Plot Things -- read this!!

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So Bruce's independent investigation is going to yield some extremely interesting results. He's going to be attempting to discern if he can observe the metaphysical transfer of energy (i.e. the thing responsible for the depowering) at the nuclear level, and the answer is yes, he can. By using some of the salvaged satellite tech. The result will be seeing that the ethereal cords connecting Tu Vishan to its residents are very weak and sluggish.

He'll have the subsequent idea to convert the satellite tech into a power source to feed into the cords. Although he'll initially attempt to heal / repair the turtle with this energy, it's far too little to accomplish anything with that. The real effect will be that he'll discover in the process of attempting to give it to Tu Vishan that trying to 'deliver' it via a person will extremely temporarily give them their powers back. It's basically like an electrical current, where he's trying to get energy from point A (satellite tech) to point C (Tu Vishan) by going through point B (a player character), and on the way there, it powers point B before petering out before it can reach point C. if this makes any sense at all

Ultimately, someone from his research team will speak to Evandau about distributing it to the teams in the form of a portable energy source unit. The teams can then have a brief moment of powers being returned near the end of the clueventure plot. Specifically they will receive this starting July 5th, and the clue set will announce when they receive the equipment. It will continue for five days, and will provide each team with two units, and each charge will cause repowering for a duration of 30 seconds for one person, with a mandatory recharge time in between of 5 - 10 minutes. The specific details may be revised in the future.

Basically right now I am looking for characters that would be interested in helping research this. Magical characters are especially needed, but science based or investigative would be fine, too. Obviously, this has to be characters that are not on a team. Aside from aiding in the magic/science research, characters will also be needed to help deliver the units to the teams, wherever they may be (and some of them are remote!).

At some point I'll have Bruce make a network post asking for volunteers and everyone can ICly sign up, then. So far we have Kara and Arthur on this, but I'd like to get a head count before it moves forward in game so that the OOC logistical planning is easier.

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[cowled]

Kind of want to spring Bruce^2 at this.


/BATEMPLATE EMOTE

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WOULD WE FINALLY HAVE THE BRUCES MEET?

WOULD WE GET TO DEAL WITH THE NARRATIVE CONFUSION?

BRING IT ON

[cowled]

SOBBING.


it'd be as batman tho. and tbh it would be so freakin' hard to get him to actually... interact with people willingly? BUT GODDAMNIT I REALLY WANT TO DO THIS THING. /LAYS ON FACE


sometimes I hate playing batman

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;SLKJDFDGPUHAF I just laughed at your pain but it was the laugh of a friend at least??

I'd laugh even more if I got to write Bruce meeting Batman. He'd be so (unsure) forever. And probably snarky. ANYWAY. you don't think Bats would get involved after Bruce makes a post about encouraging results, needs more volunteers, or whatever? It would be a chance to actually get in the middle of things and doesn't Bats like to meddle?

[cowled]

YOU ARE AWFUL JUST SAYING


he does like to meddle but he usually does it behind the scenes without anyone else realizing or noticing.



... tbh


If we wanted to really be a dick and undermine Batman's awesomeness (a thing I always enjoy!!!) we could have Hulk!Bruce catch him trying to like, idk, steal the research papers for this or something. Since. He so would.

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OH OH OH I've been saying that Bruce has held onto his beaten up, duct taped laptop from home and powering it with a little mini solar generator he cobbled together this is the part where you tell me I can't do that BUT IF I CAN, I presume he's keeping his data on there since the power's all fritzy?

He probably keeps it on him neurotically most of the time, so it'd be pretty tough to sneak in and get it without him noticing. To try to provide a plausible reason why Bats would get caught.

[cowled]

Naw, you can totally build a little generator. Bruce has a bunch of solar lamps he's stored in case of another turtle dive so yeah it'd be silly for me to be like I'M A MOD I CAN DO THIS SHIT AND YOU CAN'T NEENER.


anything Bat!Bruce can do Hulk!Bruce can probably do too. (except for, you know, being fucking batman. that's an acquired skill sry2say)


And yessss that sounds like it could be excellent. Tbh if Hulk!Bruce 'caught' him, Batman could either a) pretend it was intentional or b) acquiesce at that point to work with him because grudging respect. he employed the previous bruce banner, too, so he knows a little bit about him?

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LOL okay good. I just kind of slapped that into my narrative cause it seemed plausible. He's been using it to keep his sensitive personal experiment data on that he doesn't want to be connected to the network. And then he goes up to the turtle head and broods over it portably or something idk.

NO ONE ELSE WANTS TO BE BATMAN EXCEPT YOU, WAYNE, DON'T WORRY

I could see them easily operating on an extremely practical, grudging respect, we-speak-in-five-word-sentences level. And paranoia because oh god he knew the previous Banner, Bruce is not amused. BUT YES LET'S THREAD IT?

[cowled]

done and done. /FOLDS ARMS

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/SITS HERE

/ATLANTEAN GUINEA PIG

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DONATE YOUR GILLS TO SCIENCE, ARTHUR

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WELL IF IT MEANS POTENTIALLY GETTING THEM BACK OR HELPING THE TURTLE OR SOMETHING HE WILL DO THIS THING.

FOR SCIENCE. Sob he'd volunteer for anything at this point because how do I help Asti or help other people to help Asti.

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IT WILL HELP EVERYONE AND THEN EVERYONE WILL HELP THE TURTLE

IT'S OKAY, ARTHUR, YOU'RE STILL A HERO ;3;

[relentlesstide]

okay good ;w; he has a lot of turtlefeelings

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Arthur's turtlefeelings are cute... :(

[cowled]

ARTHUR GET OUT

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YOU GET OUT YOU'RE ENJOYING ALL THIS POWER LOSS AREN'T YOU

[cowled]

LIKE YOU WOULD NOT BELIEVE.


sweet, sweet schadenfreude.

[relentlesstide]

he's flipping you the bird, sir.

and then going to go care for his actually traumatized wife.

[cowled]

flipping birds would piss a bunch of his kids off jsyk



:c Mera.



Bruce might actually. Come by to see if there's anything he could do. In that way where he's a dick. But still sometimes gives a shit about other people. (unsure)

[liveagain]

I volunteer Hazel to deliver packs to teams.

[anomia]

Awesome! Thank you!

[fearlessherosheart]

Tazendra would be useful -- she's a sorceress, portrayed as good enough to perfect a spell people had been working on for generations, and her magic system is at least conceptually similar in that it's based on energy flow to a person from an outside source (usually with an intermediary device).

And she likes magic enough that it will distract her from whatever trouble she might cause trying to help.

[angermanaging]

Tazendra would be perfect! Definitely throw her in. :)

[backwordscompatible]

Hey, Zatanna's pretty good at this whole magic thing. And she's not on a team.

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EXCELLENT. MORE MAGICAL HELP. And I love Zatanna. :3

[backwordscompatible]

Thank you!

Just let me know where you need her to be, and when. I'm like 99% positive these two have met at least once before...and, if not, Bruce would've certainly heard about her from the Stark fambly (particularly the 12% son), so that solves the whole why-would-she-be-there thing.

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They had a brief network conversation once, iirc. And yeah, I'll definitely handwave that he's heard of her from the fambly.

I just put a post up for Bruce soliciting involvement and he specifically asked for magical volunteers, so she could see that?

[backwordscompatible]

/ollies over to the network now~

[neoguardian]

If you need another lab rat Lara-Su is available, I don't know if her Chaos Powers will be of any benefit or not.

[angermanaging]

Since everyone's unable to access their powers right now, probably not at the moment? haha

But if she's scientifically inclined, she's more than welcome to pitch in on that front.

[neverginger]

HI I just got here like, a week ago ish, but I have the Tenth Doctor here who would be more than happy to help Dr. Banner in his investigation!

He has powers in that he can see all of time and space at once in his head, which I think would be affected? So he could have a brief flash of that and wow wouldn't that be awful.

Let me know if you're interested!

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YAY OMG TEN. I don't know that much about Who, but it's just enough to say that I think he and Bruce would be great and hilarious.

Yeah, that would be pretty awful. In other words, let's do it. XD I just put up his post today so he's welcome to respond and get dragged into this!

[lostundercover]

Costigan will help deliver if Bruce asks (if you need the people).