Log:ACRO - Stage 2, Scene 3

ACRO - Stage 2 2005/08/25 	 Flare Technohammer

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Roland smiles, "Ms. Howard. I'm glad you were able to find it alright. Please, come in." The building looks like...well, an apartment building from the outside.

Rachel smiles dressed normally for once with a back pack on her shoulder as she looks up at him "It's no problem, it looks kinda like my old place" She walks in "And just call me rachel."

Roland nods, "Rachel...alright. What's your real last name, then?" He smiles, and leads your downstairs, into the basement. "Watch your head. Normally, we don't come in this way, but it keeps up appearances."

Rachel watches her head "Rachel Kinamen, It might become Rachel Howard if my stuff with finding my parents go through.

Roland nods, "Fair enough." You get to the bottom of the stairs, and there's a door off to one side, away from where the boiler and the like are. He unlocks it, and lets you inside. (This is when you see the desc here) He closes the door behind him, letting it latch.

Rachel gasps and her eyes go wide seeing all the stuff her fingers twich slightly as a light smell of burning pine starts around her

Rachel mummbles to her self quietly "I think I'm gonna cream my self" as she looks around while just standing there.

Roland smiles, "I take it you're intruiged, then." At this point, you hear a hovervan arrive in the docking bay in the next room over. How they have it set up so they can park vehicles in here...that's a little confusing. Perhaps there's an underground tunnel. The doors on the van open and shut, and then two people come walking in from the other room.

Rachel nods "Electronics, moving gears and mechinal stuff are the things my dreams are made of"

Roland smiles noticing the others arrive, "Ah...I was hoping I'd get a chance to introduce you around. This is most of the rest of the team. Rachel, this is Tempo, and Starstrike." They both smile and nod, with Tempo speaking, "Nice to meet you, eh?" Roland speaks again, "Tempo is a speedster, and Starstrike...well, he can do lots of things. Kind of like that old 'Green Lantern' comic, if you're familiar with the character. If you're not, then...I'm just showing my age."

Rachel waves to the two comming in still looking wide eyed with the light burning pine smell starting to get a ting of Dragon's blood incent to it "I know that comic, oh gods this is so cool! You guys are actully nice and some one else besides me gets DC refences, by the way did you know I heard they are re-printing the orginal series

Roland chuckles, "I hadn't heard that, no." He pauses, looking around. "There's one other member of our group, and he's offsite. Phantom is our computer guru/communications coordinator. Isn't that right?" At this point, you overhear from a speaker in the corner, "You betcha." Roland grabs a communicator from the workbench. "This is yours to use. Phantom usually monitors multiple frequencies, but he always has that one active." He tosses the communicator to you.

Rachel catches it "Thanky, I can't say I'm the best with computers but electronics and mechanical items I'm good at," Then she looks it over some mummbling to her self as she studies it (making electronics roll to tell style of communicator and power capablitys, and material engineering to do a quick study of materials and weither it could handle her natural heat)

Rachel says is looking it over "What all will I be needed to do?

Rachel rhms some

Roland nods, "Well, maintaining the vehicles and systems here. And if you feel bold...you are welcome to work on missions directly with us. But we'll need to discuss teamwork, if that will be the case." He pauses, and motions to a glass case in the corner that you didn't notice before. Inside is a 7 foot tall suit of blue and white power armor. "That...is the exception. No one tinkers with my armor other than me. No exceptions."

Rachel looks at it and nods "No problem, I can also if you want update your sercurty systems, and I'd like to do missions but I'm afraid my powers are all very much limited on the amount of power I can focus, attacking with mild strenght and defence, making a good total defenisive shield or speed in flight. That or do a wide low power enegry spread that would be affective against only those in a light armor, but on the upside I'm always immune to disease and the like." She smiles a bit bashfully

Roland nods, "Any powers can be useful as long as you're a team player." He smiles. "Even Tempo here, who tends to be a little hotheaded himself, is a team player most of the time, and has pulled us through some tight scrapes as a result." Tempo kind of smirks a little at this. Roland continues, "One thing you should know about Tempo. He's a speedster, but also has some rudimentary control of temperature. Heat and Cold. Usually his hands start to smoke or give off waves of cold. I know that might conflict with your abilities or weaknesses, which is why I mention it now."

Rachel shakes her head "Cold as no affect on me, only water. Water is very bad for me" she shudders ", if my skin is wet by water my hormons are unable to escape my body through that area and affectivly make it so I can't produce fire." she glaces down at the floor as she studders out "A-and submertion in water causes a-a few temporary mental problems for me afterwards....I-I sort of have a nervos break down a-and contact with males will send me into a panic attack if I can't get control of my self...." she seems to be having a hard time admiting this problem

Roland nods, "I'm glad you mentioned that. That'll be VERY important. At least the water portion...should we need to head out to the bridge, or something. At for working with males...is there going to be a problem working with us? We ARE all males...except for Phantom, who...well, it's hard to say what he is. We just assume he's male, since the voice synth sounds like it.

Rachel shakes her head "As long as I'm not having a panic attack it's fine, normally I'm a tad cold towards males, but you all have been very nice to me and it's a tick hard to be cold to some one who has been rather nice." she reaches in her pocket and takes out a slip of paper "This number is for a Lady named wasp and a person named random Factor, wasp is my medical advicer and can treat any problems I have the best and fastest and Random Factor well I donno what he is with me yet, just important is all I can really say

Roland looks at the slip of paper, "Thanks. I think I'm familiar with both of them. They're pretty big time here in town."

Rachel smiles some "Yea that they are." She smiles at them "Though my I ask what sort of team work training I'd be doing?"

Roland smiles, "Well, partially coordination with each other. You should be as familiar with your allies as you are with yourself. For example...what do you think my armor is capable of?"

Rachel walks over to the glace and starts looking over it through the glass.

Rachel hrms some looking at it before saying "Flight propultion or jump boosters, a energy blaster, fueled by your pack, it can probably also handle other materials and shoot them as well, Strenght enhancers probably to a large degree, it looks like it might have self contained breathing and sound units with a speaker box for adressing those outside, eye protection from sudden flahses I'm also betting the metal is alloy of heavy grade probobly strong enough it would take me a while just to open a 5 inch radi whole

Roland nods, "Good guesses. The gauntlet fires rapid fire plasma blasts. The boots don't create flight...but it's an interesting effect of plasma. They create a field of plasma under the feet of the wearer, allowing them to 'skate' along at a relatively high rate of speed. Not like Tempo, but quick enough to catch a speeding car in the city."

Roland smiles, "But...the most important feature to the armor, is one you can't see. There's a neural link to the wearer, allowing the armor to react quicker than it might otherwise...responding at the speed of thought."

Rachel nods some "You mean like the neural link like, (sorry play forgot his name), but doesn't that also make electricty and electricty fires and extream danger in the suit?

Roland nods, "Well, the original design had a weakness to electricity. The wearer would get zapped directly, through the link. That flaw has been corrected in this version of the suit."

Rachel says, "How did you fix that, me and lars use to aruge over how that could be fixed but at the time my electronical skills where not up to par"

Roland smiles, "Shielding on the outside of the link. If a surge were to occur inside, it might still fry the wearer, but the generator has a new regulator on it to try to keep that from happening."

Rachel blinks a bit considering "Well you could protect the wearer from the inside by creating a bio suit for it with small metal links that ground it to the boots which should allow you to allow the surges the suit my have from strain to be dispersed into the ground, as well as insulate the suit with a pasudo rubber too

Roland nods, "That might work. I'll look into it." He rubs his chin."

Rachel beams at that and then looks around at the stuff in the basement mummbling to her self. It looks like she has already desided to jump into working