“Welcome to Cauldron,” the Doctor said.
And there we have the confirmation / reveal for those who hadn’t caught on.
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Oh – skipping ahead a bit?
“How did you find me? I just got an email.”
Ah, so they contacted her.
“I’d have to check my notes. We have ways of finding interested parties. If I remember right, you were browsing websites, researching ways to acquire tinker-made armor and weapons?”
Becoming a tinker herself would certainly be a way of doing that.
Alternatively, becoming a different kind of parahuman could eliminate the need.
Jamie nodded. “I was. So many were fakes or scams that I wasn’t willing to trust the ones that did look legit.”
Even the legit ones were probably not particularly safe, really.
“We own several of those sites. All are fakes. That might have been where we first noticed your activity.”
Ah, that makes sense. Dummy sites specifically designed to detect people who might be interested in obtaining powers or something like them.
“That’s a little creepy.”
Maybe a little bit.
“Creepiness is an unfortunate reality when you’re forced to operate covertly, without a steady customer base.”
I wonder what the laws Cauldron is working around are like. It makes sense that the authorities wouldn’t want the sale of powers, since it increases the chances of people like, well, Shatterbird getting powers, but what are the specifics?
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