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9:32 PM
Spitfire has joined the chat.
Escapee: hi all
Escapee: new friend of mine
Shoot_The_Cat: who the fuck is that
Shoot_The_Cat: what is she doing here
TheBusinessman: Be polite, Cat. If E says she’s a friend, then she’s okay with me.
Spitfire: what is this, exactly?
MC: Oh, great. another villain.
MC: Ah well. welcome to the chat, Spitfire.
MC: This is a weird tinker app that was made back in the late nineties, allowing for secure communications, but, for whatever reason, it only works for parahumans who first joined under the age of 19.
MC: Something to do with the tinker that made it - Youngblood, you might have heard of him.
Caterwolour: ace & coolkid found it while back w/ their powers, kinda just spread from there. evry1 uses it now
MC: ...Thank you, Cater.
Caterwolour: np
Spitfire: uh, okay, got that. thanks for the explanation
Spitfire: one question though: who are you guys?
Spitfire: I know that Escapee is, uh, Labyrinth, but what about the rest of you?
ACE: EVERYBODY STOP TYPING REAL QUICK
ACE: I've got an idea, and you're all going to love it.
Gnatz: Fuck off, Ace.
interminablePrankster: oh really, now.
ACE: No, seriously, this is going to be great
ACE: Right now, all Spitfire knows is our usernames, right?
ACE: How about we set up a little guessing game. A bit of friendly fun between capes.
ACE: No stakes, or at most small stakes. Just try to keep your cape name secret. Sound fun?
interminablePrankster: so... we're gaslighting the newbie.
ACE: I wouldn't go that far. I'd call it... just a bit of a challenge.
ACE: Ooh! Maybe, if you join in and screw up, you have to post a picture of yourself doing something embarrassing. In costume, obviously.
interminablePrankster: ...not going to lie, that does sound kind of fun.
interminablePrankster: alright, I'm in.
TheBusinessman: I'm willing to go with ACE here.
Caterwolour: k
coolkid: hey wait a second, Prank
coolkid: isn't there some sort of protocol breach going on here
coolkid: like, ACE is a, uh, you know
coolkid: should we really be giving her photos of us
ACE: I mean, you don't have to
Shoot_The_Cat: this is stupid
Shoot_The_Cat: I'm not playing
MC: No, coolkid has a point
MC: I'm willing to play the game, but I'm not willing to give pictures.
ACE: Fiiiiine. Play it your way.
ACE: Is anyone else interested?
ACE: TBH, I've been wanting to do this ever since Flash joined
ACE: It would kind of mean a lot to me if you guys joined in. I'm playing too, obviously.
Spitfire: don't I get a say in this?
ZimbuTheMonkey: ...sure, I'll play, but with the same conditions as MC
interminablePrankster: I probably should do the same.
ZimbuTheMonkey: also, apparently not.
Flash1010: Okay.
Gnatz: Fine, whatever.
Bluer: Pinker’s not online right now, but I think I can speak for her when I say she’d like to play. Also, count me in.
Neuter: spitfire already knows who I am, so there’s no point in me playing. also, hey.
Spitfire: hi
MysteryLog: I’m out. I don’t talk much here anyway, so not much of a loss, imo
KnobodyNose: sam
KnobodyNose: *same
Spitfire: these photos better be worth it...
FryingPan: Sorry, but GG and I are out.
FryingPan: We’ve got enough embarrassing photos out on the internet already; Carol would kill us if we let more get out there.
KiSA: If Glory Girl isn’t playing, I’m not playing. Sorry.
ACE: @FryingPan: What if we promised not to show them to anyone else? Also, that’s completely fair, Gallant.
FryingPan: I don’t trust you or anyone else in this chat aside from the heroes to do that.
Caterwolour: also fair
HomeRunBat: I’ll play, but I don’t expect u 2 b able 2 guess me.
ACE: Anyone else?
TheBusinessman: Seems not.
ACE: Then let the games begin. Spitfire, you got any ideas right now?
Spitfire: uh, let’s see
Caterwolour: this is gonna be good
Spitfire: MC, coolkid, and Prankster are probably heroes, Wards if I had to guess, ACE is ‘a something and also not a hero, Businessman and Shoot probably know each other personally, Bluer and Pinker know each other personally, and coolkid and ACE used their powers to find this, uh, obscure tinker group chat app that’s been lost for, like, a decade, so they’re probably either tinkers or thinkers.
Spitfire: oh! coolkid was worried about giving ACE information so she’s probably a thinker, and I don’t think there are any thinkers in the Wards other than Gallant and his power has nothing to do with this kind of discovery work and he’s not playing the game, so he’s probably a tinker which means…
Spitfire: coolkid. Are you Kid Win?
ACE: …
Caterwoulour: wow.
coolkid: FUCK.