@Ironheart. I'll treasure the point of influence long after it's gone. :P Given our character's relationship(s), do we want to perhaps say they knew each other prior to the team's first coming together? Happy to leave it vague or to work it out more specifically in PMs/wherever.
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Master of Games, Everybody, re: Char, Scy, Ash.
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Hmm. By the way, what happened to Ash, Char and Scy at the end? I suppose Ash was arrested by ATLAS or the police. The other two may have fought their way free in the confusion and made it to the nearest safehouse - or not? What would you prefer?
I think we should have been able to turn the villains over to the authorities/ATLAS, in the end, especially since another hero actually died. Although I also think it might be neat if either Char or Scy escapes. Not both, though! Gotta have that potential villain-trying-to-spring-partner storyline later on.
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Here we go.
Big Wallcrusher When We First Came Together: Tried to condense everything we've been chatting about and put it into the greater context of the scene. Hopefully all questions are answered!
We stopped Vigilance’s plan. Hooray!
Vigilance’s plan seems to have been to get her hands on Project Trendsetter, and she’d’ve loved that; it would have been a huge plus. But her actual goal was to get Harold Hess out’ve New Atlantis and into an American facility.
How did we stop the plan? A two-prong stop, set against chaotic supervillainy.
First: w/ some telepathy work, Reverie found shady research assistant Jakob Visser and some hired muscle making off with Dunamis Inc. property in a way that pinged her this is what I’m, uh, I mean Vigilance is after can’t let her get this thing it would be bad for it to be out in the world, and together the team reclaimed a cube w/ schematics and a rare but difficult-to-reproduce yet-also-essential battery of a device called Show Dog (more on that below). Leech drained the battery (if Leech can drain energy from machines as well as organic things; or perhaps even if he can just drain energy from organic things? Dun dun DUN), the rest used their powers to play “keep away” from Visser and some of the other villains on the scene who went after it once they’d got it from Visser just because it looked like a cool thing to have. Maybe in the end, once some authority figures show up, we give this to one of the junior Guiding Lights to take care of.
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I’m thinking
Project Trendsetter’s all about superpower assessment and discovery, with a current prototype of a device just called
Show Dog which can scan an individual, building, or city block (with varying degrees of accuracy, depending on its power source - this is a prototype after all), and tell its wielder what superpowered individuals are about, what their superpowers are, when they last used them. Show Dog’s in early stages, but IF they ever get it really cooking, potentially Show Dog could offer up data on how to neutralize these superpowers or how best to amplify them or using a combination of downright precognitive software and energy signals, it could track the use of an individual’s superpowers straight through a city or larger and find them. I think it might also be kind of cool if—again, should they ever get Show Dog working up to Project Trendsetter’s max potential—it can calculate how a nonsuperpowered individual might respond if exposed to XYZ factors which changed them. I imagine Show Dog/Project Trendsetter is very much something Vigilance and the Americans don’t necessarily want on the public market / don’t really want out of their control, and hey, if they should find some uses for it…
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Second,
the kidnapping. I quite like the idea of long-distance mind control causing Harold to apparently wander directly into danger--after all, the supervillains are just chaos, so it's not like there's necessarily a safe path for him to take to get where Vigilance needs him to go--on his way to the docks. Since this’ll be wedding to
the Innocent relationship, I think early on in the attack on the facility, Reverie will pretty straightforwardly use her telekinesis to keep Harold from falling into one of Scy’s hair nets and getting diced into cubes; we haven’t referenced Scy’s super terrifying hair power enough. :P But later, it’ll seem weird that he’s still wandering around and seems sort of confused, so they’ll get him back to safety again, at which point Reverie could look for signs of Vigilance's interference and, since she knows her own powers so well, think she finds something.
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Finally,
whether Vigilance shows up or not. I'm
leaning towards yes she does show up towards the end to, as the GM suggested, just sorta keep Reverie from interfering further--but also to see if there's anything that can be salvaged of her plan. If there is, we don't know it. I don't imagine Vigilance revealing the layers of her involvement at all, but perhaps when it's just the team words are exchanged that indicate a deep displeasure with how the kids handled everything as well as the deeper connection between Rev and Vig, just to build on later.
In the end, Vigilance is one of the authorities (all good will helping out the Guiding Lights super and whatever other authorities) who takes control of clean up and civilian helping after the situation is handled/the villains are caught and poor Brightheart dies.
