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Wildcat hadn't been back to HQ long. Upon throwing his costume on, all he'd managed to do was get his feet wet and yell at the kids to turn up the radio and for their resident screamer to use his sonic vocals to bust some ear drums. What he saw after was completely unexpected. Nightlife was the latest addition to the team at this point, his powers and limits were still undefined. The young man had screamed at a creature and his voice tore and ripped at the skin and fractured the skull. It was gruesome. And it was effective. At that point the veteran superhero surveyed the situation clearer from the lower level in the HQ. The battle was mostly contained within the premises of Grant's Gym, but a dozen or so creatures were also tearing up the neighborhood and generally keeping everybody else at bay. That's when Grant saw the ice manipulator... bleeding and on the ground after attempting to freeze these Man Owl creatures with the assistance of the remaining sprinklers. This might have worked if the boy hadn't already been somewhat tapped. The strength and agility of the creatures were taken lightly after the creature they'd fought days earlier didn't put up too much of a fight.

"Archer, talk to me son... stay awake, we've got to put pressure on these wounds and keep you from losing much more blood..." Wildcat said running to the boy and taking one of the kids shirts laying around and tying it tightly around the boys wounds.

Wildcat moved some larger debris, desks, tables, etc. around Zero to provide a little more cover. The hero ran towards the lockers on the far side of the gym and noticed Rat Boy's pets were providing quite the distraction against the Amazon Talon. Another glance in the other direction saw what looked like a complete cocoon surrounding the girl dubbed 'Parasite.' Before the veteran could even take it all in he saw the hairy and masked hero do some wrestling moves and toss a creature at the Amazon Talon.

Ves was hovering, mostly covered in rats, and now an owl creature was thrown at her. El Sasquatcho slid in for another attack but at this point the new Talon was pissed. The creature thrown hit her like a brick wall then fell to the ground, the Luchador missing it just at the right time. With a spin at her top speed the rats were thrown off of her, several being splattered on walls and debris. That's when Wildcat made it to the lockers.e pulled out what looked to be grenades and screamed out once more...

"EVERYBODY COVER YOUR DAMN EARS THIS TIME!" and then pulled the pins on several sonic grenades that blew the creatures' eardrums and immobilized the ones in the building, however the Talon managed to cover her ears...

"Nightlife, 'Squatcho, Rat Boy... its just us and Argo now. Hit her from all sides. Try talking to her, maybe jar her memories. And where the hell is Leviathan?" the elder hero asked at the end.

Across town...

"You're a lot heavier than you look, are you not a composite being?" Wonder Woman asked carrying the ten feet tall two ton giant in mid air towards the HQ.

"Yeah, would separating help you get us there faster?" Levi asked.

"It wouldn't hurt, I just left a battle outside of the moon's orbit with white martians to get here once Batman mentioned Vesta was in trouble." the Amazon member of the Justice League responded.

The light glow appeared around the giant like always, but when the giant's size was no longer an issue, he was shocked to find there was still only one being.

"What the..?!?" he yelled as Wonder Woman still held him tightly.

"I take it this has never happened before?" she asked.

"I'll worry about it later... hey? Could you just throw me back towards the base? I'll go giant man before I hit my mark..." the smaller Leviathan asked.

Moments later, the hero on foot battling the remaining creatures in the neighborhood saw the giant man flying on the opposite direction back towards Grant's Gym.

~KL~

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At this point I almost may as well have him mistake Maxus for Brainiac/Superman and rush in expecting the League to be under attack.

@Double

That doesn't sound like a bad idea at all and would work...

EDIT: I don't watch the news hardly ever and I'm not much for social media. It's usually a couple weeks before I hear about anything big in news. This situations only about 3 weeks old.

~KL~

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I was surprised at the bright light not hurting their eyes and the whole 3 sets of eyelids thing. The article I read said they were a type of Raptor with their claws and hunting prowess, and usually when I think of raptors its dinosaurs. That also made them sound way more badass than I imagined.

Don't know much about Pokemon, but I usually don't take anything from cartoons as fact. Can't tell you how many times the spider on Spiderman's chest has only had 6 legs throughout an episode. LOL

~KL~

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Went into more details in my last post, hope that helps. I'll do what damage control I can in-game now that I've got somebody on the scene.

~KL~

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Okay, in case anyone needs additional details I drew something up in mspaint.



Now before I go into this further I'm gonna remind everyone, we're all still rookies. We're likely to make mistakes. The diagram above is how I see the current situation. All the info I'm using for this breakdown was found with Google searches, took about 15 minutes or so. I mentioned before the gym itself had a large skylight. After one Google search I found gyms are only required to have sprinklers if they have a certain occupancy and if they have smoke detectors. This gym is like comparing a mom and pops diner to McDonalds. Nowhere near as crowded, so the top gym level likely wouldn't have sprinklers.

The lower level also has a big hole in it's ceiling exposing it to the late summer/early fall conditions of Gotham. Mild temperatures I would imagine even at night. The red dots represent what would be left of the sprinklers. Probably a third of the HQ would be reserved for our living quarters, kitchen, bathroom, showers, etc. with the rest being similar to the top floor with some gym equipment and a couple boxing rings. If a third of the HQ is where the battle isn't taking place, the remaining sprinklers wouldn't have too much of an effect. When Zero brings on a coldsnap [defined as a sudden and brief drop in temperature] it was said to drop the temperature of the water already in the floors, and freeze what was coming out of the sprinklers themselves. The giant holes in the building don't help with the keeping it cold, and one more google search had me reading about bright lights not effecting owls because they have 3 sets of eyelids. As far as the cold? Dozens of owls and birds function without problem in arctic temperatures and still manage to hunt 7-12 mice per day no matter the circumstances. These birds are bigger than 'Squatcho with the same large amounts of feathers covering their bodies as any owl would have.

In short, you guys have something more to go on now. Wildcat being more experienced than even Batman said to hit them with sonics. That was one of the only things I found in my searches that would slow them down for sure. Nobody seemed to reply to Zero's attempts at com link communication directly in his earlier posts, if he's in the middle of the battle bleeding... if there's an available hand he's gonna need some help now for sure. Wildcat can help now that he's on the scene, and I'll have WW and Levi catch up with Hero on their way to the gym. I was also gonna mention our Parasite [who's arm got ripped off] is now in a complete cocoon.

~KL~

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Any guy partnered with a demon in a car worthy of Dean Winchester should know how to find a hole to exploit. Maybe he hasn't heard about what's going on and just wants to know why he can't go into Metropolis? Maybe the demon feels the holy presence of St. William and wants to investigate? Maybe your guy really wanted an autograph from Superman? IDK, surely there's a way to bring the guy to our attention...

~KL~

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Boy... where to start? If anybody feels like their posts were ignored, that was not my intent. I had two things I generally wanted to get done to keep things moving forward on my end, and that's to get Wildcat back to HQ and Levi on his way back after being punched/thrown to the Gotham harbor. Earlier today I had just enough time to get that post in before going into what currently passes for my job. I put bits into the post, as well as went back in and added some details immediately brought to my attention. I didn't have time enough to write an Advanced level post and respond to every single detail. I'm human. Sometimes shit happens. Four players are currently in battle with the Amazon Talon and the Man Owl creatures in the vicinity of the gym/HQ. One of which is the Co-GM.

@Sigil I've said time and again, move this forward in any way you can. Luck is literally in your guy's power set. If 'Squatch is going to act like a leader, then have him lead. I haven't had a problem with it up to this point, it's been one of the most interesting parts of the RP. You don't need to wait for a detailed response from me, you're the Co-GM because I trust you and know you won't do anything completely random or out of left field. As the situation was, I didn't have a character on scene to act as leader and respond or help, but that's why Wildcat got to base in my last post. If you wanna leave after this arc that's your decision, I appreciate what you've done to help keep the game rolling this far and you will be greatly missed.

@Weird Tales If you read above, 'doesn't really talk' isn't me saying 'doesn't talk at all.' If you want a specific response, then write it. I'm going on what I know of the comics, and in those stories the Talons barely spoke. I also shouldn't have to remind you she's an Amazon, you know the rats won't hurt her but is she gonna hurt Rat Boy afterwards? Generally I only let villains severely beat on drop-outs, if you want Chester to take a beating then have at it.

@Double Your character has already taken on a kill or be killed mentality once when he shanked a poor holo-droid. If you want to do something like freeze the Man Owls solid and shatter them it's completely within reason and something I could see the character doing under the stressful circumstances. There's plenty of Man Owls to go around for the time being. As I said above, I didn't have a character on scene to tell you 'good job, do this or that.." When I got Wildcat to the scene he reacted to what he knew would work in this type of situation, which is loud noise. I didn't have time to tell every player specifics on what their characters should be doing.

@knighthawk Holy shit I've been on this forum for awhile now. I didn't realize I've known you for that long. You gave me some perspective, and I greatly appreciate it. Now get your boy to the gym to crack some Man Owl skulls!

@rocketrobie2 You didn't chime in, but if you've got any cards go ahead and let's get them on the table. I figure if I'm @ tagging everyone else I can't forget you LOL

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I said this once before in another RP I'm sure, but as a GM I have to pick and choose what to use to move forward with. Some characters early on weren't even mentioned further as the game progressed, others I wrote out to keep some form of continuity. I can give you something to go on, sure, but I can't RP your characters for you. If you have an actual question, then ask it. If I'm not around then ask the Co-GM who has put himself out there a time or two now. At this point all I could've done different was write a post bouncing all around the scene, some Man Owls would've hoo'ed and clawed at some of you, and the Amazon Talon would've killed a few rats. You have to challenge yourselves as writers as much as I do as a GM. If you think a collab is something that would make the flow of the game smoother, then by all means go for it. If your character requires the help of another hero on the scene, then some form of communication has to happen between you as players. Teamwork hasn't been a problem much in this game, I'm trying to understand why it's a problem now.

I put this game in your hands awhile ago when I asked if you wanted to move forward with just 5 people. My plans moving forward after this arc were posted, and we managed to get an additional player. I've mentioned here and the one other game I GM [don't know why anyone would think I'm stretching myself too thin..?] that I lost my job a few weeks back and am currently trying to find new work. I'll admit the last couple days I've been a little more stressed than usual and yes... I've made not one but TWO iChecks for He-Man related games while I was snowed in for an entire week. Both of which aren't really going anywhere, if anybody's actually keeping score. If you want this game to continue, then you need to write the hell out of your characters. If you don't want to have a Justice Leaguer save the day every time... then man-up and save the day yourselves. Wonder Woman is being brought in to write out Ves for the most part. The team can still defeat the Man Owls and the Talon without her.

I'll be here off and on for the next 2 or 3 hours if anybody needs anything or wants an opinion on something.

~KL~

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So our attacks basically did nothing? Feels awesome being totally useless. And yay, saved by the League... again. I'm starting to sense a pattern here. Team gets wrecked, can't do a damn thing for itself so the League sends someone to yank our asses out of the fire.

@Double

I didn't say they did anything or not, that's still up to you guys. Wildcat just ordered Nightlife to scream and for somebody to turn the music up louder to disorient the creatures. I see the pattern though, and it's deliberate in that the team is loosely inspired by some of the things from the Young Justice cartoon. The League won't be assisting us in the future though we will meet them, but a team-up or two with Batman himself is eventually going to happen. Remember we're just taking care of Gotham while Batman's busy with being Bruce Wayne by day and a Justice Leaguer so many days out of the week. To change the pace we might take a road trip out of Gotham to another player's home town some time after the Court's been defeated and face an enemy not associated with Batman's corner of the universe.

~KL~

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I didn't mention Ves at all really, figured you guys had that bit under control for the time being. She doesn't really talk as a Talon so you don't have to worry about that. I didn't want to have her killing dozens of rats for effect or anything, can't even imagine the germs and diseases a portion of them could be carrying. A collab between a couple of you guys would probably work the best.

So till WW and Levi get there, you guys tag-team the Amazon. Wildcat's mostly worried about the Man Owls still thrashing the building and surrounding areas. And I'd say any creatures taken down early on are getting back up....

~KL~

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Forgot to mention the sprinklers being on, should I edit that part into my post? A good deal of the ceilings have been destroyed, so any sprinklers still activated would be on parts of the building on the outer edge of the area. When I was looking at what could harm owls, bright lights and rain didn't seem to slow them down, but loud noises can knock them off balance.

EDIT: Nevermind, it wasn't hard to work in that the sprinklers were on and the inside of the place was wet.

~KL~