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Post by Tim_Fox1002 on Aug 31, 2022 23:18:12 GMT
Hobbs decided to drive down the street and back a couple of times (noting the license plate number of the suspicious sedan) and then find a place to park and watch.
Desmo took off from a couple of blocks away from a parking lot where there weren't any people. He thought maybe passing cars that caught a glance of him wouldn't be able to explain or let alone remember seeing a winged guy suddenly fly off. He tried to get up to a good bird's eye height to look and see if anything was going on down below.
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Post by Adminenkainen on Sept 2, 2022 1:03:29 GMT
Captain Desmo and Hour-Man (and Hawkgirl and Zatara) Wednesday, May 3, 1940 Appleton City Midtown Shaw Street 1:37 pm
The parked car was sitting next to a jewelry store, across the street from a clothing store, with a candy store and a book store next door to each of them respectively. There was also a movie theater, a family restaurant, and a bar on this block. The car did not have government plates.
When the time appointed on the shirt came, an armored car began rolling up Shaw Street from the south. The car with the suspicious men pulled out in front of it and crashed into the armored car. A car behind the armored car stopped and three men jumped out (while a fourth man stayed behind the wheel of the second car). One of the men from the second car carried a Tommy gun, while the other two carried crowbars.
((Hour-Man is closest, at 150' away, parked further north in front of the movie theater. Shiera is 300' away to the south (the armored car passed her). Zatara goofed and is way up the road, to the north, at 450' away. Captain Desmo is 360' away, south of Shiera, and 100' up. If you can't visualize it from that I'll prepare a map tomorrow.))
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Post by Tim_Fox1002 on Sept 2, 2022 2:58:09 GMT
((Yes, that would be helpful. Also, can you place Hobbs on the map too?))
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Post by dtspurrier on Sept 2, 2022 18:16:08 GMT
Hourman will exit the vehicle and tries to use the parked cars to sneak up to the thieves. He also begins tapping into his inner circuity and uses his robotic built-in- battery power ( get tough).
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Post by Tim_Fox1002 on Sept 3, 2022 4:43:08 GMT
Desmo will try and swoop down and knock a crook down unaware before he lands with the wings. If it is impossible to get a clearly exposed villain (because they may too close to the victims or one of the party members), he will land quick close, set the wings down, and run in with his two dukes.
Hobbs will likely see the trouble at some point, and park near the action, and pray for the best! If he happens to intercept Zatara, he will give him a lift and bring him closer. (Or, Zatara, I'm just imagining - might force the all-thumbs-under-the-line-of-fire Hobbs out of the driver seat and race himself over, with Hobbs fussing for his seatbelt in the passenger seat!)
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Post by Adminenkainen on Sept 7, 2022 2:03:13 GMT
((This is what happens when you ask for a map. I've finished one-third of the map so far...))
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Post by dtspurrier on Sept 7, 2022 21:37:49 GMT
can't see a map
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Post by Adminenkainen on Sept 8, 2022 2:21:48 GMT
((Three hours of drawing later...)) ((This is the map, as of my last post, without your next intentions reflected in it. Note that, because of where I started the map, I had to lay it out in two columns, even though this is one straight road. Each square is 25' across. ((The red rectangles are the bad guys' cards. The green rectangle between them is the armored car. HG and CD (both in green) are south of the cars, HM (in yellow) is north of the cars, down in the lower right hand corner where the map flips around, and Za (in black) is way above him. I forgot to include Hobbs! Hobbs starts closest, in a gray car that will appear on the turn 2 map update.))
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Post by Adminenkainen on Sept 8, 2022 2:52:59 GMT
Captain Desmo and Hour-Man (and Hawkgirl and Zatara)Wednesday, May 3, 1940 Appleton City Midtown Shaw Street 1:38 pm (turn 2) Zatara came running down the street. Hour-Man sneaked closer, crouching behind a (unpictured) car. Captain Desmo, still getting the hang of the wings, swooped down, but not very fast, and wound up parallel to Hawkgirl as she ran up the street, having kicked off her high heels so she could run. Hobbs, overflowing with enthusiasm to finally be in the thick of it, jumped out of the car and ran up to the armored car robbers. He tapped one of the robbers holding a crowbar on the shoulder, waited until the man turned around, then raised his fists, assumed a defensive stance, and asked calmly, "London rules?*" "G'wan, beat it!" the robber said, and he swung his crowbar at Hobbs. Hobbs, though, expertly stepped in too close and blocked the man's arm, but then had to return to playing defense and never got an opening for a good punch. Meanwhile, the other crowbar-wielding robber began working on the back doors of the armored car, while hollering for his teammate to "get over here!" And the one with the Tommy gun pointed it in the front passenger window and shouted "Get outta' th' car!" Also meanwhile, the two men from the crashed car in front of the armored car carried pistols and shot them into the air, trying to scare passerbys into running away. It was working. ((*London's cruder rules for boxing, as opposed to Queensbury rules.))
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Post by dtspurrier on Sept 8, 2022 22:44:08 GMT
Hourman looks to see if he sees a police phone box or alarm and if so pulls it and then tries to weave and try to attack one of the men shooting a pistol into the air
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Post by Tim_Fox1002 on Sept 8, 2022 23:04:30 GMT
The Captain, in a bit of a panic seeing Hobbs being completely overconfident, tried another dive at the thugs and attempts to knock one down, but will land in the thick of things whether he succeeds or not and remove the wings and fight.
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Post by Adminenkainen on Sept 9, 2022 23:35:57 GMT
Captain Desmo and Hour-Man (and Hawkgirl and Zatara)Wednesday, May 3, 1940 Appleton City Midtown Shaw Street 1:38 pm (turn 3) Hour-Man did not see a police box in sight, so he backtracked to the north side of the street he was on, ran into a women's clothing store, and pulled its fire alarm in order to summon the authorities. The shopkeeper, having heard the shots in the street, was hiding behind her counter and didn't complain. Then he bolted back outside and ran south down the street, almost reaching the two robbers from the first car ((he is 25' from the nearest one, outside the northernmost red rectangle-car. Once I get Zatara on the same side of the map, I'll zoom in and place the bad guys more specifically too)). Poor Zatara, huffing and puffing as he ran, was still trying to get on the left side of the map. Shiera ran - to Hobbs' car, reached into the backseat, and retrieved her helmet and machete. It was an oddly mismatched outfit, her Hawkgirl helmet to her pretty summer dress, but who was going to tell her that with a machete in her hand? Meanwhile, Captain Desmo got more altitude this time and glided straight into the midst of the bad guys, kicking the man with the sub-machine gun before coming in for a landing ((for 2 dmg only, and the gunman was not disarmed by the damage)). "Who are you?!" the Tommy gun-wielder exclaimed. "Never mind," he added, as he realized he was carrying a bigger weapon than the man with wings. RAT-TAT-TAT! Luckily, Captain Desmo instinctively turned away - and found out the Hawkman wings were not only made of metal, but bulletproof metal! Also meanwhile, Hobbs was distracted by Captain Desmo being shot at, and was knocked out cold by the crowbar ((5 dmg)).
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Post by Tim_Fox1002 on Sept 11, 2022 2:25:04 GMT
Desmo decided to keep the wings on just in case they could stop more gun fire, and was alarmed to note Hobbs getting knocked down. At least it was by a blunt weapon and not by a gun, thought Desmo.
Desmo quickly reached for his gun, and shot at the machine gun hood before taking cover behind the wings again.
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Post by dtspurrier on Sept 12, 2022 20:10:04 GMT
Hourman now charges forward and activates his android get tough power and moves to attack the men in front ( if he can get to hobbs opponents great) but to attack the closest thug
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Post by Adminenkainen on Sept 13, 2022 1:01:07 GMT
Hourman now charges forward and activates his android get tough power and moves to attack the men in front ( if he can get to hobbs opponents great) but to attack the closest thug ((Now I have to pause for more clarification, because Hour-Man can get to the closest robber and attack him this turn, OR he can reach the furthest robber, the one who attacked Hobbs, but would be unable to attack him until next turn. Preference?))
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