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I'm wondering why my Detect isn't good enough for this; it's got penetrative and targeting. It feels like I'm about to get into combat, and then I'm going to need to tally how much END I've used so far. The Detect doesn't cost END, while the Mind Scan does.

Cool! Thanks!

Anyone have one of them AI portrait programs? (The good ones, not the free ones). I'm having a hard time finding a superhero image I like.

I'm not too particular. A man in a fireman-like superhero suit, with no mask, buff and attractive.

Still standing behind the closed door, John thinks the boy to safety, and then uses his mind sense to see through the door to look for a mind inside the fire he had seen earlier. He quietly wedges his fireman's axe between the door handle and a pipe standing in the stairwell, so the door can't be opened until he removes it.

I admit to having a hard time here. I'm not one for solo RP, and I've never been a fireman. But we'll get through this.

Somehow given the thread name I was expecting to run into and apprehend and arsonist! ^_^

In the stairwell behind the closed firedoor, John brings to mind what he knows about this building, where the next stairwell is. Then he zooms in on the mind of the child, trying to establish a telepathy contact, to calm them and convince them to leave their closet and make for the stairwell he remembers. As he gets a deeper sense of the mind in question, he thinks of what he's going to say to them...

He hopes those moving through the building will be found by the other firefighters and directed out. It's the trapped ones that may not be found... if it wasn't for him.

Suited up, John heads confidently into the main entrance behind the other. "We've got a dozen trapped people in here," he says to the two firefighters just ahead of him. "Come with me. We need to make them a way out."

He moves to the blocked door on the first floor where the first group is trapped, and leaving one firefighter to break it down and get them out, he then moves up the stairs with the second and repeat. By the third floor he's all alone, and will have to depend on his own fire axe to get the door open.

Fili Kober

HP: 10/11 FP: 6/11 Conditions:

Fili stumbles through the portal after Emily. Wizardly advise in actions rather than words is right up her alley.

OOC:

John scans the building with his mental senses, counting up how many people and where they are in the building. He walks up to the chief. "We've got xxx people in there, sir. Can you lend me a suit and tank to get them out?"

OOC: Some sort of roll is in order here, probably just a perception roll for his "See Mind" 14- , unless you've rather have "Mind Scan". I don't know what the roll for mind scan is; it depends on how many people are around.

You're making lots of work for yourself, Papa Bear, taking on seven solo threads at once. Hopefully this doesn't go on too long before the gang starts getting together.

John was sitting hunched limply over his mug, his loose muffin crumbs falling into the liquid rather than the chair. Yet when the sirens go by he quickly sits up straight, in a way that suggests he's a dog with his ears at full attention. Biting off as much muffin as his mouth can hold, he puts the rest down on the napkin beside him and reaches for his phone. Almost immediately he has the site and the truck showing on a map. He screws the lid on his travel mug and gets up to leave.

His friend Becky has been watching him from across the room, not wanting to interrupt whatever thoughts he was relaxing to. Now she's openly smirking at him, and calls out "Go, go! I'll clean it up!" Town full of heroes, and big guy wants to be one, she thinks. At least he's not out getting knifed in the slums.

John races home, drops his phone into the cradle on his dashboard, and is off. While stopped at the first red light, he sticks his 'authorized personnel' tag on his windshield. It's the best he's got. They're not going to let off-duty firemen take flashing red lights home with them, after all. At the scene, he pulls up far to the side so as not to block any large, official vehicles that might still be on the way, and looks for someone in charge.

Fili Kober

HP: 10/11 FP: 6/11 Conditions:

Fili pulls up short as the two men vanish. As she waits for the wizards to catch up and tell her what to do next, she idly kicks a loose pebble into the archway to see what happens to it.

OOC:

I'm addicted to tweaking PCs right up until the deadline, but not today. The process of having to save in the character program, export, and paste has kept me under control ^_^

I'm going to assume that Superion knowing Rescuer exists doesn't cost anything. I'm not planning to call on him for help in any way. It's just that every time Superion fights someone like Volcano there's a ton of fires to put out, so Rescuer shows up to not fight the villain.

I can do daily, except when I go out of town for a few days, and take a vacation from the internet.

Fili Kober

HP: 10/11 FP: 6/11 Conditions:

"Thank ye, Hank," Fili says after stumbling to a stop. "Ya going in first, Richard?" she asks, facing in the wrong direction. "I kin't swing this staff in that narrow hole."

OOC:

@GleefulNihilism You have EGO 20 and PRE 20, both of which say 14- on your character sheet. When I put 20 into Hero Designer, I only get a 13- roll. I'm unsure which of us is doing this wrong, and since I have a high PRE, too, I'd like to get what I deserve.

Edit: looks like all the other app agree with mine, that a 20 stat gives a 13- roll. Maybe I'm misreading your skill levels somewhere.

John Harcourt, "Rescuer"

Could I ask you to rename this thread? Apparently only GMs can do that.

4 hours ago, RagallachMC said:

Maybe it looks that way, but he's really trying to help other heroes and the people of Sovereign City. The rising crime in the city shows that the police can't be everywhere. And what are the police going to do when some psycho with laser eyes starts melting people at the local mall? Powerful problems need powerful solutions. Solutions like HeroixTM

Looks like you've got a good angle on getting the party together.

My character has social skills and contacts for dealing with The Man, not being party leader. Looks like you're getting set up as leader, if I'm not mistaken.

I picture John as chasing disasters rather than gang violence. A fire, a building collapse, a flood; something people need rescuing from. But his powers also lend themselves to finding missing people, like kidnap victims, and that's sometimes what the members of the governing class are interested in from him.

So Drayden Flats might be outside his zone, unless there are a lot of deathstrap slum properties there. The rundown student housing deathtraps are usually enough to keep him busy.

I've never been to a gaming con.

I tried roleplaying with strangers at LitSF cons a couple of times, but it didn't work for me. Live with friends, sure. PbP with friends and strangers, sure. But for some reason, not live with strangers.

Fili Kober

HP: 11/11 FP: 6/11 Conditions:

Fili turns and takes a few steps back, holding out her hands to indicate the others should press up against the walls to give her room. Then she runs towards the snakes and jumps to catch up to Hank.

OOC:

Somewhere I must have fixed that TF cost, and then forgotten to adjust for it. I removed 1cp of Mental Defense to pay for it. Back down to 300 (+2 for the PS).

Added a paragraph at the end of post number 2 saying where he lives and what he owns.

I guess I see Rescuer as political, in the sense he's connected to those who run the government. He's not a politician, though, if that's what you mean. He knows the comfortably wealthy professional elites, not the old-money types.

I'm putting his home in the art district in adjacent to the community college in Auberdeen, by the Powhaten River.

@crimsonjoe Pinging you about a possible pre-game connection. We both worked for the city government, and perhaps worked together at a crime scene, when John was a novice superhero and Chester was still a normal detective.

@RagallachMC Perhaps John rescued you from your chemical accident and got you to the hospital, and sympathized with your new superhero-ish-ness. (John isn't open about how he became a super, but can sympathize, since he wasn't born one). Maybe recently you got back in touch with him because of your app, and found him dubious. John isn't in this for the mony. John's popularity sells his art, which keeps him funded.