Superheroes of the Trust Game Thread

[Fangor the Fierce]

"So, it appears we have enough to do, and enough people to start doing it. The Radiation Super, who's going to take on finding out about her? From the profiles of those here, perhaps the scrying power would be best to find her, and see what she's up to. Viridian, that's your specialty, right? Then there's Salt Lake City. Nitro seems to be able to find some information through some possible contacts. See what comes of that. Then there's Grant Industries here and Labrys Industries in Zurick. Who can get more information on them? Shooting Star and The Saint? Asad needs a little more investigation as well, as finding him might net us more inside information. After all, he's for hire, and money talks. I'll tackle that guy and see what I can find out. If someone can go over the diagrams from this new device that has us all worried, with the Trust's aid, then we might find something we didn't earlier. Optic, you might be best suited for making sure we didn't miss anything on those details. Use those contacts you have at your disposal. If it's ok, let's meet back here in 8 hours. 6 hours of sleep, if you need it, and 2 hours to find anything possible. Then, when we go over our preliminary data, if there are any flags, we can concentrate our combined efforts on that. If not, we dig deeper, and go from there. I'm more of an acting guy instead of talking. Nightweaver, see what you can find out about the Foundry and their various outposts. See if there have been any other attacks on them and if there is an increased level of output or activity at any of them. If they're involved, then they will undoubtedly be seen as a loose end that needs tying up."

Wren, (aka The Guardian), glances about the room. They are young, tired, and worn out. How much longer could they continue? This is one tough situation, but they are still alive. That counts for something...

"I don't mean to be rash, it's just that if what I felt from that design means anything of it's potential, then if we don't act now, then the balance will, without a doubt, be shifted to evil. Not just here, but everywhere. A cosmic shift of that magnitude is a threat to everyone. I'll be working on my part of this endeavor. Remember, 8 hours, we meet up. If anything is urgent, then we should all be easily available. Good luck."

Gather Info on this Asad guy, +14

 

[Victim]

Me with her? Why? What am I even supposed to do to find out about those companies? I already looked in our database; how am I supposed to do better than that on my own? Six hours? That's more like a long nap than proper rest. I don't want to let everyone down, but maybe I can get like an extra hour or so and bang out something in 15 minutes. That's kind of like 2 hours. She gives Hope a quick glare, head blurring.

"What do you mean? Cosmic balance tipped toward evil?" That sounds... cheesy.

She frowns. And no one is discussing her killling that guy. You'd think our debriefing thing would cover something like that. That can't be okay, can it? Should I say something?

 

[Elric]

Remember, 8 hours, we meet up. If anything is urgent, then we should all be easily available. Good luck."

"How about 7 1/2 hours of sleep and half an hour of picking yourself back together so you can still function and getting ready? I'm tired, and if I'm tired that means we're probably all tired." And I need to call Melina. Not that she'd be worried about me- it's me- but she'd want to hear about the latest villains I've taken down and my ball-kicking prowess

"Oh, and Hope. No disintegrations against downed enemies from now on, OK? We're getting a bad enough reputation for destroying scenery, which I can live with- that's pretty much par for the course in wrestling. But murdering downed foes- then you're not just a heel, you're a villain. And villains don't get to endorse breakfast cereals."

 

[Fangor the Fierce]

"What do you mean? Cosmic balance tipped toward evil?" That sounds... cheesy.

"I am not of this planet. My powers are harnessed through the cosmos themselves. I am acutely in tune with the whole of cosmos, in general, and I can sense when there is something that threatens the cosmic balance of things. When that design was shown to me, my senses picked up the fact that if it continued on it's predetermined course of action, then that would cause a major shift in the cosmos, or what you would consider earth, the nearby stars, etc, and that shift would be towards evil. As for regrouping, from the looks of it, perhaps 10 hours would be better. 8 for rest, 1 to get prepared, and another to gather what you could. Unless someone else has other ideas."

 

[Shayuri]

"Nightweaver got the hair, so I can scry on the radiation suit," Vi agrees. "I think I can scry on our missing scientist too, if I drop by his house and get something to use for a focus. Sleep would also be good."

 

[Victim]

What? You're an alien? But you look normal. "I wasn't asking how you find things out. It's just that it sounds sort of melodramatic without being very informative. Is evil even measureable like that? Do you mean that bad things will happen to people within a few lightyears of here?"

"Thanks, Nitro." Shooting Star is glad to have Nitro's mighty presense on her side. "I guess I could see it if he was killed while fighting. Even if that's not what superheroes are supposed to do. But burning him up after he was taking out... You said it was to protect everyone, but aren't there rules for that sort of thing? I thought law enforcement had to have an immediate threat to kill someone, not just some nebulous 'maybe in the future, hundreds or thousands of lives will be saved.' That could apply to pretty much anyone. If you're worried about him waking up and leaving again, then I could park a few shots around him to zap him if he stirs. But most knocked out people aren't too dangerous."

 

[kirinke]

"Onigumi is a demonic mercenary with powerful telepathic abilities who generally works for souls. Yes souls. The foundry was paying him in the souls of innocents. When I unleashed the firestorm and spoke the spell, I banished him back to his home dimension permanently. If he had gotten away, he would have gone straight to Barrington with everything we knew at the time, who we work for, who our allies are, everything. If I hadn't done what I did, we'd be in the same boat as the Freedom League or worse." she looked at the others.

"I don't generally perform those kinds of spells unless I have no choice. In that, there was no choice. Could you live with the knowledge that if he had gotten out of whatever containment unit we put him in, he'd go straight back to what he was doing previously which is collecting and devoring souls. There was a clear and immediate danger in his case."

"This is more than just being heroes people. We are facing a madman who is planning something terrible if Wren is right. We are going to face even harder decisions, decisions that will affect the entire world. Barrington isn't going to pull his punches and if we pull ours, then we can kiss everything goodbye. Literally." she said, having no doubt that Wren was telling the truth about the cosmic balance being affected.

"We're at war people, this isn't just a super fight between criminal and hero and you need to stop thinking like that, otherwise you're going to get yourselves and everyone around you killed." she said flatly.

"I know I've been a jerk at times, but let me make one thing clear. I will do everything I can to protect this planet, because it's our home, our only home. I'm not going to let some wack-job destroy it or take it over simply because he thinks it's his right to do so. And I will do everything in my power to protect my family, my friends and my team mates, even if it comes down to using lethal methods to do so."

 

[DM_Matt]

Ms White, a bit taken aback by Wren's says "Its pretty clear that you all need some rest, and we could use some more time to follow up with our other sources and teams on these things. You're no good to us too tired to function. Its about 8am here, so how about you all check back here at 9am tomorrow. If you want to do some snooping on your own, go ahead. When you get back, hopefully we'll have some more info for you...including anything else the Gunner knows."

Mr. Black comments "Regarding killing, the Trust is not law enforcement, but your public actions should be consistent with superheroics. Of course, your private activities are not subject to those rules, only your own conscience.

We at the Trust have a range of personal rules about these things. I have no cape identity and was trained -- and empowered -- to kill by the military, and I did so for a number of years, so I will do so when I find it necessary. Whitey over here on the other hand is a White Witch, and they have all kinds of rules about these things. As long as certain lines are not crossed, we can accommodate all kinds here. "

 

[Victim]

"That's great if you believe in religious stuff." Have an explanation that doesn't make you sound like a dark ages fanatic? "And I don't suppose you have any hard evidence of those things?"

"I think real heroes like Centurion and the Freedom League have stopped plenty of threats just as dire without being like that. Escalating like that just makes things worse. I thought that in the 80s here, 'heroes' acted like they were in war. Didn't that not work out so well and end up with the Terminus Invasion?" Shooting Star is not a native of Freedom City. I don't want to be outlawed like those people were. And I don't want government agents running around doing whatever the hell they want. They know where I live.

"This is also more than being a fairy-tale Jack Bauer who makes the hard decisions that the children around her can't or won't do to save the world. At least we base our decisions on real heroes instead of made up ones."

 

[Elric]

"Onigumi is a demonic mercenary with powerful telepathic abilities who generally works for souls. Yes souls. The foundry was paying him in the souls of innocents. When I unleashed the firestorm and spoke the spell, I banished him back to his home dimension permanently. If he had gotten away, he would have gone straight to Barrington with everything we knew at the time, who we work for, who our allies are, everything. If I hadn't done what I did, we'd be in the same boat as the Freedom League or worse." she looked at the others.

Nitro is more perceptive than he was a second ago (OOC: added 4 ranks in Sense Motive with my 1 pp)

"Come on. This is just lame after the fact justification. Oni was working for the Foundry, not Barrington, and the Foundry probably knows what happened in general at the facility we just attacked. If the Foundry wanted to tell Barrington about us, they could. But that would be uncomfortable, to say the least. Just because Barrington is a bad guy doesn't mean he's working with all the other bad guys. Intoning 'if I didn't do what I did, by now we'd be captured like the Freedom League' in a solemn voice doesn't make it so

"And I don't really buy this "cosmic balance" stuff. It's not like we're in a mystical war between good and evil or law and chaos. That's all Hollywood, New-Age nonsense. Do you see any albinos waving magic swords around? Didn't think so.