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Pedro's Galaxy ([personal profile] peterxy) wrote in [community profile] peterverse2016-01-29 10:27 pm

rogue, meet hero

Most of the time, patrolling is a dull, uneventful affair, somewhat akin to the Ankh-Morpork City Guard ringing their bells and calling "All's well!" at night.

Sometimes, it's not.

Dauntless was not expecting to run into two unpowered Asian gangs (Japanese and Korean? that's what it looks like at a distance) duking it out in the middle of the street. Granted, it's the evening, and it's not quite the most well-frequented of streets, but still.

He decides to call for backup, not because he wouldn't be able to take them on, but because he's supposed to do that whenever confronting another parahuman or a large number of non-capes, at least until he graduates. He turns the comm on and describes the situation - a bit over a dozen people on each side, arguing and brandishing blunt weapons and in some cases guns - then waits and watches.
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[personal profile] thinkering 2016-01-31 07:19 pm (UTC)(link)
"If Echo started acting out of character, we've hung around her enough to notice. And her established character is 'be a Ward'."
mxglam: ((j) :|)

[personal profile] mxglam 2016-01-31 07:21 pm (UTC)(link)
"Huh. I'd expect suddenly being triggered by a random thing to be more common than anything that could leave enough time to be detected like that."
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[personal profile] thinkering 2016-01-31 07:22 pm (UTC)(link)
"If it turns out she can't stand being around the color chartreuse and it will drive her to murder, we're doomed. If the branding lady gets on her nerves, we have an opportunity to detect that."
mxglam: ((b) :D)

[personal profile] mxglam 2016-01-31 07:23 pm (UTC)(link)
"...chartreuse is a color?"
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[personal profile] thinkering 2016-01-31 07:25 pm (UTC)(link)
"It's not a very pretty one, either, but I think it has a low rate of driving people to murder."
mxglam: ((j) :|)

[personal profile] mxglam 2016-01-31 07:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Glam looks slightly unfocused for a moment - or their emoji-face does, at any rate - then they tilt their head. "Apparently I cannot produce chartreuse-coloured stuff using that as a parameter."
mxglam: ((d) >;))

[personal profile] mxglam 2016-01-31 07:29 pm (UTC)(link)
"Anyway, I'd thought light green was a calming colour, though now that I think of it I don't think I've seen many Protectorate buildings coloured that. ...what kind of colour is chartreuse even?"
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[personal profile] thinkering 2016-01-31 07:30 pm (UTC)(link)
"Light green. Well, yellowy light-green."
mxglam: ((b) :D)

[personal profile] mxglam 2016-01-31 07:30 pm (UTC)(link)
"Oh. Well then."
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[personal profile] thinkering 2016-01-31 07:32 pm (UTC)(link)
Patrol patrol.