Super Hero High: Prometheus Rising (IC, Open)

[Pragia]

Thomas grabbed the pole and got pulled in, he was a bit annoyed, with burns on his chest and puke all over him. He was mumbling about how amazing his first swim was all the way back to the edge. He replied "I'll be fine once I'm in some new clothes, shame I forgot sunscreen on a space station." he said, trying to use his power to shift a vent to clean off, becoming very afraid when it didn't come to him. "Hmmmm... Names Thomas by the way, sorry I couldn't get yours." he said as he looked over as the guards began talking to Taro and that weird guy who'd attack them. He wanted to help the guards, but he knew that this kid had too much evidence against him.

[Nulvelith]

Edamiel left the cafeteria abd started wandering around. Look at these kids, acting like regular students, as though there was nothing strange about living on a space station under constant surveillance with armed guards waiting just out of sight around every corner.
Edamiel heard a commotion partway through her stroll, watched as guards rushed into the pool area. Shaking her head, she ignored it and walked past. Then she changed her mind and stopped. Cloaking herself, she leaned against the wall and waited to see who came out. There might be a cute, half drowned girl - or better yet, one of her fellow delinquents. Edamiel had yet to meet any of them, and they were an untapped resource... She had been here for most of the day and still did not know anything about her peers. that situation needs to be remedied...

[Transoxthraxia]

Alexandria saw the commotion, and the guards that came out. Instead of facing them like the rest of the group, Alexandria instead ducked out of the entrance to the pool area, leaning against a wall beside the door. Phew. She thought... "Whoa..." She said to herself. "I made that guy puke. Puke." She chuckled to herself. "Now, girl, that's impressive." She said, trying to catch her breath, happy to see that both her positive and negative powers still work well.

[Nulvelith]

Alexandria saw the commotion, and the guards that came out. Instead of facing them like the rest of the group, Alexandria instead ducked out of the entrance to the pool area, leaning against a wall beside the door. Phew. She thought... "Whoa..." She said to herself. "I made that guy puke. Puke." She chuckled to herself. "Now, girl, that's impressive." She said, trying to catch her breath, happy to see that both her positive and negative powers still work well.

"So what happened?" comes Edamiel's disembodied voice from right next to Alexandria. She made somebody puke? Maybe she got off a lucky punch or somethin... She doesnt look like much of a fighter though...

[Altruistic Paladins]

As the continued talk of a easily heard doctor and the easily incomprehensible murmuring continued to assault Makoto's ears, Makoto took on an increasing intolerance of the noise. She could not understand why anybody could tolerate the multiple channels of noise in the infirmary. Whether it was madness or impatience, she could not stand the sounds there. As she got-up and walked from the room, she failed to notice her lack of imbalance as the distractions of the infirmary stole her attention. As Makoto exited the infirmary, she realized that something was wrong. The clocks signaled that well more than fifteen minutes were missing and her cap was not present on her head. Worse still, the murmuring did not get quieter.

---

"Do you know how to do a fireman's carry? Nevermind, that is probably not important now. Just get them on the other side of the rubble so that I may deliver them the other half of the way out of the building," Bramwell thought as he kept up the refusal to speak. He did not like the situation, as he was not entirely sure whether the people were there because they fled from another building or whether there was a source in the building that inspired it. Even so, he awaited Caitlin's first delivery.

---

Sakura was in the library, walking disappointingly away from place where no aesthetic equivalence could be drawn to the Library of Alexandria but to an internet cafe, even to the point of wi-fi being in the hall for those with research projects to use, and yet very few encyclopedias to use. The lack of volumes was hardly the fault of the library itself, but it still disappointed Sakura that the hall looked barren without shelves lined-with books. With that disappointment behind her, she walked to the cafeteria to get black coffee before a return to the infirmary would be made to check on Makoto.

---

"Damn you Doctor Moreau. If you strike me down, I will only come back as Japan, and then the power of Bushido will kill you until you die! That was fun," one of the people in the break room said as he stood up and pointed at Doctor Moreau. The break room was larger than average break rooms for the simple reason that most of the hospital staff was not busy. The room was filled with doctors and nurses who were either hopelessly trying to sleep during the downtime of their long shifts, tell dirty jokes, playing foozeball, tell jokes that were dark enough that black-holes had less pull on light, eat sweet finger foods, play ping-pong, or play video games. With the still average forty-hour shifts and almost nothing to do, they were pretty unoccupied.

"I am sure my allied city-states appreciate doing well enough to no longer deserve the titles of city-states. Maybe Jarhead of the Celts will liberate your cities so that you may have that infinitesimally small chance of a unit of yours equipping themselves with land ships from an ancient civilization. Knowing your luck, you would not have any oil." Doctor Moreau uttered without hesitation.

"Whatever you say puddle-pirate. Let's see you take on samurai soon enough and just maybe zeroes if you survive long enough to see them. I will show you all after you are finished conquering each other." A timer went-off, signaling the doctors to check on Makoto. "I'll be back for revenge soon enough brutes." The doctor said as he nearly tripped on the legs of a doctor who used a coffee table as a leg-rest. He walked out of the relatively sterile white break-room to the completely sterile infirmary to check on the floor. When he walked into the room, he noticed an empty bed. "Doctor Moreau, what happened to the patient?" the guy said as he noticed Sakura, who had confusion.

---

Makoto walked the empty halls silently, moving from door entryway arch to door entryway arch. She would continue this move one after another constantly. She moved to conceal herself despite the severe lack of people to see her and signs of non-sense were made. This repetition continued on for several minutes. She did not like the situation, and the situation's feelings toward her were reciprocal. Makoto soon took awareness of Cassie, and tried to keep herself concealed in an entryway to a room. The direction Cassie walked made Cassie hostile to Makoto's odd attempts at stealth, an already impractical feat due to the blue lights and the brightly-colored hospital pyjamas.

[Mighty Asgard]

Jack threw on his signature smile knowing it probably didn't matter.

"What can I say? I'm new here, don't completely know the rules, and was wondering how alert and combat effective my fellow peers were. You know, getting a sense of what I have gotten myself into."

The guard didn't look at all amused. "Attacking another student is against the rules. Keep that in mind or you will be visiting the brig." He looked at Taro, "that goes for you as well. If either of you get into any more trouble you'll be spending the night in detention."

"Now leave, all of you. The pool's closed until the mess is dealt with."

[Corrian]

Hearing the last bit before Cassie left, she frowned. "I'm sorry you guys have to deal with all of this...." She said, but didn't say it in a way that made her that obvious that she was speaking to someone and trying to get their attention. She said that more as an afterthought then anything, feeling bad that the guards always had to deal with rowdy students with powers causing problems by attacking each other, or just by causing problems. There always seemed to be something they had to get involved in. If they were at her old school, they would be quite busy, as well. Though, she felt that if the guards were at her old school, she wouldn't of been bullied so much, and maybe they would of even taken notice in the fact she came to the school abused multiple times. That was something that still frustrated her: The fact none of the teachers seemed to take any notice to the fact one of their students showed up hurt to school way too often.

"My names Cassie" Cassie said to Thomas, before fully slipping out of the room without another word. At this point, she was just trying to get as far away from the commotion as possible, and as fast as possible. She moved away from everything at a fast walk, going back to leaning against the wall a ways away and trying to calm herself down yet again. Looking at her hands, she noticed how shaky she was. Once again she tried to control her breathing, and to try and calm her shaking, but it wasn't working very well.

Caitlin
Caitlin nodded to Bramwell, phasing through the wall shortly later. Or, more specifically, the rubble of the wall. It didn't take her long to find someone, and the first person she found appeared to be a 13-year old girl or somewhere around that age. The girl appeared to be coughing, likely from smoke problems. Figuring it was best to get her out first, she approached her and smiled. "I am here to help you. Come on, take my hand and I'll help you out" She told the girl, and she hesitated for a moment, but grabbed her hand shortly later and Caitlin pulled her to her feet. "This can be a bit disorienting at first, but we are going to go through the rubble....You saw how I came in, right?" She asked, and the girl nodded. With that, she phased through the wall, the girl going through with her. Once out, she gave a nod to her to stay with Bramwell, before heading back in.

[Levtos]

++So far so good...++ Alan thought to himself as he skulked through an empty hallway, keeping to the shadows. After realizing his mistake in smuggling himself aboard, all the young Psionic wanted to do was get off of this stupid station where everyone was like him. There was no variety here! Besides, without anyone to call "friend" for more than a few minutes, Alan was starting to get a bit irritable. ++It's not like those guards are any help, either. It's HARD to get past those guys...++ He mused as he came around a corner, practically hugging the wall.

As he did, he heard a commotion coming from nearby, and decided to head the other direction. He began to turn towards where he'd just come from.
(decent?)

[Kintain]

As they were leaving, Jack turned the other students.

"My name is Jack by the way. It's been a pleasure to meet you. Lovely tans as well," he said with a cheshire grin while sticking out his hand.

[Transoxthraxia]

Alexandria saw the commotion, and the guards that came out. Instead of facing them like the rest of the group, Alexandria instead ducked out of the entrance to the pool area, leaning against a wall beside the door. Phew. She thought... "Whoa..." She said to herself. "I made that guy puke. Puke." She chuckled to herself. "Now, girl, that's impressive." She said, trying to catch her breath, happy to see that both her positive and negative powers still work well.

"So what happened?" comes Edamiel's disembodied voice from right next to Alexandria. She made somebody puke? Maybe she got off a lucky punch or somethin... She doesnt look like much of a fighter though...

Alexandria turned quickly to face the metallic voice that she heard. "Yeah I made someone puke." She said suspisciously. "Who wants to know?"

[Nulvelith]

"So what happened?" comes Edamiel's disembodied voice from right next to Alexandria. She made somebody puke? Maybe she got off a lucky punch or somethin... She doesnt look like much of a fighter though...

Alexandria turned quickly to face the metallic voice that she heard. "Yeah I made someone puke." She said suspisciously. "Who wants to know?"

OOC: its a normal girls voice
IC: An invisible hand pats Alexandia's shoulder. "Just a curios nobody."
Edamiel moves away quickly, walking along the ceiling. Not a very potent ability, but... Still useful. From the far end of the hall, Edamiel's voice speaks again. "You can call me Wraith, if you like."

[Pragia]

As they were leaving, Jack turned the other students.

"My name is Jack by the way. It's been a pleasure to meet you. Lovely tans as well," he said with a cheshire grin while sticking out his hand.

As Thomas walked out the door, he gave a sneer to this "Jack" guy, then spat at the floor in front of him and said "The pleasure's mine, asshole." and he walked back up to his dorm, tired from the rather eventful first day. He walked in, seeing Jay on his bed, and Roady curled up next to it, raising an ear when he walked in. He put on a new set of clothes, then went over to his work bench, to begin working on an idea he had to deal with people who tried stuff like what happened.

[Nulvelith]

++So far so good...++ Alan thought to himself as he skulked through an empty hallway, keeping to the shadows. After realizing his mistake in smuggling himself aboard, all the young Psionic wanted to do was get off of this stupid station where everyone was like him. There was no variety here! Besides, without anyone to call "friend" for more than a few minutes, Alan was starting to get a bit irritable. ++It's not like those guards are any help, either. It's HARD to get past those guys...++ He mused as he came around a corner, practically hugging the wall.

As he did, he heard a commotion coming from nearby, and decided to head the other direction. He began to turn towards where he'd just come from.
(decent?)

Edamiel's invisible stroll on the ceiling took her past a face that looked just as unwilling to be on station as she was... But a lot more oblivious. Just for kicks, she grapped the new kid as she walked over his head, picked him up, then moved into highspeed. Edamiel zoomed all around the level before dropping him next to Alexandria, by the pool.

[Levtos]

"AGH!! SUNOFAB*TCH!!!" Alan cries out, and sends out a pulse of telekinetic vibration as he is tossed down, shaking his ^Assailant's^ spinal cord and brain stem, stunning them. Without looking, Alan lets out some colorful curses and jumps to his feet.

[Nulvelith]

"AGH!! SUNOFAB*TCH!!!" Alan cries out, and sends out a pulse of telekinetic vibration as he is tossed down, shaking his ^Assailant's^ spinal cord and brain stem, stunning them. Without looking, Alan lets out some colorful curses and jumps to his feet.

Nobody sees it just yet, but Nul is upside down, with frizzy electrified hair sticking out. She hangs limp for a brief moment before recovering. well that was a shocking development. Felt good, too. Lets have some fun now. Edamiel pulls out a marker, holding it in front of the boy's face, waiting for him to walk into it.
Unfortunately, Edamiel is struck down by a fit of giggles and is unable to complete the prank. She drops the marker and decloaks, holding her face in a futile attempt to stay quiet.
"That was fantastic, you shoul have seen your face kid.."

[Orinon]

Dominic
Dominic was ready to hit Abigale if she tried to attack anyone, but it turned out that she had returned to her regular psychopathic self rather than the outright lunatic she had acted a few moments before. A minor improvement, but an improvement nonetheless.

"Abigale," he said to her, "I'm taking you back to the shuttle, and you will stay there until we get back to the Academy. We can't risk you having another episode and trying to kill someone."

[/quote]

Abigale laughed bitterly at Dominic.
"I'll be a good girl, sir," she said in a mockery of a sweet and innocent voice. She then turned and walked away, leaving him and Markus behind. Watching her go, Markus sighed.
"I'll help out where I can. I could benchpress a car if I wanted to. I'm sure there's some heaving lifting to be done. Come on kiddo. Let's go be heroes," he said, waving Gabiral over. Gabiral nodded, then walked off with Markus. A short distance away from Dominic, Gabiral spoke up.
"Why did that girl try to kill me?"
"Because woman are strange creatures, liable to kill you for no reason at all. Remember that, son," Markus replied, completely serious.

[Altruistic Paladins]

Makoto's cover became exposed to Cassie, and Makoto did not appreciate this newfound surveillance. Even with her lowest profile, yellow and blue hospital pyjamas made her stand-out from the grey door quite easily. The egregious patterns screamed for Cassie's attention to the person that hopelessly tried to become as flat as the wall. The painful eyes upon her, she tried to avoid detection for a period of time despite the tremendous disregard to however wide Cassie's field of vision actually was. Eyes were upon her, and she did not want to recognize it.

---

Bramwell rushed the patient out of the building in fireman's carry. Bramwell was trained to use the fireman's carry for reasons of CASEVAC in situations where a litter was not available and there was no reason to suspect injuries to the spinal cord were present. The reason for the carry in such a manner was that he thought it would be more efficient to carry the patient than to match the patient's slow speed. Even if he could not run as quickly as he traditionally would, his pace was still very consistent. During the trip, Bramwell tried to assure the patient of her safety through a statement that she would be on her feet in a week at most. This task became especially difficult when he had to avoid focus on the fact that vomit was on his shoulders. The idea that bodily fluids contacted his skin deeply disturbed Bramwell, providing a sensation similar to an electric current constructed on his arm that forced his arms to contract. He managed to distract himself from it for a sufficient period of time to get her to a triage before taking the jacket-off to reveal a sand-colored shirt beneath it and washed his arm thoroughly for both his own reasons and sanitation regulations before he returned to the building continue work.

[Corrian]

Cassie had noticed Makato, but didn't seem to pay her much mind. Because of this, she didn't even realize that she was acting...strange, and suspicious. For the most part, she was still busy trying to control her shakiness and her heavy breathing. She was so focused on that particular situation that she just didn't really pay much mind to Makato or anyone else for that matter. Instead, she just started going back to walking aimlessly down the halls, turning on her music again after stopping it during what had just occurred a little bit ago. The music was the same as previously, though a different song by the same particular artist. She hoped it would maybe calm herself down or something.

Caitlin
From then on, Caitlin slowly worked to bring each and every person in the building out, to be moved to the paramedic's and to somewhere safe. Bringing people out had a varying range of difficulty. Some appeared to be pretty badly injured, others almost perfectly fine. A specific one had pretty bad smoke inhalation. But one of the people barely had a scratch. The one's that were harder to carry, or help along were the most difficult. Others could of assisted her, but she wasn't sure she could phase more then one person through the wall at once. So she just slowly did that particular building, which may of taken over 10 minutes in itself, just because of the number of people and some of the difficulty with getting them out of the building. At least she had the ability to phase.

Once she was done with that building, she felt pretty worn out. Assisting in holding up or partly carrying some people that were about twice her weight wasn't exactly an easy task for her, especially since she wasn't exactly a strong person herself. And the repeated use of her powers started to feel like she may of been overdoing herself, but not overly so. Leaning over and catching her breath, she breathlessly said "Next building?".

[Transoxthraxia]

"AGH!! SUNOFAB*TCH!!!" Alan cries out, and sends out a pulse of telekinetic vibration as he is tossed down, shaking his ^Assailant's^ spinal cord and brain stem, stunning them. Without looking, Alan lets out some colorful curses and jumps to his feet.

Nobody sees it just yet, but Nul is upside down, with frizzy electrified hair sticking out. She hangs limp for a brief moment before recovering. well that was a shocking development. Felt good, too. Lets have some fun now. Edamiel pulls out a marker, holding it in front of the boy's face, waiting for him to walk into it.
Unfortunately, Edamiel is struck down by a fit of giggles and is unable to complete the prank. She drops the marker and decloaks, holding her face in a futile attempt to stay quiet.
"That was fantastic, you shoul have seen your face kid.."

Alexandria, before she had time to react, had a kid, as well as the girl she was just talking to in front of her, the new kid screaming and panicking, while the girl was caught up in a fit of giggles, holding a marker. Alexandria couldn't help but giggle at the scene, and note that her acquaintance was a trickster and able to become invisible.

[Altruistic Paladins]

___"Take the corner," Makoto murmered as she got away from the wall. She knew she was noticed, and assumed feigned ignorance. Danger in mind, Makoto ran to Cassie. Objects randomly flew-off the walls, sometimes following Makoto, sometimes heading for Cassie, and other floating in space before falling to the ground. She knew she was noticed, and assumed feigned ignorance. With eyes bloodshot, Makoto grabbed and pulled Cassie's shoulder and wrist while she swept Cassie's right leg using her left leg to destabilize her, her body moving alongside the leg. Cassie then hit her back before Makoto proceeded to place her left leg across Cassie's abdomen. Without any experience, Cassie was a target. Makoto then proceeded to strike the blur that she thought was Cassie's head. The entire time, she spoke to Cassie in a relatively quiet tone despite the very clear irritation and panic in it.
___"Why did you steal my hat and glasses? Does the Society of the Elect know about my location? Where did you put forty-five minutes of my time? Why the hell would there not be dice when one takes protons into account of protons being present? Now that I think about it, he was right about driving since it was on the right-hand side unlike how the Society of the Elect wants it the way I hate. Why can't you walk into a museum and feel shame? Why do you want to repeat your mistakes? You did not invent the electric guitar," Makoto rambled consistently with often disconnected sentences. This was less noticeable than the fact that Makoto continually offered violence to Cassie's face. All around the two were small objects that floated around the two, usually small objects that would occasionally hit either one of the two.

---

___"Head at eight o'clock. I see somebody in shock. The skin has superficial burns but there seems to be worse burns beyond the skin. I would think this means this was an electrical burn, so please practice caution when you get the person, in case there is still a complete current" Bramwell declared as he ran to the small courtyard. The orchard had a tree with clear burns on it and the person was clearly unconscious. Bramwell really wished he had rubber gloves and rubber boots at that point in case an electrical current was still active.

[Kintain]

"AGH!! SUNOFAB*TCH!!!" Alan cries out, and sends out a pulse of telekinetic vibration as he is tossed down, shaking his ^Assailant's^ spinal cord and brain stem, stunning them. Without looking, Alan lets out some colorful curses and jumps to his feet.

Nobody sees it just yet, but Nul is upside down, with frizzy electrified hair sticking out. She hangs limp for a brief moment before recovering. well that was a shocking development. Felt good, too. Lets have some fun now. Edamiel pulls out a marker, holding it in front of the boy's face, waiting for him to walk into it.
Unfortunately, Edamiel is struck down by a fit of giggles and is unable to complete the prank. She drops the marker and decloaks, holding her face in a futile attempt to stay quiet.
"That was fantastic, you shoul have seen your face kid.."

Another invisible person? Interesting. Jack grinned. This could be a potentially worthwhile ally.

He watched her giggle away for a while then asked, "What's your name?"

[Orinon]

Goltia fumed as she walked through the station, muttering as she sidestepped students and staff alike. Her general body language and glare gave away her bad mood.
"Everything feels wrong, the air doesn't smell right, these people speak too quickly, not to mention the accents... And this station is too damn quiet!" she shouted at the now empty hallway, before smashing her fist against the wall. Not matter how much force she could punch with, Goltia was still human, and, having forgotten Newton's Third Law, the bones in her hand shattered as the steel buckled slightly. Screaming for a moment, Goltia slumped against the wall, clutching her very much unusable hand.
"Abigale splits us up, Dad and Mom disappear, uncle Jake fucks off to l'Cie Lane, and Grace ends up slaughtering the entire crew of a dreadnought. And now that we are back together, I'm too busy being jealous towards him to actually be happy to see him. Some sister I am..." she said, letting a few loose tears fall from her face as blood from the torn skin on her knuckles dripped on the floor.
"You know, slaughter can't be spelt without laughter" chimed a familiar voice. Goltia snorted at the cheesy attempt at humour, then looked up at where the voice came from; a small speaker alongside a camera.
"That you, Kara?" she asked.
"Yeap. Finally finished integrating the new hardware. Feels soooo good to be in Colonial processor units again. I mean, the units here are good for their tech level, but this is like comparing chocolate and sex," the AI replied. Goltia chuckled and smiled.
"And how would you know what sex is like?" she asked.
"I'm an AI that's in her form of teenage years with a hardwired connection to these guys version of the internet. I surf, and every once in a while I got where I really shouldn't" Kara replied cheerfully.
"I shouldn't have asked," Goltia sighed. Then, she pulled herself off the wall and looked at the camera. "You know where Markus and Magenta are?"
"Yeap. Just sent you a digital map. Should lead you right to them," Kara replied. Goltia smiled and nodded.
"Thanks little sis," she said warmly, before walking off slowly.
"Anytime."

[Nulvelith]

Nobody sees it just yet, but Nul is upside down, with frizzy electrified hair sticking out. She hangs limp for a brief moment before recovering. well that was a shocking development. Felt good, too. Lets have some fun now. Edamiel pulls out a marker, holding it in front of the boy's face, waiting for him to walk into it.
Unfortunately, Edamiel is struck down by a fit of giggles and is unable to complete the prank. She drops the marker and decloaks, holding her face in a futile attempt to stay quiet.
"That was fantastic, you shoul have seen your face kid.."

Another invisible person? Interesting. Jack grinned. This could be a potentially worthwhile ally.

He watched her giggle away for a while then asked, "What's your name?"

Edamiel finishes with her giggle fit, furious that she let her cloaking drop. Oh well. I suppose if im going to use these tools, i should play nice for now "As i told her, you can call me Wraith. It's slightly less scary and more understandable than my actual name. You?"
Edamiel stretches, then drops to the floor. She might be accustomed to being upside down, but the blood would still rush to her head, and she hated that.
i guess it isn't too big a deal that they saw me... My face is still concealed, and none of the students here have any idea of who i am... And im sure not gonna waste time letting people get to know me.

[Kintain]

Another invisible person? Interesting. Jack grinned. This could be a potentially worthwhile ally.

He watched her giggle away for a while then asked, "What's your name?"

Edamiel finishes with her giggle fit, furious that she let her cloaking drop. Oh well. I suppose if im going to use these tools, i should play nice for now "As i told her, you can call me Wraith. It's slightly less scary and more understandable than my actual name. You?"
Edamiel stretches, then drops to the floor. She might be accustomed to being upside down, but the blood would still rush to her head, and she hated that.
i guess it isn't too big a deal that they saw me... My face is still concealed, and none of the students here have any idea of who i am... And im sure not gonna waste time letting people get to know me.

"Jack Gunsche, I'm new here. Belong in the villain dorm." Jack proffered his hand in greeting, "Though if you ask me, us villains should be in the people dorm while hero's should be in dog houses considering the leash they allow placed upon themselves in the name of the "Greater Good." Jack's eyes narrowed, something had been off about this girl's, Wraith's, appearance. He couldn't place it but then it clicked. If she was just merely turning invisible, he should have been able to sense her earlier. She could be another light bender, but when she had dragged in that boy who had been screaming his head off, her footsteps still should have been heard considering the acoustics of your average indoor pool. He never heard anything other than the boy's scream.

Jack couldn't help but ask, "you can blot yourself out from the senses of others, can't you?"

[Nulvelith]

Edamiel ignored the proffered hand. From behind Edamiel's mask, the shape of a smirk showed. "Quite possibly. Or perhaps your senses are a bit dull. Might want to get your hearing checked. As for those so called "heroes", their strongest leash is a matter of righteous arrogance. They all seem to think they know what the greater good is, and yet they would not exist without villains around for them to target. Without any bad guys, they're just a bunch of pricks who think they can tell the rest of us how to live our lives."