Blue Posted December 10, 2003 Report Share Posted December 10, 2003 Shades of "Prince of Darkness" here. ---------------- Each night as you fall asleep you are having dreams. They are the standard dreams (Being naked in Gym Class; Riding a train down a long tunnel while eating a banana; whatever) until suddenly they are interrupted by a voice. Though it is erratic and hard to understand at times, like a bad radio transmission, you can hear barely make out a warning... a warning to stay out of the Winter Building downtown. Despite the poor quality, you can tell it is your own exasperated voice, tinged with desperation. This night, you are awakened by the base alarm, and you are informed that there is some kind of disturbance at the Winter building on 33rd Street. Go with the team? Stay at home? What do you do?... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Korvar Posted December 10, 2003 Report Share Posted December 10, 2003 Flare: Go! With all haste! And Flare has a lot of haste! Dr. Graves: Go, but reluctantly and cautiously. Make sure the team are aware. This looks to be some kind of temporal paradox thing, which our team have dealt with before (and created the term "Precognition Paradox ****wittery"). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pteryx Posted December 10, 2003 Report Share Posted December 10, 2003 First, be amazed that the spirits could establish reception that good, even if it is just to him. Then wonder why they went to that much trouble and didn't just carry the message on their own. Then hope it wasn't just to him, as even these days, when he's taken a bit more seriously, his family would err on the side of not believing something like this. Regardless, though, he'd tell the others that he was mystically warned away from that building and doesn't know if that also applies to anyone else -- taking care to not outright contradict orders, provided he even has the choice to contradict orders in the first place. I'd say there's about equal chances of his being made to specifically sit out or being made to specifically come along. -- Pteryx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Mhoram Posted December 10, 2003 Report Share Posted December 10, 2003 Ballistic would in all likelyhood ignore the message and charge right in. He is a mystic, but has only been that way for a year or two- most of his life he has been a cop and would react with old habits. Blackcat would inform her teammates that she will have to help from the outside. Cat was involved in a "days of future past" kind of scenerio that ended up killing her because of a warning from the future. When she came back from the dead it took quite a while for things to settle down, and she doesn't really want to go through that again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest WhammeWhamme Posted December 10, 2003 Report Share Posted December 10, 2003 Hmmm. Flippant would be more than a little creeped out... he'd probably suggest there might be an ambush, but he would still go in. He's brave. And stupid. Wraith... Wraith would consider the possiblity that his powers have grown to include precognition (he already has a limited ability to sense the past). He would then suggest operating as team support from *outside*, since he's pretty much equally effective there. (Mental Powers) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
astralfrontier Posted December 10, 2003 Report Share Posted December 10, 2003 Thomas Temple has no experience with time travel or precognition, but he has years upon years of hostile history with telepaths, and will assume it was telepathic intimidation rather than a genuine warning from any "future self" of his - after all, if it really was him, either "here is why you should stay away" should have been explained, or "I cannot explain due to paradox concerns" should have been heard. He's logical and focused enough to give such warnings to himself, and forestall his own curiosity, assuming the warning were genuine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayday Posted December 11, 2003 Report Share Posted December 11, 2003 Would go with the team, but take the team leader aside to explain the odd dream (well, not the banana one). We are used to dealing with enemy telepaths and although this is a bit odd it is better to never underestimate Psiona's deviousness. Possibility that Mayday is developing precog and so will stay outside guarding the jet using team link to function, but keep in mind that that too might have been Psiona's plan to get her alone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayday Posted December 11, 2003 Report Share Posted December 11, 2003 Manx, another telepath although very young, would not tell anyone. Would not go near the place. Sabre would discount any such warning as foolish and go in after checking with the team to make sure noone else heard it (without admitting it was a dream.... "Winter building, that sounds familiar..."). Would be extra careful with security and her surroundings though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stormraven Posted December 11, 2003 Report Share Posted December 11, 2003 Checkmate would do as Thomas Temple. Assume enemy action, as he would never attempt (in the normal course of things) to communicate with himself in dreams. If the voice managed to give enough information to prove to Checkmate that it was, indeed, him, it would not be 'stay out of the Winter building', but would, instead, indicate a small bit of data that he would not have previously taken into account. He cares not a fig for paradox. From his point of view, the future is not fixed, and therefore can become whatever he desires to make it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex Raven Posted December 11, 2003 Report Share Posted December 11, 2003 Go immediately. Anyone afraid of dreams is a wuss. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KawangaKid Posted January 8, 2004 Report Share Posted January 8, 2004 Originally posted by Alex Raven Go immediately. Anyone afraid of dreams is a wuss. And bring your teammates along. If there's any truth to the premonition, you can send them in first. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brandi Posted January 8, 2004 Report Share Posted January 8, 2004 Irving doesn't sleep and therefore doesn't dream in the sense humans do. If he heard these thoughts interrupting a sort of daydream reverie (those he has plenty of) he'd probably ask his teammates to help him figure out if a mentalist is trying to pester him for some reason. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avatar Posted January 8, 2004 Report Share Posted January 8, 2004 Avatar would ask his team if they had any kind of dream like that, and if not would make the Twilight Girl in charge of them duiring this mission to make sure it isn't one of his own choices that prompted this long distance thought call. Also check in with Insight, the team precog to make sure she is trying to focus on this possible problem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoneDaddy Posted January 8, 2004 Report Share Posted January 8, 2004 Andy (messenger robot - many other functions) does not sleep or dream. A message from himself would be a critical error which he would disregard. Marshall Becker would discuss and possibly disregard (if the greater good is served, the risk must be taken.) Every last Multi-man would go right in. Plato (mentalist rat) would not. Ho-Tai would go in, if his subjects were in peril. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avatar Posted January 8, 2004 Report Share Posted January 8, 2004 Ah, another true believer of the great Stephen King, Andy was a cool concept, but the character is keen too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoneDaddy Posted January 8, 2004 Report Share Posted January 8, 2004 I've been working on a robot for a while. Names are hard, so I plagiarize until the drafting is done, and the personality is fleshed out. I want to explore the great questions of AI - what do they want, left to their own devices? Do they have a heirarchy of needs? Are their actions morally relevant? (no intntion to threadjack, just rambling...) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Worldmaker Posted January 12, 2004 Report Share Posted January 12, 2004 GO! The Shield is invulnerable. He fears nothing! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
farik Posted January 23, 2004 Report Share Posted January 23, 2004 Kenneth will grab some sensor gear intending for Husky to use it at the Winter Building and not enter the building. After changing into Husky, Husky will leave the gear on the workbench and rush into the building on the slightest pretense of necessity. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hermit Posted January 23, 2004 Report Share Posted January 23, 2004 Golden Hunter might take it with some confusion, and then depending on which mood swing he's ontoday, he'd warn his team... or, attempt to stop them so only he would go in alone. He's loyal to THEM and thus, will knock them out to keep them from apparently certain death Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chuckg Posted January 23, 2004 Report Share Posted January 23, 2004 Starguard -- would have told the team about her disturbing dreams as soon as they were obviously not just normal pizza nightmares, so we wouldn't be going into this blind and have been doing our best to mystically check it out beforehand. She's too innocent to be afraid of being embarassed. Much. And even if she /knew/ with 100% certainty that she wasn't coming out of there alive -- innocents are in danger? She's going in. (And praying for a miracle.) Dr. Pain -- is /very/ afraid of embarrassment, so he'd write the dreams all off as bad pizza and too much beer. And Lord knows he'd never mention them to a living soul. OTOH, when push comes to shove, he really is a hero, not just a blowhard. And he's not very superstitious anyway, so... ... go on in and pray that being the brick means he'll survive. Baron von Darien -- again, 1100-year-old master vampire. He /does/ believe in prophetic dreams.. Lord knows he's seen enough of the Mystic World in his time to accept something like /that/! So by the time D-Day rolled around, he'd already have known a lot of WTF was going on from his researches and the researches of those he can hire... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elysea Posted January 23, 2004 Report Share Posted January 23, 2004 Requiem -- since all of her powers are magic/spirit powers channeled into her by her parents from beyond the grave, this would freak her out. She would assume it was from them. But at the same time, being a borderline casual killer, fighting and killing are her solutions for everything and she would want to find out what was in the building that needed maiming. And she's kind of bitter, so she would probably go with the team partially out of spite. She would not tell the team, but she would definitely be on her guard. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vex Posted January 23, 2004 Report Share Posted January 23, 2004 Adrenaline would tell Deathwish and make a decision together. Realm would go anyway, regardless of the danger. Hecabus would try to ascertain whether it was really him, but would probably take it at face value and not go, preferring to throw a party instead at the local temple to Loki. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drnuncheon Posted September 16, 2004 Report Share Posted September 16, 2004 Re: What would your character do #28 I find it fascinating that everyone assumed it was a warning of danger to their character, with the 'save the innocents' types bravely charging in anyway For extra credit, what would your character do if it turned out that the warning was because charging in caused the deaths of the very innocents you were trying to save? J Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chuckg Posted September 16, 2004 Report Share Posted September 16, 2004 Re: What would your character do #28 Not everyone. The Baron certainly didn't. And while Starguard probably wouldn't have on her own, she did discuss it with all her teammates(*), and some of them are *vastly* experienced at this kind of thing. (*) She's still learning how to be a superhero anyway, so -- well, I'm a full team member, not a sidekick, but she *thinks* like a sidekick a lot of the time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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