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[earnedmystripes]

[The ID on today's post reads WILD TIGER, and there's a man in a green-and-gray mechanical suit on the screen. Those imPorts that assisted in the museum rescue last month might recognize him as the guy causing property damage zipping around carrying civilians out of the building. Alternatively, you might have seen him on a TV commercial or two promoting registration. Notably, most of the words in those commercials are in text form, despite his position as "spokesperson" for registered heroics.

But that's not what he's on the network to talk about. Behind the faceplate, there's the sound of Wild Tiger clearing his throat, and if it were possible to look a little awkward in a helmet while your face is obscured, he would.]

So, uh. Where I'm from, we had these call band things, where we could be--well, called, to help out when emergencies happened.

And I've been thinking, it might be a good idea to have something like that for us? Like when that crazy guy set fire to a crowded museum, we did a pretty good job getting everybody outta there, but we were only able to get there so fast 'cause it was on the network and we had someone telling us where to go.

Not every emergency's gonna have someone able to announce it like that, and I think we have a better shot of being able to protect the people if there's some sorta system in place to let us know when something's going on. Maybe we could sign up to get patched into 911 calls...? Or something like that.

[A beat. He rubs at where the "neck" of his suit would be.]

I figure it's not something the government would let unregistered people sign up for, and I know a lot of people've got reasons for not registering, so we could make some sorta list of people who'd wanna be involved, and find some way to get the information to 'em without having to register.

...Uhhh, that's all, I guess. Thanks for listening!

Comments

[video]

[glassinine]

[Calm, measured, cool, with a cup of tea in hand:]

One would of course have access to the police channel if one signed up to work with the police.

[And a serene sip.]

[video]

[earnedmystripes]

Not that I've got a problem with that for the most part, but having access to just the police channel isn't gonna tell someone what's going on with the Fire Department or where ambulances are going, y'know? That's why I was suggesting the 911 thing.

[video]

[glassinine]

And why not? There are full-time dispatchers working with emergency calls. Their responsibility is to triage the emergencies to those most capable of dealing with them. So if you "heroes" became employees of the police department, you would be part of that same emergency triage system. You'd receive notification of the calls you could help with.

[video]

[earnedmystripes]

Yeah, the police part. So unless the dispatchers had a separate line for us, which is basically what I'm asking about, they'd notify the police about police emergencies, right?

[And that's part of his job, sure, but it's not all of it.]

[video]

[glassinine]

Do you think it's some challenge for them to set up a separate line? It's the work of a few hours, if that.

On the other hand, the thought that they would allow some unknown civilians some special line that would allow them to tap into confidential information? That is absurd.

[vengefulshades]

... Nice suit.

[Really. That's pretty impressive.]

[earnedmystripes]

...Uh. Thanks?

[Beat. Normally he'd be more enthused about how awesome his suit is, but let it be said for Kotetsu that he does have some sense of situational propriety.]

Iiiis that...all you had to say?

[vengefulshades]

Mm. Pretty much.

I'd suggest a separate line for that thing you're talking about, though. The police screw up everything.

[earnedmystripes]

[Man, what is your beef with governments, dude. Though Kotetsu doesn't say that. Secret identities and all. He does, however, sigh.]

I swear, everyone here's either all, "hey if you don't register, we'll end up with people going on mass murdering rampages" or offended at the whole idea of dealing with the government at all.

voice

[dissemble]

[Did you just call Lucifer crazy. Rude.]

A place where someone could call in when they see people doing something illegal?

voice;

[earnedmystripes]

[Well, speak of the devil. Literally.]

I'm not gonna discuss it with you.

voice;

[dissemble]

Really? I was going to tell you about the robbery I'm watching from across the square, but I guess you're not interested.

voice;

[earnedmystripes]

[UGHHHHH FUCK YOU LUCIFER. Kotetsu is conflicted for a moment; his experience as a Hero tells him he needs to take the comment at face value, because if there's a robbery going on right now then someone needs help and he needs to help them. On the other hand, this is the guy who set a crowded museum with children inside on fire. There's no reason to believe that if there is a robbery, the man would actually direct him to it.

...But it's a huge city. There's no way he'd find it on his own in time. Tightly:]

I'm interested.

video;

[shutterbugged]

[Spidey's still unsure how to navigate his new non-relationship with Wild Tiger with a minimum of weirdness for all parties concerned, but problems solvable with tinkering are right in his wheelhouse.]

Should be easy enough to cook something up -- I could whip up a communicator app in a jiffy. [Since he's already more or less done that with his own comm, it's just a matter of a few tweaks.] Though, for the tightest security, separate miniaturized scanners might be better.

video;

[earnedmystripes]

[He tries not to do the blank stare thing by the end, he really does, but the latter half of that sentence might as well be word salad to him. But he does have the gist of it, in terms of 'I can do techy things to help with this thing you're talking about'. So tentatively, he replies--]

...So, uh, that'd be for the second part, yeah? Getting the info to unregistered people who wanna help out?

video;

[shutterbugged]

Well, we all have communicators, but yeah. Not that I wouldn't put security protocols on the app, but if you want to make absolutely sure there's no way to trace someone through their comm, the most user-friendly way is to have a separate device entirely.

video;

[earnedmystripes]

Whatever makes sense. I'm not really familiar with techy stuff.

[P...ause...]

...The communicators are traceable?

[THE GOVERNMENT SURE DIDN'T MENTION THAT WHAT]

Voice

[viced]

I'm pretty sure that's a recipe for disaster, outright announcing that you want to break the law by bringing unregistered heroes on that sort of thing.

You realize that this is a network the government established, right?

Voice

[earnedmystripes]

There's a guy who's been announcing that he wants to make a fund for unregistered people to get registered benefits, and the government hasn't come down on his ass yet.

[Shrug.]

Besides, it's only against the law here if it's vigilantism, right? There's nothing wrong with them helping out with things like the museum fire.

[Maybe police things can be limited to registered people only? Or they can get something like the Hero certification process like they had at home. Kotetsu hadn't thought that far ahead whoops.]

Voice

[viced]

Aren't they the ones who determine what's considered vigilantism? Where I come from, stopping a guy from shooting someone else was still vigilantism, even if that's all I did.

What I'm saying is that they have a method to do the right thing. It's called registering.

If they don't choose to do that, why should they be alerted to crisis? If they happen on something, that's one thing, but I don't think getting behind something like that is going to win us in the eyes of the government.

Voice

[earnedmystripes]

[It can't be seen, but wow is an eyebrow going way up at that first remark.]

They call that vigilantism? That's just stupid. [h-he's blunt, oops.] There was a guy back home who'd torch criminals to death in the name of "justice".

[Sigh. He's totally judging your original government heavily, but Kotetsu's a reasonable guy--he takes a moment to collect his thoughts.]

...I do get where you're coming from, though, and I'd agree with you a lot more if we were all here by choice. Even if you take them at their word about not being the ones responsible for bringing us here, it's kind of hard to throw your lot in with a government you don't know and don't have any real reason to trust.

From what I can tell, there's plenty of people around that really care about helping people but aren't comfortable with registering. And to be honest, I'd kinda rather be working with people who care about what they're doing, rather than sticking around for the benefits until they can find a better deal.

[Like some certain people he happens to be housemates with :VVV]

...But with this kinda thing, I do get needing accountability. That's why I'm thinking those of us that're registered could take responsibility for anyone who gets involved and isn't.

[beneaththelakeshesleeps]

What is 911?

[Hey, back on the merry explain the world to Gwen wagon!]

[earnedmystripes]

[Welp.]

Uhh, well, it's basically an emergency response system? In an emergency you can call 911 for help and tell them what you need and where you are, and they'll send police or firefighters or paramedics to you.

[beneaththelakeshesleeps]

To help people?

[earnedmystripes]

Yeah, pretty much!