[Smug] Quest

NOT DEAD! JUST REALLY BAD AT UPDATING ON TIME!

You considered screwing with Jean-Paul via superior video game skills, but ultimately decided against it. Repetition is boring. Why not put your new look to work instead?

And that's why you had a few other outfits with you, including a work-in-progress cape outfit as you flew to Albany. It took about half a minute, and no person or camera ever noticed you, since you had telekinetically dispersed the sonic boom as it happened.

Settling down on cleanest and most deserted back alley you could find, you considered taking the slinky red dress and cigarette holder, but decided against it….people would find it suspicious when they started hearing Jazz in their heads, let alone their own voice going into a monologue.

Tight Jeans, blouse, and jacket it is then. Somehow this still cost over four hundred dollars. Or it would if you hadn't simply made all of it do the Fortnite dance all the way out of the shop with no one the wiser.

Now clothed for the right impression, you walked over to Guy's Burger and Fries, went in and ordered yourself a large combo, then sat at your new party member's booth. His barely-hidden lust for your large fries was written all over his face; being on the run he could only afford the burger and nothing more. You turn your head down to take a bite of your burger-Oh that's good. Taste is such a wonderful experience. And Jean-paul just stole two of your fries. All proceeds as according to the scenario.

You decide to focus on eating your burger first, masking your pleasure. It's one thing to pre- or postcog eating something good, and another entirely to do it. Shame. Otherwise you'd be postcogging these constantly. At least thanks to your physiology you can eat as many as you want without affecting your figure.

Speaking of your figure, it appears that Jean-Paul's finally done focusing on the fries and has now turned his eyes on you. Oh just one more bite, and yup, there we go, he's gone from simply staring to suspicion. Time to speak up then. You mimed looking around to make sure there weren't any eavesdroppers. "I'm sure you're wondering what all this is about."

Jean-Paul's eyes narrowed "Yeah?" and now he's trying to probe your body with his power. You make sure to telepathically fake the signals back to him for "working on it" and raise your eyebrow.

"Well, to be brief, we'd like to hire you for a team. You'll be paid a $2000 retainer and bonuses for certain jobs, nothing too high profile. Deniable assets."

"Nah, don't feel like being someone else's cannon fodder."

"I assure you, deniable does not mean expendable."

"What's the difference?"

Hrm, exasperation should work best here, along with a touch of cute. "Well, for one, deniable simply means there's no way of proving we're actually working for who we are. In practice either I or another member of the Team will act as team leader. Expendable means they don't care enough that they can throw you into suicide missions. We're the former, not the latter." Oh, your burger's sauce is starting to drip out. Such a waste. You'll grab another one later. Now for the coup de grace. "Oh and yes, we'll protect you from dear old dad."

Jean-Paul recoiled back as if slapped at that. "Y-you.."

"Yes. I do. Like I said, we'd like to hire you for a team. We know what you can do Jean, and we're interested in having someone with your capabilities on our side, which does involve protecting our investments. We could, for example, set you up with a better identity than just a fake ID you bought off a guy for twenty bucks."

Jean-Paul opened his mouth to retort, but paused before anything actually came out. He's already sold, but he doesn't want to look desperate. Well, best wrap this up before people notice him repeatedly trying, and failing to say anything.
"We also have an Xbox."

"I'm in."


[Smug]

With that, you have a four-man team already. But it'd be so much better if you could grab Noelle too. Simply offering the cure is more than enough to get her to join up, but handling her team would take more finesse. You don't want to simply hijack the entirety of the Travelers after all.


How will you deal with recruiting Noelle?


[]Meet with her without the others noticing, cure her, and whisk her away in the middle of the night. The Travellers will panic, and search everywhere for her.

[]At the very least, leave some explanation, some parting words from Noelle, and a picture of her in her new outfit. (What kind of savage wouldn't offer her some new pants?)

[]After it's been decided, wait with Noelle for her to say goodbye before leaving, but without really giving the other Travellers a say in the matter. Trickster would alienate himself from the rest of the team and Noelle as part of his obsession.


[]Meet with the Travellers, offering the cure in exchange for one of them working for your employer. They won't like it but they'll accede.

[]Set the scenario up so that they'll try to take the cure by force, giving you an excuse to make fools out of them. This will intimidate most of them away from trying anything rash to get her back.


[]Write ins are always an option.


[]Oh yeah, and un-Ziz bomb the lot of them. No point keeping them wound up after you re-purposed the payload. Should further reduce Trickster's whole obsession problem and help them operate as long-distance acquaintances.


[]Use TK in the future to make sure your sandwiches don't break apart.


Your cape name will be:

[]Paragon

[]WRITE IN: I'm not good with names.


Your Costume will be:

[]Write in: Seriously there's so many options and I'm not very imaginative.


Actually come to think of it your team are all costumeless right now.

[]Write in: Include the name of the cape. (Noelle = Persona, Alec = Twitch, Uber and Leet also need better "Default" costumes).


Also, Jean-Paul's new fake ID can be anything you write in or Alec.