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[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

[thinkering]

"...Rephrase?"

[mrglam]

"If Jack's the thing holding her back from the killing sprees she used to go on before she joined the Nine, trying to use their relationship and that control against them might be a bad idea."

[thinkering]

"I mean, unless you could hijack it to the point of further containing her."

[mrglam]

"Hijack Jack," he snorts. "But yeah, hmm, that sounds difficult."

[thinkering]

"Pun unintended. And yes, since you don't know how it even hypothetically works."

[mrglam]

"I mean it could very well just be psychology, I hadn't thought it could be a power until you suggested it."

[thinkering]

"If it's a power it could also be keeping him alive with that kind of price on his head."

[mrglam]

"Yeah. A thinker power? For knowing how to make people do what he wants them to do? It'd have to be really subtle for no one to have ever noticed it. And you'd probably be immune."

[thinkering]

"I would, so maybe I'd have a mysteriously easy time assassinating him, but that leaves the rest of the Nine to contend with."

[mrglam]

"Which, if I can Siberian around, might be quickly reduced to just the real Siberian."

[thinkering]

"Buuut then we have a real Siberian."

[mrglam]

"Yes. Yes we do. I wonder if my Siberian could damage that one?" Pause. "It totally could."

[thinkering]

"However, if, say, the real Siberian wrecks all the cameras in sight thereby escaping with no implications about the strength of your version, we continue to have a real Siberian."

[mrglam]

"Ergo the cameras shouldn't be in sight. I don't think she's ever shown any thinker abilities that would give her a leg up on other people when it comes to detecting hidden surveillance. And when my Siberian is fighting her, she'll presumably be pretty busy with it."

[thinkering]

"It's still dicey."

[mrglam]

"Yeah. Cameras can multiply, though, I could conjure bots along the way, as long as I have one eye on the scene and one unsupervised place, I can keep a constant number of cameras around, plus more than one Siberian keeping the real one occupied."

[thinkering]

"You might have to be hypnotized to pull it off."

[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."