Guys, I was thinking about all the things that happened during this chapter and they were pretty major events and brought an entire story arc to a close so I'm thinking I should give you guys not only chapter xp, but a bonus for completing a major plot thread as well. Add another 10xp to what I already gave you.

Also, as noted in Ch 9 opening, you guys are public heroes now, so add Fame of 5 (specific to this time line of course) to your sheets. Ulric, your influence is at 6 now.

You guys have had 6 months of downtime. I've noted in the chapter opener some of what each of you has been doing, but that does not mean that was ALL you were doing. If there is anything specific you would have done with your downtime, please let me know, or post it in a Fic.

I hope you all are still with us for this next chapter. I know the last one bogged down a bit for some of you since you didn't have a large roll, but that should change in this new chapter. You'll be dealing with a completely new situation.

Please go ahead and post in the new chapter with your meeting. I am assuming you guys are going to go investigate the Watchers, but post your IC discussion to do so, it doesn't have to be long, but you should have some discussion and preparation before taking off.

I have an idea but Fox would have to be okay with it.

We need to figure out with Lorean how to deprogram her (I believe this was a thread left dangling and I haven't gotten to the IC thread yet. Maaaaaaybe, when we figure out her programming we could somehow unlock her restriction from going back to our original home. We could return to the scene of the crime as it were and confront them. Maaaaybe if we tell them that we dont have any intention of outing them and if they tell us what they are up to we could ork with them on whatever next level bidness they might be up to.


Just a thought.

Check out the Ch 9 opening. The breaking the programming was done during the downtime. She just needed some time to focus on the problem to fix it once she knew the reason.

Steve has increased his Mega-Chr & Wits to 2 and his P-shield to 5.

I have been pooling xp and np's. Decided to finally spend them all.

Omar picked up a second dot of Elemental Mastery: Sand (Storm), a second dot of Mega-App, picked up Mega-Dex (Flexibility), increased his Sizemorph to 4, and increased wits and charisma to 4 each.

You all will have to wait and see just what went down with Andrew ...

Before this what was his Mega-Int at?

Mega Int was 2 now is 3

Good then. I'd been assuming that he was smarter than Steve now days.

What is Steve baseline Int?

Andrew's has been 5 since the get go and I've only been dragging my feet on raising Mega Int because it's not something that I felt was NEEDED being that his skill level is what define's him more than pure raw intellect.

None the less I'm sure M-Int 4 will be round the corner after the taint cure hits... I'm only 5 exp short right now.

Steve started the game with Int 5, Mega-Int 2 and he's been unable to raise it because his Q is 1.

He also has Medicine 2 and Nova Medicine 2... which is to say he seriously looked into what it would take to replace Andrew and wasn't happy with the answer.

That's not to say he 'wants' to replace Andrew, he's just more and more worried he's not going to have a choice soon... and that was even before (or at the same time) as Andrew's recent issues.

I'm happiest with his Mega-Wits buy up. With every thing that he's doing and maintaining he *needs* to think faster than he was and that's not even considering the boost to his Biz skill.

Aye well I guess I finally stepped up on the smarts scale then

Int 5 Mega Int 3 Medicine 5 Nova Med 4 (taint specialty) and Medicine Prodigy ... I'm on the way

since everyone has been posting their purchases - Update on Joani - M-Str 3 to 4
M-Sta 1 to 3
Teleport with combat teleport extra to simulate superspeed (much like Titan Omega in ITB)
Invulnerability broad category Energy 1 up.

I will edit my post to clarify more clearly since I just found out that there is missing a sentence.

not all of Andrew's purchases are disclosed just the stuff that you all would either know or suspect strongly

Ooooooh! Color Joani! Heeee!

was about time

Didn't you just change the colors of her outfit, though? She's all black and silver now?

yes - but it's very difficult to find something appropriate. I didn't do the coloring.

Ah.

Did Cottus/Whitearro/Soma do the coloring? He is pretty awesome with that. Also dig the fiery new avvie for Farenheit

Thanks for both, Sky. I got the colored picture from Deviant Art (took me quite some time to find it). The Avvie for Fahrenheit is actually a Comic-Character named Soulfire. The picture actually inspired me to create the character.

Joani - just because Andrew is "whole" doesn't mean he isn't still suffering from his aberrations. They are just easier to control to an extent. As such he may still be missing what you are trying to say without saying it outright. That or I picked up the aberration "Being a Dick" as well.

I understand that but I didn't want to interrupt the flow of the story by rewinding to that topic. She tried to make her point and didn't come through. Her next attempt will be on her battlefield

uh oh ... Andrew is in trouble I think

I think Lorean just said the same thing after you wore him down enough not to resist.

Steve, not sure exactly what you are proposing.

Steve is proposing a 'Gold World' Visit as a dry run to test that Lorean really is all better.

If there are problems, and she hasn't done this sort of thing in decades and, well, "the cast just came off", I'd rather find out about them in Gold World and not on a world with serious novas around, or in the middle of a nuclear war, or whatever.

Ah, I understand now. Good idea.

guys I'm gone till Monday ... later!

Guys, I'm gone from this coming Saturday until next Saturday. Internet access will be intermittent at best.

Are you guys not wanting to go find the Watchers? That and the Taint cure don't have to be mutually exclusive.

I think we're still debating that option.

Well the taint cure requires going somewhere to research Novas. I just wanted to discuss the potential snags with that. of course we are going to seek out the Watchers!

Can someone remind me again how we know Divis used Q Supremeacy to kick off N-Day?

I don't think we know Q-Supreme. We know or think it was Divis because future Max has thought that.

this is completely off-topic but I added a link to a themesong for Joani in the Characters-Thread, just fyi.

Hey guys. Sorry I haven't been about for a while. I'm trying to get back to something like a normal schedule, but I may still be spotty for the next few weeks.

Andrew, is that the experiment that led to you cloning yourself, or is that a new experiment?

that's the start of a longer fiction detailing his cloning and the recent taint adds