What would your character do? V

[Mightybec]

Here’s another scenario. Your character recently captured his arch enemy, and he’s awaiting trial for his bloody rampage. Your character’s been assigned to watch him during his trial so he doesn’t escape. In order to restrain his great strength during the trial, a device attached to the back that constantly puts a muscle relaxant into his bloodstream. Secretly, the rich widow of one of your arch enemy’s victims has arranged for a deadly toxin to be placed in this device also, and it’ll be set off be a timer. While your character and the defendant are in a waiting room for the trial to start, the poison is triggered. One of the side effects of the poison is that ruptures small blood vessels near the skin, as it kills, and causes massive bruising and bleeding out of the orifices. Once activated, the poison leaves no trace. As he dies in pain, his screams alert the sheriff’s deputies outside the door. They rush in to see a bruised and bloodied corpse, and you. Immediately your character is suspected of murder. What would your character do?

Mightybec

[Agent X]

Any of my characters who would have respected the law enough to play prison guard would trust the law to exonerate him - so he would cooperate.

[Hermit]

Lone Star- Well, fortunately for Lone Star, he has X Ray vision with some telescopic to boot, so he'd be able to have a conversation in the next room AND notice the fellow dying, which would cause him to call for the medicos to save him in time. Ifn' they still wanted him as a suspect, he'd surrender, request his identity not be revealed unless he's found guitly, then ask his team mates (with that one phone call) to help him out finding the real culprit and paying for his lawyer.

Slammer- Well, he'd call for help first. Then, he'd surrender of course, but has his agent post bail. He has at least one telepathic friend, and wouldn't be ashamed to use her to at least get a lead if he could.

Surge- He would show them the camera footage of him not doing anything TO the guy except trying to help him and calling for the medics. If the court hadn't provided a camera, he'd have made sure there was one anyways. Nyah! :p

Wildcard- Wildcard has a reputation as being a bit nuts, and certainly could be considered a suspect, but I just can't see him being asked in the first place due to that same rep.

[McCoy]

Snow Leopard: "Bruses, no lacerations. I don't hit, I slice. Suspect me when you find him gutted, skinned, and hung up like a side of beef."

Millennium and Iron Will would apply massive amounts of aid. Come to think of it, Iron Will never would have been there. "You want a quadroplegic to guard a supervillian awaiting trial? While I admire your dedication to equal opportunity, it's not my job and you can't make me." If Millennium was not able to save him, would count on his rep, it would be dishonorable to eather attack a prisoner, strike the first blow in combat, or initiate combat while his foe was at a disadvantage. Either would fully cooperate with investigation.

While both Cheeta and Dolphin are physically capable of administering a beating like that, both are well known for their Codes vs Killing (a 25 pt one in Dolphin's case). They would cooperate with the authorites and count on forenstics to clear them. (Doubt that the poison could create bruses that would match their fist prints.)

[SuperBlue]

Super Blue: If SB wanted to kill him, he'd rely more on his Energy Blasts than his 35 STR and Martial Arts. At any rate, his Code vs Killing should manage to keep him outta hot water, but he would fully cooperate while asking his team mates to help him.

Shifter: Shifter has a massive Code vs Killing, and with his ties to PRIMUS he would allow the law to handle it (at any rate, they'd have to put him in a cell hardened against teleporters - even though he wouldn't escape.

[lemming]

Of my characters who would kill, Calico, would point out that if she had wanted him dead, he would of died while resisting capture in an "accidental" fashion. Certainly not in this fashion.
It's an obvious frame-up and she'd start looking into who would want him dead and not like her. It might take awhile, and she'd probably get distracted. After all, whoever it was saved the state some money in prosecution.

My other characters wouldn't have this style of MO and would be cleared quickly. Either that, or they wouldn't be trusted in that position in the first place.

[Wormhole]

Hardware would have called for medical help the instant the guy started bleeding. If suspected of killing the rotten SOB, Hardware would immediately get a good lawyer, prove his innocence, and when it's all over say, "I'll be damned if I ever do another 'badysitting assignment' for you jerks ever again."

[Blue]

Surveillance tapes? ...You can't tell me they aren't taping that room. Okay, let's assume there aren't any.

Uncle Slam: He would tell his story and accept being taken into custody. Then he would contact the team of heroes to investigate. Hey! I think I just found a plot hook for my players. For Slam, his honor is too important to him to besmirch it himself by resisting arrest or trying to flee. He trusts that justice will be metted out properly. Call him naive. (Just not to his face.)

Blue: She would never be alone with such an individual, being utterly normal outside the cyber realm. But for argument, she would protest vehemently her innocence and be dragged off to jail kicking and screaming. She'd have her lawyer arrange for some computer time for "defense research purposes" then she'd make sure electronically that clerical errors got her freed long enough to clear up the problem.

[Mayday]

ShadowCross: Get pissed off and leave. In no way is she going to allow herself to be captured. Flee to her weaponsmith uncle to hideout, and then to a safehouse after her paranoia kicks in and she begins to suspect he will turn her in for her own good. From the safehouse will begin preparing for her teammate Batman's arrival. That he will find her is not in doubt, and she is his apprentice after all. He may understand, he may not, but she relies on noone and no man and will not allow herself to be incarcerated for any reason. If he doesn't drag her in she then devotes her waking hours to making life hell for the underworld until someone who knows something coughs it up.

Wraithe: PRIMUS is going to hate this. She immediately turns herself in trying to minimize the horrible PR this will bring, and relies on PRIMUS to prove her innocent, knowing that even if successful there will always be some who believe a successful proof is just a government coverup and her name therefore always tainted by this. If PRIMUS requests it she will bust out and go officially AWOL, this might serve as a way to infiltrate a supervillain team and bring them down.

White Fist: Captured american special ops soldier brainwashed by the russians in the past, turned into a soviet super soldier, rescued and descrambled (more or less), surrendering would be hard. Very hard. I don't think she could pass a Psych Lim check, so will try not to hurt anyone and steal a cop motorcycle, lay low in terrain her Special Ops training prepared her for and contact someone she trusts. Once he channels info her way she can start following leads.

Metallion: Claustrophobia. With Magneto style powers any cell that can hold her she would not tolerate. Once she realizes this if they don't take her out she will balk and there will be a problem. Ultimately she reports to UNTIL her team being founded by the UN, and her being a foreign citizen there will be problems.

Mayday: Mentalist and female, there is no way anyone could believe she caused all that bruising.

Sabre: Expecting any fool to understand that if she wanted this man dead he'd have a sabre through him, she would not take well to accusations of murder. Nor can she risk her secret ID coming out. Her team is a corporation owned by each in their secret IDs, the corporation fields a team of powersuited heroes for publicity purposes (us but noone knows this) and to win government military contracts for use of our technology. So politely but firmly do the OJ Simpson allowing the police to follow her, monitor her every move, but not arrest her. Check into a hotel (cant use the corporate base, bad for PR) until the Board (minus one founder cough) arranges her bail. Only then allow herself to be arrested and start finding out what really happened in there. Everyone on the team is an inventor/scientist but in engineering not biological fields. The Corporate lawyers and PR flaks will be very busy spinning this... Her colleagues will privately ask if she really did it, Tron will probably believe her, the others will keep an eye on her (just in case).

[Vondy]

Anthem: understand forensics well enough to know that the physical evidence alone will exonerate him. Contusions from ruptured blood vessels and the associated "bruising" are not the same as contusions caused by impact and would be easily caught by a competent medical examiner. Futher, bruises from physical assault will generally match the angle of impact, size, and sometimes even the shape of the object the person was struck with. In addition, Anthem is a trained lawyer and an experienced director of a federal super-hero project. He won't even be charged, on reputation alone, let alone knowledge of the law and forensics. In addition, why was a super being held in a room without a camera?

Vanguard: calls Georgia Drake, the CEO of Drake Enterprises, which funds the Vanguard Project, to get him legal representation and to call in his support team: TEAM VANGUARD. Nothing is too difficult for the brains of team Vanguard to figure out!!!

[KawangaKid]

You mean they left us alone with no vidcameras watching us 24-7? No wonder these villains keep escaping.

"We'll just leave you alone with this mass murderer, KawangaKid and turn our backs."

"Gee, what if he breaks out and tries to kill me? Turn on the cameras okay?

[Mightybec]

Cameras cameras cameras... it's always cameras. The guy that monitors the camera's got an eyelash in his eye at the right moment, and the media that the video is recorded on is old and worn out. Or maybe it happened in the mensroom...

Mightybec

[lemming]

Originally posted by Mightybec
Cameras cameras cameras... it's always cameras. The guy that monitors the camera's got an eyelash in his eye at the right moment, and the media that the video is recorded on is old and worn out. Or maybe it happened in the mensroom...
I like the explanation that the camera just went blank at that point. If they're going to get a poisen that will do that, they could certainly cause a camera problem.

[FogHat]

Random Violence (Brick)
If he ever found himself in that situation would laugh at the cops and say. "If I did that trivial damage you'd be right to arrest me, if I hit him he'd be landing about.... now."

Blaze (5 foot 2 redhead with a 32 Com)
"Nope not smoking, I didn't do it" blink blink.. Besides there would be cops there all the time trying to get her number.

Hera (Brick with Drains)
"So much for justice... that was ugly... Can I go get my hair done now?" They may let her go just because she wasn't messed up and no one wants to listen to her whine (uncontrolled AOE NND disad when mad, yes the group hates it when she is mad)

Advocate (Martial Artist/ Gadgeteer)
Would be trying to heal him till he passed out. After that he claim he was innocent and tried to save him.

BB (Armored suit)
He'd looked very confused and then I have no idea.. Depends on his mood. Fight or Flight or pout.

Bale (OK) Martial Artist-(minor) Mentalist (Gray Hero)
He'd claim his innocents then try to "convince" them. If that didn't work he'd get mad and kick the crap out of the corpse for getting him into all this trouble. (Not the most stable guy).
I see him in a jail cell waiting trial with little chance of not going to strong hold.

[Enforcer84]

Thunder:
Cooperate and help with the investigation. After all as the son of one of the greatest heroes ever, he has quite the reputation for strerling citizenship, the public loves him.

[WhammeWhamme]

Most of my PCs are law abiding to the point of being part of the Law, so they'd stay to be charged. Of course, they all could be guilty... I gotta play someone without super HtH damage....

Except, or course, for latest PC (assuming I *finish* him):
Rewind. Rewind can undo things that have happened: For himself, one second. For others, well, that depends on how I figure out how to write that up... (Anyone who wants to help, much obliged...)
But as he can undo what has happened to people, the baddy will stand up, and be able to say whether I tried to kill him... Hopefully owing Rewind his life will be enough to get him to tell the truth.

(Actually, this one isn't at ahl easy...HELP!)

[farik]

The response is going to depend on which arch villain it is. If it's an alien Husky will lie through his pearly white teeth about a bad reaction to the earth chemicals. Otherwise Husky will explain what he saw and trust the authorities to find the cause (after he changes back into Kenneth, Kenneth will analyze what happened very quickly and change back into Husky, Husky will then go kick the butt of the real culprits.

[AnotherSkip]

The rook: Bring him back to life. If necessary reverse time and get a sample of the chemicals in the injectors.

Assuming the entire universe is not mindcontrolled and will believe the truth about him. If not then this is Not the first time he has hidden out waiting for a crime he's done to blow over, might as well be not guilty.

[Stormraven]

Guardian - has a reputation as a super-powered vigilante. Unlikely in the extreme that the forces of law and order would ask her to guard anyone. (It's not deserved, entirely, but there you are.) If they really did, then her reaction to him being bruised before her eyes would be to rip open the door to the courtroom and call for help. She'd be so far from his body that no one could rationally suspect her.

Checkmate would look at the accusers and calmly indicate the numerous problems inherent in him beating anyone to death. (18 Strength. Yes, he has martial arts, yes, they do some serious damage, but for a brick-type villain, they would take far too long to kill him.)

He would then explain exactly what happened, and suggest very strongly that the forensic pathologists look for a specific trace chemical in the villain's blood.

(Contrary to common thought, there's no such thing as a toxin that leaves NO trace. Even if you can find a toxin that, itself, is untraceable, its effects on the body CAN be tracked, and something like that would necessarily leave something. Wrecked receptor nerves or increased amounts of exhaustion poisons in the muscles, etc.)

[caris]

Adonis – Would not have tolerated the presence of the drugs as a method to control the accused. He considers the use of such invasive techniques as being a human rights violation, and would seriously question if the accused could adequately defend himself (in a legal sense) while on these drugs. The court would have two choices find some one else, or loose the drugs. Adonis would not compromise on this issue.

[The Watcher]

Warp: Would call for the guards himself, and cooperate with the investigation. He knows that he didn't lay a hand on the guy, and forensic evidence would exonerate him.

And if worst came to worst, he could submit to a telepathic scan to ascertain his innocence.

Spectrum: Same as above, except with even more confidence that his word would be taken and he would be exhonerated due to his reputation.

Mystic: Summons the guy's ghost and have him testifry that he didn't do it. That, along with the physical evidence, will prove he's not guilty.