Day of the Octopus OOC

[Kareeah_Indaga]

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

Sleeper can see what Kaine could see before. I didn't think about it before, but probably there should also be some elevators to get up to higher floors.

The room is a large bank. There's all the furniture you might expect in a bank (some seats, a counter for customers to use to write checks or whatever, a counter for the tellers), as well as some pillars around the room and a statue/fountain near the center of the large room. The general layout of the bank shouldn't really matter, but in my mind, I'm imagining the main entrance and some windows on the south wall, the hostages along the west wall (and some windows higher up), the tellers' desk and entrance to the vault on the north wall, and the elevators and entrance to the offices on the east wall. I was imagining Sleeper as coming in through a window maybe a couple of floors up, high enough to not really be noticed, rather than finding some window on the ground floor that the police couldn't see.

The hostages aren't wearing gas masks.

The thugs are at the windows, looking out (and in some cases shooting out) at the police. Mysterio is closer to the middle of the room. Nobody is paying that much attention to the hostages.

So like this? (Sorry for the terrible map.)

=============================Vault Stairs===
||........Teller Desks.................................................. ..........||
||H.................................................. ..........................Office Doors
||o.................................................. .................................||
W s Sleeper.................................................. ...................||
||t.....................................Fountain..................................||
||a....................................Mysterio, Kaine..........................||
||g.................................................. ...........................Elevators
W e.................................................. ...............................||
||s.................................................. ................................||
||......Goons............................................Goons.................||
======W========Main Entrance=====W==========

Police, Herc, Loki, Electro, Reporters

Goon illusions

(W = window)

Other notes:

• 7 thugs (I’m not sure how Kaine’s earlier damage impacts their numbers)
• 24ish hostages
• Darker inside than outside (no lights on?)
• Exits from the bank are:
  
  • The main entrance (currently blocked by police, the fight between Electro and Herc, and covered with gunfire from goons both real and illusionary)
  • The window Sleeper opened (a story or two off the ground)
  • The door to the offices
  • The stairs to the bank vault
  • Elevators

If this is the plan you want to go with, go for it. I'm a little skeptical that it would work, but you've got the powers, so you can go ahead and roll for it - I won't apply any circumstance penalties or anything.

Hey, when the Dungeon Master asks me if I’m sure I’m more than willing to rethink my plan! I don’t have an issue with shepherding the hostages out the office doors instead, or down into the vaults, if the window seems unreasonable.

Re: dice pool. How does this look?

Affiliation: Solo (1d8)
Distinction: Crowd of Hostages (1d4)
Power(s): Klyntar Symbiote - Invisibility (1d8), Shapeshifting (1d6) (Multipower)
Specialty: Covert (1d8)
Complication/Stress: I’m assuming the hostages are my ‘target’ I don’t think they have any of these?
Asset: Invisible Insider (1d10)

I would say that, if for some reason, Sleeper needed to sneak past Kaine (or Wolverine or Sabretooth or someone), it would certainly be reasonable to use his powers to try to conceal his scent, but in a case like this where it doesn't really seem worth it to roll for it, I'd give it to Kaine, because hiding your scent is sort of a stunt off of chemokinesis, whereas Kaine's senses are the whole point of his power (but I'm also willing to go with whatever you two decide between you).

Kaine doesn't have any skill in Cosmic, though, so he may not be able to place the more alien scents.

Yeah, makes sense-- he should be able to tell it's "not human", but pinning it down to "extraterrestrial" is... outside of his personal context.

I think we all agree that Kaine's not going to notice until Sleeper either does something much more overt, or Kaine doesn't have anything much more urgent to pay attention to.

Works for me!