Vestak

OOC: I never thought about it much.  I was thinking that the cuffs were more of power suppressors, like Fishers said.  If they drained power to the point where the villain could just walk and talk, I would think that the villain would run out of power very soon after that, just by being awake.  With no new power coming to the villains and needing power for basic life-sustaining functions, applying the cuffs would probably cause them to loose power completely not long after application.

IC: Captor

^{Location: Attack!}

Captor had already sprinted off around him, evading his bullets as he closed in, finally leaping at Nightstalker in hopes of biting and crushing his gun arm.

IC: Wilhelm Gorn- Ruins

As Von Nebula disappeared, Night Stalker began firing at Captor, who has snuck up behind him. Taking advantage of the distraction, Gorn ignited his sword before charging the villain. He kept his shield in front of his torso, wary of the damage it had sustained.

OOC: Toa Onaku, Night Stalker is two words, jsyk.  Also, Night Stalker is firing energy blasts as well as bullets, and is very hard to see inside a cloud of toxic gas.

IC: Night Stalker

As Night Stalker has no trouble seeing the dog hero, he is able keep the hero from getting behind him and to shoot rather accurately, finding it hard to miss at such close range.  As Captor crouches to spring, Night Stalker raises his makeshift staff like a baseball bat and swings, hoping to connect with Captor in mid air, while simultaneously moving his gun arm out of the way of the lunge.

He registers the fact that Gorn is closing, but waits for the moment, as he is still some ways away.

 

 

 

IC: Night Stalker

 

Night Stalker raises his gun arm.  "His chest plate is severely damaged.  One good shot from this should bust through completely.  If you could fade out completely or travel through the ground he wouldn't even see you coming."

 

GM NPC VON NEBULA

 

"I can do better," Von Nebula said, cloaking himself from view. "Get ready." He started over toward the Hero. 

 

IC: Night Stalker

Night Stalker nodded and was about to go after Gorn when he paused.  He picked up the handle of his hammer, then began walking towards Gorn.  That's when his radar finished it's start up procedure and the display popped up in Night Stalker's helmet.  He took a quick look around and swore silently when Captor came into view.  He needed to get rid of it.  He fired a gas bomb at the ground near his feet to hide him from sight, turned, and unleashed a barrage of energy blasts and bullets.

OOC: It's been a few minutes since the cuffs were deactivated, so he'd be fully powered up by now.  I do't know how much power radar takes, but it's high on Night Stalker's priority list and he would want it up as soon as possible.  I imagine it would also have to go through start up procedures and whatnot, so I'm fine with Captor being in position, but Night Stalker is going to know he's there within 10-15 seconds.

 

IC: Night Stalker

 

Night Stalker gets an even better idea,and this time a malicious grin crosses his face this time.  "Would it be easier for you to just possess the sword itself?  If you could just turn it off right as he is about to strike I could land a devastating blow, and he'd be able to see it coming.  I want that hero to pay!"

 

GM NPC VON NEBULA

 

"Sure, but how are you going to land a devastating blow with no hammer?" Von Nebula said.

IC: Night Stalker

Night Stalker raises his gun arm.  "His chest plate is severely damaged.  One good shot from this should bust through completely.  If you could fade out completely or travel through the ground he wouldn't even see you coming."

GM NPC VON NEBULA

 

"I can try," Von Nebula said. "But even the act of trying to possess him will incapacitate him temporarily. You may be able to just grab it."

GM IC TRAFEROUS

 

Traferous began inconspicuously reconnecting himself again, waiting for Saracen to leave.  

IC: Night Stalker

Night Stalker gets an even better idea,and this time a malicious grin crosses his face this time.  "Would it be easier for you to just possess the sword itself?  If you could just turn it off right as he is about to strike I could land a devastating blow, and he'd be able to see it coming.  I want that hero to pay!"

IC: Uerub Kalslann

^{Location: Shady Bar™}

"Ah~, a rogue hero then. That's even more interesting. What made you defect? Regulations too strict for your tastes?" Uerub asked Focus, apparently genuinely interested.

OOC: Did you actually trademark the shady bar?

IC: Morphos

A rogue hero?  Interesting.  You didn't see many of them around.  It could pay to keep tabs on this one.  After all, word on the street was that tourists had been calling hero factory about that giant wormhole, and if heroes wold be swinging by chances were they'd pay good money to locate one of their fallen brethren.

Morphos took a seat at the bar a few seats down from them and asked for a drink.

OOC: @Timeimageness: Sounds good to me.

 

GM NPC VON NEBULA

 

"Unfortunately, I cannot hold any weapons now," the ghost said. It moved closer to Fravi, passing into her form and out of it. "She has some knives, though."

IC: Wilhelm Gorn- Ruins

 

Gorn was fully prepared to charge Night Stalker, when he noticed someone else. Conversing with Night Stalker was the incorporeal form of Von Nebula. Gorn honestly didn't know what to do. He had met the villain a few times back when he was still going by Von Ness. He had been a member of Alpha team, despite not being especially heroic. When he deserted his team during a fight, Gorn remembered being unsurprised by the news. However, if what the current Alpha Team members had said about him was any indication, he had truly become a force to be reckoned with in the time after his desertion. Gorn would have no chance against him in combat, but combat was all that Gorn knew. He needed guidance from someone else on how to handle the situation. In desperation, Gorn tried contacting Preston Stormer. He had no idea if the Alpha leader had even survived the Factory's destruction, but if anyone knew Von Nebula, it was him...

IC: Night Stalker

"Knives are no good.  I'm not a robot who's good with knives."  That's when Night Stalker noticed Gorn looking at him.  He was about to swear when he remembered the hero's weapon.  A sly grin crossed his face as he turned back to Von Nebula.  "Question: would it be possible for you to possess that hero over there and give me his plasma sword?  Now that's a weapon I could get behind."

GM NPC VON NEBULA

 

The ghost formed a fist and tried to pound on the cuffs, only for his hand to pass through. He then turned to look at the fiasco. "Indeed," he said with a grin. "And he is still like himself - servile and weak, with no taste for a good fight. He'll be here soon."

IC: Night Stalker

"He is?  Cool."  Night Stalker gave up trying to break the cuffs with strength.  Instead he loaded one of his extra bullet clips into his gun, put the chain in front of the handle, and blasted it to bits.  "Much better."  He did the same with Fravi, then reloaded the rest of his gun.  "I don't suppose you've got any weapons I could use?  One of the heroes totaled my hammer."

 

 

 

OOC: Not the weapon itself, but how it's fired. Arsenal's rocket launchers are attached to his body. He doesn't have to do anything physical to fire them. I assumed Night Stalker's gun arm worked a similar way.

 

OOC: Ooooooh ok. Yeah, that's how it works.

 

IC: Night Stalker

 

Night Stalker nudges Fravi with his foot. "Hey, you, wake up! We need to get out of here while they're distracted!" He keeps nudging her, more and more violently.

GM NPC VON NEBULA

 

Night Stalker and Fravi (if she was concious) would find the power draining abilities of their Hero cuffs temporarily shut off, and a creepy ghost flicker into existence in front of them. "Traferous?" it asked. "Traferous lives?"

IC: Night Stalker

Night Stalker felt his strength begin to return. Seeing as how whoever this was had just turned off the cuffs, he figured he ought to at least tell him what he knew. Maybe he'd get more help. "Yes, he does. If I had to guess, that fight over there is probably where he is right now." He began straining at the cuffs, but he didn't have enough power yet. He'd have to wait a little longer.

OOC: Hey guys, I'm going to be gone for the weekend until around sunday afternoon. I'll probably be on once or twice more before I leave though.

Edit: Double post merged.

-Wind-

IC: Captor

^{Location: HF Ruins}

"I have no idea if he can fly or not, but this-" He said, referring to the tear in his armour, "- Isn't from claws or swords! He bit me! He took a sizeable chunk out of me! That's my move!" Captor sounded less distressed at this point and more insulted that one of his own attacks had been used against him. How ever, Captor heard Night Stalker's words, catching his attention. "Don't think you're going anywhere, villain. Those hero cuffs are on you for a reason, and judging from the crude but sufficient for its purpose craftsmanship from Gorn, you wouldn't be able to move anyway."

OOC: I don't think Captor would have heard him.  The heroes are walking away from them and distracted, and Night Stalker doesn't want to broadcast his intentions to said heroes and thus would be talking too quietly for them to hear.

OOC: Not the weapon itself, but how it's fired. Arsenal's rocket launchers are attached to his body. He doesn't have to do anything physical to fire them. I assumed Night Stalker's gun arm worked a similar way.

OOC: Ooooooh ok.  Yeah, that's how it works.

IC: Night Stalker

Night Stalker nudges Fravi with his foot.  "Hey, you, wake up!  We need to get out of here while they're distracted!"  He keeps nudging her, more and more violently.

OOC: Vestak, I'm pretty sure the answer is no. I was under the impression that hero cuffs left prisoners with enough power to do little more than walk and talk. For example, when Arsenal was cuffed at the beginning of the rpg (and I tried desperately to get him out of it) he wasn't able to fire his rocket launchers, which I would assume are fired in a similar way to Night Stalker's gun arm.

OOC: Drat.  Although I'm pretty sure Night Stalker's gun is not similar to a rocket launcher.

OOC: How much energy do the cuffs drain?  Would Night Stalker still be able to fire his gun, assuming he could get ammo?

IC: Wilhelm Gorn- Ruins

 

Upon closer inspection, Gorn noticed that the Pleasurebot was modified, as she had blades for hair, and a pair of wings. How she had managed to fall with those was anyone's guess. Picking her up by the head, Gorn carried the new arrival back to where Captor and Night Stalker were waiting. He turned to the cuffed villain, showing him the unconscious bot.

 

"Do you know who this is?"

 

The bot would be detained for questioning either way, Gorn simply wanted to know what level of caution to use, in the event that she regained consciousness.

IC: Night Stalker

Night Stalker shrugged.  "Don't remember honestly.  She might have been on board, I was busy at the time and didn't see much of the crew."

IC: Saracen Rune - Hero Factory.

 

"What makes you think that this "Traferous" didn't simply die in the crash?" He asked, the prisoner's apparent certainty that the mastermind had survived piquing his interest. 

IC: Night Stalker

That question caught him up short.  How did he know?  "That is a very good question.  Probably because I survived I just assumed he would too."

IC: Uerub Kalslann

^{Location: Bar fight}

Apparently thrown by some other patron, Morphos would find a bar stool hurtling towards him. Meanwhile, Uerub broke a guy's arm, then threw him over the counter and into the bartender's area, before karate-chopping another guy in the neck, and kneeing him in the stomach, and then receiving a punch right in the face from some other guy.

IC: Morphos

Morphos ducked the stool clipping the top of his head.  He glared at the thrower, his face contorting, literally, into a much more fearsome snarl.  He continued to scan the room for potential employers, keeping an eye on the robot who threw the stool in case another came his way.

IC: Saracen Rune - Hero Factory Ruins.

 

"Traferous?" The name didn't strike him as familiar, "Who's that? Is this his ship?" He gestured to the fragmented bits and pieces of broken ship scattered across the terrain. 

IC: Night Stalker

Night Stalker looked over the ruins.  "Yeah, it is.  He's probably really ###### right now."

IC: Night Stalker

The cuffs clicked around Night Stalker's wrists, draining his energy.  He didn't care.  He was busy, his mind racing.

Here was the dilemma.  What to say and what not to say?  They'd probably figure out from the other heroes eventually that yes, he had been the one to attack the police station, so saying that would make him seem cooperative.  Now the second question.  Should he rat out Traeferous?  He came to a decision.  He'd tell them that he was working for Traeferous, but he wouldn't tell them what he was doing.  He would feign ignorance.

"Yeah, that's me.  And I'm working for Traeferous."

IC: Night Stalker

Night Stalker grunted as the next round of energy blasts struck him.  A few made it through his armor, messing with his internal systems.  He was about to shoot at the hero when Gorn attacked again, slicing the head off his hammer.  Night Stalker knew he was defeated.  He wouldn't make it out alive if he kept this up.  He slowly backed out of the gas cloud, dropping what was left of his hammer and ejecting the almost completely depleted magazines from his gun.  He allowed himself to fall to the ground, hands raised.

Night Stalker's rage threatened to burst out from behind his submissive facade, but he managed to keep it in check.  Night Stalker would wait.  He would pass the time by planning strategies to reduce their worthless hides to scrap.  One day, he would make them pay for this.  He could almost see the light fading from their eyes already.  Oh yes, he would wait.

OOC: How exactly are the gas bombs detonated? Are they on a timer?

OOC: No, they're impact.

OOC: I don't know what happened with that post.  I'm going to edit it majorly right now

IC: Saracen Rune - Hero Factory. 

 

He activated his capacitors, soaring up above the rubble to investigate the distant sounds of a fight. A battered-looking hero was doing battle with hammer-toting villain, who seemed to match the description of the one of those responsible for the attack on the Mechron City police station. 

 

After his failures to apprehend the other villains he'd encountered lately, Saracen had had quite enough. He refused to let another murderer escape his clutches. 

 

He powered up his rifle, and fired a volley of rounds down at Night Stalker's back. 

IC: Wilhelm Gorn- Brawling

 

Gorn didn't have time to react to his attack missing, as more shots pierced his arm and abdomen. He rose, only to see that his opponent had retrieved their hammer. He prepared to charge, but was struck with sudden pain. He looked down, to see that his chest and abdomen were beginning to leak some sort of fluid. This was Bad. He needed to end this fight quickly. Gorn approached his opponent, shield ready to block projectiles, though he wondered if he really needed it. The villain had been firing it's weapon almost nonstop for several minutes, there was no way that thing had any ammo left.

IC: Night Stalker

Night Stalker Ignored the flashing low ammo indicator on his HUD.  He didn't have a hand or time to spare to reload.  He settled for blasting Gorn with another gas bomb, finding that his options were looking less and less appealing as the fight went on.  That's when Saracen's energy blasts struck him.  The blasts nearly penetrated his armor, tough as it was, so he moved to the side, hoping the gas would keep this new attacker from seeing him well enough to accurately shoot.

OOC: Oh, I see.

 

IC: Wilhelm Gorn- Brawling

 

Gorn felt a small sense of victory as his opponent's fingers went flying all over the place, though he quickly snapped back to reality when he saw that his opponent had made no attempt to move their gun arm. Gorn immediately dropped off of Night Stalker's back, but not before a bullet took the last remaining chunk of horn off of his helmet. The second he hit the ground, Gorn swiped at Night Stalker's ankles, which were well within range of his blade.

OOC: Gorn has been battered a lot by Night Stalker and has taken several hits from the hammer and a few point blank shots directly to the chest.  I feel like he should be showing that more than he is.

IC: As Night Stalker had never stopped moving towards his hammer his legs are in motion, causing only the bottom of the foot on his already damaged leg to struck.  He continues to fire, accurately since they are still so close, as he snatches his hammer up from the ground before turning to face Gorn.

OOC: Helmetless? No. In order to avoid being grabbed, Gorn would have to remove his hands from the helmet. Where exactly does the radar allow Night Stalker to see, besides straight forward? If it were only a radar, it would be something along the lines of a green circle displayed inside Stalker's helmet, with the center representing his position, and dots for everyone else. It would allow him to see if someone was sneaking up on him, but not do things like seeing exactly what Gorn was doing while his back was turned. In order to to that, there would need to be cameras of some kind in the helmet as well.

 

IC: Wilhelm Gorn- Brawling

 

Seeing Night Stalker attempting to grab him, Gorn quickly abandoned his attempts at removing the villain's helmet. Instead, he ignited his plasma sword, and swung at the hands.

OOC: I was thinking somewhat of an ultra sonic sensor type thing.  At the range they've been fighting it would be detailed enough for what he's done so far to be plausible, but farther off it would be little more than dots.

IC: Night Stalker

Night Stalker felt the blade bite through the fingers on his gun arm and managed to get his other hand out of the way before it lost it's fingers too.  Seeing as how his gun arm was now pointing directly at Gorn's head, he fired, almost point blank, trying to blast the hero off his back.

OOC: Also, Night Stalker's profile says that he has "very poor reflexes", something that he has neglected to display throughout the fight. In addition, Gorn is stated to have quick reflexes. It seems unlikely that Night Stalker would even be able to grab Gorn in the first place.

OOC: I've been attributing that somewhat to his radar.  He's been able to see what Gorn is going to do.  I do see what you mean though, and I'll try to fix that.  Does this put us at Night Stalker helmetless and Gorn behind him?

OOC: In your post, you made it clear that Gorn did manage to grab Night Stalker's helmet before being pulled off. If that was the case, the helmet would most certainly come off with him.

OOC: Night Stalker pulled the right hand to the right and the left hand to the left, pulling them off the horns before bringing Gorn out in front.  It would be very difficult I think for Gorn to keep a grip on the helmet under those conditions.