peterverse | endbringer, meet gun

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...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.

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From:

mrglam

One looks expectantly at two, who shakes his head. They both sigh in unison.

From:

thinkering

"Come on, you just compared yourself to my bots, they're networked up all the time."

From:

mrglam

"We meant it more in how we're non sapient constructs with a personality that exist because of powers," says two.

"But in theory we could have this," one says, and he's holding an earpiece that's the twin to one that appeared in two's left ear.

"That was me, by the way," says zero.

"It's really weird that we can make stuff like this appear this easily but not believe our copies telepathy," one muses.

"...it is weird," zero agrees. "You're not actually any different than the earpieces."

"Maybe it's a subconscious expectation thing?" asks two.

From:

thinkering

"Imagine your duplicates are telepaths. They don't use your power per se so why shouldn't they have their own?"

From:

mrglam

"Why shouldn't we indeed," agrees two.

"Whisper me something," asks one.

From:

thinkering

"Newt," she whispers.

From:

mrglam

One dutifully squints at two.

"...newt?" tries two.

"Yes!" beams one.

From:

thinkering

Lorica applauds.

From:

mrglam

Two grins. "I can't report on the subjective experience of that because, well."

"We don't have any," supplies one.

From:

thinkering

"Now, can you do that with zero?" Whisper: "Sprocket."

From:

mrglam

Zero furrows his brows.

One disappears.

Two blinks. "What."

From:

thinkering

"...Did that like. Let you absorb his memories, or was it squinty problems."

From:

mrglam

"No new memories," says zero.

"I think it was the squint thing," supplies two.

"We never actually did try using an earpiece, did we?"

"...that could probably be what would have happened if we tried."

From:

thinkering

"Why? Other accessories work, why not communicators? They're not even technically complicated if you go with a walkie-talkie."

From:

mrglam

"Well, the squinting threshold seems to be 'much more detail than you'd get from looking from a reasonable distance,' so maybe that counts for sounds or... other kinds of information, too?"

From:

thinkering

"Okay, we can fold that into the range tests, then."

She checks to see how the robots playing catch are doing.

From:

peterxy

They seem to be pretty successful in their catching!

From:

thinkering

Even when they're trying to miss?

From:

peterxy

If they try really hard to miss, they'll miss, but things a regular human wouldn't notice to be odd will make them less likely to succeed at failing than they otherwise would.

From:

thinkering

"Also, you seem to be successfully helping the robots catch things. Now try and make 'em miss."

From:

mrglam

He does. Those robots are so clumsy anyway, of course things will slip.

From:

thinkering

The robots pass each other the golf balls from short distances and work their way up, taking data.

"So the thing with range tests is that if your range requires visual contact but seems like it might be longer than the longest hallway in HQ, we have to go out, and you are not currently allowed out in costume. But we can postpone that until you've resolved your branding issue."

From:

mrglam

It is really easy for them to miss unless they try to quickly counteract the ways in which they're missing, which are: a bit more momentum than expected causing it to slip out of each, small changes in expected trajectory, etc.

Zero nods, and two pipes up with "I wanna be just copy now."