Superheroes of the Trust Game Thread II

[Shayuri]

Viridian listens, then says quietly, "I don't want to sound confrontational...but I did notice a kind of pattern to what you're saying, Hope. Basically, in each case...the spider-demon, and then later with Ares...you felt you had to do something because only you -could-."

"Like, you said if you hadn't banished it, the spider demon would have killed us and so on. Then with the axe, only you were strong enough to hold it."

She pushes her glasses up her nose...a strange thing to see, since her glasses are still covered in the glamor of her costume.

"But maybe one of us could have stopped the spider without you burning yourself up. Or, if I'd known that you might have a bad reaction on touching the axe, I could have just held onto it with my magic. It was strong enough to take it away, so it was probably strong enough to keep him from grabbing it again."

"I guess I'm just sort of putting out there, for consideration, the idea that one of the underlying problems is just that you don't have a lot of faith in our abilities...so you feel driven to take bad risks to compensate."

 

[Elric]

"You probably couldn't have lifted the thing to get it away Star. It was heavy as hell." she said. "But then, I have only the vaguest idea of what everyone here is capable of. I think the same aplies for everyone else here." you have the sense that she isn't talking down to anyone, just being completely honest. She's too tired to hide behind masks.

Nitro gets the sense that she's not too tired to hide behind lame excuses. I bet she made most of this up on the spot. It's not like her horoscope had it in for her. Now that's a decent excuse.

Viridian, do you want to try to use your powers to find the mystery super? Might be best to see what we can find out now. I don't mind a day of rest, though. Nothing like taking a shot from a weapon that would have impaled a lesser man to make you want to take a day to chill out.

 

[Shayuri]

The witch looks at Nitro and nods.

"Yeah, I figured I'd do that when we were ready to actually do something about it. Right now we're too beat up to go after this super, and if I scry now...might not still be there when we're ready to go."

 

[kirinke]

Viridian listens, then says quietly, "I don't want to sound confrontational...but I did notice a kind of pattern to what you're saying, Hope. Basically, in each case...the spider-demon, and then later with Ares...you felt you had to do something because only you -could-."

"Like, you said if you hadn't banished it, the spider demon would have killed us and so on. Then with the axe, only you were strong enough to hold it."

She pushes her glasses up her nose...a strange thing to see, since her glasses are still covered in the glamor of her costume.

"But maybe one of us could have stopped the spider without you burning yourself up. Or, if I'd known that you might have a bad reaction on touching the axe, I could have just held onto it with my magic. It was strong enough to take it away, so it was probably strong enough to keep him from grabbing it again."

"I guess I'm just sort of putting out there, for consideration, the idea that one of the underlying problems is just that you don't have a lot of faith in our abilities...so you feel driven to take bad risks to compensate."

Hope nods a little. "How can I have faith in your abilities or others when I don't know what you're capable of, except from what I've seen in our few battles we've shared? And I don't blame you for not putting any faith in me either. The last few fights except for the Museum altercation were fairly disasterous on my part, not to mention the fact that I have been a royal bitch too." she waved her hands, encompasing the entire situation. This is outside my realm of expertise as much as it is yours." she shrugged, looking rueful. "We need some training time together and we need some time to figure out how to best mesh our powers and abilities so those mistakes don't happen again. Next time, we probably won't be so lucky."


ooc:
Just because you have a few ranks in notice, doesn't mean your all the time right. She is being honest.

 

[Elric]

ooc:
Just because you have a few ranks in notice, doesn't mean your all the time right. She is being honest.

A panel appears in the Superheroes of the Trust comic book, next to the picture of the heroes on the plane. It explains that the author needed to ret-con why the heroine Hope has been making poor decisions because the alternative would be for her character to get picked on too much. That's why he made up the stuff about the demon sending her out of equilibrium or some such. The reader of the comic gets the sense the author is being completely honest.

 

[kirinke]

A panel appears in the Superheroes of the Trust comic book, next to the picture of the heroes on the plane. It explains that the author needed to ret-con why the heroine Hope has been making poor decisions because the alternative would be for her character to get picked on too much. That's why he made up the stuff about the demon sending her out of equilibrium or some such. The reader of the comic gets the sense the author is being completely honest.

ooc:
It was actually a combination of the fire spell and the banishing spell that gave her the reaction backlash. She doesn't actually know that it was mostly the banishing spell that did it. Rereading is a good thing sometimes y'know.

 

[Elric]

On the page of the comic book, the author explains the ret-con in further detail. Like most ret-cons, it doesn't make any sense with everything else known about this (admittedly fantasy) setting and also doesn't make any sense in light of the special rulebook that recently came out detailing how to play Freedom City RPG. At this point the reader kind of just wishes Hope would make better decisions so they wouldn't have to go through this so often.

 

[Shayuri]

(*hugs everyone*)

 

[Victim]

"You haven't convinced me that someone - or something - that just got pummeled into unconsciousness presented such an immediate threat that you had to compromise your faculties to execute him right away. All you can do is repeat your hysterical argument about 'EATING SOULS!!! OH NO!!!'"

"Moreover, we didn't need to escape until after you f-'d up. And wouldn't swinging a weapon that you don't really know how to use at an enemy surrounded by 4 of us be more of a distraction for our team? If you really wanted to distract Ares, maybe you have stuck with an attack you can actually use. We weren't out of the fight until after you took out Wren and then got yourself hurt badly while returning his weapon." Next strongest? What a joke; she gets beat up almost as much as Nightweaver or I.

"Faith is for things that aren't observeable or testable. Maybe you need less faith and more observation and thinking. If you wanted to educate yourself about our capabilities in combat, those parts of files are okay to look at. You could also have just watched our powers in the several other fights that you've been with us, or this one."

(Hope is Well Informed, so she should probably have lots of information).

"Wow, who would have thought that handling a weapon probably used to kill lots of people with postcognition would be a dumb thing to do?"

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Is that hug IC, or OCC?

 

[Shayuri]

"Okay...guys..." Viridian says, trying to head things off before they get too ugly. "Look, she's said she's made mistakes...there's no need to rub her face in things. Lets try to focus on improving things in the future."

(OOC - Hehe, it's ooc, though Viridian and I are both trying to defuse things a bit. )