Welp, that was.... unfortunate. Really, is it pure realistic amnesia (not qualified to say) or something worse? Thinking it an elaborate prank while sitting in a hospital bed is a pretty deep-denial stretch, and PS upgrades shouldn't throw off recognizing us as "aged up version of the kid i knew" when the ages in question would make him /expect/ a certain amount of growth. Or did we go in in-costume, despite him being registered under his proper name?
I note Lacey seemed a bit miffed that we didn't immedietely accept her offer.... I get it, both for the kindness and the adult-to-kid "what are your other options" mindset , but I'd hope she acknowledges we're too frazzled to decide on dinner atm. Fear she's on edge over the conflict with Kurt though, but really the power-imbalance and "work" disputes present do seem to suggest they aren't the best guardian choice. Capes need Cape parents if they ever want to contemplate grounding right?
(Alas for want of Momberian.... our lovely Racoon feels more like the cool-Aunt most of the time, or rather Aunt-who-adopted rather than Mom).
With darkness beginning to fill the street and your eyes adjusting to the lessened light, you can just barely make out
I need to go back and look (very early fights?) but wasn't our costume able to do some HUD type stuff? I know that Perfect Storm can filter out say our sense of smell (it was mentioned in North Carolina when we melted the E88) but not sure if he can boost our night vision or anything.
Anyways, bandwagon ho!
[X] Aerial barrage/Run away
-[X] Drop a Wide Area Search and a Bursting Flare Shooter aimed at the ground in front of them to gather data and provide cover while getting some height on them...eighteen or nineteen hundred meters should do.
-[X] Once you've got some nice, protective distance...and some targeting data...light them up with as many Flare Shooters as you can put out for making this day suck even more while thinking up a more nuanced plan.
Wouldn't mind seeing this add a telepathy to at minimum Samantha, but ragey urge to blast and cut or not with her mood, she already expressed enough caution to creep towards what she saw. Having one or more attackers jump from the shadows (either having set an ambush, or being superior enough at stealth to realize they were spotted and jump us on the fly) very much suggests gain distance and gain intel.... while spamming firepower.
Recursion field (two different mispellings or not
) takes time to activate that they'd be attacking us, besides the level of forethought and the question of whether its quite needful (likely not if using nonlethal flares of any sort, unless we suspect it'd split the enemy) AND CUTS US OFF FROM SAMANTHA. Dreadful idea, even if I thought she'd run away outright from her own city to go hide with a bigger Cape.
Really don't see going lethal to be appropriate when we have no idea who or what the opposition is just yet. Easy enough to switch with an update, and honestly if its clear Beasts, ala rats or whatever new critter has energy I hope SW would switch mid-update based on our past interactions without a vote needed.
Flare blade to catch off guard whoever is ambushing us has some merit, but I don't know how I feel about leaning on secondary powerset and not trying to evade combat range, until we've gotten a WAS. At minimum I'd want WAS+Flare (and ideally night-vision from the jacket) before I committed to charging into the darkness.
