Superheroes of The Trust OOC Thread (Accepting Alts)

[Victim]

What is the cake to which you refer?

I'm refering to Portal.

Spoiler

The crazy, taunting feminine, AI that controls the weapon lab that serves as the setting for the game is obsessed with cake and sometimes tries to bribe the player character with it. A previous test subject scrawled, "the cake is a lie!" several times in one of the levels.

Since we're dealing with taunting, feminine AI controlling a weapon factory/lab, the reference seemed fitting.

But you know what they say about a joke you have to explain.

 

[Victim]

(I assume she's about to do her corrosion attack that hits her with blast 12 as a side effect, but I'm not entirely sure either)

Basically, yes. I did some checking on the object rules. Some (or perhaps most) of her plan isn't strictly necessary from a pure mechanics PoV, but ought to counteract some problems that might reasonably pop up. The wind effect should replace air sucked from the room and/or protect characters from noxious fumes from vaporized lead. Nitro's damage is like a starter hole that keeps a drill from slipping. But Shooting Star hasn't considered structural damage or overpenetration killing workers inside the base.

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Her primary elements are air, water and electricity, the primary factors that make up weather. So her weaknesses as far as spellwork is concerned is of course fire followed by earth. I'd think that if she had cast a spell with the earth based descriptor, it would affect her similarly. Just my two cents on the subject, unless of course Matt disagrees.

It just seems silly that you feel the need to argue against Megan's uninformed opinions in the first place. It's like Hope telling her and Optic that they're hacking things in the wrong way.

 

[kirinke]

Lol, not really arguing, it just struck me as a good idea. I like the roleplaying aspects of playing disadvantages. And it does make sense in a weird sorta way.

Hmmm. As far as the noxious fumes thing, Hope does have the freshen air ability, so that should help in keeping things breathable. Should things go foom and the floor drops, she can fly too, and maybe use her TK/wind ability to keep the others from falling in.

 

[Victim]

Isn't Hope's healing ability Tiring? It might be better for her to save it for serious Disable/Staggered damage instead of minor injuries, especially since she's out of HP (whereas Shooting Star has 3 - or 2 if I need to buy off fatigue - which should be enough cover for a minor wound). What's Hope's level of fatigue btw?

That was a pretty lucky save.

 

[DM_Matt]

Isn't Hope's healing ability Tiring? It might be better for her to save it for serious Disable/Staggered damage instead of minor injuries, especially since she's out of HP (whereas Shooting Star has 3 - or 2 if I need to buy off fatigue - which should be enough cover for a minor wound). What's Hope's level of fatigue btw?

That was a pretty lucky save.

She was already fatigued. If she healed, she would be exhausted. Which would be a very bad thing.

 

[Victim]

She was already fatigued. If she healed, she would be exhausted. Which would be a very bad thing.

Hmm. I thought she was fatigued from the fireblast/ritual banishment, and then tried to heal Viridian too?

Unbidden, the light spring like wind springs up around her, almost in reaction to her concern for the younger woman. It swirls around Viridian's wounds, healing them, and The Saint staggers once again, white spots dancing in her eyes. She shakes it off with a visable effort.

But yeah, exhausted is bad enough.

 

[kirinke]

Alrighty then, she doesn't heal anyone except Viridian. But I did add the side effects of using fire/ground to her character sheet. Basically it effects her like drinking alot of high end alchohol all at once without the pleasure of inhibing it.

Still, it is telling that Hope was the only one to rush to Star's aid, her first instincts are to help, even if she doesn't like someone all that much.

 

[Victim]

(In case I was being unclear. One of the terrorist groups that Barrington paid off for the decoy attacks was Hamas, and there were a bunch of people found irradiated in Israel. However, it appears that it was Hiroshima Shadow that did that, as he was caught there. Now the Foundry folks just got killed in the same way, though HS is in prison. The fact that HS may have been the original culprit though begs the question of why Barrington paid the money for the attack to Hamas rather than Shadow.)

Ah, I thought that he said that Hiroshima Shadow was caught on the scene here. But with the Foundry people dying in the same way, the overall matter is still a mystery. As intended, I expect.

Even terrorists outsource and subcontract these days?

 

[kirinke]

Ah, I thought that he said that Hiroshima Shadow was caught on the scene here. But with the Foundry people dying in the same way, the overall matter is still a mystery. As intended, I expect.

Even terrorists outsource and subcontract these days?

Apparently the plot is thickening like cold gravy my friends!

 

[Victim]

Hmm, what if there was another Hiroshima Shadow type being created from Nagasaki? Maybe HS was working with Hamas to obtain the release of his 'brother' (captured and studied as science project?)? That would explain the similar MOs, and why HS was doing Hamas' work.