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

[thinkering]

"Good question. Can you copy him? He's got a set of my armor too, bot could run it. Actually, can you copy him without his target choice limitation, better yet."

[mxglam]

"Uh, I can't copy his actual power."

[thinkering]

"Inconvenient. Work on that. Hmm."

[mxglam]

They giggle.

"Hmm... It's kinda annoying that Velocity can't carry people while superfast."

[msrewind]

"Can't your dad just rescue one and then the other?"

[thinkering]

"Only if the pathing works out right, and we can't count on that. Can you do a speedster without that problem, Glam? Seems less complicated than doing a teleporter, I know you can do Brutes..."

[mxglam]

"I can't do Velocity-level speedsters but might be able to do someone fast enough to surprise Lung if need be."

[thinkering]

"Invisible speedster, maybe."

[mxglam]

"I haven't yet figured out how to make something invisible. I managed to get the next best thing, though, like the camouflage of those hybrid monkeys."

[thinkering]

"Probably won't cut it, he may have multiple sets of eyes on the place, this is a gang leader we're talking about..."

[msrewind]

"He's not a leader yet, kind of a lieutenant really."

[mxglam]

"...how do you know that?"

[msrewind]

"I've been kinda keeping track of the maniac who knows my face and has a grudge."

[thinkering]

"Well, anyway, he's a cape in a gang and may be presumed to have mook privileges."

[mxglam]

"Right. Hmm, well, suppose I do an almost-invisible speedster and Transit arrives. Do I bring the two to him? What goes wrong in that scenario?"

[thinkering]

"They're rigged to explode?"

[mxglam]

"...uh."

[msrewind]

"I don't think Lung would do that..."

[thinkering]

"Maybe he has smart mook privileges. Anyway, explosions in particular aren't the only nasty thing that could be set up to happen should they be moved."

[mxglam]

"Uh, yeah, I don't really have an obvious idea of how to deal with that."

[msrewind]

"Well, if he explodes them, I tie their pieces together and boop them back to health, minus bomb."

[thinkering]

"You don't fix blood loss," Lorica reminds her.

[msrewind]

"Yeah, but if I get to somehow... like... gather all the blood in a bag and then tie the bag to the pieces... I can boop the whole thing together?"

[mxglam]

"...we might need a more airtight idea than that."

[thinkering]

"Especially since you'd have to do this blood collection in hostile territory with an angry Lung breathing down your neck."