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And honestly, that was probably why Dragon was irritated at herself, because it was that basic.
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The Simurgh has been around for nearly a decade at this point. Masters and their abilities have been common knowledge since much longer. There should not be any way for them to overlook this by the simple fact that this insight should been written down and become part of anti-master training many years ago.
Everyone in command of this endeavor should be seasoned professionals who have access to a trans-national network of experts to learn about masters. Given the prevalence, any PRT-equivalent should have basic anti-master tactics as part of their training, including the concept of masters implanting commands to thwart efforts against the master/mastering.
So they are incapable of Basic errors?
There is also presumably not a whole lot of people involved to try to keep groups like the Fallen from finding out.
And then there is the fact that no-one was able to just break master effects like the duo is able to do, meaning this isn't exactly familiar territory for them either.
Cave_Canem
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Yeah, this relies on the Masters knowing there even is someone with anti-master powers in order to give the instructions to do anything about it, which before this point hasn't really been a thing.
And it would be against the point of the Simurgh bombs because the whole issue with them is that you can't tell they've been mastered until they get triggered, so giving them instructions to give themselves away by fighting against anti-master stuff seems counterintuitive.
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♦ Topic: Inari Travelling?
In: Boards ► Places ► America ► Brockton Bay
Bagrat (Original Poster) (Veteran Member) (The Guy in the Know)
Posted On May 28th 2011:
Ok, so not totally sure this is going here, but Team Inari is a local thing so I figured posting about them here makes the most sense. Since, y'know, that's where a lot of their follower base is.
So, a little while ago, about... two and a half hours, or so, Team Inari was spotted heading to the PRT building. Not necessarily unusual, given that they seem to work with the PRT quite a lot on things, but as you can see in the picture (courtesy of my roommate who was just getting up for work) there's no Swarm.
It's a little unknown for a bit, but then pretty soon after a Dragoncraft was seen taking off from the roof of the building, and Inari haven't been seen since then.
Does anyone have anything else?
Edit 1: A little bit of info from TheOneDropBear, over in Australia, mentioning that the Dragoncraft was apparently spotted over there.
Edit 2: Swarm dropped in to give us a bit of info.
Edit 3: Inari's been spotted back in the Bay, pretty damn late at night too- it's now 11:30pm- and as ShibaSmoosh posts, Shadow looks pretty out of it. Still looking for more info on what happened, but apparently whatever it is absolutely destroyed her from that perspective.
Edit 4: O-kay, due to more info revealed here, this thread is now closed to further replies and we've moved everything over to this thread instead.
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►Noveltry
Replied On May 28th 2011:
I'm just saying, there's no evidence that Inari left with the Dragoncraft. For all we know, maybe it's completely unrelated.
►ElvisIsntReal
Replied On May 28th 2011:
mabe the dragoncraft is taikng inari away to find why shadow was able to hurt levithan! the thing isnt normal nooone can hurt teh endbringers theyre tring to tkae them away to make other capes albe to do that as well!
(Edit- remainder of post removed by Moderator. Please be polite, and keep the crazy conspiracy theories out of the thread. Also stop with the graphic descriptions of things, it's implied that these Capes are minors and there are minors on this site. Have a three day cooldown threadban, maybe when you come back you'll be able to behave- CheeseChaser.)
►Deimos
Replied On May 28th 2011:
Whoa- seriously, dude, that's not cool. Don't go saying things like that, there's a lot of younger folks here and a lot of fans of the group, there's no reason to go being so violent about things!
Annnd Stranger'd by a mod, so luckily most people won't see that. Good job, CC.
►TheOneDropBear
Replied On May 28th 2011:
A'ight, so about a half hour or so ago, I happened to be out and about doing a bit bird watching- yes, shut up, it's a passtime- and spotted what looks to be a Dragoncraft flying overhead. No pictures, it was gone before I could think to do that, and Im basing this off of stuff I've seen about on PHO before, but that suer looked like a Dragoncraft and it was moving quick.
No idea where it's heading, but if it's going that quick then it must be pretty damn important.
►Bagrat (Original Poster) (Veteran Member) (The Guy in the Know)
Replied On May 28th 2011:
Thank you, @TheOneDropBear, I've added that into the main post.
So given that it seems possible that Team Inari, minus Swarm for whatever reason, are travelling out with Dragon for some reason? Or at least a Dragoncraft, suppose it doesn't necessarily have to have Dragon piloting it, that's what computers are for when you're a Tinker. That opens up a bunch more questions; why're they travelling with each other? Where are they going? What is it they're doing? What sort of thing could they have come across that means Inari needs to go along? Why isn't it being brought to the Bay if they need Inari to look at it?
So many questions. Maybe @Swarm can help there?
►bothad
Replied On May 28th 2011:
mayeb swarm is being left behind too keep an eye on the bay since inari isnt there
►Swarm (Verified Cape) (Team Inari)
Replied On May 28th 2011:
@Bagrat I'm not sure how much I'm allowed to officially say about everything, sorry. I can say that Eon and Shadow have gone with elsewhere in that Dragoncraft, that the PRT was helpful enough to arrange it for them, and that it is something that only they can help out with. It's also something that can't be transported to Brockton Bay, sadly, so they've gone out to help. And @bothad above is right, I'm hanging around in the Bay to keep an eye out for trouble.
Once Eon and Shadow get back, I'll speak with them about what I can post for you all.
►Bagrat (Original Poster) (Veteran Member) (The Guy in the Know)
Replied On May 28th 2011:
@Swarm thanks for the info, I've added the post link to the main post. Certainly that's interesting, and I guess it's understandable that you can't necessarily talk about some of it- even if we all really want to know! Hopefully when Shadow and Eon get back they'll be able to let you post more.
No pressure, though!
►FirstofMayuary
Replied On May 28th 2011:
Man, this is interesting to see. Inari- well, Shadow and Eon, at least, travelling out of the country altogether. I didn't realise they'd do that- most Capes don't tend to leave the city they're in unless they're part of a group like the Guild, from what I've seen. Or are supervillains.
Or I guess Protectorate transfers.
Ok maybe the moving happens more often than I thought...
►Chilldrizzle
Replied On May 28th 2011:
Still, it's interesting that it's Inari doing it. Sure they've not been on the scene for very long, but I wouldn't've expected that any of them would be leaving the city for... well, anything. If they were planning to move away I would've expected them to have done that before they ended up with Swarm on the team. I wonder what it is that they're doing... I guess it makes sense that there's nothing more to say at least for now, though. Maybe this is a sign that Inari is going to start working more closely with the Guild and PRT? That might be neat.
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►Acree
Replied On May 29th 2011:
I mean, for all we know this is only going to be a one-off thing, and it's not like there's a hitlist going for things, is there? And I somehow doubt that they'd be pulling ideas off of PHO for one even if there was.
►CheeseChaser (Moderator)
Replied On May 29th 2011:
Mod warning- Please bring things back a bit, we're starting to head towards a derail. No specific warnings yet, but this thread is about Inari going out of country, not about making a list of targets that they should be going after if they're travelling about.
Especially since inference says that they're rather young for the most part, and a lot of these threats are incredibly powerful and dangerous.
►Singlet
Replied On May 29th 2011:
Not like any of them are more dangerous than an Endbringer, though.
But all jokes aside, I get what you mean, CheeseChaser. Shadow's a kid, Swarm looks to be fairly young, and for all we know Eon's a kid as well, just more mature. Making a list of Capes we'd want them to be going after is absurd, guys, so tone it down.
Trying to bring it back on topic, though; we know they're in Australia, so the real question I've got is how long are they going to be there? Obviously it's not some permanent move because they have a team here and are starting to build some connections with New Wave and the PRT as we've seen in other threads, but we've got no idea how long they might end up being in Australia.
►Dangler
Replied On May 29th 2011:
we dont know it's not a permanent move though. could be leaving Swarm in the bay to make up her own bit of team while they go places..
►ShibaSmoosh
Replied On May 29th 2011:
So, just happened to be taking a look out of my window before going to sleep, and I saw this coming out of the PRT building down the road.
Sorry about the quality being a bit poor, my phone camera's not the best, but that looks to be Eon and Shadow making their way down the street, yeah? Well, keep watching, because look at that!
Shadow keeps stumbling about and shaking herself, and right before I ended it because they were going down an alley, Eon put his tails around her and brought her over to his side.
What the hell happened in Australia that means Shadow's this obviously exhausted? Even some of the few reports we have from after Leviathan don't put her as this tired, and she blasted an Endbringer!
Whatever this is, it's big.
►Answer Key
Replied On May 29th 2011:
Oh wow, that's pretty bad. Like, impressively so, actually. What on earth would they be doing in Australia to cause this?
►Bagrat (Original Poster) (Veteran Member) (The Guy in the Know)
Replied On May 29th 2011:
Thanks for the video, @ShibaSmoosh, I've added a link to your post in the original post.
And yeah, like Key says, that brings up a bunch more questions about what on earth was going on in Australia that means that Shadow is exhausted, and Eon is acting incredibly defensive of her. Just looking at the way he's looking around as he leads her away is like he's on high alert, looking for any possible sign of a threat, and he's got some of those flame orbs floating around as well. You can actually see Shadow reach out and take one of them at one point, which is interesting because she immediately absorbs it. Obviously that's not new info, we knew the two of them could absorb fires, but we also know that absorbing a fire like that is a thing that Eon and Shadow use for powerups of some sort.
Which makes me wonder; was Shadow so tired that she needed to be given extra fire in order to get back to their base?
►ChocChipCookie
Replied On May 29th 2011:
Oh no! I hope they're doing ok. Shadow looks so tired... I really hope that she recovers quickly. What was the PRT doing, letting her get so tired?
►GellSine
Replied On May 29th 2011:
Damn, that looks pretty bad. I hope she's ok as well.
►AussieAstound
Replied On May 29th 2011:
Ho. Ly. Shit.
Everyone. Stop what you're doing right now and look at this.
Yes. This is what you think it is. There's an entire flood of people coming out of the Simurgh Containment Zone.
What the hell is going on?!
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►Tin_Mother (Moderator)
Replied On May 29th 2011:
Alright, by order of moderators, any discussion about the recent incident at Canberra is to go in it's own dedicated thread here. For safety's sake, I'm also going to lock this thread here, because I know some people won't pay attention to the moderator posts and then get mad because they get told off for posting in this thread when they're not supposed to.
Once things cool down I'll probably open this thread again for discussion to continue, assuming that it even can have a discussion that isn't about what just happened in Canberra.
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Taylor closed out of the PHO tab with a small shake of her head, not even thinking about clicking on the link to the thread about Canberra. She knew they'd have to look at it eventually, just so that they could start trying to respond to things- both in thread and while on patrol- but for now the thing could wait. They'd get into that when Eon and Shadow showed up at the house later that morning.
Standing and stretching, the insect controller took a cursory look around the block and made her way downstairs, to where her dad was just finishing up a late breakfast.
"Morning, Taylor." He greeted.
"Hey, Dad." She smiled, sitting down as he placed a plate in front of her.
"Are your friends coming over today, dear?"
"Hopefully?" Taylor shrugged, starting onto her eggs. "Shadow's probably still absolutely exhausted, so she might still be asleep right now."
Danny glanced at the clock, which said that it was nearing ten o'clock. "Still?"
"She was shattered, Dad." Taylor insisted. "I'm surprised Eon was able to get her back to the Den without carrying her, and that was apparently after she slept away the entire return flight."
Danny grimaced. "Damn, that's... impressive." He looked at the clock again. "In that case, are you sure they're coming?"
"Eon said they would be." She shrugged. "We need to look over the Canberra announcement thread at some point, just because we're undoubtedly going to get asked about it the next time we end up on patrol. Even if the only thing we end up saying is variations of 'no comment' we're still gonna need to know what they're saying about it all online, just in case."
Her father grimaced again, looking a little sad. "I'd be sorry about the fact that you have to think about that if it wasn't for the fact that you're doing so much good with it." He sighed. "You've done a wonderful thing here, Taylor. Don't forget that."
"I didn't really do much with this one, it was mostly Shadow with some of Eon, but thanks." Taylor said, looking away with a blush. "I like to think I'm doing more for the city..."
"You all are." He told her. "It's incredible what you've managed to do, even just messing up the Merchants. The ABB have gone quite passive because of your friends, and even the Empire seems to be calming down just because of everything- probably because they don't want to draw attention to the group that's so willing and able to just waltz into places and take things."
She laughed. "Fair enough. I think we'd go after them if Eon wasn't so against it. Mostly because we need to keep more neutrals in the party than opponents. Also the Merchants are easy targets. They're so drugged up they don't tend to notice that we've raided them until after we've already left."
He laughed, then took a bite out of his toast. "That's fair." He nodded, after he'd swallowed. "And if you had to target someone I suppose the Merchants are good enough. They cause so many problems..."
"Any drugs we take we tend to dispose of in various ways. Sometimes burning, though giving them to the police is a better way even if they can get stolen back." Taylor shrugged again. "They at least know how to get rid of them properly."
Danny looked like he was about to reply, only to be interrupted by a quiet knock at the back door. Taylor put down her fork and headed for it, peering out to the window and seeing the faint shimmer of something silver through it. She opened the door just enough for Eon to slip through, being careful not to catch his tails when she closed it again, leaning there as he walked in.
"Hello, Eon." She greeted lowly. "No Shadow?"
The Ninetales gave a slightly amused, slightly worried grin. "No, Shadow's here." He smiled, using Extrasensory to lift the Treasure Bag off of his back and place it gently on the floor. Opening it with a paw, he held it stable and lifted out a bundle of blankets far too big to fit in there, with gentle snoring coming from inside it.
Taylor chuckled, while Danny stared. "The bag's bigger on the inside, Dad." Taylor explained, reaching down to take the bundle, placing it on her lap as she sat down and went back to eating. "I think there's still some eggs left if you want them, Eon." She offered.
"No thank you, I ate earlier. Shadow's eaten as well, before she fell back asleep." He shook his head, curling up on the floor next to the table. "She's alright, still exhausted and a little cold, but fine. I fed her some Yache Berries this morning, they're made to raise Ice resistance by raising body temperature, which'll help a bit with her inner flame. Hopefully she'll be ok in a little while, though. Again, she just needs more sleep."
"That's good." Danny replied, after a moment. "If the PRT asks you to do another one soon, would she be able to?"
Eon went quiet for a moment, his tails swinging back and forth, staring at the bundle of blankets and Vulpix napping her way through the day. "...Possibly." He mused, quietly. "If she keeps resting, then yes. But... there's other containment zones that're older and a lot bigger. If this one knocked her out so badly, I'm worried about bigger ones."
"Well for one, making her take more breaks would be good." Taylor said, putting her fork down and resting a hand on her forehead. "And... are you able to help?"
"I did while we were in Canberra, though not anywhere near as much." Eon informed her. "It's more difficult for me to do that, requires more focus. Shadow practised with the mixed attack until it's almost second nature for her; I've seen her use that by accident, in fact. It takes more time to focus to make that work for me. Moves aren't meant to be used at the same time, not really. Linking them is difficult and usually requires outside help unless you do what Shadow did."
"That's... interesting." Danny frowned. "But you'd be able to do it even so."
"Yes. I wouldn't be able to do it nearly as quickly as Shadow, but I can." He sat up, rolling his neck, and looked between Danny and Taylor. "Which brings me to something else I'd like to ask."
The pair swapped a look. "Ok...?"
"Next time we're asked to go to a containment zone, I'd like Swarm to come with us."
Taylor blinked. "What?"
"Why?"
"Because as much as I hate the idea of putting one of my team mates in danger like that, it'd be helpful." Eon sighed a little, sweeping his tails back and forth across the floor. "If we delegate the team security to Swarm, then I don't need to worry about that, and can help with the healing without needing to worry about how tired I get. I can afford to wear myself out mentally focusing on using both Moves at once, because I know Swarm is there as security."
"But the PRT at the zones are providing security as well, right?" Danny reminded. "And you have Dragon."
"PRT troops can be manipulated, or could be traitors. And not that I don't trust Dragon, I'd feel better to have a member of my own team backing us both up. Betrayals can happen, after all."
The Ninetales shifted, slightly, as Taylor and Danny exchanged looks. "That... makes sense." Taylor acknowledged slowly. "But that doesn't mean Swarm would be of any help. I mean, it's bugs. Surely the entire team has better cameras?"
"Honestly, it's less about watching an area in that case, and more about being able to intercept an attack." Eon sighed again, looking incredibly tired. "If there were more of us, I'd split it so I had a supporter and Shadow had one. Preferably even more than that. But since there's only the three of us, I need to do what I can. And annoyingly, that's taking Swarm. She can block an attack fairly well, by getting bugs in the way or wrapping things up in spider silk or something. It'll give us the ability to take some attention off of defending ourselves. If Swarm looks after Shadow, and I take whoever the escort is, then we both have someone to keep an eye on us-"
"What about you?" Taylor interrupted. "You're talking about protecting each other within the team, but you'd be going alone."
"Honestly I'm more worried about Shadow." He gave the blue blanket on Taylor's lap a look. "She's got... well. She has a tendency to throw herself into things. Especially healing. I'm... not sure why, but it happens. She likes to help people, sometimes a little too much. She doesn't take as much care of herself as she should. With a team mate there to keep an eye on her, I'd feel a little more secure, especially if it's you. You can keep an eye on a lot at once, so she'll be safe and also watched over. I know my limits, especially when using this Move combination. Shadow seems not to."
"So you more want me there because Shadow scares you, and you're worried that she won't keep an eye on herself."
Eon blushed, a little, and nodded. "In essence."
"That's fine, then."
Danny chuckled slightly as both Taylor and Eon blinked, looking up and over at him. "I might not totally like the idea of my daughter going halfway across the world for any reason, let alone to enter a Simurgh Containment Zone, but on the other hand, I trust you. I trust that you'll keep her safe, that the PRT and Dragon will do everything they can to keep you safe there if only because you're the only people who can do this for anyone, and as far as they know there's no-one else."
"It also helps that Shadow managed to beat the crap out of Leviathan, and she's the healer by both our admissions." Taylor interrupted, running a hand down the blanket. "They know I'm just a normal Cape, nothing special, but you and Shadow are like end-of-the-world grab bags, and if Shadow's better at healing than you then that leads to them wondering how much better at combat Eon is. Because, well, you don't put someone on healing unless that's what they're better at, right?"
"That is how it works on our team, yes." Eon nodded. "Some teams are different, preferring that everyone is a combatant, but in Inari if you're better at healing than fighting you heal, not fight. We make sure you can fight, just in case, but mostly that's not your job. Of course, the PRT doesn't know that..."
"But they do know that Shadow's the healer, and Shadow's powerful. But by putting Shadow in with Panacea during Leviathan, we basically put out the message that you were the fighter, not her. Which is going to worry them." Taylor frowned a little. "I think we got a bit distracted there. Anyway, I guess if Dad says it's fine, then sure, I'll come along next time. If it means that we can get more people healed without needing to practically knock Shadow out for two days, then I'm all for it."
"Alright." Eon closed his eyes for a moment. "I'll speak to the PRT about it when they next get into contact about everything. Tell them that you're coming with to provide extra security, because I'm going to be working with Shadow to heal more. They'll accept that, I'm sure."
"Probably, yeah." Taylor nodded, smiling. "Anyway, onto other things!"
"Oh?"
"There is so much PHO to read." She told him. "It's slightly ridiculous. Someone spotted you and Shadow going into the PRT building yesterday, so then there was a lot of speculation on that, and then someone else spotted you and Shadow coming back from the PRT building, which led to all the speculation on what you were doing with the PRT and why Shadow had ended up so tired, and then someone else posted in that thread about the deconstruction of Canberra, which utterly derailed the thread until the mods locked it. Now there's another thread for that, but I haven't looked at that one yet. I was going to wait until you got back." She shifted a little to stretch, only barely remembering at the last moment to be wary of the bundle of blankets on her lap. "So, want to go take a look at that now? I read through the thread already, the first one, and I made a list of things we might want to respond to, but obviously that got shut now. We can go read through the new Canberra one together, though, and make a new list of questions. Or just start a new thread, post a statement about what's gone on, and then use that."
Eon tapped a paw on the floor, slowly. "I think it's likely best that we read the thread first, even if we end up starting our own thread to reply to it rather than posting in there." He decided. "It's probably a good idea to know what sort of things people are saying before we make our own statement."
"What about the PRT?" Both conscious members of Team Inari turned to look at Danny, who rested his elbows on the table and his head on his hands. "They probably want you to be careful with that information, right? What happens if you aren't?"
"I think we can make our own decision on what we announce, and then we can allow the PRT to make their own public announcement." Eon said firmly. "We are a separate team, they cannot control what we announce about our team. And they shouldn't even try. We'll be discreet, for Shadow's sake. But we're not going to hide what we're doing. We can't, people have seen, and we shouldn't even try."
Taylor nodded. "It's important that people know. We can fix Simurgh bombs, Dad. It's- people should know about that, for sure, not just in rumours. And if the PRT don't agree then they can go to hell."
Danny stared at the two of them for a short while, silent. Then laughed. "I suppose that's fair." He smiled. "Go get to your reading, you two. Are you planning to stop for lunch, or are you going to go out in costume to show the flag and get food?"
"We'll likely stop for lunch, if you don't mind." Eon answered. "Because if I'm any sort of judge of the public, the thread for Canberra is gonna take a while to read, and then we need to figure out answers for things and post them. But we could head out to patrol about a bit this evening and do dinner out, if you'd like?"
The last part of his question was aimed at Taylor, who lifted one shoulder in a shrug before picking Shadow up from her lap. "That's fine by me, I don't mind patrolling and I sure don't mind takeout. What if Shadow's not awake?"
"She will be, if only because I'll poke her awake myself for food." Eon frowned. "If she ends up sleeping too much it'll just start to make things worse. As much as her flame needs time to rest it needs to do something as well, even if that something only ends up being wandering about with us for a while and getting food. Fire is a moving thing, after all, for all that it might look like it's still."
Taylor blinked, slowly. "I think I understand." She muttered, cradling Shadow in her arms and heading for the stairs to her room. Eon unwound his tails from around his paws and followed her, near-silent. "So, Canberra, then an answer?"
"I think so."
"Best get started, then."
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♦ Topic: Canberra Inari Announcement
In: Boards ► Places ► America ► Brockton Bay
Eon (Original Poster) (Verified Cape) (Team Inari)
Posted On May 29th 2011:
Greetings and good afternoon, everyone.
I thought that, in the context of the last few days, I ought to come here and make a statement. Specifically, one on the rumours that started earlier today about Canberra. I am not posting this in the official thread simply due to the fact that I feel this is a statement that people should be able to find easily, rather than having to search through a number of pages of discussion in order to find. Shadow and Swarm both agree with this.
A few days ago, Team Inari, with the assistance of New Wave, approached the Parahuman Response Team for a power test. Upon the end of the testing, we were in turn approached with a request for assistance from the PRT. Chief Director Costa-Brown, working with Director Piggot, and Dragon of the Guild, arranged for myself and Shadow to be transported to Canberra as part of a joint project involving the Simurgh Containment Zone there.
More information is pending at the discretion of the PRT, due to the joint nature of the situation at hand. I, alongside my fellow members of Team Inari, will respond to this thread periodically, though we reserve the right not to answer questions on certain parts of the topic.
Thank you for your time here. This thread is now open for discussion.
Quiet eyes, averted. Hidden behind glasses, but averted anyway.
"They are doing something to those in the containment zones created to hold the Simurgh targeted cities." A low voice mused, tapping against the arm of the chair.
"Curious." Another voice added. "I wonder what they're doing there?"
"I think we ought to go and investigate."
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♦ Topic: Inari Travelling?
In: Boards ► Places ► America ► Brockton Bay
Bagrat (Original Poster) (Veteran Member) (The Guy in the Know)
Posted On May 28th 2011:
Ok, so not totally sure this is going here, but Team Inari is a local thing so I figured posting about them here makes the most sense. Since, y'know, that's where a lot of their follower base is.
So, a little while ago, about... two and a half hours, or so, Team Inari was spotted heading to the PRT building. Not necessarily unusual, given that they seem to work with the PRT quite a lot on things, but as you can see in the picture (courtesy of my roommate who was just getting up for work) there's no Swarm.
It's a little unknown for a bit, but then pretty soon after a Dragoncraft was seen taking off from the roof of the building, and Inari haven't been seen since then.
Does anyone have anything else?
Edit 1: A little bit of info from TheOneDropBear, over in Australia, mentioning that the Dragoncraft was apparently spotted over there.
Edit 2: Swarm dropped in to give us a bit of info.
Edit 3: Inari's been spotted back in the Bay, pretty damn late at night too- it's now 11:30pm- and as ShibaSmoosh posts, Shadow looks pretty out of it. Still looking for more info on what happened, but apparently whatever it is absolutely destroyed her from that perspective.
Edit 4: O-kay, due to more info revealed here, this thread is now closed to further replies and we've moved everything over to this thread instead.
►Noveltry
Replied On May 28th 2011:
I'm just saying, there's no evidence that Inari left with the Dragoncraft. For all we know, maybe it's completely unrelated.
►ElvisIsntReal
Replied On May 28th 2011:
mabe the dragoncraft is taikng inari away to find why shadow was able to hurt levithan! the thing isnt normal nooone can hurt teh endbringers theyre tring to tkae them away to make other capes albe to do that as well!
(Edit- remainder of post removed by Moderator. Please be polite, and keep the crazy conspiracy theories out of the thread. Also stop with the graphic descriptions of things, it's implied that these Capes are minors and there are minors on this site. Have a three day cooldown threadban, maybe when you come back you'll be able to behave- CheeseChaser.)
►Deimos
Replied On May 28th 2011:
Whoa- seriously, dude, that's not cool. Don't go saying things like that, there's a lot of younger folks here and a lot of fans of the group, there's no reason to go being so violent about things!
Annnd Stranger'd by a mod, so luckily most people won't see that. Good job, CC.
►TheOneDropBear
Replied On May 28th 2011:
A'ight, so about a half hour or so ago, I happened to be out and about doing a bit bird watching- yes, shut up, it's a passtime- and spotted what looks to be a Dragoncraft flying overhead. No pictures, it was gone before I could think to do that, and Im basing this off of stuff I've seen about on PHO before, but that suer looked like a Dragoncraft and it was moving quick.
No idea where it's heading, but if it's going that quick then it must be pretty damn important.
►Bagrat (Original Poster) (Veteran Member) (The Guy in the Know)
Replied On May 28th 2011:
Thank you, @TheOneDropBear, I've added that into the main post.
So given that it seems possible that Team Inari, minus Swarm for whatever reason, are travelling out with Dragon for some reason? Or at least a Dragoncraft, suppose it doesn't necessarily have to have Dragon piloting it, that's what computers are for when you're a Tinker. That opens up a bunch more questions; why're they travelling with each other? Where are they going? What is it they're doing? What sort of thing could they have come across that means Inari needs to go along? Why isn't it being brought to the Bay if they need Inari to look at it?
So many questions. Maybe @Swarm can help there?
►bothad
Replied On May 28th 2011:
mayeb swarm is being left behind too keep an eye on the bay since inari isnt there
►Swarm (Verified Cape) (Team Inari)
Replied On May 28th 2011:
@Bagrat I'm not sure how much I'm allowed to officially say about everything, sorry. I can say that Eon and Shadow have gone with elsewhere in that Dragoncraft, that the PRT was helpful enough to arrange it for them, and that it is something that only they can help out with. It's also something that can't be transported to Brockton Bay, sadly, so they've gone out to help. And @bothad above is right, I'm hanging around in the Bay to keep an eye out for trouble.
Once Eon and Shadow get back, I'll speak with them about what I can post for you all.
►Bagrat (Original Poster) (Veteran Member) (The Guy in the Know)
Replied On May 28th 2011:
@Swarm thanks for the info, I've added the post link to the main post. Certainly that's interesting, and I guess it's understandable that you can't necessarily talk about some of it- even if we all really want to know! Hopefully when Shadow and Eon get back they'll be able to let you post more.
No pressure, though!
►FirstofMayuary
Replied On May 28th 2011:
Man, this is interesting to see. Inari- well, Shadow and Eon, at least, travelling out of the country altogether. I didn't realise they'd do that- most Capes don't tend to leave the city they're in unless they're part of a group like the Guild, from what I've seen. Or are supervillains.
Or I guess Protectorate transfers.
Ok maybe the moving happens more often than I thought...
►Chilldrizzle
Replied On May 28th 2011:
Still, it's interesting that it's Inari doing it. Sure they've not been on the scene for very long, but I wouldn't've expected that any of them would be leaving the city for... well, anything. If they were planning to move away I would've expected them to have done that before they ended up with Swarm on the team. I wonder what it is that they're doing... I guess it makes sense that there's nothing more to say at least for now, though. Maybe this is a sign that Inari is going to start working more closely with the Guild and PRT? That might be neat.
►Acree
Replied On May 29th 2011:
I mean, for all we know this is only going to be a one-off thing, and it's not like there's a hitlist going for things, is there? And I somehow doubt that they'd be pulling ideas off of PHO for one even if there was.
►CheeseChaser (Moderator)
Replied On May 29th 2011:
Mod warning- Please bring things back a bit, we're starting to head towards a derail. No specific warnings yet, but this thread is about Inari going out of country, not about making a list of targets that they should be going after if they're travelling about.
Especially since inference says that they're rather young for the most part, and a lot of these threats are incredibly powerful and dangerous.
►Singlet
Replied On May 29th 2011:
Not like any of them are more dangerous than an Endbringer, though.
But all jokes aside, I get what you mean, CheeseChaser. Shadow's a kid, Swarm looks to be fairly young, and for all we know Eon's a kid as well, just more mature. Making a list of Capes we'd want them to be going after is absurd, guys, so tone it down.
Trying to bring it back on topic, though; we know they're in Australia, so the real question I've got is how long are they going to be there? Obviously it's not some permanent move because they have a team here and are starting to build some connections with New Wave and the PRT as we've seen in other threads, but we've got no idea how long they might end up being in Australia.
►Dangler
Replied On May 29th 2011:
we dont know it's not a permanent move though. could be leaving Swarm in the bay to make up her own bit of team while they go places..
►ShibaSmoosh
Replied On May 29th 2011:
So, just happened to be taking a look out of my window before going to sleep, and I saw this coming out of the PRT building down the road.
Sorry about the quality being a bit poor, my phone camera's not the best, but that looks to be Eon and Shadow making their way down the street, yeah? Well, keep watching, because look at that!
Shadow keeps stumbling about and shaking herself, and right before I ended it because they were going down an alley, Eon put his tails around her and brought her over to his side.
What the hell happened in Australia that means Shadow's this obviously exhausted? Even some of the few reports we have from after Leviathan don't put her as this tired, and she blasted an Endbringer!
Whatever this is, it's big.
►Answer Key
Replied On May 29th 2011:
Oh wow, that's pretty bad. Like, impressively so, actually. What on earth would they be doing in Australia to cause this?
►Bagrat (Original Poster) (Veteran Member) (The Guy in the Know)
Replied On May 29th 2011:
Thanks for the video, @ShibaSmoosh, I've added a link to your post in the original post.
And yeah, like Key says, that brings up a bunch more questions about what on earth was going on in Australia that means that Shadow is exhausted, and Eon is acting incredibly defensive of her. Just looking at the way he's looking around as he leads her away is like he's on high alert, looking for any possible sign of a threat, and he's got some of those flame orbs floating around as well. You can actually see Shadow reach out and take one of them at one point, which is interesting because she immediately absorbs it. Obviously that's not new info, we knew the two of them could absorb fires, but we also know that absorbing a fire like that is a thing that Eon and Shadow use for powerups of some sort.
Which makes me wonder; was Shadow so tired that she needed to be given extra fire in order to get back to their base?
►ChocChipCookie
Replied On May 29th 2011:
Oh no! I hope they're doing ok. Shadow looks so tired... I really hope that she recovers quickly. What was the PRT doing, letting her get so tired?
►GellSine
Replied On May 29th 2011:
Damn, that looks pretty bad. I hope she's ok as well.
►AussieAstound
Replied On May 29th 2011:
Ho. Ly. Shit.
Everyone. Stop what you're doing right now and look at this.
Yes. This is what you think it is. There's an entire flood of people coming out of the Simurgh Containment Zone.
What the hell is going on?!
►Tin_Mother (Moderator)
Replied On May 29th 2011:
Alright, by order of moderators, any discussion about the recent incident at Canberra is to go in it's own dedicated thread here. For safety's sake, I'm also going to lock this thread here, because I know some people won't pay attention to the moderator posts and then get mad because they get told off for posting in this thread when they're not supposed to.
Once things cool down I'll probably open this thread again for discussion to continue, assuming that it even can have a discussion that isn't about what just happened in Canberra.
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Taylor closed out of the PHO tab with a small shake of her head, not even thinking about clicking on the link to the thread about Canberra. She knew they'd have to look at it eventually, just so that they could start trying to respond to things- both in thread and while on patrol- but for now the thing could wait. They'd get into that when Eon and Shadow showed up at the house later that morning.
Standing and stretching, the insect controller took a cursory look around the block and made her way downstairs, to where her dad was just finishing up a late breakfast.
"Morning, Taylor." He greeted.
"Hey, Dad." She smiled, sitting down as he placed a plate in front of her.
"Are your friends coming over today, dear?"
"Hopefully?" Taylor shrugged, starting onto her eggs. "Shadow's probably still absolutely exhausted, so she might still be asleep right now."
Danny glanced at the clock, which said that it was nearing ten o'clock. "Still?"
"She was shattered, Dad." Taylor insisted. "I'm surprised Eon was able to get her back to the Den without carrying her, and that was apparently after she slept away the entire return flight."
Danny grimaced. "Damn, that's... impressive." He looked at the clock again. "In that case, are you sure they're coming?"
"Eon said they would be." She shrugged. "We need to look over the Canberra announcement thread at some point, just because we're undoubtedly going to get asked about it the next time we end up on patrol. Even if the only thing we end up saying is variations of 'no comment' we're still gonna need to know what they're saying about it all online, just in case."
Her father grimaced again, looking a little sad. "I'd be sorry about the fact that you have to think about that if it wasn't for the fact that you're doing so much good with it." He sighed. "You've done a wonderful thing here, Taylor. Don't forget that."
"I didn't really do much with this one, it was mostly Shadow with some of Eon, but thanks." Taylor said, looking away with a blush. "I like to think I'm doing more for the city..."
"You all are." He told her. "It's incredible what you've managed to do, even just messing up the Merchants. The ABB have gone quite passive because of your friends, and even the Empire seems to be calming down just because of everything- probably because they don't want to draw attention to the group that's so willing and able to just waltz into places and take things."
She laughed. "Fair enough. I think we'd go after them if Eon wasn't so against it. Mostly because we need to keep more neutrals in the party than opponents. Also the Merchants are easy targets. They're so drugged up they don't tend to notice that we've raided them until after we've already left."
He laughed, then took a bite out of his toast. "That's fair." He nodded, after he'd swallowed. "And if you had to target someone I suppose the Merchants are good enough. They cause so many problems..."
"Any drugs we take we tend to dispose of in various ways. Sometimes burning, though giving them to the police is a better way even if they can get stolen back." Taylor shrugged again. "They at least know how to get rid of them properly."
Danny looked like he was about to reply, only to be interrupted by a quiet knock at the back door. Taylor put down her fork and headed for it, peering out to the window and seeing the faint shimmer of something silver through it. She opened the door just enough for Eon to slip through, being careful not to catch his tails when she closed it again, leaning there as he walked in.
"Hello, Eon." She greeted lowly. "No Shadow?"
The Ninetales gave a slightly amused, slightly worried grin. "No, Shadow's here." He smiled, using Extrasensory to lift the Treasure Bag off of his back and place it gently on the floor. Opening it with a paw, he held it stable and lifted out a bundle of blankets far too big to fit in there, with gentle snoring coming from inside it.
Taylor chuckled, while Danny stared. "The bag's bigger on the inside, Dad." Taylor explained, reaching down to take the bundle, placing it on her lap as she sat down and went back to eating. "I think there's still some eggs left if you want them, Eon." She offered.
"No thank you, I ate earlier. Shadow's eaten as well, before she fell back asleep." He shook his head, curling up on the floor next to the table. "She's alright, still exhausted and a little cold, but fine. I fed her some Yache Berries this morning, they're made to raise Ice resistance by raising body temperature, which'll help a bit with her inner flame. Hopefully she'll be ok in a little while, though. Again, she just needs more sleep."
"That's good." Danny replied, after a moment. "If the PRT asks you to do another one soon, would she be able to?"
Eon went quiet for a moment, his tails swinging back and forth, staring at the bundle of blankets and Vulpix napping her way through the day. "...Possibly." He mused, quietly. "If she keeps resting, then yes. But... there's other containment zones that're older and a lot bigger. If this one knocked her out so badly, I'm worried about bigger ones."
"Well for one, making her take more breaks would be good." Taylor said, putting her fork down and resting a hand on her forehead. "And... are you able to help?"
"I did while we were in Canberra, though not anywhere near as much." Eon informed her. "It's more difficult for me to do that, requires more focus. Shadow practised with the mixed attack until it's almost second nature for her; I've seen her use that by accident, in fact. It takes more time to focus to make that work for me. Moves aren't meant to be used at the same time, not really. Linking them is difficult and usually requires outside help unless you do what Shadow did."
"That's... interesting." Danny frowned. "But you'd be able to do it even so."
"Yes. I wouldn't be able to do it nearly as quickly as Shadow, but I can." He sat up, rolling his neck, and looked between Danny and Taylor. "Which brings me to something else I'd like to ask."
The pair swapped a look. "Ok...?"
"Next time we're asked to go to a containment zone, I'd like Swarm to come with us."
Taylor blinked. "What?"
"Why?"
"Because as much as I hate the idea of putting one of my team mates in danger like that, it'd be helpful." Eon sighed a little, sweeping his tails back and forth across the floor. "If we delegate the team security to Swarm, then I don't need to worry about that, and can help with the healing without needing to worry about how tired I get. I can afford to wear myself out mentally focusing on using both Moves at once, because I know Swarm is there as security."
"But the PRT at the zones are providing security as well, right?" Danny reminded. "And you have Dragon."
"PRT troops can be manipulated, or could be traitors. And not that I don't trust Dragon, I'd feel better to have a member of my own team backing us both up. Betrayals can happen, after all."
The Ninetales shifted, slightly, as Taylor and Danny exchanged looks. "That... makes sense." Taylor acknowledged slowly. "But that doesn't mean Swarm would be of any help. I mean, it's bugs. Surely the entire team has better cameras?"
"Honestly, it's less about watching an area in that case, and more about being able to intercept an attack." Eon sighed again, looking incredibly tired. "If there were more of us, I'd split it so I had a supporter and Shadow had one. Preferably even more than that. But since there's only the three of us, I need to do what I can. And annoyingly, that's taking Swarm. She can block an attack fairly well, by getting bugs in the way or wrapping things up in spider silk or something. It'll give us the ability to take some attention off of defending ourselves. If Swarm looks after Shadow, and I take whoever the escort is, then we both have someone to keep an eye on us-"
"What about you?" Taylor interrupted. "You're talking about protecting each other within the team, but you'd be going alone."
"Honestly I'm more worried about Shadow." He gave the blue blanket on Taylor's lap a look. "She's got... well. She has a tendency to throw herself into things. Especially healing. I'm... not sure why, but it happens. She likes to help people, sometimes a little too much. She doesn't take as much care of herself as she should. With a team mate there to keep an eye on her, I'd feel a little more secure, especially if it's you. You can keep an eye on a lot at once, so she'll be safe and also watched over. I know my limits, especially when using this Move combination. Shadow seems not to."
"So you more want me there because Shadow scares you, and you're worried that she won't keep an eye on herself."
Eon blushed, a little, and nodded. "In essence."
"That's fine, then."
Danny chuckled slightly as both Taylor and Eon blinked, looking up and over at him. "I might not totally like the idea of my daughter going halfway across the world for any reason, let alone to enter a Simurgh Containment Zone, but on the other hand, I trust you. I trust that you'll keep her safe, that the PRT and Dragon will do everything they can to keep you safe there if only because you're the only people who can do this for anyone, and as far as they know there's no-one else."
"It also helps that Shadow managed to beat the crap out of Leviathan, and she's the healer by both our admissions." Taylor interrupted, running a hand down the blanket. "They know I'm just a normal Cape, nothing special, but you and Shadow are like end-of-the-world grab bags, and if Shadow's better at healing than you then that leads to them wondering how much better at combat Eon is. Because, well, you don't put someone on healing unless that's what they're better at, right?"
"That is how it works on our team, yes." Eon nodded. "Some teams are different, preferring that everyone is a combatant, but in Inari if you're better at healing than fighting you heal, not fight. We make sure you can fight, just in case, but mostly that's not your job. Of course, the PRT doesn't know that..."
"But they do know that Shadow's the healer, and Shadow's powerful. But by putting Shadow in with Panacea during Leviathan, we basically put out the message that you were the fighter, not her. Which is going to worry them." Taylor frowned a little. "I think we got a bit distracted there. Anyway, I guess if Dad says it's fine, then sure, I'll come along next time. If it means that we can get more people healed without needing to practically knock Shadow out for two days, then I'm all for it."
"Alright." Eon closed his eyes for a moment. "I'll speak to the PRT about it when they next get into contact about everything. Tell them that you're coming with to provide extra security, because I'm going to be working with Shadow to heal more. They'll accept that, I'm sure."
"Probably, yeah." Taylor nodded, smiling. "Anyway, onto other things!"
"Oh?"
"There is so much PHO to read." She told him. "It's slightly ridiculous. Someone spotted you and Shadow going into the PRT building yesterday, so then there was a lot of speculation on that, and then someone else spotted you and Shadow coming back from the PRT building, which led to all the speculation on what you were doing with the PRT and why Shadow had ended up so tired, and then someone else posted in that thread about the deconstruction of Canberra, which utterly derailed the thread until the mods locked it. Now there's another thread for that, but I haven't looked at that one yet. I was going to wait until you got back." She shifted a little to stretch, only barely remembering at the last moment to be wary of the bundle of blankets on her lap. "So, want to go take a look at that now? I read through the thread already, the first one, and I made a list of things we might want to respond to, but obviously that got shut now. We can go read through the new Canberra one together, though, and make a new list of questions. Or just start a new thread, post a statement about what's gone on, and then use that."
Eon tapped a paw on the floor, slowly. "I think it's likely best that we read the thread first, even if we end up starting our own thread to reply to it rather than posting in there." He decided. "It's probably a good idea to know what sort of things people are saying before we make our own statement."
"What about the PRT?" Both conscious members of Team Inari turned to look at Danny, who rested his elbows on the table and his head on his hands. "They probably want you to be careful with that information, right? What happens if you aren't?"
"I think we can make our own decision on what we announce, and then we can allow the PRT to make their own public announcement." Eon said firmly. "We are a separate team, they cannot control what we announce about our team. And they shouldn't even try. We'll be discreet, for Shadow's sake. But we're not going to hide what we're doing. We can't, people have seen, and we shouldn't even try."
Taylor nodded. "It's important that people know. We can fix Simurgh bombs, Dad. It's- people should know about that, for sure, not just in rumours. And if the PRT don't agree then they can go to hell."
Danny stared at the two of them for a short while, silent. Then laughed. "I suppose that's fair." He smiled. "Go get to your reading, you two. Are you planning to stop for lunch, or are you going to go out in costume to show the flag and get food?"
"We'll likely stop for lunch, if you don't mind." Eon answered. "Because if I'm any sort of judge of the public, the thread for Canberra is gonna take a while to read, and then we need to figure out answers for things and post them. But we could head out to patrol about a bit this evening and do dinner out, if you'd like?"
The last part of his question was aimed at Taylor, who lifted one shoulder in a shrug before picking Shadow up from her lap. "That's fine by me, I don't mind patrolling and I sure don't mind takeout. What if Shadow's not awake?"
"She will be, if only because I'll poke her awake myself for food." Eon frowned. "If she ends up sleeping too much it'll just start to make things worse. As much as her flame needs time to rest it needs to do something as well, even if that something only ends up being wandering about with us for a while and getting food. Fire is a moving thing, after all, for all that it might look like it's still."
Taylor blinked, slowly. "I think I understand." She muttered, cradling Shadow in her arms and heading for the stairs to her room. Eon unwound his tails from around his paws and followed her, near-silent. "So, Canberra, then an answer?"
"I think so."
"Best get started, then."
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♦ Topic: Canberra Inari Announcement
In: Boards ► Places ► America ► Brockton Bay
Eon (Original Poster) (Verified Cape) (Team Inari)
Posted On May 29th 2011:
Greetings and good afternoon, everyone.
I thought that, in the context of the last few days, I ought to come here and make a statement. Specifically, one on the rumours that started earlier today about Canberra. I am not posting this in the official thread simply due to the fact that I feel this is a statement that people should be able to find easily, rather than having to search through a number of pages of discussion in order to find. Shadow and Swarm both agree with this.
A few days ago, Team Inari, with the assistance of New Wave, approached the Parahuman Response Team for a power test. Upon the end of the testing, we were in turn approached with a request for assistance from the PRT. Chief Director Costa-Brown, working with Director Piggot, and Dragon of the Guild, arranged for myself and Shadow to be transported to Canberra as part of a joint project involving the Simurgh Containment Zone there.
More information is pending at the discretion of the PRT, due to the joint nature of the situation at hand. I, alongside my fellow members of Team Inari, will respond to this thread periodically, though we reserve the right not to answer questions on certain parts of the topic.
Thank you for your time here. This thread is now open for discussion.
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Quiet eyes, averted. Hidden behind glasses, but averted anyway.
"They are doing something to those in the containment zones created to hold the Simurgh targeted cities." A low voice mused, tapping against the arm of the chair.
"Curious." Another voice added. "I wonder what they're doing there?"
"I think we ought to go and investigate."
- Location
- England, Smugsville.
And the confusion about this group continues to grow...
This stuff loosely reminds me of a certain anime I watched some of
A group of independent capes with a lot of power and especially now, clout. And yet at the same time they are surprisingly open, cheerful, helpful, and now there is going to be an unasked for report given which is only gonna add to the confusion. The poor PRT has no clue who they are dealing with.
Yeah, the PRT is confused, to say the least. Rescue Teams are weird, compared to Capes, and Taylor's definitely picked up on a lot of that attitude.
In part because they tried, it's just that Shadow is an overachiever who decided making herself dead tired was a better idea than leaving people hurt overnight. It was supposed to take a while, but Shadow kept running around and then Eon joined in and everything became a nightmare instead.
People consistently underestimate how much a seriously dedicated Rescue Team can do. They're used to working in conditions that're pretty damn harsh, and keeping working even when they're tired to hell. And Inari is a weird Rescue Team even among others, because they tend to push themselves a bit too hard. This is, in part, because Shadow is young and stupid and aiming to prove herself, and Eon is an amnesiac former-human that dealt with a lot of shit before starting Inari, in part because he's a shiny Pokemon and that's not something that's common so people found him weird, and in part for the whole human thing. They're overachievers to prove themselves, and it's leaked into the rest of the team.
...At some point I should get off my ass and finish the Sidestory pieces I have cooking, some of those would likely help a bit for context, huh. (Damn schoolwork and other stuff getting in the way.)
Ok, so on the Master thing; it is, basically, because there's never really been anyone that can break Master effects. Shadow and Eon are- say it with me now- weird when it comes to that sort of thing. So no-one really thought that there might be some kind of security in place, but as said above, Dragon feels like they all should have, because goddamnit it's the Simurgh and she's a precog, so there's a chance that she'd seen that and put in a measure against it which no-one had thought about beforehand. They have M/S protocols, but they didn't really stop and think for a moment over all the excitement.
It is also partly an author dumb, I'll admit that willingly.
Ok, so a quick end-thing; sorry it's been taking me so long to reply and that I've often been quiet since coming back. I've been dealing with some shit and some schoolwork and some more shit, and things especially the last three or so weeks have been awful, so I've been a little distracted. I'll try to do better with my replying in the future. Many thanks for hanging.
Yeah..
Any endbringer fight is a massive slog where chances are a lot of people are gonna die, either because of simply not being good enough or attrition, and tend to mostly be limited to the locals and big-names who go go to the fights...
Rescue teams on the other hand are used to going on long expeditions that may even last days which they tend to do on a semi-regular basis, while veteran capes on both sides tend to have more small high intensity engagements with a respectable rest between them, which may even color team Inari perspective on Endbringer fights a bit due to rescue teams in general being far more experienced in pacing themselves compared to capes out of necessity.
Edit: Rescue teams are pretty stubborn, at least partially cause you need to be because of just how long some missions can get...
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Balrog
not Durin's Bane
- Location
- The Mines of Moria
Take your time. Your health and education are more important than our need for more words.
so everyone is dying while singing their praises right? with an addition of oh my god wtf
Chapter 31- Madison, assurances, and explanations
- Location
- England, Smugsville.
June 2nd, 2011. Thursday.
"Alright, so we're ready?"
Swarm adjusted her mask one more time, stretched to make sure that everything on her costume was sat right, and nodded. "Good to go."
"Shadow?"
"I'm fine, Eon." The Vulpix sighed, shaking herself out. "Trust me, I've recovered fine."
"Forgive me for worrying when it's only been five days, Madison is bigger than Canberra, and doing Canberra knocked you flat for nearly a day and a half." He said dryly, giving his second in command a slightly hard glare.
"Yeah, but that was because I was doing it mostly alone. I've got you this time, and they've got data that they can use to make it easier." Shadow shrugged, before reaching back with Extrasensory to adjust her bag. "And we've got more stuff this time, just in case, and time for breaks since there's less of a flight."
The glare became slightly harder. "Yes. And I whole-heartedly believe that you'll actually use that fact to rest, rather than keep binging through everything at high speed just because there's more people."
"Eon-"
"Shadow, I know you, remember?" He sighed himself, walking over to place a paw on her back. "Please remember to rest more than you did last time."
"I will, Eon." She nodded. "I've got the Leppa Berry cookies for if I need them, I'm carrying Yache Berries with me to keep my inner flame from going too cold, just in case, and there's actual food in the bag as well for the sake of that. I'll be absolutely fine, I promise, we'll both work together on it all and it'll be a-ok." Shadow smiled gently, waiting until Eon returned it to shake his paw from her shoulder and straighten. "And besides, this time we've got Swarm with us, so she can help keep an eye out as well."
"No problem." Swarm added, from where she was standing a little ways away. "It's not that much more work to focus on keeping track of Shadow as well as keeping an eye on the area around us, especially since I don't really need to pay that much attention to the area. The PRT and Dragon are going to have plenty of surveillance around to make sure you're both safe."
"Still, that's no reason to slack on personal attention." Eon reminded them both. "There's nothing to say that the PRT can't be compromised in some way in an attempt to take us out-"
"The only people dumb enough to do that would be the Fallen." Swarm interrupted. "No-one else is going to want to oppose a team saving Simurgh victims, at least not publicly and not when they're actually doing that. And it'd be difficult for them to infiltrate the PRT, I'd think? I mean, they've got to have some pretty good security, with all the work they do with Parahumans, so I don't see it being all that likely that they'd manage to get into the PRT enough to mess up security."
After a long moment of silence, Eon sighed, flicking his tails in a complicated pattern. "I suppose. But still, we want to keep an eye out. Too much complacency is a bad thing, after all."
"We know, Eon. But don't worry, I'm sure it'll be fine!" Shadow grinned, flicking her own tails in a far less complicated way, ending with them curled up in a ball behind her. "So, if we're all done being a worry-wort, should we get going?"
"If we've all got what we need, and we're all sure." Eon decided, beckoning them into line with a paw. Shadow promptly placed herself on his left, shaking herself out once again in a physical attempt at putting herself into her formal second in command mode, while Swarm dropped onto the right hand side a little behind the both of them again. They'd run through the different sorts of etiquette for positioning in Rescue Teams once again the night before, just in case, and since in this case it was more Shadow's mission than anything she and Eon were at equal to each other, with Swarm behind as third and guard.
In some ways she was also the scout, due to her powers, but since right now she was playing mainly as the guard, so that was where she was standing.
A few more bugs skittered over to her, mostly spiders from the weaving station, since they'd done most of their work over the last few days and now had enough silk to hand over to Parian for her to work with. "Ready and waiting."
"Then let's move out."
As the group started walking out of the Den, shielded by a wrapping of illusions, Swarm couldn't help but run spiders nervously up and down her hair, trying to work out the urge to fidget uncomfortably before they reached the public eye- and, more importantly, before they reached the PRT building. She didn't want to give the impression that she was nervous about this, no matter how much she was nervous; this was important, and making people remember that she wasn't much more than a kid wouldn't be particularly good for their reputation. Plus, this was... well, important. Not just to Team Inari but to everyone in the world. It was desperately important she didn't mess this up because of that.
"Stop worrying so loudly." Shadow said, glancing over her shoulder. Swarm startled. "It's lacing your scent." She added, before the bug user could ask. "And seriously, it'll be fine. Just keep an eye on the things in your range, put down threats if you find them- which I don't think you will- and trust that Dragon and the PRT are gonna have their over stuff about to keep an eye on things to make sure that nothing gets close enough to everything to actually need you to deal with things."
"Right, sure." Swarm nodded, letting out a long breath. "Right. Sorry, it's just..."
"Hey, we were all the same when we went out on our first proper out-of-town expedition. Didn't last all that long, admittedly, but heading out of town is always a bit nerve wracking." Eon turned back a little, giving her a smile. "It can be a bit difficult to get used to everything. But we're not actually going all that far, and aside from keeping watch you won't need to handle too much. You'll have plenty of time to get used to being out of city limits." He touched her leg gently with his tail. "Just do your best, Swarm. That's all we can ask."
She straightened, a little. "Sure thing, Eon!"
The flight to Madison was a lot shorter than the one to Canberra, but Shadow still used it to catch a quick nap anyway. She was still a bit tired from the first bout of healing, though she was trying not to show it. If Eon started worrying that she wasn't well enough to actually do everything, he'd try to cancel the entire thing until she was feeling better, and she didn't want that.
There were people in Madison that needed help, and they needed it a lot more than the people in Canberra had. Canberra had only been a Simurgh Zone for a few months, after all. The people in this city had been trapped there for years now, and there were even more places that were even older. Shadow didn't want to waste any time in trying to help free them.
As the craft started to land, she took a moment to wish that they weren't the only members of Team Inari here. In some ways, at the very beginning of everything on Earth Bet, it had been... nice. Like getting back to their roots, in some ways. Just Eon, the team leader, and Shadow, his second in command. Of course, Swarm was here too, and that was good too for sure. But it had been nice to only be them.
Now, though, with all of the stress going on with the Simurgh Containment Zones, the sudden and sharp showing a month ago of exactly how deadly their new world could be with the face-to-face with Leviathan, and even just the general overtone of everything that went on in Brockton Bay on a day to day basis... it made Shadow wish that they had the rest of their team there instead.
As much as it had been nice to get back to the feeling of the earliest days of Team Inari, where it was just the two of them and taking small missions- though she supposed she couldn't really call their early work on Bet small missions, since the first thing they'd done was fight the leader of one of the local gangs who was also a giant dragon- it had also brought back the memory of why they'd been so happy to add more Pokemon to the team in the first place.
Working as a small team was hard. It always was. It needed less resources, but that meant there were less resources to hand around. Less Pokemon to spread the load between. Fewer friends at your back when you were in trouble. Less you could do because three people could only ever be in a maximum of three places.
With a bigger team, it was harder to co-ordinate, but there was more to work with. The entire team could split up into groups, still have someone to watch their back, be more places all at once because there were more of them. There was someone to call to for support.
It was easy to miss the simpler times when you were a large group, run off your paws trying to keep track of all your subordinates. But that became easy to miss the second you didn't have those Pokemon watching your back and helping out.
Like right now. If the rest of Team Inari was here, or even just the rest of the main healing Pokemon, they could do so much more. They could work through the tents in Madison faster, each one taking a tent and splitting the load between them, or two at a time for the Pokemon that didn't know one Move but did know the other. Or they could split the containment zones between them instead, and reach out to more places at the same time to help more people across the world who had been trapped by the third Endbringer. More Pokemon means more resources, which means that they can do more to help. There's more to help.
Instead, it was just them. Her, and whatever Eon was able to do.
"Ready to go, Shadow?"
She shook her head, sharply, trying to dislodge the sudden case of melancholy that had drifted over her. It felt like that had been happening more and more lately, and she wasn't particularly fond of that. When she got home she ought to visit her family again... that always helped when she started to get brought down by all her missions.
"As always!"
The Ninetales gave her a strange look, as though he didn't quite buy what she was saying, but allowed it to slide as they all got into position and the Dragoncraft touched down and opened its doors.
This time around, Shadow barely paid attention to the people they were introduced to, just taking a note that it was another general, some PRT troops of some sort, someone who was apparently a Director, and a pair of flying Capes that would be spending the entire time in the air and looking out for trouble. She found that she could barely care about all of that, just wanting to get a start on healing people. The longer that they waited, the less they'd be able to get done during the day, possibly needing to actually stop and wait overnight to continue the next morning... or work through the night, if she could persuade Eon to let her.
And Swarm. And Dragon. And the entire rest of the people here...
She probably wasn't going to get that.
Shadow followed the two troopers that she was directed towards, turning back only for a moment to wave at Eon- with his own escort- and Swarm- standing next to Dragon with a large scent of nervousness lingering around her. She flashed a smile at the bug user for good measure, in an attempt to help with that, then hurried off after the two of them and towards the first tent of people.
Stepping inside, it was easy to tell that it was bigger than the ones they'd had in Canberra, and that because of that there was more people waiting for her. The ones closest were staring at the troopers and herself with undisguised curiosity and fear, which made Shadow take a deep breath and close her eyes.
Here we go.
"We're ready whenever you are, Shadow."
She nodded, taking another deep breath and holding it for a moment, preparing her Moves.
Let's go.
Swarm spent a lot of the first hour barely moving from her position. She'd been given somewhere to sit that would give her a good view of most of the earlier tents, as well as the area around them, and aside from giving them a nod of thanks, had outwardly done nothing but sit there.
In actual fact, she was constantly checking around with her bugs, making sure that no-one was getting too close to her team mates that might be considered suspicious. She had enough bugs everywhere she could stuff them that seeing out of their eyes was more a matter of focusing correctly than anything else; she just had to put herself in the right mindset to see. Anyone that was moving nearby got a careful looking at, and if she confirmed that they weren't wearing a PRT uniform she made a note of them with a few flies and followed their actions.
Perhaps she was being a little overcautious, and she was fairly sure that she was unnerving the people around her- given the way that they kept shooting her still form looks- but Swarm found that she didn't really care about that. The important thing was that she'd been trusted with a duty by her team mates, and she wanted to keep that.
If she did it all well enough, then that might make her dad more likely to let her join the other members of Inari on more out of town missions, even if those missions were only happening to the other containment zones around the world. Of course, she'd have to prove her worth to the PRT as well, but hopefully this mission would do that without needing more examples.
She didn't think that she would need to prove herself to Team Inari any more than she already had, which meant that it was only those two groups that she would need to deal with.
Oh, and Dragon. She should make sure that Dragon was okay with it, given that she was the one in charge of transportation. That was… quite important.
Swarm shifted, conscious of the fact that she had barely moved and knowing that it wouldn't help if she ended up too stiff to move if something happened, and was grateful for the fact that her mask concealed her smile when the PRT troopers around her startled at the abrupt change. Dragon didn't even twitch, to her slight surprise, only turning a little and directing her helmet as if concerned.
"Are you all right, swarm?" She asked, the faintest bit of worry in her voice. Swarm allowed her smile to get a little wider, broadcasting how she was feeling to the armoured Tinker, And nods a little.
"I'm fine, thank you." She paused, momentarily distracted by the movement of one of her books, but it was only one of the PRT troopers that she had marked earlier- one of the ones that was guiding Shadow around healing stations- so she chose to ignore it and looked back instead. "Everything going well?"
Despite the mask and armour, Dragon somehow managed to look amused. "I would have thought you'd already know that." She said jokingly, gesturing to the little cloud of bugs that was orbiting her. Swarm chuckled, a little sheepishly, and nodded.
"I've been keeping an eye on them, but I meant more from the position of someone in charge of all of the actual heavy lifting, rather than a healer."
Dragon seemed surprised. "I'm fairly sure that a lot of people would claim Inari were the ones who were doing the heavy lifting."
She just shrugged in return, wincing a little as bones cracked and she came to the conclusion that she really needed to move around a bit. "Sure, the healing is a lot of work, but once we're finished with that Inari is pretty much going straight home, you know? Not like you or," she gestured widely around the area to all of the PRT troopers that were discreetly watching their conversation, "all of the others here. You guys are gonna be involved in this for a lot longer, dealing with all of the moving people out and the fallout of not needing to maintain the zone any more. I'd say that that's a lot more heavy lifting than just healing… Or just sitting around playing guard."
Swarm got the faint impression that Dragon, and the aforementioned guards, was staring at her in shock.
"That's…" Dragon trailed off, shaking her head. "That's a very mature point of view."
"I mean, I'm well aware that we're doing quite a lot, and that it's something that nobody else can really do." She shrugged again, before pushing herself off the ground to stand and stretch. "But at the same time… well, it feels a bit like we're not really doing anything at all. Even though none of us would have the first idea as to how to organise all this… it just feels a little like we ought to be doing more. Or perhaps I should."
Dragon closed distance between them, moving surprisingly quickly for a person encased in armour, and rested a hand on her shoulder. "Keeping an eye out for- and on- your team mates is plenty of work, in my eyes." The Tinker told her, before dipping her head closer to Swarm's like she was confiding some sort of secret. "I know how irritating that can be."
The insect controller couldn't help but laugh a little. "I guess you would."
Dragon seemed to give her a smile, moving away again and leaving Swarm to her stretching. "Do you need anything?"
"Not right now." She decided, taking stock. "Might in another few hours, which'll probably also be a good time to force Shadow and Eon into a break as well." Since she was still keeping track of the two even while she talked, she knew that they were resting in between healing bouts, and the Leppa cookies were being used whenever they were needed- Swarm was glad to see that they were apparently working just as well as the Berries themselves would be, and made a note to bake some more of them when they got back from Madison- but she also knew that both of the Pokemon would need to rest for real at some point, and forcing them to take a proper break for food would be a good way to do it.
"Alright."
"The team will reach the city within the next day."
"There were reports of a Dragoncraft leaving Brockton Bay early this morning."
"Any information on where they were going?"
"None."
"Then it will wait until they return to the Bay."
"Are we going to look for their base?"
"No-one seems to have even a starting point for where their base is located, so unless some information on that comes in in the next few hours, no."
"We could try to track them after they return."
"They can go invisible."
"Reportedly they were too tired to manage that last time."
"Doesn't mean that they won't."
"Enough! We aren't going to track them, we'll wait until we have an opportunity in the city itself. It's more likely to happen."
"With them jetting around the world?"
"Shut it!"
"Stop fussing, Swarm." Shadow grumbled, shifting in her seat for the third time in as many minutes. "I-"
"-Don't care what your excuses are, sit down, relax for a few more minutes, and eat something that isn't the biscuits." Her team mate interrupted easily, putting a hand on her back for a moment to make sure she wouldn't try to leave before going back to the sandwiches they'd been given.
The PRT had herded them into one of the break rooms set up for the people dealing with the number of people leaving Madison post healing, where they'd found that Swarm had already claimed a table, food, and drink for all of them. She'd near enough dragged them over, picking up Shadow as if to make sure she wouldn't try to avoid her, and settled back to eat.
Eon, the traitor, had just laughed slightly before following them, sitting gracefully on the bench and accepting what Swarm had chosen without complaint. At this point, with a little under two months of time working together, they were fairly used to getting each other food- usually while on patrol, one of them going in and getting things from the shop while the other two played the crowds outside- so they had a fairly good idea of what the others in the team liked.
Still, even though Shadow was happy with it- chicken and cheese was a nice combo, no matter what anyone else said, and the fact that she could melt it with her fire helped so much- it didn't stop her from being incredibly anxious. She wanted to be out there, healing people, breaking the Simurgh's hold on them so that they could leave the city they'd been trapped in for so long. She didn't want to sit here eating sandwiches and drinking juice and waiting for someone to let her leave. She just wanted to go.
"Shadow, relax." Eon murmured, gently. "You know you need the break just as much as me-"
"Not as much." She grumbled. And that was kind of true, too. She wasn't as tired as Eon was, she was better with the linked Moves thing she did than he was, so it wasn't as much of a stress for her to do it as compared to when Eon did. She didn't need the break as much as him.
"Don't argue, Shadow." Eon sighed. "I know you want to help. So do I, honestly. But we're not going to help making ourselves collapse."
"And besides, I've been watching with my bugs." Swarm added. "You've been moving almost twice as fast as Eon has."
Traitor, Shadow couldn't help but think spitefully, as Eon jolted on the other side of the table and stared at her with undisguised horror.
"Shadow-"
"Shut up." She said. "I just- I need to help, ok? I need to help these people, and if I stop..."
Swarm sighed, putting her hand on Shadow's head, just behind her crest. "They'll still get out of Madison if you take a ten- even five minute break every now and then. But if you end up making yourself collapse, it'll take longer to recover, longer to help people, and longer to move on to the next containment zone to help them."
Reluctantly, she leaned into the touch. "I know, I know. Honestly, promise, I know that. But my brain keeps telling me that I need to work faster, that I need to get to everyone now, because there's no-one else but Eon that can help." Abruptly, she slumped, barely avoiding knocking her sandwich. "I miss the team..."
"Oh, Shadow..."
"I know it's stupid, but I just-"
"It's not stupid to miss home, Shadow." Eon assured her. "I miss it, too. But we've got to keep going, and finish the mission we were sent here to do."
"Whatever that was." She said. It still rankled a bit that they'd actually taken this mission without any real idea as to what the mission was- Hoopa had told them to 'help out', but neither of them had any idea as to what that actually meant. They'd assumed it was either something to do with the gangs, at first, then the Endbringers when they'd found out about those, but there was always the chance it had nothing to do with either of those. At that point they were back to not having any idea about it, though, so Shadow hoped that that wasn't the case.
"We'll figure it out." Eon promised. "We'll stay here, making friends, figure it out, then we'll go home again and share everything with the rest of the team."
"But you aren't going to be able to get there if you keep working yourself into exhaustion all the time." Swarm added. Shadow sighed, sitting up and lifting her sandwich in a telekinetic grip.
"I guess." For a moment, she just sat there, then she started eating again.
She meant what she'd said. She did know that she needed to rest, that she needed to be careful not to collapse. But her brain kept telling her that she needed to work faster, that she couldn't afford to take breaks, because these people had all been suffering because of the Simurgh for so long and she couldn't bare to leave them like that when she could help.
You can't help if you're too exhausted to use your Moves, she reminded herself firmly. If you're practically unconscious on the field, you're no help to anyone, and then Eon would be working all alone. You need to take a break. Besides, they've all been here so long without any hope. Just the fact that you're giving them some is enough to make it that they won't blame you for stopping a while.
That thought carried her through the rest of the ten minute break, and when she ended up beckoning for a trooper to lead her back where she needed to be, Shadow kept them in mind.
"That seemed... out of character for Shadow." Swarm said hesitantly, once the Vulpix was out of range. Eon nodded absently, still working on eating his own sandwich- second, actually; he'd gone to get another one once he'd finished everything since if he was going to be taking a break he might as well eat enough to keep him going for quite some time- and flicked his tails. The up-and-down waving pattern was faintly hypnotic, as intended, and after a moment the distraction illusion came into effect. It was similar to the one about the base, based on the Totter Orb and Zoroark illusions, but slightly less powerful; it served to confuse, nothing more.
"It both is and isn't." Eon responded. "It is now, yes. But before? Before was a little different."
"She was practically self destructing?"
"Sort of." He grimaced. "She wasn't exactly that bad, but she had a tendency to throw herself at problems a little." He took a bite of his sandwich to give himself time to think. "At the beginning, she was bubbly. Bright, cheerful, pretty much any other word you can think of. Happy. She wanted to be a Rescue Pokemon, and she wanted to help people. She was young, and it showed. But she tended to push herself a bit too far sometimes, because she wanted to help."
"She got better?"
"Oh, far better. But at the start it was worrying. The Guild in town didn't want to let her be a team leader, because she was so young- she was only ten- so she asked me to be the leader so she could be the second, and then she'd be able to do what she wanted." Eon chuckled at the memory. Shadow had been miserable up until the point where she'd turned ecstatic at the idea that Eon would help her, and by that point Eon had known her well enough to know that he'd be willing to despite her age. "But because she'd been rejected that first time, she sometimes felt the need to make up for it. To prove that she was Team Inari's second in command because she'd earned that, not because I'd taken pity on the little kid who wanted to play hero."
"I'm going to assume that was a common sentiment?" Swarm tilted her head, picking up on the bit of bitterness in his tone.
"In the early days. It got better once we did more missions, but at the beginning..." He shrugged. "So sometimes she'd end up getting a bit reckless. We didn't have to pull her out of that trouble all that much, luckily, but sometimes she'd get into a situation that meant the rest of the team had to put her on the backseat until she recovered."
"So... what?" Swarm's mask was hiding her expression, but her scent gave off enough confusion to imply that she was probably frowning. "She's acting like this because she thinks she's not good enough to be on the team or something?"
"I don't think it's that." Eon started, then paused. "Or not only that. Maybe some of it's the old insecurity, but I think a lot of it is just what she said. She's one of the only people who can help these people, so every moment she's spending not helping is one that's making her feel bad because no-one else could do what she feels she should be doing."
"She can only do so much."
"She knows." He shrugged. "But it doesn't stop the voice in her head telling her to do more."
His other team mate seemed satisfied at that, or at least understanding, so Eon finished his sandwich in silence before dismissing the Totter illusion and beckoning over to the PRT trooper that had been leading him around.
"I'll see you later, Swarm." He said over his shoulder. The bug user nodded, pulling her mask more firmly over her lower face and waving with the other hand.
"Be careful."
June 3rd, 2011. Friday.
It took until late into the next morning for Inari to be done clearing everyone in Madison. They'd ended up sleeping overnight in a somewhat hastily set up room, and while it had helped, Swarm was still exhausted. And all she'd done was spend the two days sitting around and watching with her bugs.
Eon held himself better, but he was sagging under the weight of tiredness, and Shadow was once again staggering slightly. Swarm tutted before she could help herself and reached forwards, lifting her with a little difficulty into her arms and disregarding the fact that Dragon was standing next to her and there was a PRT escort around them.
"Are you ok?" She directed down at Eon. She didn't even bother with Shadow, knowing how she was doing perfectly well.
The Ninetales nodded, slinking around her feet to sit at her side and curl his tails around her legs. "I will be fine."
From her arms, Shadow muttered something that might've been an agreement, if Swarm had any faith in her being able to follow the conversation around her. Fortunately for Swarm's sanity, Dragon seemed to pick up on the state of things easily, helping to hurry them through everything needed for departure and into the Dragoncraft.
Eon was shortly spread out across one of the couches, leaving Swarm to settle on the other and place Shadow at her side, running a hand down her back.
"It won't take long to get back home, but a short nap is better than nothing, I guess?" She suggested. Eon huffed a laugh.
"True." The small smile he gave her made her grin back, making herself comfortable for the flight.
"Alright, so we're ready?"
Swarm adjusted her mask one more time, stretched to make sure that everything on her costume was sat right, and nodded. "Good to go."
"Shadow?"
"I'm fine, Eon." The Vulpix sighed, shaking herself out. "Trust me, I've recovered fine."
"Forgive me for worrying when it's only been five days, Madison is bigger than Canberra, and doing Canberra knocked you flat for nearly a day and a half." He said dryly, giving his second in command a slightly hard glare.
"Yeah, but that was because I was doing it mostly alone. I've got you this time, and they've got data that they can use to make it easier." Shadow shrugged, before reaching back with Extrasensory to adjust her bag. "And we've got more stuff this time, just in case, and time for breaks since there's less of a flight."
The glare became slightly harder. "Yes. And I whole-heartedly believe that you'll actually use that fact to rest, rather than keep binging through everything at high speed just because there's more people."
"Eon-"
"Shadow, I know you, remember?" He sighed himself, walking over to place a paw on her back. "Please remember to rest more than you did last time."
"I will, Eon." She nodded. "I've got the Leppa Berry cookies for if I need them, I'm carrying Yache Berries with me to keep my inner flame from going too cold, just in case, and there's actual food in the bag as well for the sake of that. I'll be absolutely fine, I promise, we'll both work together on it all and it'll be a-ok." Shadow smiled gently, waiting until Eon returned it to shake his paw from her shoulder and straighten. "And besides, this time we've got Swarm with us, so she can help keep an eye out as well."
"No problem." Swarm added, from where she was standing a little ways away. "It's not that much more work to focus on keeping track of Shadow as well as keeping an eye on the area around us, especially since I don't really need to pay that much attention to the area. The PRT and Dragon are going to have plenty of surveillance around to make sure you're both safe."
"Still, that's no reason to slack on personal attention." Eon reminded them both. "There's nothing to say that the PRT can't be compromised in some way in an attempt to take us out-"
"The only people dumb enough to do that would be the Fallen." Swarm interrupted. "No-one else is going to want to oppose a team saving Simurgh victims, at least not publicly and not when they're actually doing that. And it'd be difficult for them to infiltrate the PRT, I'd think? I mean, they've got to have some pretty good security, with all the work they do with Parahumans, so I don't see it being all that likely that they'd manage to get into the PRT enough to mess up security."
After a long moment of silence, Eon sighed, flicking his tails in a complicated pattern. "I suppose. But still, we want to keep an eye out. Too much complacency is a bad thing, after all."
"We know, Eon. But don't worry, I'm sure it'll be fine!" Shadow grinned, flicking her own tails in a far less complicated way, ending with them curled up in a ball behind her. "So, if we're all done being a worry-wort, should we get going?"
"If we've all got what we need, and we're all sure." Eon decided, beckoning them into line with a paw. Shadow promptly placed herself on his left, shaking herself out once again in a physical attempt at putting herself into her formal second in command mode, while Swarm dropped onto the right hand side a little behind the both of them again. They'd run through the different sorts of etiquette for positioning in Rescue Teams once again the night before, just in case, and since in this case it was more Shadow's mission than anything she and Eon were at equal to each other, with Swarm behind as third and guard.
In some ways she was also the scout, due to her powers, but since right now she was playing mainly as the guard, so that was where she was standing.
A few more bugs skittered over to her, mostly spiders from the weaving station, since they'd done most of their work over the last few days and now had enough silk to hand over to Parian for her to work with. "Ready and waiting."
"Then let's move out."
As the group started walking out of the Den, shielded by a wrapping of illusions, Swarm couldn't help but run spiders nervously up and down her hair, trying to work out the urge to fidget uncomfortably before they reached the public eye- and, more importantly, before they reached the PRT building. She didn't want to give the impression that she was nervous about this, no matter how much she was nervous; this was important, and making people remember that she wasn't much more than a kid wouldn't be particularly good for their reputation. Plus, this was... well, important. Not just to Team Inari but to everyone in the world. It was desperately important she didn't mess this up because of that.
"Stop worrying so loudly." Shadow said, glancing over her shoulder. Swarm startled. "It's lacing your scent." She added, before the bug user could ask. "And seriously, it'll be fine. Just keep an eye on the things in your range, put down threats if you find them- which I don't think you will- and trust that Dragon and the PRT are gonna have their over stuff about to keep an eye on things to make sure that nothing gets close enough to everything to actually need you to deal with things."
"Right, sure." Swarm nodded, letting out a long breath. "Right. Sorry, it's just..."
"Hey, we were all the same when we went out on our first proper out-of-town expedition. Didn't last all that long, admittedly, but heading out of town is always a bit nerve wracking." Eon turned back a little, giving her a smile. "It can be a bit difficult to get used to everything. But we're not actually going all that far, and aside from keeping watch you won't need to handle too much. You'll have plenty of time to get used to being out of city limits." He touched her leg gently with his tail. "Just do your best, Swarm. That's all we can ask."
She straightened, a little. "Sure thing, Eon!"
The flight to Madison was a lot shorter than the one to Canberra, but Shadow still used it to catch a quick nap anyway. She was still a bit tired from the first bout of healing, though she was trying not to show it. If Eon started worrying that she wasn't well enough to actually do everything, he'd try to cancel the entire thing until she was feeling better, and she didn't want that.
There were people in Madison that needed help, and they needed it a lot more than the people in Canberra had. Canberra had only been a Simurgh Zone for a few months, after all. The people in this city had been trapped there for years now, and there were even more places that were even older. Shadow didn't want to waste any time in trying to help free them.
As the craft started to land, she took a moment to wish that they weren't the only members of Team Inari here. In some ways, at the very beginning of everything on Earth Bet, it had been... nice. Like getting back to their roots, in some ways. Just Eon, the team leader, and Shadow, his second in command. Of course, Swarm was here too, and that was good too for sure. But it had been nice to only be them.
Now, though, with all of the stress going on with the Simurgh Containment Zones, the sudden and sharp showing a month ago of exactly how deadly their new world could be with the face-to-face with Leviathan, and even just the general overtone of everything that went on in Brockton Bay on a day to day basis... it made Shadow wish that they had the rest of their team there instead.
As much as it had been nice to get back to the feeling of the earliest days of Team Inari, where it was just the two of them and taking small missions- though she supposed she couldn't really call their early work on Bet small missions, since the first thing they'd done was fight the leader of one of the local gangs who was also a giant dragon- it had also brought back the memory of why they'd been so happy to add more Pokemon to the team in the first place.
Working as a small team was hard. It always was. It needed less resources, but that meant there were less resources to hand around. Less Pokemon to spread the load between. Fewer friends at your back when you were in trouble. Less you could do because three people could only ever be in a maximum of three places.
With a bigger team, it was harder to co-ordinate, but there was more to work with. The entire team could split up into groups, still have someone to watch their back, be more places all at once because there were more of them. There was someone to call to for support.
It was easy to miss the simpler times when you were a large group, run off your paws trying to keep track of all your subordinates. But that became easy to miss the second you didn't have those Pokemon watching your back and helping out.
Like right now. If the rest of Team Inari was here, or even just the rest of the main healing Pokemon, they could do so much more. They could work through the tents in Madison faster, each one taking a tent and splitting the load between them, or two at a time for the Pokemon that didn't know one Move but did know the other. Or they could split the containment zones between them instead, and reach out to more places at the same time to help more people across the world who had been trapped by the third Endbringer. More Pokemon means more resources, which means that they can do more to help. There's more to help.
Instead, it was just them. Her, and whatever Eon was able to do.
"Ready to go, Shadow?"
She shook her head, sharply, trying to dislodge the sudden case of melancholy that had drifted over her. It felt like that had been happening more and more lately, and she wasn't particularly fond of that. When she got home she ought to visit her family again... that always helped when she started to get brought down by all her missions.
"As always!"
The Ninetales gave her a strange look, as though he didn't quite buy what she was saying, but allowed it to slide as they all got into position and the Dragoncraft touched down and opened its doors.
This time around, Shadow barely paid attention to the people they were introduced to, just taking a note that it was another general, some PRT troops of some sort, someone who was apparently a Director, and a pair of flying Capes that would be spending the entire time in the air and looking out for trouble. She found that she could barely care about all of that, just wanting to get a start on healing people. The longer that they waited, the less they'd be able to get done during the day, possibly needing to actually stop and wait overnight to continue the next morning... or work through the night, if she could persuade Eon to let her.
And Swarm. And Dragon. And the entire rest of the people here...
She probably wasn't going to get that.
Shadow followed the two troopers that she was directed towards, turning back only for a moment to wave at Eon- with his own escort- and Swarm- standing next to Dragon with a large scent of nervousness lingering around her. She flashed a smile at the bug user for good measure, in an attempt to help with that, then hurried off after the two of them and towards the first tent of people.
Stepping inside, it was easy to tell that it was bigger than the ones they'd had in Canberra, and that because of that there was more people waiting for her. The ones closest were staring at the troopers and herself with undisguised curiosity and fear, which made Shadow take a deep breath and close her eyes.
Here we go.
"We're ready whenever you are, Shadow."
She nodded, taking another deep breath and holding it for a moment, preparing her Moves.
Let's go.
Swarm spent a lot of the first hour barely moving from her position. She'd been given somewhere to sit that would give her a good view of most of the earlier tents, as well as the area around them, and aside from giving them a nod of thanks, had outwardly done nothing but sit there.
In actual fact, she was constantly checking around with her bugs, making sure that no-one was getting too close to her team mates that might be considered suspicious. She had enough bugs everywhere she could stuff them that seeing out of their eyes was more a matter of focusing correctly than anything else; she just had to put herself in the right mindset to see. Anyone that was moving nearby got a careful looking at, and if she confirmed that they weren't wearing a PRT uniform she made a note of them with a few flies and followed their actions.
Perhaps she was being a little overcautious, and she was fairly sure that she was unnerving the people around her- given the way that they kept shooting her still form looks- but Swarm found that she didn't really care about that. The important thing was that she'd been trusted with a duty by her team mates, and she wanted to keep that.
If she did it all well enough, then that might make her dad more likely to let her join the other members of Inari on more out of town missions, even if those missions were only happening to the other containment zones around the world. Of course, she'd have to prove her worth to the PRT as well, but hopefully this mission would do that without needing more examples.
She didn't think that she would need to prove herself to Team Inari any more than she already had, which meant that it was only those two groups that she would need to deal with.
Oh, and Dragon. She should make sure that Dragon was okay with it, given that she was the one in charge of transportation. That was… quite important.
Swarm shifted, conscious of the fact that she had barely moved and knowing that it wouldn't help if she ended up too stiff to move if something happened, and was grateful for the fact that her mask concealed her smile when the PRT troopers around her startled at the abrupt change. Dragon didn't even twitch, to her slight surprise, only turning a little and directing her helmet as if concerned.
"Are you all right, swarm?" She asked, the faintest bit of worry in her voice. Swarm allowed her smile to get a little wider, broadcasting how she was feeling to the armoured Tinker, And nods a little.
"I'm fine, thank you." She paused, momentarily distracted by the movement of one of her books, but it was only one of the PRT troopers that she had marked earlier- one of the ones that was guiding Shadow around healing stations- so she chose to ignore it and looked back instead. "Everything going well?"
Despite the mask and armour, Dragon somehow managed to look amused. "I would have thought you'd already know that." She said jokingly, gesturing to the little cloud of bugs that was orbiting her. Swarm chuckled, a little sheepishly, and nodded.
"I've been keeping an eye on them, but I meant more from the position of someone in charge of all of the actual heavy lifting, rather than a healer."
Dragon seemed surprised. "I'm fairly sure that a lot of people would claim Inari were the ones who were doing the heavy lifting."
She just shrugged in return, wincing a little as bones cracked and she came to the conclusion that she really needed to move around a bit. "Sure, the healing is a lot of work, but once we're finished with that Inari is pretty much going straight home, you know? Not like you or," she gestured widely around the area to all of the PRT troopers that were discreetly watching their conversation, "all of the others here. You guys are gonna be involved in this for a lot longer, dealing with all of the moving people out and the fallout of not needing to maintain the zone any more. I'd say that that's a lot more heavy lifting than just healing… Or just sitting around playing guard."
Swarm got the faint impression that Dragon, and the aforementioned guards, was staring at her in shock.
"That's…" Dragon trailed off, shaking her head. "That's a very mature point of view."
"I mean, I'm well aware that we're doing quite a lot, and that it's something that nobody else can really do." She shrugged again, before pushing herself off the ground to stand and stretch. "But at the same time… well, it feels a bit like we're not really doing anything at all. Even though none of us would have the first idea as to how to organise all this… it just feels a little like we ought to be doing more. Or perhaps I should."
Dragon closed distance between them, moving surprisingly quickly for a person encased in armour, and rested a hand on her shoulder. "Keeping an eye out for- and on- your team mates is plenty of work, in my eyes." The Tinker told her, before dipping her head closer to Swarm's like she was confiding some sort of secret. "I know how irritating that can be."
The insect controller couldn't help but laugh a little. "I guess you would."
Dragon seemed to give her a smile, moving away again and leaving Swarm to her stretching. "Do you need anything?"
"Not right now." She decided, taking stock. "Might in another few hours, which'll probably also be a good time to force Shadow and Eon into a break as well." Since she was still keeping track of the two even while she talked, she knew that they were resting in between healing bouts, and the Leppa cookies were being used whenever they were needed- Swarm was glad to see that they were apparently working just as well as the Berries themselves would be, and made a note to bake some more of them when they got back from Madison- but she also knew that both of the Pokemon would need to rest for real at some point, and forcing them to take a proper break for food would be a good way to do it.
"Alright."
"The team will reach the city within the next day."
"There were reports of a Dragoncraft leaving Brockton Bay early this morning."
"Any information on where they were going?"
"None."
"Then it will wait until they return to the Bay."
"Are we going to look for their base?"
"No-one seems to have even a starting point for where their base is located, so unless some information on that comes in in the next few hours, no."
"We could try to track them after they return."
"They can go invisible."
"Reportedly they were too tired to manage that last time."
"Doesn't mean that they won't."
"Enough! We aren't going to track them, we'll wait until we have an opportunity in the city itself. It's more likely to happen."
"With them jetting around the world?"
"Shut it!"
"Stop fussing, Swarm." Shadow grumbled, shifting in her seat for the third time in as many minutes. "I-"
"-Don't care what your excuses are, sit down, relax for a few more minutes, and eat something that isn't the biscuits." Her team mate interrupted easily, putting a hand on her back for a moment to make sure she wouldn't try to leave before going back to the sandwiches they'd been given.
The PRT had herded them into one of the break rooms set up for the people dealing with the number of people leaving Madison post healing, where they'd found that Swarm had already claimed a table, food, and drink for all of them. She'd near enough dragged them over, picking up Shadow as if to make sure she wouldn't try to avoid her, and settled back to eat.
Eon, the traitor, had just laughed slightly before following them, sitting gracefully on the bench and accepting what Swarm had chosen without complaint. At this point, with a little under two months of time working together, they were fairly used to getting each other food- usually while on patrol, one of them going in and getting things from the shop while the other two played the crowds outside- so they had a fairly good idea of what the others in the team liked.
Still, even though Shadow was happy with it- chicken and cheese was a nice combo, no matter what anyone else said, and the fact that she could melt it with her fire helped so much- it didn't stop her from being incredibly anxious. She wanted to be out there, healing people, breaking the Simurgh's hold on them so that they could leave the city they'd been trapped in for so long. She didn't want to sit here eating sandwiches and drinking juice and waiting for someone to let her leave. She just wanted to go.
"Shadow, relax." Eon murmured, gently. "You know you need the break just as much as me-"
"Not as much." She grumbled. And that was kind of true, too. She wasn't as tired as Eon was, she was better with the linked Moves thing she did than he was, so it wasn't as much of a stress for her to do it as compared to when Eon did. She didn't need the break as much as him.
"Don't argue, Shadow." Eon sighed. "I know you want to help. So do I, honestly. But we're not going to help making ourselves collapse."
"And besides, I've been watching with my bugs." Swarm added. "You've been moving almost twice as fast as Eon has."
Traitor, Shadow couldn't help but think spitefully, as Eon jolted on the other side of the table and stared at her with undisguised horror.
"Shadow-"
"Shut up." She said. "I just- I need to help, ok? I need to help these people, and if I stop..."
Swarm sighed, putting her hand on Shadow's head, just behind her crest. "They'll still get out of Madison if you take a ten- even five minute break every now and then. But if you end up making yourself collapse, it'll take longer to recover, longer to help people, and longer to move on to the next containment zone to help them."
Reluctantly, she leaned into the touch. "I know, I know. Honestly, promise, I know that. But my brain keeps telling me that I need to work faster, that I need to get to everyone now, because there's no-one else but Eon that can help." Abruptly, she slumped, barely avoiding knocking her sandwich. "I miss the team..."
"Oh, Shadow..."
"I know it's stupid, but I just-"
"It's not stupid to miss home, Shadow." Eon assured her. "I miss it, too. But we've got to keep going, and finish the mission we were sent here to do."
"Whatever that was." She said. It still rankled a bit that they'd actually taken this mission without any real idea as to what the mission was- Hoopa had told them to 'help out', but neither of them had any idea as to what that actually meant. They'd assumed it was either something to do with the gangs, at first, then the Endbringers when they'd found out about those, but there was always the chance it had nothing to do with either of those. At that point they were back to not having any idea about it, though, so Shadow hoped that that wasn't the case.
"We'll figure it out." Eon promised. "We'll stay here, making friends, figure it out, then we'll go home again and share everything with the rest of the team."
"But you aren't going to be able to get there if you keep working yourself into exhaustion all the time." Swarm added. Shadow sighed, sitting up and lifting her sandwich in a telekinetic grip.
"I guess." For a moment, she just sat there, then she started eating again.
She meant what she'd said. She did know that she needed to rest, that she needed to be careful not to collapse. But her brain kept telling her that she needed to work faster, that she couldn't afford to take breaks, because these people had all been suffering because of the Simurgh for so long and she couldn't bare to leave them like that when she could help.
You can't help if you're too exhausted to use your Moves, she reminded herself firmly. If you're practically unconscious on the field, you're no help to anyone, and then Eon would be working all alone. You need to take a break. Besides, they've all been here so long without any hope. Just the fact that you're giving them some is enough to make it that they won't blame you for stopping a while.
That thought carried her through the rest of the ten minute break, and when she ended up beckoning for a trooper to lead her back where she needed to be, Shadow kept them in mind.
"That seemed... out of character for Shadow." Swarm said hesitantly, once the Vulpix was out of range. Eon nodded absently, still working on eating his own sandwich- second, actually; he'd gone to get another one once he'd finished everything since if he was going to be taking a break he might as well eat enough to keep him going for quite some time- and flicked his tails. The up-and-down waving pattern was faintly hypnotic, as intended, and after a moment the distraction illusion came into effect. It was similar to the one about the base, based on the Totter Orb and Zoroark illusions, but slightly less powerful; it served to confuse, nothing more.
"It both is and isn't." Eon responded. "It is now, yes. But before? Before was a little different."
"She was practically self destructing?"
"Sort of." He grimaced. "She wasn't exactly that bad, but she had a tendency to throw herself at problems a little." He took a bite of his sandwich to give himself time to think. "At the beginning, she was bubbly. Bright, cheerful, pretty much any other word you can think of. Happy. She wanted to be a Rescue Pokemon, and she wanted to help people. She was young, and it showed. But she tended to push herself a bit too far sometimes, because she wanted to help."
"She got better?"
"Oh, far better. But at the start it was worrying. The Guild in town didn't want to let her be a team leader, because she was so young- she was only ten- so she asked me to be the leader so she could be the second, and then she'd be able to do what she wanted." Eon chuckled at the memory. Shadow had been miserable up until the point where she'd turned ecstatic at the idea that Eon would help her, and by that point Eon had known her well enough to know that he'd be willing to despite her age. "But because she'd been rejected that first time, she sometimes felt the need to make up for it. To prove that she was Team Inari's second in command because she'd earned that, not because I'd taken pity on the little kid who wanted to play hero."
"I'm going to assume that was a common sentiment?" Swarm tilted her head, picking up on the bit of bitterness in his tone.
"In the early days. It got better once we did more missions, but at the beginning..." He shrugged. "So sometimes she'd end up getting a bit reckless. We didn't have to pull her out of that trouble all that much, luckily, but sometimes she'd get into a situation that meant the rest of the team had to put her on the backseat until she recovered."
"So... what?" Swarm's mask was hiding her expression, but her scent gave off enough confusion to imply that she was probably frowning. "She's acting like this because she thinks she's not good enough to be on the team or something?"
"I don't think it's that." Eon started, then paused. "Or not only that. Maybe some of it's the old insecurity, but I think a lot of it is just what she said. She's one of the only people who can help these people, so every moment she's spending not helping is one that's making her feel bad because no-one else could do what she feels she should be doing."
"She can only do so much."
"She knows." He shrugged. "But it doesn't stop the voice in her head telling her to do more."
His other team mate seemed satisfied at that, or at least understanding, so Eon finished his sandwich in silence before dismissing the Totter illusion and beckoning over to the PRT trooper that had been leading him around.
"I'll see you later, Swarm." He said over his shoulder. The bug user nodded, pulling her mask more firmly over her lower face and waving with the other hand.
"Be careful."
June 3rd, 2011. Friday.
It took until late into the next morning for Inari to be done clearing everyone in Madison. They'd ended up sleeping overnight in a somewhat hastily set up room, and while it had helped, Swarm was still exhausted. And all she'd done was spend the two days sitting around and watching with her bugs.
Eon held himself better, but he was sagging under the weight of tiredness, and Shadow was once again staggering slightly. Swarm tutted before she could help herself and reached forwards, lifting her with a little difficulty into her arms and disregarding the fact that Dragon was standing next to her and there was a PRT escort around them.
"Are you ok?" She directed down at Eon. She didn't even bother with Shadow, knowing how she was doing perfectly well.
The Ninetales nodded, slinking around her feet to sit at her side and curl his tails around her legs. "I will be fine."
From her arms, Shadow muttered something that might've been an agreement, if Swarm had any faith in her being able to follow the conversation around her. Fortunately for Swarm's sanity, Dragon seemed to pick up on the state of things easily, helping to hurry them through everything needed for departure and into the Dragoncraft.
Eon was shortly spread out across one of the couches, leaving Swarm to settle on the other and place Shadow at her side, running a hand down her back.
"It won't take long to get back home, but a short nap is better than nothing, I guess?" She suggested. Eon huffed a laugh.
"True." The small smile he gave her made her grin back, making herself comfortable for the flight.
Tale Swapper
(Unverified Madman)
- Location
- Lost Among a Sea of Imaginings and Dreams
I smell the Travelers.
And Swarm got infected with the Rescue team mindset, and once again leads to a hopelessly confused PRT!
I mean, this mindset and perspective, let alone outright saying it was almost certainly out of left field, ESPECIALLY from the new recruit!
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MaskedCritic
Verified Obsessed with Yuri
- Location
- Fluttershy's Secret Dungeon Shrine to Metal
The latest chapters have been making me feel a little bad for Taylor. She's got the same problem as canon, where she's surrounded by powerhouses while stuck with her (at first glance) weak power, except magnified tenfold. For all that she's one of the three main characters in this, she has never really gotten any time to shine like the other two have, nor been able to make a contribution that one of the others couldn't just remember a Pokémon they've worked with in the past who could do it just as well or better. I don't know about anybody else, but were I in her place I think I would feel rather pointless, like a tag-along that is only brought with out of pity... which, as I said, makes me feel bad for her.
Though thinking about it, she is very powerful in one way. Sight, because she can use bugs about as small if not more so than joltic to keep tabs in a huge area which is not that easy to defeat. While psychic types could read minds, at minimum that is useless against any dark type, which is no issue for taylor, and aura, on the other hand I doub't would be very effective at keeping an eye on such a large area as Taylor could do. Though on the other hand, it would certainly feel like it, especially as she is a parahuman, though thankfully she is learning a lot of stuff in general, including fighting itself not being everything.
MaskedCritic
Verified Obsessed with Yuri
- Location
- Fluttershy's Secret Dungeon Shrine to Metal
You know, I've been trying to not think about bug-types. Considering this is a universe where Pokémon are officially people, and not just semi-intelligent animals, the possibility of Taylor having complete control over a bug-type becomes somewhat horrifying...
...no matter how awesome her having control of an entire swarm of Angry Murderbees would be.
Honestly yeah...
Which also makes sense considering if I remember correctly, her power is fully capable of controlling people, just not something the power allowed to happen, considering how canon golden morning was stopped...
Worm, is a very dark story...
- Location
- Painting, Peach's Castle
Well, they could take the route done by The Bug-Type Queen. Taylor's power, in that fic, was considered by the Pokemon to be varying levels of awesome and could be rejected with...apparently not MUCH effort, but it was fairly alluring. She never really had much control over them, either, but could push it until they were "one" witeffort, and it's hard to tell how difficult that was for her since the Beedrill basically considered it a religious experience.
CONSENTUAL Angry Murderbees is fun.
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- Location
- England, Smugsville.
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♦ Topic: Inari back in Bay
In: Boards ► Places ► America ► Brockton Bay
InariFan001 (Original Poster)
Posted On Jun 3rd 2011:
Inari was spotted coming out of the PRT building at just after 3pm. Pic they seem pretty bad off this time; Eon is staggering, Swarm looks to be sagging a little, and Shadow's being carried around by Swarm.
Looks pretty bad, anyone know what was going on?
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►Char
Replied On Jun 3rd 2011:
I don't know why we're arguing about this; we know that they went out earlier on in a Dragoncraft, it's fairly ovbious that they were doing another trip to a containment zone.
►ChocChipCookie
Replied On Jun 3rd 2011:
We settle dthat a while ago, yeah, but we don't know where they went! There's not been any sightings of Dragoncraft anywhere, or not any that people are spilling, sooo... the arguments continue!
►CheeseChaser (Moderator)
Replied On Jun 3rd 2011:
Hopefully not for long.
Standing warning, if things continue to get out of hand with the 'trying to figure out where Inari went' things, I'll shut down the thread and you'll all need to wait until Inari or the PRT makes a public statement themselves.
►Swarm (Verified Cape) (Team Inari)
Replied On Jun 3rd 2011:
So good news, everyone! I have info.
I'm not technically supposed to be posting this, but also I think it's best if people know what's going on. So;
Yesterday and today saw Team Inari visiting Madison, Wisconsin. The combined efforts of Eon and Shadow, as well as the Parahuman Response Team members in the area, meant that the zone has now been cleared. I was also present, partly to act as extra security alongside Dragon and the local Parahumans Haunt and Ripwind, and partly to keep tabs on my team mates while they worked. We of Team Inari would like to extend our thanks to the PRT, the US Government, and Dragon of the Guild for their help arranging all of this.
Now that the official bit is out of the way, Eon and Shadow are both fine. They were just exhausted in the aftermath of all the healing; Madison's quite a lot bigger than Canberra, and even though they were sharing the work between them, Eon's less experienced with the method of healing they were using and Shadow still hadn't completely recovered from Canberra the other day. She managed to convince us she was doing well enough, but then she also pushed herself pretty hard.
We had a bit of trouble trying to get her to stop for long enough to actually sleep last night, because she was trying to help so much. Shadow's fine, just incredibly exhausted, hence me carrying her around earlier this afternoon. Currently, both of my team mates are asleep, wrapped up in blankets, and they've eaten. Once they wake up I'll give them something else, and I'm going to be making sure neither of them try heading out anywhere until they've recovered properly.
►Bagrat (Veteran Member) (The Guy in the Know)
Replied On Jun 3rd 2011:
Thank you for the info, Swarm, and it's good to know that they're doing ok. I was a bit worried, given how they looked.
Send our best wishes when they wake up, ok?
►InariFan001 (Original Poster)
Replied On Jun 3rd 2011:
Yeah, make sure they're ok! They're both lucky to have a teammate like you helping them out.
►Aquamarina (Verified Cape)
Replied On Jun 3rd 2011:
It's good to hear that Shadow and Eon are doing well. I was pretty worried as well when I saw the picture, but I thought I'd wait until I saw something from one of you.
You certainly seem to be recovering well from everything, though. Make sure you get some rest as well, don't just take care of your team mates and forget about yourself.
►Swarm (Verified Cape) (Team Inari)
Replied On Jun 3rd 2011:
Hey, Aqua, good to see you too!
Yeah, I'm making sure to rest as well. I didn't actually get much downtime, since I was the designated lookout while Shadow and Eon were working, and then when I was resting I was usually also making sure they did...
Keeping an eye on those two can be a handful, especially since Shadow is very resolutely Not Allowed coffee after the incident at Moonlight Cavern a year and a half ago...
►GellSine
Replied On Jun 3rd 2011:
Ouch, no coffee? That's harsh, especially when she's got to be awake for a long time. Poor girl...
(Also where on earth is moonlight cavern? The internet isn't helping me there.)
►Swarm (Verified Cape) (Team Inari)
Replied On Jun 3rd 2011:
Oh, sure, you say that, but then again you've clearly never had to catch her after she managed to drink a mug of coffee and promptly went on a rampage through the entire area and cleared out half the place working solo before promptly crashing incredibly close to a lava pit.
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Aquamarina (3:47am): So you're heading out again?
Swarm (3:47am): Yeah. Actually going with them this time too.
Also what are you doing awake, it's early?
Aquamarina (3:48am) You're awake.
Swarm (3:48am): I'm about to head out. I don't have the option to not be awake. You do, go not be awake.
Aquamarina (3:48am): Sure sure, fussy bugs. Stay safe, see you on the other side.
Swarm (3:48am): You too and will do, glitter wings.
Swarm (4:02pm): We're good!
Aquamarina (4:02pm): I saw. They're doing ok?
Swarm (4:03pm): Asleep right now, wrapped up in their blankets, but yeah, they're good. Shadow pushed herself a little too hard for someone who's still not really recovered properly, so I'm grounding her.
Swarm (4:03pm): (A picture of Eon and Shadow in a forest area, near a low campfire, wrapped up in blankets.)
Aquamarina (4:04pm): Despite the fact that you definitely didn't have permission to send me that, it's good to see that they're resting.
Thanks, Swarm.
Swarm (4:04pm): No problem! I thought you'd like that... and they won't blame me, Eon and Shadow both like you.
Aquamarina (4:05pm): I'm glad, I like them as well.
So, any chance of you coming to LA any time?
Swarm (4:05pm): I've not had the chance to talk to the team about it yet, and I've got to speak to some people outside of it as well.
Maybe?
But there's a lot going on in the Bay at the moment.
Aquamarina (4:06pm): That's fair, make sure your home's safe before you go elsewhere.
Swarm (4:06pm): Pretty much.
Aquamarina (4:06pm): I've got to go.
Make sure you all rest up!
Swarm (4:06pm): Later, glitters.
♦ Topic: Boardwalk meet and greet
In: Boards ► Places ► America ► Brockton Bay
Feychick (Original Poster)
Posted On Jun 4th 2011:
after yesterday's trip out of town it looks like inari is doing a meet on the boardwalk so you should go there if you can
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►Dawgsmiles (Veteran Member)
Replied On Jun 4th 2011:
Are we all sure that it's a good idea for Inari to be out right now? I mean, just yesterday they were completely out of it, apparently...
►Swarm (Verified Cape) (Team Inari)
Replied On Jun 4th 2011:
@Inarifan001 it was nice to meet you too! Eon and Shadow- especially Shadow- were pleased to see you today.
@AllSeeingEye I suppose it's partly a patrol, yes, but we discussed it before we left. Eon realised that we hadn't really done much wandering just for the sake of it and wanted to give a chance to meet people. We're not looking for trouble today, just trying to have a walk around the Boardwalk and see what we see.
@Dawgsmiles don't worry, I'm keeping an eye on them. They decided they wanted to go out and say hello to people today, but I made them both promise that if I saw them flagging I'd be taking them back to the Den.
►Bagrat (Veteran Member) (The Guy in the Know)
Replied On Jun 4th 2011:
@Swarm good to know that you're keeping a close eye on them, Swarm! You're a good team mate. Do you know how long you're going to be out today? I might be able to drop by if you're still around after work.
►WagTheDog
Replied On Jun 4th 2011:
This is honistly really cute and I'm glad i was able to see it video
(It's a video of Eon and Shadow, surrounded by young children. They're gracefully accepting pats and cooing, and Shadow is occasionally entertaining them with small illusions, though that usually gets her a glare from Swarm. The insect user is standing in the corner of the frame, a few people talking to her.)
►Char
Replied On Jun 4th 2011:
Whoops.
(Another video, this one from a different angle. Eon is sitting down with his tails spread out a bit behind him, laid out in three sets of braids. He's still talking to some people, this time mostly teens.
A man walks into frame, wearing sunglasses and using a walking stick, and steps on one of the braids. Eon startles, yanking his tails out from under the man's foot, while causes him to slip. A few people nearby steady him, and one of them grabs the sunglasses that had fallen off when he stumbled. Eon turns to speak to him, though the audio is too quiet to figure out what was said.)
►Aquamarina (Verified Cape)
Replied On Jun 4th 2011:
Oh dear, that looked painful for everyone! Hopefully that man is ok...
►Swarm (Verified Cape) (Team Inari)
Replied On Jun 4th 2011:
Don't worry, he's fine. Poor guy is light sensitive, and Eon's tails glitter a little in the sun, which made it hard to focus on them. I've reminded Eon to keep his tails closer to himself when he's out, though; he usually does, but sometimes he forgets and fans them out.
Eon's fine too, though having three tails stood on isn't exactly fun. They're a bit sensitive, and he's still tired enough that pain is harder to think past, hence the automatic reaction to being stepped on.
►Panacea (Verified Cape) (New Wave)
Replied On Jun 4th 2011:
Well, now I'm upset that I'm at the hospital. It'd be nice to meet up again.
►Glory Girl (Verified Cape) (New Wave)
Replied On Jun 4th 2011:
If you want we can drop by the Boardwalk when you're done here.
►Swarm (Verified Cape) (Team Inari)
Replied On Jun 4th 2011:
@Panacea @Glory Girl no idea if we'll still be out and about when you're done at the hospital, Panacea, but if we are then we'd be glad to see you.
Or just message me and maybe we can set up a time and date to meet? It'd be nice to head out to lunch or something together.
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►Aquamarina (Verified Cape)
Replied On Jun 4th 2011:
Dang, going out with New Wave, Swarm? Now I'm jealous...
►Swarm (Verified Cape) (Team Inari)
Replied On Jun 4th 2011:
Don't live on the other side of the country, then we'll talk.
►Acree
Replied On Jun 4th 2011:
This is really quite neat. It's good to see Capes just walking about to have fun.
►Vista (Wards ENE) (Verified Cape)
Replied On Jun 4th 2011:
I know, right? It's annoying that the Wards aren't really supposed to patrol on weekends, to give us time to do work, or I'd be out there as well. Shadow's nice.
►bothad
Replied On Jun 4th 2011:
hang on whos aquamarina and how do they no inari
►Aquamarina (Verified Cape)
Replied On Jun 4th 2011:
We met during Leviathan and kept in touch. Unfortunately I'm a Cape from LA, so I don't exactly get to see them...
►Swarm (Verified Cape) (Team Inari)
Replied On Jun 4th 2011:
@Acree it's a lot of fun for us all, I think. Eon and Shadow have mentioned that things like this were fairly common before, and they're happy that they can do it here.
@Vista while you should absolutely get your schoolwork done, I don't see why you couldn't costume up to come say hi.
I'm probably being a bad influence there, but oh well. We like seeing our friends!
bothad like Aquamarina said, we stayed in touch after Leviathan. She bought in Eon when he got hurt attacking, helped Shadow out with her own attack, and then helped Shadow get around so that they could save me after I got stuck under a building while on search and rescue. Then we just kind of... ended up hanging out a bit later in the day, when people we taking breaks and stuff, so we decided to try and stay in contact.
►ChocChipCookie
Replied On Jun 4th 2011:
Huh, that's pretty neat. Though I'd like to know what Aquamarina and Shadow did... I swear that's been the best-kept secret about that last fight. If I didn't know better I'd think everyone was in cahoots trying to keep it quiet.
►XxVoid_CowboyxX
Replied On Jun 4th 2011:
Is it just me or is there a lot of ABB around the Inari meeting thing? Are they allied up or something?
►Swarm (Verified Cape) (Team Inari)
Replied On Jun 4th 2011:
I'm aware of the amount of ABB in the area, and while it's odd, I'm keeping an eye on it. It's important to me that no-one causes any trouble, since then Eon or Shadow would try to get involved and then that'd put back their recovery. And that would annoy them since I'd stop them from going back to travelling to Containment Zones for longer.
Don't worry, I won't let anything happen.
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♦ Topic: Inari Tracking
In: Boards ► World Events
Tin_Mother (Original Poster) (Moderator)
Posted On Jun 7th 2011:
Ok.
So, due to the number of threads that're now in the Brockton Bay boards, we're moving this to here.
This will be the semi-official thread for keeping a track of Team Inari whenever they're going off around the world. This is for tracking them to Containment Zones only; I don't care if they're going down the street for coffee, that's for the discussion threads. Here, you all can watch for their little roadtrips across the world. Discussion of this is also allowed here, though I don't know what there is to discuss when there's no reason to be speculating why they're going somewhere, but sure.
Any other threads on the topic are now going to be redirected here.
Edit: This was quickly approved by the entirety of Team Inari (you can see their posts on the first page) so I suppose we can consider this to be the official thread for it now. Off you go.
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►Eon (Verified Cape) (Team Inari)
Replied On Jun 7th 2011:
Thank you, Tin_Mother, for this thread. I'm sure it'll make handling our exploits a lot easier. My apologies if we've caused any trouble to the mod team with all of the threads about our travels.
►Shadow (Verified Cape) (Team Inari)
Replied On Jun 7th 2011:
Oh cool, a thread dedicated to us taking out trips! Not sure if we're gonna be able to contribute much, I think this is kinda-sorta classified, but it's still cool! Thanks!
►Swarm (Verified Cape) (Team Inari)
Replied On Jun 7th 2011:
As both of my teammates said, thank you for the thread. I hope that this makes handling our travels easier on the mod team.
►Bagrat (Veteran Member) (The Guy in the Know)
Replied On Jun 7th 2011:
Thanks, Tin_Mother! So, to start this thread off, Inari were spotted this morning heading into the PRT building again. Presumably they've now recovered, since Eon and Shadow looked fine, so I guess now we need to wait to see where they're going.
Edit: Stranger'd by the entire team themselves, who apparently decided to approve the thread. Shame you couldn't give us any info, though understandable. Stay safe!
►CupOfTeaAnyone
Replied On Jun 7th 2011:
In the South of England here, pretty sure we just saw a Dragoncraft heading over like it's got a bee in its bonnet, so seems like they might be heading into London?
►OnlyWizard
Replied On Jun 7th 2011:
I actually don't live that far outside of the London zone, and yeah, just saw the Craft heading over. Would be nice to have our capital back, that's for sure.
►Aloha
Replied On Jun 9th 2011:
It's currently a little after 11pm, I was just looking out of the window, and looks like Inari are back from their last bout. Two whole days spent out there is... pretty impressive. How many people were there in that zone?
►Bagrat (Veteran Member) (The Guy in the Know)
Replied On Jun 9th 2011:
Sources are saying the affected zone was probably somewhere in the range of 3 million? We're not completely sure, since the damn place has been sealed off since 2003 so we're working with projections from the 2001 data.
►Swarm (Verified Cape) (Team Inari)
Replied On Jun 9th 2011:
Since my team are, once again, unconscious; our understanding is about the same as your information. Luckily we all seem to be getting a better understanding about the range and limits of Shadow and Eon's abilities, so we were able to work with clearing bigger groups. It didn't tire them out too much more, and it meant that we were able to work through things quickly. Now it's just down to the locals to handle the rest.
I'd like to give thanks to Dragon on behalf of Team Inari for the transportation, and to the British Government for their assistance in everything going on.
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►AussieAstound
Replied On Jun 9th 2011:
I feel like you need to stop letting your team end up unconscious.
►Swarm (Verified Cape) (Team Inari)
Replied On Jun 9th 2011:
I mean, I'm trying, but it's a little difficult when they keep working themselves into exhaustion with their abilities.
On the plus it'll hopefully mean they'll be able to do more as they keep doing this. On the minus, it means everything goes quiet and I end up on babysitter duty until they recover.
In the name of helping people, huh.
►ZapTheThorson
Replied On Jun 12th 2011:
Looks like Inari's heading to Lausanne today.
(A blurry photo of a Dragoncraft.)
►BadSamurai
Replied On Jun 12th 2011:
Seems like that one would be a bit difficult? Given that it's been under quarantine for nearly a decade now. Though it's smaller than London, at least. Maybe they'll get through it without passing out this time.
►Swarm (Verified Cape) (Team Inari)
Replied On Jun 14th 2011:
@BadSamurai nope.
In their defense it is also 1:13 in the morning and I'm currently posting this from the plane before going to sleep for a bit myself, but nope. Still passed out.
►Aquamarina (Verified Cape)
Replied On Jun 14th 2011:
I'm starting to think you need to talk to Dragon or the PRT or whoever the hell and get them to set out a better schedule for this stuff so Shadow and Eon can recover properly.
►Swarm (Verified Cape) (Team Inari)
Replied On Jun 14th 2011:
Honestly probably, but also both of them tend to recover pretty quickly. They sleep like the dead for a while, then they're just drowzy for the rest of the day, but after that they're mostly ok again. Though doing it too much in a row without a proper break isn't the best thing for them.
►AldebertTheAwesome
Replied On Jun 17th 2011:
Looks like Budapest is on the list.
(Another blurry photo of a Dragoncraft, this one taken as the craft starts to land.)
►Answer Key
Replied On Jun 17th 2011:
Huh, two pretty old zones one after another? Interesting. Wonder who it is that's picking these?
►Shadow (Verified Cape) (Team Inari)
Replied On Jun 17th 2011:
As far as we're aware, the PRT has a Thinker team that's doing it. But honestly I have no idea, for all we know they might just have a few people throwing darts at a board covered in Zone names.
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►GellSine
Replied On Jun 17th 2011:
snorts now I'm imagining the Chief Director and some of her subordinates throwing darts in a conference room in order to decide where to ask for Team Inari to go next.
Thanks, Shadow.
►Shadow (Verified Cape) (Team Inari)
Replied On Jun 17th 2011:
You're welcome!
►Swarm (Verified Cape) (Team Inari)
Replied On Jun 19th 2011:
I got permission to post one this time!
I mean sure they were half asleep but I'm counting that as a victory, they wouldn't let me do it last time.
(A picture of Eon and Shadow in the den, curled around each other. Shadow is wrapped as a burrito in a puffy blue blanket, while Eon is curled around her with his tails over her and a soft orange blanket over both of them.)
►Aquamarina (Verified Cape)
Replied On Jun 19th 2011:
This is exactly what we all wanted out of Team Inari going across the world dealing with Simurgh Containment Zones.
►Swarm (Verified Cape) (Team Inari)
Replied On Jun 19th 2011:
To be honest I have so many of these pictures it's not even funny. Mostly Shadow, Shadow is adorable and silly.
But also some of them risk my identity so sorry.
(Anyway to keep the thread on topic a little we're not gonna be going out for a few days again so you can all stop looking out for us.)
►TheSpicyNorwegian
Replied On Jun 22nd 2011:
Got this from a friend that doesn't use PHO to upload.
(A Dragoncraft starting to land.)
Looks like it's Stockholm this time.
►Deimos
Replied On Jun 22nd 2011:
This is ridiculous, is Inari actually doing anything in Brockton Bay at the minute? I thought you were meant to be a local team @Shadow @Eon @Swarm
►Eon (Verified Cape) (Team Inari)
Replied On Jun 24th 2011:
@Deimos we are, actually! We do short patrols on evenings when we can, and Swarm's still keeping an eye on things when we're home and Shadow and I are resting. We just also feel that since things have calmed down in Brockton Bay recently- you know, aside from the random explosions on occasion and the fairly rampant gun violence that's just par for the course- it's a fairly good time to be running across the world helping out.
(Also, sorry for the delayed reply; we were busy running across the world helping out.)
►InariFan001
Replied On Jun 26th 2011:
Pretty quick recovery this time. Anyone see anything where they're going?
(A picture of Team Inari walking into the PRT building. Eon is leading the way, with Shadow and Swarm in their usual places.)
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♦ Topic: Explosion in warehouse district?
In: Boards ► Places ► America ► Brockton Bay
Bagrat (Original Poster) (Veteran Member) (The Guy in the Know)
Posted On Jun 17th 2011:
So it looks like something's going down in town again. Almost unusual, actually; things have been quiet since the whole Leviathan thing, so it's practically a surprise that something's exploded.
Anyone have any leads?
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►Acree
Replied On Jun 17th 2011:
I'm just saying, it's pretty convenient that things are going down only now when Inari's out of town, y'know? Seems like it was planned.
►Ekul
Replied On Jun 17th 2011:
Ah, yes, planning an attack and causing trouble on a day when one of the more effective teams of heroes is out of town. What genius cunning.
►Antigone
Replied On Jun 17th 2011:
It's interesting that it happened somewhere so out of the way, though. Like, if it was some sort of proper attack I'd've expected it somewhere more in the city, not some out of the way warehouse?
►Good Ship Morpheus
Replied On Jun 17th 2011:
could esily be one of the gangs gong after another
►Reave (Verified PRT Agent)
Replied On Jun 17th 2011:
While I can't officially comment, I understand the PRT's been over it pretty closely. It looks like Oni Lee's work, given everything.
►WhedonRipperFan
Replied On Jun 17th 2011:
Oh great, the ABB's back in force? They were being so calm...
Wonder if this has anything to do with the massive showup we had the other day?
►Lasersmile
Replied On Jun 17th 2011:
That would make sense, yeah.
►BBPD
Replied On Jun 17th 2011:
On the explosion that occurred in the warehouse district earlier today, evidence suggests Parahuman involvement, likely Oni Lee of the ABB. Nothing more is known about the situation at this time.
►Bagrat (Original Poster) (Veteran Member) (The Guy in the Know)
Replied On Jun 17th 2011:
Darn, that's annoying. Thanks anyway, BBPD. Hopefully we get a PRT announcement soon.
►RiseoftheHals
Replied On Jun 17th 2011:
So, um. I live sort of near that area. And I go walking around there sometimes. Not often, it's kinda sketchy. But sometimes.
There's been a lot of weird people around there the last couple of days. Like, a lot a lot. It's kind of scary.
And I'm fairly sure I saw Rune overhead last night.
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►Mane Magenta
Replied On Jun 17th 2011:
Some sort of ABB hit on the Empire? Damn, that might get messy. Hopefully it's not too bad or it's dealt with quick or something, because things are still rocky enough after Leviathan showed up and I for one wouldn't want to be dealing with gang infighting.
►RiseoftheHals
Replied On Jun 17th 2011:
I'm fairly sure it's not Empire? It didn't look like it was all white people there...
►Iblis
Replied On Jun 17th 2011:
In which case I'm promptly lost again, because what the hell would it be? It's not like the Empire and ABB would work together, that's mad.
►Ne
Replied On Jun 17th 2011:
Could just be a coincidence.
Also does anyone know what the hell the Merchants are doing right now? Aside from being the opportunistic targets of Team Inari still.
►FirstofMayuary
Replied On Jun 17th 2011:
I'd sincerely doubt that it's a coincidence, but also I guess there's a chance...?
And maybe it's Merchant related, given that no-one seems to have heard anything from them recently. Like, did they all up and vanish post Leviathan?
►Valkyr (Wiki Warrior)
Replied On Jun 17th 2011:
I'm fairly sure Skidmark was declared dead during Leviathan, wasn't he? That would explain why the Merchants have been oddly silent the last little while. With only Squealer and Mush running about it's probably falling apart... more than it was before.
►PoisonedCell
Replied On Jun 17th 2011:
Wait, Skidmark is dead? I missed that somehow?
checks death announcement thread
Hell. That... certainly changes things in the Bay, doesn't it?
And probably makes that little bomb by Oni Lee more likely to be something Merchant related. Maybe they're trying to take territory, since the gang's falling apart?
►Forgotten Creator
Replied On Jun 17th 2011:
Pretty sure the ABB's been going quiet recently, though? Ever since Leviathan they've been slowly withdrawing into themselves and not really doing anything. Like, pretty much the only 'problem' has been the Empire, and even they've been oddly silent. Reading the room?
►Robby
Replied On Jun 17th 2011:
Probably rebuilding, since everything's gone to shit. I'm pretty sure the Empire took some hits during Leviathan, so they're likely trying to recover from that.
Hopefully we get more info on the explosion soon.
►Bagrat (Original Poster) (Veteran Member) (The Guy in the Know)
Replied On Jun 17th 2011:
Ok, we've got a PRT press release! LINK
Basically seems like Oni Lee was involved and basically just bombed the place, leveled a warehouse and did a number on the surrounding area. Quite a few people dead, though the full number is unknown and there's not really enough left to id them. Suspected to have had some of that crazy bitch Bakuda's work still left over that they ended up dropping in there.
Whatever the hell was going on, they really wanted it dead.
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June 24th, 2011. Friday.
"Eon."
The Ninetales blinked hard, pressing down on a yawn and trying to will his eyes to stop drifting.
"Yes, Dragon?"
The Tinker turned slightly from where she was standing, just before the door to the cockpit of the shuttle. They'd become fairly friendly with the woman over the course of the last few weeks, with her escorting them across the world and helping to smooth everything over for their actions. Of course the PRT had helped a lot there as well, and the US Government, but as a member of the Guild Dragon was more used to working across international borders.
Not that it was likely that they'd run into trouble when all Inari was offering was to help Simurgh victims.
"I've had a request come in, from Director Piggot." She said, sounding like she was reading something at the same time. "They'd like to know if you- and your team, obviously- would be willing to stop by the PRT building in Brockton Bay sometime soon. Not for anything to do with this," she gestured vaguely towards the closed door of the craft. "But something else."
Eon cast a glance across the way at his team mates- Swarm, settled on the couch and reading a book, and Shadow, napping lightly by her side. The insect user nodded without looking up, and Eon gave his own. "We'll take a few days to recover first. Maybe on Sunday? That will probably be long enough for Shadow and I to get our strength back in case it's needed."
"I'll inform Director Piggot. Thank you." There was a slight moment of hesitation, like she was thinking about saying something else and then decided not to, before the large metal form slipped through the door into the front instead.
"I wonder what that's all about." Swarm asked lowly, as the Dragoncraft rumbled to life. Eon shrugged.
"I suppose we'll find out on Sunday." He suggested. "Perhaps something to do with the other Endbringers? That's two we've proven to be an effective counter to, in one way or another."
"I don't see what we could do against Behemoth. He manipulates energy, after all."
"Could be that our Moves are different enough that he can't."
Swarm paused, tilting her head to the side. "That might be, yeah... your Moves are weird, after all."
"Indeed."
They allowed things to lapse into silence for a while as they started the flight back home, until Swarm twisted slightly to reach into the Treasure Bag and pulled out two phones. Turning hers on with one hand, she offered the other to Eon. "A look at how things are doing in the world before you sleep?"
Blinking a few times to clear his eyes again, Eon took the phone with Extrasensory and balanced it carefully between his paws. "Sure."
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♦ Topic: Inari back in Bay
In: Boards ► Places ► America ► Brockton Bay
InariFan001 (Original Poster)
Posted On Jun 3rd 2011:
Inari was spotted coming out of the PRT building at just after 3pm. Pic they seem pretty bad off this time; Eon is staggering, Swarm looks to be sagging a little, and Shadow's being carried around by Swarm.
Looks pretty bad, anyone know what was going on?
►Char
Replied On Jun 3rd 2011:
I don't know why we're arguing about this; we know that they went out earlier on in a Dragoncraft, it's fairly ovbious that they were doing another trip to a containment zone.
►ChocChipCookie
Replied On Jun 3rd 2011:
We settle dthat a while ago, yeah, but we don't know where they went! There's not been any sightings of Dragoncraft anywhere, or not any that people are spilling, sooo... the arguments continue!
►CheeseChaser (Moderator)
Replied On Jun 3rd 2011:
Hopefully not for long.
Standing warning, if things continue to get out of hand with the 'trying to figure out where Inari went' things, I'll shut down the thread and you'll all need to wait until Inari or the PRT makes a public statement themselves.
►Swarm (Verified Cape) (Team Inari)
Replied On Jun 3rd 2011:
So good news, everyone! I have info.
I'm not technically supposed to be posting this, but also I think it's best if people know what's going on. So;
Yesterday and today saw Team Inari visiting Madison, Wisconsin. The combined efforts of Eon and Shadow, as well as the Parahuman Response Team members in the area, meant that the zone has now been cleared. I was also present, partly to act as extra security alongside Dragon and the local Parahumans Haunt and Ripwind, and partly to keep tabs on my team mates while they worked. We of Team Inari would like to extend our thanks to the PRT, the US Government, and Dragon of the Guild for their help arranging all of this.
Now that the official bit is out of the way, Eon and Shadow are both fine. They were just exhausted in the aftermath of all the healing; Madison's quite a lot bigger than Canberra, and even though they were sharing the work between them, Eon's less experienced with the method of healing they were using and Shadow still hadn't completely recovered from Canberra the other day. She managed to convince us she was doing well enough, but then she also pushed herself pretty hard.
We had a bit of trouble trying to get her to stop for long enough to actually sleep last night, because she was trying to help so much. Shadow's fine, just incredibly exhausted, hence me carrying her around earlier this afternoon. Currently, both of my team mates are asleep, wrapped up in blankets, and they've eaten. Once they wake up I'll give them something else, and I'm going to be making sure neither of them try heading out anywhere until they've recovered properly.
►Bagrat (Veteran Member) (The Guy in the Know)
Replied On Jun 3rd 2011:
Thank you for the info, Swarm, and it's good to know that they're doing ok. I was a bit worried, given how they looked.
Send our best wishes when they wake up, ok?
►InariFan001 (Original Poster)
Replied On Jun 3rd 2011:
Yeah, make sure they're ok! They're both lucky to have a teammate like you helping them out.
►Aquamarina (Verified Cape)
Replied On Jun 3rd 2011:
It's good to hear that Shadow and Eon are doing well. I was pretty worried as well when I saw the picture, but I thought I'd wait until I saw something from one of you.
You certainly seem to be recovering well from everything, though. Make sure you get some rest as well, don't just take care of your team mates and forget about yourself.
►Swarm (Verified Cape) (Team Inari)
Replied On Jun 3rd 2011:
Hey, Aqua, good to see you too!
Yeah, I'm making sure to rest as well. I didn't actually get much downtime, since I was the designated lookout while Shadow and Eon were working, and then when I was resting I was usually also making sure they did...
Keeping an eye on those two can be a handful, especially since Shadow is very resolutely Not Allowed coffee after the incident at Moonlight Cavern a year and a half ago...
►GellSine
Replied On Jun 3rd 2011:
Ouch, no coffee? That's harsh, especially when she's got to be awake for a long time. Poor girl...
(Also where on earth is moonlight cavern? The internet isn't helping me there.)
►Swarm (Verified Cape) (Team Inari)
Replied On Jun 3rd 2011:
Oh, sure, you say that, but then again you've clearly never had to catch her after she managed to drink a mug of coffee and promptly went on a rampage through the entire area and cleared out half the place working solo before promptly crashing incredibly close to a lava pit.
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Aquamarina (3:47am): So you're heading out again?
Swarm (3:47am): Yeah. Actually going with them this time too.
Also what are you doing awake, it's early?
Aquamarina (3:48am) You're awake.
Swarm (3:48am): I'm about to head out. I don't have the option to not be awake. You do, go not be awake.
Aquamarina (3:48am): Sure sure, fussy bugs. Stay safe, see you on the other side.
Swarm (3:48am): You too and will do, glitter wings.
4 June 2011
Swarm (4:02pm): We're good!
Aquamarina (4:02pm): I saw. They're doing ok?
Swarm (4:03pm): Asleep right now, wrapped up in their blankets, but yeah, they're good. Shadow pushed herself a little too hard for someone who's still not really recovered properly, so I'm grounding her.
Swarm (4:03pm): (A picture of Eon and Shadow in a forest area, near a low campfire, wrapped up in blankets.)
Aquamarina (4:04pm): Despite the fact that you definitely didn't have permission to send me that, it's good to see that they're resting.
Thanks, Swarm.
Swarm (4:04pm): No problem! I thought you'd like that... and they won't blame me, Eon and Shadow both like you.
Aquamarina (4:05pm): I'm glad, I like them as well.
So, any chance of you coming to LA any time?
Swarm (4:05pm): I've not had the chance to talk to the team about it yet, and I've got to speak to some people outside of it as well.
Maybe?
But there's a lot going on in the Bay at the moment.
Aquamarina (4:06pm): That's fair, make sure your home's safe before you go elsewhere.
Swarm (4:06pm): Pretty much.
Aquamarina (4:06pm): I've got to go.
Make sure you all rest up!
Swarm (4:06pm): Later, glitters.
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♦ Topic: Boardwalk meet and greet
In: Boards ► Places ► America ► Brockton Bay
Feychick (Original Poster)
Posted On Jun 4th 2011:
after yesterday's trip out of town it looks like inari is doing a meet on the boardwalk so you should go there if you can
►Dawgsmiles (Veteran Member)
Replied On Jun 4th 2011:
Are we all sure that it's a good idea for Inari to be out right now? I mean, just yesterday they were completely out of it, apparently...
►Swarm (Verified Cape) (Team Inari)
Replied On Jun 4th 2011:
@Inarifan001 it was nice to meet you too! Eon and Shadow- especially Shadow- were pleased to see you today.
@AllSeeingEye I suppose it's partly a patrol, yes, but we discussed it before we left. Eon realised that we hadn't really done much wandering just for the sake of it and wanted to give a chance to meet people. We're not looking for trouble today, just trying to have a walk around the Boardwalk and see what we see.
@Dawgsmiles don't worry, I'm keeping an eye on them. They decided they wanted to go out and say hello to people today, but I made them both promise that if I saw them flagging I'd be taking them back to the Den.
►Bagrat (Veteran Member) (The Guy in the Know)
Replied On Jun 4th 2011:
@Swarm good to know that you're keeping a close eye on them, Swarm! You're a good team mate. Do you know how long you're going to be out today? I might be able to drop by if you're still around after work.
►WagTheDog
Replied On Jun 4th 2011:
This is honistly really cute and I'm glad i was able to see it video
(It's a video of Eon and Shadow, surrounded by young children. They're gracefully accepting pats and cooing, and Shadow is occasionally entertaining them with small illusions, though that usually gets her a glare from Swarm. The insect user is standing in the corner of the frame, a few people talking to her.)
►Char
Replied On Jun 4th 2011:
Whoops.
(Another video, this one from a different angle. Eon is sitting down with his tails spread out a bit behind him, laid out in three sets of braids. He's still talking to some people, this time mostly teens.
A man walks into frame, wearing sunglasses and using a walking stick, and steps on one of the braids. Eon startles, yanking his tails out from under the man's foot, while causes him to slip. A few people nearby steady him, and one of them grabs the sunglasses that had fallen off when he stumbled. Eon turns to speak to him, though the audio is too quiet to figure out what was said.)
►Aquamarina (Verified Cape)
Replied On Jun 4th 2011:
Oh dear, that looked painful for everyone! Hopefully that man is ok...
►Swarm (Verified Cape) (Team Inari)
Replied On Jun 4th 2011:
Don't worry, he's fine. Poor guy is light sensitive, and Eon's tails glitter a little in the sun, which made it hard to focus on them. I've reminded Eon to keep his tails closer to himself when he's out, though; he usually does, but sometimes he forgets and fans them out.
Eon's fine too, though having three tails stood on isn't exactly fun. They're a bit sensitive, and he's still tired enough that pain is harder to think past, hence the automatic reaction to being stepped on.
►Panacea (Verified Cape) (New Wave)
Replied On Jun 4th 2011:
Well, now I'm upset that I'm at the hospital. It'd be nice to meet up again.
►Glory Girl (Verified Cape) (New Wave)
Replied On Jun 4th 2011:
If you want we can drop by the Boardwalk when you're done here.
►Swarm (Verified Cape) (Team Inari)
Replied On Jun 4th 2011:
@Panacea @Glory Girl no idea if we'll still be out and about when you're done at the hospital, Panacea, but if we are then we'd be glad to see you.
Or just message me and maybe we can set up a time and date to meet? It'd be nice to head out to lunch or something together.
►Aquamarina (Verified Cape)
Replied On Jun 4th 2011:
Dang, going out with New Wave, Swarm? Now I'm jealous...
►Swarm (Verified Cape) (Team Inari)
Replied On Jun 4th 2011:
Don't live on the other side of the country, then we'll talk.
►Acree
Replied On Jun 4th 2011:
This is really quite neat. It's good to see Capes just walking about to have fun.
►Vista (Wards ENE) (Verified Cape)
Replied On Jun 4th 2011:
I know, right? It's annoying that the Wards aren't really supposed to patrol on weekends, to give us time to do work, or I'd be out there as well. Shadow's nice.
►bothad
Replied On Jun 4th 2011:
hang on whos aquamarina and how do they no inari
►Aquamarina (Verified Cape)
Replied On Jun 4th 2011:
We met during Leviathan and kept in touch. Unfortunately I'm a Cape from LA, so I don't exactly get to see them...
►Swarm (Verified Cape) (Team Inari)
Replied On Jun 4th 2011:
@Acree it's a lot of fun for us all, I think. Eon and Shadow have mentioned that things like this were fairly common before, and they're happy that they can do it here.
@Vista while you should absolutely get your schoolwork done, I don't see why you couldn't costume up to come say hi.
I'm probably being a bad influence there, but oh well. We like seeing our friends!
bothad like Aquamarina said, we stayed in touch after Leviathan. She bought in Eon when he got hurt attacking, helped Shadow out with her own attack, and then helped Shadow get around so that they could save me after I got stuck under a building while on search and rescue. Then we just kind of... ended up hanging out a bit later in the day, when people we taking breaks and stuff, so we decided to try and stay in contact.
►ChocChipCookie
Replied On Jun 4th 2011:
Huh, that's pretty neat. Though I'd like to know what Aquamarina and Shadow did... I swear that's been the best-kept secret about that last fight. If I didn't know better I'd think everyone was in cahoots trying to keep it quiet.
►XxVoid_CowboyxX
Replied On Jun 4th 2011:
Is it just me or is there a lot of ABB around the Inari meeting thing? Are they allied up or something?
►Swarm (Verified Cape) (Team Inari)
Replied On Jun 4th 2011:
I'm aware of the amount of ABB in the area, and while it's odd, I'm keeping an eye on it. It's important to me that no-one causes any trouble, since then Eon or Shadow would try to get involved and then that'd put back their recovery. And that would annoy them since I'd stop them from going back to travelling to Containment Zones for longer.
Don't worry, I won't let anything happen.
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♦ Topic: Inari Tracking
In: Boards ► World Events
Tin_Mother (Original Poster) (Moderator)
Posted On Jun 7th 2011:
Ok.
So, due to the number of threads that're now in the Brockton Bay boards, we're moving this to here.
This will be the semi-official thread for keeping a track of Team Inari whenever they're going off around the world. This is for tracking them to Containment Zones only; I don't care if they're going down the street for coffee, that's for the discussion threads. Here, you all can watch for their little roadtrips across the world. Discussion of this is also allowed here, though I don't know what there is to discuss when there's no reason to be speculating why they're going somewhere, but sure.
Any other threads on the topic are now going to be redirected here.
Edit: This was quickly approved by the entirety of Team Inari (you can see their posts on the first page) so I suppose we can consider this to be the official thread for it now. Off you go.
►Eon (Verified Cape) (Team Inari)
Replied On Jun 7th 2011:
Thank you, Tin_Mother, for this thread. I'm sure it'll make handling our exploits a lot easier. My apologies if we've caused any trouble to the mod team with all of the threads about our travels.
►Shadow (Verified Cape) (Team Inari)
Replied On Jun 7th 2011:
Oh cool, a thread dedicated to us taking out trips! Not sure if we're gonna be able to contribute much, I think this is kinda-sorta classified, but it's still cool! Thanks!
►Swarm (Verified Cape) (Team Inari)
Replied On Jun 7th 2011:
As both of my teammates said, thank you for the thread. I hope that this makes handling our travels easier on the mod team.
►Bagrat (Veteran Member) (The Guy in the Know)
Replied On Jun 7th 2011:
Thanks, Tin_Mother! So, to start this thread off, Inari were spotted this morning heading into the PRT building again. Presumably they've now recovered, since Eon and Shadow looked fine, so I guess now we need to wait to see where they're going.
Edit: Stranger'd by the entire team themselves, who apparently decided to approve the thread. Shame you couldn't give us any info, though understandable. Stay safe!
►CupOfTeaAnyone
Replied On Jun 7th 2011:
In the South of England here, pretty sure we just saw a Dragoncraft heading over like it's got a bee in its bonnet, so seems like they might be heading into London?
►OnlyWizard
Replied On Jun 7th 2011:
I actually don't live that far outside of the London zone, and yeah, just saw the Craft heading over. Would be nice to have our capital back, that's for sure.
►Aloha
Replied On Jun 9th 2011:
It's currently a little after 11pm, I was just looking out of the window, and looks like Inari are back from their last bout. Two whole days spent out there is... pretty impressive. How many people were there in that zone?
►Bagrat (Veteran Member) (The Guy in the Know)
Replied On Jun 9th 2011:
Sources are saying the affected zone was probably somewhere in the range of 3 million? We're not completely sure, since the damn place has been sealed off since 2003 so we're working with projections from the 2001 data.
►Swarm (Verified Cape) (Team Inari)
Replied On Jun 9th 2011:
Since my team are, once again, unconscious; our understanding is about the same as your information. Luckily we all seem to be getting a better understanding about the range and limits of Shadow and Eon's abilities, so we were able to work with clearing bigger groups. It didn't tire them out too much more, and it meant that we were able to work through things quickly. Now it's just down to the locals to handle the rest.
I'd like to give thanks to Dragon on behalf of Team Inari for the transportation, and to the British Government for their assistance in everything going on.
►AussieAstound
Replied On Jun 9th 2011:
I feel like you need to stop letting your team end up unconscious.
►Swarm (Verified Cape) (Team Inari)
Replied On Jun 9th 2011:
I mean, I'm trying, but it's a little difficult when they keep working themselves into exhaustion with their abilities.
On the plus it'll hopefully mean they'll be able to do more as they keep doing this. On the minus, it means everything goes quiet and I end up on babysitter duty until they recover.
In the name of helping people, huh.
►ZapTheThorson
Replied On Jun 12th 2011:
Looks like Inari's heading to Lausanne today.
(A blurry photo of a Dragoncraft.)
►BadSamurai
Replied On Jun 12th 2011:
Seems like that one would be a bit difficult? Given that it's been under quarantine for nearly a decade now. Though it's smaller than London, at least. Maybe they'll get through it without passing out this time.
►Swarm (Verified Cape) (Team Inari)
Replied On Jun 14th 2011:
@BadSamurai nope.
In their defense it is also 1:13 in the morning and I'm currently posting this from the plane before going to sleep for a bit myself, but nope. Still passed out.
►Aquamarina (Verified Cape)
Replied On Jun 14th 2011:
I'm starting to think you need to talk to Dragon or the PRT or whoever the hell and get them to set out a better schedule for this stuff so Shadow and Eon can recover properly.
►Swarm (Verified Cape) (Team Inari)
Replied On Jun 14th 2011:
Honestly probably, but also both of them tend to recover pretty quickly. They sleep like the dead for a while, then they're just drowzy for the rest of the day, but after that they're mostly ok again. Though doing it too much in a row without a proper break isn't the best thing for them.
►AldebertTheAwesome
Replied On Jun 17th 2011:
Looks like Budapest is on the list.
(Another blurry photo of a Dragoncraft, this one taken as the craft starts to land.)
►Answer Key
Replied On Jun 17th 2011:
Huh, two pretty old zones one after another? Interesting. Wonder who it is that's picking these?
►Shadow (Verified Cape) (Team Inari)
Replied On Jun 17th 2011:
As far as we're aware, the PRT has a Thinker team that's doing it. But honestly I have no idea, for all we know they might just have a few people throwing darts at a board covered in Zone names.
►GellSine
Replied On Jun 17th 2011:
snorts now I'm imagining the Chief Director and some of her subordinates throwing darts in a conference room in order to decide where to ask for Team Inari to go next.
Thanks, Shadow.
►Shadow (Verified Cape) (Team Inari)
Replied On Jun 17th 2011:
You're welcome!
►Swarm (Verified Cape) (Team Inari)
Replied On Jun 19th 2011:
I got permission to post one this time!
I mean sure they were half asleep but I'm counting that as a victory, they wouldn't let me do it last time.
(A picture of Eon and Shadow in the den, curled around each other. Shadow is wrapped as a burrito in a puffy blue blanket, while Eon is curled around her with his tails over her and a soft orange blanket over both of them.)
►Aquamarina (Verified Cape)
Replied On Jun 19th 2011:
This is exactly what we all wanted out of Team Inari going across the world dealing with Simurgh Containment Zones.
►Swarm (Verified Cape) (Team Inari)
Replied On Jun 19th 2011:
To be honest I have so many of these pictures it's not even funny. Mostly Shadow, Shadow is adorable and silly.
But also some of them risk my identity so sorry.
(Anyway to keep the thread on topic a little we're not gonna be going out for a few days again so you can all stop looking out for us.)
►TheSpicyNorwegian
Replied On Jun 22nd 2011:
Got this from a friend that doesn't use PHO to upload.
(A Dragoncraft starting to land.)
Looks like it's Stockholm this time.
►Deimos
Replied On Jun 22nd 2011:
This is ridiculous, is Inari actually doing anything in Brockton Bay at the minute? I thought you were meant to be a local team @Shadow @Eon @Swarm
►Eon (Verified Cape) (Team Inari)
Replied On Jun 24th 2011:
@Deimos we are, actually! We do short patrols on evenings when we can, and Swarm's still keeping an eye on things when we're home and Shadow and I are resting. We just also feel that since things have calmed down in Brockton Bay recently- you know, aside from the random explosions on occasion and the fairly rampant gun violence that's just par for the course- it's a fairly good time to be running across the world helping out.
(Also, sorry for the delayed reply; we were busy running across the world helping out.)
►InariFan001
Replied On Jun 26th 2011:
Pretty quick recovery this time. Anyone see anything where they're going?
(A picture of Team Inari walking into the PRT building. Eon is leading the way, with Shadow and Swarm in their usual places.)
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♦ Topic: Explosion in warehouse district?
In: Boards ► Places ► America ► Brockton Bay
Bagrat (Original Poster) (Veteran Member) (The Guy in the Know)
Posted On Jun 17th 2011:
So it looks like something's going down in town again. Almost unusual, actually; things have been quiet since the whole Leviathan thing, so it's practically a surprise that something's exploded.
Anyone have any leads?
►Acree
Replied On Jun 17th 2011:
I'm just saying, it's pretty convenient that things are going down only now when Inari's out of town, y'know? Seems like it was planned.
►Ekul
Replied On Jun 17th 2011:
Ah, yes, planning an attack and causing trouble on a day when one of the more effective teams of heroes is out of town. What genius cunning.
►Antigone
Replied On Jun 17th 2011:
It's interesting that it happened somewhere so out of the way, though. Like, if it was some sort of proper attack I'd've expected it somewhere more in the city, not some out of the way warehouse?
►Good Ship Morpheus
Replied On Jun 17th 2011:
could esily be one of the gangs gong after another
►Reave (Verified PRT Agent)
Replied On Jun 17th 2011:
While I can't officially comment, I understand the PRT's been over it pretty closely. It looks like Oni Lee's work, given everything.
►WhedonRipperFan
Replied On Jun 17th 2011:
Oh great, the ABB's back in force? They were being so calm...
Wonder if this has anything to do with the massive showup we had the other day?
►Lasersmile
Replied On Jun 17th 2011:
That would make sense, yeah.
►BBPD
Replied On Jun 17th 2011:
On the explosion that occurred in the warehouse district earlier today, evidence suggests Parahuman involvement, likely Oni Lee of the ABB. Nothing more is known about the situation at this time.
►Bagrat (Original Poster) (Veteran Member) (The Guy in the Know)
Replied On Jun 17th 2011:
Darn, that's annoying. Thanks anyway, BBPD. Hopefully we get a PRT announcement soon.
►RiseoftheHals
Replied On Jun 17th 2011:
So, um. I live sort of near that area. And I go walking around there sometimes. Not often, it's kinda sketchy. But sometimes.
There's been a lot of weird people around there the last couple of days. Like, a lot a lot. It's kind of scary.
And I'm fairly sure I saw Rune overhead last night.
►Mane Magenta
Replied On Jun 17th 2011:
Some sort of ABB hit on the Empire? Damn, that might get messy. Hopefully it's not too bad or it's dealt with quick or something, because things are still rocky enough after Leviathan showed up and I for one wouldn't want to be dealing with gang infighting.
►RiseoftheHals
Replied On Jun 17th 2011:
I'm fairly sure it's not Empire? It didn't look like it was all white people there...
►Iblis
Replied On Jun 17th 2011:
In which case I'm promptly lost again, because what the hell would it be? It's not like the Empire and ABB would work together, that's mad.
►Ne
Replied On Jun 17th 2011:
Could just be a coincidence.
Also does anyone know what the hell the Merchants are doing right now? Aside from being the opportunistic targets of Team Inari still.
►FirstofMayuary
Replied On Jun 17th 2011:
I'd sincerely doubt that it's a coincidence, but also I guess there's a chance...?
And maybe it's Merchant related, given that no-one seems to have heard anything from them recently. Like, did they all up and vanish post Leviathan?
►Valkyr (Wiki Warrior)
Replied On Jun 17th 2011:
I'm fairly sure Skidmark was declared dead during Leviathan, wasn't he? That would explain why the Merchants have been oddly silent the last little while. With only Squealer and Mush running about it's probably falling apart... more than it was before.
►PoisonedCell
Replied On Jun 17th 2011:
Wait, Skidmark is dead? I missed that somehow?
checks death announcement thread
Hell. That... certainly changes things in the Bay, doesn't it?
And probably makes that little bomb by Oni Lee more likely to be something Merchant related. Maybe they're trying to take territory, since the gang's falling apart?
►Forgotten Creator
Replied On Jun 17th 2011:
Pretty sure the ABB's been going quiet recently, though? Ever since Leviathan they've been slowly withdrawing into themselves and not really doing anything. Like, pretty much the only 'problem' has been the Empire, and even they've been oddly silent. Reading the room?
►Robby
Replied On Jun 17th 2011:
Probably rebuilding, since everything's gone to shit. I'm pretty sure the Empire took some hits during Leviathan, so they're likely trying to recover from that.
Hopefully we get more info on the explosion soon.
►Bagrat (Original Poster) (Veteran Member) (The Guy in the Know)
Replied On Jun 17th 2011:
Ok, we've got a PRT press release! LINK
Basically seems like Oni Lee was involved and basically just bombed the place, leveled a warehouse and did a number on the surrounding area. Quite a few people dead, though the full number is unknown and there's not really enough left to id them. Suspected to have had some of that crazy bitch Bakuda's work still left over that they ended up dropping in there.
Whatever the hell was going on, they really wanted it dead.
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June 24th, 2011. Friday.
"Eon."
The Ninetales blinked hard, pressing down on a yawn and trying to will his eyes to stop drifting.
"Yes, Dragon?"
The Tinker turned slightly from where she was standing, just before the door to the cockpit of the shuttle. They'd become fairly friendly with the woman over the course of the last few weeks, with her escorting them across the world and helping to smooth everything over for their actions. Of course the PRT had helped a lot there as well, and the US Government, but as a member of the Guild Dragon was more used to working across international borders.
Not that it was likely that they'd run into trouble when all Inari was offering was to help Simurgh victims.
"I've had a request come in, from Director Piggot." She said, sounding like she was reading something at the same time. "They'd like to know if you- and your team, obviously- would be willing to stop by the PRT building in Brockton Bay sometime soon. Not for anything to do with this," she gestured vaguely towards the closed door of the craft. "But something else."
Eon cast a glance across the way at his team mates- Swarm, settled on the couch and reading a book, and Shadow, napping lightly by her side. The insect user nodded without looking up, and Eon gave his own. "We'll take a few days to recover first. Maybe on Sunday? That will probably be long enough for Shadow and I to get our strength back in case it's needed."
"I'll inform Director Piggot. Thank you." There was a slight moment of hesitation, like she was thinking about saying something else and then decided not to, before the large metal form slipped through the door into the front instead.
"I wonder what that's all about." Swarm asked lowly, as the Dragoncraft rumbled to life. Eon shrugged.
"I suppose we'll find out on Sunday." He suggested. "Perhaps something to do with the other Endbringers? That's two we've proven to be an effective counter to, in one way or another."
"I don't see what we could do against Behemoth. He manipulates energy, after all."
"Could be that our Moves are different enough that he can't."
Swarm paused, tilting her head to the side. "That might be, yeah... your Moves are weird, after all."
"Indeed."
They allowed things to lapse into silence for a while as they started the flight back home, until Swarm twisted slightly to reach into the Treasure Bag and pulled out two phones. Turning hers on with one hand, she offered the other to Eon. "A look at how things are doing in the world before you sleep?"
Blinking a few times to clear his eyes again, Eon took the phone with Extrasensory and balanced it carefully between his paws. "Sure."
And Taylor has no idea just how confusing she was just then. After all, it's not like anyone other than her family and team has any idea of rescue team 'jargon'.
And she is becoming the team mom of the group.
- Location
- Within the Light of Hope
Hope blind guy survived stepping on the tails. Unless stepping is counted as touching of course.