Superheroes of the Trust Game Thread II

[Victim]

"Then bomb them with ice chunks," Megan fires back. There are other supers with dangerous powers - including lighting - who manage to use them non-lethally. Even I learned to do it. Either she's a screw up, or she never bothered to learn.

(I'm not calling anything that hits like anti-tank weaponry mere hail. )

"Or you can just aim it at stuff." I was planning on aiming at their weapons too. Just don't miss with it.

 

[kirinke]

She grinned a little at the superhero. "I just didn't want you thinking that I thought it was alright to kill at will. It's not and I'm not either," she pointed her finger at Star.

"I can pull back my lightening.... It's just that I've never used it on normal, unpowered humans before. I tend to reserve it as my last ditch attack, because it is my strongest power." she looked sober. "I'm just tired of you thinking I'm a monster Star. I'm not and have never been one."

I just do horrible things.... Or at least horrible things to someone like Star who has never had to deal with real monsters. Just the human variety. She's so bloody innocent and naive at times, it's frightening. she thought.


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No one ever said that Hope was the most subtle of people at least when in comes to booms and trashing things.

 

[DM_Matt]

(Hope's lightning can do non-lethal damage without any problem -- as can all powers that don't have the only lethal damage drawback. Similarly, you can always "pull punches" on a power (i.e. use it at a lower rank), unless you buy the full power drawback)

 

[DM_Matt]

It reminded her of Battlestar Galatica, only he did not even have the sterling qualities of Baltar. "

Homage Declaration:
[sblock] Wrong Sci-Fi channel reference. The Pax are basically the Nox with a little bit of Tollan (all eggs in one bypassable basket) and Ancient (Ascension) mixed in. An ironic origin story for Ares. [/sblock]

 

[kirinke]

(Hope's lightning can do non-lethal damage without any problem -- as can all powers that don't have the only lethal damage drawback. Similarly, you can always "pull punches" on a power (i.e. use it at a lower rank), unless you buy the full power drawback)

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Since I already stated that she couldn't pull back much on the lightening.... Doesn't seem right that she suddenly can. I did notice that she's never pulled back anyway with that particular attack....

On the other hand, she could just be digging a little at Star, because she's so adamant about Hope not killing anything and that Hope generally only uses her Lightening attack as a last resort type thing, usually against other supers or empowered types. She could simply be a bit hesitant about using that attack on normals, since it is so powerful. What is non-lethal damage to a super-human or empowered type might not be non-lethal to a normal.

 

[DM_Matt]

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Since I already stated that she couldn't pull back much on the lightening.... Doesn't seem right that she suddenly can. I did notice that she's never pulled back anyway with that particular attack....

On the other attacks, she did say she can pull back though.

(Technically, non-lethal damage is the DEFAULT setting on all powers. Doing lethal damage takes special effort. Thus, it is not necessary to avoid its use, esp against non-mooks, who are quite hardy.)

 

[kirinke]

(Technically, non-lethal damage is the DEFAULT setting on all powers. Doing lethal damage takes special effort. Thus, it is not necessary to avoid its use, esp against non-mooks, who are quite hardy.)

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Heh. Alright. So she can pull back and was just poking at Star, reminding her that Hope wasn't going into the fight with the mind to kill everyone on board.

ooo. What's your email? We still need to figure out who or what Hope's parents are.

Also, if they do manage to capture Aron, Hope will probably want to contact the 'Ascended' energy beings who were the Pax, even though their physical relatives are dead, there are sure to be some running about in energy type states. That's mainly to give those Pax the chance to deal with Aron their own way, sort of a courtesy.

 

[Shayuri]

(OOC - If they're Ascended, they'll not want to interfere. )

"I think Me...I think Shooting Star's idea is a really good one," Viridian says. "Especially where we seem to attack our own jet. That could leave open the possibility of us 'contacting' him again if he somehow manages to escape. Using images to flush them out is also smart, because we have no idea what kind of weapons they're using. Ares has access to alien devices of completely unknown power. Who knows what they're using for security on that thing?"

She nods.

"We're close enough, I should be able to make it seem like the fake supers are coming out of the clouds. I'll have them attack us first...that'll give the real us a chance to get out of the jet and blend in with the crowd. Then the jet pulls away to avoid the attacks, and we hit the ship, the glamors leading the charge."

 

[kirinke]

"Sounds good. I can maybe start a rain shower and whip up the winds some to add to the effect, concentrated around the plane. With the illusion backing it, we can make it seem worse than it really is," she looked at Viridian. "Next question, I know that some illusions don't work that well against machines. Will they work against whatever sensors they're using?"

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True, but like I said, it'd mainly be more of a courtesy than anything else, letting them know that the group has Aron and giving them the option of meting out their own justice before he's charged with crimes against Earth. I mean, even if they are ascended, they'd probably appreciate the thought and be glad that he's answering for some of his crimes.

Plus, they might get interested in the group which would add an additional wrinkle.....

 

[Shayuri]

"No," Viridian admits. "It's a glamour. It affects the minds of the people who see it, so they don't show up on mechanical sensors."