((This is the summary of an event I ran for my Supergroup The New Heroes, plus a few mentionable names thrown in. Everything went off perfectly, and many thanks go out to everyone mentioned, plus the rest of the players who joined the fun, and of course also to everyone who helped bring it to its climax. Anyway, without further ado...))
Missing In Action.
Almost a week ago on the 14th of October 2007 the New Heroes Union member Jane Doe A.K.A The Hand of Battle was reported missing whilst on active duty in the Rikti War Zone. Initially there was some confusion as to the perpetrators, but after careful investigation by fellow New Heroes it was determined that Arachnos forces were to blame. A frantic search of a nearby Council base revealed this to be the case, and their CCTV recordings coupled with meteorological satellite radar footage showing an Arachnos flyer leaving the area further cemented this fact. Investigations at the scene revealed a broken communicator and a damaged Malta Sapper rifle among the bodies of four dead Arachnos troopers. The communicator belonging to Jane had, earlier that evening, sent a crackling radio transmission into the New Heroes radio network, and a single name shone out of the babble: Aeon.
Armed with this knowledge the New Heroes began searching several Arachnos bases, notably those in Sirens Call and Faultline in Paragon City, and hijacking a flyer to search one in Cap Au Diable in the Rogue Isles. Having interrogated dozens of Arachnos troops and senior staff without much success, searches of the Arachnos computer network revealed two files of information. One; a detailed account of The Hand of Battles activities against Arachnos personnel, the other; a coded research file detailing some information of Dr. Aeons work regarding time travel, and experiments with androids. During these raids, a lone Night Widow, one of the fanatic assassins of Arachnos, was captured alive and returned to the New Heroes base for questioning. She revealed that Dr. Aeon had been tapping Paragon Citys power supply and combining it with that generated by the strange energy beings within the Cap Au Diable Power Transfer System, in order to power a time portal generator somewhere in Peregrine Island. However, it was further determined that he also had one in Warburg, meaning three in total.
During the main investigations, several New Heroes struck out alone to try and find anything they could regarding Janes disappearance. Notable among them are Verto, a human mutant with an unknown history, Hvy Metal Hero; a rock star turned hero, and Foraois Gadai; a mutant swordsman from Japan. Hvy Metal Hero had been searching somewhere in Cap Au Diable but was caught and transported through time to Dr. Aeons laboratory. It is still unknown if anything was done to Hvy, although during his imprisonment he was forced to watch as unknown grisly experiments were performed upon the woman he loves.
Matters came to a head on the nineteenth when a mysterious message left on the New Heroes answering machine gave a cryptic riddle, which hinted towards a location in the island of Warburg, a nest of rogue Arachnos agents and hideous mutated creatures, half man and half spider. After days of searching for clues, this message caused a flurry of activity as the New Heroes Union charged into Warburg to rescue their lost members. Before they arrived, both The Hand of Battle and Hvy Metal Hero materialised on top of a large statue of a globe. Hvy was dazed and confused, but Hand was reassuring and expressed her feelings of love towards him, speaking of their futures together. But this all turned out to be an elaborate ruse, for when the New Heroes arrived to rescue them both, they were attacked by members of a Villainous criminal organisation known as The Corporation, mercenaries hired by an unknown benefactor to attack the New Heroes Union members while they tried to mount the rescue.
The battle was hard fought, but eventually both sides withdrew and regrouped. During the initial phases, The Hand of Battle turned on the New Heroes, who in their confusion fought back. Hvy Metal Hero had joined with Hand through his love, but soon realised that Jane needed to be brought down. At a crucial point during the fight the Hand of Battle was defeated, but as she fell her skin was shredded away revealing the true horror of what had happened. She was now an android.
The Hand of Battle then fled the scene and was about to board the helicopter back to Paragon City when she was stopped by Hvy Metal Hero. Emotional words were exchanged, but Jane attacked Hvy, saying that if he refused to help her in her mission, then he must die. The two then fought each other while the rest of the regrouped rescue party looked on, all the while Hand of Battle was stating her mission to destroy Paragon City must not fail. Ultimately, the Hand of Battle was defeated, and was returned, heavily damaged to the New Heroes base by a heartbroken Hvy Metal Hero.
Back in the medical bay, the broken remains of the android Jane were laid out in a heap, and the New Heroes set to work to both figure out what had happened and how they could put her back together. As the debate raged, the heroine Mission Control gently let her mind wash over the ruin that was once her friend, but was jolted by flash after flash of images of torture. Amy then tried to communicate with her friend Jane, and with the aid of Psi-Ren, another psychic, was able to piece together an elaborate puzzle representing Janes fractured psyche. During this psychic healing, the New Heroes identified that the android was running on a form of self-sustaining energy, and were then able to sustain the androids power supply by splicing in the natural bioelectricity supplied by the heroine Gun Bunny, a feat aided by the assistance of Nick Cadmium, Captain All your Base, and the former Militia member Wild Child.
It was during this reconstruction that another discussion regarding the mission to destroy Paragon city, as stated by the Hand of Battle, was held amid fears of whether the android would wake up and try to carry it out anew. Fortunately, with all manner of safeguards and precautions, along with the reformed mind of Jane herself, the programming of the android was overcome, and with the help of the constant bio-electricity being bled into it, the androids chassis was able to self-repair in spectacular fashion.
Jane Doe is still coming to terms with her new form, but still the quest continues to find out where Aeon is hiding, where the body of the Hand of Battle is being held, and if its still in one piece, whether or not the mind and soul of Jane Doe can be put back into its natural form. As for Foraois Gadai, he has only recently completed his investigations having spent days in the field alone, searching for his lost comrade. It remains to be seen how he reacts to the news, and to Janes new form
((This is the summary of an event I ran for my Supergroup The New Heroes, plus a few mentionable names thrown in. Everything went off perfectly, and many thanks go out to everyone mentioned, plus the rest of the players who joined the fun, and of course also to everyone who helped bring it to its climax. Anyway, without further ado...))
Missing In Action.
Almost a week ago on the 14th of October 2007 the New Heroes Union member Jane Doe A.K.A The Hand of Battle was reported missing whilst on active duty in the Rikti War Zone. Initially there was some confusion as to the perpetrators, but after careful investigation by fellow New Heroes it was determined that Arachnos forces were to blame. A frantic search of a nearby Council base revealed this to be the case, and their CCTV recordings coupled with meteorological satellite radar footage showing an Arachnos flyer leaving the area further cemented this fact. Investigations at the scene revealed a broken communicator and a damaged Malta Sapper rifle among the bodies of four dead Arachnos troopers. The communicator belonging to Jane had, earlier that evening, sent a crackling radio transmission into the New Heroes radio network, and a single name shone out of the babble: Aeon.
Armed with this knowledge the New Heroes began searching several Arachnos bases, notably those in Sirens Call and Faultline in Paragon City, and hijacking a flyer to search one in Cap Au Diable in the Rogue Isles. Having interrogated dozens of Arachnos troops and senior staff without much success, searches of the Arachnos computer network revealed two files of information. One; a detailed account of The Hand of Battles activities against Arachnos personnel, the other; a coded research file detailing some information of Dr. Aeons work regarding time travel, and experiments with androids. During these raids, a lone Night Widow, one of the fanatic assassins of Arachnos, was captured alive and returned to the New Heroes base for questioning. She revealed that Dr. Aeon had been tapping Paragon Citys power supply and combining it with that generated by the strange energy beings within the Cap Au Diable Power Transfer System, in order to power a time portal generator somewhere in Peregrine Island. However, it was further determined that he also had one in Warburg, meaning three in total.
During the main investigations, several New Heroes struck out alone to try and find anything they could regarding Janes disappearance. Notable among them are Verto, a human mutant with an unknown history, Hvy Metal Hero; a rock star turned hero, and Foraois Gadai; a mutant swordsman from Japan. Hvy Metal Hero had been searching somewhere in Cap Au Diable but was caught and transported through time to Dr. Aeons laboratory. It is still unknown if anything was done to Hvy, although during his imprisonment he was forced to watch as unknown grisly experiments were performed upon the woman he loves.
Matters came to a head on the nineteenth when a mysterious message left on the New Heroes answering machine gave a cryptic riddle, which hinted towards a location in the island of Warburg, a nest of rogue Arachnos agents and hideous mutated creatures, half man and half spider. After days of searching for clues, this message caused a flurry of activity as the New Heroes Union charged into Warburg to rescue their lost members. Before they arrived, both The Hand of Battle and Hvy Metal Hero materialised on top of a large statue of a globe. Hvy was dazed and confused, but Hand was reassuring and expressed her feelings of love towards him, speaking of their futures together. But this all turned out to be an elaborate ruse, for when the New Heroes arrived to rescue them both, they were attacked by members of a Villainous criminal organisation known as The Corporation, mercenaries hired by an unknown benefactor to attack the New Heroes Union members while they tried to mount the rescue.
The battle was hard fought, but eventually both sides withdrew and regrouped. During the initial phases, The Hand of Battle turned on the New Heroes, who in their confusion fought back. Hvy Metal Hero had joined with Hand through his love, but soon realised that Jane needed to be brought down. At a crucial point during the fight the Hand of Battle was defeated, but as she fell her skin was shredded away revealing the true horror of what had happened. She was now an android.
The Hand of Battle then fled the scene and was about to board the helicopter back to Paragon City when she was stopped by Hvy Metal Hero. Emotional words were exchanged, but Jane attacked Hvy, saying that if he refused to help her in her mission, then he must die. The two then fought each other while the rest of the regrouped rescue party looked on, all the while Hand of Battle was stating her mission to destroy Paragon City must not fail. Ultimately, the Hand of Battle was defeated, and was returned, heavily damaged to the New Heroes base by a heartbroken Hvy Metal Hero.
Back in the medical bay, the broken remains of the android Jane were laid out in a heap, and the New Heroes set to work to both figure out what had happened and how they could put her back together. As the debate raged, the heroine Mission Control gently let her mind wash over the ruin that was once her friend, but was jolted by flash after flash of images of torture. Amy then tried to communicate with her friend Jane, and with the aid of Psi-Ren, another psychic, was able to piece together an elaborate puzzle representing Janes fractured psyche. During this psychic healing, the New Heroes identified that the android was running on a form of self-sustaining energy, and were then able to sustain the androids power supply by splicing in the natural bioelectricity supplied by the heroine Gun Bunny, a feat aided by the assistance of Nick Cadmium, Captain All your Base, and the former Militia member Wild Child.
It was during this reconstruction that another discussion regarding the mission to destroy Paragon city, as stated by the Hand of Battle, was held amid fears of whether the android would wake up and try to carry it out anew. Fortunately, with all manner of safeguards and precautions, along with the reformed mind of Jane herself, the programming of the android was overcome, and with the help of the constant bio-electricity being bled into it, the androids chassis was able to self-repair in spectacular fashion.
Jane Doe is still coming to terms with her new form, but still the quest continues to find out where Aeon is hiding, where the body of the Hand of Battle is being held, and if its still in one piece, whether or not the mind and soul of Jane Doe can be put back into its natural form. As for Foraois Gadai, he has only recently completed his investigations having spent days in the field alone, searching for his lost comrade. It remains to be seen how he reacts to the news, and to Janes new form
To be continued