Superheroes of the Trust Game Thread

[Shayuri]

Viridian goes to Hope's side and kneels down, trying to calm her. She's covered in bruises and shallow wounds...each one representing a hit that would have been lethal or incapacitating except for her defenses. The illusion of her costume is unsteady, wavering and occasionally letting a flicker of her actual clothes show through.

"Shh...it's okay. Let the weather go...you don't have to do that. Just try to rest."

She looks up at the newcomer and the forces at the plane.

"We don't have time to do anything with the people escaping. It's like Star said...the reactor's going to melt down. We have to get clear of here. There's some super in there...she slid in and went right into the reactor. A second later the warning started. It gave us the opening we needed to get what we came for, but we couldn't stop it."

 

[Victim]

The two badly wounded superheroinces bicker: "You're horrible. It's not right to just hurt people you don't like."


"If I didn't learn about the difference any of the other times, I think your dam-! jets would have taught me the other night when they shredded me."

"Even if that guy wasn't human, I'm sure other people acting on your hateful superstitions have given him plenty of provocation. You wouldn't have to go too many centuries back before all super people were witches or demons to be killed." Or gods.

Oh Thessaly, don't be taking her side please. Oh good.

 

[kirinke]

"Can't rest." Hope said. "Resting bad, makes things... Won't wake up." she looked at Viridian with pain bright eyes, not exactly seeing what was really there. "Don't make me go back into the gray,"

Hope turned to Star. "Not a superstition. Not... Demons are real!" she looked at Viridian. "You know about the spider demon, you know what he was capable of. You know why I had to kill him! I banished him so you wouldn't have to. So you would have the strength to get the others out. I was the only one of us that was expendable. We need you for the teleport." she said.

"What would you rather happen Star? Millions of innocents dead because you won't kill one bad guy? Won't kill one villian? That's what we're facing!" she snarled. "I don't like them because they're willing to hurt innocent people for money. They're building weapons and things for super villians. They're hurting our people. That's what they do. And we have to stop it, however we can. Hard choices.... I'm horrible so you don't have to be,"

 

[Victim]

"Can't rest." Hope said. "Resting bad, makes things... Won't wake up." she looked at Viridian with pain bright eyes, not exactly seeing what was really there. "Don't make me go back into the gray,"

"But it stops hurting then," Megan says, puzzled by Hope's attitude. I thought it'd be better to end one of our fights conscious for once, but it just hurts more. Pride isn't worth it.

 

[kirinke]

"But it stops hurting then," Megan says, puzzled by Hope's attitude. I thought it'd be better to end one of our fights conscious for once, but it just hurts more. Pride isn't worth it.

"Pain is better than the gray," Hope said cryptically. "You can fight the pain, you can't fight the gray,"


ooc:
Them bickering is probably good for them, considering their head injuries, at least they're keeping each other awake.

 

[Shayuri]

"You don't have to go into the grey," Viridian assures Hope. "But stop exerting yourself. I don't know what kind of magic you have, but any magic puts a strain on the body...and your body can't take much more strain. Just let go...trust us, okay? We have your back."

She looks up at Shooting Star.

"This isn't the right time or place to lecture her or talk philosophy. Lets just focus on the immediate situation for now, okay?"

 

[kirinke]

"No spells necessary for what I do. Except for rituals. 's energy. Part natural, part magic. Wild. Doesn't hurt me," she said. "Fire and ground magicks aren't good. Fire exhausts, ground. Can't work with it at all. Air and wind, Electricity and Cold. Fire doesn't mix well you know."

Reluctantly, Hope listens to Viridian, the temperature in the air slowly normalizing as the hail stops, the screams from the suburbans punctuate the conversation. Apparently, the Aegis Agent made an impression with them.

 

[Shayuri]

"It's still effort," Viridian insists. "My magic doesn't -hurt- me either, but that doesn't mean I can't overdo it."

 

[kirinke]

"Couldn't let you cast that spell. Too dark. Dangerous, taps into things you don't want to tap into. I didn't have a choice Viridian, not with that thing. I did a run on Mr. Black. I know who he works with, some of the Trust' front companies. Barrington got wind of that, those people, their families would've been murdered out of hand. Hundreds of innocent lives at risk. Not to mention whatever you guys know. Too dangerous." she said, slowly relaxing her hold on the weather, the other witche's words slowly reaching her.

She looked at Star. "I couldn't live with knowing that because I wouldn't kill one evil thing, hundreds of innocent people would die. But I could live with one less soul drinking demon around, guess which got the short straw," she said tiredly, but a bit more coherent now that she wasn't exherting herself.

 

[Victim]

"This isn't the right time or place to lecture her or talk philosophy. Lets just focus on the immediate situation for now, okay?"

"Fine," Megan replies quietly, withdrawing into herself. She even chokes back an angry reply about powers not hurting.