Valiant City Play By Post / Online Roll20 campaign

[sehmerus]

Rules for the  Valiant City play by post!   

1- all posts are considered in character unless you use  Double asterisks before and after any out of character dialogue.
2- In a situation where an ability check or attack/ defense roll would be required, buying successes is the only options allowed in the play by post by players. as Dm i will roll Vs your scores.  
3- You can only join in the play by post if you have been invited, feel free to ask about joining in the "on-line play forum Not this one"
4- for the most part ,the play by post is intended as the "leg work" of the campaign. and will result in escalating to a confrontation which will be run Live on  www.roll20.net (recommend using firefox browser)
5- by joining the ongoing PBP it is assumed that you intend to participate in the roll20 games when we do them. obvious "real world events and conditions" are understandable.
6- if at all possible we try and and schedule the live games to best fit everyones schedule, it is not a set schedule. i anticipate 1 or 2 sessions a month in a GOOD month. 

[sehmerus]

Valiant City #1-1

Arriving at Head quarters Full Metal Jacket, and Raptor Star have been in the waiting room for what seems like hours. If you were to read any more of the lame home & Garden Magazine articles on the table your eyes would go crossed for sure.  Wether pacing, reading, or whatever twitchy nervous thing you do, Nothing seems to calm you from the awkward uncomfortable feeling of being in trouble. This all too much makes you remember days of old sitting in the principles office waiting to hear the verdict.  not being able to take it anymore you  reach up to the small tube TV that is bolted into a plate at the top corned of the room. it must only be 20" if even. "this is rediculous" you think to yourself as the channels fly by one after another. "the job was a success, whats all the waiting" just then the tv stops to a news Bulletin...



BREAKING NEWS!!  This just in, Super Heroes & Villains Battle in Parking Lot of Coffee shop.  10's of thousands of dollars of damage estimated. the store owners talk of lawsuits, More at 11!!!!!


"oops" you say under your breathe.

"oops is Right, We assumed you to be more "professional" than what we witnessed. Especially you Full Metal Jacket!"  Pazuzu says in a solid tone.   Full Metal Jacket, & Raptor Star meet each others gaze, its apparent that they both are confused as to the tone of Pazuzu.
"You may enter now" and with that confirmation a double door slides open to the side to reveal a conference room where all the members of Demon Force are sitting. directly in front of the open door are two empty seats that are centered in room giving every member of the team equal view of both seats.

"have a seat gentlemen" Pazuzu says as he walks around your to take his seat at the head of the table.

after finding your seat. you feel the glare of the team on you before Pazuz continues.

" we safely got the girl out. she was not harmed. I wish i could say the same about the parking lot. your little crater stunt is costing this Dept. a pretty penny. If you wish to stay on this team we you can't be busting $20,000 craters into civilian property. so consider this your warning."

Pazuzu continues " there is something SPECIAL about this girl, there is got to be some reason the Red Dragon Would go through the trouble of a brawl in public to get her. and more importantly Working with robot Henchmen is not Red Dragons' M.O. so that leads us to believe he is working with someone else. This makes us even more nervous, We are still barely just above training here, and there is signs of a super villain TEAM. NAEP will surely reassign us to the arctic if we can't handle this situation, so I'm giving you both Full access to the team and the teams resources. I will start by letting you try and interview the girl and see if you can find anything out. We tried to talk to her but she says she will only talk to those who saved her.   Is there any questions?"

[Nestor]

""For future reference, it's generally not good form to "play" other player's characters for them. I understand you wanted to set the scene up, but give us a chance to tell you what our characters are doing.""

"Sure, I have a question," Full Metal Jacket asks conversationally. "What kind of chickens**t outfit are you running?

"You throw us out there with no intel, no prep, like some sort of frat-house hazing and now you're bitching because it didn't go clean and pretty? When we arrived, Red Dragon, oh and thank you for telling us his name, obviously you know more about him than we did but didn't see fit to share. Where was I? Oh yeah, the flaming ninja was already lighting up half the lot, so property damage was a done deal. And seeing how dropping on that one 'bot didn't seem to do more than rile it up, it was obvious they weren't going to go down easy.

"If you cared so much about controlling the situation, a little backup would've been appreciated. But no, you figured you'd let us hang just so you can sit here and get your jollies chewing us out. Fine, get it out of your system. Just don't expect me to swallow your s**t and grin."

He stands up. "Are we done here? 'Cause it sounds like there's a scared young girl who might need our help and you're making her wait."

[sehmerus]

Pazuz Stands to meet your gaze from across the conference table. Hard to read Him with his mask. but its obvious from his tone and his reaction to you that your not his favorite person right now. But as you recalled from meeting him in the training room earlier. he seems to have that effect on everyone in the team.

"Very well, She is in interrogation room C6" Says Pazuz as he gestures to a side door that slides open revealing a hallway ov various numbered doors A1-A12 and the end of the Hallways is an elevator that is labeled A-J

Most of the rooms in hallway A are empty, Except A-9. Its not hard to miss a Metal cadaver table with a Slumped over Dissected Alien on it. The Gorushe (Gore-oosh) as they were later called. You never seen one yourself with your own eyes until now. only visions on the News as they fell from the sky to cripple the city. for the most part they look Human. but they have2 sets of eyes. set extremely close together on either side of their nose. You know they are very strong. and had some pretty nifty weapons too. But this one just sits there with its chest innards exposed with pins and prods sticking out. You almost didn't notice the man in the corner typing away on his laptop while reading various print-outs that no doubtfully came from examining this alien. He then snaps his head up from his work in time to see that his lab door window is not covered. and without a word flips a switch behind him which lowers black glass in front of the doors window preventing any further viewing.



And with a Ding, the elevator at the end of the hallway Opens.

[XanderOpal]

Raptor Star's method of pacing in a small room is unusual. Instead of back and forth, there is only forth, as the raptor-woman has the ends of a portal facing each other on opposite walls.

One glance at the seats is all Raptor Star needs to see that there's no provision for someone with a tail. She grumbles something about needing to remember a camp stool or something before sitting cross-legged on the floor.

Her normally defiant attitude bends under Pazuzu's verbal onslaught. Raptor Star is definitely feeling like the rookie she is, not knowing how to deal with something tougher than some would-be muggers in an alley.

"Uh, no questions," she mumbles after FMJ throws Pazuzu's chewing-out back in his face, belatedly scrambling to her feet.

[Nestor]

As the two make their way towards the end of the hall and the elevator, FMJ remarks gently, "Don't let him get to you, Star. You did good out there."

He politely stands aside to let Raptor Star enter the elevator first, holding the door open.

[XanderOpal]

Raptor Star looks up at FMB and gives a little smile, and stops dragging her tail at least. "You think so? Before all this, I just chased thugs near the University campus."

She is very quick to hop into the elevator, making sure that tail is fully inside. For some reason, door sensors tend not to notice that appendage.

[sehmerus]

The Elevator closes. and begins to accelerate rapidly.

** Raptor star, your able to determine by the motion of the 'Elevator" it is not just going up and down, but also left and right. like a wonkavator if you will**
** FMJ you are not aware of this, perhaps cuz your still deep in your thoughts about the confrontation with pazuzu **

Suddenly there is a sudden jerk as the Elevator stops. the doors swoosh open to reveal Pox standing wearing a lab coat, holding a clipboard and small box.
" Oh glad i got you before you did the interrogation. Now that you passed NEOs "initiation, he wants me to give you theses." He opens the box and hands you what appears as a watch. these are our team communicators. not all of us can speak to your brain like Neo does. it also allows us to send you intelligence reports on people you might meet, its easier battling someone like "Red Dragon" if you know their weaknesses. well these gadgets offer you to know what we know. access to our database. also you get to use the credit line for Jay-jays Pizza & Beer, its a nice perk of the team." You can either wear them as a watch. or if you press all buttons at once it will imbed itself in your tissue so you don't have to worry about losing it, or it being taken incase of a hostage situation. FMJ, yours has been slightly modified do to your ability. if you want to imbed it you can only do so when not in your other form. it took me and neo all night working on it to be resistant to your other forms biology but we think we got it."

[XanderOpal]

Raptor Star looks rather disturbed at the thought of the communicator being embedded into her wrist. "Um, thanks?" she replies, looking at it like it'll do so on its own. For the moment, she just reaches into nothingness, her hand disappearing as she stashes it in extradimensional space.

[Nestor]

FMJ chuckles. "If you'd asked me, I would've saved you the trouble. I'll just wear it on my wrist, thanks."

He straps the wrist on and examines it. "Hopefully you have an instruction manual for this thing somewhere," he says with a smile.

[sehmerus]

The communicator snaps to life as the mini screen lights up with a Demon Logo before displaying the time. Pox tells you that it has over 12 million voice activated commands and its keyed to respond only to your voice. As the Elevator opens to Level A, pox wishes you well as he stays in the elevator and pushes a button and is soon swallowed by the elevator doors.

Level A is much the same as the other levels you have seen of the compound. it is one long hallway with 2 BIG rooms on the end and smaller room/labs/ cells lining both sides of the hallway.

When you arrive to the Interigation room A man in a suit stands at attention with his back against the wall next to the door, the bulge in his armpit lets you believe he might be armed. He Nods at your approach and opens the door for you.

Inside is a interrogation table with a young women maybe 18, she is dressed in a pair a jeans and a ripped tank top mostly likely from the battle in the parking lot. her hands are on the table palms down and her head is cheek to surface with her long dark hair covering her face.
her wrists are handcuffed together through a metal loop built into the table.

"what the hell is going on here, i want answers, i did nothing wrong!!" the girl screams, and starts to franticly stand but the chains on her wrist prevent her to as she comes snapping back down to place with a screech of pain. it is then when her hair, now glistening with sweat & tears, parts enough to seeker eyes, she has very old looking eyes. almost matching what a drug addict might look like , dark circles under her eyes. her eyes are very squinty as if she's half awake.

She finally calmly sits in the chair with her full attention to you guys standing in the doorway.
" ok fine whatever, when do i get my phone call" she says under her tears.

[Nestor]

FMJ stands silently for a second after the girl's tirade winds down. There's no visible expression on his face, but his stance is rigid with tension. He lifts a finger without saying a word and steps back out, closing the door.

He stares down the guard and with a violently quiet voice asks the guard, "I'm going to ask you two questions. Who authorized her being handcuffed and do you have the key?"

[Nestor]

""I hate to this this on such an exciting point but my wife and I will be traveling next week so my Internet access may be spotty. I'll try to keep up with the flow, but I apologize if I don't respond as quickly as I should be.""

[sehmerus]

The Guard Doesn't move to your intimidation, but the lump in his throat shows that he heard you loud and clear.

" Sir, Pazuzu had asked she be cuffed until her bio tests come back. I do have the key, Sir, but i am under orders not to remove the cuffs until i get the go ahead from Pazuzu"

as if noticing your confrontational thoughts of pazuzu, the Guard continues " yea paz is a dick, sir. even tho Im under orders not to remove the cuffs, I have no orders against relinquishing my keys to a DF Member, If Ordered. Sir"

[XanderOpal]

Raptor Star, who has been horrified and speechless about the imprisoned young girl, grins widely (And toothily, but that can't be helped) at the guard.

"Well then. I most politely order you to give the handcuff key to Full Metal Jacket."
As an aside to her partner-in-crimebusting, "I think you'd best be the one to free her. People freak out at me for some reason."