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Dexter Grif ([personal profile] whyarewehere) wrote in [community profile] thelegion2016-09-20 09:25 pm

[video] With Great Power Comes Great Irresponsibility

[ Grif is in high spirits today. He seems to actually be in one of the training rooms for once, which makes that a lot weirder. ]

Hey guys. There are a bunch of weirdos running around and it's been a while since we talked about powers. So guess what we're going to do today?

[ 'We' because he expects participation, dammit! ]

And because I'm feeling generous, I'll start. Guess who learned a new thing?

[ He points at himself with both thumbs and backs up, revealing a line of targets. He steps back, lines up his shoulder with them, and winds up his arm like a softball pitcher. He doesn't stop. Grif's arm blurs as he speeds up, and finally the force of the moving air is enough to tip over the nearest target. But only the nearest one. He stops, gestures at it with definite pride, and continues. ]

So let's talk about your powers because we already know mine are pretty awesome.

[ Of course they are, Grif. ]

Has anybody else figured out anything cool? And if you're new: I'm Grif and this is basically my job around here. Tell me what you got, because I'm still way disappointed about the lack of eye lasers we got going on on this team. I could read profiles, but who has time for that crap?

If I know you already... I don't know. Injury status report? What did you have for lunch? I'm just bored, okay?

((( This is a free for all mingle post! Grif will reply to everyone who responds, but if you want to have a character jump into a conversation with anybody you are absolutely welcome and, in fact, encouraged. Feel free to have characters ignore the point, talk about other things, etc etc. Threads are assumed to be public unless you mark them otherwise. This is set after the Ambush of TTHS but the Investigation is still ongoing. )))
jonesiseverywhere: ([78])

[personal profile] jonesiseverywhere 2016-09-21 03:11 am (UTC)(link)
I didn't destroy it!

[Only some papers were a little bit shredded, geeze.]

Just...spread it out a bit! Made it easier to work on.

[personal profile] justicecoulduseanap 2016-09-21 03:15 am (UTC)(link)
I'm pretty sure I had a window fan back home with more power than that.

[Admittedly, that was because Winston had taken it upon himself to..."improve upon existing designs," as he put it, and supercharge it. But it was still fun to mess with Grif.]
littlecousin: (ohmigosh!)

[personal profile] littlecousin 2016-09-21 03:15 am (UTC)(link)
Whoa.

...Earth has colonies where you're from?

[Yes, that's the part that jumped out at her. After the fight she just came from, her sense of scale has been skewed just a bit.]

What year is it?
wherenoonegoes: (Hiccup grin)

[personal profile] wherenoonegoes 2016-09-21 03:17 am (UTC)(link)
Never came up, unfortunately. But we didn't really get to chat much, and he wasn't around all that long.

Anyways, I'm Hiccup. Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III, Chief of Berk, if you decide to insist on being as formal about the whole thing as he was. And the big giant lump of dragon over here is Toothless.
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[personal profile] blue_flame 2016-09-21 03:27 am (UTC)(link)
Well then ... I'm sorry to have missed seeing Zu-Zu here.

[Mostly she's sorry he didn't come here to stay, a leave the Fire Nation under her rule.]

That is quite the title.
wherenoonegoes: (Hiccup silly me)

[personal profile] wherenoonegoes 2016-09-21 03:32 am (UTC)(link)
Vikings, Berk Vikings especially, have a gift for coming up with ridiculous and disgusting names. They're supposed to ward off gnomes and trolls.

Just Hiccup's fine, or Forge in the field.
unrecovered: (Face: You've got to be kidding me)

[personal profile] unrecovered 2016-09-21 03:34 am (UTC)(link)
Do you want to try answering the question this time?
wherenoonegoes: (Hiccup grin)

[personal profile] wherenoonegoes 2016-09-21 03:35 am (UTC)(link)
Just saying, I'd bet Toothless could knock down more than that by flapping his wings.

I could probably knock down more than that. Although the way I'd do it would probably be cheating.
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[personal profile] blue_flame 2016-09-21 03:36 am (UTC)(link)
Very well.

Is your dragon actually toothless?
wherenoonegoes: (Toothless rawr)

[personal profile] wherenoonegoes 2016-09-21 03:42 am (UTC)(link)
[Hiccup turns to Toothless.]

You wanna show her, or should I just tell her?

[Toothless cocks his head to the side, thinking, and opens his mouth. There's a wide, gummy expanse. And then, suddenly, teeth. Lots of teeth.]

Ta-da. They're retractable.
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[personal profile] mylawn 2016-09-21 03:51 am (UTC)(link)
You caught me.

Why eye lasers? Honest question.
jonesiseverywhere: ([81])

[personal profile] jonesiseverywhere 2016-09-21 03:52 am (UTC)(link)
[The somber understanding nod of a guy who totally Gets It.]

Yeah, not a lot of places like it when you bring cherry bombs in.

[Learned that the hard way.]
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[personal profile] nerdninja 2016-09-21 03:58 am (UTC)(link)
Nah, there are some great threads going on Yellit. Someone's going all MythBusters on whether organic packaged snarlok really has less plibs or if it's just an excuse to hike the price.
onei: we cannot have been the first people to have ever thought about shooting that guy with crossbow (just so we're on the same page)

[personal profile] onei 2016-09-21 04:04 am (UTC)(link)
That's such a childish way to look at things.
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[personal profile] notthatjason 2016-09-21 04:25 am (UTC)(link)
Hello Grif. I'm Jason.

[He's still getting used to the tech around here, but he at least has it figured out enough that his face is on the screen and he looks genuinely interested, but also mildly confused.]

So...what's your job here exactly? Power tutorials or something?
glazedonutholes: (PB: Oh wow!)

[personal profile] glazedonutholes 2016-09-21 04:55 am (UTC)(link)
Wow! That's amazing, Grif!

Do it again!
wherenoonegoes: (Hiccup grin)

[personal profile] wherenoonegoes 2016-09-21 04:59 am (UTC)(link)
Basically? His job is putting up a post like this every couple months, and then doing nothing else the rest of the time unless somebody makes him.
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[personal profile] bleventeen 2016-09-21 05:00 am (UTC)(link)
Hi Grif! I'm Mabel! You learned where to find invisible baseballs?!

[ Yep. That's what she got from the video. She's pretty excited about the idea too. ]

I'll show you my super power if you tell me where to get them! Just don't tell Dipper!

[ Since this power demonstration will absolutely take place inside Dipper's "no-fun zone" in their quarters when it happens. ]
jonesiseverywhere: ([35])

[personal profile] jonesiseverywhere 2016-09-21 05:01 am (UTC)(link)
What? I didn't!

[Still he snatches a document out of the air to examine it.]

Uh...There's a name...Brainiac. So there you go, must be their's.
headinjuries: of the bathroom until i asked you in spanish (you refused to come out)

[personal profile] headinjuries 2016-09-21 05:04 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, hey, you're Dipper's sister, right?
jonesiseverywhere: ([48])

[personal profile] jonesiseverywhere 2016-09-21 05:09 am (UTC)(link)
This alternate universe stuff is so weird.

[That's all the introduction Donnie gets. Because of course Casey knows him. More or less.]
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[personal profile] jonesiseverywhere 2016-09-21 05:11 am (UTC)(link)
Invisible baseballs...That's total genius!

[Because then it could lead to invisible hockey pucks and Casey would be totally unstoppable!]
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[personal profile] captainbuzzkill 2016-09-21 05:12 am (UTC)(link)
Actually, she's my stunt double. That's why we look totally alike except for her being a girl and me being a boy. There was a rigorous casting process, thousands of potential Dipper-a-likes tried out.

[They're twins. That look like twins. He's going to razz anyone and everyone that questions if they're related.]

In the movie we filmed, there's this great scene where it looks like I backflip off a truck onto a motor cycle and you can't even tell it's her instead of me. It was really good editing.
wherenoonegoes: (Hiccup grin)

[personal profile] wherenoonegoes 2016-09-21 05:12 am (UTC)(link)
Hate to say it, but Dipper can probably see this.

By the way I'm Hiccup. I'm a friend of your brother. And the big scaly lizard behind me is Toothless.
headinjuries: don't give yourself a boner of false hope. (bah. we'll see.)

[personal profile] headinjuries 2016-09-21 05:14 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, right, you actually need stunt doubles, huh.

[ Not doing the backflip yourself, whatever! MAN UP, DIP DOP. ]

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