[Nexus] Inside 48

[Murkus]

Aegis Vaults

Eh, collateral schmateral. A hero's job is to see that lives are saved and villains vanquished, time nicked and schemes foiled, not worry about the few million dollars worth of property damage he might cause along the way.

With a mighty CLONK the robot takes a sonic kick to the chest, pounding a foot shaped dent into it's metal hide and causing sparks to burst from it's joints. In counter-attack the droid flails at the doctor, swinging it's stretchy metal arm about like a whip and trying to smack him across the room. Only it's left arm though. Whatever delicate machinery the doc crunched must have controlled it's right, which now trails uselessly on the ground.

And on the other side of the corridor, Divebomb's bombing dive might be interrupted! The ghostly bandit has finally regained control of his puppet, using the possessed bank director to activate one of the vault's many defenses! In front of Gelley, glowing blue lines leap from wall to wall, forming a net of solid light right in her path!

If Divebomb is quick and agile she might be able to get through without touching the lines, but if she does, they'll cling like death itself and give her a nasty electric shock to boot, the voltage starting out fairly low but continuously ramping up until she ceases to move or somehow disables them.

Aegis Vaults

Doctor Decibel shouts a warning to Divebomb!

"It's a trap!"

Before POW! happens cause the Doctor wasn't paying attention to the flailing arm. It's his own fault for having tunnel vision when it comes to these things really. Whoosh, clang! Fortunately the nature of smacking into a metal bank wall creates strong sonic vibrations that the Doctor uses through pseudo not even science to create a shield to soften the blow. Not that it keeps it from hurting, but it keeps it from being overly lethal. It'd be a grimdark comic indeed if he died from a single room toss.

Doctor Decibel chooses to spend this turn getting back on his feet, head ringing.

Decibel's warning not only serves to annoy Gelley, it likely saves her life. The heroine's eyes widen as the light forms, and her thrusters flip to reverse position. In a blast of blue fire, she loses all momentum, grinding on the metal floor before stopping just inches from the barrier.

Too slow. She'd been too slow. Can't hesitate like that again. For now, she contents herself with picking up a nearby robot corpse and tossing it at the hardlight grid.

[Temple of Splendours]

Shrike chuckles, putting her arm around Fettina and wriggling against her side. A little. "...well, I'll give you chocolate. Or even better: fudge. Mmmm." The Exalt's eyes sparkle in delight at the thought of that. "And I can't drown. Dodge Charms." She winks.

...yes, she can dodge drowning. This is what Exalts do!

Temple of Splendours

"You can only swim through butter when it's molten, otherwise you're walking on it. Chocolate might be good for swimming, though. I'm not too familiar with the stuff." She's from a Medieval-ish type world with some technologies from further forward and others are stuck slightly behind. There's the compass and telescopes, but no gunpowder although some of the large frigates closely resemble those from the Golden Age of Piracy. Meanwhile, some cultures use iron, bronze or even stone weaponry, whilst others use glass.

"We really oughta organize one of these things," Tina says to the girls, smirking. "Not like I haven't got money to burn. You think the Council would mind if we turned GloG's lake chocolate for a day? Y'know, without killin' everything in it?" There's gotta be magic for that.