<div class="floatright">(http://orig10.deviantart.net/3f32/f/2012/002/5/6/dust_and_smoke_by_shimmering_sword-d4l4dg7.jpg)</div>Name: Darclight<br/>Where: Simport City Harbor<br/>Doing What: Positing<br/>Milestones: Riders on the Storm and Peeling the Onion<br/>1 PP | 0 Physical | 0 Mental | 0 Emotional | 25xp<br/><br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Mechanics</div><div class="spoiler_body"></div></div><hr/><br/><tt class="bbc_tt">"The short-long story is that I need to talk to someone who we met aboard your friend's ship, and I'm hoping to catch them while they're still there.  If not, Boushh might be able to tell me where they went, or if they heard anything as to where they were headed." </tt>Darclight paused for a moment.  Did he tell Kanina about his suspicions?  Or should he keep quiet about them?  Auxilia was one thing, she had come to him with information about Ghost...but the Rabbit probably had little idea of what was going on.  In the end, Darclight decided that if it all turned out to be nothing and he called in all the alarms, then that would have made him look paranoid.  Not exactly what you wanted out of the High-Threat-Response team leader of Stormwatch.<tt class="bbc_tt">"I might have a line on Zohar, too, but that's tenuous at best.  You'll hear from me again." </tt>And then he dropped the part of the call that had Kanina and continued to let the...phone? on Boushh's ship ring.<br/><br/>Darclight turned to Auxilia-Prime.<tt class="bbc_tt">"Something else has occurred to me.  I discussed the possibility with...our friend, about how it was that Zohar managed to know so much about Earth and its classification systems for villains and who they are and how to break them out.  I suggested that Zohar may have had an inside man, someone who is feeding him information about the situation down here on Earth.  I suggested to our friend that someone formerly allied with CHESS - someone who dropped off the grid during Retirement - might have been responsible.  But that was as far as it got before we left to find you.  Which is good news, because it means that our friend doesn't have the whole picture of what I had in mind."</tt><br/><br/>He continued on.<tt class="bbc_tt"> "Zohar's been classified as a powerful idiot, of which there are a dime a dozen here on Earth.  Moreover, he's clearly a being not from this portion of the universe - I have ways of telling."</tt>Khaji's databanks on galactic information were far from complete, but they were enough to know that, at least.<tt class="bbc_tt">"I told our friend that I had no idea why a former hero would want to help a villain-freeing maniac like Zohar, but I had theories.  Theories that never got shared, but given what you just told me, one of those theories just jumped to the top of the list...albeit with a reversal on the perspective.  I had assumed Zohar was in charge of the show - mistake I should not have made, but did because he's clearly powerful - and that his inside man was helping him.  What if that wasn't the case?  What if the inside man is the mastermind, and Zohar is just the idiot muscle brought in?  When you look at it that way, the theory I had - leading both before and now - makes a lot more sense."</tt><br/><br/>Darclight was not a psychologist, but he was trained to think about a problem from every perspective.<tt class="bbc_tt">"Boredom.  Sheer, utter boredom.  Practically nothing on Earth was happening, in the superheroic sense of the word.  Most of the heroes who were still operating at that time were people like my ex-teammate Gunvolt, or Major Jack Thames and his Howling Commandos, people whose power and skill levels put them into a category above human but below superhuman.  I won't say much, but I will say that Retirement was either six months or six lifetimes for someone like me, who had nothing to do and nowhere to go.  Heroes did leave, of course, but this one didn't.  They stayed here, got bored, and then somehow came across Zohar.  I haven't the slightest clue how, but they did.  And they saw an opportunity to bust out all those villains and - as happened - resurrect the superheroic community overnight.  Now there's stuff to do again..."</tt><br/><br/>Inside the armor, Richard Conway was<em>pissed</em>.  Someone had decided to break out all of those dangerous villains, force all those heroes to go back online, simply because they hadn't adjusted well to retirement?<em>Fuck them</em>.