Upgrade your account to a Community Supporter account and remove most of the site ads.

Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="James_Nostack" data-source="post: 1697582" data-attributes="member: 22629">THE TRENTON ENIGMAAt 2:05 PM today, a series of explosions erupted on the campus of Rutgers University ("The State College of New Jersey").  At 2:16 PM, the city of Trenton, New Jersey vanished underneath what one eyewitness described as "a mirrored dome of godawful energy".  Nothing has been able to get in or out; this was confirmed when the Amtrak R3 commuter train collided with the barrier and derailed, killing twelve people and injuring over 100 more.  Telecommunications contact was severed with anyone and everyone inside the dome; radar overflights depict the city as a hemisphere several miles in diameter.Visual contact was briefly regained at 2:32 PM: the dome flickered momentarily, and state police monitoring the situation reported seeing a "giant robot bug" pass out of the dome, which flew through the air heading northeast.  The New Jersey Civil Air Patrol attempted to engage, but the creature emitted a ray of unknown energy and obliterated both aircraft before it was lost to radar contact.  The state police outside the city caught only a glimpse of conditions inside the dome, but claim that the landscape is unrecognizable under a shroud of smoke and darkness.  A police helicopter reported seeing dozens of monstrous insects scouring the city, flames reflected on their metallic carapaces, before the dome snapped back into place.  Rules of engagement prohibit a full-scale military response against a civilian population center, and conventional small-scale urban warfare or S.W.A.T. groups have severely limited utility againt unconventional forces such as these.  The only card left to play is the superhumans.  At the behest of the President of the United States, the National Emergency Management Organization (N.E.M.O.) has scrambled a team of superhuman field agents to restore order.Whatever the cause of this disturbance, it's powerful enough to effectively conquer a major American city.  It is quite possible that you won't survive.  But there are eighty-five thousand people depending on you...(Reference on Trenton here: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trenton%2C_New_Jersey" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trenton,_New_Jersey</a> )</blockquote>

Verification