Alex would head home. Explosion guy was a dead end, but they'll slip up eventually.
You settle in Kibbel's apartment, sitting down on the couch and cradling your submachine gun appreciatively as you consider whether to watch some TV, and whether you need any snacks if you are going to.
Steven makes a quick meal and searches the parahumans biards for stuff about birdbrain.
Stuff like damage resistance and regeneration.
He also searches other local capes to disguise his online activity.
Birdbrain, the boards say, seems to have superhuman strength and durability. He's lifted a car (with visible difficulty) once or twice in his career, which is a useful thing to know, you suppose. As for his defensive capabilities, they say he hasn't been seen bleeding for more than about a second or so, and nobody's ever seen him break anything or even do so much as indicate that he's feeling pain. One incident has had him falling fifty meters after getting shot, landing in a roll, then taking off immediately afterward. So it's pretty safe to assume he's got quite a bit of durability on him. As for regeneration, nobody knows. The lack of bleeding would point to it, but that could just as well be him not getting injured by things in the first place. There appears to be no real consensus on how his powers work, and hypotheses range from garden-variety physical enhancements to secret Shaolin techniques making him impervious to harm.
You also look up other people - Kasplortch, who you note hasn't attempted any robberies for the past two months or so (having maintained a schedule of one robbery per week, either in Edwardstown or in one of the surrounding towns, for about half a year before that) and, despite always leaving plentiful evidence in the form of her own viscera at any crime scene, still doesn't seem to have had her name found out on account of presumably having no criminal past before triggering. Furthermore, in an overly long and ranty thread that appears to have been locked a couple of months ago, several people continually appear to have argued about whether she's not the most powerful parahuman who's ever lived, with one side citing an example where she was shot in the head by a teller (who had seized her gun in a moment of desperation) during one of her many bungled heists and reappeared only a week later to try a similar thing elsewhere.
Then there's Glazzie, who is discussed occasionally as extraordinarily unpleasant, and seemingly only interested in fighting other people, and also apparently able to control eyes. She, like others, seems to have stepped down activity a little recently. Skulgrat Unitasus is the only other non-Eddite cape who gets any coverage, and he's only nominally a local.
Project Ed, meanwhile, appears to have a wealth of information about them, and the latest Dissent threads appear to be getting some heavy moderation done on them. Probably that bit where she seems to have killed about a stadium's worth of people. Lots and lots of posts about that, most of them largely unhelpful.
Bubbles, you note, is completely unmentioned in any board apart from one thread that appears to be trying to fabricate a meme about him, to the complete indifference of most of the other forumites.
Finally, there's a rumor that a Protectorate cape or two is about to be transferred here for a couple of months, ostensibly to get that Project Ed thing locked down and prevented from escalating.
Overall, quite a bit of information to be found out there. This was just what you came up with in an hour or so while searching parahuman-centered forums.
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