Superheroes of the Trust Game Thread

[DM_Matt]

"Wow. Journey to the Center of the Earth, anyone?" More seriously: "Once this thing is finished, it's basically going to be unstoppable. Maybe if someone or something was teleported past the absorbing layers, it could do some damage." Anything designed with the assumption that multiple nukes will be used in an attempt to stop it has to be bad news.
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How big is this drill?

A few feet wide and the hollow, telescoping shaft gets to be several hundred feet long. It seems that it is designed to telescope to its maximum length, after which the drill its engine, and an unknown (i.e. to be added by non-Foundry) device separate and continue for a bit, although not that far since they seem to remain wired to the shaft for power.

 

[DM_Matt]

"We'll look into that," Viridian says. "But that's more than any of us can promise at the moment."

"Then call your bosses. I'm not going anywhere, apparently."

 

[kirinke]

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Sorry guys, been sick with the stomach crud

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"This guy is insane. It looks more like Journey to blow up the earth." Hope says quietly agast as the simulations run their course.

 

[Victim]

"Why would you say that? It's not all that wide, and most of the space is used by the defenses. A powerful bomb probably wouldn't fit." She reflects, But I bet that gem plus a setting would fit. But we shouldn't mention that stuff in front of this guy. I guess assuming that other people want to destroy the world or kill millions is how she justifies her actions. But he didn't do anything to me when I was helpless; it would have been no trouble to finish me off or capture me for interrogation.

Hmm. Oops. "It actually doesn't go down that far. You'd think that its absorbing defenses would be able to carry it through pretty much anything, but it looks like it digs less than a 1000 ft. What could it be trying to get to?"

 

[Elric]

I've seen this before, sort of

"Unless he gets Unobtanium, I don't think we have to worry about him making it to the center of the earth. You guys saw The Core, right? But Unobtainium seems pretty hard to get, so I don't think we'll have to worry about him going to the Earth's core, stopping its rotation, and the ensuing loss of Earth's magnetic field destroys us all."

 

[kirinke]

"You don't need a big bomb in order to get a big effect." she said quietly as she looked at the simulations in a new light.

"But at the same time, you could be correct, maybe this is just a way for him sucker us into believing that he can blow up something as big as a planet."

"Besides, he strikes me as a meglomaniacal type, not a world destroyer type. I mean, how can you rule something you wreck?"

She looks at the simulations, scowling. "I'm no scientist and I don't think he is either. We know he's a sorcerer of some sort. Maybe he's wanting to use this thing to dig for something that might give him a lot of power on the mystical front that has been buried deep. Barring that, he could use this as a kind of power base. It'd be pretty terrifying in action wouldn't it?" she said, just throwing out ideas, much in the same way two or more detectives would on a murder case. "Or it could be just a big blind, a smoke screen to hide what he's really trying to do. I don't know."

 

[Fangor the Fierce]

Wren's mind begins its own turn of events. This would certainly upset the cosmic balance of things, should something dealing with the earth hold true. He tries to find some remnant of this being a truth, as he channels his inner strength to concentrate on if there is some series of events now in place that are going to affect the cosmos.

(Cosmic Awareness, Super Senses 1)

Otherwise he turns to the man, and glares at him. This guy had information, but he would only divulge it on his own terms. Fitting.

"It's your choice to remain silent. But there are other ways to get the information from you. You just chose to make it hard on yourself..."

Sense Motive +13 on this guy, not sure if he's actually got info, or stalling us.

 

[Shayuri]

Thessaly gets up and goes over to see what the others are looking at. She studies the data and simulations stoically, checking for any signs that the device has mystical significance.

(Knowledge check for Arcana, I s'pose! )

 

[DM_Matt]

Thessaly gets up and goes over to see what the others are looking at. She studies the data and simulations stoically, checking for any signs that the device has mystical significance.

(Knowledge check for Arcana, I s'pose! )

No, but the areas that Barrington will be adding from other sources could include magical devices.

 

[Victim]

Megan pulls up Barrington's file and answers Hope: "He's supposed to be a science genius with a PhD. Plus he has help from Otaku and Control Freak - I think they have technical matters pretty well covered." The occultism is probably just misdirection. The substance is in his alien gadgets and powersuit. Shouldn't she be familiar with his file?

She turns to Viridian as she examines the simulation and data and asks helpfully "Did you get that? I can make it play slower if you want. Do you want to call in and ask about this guy?" This isn't what I want to talk about.