Superheroes of the Trust Game Thread

[DM_Matt]

Reluctantly, Nightweaver allows Mr. Black to lead her over to the woman, "A little more information next time, would be nice." she murmers, stumbling a bit and fighting off the urge to pass out. "Think you can dim the lights?"

Mr. Black smiles, flicks a switch on the side of his sunglasses, unplugs a wire connecting them to something under his vest, and puts them on Nightweaver, revealing his face and his eyes. "These should help. I hear you could do that yourself, though. Quite a talent. I'm sorry the mission went as it did. Once we get you back to the base, we'll explain everything."

 

[Shayuri]

"Sorry it went as it did?" Viridian says, anger starting to push through the haze. "One of us is DEAD! And look at all this property damage! Couldn't we just have MET first? If you wanted to test us, why not TEST us...why throw us into this...this meatgrinder?!"

She does link hands, though is grabbing a bit unnecessarily hard.

 

[DM_Matt]

"Sorry it went as it did?" Viridian says, anger starting to push through the haze. "One of us is DEAD! And look at all this property damage! Couldn't we just have MET first? If you wanted to test us, why not TEST us...why throw us into this...this meatgrinder?!"

She does link hands, though is grabbing a bit unnecessarily hard.

Mr Black starts to say "It's always a blow when a comrade falls in battle. Unfortunately, the bad guys make that a necessity sometimes, Tragic, heartbreaking, but -- unavoidable. Back in my military days..."


Slightly taken aback at Viridian's sudden turn of mood, and figuring that Mr. Black's answer wouldn't satisfy her, Ms. White inturrupts "Look, I feel as bad as you do about this. We were divided about whether Spirit was mentally prepared for this, and I signed off on it. I'll have to live with that. And we didn't know about those other two passengers. There will be an inquiry. I promise that we will get to the bottom of this. As far as the property damage goes, when we get out of here I can explain why nothing got blown up that didn't deserve to. Well, the Medivac chopper won't be looking so good in a minute, but mostly...."

"Uh, we gotta go. Everyone link up already!," Mr. Black says.

 

[Shayuri]

"That's not my point," Vi insists. "My point is that we all got in that van thinking we were just going to be meeting you...and instead you threw us into an extremely dangerous situation! Exactly how is that supposed to make us trust you? How exactly is that justifiable? And again, I don't think 'testing us' is acceptable because you don't have to deceive us to test us."

She shakes her head...but is still linked and ready to go.

"It wasn't that she died that I'm upset. It was that she died pointlessly. There was no REASON for her to die. If we'd had time to plan, if we'd known what we were getting into..."

 

[Victim]

"Later. Bomb." Megan says impatiently, her foot tapping rapidly against the floor.

 

[DM_Matt]

"That's not my point," Vi insists. "My point is that we all got in that van thinking we were just going to be meeting you...and instead you threw us into an extremely dangerous situation! Exactly how is that supposed to make us trust you? How exactly is that justifiable? And again, I don't think 'testing us' is acceptable because you don't have to deceive us to test us."

She shakes her head...but is still linked and ready to go.

"It wasn't that she died that I'm upset. It was that she died pointlessly. There was no REASON for her to die. If we'd had time to plan, if we'd known what we were getting into..."

Mr. Black answers "She freaked out. She was overconfident. And I'm not blaming her. I've seen some top guys with years of experience get too big for their britches or just snap... and almost to a man, they didn't make it. She had total trust in her invisibility, even though she was extremely vulnerable in that state. She would have died in this battle no matter how much time you had to plan. We would have intervened if we could, but it happened too fast and she was among too many tangoes. The rest of you though had it under control. You won this fight. You showed us that you can think on your feet, come back from a disadvantageous position, adjust to inaccurate intelligence, place a premium on safeguarding civilians, work as a team, come to care about each other, and, though this is more Whitey's priority than mine, to question authority if you fear your orders may be unjust. This was the only way to test all those things...and you passed"

 

[Shayuri]

"Just get us out of here," Viridian says through clenched teeth as she resists the urge to yank her hands away.

 

[Blind Azathoth]

Salix quietly regards Mr. Black and Ms. White for a few moments. Dying for a test she was not aware was coming, that she was unprepared for... Unfair. Unjustifiable. They are as responsible for her death as the one who cut her life short. And the rest of us nearly shared her fate... Beaten and burned and shot and on death's door... All because they wanted to test us. The thought is sickening.

This is... not how I imagined it would be.

Life was never like this among my own kind. Oh, Calliandra, how I miss you...

Keeping his silence, Salix steps forward to join hands with the group, gently taking hold of their comparatively tiny human hands in his large wooden ones.

 

[Jemal]

Optic grabs Viridians other hand and holds tightly to complete the circle, his eyes meeting hers, and though she can't see through the visor, she senses that he knows EXACTLY how she feels, and she can see the tightness of anger in his face, though he does not express it as much as she. "Not now." He whispers to her while the others are busy "Trust me... Please."

 

[Shayuri]

She nods and closes her eyes, holding back her tears of anger and frustration and simple remorse. Not the time. Not the place.