witch's cape, not hat

[characterquarry]

Grendyne groans and starts pulling on her boots when the alarm goes off. Again. She quick-marches to the broom hangar, sits on her machine and is handed a plethora of loaded weapons by attentive corporals.

"Two flyers in one day? They're getting way too common."

"It's worse," the commander informs them, "South Karlsland got hit with three at once. We're taking Lytee's express and sleeping there. You can sit out if you absolutely need to, but Freya's still recovering so we could use you as a comms relay."

"No, I'll come. I just reserve the right to complain about it."

The 42nd United Forces Witch Wing takes off and assembles into a perfect synchronized formation as Lytee charges her teleport power.



...This is not South Karlsland wilderness.

[note: halfway through this thread I created a unique account for Grendyne. Do not be alarmed by the change in account. -Rockeye]

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[witchwatcher]

And Gren pays.

"Huh, this is one of those shops with chess sets on the tables. Want to have a match and cheat outrageously against each other?"

[significantfigures]

"I don't want to get another headache on top of my ice cream one," Dinah says. "We can play, but no cheating."

[witchwatcher]

"Didn't think about that. Sure. I'll be black."

Meanwhile, nom. Ice cream is delicious.

[significantfigures]

It is!

Dinah plays white and advances a pawn.

"Who else are you going to visit?"

[witchwatcher]

Gren advances a knight.

"I'd visit Lung if he wasn't in the Birdcage. Might try to arrange a meeting with Faultline's crew. Or Accord. I've already visited like a third of the heroes and rogues on the east coast. I kinda want to visit Panacea, but for some reason she doesn't want me copying her power. Unless there's a good reason I'm not gonna stomp all over that."

[significantfigures]

"Accord's power for someone who wasn't Accord might be neat. I wonder why Panacea doesn't want it. Did you ask her sister?"

[witchwatcher]

"I did not ask. I may as well, now that you mention it. I can already heal most things, but a new kind never hurts. I did copy her for about an hour way back when - but that was before I got really really good at copying."

[significantfigures]

"I wonder why you can't copy Tinkers."

Dinah's bishop takes Gren's knight.

[witchwatcher]

"Bet's powers are something else entirely. I copy, I don't steal, my version of Legend is subtly different from the actual Legend. My theory is that whatever it is that makes tinkers tinker is just... Untranslatable."

She sighs and looks at the knight contemplatively. "Behemoth got my friend Knight. I want to end it. If I can't copy you well enough to ask myself, can I get some predictions about some plans in about two months?"

[significantfigures]

"The Protectorate questions me to capacity most days," Dinah says. "But I can probably spare you a few."

[witchwatcher]

"Yvette's questioned to her limit too from what I hear. Being a precog can be a lot of pressure, huh. Being big in any way, really. Eidolon and Panacea probably feel more guilty about days off than I do."

[significantfigures]

"And you're copying me anyway."

[witchwatcher]

"Well, yes."

She thinks for a moment. "I think I'm well suited to being pressured like that. I take things as they come. If I snap I'll probably disappear to some random island and blow up rocks, not kill someone. And it's still a good feeling even if it gets stale, helping people."

[significantfigures]

"That sounds nice."

Dinah sacrifices a pawn.

[witchwatcher]

"I think so, yes."

That pawn's sacrifice will surely be appreciated by someone. Gren's next few moves put her queen in a risky but powerful position.

"I think I've got as much of your power as I'm gonna get. Chance I find Coil in the next few days is eighty one point four percent, and it hurt my head a lot more than I think it does to you."

[significantfigures]

"Tea and darkness and lying down help. My parents don't let me have any kind of pills but that would probably help more if I got the right kind."

[witchwatcher]

"Angel's kind of healing works more like a sphere of well-being than anything else. I'll see if it helps."

...Her skin starts glowing faintly.

[significantfigures]

"My head doesn't hurt right now. I didn't do all my work at once."

[witchwatcher]

Gren shrugs and stops glowing. "Then you can enjoy being just a little less tired and stressed."

Her ice cream is almost gone by now. She's a fast eater, apparently. "I don't suppose you know where Coil's got to? I'm inclined to hunt him down and my chances are pretty good."

[significantfigures]

"Last I checked he was still active and in Brockton Bay, but that's all I have."

[witchwatcher]

"Maybe the Undersiders will know. Tattletale is annoying, but boy does she know things."

Gren's queen takes Dinah's rook, but is now more or less trapped by a bishop and pawns.

[significantfigures]

Dinah puts her in check.

"Maybe you can copy her too."

[witchwatcher]

"Oh, maybe. Most thinker-type powers give me just as much of a headache as yours so I tend not to use them much."

Gren has more pieces at this point, but less control over the board. She moves a pawn to block the check.

[significantfigures]

Which lets Dinah take her queen.

"Maybe you should copy someone who can help with Thinker headaches. There must be someone."

[witchwatcher]

"If there is I haven't heard of them. They'd be almost as useful as Dauntless, that's for sure."