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"You've been most helpful. We'll put in a good word with your superiors." Cogito teleports with the manager to street level, about a block away from the warehouse. Go back to the warehouse and through the front door. Act as if you just got back from a lunch break. If anyone asks you what's going on, tell them you don't know what they're talking about and to get back to work.
Cogito sighs. "He's just another cog in the machine. He doesn't know anything. We need to find one of these 'higher-ups'."
"So who would Madd have contacted to place the order?"
"So you'll just give out chemicals to anyone who asks for them? No identification needed?"
We found some Femtotech containers in Doctor Madd's lab. Tell us what they were doing there.
No longer in immediate danger, Cogito will keep trying until it works.
Cogito starts trying to dominate the guy's mind.
Cogito teleports Amoeba and SATURDAY MORNING to the same rooftop (making sure to bring the CAV-CRU with him). "And don't bother lying. That will only waste your time, and our patience."
Cogito shudders at the unspeakable horrors he has just witnessed, but forces himself to try again. [dice=Forfeit your mind!]d20+5[/dice]
Shoot at a spot eight inches to the left of Dmitri's head, then say "Dammit, something's wrong with my gun!". Cogito frowns. Say that *exactly*. Cogito keeps trying to control the guy as he sneaks over to Amoeba and SATURDAY MORNING. "Kindly stop the boss from shooting at our friend. He is proving surprisingly resistant." he whispers.
Say "Oh, right. Well, they wanted to see you anyway. Something about poor wages and working conditions." Cogito tries again.
Cogito places the CAV-CRU, and puts the ring back on. Knock on the door, then open it. If there's someone inside, tell them that you've brought us for our scheduled meeting with them. Insist that you're certain we had an appointment. Cogito slips through the opened door, and starts trying to dominate whoever's inside while his guard distracts them.
Cogito gives the ring back to Dmitri. Bring us to the manager's office. Tell the guard we have a meeting with the boss.
Cogito does so.
Resume your normal duties. You have seen nothing out of the ordinary all day.
Cogito sighs. "That was too close." "You know, I've never had the opportunity to mind-control people outside of combat. This merits further experimentation." Cogito has one of the men come to him, and hands him a pen and piece of paper. Draw me a map of this building.
Well, that didn't take long.
Cogito, still invisible, keeps trying to dominate the guy.
Cogito drops the CAV-CRU on the ground when he gets the feeling that his teammates aren't going to be very well hidden.
Cogito directs his newest minion to distract the alerted one, while he keeps trying to dominate him. Get your colleague's attention, then point in the opposite direction from me and say you saw something over there.
"Damn. You guys look for a place to hide - it might take longer than I anticipated to pierce their mental defenses." Once the others are hidden, Cogito puts on the Ring of Invisibility and tries again.
"Actually, I only need line-of-sight to do that." Cogito tries to mind control both guys, one at a time. If successful, he orders them to behave normally, but ignore the four superhero guys lurking around.
"Oh, these? Just a little side project I've been field testing." The telescopes retract back into his eyes, and he takes out two silver-tinged contact lenses. "Cogitative Ultra-Optic Contacts. A plethora of observation equipment stored right against the eyeball. Unfortunately, the activation process is rather unreliable, as the nerve impulse used to activate them is only recognized about 5% of the time." "Anyway, the guys with the van must be working for Femto. We should exercise caution."
Cogito begins designing the Cogitative Audio/Visual Cortex-Reprogramming Unit.
When placed on a flat surface, the CAV-CRU will use electromagnetism to alter the sensory impulses of everyone in the room (except Cogito and his teammates), causing them to perceive the Grand Slams as four completely unnoteworthy workers.
"I think it would be wise to do this as stealthily as possible. If Femtotech knows we are investigating them, it will be much more difficult to gather information on their plans." "At Doctor Madd's hideout, our attempts at stealth were foiled by security cameras. Simply destroying them is just as bad as if we walked right up to them, smiling and waving. We need a way to get past cameras and guards undetected. I believe some sort of cloaking device would accomplish this." "In addition, we should keep a lookout for scientists. They will know more about Femtotech's schemes than the ordinary workers, and I can easily incapacitate them and probe their minds for such information. However, my mind control cannot influence memories, so they will simply sound the alarm once my control ends. We should find a way to erase their short-term memories, or make them believe that they have witnessed nothing of interest in the last, say, ten minutes."
"Agreed. Let me see if I can discern where these canisters came from..."
Cogito rolls his eyes. "It's carbon, Saturday. I doubt even you could find a way to render it unsafe." "In any case, we don't have anything else to do at the moment. We could keep an eye on the police scanner and the TV, or maybe go upstairs and ask Joe if he's heard of any new villainy lately."
"I see your point, but it's not like we can simply pour them down the sink. This Denny's isn't exactly equipped with sophisticated chemical disposal equipment."
"An intriguing reaction, though probably not one we would want to reproduce with Amoeba himself." Cogito sighs, crestfallen. "Well, it was worth a try, at any rate. I suppose I should contact the Superhuman Task Force to dispose of the rest of the mutagens. At best they're a waste of what precious little space we have, at worst they're utterly toxic to at least one of us."
Cogito puts some Amoeba goop in a test tube, then mixes in a few drops of mutagen, checking whether it reacts in any way.
"I wouldn't need much, just enough to fill two or three test tubes. You should be able to regenerate the lost material easily."
"Oh, the usual. Mad scientists, radioactive skull-faced men, hobo kidnappings..." Once Joe leaves, Cogito explains his idea to Amoeba: "It's quite simple, really. If the acidic compound we found in Madd's hideout is similar to the one that altered your molecular structure, and the mutagens were designed to synergize with that compound, I believe that we could adapt the mutagens to enhance your abilities!" "Of course, I cannot say for certain if this would work, and experimenting on you directly would be far too risky. Therefore, I will simply take a few small samples of your...well, of you, and see if they produce any results."
Cogito looks at the mutagens, then at Amoeba. He grabs a few canisters. "I just had an idea. Let's go back to the Den."
Cogito smirks at Jacko. "Now, where were we?" He tries once more to dominate the radioactive Ghost Rider.
If successful, he will Teleport toward the civilians.
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