Superheroes of the Trust Game Thread II

[DM_Matt]

So they pretty much made him as a super? That's sort of... hmm... creepy? I wonder if he's actually been working with them for a longer period than the rest of us. "Okay, let's get started then. By the way, is there some documentation on this, the energy dampeners or maybe other training stuff that I could look at later?"

"Sure. You can access it from the computers in your quarters. The power dampeners are reapplications of a technology designed to suppress the powers of prisoners. These don't suppress powers, they just make them much less harmful...though the simulators can fill in some virtual danger.'

 

[Vanifae]

After Apollo get's patched up he decides to hang in the lounge and play his light guitar and relax; not really in the mood to be social or work on his album.

 

[Victim]

"Sure. You can access it from the computers in your quarters. The power dampeners are reapplications of a technology designed to suppress the powers of prisoners. These don't suppress powers, they just make them much less harmful...though the simulators can fill in some virtual danger.'

"I'll try to have a look later on." Based on power nullifiers? Well, that could be really bad or really good, depending on how they've been adapted and any upgrades in that area.

"So now that the tech explanation is out of the way..." Yay, reviewing. Because it feels so good to have everything I do analyzed and picked apart. But that's still going to less than getting hurt again or having someone else die because I suck.

 

[DM_Matt]

"I'll try to have a look later on." Based on power nullifiers? Well, that could be really bad or really good, depending on how they've been adapted and any upgrades in that area.

"So now that the tech explanation is out of the way..." Yay, reviewing. Because it feels so good to have everything I do analyzed and picked apart. But that's still going to less than getting hurt again or having someone else die because I suck.

"Now we load the scenario...For now do what you did before." The scene from where Viridian died appears. Black becomes KB. It starts playing through. Black comments "See, you're doing a good job of using cover. Hit and run stuff. This is good."

It gets to the point where she gets hit. She takes the blast, and it activates her memory of the hit and the drugs. After she goes down, Black waves his hand. the simulated damage goes away and he is no longer KB. "See, here you've come back out and stayed there. You're trying to go toe-to-toe with a small army of enemies in a narrow hallway. You can't do that."

 

[Victim]

Star breaks into sweat as she's jerked around byt the simulation. I didn't think it'd be that intense and personal - that it'd be more like a third person view. "Well, first I was pushing Thess out of the way. Then I sort of wanted to hold the line so that she and Wren wouldn't get attacked as he healed her - none of them seemed especially mobile for getting around us in that hallway. And then Apollo left to sub in for Hope, so if I started to do hit and run, then they would have had an easy time gang attacking." She continues her explanation, sounding a little defensive, "If I had been zooming in and out, they could have just been attacking other people instead. Only Wren was really in good condition down there."

"What about the other times?" Megan asks. "I've tried staying out of the line of fire before, but it didn't seem to work too well. Something goes wrong, and then I'm hurt away from everyone else. And fighting across a wide space and time just doesn't seem like a good idea with a bunch of other people who don't fight like that. Also, zooming in and out of the fight is sort of confusing, since I'm only seeing snap shots of the battle."

"I know I'm obviously screwing up somewhere, but it's not like I didn't have reasons."

"Wait, as long we're looking at this battle, can I see what happened right after I crashed the first time? From a different point of view?" she adds suddenly. "I'd like to know what was going on with everyone else."

 

[DM_Matt]

Star breaks into sweat as she's jerked around byt the simulation. I didn't think it'd be that intense and personal - that it'd be more like a third person view. "Well, first I was pushing Thess out of the way. Then I sort of wanted to hold the line so that she and Wren wouldn't get attacked as he healed her - none of them seemed especially mobile for getting around us in that hallway. And then Apollo left to sub in for Hope, so if I started to do hit and run, then they would have had an easy time gang attacking." She continues her explanation, sounding a little defensive, "If I had been zooming in and out, they could have just been attacking other people instead. Only Wren was really in good condition down there."

"What about the other times?" Megan asks. "I've tried staying out of the line of fire before, but it didn't seem to work too well. Something goes wrong, and then I'm hurt away from everyone else. And fighting across a wide space and time just doesn't seem like a good idea with a bunch of other people who don't fight like that. Also, zooming in and out of the fight is sort of confusing, since I'm only seeing snap shots of the battle."

"I know I'm obviously screwing up somewhere, but it's not like I didn't have reasons."

"Wait, as long we're looking at this battle, can I see what happened right after I crashed the first time? From a different point of view?" she adds suddenly. "I'd like to know what was going on with everyone else."

"Its true that mobile fighting is not always all that feasible. This is one of the tougher circumstances. They had an excellent strategic position. The best move for a mobile fighter here is to find a way to get in behind them, since they are able to use the narrow hallway for side protection."

(resets the scenario)

"Now look at this. This is Viridian coming down there and getting nailed. She walked right into their attack line and they got to concentrate their fire on her. Now here comes Optic and he takes hits too. Now Wren then you and Apollo. This was part of the problem. You guys did not coordinate and let them maintain their advantageous position by challenging them one by one or two at a time. Part of why you were forced into a fight in these circumstances is that your entire team was outmaneuvered."

(He continues, showing other aspects of the fight. The battle up top was less tactically interesting, being mostly an open-field slugfest.)

Black suggests "How about I create a shifting-terrain tactical simulation. Put these dampeners on your wrists. I'll play a bad guy, and we'll see how you do."

 

[kirinke]

Hope's eyes flickered, changing back and forth between white and and normal blue, seeing something the others couldn't see, probably didn't want to see either. "Get White. Vision.... Future, not past. The towers collect power, funnel it down, the.... Demons. Fissures. Gates, each of them. Attacking futile. More will die to fuel.... Innocence lost, is power gained." she said between gasps, trying to convey what she was seeing, not daring to share the vision with the others. "Soon. Futile to attack Towers. Futile!" she coughed. "It. Can't. HAPPEN! Stop it!" the horror of the vision was etched into her face, the truth of what she said echoed in her voice. "Call off the attack!" she shouted hoarsely, as if she was talking to someone, something no one could see. "No!"

Too powerful. And she couldn't damp it down. Not yet anyway.

 

[Victim]

"Its true that mobile fighting is not always all that feasible. This is one of the tougher circumstances. They had an excellent strategic position. The best move for a mobile fighter here is to find a way to get in behind them, since they are able to use the narrow hallway for side protection."

"Oh. I didn't really notice that they had a benefit from that position - other than that they weren't supposed to be inside the base in the first place. Would it have helped to just place my shots behind them?"

(resets the scenario)

"Now look at this. This is Viridian coming down there and getting nailed. She walked right into their attack line and they got to concentrate their fire on her. Now here comes Optic and he takes hits too. Now Wren then you and Apollo. This was part of the problem. You guys did not coordinate and let them maintain their advantageous position by challenging them one by one or two at a time. Part of why you were forced into a fight in these circumstances is that your entire team was outmaneuvered."

Megan frowns. Didn't I call for Wren once I got there? "Is that the order that we arrived in? I guess the drugs and poisons and botched treatment messed me up more than I thought. But we don't all move at same speed, and it didn't seem like a good idea to leave her knocked out, alone, and next to bunch of enemies. They could have done stuff to her. Or if Control Freak had time to look at our phones, he could get access to a lot information, right?" Maybe she would have been safer if we just left her there.

(IIRC, Star and Apollo were the first responders after Viridian was knocked out the first time, with Wren arriving later. I don't remember when exactly Optic got there.)

(He continues, showing other aspects of the fight. The battle up top was less tactically interesting, being mostly an open-field slugfest.)

Black suggests "How about I create a shifting-terrain tactical simulation. Put these dampeners on your wrists. I'll play a bad guy, and we'll see how you do."

(Star was actually more interested in seeing exactly how Apollo reacted when she was shot down by the Israelis.)

Megan fidgets with the dampening bracers, "Are you sure that these will work right? I've had problems with a nullifier system in the past... Maybe I could just set up my shots so they'll come up just short of you and keep the power down?"

With reassurance, she'll use the dampeners.

 

[Elric]

"Still trapped... in mediocre show" Nitro moans, his eyes rolling back in his head. "Ah, Carlos, se murio!"

 

[DM_Matt]

"Oh. I didn't really notice that they had a benefit from that position - other than that they weren't supposed to be inside the base in the first place. Would it have helped to just place my shots behind them?"



Megan frowns. Didn't I call for Wren once I got there? "Is that the order that we arrived in? I guess the drugs and poisons and botched treatment messed me up more than I thought. But we don't all move at same speed, and it didn't seem like a good idea to leave her knocked out, alone, and next to bunch of enemies. They could have done stuff to her. Or if Control Freak had time to look at our phones, he could get access to a lot information, right?" Maybe she would have been safer if we just left her there.

(IIRC, Star and Apollo were the first responders after Viridian was knocked out the first time, with Wren arriving later. I don't remember when exactly Optic got there.)


(Star was actually more interested in seeing exactly how Apollo reacted when she was shot down by the Israelis.)

Megan fidgets with the dampening bracers, "Are you sure that these will work right? I've had problems with a nullifier system in the past... Maybe I could just set up my shots so they'll come up just short of you and keep the power down?"

With reassurance, she'll use the dampeners.

"This is all true. You might have as a group tried to evac the wounded, but then you'd leave the objective undefended. By the time you guys came down gradually and got in the position you were in, there may not have been a great move to make. You may have just been too weakened as a force for a hit-and-run. Wren should maybe have used his ring's object creation to do some battlefield control of your own."

(he also shows Apollo running away, but expressing the desire to fetch her over the radio. She sees the stone guy stopping him).

Black begins the simulation, and shifting blocks appears, creating hallways and rooms and cover in various places. She and him play power tag for a bit, with him throwing lightning bolts are her and her trying to hit him with her plasma balls.

Suddenly, Control Freak appears behind Black and blasts him with a bunch of those air mines. Black goes down. CF says "Fools. You thought this facilitiy was secure? No system is beyond my reach. And don't think about disconnecting now that I;m in control. It will fry your brain. Now lets play!" He blasts her with his wrsit blaster, but she manages to dodge."