12092/Tabbies and Tomfoolery

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Tabbies and Tomfoolery
Date of Scene: 20 July 2022
Location: Sundollar Coffee - Avenue of Tomorrow
Synopsis: Emma talks with Tabitha on the Sentinels and Cybernetic Dinosaurs.
Cast of Characters: Emma Frost, Tabitha Smith




Emma Frost has posed:
Emma Frost has currently invited Tabitha to join her over for coffee. The conversation has been broached on 'Sentinels'. Namely whatever thing that X-Force dealt with that now is something that the Institute has to handle as well. Emma is waiting for Tabitha, havings elected a coffee shop on the uptown area of Metropolis for a change of pace.

Tabitha Smith has posed:
The Zeta Beam Boom Tube transit network does make those extra long commutes much easier. But then the short range commute still has to be made. So eventually Tabby arrives at the coffee shop.

She's even wearing a skirt, red denim, kneelength pencil style thing. A leather jacket in a racing style in a mix of black with red on the chest and sleeves not unlike a lot of her X-Uniforms. The boots in black leather, knee high, buckles in brass, wedgeheeled adding some height by a couple inches. That matching combination of spiky leather belt and collar in yellow while her cateye glasses keep her loose hair out of her way.

There's a waggle of fingers to Emma while the younger blonde makes her way to the counter to order her coffee. Tabby looks like she might actually fit in if she got a few piercings.

Eventually a Hazelnut Latte is served and Tabby is finally settled in.

"So, like turns out AIM had been buying up a bunch of Sentinel Tech and using it to like cyborg up critters." she explains things softly. "Like bears, wolves, with cloaking and teleporting. Then dinsoaurs. Friends of Humanity had ben trying to fund up as well. Probably to buy the tech itself for themselves. Hence the torture porn they were making. Made." Tabby states and looks very sheepish.

They'd already released deepfakes involving her using other victims already streamed live.

Emma Frost has posed:
Emma Frost would be waiting over for Tabitha as the other woman would settle in, and go to listen attentively. And thoughtfully as she would purse her lips together. "This is bad. If some of our adversaries are working together.. AIM's always had mercenary tendencies with selling thier technology.. But the Friends of Humanity isn't supposed to have this level of funding. Not for full scale Sentinel research and production. That should be well beyond their aims. That's military scale in nature, and would cost in the hundreds of millions at a minimum. Even if AIM's giving them a hefty discount on it. That means they're getting some outside backers on it. Even if AIM's just piggybacking it off some of their other projects. The dinosaurs.. Horrible as those things are and what they've done, I can see the appeal."

Tabitha Smith has posed:
"Trying to fund. And porn makes a lot of money. Espcially if you cater to the 'Niche Market' genres who'll pay through the nose." Tabby points out. "I think AIM is buying the the as well. Wasn't it like originally LexCorp type stuff? I'm so not the paper trail type. We raided a bunch a computers from the porn studio." Boom-Boom reminds weith a smile and a sip of that coffee. "There was that Carnelian human trafficking operation you guys. More money there. Racists all like talking and stuff. So we've also got our nerds all embedded and stuff in forums and what have you. So we do have a finger on a pulse. But where the tech will show up next. Jimmy is probably the best one to ask. He got wind of the stuff in the Yukon. The bear did a number on him. The T-Rex took a better beating. But I didn't get that one." she states and grins.

Emma Frost has posed:
Emma Frost would shake her head over, "It's still nowhere near that. That's a good chunk of how one would pay for an aircraft carrier. That sheer amount of money being mvoed around gets interest. Even for someone of high wealth, if you move those sorts of things about and make that level of investment, it's noticable. Even if you work with an organization like AIM." She would sigh. "So that's a secondary source of investigation to pursue. If the Friends of Humanity have someone fronting them a few billion dollars, that makes them a far more dangerous threat than they already are."

Tabitha Smith has posed:
Tabby's head nod. "Black market schematics wouldn't be hard to obtain relatively cheap in the digital age. And there's probably enough junked parts lying around to scrounge piece by piece. And that's before you start looking at Genosha." The young woman visibly cringes with the memories that dredges up. The memory of all that fake viseo she's seen of herself pales in comparison.

"And this is like all pulling out of my shapely behind. But I expect the cost is why AIM went cyborg hybrids. My... daddy was a mechanic. So I know you can put together classic car all restored and looking pristine and not break the bank. A few murderbots ain't that much different."

Emma Frost has posed:
Emma Frost would nod, "It's still going to tkae quite a bit. And Magnus would slaughter anyone setting ground on Genosha for such a purpose. But you are correct, there are other ways and posibilities.. But, it's at least paramilitary level and with increased funding. But, as you said, there wer eother options." She would nod to Tabitha.
    "Yes, and for shock value. THe purpose of such things is to intimidate and to entertain as much as any other. AIM has no real restraints on what they create."

Tabitha Smith has posed:
"I know right. They'd have probably sold the finished products. But they labs themselves doing all the prototyping so far have been trashed thanks to yours Booming truly!' she at least is thankful for that.

"Think Lorna would make her old man get in line. Let the Queen have her fun first!" she declares with more of wicked tone. The latte is worked on and it's not that bad really as Tabby sips her drink while sitting back in her chair.

"So I'm sure we'll have more info on the next batch of stuff. We're even still spaamming refresh on Dox-M for anything that might let us throw a monkey wrench in a bigot's face."

Emma Frost has posed:
Emma Frost would shrug, "I'm sure that the Queen of Genosha has plenty of issues to deal with. But no doubt appreciates some level of handling this and information sharing. I presume that if there's anything within thier own sphere of influence they'll handle it promptly. And if the Freinds do get more.. Aggressive on the matter, then they will do so as well."
    She would ponder. "And the website itself has -someone- that's keeping it online and operational and that's providing funding and technical support."

Tabitha Smith has posed:
"And ad money and stuff too. It was like three clicks to fake naked me. Fak-ed" Tabby ponders. "I wanted to put together a posse to go shut down that site. But I'm still not allowed anywhere near the building. And it's useful for like "Intel"." Tabitha air quotes.

There's a very good reason she's not to take action. That website practically outed her as a Mutant, reopened a bunch of old wounds in her psyche. Tore a few new ones too.

"It's probably self funding and kicking back into the giant death robot slush fund. I'm amazed it's not the purifiers trying to do it. That's like church money they can throw around." she states and sounds surprised.

"Demons begone!" she says with a hushed tone complete with televangelist accent.

Emma Frost has posed:
Emma Frost would shake her head, "YOu won't be able to simply shut down the site. It will have ag reat many backups and secondary archives and organizational methods. It will be spread throughout the data-sphere with a great number of protocols for redundancy that can take over. A direct attack on any single location will be mostly fruitless unless one has a specialist. And.. Ms. Smith, I thought that you would be more than happy to let anyone see you naked without the necessity of having it faked." She's still frowning. And attempting to joke gently to help put Tabitha at ease.

Tabitha Smith has posed:
The joke about Tabby naked gets a handwaggle and an eh sound. "That stuff is just like abominable. It's abusing two girls for the price of one." she points out.

"I'm not really the planner. I'm sure the eggheads are doing all kinds of things on the back end. I'd probably suggest they just get themselves admin level access and put that to use. Go amazing tit for tat." she says and looks down at her chest, then Emma's.

"But that website is were it all started. Just from watching a video of my father, we're uncovering a conspiracy. A couple really but all it takes is a pebble to start an avalanche!" the Appalachian girl states and grins with a bit more life in her tone.

Emma Frost has posed:
Emma Frost would nod, "Yes, and it will be tracked down and pursued. For now, we can only consider possible further methods of investigation to pursue and plans to make for when they bare fruit. And keep an eye on the website to see what further things it will do. I would consider some.. Proactive activities against the Friends but those sorts of things are somewhat beyond my vein."
    And would probably look bad in most cases no matter what the damage was.

Tabitha Smith has posed:
A hand sweeps some of that long wild blonde hair back over Tabitha's shoulders while she listens. "Yeah I try limit how much I look at the website. My puking on a supervillain the other day is already up on it. Paints me like I'm the one that robbed the back and not the the Count that probably doesn't count as one." she looks kinda embarrassed.

That could have gone a lot worse for Tabitha or that girl with the Batarangs.

Emma Frost has posed:
Emma Frost would shrug, "We all have our off days dear. It's fine. I'm sure that no matter what you do you'll get a level of reputation from it. It's something that you'll hvae to learn how to deal with sooner or later. Unless you're Spider-Man, in which case nothing you ever do will ever change your tune."

Tabitha Smith has posed:
It is actually sound reassurance that Emma is giving. Amazingly the White Queen has been a lot of help in helping Tabby out with ome of the tribulations of her life.

"Well I know one thing. Thank goodness we're hot chicks and it takes the edge off a lot of it." she points out with a soft laugh and a raise of her coffee.

Emma Frost has posed:
Emma Frost would sigh, "OH yes, the tribulations of existence." She would go on, "And you'll do fine the way you are, Ms. Smith. You could stand for a great deal of refinement in your mannerisms, but I can assume for a great many that's part of the appeal."

Tabitha Smith has posed:
"You like know I can totally present as prim and proper as needed for a thing right? But it just sooo stinks of people, usually men trying to control my life ya know." Tabby explains with a grin. A sip of her coffee is taken. No once has it been a messy sounding slurp.

"I'm sure a lot of the appeal is people thinking I need to be put in a place. But I'm not a kid. I can choose if the place is somewhere I wanna be. And I can very much walk away from it rather emphatically." she states and chuckles.

"Comes from having some great role models." she adds with an appreciative tone and a wink towards Emma.

Emma Frost has posed:
Emma Frost would smile, "Lovely. I do think that with some smoothing around the edges you'll turn into quite the spirited and deadly young lady." She would go on. "I don't however wish to lead you along, Tabitha. I'm not looking for a protege nor someone I can mold over into someone of like stature. That's not the sort of life you would want by my own standards, and it's not one I'm looking to mold someone in for."

She would go on, "Nor, alas, do I have the time and attention for it."

Tabitha Smith has posed:
"Hey I pick up what tidbits of life lessons I can." Tabby states and grins. Very understandingly in fact. "And I get the not wanting a mini-me. Mini you?" Tabby scrunches up her eyebrows behind her glasses.

I'm not that far out of a breakup with Jimmy. So working on me has been most of my extra down time. No influences getting that closes. Still have some habits I'm working out. Not all of them gave to go. Biggest goal is eventually becoming full X-Man."

Emma Frost has posed:
Emma Frost would nod, "Of course. Do things at your own pace. And you have to resolve your own issues first. I might suggest in that case you figure out whom on the seinor team you work well with and have them take you on to tutor you and mold you. I might suggest Elizabeth if she's tenable to it. She's had her own deal of issues and can hopefully help you with your's."

Tabitha Smith has posed:
The coffee is eventually drank "Well Sam was mentoring technically. There's also Jimmy. But Extra Senior is not always easy to pin down. Or be pinned down by." she adds when Emma mentions Betsy. Tabby is still allowed her crushes wven when they never go anywhere.

"Folks get super busy so teeing times up isn't always easy. How you manage it I dunno!"

Emma Frost has posed:
Emma Frost would nod, "Of course. Then you seem to have matters settled. it's also good to have a variety of options. And Ms. Smith, I -schedule- things. Everyone else must accomodate me. And I ensure that I stick to my schedule without interruption. It's called focus and discipline."