Issue 1 Downtime

Posted: **Sun Nov 06, 2011 1:51 pm**

"Here's hoping this works as well with you as it would have with Faultline," Ms. McManus said to Sara as they made their way through the tunnels.

Posted: **Sun Nov 06, 2011 1:55 pm**

"I'll do my best..." she says, not nervous at all. No sir.

Posted: **Sun Nov 06, 2011 2:09 pm**

"For what it's worth I'm... not quite comfortable with her being on the other team either."

Posted: **Sun Nov 06, 2011 4:53 pm**

Bobby walked along, squeezing his way through the tight spots with a frustrated look on his face.

Posted: **Sun Nov 06, 2011 5:02 pm**

John, however, caused quite a bit of damage fitting through.

"Remind me why I chose the sewers again?"

Posted: **Sun Nov 06, 2011 5:05 pm**

"Because we are the salt of the earth, John-o. Rough and tough. strong as steel and twice as pretty."

Bobby sarcastically made a muscle as he pointed his torch forward.

Posted: **Sun Nov 06, 2011 9:35 pm**

"... what does that even mean?"

Posted: **Sun Nov 06, 2011 9:38 pm**

"It means, we are the sewer guys. know your place in life."

Posted: **Sun Nov 06, 2011 10:58 pm**

Isabel followed along, looking nervous.

Posted: **Mon Nov 07, 2011 9:36 am**

The group comes up to a wall of rubble; remains of where the sewers had collapsed on their way out of the hotel. And then the foundations around them shake faintly as up above the satellite fires on the hotel.

"I hope that's distraction enough..." Sara mumbles to herself before nodding at John and Bobby and begins tearing into the wall to carve a tunnel up and hopefully into the basement of the hotel.

Posted: **Mon Nov 07, 2011 7:43 pm**

"Okay.. Showtime."

Posted: **Mon Nov 07, 2011 8:57 pm**

John noticed Isabel's nervousness. "It'll be okay. We aren't going to let anything happen to you," he assured gently.

Posted: **Mon Nov 07, 2011 10:14 pm**

"Thanks." Isabel said, smiling at John.

Posted: **Tue Nov 08, 2011 1:10 pm**

"Just do what you do best, Isabel--we all make a pretty good team, after all," Stephanie smiled, in human form for now to better slip through the cramped tunnels.

Posted: **Tue Nov 08, 2011 3:51 pm**

"We've just got to make sure we get everyone through. Paladin will be closing the door behind us."

Posted: **Tue Nov 08, 2011 5:32 pm**

Renko followed the others taking some comfort in the kevlar body armor he'd "borrowed" from Paladin.

"And then fight through whatever we leave behind," Renko said quietly as he followed the others.

Posted: **Tue Nov 08, 2011 5:49 pm**

There was an oddly distracted look on Ms. McManus' face as they went.

"...might not be as many left as you think."

Posted: **Tue Nov 08, 2011 8:01 pm**

"That certainly makes me feel better," Renko mumbled gauntlet clicking as he flexed his hand.

Posted: **Tue Nov 08, 2011 9:27 pm**

Bobby flipped his torch back and forth, looking ahead.

Posted: **Tue Nov 08, 2011 10:29 pm**

"You'll be fine," Steph said softly into Renko's ear as she slid alongside him quietly. "You've got backup, and you can bend time itself," she smiled and grabbed his hand, giving it a reassuring squeeze.

Posted: **Thu Nov 10, 2011 1:26 pm**

Ms. McManus frowned, and looked to Sara.

"...we need to get in there. The other team is in trouble."

Posted: **Thu Nov 10, 2011 1:31 pm**

"I'm trying. There's a lot of rubble!" she says, trying not to think about what kind of trouble Sam's talking about. After a while though she comes up on a concrete wall. Part of the foundation of the hotel. And fearing tricks from Hellsmith she pushes through as fast as she can and stumbles through on the other side.

Posted: **Thu Nov 10, 2011 1:35 pm**

There was a determined look on her face as she stepped through, looking about.

"...I'm not going to let them take her again."

Posted: **Thu Nov 10, 2011 2:06 pm**

John followed them through.

"We won't let that happen."

Posted: **Thu Nov 10, 2011 2:24 pm**

Stephanie Kaltiera wrote:"You'll be fine," Steph said softly into Renko's ear as she slid alongside him quietly. "You've got backup, and you can bend time itself," she smiled and grabbed his hand, giving it a reassuring squeeze.

Renko smiled at Stephanie and returned the gesture. He looked a bit more confident as he went through the hole and into the hotel.

"We need to get there quickly then," Renko asked gauntlets beginning to glow the other would feel his powers like a tingling sensation and the movement of their surroundings seemed slowed relative to their own.

Posted: **Mon Nov 14, 2011 11:50 am**

"But... what about the portal. I mean we're supposed to find it so we have a way to escape, right?" she says to Sam, torn between their mission and wanting to help Will. "How much trouble are they in?"

Posted: **Mon Nov 14, 2011 8:32 pm**

"The trouble I see with this plan is that I'm not planning on letting the lot of you through to either of those destinations," came a voice over a speaker.

Posted: **Mon Nov 14, 2011 8:41 pm**

"Go. We can handle her," he said to Sam.

Posted: **Tue Nov 15, 2011 12:36 am**

for emphasis, Bobby gritted his teeth and reformed his arms into spikes.

Posted: **Tue Nov 15, 2011 12:42 am**

Steph let out a low growl as the voice appeared, and began to shift, bones popping and her growling deepening.

Posted: **Tue Nov 15, 2011 2:40 pm**

"Don't underestimate her," Ms. McManus said. "I'll find them."

Posted: **Tue Nov 15, 2011 4:16 pm**

John stretched his shoulders and neck in a brief pre-fight warm-up.

"So how do we want to go about this? She clearly has the advantage in a battle of attrition," he asked in a low volume.

Posted: **Tue Nov 15, 2011 4:34 pm**

"She has to, like, actually be somewhere, right?" Sara whispers back.

Posted: **Tue Nov 15, 2011 5:52 pm**

"Somehow I doubt finding her will be easy, with or without a telepath."

Posted: **Tue Nov 15, 2011 6:51 pm**

"The moving walls, floors and rooms won't help," Steph growled. She sniffed the air tentatively, seeing if she could detect any sort of particularly distinctive scent that didn't belong to her teammates.

Posted: **Tue Nov 15, 2011 7:05 pm**

Machine oil. Ozone. In spite of the hotel's ordinary appearance it was riddled with technology.

Posted: **Wed Nov 16, 2011 12:56 am**

Stephanie scrunched up her face in a mixture of frustration and disgust, "All I can smell is machines and technology that is probably going to try and kill us."

Posted: **Wed Nov 16, 2011 8:22 pm**

"I do so love it when they catch on quickly," came the voice over the speakers, just before blades scythed out of the floor near Stephanie, threatening to slice her to ribbons!

Posted: **Wed Nov 16, 2011 8:31 pm**

"Steph!" John called out, his armor protecting him as he rushed in to grab a blade and hopefully break it.

Posted: **Thu Nov 17, 2011 4:17 pm**

The blades did wrench to a halt upon impacting John, but began to change shape into shackles, trying to tie him to the floor.

"Your counterpart had a teleporter on his team to keep me from doing this to him. How lucky that you lot seem to have neglected that..."

Something in the ceiling was reconfiguring rapidly.

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