philadelphia, meet chevalier

[peterxy]

The next few days proceed as normal.

Until they don't: the Philadelphia and Brockton Bay teams have been talking, and they're thinking of trading Chevalier with a couple of Wards. Philadelphia has quite a selection of them, including a couple who triggered during the Behemoth attack on Pittsburgh, while Brockton Bay has the opposite problem.

The current Philadelphia Ward lineup is:

• Laser Tag, a Tinker who specializes in weapons that have cumulative effect. He has a laser gun that causes various conditions on its targets each time they're hit, usually taking them out on the third or fourth hit.
• Clasp, a Breaker-Blaster-Striker who can cause objects to be almost weightless and much more resistant to damage for as long as he's holding them. He can only do that to one object at a time, and the weightlessness of the objects he holds means he can both throw them very far or use them to hit things. He can also apply this property to his costume, rendering him much more resistant.
• Mirage, a Mover-Stranger who can toggle invisibility for a very short time when no one's looking and can teleport within her line-of-sight while in that state.
• Glimmer, a Brute-Mover who can create a forcefield around her own body that makes her glimmer and become very resistant and slippery.
• Transfer, tentatively rated as a Blaster-Striker who can draw heat from a source and then dump it somewhere else, or conversely dump extra heat somewhere that he'll later have to replenish.
• Blockage, a forcefield Tinker whose forcefields can absorb any impact but disappear upon doing so.
• Lightbulb, a flying-artillery type of Mover-Blaster that can shoot balls of kinetically charged light whose path he can influence as it flies through the air.
• Iter, a Thinker precog who can see where objects are slated to be up to ten seconds in the future, similar to the way Rewind sees the past.
• Silica, a Master who can animate statues made of sand. There's no limit to how many statues she can animate, but there is a limit to the volume of sand she can control at a given time.

Comments

[mrglam]

"Well, I would, but I am oh so happy you're this way."

[thinkering]

"Good."

[mrglam]

"You're the best," he says, and takes another bite of- whatever, he's not even playing attention at this point, the only reason he's not fidgeting restlessly is that he's keeping himself purposely as still as he can.

[thinkering]

Slow agonizing dinner draws to an eventual close, and Bella looks contemplatively at her boyfriend.

[mrglam]

Her boyfriend looks at her with a certain look she might recognize.

[thinkering]

Various evil behavior ensues.

[mrglam]

He is really happy about various evil behavior.

[thinkering]

That's the point. Well, about half of the point.

[mrglam]

And the other half?

[thinkering]

The other half is the Bella is also enjoying it.

[mrglam]

Ooh! Yes, naturally, that's a good half.

Sadde is also wondering whether the 'I love you' part implies anything about this evil behavior.

[thinkering]

Well, the implication might or might not be more than coincidental, but...

[mrglam]

Ooh.

Ooooooh!

Sadde loves her so much.

[thinkering]

She loves him too! She reminds him of this. Periodically. At opportune moments.

[mrglam]

Oh good! Not that he's likely to forget, but my, does he like being reminded. He would also like to pay her in kind.

[thinkering]

That is entirely permissible.

[mrglam]

That makes him even happier.





...he wonders idly whether any of those things he showed her that one time might see some use.

[thinkering]

Maybe.

[mrglam]

Oh my. Oh my.

Not that they can use the imaginary ones, because that kind of use causes what counts as squinting, but he has somehow gotten his hands on real ones.

[thinkering]

Well, then if he presents them to her she might have to see what the fuss is about.

[mrglam]

Might she.

Well, there is this one he'd love her to use on him...

[thinkering]

She's in a mood. It is a compatible mood.

[mrglam]

He might just have to kiss her a lot before they get to use it because she's just great.

[thinkering]

Mmmmm, kisses.

[mrglam]

Yes!

But then, they do get to use it, and. It is so much better than he could have ever hoped.