Dr_Mechano

((heh CB, the rolls are only for when attacking Chimera...everything else is your standard RP fight rules))

((Should be possibly but he'd be required to use mental manipulation because an officer isn't likely to just hand over their weapon to some random dude.))

((one dice roll per character, so three characters present equals three attacks and thus three dice rolls.))

David nodded his head and motioned for everyone to stand back, using his acid spraying gun to work away at the roof of the sewer, eventually light broke through, the artificial light of one of the back rooms of the Crowe memorial building. Giving the sizzling concrete a moment to settle before Chimera begun helping the team of scientists through the gaping hole. Eventually she clambered through with ease. Steve quickly followed.

David peered through a crack in the door in to see the speech in full swing. He smiled.

"I always did want to make an superb entrance..."

David silently counted to himself and then motioned for the scientists to file into the room.

"Speaking of shenanigans," David addressed the room with a grin, "allow me to introduce myself, I am one Professor David Thulian...please...call me Dave, it's so nice to see so many people here for the real reason...not listening to this schmuck prattle on about inequality but for the unveiling of the amazing Doctor Edward Johnsons latest project...Ladies, gentlemen and children of all ages...I give you PROJECT CHIMERA!"

The hulking blue catgirl had to hunch over to squeeze through the door before unfurling and looking over the crowd, her reticle sweeping across the crowd, making notes of them before moving onto Soapbox and a growl came from her throat.

He had been there when she had found Mike, he was one of the ones responsible for killing her father. A look of purest rage became etched into her face and electricity begun to build up, arcing out from her cybernetics. There was a dull hum as cat-like talsorian claws jutted from her fingertips and her muscle mass seemed to ripple and grow underneath her skin, stretching it tight.

"Now Ladies and gentlemen I suggest you step back...or take off those black shirts if you do not wish our fine feline friend to rend you limb from limb...she is only going to attack humanity first members. If you have any questions regarding Project Chimera please consult Mr. Steve, he will be answering all questions, don't worry, he may be a Shivan but he is completely harmless..."

It was fairly obvious Steve wasn't the average Shivan, not only was he wearing a black and red tie BUT he was also wearing spectacles as well, small round ones perched infront of that goo covered skull. A Clipboard already present and pencil in 'hand'.

Chimera begun her advance on Soapbox and she was not about to stop for anyone...

((Alright kiddies...this is where I throw a curveball, as I have mentioned I'm going to put the 'Roll' back into roleplayer...now obviously I'm trusting you lot very deeply to be honest. The following is a results table, there will be three tables which will deal with different damage types. Chimera is to be considered an Archvillain level foe using game terms but as always there's a chance for some interesting effects...so depending on the 'damage type' your attack corresponds to, please make a roll with a six sided die and consult the following tables, once you have made your roll, looked at the result, please expand on how or what happens with your attack.

Smashing/Lethal:
Unfortunately these damage types are what Chimera is strongest against, she's a mixture of Invulnerability, Elec aura and regeneration so her resistances are pretty dang high and she has Archvillain level regeneration to use game terms.

1-2: CLANG: Your attack hits one of her cybernetic parts and bounces off fairly ineffectively.
3-4: THUD: Your attack lands but it doesn't really seem to do a whole lot, cuts are regenerated near instantly.
5: THACK: Your attack hits and does cause some minor damage, the damage wont last long however and it will barely slow Chimera down.
6: GURGH!: Your attack not only hits but causes full damage.

Negative/Energy/Fire/Cold/Toxic:
Chimera doesn't resist these as heavily as she does Smashing and Lethal so you have more chance of causing damage.

1-2:ZZAP! The electrical field around Chimera absorbs your attack.
2-4:FWWOOSH!: Your attack lands and causes some damage, however the damage wont last long and it barely slows Chimera down.
5-6: ARGH!: Your attack hits and causes problems for Chimera, she'll be stunned for a while, or if on fire she'll flail for a few moments until the flames go out.

Psi:
Chimera has little to no defense, she's very simple minded and easily manipulated.

1: Huh?: Somehow Chimera resists your attack.
2-4: GARRGGHH!: Your mental attack hits home causing full damage.
5-6: BRAIN HURTS!: Your attack hits home with surprising effectiveness. Chimera will be confused and stop attacking for a while, she will also lower her defenses.

So there we have it folks, remember I'm trusting you. I will wait for all the people that have posted in this topic up until this point to make a post and then I shall post. I would impose a timelimit but sadly Brit cannot post that often and I'd hate to lock him out of it because he has more important matters to deal with regarding real life.

Thanks for getting involved, may the dice gods bless your dice rolls and have fun!))

Edward was expecting resistance...he knew the supers would see his warning and flock there in droves. He had begun to think that just one Chimera wasn't enough, he should have probably made two but alas he never really was good at planning these things out, not when he was angry anyway.

He was not foolish enough to be there in person, too many people in Paragon wanted to see his backside back in prison. He had dispatched a contigent of scientists to escort Chimera and one Proffessor David Thule to lead them.

Of the group of ten normal scientists, six were armed, three with plasma weapons and three with laser weapons. David Thule was packing his latest OK'd design, a flamethrower that spewed highly concentrated acid. They were under instructions to not fire on any civilians and only fire on superheroes in self defence.

David was a lanky, bean pole of a man with the requiste wild Einsteinien hair that every self respecting mad scientist wanted to have, tatty lab coat with holes burnt, melted or cut into it, a nice white shirt with black tie and a pair of scuffed, well worn jeans.

Dropping in through the surface would be suicide and they'd get all of ten feet before being dogpiled by supers and PPD. No they would take the traditional villainous way in, through the sewers and burst up through into the Crowne memorial hall.

In the midst of the group of scientists were two hulking figures. The first was Chimmey, the creation that Dr Mechano had spoke of, a hulking catgirl patterned on the Amy template, bristling with cybernetics.


The other hulking figure was illuminating the sewers with a sickly green glow, the ever popular Steve the Shivan...well that's how he liked to think of himself. Steve wasn't actually here for muscle purposes he was here as an executive manager to oversee the operation. Under his gelatinous arm was a clipboard. Absorbed into the goo could be easily made out an equally glowing badge saying "Hello my name is Steve, please ask me questions on Project Chimera" The whole reason he'd bought the clipboard was to write down answers to any questions.

David raised his hand as he looked once more at the map, "alright we're where we need to be, below a store room out the back of the center so we don't come up in the middle of civilians.

"Hu...Fur..."

"Yes Chimmey hunny you'll get to grips with those people that killed Mike soon enough."

Chimmey gave a slow, slightly dimwitted giggling laugh...it was obvious she wasn't created for conversational reasons, infact she was no smarter than a three year old child.

*Looks at the female clockwork*

*eyes picture of SHODAN*

*looks back again with suspiscion*

Yes...some people aren't even from America...

Edward hurled himself behind a fallen tree as bits of shrapnel went everywhere, Steve got hit by some of it but it barely seemed to register as his gelatine like out body structure just resealed itself. Thankfully Mr Fluffers had kept a safe distance.

Edward let out a sharp whistle. Steve shimmed down the tree and then appeared from the undergrowth straightening his tie and making a coughing motion before wandering over. Edward slung Betsy over his shoulder as it slowly formed back into an assault rifle with underslung grenade launcher. Mr Fluffers descended from the trees...unfortunately this meant most of the supplies from the Marbles had been smooshed into an edible, if rather garishly mix coloured, paste.

Edward begun his advance towards the new comers, Steve in tow behind him.

"Alright Steve...act casual..."

Another vote for the "I don't like the new market UI". You know...it's my fault, the one thing I didn't bother to check out in closed and open beta is the one thing I really should have been complaining about.

I LIKED the old interface...as Alpha mentioned, it was a three legged Mule but it worked and I do missing having all the information on one bar running along the bottom. Glad I haven't started IOing out any new characters through the new UI yet...oh the joy that's going to be...

For some reason it actually takes AGES to load certain recipes and really quick others, I'm honestly confused if there's none of some recipes for sale (it seems like there's only 3 out of the 6 Basilisk's gaze recipes appearing) or if it's just me...

((with permission from Devious))

As the Harvester attempted to escape the wormhole by firing up it's turbines, Edward looked through his scope and grinned for a moment, he had an idea. Winding out the USB port from his arm once more he plugged it into the back of nanite vial, it was his last sample, after this he'd have no more nanites and no means of healing himself...but this was going to a good use.

He stared into space for a few second longer before shaking his head and pulling the cord.

"Betsy, tranq jacket, high power...we're going to be firing something unusual..."

He slid the Nanites into the rifle as he opened the ammo feeder. Clicking the bottom back into place the nano-lathe of the rifle worked to coat the glass vial in a protective jacket to stop it shattering when fired but that it would shatter on impact of the object.

He figured the lightning field would ignore anything like another bullet, after all what did it have to fear from another blast of Ordinance. Besides glass was always a handy insulator...he just hoped it would hold for the brief second it would be in there.

Edward took careful aim at the Turbines, slowed his heart beat down and gradually shut out all the noise going on around him.

"Now..."

There was another earth shaking boom as the vial launched on it's trajectory path, the jacket coming away in flight as the it sailed through the air and smashed into pieces onto the turbine...the effect wouldn't be obvious at first...moving around atomic particles would take a bit of time but the nanites were good at munching through stuff like this. If he couldn't bring the thing down, he could atleast get it sucked through that wormhole.

Heh vodka I can handle, can drink it to the cows come home, never gets me that drunk or makes me ill. My favorite is Vodka and Applejuice, there's one place here in Croydon that serves it, all the rest just give you odd looks.

Now Whiskey, whiskey is a different matter...after binging on it (a very large bottle of bells whiskey to myself without mixer and chugged down in about half an hour) I can't stand the smell of the stuff, it makes me sick to my stomach if I drink it and for the next day or so I will be able to taste it.

Now if you want proper gut wrenching, clear out the stomach, drink I recommend The viking.

It's a drink of my own concoction, it's two shots of afterhshock blue (represents the sea) and, if you bar serves them, a vodka badjelly floating ontop of it (the viking longboat).

Three or four is usually enough for the stomach...

Nope...all different Nemesises...Nemesi?

Infact there's mention that Nemesis doesn't like the fact his interdimensional duplicates had been successful and sometimes takes the fight to them!

Yush Nemesis is from Primal Earth, those other dimensions you see are where one of many Nemesis polys weren't thwarted by heroes and successful. Each of those dimensions had their own Nemesis who was more successful than our own.

On Praetorian Earth he died a happy toy maker and never went supervillain for example.

Erm...Nemesis started off as a simple Prussian toy maker...so he WAS human in Paragons reality, he didn't discover trans-reality travel until after Portal corp.

You also missed out my example CB.

Giovanni Scaldi (the spirit which possess the mask Vanessa DeVore wears and gives her psychic powers) and Brother Abelard turned up during the Renaissance some 400 years ago (the specifically mention Brother Abelard as a "special agent of the Inquisition").

So that was long after the last opening of the box (back in greek times) but well before the 20th century opening of the box.

Nemesis as well is older than the current opening of the box but long after the Greek one, he's been around for "atleast 180 years" which again was well before the modern opening of the box.

Considering Lizbeth and Dr Mechano are rivals, was quite interesting to see that Edward did make the opposite to Liz's choices.

-Edward high five'd Dean because he liked him, he was enthusastic and could sympathise with Dean's story about murdering the guy that killed his father, Edward thinks thats how justice should work, an eye for an eye.
-He did save his clone because he felt it would honor the memory of the scientists Protean killed, he couldn't stand to see someones scientific legacy just be left to die. He's also rather fond of himself and a clone would mean he could double his scientific workload.
-He let the clone live, he enjoys the idea that out there, somewhere, is another clone working on something, whether it be for good or ill he doesn't mind...all that matters is SCIENCE!

Dr Mechano is affably evil, he can be a very pleasant fellow to get on with as long as you haven't peeved him off somewhere in the past. Even then he still chats to his nemesis (a hero named Britannic) in a friendly manner. After all manners cost you nothing and a man should try to be a gentleman where he gets the chance.

Except Brother Abelard used Psi powers which are pretty much 'Mutant poster boy/girl' powers. The same with Giovanna Scaldi it's made pretty clear she was a psi user long before psi users cropped up with regularity.

However you are probably right, these people were one in a billion, they were exceedingly rare and seen as gifted with powers from God or the Devil until the opening of Pandora's box which led to a massive upsurge in people suddenly gaining power.

Hmm actually there is background lore for renaissance metahumans.

Here's a few snippets from Giovanna Scaldi (the spirit possessing the mask of Vanessa DeVore aka Head of the Carnival of shadows) background: