[Smug] Quest
- Thread starter Serialkilerwhale
- Start date
- Superhero
- Location
- Kansas
[X] Regent
-[X] Twitch
So anyone wanna tell us the travelers original purpose was? Fraid I haven't read worm yet.
-[X] Twitch
So anyone wanna tell us the travelers original purpose was? Fraid I haven't read worm yet.
Serialkilerwhale
Whale, whale, whale, what do we 'ave 'ere.
- Location
- Here
Good news everyone! I remembered how to tally votes.
- Location
- New York
- Pronouns
- He/Him
Ohh, if wanna tease with names, and be vaguely game related, we could be Avatar.
Or maybe something Japanese because we're a weeaboo?
Or maybe something Japanese because we're a weeaboo?
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Serialkilerwhale
Whale, whale, whale, what do we 'ave 'ere.
- Location
- Here
Guys. Guys. We'll have an actual vote on this after the Noelle chapter.
But do keep spamming names out. I'll try to remember all of em when I make the options for the vote.
But do keep spamming names out. I'll try to remember all of em when I make the options for the vote.
Serialkilerwhale
Whale, whale, whale, what do we 'ave 'ere.
- Location
- Here
It just occured to me I never asked anyone how they wanted to approach Alec.
[]Same as Leet, show him up at video games (at an arcade game since he's more-or-less on the run)
[]I roll to seduce.
[]Secret agent shit. You know, leaving a burner phone with a number in his pocket by bumping into him. You might need to wear something less flattering so his eyes are somewhere else.
[]Leave clues for Heartbreaker, then save Alec from his dad's agents.
[]Sit down next to him in a burger joint and ease the conversation into a recruiting pitch.
[]Just walk up to him while he's alone and use your amazing powers over the mind to do it. You're bored with this recruiting thing.
[]Write in.
[]Same as Leet, show him up at video games (at an arcade game since he's more-or-less on the run)
[]A light gun game in an arcade.
[]Some kind of nondownloaded browser game. He's playing in a library.
[]Plug n Play Flash Drive with an FPS in it.
[]Some kind of nondownloaded browser game. He's playing in a library.
[]Plug n Play Flash Drive with an FPS in it.
[]I roll to seduce.
[]This one can basically be applied as a bonus to any of the others.
[]You know what'd be a perfect way to introduce yourself? Kidnapping.
After you kidnap him, leave him in a bare room with an Xbox 2000 and a copy of Doom.
[]Secret agent shit. You know, leaving a burner phone with a number in his pocket by bumping into him. You might need to wear something less flattering so his eyes are somewhere else.
[]Leave clues for Heartbreaker, then save Alec from his dad's agents.
[]Sit down next to him in a burger joint and ease the conversation into a recruiting pitch.
[]Just walk up to him while he's alone and use your amazing powers over the mind to do it. You're bored with this recruiting thing.
[]Write in.
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- Location
- New York
- Pronouns
- He/Him
[X]Sit down next to him in a burger joint and ease the conversation into a recruiting pitch.
-[X] Tell him it's a whole team of gamers and nerds, how overpowered we and Persona are (skip how we haven't recruited her yet), how we're gonna be equipped with ridiculous tinker-tech, and then end with the salary. His job is to be the snarky slacker who mocks the rest of us doing hard work while he 'supervises.'
Maybe offer him a tinker made stranger gear to hide his identity but I'm not sure we should say anything about heartbreaker.
-[X] Tell him it's a whole team of gamers and nerds, how overpowered we and Persona are (skip how we haven't recruited her yet), how we're gonna be equipped with ridiculous tinker-tech, and then end with the salary. His job is to be the snarky slacker who mocks the rest of us doing hard work while he 'supervises.'
Maybe offer him a tinker made stranger gear to hide his identity but I'm not sure we should say anything about heartbreaker.
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[X]Same as Leet, show him up at video games (at an arcade game since he's more-or-less on the run)
[X]A light gun game in an arcade.
[X]I roll to seduce.
[X]A light gun game in an arcade.
[X]I roll to seduce.
Genesis: 1.2: Twitch Stream.
Serialkilerwhale
Whale, whale, whale, what do we 'ave 'ere.
- Location
- Here
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.
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.
Liz is a precog. She's allowed to reference future memes because she's already seen them. Also, apologies for being so late again. City of Heroes popped up out of nowhere and well, it's been half a year. I got a little carried away riding that nostalgia train. On a brighter note, I've figured out what keeps making this fic seem so weird. It's the hardcore 1rst-person perspective. I'm probably going to drop into more describing what people do and less just purely operating for a person's stream of consciousness.
[X]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.
[X]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.
[X]Use TK in the future to make sure your sandwiches don't break apart.
[X]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.
[X]Use TK in the future to make sure your sandwiches don't break apart.
- Location
- New York
- Pronouns
- He/Him
[X] Plan SMUG
-[X] Bring the cure to Noelle in secret, ask her to be the public leader of your team. Leave them a message and a picture of her new getup.
-[X] Deprogram the Travellers so they aren't insane. Especially Cody if he's still around.
-[X] Actually, we could set the Travellers up to be a rival team. A running joke where they're constantly trying to rescue Noelle even though she's publicly our leader, embarrassing and exasperating her, while the Travellers inadvertently act like (incompetent) heroes to our joking but somehow successful villains.
-[X] Cape Name: Paragon
—[X] Costume: White and Black with silver trim, almost an inverse mirror of Alexandrias costume, with the helmet replaced with a reflective mirror mask stopping above the mouth, and the tower symbol replaced with a glowing sword with a +1 next to it.
-[X] Persona: Similar to Yu's Persona 4 outfit, black pants, black jacket, black shoes, white shirt, white gloves. Simple and clean, with a blank white full face tinker-tech mask that she can see through. The mask should be adjustable on the fly to show whatever Persona wants to show, usually the classic theatre masks but also more complex images.
-[X] Twitch: Stylized human nervous system over black and white outfit clothes, that lights up wherever he's messing with his target, similar to how Battery's tron costume lights up with her charge. Some tinker-tech, seems to have staticky electric discharge from power use to help mask identity. Actually, why not throw in taser gloves and tech to throw stunning electric blasts while we're at it. Also electrifies enemies who try to attack him. Make people think he's an electric cape.
-[X] New ID: Alec Hebert. A distant relation from the grandparents past indiscretions. For shits and giggles.
-[X] Uber & Leet: Identical costumes with reversed colors, but leave them to change it up as appropriate for the mission at hand.
I'm open to cape names that somehow mock or one up Alexandria, the infinity +1 sword is all I got for now. I'm willing to change the sword if people think it's too much, but we did vote for a weeaboo.
Going for a fairly professional and coordinated look, clean and streamlined outfits centered around black and white. Ziz gets silver, maybe each member should get their own third color?
What third colors do you think would be good for each member?
-[X] Bring the cure to Noelle in secret, ask her to be the public leader of your team. Leave them a message and a picture of her new getup.
-[X] Deprogram the Travellers so they aren't insane. Especially Cody if he's still around.
-[X] Actually, we could set the Travellers up to be a rival team. A running joke where they're constantly trying to rescue Noelle even though she's publicly our leader, embarrassing and exasperating her, while the Travellers inadvertently act like (incompetent) heroes to our joking but somehow successful villains.
-[X] Cape Name: Paragon
—[X] Costume: White and Black with silver trim, almost an inverse mirror of Alexandrias costume, with the helmet replaced with a reflective mirror mask stopping above the mouth, and the tower symbol replaced with a glowing sword with a +1 next to it.
-[X] Persona: Similar to Yu's Persona 4 outfit, black pants, black jacket, black shoes, white shirt, white gloves. Simple and clean, with a blank white full face tinker-tech mask that she can see through. The mask should be adjustable on the fly to show whatever Persona wants to show, usually the classic theatre masks but also more complex images.
-[X] Twitch: Stylized human nervous system over black and white outfit clothes, that lights up wherever he's messing with his target, similar to how Battery's tron costume lights up with her charge. Some tinker-tech, seems to have staticky electric discharge from power use to help mask identity. Actually, why not throw in taser gloves and tech to throw stunning electric blasts while we're at it. Also electrifies enemies who try to attack him. Make people think he's an electric cape.
-[X] New ID: Alec Hebert. A distant relation from the grandparents past indiscretions. For shits and giggles.
-[X] Uber & Leet: Identical costumes with reversed colors, but leave them to change it up as appropriate for the mission at hand.
I'm open to cape names that somehow mock or one up Alexandria, the infinity +1 sword is all I got for now. I'm willing to change the sword if people think it's too much, but we did vote for a weeaboo.
Going for a fairly professional and coordinated look, clean and streamlined outfits centered around black and white. Ziz gets silver, maybe each member should get their own third color?
What third colors do you think would be good for each member?
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Redking0380
Lost In The Rain
- Location
- Wet
Can we just have the cape name be
Super
Mega
Ultra
Goddess
Becuase why not?
Super
Mega
Ultra
Goddess
Becuase why not?
Just from a quick google search (lel), I think we should call ourself Palatine, as in Count Palatine, which is higher-ranked than a Count.
Serialkilerwhale
Whale, whale, whale, what do we 'ave 'ere.
- Location
- Here
Now that I think of it, I actually did come up with one idea. Not actually for [Smug] quest but remember how I said I was wasting a month+ in City of Heroes?
Also,
Some would consider that name... unatural.Just from a quick google search (lel), I think we should call ourself Palatine, as in Count Palatine, which is higher-ranked than a Count.
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First off. unnatural has 2 n...
Holy crap, I didn't even think about that! Imagine, we could introduce ourselves as "Count Palatine: The Senate to my friends."
Our Star Wars Memes will be far beyond anyone else's!
[X] Plan SMUG MVP
-[X] Bring the cure to Noelle in secret, ask her to be the public leader of your team. Leave them a message and a picture of her new getup.
-[X] Deprogram the Travellers so they aren't insane. Especially Cody if he's still around.
-[X] Actually, we could set the Travellers up to be a rival team. A running joke where they're constantly trying to rescue Noelle even though she's publicly our leader, embarrassing and exasperating her, while the Travellers inadvertently act like (incompetent) heroes to our joking but somehow successful villains.
-[X] Cape Name: MVP
—[X] Costume: White and Black with silver trim, almost an inverse mirror of Alexandrias costume, with the helmet replaced with a reflective mirror mask stopping above the mouth, and the tower symbol replaced with a glowing #1.
-[X] Persona: Similar to Yu's Persona 4 outfit, black pants, black jacket, black shoes, white shirt, white gloves. Simple and clean, with a blank white full face tinker-tech mask that she can see through. The mask should be adjustable on the fly to show whatever Persona wants to show, usually the classic theatre masks but also more complex images.
-[X] Twitch: Stylized human nervous system over black and white outfit clothes, that lights up wherever he's messing with his target, similar to how Battery's tron costume lights up with her charge. Some tinker-tech, seems to have staticky electric discharge from power use to help mask identity. Actually, why not throw in taser gloves and tech to throw stunning electric blasts while we're at it. Also electrifies enemies who try to attack him. Make people think he's an electric cape.
-[X] New ID: Alec Hebert. A distant relation from the grandparents past indiscretions. For shits and giggles.
-[X] Uber & Leet: Identical costumes with reversed colors, but leave them to change it up as appropriate for the mission at hand.
Because I am a lazy hack too in love with the cape name I came up with, and a minor adjustment to costume.
-[X] Bring the cure to Noelle in secret, ask her to be the public leader of your team. Leave them a message and a picture of her new getup.
-[X] Deprogram the Travellers so they aren't insane. Especially Cody if he's still around.
-[X] Actually, we could set the Travellers up to be a rival team. A running joke where they're constantly trying to rescue Noelle even though she's publicly our leader, embarrassing and exasperating her, while the Travellers inadvertently act like (incompetent) heroes to our joking but somehow successful villains.
-[X] Cape Name: MVP
—[X] Costume: White and Black with silver trim, almost an inverse mirror of Alexandrias costume, with the helmet replaced with a reflective mirror mask stopping above the mouth, and the tower symbol replaced with a glowing #1.
-[X] Persona: Similar to Yu's Persona 4 outfit, black pants, black jacket, black shoes, white shirt, white gloves. Simple and clean, with a blank white full face tinker-tech mask that she can see through. The mask should be adjustable on the fly to show whatever Persona wants to show, usually the classic theatre masks but also more complex images.
-[X] Twitch: Stylized human nervous system over black and white outfit clothes, that lights up wherever he's messing with his target, similar to how Battery's tron costume lights up with her charge. Some tinker-tech, seems to have staticky electric discharge from power use to help mask identity. Actually, why not throw in taser gloves and tech to throw stunning electric blasts while we're at it. Also electrifies enemies who try to attack him. Make people think he's an electric cape.
-[X] New ID: Alec Hebert. A distant relation from the grandparents past indiscretions. For shits and giggles.
-[X] Uber & Leet: Identical costumes with reversed colors, but leave them to change it up as appropriate for the mission at hand.
Because I am a lazy hack too in love with the cape name I came up with, and a minor adjustment to costume.
Serialkilerwhale
Whale, whale, whale, what do we 'ave 'ere.
- Location
- Here
Well, Plan Smug wins by plurality. Shame we didn't get more voters but I suppose I'm to blame for that.
Ah well, writing now. This time it shouldn't take nearly as long.
Ah well, writing now. This time it shouldn't take nearly as long.
- Location
- Earth, Sol System, Milky Way Galaxy
Costume:
—[X] An exotic futuristic bodysuit in reminisce of angels of the old testament, with an armor in facsimile of a valkyrie. It's colors are White and Gold that turns Blue and Black at a different lighting, for some reason. Oh and there will be a knight-like visor for a helmet.
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I don't like this quest. It's smug aura mocks me..
—[X] An exotic futuristic bodysuit in reminisce of angels of the old testament, with an armor in facsimile of a valkyrie. It's colors are White and Gold that turns Blue and Black at a different lighting, for some reason. Oh and there will be a knight-like visor for a helmet.
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I don't like this quest. It's smug aura mocks me..
Serialkilerwhale
Whale, whale, whale, what do we 'ave 'ere.
- Location
- Here
Update: Threw the last draft out because I couldn't get Noelle's character right last week. Shouldn't take too long now that I have the skeleton drafted and a more comedic tone to offset the character thing.