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.

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[thinkering]

And eventually, once again: snuggles.

[mrglam]

Mmm snuggles!

[thinkering]

"Love you," she says tiredly.

[mrglam]

He hugs her. "And I'm totally awake and not dreaming or hallucinating this in any way, my life's great. Except for the brushes with death part, those aren't that great, but the other parts: great."

[thinkering]

"The brushes with death do seem to rev me up. I mean, there's other ways to do it, but still."

[mrglam]

"Hmm, yeah, that's true, the last time it happened we started dating. This is a terrible incentive."

[thinkering]

"Do not follow this incentive, Sadde."

[mrglam]

"Well, now that we're already dating and I can already rev you up just by being cute around you at the right times, I think I prefer that."

[thinkering]

"Good."

[mrglam]

Snuggle.

"My brain's kinda funny right now."

[thinkering]

"Hm?"

[mrglam]

"Half of it is in this afterglowy peace and warm fuzzy, and the other half is screaming and running around in circles that this is really happening, and it makes me want to giggle randomly."

[thinkering]

She kisses his forehead.

[mrglam]

Awwwwwww!

Snuggle.

[thinkering]

Snuggle.

And eventually disentanglement and getting back into her clothes and her armor and going to get her dad to take her home.

[mrglam]

This time Sadde doesn't pout, because 1. she should spend time with her family after a brush with death and 2. it'd feel ungrateful for- well, everything.

[thinkering]

Good. Pouting is only sometimes becoming and it is correct for him to have a sense of timing.

And the next day is a normal day, with Lorica spending a chunk of it fixing robots, although most of them actually came through okay.

[peterxy]

And like most normal days, there's patrolling.

Today, she'll be patrolling with Glimmer, who should have a few rounds with everyone else so she can get to know the team and the city better.

[thinkering]

Yep.

A couple minutes before they're due to go out Lorica finds her to make sure she's suited up and ready to go.

[peterxy]

She is! The last thing she does is put her glasses away and put on her contact lenses because god she hates those things, but glasses are only partially covered by her forcefield and it's really annoying and hard to see with them when they interact, ugh.

[thinkering]

And they're off, surrounded by spaced-out robots humming through the air.

[peterxy]

Glimmer's fast, but she can't fly, so they're close to the ground.

[thinkering]

Suits Lorica fine. Some of her bots range high to compensate.

[peterxy]

Patrol patrol. Glimmer's pretty quiet, and when she does speak it's to ask, "What can you tell me about the city?"

[thinkering]

"Layout, culture, criminal activity...?"