Superheroes of the Trust Game Thread

[DM_Matt]

Megan transfers some of the music provided with her room to her phone/computer before taking the teleporter back to Freedom City and flying home. She takes a double dose of her medications to make up for the time she missed and a cold shower before heading to bed, slowing her metabolism back to normal as a rest state.

She wakes early from a disturbing dream. Oniguma's feelings of joy and pleasure when killing, supplied by Hope's vision, are overlaid with versions of her combat experiences so that she's enjoying burning people to a crisp. While at first it seemed sort of nice, after 'booting up' to her accelerated speed she felt sick. After another shower, she packs up her supersuit and about half her supply of drugs and heads back to the hanger. I get some time off, and then feel like I can't trust myself there. Hell.

So, morning finds Shooting Star in the Trust's gym, working an exercise bike, listening to music, trying to look at available financial information on the Grant and Labrys companies to see which one could have hired a cybernetic hitman/spy, as well as flipping around through Trust files on her new teammates, supers she's faced, and reasons why she's on the team. She looks tired and frustrated in her civilian clothes.

She is unable to disentangle the finances of these entities, since the Trust AI cannot trace parts of the financial record. Its access to bank records is good, but not infallible. She's pretty sure that these groups did not hire them directly.

 

[Shayuri]

(Note: Your powers cannot force the other PCs to agree with you. Also, if you want to really have supernatural villains be afraid of you in substantial ways, you'll need to buy a Benefit feat for it)

(OOC - I rarely do this but... Q. F. T. We now return you to your scheduled game.)

(oh oh...Um...GM? I didn't realize the house was still lived in...I probably missed the part where you said he had family. *weak grin* Under the circumstances, I think Thess would probably choose to portal to the house's front door on the -outside- rather than just burst in like a thief. If that's silly or causes problems, let me know and I'll edit the post)

The front door to the doctor's house opens, disgorging Viridian and Nightweaver rather than its usual occupants. Behind them one can see a quick glimpse of a grey metal room before the door's closed, and the link broken.

"Hope someone's home," Viridian says as she turns around and knocks on the wooden panels of the door she'd seemingly just arrived through.

 

[kirinke]

(Note: Your powers cannot force the other PCs to agree with you. Also, if you want to really have supernatural villains be afraid of you in substantial ways, you'll need to buy a Benefit feat for it)

ooc
I realize that she can't force anyone to agree with her, she was just giving them her perspective, the reasons why she feels the way she feels about demons/necromancers and also she was trying to show them that evil was very, very real. From their comments, she knew that they thought of 'evil' as a kind of abstract concept, not something that's concrete; she wanted them to see the difference between 'human/redeemable' evil and the not so redeemable evil. After that.... It's their choice what they decide.
Hmmmm.... I think I will buy that benefit feat next time we get a PP.

 

[Shayuri]

(OOC - Just mildly pointing out that Thess knows quite a bit about 'demons' and so on, and wasn't actually in that argument. Not that I really care that she was in the vision or not...just saying, you're not the only magic-based hero here, stalwartly fighting in isolation against the unbelieving hordes. )

 

[kirinke]

(OOC - Just mildly pointing out that Thess knows quite a bit about 'demons' and so on, and wasn't actually in that argument. Not that I really care that she was in the vision or not...just saying, you're not the only magic-based hero here, stalwartly fighting in isolation against the unbelieving hordes. )

True that, she was mainly focusing in on Star and Nitro and being that she was kinda tired and irritable, she went omnidirectional. The others kinda got caught in the metaphysical backlash as it were. Basically, she got pissy and decided to call Star's bluff about 'proof'.

 

[Raylis]

Amanda spent the morning putting her social life in order: reassuring the girls at the sororiety that "no she's just busy with training", telling her trainer that she's been working on a crucial school project but she has been training and telling the school that she has to take the rest of the quarter off due to a family emergency...barely managing to settle those affairs when Virdian stops by.

She takes a moment to change into her alter ego while Vi draws the portal.

"It'd be easier for us to see if there was anything left behind if there's not. There should be plenty for you get something of his and if we're lucky anything the attacker left behind.


OOC: if I seem slow it's because my email is acting up, (which updates me to the game) it says I have mail but doesn't actually let me /look/ at it

 

[kirinke]

After giving Foreshadow the information, she grins at the superhero. "You 'see' anything, call me, alright? I'll keep my ear to the ground and give you a ring if I hear any rumbles concerning the local crime rings. Right now, it's shaping up that Barrington is behind most of the attacks that happened in the past few weeks. It wouldn't surprise me if he's also behind some of the moves the local mafia has been making. He's consolidating his power, if I'm any judge."

She looked her friend seriously. "Be careful alright? I'd hate to loose one of the few 'capes who actually does trust me," she grinned again. "Well, as much as you trust anyone anyway," she chuckled.

Foreshadow was even more suspicious of people in general than she was. Maybe that's why they got along so well. Shared nereosis can be a wonderful way to start a lasting friendship.

 

[Victim]

She is unable to disentangle the finances of these entities, since the Trust AI cannot trace parts of the financial record. Its access to bank records is good, but not infallible. She's pretty sure that these groups did not hire them directly.

(That's the reason she fails? I figured it'd have more to do with being untrained and unskilled in Knowledge: Business. )

"So what else can I do with this thing?" Shooting Star wanders out loud. I could try to hack into their systems, but that's tough without a starting point. Tech firms involved in illegal stuff almost certainly have good security systems, but some idiot user will screw things up. Plus I'm not supposed to do things like that. Maybe Hope will come up with something so I don't have to do that. On the other hand, then she'd succeed where I failed, and I don't really want that either. Hmm.

Shooting Star will check to see if anyone as taken apart Control Freak's holographic projector yet.

 

[Victim]

If no one has figured out the holo yet, she'll try to examine it to see how it's programmed to respond to various situations.

(Computers +17; Knowledge: Tech +5)

 

[DM_Matt]

(OOC - I rarely do this but... Q. F. T. We now return you to your scheduled game.)

(oh oh...Um...GM? I didn't realize the house was still lived in...I probably missed the part where you said he had family. *weak grin* Under the circumstances, I think Thess would probably choose to portal to the house's front door on the -outside- rather than just burst in like a thief. If that's silly or causes problems, let me know and I'll edit the post)

The front door to the doctor's house opens, disgorging Viridian and Nightweaver rather than its usual occupants. Behind them one can see a quick glimpse of a grey metal room before the door's closed, and the link broken.

"Hope someone's home," Viridian says as she turns around and knocks on the wooden panels of the door she'd seemingly just arrived through.

The door moves. It seems that it is not only unlocked, but open a crack.