peterverse | philadelphia, meet chevalier

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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.

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From:

msglam

And Sadde socializes with Annie, as well, because that's what she does. The new Wards spend the following few days getting acquainted with the other team members, going out patrolling or just being shown around. Sadde tries to be as welcoming and friendly as she can, making sure the other two are feeling comfortable and all that.

Rewind is her somewhat boldly irreverent self, acting as if there was nothing new and as if Glimmer and Silica had been there since always, to varying types of reactions from each of them.

From:

mrglam

And one of these days, early enough in the morning that this is the first thing he does after leaving his room, he knocks on Lorica's workshop's door.

From:

thinkering

Bots let him in. Lorica's there eating breakfast. "Morning."

From:

mrglam

"Good mooorning, love. You know what day it iiiiis?" he says, hovering in.

From:

thinkering

"Tuesday?"

From:

mrglam

"Yes! Aaaaand it's been a month."

From:

thinkering

"Oh. So it has. How do you want to conduct the announcement?"

From:

mrglam

"I haven't actually thought about it, I'm mostly just very giddy about it and think I deserve a cookie for my having correctly predicted it. Not much more than a cookie, it wasn't such a hard prediction to make, we're meant to be after all."