Superheroes of the Trust Game Thread

[DM_Matt]

Viridian actually grins in reaction as the tension eases, and shakes her head.

"From what I understand, the Labyrinth wouldn't bother asking. But no, it's okay if you don't feel comfortable with that. It's not what I came here for. In fact, I'll get started on that, if it's okay. It'll take a moment, so go on talking with Nightweaver if you like."

She picks a clear spot on the lab floor and sits down crosslegged, setting the hairs from the razor in front of her. She then digs in her satchel and produces a few odd objects. A small glass vial of clear liquid. A piece of what looks like quartz crystal. A white candle on a little wooden stand. A small stick of incense. She arranges these items at the cardinal compass points around the hair, then lights the candle and the incense. Finally she sets a smallish glass orb right on top of the little pile of hair.

With a murmured invocation of Thoth's eye, which sees only the truth, and the spirits of earth, air and water, to find Fine wherever he may be, Viridian concentrates on the orb, willing it to show her the scientist as he was right now.

Viridian gets some strange results -- she does see an Arab man wave his hand and disable the security systems in the house, one by one, then find Dr. Fine, deflect his blaster shots with his arm, and then handcuffs him and drags him away as well as his laptop. The man puts him in a van and drives. Then she sees him in a lab, working on something. She senses where it is...a certain warehouse by the docks...it seems he is having trouble duplicating what they need. He tells his captors that he had a partner, whose CAN produce the material on his own, and that he will identify that partner if they will free him.

But then Viridian also sees Ben, finding that his shaver is out of charge, using his father's. His hair is in there. too. Ben is talking to a girl. Not necessarily this one, though other than the face they seem basically identical, but Sarah Grant. "With my inventions and your gift, we can kill our fathers and rid the world of their evil," he says. "Yes," she replies, and then once I inherit Grant Conglomerates, we'll have the resources to rid the whole world of people like our fathers. We -- and their other victims -- will have our revenge."

Only she can interpret the swirling images on the ball with ease (its not like a TV) and hear the audio.

 

[Fangor the Fierce]

Wren will go and find Shooting Star, as she's apparently still at the Trust compound. Once there, he fills her in. "I couldn't find much. This Asad guy kidnapped another scientist, and also blew up another facility that was about to come out with a breakthrough applicable to applying genetic alterations to adult humans, which would give them a huge advantage in the field, especially against key genetic alteration conglomerate such as Grant and Labrys. The other kidnapped scientist had invented some kind of temporary super-power drug that he had just put out for bidding on the black market. Apparently, someone decided they would rather have it for free. Whatever they have planned, it's big."

"So, that's all I could find out. I don't know all the details of what happened back there in that Foundry compound before I got there, but it appears that tempers flared, and things didn't go as planned. Luckily, I was able to help. Looks like I'm part of the team now, but that's not saying much, so here I am, ready to help. Anything you found out that I might help with? I'm not that good with computers, but from your file, you can handle that part easily."

Wren hopes that he can help in some way, but more than likely, not likely....

 

[kirinke]

Hope returns to the Trust HQ and seeks out whoever is immediately in charge and available at the moment.

"I got my contacts working on trying to find out more information on the exotic stuff Barrington needs for his weapons and where it's being manufactured as well as the exotic materials for the hyperdrive they've been wanting to build amongst other things. I've also got a contact who is looking into possible links between Barrington and the local mafia." Hope raked back her hair in a familar guesture of frustration.

"Information Gathering can be incredibly slow at times," she groused and looked thoughtful. "Nightweaver got a piece of hair from the radiation controller right? Can I have a looksee at it? I might be able to get something off it. Nothing ventured, nothing gained."

 

[Victim]

Wren will go and find Shooting Star, as she's apparently still at the Trust compound. Once there, he fills her in. "I couldn't find much. This Asad guy kidnapped another scientist, and also blew up another facility that was about to come out with a breakthrough applicable to applying genetic alterations to adult humans, which would give them a huge advantage in the field, especially against key genetic alteration conglomerate such as Grant and Labrys. The other kidnapped scientist had invented some kind of temporary super-power drug that he had just put out for bidding on the black market. Apparently, someone decided they would rather have it for free. Whatever they have planned, it's big."

"Err, hello." Interruptions... Now this gets more complicated. Shooting Star puts her back against the wall so she can watch both Mr. Blue and Wren. "I couldn't find out anything about those companies either, so I started trying to figure out one of Control Freak's devices." She shifts about guiltily.

"If the kidnappings benefits both companies, we're not any closer to figure out which one is hiring Asad. Maybe they're in it together or something, and we're just mucking things up by trying to narrow it done to one of them," she thinks out loud. "D-! it, I hate those power boost drugs. Zoomers are especially bad, since they tend to go into cardiac arrest when hit hard. It's tricky to fight them with kid gloves on." Maybe I really don't like those drugs because I'm just jealous. It's not like living with my powers all the time has been without ... side effects.

"So, that's all I could find out. I don't know all the details of what happened back there in that Foundry compound before I got there, but it appears that tempers flared, and things didn't go as planned. Luckily, I was able to help. Looks like I'm part of the team now, but that's not saying much, so here I am, ready to help. Anything you found out that I might help with? I'm not that good with computers, but from your file, you can handle that part easily."

Wren hopes that he can help in some way, but more than likely, not likely....

"Things not going as planned didn't seem to have much to do with our arguments. But I don't know what to do next either. I was thinking of getting something to eat or doing some flying practice." Wait... "How much of my file did you read?" she asks abruptly, suddenly nervous.

 

[Raylis]

Nightweaver looks around the lab, most of it well beyond her feeble grasp of technologies, "Your father works from home?" she asks looking back at the boy, taking careful note of the shadows in the lab in case he decides to use that blaster.

 

[DM_Matt]

Nightweaver looks around the lab, most of it well beyond her feeble grasp of technologies, "Your father works from home?" she asks looking back at the boy, taking careful note of the shadows in the lab in case he decides to use that blaster.

"Yes. He is a reclusive man."

 

[DM_Matt]

Megan blushes and looks off to the side. "I'm not really a scientist; I'm just freakishly good at coding." And that doesn't count for much when dealing with technopaths. Optic didn't say anything when I asked if my programs helped him hack the AI, so he was just sparing me the bad news. She regains her composure and smiles, "It'd be nice if some of my professors saw things that way, though."

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Megan pauses, making an effort at conversation. "How do you get involved in this kind of thing on your end? Even if most superheroes try to keep their identities secret, the stuff we do tends to be pretty overt."

"I guess I made waves in all the right places. Recruited out of grad school for a secret government lab, then recruited by the Trust when it was shut down just before the millennium. Something about a peace dividend. So much of the Trust -- and its subsidiaries like Darkwater, were recruited during the 1990s from those rendered unemployed by the end of the Cold War and the apparent lack of a new threat."

 

[Victim]

"So this is sorta like your old job?" she asks. "I guess hindsight is twenty-twenty, but it seems like a bad decision to fire everyone like that. Without their place in society, it seems like people would lose the boundaries on their behavior. So things would be more dangerous."

 

[DM_Matt]

"So this is sorta like your old job?" she asks. "I guess hindsight is twenty-twenty, but it seems like a bad decision to fire everyone like that. Without their place in society, it seems like people would lose the boundaries on their behavior. So things would be more dangerous."

"Which is one of the reasons the Trust got started. Some of those folks wound up working for supervillains...not nearly as many as their Russian equivalents, but some. We got some great ones though. I'm not sure we could really have been able to set this up without them. Well, them and the alien spaceship. Thats...nifty."

 

[DM_Matt]

Viridian gets some strange results -- she does see an Arab man wave his hand and disable the security systems in the house, one by one, then find Dr. Fine, deflect his blaster shots with his arm, and then handcuffs him and drags him away as well as his laptop. The man puts him in a van and drives. Then she sees him in a lab, working on something. She senses where it is...a certain warehouse by the docks...it seems he is having trouble duplicating what they need. He tells his captors that he had a partner, whose CAN produce the material on his own, and that he will identify that partner if they will free him.

But then Viridian also sees Ben, finding that his shaver is out of charge, using his father's. His hair is in there. too. Ben is talking to a girl. Not necessarily this one, though other than the face they seem basically identical, but Sarah Grant. "With my inventions and your gift, we can kill our fathers and rid the world of their evil," he says. "Yes," she replies, and then once I inherit Grant Conglomerates, we'll have the resources to rid the whole world of people like our fathers. We -- and their other victims -- will have our revenge."

Only she can interpret the swirling images on the ball with ease (its not like a TV) and hear the audio.

Samantha asks "So what did you see."