Superheroes of the Trust Game Thread

[Victim]

"The Eye was a gem with incredibly complex faceting. I think super villains have used that sort of thing to focus energy beams for death rays. Maybe the Lighthouse is getting a weapon upgrade?"

"If we don't know what else to do, we should respond to some of these recent terrorist things. The hostage situations might be somewhat urgent. On the other hand, considering our recent track record, we might not be up for a hostage rescue." Well, hmm. If they're in a static position though, I'd have plenty of time to set up programed shots. And the others have some special sensing powers, so I wouldn't be vectoring them through the building blindly. Maybe that's something we could do afterall. Just like with Spirit... Sh-!

 

[Shayuri]

"I don't know what the Eye does, but I didn't sense any magic in it," Viridian notes quietly.

"And I don't think I can go undercover as a villain. If one or more of you do, I'll try to help...but there's too many lines I won't cross for me to be very convincing."

 

[kirinke]

There's also the fact that you have no training in undercover work, Hope thought privately.

"Some magical items don't necessarily have an aura until they've been activated or have been assembled with other items. In that case, the item in question is more of a focus for magical energies, rather than being magical in of itself." Hope said quietly.

"I say we talk to Faust and White Knight. They may have some interesting information."

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If we do go with the undercover sting and she had to kill someone, they could probably make a convincing 'play' as it were with holograms, or even a combination of really good acting, illusions and 'stage magic'. With all the supers around, any residual magic could be shrugged off as a leftover from the battle. And I'm sure the trust has ways to block any kind of mind reading. If not the trust then the freedom league might have access to something like that.

Hope wouldn't have a problem sticking a shiv into Barrington's back if it came to that.
Maybe she and Mr. Black (Augustus) could go undercover, you stated he was in black ops, sooo...

 

[DM_Matt]

Hope wouldn't have a problem sticking a shiv into Barrington's back if it came to that.
Maybe she and Mr. Black (Augustus) could go undercover, you stated he was in black ops, sooo...

Mr. Black (whose real name Hope would doubt is Augustus Colson) had sufficient administrative and strike team related responsibilities that he could not go undercover for an extended period.

 

[DM_Matt]

"The Eye was a gem with incredibly complex faceting. I think super villains have used that sort of thing to focus energy beams for death rays. Maybe the Lighthouse is getting a weapon upgrade?"

"If we don't know what else to do, we should respond to some of these recent terrorist things. The hostage situations might be somewhat urgent. On the other hand, considering our recent track record, we might not be up for a hostage rescue." Well, hmm. If they're in a static position though, I'd have plenty of time to set up programed shots. And the others have some special sensing powers, so I wouldn't be vectoring them through the building blindly. Maybe that's something we could do afterall. Just like with Spirit... Sh-!

Of the existing attacks, the one in Lebanon has run its course, a combination of the arrival of government forces and Johnny Rocket, and the attackers having killed enough folks that they were satisfied for the time being; the one in Israel was just a completed strike and the League was not called in at all; the hostage situation in Columbia was resolved by Star Knight before she was captured; the resort in the Philippines is still under terrorist control, with the Philippine military preparing to raid it (Siren did not have time to foil it); and the Sri Lanka situation remains unresolved.

 

[kirinke]

Hope scowled as she looked at their options. It was precious little.

"Alright. As I see it, we have only a few options here based on the information at hand. Those are:

1) Find Blitzie (You have the feeling that she deliberatly makes this nickname sound ridiculous)

2) Interrogate Faust and White Knight.

3) Go to Freedom Hall and let me do a reading

4) Do some more digging at Oxcorp

5) Find out what the Eye of Hell is supposed to do and what it can do.

6) Invade Doc Otaku's lab in china, possibly sparking an international incident.

7) Find a way to go undercover in order to get into the Lighthouse and kil.... err stop Barrington. At the moment, we don't have the resources or the intel to do this properly.

8) Go to Sri Lanka and stop the terrorists there, but it looks like that might be resolved soon."

She said, spelling it out in simple and easy to understand terms. "As a personal opinion, I really don't like options 6 through 8, although it's always satisifying to blow things up and crack deserving heads against one another."

"If you have any clever hackers in your employ, we could try to drain Doc Oktatu's cash accounts. I'm sure you can find some of them, if not all. That is if you were feeling petty and vindictive." she added as an afterthought.

 

[DM_Matt]

"The Eye was a gem with incredibly complex faceting. I think super villains have used that sort of thing to focus energy beams for death rays. Maybe the Lighthouse is getting a weapon upgrade?"
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"Quite possible," Mr. Blue says. "That is one of the biggest threats at the moment. Daedalus kept all sorts of technology and designs for technology he found in his travels through space and his thousands of years as a scientist, including some that he refused to deploy because it was too dangerous or inherently evil. He figured that the Lighthouse was the safest place to keep it all. Of course, that all is on top of its abilities as a top-notch electronic surveillance station, its shields, its general inaccessibility..."

Ms White says. "Ooh, interesting email from sigint. AEGIS has made some good use of Hope's financial digging. They traced a large quantity of money from Barrington's account to Zurich-based bank called Credit Prinz, where the money was withdrawn in cash. Credit Prinz it the European bank of choice for Wolfsohn, Shepard, and Doe, which represents Numero Uno and the Shiek. I wonder if his connection to them is stronger than we know.

Hope also get an email, having put out feelers with her contacts (i.e. I'm resolving those skill checks. It says that there have been some rumblings that The Foundary, an evil Super-Tech production organization created by the android Talos, has been working on some device for which they have been buying up an extremely large quantity of exotic metals, so much so that they attracted some attention. One of your shadier contacts, a hacker and criminal named Bit Basher, has some evidence that the government of Iran is somehow involved and is thinking of getting more details and selling them to the feds at top dollar.

So in addition to investigating that and the stuff hope just mentioned, we have tracing the scarf and that Jordanian warlock."

 

[Shayuri]

"As far as I know, the only way we can find Blitz is to hope White Knight or Faust know what the plan is," Viridian muses. "Since we don't have anything of his to lock a locating spell onto. What's more, I'd be surprised if my spell worked on Faust. Knight, I don't know about. It's worth a try, I think."

 

[kirinke]

Hope looks at Mr. Black and Ms. White. "Bit Basher is normally pretty good with his info, he knows I'll fry all of his electrical equipment and drop kick him to Buckner's if he turns turtle on me. If we throw some cash his way, he'll probably come good with his digging and probably be faster at it than we can."

She then frowns at the obvious connection they've all missed. "The law firm. It's got it's claws in all of this and I bet if we dig hard enough, most of the money is going to find it's way through them at some point or another." she looked at the data again. "We might have enough to wrangle a search warrent. If not, can you manage to dig through their records and finances without them knowing?"

 

[Elric]

Hope looks at Mr. Black and Ms. White. "Bit Basher is normally pretty good with his info, he knows I'll fry all of his electrical equipment and drop kick him to Buckner's if he turns turtle on me. If we throw some cash his way, he'll probably come good with his digging and probably be faster at it than we can."

Nitro smiles at the "drop kick him to Buckner's" part. "Drop-kicking someone would be nice. This is sure more complicated than wrestling. But it's our turn to win a round now, right?"