<div class="floatright">(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/8/81/Superheroine-2.jpg)</div>Name: Ace the Wonder-Girl<br/>Where: ???<br/>Milestones: In the Name of the Moon and Silver Age Sensibilities<br/><del>3</del>2 PP | 0 Physical | 0 Mental | 0 Emotional | 0 xp<br/>Assets: None | Complications: Captured! d12 | Resources: None<br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Mechanics</div><div class="spoiler_body">Alright, Ace is going to try to make very careful use of her Gamma Laser Eyebeams to get her vision back without alerting her captors to the fact.  She's also trying to draw Minerva into talking more about her own organization to keep her distracted while she works, so I'll also add Psych Expert into the pool.<br/><br/>Solo d10 + Comic Book Superhero d8 + Gamma Laser Eyebeams d8 + Superhuman Senses 2d10 (Comic Book Physics SFX) + Psych Expert d8 + Impulsive SFX d12<br/><br/>d12 = 11 (http://11)<br/>3d10 = 3, 3, 4 (http://3, 3, 4)<br/>3d8 = 6, 5, 2 (http://6, 5, 2)<br/><br/>Spending a plot point to keep one extra die for the result. <strong>22 total, d10 effect</strong>, and I'm keeping that d12 for another action, so you'll get it back along with a d8 after my next roll.  For now, it's out of the Doom Pool.<br/><br/>If this roll gets an excellent success and gets stepped up to d12, a good explanation for Ace removing the complication entirely might be that there's a reflective surface handy for her to bounce a beam of invisible radiation off of to burn through her own bonds without anyone noticing, once she can see again.  She'll probably pretend to be captured for a little longer beyond that and any future rolls I make will be to draw out more information and/or set up an asset for the upcoming action scene.<br/></div></div><hr/><br/>Ace was in luck, it seemed.  While Arachne seemed to care more to bestow her clearly rather sadistic affections on Silvia, Minerva was one of those types that liked to hear herself talk.  The Venusian Wonder had already worked out a number of interesting and potentially-useful facts about her surroundings.  She was most likely in some manner of tunneling machine, for one; The sounds of powerful machinery and the sensation of very slow movement matched with her earlier tactical assessment.  They were either tunneling through rock and soil, or had sunk down into the Earth's mantle and were pushing through magma as they moved towards their destination.  As for what said destination was, if they were meeting up with someone who could supply them with certain items that would be needed to take samples from her, then they were either trying to purchase a piece of Venusite, or were in the market for certain specialized alien or magical equipment.<br/><br/>They didn't know that her radiation-based abilities were an artificial enhancement her people had given her on top of her own natural Venusian abilities, a fact that she wasn't about to fill them in on, since then they might start taking more invasive samples to see if they could reverse-engineer the process, but they did otherwise seem to have a solid grasp of her abilities and weaknesses, though that was something that she had already picked up on during the earlier fight, as well.  There was also the news that Zohar had destroyed facilities owned by villains, places that had been used to imprison captured heroes...<br/><br/>Ace was tempted to speak at great length about things that might make her angry when Arachne and Silvia got onto that topic, but decided to hold her tongue instead, on the grounds that speaking up might cause her captors to do the very things that she didn't want them to do, just to spite her.  In particular, it seemed as though Arachne was treating Silvia rather poorly, and Minerva was more than happy to allow it.  From the latter's multiple references to Ms. Atel, first as a 'lost lamb' and then as a 'wayward child', it wasn't hard to guess that Silvia had tried to part ways with these people, and that they weren't too keen on allowing her to escape their clutches.<br/><br/>First things first, though, she needed to get her vision back in order to see just how accurate a lot of her guesses were.  Minerva had talked for long enough that Ace could feel some of her strength returning, could tell that she had absorbed enough radiation to be able to make use of her eye lasers again, but she wasn't ready to just bust out and start swinging away at her captors.  Instead, she focused in her vision, eyes that were able to see down to the microscopic level taking a look at the strands of spider silk holding the leaden plates in place over her eyes, trying to determine which ones she could burn away in order to make the plates shift out of position without being obvious about it.  And as she did so, in order to distract her captors further...<br/><br/>"You've shown that you know quite a bit about me, so I can already guess that you know I'm from a parallel universe to this one.  A group like yours doesn't exist on my world, so I hope you won't be offended if I ask, but... What exactly is your group's politics?  It sounds like you want to overthrow this world's governments.  You don't sound like anarchists, so what are you planning to build to take their place?"