brockton bay, meet glam

[mxglam]

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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[mxglam]

"Er. Yes, okay, I amend the question to 'should I take him up on it, would that hurt my chances with you?'"

[thinkering]

"Little bit, yeah. How much depends on other details."

[mxglam]

"Hrrm. Details like what?"

[thinkering]

"...I'm really uncertain how much detail it's appropriate to go into here."

[mxglam]

"...alright, for the time being there will be no makeouts."

[thinkering]

"I can't exactly quantify into numerical terms how good your chances are to begin with," Lorica says. "It doesn't necessarily make sense for you to be - I probably should've just told you to go ahead."

[mxglam]

"I'm not sure you get just how bad I got it."

[thinkering]

"Maybe I don't. But still."

[mxglam]

"Eh. For now, don't think it's quite worth the risk. Dauntless is cute but that's about the extent of it."

[thinkering]

"How did this even come up?"

[mxglam]

"It didn't actually come up, I was just talking to him and it occurred to me that he's graduating so there won't be as many opportunities in the future." Pause. "I mean, I wouldn't even be thinking about it if past interactions didn't lead me to believe he'd be willing, but."

[thinkering]

"I've never known Dauntless to be a casual makeouts person."

[mxglam]

"He probably isn't, I don't think it'd be as easy as coming up to him and asking, but before I decided to actually, you know, invest any time in it, I wanted to ask."

[thinkering]

"Gotcha."

[mxglam]

"Let it never be said that I'm not at least trying to think about things before doing them."

[thinkering]

"This isn't exactly the same as previous recklessnesses, but noted."

[mxglam]

"True, I suppose."

[thinkering]

The party goes on pretty late. Then everybody goes home.

[peterxy]

A few days later, a woman checks in to a hospital with very severe withdrawal symptoms, but the tox screen does not find anything. Once she's coherent enough to communicate what happened, she says she has not voluntarily taken any drugs, but was dosed against her will with something very strong while walking back home.

She also got a note with a time and a place she had to be if she wanted to get more of that drug.

[thinkering]

And that's why Lorica's sitting on the roof near the intersection in question, frowning at it.

[mxglam]

And it's why Glam's waiting there, looking exactly like the lady from the hospital, and imitating the symptoms she'd been showing after the worst of withdrawal was through.

At the exact time written on the note...

No one shows up.

However, a bizarre winged half-rat-half-plant hybrid creature comes from an alley, flying low and dropping a syringe with a note attached to it in front of Glam before starting to fly away between the buildings, keeping to the shadows.

[thinkering]

A robot chases it.

Lorica drops to the ground beside Glam to look at the note.

[mxglam]

The note contains another location, a time closer to now than now was to the day the woman was dosed, and names a considerable sum of money.

The creature goes through tight alleys and stops to hide a lot before checking with echolocation whether the area's clear. On one of those checks, it notices Lorca's bot and starts fleeing.

[thinkering]

The bot chases it faster.

"Somebody must've made that thing. I don't think it fits any known villain powersets. Or for that matter rogues."

[mxglam]

When the thing notices it won't be able to escape it runs headfirst onto a wall. It does not survive impact.

"I didn't see it very well, what was it? I thought it was a bat."