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Who: Professional Science Leopard Vanessa Goldpaw & any unaffiliated superheroes
Where: Anywhere around the city – and perhaps beyond.
When: Any time mid February to early March, pretty much
What: Apparently being a celebrity science genius and running a hugely successful business is no longer enough for Ms Goldpaw: she's looking to pick up unaffiliated heroes to run her own team.
Warnings: None yet.

Goldpaw Industries hasn't been up to much significant business lately. Vanessa has been busy enough – she always is – but she hasn't been working on anything terrifically interesting. Which is probably why she's been planning a personal project.

So far no one else is on it. But she's hoping that soon they will be...

Over the next few weeks Vanessa will be snooping around after unaffiliated superheroes. Generally competent ones are ideal, but what she's looking for above all else is 'undiscovered talent' – she's looking for lesser-known heroes to pick up and make big by cramming them into her GOLDPAW-BACKED COOL SUPERHERO TEAM.

Despite being a shapeshifter, she has been choosing to do her snooping in her usual leopard woman guise – even for top secret projects like this, she never uses her powers. She has probably been wearing a wide brimmed hat and high necked coat, though. Sooo surreptitious.

Feel free to either have your character notice she's been surreptitiously following them around or repeatedly lurking in the background while they do hero stuff and thus confront her or specifically attempt... to hide... lmao, or just be going about their business with whatever degree of obliviousness is appropriate while she approaches them! This is open to any unaffiliated superfolk, even if you think they would make terrible team members or you plan to have them refuse an offer – PM me or hit me up on plurk or AIM if you want to work any specifics out.

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After the UCLA sinkhole incident, Neku has been much more relaxed about his powers. He's even been training a little bit, getting a better feel for his telekinesis.

Today he's out in the field, hiding out in one of the many back alleys that he tends to frequent, practicing his shockwaves against a propped up old couch.

Lately, Milly really feels like she's been getting out there with her superheroics. Not just with Teddy -- although teaming up with him so far has worked out spectacularly -- but she just feels like she's really been putting herself out there -- getting exposure, so to speak. Of course, that's not why she does it -- punching bad guys comes with its own satisfaction -- but Milly's pretty sure she's noticed someone following her lately. At first she thinks she might have a fan -- that's so exciting! -- but then it occurs to her that there could be other reasons why someone might want to follow her. Other, less positive reasons. It makes Milly a little apprehensive, but she decides not to worry too much about it -- after all, CONDOR doesn't seem to be in the habit of arresting vigilantes as long as they're not stepping out of line, and Milly's never done anything wrong. She figures that if anything comes up, she'll deal with it.

Today she's just finished helping rescue some civilians from the wreckage of a nasty car accident on a nearby bridge. Nothing supervillainous about it, but Milly certainly couldn't ignore the cries of helpless people in mashed up cars that were threatening to drop right off the side of the bridge! By now the medics have shown up to take care of any injured people, and Milly's work here is done. Probably time to get going, too, before she has to answer too many questions -- but she touches down on the bridge's surface with a little flutter of her costume, just so she can catch a glimpse of the medics and make sure everything's really all right.

Eusine can't shake the feeling that he's being watched.

It starts nagging him somewhere between muggers #1 and #2 -both dispatched with classics such as "having the guy run face first into an invisible glass pane" and "smoke bombs 101" because the Mysticalman is in no way a goddamn cartoon character [citation needed]- and only goes downhill from there. By mugger #3, he's even managed to get a glimpse of a mysterious figure in a hat. He was already big on dramatic entrances before, but knowing he has an audience somehow amps that up to eleven: from then on, he makes sure to stay in sight of his secret admirer, as he's unaware of what kind of powers they may or may not have. He is an entertainer, after all, and what kind of entertainer leaves his audience in the dust?

Besides, you can't exactly keep an eye on a mysterious pursuer without being somewhat close to them. He's far from being paranoid but he's curious.

When mugger #4 has been neutralized (poor chap with a knife, will go on to forswear alcohol forever because he could swear he got arrested by a goddamn peacock that one time, for real), he lingers on the crime scene just a little longer than usual...

Di had no super powers, but she was a troll and with that came several benefits. A particularly strong troll to boot and while she tended to keep to the streets so as to not pull anymore attention to her, on less crowded days she could be spotted leaping from building to building, with all the grace and ease someone would expect from a person raised by a giant purrbeast.

The olive troll was starting to get out more, and she had noticed Vanessa on several occasions. It would be difficult not to, and in truth Di probably had just as much, if not more interest in the leopard lady than said leopard lady had in her. It was hardly a secret that Di was biased towards felines of all sorts, and someone like Vanessa was hardly an exception. Di had never approached her before, but perhaps today would be different.

She wasn't doing anything special, not showing off any of her skills. In fact she was completely mundane in that she was just stepping out of a building where she had had a job interview. Di didn't feel particularly confident about her chances. Thus far her job search hadn't been going especially well and once the interviewer had caught a look at her she knew her esteem had dropped significantly. That seemed to be the case in most interviews she had undergone.

Still. Di wouldn't let that get her down. She would find something eventually. She supposed it wasn't really necessary, given how she had most of what she needed, but Di hated having to depend on someone else so much.

As she made her way back into the streets that's when Di noticed Vanessa once again. It wouldn't be the first time someone had followed her. Di was just grateful that this time it wasn't some giant talking truck. Nice as her encounter with Orion had turned out, she still felt a little wary about the technology of this age, much more so sentient machines.

Di slowed to a stop and cast a glance back at Vanessa, wondering if she was just curious about her being a troll or if she had other motives.