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    "Here we go!" Anthony drove his foot into the ground and took off. Unlike many who could be described as 'powerhouses' who were all about punches, Anthony's physical enhancements were all over. Sure, Kelly was far faster than him. Speed was her thing. That and rainbows and cheer. But Anthony didn't want to start off by being so much dead weight. Still, the main question in his mind was how many steps he'd make before Kelly Wooshed him away.

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    With your every step, these grand adventures shall grow more distant and faint. And there may come a day when you forget the faces and voices of those you have met along the way. On that day, I bid you remember this... That no matter how far your journey may take you, you stand where you stand by virtue of the road you walked to get there.

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    Kelly grinned in response to Anthony's answering joke (although she kinda doubted she had fans).

    Her attention had been focused on Merlin and the door, but when someone called out Adrien Zhay's name, she rubbernecked around. "What?" she asked, before spotting him hanging from a trapeze above the crowd (Classic!) with a delighted gasp. He was going here? She liked his music! She'd have to talk with him once this whole test was done. ...Maybe ask for his autograph.

    But there was no time for that now! ...Well, okay, there was absolutely time for her to go up and say something and ask for his autograph. But there wasn't enough time to await a response, so whatever!

    "Here we go!"

    "I'll be right back," Kelly answered.

    The door opened.

    In some ways, Kelly's brain was operating at super-speed all the time. Even when she wasn't actively using her powers, information and calculation was zipping through her brain at superhuman speeds - too fast for her conscious mind to analyze and examine. If she were thinking about it, her train of logic might have gone something like this:

    1) Frankly, there was no guarantee she'd just auto-solve the test in any case. Super-speed wasn't exactly the most uncommon power on the planet, so chances were the academy had some sort of defense up to prevent it from being an auto-win (her bet was that each floor had numerous sealed, projection-blocked rooms, with the objects inside past some guardian or challenge, or possibly in a second sealed room that the challenge had to be overcome to access, Zelda-style, so you couldn't just cheat your way through it with powers). In all probability, this was going to just be a scouting action, not a full trial run.

    2) It was certainly possible that the defenses were more aggressive. If so, she'd be putting Anthony at risk if she brought him along on a blind run. Nearly indestructible or not, that'd be uncool.

    3) Teamwork was encouraged, but if there weren't any anti-speedster defenses and she really could just auto-win this thing in comfortably under six seconds...essentially completely solving the challenge for another student would be A) lame and B) kinda cheaty. And then it was like, what, is she allowed to just personally decide who gets in by whooshing whatever students she wants to through? That wouldn't be right.

    4) Also if she could complete her test in mere moments she'd be bored the rest of the time unless she was helping Anthony with his!

    However, she wasn't currently using her super-speed to analyze and process all that information and calculation. She was just going with what felt like the best course of action most fun thing to do in the moment. So her actual thought process was actually more like.

    1) On your mark...

    2) Get set...

    WHOOSH!

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    Just for fun, Initiative against any other speedsters trying the same thing: (1d20+15)[24].

    Free: Set Speed Attacks to Max Speed and Streaming to Flight 16 (Platform, Quirk), Quickness 9.

    Move: Literally as deep into the dungeon as she possibly can on half speed or less!!!!! So, you know, no more than 125 miles in (hey it may be infinite, we don't know!) Well, maybe more like 120 miles to give her some leeway. She'll stop progressing if A) She encounters an obstacle, guardian, or hazard that she cannot simply circumvent, B) She is successfully targeted by a trap, hazard, attack, readied action, or other threat, C) The route back appears to be sealing off behind her, or D) Merlin politely asks her to stop.

    When she stops progressing, unless the route back is closing off and she needs to withdraw immediately to get back, she'll zip around searching the current floor to whatever degree she appears to be able to safely.

    IF she is at least six floors down, and there are any objects that she can easily access:

    Standard: Pick up the shiniest object she can find!!!!! (Which weighs less than 50 pounds, whatever.)

    OTHERWISE:

    Standard: Let's say Defend?

    Either way:

    Move-by Action: Back to Anthony if possible. She'll follow the trail of rainbow light back if the route is complex. It's like breadcrumbs! Only more brightly colored, and gone in somewhere under six seconds.

    Current Status: Well we'll totally see now won't we?
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    Well, kinda saw that one coming, Adrien reflected, as he noticed he was beginning to draw attention. Now, under normal circumstances, Adrien didn't mind being recognised and hanging out with people. It came with the territory. However, when those people were technically his competitors, and - perhaps more importantly - when, if they were distracted by him, they were putting themselves at a disadvantage in comparison to the people focused on the task at hand...yeah, he was a little more reluctant to get involved with his fans.

    He'd asked about the teamwork thing for a reason, and flying off on his own would rather defeat the point. But since it was probably a given - especially since now attention had been drawn to his presence - that anyone who he teamed up with would subsequently get mobbed by his fans and interrogated about their experience, it wasn't particularly fair to the other three to subject them to that without their permission.

    His response to this conundrum was exactly the same as his response to at least 75% of the problems he was faced with: flamboyant trickery.

    For a moment, to those close to him, it would appear as though Adrien shimmered. And then, in a bright burst of very attention-drawing sparks, the trapeze swung off, taking Adrien through the great door and down the stairs, vanishing shortly thereafter. (Somehow, without anyone noticing, the cartoon tiger seemed to have disappeared as unobtrusively as it appeared while Adrien had been speaking.)

    With any luck, most of the people who'd focused on him would have been watching the trapeze - and therefore completely missed the real Adrien dropping unobtrusively back to ground level, landing in a neat crouch back by Colin, Marcus and Claire.

    "I'm good with sticking together," he agreed. "If we only need one item between us, I bet we can get deeper into the dungeon than if we were all working alone."

    An amused, almost mischievous grin crossed his face for a moment. "Anyone want a lift?" he asked, offering a hand, almost formally, to the others, as his trapeze manifested itself again and came swinging back down towards him, whisking him, and any of the others who'd jumped on, over the crowd and into the dungeon for real this time - and hopefully without giving too many people the opportunity to identify his new teammates.

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    Free: Set All The World's A Stage to Illusion [All Visual] 2, Flight 10 [Platform, Features 2], Enhanced Strength 4 [While flying only].
    Standard: Create an illusion of Adrien and his trapeze. DC12 Insight to recognise it as an illusion if anyone suspects it's unusual / not the same Adrien they saw a moment ago. He'll have the illusion swoop in through the big door, lose the fake 'Adrien,' and then swoop back around towards him. (According to Google, a person has a volume of about 2 cubic feet, so Illusion 2 can cover Adrien himself and...like, a tiny part of the trapeze. With any luck it won't be visible for long enough for anyone to notice the oddity, though I guess it might warrant a circumstance bonus to the Insight check.)
    Free: Cease sustaining Flight (thus getting rid of the real trapeze while the fake one flies off) and drop back to ground level. Trapeze Artist negates the Rank -2 fall.
    Free: Reactivate Flight.
    Free: 'Pick up' any of Claire, Marcus or Colin who want to be picked up.
    Move: Fly down into the dungeon, travelling a 'mere' 4 miles. (Though, including investigating side paths and so on, presumably covering significantly less ground.) Ideally getting to Floor 3 before stopping, but if there are defences or whatever in the way - or, like, Adrien's Flight gets suppressed by him getting smacked in the face by something - then he might end up stopping before that.
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    Claire grinned sheepishly at Adrien and Marcus's comments. That grin twitched uneasily at Colin's (quizzical? disbelieving?) response, but if he suspected anything, he wasn't saying anything about it. The relief at having successfully lied to them quickly tied itself into a knot of guilt, which they tried to ignore. Thankfully, they were helped along by the sudden start of whatever this event was.

    They weren't sure what the blue-suited man meant by "that one" (Was Merlin a common name? Someone they should know? Ugh, should've done more research...), but their eyes widened and they clasped their hands together at the prospect of a real-life dungeon. An underground adventure full of traps and treasure and ancient stuff probably, and it sounded like they didn't even know where theirs had even come from? Who knew what kind of cool stuff might be down there?!

    Claire gasped in surprise as the ground itself began to lower and the ceiling resealed at Merlin's command, but they were almost more thrown off by his next statement; that this was apparently an entrance test, and only the highest-scoring students would be attending. A way out. It wouldn't even look suspicious.

    For a moment, they seriously considered taking it; they weren't here by choice, really, and every moment spent here increased their chances of being found out (and also, there was just a general feeling of doom and unease about this place that they couldn't seem to shake.) They could intentionally fail, go home. But...as little as they wanted to admit it, this school was also their best chance of fixing Claire's mind. Nowhere else would they find such a varied collection of powers and knowledge. That was part of it, anyway.

    The other part was that exploring an ancient mystic dungeon sounded really super amazing.

    They nodded in vigorous agreement with the others' statements about teaming up, and grabbed Adrien (who was...really popular, apparently?) by the hand almost as soon as he presented it, while refocusing their mental energies on sweeping outwards, searching for whatever might be waiting for them in the depths. "Let's do this!!!"

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    Switching Totally Not Psychic Shenanigans to Senses 6 (Detect Minds, Ranged, Acute, Accurate, Extended 1). Will just be generally following along with the others, Claire'll warn them that they "hear" something if they sense what appears to be the mind of a powerful being/guardian up ahead.

    Also gonna throw in a Perception check in case it's relevant, because they're definitely going to be looking around at everything as they go trying to absorb every possible detail: (1d20+12)[19]
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    Colin was a little surprised at the crowd's reaction to Adrien. He wasn't super familiar with what a lot of the trends were these days, but apparently Adrien was popular enough to get recognized?

    Wait, is he actually a musician?

    Well, there really wasn't any time to dwell on this. The rainbow speedster had already gone ahead, and other speedsters (it wasn't a rare power set, after all) would be sure to follow. Colin grabbed Adrien's extended hand after Claire, taking him up on the offer of flight. "I appreciate it. If you're navigating us through this place, I can keep an eye out for anything magical," Colin said, as silver glyphs began to cover his right arm. In the dim light of the dungeon, the others could see silver specks in his pupils. He wasn't entirely sure how the Tuatha's magic worked quite yet, but Colin was 99% sure that picking up on magic in an old, magical dungeon, would be very useful.

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    Free Action: Switching Airgetlam, the Silver Arm to Sense Magic.

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    Marcus barely hears Merlin's explanation, and barely feels the sinking of the ground beneath him. He's too busy fighting back the sudden SWELL of emotions in his body. Most of the emotions are his: anger, frustration, sheer rage at the root cause of the albatross around his neck being so close. The Blackstaff was Merlin's originally, right? So why hasn't the bloody bastard come to take it back? Yet, Marcus still has the presence of mind to realize that the Blackstaff is crooning in delight in his mind, and he doesn't know why. So, y'know, creepy.

    Visually, Marcus' jaw is clenching painfully, and the hand gripping his brown staff is white with the strength of his grip. He takes a deep, noisy breath, then lets it back out. Later. He can deal with it later.

    "Oooohh, that's who he is," Marcus thinks to himself as Adrien gets pseudo-outed. And that is the extent of his feelings on the subject. What? Radios break down after awhile in his presence, and Marcus has forgotten how many mp3 players he's broken (~"Lucky number seven,"~ Barty chimes in with amusement), so he doesn't exactly get a lot of chances to listen to pop music.

    "Sure, teamwork makes the dream work and yadda-yadda," he says out loud, his deadpan voice undercut by the smile on his face. He steps onto the trapeze(?) ("So cool.") and allows himself to be whisked away. Away from the solid ground, he feels the stolid strength of the earth leave him. In its place, he allows the agility and speed of the wind around him to sharpen his sight. His eyes flit around a mile a minute, keeping a lookout for any signs of trouble that are just waiting to pounce.

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    Free action: Switch to Knight Aeris, Vision becomes Extended and Rapid. Perception check, w/x10 perception speed for sight: (1d20+12)[22]
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    With the gate open the hopeful students surged forward, some on foot (three of them even managed to get the drop on Kelly, blurring past her before the door was open more than a crack), some in the air and some simply vanishing in to thin air or stepping through suddenly appearing portals. Regardless the great throng of bodies quickly began to thin out as the passageway erratically forked off in all kinds of directions, in fact if you didn't stick together (or the person you were following didn't leave a rainbow trail behind them) it would be incredibly easy to get lost down here...

    Kelly & Anthony

    They might have been quicker on the draw than her but Kelly would be happy to know that none of them could match her for pure speed and she quickly pulled ahead of the pack and left them in her brightly coloured dust. The dungeon's winding corridors finally terminated in a cavernous room with ledges either side connected by a narrow stone walkway hanging over a seemingly bottomless black abyss, which wouldn't be a problem in and of itself if not for the enormous stone hammers swinging over it every few seconds...

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    The hamers aren't the only thing for you to worry about, there's masses of little somethings clinging and crawling to the underside of the walkway

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    Roll a DC20 Dodge Save then a DC20/15 Strength/Dodge Check or be knocked off the walkway!


    Adrien & the Zhays

    To Colin's eyes the whole dungeon positively thrummed with magical energy, the torches that lit the way, the walls, the floors, the ceiling, everything was drenched in it, until they came to a perfectly normaly wooden door. Inside was a room lit not by torches but by a glass chandelier filled with crackling energy underneath which sat a highback chair in front of a lit woodburner. On the opposite side of the room was another closed door whilst the rest of the room was given over to row upon row of bookshelves, crammed with books.

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    The chandelier, chair, woodburner and several books all carry on air of magic about them.

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    Adrien let the trapeze swing to a halt - somehow the two glowing ropes that supported it seemed to keep moving along the roof of the dungeon whenever no-one was looking, so the journey had been rather like one extremely extended arc - roughly in the middle of the library, close enough that anyone who wanted to hop off could do so as easily as stepping off a bus. "Hope no-one ever needs to read these books," he remarked, an amused grin on his face. "It must be a real pain getting down here. So I guess we can carry on, but...all the best libraries have secret passages. Anyone else feeling like a magic fantasy dungeon underneath a school for heroes is going to have a lot of those?"

    And, unless one of the others stopped him, he closed his eyes for a moment in concentration. From underneath the chair, a large, pink snake wearing a top hat and a bow tie (how was it staying on? Who knows) slithered up to the four teenagers, doffed its hat to them, and then slithered over to the nearest bookcase and pulled a random book off the shelf with its tail. You never know.
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    "Can you put the lich in a box?"

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    Kelly had been about to do the obvious thing (running across the open air off to the side of the walkway and below the height of the hammers to get to the other side and continue on her run without so much as slowing down) but then she realized that this wasn't an obstacle, it was an opportunity! She waited for a second or two for Anthony to catch up (if he wasn't there by the she'd run back and get him), and once they were both there she pointed at the massive, deep chasm with a huge grin and said, "Look! I found a shortcut!" before grabbing Anthony's arm and letting rainbow light stream out beneath her feet.

    Now, granted, using a giant bottomless pit as a shortcut might not have been entirely wise, so if Anthony, you know, held his ground or something, she'd stop too. But if he was down, yeah, pretty much she just started running them down the chasm on a trail of rainbows. Because of course she did. She figured the odds were pretty good they'd find an entry to deeper floors of the dungeon down there somewhere. I mean, if you have a giant endless chasm on the top floor of your underground dungeon, you may as well make use of it multiple times, right?
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    Anthony followed the rainbow trail through the branching passages and came to a halt when he saw the speedster herself waiting for him next to an enormous pit. His look was quizzical - the hammers smashing into the narrow walkway didn't seem like much threat to him, and he figured she could zip past them without much trouble.

    When she explained her plan though, Anthony glanced between her and the pit, then shrugged. "Alright, let's do this." She had more experience Hero'ing than he did. Granted, two weeks ago he was asleep in his pod, but all the more reason to trust her instincts. He stepped onto the rainbow carpet and didn't resist when she took his arm, content to let her guide the carpet while he watched for any dangers that might jump out at them.
    With your every step, these grand adventures shall grow more distant and faint. And there may come a day when you forget the faces and voices of those you have met along the way. On that day, I bid you remember this... That no matter how far your journey may take you, you stand where you stand by virtue of the road you walked to get there.

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    Colin was somewhat nauseated by the experience of seeing so much magic at once. He'd spent most of his training with Fragarach as the only magical object for miles, so seeing an entire dungeon that was made of magic - along with Marcus - in his magical sight was a bit difficult. Trying to spot anything that stood out in the hallways would be about as difficult as finding a hare in a snow-covered field.

    Naturally, he was a little relieved to be past the normal wooden door. This was more like what he was expecting - a fairly ordinary room (well, for a dungeon) - with some objects with magical auras. As Adrien summoned the dapper snake, Colin began scanning the bookshelves at a distance.

    "Well, if there is a secret passage, the book that triggers it is probably also magical. Here, try taking these ones out," Colin said, indicating the books with a magical aura to the others. "There might also be some kind of clue for going further down."

    As he went to take his own share of books from the shelves, Colin kept an eye out for anything interesting, such as books on the Tuatha.

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    Claire didn't detect any other minds down here once they'd pulled away from the crowd of bobbing mental lights above, at least not anywhere nearby. On the one hand, that was a good thing, right? On the other, they couldn't imagine that a magical fantasy dungeon would be completely devoid of any sort of guardians or defenses; which meant that whatever was down here was either shielded from their abilities or didn't have any sort of mind to manipulate. Neither boded well.

    Once they'd arrived at the library, Claire wasted no time at all diving in; taking Colin's suggestions, they grabbed a couple of the books he'd indicated as well as a few other interesting/potentially useful-looking tomes, and (assuming nobody stopped them or they didn't set off some magical booby traps/secret passages or something), plopped themselves down in the high-backed chair and began to skim through the books, looking for anything resembling a hint as to what to do next or more information about the dungeon.

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    She doesn't have Investigation, and I'm unsure if substituting Perception with a circumstance penalty is possible here. Still, just in case it's relevant, a Perception check to locate any books related to psionic power and minds: (1d20+12)[31]

    Don't know what to roll for attempting to skim the books for clues/pertinent info, or if it'll be necessary.
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    Interestingly enough, Marcus' magical signature is less bright than Colin might have expected. It's like a thin film is overlaid against his skin, vaguely dimming the otherwise opalescent light. On the other side of the spectrum, if Colin were to look at the pitch black staff on Marcus' belt, any sense of nausea would be simultaneously enhanced and diminished--a strange sense of wrongness that nonetheless holds an almost narcotic effect. It's more than a little disconcerting to most.

    When the trapeze stops, Marcus wastes no time in hopping off. He's like a kid in a candy store, looking at all of these books. He whips through the room on a wind stream of his own, eyes scanning the titles of the tomes at breakneck speed. He'll grab any book that catches his eye--man, he should've asked whether they'd be able to keep what they took from the dungeon.

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    Kelly & Anthony

    Streaking down in to the abyss the room was quickly filled with the buzz of a thousand tiny wings as the creatures that clung to the underside of the bridge to flight to pursue the young heroes in to the blackness. The pair needn't have worried though, as despite their determination, the imps simply couldn't match Kelly's speed and eventually even their frantic otherworldly calls simply faded away.

    Despite its appearance the pit was not in fact bottomless and eventually they would find themselves at the bottom of the cavern, the only light coming from glowing purple arachnids that scuttled across the thick network of webs that were draped between the stalagmites that dotted the floor. Carved in to one of the cavern walls was a roughly person sized hole with perfectly smooth that dipped steeply downwards further in to the dungeon.

    Adrien, Colin, Claire & Marcus

    While over half the room was given over to overstuffed bookshelves, the actual contents of these shelves was at best a mixed bag, whilst the sharp eyed amongst them would spot some worthwhile titles such as 'The Four Treasures' (a term Colin would recognise as belonging to Tuatha artifacts), 'The Third Eye & the Astral' and more than a few books of arcane lore, most of them appeared to be either written in another language or simply gibberish all together.

    The question of what sort of library would gather fake books like that would have to wait as the surrounding shelves practically exploded, the books taking to the air with a creaking of hardbacks and a furious fluttering of pages whilst the groaning of metal accompanied the woodburner stepping out from its spot in the fireplace, a long slobbering tongue slipping out from the cushions of the highback chair and the chandelier above began rocking angrily side to side!

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    Colin Initiative (1d20+8)[20]
    Adrien Initiative (1d20)[17]
    Claire Initiative (1d20)[18]
    Marcus Initiative (1d20+16)[33]


    Heroes are on turn!
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    Kelly turned her head and stuck her tongue out at the bugs as they outpaced them. She gave Anthony a big ol' grin as they reached the bottom. "I wonder what floor we're on..." she said brightly, looking eagerly around. She looked at the spiders and...there was kinda some indecision on her face. On the one hand ew spiders creepy-crawly gross! On the other hand they had the awesome Real Glowing Purple Action! What can I say, Kelly had a soft spot for things that glowed colorfully.

    She headed for the passageway, staying on her rainbow trail in an effort to avoid disturbing the webs, walking along a few feet above them. She was no longer pushing her full speed. Kelly wasn't fearlessly overconfident to the point of complete stupidity, she was just impatient. She took Merlin's warning more to mean that the good stuff was all fifth floor and lower, so of course she wanted to just zip right past the "boring stuff".

    But now they were on an unknown level deep in the dungeon. It was just the two of them, and in all likelihood if any of the other students came down here at all, it wouldn't be for a while yet. Now was the time to stop rushing blindly ahead and start taking things seriously.

    Speaking of which... "I guess it...might make sense for us to go through doorways one at a time, in case of traps? Unless you can find traps, I guess," she suggested, halting her progress a bit outside the passage. "Question is, do we bet on Trap Sense or Damage Reduction...?" Expertise (Gamer), yo! She hung out with Dove.

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    "Aww," Adrien complained, when removing a book from the shelf didn't cause a secret passage to spring open. (I mean granted there were probably a thousand books in here so the chance of picking the right one - if there was a secret passage at all - was miniscule, but still.)

    Then the library sprang to life. Adrien blinked for a moment or two, stunned.

    And then he started laughing.

    "THIS SCHOOL IS AWESOME!"

    His conjured snake didn't think so, though - its hat had been knocked off by the flurry of books, and it was rattling its tail for all it was worth (which wasn't much, because it wasn't a rattlesnake) at the nearest books before hooking its hat with the tip of its tail and putting it back on. "Aw, don't be like that!" Adrien scolded it. "C'mon, it's like we're in the Sorcerer's Apprentice!" The snake gave him a look. "Eh, spoilsport."

    Since it looked like the chandelier was about to drop out of the ceiling on him, Adrien swung across the room on the trapeze and then jumped off, performing an elegant backflip - and catching the top hat that came skimming across the room towards him as the snake flicked it at him before vanishing amidst the swirling tomes - before landing neatly before the swarm of books.

    "Ladies, gentlemen, books, stoves, chandeliers and chairs!" he declared, setting the top hat down upside-down on the floor with a dramatic flourish and taking a step back. "I think the lighting in here could do with a bit more...pizazz. Don't you?"

    This question was apparently rhetorical, because he clicked his fingers - and a barrage of fireworks came flying out of the top hat, wheeling chaotically around the room and exploding in bright flashes of sparkles...and possibly hitting some of the flying swarm of books through sheer abundance of targets and projectiles.

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    Free: Switch to Centre Stage.
    Standard: Attack the Book Swarm with Firework Display: (1d20+8)[20]. On a hit, DC23+Multiattack Toughness vs [Fire] Damage and DC18+Multiattack Will vs Impaired/Disabled/Unaware.
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    Colin had been keeping Marcus in his peripheral vision - he'd caught that staff of his, and keeping it out of sight was probably for the best. He'd have to ask him about the staff at some point in time. Between whatever Claire was hiding, Adrien's apparent fame, and Marcus' staff, he'd definitely picked an interesting crowd.

    That being said, when the books and everything else in the room started animating - Huh, so that's why they had a magical aura - Colin dropped into his combat stance out of sheer instinct. Michael's training had definitely paid off, after all.

    As soon as Adrien set off his blast of sparks, Colin had leaped towards the woodburner.

    "Oh no you don't!" said Colin, as he launched into a series of quick slashes with Fragarach.

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    Free Action: Switch Fragarach, the Answerer into Gale Flurry

    Move Action: Move to the woodburner
    Standard Action: Attack with Gale Flurry: (1d20+8)[9]; On a hit, DC 23+Multiattack Toughness vs. [Wind]/[Slashing] Damage

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    Anthony chuckled at the imps as Kelly left them in the dust and then quickly left even that dust behind in their mad dash to the bottom of this pit.

    "If you've got a Trap Sense, why don't you lead the way," Anthony replied after a moment's consideration. He was less concerned for the traps ahead than he was for the spiders. The purple glow was definitely unnatural, and who knew if they had some kind of venom? He doubted their tiny fangs could harm him in the slightest, but the same couldn't be said if one of them managed to sneak up on Kelly while she was waiting for him to get ahead of her. "If anything happens I'll be right behind you."

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    ~"Look, all I'm sayin' is, I can help you put the moves on Claire over there."~

    Marcus chooses to blame his wandering attention on Barty's continued, incessant chatter in his brain. It doesn't, however, keep his paranoid brain from hearing the telltale signs of impending danger: shifting of glass from above, a strange creaking of the chair. A split second before the bookcases explode into a swarm of books, he drops his mental shield and readies himself for the fight. To those who could sense magic, in that moment his aura blazes exponentially brighter as he gathers his will.

    "Oh, no, no, no," he mutters, sounding genuinely distraught. "How dare they turn literature against me? It's my only reliable source of entertainment! I can't watch!"

    Having said that (mostly intentionally-dramatic) declaration, he flies up to the chandelier above. The temperature around him drops noticeably, and frost gathers on his outstretched hand as he gestures at the chandelier. "Infriga!" he shouts, and from nowhere ice erupts in the air, stagnating the chandelier's very essence as the chill invades its core. Marcus then drops back down to the ground, brown staff held in a defensive posture.

    The Blackstaff on his belt fairly pulses with a sick excitement that Marcus can feel on the inside of his head. It wants to be used, wants him to wield it to crush his enemies, and he pushes its promises of power back. Marcus will use it when he chooses to, not a moment sooner.

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    Move action: Fly into Close range of the Chandelier

    Standard action: Attack with Infriga, All-Out Attack/Power Attack for 2, (1d20+8)[22] vs DC 25 Damage, DC 20 Fort vs Impaired/Disabled/Paralyzed

    Move-by Action: Fly back down to ground level.
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    "I wonder if they'll let us keep theAH-!"

    Claire had barely even sat down when the room around them suddenly burst into activity, the books they'd picked up exploding out of their grip in a flurry of pages as the seat below them suddenly lurched and revealed a long, disgusting tongue.

    Claire immediately dropped the few non-monstrous books they'd been holding and stumbled back away from the center of the room, wide-eyed. Part of them shared in Colin's excitement; living objects! What even were they, was this a spell, or were they living creatures of some kind, or were they being, like, possessed somehow? The rest of them was consumed with another, rather pressing concern, though: whatever these things were, Claire couldn't sense any sort of mind, even a primitive one. Considering their abilities, and the abilities they'd *claimed* to have, that made this a...potentially very bad situation.

    Claire lifted themselves in the air and backed up a bit as Colin and Adrien leapt into action, taking in the situation. Couldn't hit these things mentally if there were no minds to hit. So...

    They looked up at the chandelier Marcus had just frozen, dangling ominously above Colin...and the high-backed chair. An idea began to take form. Not a good one, probably, but an idea. Maybe something else could do the hitting for them?

    They zipped past Marcus as he retreated, up past the chandelier and to the space between it and the ceiling.

    "I think this decor..." they said, pulling back their fist, "needs some REARRANGEMENT!" They punched the top of the chandelier (well, pretended to punch; there was no real force behind it) and shoved it downwards with their power, aiming for the high-backed chair below.

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    Free Action: set Very Real Superhero Moves to "Strong Punch, huh?"

    Move Action: use Flight to move up to the ceiling above the chandelier.

    Standard Action: Use "Strong Punch, huh?" on the chandelier, shoving the chandelier into the high-backed chair. DC23 Will vs [Psychic]/[Eldritch] Damage, DC 16 Strength to resist being pushed. I don't know if hitting the chair accurately with Perception-Range Move Object requires a roll.
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    WHOOSH!

    The slide sent the pair tumbling down deeper in to the darkness, heck it might have even been fun if the whole thing hadn't been as choked with cobwebs as the pit they had just came from. Much like the last room this one was bathed in an eerie purple glow, though this time the light was coming not from many small spiders but from a single enormous spider hanging above the room at the centre of a massive web where a girl with turquoise skin struggled to free herself from an ensnaring cocoon.

    Frankly though you weren't sure why she was fighting it, that web looks so inviting...

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    Both of you make a DC21 Dodge Save and if that fails a DC21 Will vs Entranced/Compelled/Controlled (Limited:Only to make subjects entangle themselves in the web, Entranced can be ignored any turn the target entangles themself in the web)

    And here's initiative because we all know which way this is going

    Anthony (1d20)[5]
    Kelly (1d20+15)[19]

    Spider (1d20+12)[32]

    Spider is on turn...I guess?

    Adrien, Colin, Claire & Marcus

    Whilst the books surrounding Adrien didn't seem to have any eyes that could be distracted by his sparkly display they certainly seemed flammable enough, recoiling in pain as several volumes ignited and dropped to the ground, before redoubled their efforts and surrounding him, battering unrelentingly against him in an angry swarm.

    Fragarach clanged off the outside of the iron woodburner, the enchanted lade protecting him from the searing hot surface of the animated object. In retaliation its front hatch swung noisily open on its hinges and fire vomited forth over the young swordsman.

    Up above the melee the Chandelier was covered in a thick layer of frost by Marcus' magic which was almost immediately knocked off again by Claire's blow that rocked it from side to side but didn't quite unhinge it from its mooring on the ceiling. The crackling energy dancing inside of it coalesced at the tip of a single limb before finally lancing out towards the young mage in a single bolt whilst the chair's tongue reached out towards Claire trying to pull the flying girl back down to earth.

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    Standard: Attack Adrien with Buffet (1d20+8)[12] DC23 Toughness & DC18 Will vs Cumulative Impaired&Vulnerable/Disabled&Defenceless if that hits Miss
    Move: Nah

    Chandelier
    Standard: Attack Marcus with Taser Bolt (1d20+8)[18] DC23 Toughness & DC18 Fortitude vs Vulnerable/Stunned if that hits Hits
    Move:Dazed

    Woodburner
    Standard: Attack Colin with Flamebreath (1d20+8)[9] DC23 Toughness Save vs Damage with Secondary Effect if that hits Miss
    Move:Nope

    Chair
    Standard: Attack Claire with Lash (1d20+8)[22] DC23+Multiattack Toughness & DC18+Multiattack Dodge/Strength or be Grabbed if that hits. Hits +2 Multiattack
    Move:Why Move when you have elongation?


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    The chandelier's taser hits Marcus hard, but he rolls and manages to take the full force on his quite-fashionable duster. The electricity that courses through him from the hit is a bit harder to ignore. He manages to throw it off, but he has to take a split second to gather himself.

    And in that fraction of time, he sees the chair has fully gripped Claire in its monstrous tongue.

    Marcus' dad raised him right. He may have left far too soon, but he did everything he could to instill the proper tenets of chivalry into Marcus. Marcus may have left behind many of those lessons, but one lesson stuck--girls are the fairer sex, and should be treated as such. Marcus knows, intellectually, that as a fellow AvAcad hopeful, Clare is more than capable of taking care of herself against enemies of this level. Hell, for all he knows, she'd be insulted that he would try to keep her safe.

    Emotionally, it's a whole 'nother story. Claire was the first of their group to reach out to him, personally; Colin had thanked him, but Claire had wanted him to stay. She had geeked out with him about magic, his own magic that Marcus sometimes considers a curse in his weaker moments. Emotionally, seeing Claire in greater danger sparks a fire that rages hot and fast.

    Before he knows it, the Blackstaff is in his hand. Once-invisible runes burn with a blue-white light, and flames curl around the top. Marcus does his best to push back the flood of blackness, the rising tide of ugly thoughts and honeyed words from the dark artifact as he flies back down to the ground, right beside the high-backed chair. "Let go of her! Pyrofuego!"

    From the Blackstaff, powered by Marcus' rage, erupts a waterfall of white-hot flames. They leap and dance, as if excited to be free, and converge on each of the animated objects in turn. Greenish-brown runes appear on Marcus' duster, connecting him to the strength of the earth and filling him with renewed strength.

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    Free action: Swap to Flamma.

    Move action: To the ground, in Close with the chair.

    Standard action: Use Pyrofuego, Selectively targeting all four animated objects, AoA/PA for 2.
    Chair: (1d20+8)[14] Probable Miss
    Chandelier: (1d20+8)[16] Probable Miss
    Woodburner: (1d20+8)[25] Probable Hit, assuming something with the word burner in its name is at all affected by the [Fire] descriptor
    Books: (1d20+8)[19] Probable Hit

    Will DC 18 vs Weaken Will for Side Effect: (1d20+10)[21] Resists

    Free action: Swap to Knight Terra, assuming that the floor counts as solid ground, gaining Enhanced Strength 8

    Status: Fine, Pending Will save
    HP: 1
    Luck: 1/2
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    As his hand rang with the force of Fragarach bouncing off the woodburner, Colin's eyes widened as the front grate of the burner swung open. Instinct - honed through training in Michael's own gauntlet of traps - kicked in, and Colin pivoted to the side, dodging the searing flames. He noticed out of the corner of his eye, that Claire had been attacked by the chair. Which had a tongue.

    These creatures were strange, but he needed to focus on the burner directly in front of him. Marcus' flames looked like they might help Claire out of her tight spot, but he needed to focus on the burner now. He wasn't exactly sure how effective Marcus' flames would be against the burner, so Colin redoubled his efforts, bringing Fragarach for an upward strike, folllowed by a series of quick thrusts with the blade.

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    Standard Action: Attack with Gale Flurry: (1d20+8)[18]. On a hit, DC 23+Multiattack Toughness vs. [Wind]/[Slashing] Damage
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    "Oh, hey, books don't like fire, guys!" Adrien called to the others, as he watched a couple of the books drop out of the sky. "Which sounds far more unnecessary to say than it seemed in my head, but you know what I mean."

    Then the books retaliated. "Whoa, hey, watch the guitar!" Adrien ducked and weaved around the torrent of angry books with a surprising elegance, albeit also with somewhat more extravagant moves than were strictly necessary. A brief glance around told him that not everyone had escaped the attacks as well as him - especially Claire, who had been wrapped up in the chair's tongue. "Eww!" he complained, watching the chair reel her in.

    He frowned slightly, and clicked his fingers again, and once again from the top hat erupted a shower of fireworks that rained down on the books - but this time they exploded in a more controlled pattern, forming a wall of sparks that would hopefully defeat whatever senses the books were using (and, y'know, also set a few more books on fire.)

    As the bright flash faded, the cartoon tiger reappeared, cartwheeling through the air until it landed on the back of the chair, holding a pair of almost comically oversized boxing gloves, which it presented to Claire with a 'Ta-da!' and quickly slipped onto her hands.

    "C'mon, Claire!" Adrien called to her, settling into what might have been charitably called a combat stance...if one took their definitions of combat stances from cartoons and over-the-top movies - though he seemed to be paying attention as much to her as to the books swarming angrily around him. With another click of his fingers, a trio of spotlights shone down upon her and the chair. "Beat the stuffing out of it!"

    To most people, it would probably look like he was just trying to cheer her up or something. But if Claire moved her newly-gloved hands a little, she would notice it moving surprisingly easily, even considering her tied-up state, Adrien's telekinetic powers lending her blows a more potent impact that would potentially leave significant damage to the clingy furniture. Hopefully the school had insurance.

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    Move: Feint the books at -5, but +5 from Centre Stage: (1d20+8)[17].
    Free: Reconfigure All The World's A Stage to Extra Limb 1 [Limited Projection], Elongation 3 [Quirk x2, Feature], Environment 1 [Selective], Illusion 5.
    Standard: Attack the books with another Firework Display. If the feint worked I'll power attack for 2: (1d20+8)[24] (possibly -2). DC28 or 30 Toughness after weakness vs [Fire] Damage and DC18 or 20 Will vs Visually Impaired/Visually Disabled/Visually Unaware. This is no longer a [Mental] effect, although they may well still be immune to it by dint of, y'know, not having eyes.
    Free: Elongate over to Claire.
    Free: Switch to Shine the Spotlight.
    Extra Effort: Use Shine the Spotlight on Claire. DC15 Insight to notice that it's an illusion, and anyone who succeeds and who also has Detect Psionic can tell that Adrien's doing more than just silly tricks. Also Claire has a literal spotlight now.
    - 8 points to change Alternate Resistance to Toughness on Strong Punch, Huh?.
    - 3 points to increase the rank of Move Object up to 8.
    - 4 points to add Linked Weaken Toughness 8 [Toughness] (Increased Range 2, Limited: Melee, Limited: Non-cumulative, Limited: Only against own attacks) to Strong Punch, Huh? as a variation on the Damage.
    - And as per the discussion on Discord, changing [Psychic] descriptor to [Telekinetic].

    Status: Fatigued next round.
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    ...well, now Claire felt a bit dumb. that attack had done barely anything it seemed, and after they'd shouted that kind of cheesy one-liner and everyth-"ERP!"

    They suddenly had the wind knocked out of them as they were struck in the stomach (and then very quickly wrapped up from the waist down) by a massive, drool-coated pink thing. They looked back down at the chair below almost incredulously. How long *was* that tongue? Where was it kept, was it rolled up, or...?

    Ugh. Focus.

    There was a flutter of joy in Claire's chest as they heard Marcus cry out and attack the monster binding her with some sort of fire (!), and heard Adrien call out words of encouragement. Their friends! Cared! About them! Probably! And they'd only known each other for like less than an hour! In spite of the monstrous piece of furniture shaking them around like a chew toy, a wide grin spread across their face.

    That grin did drop a little in confusion as spotlights suddenly shined in their face from nowhere, and the little tiger from earlier cartwheeled up to the chandelier, offering them a pair of, massive, red, shiny...gloves...?

    They seemed to fit on Claire's hands well enough, anyway, and as they slipped on, they felt...something, some power, easing their movements slightly in spite of the tongue wrapped tightly around their legs.

    Fight and kick as they might, they couldn't squirm their way out of the tongue's coil; even slick with saliva, the chair's grip was astonishingly strong. Claire struggled to the best position she could and, with an exaggerated, almost comical windup (the gloves seemed to be moving with a slight mind of their own), punched downwards once again, a massive burst of cartoonish purple-and-white stars erupting outwards from the chandelier as they did.

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    Move Action: attempt to escape grab. (Roll is here.)

    Standard Action: Use "Strong punch, huh?" on the chandelier, using Move Object to shove the chandelier into the high-backed chair. DC23 Toughness vs.[Telekinetic] Damage, DC18 Dodge/Strength to avoid being pushed, DC18 Toughness vs Weaken Toughness.
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    Kelly & Anthony

    From its perch up on the web the monstrous creature was momentarily distracted from its captured prey, its many faceted eyes draw to glowing light that accompanied the newest arrivals to its lair. In fact if you didn't know any better you'd think that it was sizing you up...

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    With no traps pestering them on entry, Kelly headed down the slide on her rainbow platform. When they got to the bottom, she swept a quick look about the room. For a moment the webs looked awfully inviting...and the very thought set Kelly's heart pounding with the fear of being trapped in them. The conflicting emotions were momentarily confusing, but Kelly quickly recognized the signs of a mental attack. She knew the feeling well enough from training - her sister Dove was a skilled telepath, and once she had developed her powers, their father had made it a point to include detection and resistance training into their usual regimens. Kelly quickly averted her gaze to avoid the hypnotic attack.

    Even so, she was a speedster; she could take a lot in at a glance. Including the woman...trapped in the webs? On the one hand, that was weird. She had quickly outpaced even the other speedsters, even after giving them a head-start (why yes, Kelly was a Mythbusters fan, thanks for asking). No way another student could have gotten here before them, so how did she get here?

    Kelly didn't know, but the fact was, it didn't matter. The young woman needed help!

    The spider was big though. Darn big. Kelly was fast, but she wasn't exactly a powerhouse of massive damage. Fortunately, she had a powerhouse standing beside her! She could play this just like she would fighting alongside her big brother.

    Out came Kelly's whips. She connected the enchanted rods front-to-back, producing a long, flexible beam of bright orange light. That, she lashed up at the spider, more aiming to distract it than anything, keep it off-balance and give Anthony an opening while ready to quickly shield them from any return attack!

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    I'm assuming the spider's within 60', but let me know if not and I'll edit.

    Move: Meh.

    Free: Swap to Rainbow Rage.

    Standard: Defensive Strike, using the attack part as an Aid for Anthony at (1d20+17)[30]. Kelly is Deflected at 1d10+22, Anthony at 1d10+16, after accounting for tradeoffs. Anthony gets +5 to his next Close attack against the spider.

    Current Status: Deflected (1d10+22).
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    Anthony rode the rainbow down the slide, alert for any danger that might jump out and threaten his ally. When they hit the bottom, at first he saw nothing but then the eerie light and and the sounds of struggle drew his attention upward, first to the giant spider and then to the girl trapped in the webs. But why was she struggling? The cocoon she was half covered in seemed so inviting. So comfortable and relaxing... not unlike the pod he'd come from.

    Anthony shuddered at the unwelcome thought, glancing down and closing his eyes, unknowingly breaking the enchantment. He just knew he didn't want to go back in that pod. And that there was a monster to fight and a girl to save.

    He tensed and lept upward, rocketing directly at the Spider. He grinned at the orange beam lashing past him - of course Kelly would have a brightly colored weapon and roughly the same idea as him. He drew back his fist and punched with all his might as he slammed into the spider from below, hoping to hit it hard enough to lift it off the web so he could grab it slam it on its back.

    "Grab the girl, I got the spider!"

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    Move: Leap at the Spider!
    Standard: Attack Spider with Mighty Blow, Accurate Attack 2, All-Out-Attack 2. (1d20+13)[32]. Crit. On Hit, DC 25 30 Toughness vs Damage, Worse of Acrobatics or Athletics (1d20+16)[19] 24 vs Trip, and Str or Dodge DC 24 29 vs Grab. (I assume the Crit affects Fast Grab? )

    Status: -2 Defense, Deflected at 1d10+14 (or +16 if AoA doesn't apply)
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    With Kelly's distraction, Anthony smashed in to the oversized arachnid hard but failed to make a dent in its glowing purple carapace, with the beast staying firmly with all eight legs on its sticky (and oh so enticing) web. That isn't to say that he hadn't caught its attention as it reared up in front of him and hissed, its mandibles dripping with venom.

    Meanwhile the girl had stopped struggling and simply watching the scene in front of her play out with a certain air of resignation.

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    Start of Turn:Kelly & Anthony make a DC21 Defence Save and if that fails make a DC21 Will Save vs Entranced/Compelled/Controlled (Limited:Only to make subjects entangle themselves in the web, Entranced can be ignored any turn the target entangles themself in the web) and I believe Anthony is on the web now so that's a DC21 Defence Save vs (Dazed&Vulnerable/Stunned&Defenceless/Paralysed, Resisted by Defence/Overcome by Defence/Damage)(Cumulative, Extra Condition, Reaction:Being Touched)(Limited:First Track is Physical Actions Only, Second Track is Limited Degree)

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    Standard: Attack Anthony with Venomous Bite (1d20+11)[18] DC26 Toughness Save & DC21 Fortitude Save vs Progressive Weaken Stamina if that hits Miss?
    Move: Dazed

    Heroes are on turn!

    Adrien, Colin, Claire & Marcus

    Marcus' flames tore through the room, artfully moving their way between targets and leaving his new allies unharmed, unfortunately while it had reduced a number of books to ashes it didn't seem to have much effect on their ability to continue fighting and the other objects seem more or less unharmed. The same couldn't be said for Adrien's fireworks which, although they couldn't do much in the way of blinding the eyeless books, tore through them like a wildfire burning several books to cinders, those that were left buffeting him with renewed fury to avenge their fallen brethren.

    Once again Colin's magic sword clanged off the heavy iron wood burner and was rewarded for his efforts by another gout of flame shooting from within in his direction whilst up above the energy inside the glass chandelier that was still moored to the ceiling spread out within it before shooting out from each tip in crackling bolts that arced from target to target.

    With Claire still in its slimy grip the chair began to reel the young hero towards it, tightening its grasp all the while.

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    Standard: Attack Adrien with Buffet (1d20+8)[23] DC23 Toughness & DC18 Will vs Cumulative Impaired&Vulnerable/Disabled&Defenceless if that hits. Hits
    Move: Staggered

    Woodburner
    Standard: Attack Colin with Flamebreath (1d20+8)[14] DC23 Toughness Save vs Damage with Secondary Effect if that hits. Miss
    Move: Nope

    Chandelier
    Standard: Attack with Chain Lighting, Adrien, Colin, Marcus & Claire make a DC18 Defence Save & a DC23/19 Toughness Save vs Damage
    Move: Nope

    Chair
    Move: Pull Claire in to Close Range DC18 Strength to resist
    Standard: Inflict Strength Damage to Claire, DC23 Toughness Save

    Heroes are on turn!
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    Titan in the Playground
     
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    Kelly avoided looking at the web any more than she had to; as fast as she could perceive the world, that wasn't long enough for whatever weird hypnotic power the spider had to affect her.

    It was, nonetheless, long enough for her to see the spider's fangs coming dangerously close to Anthony. Mere inches away, her whip lashed up, its light suddenly shifting from orange to purple, to slap against the spider's cheek. The blow wouldn't do any damage, but the kinetic force turned its head aside, knocking it away from Anthony. "And what we've learned today is that eight legs still makes you slower than seven colors!" she quipped with a bright smile.

    Despite their solid opening though, the trapped young woman seemed kinda resigned as she watched the battle. "Don't worry, we'll get you out of this! Just as soon as Leggy McWebskitter up here stops moving around so much!" she called in cheery encouragement, assuming the woman just didn't expect they'd win or something.

    Mom and Dad's rules for effective superheroics #5: It's not enough to keep people safe. You have to make them feel safe.

    Speaking of keeping people safe, Kelly's whip continued snapping up at the spider in a glowing blur, using the kinetic force of the purple whip not so much to cause harm, but to unbalance the spider, limit its options, and protect her and Anthony.

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    Move: Sure she'll zip around a bit, she's a speedster, standing in one place for too long is against Union bylaws.

    Standard: Second verse same as the first. Aid Anthony's next attack at (1d20+17)[31]. Deflect for both of us (Anthony at 1d10+16, Kelly at 1d10+22). Anthony gets +5 on his next Close attack.

    Free: Avert gaze, taking -2 on attack rolls for +10 on the Defense save against Perception Range/Sense Dependent effects targeting vision.

    Current Status: Deflected (1d10+22).
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