Superheroes of the Trust Game Thread

[DM_Matt]

Wren will simply call into Ms. White, hoping her com link is active. "There's a prisoner here, supposedly killed by lycanthropes. What's the story on him?"

Otherwise, it's off the red leather girl, as he tries to be as diplomatic as possible. "Working with Asad, huh? Doesn't look to be such a good thing for you. So, what can you tell me of Barrington and Asad? What was Fine working on with you and Asad?"

White says "This relates to a very sensitive undercover operation by one of our other teams. You'll be informed only if necessary."

The woman in red says "I will tell you nothing. I demand a lawyer, and I demand to have my day in court."

 

[Victim]

Megan quickly showers and rinses off her costume, spins herself dry, changes, and emerges in a couple of minutes. "Sorry about that."

 

[Fangor the Fierce]

White says "This relates to a very sensitive undercover operation by one of our other teams. You'll be informed only if necessary."

The woman in red says "I will tell you nothing. I demand a lawyer, and I demand to have my day in court."

"Do you see any phones here? Does this look like county jail? No. You don't abide by the law, so obviously, why should they now apply to you? You can't choose which one's you you want to abide by and which ones you want to. You decided that a long time ago, so deal with it. Your last chance at leniency just left."

Wren then walks away, not caring for her little temper tantrum. He will head back to their quarters, hoping to find the others there. On the way, he will speak with Ms. White, asking her what options they have with Ben and Sarah. He wants to give them a chance to show that they aren't like their fathers. If they could assist somehow, then all the better. He leaves it to her, as it's her show...

 

[Raylis]

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Meanwhile, at the base, everyone is paged to come watch the speech in the central room of your wing. Black is there too, but white isn't. "Uh-oh," Black says "I think I know that big guy behind him, even through the mask. I think thats Red Dawn, national hero of China. He has fire and radiation powers and can turn into a dragon. If he -- and China -- are with Barrington, this is a big, big, problem."

"Better a chinese super then more B Movie demons Nightweaver says, stepping out of a shadow, "Doc Otaku was there, unmasked, the last news report said he was in Chinese occupied territory. Whether that's Dawn or not doesn't matter. Looks like China sided with the occultist.

 

[kirinke]

"Villainy is such a buzzkill," Apollo quips.

"Especially when fueled by madness." Hope quips and looks sober once more. "If what he says about masked superheroes from other nations joining him is true... They might not be aiding of their own free will. Remember, anyone can be broken, bespelled, brainwashed or controlled, not to mention just plainly mislead and fooled. If what we know about Barrington is true and he is as old or older than we think, then he probably knows every trick in the book in that regard," she looked at the others.

"I have a feeling that China is being duped into helping Barrington. Like I said, they're greedy and probably aren't looking much past all the goodies he's waving in front of their nose." she smirked. "They're also arrogant and think they can control him,"

She looked at the assembled villians on the screen, memorizing costumes and faces when shown and mentally ran through probabilities and various scenarios that Barrington would likely pull.

"Whatever he's building.... Those components are going to have to be moved right? I think the next wave of attacks are going to be a blind, something to distract us with, while he gets those components to wherever he's assembling them." she narrowed her eyes as she remembered the previous wave of attacks.

"That's what the last wave of attacks where about. To spread resources thin while he walzed into the Lighthouse and took it over."

 

[Shayuri]

"Don't worry about it," Viridian replies with a grin. "You're a lot faster than I am. Lets see what's cooking."

She heads off to the lunchroom/cafeteria.

 

[Elric]

"Wow. ladies and gentlemen, that is some -surprising- oratory skill from Johnny Nitro. Before we go to reaction from some others, how do your plans change in light of this new information?"

The praise from Laura Lewis makes Nitro self-conscious all of a sudden. It doesn't help that she's a stunning blond.

“Gee, I really don’t know. When you see a supervillain publicly announce that he’s proceeding with the next phrase of his plan for world domination, it probably means you’re going to be playing defense for a while."

 

[Victim]

"Damn, looks like there's some kind of problem. We're supposed meet in the common area again." she replies to Thess after their phones beep.

Megan drifts into the common room, messing with her hair. "What about China?"

"Yeah, or since he used the attacks as a diversion last time, maybe they're the real objective this time while the drill is just a fancy diversion. It seems like he's done a variety of things, so there's no reason to assume he's going to use the same strategy again, right? Aren't people supposed to use game theory or something instead of just trying to outguess people anyway?"

 

[Shayuri]

"I'm pretty sure game theory is just a fancy way of saying 'guessing' anyway," Thess points out.

"Still, it's pretty suspicious that he took the trouble to go on the air and make that announcement. We recorded it, right? Lets watch it again."

 

[Victim]

"I guess... Let's watch the recording."

After watching a replay, "That doesn't sound so bad by itself. If the Chinese and other countries start to use matter assembly, then the US will drop the restrictions on the technology. Dealing with it will be disruptive socially - like lots of other revolutionary technologies or ideologies - but that doesn't make it wholey bad. Just because Barrington has done lots of terrible things doesn't mean that everything he tries to do is terrible. Even a broken clock is right twice a day." After all, he spared me. If he's so good at breaking or manipulating people, I might be right there behind him if he took a few steps out of his way. Or went for a crushing grip attack instead of a kick.

She looks to Wren since they had been discussing matters earlier. "And I don't see how this really helps countries like China anyway. If the economy shifts to nanofabrication, then things like outsourcing and cheap labor stop being a consideration. When real value comes from good new ideas instead of just making cheap knockoffs, I'm not sure well China will do. With the exception of Otaku, how much of the stuff made in China is designed there?"

"Maybe I just want really cheap stuff though."