System Supervillain: Book 8: Shindig by Stuart Grosse

Author:Stuart Grosse [Grosse, Stuart]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-07-11T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 93 – Interrogations

“Well,” Stepford said, his voice cold, and even, “under Guild traditions of hospitality, traitors give up their rights of safety, so there’s no concern about dealing with him, or his entourage. However, simply eliminating the man out of hand seems wasteful, when it would be good to know exactly what the terms of selling us all out were.”

Maestro growled like a cornered beast, as he looked for a way out. His Chorus were four women, each of whom were dressed in fetching outfits that were most definitely not combat-rated. Even so, before he could turn, and order them to attack, Web Mistress snapped her fingers, and the four women disappeared.

“I edited their position data within the server. They are now in a holding area, so we can safely deal with them later.”

Stepford nodded, and said, “Thank you, Web Mistress, that simplifies things somewhat.” Turning back to the rest of the group, he said, “So, the situation is like this. Maestro is all but helpless without mental powers to support him. Most of us have abilities that can fight without using mental attacks, or our various companions have such things. Is anyone here skilled in interrogations without the use of mental abilities?”

Most of the villains just shook their heads. Why bother getting skills for such things, when you’re used to ripping secrets from peoples’ minds directly, right? Still, some of them did look up.

Party Girl was the first to speak. “I have the ‘familiarity only’ thing with the System thingy. So, unmodified roll of 8 or lower. But with it being opposed by an EGO roll? Don’t know if I can do much, on my own.”

“I have the skill,” Dollmaker said. “At least, I have it at the lowest version after familiarity. I have a 15 or under, according to this System.”

“That beats me,” said Hypnodomme. “I only have a 13 or under. And can I just complain that, even if it has been two years, it still sounds strange to be talking about my abilities as if we’re in some sort of game?”

That got a few laughs from everyone but Maestro, who was still nervously looking for any way out of his predicament. I raised a hand, and said, “I have the skill, as well, however, certain facets of my powerset make it so that I do not have the same Presence when dealing with men as I do with women, so I would be about as effective as Hypnodomme in this case.”

“Master,” Bloodmoon said, touching my shoulder, “in that case, why not let me try? I have a 17 or under on my Interrogation skill, and it is not limited by gender.”

I looked over at the rest of the villains. “Any objections?”

“I object!”

I glanced over at Maestro, and said, “Any objections from people who actually matter, I mean.”

Mistress Midnight actually laughed at that. “Really, Maestro? Did you actually think any of us would pay attention to your objections, after you betrayed us? I hate most of

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