Project Daedalus (Issue 3)
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Agamon
Adventurer
Washington
“We’ve left this final prospective member for last on purpose,” Senator Clark says looking a bit troubled. “Kiro Shiantsu. We love to have him on the team. The problem is, we’re not sure how to contact him.”
Jennifer looks puzzled at this. “Japan. He went back to his parents’ home in Japan.”
“That is our problem, Miss Borlund. His parents do not live in Japan. In fact, young Kiro does not have any parents.”
Jennifer and some of the senators are stunned by this information. She gives Clark an incredulous look. “What do you mean?”
“We just yesterday found this out. Members of BioGen have been questioned in recent days, and they let it be known that they did not kidnap Kiro, but were offered him from another genetics company, one still unknown to us, but apparently American. You’ve noticed how much Mr. Shiantsu looks like Justice Elite’s Kensai?”
Senator Haynes raises an eyebrow. “So he’s, what, a clone?”
“That’s what we’ve been told. How or why this has been done is unknown. It is quite an incredible accomplishment, although also quite illegal. Apparently tests done to him by BioGen, which had some positive affects on the others, didn’t work at all on him.”
“He looks similar to Kensai, but not identical. And his powers, though similar, are somewhat different. Are you sure this is true?” Jennifer asks.
“It makes sense to me, as incredible as it may seem,” Clark responds. “Regardless, Miss Borlund, you sent him to Japan, and now we need to find him.”
“Well, I can take a guess where he might be…” Jennifer says.
New Tokyo, Honshu, Japan
1200 hours, JST, Friday, July 11th, 2014
Something is horribly wrong. Kiro walks along a street in the Shibuya district of New Tokyo. Nothing is at all like he remembers it. In fact he even had no idea about the earthquake until he got here.
When you got here four days ago, you went immediately to the Chiyoda district where you grew up, but immediately realized something was wrong. You’ve only been gone two months, but everything looks different. When you got to where your home should have been, a different, newer looking home was there.
You tried sleeping off the jet lag, but you’re quite certain now that you’re not crazy, just the city around you is. You’ve wandered the streets for days now, unsure what to do. No one here has been able to help you. Maybe you should try to get ahold of Screaming Eagle, after all, she sent you here. Or perhaps you could try and get in touch with Justice Elite: Beta; you’ve discovered that they have their headquarters here, something else you didn’t know, strange as that seems.
Very hungry and tired you continue down the street, vainly searching for your lost home. That’s when you see it. It sort of looks different, maybe newer, but it looks the same. You’re at first elated, but then logic takes over. What is your house doing here? Why does it look brand new? Is it the exhaustion making you hallucinate? Maybe you should check it out…
“We’ve left this final prospective member for last on purpose,” Senator Clark says looking a bit troubled. “Kiro Shiantsu. We love to have him on the team. The problem is, we’re not sure how to contact him.”
Jennifer looks puzzled at this. “Japan. He went back to his parents’ home in Japan.”
“That is our problem, Miss Borlund. His parents do not live in Japan. In fact, young Kiro does not have any parents.”
Jennifer and some of the senators are stunned by this information. She gives Clark an incredulous look. “What do you mean?”
“We just yesterday found this out. Members of BioGen have been questioned in recent days, and they let it be known that they did not kidnap Kiro, but were offered him from another genetics company, one still unknown to us, but apparently American. You’ve noticed how much Mr. Shiantsu looks like Justice Elite’s Kensai?”
Senator Haynes raises an eyebrow. “So he’s, what, a clone?”
“That’s what we’ve been told. How or why this has been done is unknown. It is quite an incredible accomplishment, although also quite illegal. Apparently tests done to him by BioGen, which had some positive affects on the others, didn’t work at all on him.”
“He looks similar to Kensai, but not identical. And his powers, though similar, are somewhat different. Are you sure this is true?” Jennifer asks.
“It makes sense to me, as incredible as it may seem,” Clark responds. “Regardless, Miss Borlund, you sent him to Japan, and now we need to find him.”
“Well, I can take a guess where he might be…” Jennifer says.
New Tokyo, Honshu, Japan
1200 hours, JST, Friday, July 11th, 2014
Something is horribly wrong. Kiro walks along a street in the Shibuya district of New Tokyo. Nothing is at all like he remembers it. In fact he even had no idea about the earthquake until he got here.
When you got here four days ago, you went immediately to the Chiyoda district where you grew up, but immediately realized something was wrong. You’ve only been gone two months, but everything looks different. When you got to where your home should have been, a different, newer looking home was there.
You tried sleeping off the jet lag, but you’re quite certain now that you’re not crazy, just the city around you is. You’ve wandered the streets for days now, unsure what to do. No one here has been able to help you. Maybe you should try to get ahold of Screaming Eagle, after all, she sent you here. Or perhaps you could try and get in touch with Justice Elite: Beta; you’ve discovered that they have their headquarters here, something else you didn’t know, strange as that seems.
Very hungry and tired you continue down the street, vainly searching for your lost home. That’s when you see it. It sort of looks different, maybe newer, but it looks the same. You’re at first elated, but then logic takes over. What is your house doing here? Why does it look brand new? Is it the exhaustion making you hallucinate? Maybe you should check it out…
Agamon
Adventurer
Tyroc
Tyroc unleashes a kinetic blast. The wave crashes into the armed thug, literally picking him up off the ground and slamming him into the wall, where he slumps down, unconscious.
OOC: Hit and failed damage save. Taunt (15) works against the two non-talkative thugs (S. Motives: 18, 9, 3) who will charge you on their turn.
A very large, bald man walks out from the back. He glares at Tyroc. “Dammit, what the hell are you doing here?” He picks up a nearby flatscreen computer monitor and hurls it at you like a baseball.
OOC: Attempting to deflect this? Should I always assume you attempt to deflect the first physical attack against you in a round unless you state otherwise?
Sarah
The walk is quite refreshing. It was bad enough to be cooped up in that god-forsaken cell for two months; you really wish you hadn’t had to spend the last few days in bed. Forty minutes later you reach your destination, Java Break, a quaint little neighborhood coffee shop.
Stepping inside, you’re assailed by the smells of coffee and pastries. The shop isn’t too busy, there are maybe around a dozen or so people at the counter and sitting at tables. One of them has a very familiar face; Captain Willis smiles broadly and waves as he notices you.
As you approach, he stands to shake your hand. “Sarah, it’s great to see you again. How are you holding up?”
Misha
Misha senses the elite’s presence near the disturbance. That’s definitely where he is. You quietly sneak up the steps to the landing. You see him, maybe fifteen feet away. He has his back to you, his hands on the wall. The wall has a hole in it where he is touching that is growing larger. A fallen beam, likely what you just heard, lies at an awkward angle behind him.
OOC: MS 27 vs Listen 14. You get a surprise half action.
Mimic
OOC: You’re going to need to be quiet and hidden to sneak up on them. Your Hide check is 18, but Move Silently is only 5. You want to reroll or no?
Blizzard
You get in your car and off you go. You try to stay off the main arteries where you can to keep out of the morning commuter traffic. Unfortunately, the government building you’re headed for is downtown and a congested road will soon be unavoidable. Until then you try and keep to side roads to get to your appointment on time.
Then out of nowhere, something smashes into the hood and windshield of your car!
OOC: I don’t have benchmarks for you, Toki or Shal yet. If you guys can list those in the OOC that’d be great. In the meantime, you got a 6 for your Drive check. Reroll?
Lupa
“Gawd, I’m so tired.” Another waitress, Bonnie, stretches as she walks up to you, trying to stifle a yawn. The bags under her eyes complete the picture: she was out all night again last night. Looks like she’ll be dragging her butt around this morning, and you’ll be left to pick up the slack.
She smiles at you and lowers her voice. “You see the guy at table four? He is, like, so cute. Too bad he’s with that slut. Can you say too much makeup? Throw on another pound of mascara,” she says to you with a giggle. “So what’d you do last night?”
Elementor
You get washed and dressed, all the while lamenting to yourself how much your life sucks. You’re about to head downstairs when you stop and sit down at you PC, quickly firing it up. You check your email to see if Tyrone’s sent you anything yet and then quickly check his site, hoping your page is up. As you do, you receive an IM from someone you don’t recognize. It simply says “Aaron?”
OCC: Cal, if you wanted Ty to send the kid an email, you can post that.
Tyroc unleashes a kinetic blast. The wave crashes into the armed thug, literally picking him up off the ground and slamming him into the wall, where he slumps down, unconscious.
OOC: Hit and failed damage save. Taunt (15) works against the two non-talkative thugs (S. Motives: 18, 9, 3) who will charge you on their turn.
A very large, bald man walks out from the back. He glares at Tyroc. “Dammit, what the hell are you doing here?” He picks up a nearby flatscreen computer monitor and hurls it at you like a baseball.
OOC: Attempting to deflect this? Should I always assume you attempt to deflect the first physical attack against you in a round unless you state otherwise?
Sarah
The walk is quite refreshing. It was bad enough to be cooped up in that god-forsaken cell for two months; you really wish you hadn’t had to spend the last few days in bed. Forty minutes later you reach your destination, Java Break, a quaint little neighborhood coffee shop.
Stepping inside, you’re assailed by the smells of coffee and pastries. The shop isn’t too busy, there are maybe around a dozen or so people at the counter and sitting at tables. One of them has a very familiar face; Captain Willis smiles broadly and waves as he notices you.
As you approach, he stands to shake your hand. “Sarah, it’s great to see you again. How are you holding up?”
Misha
Misha senses the elite’s presence near the disturbance. That’s definitely where he is. You quietly sneak up the steps to the landing. You see him, maybe fifteen feet away. He has his back to you, his hands on the wall. The wall has a hole in it where he is touching that is growing larger. A fallen beam, likely what you just heard, lies at an awkward angle behind him.
OOC: MS 27 vs Listen 14. You get a surprise half action.
Mimic
OOC: You’re going to need to be quiet and hidden to sneak up on them. Your Hide check is 18, but Move Silently is only 5. You want to reroll or no?
Blizzard
You get in your car and off you go. You try to stay off the main arteries where you can to keep out of the morning commuter traffic. Unfortunately, the government building you’re headed for is downtown and a congested road will soon be unavoidable. Until then you try and keep to side roads to get to your appointment on time.
Then out of nowhere, something smashes into the hood and windshield of your car!
OOC: I don’t have benchmarks for you, Toki or Shal yet. If you guys can list those in the OOC that’d be great. In the meantime, you got a 6 for your Drive check. Reroll?
Lupa
“Gawd, I’m so tired.” Another waitress, Bonnie, stretches as she walks up to you, trying to stifle a yawn. The bags under her eyes complete the picture: she was out all night again last night. Looks like she’ll be dragging her butt around this morning, and you’ll be left to pick up the slack.
She smiles at you and lowers her voice. “You see the guy at table four? He is, like, so cute. Too bad he’s with that slut. Can you say too much makeup? Throw on another pound of mascara,” she says to you with a giggle. “So what’d you do last night?”
Elementor
You get washed and dressed, all the while lamenting to yourself how much your life sucks. You’re about to head downstairs when you stop and sit down at you PC, quickly firing it up. You check your email to see if Tyrone’s sent you anything yet and then quickly check his site, hoping your page is up. As you do, you receive an IM from someone you don’t recognize. It simply says “Aaron?”
OCC: Cal, if you wanted Ty to send the kid an email, you can post that.
Calinon
First Post
OOC
Yeah, lets deflect that screen. Catch it too. Just deflect anything Tyrone would think is dangerous, or potentially so. Sometimes that will mean he might not deflect the most dangerous attack, what with something coming later. I'll trust your judgement on it (and whine lots later I'm sure).
He's probably not too worried about the thug's bullets; who knows how tough the screen tosser is though.
What rules are you using for deflection? Required readied half action per the new eratta, or still a reaction?
Email to Aaron
Yo, kid!
Hope things are going good for you. I got your page all done, just need some good pics of you in various forms. If you got a webcam, gimme a few shots and shoot them back to me, would ya? I attached the html page for you to peek at. Don't go showing your dad; I think he's got a burr up his butt over it already.
Later,
Tyroc
Yeah, lets deflect that screen. Catch it too. Just deflect anything Tyrone would think is dangerous, or potentially so. Sometimes that will mean he might not deflect the most dangerous attack, what with something coming later. I'll trust your judgement on it (and whine lots later I'm sure).
He's probably not too worried about the thug's bullets; who knows how tough the screen tosser is though.
What rules are you using for deflection? Required readied half action per the new eratta, or still a reaction?
Email to Aaron
Yo, kid!
Hope things are going good for you. I got your page all done, just need some good pics of you in various forms. If you got a webcam, gimme a few shots and shoot them back to me, would ya? I attached the html page for you to peek at. Don't go showing your dad; I think he's got a burr up his butt over it already.
Later,
Tyroc
Shalimar
First Post
Rachel smiled at Bonnie, while the woman tended to leave the bulk of the work for her, Rachel didn't mind too terribly much, well, as long as she did do some work, if Rachel had to be there, she'd rather be busy then just sitting around in the old dinner. "You should sleep more if your always this tired," she tells the other waitress, sounding somewhat cheerful, even though she wasn't exactly pleased wih the day in and day out of the dinner.
She allows her senses to be drawn to the couple that bonnie points out and she lets her enhanced senses ferret out as much as they can, for her, its a game, a way to pass the time as she does with most customers, seeing wheter or not she can smeel pets on them, or what they had eaten earlier. Just a simple pastime. What her senses told her about the girl was about as much as they normally told her, the make-up smelled bad as it always did to her, and with her vision, she could see the imperfections in the womans skin. It was why Rachel never wore make up, well besides not being able to afford it, it offended her sense of smell, and hampered her ability to feel things.
"Well, I went out to the park and just played with some children that were there. They had a ball, so we played catch and did stuff like that." the teen elite told the other waitress happily, "Stuff like that really keeps me in shape, that and I just always have too much energy not to do stuff."
She allows her senses to be drawn to the couple that bonnie points out and she lets her enhanced senses ferret out as much as they can, for her, its a game, a way to pass the time as she does with most customers, seeing wheter or not she can smeel pets on them, or what they had eaten earlier. Just a simple pastime. What her senses told her about the girl was about as much as they normally told her, the make-up smelled bad as it always did to her, and with her vision, she could see the imperfections in the womans skin. It was why Rachel never wore make up, well besides not being able to afford it, it offended her sense of smell, and hampered her ability to feel things.
"Well, I went out to the park and just played with some children that were there. They had a ball, so we played catch and did stuff like that." the teen elite told the other waitress happily, "Stuff like that really keeps me in shape, that and I just always have too much energy not to do stuff."
Deva
First Post
Agamon said:
Sarah smiles softly and shakes his hand. "Sorry I'm late, Captain. I decided I wanted to walk instead of taking Tyler up on his offer to give me a ride." She sits across the table from him, ordering a tea and honey from the waitress.
Noticing his raised eyebrow, silently questioning her choice of beverage when she normally never drank tea, she answered before he could voice it. "My stomach's been a little iffy the last couple of days, since I got back. I must have picked up a bug in Colorado, but I'm doing better. I would rather not take any chances setting it off again."
Her tea arrives, and adding a teaspoon a honey too it she sips at it casually. "But I'm okay. A little paranoid maybe, but what doesn't kill me can only make me stronger right?" She lifts the cup to her lips, taking another sip, and looks at Willis over the rim. "So what's the verdict? Do I get to come back to work, or am I heading for the unemployment line?"
Elementor
First Post
Agamon said:
"Who is this?" Aaron quickly replies as he opens his email Inbox.
Calinon said:
"Sweet!! I am totally going to get some pics after school today!!" He mutters to himself while replying to the email. You rock!! I'll try to get some pics for you ASAP. Yeah, Dad is pretty lame when it comes to the whole power trip we have going on. Not like it was our choice or something. Good to hear from you and I'll send you some pics soon.
Aaron
Quickly checking the page that Ty sent, Aaron bolts downstairs excited about the day for the first time in ages. "I cant wait to get those pics done"
Master_Pugs
First Post
Kiro calms himself, putting his sudden elation in check and removing his sunglasses. The sudden glare is harsh but not unpleasant as he squints his eyes, waiting for them to adapt. He scrubs a hand across his face and mutters a curse under his breath, "Chikshou... kore wa tadashi kunai..." He sighs heavily and takes another look at his apparent home. Just as he remembered it... but not, somehow. He glides his hand through his hair a couple of times, and replaces his sunglasses. He scans the area quickly and starts across the street to get a closer look, his thoughts still churning behind his calm face and hidden eyes. "I'll check this out I guess... but I suppose I should give up if I still find nothing after today... but I can't even give up! I can't get a hotel room without money... I can't even get a meal... am I supposed to beg someone to use their phone just to get ahold of Eagle? Just to beg her to help me find my family... ask for a place to stayplead for a meal no less! ...plead for a warm shoulder perhaps... pah... ...Kuso..." Kiro spits to his left side with a frown and winces for a moment as a particularly harsh grumble rolls through him... but he stills raises his head high as he approaches the house. A slight grin crosses his face and a wistfull look fills the eyes behind his shades, "A shoulder would be rather nice..."
Tokiwong
First Post
Misha will shoot this scumbag in the back, hopefully it won’t kill him, but if it does, it can be explained. Misha has an attack of +8 with Point Blank Shot for +8L. He will spend a Hero Point o activate the Nullification effect of the bullet.
Nine young lives snuffed out by his madness, his sociopath tendencies and god complex had to come to an end. Perhaps I am crossing the line, but sometimes I have to play the judge, jury, and executioner, it is what Uncle Sam pays me for, Misha thought to himself as he raised his pistol. He took aim, his hand steady and even as the trigger started to ease back.
*BANG!*
Misha lets the bullet fly towards the elite assailant.
Sometimes there is even a place for God’s fallen angels… Misha mused as he focused on the task at hand.
Nine young lives snuffed out by his madness, his sociopath tendencies and god complex had to come to an end. Perhaps I am crossing the line, but sometimes I have to play the judge, jury, and executioner, it is what Uncle Sam pays me for, Misha thought to himself as he raised his pistol. He took aim, his hand steady and even as the trigger started to ease back.
*BANG!*
Misha lets the bullet fly towards the elite assailant.
Sometimes there is even a place for God’s fallen angels… Misha mused as he focused on the task at hand.
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