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

[thinkering]

"I'm so glad. So. How many of you can you make at once?"

[mrglam]

Pop!

...pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop...

They don't actually pop when they appear, and the overall effect is as if there had been a crowd of Saddes there all along but they had just neglected to notice them.

"...I could probably do more," original says.

[thinkering]

"So that will have to wait till we have more room too."

[mrglam]

"Yeah," says the one remaining copy after all the others are gone.

[thinkering]

"The robots are having trouble playing catch. So you can definitely affect things you didn't make," she adds.

[mrglam]

"Rad!"

[thinkering]

"Yeah. The effects are sort of subtle, almost like the golf balls are being knocked around by wind or slightly greasy or something, but they're definitely there."

[mrglam]

"Mmhm."

"You know what I just noticed?"

[thinkering]

"No, what?"

[mrglam]

"I managed to make one and two's earpieces."

"And we weren't in his field of vision when he did that."

[thinkering]

"Ooh, nice!"

[mrglam]

"I think 'attention' is the key here? Sorta like, knowing where a thing is or ought to be even if I'm not directly looking at it?"

[thinkering]

"Maybe you could get a boost from, like, a map, or an HUD like mine."

[mrglam]

"I've tried doing it over live video and that didn't work, though."

[thinkering]

"I meant within whatever it turns out your range is, but really? How far was the place you were looking at?"

[mrglam]

"Well, far. I was using one of those websites that show a feed of random cameras and tried to make a can of Coke appear in Philadelphia. It was night and such, no one was really around, and I tried to make it appear in a couple more-or-less hidden places."

[thinkering]

"Okay, so you can't reach Philly. But I can hook you up with camera feeds that go wherever you like, if it turns out you can work through cameras over shorter distances. I'll rig up something simple in time for our outdoorsy power testing session."

[mrglam]

"...we could try something really short-range? Like, maybe just outside this room? No reason to try outdoorsy stuff if it turns out I can't do it through cameras at all or something."

[thinkering]

"Yeah, okay, I'll send a bot down the hall and it can project what it sees in here?"

[mrglam]

"Works."

[thinkering]

Out buzzes a bot through the cat door. The screen shows its view as it zooms down the hall into the break room.

[mrglam]

Are there other people in the break room?

[thinkering]

A fourteen year old girl who's probably Windflower, looking pensively into a teacup. She looks up at the robot and says something, but the bot isn't transmitting audio. She looks back down after time for a reply to have been offered.

[mrglam]

"Did you tell her I'd be trying to make something appear there?"

[thinkering]

"The bot told her I was seeing if you work through cameras."