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bunny_earsMemory: The Super Patriots Inc.'s Dirty Laundry
Earned: Kitsune's AU Game
Form: A bunch of cherries (2/3)
So, this memory starts with Vel (in her costume with the rabbit ears and tail) passed out on the floor of a casino in Vegas, as one does. (And was moved to a convenient pool table in the employee-only parts of the place.)
She feels like utter shit; basically in this memory Vel has been siphoning off her own life energy without knowing it for weeks, and then right before, she brought all of the animatronics and gift shop stuff to life in a Vegas casino to fight leprechauns. Joy knows none of this; she knows she feels exhausted and like she was hit by a truck, so lying on the floor with her eyes closed seems like a great idea.
Two people are talking about her as she lies there. The woman seems to be sympathetic, saying that Vel shouldn't have exhausted herself for 'a few files Mama should have burned years ago'. The man is defensive: she made her choice and burned herself out. The woman noted that Vel's powers should have worked fine, based on managing betting pools when Vel was a junior superhero.
An older woman speaks up, suggesting Vel is being drained, and tells her to get up so they can talk. Vel opens her eyes and is hit by the younger woman's glamour... Vel IDs her as Lady Luck (the second) and Lady Lack explains she doesn't normally dial it back at work or around family.
Vel confesses she's been tired lately, and she personally blames stress. The older woman, who calls herself Lady Lack's mother, offers this observations: “Best friend finally escapes The Super Patriots, Inc., you wind up with a roommate from another dimension, and three holidays are jockeying for your hand--I can see where that might get stressful."
Lady Luck and her husband flirt a bit more, and the older woman continues her questioning. This time Vel blames sunstroke, because she decided to walk to the Strip from the city limits. She gives the excuse that 'The Princess doesn't have flight clearance for her carpet in Vegas', and she didn't realize she could call for the casino shuttle. The older woman sends Fortunate Son off to get permission for Princess to pick up guests from the Strip and fly over Vegas: she's kind of annoyed that he didn't think of this first.
The older woman works a hangover cure which manages to clear Vel's headache. She's still tired and dizzy, but she can move without hating the world and everything in it. They then go to lunch... which is at a private table at a five-star restaurant. Swanky. Vel feels notably underdressed in the company of two beautiful women. The older woman mothers Vel a bit (drink your water, dear, this is a desert). Then they talk business.
The older woman notes that Vel is going to look for someone named Jolly Roger, which apparently is 'ambitious'. The older woman uses the excuse to go down memory lane -- revealing she was the original Lady Luck (which Vel knew) -- and mentions she was part of the original team of superheros, but left when they formed The Super Patriots formally and became a brand. She hints this was some conflict with someone named Supermodel. The older woman wonders if it was a mistake: that if she hadn't left, someone named Majesty would have lived, and Roger wouldn't have disappeared.
So they eat lunch and Vel is mothered some more, and then Vel is shown to the offices and given several file boxes about the early, less-known history of the original Super Patriots. Princess meets her on the roof, and is all 'Vel, normally people don't come back from Vegas with boxes of papers'. Vel is pretty sure she has what she needed though.
Now, she just gets to deal with damn flying carpet trips.
What Joy Learned
So, until this, all of Joy's memories have been of her childhood or really early on in her career as an independent super heroine. This is part of the sequence when Velveteen decides to take on her former bosses. Joy doesn't know that; she knows she's trying to look into the fate of the only survivor of the original three Super Patriots, Jolly Roger. It seems he disappeared after something bad happened to the team, and Majesty was killed (Joy also believes that the third member, Supermodel, is out of the picture). Joy knows talking to Roger is important, but not what she is planning beyond this. But, it's worth it enough to deal with this trio of luck-based supers in Vegas. And apparently to pass out doing them a job.
There's also a small infodump by the older woman (Dame Fortuna), enough to tell Joy that someone-probably-Yelena/Sparkle Bright left the Super Patriots under terms that are described as an escape. Joy doesn't know enough to know what the holidays comment means (but she knows she understands it in her memory), or who her dimensional roommate is (besides a later comment Joy makes that suggests she's from the past). But, hey, knowledge of other worlds is a plus in Aather.
Velveteen's conscious brain is trying to deny what is draining her powers in this; she's subconsciously animating her boyfriend after he died in a fight. Vel is making plenty of excuses to avoid facing the fact that something is wrong -- stress, the Vegas climate, etc. Joy doesn't have the pieces to figure out what is wrong here -- hell, she doesn't even remember Tag -- but she is in a place where she is a bit more open-minded about what could be causing it.
Effects
What the hell was I doing? Well, at least I can tell Josh I am apparently digging into my childhood handlers' secrets for... something.
+ A sense of purpose, if she knew what to direct it towards
-- Willingness to go flying on anything larger than a small jet. It might just be Princess's carpet-handling skills, but that was a hell of a ride.
Earned: Kitsune's AU Game
Form: A bunch of cherries (2/3)
Fortunately--no pun intended--Dame Fortuna did it for her. “So you’re going to look for Jolly Roger,” she said. “That’s a bold decision for a hero as young as you are. I’ve followed your career since it started up again, and I never expected anything this ambitious. Why the change of heart?”
Velveteen hesitated before deciding that, when dealing with heroes who may or may not be the living embodiments of the world’s good fortune, honesty was the best policy. “I finally have something to defend,” she said. “I’m going to do my best to defend it.”
-- Velveteen versus Vegas
So, this memory starts with Vel (in her costume with the rabbit ears and tail) passed out on the floor of a casino in Vegas, as one does. (And was moved to a convenient pool table in the employee-only parts of the place.)
She feels like utter shit; basically in this memory Vel has been siphoning off her own life energy without knowing it for weeks, and then right before, she brought all of the animatronics and gift shop stuff to life in a Vegas casino to fight leprechauns. Joy knows none of this; she knows she feels exhausted and like she was hit by a truck, so lying on the floor with her eyes closed seems like a great idea.
Two people are talking about her as she lies there. The woman seems to be sympathetic, saying that Vel shouldn't have exhausted herself for 'a few files Mama should have burned years ago'. The man is defensive: she made her choice and burned herself out. The woman noted that Vel's powers should have worked fine, based on managing betting pools when Vel was a junior superhero.
An older woman speaks up, suggesting Vel is being drained, and tells her to get up so they can talk. Vel opens her eyes and is hit by the younger woman's glamour... Vel IDs her as Lady Luck (the second) and Lady Lack explains she doesn't normally dial it back at work or around family.
Vel confesses she's been tired lately, and she personally blames stress. The older woman, who calls herself Lady Lack's mother, offers this observations: “Best friend finally escapes The Super Patriots, Inc., you wind up with a roommate from another dimension, and three holidays are jockeying for your hand--I can see where that might get stressful."
Lady Luck and her husband flirt a bit more, and the older woman continues her questioning. This time Vel blames sunstroke, because she decided to walk to the Strip from the city limits. She gives the excuse that 'The Princess doesn't have flight clearance for her carpet in Vegas', and she didn't realize she could call for the casino shuttle. The older woman sends Fortunate Son off to get permission for Princess to pick up guests from the Strip and fly over Vegas: she's kind of annoyed that he didn't think of this first.
The older woman works a hangover cure which manages to clear Vel's headache. She's still tired and dizzy, but she can move without hating the world and everything in it. They then go to lunch... which is at a private table at a five-star restaurant. Swanky. Vel feels notably underdressed in the company of two beautiful women. The older woman mothers Vel a bit (drink your water, dear, this is a desert). Then they talk business.
The older woman notes that Vel is going to look for someone named Jolly Roger, which apparently is 'ambitious'. The older woman uses the excuse to go down memory lane -- revealing she was the original Lady Luck (which Vel knew) -- and mentions she was part of the original team of superheros, but left when they formed The Super Patriots formally and became a brand. She hints this was some conflict with someone named Supermodel. The older woman wonders if it was a mistake: that if she hadn't left, someone named Majesty would have lived, and Roger wouldn't have disappeared.
So they eat lunch and Vel is mothered some more, and then Vel is shown to the offices and given several file boxes about the early, less-known history of the original Super Patriots. Princess meets her on the roof, and is all 'Vel, normally people don't come back from Vegas with boxes of papers'. Vel is pretty sure she has what she needed though.
Now, she just gets to deal with damn flying carpet trips.
What Joy Learned
So, until this, all of Joy's memories have been of her childhood or really early on in her career as an independent super heroine. This is part of the sequence when Velveteen decides to take on her former bosses. Joy doesn't know that; she knows she's trying to look into the fate of the only survivor of the original three Super Patriots, Jolly Roger. It seems he disappeared after something bad happened to the team, and Majesty was killed (Joy also believes that the third member, Supermodel, is out of the picture). Joy knows talking to Roger is important, but not what she is planning beyond this. But, it's worth it enough to deal with this trio of luck-based supers in Vegas. And apparently to pass out doing them a job.
There's also a small infodump by the older woman (Dame Fortuna), enough to tell Joy that someone-probably-Yelena/Sparkle Bright left the Super Patriots under terms that are described as an escape. Joy doesn't know enough to know what the holidays comment means (but she knows she understands it in her memory), or who her dimensional roommate is (besides a later comment Joy makes that suggests she's from the past). But, hey, knowledge of other worlds is a plus in Aather.
Velveteen's conscious brain is trying to deny what is draining her powers in this; she's subconsciously animating her boyfriend after he died in a fight. Vel is making plenty of excuses to avoid facing the fact that something is wrong -- stress, the Vegas climate, etc. Joy doesn't have the pieces to figure out what is wrong here -- hell, she doesn't even remember Tag -- but she is in a place where she is a bit more open-minded about what could be causing it.
Effects
What the hell was I doing? Well, at least I can tell Josh I am apparently digging into my childhood handlers' secrets for... something.
+ A sense of purpose, if she knew what to direct it towards
-- Willingness to go flying on anything larger than a small jet. It might just be Princess's carpet-handling skills, but that was a hell of a ride.