Superheroes of the Trust Game Thread II

[kirinke]

Sloan is there. He says "I'm glad you're safe. Its a jungle out there. I have some useful information. Have you ever heard of a government agency called X-Directorate? It was founded in the early 90's to track superthreats. Its a DOD operation. Very secretive, with access to data from just about all other government agencies. I think you might work for them. "

Hope smiled a little. "Glad you're okay too. I heard that name from the Gray Gunner.... But I don't think it's a real government organization. It's too well funded, too well organized and far to successful for it to be under any government scrutiny. It strikes me as a very independant group. I mean, they have people from every corner of the globe, not just from the US, not to mention your usual assortment of supernatural, extra-terrestrial and extra-dimensional entities." she ticked off the points.

"I mean look at AEGIS. We normally recruit from our own homegrown super-powered individuals, usually from the FBI and armed forces and occasionally allow independents in, but I don't think we have any who aren't US citizens." she frowned. "Nor do they seem to answer to anyone but themselves, at least as far as I can see." she shook her head. "If it was a real government organization, we'd be able to track the money eventually through whatever dummy corporations they've set up to funnel the funds sent through appropriation bills and whatnot. I haven't been able to." she grinned again. "But then I haven't been able to find much on X-Directorite either. At least through normal channels."

"Something tells me that this Trust isn't the X-Directorite. But we probably need to find out more on both. I don't like working blind." she grinned at the other detective as she recalled the baseball game.

"Hmmm. I do have something for you though," she said as she told him about the base-ball game and the telikenetic cheater who seemed to be working for the evil lawfirm that has been a long thorn in both their sides. "I couldn't do much more than scare him off, especially with all of the civilians in the area. We wound up finding him in Mr. Doe's private box, fancy that." she said dryly.

 

[DM_Matt]

Star's schedule asssuming no interruptions.

Present time: ...

Morning: Head back to the Trust base for breakfast, shower and a change of clothes. She'll also want to talk to Red to get some birth control medication (not really a problem I considered when making the character...). Then she'll head to her regular doctor's appointment.

Then she'll want to hang out with her roommate while not revealing any secret Trust info. Afterwards, she'll mooch another meal at the base. Her attempt to catch up on homework will turn into a much needed nap.

By that point, the group will probably be doing something, like investigating Barrington's towers or such. Maybe we'll try to work on the lawyers.

Fills the prescription, but is somewhat intrigued..."Interesting...THAT wasn't in your file..."

 

[DM_Matt]

Hope smiled a little. "Glad you're okay too. I heard that name from the Gray Gunner.... But I don't think it's a real government organization. It's too well funded, too well organized and far to successful for it to be under any government scrutiny. It strikes me as a very independant group. I mean, they have people from every corner of the globe, not just from the US, not to mention your usual assortment of supernatural, extra-terrestrial and extra-dimensional entities." she ticked off the points.

"I mean look at AEGIS. We normally recruit from our own homegrown super-powered individuals, usually from the FBI and armed forces and occasionally allow independents in, but I don't think we have any who aren't US citizens." she frowned. "Nor do they seem to answer to anyone but themselves, at least as far as I can see." she shook her head. "If it was a real government organization, we'd be able to track the money eventually through whatever dummy corporations they've set up to funnel the funds sent through appropriation bills and whatnot. I haven't been able to." she grinned again. "But then I haven't been able to find much on X-Directorite either. At least through normal channels."

"Something tells me that this Trust isn't the X-Directorite. But we probably need to find out more on both. I don't like working blind." she grinned at the other detective as she recalled the baseball game.

"Hmmm. I do have something for you though," she said as she told him about the base-ball game and the telikenetic cheater who seemed to be working for the evil lawfirm that has been a long thorn in both their sides. "I couldn't do much more than scare him off, especially with all of the civilians in the area. We wound up finding him in Mr. Doe's private box, fancy that." she said dryly.

"I'll watch the guy. This kind of thing is very much my area. Maybe you aren't X-Directorate, if yo uare as free as you say...but you ought to look...especially since WSD is so intent on tying them to the government."

 

[Victim]

Fills the prescription, but is somewhat intrigued..."Interesting...THAT wasn't in your file..."

Megan blushes and turns away. "What do you mean?" she mumbles. She means that the file didn't say I'm such a slut. Arrg! SHUT UP. But that's what mom will say... Well, so what!

 

[kirinke]

"I'll watch the guy. This kind of thing is very much my area. Maybe you aren't X-Directorate, if yo uare as free as you say...but you ought to look...especially since WSD is so intent on tying them to the government."

"I will, this is twice X-Directorate has been mentioned. And I don't want to get to the conspiracy stage," she said, refering to the old adage: twice is coincidence, three times is a conspiracy. "It might not be X-Directorite, but the organization still seems to be a bit hinky to me," she looked at him and smiled slightly.

"Have you 'seen' anything about Barrington?" she asked.

 

[DM_Matt]

Megan blushes and turns away. "What do you mean?" she mumbles. She means that the file didn't say I'm such a slut. Arrg! SHUT UP. But that's what mom will say... Well, so what!

Red backpedals a little, thinking about her next move... Doesn't wanna talk about it...figures...Is this even my business?...well sure, its medically-relevant...but I'm really curious...I guess her psyc eval did note the self esteem issues...but then again I don't want to sound judgemental...though depending on the circumstances, I think I might be...then again, I didn't sign up to teach "Sex Ed. For Superheroes..."

"I'm just saying these things are more complicated in your line of work, that's all. For relationships -- both with outsiders and people here...and medically and...otherwise... well...heh, this is really awkward...anything I say will make me sound like a lame after school special...just be careful to know what you're doing."

 

[Shayuri]

"Drain," Thessaly repeats thoughtfully. "You know what might be interesting..."

"What if we set it up so that the spell creates magical conduits that bleed electrical energy away from where it's supposed to go, and can redirect it? It could work like a sort of...mystical short circuit, pulling power away from someone's gear and pouring it into something else. Otherwise you have a bunch of electrical potential to get rid of... See, I'm thinking, what if Hope could draw on that? Suck up the power, then pour it into one of her lightning blasts to beef it up."

"That wouldn't help with ordinary guns though, hmm. But you know...even a spell that just interdicted combustion would stop ordinary guns from working."

 

[DM_Matt]

"Drain," Thessaly repeats thoughtfully. "You know what might be interesting..."

"What if we set it up so that the spell creates magical conduits that bleed electrical energy away from where it's supposed to go, and can redirect it? It could work like a sort of...mystical short circuit, pulling power away from someone's gear and pouring it into something else. Otherwise you have a bunch of electrical potential to get rid of... See, I'm thinking, what if Hope could draw on that? Suck up the power, then pour it into one of her lightning blasts to beef it up."

"That wouldn't help with ordinary guns though, hmm. But you know...even a spell that just interdicted combustion would stop ordinary guns from working."

"Yes, both of those are feasible. Inefficient in one spell though."

 

[kirinke]

"Yes, both of those are feasible. Inefficient in one spell though."

ooc:
I don't think drain would work very welll for Hope. Her lightning strike is already pretty powerful and to 'beef it up' I think would take away her capacity to control it. And if she lost control....
That would be of the bad.

 

[Victim]

Red backpedals a little, thinking about her next move... Doesn't wanna talk about it...figures...Is this even my business?...well sure, its medically-relevant...but I'm really curious...I guess her psyc eval did note the self esteem issues...but then again I don't want to sound judgemental...though depending on the circumstances, I think I might be...then again, I didn't sign up to teach "Sex Ed. For Superheroes..."

"I'm just saying these things are more complicated in your line of work, that's all. For relationships -- both with outsiders and people here...and medically and...otherwise... well...heh, this is really awkward...anything I say will make me sound like a lame after school special...just be careful to know what you're doing."

"That's probably too much to hope for." Star frowns. "Why would it be especially complicated in this line of work? It seemed like it'd be simpler since I'll probably die before there'd be any long term problems."