Black Temple: Deserters

PUNCH HIM IN THE SNOUT TO ESTABLISH EQUAL OR SLIGHTLY HIGHER RANKING

Rude.

Ask that the vehicle fire a warning round.

Alas, we picked the one that doesn't have any guns.
If it helps I doubt it would have stopped him, he's been through active warzones before and they tend to be fairly loud.

Telekinetic wall?

I... can't actually make a “real” wall, or manifest any kind of impermable surface from thin air.
Our “gifts” are not distributed equally or indeed in any particularly predictable pattern, though I'm sure I could find someone who can. Making him think that there's a wall there is certainly possible though.


Unfortunately, he's pumped full of concentration-enhancing chemicals and fairly difficult to fool with illusions. The line he came from was designed solely for going as fast as possible, he has better reaction speeds than I could ever match.
This has the unfortunate side-effect of making him virtually impossible to directly control without flying him into walls and is probably also the reason that since they went out of production the only one left is the one kept safe in my employment.

That said, at his current speed I'm not sure if it's that he actually saw through me or that he just didn't have enough time to stop...



At least I've achieved half of my objective.
Did you enjoy yourself up there, Arms?

>Use your mind to calm him down

> Get down here

That didn't work either.

Throw your hat on the ground in disgust and frustration.

I'm not quite sure what to do now, acting up is all just a game for him but we're still on a fairly close schedule and he's not even the last guy we need to... oh.
Right. OK.


Yes yes you won. Very funny.
Don't do that again.

I'm getting worried about lost time now though. The AMP tower isn't that far away but... if I arrive first then this should be all I need. If I've been too slow though, I'm going to need all the firepower I can get...
Should I continue or head out?

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Whoo more binary choices.
If you didn't catch it, your choice doubles as “are you bored of intermissions yet, we can get away from exposition and to the main characters if you want”.
This section hasn't actually been all that long in terms of panels or elapsed time in the comic... but has obviously been artificially lengthened in feeling because of the chronological space between posts so I don't know if people are tired of things that might seem slightly irrelevant if they're going to be that widely spaced.