Superheroes of the Trust Game Thread II

[Victim]

"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. )

"I have a problem because her admissions are being compromised with 'But I had done something with my power earlier that messed me up, and our teamwork is bad, so it's not really my fault.' That kind of attitude isn't going be improving anything." Well, that's one of my problems with her.

 

[kirinke]

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"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?"


I have a problem because her admissions are being compromised with 'But I had done something with my power earlier that messed me up, and our teamwork is bad, so it's not really my fault.' That kind of attitude isn't going be improving anything." Well, that's one of my problems with her.

"I fully admitted my culpability and the reasons behind them. And your attitude isn't helping things either. 'Oh, she's always wrong because I don't like her and she makes me afraid'" she says.

"No matter what I say, you don't believe it and jump to the wrong conclusions because of that. Isn't that a kind of hypocracy?" she shoots back. "You say that you're the analytical type. Well, seems to me, you're as much driven by your fears and hang-ups as everyone else. If not more so." she looked at the other superhero.

"And the same thing applies to me as to you. Why haven't you done some research on our enemies or past enemies or on us?" She asks and then mockingly shakes her head. "Oh no... No, wait. You're convinced of your own moral superiority, so you don't have to." she looked at Star. "And if I had done any research on you at all, you would have been the very first to be up in arms about privacy and such."

"I seem to remember a certain super who ran off after a villain and fell from the sky because she didn't know about the villain's power to disrupt hers, nor did she wait for back-up either." she said pointedly. "No one is infallable. Not me, not you not anyone."

She was getting fair tired of Star using her as a proverbial punching bag.

 

[Vanifae]

"Is everyone done pissing on each other?" Apollo snips with his eyes closed.

 

[DM_Matt]

"Is everyone done pissing on each other?" Apollo snips with his eyes closed.

Black decides to break this up. "Ok, this is getting out of hand. We should stop ganging up on Hope like this, cool down, and find some solutions.

Star, I understand your worry about government interference, but I can guarantee you that as long as you work for the Trust, and even after, at least for that which you did while with the Trust, you will have a very high degree of protection -- near immunity in fact -- from government interference. We are extremely well connected in that regard.

And by the way, Onigumo really was -- even if you don't want to call him something so mystical sounding a name as "demon" -- a nigh-unkillable creature from another dimension who is biologically-incapable of becoming good. Call me a dimensional bigot if you wish, but some kinds of creatures really are irredeemably evil and need to die.

That being said... Hope: You screwed up. You made some bad decisions, and it nearly got us all killed. You might have explanations, but they aren't justifications. Just because you can tell the story of how it happened doesn't absolve you of responsibility. You are still responsible for all of your decisions, and for the foreseeable results of those decisions. Stop making excuses, and stop overestimating your own power and experience.

I think everyone needs to read up more on each other's powers, and I think that when you guys have the time and energy, you should make more use of our Danger Room battle simulators.

Voderac was far more powerful than we expected, and perhaps we should not have gone in once we knew he was Ares. I take responsibility for my role in that decision. We're all alive, we got Ares' sons, and we blew up his ship. And that all counts for something. We're lucky it wasn't worse, but we really do need to make sure this mess doesn't happen again."

 

[kirinke]

Black decides to break this up. "Ok, this is getting out of hand. We should stop ganging up on Hope like this, cool down, and find some solutions.

Star, I understand your worry about government interference, but I can guarantee you that as long as you work for the Trust, and even after, at least for that which you did while with the Trust, you will have a very high degree of protection -- near immunity in fact -- from government interference. We are extremely well connected in that regard.

And by the way, Onigumo really was -- even if you don't want to call him something so mystical sounding a name as "demon" -- a nigh-unkillable creature from another dimension who is biologically-incapable of becoming good. Call me a dimensional bigot if you wish, but some kinds of creatures really are irredeemably evil and need to die.

That being said... Hope: You screwed up. You made some bad decisions, and it nearly got us all killed. You might have explanations, but they aren't justifications. Just because you can tell the story of how it happened doesn't absolve you of responsibility. You are still responsible for all of your decisions, and for the foreseeable results of those decisions. Stop making excuses, and stop overestimating your own power and experience.

I think everyone needs to read up more on each other's powers, and I think that when you guys have the time and energy, you should make more use of our Danger Room battle simulators.

Voderac was far more powerful than we expected, and perhaps we should not have gone in once we knew he was Ares. I take responsibility for my role in that decision. We're all alive, we got Ares' sons, and we blew up his ship. And that all counts for something. We're lucky it wasn't worse, but we really do need to make sure this mess doesn't happen again."

Hope nods in agreement. "Lesson learned," she said, heartfeltedly.

 

[Raylis]

"It's really not enough to know what everyone can or can't do, or even if we know how to work together. We need to trust each other; sure we've told real names and addresses, but that's really nothing. Those people that have fallen in with Barrington trust him he gives an order and they follow it.

If we can build that level of trust among each other then it really won't matter how powerful Barrington is or what he can do.

 

[Shayuri]

"Yes, well...I think spending time with each other and training with each other will help build trust too," Viridian points out. "It's kind of win-win."

 

[Victim]

Where should I start tearing that apart... Megan shakes with rage, but chokes back her retort as others try to defuse the situation. Why does she get to have the last word? I hate her.

 

[Elric]

Nitro shoots Star a glance that says "I agree with you, but it's not productive to keep at this forever. I think you're bigger than her anyways (and more powerful, and faster, and better looking)."

Good thing they teach more detail than just surreptitious glances at WWE school.

 

[kirinke]

"It's really not enough to know what everyone can or can't do, or even if we know how to work together. We need to trust each other; sure we've told real names and addresses, but that's really nothing. Those people that have fallen in with Barrington trust him he gives an order and they follow it.

If we can build that level of trust among each other then it really won't matter how powerful Barrington is or what he can do.

"I'm willing. More than willing actually," she said quietly. "Question is, what about the others?" she asked.