Superheroes of the Trust Game Thread

[Victim]

"What do we actually know about Dr. Fine? It sounded like Grant is involved in illegal stuff, so maybe he is too." That still doesn't mean he should get kidnapped for his technology though.

"Okay, let's do a rescue. Where is he?"

 

[Elric]

"I don't know that she HAS any powers," Viridian says, "As for why..." She pauses, trying to get some order into her memories.

"She's going to inherit Grant Conglomerates once her father's dead. Sarah Grant...yes. Then she's planning to team up with Ben and attack other people...people 'like their fathers,' using the companies resources."

"But this girl...Ben called her Samantha. Assuming it wasn't a code name, I think Sarah's someone else."

"Look...I think we might still be in time to save Dr Fine. He can tell us about his partner then."

"Assuming it wasn't a code name? You have a girl who looks like 'Samantha', who turns out to be Sarah Grant, plotting with Ben. Samantha sounds kind of like Sarah, right? What was her 'last name'? And now you think that this girl is someone entirely different, all evidence to the contrary?"

"Hope, see an image inducer on her? A picture ID?"

"Also, where'd Ben get those devices?" Nitro pulls up a file on his pda:

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.

"Samantha could definitely be 17. And Sarah Grant is 17" Darn, one year off. Not now, Nitro. Other things to deal with.

 

[kirinke]

"Nitro, let the evidence speak for itself, alright?" Hope interjected. "We don't have enough information to say either way at the moment."

She spoke rapidly into her comlink. "Can you get someone here to wrap up these two kids until we can sort this out?" she asked whoever was at the other end of the Trust's comm. "They may be in danger and have somehow gotten way over their heads over something quite unpleasant," she said mildly and turned to the others once she's gotten a confirmation that someone was coming to pick the kids up.

"Once the pick up is here, let's get Fine. Then we can figure what part these two little hooligans have in all this,"

 

[Victim]

Megan scoffs at Thessaly's statement. "She certainly has some kind of power if she can handle a super straight up at that age."

"Let's just go now. The kidnapping is more urgent, in my opinion. If he's still in town, it will only take a few minutes. If you just keep whatever stuff gave you the first reading, you should be able to find them right away anyway."

 

[Shayuri]

"Goddess...I -don't know- for sure, Nitro," Viridian snaps. "I'm just saying I can't be sure. That's all. And I don't know what powers Samantha has, if any. I'm sorry, but scrying is just momentary visions, not...encyclopedic understanding."

She takes a breath. "But I do know where Fine is...give me a minute to make the portal."

She starts making the symbols on the lab door.

 

[Elric]

"Goddess...I -don't know- for sure, Nitro," Viridian snaps. "I'm just saying I can't be sure. That's all. And I don't know what powers Samantha has, if any. I'm sorry, but scrying is just momentary visions, not...encyclopedic understanding."

"Well, can you just tell me everything you saw in your vision of Ben and Dr. Fine. I feel like we're missing something"

(OOC: You can probably just say 'Viridian tells Nitro what she saw in the vision'- that shouldn't take long in game time- then I won't have to keep pestering you for more details and you won't have to repeat in character everything that you saw).

 

[Shayuri]

(hee, but you're asking things that weren't in the vision as far as I can tell... )

As she works on the portal, Viridian explains what she saw during the scrying session.

 

[kirinke]

Hope grins at Nitro. "Magic isn't science. Even if you can cast the spell, you can't always control the results." she looks at Ben mildly and acting on a hunch, she comments. "I do have a feeling that you are the missing partner. You seem bright enough to use those toys of yours as well as seriously disliking your dear daddy. That can be from alot of things, but stealing one's ideas and inventions for his own illegal ends would make you want him dead, hmmm?"

She knelt, so that she was on eye-level with the bound teenagers. "If I were you, once the pick up team comes knocking, I'd go with them. You're going to be alot safer with those guys then on your own. The people who took Dr. Fine don't give a damn about anyone but themselves. They'd hurt you, tear you apart and kill you without blinking an eye if they thought for a minute you had something they wanted. We on the other hand, want you alive and well, alright?" she looked at each of them straight in the eye as she said this, telling only the blunt truth of the matter.

"We're not going to hurt you." She said softly. "I know that Dr. Fine has probably done some pretty horrible things. If you have any information on that, you need to tell my associates, they can do something about it. Don't throw your lives away over scum."

 

[Elric]

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."

Dr. Fine can't produce the inventions on his own. So he has a partner. But he works out of his house?

Ben tells Sarah Grant "with my inventions and your gift"- that's why he works out of home- Ben is the missing partner. That explains why he has all of these cool devices. Sarah has a "gift"- she's 'Samantha Granger' (note the same initials) that's some superpower and it explains how she was able to stand up against Nightweaver.

Nitro explains what he's deduced.

"Ben is the missing partner. So we shouldn't just leave him here. And we're not leaving and giving them a chance to escape or be captured by the same guys who got Dr. Fine. For all we know, Ben could have been helping them at some point. Viridian, can you open a portal to the headquarters so we can just drop them off, and then open another one so we can go rescue Dr. Fine?"

"Oh, Hope, were you saying something to Ben?"

 

[kirinke]

Dr. Fine can't produce the inventions on his own. So he has a partner. But he works out of his house?

Ben tells Sarah Grant "with my inventions and your gift"- that's why he works out of home- Ben is the missing partner. That explains why he has all of these cool devices. Sarah has a "gift"- she's 'Samantha Granger' (note the same initials) that's some superpower and it explains how she was able to stand up against Nightweaver.

Nitro explains what he's deduced.

"Ben is the missing partner. So we shouldn't just leave him here. And we're not leaving and giving them a chance to escape or be captured by the same guys who got Dr. Fine. For all we know, Ben could have been helping them at some point. Viridian, can you open a portal to the headquarters so we can just drop them off, and then open another one so we can go rescue Dr. Fine?"

"Oh, Hope, were you saying something to Ben?"

"I already called for a team to pick these two up. They should be here in a few minutes." she said wryly. "I was just telling them they should stay put if they wanted to see 20. The bad-guys aren't as nice as we are,"

She let it go at that. Nitro actually was thinking, which was good, she didn't want to deflate that by telling him she had already considered that Ben was probably the unknown partner.