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[teaspectre]

So has ... anyone figured out how the hell those Hornets made those collars? How can you just ... block powers, like that? I don't get it.

[ Because it had been terrifying. Being alive is great again, but having those powers she'd been so used to suddenly stripped? ]

Cause I mean, collars are kind of kinky, and that sort of thing needs a safeword, not a Sneak Up On in the Smoke and Slap it On.

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[askedtobe]

From what I know back home, there's a few ways you can block powers.

[teaspectre]

Really? How?

[askedtobe]

I know someone whose ability is to block other people's abilities. And then there's a drug that's been created to do the exact same thing.

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[boobwindow]

[ No ID printed. ]

Can you elaborate on these collars?

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[teaspectre]

They're ... metal? Look kind of gadget-like. You know, like spy stuff.

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[boobwindow]

And they negated powers on anyone they were slapped on.

... and I'm guessing they weren't easily removable.

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[setright]

They were pretty crappy if they were supposed to make us harmless. Like they got the knock off versions of the real thing.

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[teaspectre]

Maybe it was a ... prototype? Or they thought it'd work and since it didn't, they'll have to come up with something even worse?

[ noooooo this is awful thinking ]

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[setright]

Their first attempt was weak. Doubt the next will happen anytime soon.

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[altercate]

Why?

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[teaspectre]

because they're awful and should never see the light of day again?

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[altercate]

Just checking. Not everyone's interests in them might be along those lines.

[slightlyoffchilt]

They don't seem the type to engage with safewords.

[teaspectre]

Clearly not.

[slightlyoffchilt]

Would you be?

[moded]

[ the com reads impulse! ]

i know its so moded they didnt even work right

[teaspectre]

moded?

you mean how they only "sort of" blocked our powers?

[motherboxes]

I don't know how it works exactly. But it's....worrying. Scary, to think people can do that. Make us so...vulnerable. They got my friend with one. I was too afraid of making it worse to try use my strength to get it off. There has to be some way we can stop that sort of thing happening again.

[How, Brenda isn't sure. But she never wants to see Jaime so vulnerable and miserable again. So worried about the Scarab. It worries her. It pisses her off. Her strength is great but nowhere near as useful or important as Jaime and his Scarab.]

[teaspectre]

Totally understandable- I hated it, but I couldn't imagine what would've happened if my friend had gotten one on them, too. But, you got it off in the end, didn't you? Or well, you being your friend and you. I mean it's not still on, I would imagine -- is it?

[ Annie stop, pls. ]

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[lyingheart]

They weren't completely effective, were they? That's what I'd heard. More problematic is if they're an old model of something updated - who has those, where did the old ones come from, questions like that.

Though I don't think many safe words end up being used for things like these.

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[teaspectre]

not really no. kind of like 89% effective i guess.

iiiii meant safewords because collars are sort of kinky. not the power blocking collars, but like. play collars. or something.

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[scission]

I strongly suspect they didn't make them at all.

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[teaspectre]

Really? But where'd they get them, then? Did they steal them from somewhere?

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[sanguineseams]

In order to stop something from functioning, you need to know how it functions, right?

Maybe it would behoove us to find that out. Perhaps it's something to do with that "Continuum".

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[teaspectre]

What's ... continuum?