Superheroes of the Trust Game Thread

[DM_Matt]

I can't believe it. I was here on a few occasions, a little under 6 months ago and she doesn't even recognize me! She was here every time I came! Should I be wearing the feather boa around more often so I have a more distinctive look?

"I'm Johnny Nitro. The pro wrestler turned superhero. I was here a few times not too long ago when Lady Liberty was recruiting superheroes to help with Cult of the Yellow Sign stuff. You get hit on the head often in this line of duty? Or did the Starbase Coffee down the street get closed due to some supervillainous event?"

Even Johnny Nitro knows that no Starbase Coffee in Freedom City has ever gone out of business without a supernatural catastrophe being involved.

"Well, now I'm back to see Lady Liberty again on superhero related business- she's expecting us at 11 am." An inasp... unausp... whatever, a bad beginning

"Of course, friend. I will alert her that you are here." She picks up the phone, and says "Lady Liberty (she pauses) Johnny Nitro (another pause) is here to see you."

 

[Shayuri]

Viridian wakes up a bit late, swears and gets as ready as she can before calling Optic on the Trust phone, all the while scratching little runes on the inside of her closet door...where they aren't easily visible to guests. Faint indentations in the paint and wood suggest she's been doing that fairly often over a good period of time.

"Hey, it's me, it's Viridian...god, that name...I'm on my way to the museum. Are we going in costume or incognito?"

 

[Jemal]

"Well, I'm Incognito for now." Optic replies to Viridian once he's sure nobody's nearby to overhear "I'd like to check the place out from the inside, and supers might attract attention. Nightweaver's with me. Either find us a nice hide-out place nearby where we can stake-out, or come in and join us for a little while."

He then heads into the museum with Nightweaver and tries to figure out if there are any 'special events' happening in the next week or two. Otherwise, he starts checking out the exhibits for thievery targets.

 

[Victim]

Shooting Star arrives at Freedom Hall at 11:03, landing roughly . It's hard to believe I'm not here just to see the museum again. Let's see... She heads inside to see Nitro talking with the receptionist. Did he actually say that? She comments, "Sorry I'm late." My costume hasn't fully repaired itself yet. I hope no one notices. An important meeting, so of course I feel and look like hell. The stupid mega-weave thing is worth more than everything else I own, but it's still a cheap knockoff of morphic molecules.

 

[DM_Matt]

"Well, I'm Incognito for now." Optic replies to Viridian once he's sure nobody's nearby to overhear "I'd like to check the place out from the inside, and supers might attract attention. Nightweaver's with me. Either find us a nice hide-out place nearby where we can stake-out, or come in and join us for a little while."

He then heads into the museum with Nightweaver and tries to figure out if there are any 'special events' happening in the next week or two. Otherwise, he starts checking out the exhibits for thievery targets.

The Eye of Hell is part of the Treasures of Ancient Persia exhibit. The place is full of apparent devices of power, though Optic's analytical/x-ray vision indicates that some are in fact replicas.

 

[DM_Matt]

Shooting Star arrives at Freedom Hall at 11:03, landing roughly . It's hard to believe I'm not here just to see the museum again. Let's see... She heads inside to see Nitro talking with the receptionist. Did he actually say that? She comments, "Sorry I'm late." My costume hasn't fully repaired itself yet. I hope no one notices. An important meeting, so of course I feel and look like hell. The stupid mega-weave thing is worth more than everything else I own, but it's still a cheap knockoff of morphic molecules.

Cynthia says "Lady Liberty will meet you in conference room 2. Go to the hallway to your left, turn left, and go to the second door on your left. That is conference room 2, have a great day, friends."

Waiting in that room are Lady Liberty, Bowman, Raven, and Daedalus.

 

[Elric]

Cynthia says "Lady Liberty will meet you in conference room 2. Go to the hallway to your left, turn left, and go to the second door on your left. That is conference room 2, have a great day, friends."

Waiting in that room are Lady Liberty, Bowman, Raven, and Daedalus.

Woh! Raven is just as much of a babe as everyone says!

Johnny Nitro introduces himself to Bowman, Raven, and Daedalus, who he hasn't met before. Then he launches into an explanation of everything that has happened. He also tries to check out Raven without her noticing, but there's not much chance of that.

 

[DM_Matt]

Hope sees a lot of things that are already known, but she gets something interesting off a piece of the communications relay from the ship. She sees images of financial transactions traveling through the satellite dish. Barrington is accessing an account belonging to JMX International, and transferring large sums of money to "Philippines Community Partnerships" "Holy Land Charities," "Beirut Development Associates," "Cabeza Pharmaceuticals," and "Children's Charities of Sri Lanka."

Holy Land Charities was shut down in the United States as a front for Hamas, and the FBI database indicates that Philippines Community Partnerships is a front for the New People's Army, a violent communist organization. The Trust database additionally associates "Children's Charities of Sri Lanka" with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil, a Tamilese nationalist terrorist group, identifies Beirut Development Associates an account for Hezbollah, and after the Trust looks into it, that "Cabeza Pharmaceuticals" is associated both with Columbian drug cartels and the Marxist guerilla organization FARC. It seems Barrington was wiring money to five different terrorist groups at once, and while Hamas and Hezbollah are allied with each other and his associates in Iran, the other three are completely different geographically and ideologically.

 

[kirinke]

Hope relays the information to the Trust. "Whatever Barrington is cooking up is gonna be big. It might involve something with biological terrorism. I don't know, it's a reach, but with these Pharmaceutical companies I'm seeing here, it could be a viable angle to research." she said. "Also, check to see if any there have been any large shipments of weapons or things that can be used to create bombs have gone missing or have been stolen. These guys like to make big statements and that usually means heavy ordinance of some kind. I'll be doing the same from my end. It's not all about giant robots from outerspace you know."

 

[Shayuri]

The Eye of Hell is part of the Treasures of Ancient Persia exhibit. The place is full of apparent devices of power, though Optic's analytical/x-ray vision indicates that some are in fact replicas.

Thessaly emerges from the ladies room of the museum, which might be a little funny to someone reviewing the security tape in detail, because she never actually went -into- it. She's in her usual clothes. University sweatshirt, glasses, jeans...to all accounts an ordinary college kid out to see some exhibits. Not terribly far from the truth.

She asks the information desk about the Eye of Hell exhibit, and follows the directions to the Treasures of Ancient Persia. Optic and the others saw her out of costume in the Trust HQ, so they might recognize her...though it's not certain she'd recognize them. Thus, not seeing them immediately, she browses the various items, examining each with senses both mundane and magical to get a notion of their potential.

(Using Magical Awareness, which is Acute, to size up the various objects. I also have History, Theology, and Arcane knowledge skills that might be useful. If they're Persian, she probably can't read the writing directly unless there's Latin or Greek characters too.)