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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sen Udo-Mal" data-source="post: 797876" data-attributes="member: 1750">OKCurrent Events in Freedom CityThese are the big news stories that are happening in the city…VidiCom World, a leading Vid-Communications corporations in Freedom City, has reported raids by unknown terrorists against two of the main development sites in the city. As many as 10 people were killed in the latest raid 3 days ago, when they set off a large bomb in the compound, presumably to cover the tracks of there assault and what they might have stolen. A substantial bounty has been place on any information that can be provided to the corporation about the people behind these raids.Tremors and minor earthquakes have hit the city the last couple of weeks. Most scientists assume that this is normal and nothing to worry about, just after-shocks of the CA quakes.Freak hailstorms and thunderstorms have happened eight times over the last month. Meteorologists have no explanations and assume that they will not occur again.As many as 30 people have "vanished" in the last 10 days from around town. The reason this is making the news at all is that it seems totally random, including an upper management corporate suit, half a dozen middle class wage-slaves, four homeless, a dock loader, two lawyers, a doctor, etc. from all over the city. No evidence has been found of where they have gone or who took them, no witness have come forward, no credit trace, etc. Police have no leads, except…  Strange men and/or women, clad in full-body black suits (or uniforms) have been seen around town, often in the same general area as where the recent disappearance of people took place. No vid or physical evidence of these people have shown up and so the Police have publicly dismissed them as hoaxes or delusions (although some news-groups and net conspiracy nuts, thing that they are not telling everything they know).  Gang fighting between the Hyenas and the Gepettos have been happening daily for the last week. Police are reluctant to get involved as they have been happening in the poor parts of town and as such are low priority/high risk ventures.Vandals have been trashing shops down on the waterfront for months now. Mostly they have been breaking into different waterfront business, destorying things and painting weird occultic messages. The police have not released any pictures of the crime areas and they don't want to encourage copy-cats.   Players/Character experiences for the last couple of weeks…Each of you has been thinking about going out and helping people for a while now. The old heroes are gone and while most people seemed to have turned their back the ideas that most heroes stand for, there are still lots of folks out there that are basically good people, catch-up in a really bad world. Someone has to help them, and every sense the police department when private (now called Freedom City Police Inc. or FCPI a subsidiary of Goliath Arms, a huge multi-national megacorp) well they are not as concerned about the poor or tarnishing their image.For the last week, each of your characters has been experiences a strange sense of déjà vu; nothing major, but five to seven days you could have sworn you just said that or saw something, etc. Also you have been getting strange messages on your Vid-Phones, no pictures but generally they are always the same, a brief period of static, then a woman's voice calling you by your heroic "code-name" (even if you have only just now thought it up) saying "...You must help them... time is running out... do you hear me... can you hear me?... [heroic name here] you have to help them!..." then static and the line goes dead. Each of you have gotten this message 3 times so far. Two night ago you all dreamed of woman, all you could see was her shadow, but she was wearing some kind of cape and hood, she was talking to you but you could not hear what she said. She seemed scared and you felt sorry for her. All of this has been somewhat unsettling but nothing compared to the last 24 hours… Vanished without a trace- one of your ALLIES has disappeared!!! You can choose who BUT it has to be someone that you care for a great deal and they have to be "normal" and it can't be one of the other player characters <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> so Thain, I think there is only one of your Ally that you can choose from but that is cool...You each talked with this person within the last 48 hours and you were going to touch base with them again but they seem to have vanished without a trace in the last 24 hours. No clues (as of yet) as to where they have gone or who took them... except that in all cases black clad men and/or women where seen in the victims building or place of business by witnesses...You can post here about what you are going to do about it. What leads you would like to follow up one or whom you would like to contact. Also I will start up a the Playing the Game post in just a bit here. Don't post there yet, but you can read over the info as I post it there. I will be posting some info for each character AND also out-of-character-knowledge posts (OoCK), because just like in the comics, sometimes the readers know more then the characters <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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