[X] It's hard to break old habits so you might as well stick to what you know and that's being a morally ambiguous mystery guy with powers. Now you just have to find a place to crash and set up shop. Let's see how Brockton Bay reacts to the presence of the Amazing and Mysterious Mage known as Ebon!
It takes you the rest of the day to procure, create, and modify what you need to create your costume. While you would prefer to use a glamour to hide your identity, lacking the actual ability to do so, you have to make do with an actual costume. Black pants, black turtleneck sweater, black leather gloves, and black military boots accompanied by a mask created from a vintage aviator headgear and goggles make up the base outfit. A long black trenchcoat and a black fedora complete the look. Most of your costume's parts were stolen - mostly from clotheslines with modifications done using Ebon Power. The fedora was taken from some random guy on the street via an Ebon-made fishing hook and line.
All in all, your new look gives off the impression of a dark mysterious stranger and a hardboiled detective from a crime noir film. It's a good look for you.
You do a couple of poses in a mirror made from covering part of your room's wall with a thin layer of silver paint. Yep, definitely styling. Shooting your reflection with your finger and a soft bang, you turn your eyes out toward's the sole window of your room.
The sun has set a short time ago and the city's night life was getting into the swing of things. It would be a little while before the criminals come out to play but with what you so far know about Brockton Bay, you probably wouldn't have to look too hard to find a little trouble on a night like this. For now though, you need to acquire a steady supply of Ebon Power. With more of that eldritch power flowing through your body, you could unlock more powers, more strength, and perhaps awaken new abilities that not even the original had.
The easiest way to go about that would be to kidnap a bunch of people and drain their life energy to convert into Ebon Power. However, your current location, as well as a number of other factors, makes doing such a thing currently more trouble than it was worth. So in the meantime, you'll just have to drain some unsuspecting victim or five of their life energy to help fuel your evolution from being a mere copy of Jacob Anderson to a truly distinct entity. Seeing as it is still early in the night, you decide to check out the nightlife of Brockton Bay.
You move through the city, leaping from rooftop to rooftop. Occasionally, you take a moment to watch the people down on the streets, taking in the general atmosphere of the city, and keeping an eye out for troublemakers and vagrants that people wouldn't care about. You soon begin to make out the different districts that make up the city of Brockton Bay. The Docks, the Broadwalk, Downtown and many other places were burned into your memory.
You think you'll move to the Docks. There seems to be a number of abandoned warehouses and apartments that you could fix up using your powers. Heck, with your powers, you could set up a thing where you give food made from Ebon Power to the low-class residents of the Docks in exchange for draining them of their life energy. A good night's sleep worth of life energy for several day's worths of food - a good deal for those in need.
While ruminating on this possible source of Ebon Power, a ninja promptly appears a short way from where you were sitting.
You stare at the ninja wearing an oni mask as they looked down at the streets below them. The ninja then turns away and freezes on the spot the moment they see you.
For several long seconds, the two of you stare at each other unsure of how to react. Your eyes glance down at the bandoleer of grenades and knives that they are wearing. At this range, you don't need to focus your energy sense to detect another's presence so how the fuck did this ninja get the jump on you. Finally, what felt like an eternity, you decide to break the silence. "Who the fuck are you?"
The moment you feel a new presence materialize behind you, you switch into combat mode. Without a word, a gun materializes in your both hands - a .40 Smith & Wesson M&P - and you aim one of them at the ninja in front of you while the other is aimed at the one behind you. Not expecting your weapons, the ninja at your front takes several shots to the chest and one in the head before falling and disintegrating into a cloud of white ash. The one behind you takes a glancing hit and immediately another ninja with the same appearance as the first one materializes nearby. You hear a click as the behind unpins a grenade.
Okay. You don't know what's the deal with this ninja but you can tell this one is going to be a pain in the ass.
You are already leaping away to a safe distance as the other one blows themselves up. The boom of the grenade elicits a reaction from the few people out on the streets below as drunks sober up and prostitutes feel in terror. You have little doubt that law enforcers and maybe even the heroes of this city will be on you soon. Your guns fire off and take out ninja number three just as ninja number four appears. You heard from Yuudai that while ninjas can do something like shadow clone techniques that you see in comics, it is a high-level technique that isn't easy to perform and has a high cost in ki. This guy on the other hand seems to be throwing them out without much trouble.
God ninjas are annoying!
A click indicates that your guns out of bullets. Seeing that you are out of ammo, the masked ninja creates more clones and sends them to attack you, several of them pulling the pins of their grenades out. Throwing away your handguns, you call up bigger guns. Two MAC-10 appears in your hands and you proceed to gun down several of the ninjas while you shoulder charge another off the rooftop. Luckily for you, it appears that if these clones take enough damage, they just disappear in a cloud of ash without exploding. Several clones throw grenades but you simply shoot them out in the air.
Knives are thrown but you simply ignore them as they simply bounce off your reinforced outfit. For the next few minutes, you're playing a cat and mouse game with the masked ninja who continues to make clones after clones to distract and attack you. The rooftop becomes littered in spent guns are you create and discard them at high speed in order to combat these shadow clones. Your accuracy and speed ensure that any grenades are taken out before they could explode. While you have little experience with firearms, your strength ensures that the recoil is a non-issue and your reflexes are more than enough to make up for your inexperience.
As you throw away your latest guns, the ninja stops his attacks as the two of you hears the sound of police sirens incoming.
The two of you look at each other and you get the feeling that this ninja has no desire to fight the police and will probably try and run.
What do you do?
[ ] Time to bail. You've wasted enough time trying to shoot down this slippery ninja. And you don't want to get involved with the authorities just yet.
[ ] Fuck the police. Continue the fight. You refuse to retreat just because the feds are here and you won't allow a ninja to leave without you getting a few hits in.
[ ] Stay where you are and wait for the cops to show. Might as well introduce yourself to the police, PRT, or whoever shows up.
[ ] Write-in
[X] Time to bail. You've wasted enough time trying to shoot down this slippery ninja. And you don't want to get involved with the authorities just yet.
-[X] "Next time"
--[X] Disperse or dematerialize all spent Ebon made guns before going if can. No evidence
---[X] You think it was an one big misunderstanding. Offer your services, give him your EbonBusiness Card, then disappear.
[X] Time to bail. You've wasted enough time trying to shoot down this slippery ninja. And you don't want to get involved with the authorities just yet.
-[X] "Next time"
I dunno about you guys, but I just don't want to deal with the PRT just yet. Bail out.
[x] Time to bail. You've wasted enough time trying to shoot down this slippery ninja. And you don't want to get involved with the authorities just yet.
[X] Time to bail. You've wasted enough time trying to shoot down this slippery ninja. And you don't want to get involved with the authorities just yet.
[X] Fuck the police. Continue the fight. You refuse to retreat just because the feds are here and you won't allow a ninja to leave without you getting a few hits in.
[X] Time to bail. You've wasted enough time trying to shoot down this slippery ninja. And you don't want to get involved with the authorities just yet.
[X] Time to bail. You've wasted enough time trying to shoot down this slippery ninja. And you don't want to get involved with the authorities just yet.
[X] Time to bail. You've wasted enough time trying to shoot down this slippery ninja. And you don't want to get involved with the authorities just yet.
We're not mysterious enough yet! We can't just vanish into the shadows the second someone turns their back on us yet.
