Superheroes of the Trust Game Thread II

[DM_Matt]

"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."

"Not to much faith in the medical staff, huh?" Red says playfully "Ya know, our death rates aren't all that high, and you aren't required to live here at the main base. Trust heroes do often lead normal lives. The hope -- and the reality -- of being able to have normal friends and family tends to make for better heroes. The belief in the certainty of death, on the other hand, tends to be a self-fulfilling prophesy. Constant travel and life-threatening situations doesn't keep military men from having families -- and the same should go for superheroes.

 

[Victim]

"Not to much faith in the medical staff, huh?" Red says playfully "Ya know, our death rates aren't all that high, and you aren't required to live here at the main base. Trust heroes do often lead normal lives. The hope -- and the reality -- of being able to have normal friends and family tends to make for better heroes. The belief in the certainty of death, on the other hand, tends to be a self-fulfilling prophesy. Constant travel and life-threatening situations doesn't keep military men from having families -- and the same should go for superheroes.

"Sorry. I didn't mean to offend," Star seems even more embarrased. "It's just that I nearly die most of the time anyway. I'm pretty tough, but that's compared to guns, not super powers. A healer isn't always going be there when I crash - especially if the force of the attack or my flight vector launches me away from the others."

 

[Shayuri]

"True...yeah...okay..."

Thessaly rubs her temples as she thinks.

"What about a transformation then? We drain the electrical potential...then transmute and release the energy in some other form. Sort of like magical judo; we use their strength against them. Still that's still two distinct things squished into one spell..."

"Okay, lets back up. Any weapon pretty much relies on releasing SOME kind of energy in a..." she claps her hands, shockingly loud in the quiet office, "...quick, violent burst. For guns it's chemical energy. Energy weapons have other kinds of energy, but it still has to be released in intense little packets... What if we make a spell that imposes a cap on how fast energy can be released? It wouldn't interfere with things like metabolism, because that's already a slow, steady release. But something like a gun, or a capacitor bank that releases huge amounts of energy all at once would be forced to do a slow, gradual release instead. So the gunpowder wouldn't explode...it'd just burn slowly, not pushing the bullet out. The energy weapons would either not work, or shoot harmless, low-intensity beams that stayed on for a few minutes as all that power discharged over time."

 

[Elric]

Nitro had head back to the baseball game with Wren and the Rock. Afterwards, he and the Rock no doubt went to a local pub to, well, Nitro can't really get 'smashed' anymore without a lot of time and effort. But he gets what would be smashed for a normal human. Time to forget about the saving the world business for a night and pretend he's just a wrestler hanging out with fellow WWE-ers again.

 

[Jemal]

As Optic and Amanda leave, he looks at her "So what kind of 'fun' did I miss? Seems like you guys just finished up with something important, hence the break..."

 

[Vanifae]

Apollo is hanging around his beach home, working on songs and preparing to do a surprise gig at the free concert later in the day.

 

[Raylis]

As Optic and Amanda leave, he looks at her "So what kind of 'fun' did I miss? Seems like you guys just finished up with something important, hence the break..."

She steps through a shadow, the other side outside of Op-Tec's Freedom City location, "We went after Voderac the arms dealer, turns out he's an alien who had been around for awhile...it went badly.

 

[DM_Matt]

At this point (after Viridian has finished talking to White), everyone gets paged by Black on account of Viridian's scrying. "Breaks over. Something has come up." Their allotted time was basically over at that point anyway.

 

[Victim]

"What?" Star complains. "I thought a day off would be 24 hours. At least." There was stuff I wanted to do - and stuff I'm supposed to do. She tells me I'm supposed to live a normal life too, but I get like 12 hours to do that and sleep. F-ing great. I used to sleep 12 hours a day.

"Excuse me. And thanks," Megan says to Red as she leaves, dropping off her items in her room before meeting Mr. Black.

"What is it now?" she asks sharply. "Are we going to check out the nearest tower, try to figure out what it's doing exactly and how it works?"

 

[kirinke]

Hope gets a message on her text-mail and looks sheepishly at David. "I'm sorry, something's come up. I'll keep in touch, be careful alright?" she said, squeezing his hand before taking her leave.