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Frozen Princess said:
Didn't he already contact Zapper and Molly for they're scientific knowledge yet? And especially Zapper for nanotech? That's what Ginger's insinuating. The "since you can talk to Zapper..."

Molly definitely would have been with Zapper when/if he spoke to Marko, and would have blabbed to him (Marko) about making the costumes for the other three.

Marko could always direct Ginger to talk to Molly herself. Like I put IC, Zapper would have only designed and put the nanotech in the costumes... Molly would have been putting them together.

Note: More I think about them the more I want to make them fraternal twins, but Zapper will still need a real first name. He's just called Zapper by pretty much everyone (except Molly, especially if I make them twins)
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Marko has no intention of helping anyone with any technology at the moment: he does not want to be found out. If someone isn't at risk of dying where he can percieve it, he will not go and save them. He also has not confided in anyone about his powers or his true capabilities, nor has he sought anyone out to help them in ways where he would use his powers to do so.

He intends to build his own stuff and perform some vigilante justice on those who deserve to get beaten black and blue.
 
@MsBloom Oh... I thought it was an agent she was supposed to meet to compare notes, because I thought there was someone else chasing them down in the company... I mean codenames? Usually just the agents get that..

@Inkybus Guess I'm rewriting an entire post, or section, anyway. I've misunderstood a helluva lot.
 
I'm not sure I can add anything of value as Blair and Alexa at this point. It seems more logical that Erin would be the one to respond to Schro before they do.
 
That's fine: I'll let Frozen Princess write in what Erin's reaction to Schro's interjection is, before Blair and Alexa's own rebuttal and then post for Schro.

I should make a note here stating that Marko is a rational guy and he is a student with no experience dealing with a hostage negotiation: even if he heard of an ongoing back robbery, he figures that his presence there would only make things worse. He does not know how he should act if someone threatened someone else's life like that, for one, but further: he has not even had a public appearance yet. People don't know that he wants to do what's right, so he has no knowledge of how anyone might react if he suddenly showed up in his superhero persona on-site. Any by anyone, that means mainly the robbers, who might just do something drastic and shoot the hostages, as well as the authorities, who might think this unknown person is in cahoots with the robbers and try to pin something on him.

Another thing to consider is that Marko wants to build himself some weapons, before he goes out on his debut and stuff- something which will take time for him to build, since he only has a (for his potential) low-end forcefield that could resist twenty shots in quick succession before it flickers out and has to recharge.

And Amaya being who she is, she will take all the time that is needed (days, weeks, months) to make sure she nestles into The System without fucking over the little man or pissing off the Powers that Be too much. At the start anyway: she fully intends to do wondrous things that will help the little man more than The Man.
 
@MsBloom I'm playing the Captain with kind of a chip on her shoulder with impatient and speedy Velocity, I'd like your help to explore that and help flush the character of the Captain out more, please.
 
Frozen Princess said:
I'd like your help to explore that and help flush the character of the Captain out more, please.
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Certainly. The almost parental interaction between her and Windy was sort of funny. Though at the same time a bit inexplicable since I can see how Windy might to refill on carbs to function at the top of her ability.

As for how they deal with the three Metas inside the bank I think we might have to rethink Captain Fitzpatrick's plan since by then reports would have come in about the police cruiser that was fired at with strange non-metal bullets. I think it would be safe for Fitzpatrick to assume that the meta creating and firing those bullets would also be inside the bank.

From a strictly physical point of view Schro would be the most harmless but his abilities would certainly make him equally dangerous as the other two and for the life of me I cannot figure out how they would stop him. If only we had some way to blind him before they went in.
 
She doesn't need them right now, and even for her, pop is the worse thing she could drink. That's kind of the Captain's point.

Also, Velocity's (speeded up) metabolism is different than Cheshire's. Velocity needs vitamins, minerals, electrolytes and things a body needs to function. She also needs to drink more water.

Need to ask @Inkybus what we need to do to stop Schro.
 
Schro is dangerous, though by no means insormountable. His worst chances of survival would be in an actual battlefield: despite all his abilities, he is a squishy human being and bullets put him down just as easily as the average Joe.

The ability he has to percieve through the senses of one of his victims comes with an asterisk: he can only follow what half a dozen or so people percieve at one time. That's a hard limit and it is very tiring to do so for long. Furthermore, I decided that his senses, when viewed through, for example, Windy... he could follow what she was seeing and hearing, but only in real time. If she started to run superfast and stuff, he might get dizzy seeing the whole world pass by so fast. One thing that Schro could do to make Windy's life difficult, would be to program a hallucination of someone putting their hands in front of her eyes, essentially blinding her. And then, he could have a hallucination screaming in her ears to deafen her and make it hard to discern what others want to communicate to her verbally.

There is one problem right now: Windy did not pay enough attention to him during the fight and he has no idea who she is, among the various people that he has sway over. He was unlucky enough to not tune in on her perception while she was using her power and her mind kind of forgot about him mostly, which means his power also lost a lot of pull.

Windy is in the prime position to KO him with a quick tazer to the body if she feels compelled to go after him instead of the visually more threatening and imposing villains.

Otherwise, keep in mind that stray bullets can and might hit badly and Schro may very well become a fatal victim in collateral damage.
 
Windy's a teenager, she's going to want to experiment with her speed, or aim for a quick gut punch (similar to what she did with the brick accidentally, and not at her full speed. Probably around an EF-1 tornado speed).
 
You know that thing that The Flash does in the DC universe, where he takes people and displaces them in other places? Like, for example, in a live action show they did for The Flash, the Protagonist physically picked up/took a cop that was going to get shot and placed him outside of the building, where he would be safe.

Is that something Windy could do?

Because I'm telling you right now, that sort of maneuver is not only super-speed, but also a measure of enhanced (more than peak human, but less than Super) strength and/or tactile telekinesis confined to small objects/organisms.

The reason I am delving into this, is because the force of gravity and centrifugal force are physical laws that super speed as a power generally ignores and it is a very big deal if a speedster is not only able to apply that effect on themselves, but also on someone else, even if is only by touching them. Fighter jet pilots frequently have to keep in mind how fast they go if they want to turn while they are dogfighting, because Gravity will mess them up, by draining their head of blood during the turn and such things, if they are not careful.

Additionally, sudden movement, both starting motion and stopping motion, can be incredibly dangerous: I should know, I have been in a couple of accidents where I stopped abruptly and jostled my head some. Thankfully, did not get any concussions, but people I know were not so lucky and concussions can be life-threatening.
 
Windy has experimented with people transportation, as she carried Loni on their date, but in a life and death situation like now, she might become self-conscious, since she's already, basically, been told this isn't a game. Her powers are still kind of new to her. If this happened a week later, she probably could and would, no hesitation.

It wasn't abrupt like you're suggesting, too soon, and she's kinda one of those that would factor in the physics.
 
Schro will use his power to make three hostages continuously feel pain with his power if the group is attacked, ratcheting up the intensity with every second: the afflicted people may go into shock within eight seconds of the start, which may make some of them teeter on the border of death as their cardiovascular system goes into overdrive and tries to deal with the problem. It depends on the constitution of the person, but I don't know what the physical conditions of the individual hostages: that is up to you guys.

Women should have an easier time dealing with the pain, as should people who are more used to it, but I don't know if the hostages Schro has touch-power over are people in their prime or cozy, office-working softies who do not have much experience with pain, like more physically-oriented workers or military people might.
 
All the more reason for Windy to stand down, if she could hear the Captain, but can't with a malfunction in her comm link.
 
It hasn't happened yet, since the heroes haven't outright attacked yet and words don't set off alarm bells for Schro yet. If there was someone with the power to Control the mind of someone by talking, even if only gibberish, then he would have started his attack immediately.

Right now, he won't accrue a charge of Battery with the use of Powers just yet.
 
By the way, if you wanna have your heroes knock Schro unconscious, we can do that: if Velocity goes straight for him and punches him out, I will write him out as he would be KO'd. Or, more likely, he'd be rendered comatose for a fortnight or something. That is, if Velocity doesn't go for the rest of the group first, in which case he would have enough time to begin tormenting people- though the duration could be cut short, all depending.
 
Uhh, she'd pull her punches, he'd probably be hit with winds around 85-115mph. Like I said, EF-1 (115 is high end EF-1) strength. She knocks him cold, it'd only be a day or two, not a fortnight (14 days. I play medieval RPs). More than likely he could be scraped up a bit, maybe bruised.

Physics wise, that definitely could be another alternative to Cheshire... Errmm... Cat-handling a human race car. Windy has to deal with the consequences (before they learn she couldn't hear her Captain) of her actions, regardless, however.
 
My original plan with Cheshire was for her to go for Alexa, whom she would recognise as Alex, and because they, sort of, know each other from back when Su-Ji was still in high school (a year earlier), and perhaps also because she knows that not only had Alex always felt more like a girl than a boy but that Alex had also had a serious crush on her.

The idea behind this action would be trying to save Alexa from continuing down the criminal path. (I still haven't quite figured out what Alexa/Umbra's response would be though.

Also:
Frozen Princess said:
Ginger was elected to wear Edith's cam
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I get the idea of the police wanting eyes on whatever will go down but wouldn't it be better to just give Ginger one of their own body cams (and perhaps also suggest that since both Cheshire and Velocity didn't wait around that Ginger is the only one wearing one)?
 
Let's do both your ideas, since it has two bank robbers being involved. And I learned that two years before need to take place for Su-Ji to be back in high school. Last year she rushed Delta Lambda Pi with Ginger, so Alexa would have to be a junior in high school for that to work. Both Windy and Loni are sophomores.

As far as tweaking a line for Ginger to wear a police body cam, can do
 
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