endbringer, meet gun

[peterxy]

...Very unseasonable rains can be seen in the distance from the shores of Acapulco.

The Brockton Bay Protectorate starts organizing volunteers to be transported or teletransported in batches to it. Heroes, rogues, villains, anyone's assistance is appreciated. A rendez-vous point is set for non-Protectorate capes wishing to volunteer, and Protectorate capes are informed of the situation via communication devices.

Comments

[mxglam]

"...yyyyesss, that is. Uh. I am slightly confused. In specific that you're even talking to me, I mean, I guess now you're probably certain enough that I'm not about to go on a killing spree if you tell me to go duck myself, right?"

[thinkering]

"I don't hate people, I just think I can pick people to talk to better on my own time and when not distracted by an obligation to attend to fourth percentile agemates stumbling through Midsummer Night's Dream."

[mxglam]

They laugh. "Maybe I should feel flattered that you haven't told me to go duck myself, then."

[thinkering]

"You make decent conversation and we can talk shop, which I can't do out of costume."

[mxglam]

"Not even with the other Wards?"

[thinkering]

"I don't unmask. Most of them do but I don't."

[mxglam]

"Oh. Why not? ...doesn't your dad?"

[thinkering]

"Yes, which means several people have already been over to our place for dinner and know who he is and therefore who I am, and that's already too many."

[mxglam]

"And why do you avoid this particular thing this much?"

[thinkering]

"Because you only get to tell a secret once per person, and I'm not in for life unless I die an unusually untimely death."

[mxglam]

"You're not?"

[thinkering]

"Can you really see me turning eighteen and swearing in?"

[mxglam]

"...okay, point. If I joined the Wards I'd probably swear in, unless I already had quite a lot of attention already."

[thinkering]

"I owe it a fair shake, and some people really need the structure or the support, but I don't."

[mxglam]

"Do you have actual plans for when you graduate?" Pause. "You're you, of course you have plans, what a stupid question."

[thinkering]

"Why thank you."

[mxglam]

"You're welcome. Care to share with the class?"

[thinkering]

"I will still show up to Endbringer fights and I will become stupidly rich selling useful things to people."

[mxglam]

"Sounds pretty good, I suppose. Though I'd peg you as one to go the Sphere way."

[thinkering]

"I'm not sure if I can stretch to space colonization. I'll try it when I have better than Ward budget to play with, but it's not natural to me."

[mxglam]

"I meant it more like, creating stuff that will help usher humanity to a new era of peace, prosperity, and growth."

[thinkering]

"What says I won't? It's not incompatible with becoming stupidly rich."

[mxglam]

"I guess, though I'd've mentioned it first if I were describing it."

[thinkering]

"The key to my basic strategy is that tinker tech needs the tinker tech to maintain it, but I think I can get at least three layers deep - robots maintained by robots that are maintained by robots that I maintain. Possibly include 'create' as well as 'maintain'. I can get good distribution that way. What I distribute is still up in the air."

[mxglam]

"...I wonder if you could create a loop."