CHESS has been on red alert for three days.   Today is December 31, 1999 and it’s the day that the Blue Blood  is supposed to launch his attack.   Teams have been dispatched to the Deep Six Holding Faclity for the presumed inevitable break out.  Marshal Strong and Magnum are about to have Gates teleport them to the Supermax Prison when all the lights go out.

They are suddenly swallowed up by their own costumes!  And, they feel an attack on their internal organs.    Through sheer luck and force of will, they survive the dual attack and then Magnum detects that the whole Mesa is flooded with killer nanites.  He uses his magnetic power to create a powerful EMP pulse that deactivates the nanites.   Strong notes that every monitor in the base is playing on a loop.   It has some old footage of an Octopus changing colors and the voice over is of Steve Irwin saying, “The Octopus is a master of camouflage and it has blue blood.”   Over this looping video is a digital code of 10100101 over and over again.   What the hell is going on?

Realizing that the Blue Blood and leader of the Octagon is the Clarence Fishburn, the Octopus really scares them.  This “idiot savant” has been the head of CHESS’s R&D since the death of the Quidnunc.  He has been the head designer of most CHESS advanced weaponry.  He designed all the CHESS metawear!

Strong lights up his stellar rod, the only piece of tech that is still working since the EMP blast.  He and Magnum try to make their way down to the Octopus’ lab.   They find  Daisy Nixon wandering the halls.    She says that the people who say they are her parents are dead.  Along with the only person she actually liked, Dr. Young.

With no other choice, they take Nixon, hoping her meta powers will protect her if it comes to a fight.   Neither can imagine the Octopus being too formidable in combat.

  They are attacked in the stairwell by Dust, a metahuman created by the Control Freak and defeated by a pre Mr. Clean Lance Muldoon.  He has been contained in a steel box and recently been transferred to, you guessed it, the Octopus’ lab.    Strong inhales some of Dust which harms him, so he attacks with fire, which seems to have done the job.   

Unfortunately, Magnum and Daisy see a purple glow down the stairwell.   Magnum recognizes it from his old sparring partner, The Purple Rhombus.    Magnum knows that the host of this alien metal artifact is usually an innocent pawn; he tries not to hurt him.  He attacks the hand holding the rhombus, but is stopped by a force feild.   Nixon fires a few power blasts, and they too seem to be blocked by the strange purple aura.

  Marshal Strong tries to kick Omar, the host of the Purple Rhombus, and succeeds in injuring his foot.  Marshal’s foot that is, not Omar’s.   

   The three rat pack the Purple Rhombus, trying to wear down his force field.    Omar attacks back with a thought blast.  He merges the thoughts of all three an fires them back at high intensity.   As he does this, he tells Nixon that out of the three, she is the only one who scares him.     They each take some damage from this attack, while Marshal Strong makes some sense from the glimpse into Daisy’s psyche.   He thinks she is possessed, and it has something to do with the Devil.     Is this some trick of the Purple Rhombus?   When this is over, this bears investigating.

Magnum collapses the force field at the cost of one of his neutronium blades.   Strong then transforms Omar’s hand into pudding.  Omar screams that it’s not supposed to end this way.  That he was promised ultimate power!  He collapses in the corner unconscious, and they kick the rhombus away and gang blast it.    The rhombus prevails.

  Since they blasted half the corridor apart,    they have to vacate the stair well or risk being hit by falling concrete.   They are then set upon by Mayfly, or rather, a new Mayfly.   They recall that the first Mayfly was woman who was given a drug that gave her insect powers, and that very drug reduced her lifespan to 24 hours.  They see this Mayfly’s name tag, and its Michaela Smith, the Octopus’ nurse!    That bastard!    Strong hurts his hands wearing down her chit nous armor, while the bug lady tries to dine on his face.   Magnum has his hands full with Sera, the daughter of Ares!  She is wearing D6HF prison gear and carrying brand new ancient Spartan style sword.

   A serum quickly realizes that her sword is no good against Magnum’s magnetic defense.  He pulls the sword from her grasp and flings in into the dark.   Sera then removes he r  nylon shoelaces, and runs behind the large man and tries to strangle Magnum.   Unfortunately, the laces were not designed to withstand that much pressure and snap.

Strong defeats Mayfly and Nixon and Magnum are double teaming Sera.   Sera are taken as a serious threat as she has killed a CHESS metahuman before.  He was imprisoned for killing Elusion.

She is knocked out eventually, and Strong examines her to make sure she is not faking.  She is out.   Then an argument breaks out over Magnum wanting to slit her throat, and Strong prevents him saying it’s not the right thing to do.   While this is going on Daisy goes over to the prone Sera and tries to kill her by grabbing her head and vibrating it to mush.   Sera jumps up and double taps Nixon into a wall.    At this point Magnum says, “I told you so…” and slices her twice in the back with his remaining sword.

  At this point, they see the Octopus walking out of the darkness carrying an array of small devices in his exposed tentacles.  He is wearing Spider Man Pajamas that are a size too small.   He activates the device and all anyone can see is a ruby glow.   He welcomes them all into the new era of Ioiooioi, the new electronic god.

It is then that they realize that all their meta powers have been taken away….

My answers to your notes:

1. Pointed out by Magnum *cough*  - see I was paying attention.

2. Guessing no.

3.  See above.

4.  Yes and we applaud him for that.  omg jk jk

Gerry, I remember you telling me that you were going to take the Manta Suit Plans to the Octopus to help you plan out an overide device.

And the Octopus tried to kill you when he brought you back from the Astral plan and fucked the roll so that you were "only" burn't up.   He tried to phase you out of existance.

Not wasting a second, Marshal Strong aims to fire off a lighting bolt at the Octopus.  The Octopus interupts him and spits ink into Strong's face.    The depowered Magnum draws his revolver and fires six well aimed shots at the Octopus's hand held Ruby Feild Generator*.  He smashes it into pieces.   They wait the return of their powers, but nothing happens.    A bit scared,  Daisy Nixon blasts the Octopus with twin blasts of power.  he goes flying backwards, and is knocked out.   They are stunned by this, as they all knew the Octopus was kind of a wimp, but still they expected more. 
 
    They search the place for clues as to what exactly the Octopus did, and  Magnun notices that one of the Octopus' guns are missing.    He calls  Daisy and Strong, asking them if they know were the gun is.   Strong and Daisy are perplexed as a man in an orange jumpsuit is standing right infront of Magnum aiming the automatic rifle at him.   Daisy blasts him, which passes through him.   Strong remembers him as a villain called the Rumor.  His power is that he is ghost like, and you forget about him as soon as you stop looking at him.   Strong fought him a few years ago.
   Strong figures he should be able to contain him in a forcefeild, and it works.   He also withstands a psychic assault from the Rumor.   Strong then crushes him with his forcefield, taking him out of the fight.
     They then find the Octopus' lab and go to work deciphering his mad notes.   
      His notebook is written in a spiderly scrawl and  it shows how horriby disturbed the mad genius is.    Strong feels that he is motivated by jealousy, and is out to prove how superior he is by creating so complex a computer program.    The "electronic god" is a super program that was to weave through every computing system in the world and turn it into one giant artificial intellegence.  He called it the brand new Great Old One.

   Clearly this made no sense.

   Strong goes to work on a way to defeat this  program.      He finds it hard to concentrate without his meta enhanced intellect, but he fights on.

    While working, they look up to see a woman has snuck into the room.  Scarlet Rose, sociopath extrodinaire stabs Daisy Nixon in the side.  She nearly guts the poor girl.    Daisy responds with a double power blast, sending Rose across the hall, slamming her hard into the wall.   Rose flings three shuriken at the thee heroes, hitting all three in the head.   She then bolts.  Daisy fires at her, killing her.  Daisy takes no joy in this, she just did what she had to do.   

    Meanwhile, Daisy goes out side to see what happened to the Purple Rhombus.   She follows its light when she sees a young boy, about her age, sitting on the steps by the mysterious object.   He says his name is Richard Franklen and he is sorry but his uncle has to kill her.  She turns around and sees a firey demon spreading wings of flame at her.   The wings shatter against her vibrodefence and she blasts the demon.    The Inhuman Torch is a being of pure flame and horror, nothing material to it.    Magnum goes to check on young Daisy and finds himself face to fist with the Lump.    Magnum interupts the Lump and tries to stab him.   The sword sticks to the sweat from the Lump and Magnum goes with it and magnetically tosses the Lump back.    He goes to fling him at the Inhuman Torch, but is struck by invisible spheres from the Invincible Woman.   
    Marshal Strong tries to upload his antivirus program into the world wide web but is prevented by Doctor Elastic.   Strong warps gravity with his stellar rod, and  Dr. Elastic is reduced by intense gravity to the shape of a rubber carpet.
     Meanwhile   Daisy caused a collapse of the ceiling from her powerblasts, this seperates the group from  Fantastic Boy.    He is on one side of the debris, with nothing but the mental seduction of the Purple Rhombus to keep him company.
      Daisy blasts the Inhuman Torch to embers, while the Invincible Woman knocks Magnum for a loop.   He recovers and smashes the Lump to goo on the Invicible Woman's shield. 
      Magnum tells  Daisy to blast through the rubble to get Fantastic Boy, and Marshal Strong tries to transmute the invisible force field of the Invincible Woman.    She goes beserk at the suggestion of anyone harming Fantastic Boy, and she blasts Daisy, nearly sending her to Coma Town.
     The Invincible Woman screams, "No, don't touch it, its evil" then dispears!   A purple glow is seen through the spaces in the rubble and  Fantastic Boy is possessed by malevolence that is the Purple Rhombus.   Magnum sends a magnetic feild to pick up the boy's belt buckle.  He chokes the kid out then smashes him into the rubble,  cause overkill is his style.

After this,  Marshal uploads the program, and it takes a few hours, but 10100101 is quarentined, unable to do any more harm.

Over all  the world suffered 18 hours of damage in the billions from computer crashes, system failures, and such.     Not a god way to bring in the new year.

* A device created by the Illithids to stop meta powers.  Marshal Strong recognised this as he studied Illithid tech and is one of the world's only expert in their slimy science.

The only thing you left out is that Strong was immune to Rumor's powers.  for people not knowing this, the fact that Strong remembered who he was wouldn't make sense.

Good fun night of battling! There were a lot of challenges....which created a lot of new opportunities to kill things.

Strong was immune to his powers, yes.  But without his powers, he saved your ass with a lucky detection roll.  You were about to get blasted with machine gun fire to your chest, no rolling, no defences.

  Everytime I plan your deaths, you guys get lucky with the rolls.   I am sick of it.   From now on, its just hot steaming death.

Well at least you finally admit that you actually do try to kill us.

  John,

  Not taking anything away from the other PC's but are you trying to say "Sucks to be Dick Dante"?

  And no, outside of poking Bitch Queen in the eye with an Umbrella, Dick most certainly did not beat her.

Paul,

I just wanted to take a moment and Thank You and your Character for saving us all.

Where the Hell were you though when Dick Dante was getting his face bitten off by Bitch Queen??!!

Yeah, I noticed. 

I think Dick is going into the next round with a whopping 3 Hits and 44 Power plus his awesome Spells.

Can't wait to meet Judgement......

I have to say that  Kid Nemesis' take down of Dr. Phosphorus was one of the most brutal, and awesome beat downs in my gaming experience.   

He was near death, and if Doc Phos had made one hit,  it was  bye bye for the kid.    All cylinders fired in sync and my original master villain was taken out like a sucker.

Glad I was too busy getting drunk to possibly have Coldsteel die. Because he started an interdimensional war, so he needs to live to see how is fuck up screws the rest of the characters down the road 

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That was painfully obvious.  When I sense that type of night, the cleverness meter goes up.  I have to think of things you haven't thought of.

Glad it all worked out in the end.  And by the way, Lapis owes me $20:

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This was just a Great Story. Look at when we started this. October 2012.

It involved almost every Character we all have. The only ones I think who were not involved were Modi, who was in a Poison Induced Coma and Seer who is really a Tertiary Character for Eric.

Tying In what was happening in The Black Mesa right from the beginning and The Deep Six was awesome.

A lot went on. I have a few favorite things that happened from each but the most recent would be when John Q. Public tried to calm the Hostages in The Bronx Pharmacy while speaking to them from behind that Freaky mask of his. It had the exact opposite affect than he planned so he scared them all out the back door instead.

Both fights at The Mesa and Deep Six were well done.

And of course when Paul as Magnum strangled Richard Franklen with his own Belt. Magnetically of course.

And this is why I write these things down and still forget.

Public to Greyhound.

"Have you ever been Mugged? Ever had your teeth kicked in?"

Greyhound looking at him oddly "Uh, No, Why?"

Public " Just Curious"

Yes that is a new thread.

My memory is shot.  I strangled someone with their own belt? LOL I rock!