[video][mingle post] Show Me Your Moves: Redux

[whyarewehere]

[ Grif is in one of Legion World's lounges. There's a space future pool table behind him, set up for a game. ]

Hey Legion, how's it going?

[ Wait. No. He holds up a hand. ]

Rhetorical question, don't answer that, it's not what I'm here for. What I'm here to talk to you about today is superpowers.

[ He's found his stride, and taken an almost public-service-announcement tone. ]

Do you have strange new abilities since coming to space? Were you just extra cool before the rest of us and nothing changed? Cause I definitely want to know what you guys got in the Time Trapper lottery and please make it look as awesome as possible.

[ He grins a little. Superpowers are the best. ]

For those of you who are new, which is most of who I'm talking to here? I'm Grif. Doubletime if you want to go all codename on me but... Grif. Really. Sometimes I look like this:

[ He scoops a space-age looking helmet painted bright orange off the floor, presumably, then drops it again with a thunk. It's armor, he's not gonna break it, right? ]

And me? I got this.

[ Grif disappears in an orange blur and suddenly, the pool table clears itself in a flurry of indistinct motion. He comes back down from super speed and casually leans the cue against it. If anyone bothers to slow that down, it was an absolutely disgraceful display and he cheated at least six times. Grif is super smug. ]

So yeah. I kind of got the best power already? Sorry.

[ Oh right, there was something else he wanted. ]

And everybody else? Uh. Anything new that's cool? ...Or just tell me how the last mission went for you. I got to go into the past and wrestle Batman and stuff. He's kind of a dick, honestly.

((( This is a free for all mingle post! Grif will reply to everyone who responds, but this also an invitation to threadjack. If you want to have a character jump into a thread somewhere with anyone else you are absolutely welcome and, in fact, encouraged. This is set after Gods Among Us / To Have And To Hold / The Other Mother and before Time Ripples, so it is slightly backdated to give characters a chance to meet the regular versions of each other before the nonsense begins.
If there's anything I can do to improve your dumb Grif-assisted minglepost experience, feel free to ping me at zitasaurusrex.)))

Comments

[unrecovered]

Agent Washington, Wash for short, codename Freelancer. I have a healing factor and power nullification.

[The last bit is delivered with an audible smirk. He rather likes being Agent Shutdown.]

[tenzero]

Wait, power nullification?

Like any powers?

[That's absolutely terrifying and of course he might be quite upset at that idea.]

Like, only super powers or like powers that keep people alive?

Hypothetically.

[unrecovered]

[That's not a normal reaction, or a normal hypothetical.]

It generally knocks out anything above baseline normal for a human.

...I'll be careful around you.

[tenzero]

What? No, just hypothetical, totally hypothetical. We gotta think of these things before they come up, right? [Of course, that's totally the problem there.]

But like...does it know out everything everything? Superpowers I get, but like psychic stuff too? How does it work?

[unrecovered]

Mm-hmm. And you're asking for a friend, right?

[Dry as the fucking desert.]

Like I said: anything above baseline normal. I don't know about you, but I don't know many people who are psychic by default.

[tenzero]

No, I'm asking hypothetically. For like, tactical advantage and stuff. [Gonna keep digging that hole deeper and deeper.]

Uh...a few, actually sort of. Have you ever um, experimented with it? Seen what it does to individuals?

[unrecovered]

Right. [Look how completely and absolutely he does not believe you.]

Not really. I tend to just use it in combat to get an advantage. [And prevent people with the power of invisibility from sneaking away in the middle of important conversations Locus.]

[tenzero]

Okay uh. More dumb hypotheticals: could it possibly be tested before going back out in the field?

Just for posterity?

[thedreamisdead]

Baseline normal for their race or for you?

[whyarewehere]

This is Wash, he's kind of the fun police that way.

You know. As opposed to America's unfun police.