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Superheroes of the Trust Game Thread
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Jemal
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"The Foundry? Foundry..." Optic thinks for a few seconds "So what're we thinking, pay them a visit?"
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Eidetic memory & Well-informed to see if Optic can remember anybody he knows that's had dealings with the Foundry (Maybe Op-tec even?), and if that fails, would my connections/ contacts be able to pull something in? (Assuming we are thinking of 'infiltration'.)
Hope got us the info, maybe I can get us a referal?
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Eidetic memory & Well-informed to see if Optic can remember anybody he knows that's had dealings with the Foundry (Maybe Op-tec even?), and if that fails, would my connections/ contacts be able to pull something in? (Assuming we are thinking of 'infiltration'.)
Hope got us the info, maybe I can get us a referal?
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Jemal said:
"Name's Hope Winters, I work for Aegis." she said and looked at the assembled information. "The Foundry is a good bet. I do suggest that we mind our manners there though. From what I understand, they tend to treat intruders and other impolite uncivilized types with lethal disapproval." she said, only halfway joking.
"Wolfsohn, Shepard, and Doe. Why is it that they seem to be behind almost transaction we've investigated so far in connection with this?" she asked outloud, almost to herself, considering the possibility of raiding their law offices. "I think we might have enough now to wrangle a warrent to search their offices and computers."
DM_Matt
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Jemal said:
I wouldn't think that Op-Tec would be buying and selling tech on the black market, but Optic would be well-connected enough in the technology industry in general to know people who would, and thus can make a Gather Info attempt as well as a Diplomacy(Connections) attempt. Rolls....10 and 20, so 26 and 36. Niiiice.
Optic knows that a certain company in a related field, Jorgensen Advanced Interfaces, has used the Foundry before, and probably the Zurich office. Optic easily manages to blackmail the CEO, Hans Jorgensen, into providing a referral to that office. Now you just need a fake order.
Raylis
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"It would be poetic if we purchased something from the Foundry, an organization that Barrington used, to break into a facility that Barrington took over using a gizmo he purchased from the Foundry. Amanda says with a shrug, "We could always write a check and make sure it bounces...does the Foundry take checks?" she says humerously
DM_Matt
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Raylis said:
"...if they even can make such a thing. Its not as much about getting on undetected as getting on at all. The Lighthouse is guarded by a shield, so they'd have to find a way to get them to open it up over the entryway...and we can't interfere with its overall function or we'll risk killing the Freedom League."
[sblock]Ms White says "You're not planning on actually taking delivery are you? I don't think we can actually buy things from them. Can't you just use a idea to get in and then take them down?"[/sblock]
"Lemme ask you this. If we tried that with the Trust, would you believe us?" Hope asked seriously. "We have to make it believable in order for us to get in. So that means, we are going to at least have to put a down payment on it, as well as making the final payment. We won't be able to take on their main base, wherever it is, nor are we likely going to be able to invade this one without major, major help."
"So. Let's say we need a device that can bypass the sheilds without disrupting them. And we need it fairly small. We don't have to outright say that it's for busting through the Lighthouse defenses, but if we had to we could. That would work. And if we actually had to buy the thing, at least we can use it for something good and worthwhile, unlike alot of the things the Foundry usually creates." Hope shrugged.
Morals were all well and good, but when stacked up against a meglomaniac bent on world domination.... Well. She was willing to do what it took to stop said maniac. She thought pragmatically, but deep down, she knew she was dancing on a knife's edge between doing what was easy and what was hard.
"So next question. Once we get in, what are we going to do?" she asked, knowing that most of them might have an idea, like she did, but nothing concrete.
"Lemme ask you this. If we tried that with the Trust, would you believe us?" Hope asked seriously. "We have to make it believable in order for us to get in. So that means, we are going to at least have to put a down payment on it, as well as making the final payment. We won't be able to take on their main base, wherever it is, nor are we likely going to be able to invade this one without major, major help."
"So. Let's say we need a device that can bypass the sheilds without disrupting them. And we need it fairly small. We don't have to outright say that it's for busting through the Lighthouse defenses, but if we had to we could. That would work. And if we actually had to buy the thing, at least we can use it for something good and worthwhile, unlike alot of the things the Foundry usually creates." Hope shrugged.
Morals were all well and good, but when stacked up against a meglomaniac bent on world domination.... Well. She was willing to do what it took to stop said maniac. She thought pragmatically, but deep down, she knew she was dancing on a knife's edge between doing what was easy and what was hard.
"So next question. Once we get in, what are we going to do?" she asked, knowing that most of them might have an idea, like she did, but nothing concrete.
Victim
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Shooting Star awakens with a start (around the same time as Optic). Good time to wake up. She takes several deep breaths as she catches up on the situation.
"How would that work? Is it in the Foundry's best interest to sell something that lets someone get to the Lighthouse right now? They're not going to let you buy a gun from them and then shoot them with it - in strategic terms. Aren't they going to start figuring out who's behind that kind of request? Super-science devices mean super-geniuses; people or thinking machines with more brainpower than our team combined. I don't think they're going to be fooled for long."
She sighs. "Besides, you don't want to be totally reliant on a device that you buy without really understanding. Why don't you call your hacker friend back and ask him how well a script kiddie would do running against him? Having some power doesn't confer mastery."
"Finally, I don't think we could win. Nitro and I were barely even inconveniencing Barrington; he swatted down like a bug despite my mostly trying to dodge. Control Freak can set up floating mini-bomb traps. Plus they have hostages. Plus they'll be in control of the facilities protecting us from outer space. Plus reinforcements went up there. Plus some of our powers might not be operating normally - how's that weather control stuff work outside Earth's atmosphere?" And, in my nightmare, I couldn't fly at all up there.
"We could just kill ourselves here, since there's less of a chance that the Freedom Leauge dies along with us that way," she snaps.
"How would that work? Is it in the Foundry's best interest to sell something that lets someone get to the Lighthouse right now? They're not going to let you buy a gun from them and then shoot them with it - in strategic terms. Aren't they going to start figuring out who's behind that kind of request? Super-science devices mean super-geniuses; people or thinking machines with more brainpower than our team combined. I don't think they're going to be fooled for long."
She sighs. "Besides, you don't want to be totally reliant on a device that you buy without really understanding. Why don't you call your hacker friend back and ask him how well a script kiddie would do running against him? Having some power doesn't confer mastery."
"Finally, I don't think we could win. Nitro and I were barely even inconveniencing Barrington; he swatted down like a bug despite my mostly trying to dodge. Control Freak can set up floating mini-bomb traps. Plus they have hostages. Plus they'll be in control of the facilities protecting us from outer space. Plus reinforcements went up there. Plus some of our powers might not be operating normally - how's that weather control stuff work outside Earth's atmosphere?" And, in my nightmare, I couldn't fly at all up there.
"We could just kill ourselves here, since there's less of a chance that the Freedom Leauge dies along with us that way," she snaps.
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