Mutants & Masterminds: San Angelo

Ringmaster: "I agree. I shall meet the two of you tomorrow then at the statue?"

“Very well.” Centurion responds to Ringmaster. After Ringmaster disappears Centurion turns to Spyder. “I guess we’ll continue this investigation tomorrow. Do you need a lift somewhere?”
 

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"Ah sure, I live over by San Angelo City College... ah you could drop me there." Spyder says. When he gets home he is going to clean up as best he can Man, this patroning in the rain is not that fun... but I suppose people could get hurt if someone doesn't. I wonder if that wolf-guy is anything like me? Maybe I can find something on the internet...
Spyder will then spend a couple of hours, just looking at online newspapers and site that might have anything about a man-wolf sightings in the city or area... including tabloid articles :)
 

After dropping Spyder off Centurion continues to patrol the city until it is time to meet the others at the Minuteman statue.
 

The rest of the night passes quietly. Those that slept, slept well. Those that didn't spent a boring few hours before dawn.

Spyder manages to find a few articles on the disappearances in San Angelo. It seems that there are a total of five people missing. They are:

Jack Bowers, age 39, amateur boxer
Sheila Johnson, age 21, student
Sam Kerwin, age 63, retiree
Jeff Samuels, age 17, high school student
Madison Seville, age 25, actress

There have also been three bodies found in the last week, all appearing to have been savaged by some sort of animal.

Police are not commenting, only saying that the investigation is ongoing.

Only one source mentions a wolf creature, a trash tabloid called "You Heard It Here First!".

Ringmaster, courtesy of Tyke's investigations, finds out the above information as well.

Morning on Sunday, March 2nd brings a clear sky and a fabulous sunrise. The storm of the previous night has pushed inland leaving the California coast bathed in sunlight and nearly cloudless skies.

The threesome of Spyder, Centurion and Ringmaster meet back at the Minuteman statue a couple of hours past dawn. There are already people in the park, taking morning strolls and taking advantage of the nice weather.

OOC: One of you, Ringmaster I believe, has a phone number for Sam/Shade. I'd like to try to pull Sam and Kiro back into the action so using that phone number is probably a good idea! :-)
 

The Ringmaster sits on the base of the statue as he waits for the others to show up. As Spyder and Centurian arrive, he stands to greet them. "Good morning you two. I trust that you all had an uneventful night? Oh by the way, I took the liberty of calling that one named Shade. Nobody picked up this morning, but I did leave a message to meet us here should he want to be a part of this little crusade. I think that we may need all the help we can get after looking at that beast last night."
 

After arriving at Kiro's, Sam can contain himself no longer, "Ok so you've got powers! Superspeed, right? That's so cool. How did you get 'em?"
 

"Well, All I know is that if I want to I can turn invisible, but that is not all. With my training in martial arts with my father - where ever he may be - I kept breaking every obtainable hight that I though the body could reach. I could always lift more weights, I never maxed out. I could always beat my times on the track, no matter how fast i was. My father told me that it was indeed possible for any person to do If they just put their mind to it, so I did. And, well, I just keep inproving. My father justs nods and smiles, but when I was a small boy in 1st grade I put a bully in the hospital for pushing a girl in the mud. The doctors said that there was no way that a boy my age should have done the damage that I did. Sam! He was in a coma for a month for gods sake! A coma! I was only 6. Well from then on , I knew that I was not normal, despite what my father told me. I am very shy because of that and perfer to spend time on my own also. But now ... I know that their are others ... Like you even ... and I feel like I can do some good, and perhaps even find my father. Maybe we should look into this more and help Ali as well. What do you think?"
 

"Hi guys!" Spyder will shout when he see's Ringmaster and Centurion waving an arm. He will jump over to where they are standing. "Nice day... Hey look what I found out on the internet last night! Sounds like this might be happening more then we thought! Maybe if we can't find anything at Helix we should go talk to this newpaper people? Maybe they know something?" Spyder will then hand over copies of the internet news-sites and reports...

Toric_Arthendain said:
Spyder manages to find a few articles on the disappearances in San Angelo. It seems that there are a total of five people missing. They are:

Jack Bowers, age 39, amateur boxer
Sheila Johnson, age 21, student
Sam Kerwin, age 63, retiree
Jeff Samuels, age 17, high school student
Madison Seville, age 25, actress

There have also been three bodies found in the last week, all appearing to have been savaged by some sort of animal.

Police are not commenting, only saying that the investigation is ongoing.

Only one source mentions a wolf creature, a trash tabloid called "You Heard It Here First!".

Spyder will wait around to see what the others want to do, smiling most of the time.
 

Centurion greets the others as they meet at the statue. “Good morning gentlemen, are we ready to continue the investigation?” When Spyder shows the articles for the missing people Centurion take a few moments to reads them. “Three bodies found that appear ravaged by an animal, that could be our man-wolf from last night. It doesn’t say in these articles but I wonder if they have identified the three bodies? Are these missing and dead people connected or just random victims?” Centurion wonders out loud. “I don’t see any of these victims connect to Helix Technologies, perhaps Ben was just another random victim. Well I guess it won’t hurt to ask Helix if they have experienced any problems of late.”

After a few more minutes with no sign of Shade Centurion turns to Ringmaster. “How long are we going to wait for Shade, perhaps you should try and call him again.” Centurion suggests.
 

"You have super strength too? Wow. I wish I had super strength. I mean it sucks that you hurt that kid, but you didn't mean to. I wish I could tell you were powers came from, but I don't know. I think maybe I always had them but I can't remember. I just woke up one day in an alley. I can turn myself into a shadow and sort of move through them to get places without having to walk all the way there. I can walk through stuff as a shadow too. And I see in the dark. Oh yeah, and the real weird thing: my blood is black...not that you could tell by looking at me." Sam holds up one of his colorless hands

"I met a guy and he took care of me for a while. That's how I got set up in school and everything. It's really weird not to remember stuff. You don't know it, but you don't remember knowing it so you don't miss it or think anything's wrong. It took like a week to explain what a computer was to me." Sam smiles at the memory.

"You're right though. We really should help Ali. I think if there's a reason we have powers, doesn't it have to be to help people who don't? It's like doctors. We've got these things we can use to help people, so isn't that what we're supposed to do?"
 

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