A Brave New World: Revisited[IC]

[Sakuro]

Grail
HP: 3
Cnd: Healthy


Back at base Avory took his goggles down and let them hang around his neck like an apocalyptic talisman. Overhearing the conversation between Zombier and Twist he offered the pair a nod.

"That stuff about... how big a rock I could throw, and everything else. Should I know that?"

"We should all know that sort of thing about our powers. Knowing our limits, so we can plan around them. When we get enough downtime we should work on that. Maybe Lyle could design the tests."

"So, can we recap what we've got from the soldier?"

Rolling his right shoulder Avory looked off towards Evo and was quiet for a mopment as he recalled what they had learned. Then he began listing it off.

"We have a general layout. You should draw us a map if you're up to it Cletus."

"They have shocker tiles on all the floors below the storage area as well as turrets. The turrets are sonic based and also use the nullifier darts. The entire complex is surrounded by a null field. That's a big one there."

"There is a laboritory on the lowest level and cells for the stronger Paragons further down too."

"Five Akira units and one hundred guards are stations at the prison. That might get bulked up a bit after our outing."

"Rampage, the guy who brought down the Chase bank, is likely being held there. The man running the place is Warden Carmichael ... oh ... and they keep kids at this prison too."

[poodle]

Twist
HP 2

"but didn't Mina swim down to a pipe, wouldn't she have died if she got nullified?"

[Chad Spider]

Zombie
HP: 3
CND: Fine

Mina couldn't hide her surprise completely. "Null field? They can just turn us on and off that easily? No one else even knows where paragons come from. How does Akira know so much about controlling us?"

She fell silent for a minute. "We need to tell Jane about this," she said finally. "Mind Bender, too, if we can reach her somehow."

[Sakuro]

Grail
HP: 3
Cnd: Healthy

"but didn't Mina swim down to a pipe, wouldn't she have died if she got nullified?"

"I don't think she actually went inside the complex."

"We need to tell Jane about this," she said finally. "Mind Bender, too, if we can reach her somehow."

"It wouldn't hurt. But Jane worked on a lot of this tech, and Mind Bender can read the minds of Akira soldiers. They may know more than us. Is there anything else we want to share though? Like information on those bug bots?"

With this new question he looked over to group to see their reaction to sharing information with other groups. Information was vauable, after all. As he mused on that Avory added.

"Unless we want to ask them for help, we should refrain from sharing too much information about our current project at Bunker Ridge."

[poodle]

Twist
HP 2

"**** it, let's share it all. Confusion to our enemies, the enemy of my enemy and all that stuff. If anything happens to us it would be good if someone knew some of this stuff."

[Chad Spider]

Zombie
HP: 3
CND: Fine

"I agree," Mina said. "Anything we know about Akira's secrets or the weapons they use should go to as many people as possible. But... I don't think we should tell anyone where to find us." She scowled. "I never knew much about the Pantheon, but in Evanston... they were going to eat that woman alive."

[BedLlama]

Paradigm
HP: 1 CND: Fine

"I think we can trust Jane, but Mind Bender is six kinds of crazy and I don't want her anywhere near this operation. If we ever need some kind of super-psychic I vote we try to wake up Sleeping Beauty and hope she's a little more reasonable while concious."

"Whatever happens we're going to need to spring this prison and do so quickly, before it's officially up and running. If people see footage of illegally detained children in a secret compound it will strike a strong blow in our favour."

[Sakuro]

Grail
HP: 3
Cnd: Healthy


Avory went quiet and just listened for a while, allowing a few other voices join in on the matter. When it seemed like there was enough of a division, he provided a middle road.

"Alright. We'll give Jane everything we've got so far. But leave Mind Bender out of the loop unless it becomes a nescesity. Finding a way to contact her would probably be more trouble than it is worth anyway."

Raising his hands he pointed first to Mina, then Lyle.

"Mina, you want to handle contacting Jane? Maybe she can give us some suggestions on how to mess with their security too."

"Lyle, while she's doing that, why don't you get some gear setup for us to record what we find. Mini video cameras or something. That way if we can't break into their lab, or get people out, we can at least get some evidence against them. I also want proof of the pollution they're dumping into the water. Mina mentioned it seemed toxic. You might want to check out the wet clothes she came back with last time. News reports mentioned the fish have been dying off and it has gone unexplained for years. Look into that Carmichael guy too."

[Chad Spider]

Zombie
HP: 3
CND: Fine

Mina turned and walked away. "No problem," she muttered over her shoulder as she left. When she got back to her room, she got in touch with Jane and told her everything they knew about Akira's weapons and tactics, along with the prison itself.

"Any ideas?" she asked when she was done. "I didn't think something like a... paragon-nullifying field was even possible. Have you heard anything about the technology they're using?"

She hesitated for a second, feeling silly, and then added, "We, uh, also need a way to test our powers, if you know how we could do that."

[EnigmaticOne]

Evo

"I'd wager Mengle-style experiments... and maybe they got grotesquely lucky and found the key."

[metool2]

Empath

" I'll see what I can do to sketch up the layout that I remember." He said, nodding somewhat as he scratched his head, the idea of the place holding children certainely made this worse, and he agreed that if they could get proof of that out that would be their best bet to not only bring down the facility, but also prevent it from being put back up... Provided they could get the story out to where it couldn't be hushed up by the government doing it.

[poodle]

Twist
HP 2

"Can't we just go down in a wetsuit or anything? I mean break in old fashioned style. Are we so screwed if we can't use our powers. As for the prison, bad PR isn't going to do it. Look at all them bad arab prisons. They are still there. If that is all we can do then sure but we really need to destroy this place totally. I mean it's underwater, there has gotta be a way to let the water in, maybe we can just drop a rock on it from orbit or something."

[EnigmaticOne]

Evo

"It tends to be more shocking to people when they find it goes on next door, you know?"

[Sakuro]

Grail
HP: 3
Cnd: Healthy


When Cletus took initiative on getting a sketch up Avory gave the man a thumbs up.

I'll see what I can do to sketch up the layout that I remember

"Good idea."

Are we so screwed if we can't use our powers.

"Were you listening when the security was described? We aren't the Leverage crew."

As for the prison, bad PR isn't going to do it. Look at all them bad arab prisons.

...

"It tends to be more shocking to people when they find it goes on next door, you know?"

"Right. PR and media blackouts are what they're using against Paragons. It's about time the pendulum swung the other way."

Avory paused a moment, and briefly glanced down his torso, then back up to Evo and Twist.

"You guys hungery? I don't think we've had anything to eat in eight hours."

With that declaration Avory started walking.

"I'm going to fix us something to eat. You guys can lend a hand if you want"

[poodle]

"Were you listening when the security was described? We aren't the Leverage crew."

"I heard but surely that ain't unbeatable. The turrets need to be activated somehow and floor tiles need to be stood on. Besides with all those guards, there has got to be pass keys, ID cards to deactivate security. C'mon you guys aren't stupid. How would a norm do it? You guys know this stuff better than me but I would think about faking a uniform, strealing an ID card and causing trouble. We seen the uniforms, how the hell would they know who the **** is wearing it. Are you telling me you can't make something to fake out a pass key or absorb a shocking floor tile or a retina scan? Besides if we can get to the nullifying field then the millenium falcon can leave the death star. Wouldn't that give us all the reinforcements we need? Hell, why don't you figure out how to make a neutralising field to resist the nullifier field.