Team Name: The Watch
Leader: Retry
Fame: 2 (8/5 + 1)
Infamy: 1 (1/5 + 1)
Income: Tight
Base
Base Size (base size mod): Large (+3)
Base Description: Old cemetery lodge, plus underground tunnel network
Base Location: Greenbelt
Maximum Team Size: 4 (+nonresidential)
Neighborhood Reputations
Atomic Heights: +1
Greenbelt: +1
[All else neutral]
Ethos
Killing: We never kill
Civilians: Stopping the villain is the most important thing
Collateral Damage: We pay for any damages we make
Leader
Name: Caroline Frisk (real name)/Retry (“super” name)/DeterminedDreamer (online username)
Gender: Female
Appearance: A young woman with short, auburn hair and red eyes that lack pupils, instead consisting of a seemingly endless set of concentric rings. While fighting crime, she wears a long, dark-green hooded coat over a yellow shirt and black sweatpants, plus a pair of comfortable running shoes. She wields a pair of tonfas.
Alter-ego/backstory: Caroline, like many people with too much curiosity and free time and not enough sense of self-preservation, decided that it would be fun to go explore an abandoned facility to see if she could find anything interesting. For a variety of reasons, this was an enormous mistake, as some facilities are either abandoned for a reason or are less abandoned than they first seem. Now, she’s not exactly talking about any of the specifics of what happened, but it certainly seems that she regrets what she did. Except for the small fact that it doesn’t seem she ever actually did it, and her accounting of what day it is was off by one.
Power: Stable Time Loop: Retry casts herself back into the past, or perhaps she foresees forward... in either case, with concentration and over short periods, from her perspective appears to reset the position of reality from a few seconds to minutes.
Traits: Tries everything, Thoughtful, Mute
Fame: 3
Members
Retry (Caroline Frisk) | Stable Time Loop | Tries everything, Thoughtful, Mute | 3
Frostara (Allison Goldstein) | Creates ice walls. Ice skating. | Hates Longfire, Modest, Good-Looking | 1
Sally Sixpence (Sally Agreste) | Attention to detail? | Wealthy, Quiet, Insightful, Discrete | 4
Void (David White) | Micro-blackhole centered on self | Inscrutable, Emotionally detached, Unsettling, Helpful | 1 Infamy | Wants cure for power
Chiffon (Mari Chang) | Bakes pastries which grant powers | Introverted, Kind, Neurotic | -1
Other Notes
Have control belt designs
1 Cross-over: Cutting Edge
Increased speed leaving Greenbelt
No recruiting will happen this turn.
Despite the graveyard site, the Watch's base was bereft of gloom. Allison's therapy session had gone well, though she felt like it had mostly been putting the finishing touches on healing she'd already gotten started on. Chiffon - real name Mari Chang - was awkwardly-but-exuberantly recounting the picnic she and Caroline had with the new 'Cutting Edge' team and "
that, uh, 'Andy' guy?" Sally wasn't talking about the Doppelswap situation yet; there was a time and place for everything, and nobody wanted to hear about that just now. Now, the money, everybody had loved that; there were already plans to get Mari a more professional-looking costume, based on the sort of clothes chefs at fancy restaurants wore.
Cara was most of the way through jotting down
His name is 'Dandy' when there was a knock at the door. "
I-I-I'll get it!" The Watch's youngest member - a few months younger than Cara - dashed off from her seat and darted around the corner to the front door.
hi-uh, who...?There was a shrill
squeak as Mari skittered back a bit from the door, but Cara ran up to the front with a grin on her face. Framed by the doorway was David, wearing the same shabby hoodie as always, white hair in an absolute mess. She got the impression he was looking at Mari confusedly, though it was a bit hard to tell with the pitch-black eyes. Cara waved him in eagerly, leading him and Mari back to the living room.
Sally and Allison were both a bit surprised - no fear in Allison's eyes, Cara was glad to see - before Sally narrowed her eyes and grinned.
"
You two haven't actually met yet, have you."
"
practice was good... i, uh, i've got some better control over my episodes, now..."
Introductions, thankfully (though not unexpectedly), went smoothly. David's story was one that easily inspired sympathy, and Mari was somebody whose sympathy was easily inspired. She was rather disappointed about David not being able to consistently be at base like everyone else, but his assurances that the team had arranged comfortable shelter for him assuaged that.
Cara, meanwhile, was gleefully amusing herself by tossing one of Mari's flight cookies at David (before resetting,
obviously), wondering if him absorbing one would count as eating it. She was pretty sure Sally had figured out what she was doing, but she was keeping quiet. Probably going to try to guilt her into living at an apartment she'd pay for later.
"
so, i, had an idea? now that, well, now that i can do stuff around, uh, things, more safely... maybe i could help with the base...?"
Oooh? Not only did this sound like an interesting idea, he also had Sally's attention. Maybe this could distract her from planning that
talk later.
Elab"
orate?" Ah, excellent, everybody's interested.
David scratched the back of his head. "
well, uh... excavation, you know? secret entrances, underground chambers... black holes are pretty good at turning occupied space into unoccupied space, after all."
Cara's grin was a wide one. Imagine, an entire underground base, just like all the best comic heroes had! Like Batman, and, uh. Her grim stiffened a bit. Sue her, she didn't actually read many superhero comics.
Mari's brow was furrowed, though. "
W-wait. We're, our base- there's an, um. Graveyard. Around us. Right? It'd- it'd be bad if we. Well. If we accidentally disturbed-" Her face had started to take on a green tinge, so it was a good thing when Sally cut in.
"
We'll go a decent ways down before branching out, cupcake. And I'll be with him making sure that everything's structurally secure and doesn't poke anything we don't want it to."
Perfection. So it's decided, then? David and Sally will work on getting us our very own bona-fide subterranean base expansion?Sally gave a curt nod, while David's was a bit stiffer. Allison held up a thumbs-up with a small smirk on her face, while Mari seemed to do something of a bobblehead impression.
Motion carries, awesome.Caroline's smile said 'conversation closed'. Meanwhile, while the others didn't see it - likely deliberately - Sally's quick glances from Cara's cookie to David, and then swiftly to eye contact with her fearless leader said something rather different.
God damnit.
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Topic: Superhero Manager - Season Three - End Game Completed! (Read 23118 times)