[url=https://www.roleplayerguild.com/posts/4342195]Previously...[/url]

"So, wait," David said, arms resting on his thighs. "You're all superpowered? You're all musicians, and you all live in an apartment together?"

"I don't live here, remember," said Kenny. "Just crash on the couch when I'm in town. The rest of them live here."

David glanced at her. "That was the least interesting part of what I said. How did you all even meet?"

Ernie blinked. "The Epics Subreddit. You never heard of it? It's run by an Epic who can tell if people are telling the truth, either online or in the real world."

Reddit? Seriously? David laughed. The absurdity of the idea. "No, I've never heard of that sub. What's on it?"

"News about Epics all around the world," Continued Ernie. Competitions and voting over who has the best powers, et cetera. You know there's a guy in Lithuania that can clone himself indefinitely? Or there's this guy in Ontario that can turn into a moose the size of a skyscraper. Talk about thematically appropriate. There's also pinned threads for meeting up with other epics, but the actual details have to be figured out in PMs, to avoid people being hunted down."

"You were actually on there today too," said Maria, and David felt a little shiver at the timbre of her voice. He knew that she could sound like anything she wanted, but it seemed most like she was appealing to him specifically. "Phantom, right? You put out the windows in a two block radius with that shout. It was one of the top posts, actually."

David flushed. "Fuck, that's...wow." He, of course, had not wanted to draw attention to himself, but he also felt a strange pleasure at his sudden fame.

Kenny leaned forward, her leg bouncing on the floor. "So you can, like, turn into anything you want when you're asleep? Anything at all?"

"Well, yeah..." David mumbled, "but I can't do much more than that. I can get really loud, but I can't really affect shit. It really sucks, because when those rats were attacking, I couldn't do much more than growl at them. The bigger I get, the less powerful I am. I don't know if that's my limit or what."

"But you can fuckin' fly through walls and shit, man!" That was Garfield, lying across Kenny, Vince, and Ernie on the couch. He and Vince had finally emerged from their room at Kenny's shouting, with the absolute minimum clothing required. Everyone actually seemed very comfortable with lack of clothing, he'd noticed. "Like, seriously, if I was you, I'd be robbing banks and shit, or somethin'."

"Good thing he [i]isn't[/i] you," said Kenny, glaring at the man with no ill will. "Otherwise we'd all be fucked in a prison somewhere. You want that?"

"How do you try and control yourself in the dream?" asked Hannah, interrupting the argument. She was short, blonde, and curvy as hell. "I wasn't able to do a whole lot with my abilities until I changed how I thought about them. Like, I had to stop thinking about how I was controlling things, and start thinking more about what I wanted to do." She blushed as everyone looked at her. "Like the subconscious is more powerful than the conscious mind, you know?"

David frowned. He'd never thought of it that way before. Well, he had, but he'd just assumed that trying to feel his way through his powers wouldn't work at all. "So, what, like it's a part of me, instead of a tool?"

"Isn't it?" asked Ernie. "We were all born this way, weren't we?"

Kenny nodded, juggling four marbles without looking at them. Her form was perfect, and each throw seemed to be exactly as powerful as the throw before it. It was sheer human perfection. "Not like we were given much of a choice, short of living around our weakness for our whole life. But hey, at least we're the lucky ones. Could have ended up as Freaks."

David decided to let that jibe pass. It was true: they were the lucky ones. Superpowers without any side effects. "Maybe for you," he said. "I haven't gotten a real night's sleep in months."

"Maybe you just need to get laid," Kenny guffawed. Everyone else smiled. David rolled his eyes. "So, you guys just hang out here, playing music, dicking around, having sex, and...not using your abilities?"

"Well, hey now," Garfield said, raising a hand. "Who said we didn't use our abilities? You know the Kryptonites, right?"

"Aren't they the Epic-killers?" David felt a little chill go down his spine. Dangerous people.

"Yup," Maria cut in, shushing Garfield with a glare. "We like to fuck 'em up." She looked at David with those deep eyes, and he just about melted on the spot. Not that he would let her know that. "They're dickbags," she continued, suddenly in a voice that sounded like an old radio announcer. "We gotta make life tough for those flappers!"

"Matter of fact," Kenny said, grinning at David slyly. "You might have come at just the right time. How would you like to rob a bunch of murderers blind?"