Superheroes of the Trust Game Thread

[Fangor the Fierce]

"But you have to remember one thing. I have sensed that whatever this guy is up to, it's end result is evil. Of that, there is no doubt. So, yes, he might actually be trying to even the playing ground for everyone, but the result will still be the same. Why would he kill people? Why would he destroy things? There's always another way. Not always the best way, but there is always another way. He has disguises, aliases, and yet, he chose to kill and destroy, rather than bring this out as a businessman, where it would have been easier to investigate, approve, and produce, if it was so well intended. He has an ulterior motive."

Wren is a bit unnerved by the news broadcast, noting that there were now more followers for Barrington to mislead and twist their minds to his will. He had many devices, and ways to do such things, and there is no doubt that he is actually doing that now.

"So, what's our next move? Ready ourselves to protect when they strike next? Let's meet up with this cargo ship, and go from there. Remember, we need to find a way to get in front of these guys, instead of chasing their tails. I think it's time we had a schematic of the vessel that Voderac is using. I am sure that it's make and model are handy enough to get a general diagram. If we can isolate the enemy into areas where we can handle them, then all the better. So, let's plan our attack. Or am I missing something else we should be doing?"

Wren would like to have a printout of the same type/model of vessel that Voderac is using. He would then like to work with the others on a plan of attack, and how to minimize their troubles. (So the others can have their chance to use that elusive Master Plan feat...)

 

[kirinke]

Hope grinned a little at Star's complaint, it was a familar gripe. "Yeah, but the price for matter assembly in this case is going to be way too high. I kinda like the world the way it is with all it's imperfections. Any kind of reorganization Barrington plans isn't gonna be good and alot of people will be hurt along the way. Unless of course you like the idea of living in a police or fascist state?" she said wryly

ooc
Well, Hope does have Master Plan. Heh. I think we did pretty good last time. We got fine, Red and a mini-hulk besides.

 

[Shayuri]

"He makes it sound good, Star," Thessaly says after watching it. "He knows all the right buttons to push...but you have to judge people by what they do, not what they say. They've killed a lot of innocent men and women to get where they are. They're consorting with entities from negative realms of madness and retribution. And remember what he's done in the past. He hasn't shown any signs of redemption since then."

She shakes her head slowly.

"And none of what he said explains why he needs an indestructible drilling machine."

"I think we should get Ben in on this. Show him what we got from the Foundry. He's the brains behind Fine and the source of at least one of the technologies they're using, and might understand those plans in ways we can't. We have to figure out what Barrington's up to before we can really make progress towards stopping him."

 

[DM_Matt]

"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."

Black says "I don't think he said anything about spreading assembler technology. He just said he was using it to produce, well, whatever the hell hope and progress are supposed to mean for this psycho. I don't like the laws against assembler technology any more than you do, but the speech seemed more concerned with ensuring the technological advancement of the third world to or beyond current first world levels than univeralist populism. Considering that Barrington's Johnny Jihad incarnation was the national super of Iran, I'm not so sure its going to be the kind of technological advancement that leads to peace, love, and puppies.

Its probably that stuff that China wants. Not matter assembly, but alien weaponry, power generation, stuff like that. Or, they just might want the US and Europe to be weakened, and think that this will do that overall. Interesting that they telegraph support for Barrington and deny it. They shelter Otaku but surround his base and call it house arrest, they put Red Dawn right behind Barrington in a bad disguise...I guess they want to have it both ways."

 

[kirinke]

Black says "I don't think he said anything about spreading assembler technology. He just said he was using it to produce, well, whatever the hell hope and progress are supposed to mean for this psycho. I don't like the laws against assembler technology any more than you do, but the speech seemed more concerned with ensuring the technological advancement of the third world to or beyond current first world levels than univeralist populism. Considering that Barrington's Johnny Jihad incarnation was the national super of Iran, I'm not so sure its going to be the kind of technological advancement that leads to peace, love, and puppies.

Its probably that stuff that China wants. Not matter assembly, but alien weaponry, power generation, stuff like that. Or, they just might want the US and Europe to be weakened, and think that this will do that overall. Interesting that they telegraph support for Barrington and deny it. They shelter Otaku but surround his base and call it house arrest, they put Red Dawn right behind Barrington in a bad disguise...I guess they want to have it both ways."

She chuckled a little at the peace, love and puppies comment. "Have you ever been around puppies Mr. Black? They are cute little balls of destruction."

 

[Victim]

"Okay, so not only is the overall result of his plan evil, but every step along the way can only produce evil too. It's nice to know where we stand." Megan bits her lip. So I guess letting me live...

"So what are we doing next? The boat thing? I'm not sure what we're trying to achieve there. Are we going to capture that guy for interrogation, make a deal for information, blow up all his stuff so bad guys can't use it, what?" And why do we have a new person - Apollo of all people? And where's Optic? She throws her new teammate a nervous glance.

 

[DM_Matt]

"Okay, so not only is the overall result of his plan evil, but every step along the way can only produce evil too. It's nice to know where we stand." Megan bits her lip. So I guess letting me live...

"So what are we doing next? The boat thing? I'm not sure what we're trying to achieve there. Are we going to capture that guy for interrogation, make a deal for information, blow up all his stuff so bad guys can't use it, what?" And why do we have a new person - Apollo of all people? And where's Optic? She throws her new teammate a nervous glance.

"Ironblood said that he had referred Barrington to Voderac to plan their decoy operation in Israel the day he got five terrorist groups to strike at different parts of the world at once to draw off the Freedom League from his main target. Hiroshima Shadow was captured at the scene of the attack, and the technology being used to hold him is one of those that Barrington needs to complete the tower. Plus, that mystery super fits into that whole bit somehow.

Basically, your mission is to find out what Voderac did for Barrington, and if he knows anything or has maintained connections that we can exploit. Then, unless you have a plan that requires Voderac to stay in business, as good secondary objectives you might take his cloaking device so we can duplicate the technology, copy whatever data you can from his computers, and destroy the ship."

 

[DM_Matt]

She chuckled a little at the peace, love and puppies comment. "Have you ever been around puppies Mr. Black? They are cute little balls of destruction."

"I assure you that whatever Barrington has up his sleeve is some very un-cute destruction"

 

[kirinke]

"I assure you that whatever Barrington has up his sleeve is some very un-cute destruction"

"That's the understatement of the century," Hope quips and sees if they have a scematic of the boat.

"Okay. First thing we need to know is what kind of personel is this Voderac guy likely to have on his boat as well as weaponry and defenses. A scematic of the boat would be nice too,"

 

[DM_Matt]

"That's the understatement of the century," Hope quips and sees if they have a scematic of the boat.

"Okay. First thing we need to know is what kind of personel is this Voderac guy likely to have on his boat as well as weaponry and defenses. A scematic of the boat would be nice too,"

"Ironblood has never actually been on the boat, but Voderac has a small personal army with reasonably advanced small arms. Nothing you shouldn't be able to handle easily enough. He did give us enough information that our plane will be able to defeat his cloak if we concentrate our sensors in a small enough area. Voderac's cloak is powerful, but we have the advantage of using alien scanning technology that it was not specifically designed to defeat.

Since we would rather not try to fly over the ship, we can issue those who cannot fly on their own rocket packs. Jacobson and his men can fly you near enough, then you can leave the plane and fly onto the ship."