Green Lantern Corps #24

“Khaaaaaan!”

By Lightshear



Morning light burned through the haze in his head as he sat up from sleep. He rubbed his eyes and let them adjust to the slow dawning alertness of waking up after a long, restless night. He looked around, noted the clean white sheets covering him, the light from the sun high in the sky beaming through the window and warming the room comfortably as it reflected off the shiny hardwood floors, white walls, and tall mirrors on the closet doors. His clothes were on the floor; they weren't the only clothes there.

This was not Hal's apartment.

He looked next to him at the young woman still sleeping and rubbed his tousled brown hair. His hand slid down over his face as he sighed, scraping across the stubble on his chin and cheek. He came to three conclusions; she was really still a girl, wasn't she? After all, 21 isn't really "woman" territory these days - not if his recent experiences were anything to go by. Kids these days didn't seem to hit adult status until damn near thirty. The second conclusion was that he needed to shave. He had to look like a mess, and chasing these girls wasn't making him feel like the spring chicken he wanted to believe he was. The third conclusion… he wasn't ready to dwell on yet.

Deciding to dodge the "breakfast problem," he slipped out of the bed and quietly got his pants and socks back on. He grabbed his shirt, jacket, and shoes and all but tip-toed out of the apartment, not bothering to finish dressing until he was down the hall and around the corner. Better not to take chances, just in case. He thumbed the button for the elevator and checked his morning-after smell. He'd get by without a shower well enough, so long as nobody got too close to him for too long.

He had to walk down the street. For a moment he considered flying, but a squeeze of his fist reminded him of the absence of the ring on his finger. His thumb kept rubbing over the spot on his middle finger where the Green Lantern ring had rested for - god, had it been over a decade, now? He was barely older than that girl was when it had been given to him by the dying alien in the crashed ship. Now at least twelve years separated them, and he felt decades older.

He blew out a slow breath and kept rubbing his finger. He was adrift with no purpose and no clue what to do next. Falling into his old habits hadn't helped, though you honestly couldn't overestimate how badly you can miss the touch and smell of a beautiful woman. Or girl. Whatever. It had done his esteem good to find his charm hadn't left him; that he could still land some companionship for a night if he wanted any, and did he ever want some. But the whole affair felt more… hollow than he remembered. There was thrill enough in the act itself, but the glory of the conquest, the adrenal rush of the hunter taking down his prey, none of that really stuck.

He remembered he was meeting Ollie for lunch and called ahead to let him know when he'd get there (again having to remember he had no power ring to act as his phone). The pre-paid cell was only going to be good for a little while longer, but he didn't have a steady line of cash to pay for anything better yet. He was bunking in a place Tom had set up for him, but that wouldn't last a lot longer either.

No two ways about it, Hal, he thought to himself. You're going to have to find a job soon and rejoin society. One way or the other, this whole vagabond thing ain't gonna cut it anymore.
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Oliver Queen waved Hal down when he walked into the small diner. His friend looked like he'd just rolled out of bed, but he figured he probably didn't look a lot better. After the time they had last night, and the women they both wound up with, they were lucky to be in any shape to walk out the door. They'd worry about looking good enough to feel human again later.

"Hey, man," they greeted each other with a handshake and half-hug and sat down at the small table by the window. Hal ordered a black coffee and Ollie got a refill and when the waitress was gone they looked each other over. He couldn't really believe they were back here like no time had passed - like it hadn't been so many years since they were the inseparable duo tearing up the town and burning their candles at both ends. Apparently Hal was thinking more or less the same thing, because they both started laughing at it like they were reading each others' minds.

"And here we are again," Hal sighed, accepting his coffee from the waitress with a smile.

"Once more unto the breech," Ollie smiled. "How was the rest of your night?"

"Pretty much like yours, from the look of it. Did you wind up with the blonde or the one with the skirt?"

"A gentleman never tells," he sipped his coffee. "It was the blonde."

"Ah. Always your weakness."

"You're telling me."

"Trying to fill a Canary-shaped hole?"

"No psychology, friend. I'm not going there."

"Whatever you say, pal," Hal shrugged. "Something happened to me this morning."

"You gonna try and make me jealous, now?"

"No. See, I woke up next to this stunning young thing, naked and soft and perfect, and you know how I felt?"

Ollie raised an eyebrow.

"I felt old. I felt ancient, Ollie. Like an old man chasing old glories in a world that just ain't mine anymore."

"You're just adjusting to being back home," Ollie said, adding another sugar to his coffee. "You've been in space a long time, I'm sure it's making it hard to readapt."

"That isn't it. I miss the ring, I'm not gonna lie. I feel like a piece of me is missing; being alive isn't the same without it. My senses are duller, my reactions slower, I feel disconnected from the universe in a way I don't think I can explain because I don't even totally understand it, but it's there - this… ring-shaped hole. And my friends are out there fighting, dying, protecting their sectors, and I'm here completely unable to do anything to help. It's indescribable.

"But that isn't what I'm talking about here. This is something else. Ollie, we aren't the guys we were. I'm not the naïve soldier in the Guardians' Corps, you aren't the wide-eyed punk spitting at authority. We've grown up."

"Yeah, sure," Ollie nodded. "We're smarter than we were, thank god. But being more mature doesn't mean we're old men."

"When I got home, all I wanted was to get back to the life I had. I wanted to hang with my best friend, chase tail, raise hell - I wanted to fly jets and hang at the Fly Inn and act like nothing ever changed. But things have changed. I changed. I did the unforgivable, man – I grew up.”

“You’re saying you didn’t like last night?”

“You’re saying you did? Be honest, Queen. You aren’t feeling it like you used to. Dinah changed you.”

“Yeah… well… doesn’t really matter, does it? I threw that away. It was just a matter of time before she figured me out and left on her own.”

“Bullsh#t,” Hal pointed a finger at Ollie. “You can lie to yourself all you want, but you can’t lie to me. I see right through you. You’re as tired of this as I am. You don’t want some random blonde, pal, you want a very specific blonde.”

It was true. He hung his head a little and bought time to think by drinking from his mug. Even if Hal was right… “Nothing I can do about that now. No matter how much I love her, she’s gone. It’s over.”

“Love always matters.”

“Softie,” he mumbled into his coffee.

“This isn’t me being soft, it’s me manning up and telling the truth – for both of us. We’ve gotta get our lives back, Ollie. You’ve gotta string up your damn bow and get back to that satellite, show that girl the man you are and put out the fire you started before you burn the bridge completely.”

“It feels weird to think about going back up there. With everything that happened…”

“Listen to me, friend – every second I’m on Earth without a ring on my finger, I have to live with people dying that I can’t help. I’m a soldier sent home and all I can think about is my buddies in the warzone. Are you really fine sitting on the sidelines nursing wounds you gave yourself?”

He sat and stewed. “It isn’t that easy.”

“You know what, a long time ago when I went through life with my eyes half closed and was content to do what I was told, content to enjoy my power for its own sake, I met a guy who kicked me hard in my a## and made me see the world for what it was. That guy was a fighter, a block of granite that wasn’t cracking for anything. Don’t tell me the only thing strong enough to break you was yourself.”

“So maybe you’re right. Maybe this isn’t working for me either. I should just… what? Show up at the Satellite, grab my gear, and report for duty? You think Dinah’s gonna work with me again?”

“The difference between us is you can go back whenever you want. You’ve just got to have the balls to do it. I never thought being ballsy was a problem for you before. Or are you too old to man up, now?”

“Son of a…” he grumbled under his breath. “Fine. I hate when you’re right – you’re just so damn smug about it.”

“Who, me?” Hal asked with that trademark sh#t-eating grin of his. They left money for their lunch and grabbed their coats to leave.

“Hey, Hal,” Oliver said as they stepped outside. “Thanks.”

“For what?”

“You’re going to make me say it? B#stard…” he laughed. “For kicking my a## and making me see the world for what it is.”

“We’re even,” Hal nodded as they split up and Ollie slid into his car.

“So, hey,” he called after Hal before the other guy got into a cab. “What about you? You can’t get back out there, so what are you going to do next?”

Hal looked to the sky and closed his eyes, smiling contentedly. “I’ve gotta go see a woman about a plane.”
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“What do you mean Mr. Miracle is dead?!”

“Just that,” the holographic ring-projection of Blue Beetle said as the Green Lanterns and New Gods hovered together in conference. Guy had arranged the conversation and used his ring to call his old teammates. “It—look, it only just happened. We’re kind of still trying to wrap our heads around it.”

“Okay, alright…” John rubbed his forehead. “And you’re sure of it? You saw the body?”

“Yeah. And Barda – that’s his wife – she brought it up from the bay herself (long story). She seemed pretty convinced, and if anybody was gonna know I figure it’d be her.”

Katma sighed heavily. “Very well. Thank you, Blue Beetle. Good luck with your troubles.”

“Ah, I’m pretty sure these charges won’t stick,” the armored hero hologram shrugged. “The guards here are pretty serious, but Max’ll get us out of any serious trouble. I think it’ll all sort it out once they realize who the real Evil Superman is.”

“Uh, yes. Good. Thank you again,” she said, having no idea what he was talking about.

“Well, that tosses a monkey-cr#p into the works,” Guy said, his ring closing off the communiqué. “Guess we’re gonna go assault some warships?”

“I don’t see what other option we have,” she shook her head. Turning to Orion and Lightray, she asked “Is there anything you would recommend? With Mr. Miracle dead, I don’t see--”

“Oh, he isn’t dead,” Lightray smiled.

“But—they just said…”

“Yes, I heard. They are wrong.”

“Solis is right,” Orion nodded. “If a New God dies, the rest of us can feel it. Miracle lives.”

“Well, if that’s the case,” Katma turned in thought, “then he must not be on Earth. Blue Beetle and his team saw someone they believed to be Mr. Miracle die – believed enough that it tricked his own wife into believing it. So where is he?”

“And do we have time to search?” John added. “One man in a universe… an awful lot hangs on us finding what’s essentially one needle in a billion haystacks.”

“We might have a solution,” Lightray chirped in, his voice ever-optimistic. “Each of us New Gods are unique in the universe – no two are alike in any way. Perhaps a Mother-box could lock onto his genetic signal and track it to wherever he is now.”

Guy sighed, palming his face as he rolled his eyes. “Whaaatever. Look, I’m-a gonna split after our people. Any of you chumps or chumpettes wants to come with me, fine. If not, I can handle them on my own.”

“You are talking about facing the commander of all of Darkseid’s forces,” Orion scoffed. “One man against the strongest fleet of Apokalips?”

“Yeah, doesn’t sound fair does it?” Guy shrugged. “But unless you know a way to give them more ships, I don’t see how I can make it better for them.”

“This… I must see. I am coming with you. It has been too long since Steppenwolf has tasted my wrath firsthand.”

“I’ll join you,” Raker nodded. “I wouldn’t mind giving Darkseid a little payback, and I don’t want to abandon our friends to the dungeons.”

“Excellent,” Lightray smiled. “And I will escort John and Katma to wherever Scott Free has absconded to! I like this plan.”

“You like everything, Solis,” Orion shook his head.

“There’s a lot to like out there.”

“Hopeless optimist…”

“Nope. I’m just honest. Ready, friends?”

“Ready. Good luck, Raker, Gardner,” Katma nodded to the others with a look of respect. “Think green thoughts.”

“Evermore,” Raker smiled grimly. Orion opened a boom tube and they disappeared through it.

“What about us?” John asked. “What’s the odds of your Mother-box finding Mr. Miracle?”

“Pretty good, I’d say. There’s little a Mother-box couldn’t do, theoretically. It’s… complicated, but the simple version is that they’re god-computers. Whatever you’d imagine something like that could do, odds are it isn’t far from what a Mother-box is capable of. You might even still be underestimating their abilities.”

“…Good to know,” John arched his brows. He wasn’t completely comfortable with all this ‘Gods’ business. Bad enough that Raker had to use boom-tube technology to get them here – something to do with this being another plane of existence, and we’d be ants to them if a boom-tube didn’t adjust us for their worlds. None of it made much sense, and his secular brain was reeling with every new development.

“Ah! I have him. Sneaky boy… he’s onboard a starfaring vessel. Dreadnaught size, though not military it doesn’t seem. Very technologically advanced.”

“Hostile? Should we expect combat?” Katma asked.

“Oh, no. Whatever their defenses may be, it won’t mean a thing to me. I can boom-tube us directly to him inside the ship. Are you ready to go?”

“Yes, please. Whenever you are.” She gave John a reassuring look and squeezed his hand. He squeezed back and smiled a small smile.

“Why is this so much more comfortable than our date was?” he asked.

“Because we’re terrible at small talk,” she smiled. “If we’re going to be together, I think we’re going to have to accept that we’re a pair of Green Lanterns – that isn’t a switch we can turn off for polite conversation.”

“I can live with that, I think,” he smiled back. “If we’re going to be together.”

“Yes,” she chuckled. “If.”

“Are you two actually ready, or do you need a moment? I can wait if—“

“Not at all, Solis,” she laughed outright. “Lets go find the son of Highfather.”
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“IIIIIIIIIIInfidel!!!” shouted a booming metallic voice as Lightray and the Green Lanterns appeared through the boom-tube that opened in the middle of the grand hall at the core of the soaring dreadnaught.

The ringing voice belonged to the gold-plated, cloak-draped synthetic man standing incredulously before his throne. He raised a golden fist and hollered at the short yellow robot standing beside him.

“Witless minion! Inform these jade jackanapes and their achromatically attired addlebrain upon whose hallowed halls they so impolitely intrude! Post-haste!!!”

“Right,” the robot sighed, rubbing its wide, rectangular head with a two-fingered hand. Then, with a voice dripping in more sarcasm than one would imagine a robot capable of, it stepped forward and spoke: “The glorious Manga Khan, may his capitalistic credo be sung by choirs of cherubs, would like you all to know that you have entered into the throne room of his flagship, the Executerminadicator. All shall tremble and despair at the captain of the capitalist eternity.”

“Riiiiight…” John raised an eyebrow. “You want to take this, Kat, or should I?”

“Lightray?” she asked their godly companion.

“Oh, no – you go right ahead. I’m curious to see how this all plays out.”

“Okay, then,” she stepped forward. “Manga Khan – I am Katma Tui, of the Green Lantern Honor Guard. We have come to you because we seek a being known as Scott Free, or Mister Miracle. Our associate Lightray of the New Gods of New Genesis is of his people, and has reason to believe he is present on this ship. Finding Scott Free and returning him with us could avert a war of intergalactic scale. Naturally, we—“

“Enough!” Manga Khan shouted, seeming to possess only two volumes: loud and louder. “Think you that the effulgent enterprising executive entrepreneur of the eternal ether’s edge is blind to your devious disinformation?! You seek only the wholesale heisting of my finest fundraiser!”

So saying, he snapped his fingers at his robot assistant. The small droid pushed a button and a piece of the wall spun to reveal a man in a garish red, yellow and green costume in a glass dome, reading a book. He looked up as he was revealed and his eyes went wide when he saw Lightray. Though he called out, none of them could hear his words.

“Oh, no, ignoble ignoramuses – We like ‘Mister Miracle’ right where he is!”

“But his presence in the Fourth World could save billions of lives. If the war rages past their dimension, it could lead to the deaths of trillions. Surely you wouldn’t doom so many just to keep one man prisoner!”

“If you think us fickle or feckless, you have vastly and sorely underestimated the enormity of our immovability, most rumpsome rouge ranunculus. And don’t call us Shirley.”

“He’s sitting in a globe,” Katma said, retaining her calm despite the absurdity of the situation. “He can’t be doing you any good from there, so I can only assume this is some kind of personal issue between you. If that is the case, then--”

“HARDLY!” Khan boomed. “Pah! Such pitiful perception. Have you not even thought singular in your fatuous featherbrain? Clearly twould be wasteful to simply lock away this proverbial goose of gold! Whilst in our employ, Mister Miracle performs shows weekendly across the galaxy—nay, the universe! Thricely on Saturdays! (Tip thine waitresses or be DOOOOMED!)”

“I see,” she nodded. “Then this is about business after all. I had hoped your claim to being a ‘Captain of the Capitalist Eternity’ wasn’t just talk.”

“The Maleficent Manga Khan NEVER simply talks for its own sake! When our lips move, heavens tremble!”

“…Right. Then it should simply be a matter of negotiating his release from his contract.”

“There shall be release none, fleshsack! Each empirical engagement enjoined enforcibly EXCLUDES every escape effort, even excepting expert edictatorial endeavors! Now bow—BOW before the might of my 14-word alliteration combo!”

“Two things, Khan,” she arched her brow confidently. “First, every contract has an escape clause. Second… ‘edictatorial’ isn’t a real word. Your combo has failed, and so will your legal maneuvering.”

“N-no…! Nooooo!” Khan screamed, shaking his fists in the air in impotent fury.

Watching her work, seeing her moving circles around Manga Khan’s impenetrable prose, John realized this wasn’t just a woman he liked. This was a woman he could fall in love with. It wasn’t just her skill or the way she was twisting the power of the room to their side, but the look of quiet satisfaction she had while she did it. She was just so… cute. He didn’t smile, fearing it would break the mood of the moment, but inside he beamed. After they brought in Scott Free and ended this war, he would have to take her on a real date. Somehow.

“Under the authority of the Green Lantern Corps treaty with the Cosbregot Triumverate, in whose space we currently fly, I demand to see your contract with Mr. Miracle, and to speak with your… indentured servant, to determine whether he is being treated fairly and kept in good health.”

Khan spun around, hiding behind his cape and attempted to quietly so that the others couldn’t hear him. However, his whisper-setting was still approximately average speaking volume for most people. “You! Droid-bot! Butl-o-tron!”

“L-ron, sir,” the small golden robot corrected.

“Whatever! Is there a way around this?”

“No, sir. Not really. You could deny them, but that opens you up to legal retaliations by the Triumverate and possible physical assault by two Green Lanterns and a God of New Genesis.”

“Which isssss….?”

“Not advised, sir.”

“Right. Right!” he whirled, raising a fist and booming at full-blast again. “We shall allow you Iiiiiinfidels access to contracts secret and servants bonded. And lo, you shall weep tears of sorrow and stupefaction when your eyes behold the iron-clad impeccability of my pulchritudinous platoon of paralegals!”
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Ushered away from the throne room by robotic assistants, they were teleported into a private room in which they could meet Scott and examine his contract. To ensure that the “Universe’s Greatest Escape Artist” didn’t simply break out and run off, the room was solid metal over ten feet thick with no seems or breaks, only a single table with four chairs, and a small device that would provide adequate oxygen for them for the duration.

“Cozy,” John said, looking around. “This guy really doesn’t want to let you go, does he?”

“Apparently my shows are making him billions,” Mr. Miracle shrugged. In the privacy of the room he had removed his mask and cape (which he was forbidden to be without while in Manga Khan’s presence) and reclining in a chair. “Every weekend he gets to spend three days trying to kill me with increasingly elaborate death-traps. If he succeeds, he gets my head; if he fails, he still made tons of money on my act. It’s win-win.”

“And you’re sure you’re well enough?” Katma asked. “No injuries, enough food and drink, everything is as it should be?”

“Aside from the emotional stress of knowing that my wife was living with a robotic duplicate of me for the last few months and now thinks I’m dead because of it, I’m fine. Honestly, he doesn’t have to do anything to me. Being stuck here is pain enough. I finally got a taste of freedom, then this. And to do it without my Barda… I’m ready to be done and gone.”

“We’re here to help you.”

“I hope this doesn’t come off too negatively,” Lightray spoke up, “but do you or John have any legal expertise to bring to bear here? That looks like one doozy of a contract…”

All four of them looked down at the stack of pages that comprised Mr. Miracle’s contract with Manga Khan. It was a tall stack. A very tall stack. If any of them wondered what over 12 thousand pages of paper looked like stacked up in one place…. Well, now they knew.

“Didn’t even have the courtesy to give this to us in a digital file,” John shook his head. “He really wanted to make this hard on us.”

“To answer your question, Solis, no we aren’t trained legal experts. But our rings have access to all the stored data of the Guardians. Ask the right questions and we can have just about any answer we could need.”

“Won’t be a problem,” Mr. Miracle said, picking up the first handful of pages and thumbing through them. “I’ve just been waiting for my chance to sit down with this thing. Now that you’ve given it to me, I’ll have a way out of this in no time.”

“So confident, Scott Free?” Lightray asked, still tickled by the name the son of Highfather had given himself.

“I’m the master of escapes, Solis. Nothing and nobody can hold me for long. I broke out of Darkseid’s dungeons and escaped Apokalips – I don’t think finding an escape from this contract will hold a candle.”

“Let’s try and all keep that level of optimism,” Katma said, trying to make her smile more genuine as she took up some of the pages herself. “We don’t have much time together before Khan will return. The sooner we work this out, the sooner we can get back to the Fourth World and save our friends and all of your people from this war…”
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The Green Lantern Corps (And Friends):

E Katma Tui - 89
John Stewart (CJ R Green Lantern) - 81
R Mr. Miracle - 64
Lightray (LE DC75 Bart Allen) – 120

Total: 354

The Cantankerous, Clever, Confounding Contract of Manga Khan:

Choice of Law Clause (U FF:IH General Thunderbolt Ross) - 25
Non-Disclosure Agreement (E Zangief) - 85
Force Majeure (E Big Barda) - 75
No-Contest Clause (V Unus the Untouchable) - 90
Severability Clause (E Shanna) - 45
Reserve Clause (V Mockingbird) – 34

Total: 354

Map: Arkham Asylum

Scenario Rules:

-- In this game, you are not playing your actual characters. You are playing a metaphor. As the heroes attempt to find a way out of Mr. Miracle’s contract, your clix pieces are battling the various clauses, agreements, and provisos in the madhouse of Khan’s legalese. Get it? Ha!

So your attacks are the symbolic mental acrobatics being done by your team to get Miracle free. If you succeed in defeating your enemy, you have beaten the contract!

-- The Escape Clause: So long as Mr. Miracle survives the game and you have defeated at least 3 pieces of the contract, then Miracle himself will find a way to escape his contract even if the rest of the team is defeated by the complexities and vagaries of this dense legal document!

I'll grab villaining duties on this one!

I anticipate manipulating mental muscles and mangling Manga Kahn’s manuscript will maximize my amusement.

Dang I am writing for the wrong side. LOL

Initiative: 3,6=9

IIIIIIIIndfidel!

Initiative: (3, 3) = 6.

You can set up and take your first turn.

http://www.ianparmenter.com/hcutils/...6p1=x-428y-329

Sorry for the delay. Been sick and the holidays have been hectic as usual.

Starting Locations:

The Green Lantern Corps (And Friends):

1) E Katma Tui - 89 C21
2) John Stewart (CJ R Green Lantern) - 81 D21
3) R Mr. Miracle - 64 D23
4) Lightray (LE DC75 Bart Allen) – 120 D22

Total: 354

The Cantankerous, Clever, Confounding Contract of Manga Khan:

1) Choice of Law Clause (U FF:IH General Thunderbolt Ross) - 25 M4
2) Non-Disclosure Agreement (E Zangief) - 85 N4
3) Force Majeure (E Big Barda) - 75 O4
4) No-Contest Clause (V Unus the Untouchable) - 90 M3
5) Severability Clause (E Shanna) - 45 M2
6) Reserve Clause (V Mockingbird) – 34 M1

Total: 354

Map: Arkham Asylum
http://www.ianparmenter.com/hcutils/...f4p2=x-636y255

Scenario Rules:

-- In this game, you are not playing your actual characters. You are playing a metaphor. As the heroes attempt to find a way out of Mr. Miracle’s contract, your clix pieces are battling the various clauses, agreements, and provisos in the madhouse of Khan’s legalese. Get it? Ha!

So your attacks are the symbolic mental acrobatics being done by your team to get Miracle free. If you succeed in defeating your enemy, you have beaten the contract!

-- The Escape Clause: So long as Mr. Miracle survives the game and you have defeated at least 3 pieces of the contract, then Miracle himself will find a way to escape his contract even if the rest of the team is defeated by the complexities and vagaries of this dense legal document!

Because I often don't have my dials handy.

The Green Lantern Corps (And Friends):

gl005 E Katma Tui
Team: Green Lantern Corps
Range: 10
Points: 89
Keywords: Green Lantern Corps

10 10 17 3

9 10 16 3

8 10 16 2

8 9 15 1

7 9 17 2

7 8 16 2

6 7 15 2

6 6 14 2

KO KO KO KO

KO KO KO KO

KO KO KO KO

KO KO KO KO

cj082 R Green Lantern
Team: Green Lantern Corps
Range: 8
Points: 81
Keywords: Green Lantern Corps

10 8 15 2

8 7 14 2

8 7 15 1

6 6 14 1

6 6 13 2

6 6 12 2

KO KO KO KO

KO KO KO KO

KO KO KO KO

KO KO KO KO

KO KO KO KO

KO KO KO KO

or070 R Mister Miracle
Team: No Affiliation
Range: 0
Points: 64
Keywords: New Gods

10 9 18 2

8 9 17 2

9 8 17 2

9 8 17 2

8 8 16 1

7 8 16 1

KO KO KO KO

KO KO KO KO

KO KO KO KO

KO KO KO KO

KO KO KO KO

KO KO KO KO

anW-2 U Bart Allen
Team: No Affiliation
Range: 8
Points: 120
Keywords: Teen Titans, White Lantern Corps

12 10 18 2

11 9 17 3

11 9 17 3

11 10 16 2

10 9 16 2

10 9 16 2

6 8 15 1

KO KO KO KO

KO KO KO KO

KO KO KO KO

KO KO KO KO

KO KO KO KO

(Speed) White Sprint: Bart Allen can use Hypersonic Speed. When he does, after actions resolve, you may roll a d6. On a result of 5 or 6, heal him of 1 damage.

(Defense) LIVE!: Bart Allen can use Regeneration. When turning the dial, if this click is revealed due to damage taken from an opponent's attack, stop turning the dial.

The Cantankerous, Clever, Confounding Contract of Manga Khan:

ffih005 U General Thunderbolt Ross
Team: S.H.I.E.L.D.
Range: 4
Points: 25
Keywords: Hulkbusters, Soldier

6 9 16 2

6 9 15 2

5 8 14 1

KO KO KO KO

KO KO KO KO

KO KO KO KO

KO KO KO KO

KO KO KO KO

KO KO KO KO

KO KO KO KO

KO KO KO KO

KO KO KO KO

(Damage) Respect the Uniform, Son: General Thunderbolt Ross can use Leadership. When General Thunderbolt Ross makes a successful Leadership roll, he may remove an action token from an adjacent friendly character with the Soldier keyword and a point value of 75 points or less in addition to the normal effects.

sf005 E Zangief
Team: Street Fighter
Range: 0
Points: 85
Keywords: Brute, Martial Artist

7 11 17 3

7 10 17 3

7 10 17 3

6 9 16 2

6 9 16 2

6 10 16 1

5 8 15 2

KO KO KO KO

KO KO KO KO

KO KO KO KO

KO KO KO KO

KO KO KO KO

(Special) Block: When Zangief has no action tokens, modify his defense value by +1.

un059 E Big Barda
Team: Justice League
Range: 4
Points: 75
Keywords: JLA, New Gods, Warrior

8 10 15 2

8 9 15 2

7 8 14 2

7 7 14 2

7 7 13 2

6 6 13 1

6 6 12 1

KO KO KO KO

KO KO KO KO

KO KO KO KO

KO KO KO KO

KO KO KO KO

mu042 V Unus the Untouchable
Team: Brotherhood of Mutants
Range: 4
Points: 90
Keywords: Brotherhood of Mutants, Mutant

7 9 18 2

7 10 18 2

6 9 17 2

6 8 17 2

6 8 16 2

5 7 15 2

KO KO KO KO

KO KO KO KO

KO KO KO KO

KO KO KO KO

KO KO KO KO

KO KO KO KO

(Defense) Untouchable: Unus the Untouchable can use Impervious and Super Senses.

(Damage) Bounce: Any successful close combat attack make by Unus the Untouchable knocks back the target 3 squares; Unus the Untouchable does not otherwise knock back targets of his attacks.

hulk032 E Shanna
Team: No Affiliation
Range: 0
Points: 45
Keywords: Ruler, Savage Land, Warrior

7 9 16 1

7 9 16 2

6 9 15 1

6 8 15 2

5 9 15 1

KO KO KO KO

KO KO KO KO

KO KO KO KO

KO KO KO KO

KO KO KO KO

KO KO KO KO

KO KO KO KO

(Special) Savage Duo: When a friendly character named Ka-Zar is adjacent to Shanna, they both modify their attack values by +1 if not already modified by this effect.

(Damage) Queen of the Savage Land: Shanna modifies her attack value by +2 when attacking a character that's occupying printed hindering terrain. Shanna modifies her damage value by +1 while occupying printed hindering terrain.

sn018 V Mockingbird
Team: Avengers
Range: 2
Points: 34
Keywords: Avengers

9 9 17 2

8 9 16 2

8 8 16 2

7 7 15 1

7 7 15 1

6 6 14 1

KO KO KO KO

KO KO KO KO

KO KO KO KO

KO KO KO KO

KO KO KO KO

KO KO KO KO

Feel free to take your first turn anytime ALC. Though if you've been busy with holidays I understand completely of course.

Man! Totally forgot about this. Here goes.
Turn 1a:
1) John moves to E17.

2) Kama Tui moves to D17.

3) Mr. Miracle moves to F17.

4) Lightray moves to G17.

Summary:

The Green Lantern Corps (And Friends):

1) E Katma Tui - 89 D17 @
2) John Stewart (CJ R Green Lantern) - 81 D17 @
3) R Mr. Miracle - 64 F17 @
4) Lightray (LE DC75 Bart Allen) – 120 G17 @

Total: 354

The Cantankerous, Clever, Confounding Contract of Manga Khan:

1) Choice of Law Clause (U FF:IH General Thunderbolt Ross) - 25 M4
2) Non-Disclosure Agreement (E Zangief) - 85 N4
3) Force Majeure (E Big Barda) - 75 O4
4) No-Contest Clause (V Unus the Untouchable) - 90 M3
5) Severability Clause (E Shanna) - 45 M2
6) Reserve Clause (V Mockingbird) – 34 M1

Total: 354

Map: Arkham Asylum
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Scenario Rules:

-- In this game, you are not playing your actual characters. You are playing a metaphor. As the heroes attempt to find a way out of Mr. Miracle’s contract, your clix pieces are battling the various clauses, agreements, and provisos in the madhouse of Khan’s legalese. Get it? Ha!

So your attacks are the symbolic mental acrobatics being done by your team to get Miracle free. If you succeed in defeating your enemy, you have beaten the contract!

-- The Escape Clause: So long as Mr. Miracle survives the game and you have defeated at least 3 pieces of the contract, then Miracle himself will find a way to escape his contract even if the rest of the team is defeated by the complexities and vagaries of this dense legal document![/quote]

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Turn 1b:

1) Choice of Law will move to G10.

2) No-Contest Clause will TK the Non-Disclosure Agreement to I9.

3) Non-Disclosure Agreement will walk over to D16, grabbing a HO on the way.

4) The Severity Clause will move up to H9.

The Green Lantern Corps (And Friends):

1) E Katma Tui - 89 D17 @
2) John Stewart (CJ R Green Lantern) - 81 D17 @
3) R Mr. Miracle - 64 F17 @
4) Lightray (LE DC75 Bart Allen) – 120 G17 @


The Cantankerous, Clever, Confounding Contract of Manga Khan:

1) Choice of Law Clause (U FF:IH General Thunderbolt Ross) - G10 @
2) Non-Disclosure Agreement (E Zangief) - D16 w/HO @
3) Force Majeure (E Big Barda) - 75 O4
4) No-Contest Clause (V Unus the Untouchable) - M3 @
5) Severability Clause (E Shanna) - H9 @
6) Reserve Clause (V Mockingbird) – 34 M1

Map: Arkham Asylum

Turn 2a:
1) Katma Tui will Push (Willpower) and try to smack Non-Disclosure Agreement. 17 - 10 = need 7. Rolled 2,1=3 sigh miss.

The rest will clear.

The Green Lantern Corps (And Friends):

1) E Katma Tui - 89 D17 @@
2) John Stewart (CJ R Green Lantern) - 81 D17
3) R Mr. Miracle - 64 F17
4) Lightray (LE DC75 Bart Allen) – 120 G17


The Cantankerous, Clever, Confounding Contract of Manga Khan:

1) Choice of Law Clause (U FF:IH General Thunderbolt Ross) - G10 @
2) Non-Disclosure Agreement (E Zangief) - D16 w/HO @
3) Force Majeure (E Big Barda) - 75 O4
4) No-Contest Clause (V Unus the Untouchable) - M3 @
5) Severability Clause (E Shanna) - H9 @
6) Reserve Clause (V Mockingbird) – 34 M1

Map: Arkham Asylum[/quote]

turn 2b:

1) Reserve Clause jumps to G8.

2) Force Majeure flies to L12.

The Green Lantern Corps (And Friends):

1) E Katma Tui - 89 D17 @@
2) John Stewart (CJ R Green Lantern) - 81 D17
3) R Mr. Miracle - 64 F17
4) Lightray (LE DC75 Bart Allen) – 120 G17


The Cantankerous, Clever, Confounding Contract of Manga Khan:

1) Choice of Law Clause (U FF:IH General Thunderbolt Ross) - G10
2) Non-Disclosure Agreement (E Zangief) - D16 w/HO
3) Force Majeure (E Big Barda) - L12 @
4) No-Contest Clause (V Unus the Untouchable) - M3
5) Severability Clause (E Shanna) - H9
6) Reserve Clause (V Mockingbird) – G8 @

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I'm not getting notices from hcrealms anymore so this will tell me if you have taken your turn.

Turn 2a:
1) John uses Phasing and moves to N19

Free) Mr. Miracle will Perplex Lightray's damage to 3.

2) Lightray will pick up Mr. Miracle and Hypersonic to M13 attack Force Majeure and then finish at N12 placing Mr. Miracle in M12. 15 - 10 = need 5. Rolled 1,3=4 sigh. Miss.

The Green Lantern Corps (And Friends):

1) E Katma Tui - 89 D17
2) John Stewart (CJ R Green Lantern) - 81 N19 @
3) R Mr. Miracle - 64 M12
4) Lightray (LE DC75 Bart Allen) – 120 N12 @


The Cantankerous, Clever, Confounding Contract of Manga Khan:

1) Choice of Law Clause (U FF:IH General Thunderbolt Ross) - G10
2) Non-Disclosure Agreement (E Zangief) - D16 w/HO
3) Force Majeure (E Big Barda) - L12 @
4) No-Contest Clause (V Unus the Untouchable) - M3
5) Severability Clause (E Shanna) - H9
6) Reserve Clause (V Mockingbird) – G8 @

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Mr. Miracle is a flier, he can't be picked up...?

Dang, can't believe I missed that. Just give him an action token to move there.

I'm not getting any notification of your moves. If I don't move in 24 hours, shoot me an email so I get my butt in gear.

It's because I haven't rolled any dice yet. So far I've only taken movement actions.

Turn 3B:

free) Choice of Law rolls Leadership: 4

1) Non-Disclosure Agreement attacks Katma Tui with Heavy Legal Jargon. Rolls (2, 3) for a miss!

2) No-Contest Clause moves to J9.

3) Severability Clause moves to M13.

4) Choice of Law moves to H13.


The Green Lantern Corps (And Friends):

1) E Katma Tui - 89 D17
2) John Stewart (CJ R Green Lantern) - 81 N19 @
3) R Mr. Miracle - 64 M12 @
4) Lightray (LE DC75 Bart Allen) – 120 N12 @


The Cantankerous, Clever, Confounding Contract of Manga Khan:

1) Choice of Law Clause (U FF:IH General Thunderbolt Ross) - H13 @
2) Non-Disclosure Agreement (E Zangief) - D16 @
3) Force Majeure (E Big Barda) - L12
4) No-Contest Clause (V Unus the Untouchable) - J9 @
5) Severability Clause (E Shanna) - M13 @
6) Reserve Clause (V Mockingbird) – G8

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