Update
I ran the first encounter with the Mrs. Terious School for Larcenous Ladies-
At a crowded field trip day museum day our psychic junior high student had a telepathic burst triggered by a weird crystal art piece and learned someone was coming back to rob the place that night. The heroes went in an open receiving dock door, found disarmed alarms and then they found the schoolgirls.
The important hero for this is not the psychic but Ratio, Sophia “Phi” Viktus, a 15-year-old Lithuanian girl taking university classes in America. Natural prodigy, no known power origin. Academic - Genius - Gadgeteer - Analytical - RP quality Book Worm - Principals of Discovery and Science
Roll20 was being mean, and her rolls were bad for most of the fight… almost as if she was off balance or disoriented.
When they started interrogating the captured girls, they noticed the lack of belly buttons and serial numbers in a double helix tattoo on their forearms. Ratio wandered off in a daze to check herself for tattoos and a bellybutton. I told the player it was up to her if she had a bellybutton or not. It was not my plan that there was a hero connection to the school, but I had that story in a box ready to drop in at a moment’s notice. She does not have a tattoo on her arm, but she does have evidence of a skin graft and childhood memories of sticking her arm between the furnace and hot water heater as a child and getting a burn. And when she learned how to swim her mother explaining the scar on her belly that she crawled away as a baby and cut herself. During the fight the weird crystal had another psychic burst and now Sophia is noticing inconsistencies in her childhood memories that she had not considered before.
What has actually happened-
pause for dramatic tension, and to give my player a chance to back out on the off chance she is reading this.
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Sophia was once a member of the Terious school. She was… Miss. Information but she did not want to be a bad person and instead use her smarts to help people. So, she had her memory wiped, given fake memories of a boring/happy life and sent to Europe to be forgotten.
You might be wondering how Sophia ended up not only in America but in the same city as the Terious school? It was Miss Chief an AI failsafe to get revenge if something bad happened to Miss Information. And of course, the vengeance is against the school and Sophia- with big “you’re not my real mom!” energy. Of course, the AI will have melodramatic dialogue but generally not do much more than mean spirited pranks.