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| Topic Started: Jun 13 2008, 12:24 PM (75 Views) | |
| Batguy | Jun 13 2008, 12:24 PM Post #1 |
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"You're joking." "Nope," General Freedom said, taking a sip of his cappuccino. "Wouldn't even give me a cost of living increase. Me! Their poster-child for the superhero war effort!" "That really sucks Roger," BatGuy said, stirring a packet of sugar into his coffee. "You don't mind me calling you Roger, do you?" "Nah. We're all supers here." "I don't think I will ever understand the human need to make war upon itself," Mr. Mercury said, thoughtfully taking a bite of his bagel, chewing slowly and swallowing before speaking again. "It all seems counterproductive. You take over a country, and then you have to rebuild and maintain control. Eventually a nation stretches itself too thin, and their great nation breaks apart into its separate components again." "Too true," General Freedom said. "Look at Rome." "Austria-Germany after WW1," BatGuy added. "Soviet Russia," Mr. Mercury continued. "Why you can't all agree to disagree I'll never understand." |
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| The Royall J | Jun 14 2008, 09:05 PM Post #2 |
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"Hey guys what're you talking about?" Arachni-Dude said slipping into the booth beside Mr. Mercury. "Man I hate this town sometimes. I'm walking down the street, in costume right? And this guy tries to mug me! Me! And I'm thinking to myself, what's wrong with this guy and I figure it out, he was blind. No joke, so I just jumped away so I wouldn't have to beat him up, cause, come on that's just bad no matter how you cut it" |
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| daioni | Jun 14 2008, 09:38 PM Post #3 |
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"Human nature I guess," said Triforce, "We all hate to be wrong, and nothing makes us as mad as knowing that we are the ones making the mistake, thus everyone tries to make themselves right. War, violence, etc... all it is in the end is a bunch of people in convinced that they're right and everyone else is wrong. " He picked up the herbal ta, and split into three, each one of him holding an identical cup. Each then added a different amount of sweetener to their cups before drinking. |
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| Batguy | Jun 16 2008, 12:16 PM Post #4 |
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"Who the hell are you?" General Freedom asked, whirling around in surprise. "Chill, Rog," BatGuy said, dipping part of his muffin in his coffee. "He's been there for the past ten minutes." "Another vigilante," Mr. Mercury said. "Triforce. Multiplicative powers. Splits into three people." "Oh," Freedom said. "We had a guy like that on the team back during the War. Called him Legion. 'He could do close to a hundred copies. Of course, the project left him a bit mindless and childlike, but if you dropped a copy he'd just make another to replace it." "I never heard about that one," Mr. Mercury said, raising an eyebrow. "Government did their best to cover him up after he leveled the wrong town in France," Freedom replied. "Poor kid. Wasn't his fault, really; he just got pointed in the wrong direction." |
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| daioni | Jun 16 2008, 02:03 PM Post #5 |
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"I prefer to think qualty over quantity," said Green, sipping from his cup, "And I don't multiply in the conventional sense, I am three people and one person at the same time," said Blue, "It's a bit confusing to explain without going into particle physics and frequency divesity, but that's how it is." |
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| Batguy | Jun 16 2008, 03:19 PM Post #6 |
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"Each single person is, in effect, an infinite amount of separate people that exist in potentia, being that one is destroyed and one more created each time that person makes a choice," Mr. Mercury said. "So by tapping into the potentials of existential diversity and and free-floating matter, one can quite simply separate oneself into multiple conscious entities, and by interrupting the separation on a psychic level one can maintain a form of mental consistency." "You're doing it again," Freedom said. "You'll get used to it," BatGuy replied. |
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| The Royall J | Jun 16 2008, 04:27 PM Post #7 |
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"Hey! If you want three coffees you have to pay for three coffees!" the man behind the counter yelled at Triforce. "Man sometimes I forget why I hang out with you guys" Arachni-dude said lifting his mask enough that he could take a sip of his coffee. "But actually the idea of particle physics and people in potentia is a very interesting concept. Though that doesn't explain how he can multiply objects as well, though I would assume that as his matter is duplicated and triplicated he could do the same to most anything he touches. Obviously within a certain size limit or else he risks tearing his own molecular structure apart" He looked around at the stunned faces of the other superheroes. "What? You didn't think I was all good looks did you?" |
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| daioni | Jun 16 2008, 10:01 PM Post #8 |
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"Then pay me for the extra cups you get!" yelled White to the man, "Honestly, you think you can charge me three times for one cup?" "Nice to know some people have been doing their reading," said Blue with a smile, "Perhaps I should send you a copy of my thesis." "Oh great, better drink up boys, the guys coming this way." Said Green, downing his cup. The two others quickly did the same, and combined in to one, cups and all, as the man from behind the counter walked up to them. |
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| Batguy | Jun 19 2008, 01:22 PM Post #9 |
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"Anyway," Freedom said, raising an eyebrow as the manager began a futile argument with Triforce, "I got a response from the Silvers today. They said I was too old for employment. Me! I'm only technically eighty years old! I've been twenty-three for more than fifty years!" "They rejected you?" BatGuy replied. "I keep getting membership requests on a daily basis." "I think that has something to do with the robot outside the window," Mr. Mercury pointed out. Just outside the cafe was Tobor, a "I <3 BatGuy" t-shirt over his torso and waving a pennant flag with BatGuy's bat-smily on it. "I... don't want to talk about that..." BatGuy said, refusing to look. |
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| daioni | Jun 20 2008, 12:52 PM Post #10 |
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At that moment another person walked into the bar, an average looking man who went up to the counter and ordered a drink. Thorn was a bit depressed a the moment, having difficulty adjusting to his change over to the real world. It had been a few weeks since he had gotten out of Fae, but trying to remember how the real world worked was difficult, seeing he was only a child when he left. The reajusting period was proving more difficult then he anticipated, as he was trying to relearn some of the skills that had been simpler back then. He still had no real place to call home, and while he wa able to gather genough to get by, either from the Hedge or from deals, it was not the same as being completely settled. *** "It's simple, how many cups of coffe did you pour?" Said Tri to the manager, "One," said the manager, "But.." "How many cups did you serve?" continued Tri, not letting him come up with excuses, "One, but that hardly", "How much coffee have you lost in this transaction, let me guess, enough for one cup?, So how can you justify charging me for three cups when you yourself admit to having only served me one?" The manager looked bermused, unsure of how to handle the situation. |
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| The Royall J | Jun 25 2008, 12:52 PM Post #11 |
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"Hey guys, what's up?" Blindman said maneuvering in beside Batguy. "Not much, just a wanna be superhero stealing coffee" Arachni-Dude said. "Oh, ok then" Blindman replied. "Excuse me, waitress? Could you get me a black coffee thank you" The waitress nodded holding up a platter of three or four coffees already, moving past their table she slipped and the platter went flying into the air. Blindman reacted instantly catching the woman and the platter the four cups landing perfectly on top of the platter and the coffee falling back into the cups without spilling a drop. He handed the platter back tot he woman and took his seat once more. "How do you do that?" "Do what?" |
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| Batguy | Jun 28 2008, 12:26 PM Post #12 |
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"Where did he even get that stuff?" Freedom asked, raising an eyebrow at Tobor. "He, ah, ordered it from a printing company down the street," BatGuy said. "Apparently he still has a modicum of access to ShaneTech files, and found out about it when ShaneTech bought the property from a rival company earlier this month." "Well, getting off the topic of crazy giant robots," Freedom said, turning back to BtGuy and lowering his voice, "what's it like running a company so big it would take a UN sanction to hurt financially?" "Honestly it's not much different from everyone else's life," BatGuy said humbly. "My manservant puts my pants on one leg at a time, just like everyone else." He paused when he noticed the others at the table staring at him. "What?" |
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| Batguy | Jul 29 2008, 03:13 PM Post #13 |
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Outside, Tobor was loudly playing "I Just Died In Your Arms Tonight" and holding up a lighter, the flame on and going steady. "That robot is creepy," Freedom said, taking a bite out of his donut. "I can understand why ShaneTech would only build one of him." "Our next robot models are going to be construction and service models," BatGuy said. "After the Titan Mark 9, we decided that the AI was too dangerous to fool with until we had worked out the balance between kill programming and safeguards. It wouldn't be such a problem if Melnaire would just give us a hand like we had asked in the first place, but the cantankerous old bastard prefers to sit in his lab and act superior." "Have you ever thought of building an AI off the brain patterns of a human?" Mr. Mercury asked. "You could have it develop in the same way as a human as well, gradually giving it more and more memory and programming, so that way you could control the direction of its growth and influence what sort of hard programming it has." "Takes too long," BatGuy said. "We're working on one like that right now as a pet project, but for any sort of commercial success it's just not feasible at the moment." |
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| The Royall J | Aug 27 2008, 12:19 PM Post #14 |
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"I don't act superior, I just don't like working with people" said a young black man. He pulled a chair from one of the other tables and sat down at the other's table. "I'd like to help you guys out I just have an issue building weapons" he said with a smile. |
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