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Post by Adminenkainen on Jul 22, 2022 23:54:04 GMT
Captain Desmo and Hour-Man (and Hawkgirl) Appleton City Flatiron District Bentley House 2:05 am (hour of power ends at 2:53 am)
Hour-Man reached the second floor, saw Captain Desmo telling a pretty woman on the floor with a bleeding leg that she was on the wrong side of the law. Since it looked like Captain Desmo had matters in hand, Hour-Man kept going downstairs to head outside.
Meanwhile, Captain Desmo had glanced back and seen Hour-Man go downstairs, but Captain Desmo was more interested in catching the remaining hoodlum. The door actually led into a 10' x 10' room with three doors in each wall. One to the left was closed, the door across was open and led into a bathroom, and the door to the right was open and led into a bedroom. Inside, the window was open and the cowardly hoodlum was trying to tie a bedsheet into a rope ladder to escape.
When Captain Desmo appeared in the doorway, the hoodlum dropped the blanket and reached under the bed, from which he produced a hunting rifle. But Captain Desmo was a faster shot, hit on the first try, and seriously wounded the hoodlum.
The no-longer cowardly hoodlum ((these morale saves are incredible...)) backed towards the window and took a shot at Captain Desmo, which missed by an inch. His second shot came no closer to finding its mark (being so badly hurt must have been messing with his aim, since Captain Desmo had little cover other than the doorway). Stuck on the defensive and with no time to aim, Captain Desmo fired off a wild shot that missed by a good three inches. His next shot was closer, but still a miss. The rifleman's next shot came just as close, but was still a miss. There was maybe 10' of space between them, but they were so intent on not getting hit that they kept missing each other. Their ears were ringing from all the loud gunshots, and the room was filling up with smoke... c Meanwhile, Hour-Man exited the house and came around to the west side, where he found Hawkgirl dragging the Asian man towards him.
"I went down after him, in case he was faking and planned to crawl away," Hawkgirl said. "He wasn't faking. He needs a hospital - particularly since I've been dragging him by his broken leg."
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Post by Tim_Fox1002 on Jul 23, 2022 12:40:23 GMT
"Drop it buster," yelled Desmo trying a double shot with both guns blazing.
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Post by dtspurrier on Jul 25, 2022 16:43:32 GMT
HOurman smiles and says, 'good work Hawkgirl. Go ahead and tie him up but try to bind his leg. There should be a first aid kit in the car. " Hearing the shots, hourman exclaims, " I am going to help Desmo. Hourman with his speed uses it to close the distance and help Desmo.
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Post by Adminenkainen on Jul 25, 2022 19:11:54 GMT
Captain Desmo and Hour-Man (and Hawkgirl) Appleton City Flatiron District Bentley House 2:06 am (hour of power ends at 2:53 am)
This hoodlum, now maniacal in his efforts to kill Captain Desmo, kept the fight going ((his morale saves: 18, 18, 16!)), but Captain Desmo got off the next shot, hit, and the pain was more than the man could take. The hoodlum crumpled to the floor, dying on the spot.
Right after that, Hour-Man arrived in the room to see through the smoke Captain Desmo victorious, and the bloody cost of that victory.
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Post by dtspurrier on Jul 25, 2022 22:53:13 GMT
Hourman moves foreward to try to save the man, making a tourniquet if need be. He quickly says, " hawkgirl got the china man. Make sure the woman is tied up. Now we can call the police and give a story or leave them for the police? Suggestions?'
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Post by Tim_Fox1002 on Jul 26, 2022 0:38:54 GMT
"I would have disarmed him, but he just kept firing," said Desmo shaking his head. "Anyone other than the dame need a doc? If there's no emergency, I'd like 30 minutes to search this place for clues to the whereabouts of Khan, and find out what this key opens. I don't want the police here yet. If we can call them once we're out of here it might be better. Police will hold us back. We've got to work fast. Khan is likely to retaliate in a big way once he gets word of this."
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Post by dtspurrier on Jul 26, 2022 20:13:59 GMT
Hourman says, " if this tournequet can stop this man he should not need an ambulance. We do need to make sure these two don;t die. If you want to interoogate the Khan henchman he is outside with hawkgirl. With my speed I can do a quick search. "
Hourman will make sure to stabalize the dying man, hopefully the first aid kit that hawkgirl can get from the car will help
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Post by Adminenkainen on Jul 27, 2022 2:18:27 GMT
Captain Desmo and Hour-Man (and Hawkgirl) Appleton City Flatiron District Bentley House 2:16 am (hour of power ends at 2:53 am)
A tourniquet did the trick and saved the man's life (his wallet identified him as Mike Davison). Of their five prisoners, four were now unconscious (all save George Bentley) and none appeared to be ready to wake up anytime soon. It was easy tying them all up, though, before starting the search of the house.
On the third floor, the heroes had been interrupted before finishing searching the master bedroom, and had the guest bedroom in the northeast corner (where the assassin had come from) to search (the northwest door just led to a linen closet).
On the second floor was the lounge (where the hoodlums and vamp had been met), a den/library, and another bedroom (plus another bathroom, closet, and balcony overlooking the ground floor).
On the ground floor was a kitchen, dining room, and family room/dinette (plus a utility room, two closets, grand foyer, and a second master bathroom).
((It will take over an hour to search even just the main rooms all through the house, and Hour-Man has 37 minutes of his hour of power left. Where will you be concentrating during that time?))
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Post by dtspurrier on Jul 27, 2022 20:31:17 GMT
Hourman suggests " he will live but we will need to get an ambulance out here. I can cover some ground with my speed so let's divide and conquer. I will take the ground floor as it looks like it has the most rooms. Plus there might be a basement. Whomever takes the third floor see if there is an attic. If we find something for a key lets call out. lets also prepare for the police as the neighbors might have called them from the gunfire. Oh hawkgirl, we were told Sargon is coming into town tomorrow does he have magic that can be used to detect lies or convince people to answer questions? "
(Note to editor: Did hourman see sargon use magic right?)
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Post by Tim_Fox1002 on Jul 28, 2022 0:39:44 GMT
"Sounds good Hourman," said Desmo. "I get started on the 3rd floor and see if there's and attic, and then work my way down to the 2nd floor. Call out if you find anything this key is for..."
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Post by Adminenkainen on Jul 29, 2022 3:00:57 GMT
Captain Desmo and Hour-Man (and Hawkgirl) Appleton City Flatiron District Bentley House 2:17 am (hour of power ends at 2:53 am)
While Hawkgirl stayed behind to guard the prisoners, Hour-Man went down for a bottom-up search and Captain Desmo went up for a top-down search.
Hour-Man found a large, multi-room, but unfinished basement under the ground floor. He did not have time to search right away because he saw a light on in one of the bare concrete rooms and, glancing in, surprised two burly-looking thugs sitting at a folding card table! The room contained a second table covered in bric-a-brac, with a steamer trunk standing in the corner.
Meanwhile, Captain Desmo had, moving at normal speed, only just reached the third floor and noticed a trap door for attic access that they had missed earlier.
((Pausing here because I can't guess what Hour-Man is going to do next.))
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Post by Tim_Fox1002 on Jul 29, 2022 14:45:27 GMT
Desmo opened the trap door and set up the ladder and climbed up.
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Post by dtspurrier on Jul 29, 2022 22:09:52 GMT
Hourman calls us loudly, " so your boss's is beaten and the china man is defeated. Surrender now why you have a chance. ". Hourman uses his amulet and it glows and uses his "Super tough skin " power.
( hopefully granting an intimidation roll)
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Post by Adminenkainen on Jul 31, 2022 0:19:00 GMT
Captain Desmo and Hour-Man (and Hawkgirl) Appleton City Flatiron District Bentley House 2:19 am (hour of power ends at 2:53 am)
One of the thugs shrugged and said, "Maybe you did and maybe you didn't, Mr. Costume Man, but we're paid to make sure anyone who sees this steamer trunk winds up dead." And, as they stood up, they retrieved a crowbar and a baseball bat leaning up against the table.
Hour-Man wasn't really interested in the steamer trunk before, but now he wanted nothing but to get a look inside. He tried to reach it first with super-speed, but ran into a swinging crowbar ((1 dmg, after being halved)). Now that he wasn't ignoring the thugs, he easily dodged the baseball bat.
Hour-Man punched the guy with the crowbar, delivering a moderate wound to his jaw.
Now Hour-Man easily dodged both their attacks, and followed up with another punch to the same thug, seriously hurting the guy. He used his speed for a follow-up punch that was just a glancing hit ((Thug 1 is still seriously hurt, Thug 2 is uninjured)).
Meanwhile....
In the attic, Captain Desmo pulled a light string and a single bulb illuminated a long, unfinished attic, with wooden crossbeams over insulation. Boxes, both wooden and cardboard, were resting across the crossbeams, sometimes in stacks. There was also a walled off section in the NE corner with its own door. The first boxes Captain Desmo checked were full of mothballed women's clothing.
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Post by Tim_Fox1002 on Jul 31, 2022 12:14:53 GMT
Losing no time, Captain Desmo rifled through boxes mainly to see what was in them and make time to open the door in the NE corner.
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