12/16/13: HULKAMANIA

Live game: Participants: Mantis, Bane, Jurgen, Loup, Green Lantern, Zephyr, Scotsman

The team discovered the rest of the secrets from the "Marshall" project, and had to again fight a hulked-out soldier, when one of their prisoners managed to activate his suit's emergency power generator a second time. It was dicey for a moment, but the team managed to hold the creature at bay until Scotsman could get in a swing with his mystic sword, which put the soldier down relatively quickly.

Otherwise, there was lots of discussion and laughter at the table.

AWARD: 5hp

12/7/13: IT AIN'T EASY BEING GREEN

Participants: Bane, Mantis, Loup, Zephyr, Scotsman, Green Lantern, Jurgen.

Continuing from the Hawaiian/Missing Alaskans/Bane theft of GL ring saga, the team dragged Bane back to the jungle island for questioning after GL and Vanessa went off to OA to repair his ring (details chronicled in Green Lantern Special Edition number 2). Mantis took off to scan the island again for dangers, while Loup, Zephyr, Scotsman held and interrogated Bane as to her mental condition.

Meanwhile, Jurgen (who was vacationing on Oahu) had seen the flash from the lantern ring explosion, and switched on his AF communicator, only to discover that his teammates were the source of the explosion. While the other beachgoers ran for cover from an anticipated tsunami, Jurgen stole a speedboat and took off (naked) towards ground zero and his teammates.

At this point, Bane was telling her teammates (?) that she no longer wanted to steal from them, and instead now suddenly wanted to kill Joker and NOMAD. Although they were having trouble believing her story, the argument was quickly put on the back burner when two hovercraft jetted out of the jungle and started spitting machine gun fire at the team. Bane hit the deck, while Zephyr disabled the hovercraft, and Loup and Scotsman sprang into action and quickly dispatched the soldiers driving and firing the weapons. Green Lantern, Jurgen, and Mantis arrived on the scene just as the battle was ending.

After what seemed like an eternity of discussions, bringing people up to speed, questoins, bickering and recriminations, Mantis reminded everyone why they were here, and pushed/dragged everyone back into action, after which the team headed back towards the metal doors they had found earlier. When they arrived, Zephyr and GL pried/blew the doors off the hinges, and the team entered the strange complex.

Once inside, the team found some lockers with the strange body armor inside, and Jurgen finally covered his nudity with one. He found with the suit he was able to open the locked doors inside the complex. The group went further in, and found a briefing room, and a hallway of barracks, from which the soldiers were apparently escaping through a hatch in the ceiling at the other end. Mantis quickly zipped in, along with Zephyr, and was able to drag/throw the last soldier back down the hatch. However, when he hit the floor, his armor shattered and he began to grow much larger and turn green. Suddenly, the team was facing a hulk-like creature in close quarters.

Loup, Jurgen, and GL combined to take him out with overbearing team attacks, but not before he was able to smash Zephyr into a wall, injuring her seriously. When he finally succumbed, the team pressed onward, and eventually found a cell bloc, in which Mister Mystico (injured), ChiP, Masker (of Alaska 7 fame), and Nudge (also of A7) were being held, all in various states of injury.

Tune in next time, to see what other secrets the so-called "Marshall" complex holds for AlertForce...


Award: 7hp

11/29/13: DO I SMELL A WET, GREEN DOG

Participants: Mantis, Loup, Bane, Zephyr, Green Lantern, Scotsman (and we got everyone on SKYPE all at once!)

When we last left our intrepid band of heroes, GL had summoned his ring back from Bane, but in the process created a massive explosion over the Pacific near Hawaii. This left him unconscious (again), Bane unconscious and underwater, Mantis shaken but still following Bane, Zephyr and Scotsman struggling to land their aircraft in a neighboring island 30 miles distant, and Loup alone with an unattended Green Lantern ring... The rest is history.

Loup grabbed the ring, and took off after Bane, but without her massive will power, he started crashing into things (a-la the Greatest American Hero). Bane awoke underwater to find she still had the ring, but no oxygen, and when she surfaced a very stern looking Mantis was air-standing above her. Zephyr and Scotsman soon arrived, as Bane tried to fly away but was held in place by Zephyr's air cocoon.

GL soon awoke and AGAIN summoned his ring back, this time dragging Loup back violently, after which Loup quickly thought better of his "borrowing" of the ring, and gave it back to GL.

The team then converged on Bane's position, just as another green blast appeared in the sky above them and a very angry Vanessa Jordan came streaking down from the sky towards Bane.

Mantis interposed himself, preventing the green bludgeoning, while Green Lantern appeared, dropped Loup in the drink, and started heading for Bane. At this point Scotsman took the escalating tension in hand, and dispatched Bane into inconsciousness with the merest touch from his mystical blade.

Green Lantern reclaimed his ring (which had somehow become two rings), Vanessa took him off to OA to repair the damage to the ring, and the rest of the team vowed to head back to the island to continue the search for the missing Mister Mystico -- just as soon as they figure out how to deal with Bane.

Award: 5hp