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Post by Manah on Jul 25, 2023 2:02:30 GMT -5
Kaede
"G-Gwah?! What the hell? That's not supposed to be a real thing!" she let out in shock as she realized that some conspiracy theories could have some truth to them. Thinking fast, she used the Ripple to try and take control of one gator to attack the other. 12 (Ef) in Hamon (Manipulation, Project thoughts/control others) to try to take control of one of the gators and get it to attack the other.
8 in Parkour into defense. (Total ph.defense: 14, 16 VS Blunt/Grappling)
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Post by Hoots Rowlet on Jul 25, 2023 18:33:27 GMT -5
You place a hand on one Gator and inject your Hamon taking control and sending it to attack it's partner as you avoid being bitten.
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Post by Manah on Jul 25, 2023 18:42:41 GMT -5
Kaede
Relieved that it had worked, she rushed past them and let them fight each other. If she hoped to catch up with the fleeing vampire, she couldn't waste any time. 1 in Speed to keep going at Speed 2 after the vampire.
8 in Parkour into defense. (Total ph.defense: 14, 16 VS Blunt/Grappling)
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Post by Hoots Rowlet on Jul 25, 2023 19:00:40 GMT -5
You find him going further and further into the tunnels. "Stay back!" He yells pulling out a lighter. "This whole area is a methane pocket, one spark and the whole city block goes up in flames." He warned.
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Post by Manah on Jul 25, 2023 19:18:11 GMT -5
Kaede
Kaede paused, glaring at the vampire. If his claim was true, then she had very few options. She needed to be at her best to stop him and a high-concentration methane pocket meant less air to breathe, which in turn meant using Hamon might be more difficult. If she tried using the Spin instead, his reaction time would be too fast and he might set the whole place on fire. She would likely survive with her powers, but the collateral damage would be horrible, not mentioning the risk of innocent lives being lost.
Now, if he was lying, letting him go meant allowing a murderous monster to roam free. She had an idea, but first she needed to make sure that his methane claim was real. So she focused on that while attempting to buy some time, playing dumb:
"If you did that, you'd kill yourself anyway. Kinda goes against the whole trying not to die thing, right?" she asked, while focusing on her breathing to try and detect if there was, indeed, less oxygen than there should be. 1 in PL for an action.
6 in Social Skills (Bluff/Lie) to play dumb and pretend that she doesn't understand why he's doing this given that he'd die either way, as though she didn't realize that the city block burning as opposed to not was the main issue there.
6 in Intelligence to try focusing on my breathing to sense if there is, indeed, less oxygen to breathe, which would be evidence of the high methane presence.
6 in Parkour into defense. (Total ph.defense: 12, 14 VS Blunt/Grappling)
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Post by Hoots Rowlet on Jul 25, 2023 19:29:04 GMT -5
You can tell that while there is methane in the air, the mixture is nowhere near enough to trigger an explosion.
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Post by Manah on Jul 25, 2023 20:10:07 GMT -5
Kaede
She smirked, tipping her hat, and taking it off. "Nice bluff though. HATS OFF TO YOU!", she said, spinning it, and tossing it at the monster's neck, its bladed edge first! 1 in PL for an action.
5 (Ef) in The Spin (Spin Object, Spin Throw) +2 from the hat; giving them a full 6 stones Spin for 5 minutes.
10 (Ef) in Martial Arts (Thrown Weapons, Using powers in combat) +3 from Targeting plus 8 total from my bladed top hat, into a 21 stones attack (Limited AP, Control Trajectories, Range 2) to decapitate the bastard.
7 in Parkour into defense. (Total ph.defense: 13, 15 VS Blunt/Grappling)
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Post by Hoots Rowlet on Jul 25, 2023 21:13:05 GMT -5
You watch some sort of humanoid figure with holes in his hands, and face appear in front of him rushing forward, and lightly touching your face, but your strike lands true, and takes off it's head.
Only for the figure to appear beside you!
(Copied Milagro Man, albeit modified so that the Curse takes effect when the Stand Punches someone.)
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Post by Manah on Jul 25, 2023 23:30:04 GMT -5
Kaede
"What the... wait. You're... a Stand!" Kaede let out, initially recoiling as she had no idea what it was capable of, or if it was attacking her. 8 in Parkour into defense. (Total ph.defense: 14, 16 VS Blunt/Grappling)
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Post by Hoots Rowlet on Jul 25, 2023 23:34:51 GMT -5
It does nothing to attack as just then a blue-haired woman in a red tunis with a gold thunderbolt on the chest smashes through the street.
"Halt murderer! Even a Vampire deserves a fair trial!" The local Superheroine known as Shazam declares.
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Post by Manah on Jul 25, 2023 23:52:06 GMT -5
Kaede
The redhead recovered her hat and used the Spin's vibration to wipe off the blood before putting it back on and staring at the other woman.
"You have GOT to be kidding me... Are you out of your damn mind?" she asked bluntly. "They're not criminals, you moron. They're monsters literally FEEDING on humans like wolves feasting on chicken. They're too powerful to be held within any normal jail or prison. What the hell do you think would happen if you brought one to court, other than an all-you-can-eat vampire buffet?" she let out. 7 in Social Skills (Sarcasm, Vampire Slayer) to get the point across that law and order does not applies to vampires.
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Post by Hoots Rowlet on Jul 25, 2023 23:55:00 GMT -5
Shazam just sighs. "I understand, but I still have a job to do as a member of the Justice Society." She said. "Now are you going to come quietly or do I have to get mean?" She asked as you saw something manifest by her side. A little fighter plane(?)! Right as he moves up in front of you, and pickes you up by the collar of your shirt.
A little fighter plane(?)!
and now you copied Aerosmith.
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Post by Manah on Jul 26, 2023 0:13:32 GMT -5
(OOC: Given that you said she's a local superheroine and she knows her by name, I imagine she is aware of her powers to some extent.)
Kaede
Kaede gritted her teeth, very eager to protest and fight back given how stupid this woman's reasoning was and how aggressive she was acting towards her, but at the same time, it's not healthy to fight back against someone capable of crushing you like a grape before you have the time to blink. Still, she would not refrain from protesting.
"...So screw reason and logic, to hell with actually taking care of problems. Let's protect the monsters instead and let's apply the rule of absolute law regardless of circumstances even when it makes no go***mn sense, right?" Kaede retorted. "...Fine. Go ahead. Put me in jail or whatever it is that you so-called heroes do. I can't wait to see the next headlines of unexplained deaths due to catastrophic and sudden exsanguination. You might want to keep my arrest a secret though, it could cause you ire from all the people whose lives I f***in' saved", she hissed.
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Post by Hoots Rowlet on Jul 26, 2023 0:54:37 GMT -5
Shazam looks away ashamed. "It's... Out of my hands." She said flying off with you.
Awhile later you are sitting alone in a holding cell. Your weapons, shoes, and anything you could conceivably use to hang yourself taken away.
Just then two women are thrown in the cell with you, a redhead, and a brunette woman with fox tails.
"You two really did it this time Howlet." The chief says. "That women's softball team will all be suing the pants off of your family."
"They don't have to sue us to get our pants off!" The redhead said.
"Oh hey... At least we won't be bored until our Mom bails us out." The brunette says as both lick their lips hungrily at you.
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Post by Manah on Jul 26, 2023 1:16:44 GMT -5
Kaede
"Oh yeah, you're completely helpless and have no power over anything whatsoever", Kaede grumbled as she was taken away. Still, after this final jab, she remained silent the rest of the trip. As far as she was concerned, she had nothing more to tell her.
Later, she found herself figuratively rotting in jail as she considered her options. She could probably escape with ease; that wasn't really an issue. But doing so, she would be little more than a common supervillain. Even though regular law enforcement and goody two-shoes superheroes were little more than mindless puppets of a stupid, deeply flawed system as far as she was concerned, they were still mindless puppets of a stupid, deeply flawed system technically on the same side of good and evil as she herself was. She didn't want to fight innocent people just doing their job unless it was unavoidable and necessary.
Then, there were those Stands. She was still completely astonished by the turn of events. She had seen the Stand under the vampire's control just before she gained it. And then this heroine with her own plane-like Stand... she had copied them. For years, she had thought herself incapable of ever gaining one, and now she had two. She was a Copycat, like her great-grandfather before her. The news would have filled her with joy if she wasn't so pissed off.
......And then those two weirdoes were thrown in with her, looking at her like she was a living sex toy.
"Hey, guards? Just a thought. If either of those jerkasses so much as touch me, I do not consider myself responsible for what I'll do to them until you move them to another cell or otherwise restrain them", she called out, glaring at the duo as she flared her body up with visible arcs of Hamon energy as a silent warning. 13 (Ef) in Hamon (Empower Self) to boost my Str by 2, Agl by 1, Spd by 1, and Dur by 1, for 6 panels after this one, causing arcs of Hamon energy to course through my body to show off a bit.
7 in Social Skills (Bluff/Lie, Intimidate) to both attempt to get the guards to either put them in another cell or restrain them, and to get them to back the eff off.
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