She doesn't worry too much about finding one the first day. The next, she will be looking harder.

Even with having to rotate the shades, she's making good time. It'll be less than a day before she runs into somewhere robbable.

Excellent. Hello people, she is here to take some food from you, do not make this get messy.

She is more than scary enough to get away with that demand.

They're very likely to call the PRT after she leaves, though.

She's going to blast the landline, and they're going to hand over any cell phones they have. And if she runs into any units responding to a tip from them, she's going to come back and burn their house to the ground.

Yeah, they're not that civic-minded.

It's entirely possible that the PRT would pay for the arson, but they're too recently-threatened-by-a-supervillain to be tempted and don't mention it.

Good.

She moves on.

She could keep doing this indefinitely. Or at least until she gets tired. If she's stolen a map, she could even have an actual destination.

After a few days, she stops to find a highway and check where she is.

She's on US route 400, middle of Kansas. North of where she came from and a bit east.

It's probably safe enough to emerge, if she keeps a low profile.

She shadows the highway west, until the next town.

The signs welcome her to Dodge City (Yes That One). Population twenty-five or thirty thousand; there are probably parahumans here.

Maybe one of them will have something to get these handcuffs off. Kind of hard to walk around in daylight with them. Is there somewhere she can claim that won't attract attention?

If it's just space that she needs, she could break into an empty hotel room or something without anyone looking at her hands. Her shades can't be inconspicuous, but she can go temporarily powerless if there's a good reason. Probably can't not be seen at all, though; being here in daylight risks finding out the hard way whether the PRT has been disseminating her picture.

Well. If that happens, she'll deal with it. For now- she wants these cuffs off. That means something powerful enough to break them but precise enough not to hurt her, or some kind of changer, or a regenerator so she can use a powerful but imprecise ability. She also wants to sit down with her tinker and ask about designs for smaller, less obvious bots. If she'd had more available to distract Eidolon in that fight, it might have gone differently. But for that she needs space and time, and a city with parahumans is not really the ideal setting.

She finds an empty room to stay in until dark. Then she goes to break into a library to use a computer again.

Dodge City's public library is equipped with the latest in anti-parahuman defensive technology— yeah, no. It works. Priorities on information to look for?

Capes local to Dodge City, powersets, affiliations, favored haunts.

Capes in other areas that might suit her requirements.

Any news about herself.

Abandoned warehouse space.

None of the local capes have a get out of super-handcuffs free card. Other ones that might... if distance were no object it'd be easy. There's a tinker in North Carolina who can make healing potions. A traveling mercenary whose power is to straight-up pick her own body, and another whose is exactly "cut inanimate objects." A hero in New York who can cut things just as well. Two in Brockton Bay who heal themselves, one in Las Vegas who probably can. A kid who expands and contracts space.  Boston has a shape-changer hero and a villain who can vanish small or medium-sized objects with a touch. One with concentrated energy in Texas. The right tinker could dismantle it if she had any way of knowing who the right tinker is. There are brutes who could just break pretty much anything, but they'd be high-profile and potentially difficult targets. Plenty of possibilities in the Birdcage. Sleeper.

The fact that someone killed all the parahumans in several towns has hit the news. It's the biggest news locally, and a big deal nationwide for cape geeks. The news doesn't say who or how, or mention that she was captured and escaped. It's known that Eidolon was somewhere nearby, and some people speculated that that was related. Current speculation is that he killed her, possibly by accident, and that nobody told the media.

There are five warehouses for sale, and some of them have been unused for a while. None that are conveniently labeled "abandoned" because for some reason people want to keep the rights to their property.

Texas is out. Too close to Eidolon. New York is where Legend is based, less daunting but still unwise. Mercenaries might be a good idea, if she had any way of tracking them down. She doesn't especially want to go chasing a 'probably' in Vegas. Boston is promising. Brockton Bay... has a lot of activity. Easier to hide maybe, but also easier to trip over something else. North Carolina is the closest reasonable target.

It seems as if they might be waiting to see if she pokes her head up again? Low profile it is. If she doesn't need a specific cape, attacks of opportunity only, and no getting caught up in large-scale fights.

She notes warehouse locations, and goes to assess them in person.

They range from a few thousand square feet to nearly a hundred thousand. None have any manufacturing equipment she might want to use, and of course the ones closest to places to steal from are also in higher-trafficked areas and more likely to get her spotted. Not that seizing a building is exactly low-profile at best.

So the question is, can her tinker make anything that would be worth the risk? She doesn't need something as big and obvious as an army, she needs something more along the lines of a flock of stealth drones.

It'll do small if it gets to do numerous, to anthropomorphize a bit. Stealth per se is outside its fairly narrow range of designs, but it can manage inconspicuous.

She can work with that. What is the warehouse that's been empty longest look like?

It's in an industrial area, two twelve-foot drive-in doors, boasts of being hooked up for electricity and ready to go which could be convenient if true except that actually using it would be a bit of a giveaway. It's plenty big enough; since she's not actually building an army space isn't likely to be a constraint. The current owner is an out-of-state realtor who bought it when the prior owner went out of business and hasn't managed to make any use of it.

Out-of-state owner is good. Hopefully the neighbors won't be too nosy. She will set up here.