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]

"Oh don't get us wrong, it's a great idea."

"But we will not say anything more because our mind just went to places you consider weird."

"Except for: no, we are not talking about doing anything that Branding would care much about."

"...she might."

"Okay, granted, she might, but-"

"Let's shut up."

"Anyway yes it's a fantastic idea but I'm unclear on how to convince Yates without telling her about my power and especially if it turns out that she won't accept any configurations other than me being two people."

[thinkering]

"What does the being two people or not question have to do with internet celebrity?"

[mrglam]

"Well it'll only strengthen those particular aspects of my power and not my power in general."

[thinkering]

"So the two of you have compatible tastes in Internet celebrity and start a series together," she shrugs.

[mrglam]

"That'd be pretty neat actually."

"Though still nowhere near the extent of my power."

"But I guess after I graduate and go all Fusion Dance in public," and both of them touch the tip of their index fingers to mime it, "it'll be easy enough to convince people I can do anything."

[thinkering]

"Yeah. 'I have been secretly these two entire Wards all along and that's not all folks'."

[mrglam]

They both beam.

[thinkering]

"Bot can help you script if you want."

[mrglam]

"Heck yes," they say in unison.

[thinkering]

"Good. It'll draft a request to Piggot for whenever you're set up to establish a coherent set of personas."

[mrglam]

"Rad."

"So: more power testing?"

[thinkering]

"Are we not out of indoor things? What else can you think of?"

[mrglam]

"We didn't actually-"

"No, we did."

"Yeah, technically not a test but-"

"Yeah, out of indoor things for now."

[thinkering]

"Do I wanna know?"

[mrglam]

"We were saying that we didn't actually test how my attention thing works and why sometimes thinking about stuff lets it stay but sometimes it doesn't."

"Except all our findings are consistent with it being a range thing, which apparently cannot reliably be tested indoors."

[thinkering]

"Okay. So, that's for later, timing to be announced, I'll let you know."

[mrglam]

"Okay."

"So we're done here, then?"

Why, it almost sounds like they want to go somewhere else do something.

[thinkering]

"Yeah, you are free to go, run along."

[mxglam]

"Okay!" they say, simultaneously resuming being a single person and a they. "Thank you for the help! It was fun and we should definitely do this again."

Are they innuendo-ing? Very slightly?

Possibly.

[thinkering]

"I'll try not to overbook my schedule."

[mxglam]

"Bye!"

Off they go.

Eventually they resume being multiple people, and start exploring just how much they can stretch the definition of 'sufficiently hard squinting.'

[alicornucopia]

They receive a note under their door saying that they should show up for dinner to be formally introduced at seven in the larger breakroom (not the one for just the Wards).

[mxglam]

They will eventually notice the note. Probably before seven.

And they'll be there, prim and proper and single.

[alicornucopia]

Everybody's there. Even Lorica is there, with her helmet partly peeled open as it is when she's eating, although it throws shadows in such a way that nothing about her chin is actually displayed. She's sitting next to her dad, at the wards/grownups division at the table. A couple of PRT people are there, but not Piggot and not enough to be the entire Brockton Bay contingent of them. Dinner is lasagna plus a bizarrely extensive array of fruits and vegetables. Lorica, her dad, and Beneficence are the only ones wearing masks. A couple of attendees (Windflower and Chevalier) are only identifiable by process of elimination.

[mxglam]

Glam wonders whether there's anything they should be obviously doing like introducing (if everyone stops talking to stare at them) or getting food (if there's an obvious seat reserved for them).