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Post by dtspurrier on Jun 24, 2021 7:13:47 GMT
Hour-man shuts off the flashlight and puts it on his belt. He uses the candle as limited light and proceeds quietly down the corridor. As he proceeds further he listens to see if he can hear any noise or conversation.
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Post by Adminenkainen on Jun 24, 2021 16:15:33 GMT
In the dim candlelight, Hour-Man sees the chamber is larger than the candle allows him to see. The scene is like out of a nightmare -- the Devil is in the chamber! No, two devils! Three...? They have red skin, horns, and even goatees, though most of their bodies are concealed by dark shroud-like cloaks. Two of them are loading a smaller body into a wooden casket, one of a stack of wooden caskets nearby them.
The three devils have stopped and are watching Hour-Man, though it seems like it may be just a moment's hesitation before they spring into action!
((the devils are 25' into the room and that far from Hour-Man, with no cover in between that he can see))
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Post by dtspurrier on Jun 28, 2021 4:02:57 GMT
Hour-man stops and realizes that someone must be in trouble, time to be a hero. Hour-man springs into action. He concentrates on his amulet and his skin become nigh invulnerable and proceeds to move into action. After activate his power he runs over and tries to punch one of the devils.
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Post by Adminenkainen on Jun 29, 2021 4:06:54 GMT
Hour-Man charged them -- and was surprised to see the devils looked worried! In fact, when two of them dropped the body they were holding into the casket, he could tell now they had been wincing in pain. Now they moved back away from him, but not fast enough to keep Hour-Man from reaching them. Before he could throw his first punch, however, a human skeleton popped out of the casket the dead man had just been placed in and it silently clambered out, just as three more skeletons approached him...
((Aim for a skeleton, or a devil?))
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Post by dtspurrier on Jun 29, 2021 5:21:11 GMT
in a moment of shock he realized that the body was a moving skeleton and he was becoming outnumbered. HE quickly strikes the devil and then moves to the crates
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Post by Adminenkainen on Jun 30, 2021 16:25:13 GMT
Hour-Man's fist missed by an inch before he was forced to step back by the advancing skeletons. The devil who almost got punched shouted something short in an unknown language -- funny, but Hour-Man had always assumed, if the Devil was real, he'd speak English.
Although outnumbered by the skeletons, strangely only one attacked him, while the others hung back in attack positions. It tried to grab and hold him -- and succeeded! Hour-Man was spun around like a doll, put in a powerful hold, and dragged to the floor.
Also funny, the skeleton made no noise at all, even when its bones should have been clacking together. But then, a skeleton shouldn't be standing and attacking on its own either! The supernatural made no sense!
The devils were shouting more in an unknown language, but if it was orders to the skeletons or they were trying to communicate with Hour-Man, he couldn't tell.
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Post by dtspurrier on Jul 12, 2021 14:53:47 GMT
Hour-man does not feel adrenaline or fear and wonders if this excitement is what most humans would feel in a time like this, but something does kick in to make realize this is flight or fight.
(ooc: editor not sure if skeletons can be wrecked but Hour-man would try this. If this cannot be wrecked then he will activate "raise the car" to break the grapple)
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Post by Adminenkainen on Jul 12, 2021 23:36:10 GMT
Hour-Man reaches his magic hourglass amulet and triggers his full powers. He should be able to hurl the skeletons off him like they were nothing...but he cannot! He digs deeper ((Raise Car activated)), but still they keep him pinned down! How are they so impossibly strong?
All the while ((he's been pinned for 90 seconds now)), the devils shout strange commands, and skinny men with short gray fur, tails, and rat-like heads (and wearing loinclothes, so you can't see their junk) start entering the room from an open doorway, carrying nets...
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Post by dtspurrier on Jul 15, 2021 14:42:57 GMT
hour-man seeing more danger and capture needs to do something. He makes another effort to throw these creatures off him ( either break free of grapple or use wreck if possible)
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Post by Adminenkainen on Jul 15, 2021 17:56:12 GMT
Hour-Man concentrates on nothing else than getting up off the floor. He doesn't even notice the skeletons anymore. He just shuts his eyes and moves.
And he succeeds! He's soon in a standing position again. Opening his eyes, he looks around and sees the four skeletons standing back now. There are five of these rat-men with two nets between them, but they hesitated too long before moving in and throwing them over him.
They try now, but Hour-Man pushes them all back and keeps knocking the nets away.
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Post by dtspurrier on Jul 19, 2021 16:06:47 GMT
feeling a little embarrased and the odd are a little against him, Hour-man looks for an exit and moves around for cover. Then Hour-man android's self protecting programming activates and his fighting becomes enhanced. He strikes the first rat-man with his new superhuman fighting then moves back for cover like a boxer.
( activating android power Get tough or raise the train, the one that improves multiple attacks)
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Post by Adminenkainen on Jul 20, 2021 16:03:22 GMT
((Get Tough is the power you chose as your android power.))
Hour-Man sees there is not a lot of cover in the room, except for the stacks of wooden caskets. Hour-Man backs up towards them and, to his delight, finds the rat-men do not wish to follow him closer to the caskets.
That does leave the skeletons free to advance on him again, though. They try to grapple him and drag him to the floor again, but (buffed with both Raise Car and Get Tough), Hour-Man is easily able to fling them across the room each time they try.
For the moment, Hour-Man is stalemated with his foes. The rat-men have added a sixth member that came in from the doorway to the next room, but they aren't advancing. The skeletons can't get close to him. He has wooden caskets protecting his back, but now he would have to wade through the skeletons to flee the way he came or through the rat-men to get to the next room.
And the three devils are moving to flank him now...
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Post by dtspurrier on Jul 20, 2021 16:33:47 GMT
Hour-man in a attempt for some space, using his enhanced strength shoulders a stack of caskets in an attempt to knock them over, which will hopefully land on the skeletons or the devils to pin them or at least make the terrain a little more difficult.
( editor note: I don't know if this is a wreck roll or a hit roll for this)
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Post by Adminenkainen on Jul 22, 2021 4:21:47 GMT
The skeletons were out of reach of a tipped over stack of caskets, but not the devils. There were two on Hour-Man's right and one on his left, so he tipped over the caskets towards the two on his right. One jumped out of the way while the other was pinned under the caskets and cried out in alarm.
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Post by dtspurrier on Jul 22, 2021 22:57:12 GMT
Hour-man scans the ground and seeing a casket, that did not pin one of these strange devils, he pics it up turns it sideways and tries to ram the four skeletons like a battering ram, saying " you won't get me that easy. coming through!"
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