peterverse | brockton bay, meet glam

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It's the anniversary. Glam would very much not like to celebrate.

It’s their last day on Winslow High - they’re being transferred to Arcadia on Monday - and also their last day without a patrol schedule assigned.

And the PRT released a small announcement on its website about Glam joining the Wards. Now their wiki page doesn’t get erased, of course - they’re no longer speculative. They wonder what it’s got on them.

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From:

thinkering

"You're in a good mood."

From:

mrglam

"Well, it's because all those times I talked about building a reputation by taking Purity down I'd been joking. Have you seen the news? And the PHO Forums?"

From:

thinkering

"No, but I take it you like what they're saying." Sandwich. Munch munch.

From:

mrglam

"I doooooo!" he singsongs as he floats about. "I mean, I didn't take her down by myself of course, but people watching the footage are all going 'the heroes don't look like they did much, they mostly fought dragon guy, Lorica and Glam did most of the work with Purity' and the tinfoil hats are going wild on what I can or cannot do." He is currently sitting cross-legged in the air, and hanging upside down.

From:

thinkering

"I should've thought of decoy bots sooner."

From:

mrglam

"They were a very good idea. You and I are the best paaaaair!" He's rotating this way and that as he says it.

From:

thinkering

"Do you want to see bot footage of the seven minutes you missed?"

From:

mrglam

Blink. "Oh, yes, definitely. Missing seven minutes of my life is annoying, next time I'll get her and lock her up, ugh."

From:

thinkering

The display on the wall shows what he missed, shifting view as bots are disabled or lose a good angle on the action.

From:

mrglam

He watches. He furrows his brows when he watches himself leave an obvious opening for Purity, but when a mirror appears there as she blasts him he grins. "Oh that was a good idea!"

He continues watching and providing similar commentary on the parts he missed, giggling when he makes the neon 'STUN GUN' sign appear for the first time. At some point the fight becomes what he's seen on the news footage, with more parts that were edited out, and then he remembers everything.

From:

thinkering

"I'm a little worried about the stun gun thing having been loudly advertised twice. I don't know if anybody on the field was paying close enough attention or speculating very much, but..."

From:

mrglam

"Well, the news footage only caught the second time, and I played it off on the forums as being because 'it sounded funny at the time and could distract or confuse the enemy.' And given that Rewind" to whom they'd given a name during debriefing "had booped me, I don't know if it's that relevant that it happened twice."

From:

thinkering

"Doing it once makes... some sense. Doing it twice makes it look potentially important. You were operating without remembering having done it, but you didn't act otherwise exactly alike each time."

From:

mrglam

"Yeah. I mean, my reasoning was the same both times I presume, even if the battlefield had changed enough that all my actions weren't. But yeah, you're right."

From:

thinkering

"So cross your fingers, hope everybody who's anybody knows now that you're partial to stun guns, and don't repeat yourself."

From:

mrglam

"Yes, definitely don't repeat myself. Unless Rewind can send me like days into the past, in which case she's absurdly terrifying and needs to be taken down immediately."

From:

thinkering

"I think she's limited to ten minutes, but she might have been handicapping for some reason. Anyway, you still shouldn't repeat yourself days in the past because she only sends back the things she touches and everyone else will still remember, but I suppose you won't remember being told so if it happens."

Edited Date: 2016-02-14 07:04 pm (UTC)

From:

mrglam

"Pretty much. If I'm ever sent back into the past and you're in a position to do it remind me of it, please?"

From:

thinkering

"Will do."

From:

mrglam

He sits on the ceiling and conjures a ping-pong ball, which he starts tossing from one hand to the other, as if gravity was upside down for it.

"So, whatcha makin'?"

From:

thinkering

"Replacement robots. I've been poking at the central software enough that I think it can handle a couple dozen now, but I have to build 'em."

From:

mrglam

"Oh. And you can't mass produce them? Like, make a sufficiently detailed list of instructions that another bot could follow them and it'd be algorithmic enough that it wouldn't have room for creativity, or something?"