If PowerSets Met in a Bar
By
BlueBattler,
Posted on: 2010-09-07 15:58 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
I loved this! After I started to get in the right mindset, I found I had to go and read the first few again, but still couldn't quite understand Radiation Emission. Empathy, Pain, and Medicine were definitely my favourites, with Dual Pistols close behind. Most of them got a smile out of me, and a few of them a chuckle.
Bravo. 
Bartender NINJITSU kept showing off it's skills.
PSI ASSAULT stole the spotlight on the dance floor.
So there you are. Young and alive. Maybe a little hung over. No matter. Tonight is your night. You want to be where the PowerSets are. So soak up that ambience, cat. Take it there. You've paid your cover, tossed a few back, and that's when the night's getting loud, and you're on the scene again.
You show up late. It's fashionable. And the action is humming. All around you, you see...
MIND CONTROL was working the door. When PLANT CONTROL shows up, he examines his ID with unmistakeable bitterness, because he's sure he's too young to be doing what he's doing.
ROBOTS is hanging out by the side of the dance floor with her usual clique. They are all perfect and beautiful and make it clear from their body language they have no use for anyone else here. Reluctantly, you envy their lifestyle. But you also just kind of hope they all die.
TRICK ARROW came out tonight with one objective: find a rich control set husband to get her out of debt.
RADIATION EMISSION is hiding in the corner, wondering why she can't go out one single time without running into someone she used to date.
KINETICS and FIRE CONROL are from out of town. They heard this place was like the AWESOMEST bar EVER so had to check it out. To get directions they went to the bar's website and posted 37 requests for assistance. Not that it mattered, because they got lost anyway.
FORCE FIELD has finally worked up the courage to approach the girl he's been eyeing all night. He says a few words and she smiles brightly. But then he just stands there awkwardly for 3.5 minutes before speaking or moving again.
Frat brothers ICE and STONE ARMOR would be cute in a jockish way if they weren't wearing hideous oversized sunglasses, stonewashed jeans with gold thread in a clover pattern circling the butt, and neon-pink Aeropostale shirts with popped collars and a message that reads "$TANK."
Out of the corner of your eye you notice FIERY ARMOR ash his cigarette in SHIELD DEFENSE's cocktail. (The janitor, ENERGY ARMOR, notices too.)
ENERGY BLAST is swaggering around the bar with his shirt unbuttoned. "Yeah, baby, I got so much mitigation," he says. You're thinking, "For you, I don't even have the two seconds it would take to find out."
Power couple DARK MIASMA and FIRE BLAST have just had their first argument. "Ok look," Miasma says, "I'll just forget you said anything about Black Hole, and you forget I said anything about Blazing Bolt."
EMPATHY stormed out earlier in the night, when she realized PAIN DOM was wearing the same outfit. Later she'll ask MEDICINE to hang out, because what everyone needs when they're down is the company of a less attractive friend.
When ELECTRIC CONTROL walks into the club, there's an audible gasp. Someone didn't get the message that Drag Disco night moved to Wednesday.
GRAVITY CONTROL had way too much to drink tonight. After several failed attempts to impress anyone, he heads to the parking lot to sob uncontrollably and tell STORM SUMMONING that no one else understands him.
MENTAL MANIPULATION is drinking a PBR while plugged into an iPod and working on his blog via a PowerBook. Today's post: "World of Confusion." It reads in part, "So I found World of Confusion and it was like total hilario, like total irony you know. And like now I look over and see all these preppy APPs copying my gig, and I'm like WTF @ U?"
DUAL PISTOLS has spent most of the night in the bathroom admiring herself in the mirror. ENERGY MELEE is doing the same thing, except she doesn't like what she sees. By the time either joins the action, the night is pretty much over.