<div class="floatright">(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/8/81/Superheroine-2.jpg)</div>Name: Ace the Wonder-Girl<br/>Where: Cramped Dining Room<br/>Milestones: In the Name of the Moon and Silver Age Sensibilities<br/><del>2</del>0 PP | 0 Physical | 0 Mental | 0 Emotional | 0 xp<br/>Assets: None | Complications: None | Resources: None<br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Mechanics</div><div class="spoiler_body">Ace is going to pretend to still be captured, now that the complication is removed.  Spending 2 PP to activate both those opportunities, one to reactivate Space Flight and one to get a d10 Psych stunt for telling Minerva exactly what she expects to hear in order to goad her into letting something important slip.<br/><br/>Solo d10 + Vivacious Maiden of Venus d8 + Psych Expert d8 + Impulsive SFX d12 + Psych Stunt d10<br/><br/>d12 = 9 (http://9)<br/>2d10 = 6, 3 (http://6, 3)<br/>d8 = 4, 3 (http://4, 3)<br/><br/><strong>15 total, d10 effect</strong>.  Hopefully, this roll will have me rolling off against Minerva, since her lack of the Psych specialty means that she'll have a much smaller dicepool than the current Doom Pool. ^^;<br/><br/>And finally giving back that die I borrowed for Impulsive, so that's a d8 added to the Doom Pool.<br/></div></div><hr/><br/>"And how many people have to die in the war to establish your new world order, Minerva?"  Ace responded, doing her best to seem more agitated now than she actually felt.  She'd seen this approach before, she knew that the shapeshifter's words were designed to try and put her off-balance, twisting facts around to suit her particular viewpoint and to push her particular ideals.  She could tell that the woman was a zealot, a true believer in her cause, and she knew that she wasn't likely to convince her to turn away from the path she was on with mere words alone.  So instead, she gave the woman exactly the response she was expecting to hear.  "How many people are going to get experimented on to improve humanity?  How many people discontent with your boss' new reign are going to be made to disappear off the streets?<br/><br/>"Or wait, let me guess, are you going to claim that the end justifies the means?  I'm sure you think it does, but the rest of the world won't agree with you.  Commit enough atrocities, and as divided as they are, this world's people will unite to stop you!"<br/><br/>It was an argument that Minerva had probably heard at least a dozen times in the past.  Ace was expecting that by now, she had a counter-argument already prepared to deal with it.  Between that familiarity and the Venusian Wonder acting like the shapeshifter's words were getting to her, Ace hoped to lull the woman into a false sense of security, enough that she might let slip some specific information about what her group's current plans were.  'Actionable intel', as her cousin used to put it.