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Posted by: LotusPosition: So um hey, my first post here so be kind! LoLz
anyway Im confused by the orgin thing. I mean, does SS get her powerz from magic or what?
Posted by Incant: Nah, she was made that makes her a techie
Posted by Eyeteeth: Its the subject of some debate you can find other posts here, here and here. You might argue that her powers come from within ie: natural
Posted by ArdentFan: No debate, shes a magicka. Pure and simple. That business with Jackaspades at 13th street should have ended the debate once and for all. She sealed a portal to hell
to HELL people! And with a binding SPELL. If thats not magic, what is?
Posted by Eyeteeth: Were not talking about the powers Sarah uses, were talking about where she gets them from
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James (Jack) Andrew Spade Jnr was born to an impoverished and unremarkable immigrant family that made their way to Paragon City at the turn of the last century from Europe. At that time, Paragon was going through something of a building boom and so it was that Jacks father, James Snr was soon earning a regular (albeit small) income as a construction worker.
Jack was educated at home as were many of his peers and joined his father on site at the tender age of ten. Between them, they were the major breadwinners of a family that now included Jacks two younger sisters and an infant brother.
While living on the poverty line is by no means an easy way to survive, there is little else of Jacks early life to note. There were no family tragedies to speak of, Jacks father managed to avoid the corruption in the construction industry that was rife at that time.
Things changed when Jack was appointed as a foreman on the 13th Street subway Station.
The incident at 13 Street is now well documented and details can be found elsewhere on StrangeDaze.net so a full reprint is not necessary here. In summary however, James and his team of 12 were digging in one of the foundation pylons when they fell through what has since been classified as a dimensional pocket.
Even now, some 70 years later, there is still speculation as to where this pocket led. But most agree that is likely to have been on some other earth. Jack himself would only say that it took him somewhere hot and full of screaming dead people. Unfortunately, when Jack emerged some 68 years later, these screaming dead followed Jack through into Paragon, triggering an invasion sensationalised in the popular press as Night-Haunt of the long knives and Demons over State Street. It also saw the creation of the first ever copywrited slogan used by a hero Deius Paxs Undead or Alive, youre coming with me
At the height of the invasion Jack accompanied the mystic Sarah Strange back through the portal in order to seal it where they found and fought some kind of powerful being: We skipped the fiddle contest and went straight to me battering him over the head wme spade He later recalled.
He also became something of a Sarah Strange supporter and the two of them worked together on a number of occasions: You have no idea, no idea, what she does for this place, he once said following the media attack on Stranges involvement in the disappearance of Deius Pax and youre better off not knowing. He added.
In action Jacks body generates massive amounts of heat, a throwback no doubt to his time spent elsewhere. His weapon of choice is the spade he used to fight the denizens of the portal to such great effect: It got me out of hell, he once commented so I think itll help me here.
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Postedby: Incandescant
Guys, have you see this? Posted on Herophobic.com by their chief resident [censored]-hat editor. Hes claiming to have video surveillance of DP and SSs last meeting at the Portal Corp and hes posted a link to the file
Postedby: Ghostriderz
WHAT?! Un-fricking-believable! I cant get at it through the firewall whats the deal?
Postedby: Incandescant
Its really grainy, like it was shot from like a mile away and then max zoomed. Oh and theres no sound
Postedby: Ghostriderz
Screw the quality! I want details? Are they fighting or snogging?
Postedby: Incandescant
Bit of both, actually
Postedby: ViralBlackMarket
Fake
Postedby: Eyeteeth
[Fake] QFT
Postedby: LotusPosition
I dunno. Looks pretty real to me
Postedby: Webby Fication
Really? Have you seen the angle of those rocks? Look at the shadow its obviously been matted on after. If the sun was behind them, the shadow would be at right angles to the rock, not below!
Postedby: Incandescant
Oh man, there you go with those rocks again. Last time it was Palm Trees in Cuba
Postedby: Tubthumping
[Palm Trees in Cuba] Actually, Puerto Rico. Or was it Costa Rica? Wasnt it the flying fridge thing?
Postedby: Eyeteeth
OK, the admins have run the file through Depth Charge 2.0. Nothing to report.
Postedby: HeeBGeeB
Inatthedeepend.com have posted a transcript. Although theres no sound, theyve given the file to lip reading experts and theyve extrapolated the conversation, as far it goes.
Postedby ViralBlackMarket
[given the file to lip reading experts] Or so they say.
\newSession
New Session window. Terminal open.
\Meta Search Deius Pax Sarah Strange final meeting herophobic;
<Search Executing: No file found>
\Solstrike
<Solstrike AI is now online>
A.I Reports: Your file is currently locked and offline. Your command?
\Rendition();
A.I Reports: Your command lacked sufficient argument(s). Your Command?
\Rendition(forceful; -confirmation; noprotocols)
A.I Reports: Understood: Rendition complete. Fingerprint size (estimate): 1/100th ms.
\EndSession
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One Entry: DP/SS Film bootleg file transcript.
Note from the Admins: The file has seen heavy usage and, tbh, were not used to it so it might take a little while to download but stick with it as its definitely worth it, especially since the actual film has now returned to the Ether(Net).
<Grabbing file
please be patient>
Great to see something different. I like the use of the pseudo boards and some of the little plot devices are well done.
The different entries do an excellent job giving the main character a lot of depth. If you're just doing this as background for Sarah Strange then it's ideal, if, however, you want to do something more it might be a good idea to swap to a more standard narrative. While what you've done is good I suspect most will get a bit bored without any real story.
Editing wise, there are a few times when you repeat words too close to themselves and I've shown some examples below. There are also a couple of other places where you might want to look at re-wording things.
Hopefully this all makes sense, but if I haven't made sense, just let me know.
Editing points:
Sidhe's reputation undoubtably proceeds her
If this is reference document wouldnt this be expanded slightly?
being has magical as she was would go unnoticed by any of the denizens of that magical place,
Repetition.
In terms of looks, Sarah's street wear favours older clothes. She wears 7th cavalry
Repetition.
WHAT?! Un-fricking-believable! I cant get at it through the firewall whats the deal? Nice plot device.
In terms of looks, Sarah's street wear favours older clothes.
This paragraph seems to start with a discussion about clothes and then swaps to powers. Would it work better as two separate parts of the discussion?
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Sarah Strange
Sarah Strange is the child of an unlikley pairing - the stage magician Julian Carter and Sidhe, The Forsworn Queen of the Fey. By now many know that Carter was the secret identity of Adam Eldritch, the Arch-Mage defender of Pangea (the magical plane on which Earth sits) and Sidhe's reputation undoubtably proceeds her.
In the early eighties, the Crey Corporation were busy using stolen Ritki technology to advance their Eugenics programme. An offshoot of this work led to a project known only as "Eight" (presumedly a side-swipe at the number of days of creation). The Crey 'Eight' programme was essentially an artificial life project and forerunner to GENIE, taking small samples of doner DNA and using them to build fully functioning humans or "Drones". Unfortunately the technology of the time was unable to sustain the drones for long and the programme ultimately failed. But not before it was compromised.
Inch-High Super-Spy, working on contract for Lord Recluse stole large portions of the programme files before Crey mothballed it. Recluse's motives for acquiring the data this way are unknown but can be guessed at. Arachnos resources were poured into the progamme while doner DNA was acquired from target sources.
Throughout long and illustrious careers, many superhero's unknowingly leave tiny bits of themselves lying around: Hair, blood, saliva. Getting hold of these "personal affects" can be as easy as searching ebay or contacting ardent fans and Arachnos is well practiced in the art of getting what it wants.
It is said that six variants were produced before a viable drone remained. In the case of the seventh, it wasn't the technology that kept the fetus alive, but something else - a powerful magical field - that protected and strengthened the as yet unborn child, right from the very moment of it's chemical conception.
She was christened "Strange" by the Arachnos Lab Techs and grew at a predigious rate, both in physical maturity and power, with abilities similar to both her parents. From her father she gained the power to influence the mind, from her mother, the power to manipulate weather systems to her benefit. Arachnos kept their strongwilled prodigy in check with a routine including drugs and hypnosis which, when coupled with the constant input of propaganda from growing up inside an Arachnos base, led to her becoming a very loyal soldier.
It was during an outting to rob a bank in Paragon City that things started to go wrong. In the ensuing fight, Strange went up against the hero Deius Pax. She was outmatched, and fell before the Scrappers magical blade, "Albion". He called on her to surrender, leveling Albion an inch from her face when something happened. DP would later recall that it was "like two bars of plutonium comin (sic) together" and the resulting explosion knocked them both unconscious.
Five days later, Strange awoke in an Arachnos military hospital seemingly nonetheworse for her encounter. But something was amiss. The magical field that had protected her from birth was now interfering with her powers, often with chaotic results. Her mentors in Arachnos put this down to the means of her birth and saw it as the early onset of her chemical degradation, like the 6 drones that proceeded her. Her fieldwork lessened as she became more of a danger to herself and her teammates, until she was finally declared unfit for duty.
It is said that Recluse himself ordered her sent to a distant observation post in Croatoa while Arachnos attempted the recovery of samples from Deius Pax blade for analysis "or she blows up" as he reputedly added to her transfer form. Strange, apparantly, cleared a mile of woodland in her rage at this "betrayal".
At some point during her time in Croatoa she made contact with the Cabal, or they with her. It is unlikely that a being has magical as she was would go unnoticed by any of the denizens of that magical place, let alone the Witches of the Cabal. There are conflicting stories to what happened next - sources in Arachnos say that Strange was kidnapped. Independent observers say that she simply walked out. Either way, she disappeared and would never work for Arachnos again
Strange spent 2 years locked away with the Cabal while they tried to understand her nature and powers. In the end though, they were unable to control her any more than Arachnos was. They did provide her with an important clue: the name of her father. The Tools Of Fate have since commented that "Pangea reached a crucial decision gate at this time". Some have speculated that by this the Tools are referring to what might have occurred had the Cabal provide Strange with the name of her mother (although Deius Pax commented in his TV Christmas Special that "The Tools are full of what makes the grass grow greener")
By this point however, Adam Eldritch was long since gone, lost in the Infinite War almost a decade previously. The Simulcra left behind to protect his secret identity however, evidentally recognised something in the young woman (although in typical Adam Eldritch style it has never said what). Much of the information that follows has only one source: Daniel Pauls exposee "Strange Days: A biography, An Enigma" which has now largely been debunked, following the revelation of a key source being a down and out alcoholic and compulsive liar.
"For six days the pair talked and read passages of her father's journal before she looked into the De Vries mirror..." (Critics have noted the authors precise use of language here. It is not known she was allowed to look or forced to look.)"...what she saw she's never revealed. Whatever it was, it burned bright enough to put a brand around her left eye and bleached almost all of the colour out of the rest of her."
The next day, "Sarah Strange" (she allegedly took the name "Sarah" from a one word entry in her father's journal against the date she was created) used her powers to full effect to prevent an armed robbery at the First National Bank in Steel Canyon.
She is referred to by a variety of titles in the media, "Startling Supernatural" being the current alliteration of choice although she's seen other less glamourous names throughout her as yet short lived celebrity status. She's best known for the brief on-again off-again marriage with her former foe, Deius Pax (DP himself refered to her as "Hot" and "Freaky" depending on where their relationship was).
Naturally enough, the gutter press made a big deal of her being the last person to see him alive before he disappeared with now infamous headlines such as "Like Father, Like Son(in law)" and "Strange end for Hero". She herself has never commented, although it was recently widely reported that she returns to Peregrine Island on the anniversary of her husbands disappearance.
Little else of her private life is known, although it is suspected that she is an active member of the Super Group "Rise" and it's been reported she spends time buying and selling items of magical power.
In terms of looks, Sarah's street wear favours older clothes. She wears 7th cavalry trousers, 1960's workers boots a leather duster she found in her father's things and, as she struggles with bright light, tinted glasses. She often users her powers of illusion to effectively hide her true self, particularly when she summons her phantom army and foe's can have a hard time telling her from the decoy's. Although she seems unable or unwilling to hide the scar around her eye left by the De Vries mirror. She also has a travel form that resembles some form of winged demon.