Superheroes of the Trust Game Thread

[Victim]

"We have leads on that too." Umm... Now I feel like an idiot for not taking notes. "That guy, and the two companies? It's more than we have on weaknesses in the machine. Unless you think the inventor of one of its defensive systems might know about those, in which case you still want to find the scientist."

Here's a weak point: screw with the remote control. It doesn't matter how tough the drill is if it doesn't get the right command signals. Garbage in, garbage out.

 

[kirinke]

"True." Hope concedes and sends Star a copy of her notes. "Alright. Let's lookit here... Gunner said he thought that Fine was taken by Sabir Asad who is probably tied to Labrys Industrial Industries in Zurich or Grant Industries here in the US. They're probably front companies for one or the other, so it could bear investigation. Also, we need to look into Wolfson, Sheppard and Doe. I'll bet a week's pay that those bastards are in this up to their eyeballs." she looked grim. "They seem to be representing too many of our enemies for coincidence."

"We probably need to find out as much as we can about Sabir Asad, Herbert no sorry Herman Fine, Labrys Industrial and Grant Industries."

 

[DM_Matt]

"True." Hope concedes and sends Star a copy of her notes. "Alright. Let's lookit here... Gunner said he thought that Fine was taken by Sabir Asad who is probably tied to Labrys Industrial Industries in Zurich or Grant Industries here in the US. They're probably front companies for one or the other, so it could bear investigation. Also, we need to look into Wolfson, Sheppard and Doe. I'll bet a week's pay that those bastards are in this up to their eyeballs." she looked grim. "They seem to be representing too many of our enemies for coincidence."

"We probably need to find out as much as we can about Sabir Asad, Herbert no sorry Herman Fine, Labrys Industrial and Grant Industries."

Mr. Blacks looks at his screen and says "We already know a bit about those guys. Asad has a long and rather distinguished record as a hit man and spy for hire, also going by "Payback." He has a powerful cybernetic arm, and oddly enough is a devil worshipper. He's from Lebanon, but we don't know where he lives now. Most of his activities have been in Europe. Jonathan Grant runs a holding company that runs numerous high-tech businesses, some of which have been shut down due to illegal and unethical biotech experience or selling tech to supervillains. The main company, and Grant himself, have remained protected from liability, largely thanks to excellent representation by Wolfson, Seppard, and Doe. He lives in Freedom City with his wife Josie and 17-year old daughter Sarah. Labrys Enterprises does similar things but it led by some reclusive germaphobe bubble-boy. We don't actually know where he lives, though we think its somewhere in Switzerland. We also know of this Voderac guy, but until we get those coordinates from Gunnar, it will be difficult to find his ship."

 

[kirinke]

"So we know for sure that Barrington has been fronting alot of his business through Wolfson, Sheppard, and Doe. We have enough for a warrent to search their records and computers I think if we word it right. That might net us some valuable information," Hope said stubbornly.

"So. We have three objectives. Investigate Labrys Industries in Zurich, Grant Industries here in America and Wolfson, Sheppard and Doe."

 

[DM_Matt]

"So we know for sure that Barrington has been fronting alot of his business through Wolfson, Sheppard, and Doe. We have enough for a warrent to search their records and computers I think if we word it right. That might net us some valuable information," Hope said stubbornly.

"So. We have three objectives. Investigate Labrys Industries in Zurich, Grant Industries here in America and Wolfson, Sheppard and Doe."

Ms. White says "Well, you'd have to try that through AEGIS. The Trust doesn't do warrants. I doubt it will work though, since the only thing you are accusing them of is representing crooks, and if thats a crime, then most of the legal profession is full of criminals.

 

[kirinke]

Hope chuckled and shook her head. "I know, wishful thinking. But damnit. Those bastards are up to their necks in this and it's frustrating knowing it and not being able to do anything about it legally." she groused, raking her hand through her hair in a frustrated gesture.

"Alright. So we can investigate Grant Industries here or Labrys Industries in Zurick for now."

"Maybe we can work in an um.... clandenstine raid on Sheppard and Doe later on if we survive. Even if we can't get them in court, at least we'll have more information on Barrington and his various cronies. We can always claim that it was a mistake, oh dear me oh my, crossed wires and all that. Darned paper shuffling bueurocracies and mixed up orders..." Hope pretended to look innocent as she mimicked your average apologetic beurocrat.

 

[Raylis]

"What we should probably do is get some actual rest. Between the globetrotting and the fighting we're going to burn out if we don't slow down.

 

[Elric]

Nitro calls up Tom Howard, who doesn’t have any immediate leads on the Salt Lake City investigation—but he promises to look into it. Howard, though, is a well-known trainer of wrestlers and he gives Nitro some advice on how to investigate the situation they’re in. “Think about it like a story”, he says. “Try to write down the story behind the actions of these people.” Howard almost says it in Yoda-speak, but he’s been mocked by Nitro for being excessively nerdy before.

So Nitro sits down and thinks. It hurts about as bad as any of his injuries so far today, but then he has some insights.

I don't know where he would find the radiation-absorbing technology, although I had heard rumors of a super-assassin kicking around the mideast with technology of that sort. Some radiation controller, trigger-happy with the toasting. Unknown who she works for, but considering the wide variety of folks in the region she's incinerated, and the fact that she's against Barrington rules out Iran, I'd bet she's either an enforcer for some crime syndicate or some kind of Black Ops type -- probably American or Israeli, but maybe Russian.

That’s our mystery super.

The new super phases through the reactor room door, and turns her palm upward. An extremely bright ball of fire appears in her hand and lights up the entire room. Optic's scanners detect that she's causing hydrogen atoms to fuse in the air, creating a very miniature sun.

Optic detects that she's channeling her power through her suit to some extent, which seems to be able to efficiently absorb radiation and use the energy instantly for various functions.

Her suit has radiation absorption properties. Barrington would be interested in this tech as well.

"We have a situation in the city. The Foundry office was hit. We're intercepting traffic on Swiss military channels. They've found two bodies burned beyond recognition and a couple of large broken, robots. Nuclear hazmat teams have quarantined the site. This looks a lot like that attack in Israel, but in other news, we're hearing that Hiroshima Shadow was captured at the scene, and is being held in some kind of containment device that absorbs his radiation and uses it to power a forcefield. It makes sense he was responsible for that attack -- Hamas has never had nuclear capability -- but that doesn't explain this one, nor why Barrington paid Hamas for that attack, not Shadow. "

The mystery super is the one who hit the Foundry office. It couldn’t have been Hiroshima Shadow—since he was captured in Israel. But the technology they captured him with—that sounds just like the technology on this mystery super’s suit, and it’s the exact tech Barrington would be interested in. So she is almost certainly Israeli and this technology can definitely be found in Israel.

Nitro explains what he’s deduced.

 

[Victim]

Megan seems relieved by Nightweaver's suggestion. "Yes, I could really use a break. I've never fought so many days in a row before. And these fights are much harder most everything I've dealt with before; in both opponents and situations." Except for my opener. Shi-!, don't think about... Too late, idiot.

"Nitro, that's a great idea." I guess I'm the dumb one.

 

[Shayuri]

Viridian slaps her forehead at Nitro's words.

"Of course...of course! In fact, if you look at who she's been hitting, it looks like she's following her own trail of clues that will lead her straight to Barrington. And since her abilities are at least partly tech, it may be that she's the designer and inventor of this radiation absorbing technology, and that Barrington hit her somehow, early on. To steal it."