Intrepid

Myriad Reality

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Very well!
*the whole Tavern warps and for a split second you see another me at one end of the bar counter that dissipates and the whole room is filled with lively and rowdy beings*

@Ignacious

Now this is business.

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I guess that's what I'm wondering about. Why are they more scared of you than the sheriff or something?

@Source

Because I'm more capable.

Myriad Reality

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Ohhhhhhh. What do you do if you catch someone?

@Source

What any authority would do. Arrest them.

Myriad Reality

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But you can’t be in all of those places at once, right?

@Source

No, no. But I can be in any one of them at any time, and that's what matters.

Myriad Reality

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I guess I just don’t know what that looks like.

@Source

A lot of people guarding a place. Insane cyber warfare capabilities. Big names of people everyone knows means business openly advertised as overseeing whatever that is. Not to toot my own horn, but if nearly anyone in the IA reads a sign that says a location is under the watchful eye of Max Cerberus at all times, they don't test it.

Myriad Reality

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So you... make examples? Be a scary figurehead?

@Source

Make sure that everyone knows that what we want protected, is protected in every way they can imagine and then some. People aren't going to try anything if they don't believe they'll get far enough for it to matter.

Myriad Reality

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Yeah! They’re like consequences.

@Source

You get the idea. That's one way we do it.

Myriad Reality

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How do you protect them if there’s not a threat?

@Source

Know about the concept of deterrents?

Myriad Reality

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How do you do that? I thought heroes fought bad guys.

@Source

Intelligence, interception... You name it. It's more effective to protect people from threats either before the threat is in range, or before it exists at all.

Myriad Reality

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What does that mean?

@Source

It's less about protecting people from danger as it's happening, and more about preventing the danger period.

Myriad Reality

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It’s mostly protecting people and stuff?

@Source

I suppose arranging situations so that people don’t need protected is a roundabout way of just protecting them, huh? Because I mostly do that, with a bit of direct protecting.