Jay…” [just go with it, whatever]

well we are a Jay Jay

>>32201058
>>[ ] “Yeah it’s me it’s Jay Jay…” [just go with it, whatever]

>>32200719
>>32200994
See >>32200639
Rogue said
> “They are coming for us, Irma! They are!”

Irma is one of the Stepford Cuckoos. Those three are powerful psychics with a hive mind. If she touched one of them she would have become part of that hive mind. The other two could have used the connection to take control of her.

Of coarse they could probably take control of her even without her touching on of them.

>>32201058
>[ ] “Yeah it’s me it’s Jay Jay…” [just go with it, whatever]

>>32201058
>>[ ] “Yeah it’s me it’s Jay Jay…” [just go with it, whatever]

>>32201058
>[x] “Yeah it’s me it’s Jay Jay…” [just go with it, whatever]
Maybe she ate someone who knew us, or she can travel travel to the astral realm and visited our dreams.

>>32201097
or she could have just absorbed one of their powers

>>32201058
>[ ] “Yeah it’s me it’s Jay Jay…” [just go with it, whatever]

>>32201058
>[ ] “Yeah it’s me it’s Jay Jay…” [just go with it, whatever]

>>32201097
Wasn't she raised by a precog mutant named Irma? Aka Destiny or something.

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>>32201058
>[ ] “Yeah it’s me it’s Jay Jay…” [just go with it, whatever]

>>32201058
>>[ ] “Yeah it’s me it’s Jay Jay…” [just go with it, whatever]
>>[ ] Still got that rebar. She’s in range for another zap.
"Yep, that's me." ZAP. "Have we met somewhere? You seem familiar."

>yeah, it's me. JJ

She probably had contact with JJ's sister.

>>32201172
nah, her name was Irene.

still don't the cuckoos aren't manipulating the situation if they're involved at all

>>32201172
Wait, no, that was Irene. My bad.

>>32201150
That's what I said. If she touched one of them then she would have become part of the hive mind.

>>32201236
>implying she didn't absorb Broseph

>>32201058
>[ ] “Yeah it’s me it’s Jay Jay…” [just go with it, whatever]
>[ ] “You don’t know me.” [try to talk some sense into her]

Try to see what she knows/can read from us. Don't act on what she says, unless it makes sense. We gotta be careful not to get mind raped.

>>32201248
Damn, right before I get back from google. Well, hopefully those hallucinations we're getting don't mean she has telepathy. Pretty sure they do.

>>32201299
Also keep rebar at ready. If we start to pas out go zap.

>>32201280
She read JJ's mind.

And maybe took some Cuckoo power, beforehand.

>(1/2)
>[X] [just go with it, whatever]

“Yeah it’s me it’s Jay Jay…” What else can you say? What else can you do? You can barely even say it, the vice is so tight around your throat, you can feel your flesh callousing up, lumping together into ugly, bright bruises…

The pressure softens. She heaves out something between a cough and a sob.

“Jay Jay? Jay J- a aaaa a a”– That is her voice, isn’t it? Exactly the way you remember. And then it shifts, and distorts, and takes on a Southern note, and something else, something more masculine… “They loved me for years! Years! They all loved me, and then it all just… it all just evaporated!”

She spits it out like a curse.

“God, they just… they threw me to the fucking wolves! Even Steve couldn’t stop them!” They loved me and then they just – just – just”–

Her image flickers back and forth, eyes wheeling, face twitching incognisantly.

>(2/2)

You’re on trial.

You’re escaping with your sisters, your twins.

You’re running away from home. Mom can’t pay the registration fee. Can’t put her through poverty. Can’t do that to her.

You feel Victoria’s lips brushing up against your shoulder, along your arm, your neck, your check, your –

You’re suspended in Cell Designate 0023, Date: 12th January, Test Number: 08, the radiation kicks in, you grind your teeth together and scream in silence.

You’re underneath the stars. The lake stretches out. Fire looms over the remains of your house, an orange scar in the silence of the night. Covered in blood, yours, not yours. She squats like a gargoyle and holds you tight with invisible telekinetic bands, blood welling up along your arms and legs, cold breeze pulling your teeth together over and over and over and –

“…killed me in the sand.”

The night falls away. Reality, dim and painful, fills your vision.

She sobs into her hands, her every movement carving erratic telekinetic scars into the walls.

And Marrow’s running up the stairs with a saw of bone in her hands.

>[ ] Break free and stop her.
>[ ] Break free and push the girl aside.
>[ ] Throw the rebar at her.
>[ ] Try to reason with her.
>[ ] Write in.

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>>32201441
Joseph is a pretty smart cat.

Probably invented TK back in the 70's but never patented it, like the polio vaccine or Night of the Living Dead.

He's like Jonas Salk and George A. Romero all in one!

>>32201498
>>[ ] Break free and push the girl aside.

>>32201498
>[ ] Break free and push the girl aside.

we're gonna git shived....

>>32201498
>>[ ] Break free and stop her.
>[ ] Try to reason with her.

>>32201498
>[ ] Break free and push the girl aside.
JJ is a cool guy and can take a blade through the stomach. Might not even be that bad depending on her strength

>>32201498
>[ ] Break free and push the girl aside.
Damnit marrow, we are busy being adults here.

>>32201498
>>[ ] Break free and push the girl aside.
>>[ ] Throw the rebar at her.
Geointuitive time? Don't aim for vitals

>>32201498
>>[ ] Break free and push the girl aside.
Marrow is not a reasonable person. At all.

>>32201498
Scream at Marrow- "Don't get close, It messes with your mind!Stay back!"

Explain that she is not all there right now.

She probably only came up her to stab us anyway

>>32201498
>>[ ] Try to reason with her.
>>[ ] Break free and stop her.

>>32201498
>[ ] Break free and push the girl aside

>>32201600
>saying that much before she gets eviscerated
>trying to reason with marrow at all
lel

>>32201589
Then we won't hove our tase wand anymore.

>>32201498
>>[x] Break free and push the girl aside.

>>32201624
My plan is to fail at protecting the girl, and eat her after Marrow leaves.
Failing that eat marrow.

>>32201498
>[ ] Break free and push the girl aside.

We seriously need to talk to Jono about Marrow.

Reign your people in, mugga. Seriously.

>>32201498
>You’re suspended in Cell Designate 0023, Date: 12th January, Test Number: 08, the radiation kicks in, you grind your teeth together and scream in silence.
Is this memory from Laura or Joyce?

>>32201589
Seconded.

The bitch can heal.

>>32201498
>Break free and push the girl aside.

>>32201683

I think Joyce, since it's Cell #23 and not Subject #23.

>>32201498
>[X] Death Breath

A nice cloud of noxious fumes should shut Marrow down for a bit.

>>32201498
I'm This post:
>>32201603
Changing to
>>[ ] Try to reason with her.
>>[ ] Throw the rebar at her.

>>32201750
cell number may be synonymous with test subject number.

A la V for vendetta. We have no idea if rogue has come into contact with our sister.

>>32201791
It said Test Number 8.

>>32201773
Ill support this if we mess up the rebar throw.

>>32201802
So, the seventh test of its kind? and?

>>32201517
>>32201522
>>32201556
>>32201586
>>32201589
>>32201594
>>32201607
>>32201654
>>32201674
>>32201707
>Strength/Combat Check
>DC16
>+2 strength modifier

>>32201498
So OP, how do you feel about successfully luring your players into depowering JJ's healing factor, strength, etc. right before he takes a bone saw to the back?

Rolled 14

>>32201875

Rolled 14, 12 + 2 = 28

>>32201875

Rolled 2

>>32201875

Rolled 4 + 2

>>32201875
Dammit

>>32201906
>Dammit
see
>>32201879

Rolled 10

>>32201875

Rolled 3 + 2

>>32201875
Alrighty then.

>>32201890
woops, wrong number.
just the first roll.

Rolled 19 + 2

>>32201875

>>32201879
Skin o' our teeth. Nicely done.

>>32201879
Success. Barely.
>>32201890
>>32201903
>>32201906
>>32201912
>>32201913
>>32201914
The gods are not kind today.

>>32201879
>>32201890
Hooray, we're adequate!

>>32201965
Barely!

>>32201879
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PF7kkO1oyqI

>>32201876
only happens during skin contact. JJ has gloves.

>>32202024
I got a total of 5, so I'm not complaining.

>>32202024
The difference between a 16 or 17 for this would be basically nil. Barely making it is irrelevant.

>>32201876
tg's own stupidity did that

>>32202029
Is that lemon making out with an unconscious dog?

>>32202032
Do we have gloves now? Given the whole, lost all our stuff after we exploded.

>>32202032
I think our habbit of claws coming during combat/under stress out has wrecked them already.

>>32202062
Lemongrab is eating ABC apple pie out an R.O.U.S' mouth after he punched it out

>>32201965
JJ Green: The Mediocre Mutant

Rolled 7 + 2

>>32202062
No. It's a lemon eating pie out of a rat's mouth.

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>>32202083
John James Green

The Pinnacle of Mediocrity

>>32202109
He looks passable, but he should see the teacher after class if he really wants to get anywhere in life.

>>32201879
>16
>success

No no no no –

You muster all of your strength and push at the invisible bonds holding you in place, a guttural roar rising in your throat. The pressure breaks, and you rush to your feet, Marrow shooting you a momentary, surprised glare.

You barrel into the girl, knocking her toward the twisted bannisters, where the two of you collapse into a confused heap. You feel her hair, and her scent, and the twisting of her arms and legs, and – a

>+1 Karma

A sharp pain explodes through the back of your neck. You feel something inside you gasp in shock, a sickly, haggard sensation extending through your limbs. Random objects surface and resurface in your brain – phone numbers, addresses, names, memories, things you could never know – and you realize you’re being slowly, laboriously pulled out of your own skin, the borders between you and the girl rapidly disintegrating.

Panicking, you throw yourself off her, the feeling receding. In its wake is a wretched sense of weakness, fatigue gripping your arms and legs. Christ, you feel awful.

“Sonova”–

Marrow. Marrow.

She throws the knife. Not at the girl, at you.

And… you know exactly where it’s going. You know – you know, know – that, uninterrupted, it will lodge itself deep into the flesh under your collarbone.

>[ ] Catch it, throw it back.
>[ ] Dodge and throw Marrow back down the stairs.
>[ ] Knock it away, bounce it off the nearby door hinge, and put it precisely two centimetres left of Marrow’s shoulder blade.
>[ ] Write in.

>>32202168


>[ ] Dodge and throw Marrow back down the stairs.

>>32202168
>[ ] Knock it away, bounce it off the nearby door hinge, and put it precisely two centimetres left of Marrow’s shoulder blade.

>>32202168
>Catch it
>Throw it back.

>>32202168
>[ ] Knock it away, bounce it off the nearby door hinge, and put it precisely two centimetres left of Marrow’s shoulder blade.

>>32202168
>[ ] Catch it, throw it back.
Fuck you bitch

>>32202168
>>[ ] Catch it, throw it back.

>>32202204
Waitaminute

Changing to
>[ ] Knock it away, bounce it off the nearby door hinge, and put it precisely two centimetres left of Marrow’s shoulder blade.

>>32202168
>>[ ] Knock it away, bounce it off the nearby door hinge, and put it precisely two centimetres left of Marrow’s shoulder blade.


in multiple choice tests, the most detailed answer is usually the right one

>>32202168
>>[ ] Knock it away, bounce it off the nearby door hinge, and put it precisely two centimetres left of Marrow’s shoulder blade.

Unless we have to roll for that.
then
>[ ] Dodge and throw Marrow back down the stairs.

No crack bich plz

>>32202168
>[ ] Knock it away, bounce it off the nearby door hinge, and put it precisely two centimetres left of Marrow’s shoulder blade.
Like a bad ass

>>32202168
>>[ ] Catch it, throw it back.
>>[ ] Knock it away, bounce it off the nearby door hinge, and put it precisely two centimetres left of Marrow’s shoulder blade.
Would the result of these actually be different other than the difference in speed?

>>32202168
>>[ ] Knock it away, bounce it off the nearby door hinge, and put it precisely two centimetres left of Marrow’s shoulder blade.
Followed immediately by wondering how the hell we did that.
Geointuitive is freaksome when you son't know about it.

>>32202168
>>[ ] Knock it away, bounce it off the nearby door hinge, and put it precisely two centimetres left of Marrow’s shoulder blade.

>>32202168
>[x] Knock it away, bounce it off the nearby door hinge, and put it precisely two centimetres left of Marrow’s shoulder blade.
'I don't miss TWICE.
Back off you dumb CUNT'

>>32202266
>speed
By this I'm referring to JJ's throw being fucking strong, but him knocking it away wouldn't be the same

>>32202168
>[ ] Knock it away, bounce it off the nearby door hinge, and put it precisely two centimetres left of Marrow’s shoulder blade.

Can't wait to see Laura's reaction to this shit. JJ getting another brand new power.

>>32202203
>>32202212
>>32202228
>>32202232
>>32202235
>>32202242
>>32202267
>>32202268
>>32202283
>Strength Check
>DC15
>+2 str modifier

>>32202266
The first option requires less strength (important as JJ just got sapped, so he'll have to make checks to do lots of things) but would give Marrow a chance to respond.

Rolled 4

>>32202335

Rolled 14

>>32202335

Rolled 4

>>32202335
Satan guide my dice!

Rolled 15

>>32202335

Rolled 4

>>32202335
HULK BOUNCE OBJECT BACK!

Rolled 4

Come on...

>>32202352
>mfw rolling nothing but 14's

Yay, mediocrity!

>>32202352
lucky number 14 strikes again

Rolled 1 + 2

>>32202335
Urk.
>>32202352
Success!

>>32202352
14 is JJ's lucky number.

>>32202348
>>32202358
>>32202371
>>32202373
what's with all the 4s?

Rolled 17

>>32202335

>>32202348
>>32202358
>>32202371
>>32202373


four seems to be our number today

>>32202168
>[ ] Catch it, throw it back.
It's all in the reflexes, channel Jack Burton.

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>>32202387
4 is death

>>32202381
...I'm even slower than usual.
That's a good thing, I think.

>>32202387
the crackbitch is strong within us

>>32202387
Ghostbusters: Japan Quest's ghosts are getting unruly, clearly.

>>32202335
Once he's back to normal, he won't have to make checks for stuff like this, right?

Also, when someone is swinging at him with a fist or whatever, he knows the speed, position it'll hit, etc, etc just like with projectiles, right?
He'll have that to help with CQC too I guess

>>32202352
>16
>stylin'

>[ ] Knock it away, bounce it off the nearby door hinge, and put it precisely two centimetres left of Marrow’s shoulder blade.
>[ ] Write in.

Fuck you, you giant bitch.

You swipe your arm through the air, biting back a slight stab of pain as you knock the grisly knife aside. It ricochets off the nearby door hinge – just as you, somehow, knew it would – and flies straight into the flat of Marrow’s back. Her eyes bulge in baffled pain, the force driving her face-first into the floorboards, blood bursting from an undoubtedly shattered nose.

Yeah, that’s right, you’re JJ Motherfucking Green, king of the hat trick, bitch should’ve thought twice before she –

A deafening roar fills your ears, sending your senses wild. For a moment everything is everything else – touch is taste is sight is sound – and you scrabble desperately across the floor. Slowly, reality reasserts itself. The girl is doubled over, her flesh swimming, skin bulging and flexing like taffy. Bits of her arms and her hair and legs keep shifting in and out of invisibility, and her shoulders can’t decide whether they want to be… well, shoulders… or jutting pauldrons of calloused, scaly tissue. Claws burst through her fingertips and her teeth extend into row upon row of jagged fangs. Heat rises from her in crackling, rolling waves, and you’re suddenly sitting in an oven, suddenly watching as her flesh splits and her bones lengthen, tongue lashing, glowing with metabolic fire.

“Mom!” It roars, churning, glowing spines erupting along its spine. “Dad! Joyce!”

Your heart beats faster. You know that rage. You it well.

You feel your pulse quickening, shortening, synchronizing with hers.

>[ ] Run.
>[ ] Don’t run.

>>32202429
Probably, but there is less time to react when your dealing with melee combat. Just because you can see where it's going doesn't mean you fast enough to do anything about it.

If you want to get better at melee combat (or ranged combat) more levels in agility would be best, since it increases reflexes.

>>32202638
>[ ] Don’t run.
WE AIN'T NO BITCH

>>32202638
>[ ] Run.

grab bone head and haul ass

>>32202638
>[ ] Don’t run.

>>32202678
Seconded

>>32202638
>[ ] Don’t run.

>>32202638
>[ ] Don’t run.
We need to keep Marrows stupid ass safe.

>>32202638
>[ ] Don’t run.
Be a boss instead.

>>32202638
>>[ ] Don’t run.

>>32202638
Oh.
Yeah, Touching her was probably a bad idea, considering huh?

>[ ] Don’t run.
Running probably wont help whats coming and no one else can help her with this either.

>>32202638
>[x] Don’t run.
Well, she's turning into us. Just tell her how we deal with anger.

...how do we deal with anger, anyway?

>>32202638
>[x] Don’t run.

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>>32202638
>[x] Run.
OHSHITOSHITOHSHITOHSHITOHSHITOHSHIT

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>>32202678
>>32202688
>>32202689
>>32202699
>>32202708
>>32202711

>JJ gonna get his first severed limb

thank goodness we maxed Healing Factor

>>32202638
>You swipe your arm through the air, biting back a slight stab of pain as you knock the grisly knife aside. It ricochets off the nearby door hinge – just as you, somehow, knew it would – and flies straight into the flat of Marrow’s back. Her eyes bulge in baffled pain, the force driving her face-first into the floorboards, blood bursting from an undoubtedly shattered nose.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9mJ82x_l-E

>>32202744
We close our eyes and think of Laura.

>>32202638
>>[ ] Don’t run
Talk ourself down. We know all about fighting ourself, after all.

>>32202638
>Don't run
>go invisible.

>>32202744
We smash furniture

>>32202744
We go glare at college kids and imagine smashing their faces in.

>>32202638
>[ ] Don’t run.

STAND YOUR GROUND

STAND YOUR GROUND

>Rogue has warp spasm and JJ's memories
>AND HIS BIG ASS LAUNDRY LIST OF PROBLEMS

She now has pyrophobia!

time for Dragonbreath? do we have matches of a lighter? or two dry sticks to rub together? anything that can make a spark

>>32202638
Shit, she got our trainwreck of a powerset.

>>32202813
>time for Dragonbreath? do we have matches of a lighter? or two dry sticks to rub together? anything that can make a spark

DC18 NO BONUSES

>>32202744
Get her to a piano, stat!

>>32202744
We fuck Laura's tight snatch until both of us feel human again

>>32202638
>>[ ] Don’t run.
Invisible. Ceiling. Now.
Let her swing herself out pulping Marrow.

>>32202846
Are you an idiot? Why would you let some girl eat someone alive and probably make her JJ form stronger?

Shit, she's warp-spasming, isn't she?

>>32202827
Don't remind me

>>32202846
Fuck you. If anyone is going to be eating her, it'll be JJ.

pun intended

>>32202827
>DC18 NO BONUSES
Does it really matter if JJ pisses himself? As long as Rogue is terrified, JJ standing isn't necessary.
Just breathe, use our agility to create a spark quickly with whatever

>>32202638
>[ ] Don’t run.
>[ ] Continue to talk her out of it.
Say to her: "What would Laura want you to do?"

>>32202932
>Does it really matter if JJ pisses himself?

When a girl with many absorbed powers and a fractured mind is going Warp Spasm now?

Yes.

>>32202932
I don't think you understand anon. If we fail we freeze up, we don't even perform our Dragonbreath. It'd be fucking disastrous.

>>32202932
Doesn't produce any actual fire.

>>32202956

This might be good.

>>32200714

Holy shit, Anon, good choice.

>>32202932
We don't know she inherited his phobia. She has some of his memories but not all of them (JJ stopped her half way through)

If she doesn't have the phobia then we fucked ourselves over for no reason.

>>32202827
>>32202966
>>32202972

CJ would probably give a circumstantial ??? bonus.

I know DB has a vocal minority hatred group but Rogue has absorbed JJ's crack bitchness.

if there was ever a time for DB, that time is now. and I don't see any better ways.

and JJ doesn't even know it fire breath yet.

>>32202972
>>32203007
JJ is real shitty dragon.

>>32202874
Because nothing we've got can stop her if she's warp spasming.
Which it looks like she is. Thankfully, the spasms will drop her through exhaustion by themselves in time. We just have to survive long enough.
I don't give a damn about Marrow. She's burned her bridges.

>>32203019
>CJ would probably give a circumstantial ??? bonus.

DC18 no bonuses

Bear with me, I just realized how long this post is.

>>32202932
It doesn't work if we don't make the dc.

>>32202999
Thanks. I was honestly surprised it hadn't be posted yet.

>>32203045
you'd rather get JJ mauled by warp spasm Rogue than use DB?

>>32203029
Hey, he's mediocre asshat.

We should start calling ourselves the Mediogre in honor of shrek.

>>32203029
He really needs to work on making a hoard.

I mean sure, he now hoards orphans, but he needs to start sleeping on a pile of gold.

>>32203038
>I don't give a damn about Marrow. She's burned her bridges.
That wasn't really the point. Letting Rogue eat someone alive will traumatize her and help the HUNGER which probably isn't a good thing.

>>32202813
If she has our powers she's immune to DB. Hell, she's probably more fireproof than we are. Best case scenario we scare the shit out of her and she runs off, meaning this entire encounter will have been for nothing.

>>32202638
That said I support the use of DB on the principle of wanting to keep it.

>>32203072

I'd rather we beat her face in with rebar or Warp Spasm as well and battle the fuck out.

Preferably talk her out of it, though.

>>32203071

What did you think of my choices?

>>32203098
Warp Spasm Rogue and Warp Spasm JJ won't just fight.

...poor Laura

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>>32203047
>Long post

>>32203092
>If she has our powers she's immune to DB.

Really good point, Anon.

Didn't realize that myself.

>>32203083
True.
But the hunger took a while to build for us. Where are you getting 'Rogue need eat' from?

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>>32201875
>>[ ] Break free and push the girl aside

How did so many people pick such a stupid goddamn option that involves TOUCHING ROGUE instead of "stop her"?

>>32203127

She has clothes on. We'd put our hands on that and push her then.

>>32203019
>DB has a vocal minority hatred group
Judging by the fact that no one but you wants to use it, I think it's more like a vocal majority.

>>32203150

I'm not sure about using it, but others do want to keep it.

Personally I'd love for it to atrophy, but whatever.

>>32203150
Just because I said I didn't think it'd be wise to use it in this instance doesn't mean I hate it entirely asshat.

>>32203098
SHE BERSERKER RIGHT NOW.

JJ can't take her in a straight up fight. doubt reason will work that well eith


>>32203127
chaotic good stupid JJ was decided a long time ago

>>32203150
>he thinks there's only 5 people in this thread
also
see>>32203092
>That said I support the use of DB on the principle of wanting to keep it.

>>32203145
You got within contact range. Arms flail. Hands go places.

And look how that worked out. Incredibly predictably.

>>32203092
We're not fireproof though, didn't Crusty confirm that? Hell, I think if we blew our dragonbreath on our arm it'd actually hurt us.

>That said I support the use of DB on the principle of wanting to keep it.

Making a poor decision to keep a power is pretty selfish anon.

>>32203110
Well, rogue still has her rogue powers, so if we get in a fist fight while Shea's claws and comparable agility and senses to ours I'm guessing JJ loses.

Kind of concerned by the lack of a roll for this next bit to be honest. Hopefully we don't fold outright.

>>32203092
You support keeping the power or using it now to keep it? Because we need to be really careful

>>32203176
>JJ can't take her in a straight up fight

Then we'd use the rebar on her head like Gallagher on a watermelon.

> doubt reason will work that well eith

She's not fully beserking right now. I say she's getting pretty close though.

>>32203150
I want it gone myself. It's pretty useless now, and I don't see that changing in the next 10+ threads

>>32203082
>not sleeping on your pile of orphans

>>32203191
Were immune to our own DB, just not normal flame.
Don't ask me how that works.

>>32203191
>We're not fireproof though, didn't Crusty confirm that?

Yes, but we are invulnerable to DB.

>>32203176
>stupid JJ was decided a long time ago
>decided
Be real. How many people here were really honestly thinking "I picked the stupid option ON PURPOSE!"

>>32203176

JJ isn't stupid.

He's just not that good in a stressful situation like this or at the mutant smuggling boat.

>>32203223
>>32203224
Well, there's at least that then. Still a bad idea to use it now though. Or in any actually dangerous situation for that matter.

>>32203127
>>32203184
>>32203225
Because we didn't know she had touch-based powers IC.
Rogue's fairly well known to us, but not in-universe. It's an easy thing to forget - hell, I screwed up on that count further up thread.

>>32203098
I like them on their own. I'm having trouble seeing when/why they relevant thou.

>>32203219
I'm not going to lie. The whole dragon thing is awesome. But having a power that's only good for melting peoples faces off is kind of pointless. There are only three people I would be OK with melting their faces off. And, one of them is completely immune to it.

We need more non-lethal attacks given JJ's aversion to killing.

>>32203224
>invulnerable to DB

Up until the point it ignites anyway.

>>32203270
"i was roleplaying pointless stupidity to do the opposite of metagaming!" is hardly consistent when people were perfectly upfront about "don't touch her use rebar to zap her" in this same thread.

>>32203299

First mainly because of the intro, second because of the video. (I believe it'll happen soon, except with more superpowers and the Avengers/MCA)

>>32203308
>Up until the point it ignites anyway.

We're immune to it entirely.

>>32203197
>Then we'd use the rebar on her head like Gallagher on a watermelon.

warp spasm makes you crazier, faster, stronger, and more durable.

I don't think rebar club will work very well and we'd be in prime getting JJ's ass kicked range

>>32203254
>>32203254
we took Laura in even after she told us the a black ops PMC is after her

also JJ didn't go to highschool, probably didn't even complete the 8th grade

we dumb, at least book dumb


>>32203191
cockblocking a power 24/7 so it can atrophy because you don't like is selfish

>>32203326
If she goes warp spasm, were going along for the ride.

Hence the synched hearts thing.

>>32203326
>we dumb

That's not dumb, that's being helpful/not considering the consequences and uneducated respectively.

Lack of education =/= dumb

>>32203312
We didn't specifically try to avoid her the time we pushed her out of the way. The fault is ours.

>>32203326
>dumb
OP says you're wrong

>>32203326
>cockblocking a power 24/7 so it can atrophy because you don't like is selfish

Using a dangerous to use power with a DC of 18 in a situation in which, even if it succeeded, wouldn't be that great is fucking retarded.

Unless we practice Dragonbreath in non-combat situations and bring down the DC. I will ALWAYS vote against using it.

>>32203321
Cool. I've got another song I think will fit well for JJ's and Laura's Budding Romance.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H--_-gPX3Nw

>>32203339
what the hell kind of personal definition of "dumb" are you using then.

are you from the year 1900 and it just means "literally cannot talk"?

>>32203367
When we get the fuck back, we are having a bath, and having it by melting with DB.

Because its a simple as shit use for it.

>>32203367
>Unless we practice Dragonbreath in non-combat situations and bring down the DC

It'll still be DC18 unless we roll high enough.

We can lower it and get bonuses for the rolls by just going about the day. Like with the ghost or the burning ship.

>[X] Don’t run.

Can’t run. You struggle to your feet, using the bannisters for support. Can’t just get away. As much as you despise her dumb ass, you can’t leave Marrow in the line of fire. And you can’t leave this person either. Her flesh wells up and stretches, tearing and reforming, fire churning in her veins, turning her into a criss-crossing, hell-coloured lightshow. The smell of burning flesh fills your nose and you gag, and you feel your own heart responding, your own veins burning…

It hurts.

Wait.

Got to grab Marrow by her dumb hair. Got to –

Sand in your eyes. You laugh and laugh. Calf opens and you feel blood burn across your leg, so hot, practically fire. Heart thrums with rage, hers, yours, no difference.

There’s no difference in your pulse anymore. No difference in your breath. She looks up at you, scaled features pulled and twisted about in fury, sclera like steaming pitch, irises like exploding suns, like Cherenkov’s withering blue glow…

Yours are the same.

You cough and it comes out as a low, bestial rumble. You don’t feel weak anymore. Light passes in spots through your vision. Each one is a memory. Each one bites into your skull, pulling, eking, tearing. She gets up, claws flexing, hunger in her belly, your belly. She took Joyce away. You took Joyce away. Failed. In the sand. It’s her/your fault forever, should pay, must pay, must eat, feed, hurt, revenge, territory, hate, hate, hate –

Names buzz in your head. JoyceJoanJoshuaJonathanJoseph. Typhon. Typhon. Father of all monsters, born from Gaia, spawned in horror, slaughterer of gods. Monster. Monsters. You remember, remember 1954, remember, it wasn’t 1954, it was some other year, you were nine, you sat down with your dad. What is strong? What is powerful? What always wins? What has scales and fiery breath and you were always it when you played pretend?

1954. Gojira. King of monsters.

You open your mouth.

“SKREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEONK!”

>>32203367
>Unless we practice Dragonbreath in non-combat situations
When have people suggested this and actually have it go through?

>>32203326
He is hilariously ignorant at times, yeah.
> Did the rap do this
> cocoon time
It's not exactly a bad thing, though.

>>32203383

Dumb is stupid.

JJ is not stupid, Crusty has even said so.

>(2/2)

“Jonathan? Jonathan?”

You feel yourself coming to.

“Jonathan!?”

Warm hands under your head. Everything’s warm. You open your eyes and for a moment you can’t see though the haze of heat. When your eyes adjust, you realize that you’re looking up at sky, and snow, and Laura’s eyes. She goes quiet when you meet her gaze, and for a moment you just stew in that strange heat, feeling strangely expunged, strangely clean, and strangely full.

“W-what…?” You shift your head, and see nothing but ash around you. The building has come down, and whatever was left of it is burned beyond recognition. Were it not for the skyline, you’d have no idea where you are.

The girl lies in the ash, breathing slowly, eyes closed. Her clothes are in tatters and there are thin scars winding their way up and down the entirety of her body. They’re healing, bit by bit. She looks… peaceful. Drained. Like the strings pulling at her from every angle just snapped and let her crash down into a well-deserved rest.

Your breath smells of charcoal. And ozone. And something else.

>Hunger Level: 0
>Present Time: ???

>[ ] Ask what happened.
>[ ] Ask where everyone else is.
>[ ] Ask if the girl’s alright.
>[ ] Write in.

>>32203413
>not considering the consequences and uneducated
>not stupid

>>32203390
Someone watched the recent Godzilla movie.

Rolled 10

>>32203072
AWW SHIT MAN TIME FOR GENETIC PROPHECY

>>32203434

No foresight. Not stupid.

>>32203430
>>[ ] Ask what happened.
>>[ ] Ask where everyone else is.
>>[ ] Ask if the girl’s alright.

>>32203430
>[ ] Ask what happened.
>[ ] Ask where everyone else is.

>>32203407
Too much shit going on. Dragonbreath has been ignored because of that. I honestly don't see much use for it even with a low DC but I'll give it a shot since it won the vote.

>>32203430
Please tell me we did not just eat marrow.

>>32203430
>>[x] Ask if the girl’s alright.
>>[x] Ask where everyone else is.
>>[x] Ask what happened.

>>32203356
>The fault is ours
Yes, that's... the point?

/tg/ is dumb as hell.

There was no point in pushing her when you can stop Marrow as an option. Its overwhelming preference was bizarre.

>>32203430
>>[ ] Ask where everyone else is.
>>[ ] Ask what happened.
>>[ ] Ask if the girl’s alright.

>>32203430
>[ ] Ask what happened.
>[ ] Ask where everyone else is.
>[ ] Ask if the girl’s alright.

>>32203435
Well, I've mentioned Godzilla has being one of JJ's childhood faves before.

But yes, the movie being fresh in my brain egged me on to chuck the reference out rather sooner.

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>>32203321
we're immune to our DB that comes from us

IDK about somebody else's DB or fired caused by somebody else's DB

>>32203367
I'VE BEEN TRYING TO GET JJ TO PRACTICE IT IN A SAFE CONTROLLED ENVIRONMENT FOR AWHILE AND I GET SHOUTED DOWN FOR IT BECAUSE ITS OOC BECAUSE JJ IS A PUSSY FOR SOME REASON NOT EXPLAINED TO ME EVEN THOUGH WE USED FIRE TO BEAT THAT DEMON AT SACRED TREE AND LEAPT THROUGH SOME FIRE AT THE DOCKS.


>>32203389
bad things only happen if we nat 1, we have a better shot of meeting the DC 18 than crit failing.

>>32203430
>[ ] Ask what happened.
>[ ] Ask where everyone else is.
>[ ] Ask if the girl’s alright.

so I guess we're getting a new roommate?

>>32203430
>[ ] Ask if the girl’s alright.
>[ ] Ask where everyone else is.
>[ ] Ask what happened.

>>32203430
>[ ] Ask what happened.
>[ ] Ask where everyone else is.
>[ ] Ask if the girl’s alright
Lead with bottom two.

>>32203481
haha knew it.

>>32203430
>[ ] Ask what happened.
>[ ] Ask where everyone else is.
>[ ] Ask if the girl’s alright.

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>>32203430
>Hunger : 0
>[x] Ask if the girl’s alright.
>[x]Ask what happened

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>>32203448
>No foresight
> Not stupid

>>32203459
>Please tell me we did not just eat marrow.

Marrow is nutritious.

Crack the bones, eat the meat, drink the blood, devour the flesh

>>32203430
>[X] "What the fuck just ha-?"
>[X] Oh fuck, someone definitely would have noticed this mess "We need to out of here. Are Kev and the rest ok and ready to move?"

>>32203430
>>[ ] Ask what happened.
>>[ ] Ask where everyone else is.
>>[ ] Ask if the girl’s alright.

>>32203491
In this order.

>>32203459
>Please tell me we ate marrow.
ftfy

>>32203430
>we just ate the bitch
today was a good day

>>32203430
>[ ] Ask what happened.
>[ ] Ask where everyone else is.
>[ ] Ask if the girl’s alright.

>Hunger Level: 0
I have a feeling that this is a bad thing

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>>32203481
>we will never get Atomic fire breath to go with our Godzilla roar because just talking about DB gets the vocal minority to chimp out

>>32203506
>someone definitely would have noticed this mess
No they wouldn't.

Jesus fuck we just ate somebody

>>32203430
Did... Did we have Kaiju sex?

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>>32203489
>I'VE BEEN TRYING TO GET JJ TO PRACTICE IT IN A SAFE CONTROLLED ENVIRONMENT FOR AWHILE AND I GET SHOUTED DOWN FOR IT BECAUSE ITS OOC BECAUSE JJ IS A PUSSY FOR SOME REASON NOT EXPLAINED TO ME EVEN THOUGH WE USED FIRE TO BEAT THAT DEMON AT SACRED TREE AND LEAPT THROUGH SOME FIRE AT THE DOCKS.
For the last time, heat of the moment decisions are not the same as willingly exposing self to fire when no one's life is in immediate danger.

>>32203545
>EVEN THOUGH WE USED FIRE TO BEAT THAT DEMON AT SACRED TREE AND LEAPT THROUGH SOME FIRE AT THE DOCKS
This

>>32203545
Eh. 3/10. Not even really a good pun.