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Watchdog: 11 Daystar: 15 Baddie 1 (back door?7 Baddie 2 (front door?7 So we've got: Infinity: 15 Daystar: 15 Watchdog: 11 Baddie 2: 7 Baddie 1: 7 Baddie 1 was unfortunately flying out of range when Ashley chucked her grenade - unlike him, she used a smaller charge since she has to care about collateral! He's readied an action to shoot anybody who comes out the back door with his laser! http://orokos.com/roll/766001 = 28! That hits Watchdog - who luckily isn't flat-footed because she has Danger Sense and Uncanny Dodge. http://orokos.com/roll/766002 = 30 and she tanks it! Okay, let me get the IC post up, and then you'll be up, durf!
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The two of them started slightly, and exchanged what looked like a guilty look. Ashley reached up and patted her hair, which come to think of it had turned pink the Monday after Halloween as far as Mia had been able to tell. It was Judy who finally spoke, a little sheepishly. "Ah don't really celebrate Halloween, Mia, it's not really an...appropriate holiday." She blushed slightly, then continued, "Ah mean, there are real demons and stuff out there, and if you go around dressed like one or talking about evil magic and stuff, you're just inviting that sort of thing down on your own life. Last year we did trunk or treat with the youth group, this year we just...did our own thing."
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Judy shook her head. "No, Ah'm not really one of those field hockey girls. When Ah was really little Ah thought it would be fun to ride horses in shows and stuff, but Momma said that'd be too dangerous." "Not really a team player," said Ashley with a smirk. "I can bench a lot more than I look, though, and I'm a fair hand at most styles of fighting. How about you, you ever learn anything that isn't based on your powers?"
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Okay, @angrydurf, let's do initiative.
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"Not every gay person has seen Rocky Horror," said Ashley, sounding vaguely annoyed. "Some people don't like musicals." "Oh, don't be that way," said Judy, "Ah'm sure it's a perfectly lovely film. But if we're gonna watch that one, you have to watch Grace Unplugged with me." She figured if Mia liked comedies, she probably wouldn't like the Fault in Our Stars or I'm Not Ashamed. "Ooh, maybe we can invite Leroy over to watch that with us..." Ashley looked deeply disgusted, but didn't actually say no to the idea. "Long as you're chaperoned. As for me, it's, uh..." What the hell's family-friendly!? "I like Varsity Blues, I guess. I don't know, I don't go to a lot of movies." She considered for a moment, then asked, "You play any sports?"
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Later, Ashley would think about how extremely attractive Fa'Rua's cool professionalism under fire was, but right now she was focused on saving Judy's life. At the back door, Fa'Rua's powers told them people were waiting for them outside - bringing the trio's escape up short for a moment. "Why don't they just come in after us?" asked Judy, still glowing. This was the longest she'd voluntarily stayed powered up outside of a hospital, which made Ashley worry - but luckily the adrenaline was distracting her sister from the reality of the situation. "Because they want you alive," she hazarded. "Probably you too," she added seriously to Infinity. "A VIP's daughter and an alien are worth a lot more than one Secret Service agent. If they killed anybody on my team..." Her voice trailed off as she adjusted her suit, glad she was wearing the Kevlar but oddly missing the helmet. "Let's do this." And with that, she pulled something off her belt, "grenade," pulled the back door open a crack, "two Mississippi," tossed it, and leaped backwards!
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Judy blinked and stared at Mia, looking baffled - and slightly appalled. "What...what's the Rocky Horror Picture Show?" "It's a movie. Old movie," said Ashley with a little wave of her hand. "Probably not your speed, Judy." "Okay," said Judy, "and Ah know about guns, don't worry, Ah wouldn't do something crazy. Ah've been learning gun safety since Ah was a little kid. But normal people can't shoot lasers out of their hands, or put somebody in a super-sleeper hold. They gotta be able to defend themselves, especially with all the crazy monsters out there."
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"I'm sure she will," said Judy reassuringly. "You're a good friend." She looked down at the notes in front of her and said, "What is your most special, but hidden, talent? Ashley, do you want to do this one too?" "Never lost a staring contest," replied Ashley. "Not with anybody with normal human eyes, anyway. I can prove it if you want." "Ah don't think that'll be necessary," said Judy with an affectionate smile her sister's way. "Mine is that Ah'm a really good shot. Not with mah powers or anything, but with a regular gun. Ah used to go shooting with Daddy back before things got crazy, and Ah could put my shots near the center of the target most of the time. Ah probably know more about regular guns than most of the other people here, since we had them around so much growing up." "Came in handy, let me tell you," said Ashley. "But seriously, don't mess around with guns, even super-guns."
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Just wanted to make sure you saw this, @MisterSnrub
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pl 10 Persephone (PL10) - Grumblefloof (Platinum)
Avenger Assembled replied to Amelia's topic in Archived Characters
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"Well that's stupid," opined Ashley, "Judy _is_ my best friend. Not many people _worth_ being friends with in this dump..." "Ah don't really like to make distinctions like that," said Judy with a warm smile. "Leroy is my best friend, of course, but Lulu and Danica are my best girlfriends. And you too, Mia," she added cheerfully. "Ah like to make friends with as many different kinds of people as possible. "Who's yours?" asked Ashley. "And no fair taking one she already said."
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The Smiths looked at each other for a moment, obviously trying to decide who was going to take this one. "W-watching my mom work with sick people," said Judy thoughtfully. "This was back when Ah was, oh, probably in first or second grade, before things got crazy. She was working half-time at the hospital in our town, and she actually took me to Take Your Daughter To Work Day. Ah'd always wanted to do that but Ah was too little. It was really nice, seeing that side of my mom; and that was when Ah decided Ah wanted to be a nurse like her." She sighed softly, then said, "That'll be harder now, but who knows these days." Ashley squeezed Judy's hand and said, "You're going to be a great nurse," she told her sister reassuringly, then said, "My fondest memory is gonna be the day she graduates."
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Sorry, @RocketLord, you gotta poke us! =D I'll post tonight.
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"No thanks. Ah used to really love Thanksgiving," said Judy reflectively. "Daddy made the best deep-fried turkey, and Momma would turn it into chili for weeks afterwards. But it's a lot harder now that Ah don't eat anymore." She smiled thinly, then said, "Time was Ah wouldn't even be able to have this conversation without freaking out about it, but it's been more than a year now and it doesn't hurt so bad anymore." "Government makes it hard to hire supers," said Ashley reflectively, putting her hand over Judy's, "but if you know people, you'd be surprised what they'll let you do. I'd think you'd be in more demand as a teleporter than anything else. Damn, can you imagine what you'd do as a spook?" She grinned. "You could probably make a million bucks a year running packages for AEGIS or summat."
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"It was a fu*cking shi*tshow," said Ashley flatly. "The heroes got soft and the Grue rolled in on them like a scythe cutting down wheat. That's why I had to be hard growing up, to make sure they didn't get us too." "But there are lots of Grue who are perfectly nice people," said Judy immediately, "Miss Grue is a real hero. We don't hate people just because they're Grue, we just want to be careful, the same as we're careful around lots of other kinds of people." "Sure, sure," said Ashley with a little wave. "Grue are great, just the bad ones who are bad. Anyway, I got my hands on the Dawg, grabbed Judy, came here. Tried to fight crime _my_ way, but of course the Raven had to roll in and stick his nose where it didn't belong. Doesn't understand being _hard_ on the _streets_ if you ask me. Not that anybody _ever_ does..." She looked away, lip curled. "Soooo, what do you want to do when you graduate?" asked Judy. "Is there a college you like?"
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"It's Vietnamese," said Ashley easily. "I don't actually speak Comanche. I'd tell you what it means - but I don't want you to run off to Dubai again." "Ah am sure Mia has heard the occasional profanity since then," teased Judy. "Momma didn't actually speak the language around us growing up. Like Ah said, she was adopted when she was three, so she never did learn to speak any of it. She always said it wouldn't be proper, given where we were living." "What about you?" asked Ashley, "You speak any Bosnian or Serbo-Croatian? There's probably good money in that when you graduate."
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"Oh, well, that's not so bad," said Judy brightly. "That's just kid stuff. When mah older sister was a kid, she used to act out a lot - yelling and screaming, throwing things at dinner when she didn't get her way, and even when my momma spanked her, she'd just glare at her like an ornery cuss." Ashley colored slightly, shooting her sister a definite look. "Yes, well, that was a long time ago. Most people in this dimension's America don't practice corporal punishment anyway." She hesitated a moment, then said, "So you didn't like broccoli, huh? What do you like to eat now?"
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"It's okay," said Judy with an automatic smile. "Ah mean, it's not worse than shooting the Raven right in the unmentionables!" That made Ashley jump a little in her seat and shoot Judy a look that was almost, but not quite, a glare. "I shot him in the _belt_, not the junk. That time, anyway." She smirked. "Not my fault the ammunition on his belt brewed up." "It was a whole thing," said Judy brightly, "and she had a couple of shiners for a while, but it was in a righteous cause." She smiled at Mia and said, "You're a good friend, Mia, and Ah know you're not a bad person. Everybody makes mistakes." She considered a moment, then said, "Um, the worst thing Ah ever did, was when Ah was baptized, but Ah don't really want to talk about that." She looked at Ashley who burst out laughing. "Sorry, mine's _not_ suitable for mixed company," she said with a snort. "No offense, Mia, but I don't want to blow your mind."
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Hm. Well, she didn't need to start interrogating the girl about her criminal history, even if it sounded like she'd never actually paid restitution out of it. Ashley remembered being poor too, and how she'd known that stealing was what shabby people did. "All right," said Ashley easily. "I have a car. It's called the Dawg, and I fixed it up myself. It's a badass street machine that can take heavy machine gun fire, outrace any car in the world, and it's even got a DVD player in the back. I get it back for good once Judy and I get to shake the dust of this place off our feet." "She used it when she fought the Raven!" said Judy cheerfully. "Have you ever seen that? Ah know it made it on the TV, where she fought the Raven and he, uh, well he won that fight, but she looked really cool doing it. Though of course Ah would not want to live the life of a criminal vigilante myself," she said, delivering what seemed to be a practiced speech. "Ah plan to go to college somewhere nice and peaceful and become a nurse." "Only broke the law 'cause I was underage," said Ashley scornfully. "Law's just a cage the Man builds to trap you, amirite?"
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"Shoplifting, huh? What'd you steal?" asked Ashley with a smirk. "Don't be like that," said Judy, a little bashfully. "Lots of people make mistakes. Ah'm sure she, uh, didn't mean to do it." She looked at Mia curiously with her big dark eyes, obviously looking for an explanation.
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"Ah'm Judith, ah, Smith," said Judy with a glance at Ashley. "Ah was born April 1, 2002 out west, you wouldn't probably have heard of the town. Ah, uh, was named after Judith from the Bible, because my parents both, uh, were good, god-fearing folk." She shot another look at Ashley, then said, "My mother was born on a Comanche reservation, but she never got to know her birth parents because they drank real bad and so she was adopted." She flushed around the cheeks at this, then said, "My daddy was a-oh, Ah'm sorry, this isn't so easy..." "Ashley Smith," said Ashley readily, "born April 2001." She snorted and gave Mia a skeptical look. "Yeah, I'm older than the rest of you, what of it?" she asked scornfully. "I'm the older sister, always have been, and a big secret about me is," she stage-whispered to Mia, "my hair is _not_ actually pink." She'd taken recently to dying her black hair a bright shade of bubblegum pink from root to tip, a fashion change she'd been remarkably close-mouthed about. She shot a glance at Judy and went on. "If you want a big secret about her, it's that she's actually a really good singer. I think she could do it professionally."
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ic Extradimensional Birdwatching Club (IC)
Avenger Assembled replied to Avenger Assembled's topic in Bayview
Back at the main camp, where the teens had a chance to meet up with Danica and Mr. Jorgensen, they continued their conversation about the mysterious find. Mr. Jorgensen took one look at the can, stroking his beard, then agreed with Mia. "I'm sure it's nothing. Claremont students have been coming to this world for over a decade, and I heard some of the students got pretty wild back in the day, heh-heh-heh...not that any of _you_ should do that!" he added firmly. Ashley was scowling at Mr. Jorgensen. "Aren't you even going to report this on the emergency line?" "Ms. Smith, that's just for emergencies," said Jorgensen reassuringly. "We don't need to waste precious bandwidth on-" "Do you have any idea what that could be?" snapped Ashley. "Incursions from an inverted universe! A kidnap team sent here for us!" "Oh, Ashley," said Judy, "there's no reason to get so worried about a little beer can." She patted her sister on the arm, then said, "Cmon, we gotta talk about what we saw today, then maybe tonight we can tell stories!" The campfire was already burning, casting a cheerful glow around the dusk. -
"You don't have to do anything," said Ashley with a small smile. "Just make sure nobody goes sniffing around Judy who doesn't belong." She took a moment to contemplate asking Lulu to make Leroy think he and Judy has broken up, or possibly that he needed to go punch Claude on her behalf. Quiet, you. Don't get in the habit of thinking that around her. She's not gonna have the collar forever. "Judy had it tougher than I did as a kid, growing up the way she had to, and I want to make sure her last couple of years here at Claremont go well. Judy's already had a chance to talk to Mia and Adam, they didn't really ask her anything. They mostly were worried about you; and speaking of, I think I'd better let him back in before he starts banging on the door..."
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Judy lit up as Ajay talked, rising to her feet and moving behind one of the nearby tables. "Well, with three such fine potential leaders as Abby, Ayjay, and Mia here, it sounds like we should have ourselves an election," she commented as she stooped down slightly, "and it just so happens that Ah have prepared..." She came up with a ballot box with a knitted rainbow cover and a selection of colorful sticky pads handing all around it. "All the resources for one!" She went around to everybody, handing out ballots, Claremont Academy plastic pens, and smiling all the way with a joy that was almost infectious. "Now Ah will of course abstain as existing club officer," she said as she sat down beside the box, folding her hands and beaming. "Ah do nominate whoever comes in second to succeed me as recording secretary, the better to make sure that role is filled."
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Ashley gave Claude a blank look, looking for all the world as if she'd never seen him before in her life, then turned questioningly to Judy. The latter made a small noise in the back of her throat - then spoke. "Well bless your heart, Ah'm sure," she said diplomatically as she locked her gaze on Claude's, "but Ah can see mah sister and Ah would just be a distraction for you boys. Danica's mah friend and so is Micah, and Ah wouldn't want anything to keep him from getting his work done for her." She smiled winningly at Nick and said, "Ah'll see you later, Nick, and we can talk some then." The two sisters went to work on their project after that, Ashley walking Judy through the simple process of removing the outer casing from a computer's hard drive so they could monitor what exactly happened when Judy tried talking to it using her powers. Neither of them were particularly dab hands with machinery but Ashley obviously knew a thing or two about tools, and called the TA over to assist them with the project.