Generation Legacy Issue #7 "Innocence Lost" - Part 1

[Aenion]

Claire listens, “But I mean, you actually talked to him, I mean what is he like tell me, this is so cool, I mean what is the real Bishop like, I mean he is kind of cute if he wasn’t so evil, I would take him home with me,” she grinned.

Karen notices Aris walk by and she smiles to the two girls but keeps going carrying some books. She is the normal school uniform, pleated skirt with a white shirt and white socks.

Karen nods, "Yeah, he's kinda cute, isn't he, but not as cute as my Kal," she grins, some of her usual happiness returning for a moment, "As I said he was nice. He didn't seem that evil while we talked and he treated me like a normal person. I didn't even know he was an Elite. He was also very religious, but then with a name like Bishop..." she shrugs.

Karen smiles to Aris in return, she turns back to Claire, "I need to ask Aris something, I'll be right back."

She walks after Aris when she catches up, "Hey Aris, did you find out something useful last night?"

 

[Tokiwong]

Cassie

“Well then this way,” he gestures for Cassie to follow, and walks towards the rear of the room and opens a door for Cassie to enter. On the other side of the door is a hallway leading down inside of an aquarium where exotic fish swim on both sides, “This was one of our earlier experiments, several of these fish were either extinct, or are totally new species bred to fill certain niches.”

“It was a success, and really was the catalyst or much of my later work, I keep them around for inspiration,” he says with a wistful smile. Dr. Whitman speaks to Cassie, “But I am curious you have definitely dropped an enigma into my lap, or maybe just a paradox… why don’t you explain just exactly why you think you are in some way connected to my organization. No half-truths, just lay out what you want to know, or what you know.”

Karen

Aris pauses, “I found out plenty of useful information, I don’t really want to discuss it out here, my informant said there was a spy at the school working for VSC, so stop by my room later, bring Kal with you, and the others, lets shoot for 3 in the afternoon alright? After class?”

Bangkok

Mark dashes quickly by and swings and still strikes nothing but misty air, he makes it outside to converse with Anika with little incident.

Mark rolls an 18 to strike, and the miss chance roll was a 6, so he could have hit, but he missed.

Kiyana focuses her power and shoots a salvo of water at the misty darkness as it burst outward into an area attack! But she can’t tell if the blast was effective or not!

Yes those civilians bit the dust by the way. Kiyana rolled an 11, and so Black Heaven makes a Reflex Save and gets a 19. His Damage Save is a 30. He is fine.

Ryan is able to move, and shrug off the effects of the attack. Anika is able to get her force field back up, and then dazzles poor Strength, he tries to fight the bright burst but I now blinded as well!

Ryan recovers from Stun. Anika Dazzles Strength, he rolls a 16, and spends a VP to succeed but is not successful. It is now James’ turn. BTW Anika has now spent 4 HP.

Kelly

Tommy laughs, “I told you not too sorry about it isn’t really your concern, I was just thinking out loud. It would not make much sense to you without all the facts, and certain jumps of logic you may not be capable of at this stage in your evolution. Not that, that is a bad thing, its just a fact of life.”

He continues walking, “I mean what would you think if you knew that not every person with strange powers is an elite, and that there are rare cases or perhaps anomalies that exist without the virus that makes the elites. In essence they are something altogether different, and with the crude level of our technology and understanding, its an interesting conundrum. Its an interesting puzzle that vexes me,” he opens a door into a large circular chamber where several tubes of liquid occupy a room, each tube contains a person.

He pauses in the center of the room, “This room is another wing of research, into the elite genome, its not actually on the books, and this I just a continuation of some research I caught wind of in the United States… but I found that it had merit and have tried to reproduce here, though with more stringent controls.”

 

[Karl Green]

James will teleport to behind Strength, normal melee attack and try and teleport him all around in circles as fast as he can. At the end Strength should be facing a wall or something, his back to the rest of the party…
Traveller will use Disorient on Strength; melee attack +10 (hope I get something for him being blind ), Disorient, Fortitude Check (LIKE he has a low check RIGHT ) DC 18, or nauseas

 

[Shalimar]

Kelly frowns when Tommy starts to laugh, feeling as though he were making fun of her a little with what he was saying, but not wanting to sound stupid by asking, it was a habit her parents had put her in as a little girl, even her mother was much smarter, and that had nothing to do with Elite powers, just the luck of the genetic lottery. She couldn't help but feel a little bad about her parents' disappointment in her, they were both smart doctors, they would probably understand totally what Tommy was talking about and doing, she had just learned to accept she wasn't smart enough to understand them, but what they did was to help out a lot of people, so it was ok that she didn't know.

When the Intelligent Elite showed her the room filled with peoplein tubes, her mouth dropped open in a shocked, "Ohh." she takes a single step into the room and stops dead in her tracks, not really understanding what she is seeing, but totally shocked about it, hoping that Tommy really is trying to help these people, and that its her lack of understanding thats making her jump to other conclusions.

"Wha...whats wrong with them, I mean, why are they all in these tubes, are they like sick or something? I know my mom keeps some of her patients in some kind of tube while she is working on helping them, is that what you are doing here too?" she asks, her voice sounding rather small and anxious.

 

[KaintheSeeker]

Cassie

“Well then this way,” he gestures for Cassie to follow, and walks towards the rear of the room and opens a door for Cassie to enter. On the other side of the door is a hallway leading down inside of an aquarium where exotic fish swim on both sides, “This was one of our earlier experiments, several of these fish were either extinct, or are totally new species bred to fill certain niches.”

“It was a success, and really was the catalyst or much of my later work, I keep them around for inspiration,” he says with a wistful smile. Dr. Whitman speaks to Cassie, “But I am curious you have definitely dropped an enigma into my lap, or maybe just a paradox… why don’t you explain just exactly why you think you are in some way connected to my organization. No half-truths, just lay out what you want to know, or what you know.”

"I don't know.. but when I saw the company logo I felt..deja vu at it.. and the more I looked into things.. the more I felt that Deja Vu hit harder." Cassie says quietly.

 

[Aenion]

Karen

Aris pauses, “I found out plenty of useful information, I don’t really want to discuss it out here, my informant said there was a spy at the school working for VSC, so stop by my room later, bring Kal with you, and the others, lets shoot for 3 in the afternoon alright? After class?”

"A spy? Here?" Karen whispers, "But yes 3 sounds good, see you later then," she answers before walking back to Clair.

 

[Tokiwong]

Kelly

Tommy continues walking into another room, which looks to be a large monitoring station for the bodies in the other room, people glance at the teen genius with wonder, many scrambling to clean up desks, and look busy as he just walks, “I ad to see how you would react to that,” he says flatly.

“The project is not ready to be disclosed, so I can’t reveal any actual details behind it, other then it will benefit elites in the long run. While I will benefit in the short term,” he jokes.

He walks to a door as it slides open, “But I can see you are not ready to tumble down my rabbit hole,” he motions for Kelly to go ahead. The door opens into a long upward sloping hallway.

Cassie

“That is not an answer, Miss Prophet, you want me to take your questions seriously then you need to disclose something that makes sense, I don’t deal in déjà vu and chance, either you have a reason to be here or you don’t. You seem to have some keen insight into my organization and research, or so you would believe, I want to know why,” Dr. Whitman replies.

“You obviously want something from myself or my company, but you are not giving me much to go off of,” he finishes.

Karen

“Oh so you and Aris, are good friends now?” Claire says dubiously, “when did this happen, I thought she hated you?”

Bangkok

James is able to pull off the feat and poor Strength is spun around like an inter-dimensional top, when James finally stops flashing, the mighty elite I facing the wall, stumbling, and nauseated. Strength is not able to recover from the effects he has suffered.

James roll a 16 to strike, and Strength rolls a 13, he is now nauseated. He fails his recovery rolls, the poor guy is Stunned, Nauseated, and Blinded!

Yoshi grins, “Time to kick his ass! Although I think he is a little tougher then my punches can handle…” The speedy elite calls over the net, “Alright get the UNJE forces here quick, we have Strength incapacitated for the moment, we need a team here ASAP!”

Yoshi readies an attack to strike at Strength if he tries to move past him towards Anika.

The room I silent and misty, and dark… Ryan does not hear or see any lightning bolts from Black Heaven.

Black Heaven… it is now Mark’s turn.

 

[KaintheSeeker]

Cassie

“That is not an answer, Miss Prophet, you want me to take your questions seriously then you need to disclose something that makes sense, I don’t deal in déjà vu and chance, either you have a reason to be here or you don’t. You seem to have some keen insight into my organization and research, or so you would believe, I want to know why,” Dr. Whitman replies.

“You obviously want something from myself or my company, but you are not giving me much to go off of,” he finishes.

Cassie sighs and explains her experience in the future. Finally finishing up with other encounters with Chaos and her suspision that she is a created being. "While I have no definitive evidence that your company made.. or rather.. will make beings like me, you have to admit that the process you use to treat defective genes does bear promising results to that effect and.. I think the 'Deja Vu' is some undiscovered memories pointing me in the proper direction." sighs. "I'm sorry to have disturbed you doctor, but I was curious about my origins and all I have to go on is my own instints, which I did."

 

[Aenion]

Karen

“Oh so you and Aris, are good friends now?” Claire says dubiously, “when did this happen, I thought she hated you?”

Karen shrugs, "I don't think she likes me any better, but Kal still wants to get home and I want to help him, and that leads to working with Aris," she smirks, "I don't really want to let him go back ... I mean ... I want him to be happy and all. He has asked if I want to come with him but I don't want to leave here, not yet anyway, you know?" it's obvious that this situation has made her confused.

 

[Tokiwong]

Karen shrugs, "I don't think she likes me any better, but Kal still wants to get home and I want to help him, and that leads to working with Aris," she smirks, "I don't really want to let him go back ... I mean ... I want him to be happy and all. He has asked if I want to come with him but I don't want to leave here, not yet anyway, you know?" it's obvious that this situation has made her confused.

Claire shrugs, “Well that does kind of suck, but I mean maybe you will find another cool guy I mean from this dimension,” she smirks, “that still sounds kind of weird. But I man, I guess if it was meant to be something would work out, but sometimes they don’t right? I mean well you’re not like in love with this guy right?”

Cassie

“Interesting,” Dr. Whitman ponders.

“Temporal displacement? Differing realities and other worldly beings of power… it is rather hard to believe and if you had not come to me personally then I would not have considered it to be anything but fantasy, despite…” he pauses and motions for Cassie to follow.

He leads her into a large room where several different chambers house limbs, internal organs and other extremities suspended in liquid. He turns to Cassie, “This right here is the culmination of splicing some of the genes from an elite that had incredible regenerative abilities with baseline tissue, and growing whole limb and internal organs, but he project has been shelved… or perhaps reevaluated. We got more then we bargained for, the subject became an elite, and the odd thing was he did not display the exact same traits as his “parent” donor. But this failure and unexpected side effect lead to the development of another project where we have decided to try and control the mutation process, something here to fore thought impossible.”

He gestures to an arm, “The research is actually close to pinpointing a few traits about what makes an elite, an elite. It’s intriguing that none have really divulged the fact that the trait seems to be able to pass on through several forms of transmission. There are, anomalies we have coined the “elite genome” that seems to be packed with trillions of lines of genetic code, so many in fact one could almost say an infinite amount of combinations. But this anomaly only appears in human beings, it seems incapable of affecting any other life form on this planet. This trait alone leads me to believe that this “elite genome” was perhaps constructed, but the matter of how, and by whom is up for serious debate, we don’t have the technology to reproduce it, or maybe perhaps ability is the more precise word.”

“Now what does this all have to do with you?” he shrugs, “if you are what you say you are then I can make a few assumptions, one is that my research was successful and then put to use for a military application in some type of world spanning conflict. But if you are the culmination of my work, then the reason I perhaps succeed is because you are here, standing before me now. Now what a paradox that would be, eh?”