Superheroes of the Trust Game Thread

[Victim]

"And the property damage wasn't really our fault. They were the ones shooting rocket launchers all over the place, and strafing the building with a jet fighter."

"Yeah, but they wouldn't have been shooting if we weren't there. We didn't directly cause the damage. That doesn't mean we're totally devoid of responsibility for it. I'm not sure any super fight is really clean, but I'm not used to leveling buildings." Megan switches hands on her ice pack.

"Wait, so the speedster got away with the artifact? I feel out of the loop." or worthless. "Do we have any way of tracking him? If he's moving super fast, there should be waves in the air that we can find." I'm not in any condition to catch him though.

 

[Shayuri]

"If I had something of his I could scry on him," Viridian replies with a wave of her hand.

"But I didn't find anything on the scene. I think we're out of luck on that. I'll check on the Sheik and wolfboy and see if we can get any clues that way..."

 

[DM_Matt]

Meanwhile, you hear an explosion in the background. Surfing the various radios you have gets you that a car bomb apparently exploded under the museum, and parts of it are damaged. Apparently, though, the bad guys were unaware that a force field separates the underground parking structure and the museum itself. the field did not hold, but it absorbed most of the blast.

 

[kirinke]

Hope scowled as the various reports filtered in, the terrorist attacks, the funding. Today.
"Well, now we know why Barrington was funneling money to them. To spread the Freedom League and the city response teams thin."

She smiled grimly at Viridian and the others. "I'm also a postcog, very useful for investigations. In fact, both the FBI and AEGIS value that and my own investigative abilities far more than my ability to throw lightening, manipulate the local weather systems or cast spells."

She raked a hand through her hair in frustration. "If I had something that Barrington touched recently or one of his henchmen.... Damnit. I should have grabbed something of Faust's or White Knight's when I had a chance." she looked pissed, more at herself than anything else.

She wasn't a seer of the future, only of the past. She couldn't predict that she'd need it so soon. And at the time, she had more important concerns. Like securing the prisoners, making sure that the wounded stayed alive.... All those pesky things.

ooc
Would Hope know about the Freedom league supers being kidnapped by now?

 

[DM_Matt]

The helicopter lands at the Trust hanger North of the city, and Mr. Black leads the group out of the helicopter and into the hanger. "We'll switch to the plane to get there faster. The rest will fly back in the chopper." He leads you to the plane that Optic flew there, and takes the stick. The jet gets to the Trust HQ rapidly, and Star and Optic (who remain staggered...it takes an hour for that to wear off) are helped to the couches in your wing of the base.

The TV screens go on, and laptops are distributed that interface with your phones. Alphas Black, White, Blue, and Pink join you.

The news on the television comes in piecemeal...

"...the truck bomb did leave most of the museum intact, thanks to the building's force field...."

"...a lone charred body was found in the truck, and DNA tests are being conducted to help identify the perpetrator."

"...In other news, terrorists seized a seaside resort in the Philippines..."

"...captured a number of buildings in Sri Lanka's capital. The superterrorist The Tamil Tiger was spotted...." (Shouldn't he be striped? )

"...surrounded a Christian neighborhood in Beirut, then systematically..."

"...31 charred bodies were found in an apartment complex in Southern Israel..."

"...kidnapped the family of the President of Columbia, demanding the release of all prisoners currently incarcerated for..."

Mr. Black reports "Well, its official. The League is toast, at least for now. A government space monitoring satellite showed what happened at the Lighthouse. Once they teleportaled onto the Lighthouse, they overrode the hanger locks and shield -- among other things -- allowing a space plane identified as belonging to Doc Otaku to dock with the ship, bringing reinforcements. The crew didn't stand a chance. They beamed bombs down to all of the League's bases, all of which were accessible through the teleportal network. They may have also sent teams to loot some of them first. We aren't sure."

Blue interrupts "We intercepted some data they probably intentionally sent over an unsecured connection. It seems that they have Captain Thunder, Star Knight, Johnny Rocket, and Siren. First, they were rerouted to the Lighthoue. Second, the baddies built a device similar to the system's energy buffers, and set it up to receive the heroes in energy form and store them rather than them being rematerialized by the local teleportal. They've wired it -- and this is the brilliant part -- wired it into the shield generator, so it draws power from the Lighthouse's shields. So if the Lighthouse it attacked and the shields are worn down or disabled, the device loses power, containment fails, and their energy patterns lose their coherency and they can never be rematerialized."

(BTW, Pseudo does not exist in this continuity, sicne the Grue do not exist...The Primordial is the Martian Manhunter analogue here instead)

Pink says "We have some options here. We can try to follow up the linkages between Barrington and those terrorist groups. Maybe they know something about him. We can follow up with others who are connected to those accounts and holding companies. We know something about that scarf. It is associated with a Jordanian warlock whose followers committed mass suicide in 1971. Perhaps that was Barrington's identity at that time and we can make something of it. Then there is Doc Otaku...we know where his base is...the problem is that its in Chinese territory and guarded by the Chinese military...they seem to like having access to some of his innovations, and tend to see eye to eye with his hatred for the Freedom League and penchant for blowing up parts of Tokyo with giant robots."

 

[Shayuri]

Viridian sits heavily down and massages her temples. What a mess...and they'd failed to stop it.

"Alright...okay...I'm assuming the Lighthouse and Otaku's base are warded, so I can't just open a door into them. Where's this scarf?"

 

[Victim]

(Was the android that Nitro knocked off the roof recovered?)

 

[DM_Matt]

Viridian sits heavily down and massages her temples. What a mess...and they'd failed to stop it.

"Alright...okay...I'm assuming the Lighthouse and Otaku's base are warded, so I can't just open a door into them. Where's this scarf?"

"Around Barrington's neck, last time we saw it. The one with the pattern shaped like people. We are unaware of its exact powers, but the warlock seems to have acquired it about the time that his followers all killed themselves, shortly before he himself disappeared."

 

[DM_Matt]

(Was the android that Nitro knocked off the roof recovered?)

By AEGIS, yes.

 

[Victim]

Damn planes.

"Apparently, AEGIS captured one of Dr. Otaku's android girls. We could try to using that to compromise the security on his base, just like they used the grav bike to get their foot in the door of Freedom Hall." Megan mutters. I was right there. Hell.

"Do we have any idea what they're going to do now that they have a satellite base and have taken out the Freedom League?"