branding lady, meet meek little lamb

[mxglam]

Glam isn't allowed to actually patrol the following day (it's a Sunday), so they mostly browse the 'net and read books. Echo's busy with her family (and she is allowed to go out patrolling), and Lorica's... doing something.

They're slightly worried about the fact that Yates hasn't replied to their email, but it's the weekend, so maybe that's why.

Has she replied to the email by Monday?

Comments

[alicornucopia]

"It's a completely bullshit power!" objects Boots. "The rest of us do like one or two things!"

[msglam]

"Mine's also just one or two things, just applied very creatively." With a few very serious drawbacks, one of which caused them to be stuck with such delightful company. "If anyone has completely bullshit powers it's Tinkers."

[alicornucopia]

"Lorica couldn't pretend to be two totally different capes," says Boots.

"She could if she really wanted."

"She couldn't, her specialty'd give her away."

[msglam]

"Her specialty's automation, I can think of a few ways to spin that into very different effects and she's more creative than me, she probably could as well."

[mrglam]

"What's your actual power, Boots?"

[alicornucopia]

"Strength. Mostly in my legs," Boots says. "'S good for kicking and jumping around."

[mrglam]

"You also have higher upper-body strength?"

[alicornucopia]

"Yeah. Not as much but some."

[msglam]

"You could have one identity that's more of a Mover, using the leg strength to run really fast. Maybe not as fast as Velocity, but since you keep your strength while you're running there'd be some parkour as well and you'd be a more effective actual combatant."

[mrglam]

"The other identity would be more similar to your current one, perhaps with Tinker-made armor that could give you more of a Brute category. If you also worked a lot on your aim, you could kick other stuff at people."

[alicornucopia]

"Lorica won't make me anything," Boots says. "Armsmaster either."

[msglam]

"My point was more that sometimes powers can have more room for variation than we think of at first. Also that with Tinkers everything's possible but either they must be really interested in helping out or you must have money for that, so not much of a point in itself other than 'Tinkers have really broken powers.'"

[alicornucopia]

"Lorica makes stuff for her dad but not anybody else," sighs Windflower.

[mrglam]

"I'd be more than happy to provide but my stuff only lasts half an hour after I stop paying attention."

[peterxy]

"But if you go out on patrol with someone else in your Glam persona you could probably help them out," Dauntless points out.

[alicornucopia]

"What kinda Tinkery stuff would you make?" wonders Boots.

[msglam]

"Depends? Can't be anything that gives very detailed feedback, my power doesn't like it when people squint too hard at it, but when I started out I was using Tinkery stun guns."

[alicornucopia]

"We know how that went," says Boots darkly.

[msglam]

[mrglam]

"That problem has been patched."

[msecho]

"Lorica?" Echo guesses.

[msglam]

She nods.

[alicornucopia]

"Why does Lorica help you?" wonders Windflower.

[msglam]

"I... never actually asked." Which means she never asked what the public story would be. "We ran into each other a few times, she helped me out with the Leviathan laser, my power allows for a lot of creativity and she likes testing it? I'm not sure."

[alicornucopia]

"I've got a guess," sneers Boots.