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Age of Miracles: NPCs (miraculous_npc) wrote in age_of_miracles,
@ 2008-03-14 23:11:00

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accord, anaconda, avalanche, brave new world, cyclops, dansen macabre, gambit, helio, iceman, invisible woman, mercury, mystique, postman, quake, rogue, scorpion, spider-man, threnody, vertigo, war machine, wolverine

Thread: BRAVE NEW WORLD BATTLE
Who: The X-Men, the Brotherhood, and NPCs for all sides
When: Early morning Saturday, March 15 and moving into March 16, 2008 -- this battle will last at least two actual days, maybe longer, which will account for any "frozen" time if the thread stalls the rest of the game----this is a battle of such importance that it would make no sense if it only lasted one day.
Where: Washington, D.C.
What: The battle for governmental power in America begins! For the detailed battle plan, please see the OOC post about it. Characters not on the list who choose to show up can show up... whatever :) but the plan is there to keep people's heads from exploding.

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No one could have expected it would be like this.

There were news reports coming in that there were mutants attacking the Brotherhood in other parts of the country. Not everywhere, but key strongholds that no one knew about. They'd been expecting the march on Washington with reinforcements, but they'd never expected all of this. In Washington they were outnumbering the X-Men, sure, but elsewhere? Other bases would fall, no doubt. They just had to hold Washington. Whatever they did, they had to hold Washington.

The siege started just before dawn, with explosions in an empty park-----enough to serve as a distraction while the X-Men and their allies moved in to surround the area as best they could... but after that? After that, it looked like organization died. How could it survive? No one could predict how battles would go, and it seemed like the organized front had now dissolved into individual duels. The Brotherhood killed when they won, but the X-Men seemed to be dragging fallen foes into a forcefield held up by Sue Storm, containing them until... when? Until the battle was over?

No one knew when that would be.

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Re: Helio, Dansen Macabre, Havoc, Cyclops, etc

aom_npc_eight
2008-03-17 04:51 pm UTC (link)

There was no way Julius was going to let this all happen twice. He'd thought he'd get a second's rest after dropping the X-man from the second story, but no -- these people were like cockroaches, or ants, or ... whatever it was that when you stepped on one you got two more. So he didn't have as much time as he'd have liked to straighten up a rib or two, make sure he wasn't bleeding. Which he was, but that didn't matter. A few scrapes on his back, psh.

Helio had seen what the X-Man's eye-beam could do, though. So this time, as he fled, he avoided the instinctive option of just running away in favor of a wider, circular approach, spiraling out with increased speed. If light travelled in straight lines, it wouldn't be able to get him if he was going in a circle, right?

It stood a chance of working - until that beam of red burst through the sky below him, so much stronger than the first. Not having weight meant not having nearly as much momentum, but it was still impossible to literally turn on a dime. Helio paused for a split second before zipping past, but that split second was too long. The beam caught him in the shoulder, grazed his face, and sent him pinwheeling backwards though the sky. Once again, his increased speed lessened the blow, but there was only so much you could lessen that kind of hit, and Helio was too dazed to move from the tree he ultimately crashed into.

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	PULSE! miraculous_npc 2008-03-18 01:42 pm UTC (link)
	Suddenly, a dull pulse rippled through the air, followed by the faintest sort of low-frequency hum, coming in and out like a heartbeat. (Reply to this) (Parent)

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