"Whoo eee, commenter Kitty Pryde here and the green team shows some real chutzpah here."

Kitty continues, "First Firestorm does a number on Doomsday. How would you describe the process, Firestorm?"

"I changed his molecules and made him cellular dookie for a minute. By the time he got back to his senses he was pooped", he says with outmost charm.

"And who says the superhero biz is all in the toilet?" she adds.

"As apparently this commentary is," Xavier interrupts, "While I appreciate, and enjoy your..enthusiasm, let us please limit it to appropriate topics. What about the Flash?"

"Glad you asked, Prof. He distracted Superman for a moment, didn't seem to have any effect except for maybe dizzying him. Huntress, on the other hand, avenged the red team's attack on Beast...and then some.."

"Hey," Huntress says, "When you're good, you're good."

"Now we can only wait and wonder what the red team might have up their collective unstable moleculed sleeves."

Um, Gambit's stealthed on an object, so Huntress couldn't attack him. Want to give her another action instead?

Argh, stealth, between that and the terrain...ok I'm passing on Huntress.

Hawkman to Q14

Gambit Perplexes up Superman's damage.

Superman attacks Doomsday with his heat vision, Psylocke Enhancing the damage further to 5. AV10 against DV14. Gets 11. Doomsday's Impervious roll is a 6.

Green Arrow will attack Doomsday, AV11, needs a 3. Gets a 5. Doomsday rolls a 3 for Impervious this time, so he takes 1 more hit.

Magick Q9
Green Arrow@ Q12 (stealthed)
Gambit M16 (stealthed)
Hawkman @ Q14
Blue Beetle Q13
Superman @ P15 (w/HO)
Psylocke Q15

"Hawkman pulls back, and now it looks like the Red Team's launching an all-out assault on Doomsday. Superman strikes from a distance with his heat vision. The smart thing to do I guess, since Doomsday already killed him once up close..."

"Kitty!"

"Sorry, Professor. And omygosh, I can't believe it! The readings all say that Superman's attack would have been enough to slag a tank, but Doomsday's laughing it off. Wait a second though, Green Arrow's firing a shot right at the same spot that Superman hit. Superman's attack must have softened the invulnerable Doomsday enough, because GA's arrow went right in. Doomsday's roaring in anger now and snapping off Green Arrow's arrow. Can't have hurt him too much, but any little bit helps, I guess."

Beast outwits Doomsday's toughness.

Phoenix attacks Doomsday. Needs 3, rolls 9. 5 to Doomsday which is more than enough to tackle him.

Quicksilver to M12.

Flash will outwit Magik's rce.

Huntress to M22.

M12@ Quicksilver
K9 Flash
J12 Atom
K12 Firestorm
I11 (1) Beast
M22@ Huntress
G14@ Phoenix

OOPS that was round 4.

Kitty takes a sip of water and boom the action hits, "Whoa, the green team is on the ball. Phoenix, way to go girl, smacked down that Doomsday but good. Hmmm...maybe SHE should wear the big S."

"I did it! I won!" screamed Quicksilver sliding into Doomsday's spot before even the Flash can take it.

"Great, Pietro," Kitty says, "Now see that clock on the wall?"

"Of course," he says indignant.

"Can you stay there until the big hand is on the 3? That's the rule, 1/2 hour. I'm sure Superman won't bother you...not at all.."

Quicksilver laughs as if unbothered but his eyes show a different story. Superman! Gulp!

Gambit will Perplex up Blue Beetle's AV to 9.

Beetle will attack Quicksilver. AV9 on DV 16 +2 for ESD. Needs a 9. Gets a 5. That ain't even close.

Okay Magik will try, AV8 so she needs a 10. Gets a 9. Close...

Okay, Gambit, then. AV9, so he needs 9. His roll's a 4. Curse you, ESD.

I could have done that better. May not have worked, but might have improved my chances slightly.

Magick @ Q9
Green Arrow Q12 (stealthed)
Gambit @ M16 (stealthed)
Hawkman Q14
Blue Beetle @ Q13
Superman P15 (w/HO)
Psylocke Q15

"ANd now the Red Team begins an all-out assault on the Green Team's Quicksilver. Blue Beetle, Magik and Gambit all try to hit him, but he's just too darn fast. They can't touch him. He's dancing around their attacks like they were in slow-motion. He may be an arrogant jerk, but he sure knows his defensive maneuvers. Oops, did I say that out loud?"

Round 5:


Atom perplexes Flash's damage to 2. Flash runs to P11; outwits Superman's charge; attacks Arrow. Needs 6, rolls 8, ends at K9. 2 to Arrow.

Atom to M11.

Beast moves to L17, outwits Gambit's stealth.

Firestorm attacks Gambit. Needs 6, rolls 7. 5 to Gamby.

M12Quicksilver
K9@ Flash
M11@ Atom
K12@ Firestorm
L27@ (1) Beast
M22 Huntress
G14 Phoenix

"Green team took a slow, cautious start and now they're all the heck over the map," Shadowcat begins.

"Flash went and did a little dance around Green Arrow and made him quiver. Actually he lost some quivers and it was not a pretty sight."

"Beast brought Gambit head first into a trap courtesy of Firestorm. Owww, cajun, that hadda hurt."

"And Quicksilver is still dodging bullets without breakin' a sweat. If only he knew the game ain't have even have over."

"Plenty o' time," says a sultry southern voice walking up to Kitty, "To play catch up, right, shugah?"

"Rogue!"

"Ah reckon ah came in a bit late for the game but maybe ah can help ya'll with the commentary. Now bring me ta speed here...what's with all this Christmas color red and greens, shugah?"

Not sure if Outwitting Gambit works. Even if you are right next to him, description of Outwit says that you need to be able to draw line of fire to him, which you can't do to a stealthed character. But since this is jjust a "for fun" game, we'll move on and we can debate the point later.

And you were SO not supposed to hit Green Arrow.

Well, since Atom's on the crest of the hill, I can see him, so Green Arrow will attack Atom. AV9 to hit DV20, need an 11. Gets a 4.

Superman will move up to N13

Hawkman grabs Blue Beetle and Charges. Hawkman ends in N12, Beetle in N11. Hawkman the attacks Quicksilver, AV10 against DV16 (no ESD for you this time!) Gets a 5. Well this just isn't my game.

Psylocke moves to M19

Magick Q9
Green Arrow @ Q12 (2 clicks)
Gambit M16 (5 clicks)
Hawkman @ N12
Blue Beetle N11
Superman @ N13 (w/HO)
Psylocke @ M19 (stealthed)

"...so right now, the Red fellas are tryin' to knock Quicksilver off the hill?" Rogue recapped. "Oh this I gotta see."

"Green Arrow looks pretty angry after Flash's attack on him. He's looking around for him, but Flash is long gone. It looks like he's taking a bead on Quicksilver. Will this be the end of the speedster's dominance?"

"Shoot," Rogue laughed, "I thought this Green Arrow was supposed to be somethin' special. That arrow didn't even come close to Quickie."

"Hang on Rogue," Kitty interrupted. "It looks like Green Arrow's eyes were keener than ours. He wasn't shooting at Quicksilver at all. Sensors indicate that the Atom is up near the top of the hill next to Pietro. He missed, but how're you going to hit a guy who's an inch tall with an arrow?"

"Oh, this is gonna be good - Kitty check it out."

"Quicksilver looks like he's in trouble now. The Red Team's figured out how hard he is to hit from a distance, so they're closing in. Superman, Hawkman, and the Blue Beetle are all converging on Quicksilver. This could get ugly for him real fast - and there's the first attack. Hawkman's swinging that huge mace at Quicksilver. I don't know how Pietro managed to avoid that one. Rogue did you see that?"

"Oh, I saw that, all right sugah. I can't tell y'all what Quicksilver did though, I was too busy watchin' those bulgin' muscles on Hawkman. Yum."

"Can't argue with you there Rogue, but I think Superman's the bigger hunk."

"Can we stay on topic please ladies?"

"Huh? Oh sure Professor. Just a little, y'know, color commentary. So it remains to be seen how the Green team is going to counter this threat to one of their own members."

Hmmmm....didn't think sneaking up on an outwitter and outwitting stealth was an issue. Let me know if you wanna hold off on this until we get clarification, could make a difference.

For now I'll plow onwards:

ROUND 6

Phoenix moves to M13

Now a longshot: Beast is in a precarious place for his last click of outwit. So he moves to M14 and outwits Superman's impervious.

Quicksilver attacks Superman. Atom will perplex his attack to 9. Needs 7, rolls 8. 2 to Superman.

So the question becomes when does the click for pushing kick in? After the move or after the turn? What's your take can Beast do that? If not my game will end at Phoenix's move.

I won't post a story this round.