...and Amanda Vines has the latest on an apparent hacking attack in the Aeon Systems. Amanda, any further developments?
"Yes, John. Seems like some kind of attack designed to embarrass the good Doctor. Security services are currently examining the only thing that an insider has termed as a clue - a message that states: 'Big enough for you, Cyber? Love, S.'"
Keep us up to date, Amanda. Meanwhile, in Grandville, Lord Recluse has stated that...
(( rumours spread across the city, althrough they appear to change with how each person says them, one main fact reminds the same.))
"Hey you heard, those guys in the suits have bought up a load of the tall building all over the city, seems there something to do with the roof tops and power stations on them."
- - - - - - - -
" Yo dude, check this out, some guy just offered me half a mill dollars to get out of my pent house in steel, i told him to get lost, i won't let them buy up my pent house for less than 2 mill dollars."
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" Those reseacher guys who put up those letters to the heroes are acting oddly, they keep buying up buildings and paying people to go away from them.. whats the deal with that?"
- - - - - -
"what's with those guys, offering money to anyone to get out of their homes in the steel, and such.. surely the city hall must know what their doing!"
(( Port Oaks, CoV, mostly around the Docks as scraps of the trademark pants were found. ))
Guy one: "I heard that Big Game got blown up at midnight..."
Guy two: "Really? Can't be..."
Guy one: "I think the Family finally had enough of him."
Guy two: "That'll make anyone think twice before messing with them again... I'd hate to be the new year's fireworks."
@ShadowGhost & @Ghostie
The Grav Mistress, Mistress of Gravity
If you have nothing useful to say, you have two choices: Say something useless or stay quiet.
((Two PPD officers on clean up at an island just off the shore of Peregrine Island))
PPD 1: Man I hate it when heroes go over the top like this
PPD2: Yeah... but some of them don't really have much choice with their powers y'know
PPD1: True, but it does mean more work for us
PPD2: I know... so who has enough hate of the thorns to make 'em look like a bunch of rag dolls?
PPD1: Not sure, but we've got everything from electrical burns to frost bite on these guys... if it's one hero... we're looking at a elemental based powers, or a group of them either way it's a bloody mess.
((two PPD cops in Galaxy city department building))
PPD 1: Hey look theres another one!
PPD 2: Your right, that makes four now.
PPD 1: Yeah, guess who ever keeps leaving these black roses around must be behind the raids on these places.
PPD 2: I don't think so, I mean look around all those guys that are beat up, the marks look familar to me.
PPD 1: You want?
PPD 2: I think he's back again.. these must be the guys that are connected to the stolen airship report from O'BrainTech.
PPD 1: Could be, but doesn't that mean?
PPD 2: Yeah it does..
...Report's are coming in about some sort of large explosion at the offices of Eric Mitchell's Sentinel Industries in Kings Row. Details are sketchy at the moment but early reports say that a large spherical section of the offices has been totally atomised.
It is also rumoured that Industrialist Eric Mitchell, perhaps better known as the hero Britanic was in the building at the time of the explosion.
We will report more details as further information comes in...
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Newscast on several Paragon Radio, and TV stations Friday 8/02/08.
((Slight retcon to the above. For IC reasons it happened Saturday night, 9/02/2008. Above broadcast was made on Paragon's Psychic Radio Network or something. 
))
"Man that Big Game has really done it this time."
"Huh, what he do now?"
"Apparently he ripped off Morretti's favorite painting."
"Geez robbing a Family boss, he must be nuts!"
"Tell me about it. Apparently this is the second time he's done it!"
"You gotta be kidding me?... 'Spose it don't matter now anyway, he's long gone. I saw that boat of his tear out of here earlier."
"Sure you did. What with the amount of parts that floating derelict needed, and half of them being back ordered for weeks. He will be in dry dock for weeks."
"I take it you didn't see that note posted there above your cabin door?"
"huh?"
[ QUOTE ]
Sorry Donny, but I had to borrow a few parts from your boat. The replacement parts I ordered should be with you in a week or two... maybe three... eventually.
Take a holiday or something. See you soon buddy. Lots of love Big Game xxx.
[/ QUOTE ]
"Son of a *****!!!"
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Conversation between Donny and Maurice, Mercy Island fishermen. 10/02/08.
((Although Big Game is leaving because of his own personal conflict concerning Sumiko's death, doesn't mean he can't go in classic Big Game style! ))
((A squad of Longbow Eagles finishes circling Galaxy City and lands for a coffee break))
Eagle 1: "Y'see Jimmy Singh this morning?"
Eagle 2: "Jimmy's back? I thought he was still on that Nerva tour."
Eagle 1: "Nah, he still is - he was just making a delivery to Section with the QM detail - he's prob'ly on his way back to the Isles now."
Eagle 2: Jimmy, eh? Cool! I miss that guy. Wish he hadn't transferred..."
Eagle 1: "Yeh...well rather him than me. Galaxy is one soft gig compared to Nerva, lemme tell ya... I mean Jimmy said even heroes have a tough time of it over there - like last night, that Liberty Girl chick - "
Eagle 2: "The Ms Liberty?
Eagle 1: "No, doofus, not Ms. Liberty, Liberty Girl"
Eagle 2: "Oh I seen her - heard about her, too, from Lopez -"
Eagle 1:"Yeh, well she ain't no pantywaist, is she? An' yet she got the ever lovin' snot beat out of her in Crimson Cove last night..."
Eagle 2: "No way! They mess her up?"
Eagle 1: "Messed her up good - busted up every which way, she was - 'ccording to Jimmy, who got it from Jablonski, who got it from Stinky Joe, who does the rotas over there now, and who filed the paperwork from the rookie who saw the whole thing"
Eagle 2: "No way!"
Eagle 1: "Yes, way!"
Eagle 2: "Stinky Joe's doin' the rota's now? Man, I never knew that guy could even write!" *laughs*
Eagle 1: *laughs*
- Two citizens talking on the way from work to a train station.
Younger guy: "Did you hear that there's a new focus on drugs dealers now?"
Older colleague: "Good thing too, bloody leeches of society."
Younger guy: "Hope they'll wise up, I wouldn't want the likes of Tower of Power out to get me!"
Older colleaue: "Yeah, it's like back in the day with the Regulators' war on Dyne. Except this time the muscled figure head is blue!"
@ShadowGhost & @Ghostie
The Grav Mistress, Mistress of Gravity
If you have nothing useful to say, you have two choices: Say something useless or stay quiet.
Rogue Isles, 10th April, St. Martial, somewhere near the Jackpot district. By the streetside.
That was a good nights gambling Kyle, hit the jackpot! Five g's for me!
You got lucky that was all, y'know i heard the mob bosses 'round here get back to the jackpot winners.
Oh that just myth you [censored].
Ok, mayb-... Whoa, someones going to be pi***d! check this out Ste!
The two average built men look toward a smoking, blue 1996 Dodge Viper, smashed into the side of a building, the bonnet half the size it was. Noone is in it.
Whoa dont touch it! Is anyone in it? Said Ste, running over to the totalled vechicle.
This is pretty damn cool!
Pocket D rumours, last night:
"Hey, was that Cindersnap chatting up that Tempest Chick, Love Angel?"
"Nah, that boy's gayer than Queer Eye for the Straight Guy."
"I heard him ask her out on a date though."
"Eh, maybe he's trying to go straight? Get it? Cause he's an ex-con, and g-"
"Yeah, I get it. Way to kill the joke there."
-----------------------
"It happened again!"
"Turned down by another woman?"
"Yeah, wait, no! I mean, that queer got Dee Dee Diablo's number!"
"Wait, I thought she was a [censored]?"
"Apparently, but she wants to go clubbing with him, called him sexy too."
"What's going on with this club tonight? What's next, you ask me for a dance?"
"Hell no!"
"You hear? The rave on Tuesday, two Outcasts beat the snot out of the Four Corner Five gang."
"What?! Two against five? You gotta be kidding me, and besides, the FC5's are tough!"
"Not kidding at all, Jumpstart and me were there. That Wither kid, Sparkfury's friend, and some crazy [censored] called Rita Reckless got the big four to get them in a cage fight."
"No way... and they beat them?!"
"Oh yeah, that Reckless chick lived up to her name, she -elbow dropped- one of them from the top of the cage."
"That's a pretty tall cage, Quickfrost..."
"Ain't it just, Zippa? Ain't it just?"
"So..."
"So? The FC5 got taken down several pegs. The high ups are keeping an eye on them too."
"What happened to Reckless and Wither?"
"Took the pot of prize money and headed off. Slick, real slick. You got your face in Bizzaro again?"
"Hey, I like the magazine..."
"You're just in it for the skin... still, Reckless looked a little like that one."
"... Diablo? Damn, wish I was there now. She could elbow-drop me any day."
Two mutants in Steel Canyon today.
2 skull thugs in Steel Canyon:
"Hey you up for some Serious cash?"
"Whatcha heard?"
"Massive bounty been put out on some ****** from the Rogue Isles"
"What? I ain't messing with no Arachnos; remember what happened to Johnny?"
"Ah that's all talk, the fool was smacked off his face and took a walk off a roof"
"How come there was no blood? And the look of fright on his face, i'll never forget it"
"Ah shuddup, 15 mill says its worth a try"
"15 million bucks! Dayamn, who fronted that cash? and who's the ******?"
"Some hero company other side of the canyon, target is some fool called 'Dark Ebon Spider', sounds like a recluse wannabe to me. Man that money would be sweet..."
"Hey, have you heard about that band, The Pipedream?"
"They the one with that guy with the powerful voice?"
"Joey Stahl, yeah. Apparently they got a gig going down soon in that club in Kings, the Fourth Wall."
"Really? Awesome...we should -so- get down there for that."
"I know...mixing with all those hero types? It'd be wicked!"
2 students at the University Of Steel Canyon
@Crius
Bassai, Canadian Kid, Alruna, Kahi
Mistress Rad, Culpeo, Ms. Demeanor, Celsius
If nothing we do matters, then all that matters is what we do. Let's go to work.
((my first try so here goes))
"Yo dude, your with Arachnos right?
"Let me guess the armor tipped you off, what is it?
"Hey don't take that tone with me man, I've got something you want to hear"
"My mace will take a even unkinder tone with you, anyway tell me what is this 'oh so important' information?
"Well one of my boys was in the bar that Pocket D, anyway there was a newcomer, she was a vampire or something Leeches was her name, anyway the real bit you want to know is she said something about playing some spider huntsman against another"
"Is that all?
"Hey man it's something right?
"I suppose it is, i,ll look into it"
"Hey, don't I get some money"
"Your still standing, that's your reward, now get lost".
A conversation between a Wolf spider and a Skull leader, over herd by a passer by outside of Pocket D, Port Oaks, last night.
The end is just a new beginning, Goodbye all my coh friends and even the enemies, its been a blast I will miss you all. Thank you Paragon team, you gave me a home from home I will always appriciate it.
Additional
Two Skull gangsters Port Oaks.
"Dude its the boss!
"Yeah? Wha 'bout him?
"He's dead!
"Wha tha hell you mean dead?
"It's true man Police found his body, said it was drained of blood.
"Holy s..wha any idea who did the boss?
"No, just found a letter stapled on his chest saying "loose lips cost lives"
"I gues even bosses gotta keep their mouth shut round here"
Overheard by an amused Hellion.
The end is just a new beginning, Goodbye all my coh friends and even the enemies, its been a blast I will miss you all. Thank you Paragon team, you gave me a home from home I will always appriciate it.
Seen on an internet chatroom:
HeroGrrl: did u hear? Shadoew got a new gf
Spandex_Sux: U mean shadowe? dude goes thru more chicks than Bush goes thru stupid comnemts
HeroGrrl: hes sorta cute tho.
Seven777: thats what? six in the last year?
Spandex_Sux: maybe ur nxt 7
HeroGrrl: hey I'm next!
Seven777: dude, I'm a GUY!!!1!
HeroGrrl: he can go thru me if he wants...
Spandex_Sux: Yea, btu he hangs out with thqt queer actor kid- you might get lucky 7
Seven777: guys a ****. i took a look on heroes-now.com and there are liek 7 chciks living inh is house right now.
HeroGrrl: Hey, 1 of thems his MOM!
Spandex_Sux: So? i think incest is something he might be into. think about it. Mum, SDister, Kitmarch, Scarlet Starlett, Sakuri Winter and that new chick he took home last week. U think his new gf doesn't know he's shacked uyp with the lot of them?
HeroGrrl: Span, ur an idiot.hes so totally not like that its unreal
Seven777: HGs got a point, dude. Huntington has an eye for the ladies, sure, but youre the only person I know who thinks hes got it hot for his MOM
Spandex_Sux: ... wotever. u've not been on hero-tales.org, i guesss?
Seven777: hero-tales is a load of bull, dude. Always has been
HeroGrrl: besides his sister and kitmarch moced out a couple of weeks ago.
HeroGrrl: moved
Spandex_Sux: lezers!
Seven777: lesbos!!
HeroGrrl: lol
Spandex_Sux: roflol
Spandex_Sux: so whos Dick shacked up withnoow then?
Seven777: i think Luminescnece and Kit are a couple
HeroGrrl: Cassandra Zero
Spandex_Sux: the army chick?"!
Seven777: nowai!!! she's an ICE QUEEN!
Spandex_Sux: 7 u think EVERYONES a couple
HeroGrrl: seems hot-huntington meltled the ice
Seven777: whats he see in her?
HeroGrrl: shes sorta pretty
Seven777: u fancy her HG?
Spandex_Sux: itll never lasty. shell freeze his balls off
HeroGrrl: I DFO NOT FANCY CASSANDRA XZERO! I LIKE BOYS!
Seven777: HG and Zero, sitting in a tree...
The wisdom of Shadowe: Ghostraptor: The Shadowe is wise ...; FFM: Shadowe is no longer wise.
; Techbot_Alpha: Also, what Shadowe said. It seems he is still somewhat wise ; Bull Throttle: Shadowe was unwise in this instance...; Rock_Powerfist: in this instance Shadowe is wise.; Techbot_Alpha: Shadowe is very wise *nods*; Zortel: *Quotable line about Shadowe being wise goes here.*
Two homeless guys huddling around a burning barrel in King's Row
"didja hear? That thing in the sewers got Marty"
"What? another one! Isn't it about time somone dealt with it?"
"Nah, whatever it is, it's too big for pest control, and what do the council care about a few dissappearing bums? especially when there's an invasion going on"
"I hear ya. So what do you think it is?"
"Frank reckons it's a 'rachnos project gone wrong, I reckon it's a pet that someone flushed when it got too big"
"maybe it's a giant rat"
*conversation slips into wild speculation over what the creature is*
((Thread necromancey, fear me. I get the impression, with the return of Villian RP, we could use this once again, so I'm dragging it up from the depths. If someone thinks they're better off leaving it and making a new rumor thread, well...
They're probably right, but I'm nostalgic.))
(A notice being hammered in pubs, bars, nightclubs and other relaxation areas, but not put in papers)
"Hello, Ladies and Gentlemen, and assorted Rogues, Villians and Mercenaries! I am interested in aquiring a few individuals for a job in Paragon City. Travel arrangements have been made, special equipment notwithstanding, and we are more than capable of paying a formiddable price for SUCCESSFUL COMPLETION of this job! To any who are interested, please submit details to MrShowtime@darkside.net.
Further contact details will be arranged for those deemed able enough.
Enjoy the night,
Mr Showtime."
((EDIT: PM me for offers, obviously ))
(( this has been run in a few of the daily papers of Paragon City.))
Heroes?
There has been four reports of Heroes of Paragon City attacking or running off with what appears to be normal everyday people. The witnesses to these happening have reported most of these people appear to either be in Grey suits or in red and blue delivery outfits. One of these people has this to say, "Im just a normal man.. why can't they just leave us alone.. I mean you can't even read the paper now without one of them running upto you and questioning you about it."
Another one added, "I'm here to do a job, like they are, but this isn't very hero like now is it?". Both of these victems, who didn't wish to be named, were dressed as mentioned earlyer, and the attacks have so far happend in the area of the Galaxy Girl statue, in Galaxy city, the first male who did not wish to give his name was involed in an attack where two Heroes attempted to dump him into a dumpster, the picture above is from footage from a witness to this.
((this is going with the Plotline: For Better or Worst.))
(( this is going with the Plotline For Better or Worst. The broadcast has been sent out on all television, radio, and pda systems, unless the system is completely hack proof or not connected to any sort of wireless or internet base connection.))
Suddenly the picture changes, the music or radio broadcast that was just on suddenly stops, the PDA switch on if off. There is static for a few moments then a blank black screen, before a red dot appears as the lighs come up showing a face half machine, half human.
"People of Paragon City, I Assasion have taken over every channel every airwave to broadcast this one simple message to you. As you may or may not be aware there is a man by the name of Sean O'Brain in your city, he and I have some unfinished matters, now I give you a small warning there is also by bot in the city." He breif stops talking for a moment.
" They are in every street, every park, and every part of your city. Now they will remain harmless to you, unless those so called protectors of your city attempt to attack or remove them. But I do give you one choice.. to save your city.. Give over Sean O'Brain, dead or alive, to me or I shall blow up one bot evey tweleve hours, on the hour in one building."
He smirks for a moment then leans backwards in the seat he is in.
"So it is your choice, One man or your City. The first building to go shall be a medical center, the next a office building. I await his hand over.. do not keep me waiting too long. Hand him to one of the drones at the center of each area, and the blasting shall end."
He laughs before the picture cuts off, leaving a small count down in the corner of the screens the broadcast was on.
Shipping workers at Talos Island spotted someone reportedly matching the description of Mike Chivers offering to pay in cash for a trip to Port Oaks.
'Outer' Space, several miles above the Sahara desert
The emptiness is disturbed by a passing satellite which is knocked off course by an invisible object. A shimmer of energy reveals another, larger satellite which extends outward into a cannon shape. A light starts to build up when a sudden spark shoots a stream of white hot plasma down towards the surface of the earth in a constant jet...
Sahara Desert
The plasma stream impacts the sand with loud roar, throwing some up into the air but glassing the impact zone as it starts to travel across the sandscape
'Outer' Space, several miles above the Sahara desert
The satellite drifts off target as it starts to burn brightly before exploding signaling an end to it's plasma stream, casting it components outwards.
((Anyone within 1000 miles of the Sahara would've seen this ray of light 'beam' down and anyone closer would've felt its effects like an earthquake. Most of the components would burn up in the atmosphere but a couple would survive showing enough to leave panels with this on them, the emblem of The Benedict Trust ))
Tyger (50), Mutation-Controller Mind/FF - oldest Mind/FF on Union
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Tragedy at Kraven Hall.
Asylum burns down, lives lost!
Yesterday, Kraven Hall Asylum burned down, given the ferocity of the flames Police and Fire officials suspect, deliberate action. An investigation is under way, to discover the cause of the flames and to ascertain just how many young lives were cut short.
Kraven Hall has long been an Asylum for meta human children, a place to help minds broken by the awakening of more troubling powers.... ((the article goes on more about the history of the asylum.))
Brawling Cactus from a distant planet.
*spoke by two PPD cops and two people in the Galaxy area, near to the train station*
"Officer im telling you what i saw, there was That fight on the roof, all those heroes left, but they left one behind.. he was all in black and looked like he had passed out."
"Very well sir, but what happend after that?"
"I saw some guy in what looked like a cross between a crey cop outfit, and a council soilder outfit, appear from the street and climb up there to him."
"Yes, i saw him two, i passed by him, he was tallish, well taller than me, thin, and looked like another hero.."
"Right, so he was a hero dressed like a crey council guy?"
"Yea, yes"
"right, so he's and the black suited hero are up on the roof.. and?"
" He picks up the black suit hero, and carries him off over his shoulder, like a fireman would."
"Yea, he walked past me again, the guy was muttering something about his brother, and the crey council guy seems to have some gun over his shoulder."
"So you think he was kidnapping the black suit hero?"
"Maybe.. he disappeared quickly into thin air with him.. like turned a corner and boom, he was gone."