Superheroes of the Trust Game Thread

[DM_Matt]

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.

Wren thinks he really does have good info.

Wren senses that this device is related to a potential major shift in the cosmic balance towards evil. Not just on Earth, but the cosmic balance in general.

 

[Shayuri]

"No, I think I saw it fine...I'm just trying to get a handle on it."

She taps the image on the screen.

"So...this whole thing is powered by absorbing nuclear blasts, drills into the ground by remote satellite control and does something. And the drill bit can break off and keep going on its own..."

"Two things worry me. One, whatever this thing does requires an incredible amount of power. Two...Barrington decided he needed to hijack a space station before he used it. That says to me no place on Earth will be safe."

"And three, we still don't know where the Eye fits into this, but I'm getting a bad feeling about that."

 

[Victim]

"It doesn't seem necessarily powered by the nuclear weapons; it can get power from the satellite linkup or could absorb other attacks or environments. I guess." I don't exactly have the best track record. Shoot, I hope I didn't sound patronizing.

Since you brought it up... "I thought the gem might be part of the payload." Maybe the drill gets used in a volcano. If it can take repeated nuke hits, then the heat should be okay. And then it would get access to the ... mantle? without too much drilling.

 

[kirinke]

"Well, even if we don't know what it does, we know it's gonna be very bad." Hope said, going over Barrington's full dossier, the one that AEGIS didn't have access to. "So, next question. What weaknesses does this thing have if any that we can exploit?" she nodded her thanks to Star when the other Super brought up the files.

Some of her friends always teased that AEGIS had three simple questions when dealing with super powered badness: What was it, how does it work and how do we stop it? Hope on the other hand had only one simple question: How do we destroy it?

 

[Fangor the Fierce]

"Ok, here's the deal. You give us the info you covet, and the UN will be notified that you would like to be turned over there. If they have no qualms over it, then it's done. Otherwise, I could think of other places for you to get dropped off at. I wonder what the Serbian authorities do to criminals like yourself."

Hopefully this guy will talk...

"Guys, I'm getting a bad feeling about this device. It's design, it's make, everything leads towards a great cosmic shift in this galaxy. If we don't find some way to stop this, then earth is not the only place that will suffer. What is the radius of the moon, by the way? Would this thing be optimal to be used on the moon, and then inadvertently affect earth's gravity and balance? If so, then we've got work to do. It's just an idea, but one worth exploring."

 

[kirinke]

"Like I said, we know it's bad, whatever it is. We need to know how to destroy it and where it is more than what it does."

But I might have an idea on where it might be. Or better still, who might be able to find out. Hope thinks to hersef, unwilling to betray Foreshadow to the others, at least not in the presence of a supervillian like the gray gunner.


I don't want to bring you into this Foreshadow.... But millions of lives depend on this... she thought, knowing he will know she needs him and where she will be without even trying hard.

 

[Fangor the Fierce]

"Like I said, we know it's bad, whatever it is. We need to know how to destroy it and where it is more than what it does."

"No, you misinterpret. I mean that whatever this is, it WILL change the cosmic balance of everything."

Wren shifts to the Gunner, hoping he can shed more light on the this subject.

"We have a few options. First, we can try to find this thing, and destroy it. Or, we could find the people that would be using it, or know how to use it, and take them out. Without that knowledge, the destruction of this thing can wait, as nobody would have the intent of knowledge to complete the job. We might have to call in some reinforcements, and with the recent events, those are slim to none. So, information is what we need. And this guy has it. So, either talk, Gunner, or we make you talk..."

It's no longer time for the nice guy routine. This guy knows something, and we need that information now. Hopefully someone here can make him talk... I know I can't. Unless we do it the really hard way..

 

[kirinke]

Hope looks up at him sharply at the mention of changing the cosmic balance of everything.
"So, he is creating an Apocolspe device...." she murmured.

Hope shifted, her eyes glinting, playing worse cop to Wren's bad cop instinctively. "You gain nothing by your silence Gunner. Either speak with the supers or speak with me. And I will not be at all gentle with you. After all, electricty and metal.... Well they get on perhaps too well." she added helpfully and perhaps too cheerfully.

"Viridian, maybe a bit of your charms would be in order here, while we keep Mr. Gunner off-guard?" she asked via the wind-carried words ability, her eyes going white as she used that particular little power.

"I really don't want us to um... Get messy with him if we can avoid it. Right now... You're our best option. If you need an energy boost, I'll be willing to give it." she said, knowing that the other witch was probably as much on her last legs magically as she was.

 

[Shayuri]

Viridian winces behind her mask.

"Lets check with the highups first. If his demands are doable, then he'll talk without coercion. That's the best way to go if you ask me."

 

[kirinke]

Hope's eyes flicker back to blue and she seems to relax a little. "Well.... You may have a bit of a reprieve, if our employers think that what you have is worth what you're asking for. You're lucky, others wouldn't deal with you and would go straight to the unpleasant part of the interrogation."