Mutants & Masterminds: San Angelo

[Toric_Arthendain]

(Shadow Demon and Shade)
Allison shudders and nods. "I'll lock the doors AND windows," she says. "As soon as you leave. But are you sure you two should be going out there?" As she says that, a chorus of howling can be heard, much more vividly than earlier and then shortly the chorus is joined by the unearthly howling.

(Centurion)
Centurion finds some zoo signs and after a few minutes of flying, he finds the wolf habitat. When he arrives, he sees the habitat is surrounded by thirty foot high, thick glass-like walls. The habitat is somewhat large, maybe covering 80,000 to 100,000 square feet, full of trees, large and small rocks, etc. The weather conditions being what they are, its difficult to make out a lot of detail inside the habitat without flying directly over it at a very low altitude. Upon closer examination, it appears that the wolves are gathered in the center of the habitat, standing in a circle. Something seems to be in the middle of that circle but it is difficult to make out what it is without flying directly overhead. Then, a chorus of howls rises into the night, which is shortly joined by the unearthly howl.

(Spyder)
Spyder makes his way deeper into the zoo, heading for the wolf habitat, following the signs to it. While he is still travelling down the zoo paths, he hears the voices of the wolves combined into a chorus of howling joined shortly by the unearthly, spine-tingling howl. Reaching the area of the habitat, he leaps into a tree near the thirty foot tall glasslike wall surrounding it. From his vantage point in the tree, he thinks he can see the wolves in the habitat gathered in a circle. In the middle of the circle is something else, something Spyder can't identify from where he is at.

 

[bkmanis]

Centurion slowly flies closer to get a better view. But not too close, he doesn’t want to startle the animals. He uses his penetrating vision to try and see through the obscuring clutter.

 

[Samnell]

(Shadow Demon and Shade)
Allison shudders and nods. "I'll lock the doors AND windows," she says. "As soon as you leave. But are you sure you two should be going out there?" As she says that, a chorus of howling can be heard, much more vividly than earlier and then shortly the chorus is joined by the unearthly howling.

Sam looks unsurely at Kiro as the howls rise in chorus, "I'll go check it out. You guys just lock up and stay here. If there's anthing out there that comes after me, it'll have to beat two years' high school sprinting when I scream and run away." He smiles, trying to be reassuring. "I wont go too far."

 

[maddmic]

(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.

Brent is seeming lost in thought as the limo glides over the street. "That was an excellent dinner Lloyd. I wish you'd have come inside and sat with me. It tends to be a bit boring in there when everybody knows you, but you know no one." The short drive looksinto the rear view and replies. "Y'know I can't go in there with you sir. How many people take their drivers inside to these events anyways? Besides, the boxed dinner that they provided was absolutely scrumptions." Brent chuckled as he could hear the sarcasm ooze from of his friends mouth. "Ok, cut the sir junk out. I'm sorry the dinner wasn't up to your satisfaction. Perhaps we can order pizza when we get back to the house?" Lloyd grins at the thought. "Sure, as long as we don't have to make this an event and invite the mayor or anything." Brent shook his head and resumed staring out the window into the night. They had just turned onto the sparingly used street when Lloyd hit the brakes and exclaimed. "What the?"

Brent looked out the window trying to see what his small friend was so excited about. He then saw something of a large odd shadow moving into the zoo. While watching this mass, it seemingly disappeared into the night right in front of his eyes. "What was that?", asked Lloyd. Brent shook his head, "I have no idea. Odd, definately odd." Turning around, the driver asked, "Well, should I resume taking us home, or should we wait here a sec?" Brent looked forward and replied, "Let's just wait a minute or two. It's not normal for people to enter the zoo at night, right?" Lloyd shook his head and almost under his breath muttered, "Well, so much for pizza."

Right as Brent was going to tell Lloyd to go ahead and take them home, an unearthly howl comes from somewhere on the zoo. The driver looks back at his friend. "Yup, definately got to forget the pizza." Brent lets a smile creep across his face and replies, "I'm off to my night job. Go ahead and go home, If I need you, I'll ring." With that, Brent vanishes into nothing. Shaking his head, Lloyd eases the car forward and resumes the trip home.

Seemingly a split second later, a gentleman in a top hat and circus style tuxedo reappears where the limo had moved from. Putting hit cane down onto the pavement, the Ringmaster began to walk towards the zoo entrance. It was time for him to go to work.

 

[Shapermc]

Kiro nods as if to agree with Sam about waiting in the room, but without hesitation he follows Sam out the door. Even though sam gives Kiro a strange look about following him he just shugs it off and says "What you think you the only person who can run fast?" winking as he takes off in a sprint when they reach the ground floor. He shouts "Slow Poke." as he takes off in a jesting manner to try to have Sam challange him, and with a tone of that it is just any ordinary day, as if there were no beasts howling in the distance. He follows the sound of the howling chorus as best he can, hoping that he is giving Sam a challange.

 

[Sen Udo-Mal]

Spyder will look around at the glass habitat and see if there is anywhere he could jump to that would give him a better vantage points but still allow him to remain hidden. If he can't see one he will remain where he is and watch the wolves and try and see what or who is standing in the middle of the pack.

"Well this is pretty weird" he thinks.

 

[Samnell]

Sam laughs and runs after Kiro, the continued howling not disturbing his fun. The chill of the rain doesn't bother him, but he regrets being overdressed for running and misses the feeling of shadows rushing across his skin as he does so.

 

[Toric_Arthendain]

(Shadow Demon and Shade)
OOC: The zoo is about a mile north of the apartment. It'll take you both several minutes to get there using conventional running speed. I'm assuming that Shadow Demon isn't using his Super Speed, otherwise he'd be outdistancing Shade by quite a bit...
IC: The two friends run through the fairly deserted streets heading north towards the zoo, the incessant howling continuing off and on as they go.

(Centurion)
Centurion flies closer for a better look. When he gets to maybe 60 feet above the wolf habitat and above the circled wolves, his penetrating vision allows him to make out the scene in greater detail. He sees the wolves gathered in a near perfect circle. There are ten of them. In the center of the circle is a huge, creature, appearing to be manlike but also bestial. It is roughly seven feet tall and is covered with coarse dark brown hair. It is standing on hind legs, growling and howling. The wolves surrounding it seem enraptured by it. After a moment, the creature in the center looks up as if startled by Centurion's presence. Its razor sharp teeth flash as it growls and Centurion can see its eyes, which seem to be glowing red. Centurion isn't sure whether he was seen or if the creature just sensed his presence. The creature then leaps from the circle and runs off into the trees, disappearing into the shadows of the wolf habitat. After he leaves, the wolves scatter. Lying on the ground near where the creature was a moment ago is a body of a man. He does not appear to be moving.

(Spyder)
Spyder looks around for another vantage point that would allow him to remain unseen but finds nothing closer to the enclosure than he already is. Keeping his place in the tree, he watches the wolves, trying to make out what is standing in the center of their circle. After a few minutes of observation, listening to the occassional howling, he sees the creature in the center of the circle suddenly leap away from the gathered wolves, possibly startled by something. As the creature leaps away, Spyder can make out what appears to be a large, manlike, bestial creature. It is large, maybe near seven feet tall. It appears to be covered with coarse, dark brown fur. It growls as it bolts from the circle and disappears into the shadows of the heavily forested habitat. As soon as it flees, the circled wolves also scatter. Left behind where the circle of wolves was, there appears to be a body lying on the ground, either a man or woman, it is difficult for Spyder to make it out from this distance. The body is not moving.

(Ringmaster)
Ringmaster makes his way towards the zoo entrance. As he walks, the howling grows louder and more frequent. It is obviously the howling of wolves joined by the howling of something else. Quickening his pace, he begins to follow the signs to the wolf habitat. Soon, he hears the howling cease and the sound of intensing growling and then all falls silent.

 

[Samnell]

OOC: If Kiro turned on the super speed, Sam would just skip crossing the distance.

Sam continues to run, enjoying himself despite the rain.

 

[maddmic]

Upon hearing the howling stop, the Ringmaster stops in his tracks not moving any further. "Well, that's not good.", he states flatly to no one in particular. The eerie silence is a bit unsettling to him, but he decides to continue forward. Once he can see the actual wolf habitat, he stops and looks into the darkness. He doesn't move for some time waiting for something to betray it's location or intention.

OOC:
Sorry, I like the talking text color idea. Didn't mean to steal it Shaper, but I like it.

If he does not see anything in the next minute or so, he will act.