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Sadde is home; it's a Friday evening, his shift is over, and there's no school. He's reading a book, lying on his bed in his small-but-tidy apartment.
He is also quite naked, because it's his place and why not?
Glam and Ashras in Wormverse
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This superheroing business seems a bit pointless to him, but if patrolling is what you do, then he'll do it. This is the easiest way to get the resources to do important things like try to kill the Endbringers.
And he likes his teammates. Dauntless is charming; Titania is adorable.
And he likes his teammates. Dauntless is charming; Titania is adorable.
Of the three of them only Titania can fly, although Dauntless' boots can be used for fast enough movement that he can effectively jump from one roof to the other. In sympathy for Sokoreth, however, he walks on the ground.
the-long-dawn
The battle wizard is pretty fond of his costume. He's carrying a brass force-blast staff in the staff slot, and has five of the wand slots filled - two stun wands, two force wands, and a just-in-case lightning wand. Definitely enough to be going on with.
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"Ah. Some people also think of the wildlife as monsters, so I wasn't sure," he says. "The Enemy are... well, they're pretty monstrous. They look a little bit like humans but not very much, and they use weapons that work in similar ways but are built differently, and they have strange flying vehicles. And they came from who knows where to try to conquer our planet. No one's been able to chase them back to wherever they came from yet."
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"They have two arms and two legs and one head each, but I wouldn't mistake them for a human even at a distance. They're shaped differently."
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Patrol patrol.
"...I'm not totally familiar with the normal sounds around here, but that sounds like a lot of yelling over that way," says Ashras, pointing.
"...I'm not totally familiar with the normal sounds around here, but that sounds like a lot of yelling over that way," says Ashras, pointing.
He frowns. "I can't hear it." He nonetheless taps his right ear twice and says, "Console, Sokoreth is hearing yelling near," and he says some intersection that totally exists. "Investigating."
"Acknowledged," Leap's voice is heard over the comm.
"Titania, can you get us on a roof?"
"Acknowledged," Leap's voice is heard over the comm.
"Titania, can you get us on a roof?"
the-long-dawn
Ashras - Sokoreth, rather - looks appraisingly at the building, and then makes a couple of leaps to get to the bottom of a raised fire escape ladder, which he proceeds to climb the rest of the way to the roof.
the-long-dawn
He points. And steps up onto the low wall encircling the roof, to get a better vantage from which to look in that direction.
Picture this:
Seven people, four men and three women.
Two women are huddled together, and a man in loose pants and a white tiger mask is walking around them casually, every now and then nipping one of them with a blade made of... air.
Blocking off both ends of the street are a masked young man and a teenage girl with a metal cage on her face. The two other men are being thrown around, toyed with. One of them tries to swing against the masked one, but his punch is too slow, unnaturally so, and is responded to with a light shove that sends its target tumbling.
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...
"Villains," murmurs Sokoreth. "White tiger mask and air blades, that's Stormtiger, right? He has two hostages, with which he's making two more people fight his teammate, who has a force control power. There's a third villain, a girl our age, weird metal mask, not doing much."
"Villains," murmurs Sokoreth. "White tiger mask and air blades, that's Stormtiger, right? He has two hostages, with which he's making two more people fight his teammate, who has a force control power. There's a third villain, a girl our age, weird metal mask, not doing much."
"Stormtiger, Cricket, and Krieg, yeah. We don't know much about Cricket's power, we suspect she has super reflexes and some form of soft clairvoyance. Krieg manipulates kinetic energy, and Stormtiger's a problem with hostages, we need to take him out before they notice us."
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"I can do that," he says, pulling a stun wand from its holster and crouching to aim. "Should I?"
"What, really? From here? If you can, very emphatically yes. I'll call it in."
He taps his comm twice. "Krieg, Cricket, and Stormtiger sighted, attacking four civilians. Sokoreth can take Stormtiger down before they notice us. Send a PRT squad to," and he says the name of the street where the Empire capes are.
"Acknowledged," says Leap. "Velocity's coming as backup."
He taps his comm twice. "Krieg, Cricket, and Stormtiger sighted, attacking four civilians. Sokoreth can take Stormtiger down before they notice us. Send a PRT squad to," and he says the name of the street where the Empire capes are.
"Acknowledged," says Leap. "Velocity's coming as backup."