https://youtu.be/DiMkB7J3_mE?t=773
The Juggernaut is on the rampage!
The team is on the run from the government in their chopper when the news comes over the wire. Every radio station and tv station is reporting on the Juggernaut’s attack on a local power plant, stranding 60,000 people without power in the valley below! Feeling Insecure, Cyclops is reluctant to engage the threat. After the Sentinel incident was broadcast on the news, the X-Men were viewed as being dangerous freaks rather than saviors. Jean Grey has influence over Cyclops and she wants to convince him to get involved. She provokes him by reminding him of what his mentor would want. Cyclops does as Jean wants and takes the X-Men to engage the Juggernaut!
+1 Team to the pool
They arrive to see the Juggernaut chuck a military helicopter into the drink. The pilots are goners for sure, but Nightcrawler leaps into action to defend those soldiers! He’s successfully rescues the soldiers and gives a little wave to the tv news cameras. He can’t help it — he’s a happy-go-lucky delinquent. Then he vanishes in a puff of foul smelling smoke and rejoin his team.
+1 Team to the pool
They square up against Juggernaut at the top of the dam. The unstoppable mutant mocks them, calling out they their only children, they’re no threat, and that they need their “papa” Professor X there to help them. The X-Men reject his influence over them and attack in order to prove they are a threat!
The team is entering battle against a dangerous foe as a team: +2 to the Team pool. Cyclops is the recognized leader and he has Influence over every member of the team: +1 Team to the Pool. Everyone has the same purpose in the fight: +1 Team. The X-Men trust one another and they are always prepared. Their total Team pool for this battle is 7!
Nightcralwer goes first, leaping into the fray to directly engage the Juggernaut! His rapid teleportation is disorienting and surprises old Jug-head! Then Cyclops directly engages with Juggernaut, blasting him with his pure concussive force! Jean gives him a boost with her powers, enabling Cyclops to avoid Jug-head’s blows and take something from him: His footing! Cyclops blasts him, and with a little help from Iceman, they send him over the edge of the dam! The X-Men hide in order to get the drop on the Juggernaut… but now he’s a little insecure because these kids just sent him sprawling.
Spyke directly engages and he and the Juggernaut trade blows! Both of them are able to get out of the engagement unscathed! With a little more help from Iceman, Spyke makes the Juggernatu angry! and Shadowcat moves in to unleash her powers and trap the Juggernaut in a concrete wall!
Kitty is successful, the GM opts to make a hard move against her. Juggernaut lashes out fully intending to crush her! Shadowcat is afraid and immediately _runs away.
Meanwhile, the GM informs Scott and Jean’s players that the damage done to the dam is worsening and the water spewing from the cracks threatens to bring the whole thing down, flooding the valley below.
Jean goes to hold back the floodwaters, unleashing her powers! She wants to stop the flow, but it’s becoming a little bit harder than she thought… and just when she thinks her effect on the water is unstable or temporary, Iceman shows up and freezes the water so that the flow stops completely!
Iceman is really great for spending Team from the Pool!
Nightcrawler comes in again, rapidly teleporting around the Juggernaut to directly engage in his infuriating manner. They trade blows and Nightcrawler is able to create an opportunity for his allies by unbuckling the Juggernaut’s helmet. In the process, however, Juggernaut seizes Kurt in his crushing grip and then hurls him at Jean! They take a powerful blow and are now afraid!
Juggernaut breaks free from his concrete prison and lashes out at the kids again! “What are you tryin’ t’do? Embarrass me to death? C’mon, gimme your best shot!” Again, Cyclops rejects Juggernaut’s words and decides to embrace his recently upped Danger, eschewing the Savior his Mentor embodies. He blasts Juggernaut full force and is able to create an opportunity for his allies by knocking off the helmet!
Cyclops takes a powerful blow here and now Afraid. When the rest of the team sees what happens to Cyclops, they take a powerful blow and mark Angry. Nightcrawler, Spyke, and Iceman directly engage their rolls aren’t very good. They end up taking on some more Conditons.
Rogue decides to make her move. She’s going to defend Cyclops from Juggernaut because Scott’s about to get his head popped like a grape! Shadowcat spends Team from the Pool and helps her by surreptitiously positioning Rogue in the perfect spot to pounce. Rogue grabs Juggernaut, trying to absorb his powers and lifeforce, hoping he’ll release Scott. Her plan works, but she exposes herself to danger and now she’s the focus of Juggernaut’s attack!
Rogue directly engages with Juggernaut! Because she’s Thick and Thin Skinned and she’s Angry, she get’s +1 ongoing when she’s handling the Juggernaut! When the Juggernaut attacks, Rogue rolls 10+ and resists his blows with the fantastic strength she stole form him. This frightens him, and the GM marks his last Condition Afraid and since Iceman did nothing but help out his fellow teammates in this fight, his player gets the final narration of how the fight ends…
“Rogue backhands Juggernaut across the face and then picks him up and hurls him into the air! Then I come up and completely encase him in a hunk of ice where he splashes down into the river below!”
This is awesome.
Now, whenever I watch this or Young Justice I think about Masks.
Awesome example. Thanks for the writeup!