THE WHEELS OF STEEL ARE TURNING

[capemods]

WHO: These lucky contestants
WHERE: Various boroughs of the City, and the demon dimension.
WHEN: Tuesday, August 21st, 11:54 am and onward.
WARNINGS: This post may contain graphic depictions of violence, psychological horror, and adult themes; it will definitely contain adult language. Viewer discretion advised.
SUMMARY: Vulcanus tries to blow up a collection of buses around the City in order to incite anti-imPort rioting; Lachesis mixes things up again. see here for details.
FORMAT: Go crazy, kids.

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Each bus will have a labeled thread in the comments. To recap:

Bus W will explode. Lachesis will teleport these ImPorts to a location near the bus just after it explodes. Those who are assigned to this bus, you must be the heroes that the City demands. The damage will carve a hole in the street, and civilians are at risk for debris/fires/etc.

Bus X will yank imPorts inside of it and induce a week-long power switch. From 8/21 at 12 PM to the following Tuesday, 8/28 at 12 PM, characters will have their powers switched with another ImPort passenger. All characters on this bus have their new powers assigned.
Correction: this bus is located in Brooklyn.

Bus Y will yank imPorts inside of it for one minute, and then transport its imPorts to the demon dimension until midnight. Envision Dante's Inferno as the setting, but with the twist that ANYTHING CHARACTERS IMAGINE WILL MANIFEST IN THE WORST WAY POSSIBLE.

Bus Z will yank imPorts inside of it for one minute, and then with a LOUD SCREECHING NOISE, it will infect imPort minds with radio signals, songs, dialogue, AND IMPORTANT PLOT-RELATED INFORMATION THAT VULCANUS DOESN'T WANT YOU TO KNOW for the rest of that day. There is no way to turn this off for the entire day. ImPorts will be returned to their prior locations at the end of one minute. All characters on this bus have their unique mental broadcasts assigned.

Comments

[professorlionface]

[At best, it has sensors telling it something's tinkering around in there, but the best it can do is sway uselessly out of reach, a metallic tentacle stretching from its palm to try detaching her.

Unfortunately for it, Hank manages to rip out one of its optical sensors, drawing away its attention away from Lin as the power drains from its cells after she cut it off. Hank climbs on top of the head to move out of the way, but the whole machine seizes up before it reaches him anyway, every rotor locking up.

Hank peeks down the back and gives her a thumbs up before kicking off the head and tumbling his way back to the bus, trying to cut off the oncoming swarm.]

[linsanity]

[She nods back to him as a piece of the robot's metal armor tears away and launches her away before it comes crashing down. She hits the ground with a crash, shoving her hands forward and making a crater when she lands. Hopefully they wouldn't have to deal with any more giant robots.

In the meantime, though, she'll get back to fighting the Equalists and anyone else that manages to cross her path.]

[professorlionface]

[Hank plows into them behind her, doing his best to establish a furry blue moving barrier between them and the bus.]

Anything you can tell me about these gents?

[linsanity]

They're Equalists. They're trained to fight against benders using chi-blocking and those batons and gloves. They're less dangerous if you can keep them at a distance.

[That can be a pretty tall order, though, since they're flipping and darting around like acrobats. She's doing her best to keep them at bay by kicking pillars of earth at them.]

[professorlionface]

[He's not really a slouch in the flipping and darting department, himself, so he manages to keep one step ahead of them, striking as openings present themselves.]

Unfortunately, I work best at close quarters! But then, I don't exactly bend, either, so that may give me some advantage.

[Though the extent he knows about bending is from Toph borrowing the Danger Room occasionally to train.]