Toric_Arthendain
Explorer
Saturday, March 1st, 2003
San Angelo wakes up on this first day of March to a steady wind and driving rain.
By mid-day, the rain hasn't let up and the wind has gotten stronger.
By mid-afternoon, old timers in the city talk about this storm as being one of the worst late winter/early spring storms in memory.
By evening, some low lying areas have experienced some flooding but the rain has slacked off and the winds have decreased somewhat.
Most people spend the day at home and many turn in earlier than normal that night.
The last few weeks have been rough for San Angelo. The city's super team, the Justice Foundation, has been missing from the city and no one is sure where they are. Criminals have taken advantage of their absence. But the last week, even the hard core criminals have been quiet. Because something even more sinister has been stalking the city. Missing persons reports have increased dramatically over the last week and in the last three days, four mutilated bodies have been discovered in various areas of the city's downtown area.
(Ringmaster and Tyke)
Brent Colvert and his limo driver Lloyd Tuttle happen to be out on the wet streets in the late evening of the first day of March, returning home after attending a benefit dinner for the San Angelo Zoo. They are just passing the zoo, which is on their left. They are driving down a much deserted major downtown street when Brent sees something out the window of the limo to his left, some sort of large, shambling shadow, that appeared to enter into the zoo and then disappear into the darkness. Moments later, an unearthly howl comes from somewhere on the zoo property...
(Shadow Demon and Shade)
Meanwhile, not two miles away, Kirosaka Otomo and Sam Torquill are gathered in the apartment of a fellow San Angelo City College student, Allison Chase. The three students share a class at the college and Allison had approached Sam and Kiro with a problem. Apparently her boyfriend, another San Angelo City College student named Bob Harris, had disappeared two days ago. "We were walking home on Thursday night, after having seen a movie. We passed a convenience store and I needed to pick something up. Bob told me to run in and he'd wait outside. When I got back out of the store, he was gone. I looked around the store in the alley and behind it. In the alley I found this," she says, pulling out a scrap of something, possibly a jacket. It is a light tan color and appears to have some dark red stains on it, looking very much like blood. "This is part of his jacket. I think something terrible has happened to him." Upon closer examination, here is something else stuck on the piece of jacket, stuck on by the dried blood. It looks like coarse brown hair. Moments later, sounding far away, an unearthly howl is heard, coming from somewhere north of the apartment complex...
(Spyder)
Taking a break from patrolling, Billy Janssen sits atop a famous bronze statue, that of Minuteman, a revered San Angelo hero of the 1940's. The statue sits in Confluence Point Park near city center, and in fact just across from the San Angelo Zoo. The night is quiet, almost too quiet. The statue is rainslick and slippery but makes a good vantage point to observe the park. Suddenly, the silence is broken by the sounds of running footsteps and hard breathing. Moments later, several young toughs, obviously from a local gang, come running past the statue, not looking up and not seeing Billy. Billy is unable to make out what gang affiliation they have. There are four of them and they appear to be quite scared, almost as if they are running from something or someone. Just then an unearthly howl can be heard coming from somewhere across the street, maybe coming from the zoo...
(Centurion)
Artorios Civilis, otherwise known as Centurion, is flying leisurely over the city on this rainy and windy night. He finds himself suprised at the calm of the place given the usual level of criminal activity. As he approaches Confluence Point Park and the famous statue of Minuteman, he sees four young kids fleeing the park's east side into the streets. They are running hard and appear quite scared. A few seconds later, Artorios hears an unearthly howl. It seems to be coming from the other side of the park, maybe from the San Angelo Zoo...
San Angelo wakes up on this first day of March to a steady wind and driving rain.
By mid-day, the rain hasn't let up and the wind has gotten stronger.
By mid-afternoon, old timers in the city talk about this storm as being one of the worst late winter/early spring storms in memory.
By evening, some low lying areas have experienced some flooding but the rain has slacked off and the winds have decreased somewhat.
Most people spend the day at home and many turn in earlier than normal that night.
The last few weeks have been rough for San Angelo. The city's super team, the Justice Foundation, has been missing from the city and no one is sure where they are. Criminals have taken advantage of their absence. But the last week, even the hard core criminals have been quiet. Because something even more sinister has been stalking the city. Missing persons reports have increased dramatically over the last week and in the last three days, four mutilated bodies have been discovered in various areas of the city's downtown area.
(Ringmaster and Tyke)
Brent Colvert and his limo driver Lloyd Tuttle happen to be out on the wet streets in the late evening of the first day of March, returning home after attending a benefit dinner for the San Angelo Zoo. They are just passing the zoo, which is on their left. They are driving down a much deserted major downtown street when Brent sees something out the window of the limo to his left, some sort of large, shambling shadow, that appeared to enter into the zoo and then disappear into the darkness. Moments later, an unearthly howl comes from somewhere on the zoo property...
(Shadow Demon and Shade)
Meanwhile, not two miles away, Kirosaka Otomo and Sam Torquill are gathered in the apartment of a fellow San Angelo City College student, Allison Chase. The three students share a class at the college and Allison had approached Sam and Kiro with a problem. Apparently her boyfriend, another San Angelo City College student named Bob Harris, had disappeared two days ago. "We were walking home on Thursday night, after having seen a movie. We passed a convenience store and I needed to pick something up. Bob told me to run in and he'd wait outside. When I got back out of the store, he was gone. I looked around the store in the alley and behind it. In the alley I found this," she says, pulling out a scrap of something, possibly a jacket. It is a light tan color and appears to have some dark red stains on it, looking very much like blood. "This is part of his jacket. I think something terrible has happened to him." Upon closer examination, here is something else stuck on the piece of jacket, stuck on by the dried blood. It looks like coarse brown hair. Moments later, sounding far away, an unearthly howl is heard, coming from somewhere north of the apartment complex...
(Spyder)
Taking a break from patrolling, Billy Janssen sits atop a famous bronze statue, that of Minuteman, a revered San Angelo hero of the 1940's. The statue sits in Confluence Point Park near city center, and in fact just across from the San Angelo Zoo. The night is quiet, almost too quiet. The statue is rainslick and slippery but makes a good vantage point to observe the park. Suddenly, the silence is broken by the sounds of running footsteps and hard breathing. Moments later, several young toughs, obviously from a local gang, come running past the statue, not looking up and not seeing Billy. Billy is unable to make out what gang affiliation they have. There are four of them and they appear to be quite scared, almost as if they are running from something or someone. Just then an unearthly howl can be heard coming from somewhere across the street, maybe coming from the zoo...
(Centurion)
Artorios Civilis, otherwise known as Centurion, is flying leisurely over the city on this rainy and windy night. He finds himself suprised at the calm of the place given the usual level of criminal activity. As he approaches Confluence Point Park and the famous statue of Minuteman, he sees four young kids fleeing the park's east side into the streets. They are running hard and appear quite scared. A few seconds later, Artorios hears an unearthly howl. It seems to be coming from the other side of the park, maybe from the San Angelo Zoo...
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