[center][color=00ffff][h2][i][b]Victoria van Dyne[/b][/i][/h2][/color][hr][color=00ffff][b]Location: [/b][/color]Fairgrounds
[color=00ffff][b]Equipment / items: [/b][/color]Multifield generators
[color=00ffff][b]Powers / skills: [/b][/color] Physics[/center][hr]The incoming barrage was enough, or perhaps it was a call from one of the few voices whose authority she recognized. The illusion collapsed. At first Victoria was confused, staring at nothing in particular as her mind caught up. And then it all came flooding back.

[url=https://www.roleplayerguild.com/topics/189613-avengers-academy-x-of-swords/ic?page=28#post-5497812]"Hello, niece! I must say, it was very kind of you to take care of my newest shell, but your services are no longer required."[/url]

[right][url=https://www.roleplayerguild.com/topics/189613-avengers-academy-x-of-swords/ic?page=33#post-5513294]"You're doing great work."[/url][/right]
[center][url=https://www.roleplayerguild.com/topics/189613-avengers-academy-x-of-swords/ic?page=41#post-5589271]"...You're a robot, Vicky. You know the family history."[/url][/center]
[i][color=00ffff]STAY OUT OF MY HEAD![/color][/i]

She felt the panic hit her, and she started backing up. If she retained a sliver more of control, what would she have done? And even worse, despite all the precautions she took, every back door shut, still, [i]still[/i] someone took over her mind again. She felt the tremors that were absent since C.A.G.E. return to her hands, and she tripped over her own feet, falling on her back into the snow.

Maybe it was the fall, maybe it was the cold, but it knocked some sense back into her as she stared up at the sky. She closed her eyes and took a breath.

[i][color=00ffff]Allright. Not as okay as I thought I was. Obviously.[/color][/i] She thought, but remembered just what the illusion made her see. [i][color=00ffff]The details may have been my imagination, but the overarching principle is still there. There's a group of actors dictating which timelines go on and which die. So long as that exists... Incidents like this one don't matter, because my life was lined up long ago and how I get to where I'm going makes no difference.[/color][/i] she huffed, letting the winter air cool her hardware.

Still, she preferred Sabine's brand of using mind powers. While Victoria encouraged using one's gifts, there was the addendum of 'for the pragmatic greater good'. This? This was done to her for [i]shits and giggles[/i]. [i][color=00ffff]That won't do. If nothing [b]I[/b] can do can keep my mind safe... then I need an [b]external[/b] anchor. Something that I can somehow recognize as a signal that what I see is not real. And something hidden well enough that someone forcing themselves into my mind won't find it and use it against me. So probably no spinning tops.[/color][/i]

A possible solution to her conundrum then announced herself. Loudly.

Victoria's gaze ticked over to where Sabine and Leah's shrilling voices were coming from, and what they were saying. She then got up, looking at Andy with a teasing smirk: [color=00ffff]"Something I missed?"[/color]

She then made her way back behind the snow wall, starting to pack together the mother of all snowballs. As she did and the [i]drama[/i] quieted down, she sent over a single thought to Sabine: [color=00ffff][i]"When you have the time, I have a big favor to ask of you."[/i][/color]

Meanwhile, there was a siren that deserved retribution. Vicky's snowball has reached a good foot in diameter before she was satisfied. Time to see how well she could control the repulsor fields in a more real time fashion.

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Vicky attempts to use vectored repulsor field to launch a massive, [i]guided[/i] snowball at Xénia, aiming at center-mass. Calling physics skill to control the field.
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[b]Equipped:[/b] 6 (Left hand) + 6 (Right hand) + 2 (Eyes)
[b]Not equipped:[/b] 1 (Backpack)

[b]Use:[/b]
Full set: Remote, dynamic vectored repulsor field
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