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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tortoise" data-source="post: 721626" data-attributes="member: 146">Charm City: A Mutants & Masterminds CampaignIssue #1: Testing Grounds Part 1January 24, 2003 9:15am. The morning air was a frigid 9 degrees with winds making it feel near zero. Reports were beginning to pour in over radio and television news sources that a hostage situation was in progress. A two car Light Rail train had been taken over at the Hunt Valley rail stop.  ---------------------------------------------------BREAKING NEWS: “This is Olivia Earhardt of Channel 12 News reporting live from Hunt Valley. Fifteen minutes ago an unknown number of armed men took control of two Light Rail cars. Police have cordoned off and begun evacuations in the area surrounding the Hunt Valley Light Rail stop. Reports indicate that the train was occupied primarily by elementary school children from York, Pennsylvania on a field trip to visit the National Aquarium in downtown Charm City. Information is limited, but we do have confirmation that paramedics have taken the train’s engineer, identified as Martin Wells, to Shock/Trauma after he was shot and thrown from the lead car. Mr. Wells is reported to be unconscious and in critical condition.”------------------------------------------------------Work at the construction site near North Avenue was progressing well despite the deep cold and biting wind. No high work was being done, but Calvert & Son’s Construction Company always made some kind of progress even if it was just preparing for the next part of the job or restocking supplies. Mr. Calvert would have it no other way.Helen Troya was taking a 100lb crate of rivets from the back of the foreman’s pick-up truck when she heard the radio report through the open truck door. If she flew she could be there in minutes. She knew it wouldn’t take long for her new-found teammates to converge so she excused herself claiming she wasn’t feeling well.Alec Holgate’s morning started much like any other. He sat scanning the web from a seat in the back of BagelDotCom, a cozy internet café near his small apartment.  He put down his still warm coffee and took a long drag on his cigarette. He could feel the tingle in his lungs and throat as the nanotech infusing his body attacked the smoke changing it to oxygen. “All the benefits of nicotine, none of the harmful side effects” he thought. The itching used to drive him to distraction, but now it was second nature, no more scratching at his chest till it bled. Exhaling a puff of fine white smoke with the scent of fresh spring grass, he reached for the marmalade. That’s when he got the news report and knew his day was about to change.Quickly wrapping the last of his bagel Alec headed out the door. If he was quick he might reach the construction site down the street where he knew Themis worked in her civilian identity.  Thirty students sat wide-eyed and attentive in the lecture hall listening to their unusual philosophy professor talk as if he personally knew Socrates. In fact, Dr. Prometheus did personally know Socrates. When you’re immortal these things are possible.This would be a day of interruptions of schedule. An excited student burst through the lecture hall door and breathily announced the breaking news to the class, obviously meaning the information for Dr. Prometheus.  Class was ending so the Doctor dismissed everyone and made for his office to check the police scanner he kept there. His thoughts were interrupted when he discovered his office wasn’t empty.Aya Cade sat perched atop the small desk in the good Doctor’s office in Hopkins University. She had skipped class this morning. Her visions had indicated something important about to happen and she knew better than to ignore her feelings. She had taken a couple of buses to get here from Towson University where she attended school. She would need his abilities to get the team into place to deal with whatever it was that was coming.“We need to get Themis and Alchemy. They’ll be waiting a block away from the construction site on North Avenue.” She said as his door opened admitting Dr. Prometheus’ silvery clad form. Moments later they were airborne and preparing to teleport. “For someone so young”, Prometheus remarked, “You certainly know how to make an entrance, Pagan.”</blockquote>

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