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[pikachu17]

Both Nahullad and Vestige had a falling tree to contend with.
Nahullad tried to get out of the area the tree would fall, and was successful. She just was hit by the other tree, as she tried to throw the concrete at Happy Trees, and was trapped underneath it, her left wing sticking out.
Vestige was more successful, but she was still hit heavily by flying concrete as she rolled away from the tree, and she grunted as her power surged involuntarily.
Her medical phantoms successfully stabbed HT in the side.
He is quite shaken by the vicious attack.
Wh-why are y-you hurting me! That-that isn't how a happy world should be! Why can't you just be happy! WHY IS EVERYTHING SO SAD!
You suddenly feel like there is no problem, nothing is a problem, not even the pain of your suit is bothering you in the slightest.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Vestige, mark a doom counter, and you now have the same status effect as Sir Samuel.
It will probably require a UNLEASH YOUR POWERS roll for Nahullad to no longer be trapped by the tree.

[heydude6]

Upon seeing Nahullad crushed by the tree, Samuel's illusion started to crack. If everyone is supposed to be happy, why are his friends getting hurt?

"How could you do this to her? How could you kill Amy?!"

Though Amy has survived harsher blows, Sancho was not in the right mindset to realize that. The green haze in his mind slowly transformed into a red hot fury. They were going to pay, those bloody trees were going to pay!

And like a bull who was sick of seeing red, he charged. Past their leafy capes and straight towards their wooden bodies. If Sancho were to look up, he would have realized that he was trying to ram the very tree that Happy Trees was perched on. Would the weight of Sancho's suit and his augmented speed produce enough force knock that villain down?

Spoiler: OOC (click to show/hide)

Mark Angry as my condition.
Directly Engage the Tree via Running Headbutt
on a success, take away Happy Trees' high ground.
On +10 create opportunity for allies

Because I use my special ability Venting Frustration, I roll Mundane [+0] and clear my angry condition

[GiglameshDespair]

With the roaring of toppling timber, a tree pinned Nahullad to the ground like a bug onto a boot. She scrabbled at the tree, her not-quite-superhuman strength not enough to lift the tree, her claws scratching grooves in the pavement and tree as she tried to get leverage.
She heard Samuel's voice.
I'm not dead! she wanted to say, but at the moment she had greater concerns than tapping out a message on her phone.

Spoiler: OOC (click to show/hide)

See OOC thread

[Cruxador]

As the battlefield changes quickly, it also changes subtly. The base of the tree that the presumed villain is in begins to lose its color, and so does the cement and asphalt around it. Somehow, the ground seems older and more rundown than it did only moments ago. "Knock the tree down," Sepiatone suggests, projecting his voice as much as possible without going so far as to actually shout and look overly engaged. "He's nearly as idealistic as you."

Spoiler: OOC (click to show/hide)

This is me spending team. Weakening the street will cause it to get torn up in the fight, which is hopefully enough to trigger my Troublemaker move.

Sepiatone is still placidly leaning against a wall some distance from the fight, but his eyes course over the battlefield, changing back from the roots to the area that he saw a strange being for a split second. It was real, wasn't it? It could be something from the dreams. Either way, spreading that dull influence to its location should at least reveal it. Hopefully. He doesn't shout anything to this creature, just in case.

Spoiler: OOC (click to show/hide)

Pierce the Mask. I think that's the appropriate one here, right? Seems odd to use mundane for a roll using powers to detect something totally not mundane, but that seems to be the appropriate mechanic. My first question: What are you really planning. The others in case of a good roll: What do you intend to do, and how could I get your character to not trash the neighborhood?

[pikachu17]

Sir Samuel, the pure unrelenting rage fills your being, clouding your vision in red.
As you run forward, carving a trench in weakened earth, you smash into the main tree.
You do little more than shake the great tree, even in its weakened state, but it is enough to dislodge Happy Trees from his perch and knocking him to the ground
It is also enough to knock some burning branches onto you.
Oh, this is going to burn a little.
Happy Trees gets up off the ground and says with a bit of pain in his voice, That was a poor way to extinguish my trees, but thanks for trying, friend. Now I must go, and spread happiness where I am more welcome.
HT turns and runs, attempting to escape.
Sir Samuel is a bit upset at the world in general, but especially the trees that took his friend.
"Extinguish!? No, I'm going to burn them to the ground!"
Sir Samuel turns to Sepiatone, flaming sticks covering his armor.
"Sepia, burn them to the ground!"

Spoiler: OOC (click to show/hide)

If you'd prefer some other words, heydude6, please say so.
Sepiatone, Sir Samuel is provoking you to foolhardy action by convincing you that the best way to fight the trees is to try to burn them into the ground. It's not like the fire will get out of control or you will injure yourself while handling the flame.
If you do this on your next action, mark potential, if you do not, mark a condition.

Sepiatone, as HT runs away, you see the creature flash into existence again behind the man.
While trailing behind the fleeing foe, he says to you in a loud voice that sounds like the auditory equivalent of fates being sealed, Goodbye, Son of Void. I do not have good prospects of escaping this reality here. I shall try somewhere else.
Nahullad, you hear this too, though its muffled by the tree on top of you.

[Cruxador]

Sepiatone sighs, and finally stops hanging around looking like he's doing nothing. As he goes to find a burning branch to spread more fire, he says "You know this is arson, right?".

Spoiler: OOC (click to show/hide)

No idea what, if any, move this would be. It seems closest to directly engaging a threat, but the trees aren't really threatening anyone.

[heydude6]

Unfortunately for Sepiatone, Sancho already mounted his horse and continued to chase down the villain.

If one listened closely, they could hear a faint Run all you want coward, but justice will catch up with you! Perhaps in due time, Sancho would learn to regret his reckless actions, but for now the thrill of the hunt was all that mattered to him.

Spoiler: OOC (click to show/hide)

I dunno what this would be. I’m trying to chase down a fleeing villlain at the moment. Maybe it’s directly engage threat?

In that case, on a success I resist blows.

On a greater success I make an opportunity for my allies as well.

[pikachu17]

Sepiatone is making the trees burn faster by weakening them with his power.
It is going well until one of the burning trees begins to fall over to the side, right over to a building which may still have people in it.
The tree does not hit the abode though, as the light of the fire closest to the building solidifies, stopping it in its path.
Before you in the air floats a dark-skinned man in a silver bodysuit.

Spoiler: His appearance (click to show/hide)

What exactly do you think you're doing?, Illuminator says through gritted teeth.

Spoiler: OOC (click to show/hide)

My apologies, I did say it would automatically succeed, but then I realized it was handling fire due to being provoked into foolhardy action, so it actually should have a possibility of failure. You rolled a 4, so it doesn't really matter what Label would apply.
Mark potential.

Sir Samuel's horse is running after the fleeing villain.
Samuel passes him by, and hits him over the head with his telekinesis during the pass.
The villain immediately drops to the ground unconscious.
Well, that was anticlimactic.

[heydude6]

Sancho picks him up and carries him back to the group, RdR 2 style.

"I got him guys... oh. It's you."

[Digital Hellhound]

As the chaos unfolded around her, Vestige was somewhere very far away. The headache had ended. Her thoughts drifted through a thick haze of... contentment, she supposed. Nothing really bothered her. It took her a long while to place the feeling, so alien it was to her. Fragments of projections danced around her unbidden - happier memories, glimpses of a normal childhood, that came into view for split-seconds at a time. She sat down and hugged her knees, trying to make sense of her thoughts.

The moments dragged on. There was something familiar about this. She felt... happy, but it wasn't real happiness. She hadn't earned it. There was no reason for it. She'd felt this before - when they'd shot her full of sedatives and forced their pills down her throat. Terrible things could go unnoticed when your mind was swimming in a chemical haze. She didn't know what this detestable effect was, but it was similar enough. Anger began to pierce the haze. Mess with her mind? With her emotions? She was going to hurt this guy. She was going to hurt this guy bad.

Vestige got up with a scream of fury and stomped forwards... only to find the target of her wrath already dealt with. Her powers flared up around her, the suit venting steam with every step. She breathed through her teeth, not taking her eyes off the bastard, and summoned forth more constructs. They were nothing special, but they could help cut down trees and smother any flames with their bodies.

Spoiler: OOC (click to show/hide)

I mark Angry from the sudden onset of reality.
Vestige unleashes her powers by calling up projections to help deal with the trees, particularly the tree on top of Nahullad. That's Freak at +2.

[pikachu17]

Vestige swaps out the syringe phantoms for lumberjack wraiths and send them to contain the fire, and while she's at it she sends one of them to release Nahullad.
Illuminator seems quite suprised that you're stopping the fire.
Your constructs would only be able to contain the fire, but with Illuminator's help the fire is vanquished.
Nahullad, while you were under the tree you heard a strange voice say something about a Son of Void.
Then the tree was lifted off you by several ghostly lumberjacks. Vestige's, no doubt.
You see Illuminator, who you probably had already heard speak, grimace at you before he and Vestige return their efforts to put out the fire.
Sepiatone, Illuminator put aside his question to help Vestige, but now he seems to be looking for an answer again.

Spoiler: OOC (click to show/hide)

Nahullad, you still have an action left before the next turn.
Do you think Illuminator's grimace was enough to cause  a Freak up, Mundane down label shift? I don't think so, but it is up to you.
I have a feeling of foreboding that I did something wrong with this post. Please tell me if I really did do something wrong.

[Cruxador]

"Just following a team leader's recommendation." Sepiatone casts down the branch and looks for a way to slink off.

[pikachu17]

Illuminator dramatically waves a hand and a wave of light picks Sepiatone off the ground as he tries to sneak away, and then he turns his head to Sir Samuel.
You recommended that he should use his powers to create some trees, creating huge destruction in the process, and then recklessly set them on fire? And why, exactly, do you appear to have kidnapped and knocked out Bob Ross?