Sudden Superpowers, Part 2

>Link to the previous thread, and all that happened so far

http://boards.4chan.org/qst/thread/429635/

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>>449573
Even if you did just get powers, you've got other problems, like working on your guitar chords for your next song. Get out your guitar and practice. It's the only way you're ever going to get out of fuckin' Michigan.

>>449633
Who cares about superpowers and all of that, you've got a future in mind and powers don't change that!

You sit down to practice with your guitar and blow of some steam after work. Unfortunately a couple strums in and you break all the strings.

>>449649
Make it your misson to kill the president of the united states.

>>449652
Well that's a pretty high mission to take, but you figure if you actually do have superpowers, you could try to kill the President. Not like he ever did anything for you. First though you're probably going to need to get a grip of your powers, see what you can do.

>>449656
Well, for now, let's bring out Scuffy.

(brings out old acoustic guitar covered in stickers, tries to play a chord, instantly breaks a string)

...Goddamn it, I'm going to fucking bed.

>>449687
Well after failing with the old guitar, you turn in for the night.

Waking up, you accidentally destroy your radio alarm by hitting it, but don't pay much mind to that. You've got work later on, so there's a few hours to do whatever you want till.

>>449695
Turn yourself into the government so they can study your powers.

>>449698
Turn yourself into the government? Won't that interfere with your plans against the president?

Ah well, maybe it's for the best. But how should you do it? There's not exactly a "Super Powers Registration" office you can stop by.

>>449695
Stubs pinkie toe on dresser.

Screech of pain shatters the glass of your bedroom window, and sets off the car alarm of your neighbor, Old Mrs Greely, cat collector extraordinaire and five time Hoarder of the Year recipient.

>>449705
Ah but thats the part of the plan. By Getting into the government in turn we can get close to the president. Just find the local hospital and show them your extraordinary strength.

>>449710
While walking about you hit your toe against the dresser, but it just smashes the dresser and you don't feel anything.

Luckily for Old Mrs Greely, I suppose.

>>449711
Alright then, later on you'll stop by a hospital and declare your super powers. Do you want to take any precautions beforehand though? Like calling in to work and letting them know you might not make it?

>>449717
Call them up and let them know you've eaten some bad seafood and got a painful rash all over your face.

Good thing you don't got work tomorrow.

>>449717
No, you've honestly always hated that job. Let them wonder.

>>449738
You call in and let them know you can't make it to work, fortunately John can cover for you.

>>449741
Well if you don't show up after this, then let them fire you. Maybe they'll think you died of seafood poisoning over the weekend.

Anyway, so off to the hospital! Anything you want to do, or how you go about doing it when you get there.

>>449751
Just walk there, make sure to trash the mailbox of that annoying neighbor before you go.

>>449751
Try to fly there.

>>449757
You head out, in order to go to the hospital. Along the way you smash the mailbox of Mr. Pecks, who always yelled and complained when you played music.

>>449762
You figure maybe you have flying powers? You're not sure how you would activate them though, so just try jumping.

And end up flying about a hundred feet in the air and crash land several blocks away in an alley. Amazingly, none of it hurts. You are dirtier though.

>>449774
That simplifies things, just fly over to the white house and crash into the presidential office.

>>449779
You don't think you can fly yet but you can practice jumping more and more until you might be able to fly.

>>449774
fly into the twin towers

>>449795
Practice at the city outskirts then.

>>449795
Flying's boring anyway. Hulk jumps are a hell of a lot more fun.

>>449797
What twin towers? This is present day.

>>449799
With the possibility that your powers could be much greater than you'd thought, you figure to go and practice.

Already just a few jumps and you're out of town, and once there you spend a couple hours jumping higher and farther, to the point where you can manage many miles at least in a jump.

You're not flying, but you can definitely cover great distances for sure, and all the practice from falling and hitting the ground, your damage resiting powers are great enough that you don't feel anyting anymore.

>>449814
Good enough, now lets go smash the president.

>>449818
You start jumping towards Washingtown DC. You're more than a few states away though so it may take you more than just this evening to reach it. Do you want to stop at all, find somewhere to spend the night, or try to reach it anyway?

>>449827
Where are we, anyway?

>>449864
You started near Landsing, Michelin, but after jumping till evening you're near Columlus, Ohio. You could stop for the night and probably make it to Washingtown tomorrow, or just keep going and hope your phone navigation keeps up.

>>449876
Let's keep going. If our phone navigation dies we can just find a nearby Walmart and get a charger.

>>449876
Meh. The hell with it.

Head into a Waffle House, the kind of Waffle House that's so depressing that Denny's looks at it and uses it as a commercial for how they're at least not Waffle House. Get waffles. Consume them.

>>449876
Are we too cool to catch a flight then? Or just too stupid? What kind of idiot decides to kill the president (why?!) then hops across the country? ffs anon, we could go top Hollywood and be the best stunt double

>>449876
Our phone should hold up if we put it into ultra powersaving mode.

>>449890
>>449876
Yeah, after an day of jumping around can we reconsider this? Preferably while doing >>449889

>>449885
Uh, where we going to plug it? Highway 70 doesn't have wall chargers.

>>449885
Alright, you'll keep going. But first,

>>449889
After one of your jumps, you land near a Wafflehaus, and go in for waffles. You stuff down a few, mad hungry, and sit for awhile to think about your situation.

>You spend awhile in the Wafflehaus, and let your phone charge, while considering things. So, voted consensus, do you want to continue on your path to the President?

>>449912
Continue so we can make history

>>449912
Skip. Head back home.

I'm going with >>449890's suggestion of being the world's best stunt double.

>>449911
Probably the same Walmart we got the charger from.

>>449912
Reconsider. Let's not start off evil again.

>>449912
Nah.

Become the world's greatest waffle maker!

Well it looks like the votes are against going after the President at least. You're not sure where to head from here though.

>>449928
Or you could go actually evil this time. Whatever works.

>>449952
If only myth busters were still running we could have or big reveal on there

>>449952
How about superpowered, but doesn't give a shit, and works menial jobs despite being superpowered because it's a hassle?

>You're not sure where to head from here though.
Back home, so we can grab our stuff and head to Hollywood.

>>449952
QST doesn't have the heart to go evil and stay evil. Best to just not touch it rather than take conflicting actions.
I'd be cool with robbing a bank tho. Just not the weird edgy shit like demon sacrifice.

>>449956
Shame.

>>449957
Whatever you do, you don't want to keep working as a pizza delivery girl. You get the feeling though your uncle would give you a speech about great power and great responsibility.

>>449963
It's really a shame that we're the most irresponsible person we know.

Anyway, just take a Greyhound back home so we can get our shit.

>>449952
We could just pull a Saitama and only really do stuff when the worlds in danger.

>>449987
the world isn't in danger that often though, and saitama takes care of whatever he hears about. The bald group that didn't want to work wasn't a world threat, they got ez wiped by sonic before saitama even got there.

>>449973
In the end you decide to just catch a bus home, and see things from there.

>>449987
That's possible, though as of yet you're not aware of any world threats. You could just wait you suppose, but who knows?

>>449963
>>449957
Be a world weary super powered PI like Jessica Jones?

>>449973
Same. I like this general idea of 'suddenly superpowers' but I don't think we should just go and be a superhero just because. That's a lot of bullshit to deal with from people who like you and people who hate you.

But fuck that pizza delivery job. We can do SOMETHING with ourselves a bit better, huh?

>>450007
>But fuck that pizza delivery job. We can do SOMETHING with ourselves a bit better, huh?

How about we start up a career in backyard wrestling?

>>450015
JOIN THE NAVY
THE NAVY
FIGHT FOR YOUR COUNTRY
>>450005

Well it's a lot of choices to make, so a rough consensus is needed, on what you want to do with your life now, or at least your powers.

>>450024
My idea is to pack up shop and drive to Hollywood, and take up being a stuntman.

As for powers, a complete inability to take damage inflicted by others. We can hurt ourselves with our hands and nails, but other then that, nope.

>>450024
I say we don't need to make a spectacle of ourselves. But in general:

1: We will rock- literally. As in musically.
2: It's gonna be a job we can abuse our physical powers in but not be suspicious about. Like...I dunno, someone think of something cool.

And yeah, if something really really really fucked up happens, then sure, we'll do something about it. But we ain't playing supersoldier.

>>450041
Oh hey, stuntwoman sounds cool. If we can find any gigs, depending on how we look.

Y'know what? Let's do this >>450042. I didn't think we'd go for the music stuff at the beginning, but fuck it, punk rock girl with sonic powers sound cool.

Just, y'know, ignore >>450041 for me.

>>450041
>>450042
>>450048
>>450058
OH HELL, WHY NOT BOTH?!

>>450042
Can our songs at least be about joining the navy.

>>450067
Stuntwoman who does rocking as a side gig?

I can see it.

>>450070
No.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrSkYCHpyew

Alright then, so it looks like the general idea is to be a stuntwoman, and to play music on the side.

So how do you want to go about doing these things? I assume it's off to California, but what sort of preparations do you make?

>>450087
pretty garbage song desu senpai

>>450096
Maybe a one time robbery of a bank or something, somewhere that won't miss the money. Something to get us some funds.

>>450096
Grab our guitars and our amp, a few bedsheets, most of our clothes and the cash we stuffed under our mattress, stuff it into our shitbox car (which I will post soon), then drive past our old workplace, roll down the window and scream out " I QUIT, ASSHOLES!" and just keep driving.

>>450099
At least it isn't about seamen.

>>450105
This. This this this.

Don't rob a bank, though. More trouble than it's worth.

>>450103
We have super powers you idiot, we are not a fucking wizard. Anyway, mugging I'd probably safer

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>>450105
And here's our shitbox.

>>450105
You decide to do this, before heading out west. Unfortunately the grand reserves of cash under your mattress only amount to a couple thousand dollars. Not really enough to start a new life you think, or at least a good one.

Also before you start driving, are you going to stop by any of your band mates?

>>450114
>we have superpowers, but only wizards can rob banks

Is this some new kind of retardation? See a brain doctor anon.

>>450130
And look at that, we're poor.

>>450130
Sure, might as well say goodbye.

And show them that we can put our head through a steel security door.

>>450130
Shame we can't take them with us.

"Get in losers, I'm a fucking superhuman so we're gonna go be an awesome band somewhere that matters."

>>450130
>>450133
If we're going to be in a band, don't you think we should offer to take them with us?

>>450140
Have you even seen our car?

Once I find a shitty van on the internet, though, their in.

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Bwoop.

Guess one of them owns this now.

Well you want to take your band mates with you but they can't fit in your car, so you say your goodbyes before showing off your superpowers. They think it's pretty cool and say goodbye.

So, off to Callifornia! Er... it will take several days at least, anything you're looking to do till then, or just gun it?

>>450155
HAHA! One of them owns a van, if you want to take that instead, and them.

>>450162
Yes. New starts are hard.

>>450159
Text them about making sure they try to head over sometime.

Other then that, just live in cheap hotels to save your dosh.

>>450162
Oh, all right then!

Sell your shitbox car though, and buy a sleeping bag or two for people to sleep in shifts while two others drive.

>>450159
OH SHIT

NOW WE CAN PLAY IN BARS

Play in bars while we're driving to the west coast!

>>450174
Your band only has 3 people in it. Anyway, you delay the trip a few days to sell your car for a couple hundred bucks, while convincing the band to come with you, and then you all take off after they gathered their stuff and said their goodbyes or made arrangements.

So, headed west. Anything to do on the way?

>>450189
You stop off at bars along the way to play evenings. It works well enough that you don't cut into the group fund.

By the way, what's the band's name? You're on guitar, Julie's on bass, and Mike is on drums.

>>450192

Big Red Freaks. The name came from a tattoo Julie got that she SAID was supposed to be a bull on fire, but Mike said it just looked like a... well, big red freak.

>>450192
>Anything to do on the way?

Take pictures of the band in local tourist trap attractions like the Worlds Biggest Set of Anal Beads and the Duct Tape Emporium.

>By the way, what's the band's name?

I'll go with >>450206, but our new gimmick is Emily taking bottles upside the head without flinching.

>>450208
"Ring ring. Hello, oh Emily it's for you" *smash*

Well well well, after about a week the band reaches California, all sold on Emily's idea. How though are you going to make this dream come true, with no connections and only a few thousand dollars?

>>450227
Look at flyers for local dive bars, see if there's any openings for regular acts, then take the job. Use our ability to no sale a hit from a folding chair like a goddamn champ to make the cut.

>>450227
Phone book, stunt agency. Hopefully their office isn't on first floor, then you can impress then by jumping out the window, without any warning

>>450242
Something like that could be our thing. Do we have a violent song? Our gimmick for it could be like, yelling the lyrics at one of the bandmates, and near the end of it they slam us with a chair.

We no-sell it, and then finish the song while everyone's going 'WHOA WTF!'

And on days off we do this >>450249

Oh yeah, spray paint the band name on the sides of our shitty van. It's, like, required by federal law.

>>450265
>Do we have a violent song?

I was pretty sure that we're a punk band. We gotta have a couple in our books.

>>450275
Yeah, I figured the same.

So you paint the van, and start getting gigs with the band in places you're expecting to get hit, but always shrug it off. You've also gotten used to playing guitar despite super strength.

You're not making much money off it, but enough to get by. Meanwhile you go looking for stunt work employment. Unfortunately you soon find, getting into any sort of movie business is hard. Really hard, unless you want to do some "favors" for older men.

You do manage to get some work at public events though, sort of. Like showing up to get beat up on stage or at local events. It pays terrible though.

>>450275
More like a poor garage band. Also Mike is getting tired of living in a van. You don't really have the money as a group though to put together to even rent a place.

>>450281
Do those "Favors". Come equipped for "Favors". Help those poor old men with their "Favors".

Just make them realize by "Favors", it's less about sex, and more about legbreaking and sabotaging competitors.

>>450298
If you want to get into the movie industry, it's sex favors.

If you want to get into criminal work, it's violence favors.

>>450298
If that fails, see about competing in a Battle of the Bands competition for cash and fame.

>>450305
Aaaagh. Hm. What else can we do. Sex is gonna be on our terms, dammit.

Anyone got any ideas to toss around? Let's powow this.

>>450312
Wear a shirt or sandwich board with our cell number and "will do stunts for cash" or "super strength for hire" then jump off of a building or start throwing heavy shit around.

>>450310
The band participates in a battle of the bands competition. You do pretty well actually, since you're something new to the scene, but there are some bands which have more members/instruments, are more practiced, and have better equipment so end up winning. You're definitely picking up fans though.

>>450335
Well you decide to start begging in your free time. Unfortunately your feats of strength and indestructibility attract the attention of the LAPD, so now you fucked up.

A squad car or two show up and yell at you to stop doing freaky shit and come quietly.

>>450312
Lift a car over your head to show how they can reduce their costs on CGI tech by just hiring you out.

It might help if it's his car. It might even be better if it's his mistresses car and she's in it.

We're gonna need to do something insane. Something eye-catching.

Something probably illegal.

>>450353
Go with them, spending the night in jail will help with our reputation.

When we get released, see if we can bend the bars and step through them.

>>450353
>A squad car or two show up and yell at you to stop doing freaky shit and come quietly.
Ask them if you are being arrested and if so what the charges are. Otherwise than can go harrass someone else. Are they new to this town or something? It is full of freaks!

>>450353
Bad idea, run the fuck off

>>450374
They say you're disturbing the peace and you need to stop, and for wasting their time you're going to jail. They're not exactly reasonable you see.

>>450388
fffiinne. Thats just a night in the tank right? No biggie. But no need to bend the bars like anon said, because then we will get done for destruction of public property, fucking pigs.

>>450388
Also rant at them constantly about persecution and fascism and jealousy and wasting taxpayer money and shit.

>>450388
Let them cuff us, then immediately just break the handcuffs. Sweet fucking bracelets.

Oh, and might as well go in. If we get questioned, tell them the truth what happened to us, and tell them they're welcomed to see how durable you are.

Two votes for go with the cops. You go with them unhappily while raving about patriarchy and prejudice and oppression, and spend the night in a cell.

The next day though you're greeted by guys in suits who say they want you to come with them.

>>450422
Grumpily go with them, still cursing the patriarchy and the pigs.

We should probably look into retaining a PR firm at some point. If we are a known figure it will be harder for the feds to fuck with us.

You decide to go along with the suited guys to see what they're about, and eventually are taken to some big building elsewhere in town and sat down. After about an hour a woman in a suit sits down with you and says that they're looking to relocate you to a place more suited to your abilities, with a hope to study you.

She also informs you that they picked up your band mates as a means to ensure your cooperation.

>>450456
Tell them an exchange of hostages is suitable, you will take their families. Noping the fuck out of there. Any experimentation is done on our terms.

>>450456
Ask her for a few things first.

>If she has a place for us to be studied, does that mean there are more people with superpowers?
>If you have to go with them, could your friends come along?
>Can we bring our instruments and the van?
>Can we still play?

>>450462
And go te the media, and laywers. Surely there will be laywers that wont to sue the government for wrongful imprisonment without upfront payment. They will got lots from winning after all.

>>450462
Let's at least ask them >>450470 before we freak out.

And as an additional question, ask her if we're going to that same place where the other super person is.

>>450462
She says you won't be able to find their families. Also that you aren't really in a position to be bargaining.

>>450470
>She says you would probably know there's at least one other person with powers.
>No friends, you'd be going to a secret place, basically disappearing.
>You can bring whatever you want, if it belongs to you.
>You can play whatever you want when you get there, and aren't being studied.

>>450533
What's this all about? Let's cut to the quick- you want me to play guinea pig for something that's probably bullshit. Can you at least let me know what it is?

>>450533
Walk out, they want you take you against your will. They cant stop you anyways.

>>450549
They'll kill our friends if we say no. that's the point of them taking them at all.

>>450533
Tell her you're not leaving without the band. You've brought them here, it's your job to make sure they've been taken care of, and you won't break a promise to them.

She allows that, and you'll give being a government lab rat a shot, provided you can still play at their local bar.

>>450533
>you aren't really in a position to be bargaining.
Yeah there is this little thing called the law you fucking traitor.

>>450544
>>450560
Pretty much these two, plus pay for being a gopher to the Man.

>>450579
Tell her that you at least deserve some leeway. You COULD have just punched those cops into the sky. You didn't. You COULD have killed a manager in the movie industry. You didn't.

Give me something, and you'll at least say the government isn't entirely evil, as well as go with you.

>>450544
She says people with superpowers are a new thing, they don't know what they're doing. They just know they need to do it as more people could arise.

>>450560
She says not to worry about the band, if you cooperate they'll be taken care of.

>>450579
You're a person with super powers in a setting thus far without them (minus the other person), the law doesn't apply to you. It applies to normal people.

>>450597
>the law doesn't apply to you. It applies to normal people
Nope, you are a citzen of the united states of america, you pay your taxes. Even illegal immigrants are afforded protections while in the US.

>>450597
>She says not to worry about the band, if you cooperate they'll be taken care of.

"Yes, they will, because they'll be with me, going to your super secret place."

The band is all we have. It's no fun without them, and joining a new band hadn't worked out for us in the past.

They're the closest thing we've got to a family.

Also, FYI, if you get in contact with our family, you're not going.

>>450597
"Uggghh, fine, whateverrrrr. But if I find our they're fucked up and it wasn't their fault, you're gonna end up on the wrong end of a cheesy action flick. Lemme get my gear and then you say jump, I'll say 'how high'."

>>450608
Like americans are really fat, they don't get treated any different, like being whisked off to black labs without due process, some a really fast or really rich same for them. We are strong and tough, doesn't mean we don't have rights.

>>450597
ask her if she's seen the movie handcock

>>450597
>>450612
How about a compromise. You don't grant visiting rights to my family, and give those rights to my friends, and let them live NEAR your super secret base malarkey, I'll go.

...What part of 'they have our friends, they will kill them if we get too uppity' don't you understand?

>>450595
She says you can say what you want about the government, but understanding this potential influx of super powers is more important than their reputation. It's a national safety matter.

>>450608
She says they've tortured and killed citizens for a lot less. She's not here to chit chat over legality, after a paradigm where a 20 year old girl can throw cars around and take a bullet to her bare skin.

>>450612
She says that it's a shame but that can't be allowed, at least not for some time. By protocol, they can only allow immediate family and a partner that level of clearance.

Also she questions if you think the band even wants to go with you.

>>450643
>Also she questions if you think the band even wants to go with you.

Glare at her. A long, hard glare.

Then sigh.

"If you get that particular rushed, or at least give me some way to at least visit them nearby on weekends, then I'll go."

>>450643
realize all of this probably freaks them out, and as much as you really don't want to be the cliche mature adult, you're going to. Let them go live their normal lives and you'll follow Uncle Sam's whore down the rabbithole because you have to. But you won't be caught dead wearing spandex underwear

>>450643
Again, fine. Let's get our stuff.

>>450655
Answer's gonna be no.

>>450626
She says if they want to camp out on the fence perimeter of the base they're more than welcome to, but they're not getting in.

>>450671
>>450660
>>450655
So the consensus is to go with them then?

And yeah that's gonna be a no answer probably.

>>450697
the only other option is to bust out of there and probably get all your friends killed and become a bulletproof fugitive, right? And do we want to push our luck and find out how heat seeking missle-proof we are the hard way?

>>450702
Well she never said they'd kill your friends. But then there's no way of knowing either.

>>450697
>She says if they want to camp out on the fence perimeter of the base they're more than welcome to, but they're not getting in.
"...Fine. Good job you, bitch. I'm going to your goddamn hole."

When the door shuts, try not to cry.

Fail miserably.

>>450709
wish momentarily life was as simple as delivering pizzas to I.C.Weiners again... it sucked but it was normal

>>450709
Well it looks like you're going to end up a lab rat after all. You cry and start to think these powers weren't such a good thing after all, as you miss your life before.

Well, not so much the pizza job.

>>450741
So how are they transporting us? and I guess where to is a need to know basis, just somewhere dark and nondescript, may as well be Area 51 for all we know, right?

>>450741
Go to their horrible prison complex/unethical government laboratory. Pointedly ignore the miserable bitch who brought you here for the entire ride, instead just playing on your guitar for the entire journey.

If anyone that doesn't look like a government suit decides to talk to us, tell them in a despondent tone to go away, then continue noodling on the guitar.

>>450746
No, you need to keep calm. You play air guitar to your favorite solo (in your head, of course) whilst you try to work out a plan

>>450757
This, we can at the very least be very unprofessional.

So you keep to yourself as you are transported away, whiling away the time with your guitar. It takes several days at least but finally you're shown to an island facility. The place looks quite new but at least it's clean. Though being so new, your accomodations are not that great. All the time you're treated like a prisoner as well, not violently but not friendly.

>>450757
You actually never see her again. She was probably just an agent to the city you were in, back in Callifornia.

Either way you're expected to keep to your room, and each day you're allowed to roam the grounds under supervision. You're told this will be the case until the facility is fully prepared and operational for study.

At least the band is safe though.

>>450782
since we're roaming, what's the place like and have they issued new clothes? Is there a shower and bathroom in our room? Any fellow inmates with obviously weird powers?

>>450782
So is this one gonna keep going?

>>450782
Just remain in your room. Depression has set in, and won't let itself go. Your day is pretty much wake up, eat breakfast, then go back to your cot and wait for the next meal, rinse and repeat until the next day. If you do something other then that, it's either writing lyrics for a new song (a depressing one, of course) in your songbook, or fiddling on your guitar. It's starting to effect your weight and health, too.

Basically, despondency describes your mood.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiHbv6naWP0

>>450792
The place is alright, the climate is nice at least. The facility itself is still under construction though so it's noisy and unfinished. You are issued clothes as well, but it's a jumpsuit uniform, little better than a literal prison outfit. There is a toilet, but no shower, you have to go to a communal room for that. Thankfully, you seem to be the only person being contained here at the moment so you don't have to share the room with anyone when you do wash. You do get the suspicion though that the room is probably under camera surveilance, like most of this place.

>>450799
You wither in this prison-like environment, the atmosphere weighing down on you. The best you can do is keep yourself occupied in your room with your music, that doesn't lift your spirits from the depression.

>>450793
By this one, you mean the quest? Maybe not. Once again, as with the last quest, it looks like the government beat you. I think I'm starting to see a pattern here.

>>450799
Nah, we can't go all hellodarknessmyoldfriend yet. Be upbeat, at least on the outside. We're a bulletproof punk dammit. But maybe when we're all alone at night, it is hard to sleep because you're a young girl alone in a strange place, maybe you can punch through a tank but you have some feelings down on the inside

>>450804
I'm mostly wondering what tests they have. Maybe we can get something out of it as a government agent.

And the government beats us because the other options tend to not look very enticing either. Your NPCs are too competent for us to want to risk death.

>>450804
Just wait for the moving day. There's nothing for you here, and most of the people make you miserable.

Just you and your music. Just like when Mom left the family, and Dad got drunk to forget about it.

>>450805
I dunno. It feels like a real dark time right now. Particularly since this room doesn't have a window...

>>450813
and we're not really beaten either, push comes to shove and we can walk through the walls or hulk jump through the roof, this can't be Mount Cheyenne bunker, can it?

>>450804
I think it's because it feels the goons always seem to have the upper hand.

I mean, I'd kinda like it if we could get a more sympathetic government handler, just to throw us off a bit.

>>450818
It's less that, more 'do we really want to weigh our personal freedoms versus the atrocities that they're more than likely going to do to our friends and family the dead second we try to bounce?' I'm not arguing 'don't', but I am saying expect at least one of our friends or family to catch a bullet to the skull if we do. It depends on who takes priority for us.

>>450804
Maybe you should add some direction to this?

I didn't read this thread yet, but previous one was pretty fuckin' stupid.

>>450830
This one has a bit more focus and direction than the last. That said, some setup plot from the QM would be welcome.

>>450830
>>450832
I was kinda hoping we were about to get the super freaky friends recruitment message or something, it's the predictable thing to happen next. What other use does super strength have to the gov't?

>>450805
>>450815
Well let's just say you tangle with complicated feelings, despite your best efforts.

Moving day doesn't come though, after about a month the facility just gets completed. You start to notice non-military folks start popping up around, and people start to come to see you, and you get taken to rooms for questioning.

No experiments yet but probably soon.

>>450813
If they have that kind of leverage over you and it works, then it's only reasonable that they'd use it. To be fair though the situation was always at least attempted to be based in reality, so to keep someone dangerous in check that seems like a possibly realistic thing to do.

>>450821
The entire previous thread involved sympathetic government handlers. The difference is, they feared the previous character and her debut was more significant, so they tried to bargain with, appease, and work with her. They're not afraid of you by comparison.

>>450832
Neither of these threads were suppsoed to be that serious or plot-driven, they were just based on a single sentence idea from a "What sort of quest would you like to see?" thread.

So it's just a simple "What do?" sort of quest, rather than a serious or plot based story to be told. If this one ends because Emily cooperates with a heavy government hand, then I'm fine with it ending at that, it's just one possible conclusion to how you might have acted in her situation.

>>450848
>You start to notice non-military folks start popping up around, and people start to come to see you, and you get taken to rooms for questioning.

Give them the absolute minimum amount of cooperation. Just enough for them to leave or let you leave.

>>450830
If you don't like it then this probably isn't a quest for you. Sorry you didn't get any enjoyment out of it.

>>450842
Nah sorry, I wasn't going to get that invested as to start creating a setting suddenly populated with tons of supers, such that bringing together some sort of super team would be possible. At best it's just a slow progression of one more person at a time. The previous character had the superpowers rock, now Emily does, and eventually it will jump to someone else.

This isn't intended to be as serious enough of a quest/setting to get into a situation with things like getting drawn into a super team, or battling a super villain. Again, it's just "What do?" with sudden superpowers. In this case, it looks like it was the fair and reasonable choice, to worry about friends and family, and to cooperate for their sakes.

>>450859
Mind you, I'm saying this isn't out of malice or being a dick, but of being at the point where you stop caring.

About everything.

So when do we kill ourselves? After one final rad solo in a place everyone can hear and are forced to listen?

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>>450873
how would we even? Drowning?

>>450876
Snap our own neck.

>>450859
From what you know, after you serve a certain amount of time during which they can study you to what they deem to be neccessary, you are supposed to be let go.

Nothing says you have to like any of it though, and you can just be a zombie and go through the motions.

>>450873
Whenever you want to. Snapping your own neck probably won't work though, but drowning should.

>>450884
Oh. I was under the impression we were here forever.

Muddy through the pain, then. Hopefully. Hell, might learn something about ourselves.

>>450887
surely they've tested the limits of our strength and endurance? Do we have a limit?

>>450887
Nah not forever, same as the previous character, and you're not nearly as dangerous as her. The government folks are just trying to figure out and understand this new super powers phenomenon, as well as personally study your abilities. Once they know what they're after, they have no reason to keep you. Not like they're going to force you to be some kind of super powered government agent and accomplish feats for them. Well, unless you want to, but then you'd have to enlist, they wouldn't just magically create a special role for you.

>>450891
That's one of the things they're planning on testing, they're getting into gear for that. The facility was just finished, because after you they're working on the assumption that there could be others now, so they basically just constructed their super powered person holding and study facility. You're the first, so this is as new to them as it is to you.

>>450891
It didn't sound like they've done jack to us yet. Just asked us shit.

Also QM depending on how you end this I might be tempted to pick this ball up and run with it, ifn you don't mind.

>>450884
At the lowest point in our moment, come back to find that our guitar and songbook have been taken from us.

After that, give up entirely, attempt to use the jumpsuit as a noose, and end up merely tearing it. Spend the rest of the evening with your back to the wall, legs splayed and eyes looking off to nowhere.

Then someone arrives that isn't completely awful, and helps you through your depression.

At least, a bit of it. Enough for you to be a bit more cooperative to your handlers. Enough so that you might feel like you could see daylight again.

>>450899
No I don't mind. In fact I said in a previous thread, if players want to play the role of NPCs they can.

Like if someone started posting right now as Grabnar the Destroyer, next recipient of the super powers stone who went form mechanic to super villain, they totally could. And that might affect the main character.

One of the really interesting things that crossed my mind as well, was if someone cared to do this, but still operated by the rules the main character does (player input for actions) then you'd get like a small cast of characters with many players controlling each of them. But who knows, it was just an idea. If neither picks up and the thread runs its use, you can totally keep things going.

>>450909
>Grabnar the Destroyer ineffectually Menaces with greased hands and Spikes of motor oil

>>450909
So Emily's story may not end here.

>>450914
>it mostly makes him feel better about idiots who lack knowledge of basic car care, he's really not that bad a guy besides that. It's more a 'scare them straight' thing.

>>450916
Certainly not. The option in the previous thread for that character, Sarah, was that her story didn't have to end there either, players just preferred it that way so she could get a happy ending.

I'm up for trying to keep her character somewhat grounded. You delivered pizza, drove a shitbox, and played the guitar... you just happen to be the world's strongest girl.

Also I should say it's getting late so I plan on turning in. If people are still interested in continuing this by the time I check back, I'll keep running it. If not, and just to leave Emily to her fate, then that's fine too.

Also I guess if someone(s) wanted to NPC a different character in the meantime to continue playing, they very well could. I guess just keep in mind that super powers are a new thing of the setting, and it's supposed to be at least intended to be grounded in reality. A huge "What if?" situation basically.

>>450884
>From what you know, after you serve a certain amount of time during which they can study you
Honestly I think this wasn't very realistic and OP was just railroading. If you kick up enough of a media fuss the government isn't going to pull shit like this. Look at snowden and assange for example.

>>450934
Gonna at least want you to cap it off. I'll take it from there later, hopefully.

>>450936
Snowden and Assange don't have literal super powers.

And again, the quest is completely open ended. I don't see how it would be railroading when at any given moment you can break free and do whatever you want, and can't be stopped. Apart from a fear of repercussions for your friends or family, but really, *that* would be the media nightmare, that they killed innocent civilians to keep you in line.

Anyway, I'm off to sleep.

>In fact I said in a previous thread, if players want to play the role of NPCs they can.

All right, fuck it. Here's something that might work, if you'll allow me to try, since she's pretty much an NPC by this point.

Sarah the Blobgirl has heard about Emily, thanks to the efforts of Julie and Mike in trying to contact anyone, ANYONE, who has superpowers and be under government purview. Interested as she is in other possible supers, she decides to pay a visit to the island. When she gets to Emily's cell, she sees a broken, ragged mess.

Sarah is pissed beyond words.

After personally reaming the asses (verbally) of Emily's handlers, her guards, her future research staff, and ESPECIALLY whoever was the complete cockgobber who took her guitar and songbook, Sarah goes into her cell and gives her what Emily really needs.

Some common fucking empathy, and a goddamn shoulder to cry on.

After all that, she decides to take Emily to her base, in order for her to get over this depressing ordeal and to have her meet people who would be interested in ACTUALLY HELPING HER WORK WITH HER POWERS.

Because that's what Sarah the Blobgirl would do.

>>450954
...is it possible to run two quests like that congruent lyrics? One for Sarah, one for Emily?

After she gets Emily out of the horrible prison lab, Sarah requests kindly if she would like to play her one of her written songs. Emily obliges, and plays a tune that starts out sad, but ends with an uplifting note, as the helicopter flies off to the mainland, bearing a weathered and tired, but healing soul.

The next morning, construction is halted on the super holding/testing facility, as it appears that the manufacturer of a major line of body armor and vehicular armor has promised that she does not support putting supers into testing facilities that more resemble a prison. She lays claims that, given the conditions she found there, any possible super would rather work in criminal activities then for the government, and that would only cause them to simply do what they pleased then decide to help others.

>>450976
Can you hold for a bit until we figure out if she has anything beyond super toughness? I like the writing, just want more to work with for when I start her extended quest.

>>451012
I'll say that Sarah comes during the second week of Emily's imprisonment, after a series of tests, that, while impressed with our ability to take damage, note that we're barely tapping the super reinforced punching bag that they spent millions of taxpayer money on, and that while the taps are impressive, that you be reprimanded for not being motivated to help them, forgetting that when motivating a person, sometimes you should offer a carrot, instead of using the stick all the goddamn time.

>>450954
Please stop pushing your super depressed MC. It's the new make history or muahaha villain guy. No one else wants it.

Also Sarah the blobgirl would absorb the shit out of her to nab that sweet superstrength and invincibility, doubling up on the superpowers.

>>451547
I liked the idea over the villian take.

>>451568
And that's why I say there will never truly be a villain MC.

>>451547
You never read the end of the previous thread, did you? It doesn't make sense character-wise for end quest Sarah to do that. Maybe when she was in her New York to Vegas time, but not near the end game.

>>451602
There are and have been villian MCs, just none that are mindlessly evil for the sake of it. Players lean towards the 'logical, affable evil who'll eat a puppy if it helps their plans and nor think twice, but won't if there's an obvious better solution.' It just so happens that a lot of evil acts don't hold up to modern opportunity cost scrutiny well.

Basically, most players are too sane to really be evil. Just doesn't make sense to them in the long run.

>>450966
I'm certainly willing to try. The original idea I had was that they would have two threads running separately but at the same time, one for the villan-type character and one for the hero-type. Despite being separate threads, they would still be in the same setting, so the actions of each thread would affect it, and may affect the other thread.

>>451012
She's got the standard of super strength, super toughness, and super senses, though would need to practice with them to fully develop them, and as with the previous character, depending on whether Emily went heroic or villainous (at least in deeds) would determine how her powers developed, and if she got new ones.

>>450954
The one important thing to keep in mind is that Sarah was never more than a regular private citizen, at best a consultant. She never got any special secret clearance, even within the project which she was a part of and was about her. I think it's fair to say that Sarah could know or find out about Emily, but she wouldn't just be allowed to go to this top secret island, let alone waltz in and start calling shots, like making them let Emily go. Also, the staff of people that are handling and working with Emily, are the same ones that did for Sarah, so it's not like she had some team of nice people working with her, and would come here to find some nasty team working with Emily. They're all part of the same government task force on investigating super powers.

Now if Sarah wanted to force her way to the facility, and break Emily out, and convince her that they're the next step in human evolution and should rule the world together, yadda yadda, that would be possible.

>>451621
We saw the opposite of your theory in the last thread, where people voted to be mindlessly edgy until they lost the stomach for it.

Bullshit villainous acts don't hold up in modern times. If our current character had gotten a disguise she coulda robbed a shitton of banks, then fled to some foreign country and lived in luxury. Hell, depending on the obscurity of where she moved, she might not have even needed the disguise as anything more than an aide to flee the country.


>>451634
What if Sarah wanted to break in and absorb Emily to achieve true immortality?

>>451012
Well, we can try to develop x-ray vision, if only to find and destroy all of the cameras in our room as one last feeble bit of protest against our government pig handlers. I'd be down for that, although I'd much rather work on experimenting on our strength outside of the island, when we get off it.

>>451645
Dude get over your gov hateboner already. The depressionboner too. If you hate the facility so much, just vote to leave. They won't kill our bandmates because then they'll have nothing on us.

>>451621
It's worth noting though I think, that in this setting, there's only two known people with super powers. This one in particular, Emily, with her powers could probably act with impunity. It might not normally make sense to be villainous, but if she wanted, it's not like anyone could stop her from doing what she wanted. Maybe only Sarah, and that's questionable.

Like even if it wasn't robbing banks or killing people for money, there's really nothing stopping Emily from say, going to a dictator ruled war-torn developing country, and forcibly taking power.

>>451636
Sarah could certainly try to do something like that. It may be hard though to try to absorb someone with super strength. Sarah seems the sort to have the intelligence and experience with her own power to do it more sneakily, like infiltrating the base by taking the form of one of the guys there, then seducing Emily (like by helping her escape) to get close enough with her to be able to fuse with her body and learn her powers or absorb her completely. Rather than say, attacking the facility and breaking in, trying to forcibly assimilate an unwilling victim with super strength who if afraid, could just smash out and jump away.

>>451661
Fair enough, forgot she still required a fair amount of time to assimilate.

>>451661
I get the feeling you really really want us to go villianous. I'm not accusing, just noting what it looks like.

>>451659
Fine.

On our first strength test, we ignore the request to do what they want and just jump out of the prison to try to make it to land. If they do have our friends, just ignore them and get to land. If they kill them, destroy LA city hall and hold the mayor hostage by jumping across Callifornia with him.

>>451670
By this point she could probably assimilate a person in a couple of minutes at the most. Emily though has super durability so would resist it, if not eventually be immune to the effect, and at any moment could swing and splatter Sarah across a wall.

>>451675
I'm just giving examples. Emily could just as easily go and stop a war in a developing country rather than rule over it.

Also to be fair, it's easier to be villainous on a larger scale than heroic. Easier to destroy something than create it.

>>451687
I guess I also overestimated how liquid Sarah could get. I figured if she managed to get Emily suspended in a pool of herself, Emily wouldn't have the traction to really use her strength, and wouldn't be able to do much.

>>451706
If it got to that point, then Emily might be in trouble. Sarah would need a good deal of biomass to pull that off though.

>>451715
How much, would you think?

>>451715
Doesn't she have enough? Or was the whole evil tumor thing canon?

>>451723
Probably like an elephant's size worth. So between 1-3 tons. Still not sure if Emily even completely suspended though, couldn't just rapidly move her arms and legs back and forth and stir Sarah up enough inside that she falls apart or something.

The other problem is getting that amount of mass into the facility sneakily. I mean unless she shows up like, over 100 tons of mass and just attacks the place like a giant monster.

>>451729
I think it's fair that the evil tumor is legit, however what happened after isn't clear. She could right away, once again start gaining mass, or she could just turn away from that altogether.

>>451740
>I think it's fair that the evil tumor is legit, however what happened after isn't clear.

I'd say that she'd probably go back to absorbing biomass in order to go back to her projects. It's a good job, and she's made a bunch of friends being the world's nicest blobgirl.

Anyway, as I suggested before, let's just jump out of the facility. We're getting nowhere with those assholes, you just wanted to play your music with your friends trying to make the dream in America, and if they have our friends, we can just jack a reporter and camera crew for a one on one interview about what happened to us.

>>451754
Ok that sounds like a plan. If someone else supports it, you can go with that.

The current course of action is to let them study you till being released, so escaping is a big change in that, but possible if it is player-supported.

>>451754
Actually, cancel the escape plan. If we can, I'd like to actually have someone who isn't a jerk spend some time with Emily, like maybe a councilor or something (I'll do my usual "looks at bookcase for names" thing and call her Helen Mcphee), someone who works there who kind of gives a shit about how we're doing emotionally, ANYONE. I've been typing in suggestions that involve depression, why not have the gubmint hire someone to make sure she's at least marginally happy so she doesn't go on a futile nihilistic rampage? Just a thought.

Connected the wrong posts.

>>451783
>>451807

>>451807
Sounds realistically reasonable, after a couple weeks of seeing her deteriorate, Emily's handlers bring a councilor into the fold to talk with her and make her more comfortable with the arrangements. How might that be done?

Also, any sort of training you want to undergo while here? Right now they're just measuring your physical capabilities, at strength and durability, but don't seem aware of your latent super senses. They also haven't done any invasive testing yet, just vital readings and stuff.

>>451783
>>451807
Yeah, if we can get a counselor or something, that'd be a better idea then >>451754. I'd want to have a band that's still alive then a dead one.

>>451840
>How might that be done?
Probably by hiring a trained psychologist and furnishing a dedicated room for counseling sessions for Emily. Seeing as she's literally isolated from friends and suffering from depression because of it, she's going to need sessions around two to three times a week. If her handlers decides to allow communication with her former band mates (highly recommended), feelings of being trapped might reside a bit. There's also a recommendation to have at least one research member try to be friendly to Emily, as it seems that asking rather then ordering would have her be more likely to work with them.

>>451876
Overtime Emily's social conditions improve, as she is given frequent counciling in better conditions, allowed to contact those she wishes via phone, and afforded more amiable personal handlers.

Your situaiton improves a little bit, and things aren't as bleak for sure. Also it's always fairly clear that the more you cooperate, the better things will go for you.

>>451905
Agree to training your strength and speed, and ask for a gym trainer for your workouts.

As for requests, you have... many, to say the least.

As unlikely as it's going to be, you send in a repeated request to be transferred off of the island to someplace else. While the staff might be more amicable, it's still depresses you to be out of the cities and bars that you played in, and you hate the rocky, stony shores of the island you're stuck on.

For more likely requests, ask for cans of spray paint, band stickers, music flyers and posters to decorate your cell walls, as well as one or two pieces of battered third hand furniture.

Look into having internet access, as well as Skype, in order to play with your band mates, at least for a little while.

See about requesting a chance to play twice a week at the closest thing the island has to a bar.

Also, see how much it would take for them to let you off to the mainland for a visit.

Keep mum about our super senses. In fact, see about using our enhanced hearing to listen in on the guards and other rumors.

Finally, if we got internet see about ordering that new Chuck Dingle amason book, Sexually Serviced by the Bisexual Blobgirl

>>451967
You request a gym trainer though apart from motivation and organizing workouts, they don't seem to be much help at the scale you're on.

You are denied transfer though, but once you're let out you'll be free. They allow you to spruce up your cell though to your liking, and even allow monitored internet access and Skyp to your friends. You also use this access to obtain Dingle's latest Amason erotic masterpiece.

You are allowed to play at the main rec room when you want to, and pick up a few fans among the staff. While wanting to leave the island for visits though you find out that it's quite far away from the mainland, and farther still from the continental US. Turns out it's in the Caribbean, a little ways off the coast of Hayti.

Lastly you start to become aware of your super senses. It began just as eavesdropping on guards, but soon you can hear across the facility from even in your cell, and you're starting to see and smell much better. You wonder how much it could improve, given how strong and tough you're getting.

>>452039
I know you guys love sitting in rooms, obeying peacefully, and doing nothing, but can we at least run away for a day or two? Jesus.

>>452039
Once time we watched an old kung fu movie about a martial arts master taking on 100 people back to back in a fighting tournament. That might be cool to try out, if there's enough people on site!

>>452060
Where would you be looking to go? And doing what?

>>452068
Out of boredom you say you want to try martial training going forward, on top of physical. They want to take things slow as usual, but you put out an open challenge to fight all the staff on base.

About 20 guys volunteer out of curiosity, but after injuring the first four to varying degrees you accidentally put the fifth guy in critical condition, and a stop is put to the whole thing.

>>452068
No it wouldn't. It'd be like a water ballon throwing contest, where you try to throw and catch the water ballon gently so it doesn't pop. Except in this case, we'll be hitting the opponents gently, so that they don't have to be cleaned off the walls. We won't even feel it when they hit us. It would just be tedious and stressful.

>>452085
Just a night out in a town would be great, pretend we can live normally for a day, get out of the facility.

>>452039
Continue your sessions with Helen. Talk to her about your family life, how Mom died a year or so after you were born, how Dad was a miserable drunk, how your older sister, the one adult you felt like you could trust, left you by yourself when she went off to college on a fancy scholarship.

Play your newer stuff in the rec room, not the completely depressing stuff that you wrote when you were in a deep depression, but the song about feeling stuck in what you felt was a crappy life, but missing it deeply when your situation changed.

Let the staff know about your senses, request heavy duty earplugs for sleeping, and go over to the upper management and request, POLITELY and away from him, a doorguard with less body odor.

Finally, it's your birthday! Spend it having skyping your friends and getting to know how the band is going along without you, drinking your first legal beer, and looking out of your cell window wishing you could leave.

>>452090
>Just a night out in a town would be great

There is no town, anon. We're literally stuck on a small rock out in the Caribbean. It's not cost effective to fly us out on a plane every time we want to head into the city.

>>452105
When you can jump to shore, you don't need a plane.

>>452111
When you can jump to shore, you don't need the ability to call your friends.

At least, that's what the handler is going to say when we get back and lose privileges.

Also, it's Haiti.

Also also, we're wearing a prison uniform.

>>452096
You talk to Helen about this and that, including your life. It's weird, you've never really opened up like this to anyone, and it feels really liberating. It doesn't make you feel better about your current situation, but it makes you feel better about yourself. This helps in your music, as your songs liven in the rec room, and people like it more than depression-driven music.

Finally where it's starting to become an annoyance, you let the researchers know about your improved senses and request things like earplugs and a new guard. As a result you get the guard who you've become friendly with, a woman a little older than you, Maria. You like talking with her so with her stationed around your room, and eventually when she starts to be let in to hang out with you, you much prefer this arrangement. An actual friend since being held captive. At hearing about your senses though, the researchers want to start more invasive testing.

>>452090
Lastly on your birthday after spending some time online with your friends and whatnot, you decide to take some time off personally. While getting some outside time, you making a running jump in the direction of Hayti, landing a short time later and eventually making your way to the biggest city you can find, Prince Port.

It's a big city for sure, lots of people and stuff happening but... it's kind of unpleasant. Not the cleanest city around and your senses pick up crime unmistakably happening. You try not to make it your business though and go to a bar now that you're of age (though not like you haven't drunk before) and spend some time there. Overtime though you notice you're in the minority but intially don't pay it much attention.

After leaving and walking around for awhile though, you get accosted by a couple guys with weapons. They pretty obviously want any valuables, but their manner of contact as they grab at you, indicates that they're probably after more than just money as well.

>>452119
It's not actually a prison uniform, just feels like one. It's really just a jumpsuit with identification printed on it, though you're able to unzip the upper half and take it off to roll/tie it around your waist so people don't see the obvious signs that you came from some sort of holding center.

>>452124
Grab their shirts and jump back to your island, dropping them when you're going to land in the water so they don't immediately die.

>>452119
Well, if they take privileges, we can always tell them next time we won't come back.

>>452135
Ever read spiderman where he kills Gwen Stacy by accident? The acceleration from jumping off will kill them. Just throw them away. 20 feet or so should do it.

>>452138
>Well, if they take privileges, we can always tell them next time we won't come back.

And immediately have our friends put on a kill list? No thanks.

>Just throw them away. 20 feet or so should do it.

All right, this I can agree with. Although we should still get the fuck out of here back to the facility ASAP.

>>452135
>>452138
Actually I believe it would just rip their shirts off. At any rate you try to get their hands off you and eventually end up just pushing them off by several feed, and then jumping away back to your island.

Along the way you can hear and see that the facility has alarms going off, and when you land you're very quickly apprehended and sent back to your cell assuming you cooperate.

Within an hour you're being spoken sternly to about what you did, and how it makes their job that much harder. They say they can let it slide this time because it was your birthday and how you say you just wanted to get out for a little while, but any other attempts will have to be met with consequences and punishments.

>>452150
If they kill our friends, they'd have zero future leverage over us. So they won't. Not for just running away. Now if we start murdering people willy-nilly, they'll do whatever they can.

>>452156
Call them fags and say you'll leave when you want and they'll take it like the little bitches they are.

>>452156
Ask for visitation rights to Prince port, at a later time.

>>452164
Stop being a twat to people who might kill our friends, maybe? It might feel nice to know you haven't lost people who you like.

>>452164
It would also be hard to kill your friends since they're in the public eye now, having (with government assistance) gotten a record label deal and are starting to become famous. That might explain why they aren't able to spend as much time in contact with you.

Anyway, you call them fags and tell them you don't want to be treated like a naughty girl for taking a stroll off the island on your birthday. They're kind of used to your reactions like this by now though.

>>452170
Hayti is another country so they can't really swing it. If you as a private citizen want to work out a deal with the government of Hayti or just Port Prince though, you could try that.

>>452164
>Call them fags and say you'll leave when you want and they'll take it like the little bitches they are.

>Immediately lose our guitar, get shunted off to a non-personalized room, have skype privileges revoked.

Yeah, good idea, that.

>hayti

it's Haiti guys

>>452181
See about doing those invasive tests to get out of this prison sooner then later.

Get depressed that you've probably been replaced in your band, ask if you'd be welcomed back to join them on tour once you get out.

Get in contact with the only other currently known superperson. Talk to her about how she deals with her powers, play some songs for her and basically make a new friend.

Try to set up a twitch.tv account to talk to your old fans from your Big Red Freaks days. Talk to them about how your life is going, how you miss being on the mainland playing in pubs, what's it like being a superpowered girl who can take a hit from a baseball bat like a champ, and that you miss being on tour.

>>452199
You check a map, it's definitely Hayti.

>>452206
Just as long as they aren't gonna cut us up. To be honest, I think we'd rather know if we're gonna have to have like, a permanent muffler or something so we don't go deaf or insane with all the noise.

>>452183
Once again, they do that, we run away and don't come back.

>>452206
Do literally none of this, especially not the sarah contact

>>452181
Leave again in a few days just to show them they can't control you. Use your finger to carve "FUCK THE POLICE" in big letters on the wall of your room.

>>452206
are you sure you're okay anon, and not projecting your own depression onto the character we're collectively roleplaying? You make a lot of posts about being sad

>>452219
Could they even cut us up? Have any weapons been demonstrated to penetrate our skin?

>>452234
I told him to get over his depression boner, but he refuses.

>>452206
You submit to various tests like with drugs and sample tests, however they want to do things like bloodwork on you but can't extract anything from you since they can't penetrate your skin. They ask if you know a way then.

Managing to get ahold of your band after trying for some time, they did get a new guitarist but they wouldn't mind having you still involved. They at least know that their success is because of you, however from what you've heard of them it also sounds like they sold out and make mainstream appropriate music now. You're not sure if you're really want to be a part of that. The thought crosses your mind of getting more in-touch with how the band used to be and setting up a Switch account, but your handlers can't allow it.

Lastly you think of maybe asking for contact with the other super powered person, but they say she has been made aware of your situation and if she wants to contact you she will.

>>452219
The super senses thing was annoying and even painful at first, but overtime you've gotten used to it and can sort of control how much you focus on it, so that your ears aren't always exploding.

>>452229
Such hostile action to your handlers is possible, but will take support of other players as well, since currently the majority effort is to cooperate.

>>452234
I'm presuming there's something that can manage it.

Look, I just don't want to be a villain, that's all. I don't feel like this is the right character for it. Just something that doesn't click with the idea.

>>452247
Agh, the band thing sucks hard. We're not about that. Eh, fuck it, maybe we'll just go solo artist. At least we won't be deaf.

As for anything that can penetrate our skin? Nothin' comin' to mind, chiefs. I'm guessing they've tried diamond tipped stuff?

>>452249
I don't think we're a villain for not wanting to live in a government experimental facility as a guinea pig. Or for pushing our boundaries, or even for escaping outright. I really hope you think so too.

>>452267
I'd like to think we're not one either, but goddamn, maybe don't try to rile the handlers up every single post? Cooperating is the best chance we've got to get into the music industry, anyways. Big Gov got the dosh to do it, man.

>>452264
It's not the composition of the substance, it's that they can't manage enough force to damage you. That's why they're asking, if you can harm yourself or at least get yourself to bleed someway so that they can get samples. Like if you could bite some skin off around your fingernails, scratch yourself and they swab under your nails, or bite your lip or something and spit up some blood.

Whatever you can manage really, they just aren't able to do it.

>>452267
I get that (and to an EXTENT I agree with you), but we'd consistently be on the run if we did, and we'd be putting our family at risk. Even if it'd be harder for them. I don't want to harm people, or rob them, or cause (non-easily repairable) property damage. I figure Emily's #1 goal is to make music for people.

If you can think of a way we can escape and NOT have the government spooks on our ass 24/7 without endangering the people we care about, I'll support it, but so far you haven't come up with anything that fulfills those criteria.

>>452284

...Huh. CAN we? Might as well try it. Let's just try scratching our own arm or something, I dunno.

>>452285
>constantly be on the run

From who? No one can do anything to you.

>freedom to play a villian

if I may, QM

In the command center coded transmissions are sent, different codes than the usual command line and from a higher security clearance. Instructions are to begin testing chemical inhibitors and poisons in small doses inside foods to determine effectiveness against the subject also request psychiatric evaluations to make specific note of any mention of mental instability or hallucination, in particular phenomenon of hearing voices, phase two testing of controlled pheromone release and concentrated mind altering substances to follow pending results of initial results. NSA monitoring of all outgoing and incoming communication to continue

>>452293
Ugggghhhh, fine, whatever. I give up.

>>452282
Wow anon, you wanna be a sellout? Shameful. Never talk to me or my son again.

>>452284
Lol fuck that. Pretend your durability outclasses your strength. Don't go at yourself hard enough to get anything.

>>452285
Would we be on the run? What are they gonna do if they catch us? If we start breaking their equipment without killing them, or committing other crimes, how much property damage will they accept before they try to make a deal with us?

Also my original plan was to just break into a bank and steal enough money to live comfortably, then flee to a foreign nation, if you prefer that.

>>452284
Well, we can try to give scratching ourselves a shot.

>>452294
Mua ha ha I love it.

>>452302
please don't encourage him to open us up to self-harming

>>452302
>>452305
It's his fetish, he's even more for it than the original voter.

>>452298
>>452309
Wow, anon, want to be a complete dick to other people?

Fuck off, man. I'm just trying to have a good time.

>>452293
THE GOVERNMENT, GODDAMN IT

>>452305
Just a suggestion, not trying to be a depressive no-fun mope.

>>452316
From your posts, it seems like you're trying to have the opposite of a good time.

:^)

Well it looks like you don't care to reveal your durability to them, so don't go as far as drawing blood from yourself. The best they can hope for is trace amounts of blood in your spit.

Feeling they'e reached the extent of their possible invasive testing though, they move onto a next level, which they don't inform you of, as described here >>452294

As such, over the next few days you start to feel sick and are puking. You show all the signs of food poisoning, though you don't realize it. However your handlers can tell that the doses of substance they administered, should have left you in a much worse condition if not dead.

Also, you are now occasionally seeing and hearing things you're not sure are real. You try to keep your wits about you and remain happy though.

>>452316
I should think it would be obvious that you're on the run from the government, but what are you worried of them doing?

>>452321
Sounds like we need to get out on the town more. Clearly the stress of being cooped up like this is what's making us sick.

>>452320
Yeah, thanks, good job.

You annoyed someone on 4chan, like no one else has ever done before.

Kudos.

>>452321
Stay in our room until the hallucinations stop, and your guts settle.

>>452321
>>452323
maybe, just in case we start stockpiling some rations for a rainy day fund in the event we suddenly need to get some fresh air

meanwhile, more command transmissions requesting review of all data for traces of a specific volatile, exotic element and similar minerals--identifiable by its decay through unique form of ionizing radiation- and to continue scanning for this material in all samples from subject.

>>452354
Although you get better from the poisoning, the hallicinations don't stop, and in fact get worse, and you don't notice it at first, but you're a lot more susceptible to suggestion, by the guards or researchers.

>>452323
So you decide to get out, maybe the air will do you good. It's a wholly nightmarish trip though, seeing things as you jump through the air, and nearly drown when you miss and land in the water. Eventually though you make it to land, some coastal village and crawl up somewhere till the hallucinations go away.

Eventually you come to, it seemed you took shelter in some boxes in an alleyway. You seem physically alright, though checking over yourself it looks like you were robbed of your belongings.

>>452393
Start tripping balls, and keep jumping away from the crab monsters.

>>452399
Oh wait, nevermind.

Well, let's keep jumping. Might as well see Miami.

>a lot more susceptible to suggestion, by the guards or researchers.

This a permanent thing or what?

Mobilize Containment teams but do not make direct contact. Observe subject, no confrontation at this time. Weapons ineffectual, no point in collateral damage. Continue chemical research on acquired samples.

>>452410
Only until your body works the pheremones out of its system. By now though you're out of the hallucinations. Anyway, you start jumping again and figure to head back to the US.

After a little island hopping across the Caribbean, you eventually end up in Flowida, and on to Miammy. You can tell by all the colorful lights and music, seen and heard from many, many miles away by you.

>>452420
>>452358
Well it looks like since the subject escaped containment, the best you can do with studying is to work with the samples you have.

In the meantime though you scramble forces and surveilance to keep an eye on the subject and to follow her.

>>452457
Mug a dude for his cash. Bash his knees in.

Head into a Waffle House, the kind of Waffle House that's so depressing that Denny's looks at it and uses it as a commercial for how they're at least not Waffle House. Get waffles. Consume them.

Get real fucking tired of how your life always seems to be at a crossroad when you see a shitty Waffle House.

Anyway, continue jumping across state. Get back to your hometown in Bay City, shitty fucking Michigan.

Go to a shitty pizzeria, get a shit, shit job as a delivery girl.

Love every moment of it.

>>452494
confirmed sightings at the Waffle House and a series of impact sights across the nation all the way to subject hometown. Immediate family is under surveillance, agents have infiltrated subject workplace. All work vehicles fully rigged for monitoring. Request update on progress of chemical weapon response.

>>452494
You rob some poor guy and go to a Wafflehaus, thinking your life over. Eventually you decide to just head back home and pick up things where you left off. It was a strange and interesting turn of events over these last few months, but you realize a new life wasn't what you were really after. At least not one like that.

So you head home, and after a couple weeks of taking it easy with total freedom again, you go to get a job, ending up as a pizza delivery girl. At the very least though, at least all your work mates are very nice and friendly, if a bit too orderly and sterile so to speak, for your liking.

>>452513
It seems the application to samples does cause some notable damage, and eventually onset cell death. However you can't be sure if this is entirely because of the weapon, or just because of the samples perishing after enough time under study and the rate of natural cell death.

At any rate though, like with poisoning, it should have a fair degree of the desired effect. If only at first however, note that each time the subject has built a resistance to introduced substances and chemicals. At least that is to say, any which cause bodily harm, the mind altering substances she never seemed to get used to.

being clear, my idea here >>452358 was that the gov't knows about the rocks and QM permitting, may have their own superhuman ace up their sleeve because I have an idea I like. But I can totally respect the wish to keep the setting as free of other supers as possible, your call. It ties into the mental manipulation.

>>452573
If you want to design an NPC and next recipient of the rock, go ahead. There was only ever one rock.

>>452582
what about a previous (pre-Sarah) recipient? And what HAs been happening to the rock, we can't have kept it with us this whole time have we? Has it just been sitting in our old apartment?

>>452587
You could do someone before Sarah yeah. As for the rock, Emily left it in her apartment, as in Sarah's case the government folks would have found it and taken it.

Though as with Sarah, eventually it would have up and disappeared, someone else stumbling upon it.

>>452612
FUCK IT
QUIT OUR JOB AGAIN
ROB A BANK
PARTY HARD IN MEXICO

>>452612
If that's the case, could we get something different then the whole "Super strength and durability" stuff. I'd like a more mind based character to play.

>>452636
can we not. the hulk package minus rage is pretty great

>>452649
What's wrong with playing something different? We keep getting the same thing anyway. I just think it'd be nice to have something other then physical based stuff all the time.

>>452655
I'd be ok with that as our next, but I'd like to at least finish Emily first.

>>452661
I was kind of under the impression that Emily was sticking with that permanently. I was talking about the new NPC that ishl/w1N was talking about making.

In a place that doesn't officially exist, a man in a suit smokes in an elevator while waiting for an all clear signal. An orange light engages and the door opens. He is very careful not to let a single thought cross his mind as he enters the chamber. Before him is a large tube, shrouded in several layers of shielding. Its primary purpose is not protection but isolation, to keep what is contained within it totally separated from the outside world.

And he has come to open it. He knows that floors above in control room klaxons are blaring as the sequence begins. The mighty valves and locks are opening and eventually, the reason for all of this is raised out of the black water, his breathing apparatus is removed and he gasps at the open air.

The man in the suit doesn't bother to hide the disdain on his face, the subject is blind, but can hear. It hears his fingers scraping against the cloth inside of his pockets and it hears the faint mechanical hum of distant machinery. It tastes the fear of the men and women far above and, like a knife stabbing into his mind, it hears the thoughts of the man in the suit.

It feels them, sees them in its mind's eye.

"I would say I'm sorry to have to call upon your services once again but we both know that would be a lie. I'm not sorry, you know that. I'm sure you can feel all of us on site today and I have no doubt that the longer you are out of your... home, you will discover more and more in the surrounding County, State... the world has gained a bit of population since our last session. And, as before the voices will not stop until we are satisfied. I would like to hope you understand."

an image of a girl, young and dressed in a disheveled pizza parlor uniform forms in the ether.

"You have your target."

>>452665
We could conquer Syria, and live like a queen, or stay in the fast food industry and get hunted down by >>452666

>>452693
Have you even seen Syria? I'd rather go for a small Micronesian island.

Anyway, let's see what happens with this first, then decide from there.

>>452636
I just went with Emily getting super strength, durability because it was what Sarah didn't go with but was my original idea. The rock could give anyone any powers really, I think the only thing I kept consistent is that it possesses a sense of good and evil, so a persons powers would develop and change depending on their actions.

>>452722
Sounds like Sarah needs to go conquer Syria. Not to live in luxury, but to be a good person and bring peace to a war-torn land.

The Empress life is definitely a side benefit though.

Pizza delivery is getting weird and Emily starts seeing things again and the occasional dead person. She isn't on any drugs, she thinks, and this is seeming to come out of nowhere. Pizza girl stress does not fuck with you this hard. She wonders if she's losing it and why

>>452666
Oh dear oh dead. How will the main character fare against this potential deadly threat?

>>452738
I suppose it's not against her nature to go and stop ISIS or try to, absorbing a few enemy combatants here and there.

>>452741
And it seems she's not faring so well at all. If only she knew what it was that was causing all her distress.

Probably something to do with whatever they did to you back on the island.

>How do you proceed?

>>452769
Haha did I write Sarah? meant Emily, whoops.


>>452773
For now let's try >>452627

Urgent message to Nest, from Survey. RE: Emily. Surveillance is compromised, we have been attacked. Multiple tangos, factions unknown. Enemies are in search of subject and seem to have supernatural abilities, reasons unknown, has maintained radio and audio silence. Conventional weapons ineffective. Requesting immediate pick up of subject, using any means necessary.

>>452776
Gonna need a supporting vote for that. Robbing a bank does cross your mind though, as does Queen of Seria.

>>452773
an ordinary day, she's assigned to work the stand because she was becoming an unreliable driver (Mr. Aziz doesn't need to know about the time she crashed through that apple orchard, with her face, not the car of course) and no big freakouts today, that's good news but everything is a little... too normal. And the whole week goes on like that. She's been extra good with her control apparently, haven't even dented a doorknob with her fingers. This week grounded at the pizza place, working the counter has gotten into a routine and that's unsettling in itself. Every day it seems there's this old guy in a suit with the most intense eyes, not staring at her but, like looking through here.

That's funny, she can't remember him ever ordering anything...

and look, today, there's no one else in the whole place, just her and him.

He lights a cigarette.

"Um, Sir, this is a no smo-"

He lets out a huge cloud before drawing a gun. That's it, enough of this weird shit, time to hero out on this old fool! Emily leaps with all her might forward, expecting to end up in the next county... and flopping painfully over the counter onto her ass on the cold floor. What?

"We need to talk," he says.

>>452791
I don't know if I'm prepared for this hijacking.

>>452783

Let's keep with this little batch of drama here >>452791.

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>>452798
Come on, what's so bad about witnessing a hijacked quest?

>>452810
I like OP
You like the hijacking.

>>452802
Well you guys need to input the action, Emily is you not me.

"I bet you would like to pound my face into pulp right now."

Emily tries to get in a quip while taking a wild swing at the geezer and the old bastard catches her punch and with a smug grin, crushes her hand. It feels like it's on fire, every bone snapping. It had been too long since Emily remembered what pain felt like and this might be the worse in her whole life.

Was she.. crying?

"of course I can't allow that. I can't allow a lot of things. You're dangerous, you and anyone else exposed to these sort of... abilities. Dangerous to yourselves, your community, your family... oh I know how little you really care about them but I have to cover my bases, don't I? And more importantly, you're a danger to your country. Not only the immense risk of someone of your capabilities running loose on our soil but to think of what would happen if our enemies were to get ahold of you...

"So go ahead and call me an asshole, I'll be an asshole, I'll do anything... anything to protect baseball, apple pie and the rights of pissant pizza parlors like these to employ uppity tramps
as long as they see fit.

We tried to be amicable once... and you walked away. Let me be clear, there is no walking away."

~~

and I don't really mean to hijack, just raising the stakes, trying to leave these open ended and waiting so you guys can input, sorry if it comes off as running away with it

>>452814
Ah, Ok then.

"Wh-Who the hell are you?! Are you from the Island? I'm not going back, never again!"

Emily backs up on her rear, scooching towards the freezer. Hundreds of thoughts rushing through her head, of all those hushed looks between the other staff members of how she should have gone to Serya and taken it over, of how she should have never stopped at a Waffle House for breakfast this morning. Goddamn Waffle House. No good could come from a chain restaurant that had it's own index devised from FEMA.

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>>452814
and I reserve the right of QM to call BS and veto anything as always

maybe all of this was some bad tuna... oooooooooooh

>>452833
ere, cede the right.. idk hopefully that was clear, he's the final boss about what goes

>>452833
>>452847
So, wait, I'm a bit confused. Am I acting out the scene with you or with Local OP?

cmon guys, it's not fun playing Nancy AND Freddy

>>452876
I've got something, but I'm a bit of a slow typist. Hold on a minute.

>>452875
OP has the final word in everything and I'm playing the role of your friendly neighborhood Gman because it's fun but please do input on anything you care to, takes more than one to quest amigo

>>452824
Oh my this is quite a happening.

Emily might have dodged the first two hits, but the third sent her spinning on her heels. There was blood this time, felt like her nose. She stumbled against the oven, watching that bastard suit start to bring back his hand.

Goddamn government pig.

She ducked low, his fist went high, right through the oven. Which was on, cooking a calzone that she was making for some frat boy down by the campus. The scream of pain from the goon gave her a bit of a smile. He could at least be hurt. There was th-

THOKK

A hard backhand came whipping from the other side of her foe, sending her through the front of the building. Tumbling ass over head on the pavement might not have hurt like the broken hand, but it still wasn't doing any favors for her. As she started to stagger up, looking at Ol' Salvatore's Family Style Pizzeria and Hoagie shop, she saw him coming.

Way too fast to be a newly minted super.

All right, >>452881 your turn.

>>452876
Thanks for the offer but I prefer to play, not QM. Otherwise I'd be running my own quest.

He slowed to a stroll. "Sometimes you just don't," he stopped to deliver a devastating kick to her ribs, "know your own strength.' He lit another cigarette. I believe my terms are clear, your unconditional surrender and cooperation. or else... well, this is far from the worst possible outcome. I honestly don't want to imagine what that would be. We could be merciful and perhaps you simply slip away and never wake up... alive of course, we wouldn't want to spoil the point of doing all of this but never awake. And I think your intuitive enough to understand, I am not merciful. We'll be meeting again soon, don't worry about where, we know where you are, we 'll come to you. I look forward to working with you again," he bent over and ground the remains of his cigarette into your forehead, "but please remember, no sleeping on the job."

Everything melted away and suddenly Emily was standing in the shitty bathroom of the pizzeria, facing the mirror.

Debris from the wall flew more than a block away.

sorry my tense is all over the place, kinda shit writing desu

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If dubs, Emily will experience sudden and incorrigible suicidal urges.

>>452936
She was done.

She was just fucking done.

Tired and pissed and angry and depressed and lonely and livid and any number of things you could guess as she jumped her way back to the Island, ready to tear the life out of everyone there. Ready to smash the island to rubble. Ready to find whatever files they had about whoever the flying fuck that fake ass cheating son of a bitch, the mother that bore his wretched ass, and the complete wretches that hired him were.

A psychic. A goddamn Gman psychic.

Kind of made sense why there the only ones who talked about the UFOs and Hugefoot acted so nutty, and out of sync with everyone else.

THOOM

She landed inside of a two story house this time. Looked empty in that sort of "Model Home" sort of way that housing developers loved. She sprinted out, preparing for another jump, steeling herself for her return back to the Island.

All right, your turn >>452941, don't worry about your writing, I'm not much better.

Urg, I just didn't feel it on this piece.

Also, just as a warning, but I've got about an hour and a half to do this before my meds are going to just put me out, so fair warning if I only have two to three more good posts.

Also, what kind of end ore you looking for? A good end, or a bad end? Because I'm honestly trying for a good one, if that's all right.

Fuck me, I'm fading fast.

Sorry man, but I've got to sleep. I'll see you in the afternoon tomorrow to see how this ends, alright?

Meanwhile, Local OP, I've taken the liberty to put your first thread up on the quest archive of sup/tg/. Hope you don't mind.

>>453108
No I don't mind, but I didn't think to be continuing the idea beyond this thread. If someone else liked the sudden superpowers idea they totally could, but for me it was just to explore the idea a little, and I think these two threads did that.

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I vote that Wmily sits down, spreads her legs and masturbates.

>>452998
>>452936
Well nice job guys. You hijacked the thread and drove OP off, and now it's dead.