League Of Sidekicks 3: Future Perfect -- Closed and Over...

[CloggedDonkey]

Rachel woke from her sleep and looked about her future-selves room. She wondered why she wasn't sharing one with Jason, but realized it probably had to do with not wanting any intimacy when they could be needed at any moment. She rubbed her eyes and looked back in the closet. Inside, she found an old duster along with the armor. It appeared to be the same one from 7-or, more accurately, 27 years ago. She took it out, dusted it off, and tried it on. By now, it fit her quite nicely. She walked down to the lobby and noticed broken glass, along with a very angry secretary walking down the hall. Someone must have pissed her off bad.. She thought, heading for the desk. She looked at Oliver for a second. "Mind if I check the computer to see if there's anything I should know about?" She asked, heading for the computer. She didn't care what the answer was, and instead sat down at the computer and immediately checked to see what her name yielded on a simple search.

"Okay... one child, expected, but nothing else about them... current age, 49, nice to know I'm not fifty yet... god, despite all that I've been through, life gets boring after a while." She backed out of the program and went back upstairs, hoping that Jason would look for her, if he came.

 

[TheDoctor455]

Geoff stopped the incantation, and the fire-forcefield disappeared.

"Well," he said, "You just witnessed the combination of my offensive and defensive abilities. The force-field requires me to make a continuous stream of incantations, and prevents me from moving. All of my fire-based attacks... as you've witnessed... are effective, but imprecise... I can only shoot fire in the general direction of my target."

Geoff stepped out of techno-babble long enough to realize that Darian was clapping. He smiled at her. Then he took a bow.

"I'm afraid," he said dramatically to a mostly imaginary audience, "That was the end of the show Ladies and Gentlemen. But please feel free to book me for any occasion."

Geoff walked over to Darian and hugged her. He kissed her where he guessed her cheek was.

"You know," he whispered to her, "When I'm with you, I feel like I could forget about all of my problems... being hunted down by a homicidal OCD patient... all of this bull with between Paragon and Minus... when I'm with you... I just feel like all of that is manageable... like everything will just... sort itself out."

 

[Vesuvius Hetlan]

Hivemind shivered. "She's right. This place is no place for arguing." He caught his gaze lowering and mentally slapped himself. Shame on you what would Karen or Miss Alicia think?! A mental picture of them giving him the thumbs up appeared in his mind. Oh... that's right...

Spoiler: night

Good night y'all

 

[VuvuZelaMan]

"Aww, you don't mean that..." Umbra said bashfully, returning Geoff's hug. Always so direct about saying things like that... Then again, I guess that's just him, isn't it? She smiled. "We'll deal with Paragon and Minus, then we can go back home and then we can do whatever we want... together." She breathed the last words into his ear sensually; she couldn't help messing with him.

 

[TheDoctor455]

Geoff's ears turned red despite knowing it was a playful joke.
"I meant every word of that," he told her, "Well..." he paused as he gently broke the hug, "I guess we've kept the others waiting a little too long... So... do you want to teleport back down to ground level, or should we just take an elevator?"

 

[VuvuZelaMan]

"I know you did, Geoff," Umbra replied, deciding against further teasing. She looked toward the roof access. "We should probably go down mundanely. They'll be suspicious of us as it is, so no need to alarm them further." Yeah, I have no idea HOW we'll convince them to accept us. Ah screw it, flying by the seat of our pants got us this far. She began walking to get down, turning back to Geoff. "Come on, let's get this over with."

 

[Moderationintime]

Spoiler: OOC

Is the teleportation thing an illusion of some sort?

 

[TheDoctor455]

Spoiler: OOC

No... its a replacement for the Sanctuary. Magus can't access his Sanctuary anymore, but he can now teleport straight up to the roofs of buildings or up to 10 feet within his field of view.

 

[Moderationintime]

Spoiler: OOC

What was the sanctuary?

 

[TheDoctor455]

"Yeah," Geoff said as he followed Darian down the stairs until they found an elevator that would take them to the lobby.

Once they were stuck in the elevator, Geoff suddenly found it difficult to articulate his thoughts.

"Darian," he said to her, "There is something else I remember from our shared dream... something that has me rather worried."

 

[TheDoctor455]

Spoiler: OOC

What was the sanctuary?

Spoiler: OOC

It was a TARDIS-esque plot device that was annoying the GM, and removing any interesting struggle in travel, so I got rid of it. For many years, it had served as Magus's home.

 

[Moderationintime]

Spoiler: OOC

Oh, just trying to get a bearing on Magus' powers

 

[TheDoctor455]

Spoiler: OOC

Oh, just trying to get a bearing on Magus' powers

Spoiler: OOC

Here's a quick recap of all of his powers (including ones he got from the upgrade).

1. He can shoot actual fire at people in the form of a fireball, beams of fire, or by seeming to breath fire.

2. He can set up a force-field around himself in a sphere, but he has to stay still and he has to chant a continuous incantation for as long as he wants to maintain the shield.

3. He can combine the two above powers into a "fire-shield".

4. He can pull off a number of different kinds of illusions (see original sheet for details on how this works).

5. He can teleport in one of two ways. First, he can teleport to a point up to 10 feet away within his vision, or he can stand next to a building, and no matter how tall it is, he can teleport to the roof of that building. This is just so that he can more or less keep up with the more mobile heroes.

 

[VuvuZelaMan]

"Was it the message?" Umbra asked, pointedly ignoring the possibility that he'd seen that in the dream; instead, she focused on the main point. "I remember something bad in relation to you, but I can't remember... What was it?"

 

[TheDoctor455]

"Message?" Geoff scratched his chin, putting his illusory face back on... and this time changing his pale skin tone to a tan, changing his eye color to a light blue, his hair to a dark red, and his nose into more of a hooked shape, "I don't know... maybe... like I said, I remember falling then getting up off the ground, as I did, I remember seeing a familiar outline... and a face... it was my grandfather Dexter... but he looked like he did when he was much younger... and before he had a cane... I'm not sure what to make of that, but with all of this time-travel going on... it could mean anything."

 

[VuvuZelaMan]

"Great..." Umbra spat. "Just great. Now we'll have to keep an eye on that as well. Don't worry, Geoff. If your grandfather is still alive and tries to mess with you, I'll be sure to deal with him," she replied - calmly and darkly. "Now come on, we've got a group to ingratiate ourselves toward."

 

[TheDoctor455]

"Yeah," Magus grimaced, "I always did hate socializing with large groups... its not as... 'visceral' as one on one... oh well."

Geoff followed Darian out of the elevator when it hit the ground floor. They emerged in the lobby to see bits of broken glass at the front desk, and several people shouting at the receptionist.

"What the hell did we miss out on?" he asked Darian.

 

[VuvuZelaMan]

"I don't know. Did someone get drunk or something? Ah well, unimportant." Umbra cleared her throat. "Um, hey everyone," she announced to the room, waving.

 

[TheDoctor455]

Hello," Magus called out to the others, "Sorry if we're late... why is there broken glass on the floor?"

 

[CJ1145]

Oliver listened as Ana shouted at him, and noticed that she was being extremely illogical just to take the same side as Ashe. On a hunch, he called up his visor during her speech and looked up her bio. He couldn't help but make a surprised "hm" sound upon seeing her relationship with Ashe. Once she was finished speaking he responded.

"For your sake I won't say why you're defending Ashe, but you're being very immature in doing it. Minus can absorb any energy and launch it right back at us. He's too strong for us, especially since he's gotten some of us to back him up. I'm asking you to see reason, I'm trying to ensure that nobody has to die because we were impatient. Would you be able to live with yourself if Ashe died because Minus was prepared for our attack and laid a trap?"

Oliver recognized that that was a low blow, but he needed to ensure that they understood the consequences of going in unprepared.