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

[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."

[mrglam]

"Oh. Does she know what I do?"

[thinkering]

"She didn't ask, so probably, but don't make anything more startling than a Coke, please."

[mrglam]

He nods, and expects.

The can of Coke is there.

[thinkering]

"Awesome!"

[mrglam]

Sadde continues expecting.

Nothing happens.

"Can you tell her the can of Coke will start sliding a bit and not to be startled? Mostly I just want her to believe that will happen."

[thinkering]

The image of Windflower looks at the bot again, and nods.

[mrglam]

More expecting! Even copy looks expectant.

And it does move.

[thinkering]

"There it goes."

[mrglam]

They beam. "Okay, guess my flying swordfishes won't need antigrav devices!"

[thinkering]

"They might be useful backup. It's not like you're bearing materials cost for them. But yes, you are slightly telekinetic."

[mrglam]

"I wonder if I can be telekinetic at stuff I didn't create. The way I convinced myself I could be at mine was that, well, if I can create stuff wherever, I should be able to keep it wherever."