lung, meet rewind

[msrewind]

She gets the note just before lunch. She's in the PHQ in less than twenty minutes, then she knocks on Piggot's door politely.

Comments

[mrglam]

"Probably. If you're the one running the show I might even become immune to Jack, too, if it is some power he has."

[thinkering]

"Depends how it works. And whether he can use it nonsubtly if he wants."

[mrglam]

"Speculating about all the possible ways his hypothetical extra power could work is probably not gonna get us anywhere useful."

[thinkering]

"Probably."

[mrglam]

"Speaking tactically, we - my Siberian - could probably get rid of Winter, Skinslip, and Screamer fairly easily, once we had a bead on them. Nice Guy and Miasma, we'd definitely need you."

[thinkering]

"I don't know if I'd do anything about Miasma, but yeah, if I ever catch Nice Guy alone he's Dead Guy."

[mrglam]

"You'd probably be able to actually see Miasma, which is the only reason he's as hard to kill as he is."

[thinkering]

"I don't work on people who turn legitimately invisible, just people who make it so you can't see them. No idea which he is."

[mrglam]

"Oh. Hmm, then I suppose the best way to deal with him is sneaking up on him, he only turns invisible while he's using his gas power."

[thinkering]

"Yeah, tag him with a tracker or something."

[mrglam]

"...next time we do the hypnosis thing, you need to try to convince me to make an invisible bot."

[thinkering]

"Oooooh."

[mrglam]

"I managed to do something almost invisible by mimicking those stupid monkeys, surely I can do the real deal."

[thinkering]

"When do you wanna try it? What else should we try while you're under?"

[mrglam]

"Whenever, and I'm not sure. Can you think of something that'd work on Miasma?"

[thinkering]

"Spiderweb sorta thing, if he moves it tells you where he's at."

[mrglam]

"Ooh. I don't think I'd need to be under for that, though? I can just," and there's a spiderweb and a little black widow between his raised index and middle fingers.

[thinkering]

"Did you have to include the spider? Did you have to include that spider?" exclaims Lorica, sitting up in bed.

[mrglam]

The spider disappears and he sits up, too. "Sorry! It's a fake spider, it wouldn't do anything! But sorry."

[thinkering]

"Yeah, I know, it just startled me and I'm mostly naked which is not a condition in which I like to encounter spiders. I don't mean actually a spiderweb, anyway, more like a three dimensional grid."

[mrglam]

He makes the spiderweb disappear, then brings both hands together and spreads them apart, generating a spiderweb-like thing between them. "What properties should this have?"

[thinkering]

"Maybe it can constrict suddenly if something touches one of the strands."

[mrglam]

"Hmmm... Without an actual mechanism for that it'd be relying on my and whoever-else's expectations."

[thinkering]

"Okay, maybe it does need a spider in it. For effect."

[mrglam]

"But then he'd notice the wires and not actually be tripped by them."