call me maybe

[from_scratch]

Cam is out flying. There's a decent cloud of atmosphere around the gold plane, now, millenia of demons making air around themselves for comfort and not sealing it up because why would you bother. There's a small forest, here - the effect is kind of ruined by the lamps it has to grow under, but it's still pretty.

He feels an open summons and lets it grab him -

with the Joker (kappa)

with Ripper (kappa)

with Darren (Aestrix)

with Minus (kappa)

with Emma (Marri)

with Facility 3141592 (armokGoB)

with the admin (kappa)

with Jarvis (kappa, Aestrix)

with Miles (kappa)

with Hank (Nemo)

Comments

[mylegalname]

"It was originally some kind of clean power initiative. A man calling himself Bane stole it and got someone to turn it into a bomb for him, and now he's declared anarchy in Gotham. The bomb is supposedly in a guarded truck somewhere, being moved around the city to make it harder to find. I can verify that there are guarded trucks going around, but I don't know which ones are decoys or if they're all decoys and the bomb is actually somewhere else."

[from_scratch]

"Okay, so maybe we have a little car chase ahead of us. Tony, I don't think your range is quite what mine is, but can you mess with something in a truck from a car tailing it, if that's where the dowser takes us?"

[allthebrightest]

"Yeah. I prefer to get hands-on, but it's not a requirement. I'd have to see what's in the truck first, but I can just mess with the walls, no problem. Are we equipped for a car chase?"

[mylegalname]

"We have a car," says John. "I'm not sure how much chasing it's up for."

[allthebrightest]

"Cam, feel like making us a better car?"

[from_scratch]

"I can make us a better car. The humans are probably useful for knowledge of the city, since the dowser'll only do direction and not street directions."

[mylegalname]

"Yeah," says John. "Either one of us could be your navigator. I'll probably draw less attention, though."

[manofmyword]

"I can imagine circumstances where it'd be good to have me along. But John should probably drive. I can sit in the back, in case we need anybody intimidated."

[allthebrightest]

"Sounds like we've got ourselves a plan," says Tony.

[from_scratch]

"Okay. Any preferences on car type?" Cam inquires, stretching his arms in front of him.

[allthebrightest]

"It had better be something that won't stand out too much. 2012 on the outside, but nice and modern under the covers. How much do you need specified? How much do you know about cars? I know a lot about cars."

[from_scratch]

"I don't know that much about cars, but if you give me a make and model I can basically fake it, and combining an ancient chassis with a higher-tech something under the hood shouldn't be hard."

[manofmyword]

"You could copy the car we drove here in, if you want a perfect example of 'boring, unremarkable local vehicle'," says the Joker.

[allthebrightest]

"Okay," says Tony. "Show me this car and I will tell you what yummy chocolate filling you should be giving it."

[from_scratch]

"Shall we?" inquires Cam, heading for the same window they came in by.

[allthebrightest]

"Why are we shall-ing out the window?" inquires Tony, following.

[manofmyword]

"Fastest way to get to the garage," says the Joker.

[mylegalname]

"The Joker has some kind of philosophical objection to using his front door," says John.

[from_scratch]

"My information about 2012 is really out of date and I don't remember ever hearing about this city in any year, so I wasn't even sure it was weird," snorts Cam.

[mylegalname]

"It's weird," John affirms.

Out the window they all go, and down the stairs into the garage, and over to the car, which is smallish and a little decrepit-looking.

[allthebrightest]

"Okay..." says Tony, circling it to make her inspection. "Yeah, this is doable. You know what would fit perfectly in this? A first-generation Estelle Apsis. The interior even almost matches; the upholstery came in this shade of grey. Just take all the guts of the Apsis and tuck it in this chassis with these hubcaps."

[from_scratch]

"Sure thing," says Cam.

The car takes about twenty seconds and he makes it from the bottom up.

[allthebrightest]

"Cool," says Tony approvingly. "That is cool and you are cool. Let's go, everybody. Cam, you made the dowser, presumably you know how to use it, you can sit up front and dowse."

[mylegalname]

John will trade Cam the dowser for keys to the car!

[from_scratch]

Cam hands John a - keylike thing - a very futuristic keylike thing - and takes the dowser and hops in the passenger seat.