Angel answers Joe, "Sure. I'll tell you the rumors if you come." she then answers Mittens. "....who's Maverick? New member? I don't see anyone new if so..."

Maverick disappeared 2 rounds ago when narration said he faded into the background to go spy solo.

  Running Gun is silent after Lucky teleports them.  Not because they are in need of a Rez, but because it seems RG has put a spare Full Body Suit onto a display mannequin.  There is a note taped to them that if investigated will turn up a Clue text reading 'BrB, Existential crisis'.

---

  "Yay for me then."  Unless hearing all the rumors listed is mind wrenchingly beyond his Psi protection boring, but he'd stick it out if so.  "Well Maverick is...  Somewhere.  I'd think his footstep sound effects are buggy but that would suggest it wasn't on purpose."

  He couldn't fault Mittens, she was basically citing his reason for joining her SG after all.
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"New member, yes," Mittens answers Angel, "Angel this is Mav..."

*Sweatdrop*

"Maverick?  You using invis?  And what in the world are you talking about, 'footstep sound effects?'  Are you the kind of crazy that pretends life is a game?  I'm the kind of crazy that pretends life is a comic book.  Or a movie.  'Cause they have soundtracks.  Dun dun dun duuuun!"

Lucky sweatdrops at the mannequin.

"'BrB, Existential crisis,'" Lucky quotes to Mittens, "Looks like RG is um... away."
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Fun fact! Just "sneak" alone turns off your footstep sound effects, but the stalker version turns off that AND makes you invis. Or something. ANYway...

Shelly trots up to the bunch. "Maverick's a little boy about 8 years old. Caucasian, brown hair, wears dark clothing. Seems kinda mature. Maybe he's exploring the base. I'll go look for him. You all have fun, OK? I'll try to catch up later."

Angel nods. "Sure. Well, looks like Maverick is going to miss out this time. Here's hoping things'll go smoothly." Unlike Mittens, while Angel does enjoy the suffering of her enemies, she still prefers relaxed situations over dangerous situations. Danger requires effort.

Angel leads the way even though Mittens technically outranks her. But then again, as all the top members of HVG agreed, rank only dictates important decision making when really, everyone is a servant in this group.

As promised, Angel begins filling Joe in. "Alright. So, one rumor I heard was that the Hero Voice Guild is using its heroics to gain popularity and that this is just a race to see if we can become one of the best known supergroups in Paragon City." Translation, one of the best in the server.

  Joe gets told to turn on Supergroup mode and to click yes on his Team Join prompts, and yet Mittens still wonders at his outlook regarding sound effects glitches?  Eh, whatever.  "That's... Not exactly as bad as I thought the rumors would be.  Though if it were true that 'no publicity is bad publicity' saying factors into this thing making the Group more well known than it was before."

Angel says, "I did say *one* rumor, right? And that there was more than one rumor? If you expect me to tell you the rumors plural, you'll have to listen to the list."

Mittens player did the best he could to maintain immersion or whatever it is you call it by describing the MMO interface as a fancy standard issue HUD given to heroes along with their hero liscence, but if we want to throw any illusions of RP out the window in favor of simply poking fun of game mechanics that's fine too.

"Nice quick description there, Shelly," Mits answers, "I swear people appear and disappear in this city so fast it's enough to make even my head spin.  I'll not answer the rumors with a sound-bite among friends and simply say I agree with Joe that if that's the worst of the list, we're doing pretty good."

  Joe's origin story is he's a hostage NPC that broke himself loose after a team reset the mish one too many times.  Awareness of certain MMO truths comes packaged in with that.  As well as fortunately knowing the /stuck command. MAN that was awkward when he clipped through the bathroom stall door.

  "No, you didn't say one rumor.  I just thought you were starting with the important ones.  Though I'm more than willing to listen to the rest of the problems."  He turns to Mittens and says "Altitis is a very serious problem in this city Mittens, happens to everyone at some point."

In response to Joe, Angel says, "Listen closely now." pulls out a micro cassette recorder, hits rewind, then hits play.


This quote is from msg #97

She fast-forwards it again, hits record and stuffs the player back in her jacket. "Yes, I did say one rumor." she looks at Mittens. "But yes, IF that was the worst we had to worry about... but it isn't." She looks back at Joe. "There's people saying we have direct ties with criminal organizations. Others say we work for Crey Industries. The list goes on. Still, willing to tell all the rumors I know about."

(OOC style: Have any idea how gratifying it is to do that in real life when someone tells you that you didn't say something that you JUST said? Very. One of the reasons I even own a micro cassette player IRL.)
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"Word to the wise," Mittens says with a bit of a jaded look to Joe, "Don't try to correct Angel.  She's one of those 'always right' kinds of people.  Or ignore the advice.  Altitis?  Glad I don't have that problem.  My problem is more of an 'Adventuritis' where I start to suffer if things get boring.  So... shall we get started on beating up on bad-guys for justice already?"

She activates her police radio with hologram interface.

"Oooh!  This looks promising.  The freaks have a hostage."

Yes.  She's forgotten the plot already.  Or she's chosen to forget.  Who knows what goes on between her ears.
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  Joe blink blinks, then says to Mittens, "Well, good thing agreeing she didn't say one rumor means I'm not correcting her then...  Except this would mean I'm correcting her now, crap."  Refer to the OOC thread revelations for a reminder.

  "Crey pretty much is a criminal organization, but worth specifying.  The full list of rumors you feel are worth mention would be appreciated Angel."

  Joe eyes mittens when she pulls up a police mish "While we were trying to work on personal problems, ignoring someone who needs rescuing would be kind of mean.  I've got a certain soft spot for Hostages who have been kept waiting an inordinately long time for selfish reasons."

  Every time you reset a hostage mish, Joe cries.

"Like you said, Joe, worth specifying. Many people don't believe Crey is criminal. And those who do can't prove it in court." she then glances at Mittens. "I have to be right, or else my job in the supergroup would only be flinging balls of energy instead of keeping on top of things like what we are looking into." And in an attempt to slightly lighten the mood, she pulls out her "always right" card with a smile.

Seeing Mitts dial up some completely unrelated mission, checks where it is, starts to head in the direction of where they should go and asks, "How does this mission relate to our investigation specifically?"
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"Um.... bad guys need punished and good-guys defended?" Mits answers Angel's question vaguely, "My lack of action meter maxed out, so I looked for some.  Maybe these baddies know something.  I'll go interrogate 'em or something.  I'll prolly be more useful to you that way anyhow.  I can't even understand the conversation.  Um... Excelsior!"

She runs off to save the day.

"That hostage won't be kept waiting long with me on the job, Joe!"

---

Meanwhile, at the lair of the Freakshow kidnappers.

"Oh crey!" one says, "A hero is on the way to rescue the hostage!"

"Yeah?" another says, unimpressed, "Which one?"

An TV of villainy news is consulted.

"That's right, none other than Mittens!" the TV reports.

"Mittens?!  Really?!  I'll never live it down if I get defeated by a hero with a name like that!  What's his/her notoriety?"

"She's a tough one according to our Hero Corps insider.  Her most recent notoriety level is 'Invincible!'"

"Slag!  Invincible?!  We're going to need re-enforcements!"

"Don't panic!  Dumpster just got out of the zig, and he's right across the street!  Him and his gang can take on a whole team of supers!"

"I hate that guy..."

"We've no choice!  Besides.  If he loses to her, he'll be the one with the bad rep."

"Good point."

  Joe has found that unless he can get a wonderfully timed Build up + Headplitter, fights with Crey Protectors end up rather sad to watch as both Joe and most variety of Protector with active Click power cant. hurt. eachother.  Ever.

  Joe tries not to think too hard about what point he found himself thinking 'if I fight them while we stand in molten in lava, it will be easier.'

  "I have no idea, though I think it has nothing to do with anything we were talking about."  He refrains from comment about the Mitten's self admitted ADD.  "Though if we don't help her out, she's probably going to get hospitalized at best."

Angel sighs. Mittens just made up Angel's mind to never team up with Mittens unless Angel doesn't have an important task. And now she is put on the spot. If Angel rage-quits, that will make her look bad. And since she's the face of the group at this point, if she looks bad, the whole group does.

Angel thanks God that Mittens is not the face of the group. "We will help her. And we will make sure she doesn't get kidnapped by these people again." and Angel will take out her annoyance on the kidnappers.

She then proceeds to the mission. On her way, she gets on the cellphone and dials Maximus. "Hey, Max. Do you feel like assembling a team to look into Crey's involvement with our supergroup? It'd be a big help and save me some time."

If the kidnapped lady DOES have info pertaining to Angel's mission, great. Still doesn't change Angel's mind about teaming with Mittens.

Mittens charges at the first group of foes and is soon below half her hit points!  But by then hasten+parry has kicked in so she's near untouchable!

"Missed me, missed me, neener neener neeener!" she taunts the gang of thugs who can't seem to get a hit in.

"I'd be happy to help," Max answers Angel, "I'll get on that right away.  Keep in touch."

  Joe Sam Eagle faces, and shoves a green inspiration in Mitten's pockets... Or at he least tries to, but they appear to be full.

  "I'll be incredibly impressed if they somehow never get kidnapped again Angel."  Wanda Sims, making Lois Lane look safety conscious.  Not very good at the whole 'reclusive' part of 'reclusive mathematical genius'.

Angel chuckles from Joe's comment. "Yeah, I'd be impressed to. S'why I made it a point to say we'll make sure she doesn't get kidnapped by these people again."

Bonking the mission is easy as usual. The boss makes some comment about "You'll not stop me, Mittens Christian!" and proceeds to get his butt kicked with no comment. Which, of course, is followed by the "reclusive" mathematician saying "I used to not believe in capes, but you guys have changed that!"

"You're welcome!" Mittens answers, striking a heroic pose, "You can help us by helping us clear our name!  We need leads on who's going on a slander campeign against our super group....  I think?  What was it we were investigating again?"

  Joe considers eyeing Mittens, but eh close enough.  "I think you got it right the first time Mittens.  Though until this is all cleared up, no more random unrelated radio tasks."  Of course, he also doesn't expect any leads to be gained from Mitten's Leeroying off to do a Radio mission.  You never advance any plots doing the Radio/Paper missions.  More likely you'll outlevel the storyline you were in and be unable to complete it as all of a sudden the contact has 'nothing more for you to do'.

  Joe might be in for a shock possibly in this case.

In a sort of poetic justice, the rescued hostage pulled a Mittens and ran off before they could so much as answer a simple question for Mittens. But then, that always happens.

Nah... the storyteller isn't going that route or NPCs will start repeating themselves and only have multiple choice at best for conversations.

"....I do math. Not rumors. Though I could give you any numbers or statistics I come across that have anything to do with your super group and even stuff that doesn't have to do with you, but happened in the course of your group earning a bad name."

Angel says, "Good enough, thanks. And yes. What Joe said, Mittens." Angel then gives contact information to the mathematician. Then parts ways.

"Then no more standing around not doing anything," Mittens answers, "Idleness is my kryptonite."

She looks at her watch.

"Ok so while you guys figure out what to do next I'll be dropping off my loot at the consignment house."

She begins to glow as the WW teleport power charges up.

  Joe just Staaaares at mittens.  "It's been less time than it takes to move between mobs since we 'finished' here."  saying 'less than thirty seconds' would probably make it sound like an eternity to Mittens.  "...Before you vanish, where did you get the watch? I cant find any."

  It's the little things you miss in character design screens.

  "Right, what was the most statistically likely group or individual to be responsible for or linked to our problems according to Wanda then Angel?