Blacwick!94Ud9yTfxQ 2012/02/29(Wed)05:48 No. 389537 ID: 7bc1dc
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Well, I'd certainly like to talk about dad, but he's right. I came here looking to buy. Let's get that done first, and I can steer the conversation back to dad later. Dr. Gladius is certainly easy enough to get talking. "I need something effective enough for this hero I'm up against to really be redeemed if he defeats me, meaningful enough that he'll willingly serve me should he lose, and flashy enough to make sure I don't look lame during my first heist as a National level villain. My opponent's powers are construction based, so I'm going for a destruction versus construction sort of vibe. I haven't decided if I'm hitting his old work place or a bank yet, but I'm thinking I'll want some kind of big, flashy set piece."

"Alright. I can do a set piece. You're a baron, yes? Perhaps a tower of some kind? I do love dark, imposing towers."

"A tower would probably work. I was thinking something like a miniature volcano or maybe a giant fireball cannon, myself. Perhaps a drill. I haven't narrowed down the specifics."

"I can tell. I have a drill tank lying around, and I could certainly make a fireball cannon of some sort. Those sound more within your price range than a tower, anyway, especially if it needs it's own transportation."

Blacwick!94Ud9yTfxQ 2012/02/29(Wed)05:48 No. 389538 ID: 7bc1dc
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He gives me the following prices, and says I that I can expect his contact to want some cash out of me too. The price of Dr. G telling us how to contact the informant is included in the prices:

--$30,600: The Tower. A 3 story black stone tower. We'd need to find our own way to bring it places. This'll take about 4 days to build, and he'll throw in a free force field for it. Force fields are his specialty, he tells you. He practically invented them, with how pitiful the old EDL's force fields were before he revolutionized the field, but they ignored his advancements in military technology. Those fools! They must have rued the day, after- oh. Sorry, he says, he got off topic. You probably weren't even born yet when that happened. The Tower will require a payment plan to purchase, and if you want him to include weaponry and mobility, he can throw those on there too, since you'll be paying over time for it anyway.

--$25,600: The Volcano Maker. A theoretical drilling device about as big as Gorbo. This machine drills into the ground and pulls up the rock around it, creating a small volcano. Once set up, it continues to pull up rocks from below and flings them out the top of the volcano, but not before setting them on fire! A chaotic and potentially reuseable device, although it takes a ton of fuel and is potentially really dangerous. Dr. G, as a genius, tells you he can have this device designed and built within 5 days. No! 3 days, and you'll be doing the field testing for him. This will also require a payment plan.

--$16,600: The Fireball Cannon. A simple, stupidly big cannon that fires great balls of fire the size of small cars. Dr. G tells you he, surprisingly, doesn't work with fire often, and will need to build one of these for you. It should be all about the lasers and the force fields and the antimatter explosives in this business, he says. It's a shame how much villainy has deviated from it's scientific roots. The Fireball Cannon will take about 2 days to build.

--$10,600: Glenda. An old drilling tank Dr. G had built back in his prime. She's gathering dust these days, but she'd helped him in a couple of heists and then helped him create this underground shop around 25 years ago. She hasn't done a lot since then. Glenda has her own AI, is a tank, and has a giant drill on a mobile, rotating torso section. Not much else to be said about her.

>>389538
>Tank with AI
:3 hell yeah get the tank
To get him talking about your father again, ask him about family themes that heroes and villains go for sometimes in case you ever get the desire for a tribute based theme of an encounter in the future, and if there's a spiritual and/or psychic hero/villain in the database he'd know that could make an (rival [if villain]) encounter awkward by doing one of those weird as hell, mess with your head type things, bringing up the dead from your past.
Maybe ask a professional question about why does the government pay to have heroes and villains fight each other, not to look a fun gift horse in the mouth but you can't help but be curious.
This all can be asked during a more detailed tour or test drive of the drill tank.

Well, the Tower is out because while it's admittedly neat, it's stupid expensive, kind of useless, and we're potentially getting our own personal construction guy soon.

Glenda is out for being Dr. G's robot. Having him construct something for us is one thing, but taking his old hand me downs is something else entirely. We're our own villain, we don't need to ride his discarded coattails.

The Fireball Cannon is probably a really nice investment, on the other hand. Having a way to shoot giant bursts of fire would do wonders for our admittedly lacking offense, especially if we can manage to get it somewhat maneuverable (either by boosting our teleport capacity, or maybe some kind of gate upgrade to keep in front of it? Just imagine being able to launch it through our cape.) At the very least, it would make an effective siege weapon.

However, I'm throwing my support behind the Volcano Maker. Random mass destruction seemed to be about the limit of our planning for our next heist, so that's not even a drawback. Dropping that in the middle of a building and fighting with Wrench Monkey while he tries to stop it and limit the damage sounds like a fun idea. I'm a little worried about going into debt, but whatever, we have to take risks.

I say Glenda or the fireball cannon, easier to transport and reuse. Plus Glenda has some utility usage, unlike most of the other options. Ask what Glenda's AI is like, though.

Fireball cannon seems good, volcano maker if the cost of the fuel can be added to our "spend half your money on your next heist" thing, we need to have some money leftover after this to get those prison plans though.

>>389538
Glenda and the fireball cannon. Ask if you can get the fireball cannon in a size better suited for an Obsidian Gate hidden in your cloak. That way you can keep the cannon somewhere safe and use it to shoot fireballs out of your cloak. Also, you could use the gate as an escape route - you move backwards through the gate, your cloak follows you, the gate falls to the ground and shatters.

Ask how much he would charge to put Glenda's AI core in a separate device and have her control her body remotely. That way we can just build a new body if she gets destroyed.

how about a bomb that LOOKS super deadly, like spikes and a big LCD clock on it. be used in the wrench monkey thing.

Get Glenda and see if there are any improvements available.

get the tank

Get Glenda but get some upgrades for her, like that force field he was mentioning and a new paint job to match your theme. Dark purple obsidian looking plating with red magama trails around joint segments.
Finally, rocket boosters so she can fly into the action zone and fly out if escape is needed.
Get him to give her a once over before purchase if ya can.

Glenda with an added force field. we can throw stuff like knives from inside the field to the outside, right?

I'm leaning towards the fireball cannon, it's in theme both for us and our encounter. Plus when it comes to super weapons I want something that we're less in danger of ourselves. That volcano is very likely to cause a problem if we are distracted while teleporting around. Ask him if he can throw a force field into it as well for not too much.

Glenda would be nice to have if we were digging out a base or something, with wrenchy building the area behind her as she digs. And if we have her maybe her AI can be adapted to other tasks. Like targeting our future super weapons.

Glenda seems like a good choice. The volcano maker can be costly, the fireball cannon while handy, is pretty much a one trick pony, and the Tower takes too much time and money.

Not only that, but we could customize her a bit. Give her some better, theme fitting armor, maybe a red eye, perhaps a pair of Tower shields with mini force field generators for cost and defense.

>>389538

Glenda. Then use her to repeatedly wreck monkey's buildings.

Also a series of paranoia-inducing tunnels, letting the hero build barriers as Knights and Ninjas stalk him through the tunnel...

It'd be like a dungeon crawl. Hell yeah.

Blacwick!94Ud9yTfxQ 2012/03/01(Thu)05:43 No. 389706 ID: 7bc1dc
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After a bit of talking, I decide to buy GLENDA! Dr. Gladius mentions that it's important to note that she is a demolitions robot designed for taking out buildings and making tunnels, and is not designed nor appropriately equipped for direct combat. In addition, even though she's called a tank, there isn't actually anywhere inside of her to sit.

Taking this into consideration, you ask if she could get a force field installed. Or maybe force field shields, on her arms! And a dark, purple-black paint job. And rockets, to fly with! He tells us she's already black and purple for her color scheme, but sure, he can do the rest. The extra modifications will run you $7000 or so, is that alright? Sure! That's alright.

He says to come back and pick her up in 3 days. If there isn't anything else you need, he'll get you that contact information for his old accomplice, and then you can be on your merry way.

>Blacwick has $4000 left.

I miss Angel.

>>389706
Has he got any kind of personal sensor suite for sale? Preferably something small and stylish that would let us easily keep track of our allies and enemies (and bystanders, I suppose) in a moderate radius, including through walls and what have you.

>>389706
Ugh, can we at least get Dr. G's emblem painted over? It's bad enough we're resorting to using his old abandoned ideas wholesale, do we really have to be advertising it?

Anyway, I guess we can just set her loose to drill through things wherever we decide to attack. Are we committed to Wrench Monkey's old employers yet? We've got a few days to burn, see if you can dig up some info on them. Other things to take care of, potentially: Talk to the Doc's contact, hang out with Delirium, get Mr. Bewick's opinion on the Iron City fiasco, look into getting Don Dice's aid in the upcoming jailbreak. Otherwise there's nothing major for us to deal with until we're facing off with Wrench Monkey.

think a bomb that LOOKS nasty but is rather weak would be good. have the employers in a obsidian cage next to it. wrench monkey needs to prevent them from getting bombed. if he fails we open a portal under it sending it across the street right before it goes off. and say "they are dead, you failed"

ask if minions would keep bought upgrades when they respawn, if they do ask about power armour for our ninja butler

>>389715
power armor is slow and powerful 9 times out of ten. the opposite of ninja

Nice. Also ask if Dr. Gladius makes personal force fields. Like a wearable full body one that lessens incoming attacks (letting you mock the police without fear of being shot) or a one-directional shield type to let you block more powerful attacks.

Maybe instead of power armour what about a muscle suit?

Before doing any heists put Glenda to practical use by having it dig out room for some underground facilities in remote and hidden locations. They could be almost anywhere with your teleporting abilities. Then you can use them as potential base building sites later on. I mean having a base is good, but having backup bases is excellent.

Get some fireworks.
Eeeevil fireworks.

ask him if GLENDA's AI is truly self aware or not. if it is we need to take steps to make sure it gets out ok if its chaises gets destroyed.

...Can our portals transport something this big? I'd imagine he can deliver if need be, but it would be nice to move this thing around ourselves. Much more effective tactics that way, especially for removing it from the scene intact.

>>389713
Is that his emblem, or just Glendas? Sure we can replace it either way, but I'd like to use our own symbol. Which we don't have yet. So it can wait.

>>389739
Agreed. Having an AI backup handy is good even if it isn't sentient though, and will save us money if we have need of one later.

>>389718
Maybe a bracer that creates a force shield on our off-arm, so we can sword-n-shield.

Also, if Glenda can demolish buildings, can she excavate under one WITHOUT damaging it? We could stand to have a lair-type add-on to our apartment. A super villain renting an apartment is slightly lame.

>>389743
Best thing is to have her almost demolish a building, or several buildings, with no visible damage and then suddenly CRASH.

While he's making modifications to Glenda get him to install a kick-ass sound system.
Also at some point we should hang out with Delirium like we promised.

Got three days? Go hang out with Delirium.

>>389758
Oh yeah, we did say we'd hang out.

>>389751
>install a kick-ass sound system
A sweet ass-boombox!

>>389758
>>389768
After meeting with the contact and arranging the breakout, of course. We might involve her with it too, who knows? Although I think the mobster is a better bet there.

>>389886
This is Iron City. We could use all the help we can get.

>>389758
>>389846
Well, why not combine these two to make to make a block party. Entrance fee: All of your money and valuables. And you can't not come. Delirium will provide some chemical and culinary entertainment while you provide the music and host the event.

Blacwick!94Ud9yTfxQ 2012/04/24(Tue)17:19 No. 404374 ID: 72b600
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I ask him to remove that G symbol while he's at it, and also install a kickass stereo system, and Dr. G says he can obviously make those things happen. I then ask the good doctor if he is capable of making personal force fields. He is offended that I would think something so simple would be beneath him, and wonders if I had thought the great Dr. Gregory Gladius foolish enough to talk to supervillains in person while defenseless. I tell him I did not mean anything like that at all, I just wanted a forcefield arm shield that I could maybe deflect attacks with. He says oh. Yes. He can get me one of those, with no issue.

A small fee is added to my bill, and Dr. G says he can have the arm-shield ready in no time at all. You can pick it up tomorrow, or wait until you also pick up the tank. It makes no difference to someone as magnanimous as Dr. Gladius.

>Blacwick has $3400.

Blacwick!94Ud9yTfxQ 2012/04/24(Tue)17:19 No. 404375 ID: 72b600
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With that out of the way, I begin to plan for my heists for the next couple days.

I decide to kidnap Wrench Monkey's former employers, and set up some kind of elaborate not-really-a-death trap for them. I give Wrench Monkey a time and a place, 5 days from now, somewhere in the middle of Adventure City.

Next, I need a plan to free Hollow Queen from the Iron City prison in 7 days. I call up Don Dice, and he says he'll help. He tells me he owes her a favor. I call up Dr. G's contact, who is apparently an old intern of his. Goes by "Ross" - he doesn't even seem to have a supervillain name he goes by. Ross says he'll meet me, sure, and we set up a time in 2 days. I still don't have a plan for the jailbreak, but I need more info first anyway. I'll make a plan after I meet Ross. Everything is starting to fall into place.

Finally, after a full day of running around all over the place, calling everyone, buying superweapons, and generally getting everything perfectly ready, I decide to take Delirium up on her offer and pay her a visit. I've got nowhere to be until my meeting with Ross in two days, and I need to invite her to go help bust out Hollow Queen anyway, since I suspect I will need all the help I can get.

Blacwick!94Ud9yTfxQ 2012/04/24(Tue)17:19 No. 404376 ID: 72b600
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I teleport back to the room I left from, and immediately hear something slamming behind me. Startled, I turn around-

Blacwick!94Ud9yTfxQ 2012/04/24(Tue)17:20 No. 404378 ID: b9749e
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-just in time to find myself slammed into the far wall, staring down a pistol.

"...Oh... Hi Wicky. I didn't think you were actually coming back."

Blacwick!94Ud9yTfxQ 2012/04/24(Tue)17:20 No. 404379 ID: 72b600
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Delirium drops her aim, and her tentacles release me. With a sigh of relief, I drop to the floor.

"...I'll just go kill myself now." She says.

"Wait, are you serious? I hope not, I don't know you that well but I can't figure out why you would want to do that."

>>404379
"Before you do, wanna help me bust Hollow Queen out of jail?"

>>404379
Say "Off your meds?" with a smile.
"Sorry, I forgot to have Walter give you a heads up first. That was rude of me.
Did I come at a bad time? Is everything ok?"

We also need to schedule our next date with Angel Frost. Think she'll be free the day after the Wrench Monkey fight?
Oh, we should ask Angel Frost if she'd be interested in registering as our Nemesis. If she can get that done before the breakout we can consider inviting her to come along and make things more interesting (And profitable).

"I'll have to avoid surprising you in the future, that was quite impressive. Why wouldn't I come back? I did say that I would. I can certainly leave if I'm inconveniencing you, though."

>>404379
Nah, don't do that, Deli! It's totally understandable.
Someone teleports into your house. Could've been a hero. In retrospect, not our brightest moment. Pretty admirable, the way you just leapt right into action. Wouldn't have thought you were that on the ball.
Next time we'll just teleport outside the front door and knock.

Anyway, we just got done dumping off our FX, got some errands done, don't have anything to do for at least a couple days. Figured we'd take you up on that offer.
If you weren't serious, we can be out of your hair in a second.
Like literally a second.
Teleporting is so rad.

it kinda served us right, didn't it? let's just hang out before mentioning the queen.

>>404385

This is a fine post except for "Wouldn't have thought you were that on the ball." Delete that and it's perfect.

>>404438
Hmmm, second this.

Wow, very bipolar?

Ask her if she still wants to hang out, listen to music and drink some cocktails or whatever. Might be an idea to give her some room first to hide away that chest of stuff... Like excuse yourself saying you're going to change to casual clothes, do so and come back in 5-10 minutes. This time outside her door.

>>404379
Wat

Guys I'm pretty sure "I'll go kill myself now" is not meant to be taken literally. It's a figure of speech meaning she's embarrassed.

>>404438
Yeah, I'll back this.

Although I'll also note that we don't know if having a supervillain teleport onto her doorstep might be bad for any civilian cover that she's still maintaining. Might want to check.

>>404700
We have Walter. We can send him along in advance of us to announce our arrival and make sure the entry zone is secure.

Theory: She found out about our girlfriend and is feeling embarrassed.

>>404696
this

>>404379
Ask her where she got that awesome Luger and if she has a C96 to go with it? Oh yeah, and if she wants in on the heist.

>>404483
When she crashes, she crashes hard.

This girl needs muffins, stat.

Blacwick!94Ud9yTfxQ 2012/05/07(Mon)03:32 No. 409339 ID: 72b600
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I quickly try to cover up for her reaction. "No, no, don't do that! It's totally understandable." I take a more confident pose. "Someone teleports into your house, possibly a hero. In retrospect, not my brightest moment. Pretty quick reaction time, there! Nice leap into action, I didn't expect that at all. I'll be sure to send Walter in advance next time, and also to use the door."

She sighs as she walks back to her desk, setting her Luger down on the table as I talk to her, but I notice she does smile faintly at my praise of her abilities. "I'd appreciate if you did that." She says, collapsing into her chair.

Blacwick!94Ud9yTfxQ 2012/05/07(Mon)03:32 No. 409340 ID: b9749e
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"Sorry I busted in so suddenly. If I'm being a bother, I can be out of your hair in just a second. Literally, a second. Teleporting is so rad."

She laughs softly, and says "If you want to, I mean, er, no. Wait. Just... I'd... really like to hang out, yes. And... okay, this is bothering me, why the armor?"

I look down at myself and realize that I am, in fact, still wearing my armor. Huh. "...I didn't realize I was still in it. I've been running around doing business all day, and it slipped my mined completely. I should... I should probably go change."

"That would be good."

"I'll be back in 15 minutes or so."

Poof.

Blacwick!94Ud9yTfxQ 2012/05/07(Mon)03:33 No. 409341 ID: b9749e
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"...Okay." I say, to empty air, a little stunned by what just happened.

>You are now Delirium.

Name: Brook Swansen
Age: 28
Education: Chemistry PhD
Occupation: Drug Refinement Chemist

If I had to describe myself in a word, I'd say: anxious. I get nervous over every little thing, but especially people. It's been crippling, and I've never been able to keep friends, and stopped trying to before I made it through college. A relationship wasn't even worth thinking about.

That is, until I got my powers. My Deliria Dose makes all my cares fade away, and life gets so much easier. The negative side effects don't even seem to apply to me at all, and if I refine it, they don't apply to other people either. I've been selling the refined doses for cash, but I can't refine them if I'm not sober, and it's so hard to deal with life without my dose. It's so hard.

And now this hottie rookie is showing up in 15 minutes to hang out for possible a couple days? Is that a thing? Is this real? I am so very very sober right now, this can't be true. Do people actually like me high? They certainly don't like me sober.

...

Blacwick!94Ud9yTfxQ 2012/05/07(Mon)03:33 No. 409342 ID: 72b600
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WHAT AM I GOING TO DOOOOOOOOO!?



>Note: I'd like the Delirium stuff to go relatively quickly, because Blacwick has a busy schedule ahead of himself, full of cool things to get to. So, in addition to advising Delirium on how to prep, please also suggest how they're going to spend their couple of free days. Specify if you're suggesting to Delirium or Blacwick for that bit.

I vote being Delirium for a bit.

>>409342
He's taken, so don't worry about it like a date.

See how well things go when you're sober. It'd be nice to have a friend who'll stick by you even when you're sober. You can dose yourself tomorrow, if you want.

As far as what to do? You could help him learn how to be a proper villain. Or go to a SCA fair and have non-villainous fun in costume.

>>409342
Well you can start out sober, see how that goes. Then I guess you can just chill, maybe get a few drinks, play some games, talk about heists and stuff. Who knows, maybe something else will happen as well when you're all relaxed and having fun~.

>>409341
Show Blackwiki how to untraceably alter his article on Wikipedia, IIRC they got his name wrong.
Show Blackwookie your chemistry lab, what you do for a living and such, see if he's got any interest in chemistry and science.
Have Blackwick try out little bits of various refined drugs, LCD, marijuana, etc, with the explanation of getting him used to dealing with the affects from future mind-altering opponents. Record everything.
Show Blackwhitey the kitchen, what you have in stock and what shouldn't be used if he decides to cook something.
Show Blackwick how to use various medical supplies so he can take better care of himself and others.
Inform blackwick that you have clinically diagnosed chronic depression, so you apologize for your behavior.

tentacle rape him.

He was mildly to moderately alarmed by the prospects of a woman with apparent lack of self-control and tentacles, and possibly still is. It's not that hard to read that body language since you recognize it from other people.
He does seem to genuinely care about your wellbeing though and could probably use a hand working out the details of busting out Hollow Queen and all his other schemes. Somehow this guy has fifty projects on the go; a potent blend of common sense, luck, and ability to judge his opponents' limitations has been keeping him going this far but that may run dry at some point. He could use a hand with keeping all that straight and planned and learning more of the details of the hero and villain landscape. He's also pretty enough you'd want to position yourself as friend with benefits or even future girlfriend if his thing with the hero-girl falls through, although you think he might be conflicted about seeing someone behind her back since he's got that whole nobility thing going.
Overall, there's a very good chance he'd like sober you better than you when you're high, and he liked you like that well enough.
>>409389
This a good starting list for things to do, but you should definitely work on the plan to break out Hollow Queen since you want in on it. Since you're a villainess you also may want to pencil in a possible fight with his hero girl over him since catfights like that are popular, although you shouldn't try to break up his thing with her. Maybe a challenge to try and demand friends-with-benefits rights to her boyfriend? If you won that privilege maybe he'd let you have it....

What's in that large box you slammed shut when Blackwick appeared? Perhaps you should hide it tastefully under a tablecloth or something. Either way tidy up slightly, get on your casual dress, lay out some cushions, put some music on, aim for a night of superhero TV/movies and some takeout with wine perhaps. If you're missing anything then you have someone who can teleport to get it. Blackwick would probably love to show off his powers.

At some point you may want to confide that the name given on your card was fake too, just in case. In fact you might want to tell him a lot of things, like how your powers work to counter your anxiety, that you find him incredibly attractive and that he can stay all night if he wants to (hint). If you get bored take a tropical instant holiday and go swimming, or see if he wants to experiment with substances.

Don't take any Deliria Dose without asking Blackwick. Like how someone would ask "Is it ok if I smoke?". Give him the choice of who he wants to spend his time with. Try to sell it nicely, like he can get the shy, timid Brook or the outgoing and happy Delirium.

>>409342
Don't worry. Blackwick's a great, classically-evil guy. Sure he seems to have a thing with that frost chick, but since when have hero/villain relationships ever worked out? Especially since Angel's only dating him to "redeem" him.

Honestly, if you just try to be his friend, help him out repeatedly, trust him enough to show his your real personality, and keep hitting on him, you'll end up with him wrapped in your soothing arms.

Just try to handle life with him sober. Your high-personality is waaaaaaaaaay too laid back to make a move on him.

Prep some sexy underwear. This is important.

>>409410
DANGIT ELEPHANT. Well, at least we know what the next fanart will be...

Obviously the most rational thing to do would be to clean everything he might see. You don't have any dirty dishes in the sink, do you?

To Prep:
Clean house, at least the important spots.

To do:
Try hanging out with him sober. He seems to like you.

Go out and do something that prompts interaction with him. Good examples would be: Visit a museum, go to the park, go out to eat, play games, find an activity like skydiving or climbing. A movie or play could work, but only because he's staying for an extended time, since while the movie or play is going on, you're not really spending time together so much as you are spending it next to each other.

Also see if he wants help with his plans, since you are a smart young lady.

If he likes cooking, or is not adverse to it, try cooking a meal or baking a snack together.

See if he has practical medical skills, and show him the ropes if need be.

Okay. Calm down, Brook. You said it yourself: Wicky's clearly a rookie (albit a fairly awesome one), and he seems super excited about this whole villainy thing. Clearly he's not one of those super serious or dismally dour villains. Hell, he might even be doing this for fun.
Maybe he's one of those rich prettyboys who don't have enough to do. Or maybe he's an anarchist. What was that speech he went on about before he challenged Law Legs?
Probably not important.

Anyway. He's probably just looking to make some friends. You were nice to him. You guys included him in a heist. You totally helped him out when he was in danger of getting his lungs kicked in. Also, Queenie's in jail and Blood Knight is scary as fuck. FUCK. Fuck Blood Knight is scary.

He had fun. He thinks you're fun. You'll have fun!
Just let him pick what to do. Guys always think they have to take charge, anyway. In case of an emergency, think of some safe, easy things you can do together. Like watching movies. Everyone likes movies! It's just the kind that varies.

Go ahead and be honest about the chem thing; you can go crazy if need be, but give it a shot without at first. He seems like a pretty understanding guy.

Remember: Baking is chemistry for hungry people. A good activity is going out and making some brownies or something.

We should dose up. No-one likes a sourpuss and he doesnt really know us like this. We don't want him to think anything is wrong, because then we'd have to explain.

Seriously though, we should dose up. We hate ourself when we're sober and he's going to hate us too. He's so nice to us and its not fair to dump our problems on his lap.

Prepare two Deliria Doses, just in case the date/not date looks to be going south and you need to escape reality, or the rookie looks interested in that thing you do.

What calms you down besides your Dose? Baking muffins? You should bake muffins. If you start cleaning and shit, you'll end up working yourself into a frenzy and he'll pop back in and you'll be all crazy and then he'll probably never be your friend.

Plus, dude likes your muffins. And you looked pretty cute in that apron.

The villain thing is good, you've got something in common! If you get super nervous and can't think of anything to say, talk about villain stuff. How'd you meet Queenie?

>>409342
>...suggest how they're going to spend their couple of free days. Specify if you're suggesting to Delirium or Blacwick for that bit.
Blacwick: Make sure that when you get your arm-shield, it doesn't look like a funny transparent shimmery blue thing. You're black and red, stone and flame- it has to fit your motif. It's a good bet that the force field can be colored black at no significant cost increase, if nothing else.

Spend some time hanging out with Delirium and talking about her- both her experiences as a villain and her life outside of that. Learning more about the business is always good, and she probably has some great stories. It would be good to learn more about the heroes and villains of the area, as well, since you'll be working on a job here soon.

Also be willing to share your own experiences, of course. She seems nice and there's little reason to hide.

Going out and doing various fun activities- restaurants, movies, hiking, whatever you guys happen to like- is fine, but since Delirium has a nonstandard physique due to her powers she may or may not like being out in public. Try to be sensitive to that.

Also, learn her real name and call her by it, if you can. It's more friendly and signifies that you're not working.

Blacwick!94Ud9yTfxQ 2012/05/12(Sat)02:00 No. 410662 ID: b9749e
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I immediately get to work on putting away my chemistry equipment before Blacwick arrives, and I lock up my strong chest and put it away. Thoughts and worries already begin to flood my mind.

>Show Blackwiki how to untraceably alter his article on Wikipedia, IIRC they got his name wrong.
I don't know how to do that. Why would I know how to do that? Wikipedia isn't a valid source for anything. I mean, yeah, those news guys got his name wrong and that's probably my fault for getting the reporter hopped up like that, and maybe I should apologize to him for that, oh man I've ruined his national exposure forever what is wrong with me argh I'm terrible. How could I possibly make it up to him? I guess I could-

>Have Blackwick try out little bits of various refined drugs, LCD, marijuana, etc, with the explanation of getting him used to dealing with the affects from future mind-altering opponents. Record everything.
Except I don't have any of those! I mean, I could make them. I know how, and picking up the supplies would be easier than most heists. But I don't have any on hand. Why would I want them? Except marijuana, most illegal drugs really mess you up. My refined Deliria Dose has no long term side effects, it's in the power. If he really wants to get high, we could probably use that, but is that really all I have going for me? Good drugs?

...Probably.

Delirium!94Ud9yTfxQ 2012/05/12(Sat)02:01 No. 410663 ID: b9749e
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>Show Blackwhitey the kitchen, what you have in stock and what shouldn't be used if he decides to cook something. If he likes cooking, or is not adverse to it, try cooking a meal or baking a snack together.
No one goes in my kitchen. Nope. I go lock the kitchen door. Both of them.

>Inform blackwick that you have clinically diagnosed chronic depression, so you apologize for your behavior.
I don't have clinically diagnosed chronic depression. Why would I think I had that? I don't have that. I do have clinically diagnosed Generalized Anxiety Disorder. I'm not all sad and unmotivated all the time for no reason, I just find literally everything stressful. It really wears me out. Do I need to apologize for being worn out? I mean he had a broken arm yesterday and all I did was not sleep because I was thinking about spiders. Should I apologize? I should probably-

>Tentacle rape him
Wait, no, not that. I should not do that. My arms aren't even built for that. The tips on all of them are far too wide, and sticking pointy things or entire hands inside of someone unprepared is just asking for trouble. Maybe if I get more tentacles, I could get a pair more adapted for that kind of insertion, but I really don't see why I'd want or need that. If anything, another pair of hands would be great. More hands are always useful.

Delirium!94Ud9yTfxQ 2012/05/12(Sat)02:01 No. 410664 ID: b9749e
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I begin to pace around the room, trying to think of what else I need to do. I tend to keep the place pretty clean, except my kitchen and nope. Not going there right now. Downstairs should be in perfect condition, since I cleaned it last night. So now I wait? What am I supposed to do? Argh this is eating me up. Should I just...?

>No. Don't take any Deliria Dose without asking Blackwick. Like how someone would ask "Is it ok if I smoke?".
That's only polite! I can't just hit up out of the blue... well. No. I totally can. He doesn't own me! I can do what I want! I'm my own woman. Although maybe I should-

>Give him the choice of who he wants to spend his time with. Try to sell it nicely, like he can get the shy, timid Brook or the outgoing and happy Delirium.
...except the shy, timid me isn't all that shy or timid! What am I even thinking, I'm just stressed out and bad at dealing with everything when I'm sober. I guess I'll try and deal with this myself. I'm a big hotshot supervillain, right? Right! I can do this. I'll be fine. I just have to stay calm, and think things through, and I'll just-

>Prepare two Deliria Doses, just in case the date/not date looks to be going south and you need to escape reality, or the rookie looks interested in that thing you do.
That should be fine, right? I'll just... have a dose on hand, for him. If he wants to too. Yep. Absolutely not an excuse to also fry my stress away. Not at all.

>What calms you down besides your Dose?
Sleeping. Working. It helps when I can work on something that requires close attention, such as my chemistry, cleaning up, or sudokus. Helps me focus my thoughts away from the rest of the world. I do a lot of sudokus when I'm sober.

Delirium!94Ud9yTfxQ 2012/05/12(Sat)02:01 No. 410665 ID: b9749e
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>He's dating someone else
ARGH WHY WOULD I THINK THAT NOOOOOO but of course he is, why wouldn't he be? He's cool, daring, cute, slightly stupid. He's the kind of guy that stupid girls everywhere fall for. Stupid girls like me. ARGH WHY WHAT DID HE EVEN DOOOO I hate everything, this shouldn't be happening.

Well, I mean. I guess I don't know for sure that he has a girlfriend. He could totally be free and not taken and I am just making things up! That's absolutely the truth. Yep. I really hope so anyway. Oh who am I kidding, it's not like anyone would ever want to-

Delirium!94Ud9yTfxQ 2012/05/12(Sat)02:02 No. 410666 ID: b9749e
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Knock knock

Oh, that's him, he's back, and I am still wearing my labcoat and probably smell like chemicals and this is going to go so badly. Well, too late now. Argh I want a nap and we haven't even done anything yet. How am I possibly going to deal with this?

...movies?




>NOTE: Next update will be a montage of how the next couple days go, and then we'll finally move out of this buildup phase and into the Wrench Monkey heist. Please suggest appropriately. If you have more questions for Delirium/more talk into her psyche, feel free to ask her questions directly in the EDF Questdis thread, and I will have her answer them separately. She's fun to write for.

>>410665
Nothing stupid about falling for a cute and charming guy. That's just human.
And he clearly doesn't have a girlfriend, if he did he wouldn't be spending time at an other girl's house. So that's one less thing to worry about.

Hang out and talk at first. Not too awkwardly if you can help it. Talk about life, the universe, any subject and anything that comes to mind at all. Talk a bit about work, there's the Wrench Monkey heist and the jailbreak coming up, and I'm sure Delirium has a thing or two planned out as well. Movies are good clean fun, and not to presumptuous, so get a couple of those. You're both villains, so you can do some villainy things, like spar with each other. Do be careful of collateral damage though.

Blackwick, feel free to indulge in her "dose" minimally, after being assured about the lack of harmful side effects. But also use your obsidian shaping. People, and women especially, always have little problems around the house that need fixing, and a man who's good at making things can fix most little problems. Glasswork in particular might be useful, she works with drugs so presumably she does fancy chemistry using all manner of strange hollow glass devices, and would be down for having more for that ever strange mad science type things she could be doing.

Oh, and Blackwick: Be sexy and emit pheromones, nothing mellows a girl out more than that. And she needs some mellowing, anyone could see that.

Blackwick, apply villainous skill and strength to shoulder/neck/back massage. Or have your ninja butler do it for you.

>>410666
He outright said he had a date last time he was here. So he's dating someone. Act appropriately. Whether that means trying to steal him or keeping your distance.

>>410665
Dating and dating, they have gone out to one date, and she's quite an ice queen if you know what I'm saying.

Well he just went on a date. If he's coming over here to hang out with another woman (you) then it probably didn't go very well. So forget about movies or traditional 'date' ideas. Stay and do casual stuff in your home comfort zone at first. If it goes well then you could move on to other things. Like going over to his place or making a trip to a secluded exotic location. You shouldn't give the slightest fuck about whether or not he has a girlfriend anyway. You're a villain. You're 100% allowed to steal cute, sexy men. You're a bad girl and he's likely to be into that.

Also see if you can come up with any good villainous plans together. Try to propose some ideas and share stories of things you have done. Have you ever thought of making your refined drug transmittable through the skin or as an odorless gas so you can drug people without them noticing? Like drug a company board meeting and take over the company (briefly at least) while they're too happy to care? You could maybe do some chemistry together, maybe just make something explosive or flammable. That would come in handy, right? He has a fire thing going.

Ask him about his dad and all that! That'll be a good ten minute conversation right there. Since he's visiting for a couple of days you'll need to prepare a place for him to rest (~unless he's sharing your bed~). Play games, go out and see the sights, enjoy yourselves! You're young and have superpowers!

>>410666
See suggestions in >>410317 for Blacwick.

Delirium should relax, not worry too much, and if she needs to take drugs to feel functional then just take the drugs.

>>410754
Can Delirium pass? With the tentacles and all... didn't she wrap up the tentacles somehow and just look kinda roly-poly when Blacwick first met her?

If so, then we're free to do whatever. We don't want to spend 2-3 days cooped up in her apartment (or do we? 'Roly poly' Delirium looked pretty soft and comfy, we could curl up on the couch together), so we can wander around the city as we like.

If we get really desperate for something to do, we could give Don Dice a call, do a little villainous planning together (you know, impress Blacwick with our shrewd eye for detail and extensive villainous experience... we have those things, right?) for that other heist.

>>410666
Go see the new superhero film everybody's talking about.

Delirium!94Ud9yTfxQ 2012/06/18(Mon)14:18 No. 423863 ID: a6008c
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>You shouldn't give the slightest fuck about whether or not he has a girlfriend anyway. You're a villain. You're 100% allowed to steal cute, sexy men. You're a bad girl and he's likely to be into that.
Yeah, that's how it is! I'm a supervillainess, I can do whatever I want to. It comes with the contract! I mean, I shouldn't be stupid about it, but I'm probably awesome. I can do this.

>Stay here and do casual stuff in your home comfort zone at first. If it goes well then you could move on to other things.
I'll just take it one step at a time. It'll be... okay. I'll be fine!

Delirium!94Ud9yTfxQ 2012/06/18(Mon)14:19 No. 423864 ID: a6008c
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Journal entry X/X/20XX

Wicky and I ended up spending the not-really-a-weekend doing some pretty mundane sorts of things but... I think he likes me! We got out and had pizza at a local restaurant, and I showed him around Iron City. We spent some time planning on how we're going to break Hollow Queen out of the Iron City Prison with Don Dice, and talked a bit about work together outside of that, but not too much. The highlight of the weekend was when we cuddled up on the couch and watched some movies and... Eeheehee, ~it's a secret~

I ended up having to take a dose not long after he arrived, because I had a panic attack. I mean, not a big one, but it happened, and I think it worked out okay! I feel okay now anyway, and he didn't get too judgmental about watching me stab myself with my stinger. He got really flustered and a bit worried though! It was cute. I was sad to see him leave a little bit ago, but I know I'll be seeing him in a couple more days! I need to get ready for that break out with the Queen.

Fortunately you have time to get your sexy jailbreak clothing ready.

>>423864
Sounds like things went well!

Baron: I hope that 'Eeheehee ~secret~' isn't something that would upset Angel Frost. Your reputation depends on you being noble and a gentleman; keep that in mind.

It's great to be feeling better, but don't let yourself depend on it too much. Who knows what he'll do or be with tomorrow, he could get killed like he almost did last time. Besides he probably won't want someone who is too dependent on him. Take your good feelings and try to fix your self-medication problem with them and to better yourself in general.

Also figure out how to drug up an entire prison complex at once.

>>423881
I suppose that depends on what noble he's emulating. He is a villainous noble, after all.

>>423864
Go to Villainy General! You might need to ask the Baron for a ride. Pick up some cool tricks! Needle minigun, needle caltrops, can you aerosol it?