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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rybaer" data-source="post: 1622960" data-attributes="member: 118">16th Street, Downtown, Coast CityApr 1722:53Fate flies up over the noise of the street to make his call."Yes, that's me," the man on the other end replies.  "I'm so glad that Ms. Poynter was able to get through to you.  I am a professor of mycology here at CC State.  I think I might have some idea of what is causing all the problems in the city this evening.  It would be easiest to explain if you came down to the lab."I'm in the Thurman Biological Sciences building on Reed Ave.  Do you think you could make it, and soon?  I've tried the police, but the lines are all busy and I'm not even sure they would be able to respond properly to this situation."*****Riverside neighborhood, Coast CityApr 1722:54Granite's first jump finds him crash landing through a tree in front of an old church.  A few birds fly out in panic and a couple people walking down the block turn around to see what the commotion is.  Granite shakes himself off, reorients, and makes another jump toward the Slate river.The second jump is relatively clean.  He lands on an open grassy strip of park alongside the river.  Professor Fate gave him the address, but due to his unfamiliarity with this neighborhood he has to move more slowly and check street names and numbers.Bounding a block at a time, he finally finds the Keyhole apartment building.  There is a squad car with lights flashing parked out in front of the building, right beside a plumber's truck.  A cluster of about a dozen people are standing outside - likely residents.A car pulls up beside Granite and Lawrence hops out, calling to get his attention.  From the demeanor of the people milling about, neither Granite nor Lawrence get the sense that there is any imminent threat inside the building.</blockquote>

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