"I killed Bonesaw, doesn't that count for anything?"

"No."

Panacea, any bright ideas??

Panacea is feeling the world torn apart again and doesn't have any ideas whatsoever about anything right now.

What if that metal boy - she can't get his present-moment emotions, but what if he hated all these assholes actually -

He can hate them as much as he's hated anyone else.

"Pretty sure she just messed with my emotions."

"Confirmed. Take no actions until you receive an order from the operational chain of command belaying that."

The praying mantis monster can take Lucien off his hands.

And then he can be containment foamed.

"I don't want to execute your kill order but I will if we can't be confident in your cooperation."

Chelsea can't exactly be confident in Dragon's confidence what with how she is some kind of emotionless monster!

"Can I have verbal confirmation you are open to cooperating?"

"It doesn't look like I have a lot of other choices, now, do I."

"You can choose execution if you prefer - it will be painless."

"Please don't."

"If you say so, dear. I'll go to the Birdcage."

There's a moment while Dragon has a discussion on private comms, and then one of the sections of her armor pops open to reveal a phone-sized LCD screen facing Chelsea.

"Hiyah Cherish!" says Tattletale, her face on the screen, "First things first, no using your power for anything but what we tell you - I'll be able to tell and so will Dragon and the extra bonus tinker we have helping out. So, bluntly, you're screwed - but don't worry I'm sure you'll make some friends in the Birdcage so long as you don't fuck up this next bit and die. Let's start with undoing what you did to Weld."

"...I can't do that perfectly, I don't have perfect sources to copy from."

"Well, that's not exactly encouraging. Let's go with - hm, can you grab someone who's not here?"

"Only within my range."

"I meant what can you change Weld's feelings about our friends here to, not who can you Master."

"Oh, I can change those to anything there's an example of, I don't need - his second grade teacher or whoever, on hand, to copy how he feels about them."

"Goody - lets have - oh folks have opinions give me a sec."

A brief private conversation later.

"Can you make Weld's feelings be that Dragon is a generic Guild member, Genesis is an unknown cape, and the misc emotional presence can be a stranger if you caught that one?"

"Only if I can locate examples of those in his feelings. They don't come with labels."

"If he thinks about each will that work?"