[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

[whyarewehere]

Do yourself a favor and don't tell Tucker what your code name is. Just... trust me.

[ But it's already out there so it's probably too late. ]

I can't believe we are, as a team, so collectively bad at this.

[nofortunateson]

The Legion could probably stand to rethink its policy of 'decide a name immediately after you bounce to a new dimension and grow some super-powers.'

[He's not especially ruffled. He's long since resigned himself to the endless array of fun people are going to have with his off-the-cuff choice in callsigns.]

Then again, it's not like 'North Dakota' is that much better.

[whyarewehere]

Yeah, probably.

[ He'll give him that. Grif's isn't great either. As for the other bit... ]

You're one of the freelancers, right?

[ Grif's kind of heard of him, but he hasn't met North properly. ]

[nofortunateson]

The name scheme gives it away, huh. [It's funny. The further he gets from the Project, the more objectively silly the whole state-name thing reads.] What about you?

[whyarewehere]

You guys could've just used Fifty Nifty as your theme song, you're kind of obvious.

[ Yeah, that was the definite tip-off. ]

I'm just Red Army.

[nofortunateson]

Red-?

[He pauses. Blinks. And finally grins crookedly, not quite believing what he's hearing.]

Right, yeah. Red Army.

[whyarewehere]

You know. We shoot Blue guys.

[ Helpful. ]

I'm sure this really helped the war effort with the aliens somehow and wasn't all a lot of bullshit to waste everyone's time.

[ The sarcasm. ]

[nofortunateson]

[Ooooohhhhh . . . welp. Looks like the sim trooper knows what's up.]

Wow. Got a pretty good Project Freelancer tagline, right there.

[whyarewehere]

I'd say it's nice to know that the people who were supposed to be good at shit had the same thing going on? But it still just sucks.

[unrecovered]

Speak for yourself, Doubletime.

[Freelancer is a perfectly serviceable if uncreative code name, thank you.]

[whyarewehere]

Hey, mine's a joke on purpose. You don't get to throw stones from that glass house, Wash.