DM_Matt
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Ballgame Group:
As Optic watches the game, he finds that his showoffy predictions are not coming true nearly as much as they should. In fact, he detects the ball slightly defying the laws of physics at time, moving slightly into or away from the bat at the last moment. It seems that someone with powers is manipulating the game.
News Reports On Everyone's Phone:
1. "The US Navy was called to a shipwreck in the Mediterranean today, which was apparently the floating base of an arms dealer named Anatole Voderac. Data salvaged from the scene and financial data indicate that Voderac may be one of the biggest arms smugglers ever taken down. Through their press agent, the same supergroup that has been carving a wide swath through Freedom City's rogues gallery has asserted credit for the raid, but said that Voderac himself had escaped. Voderac's two sons, however, were delivered to the authorities."
2. Two stories out of Africa: "The transitional government of Somalia was suddenly overthrown yesterday by forces allied with the previous government. Several mechs and a squad of troopers in power armor quickly overwhelmed government forces, allowing militiamen to retake Mogadishu."
"In other news, the last of the join United Nations-African Union peacekeeping forces have been driven from Sudan by Ubunga-Na's undead hordes, also rumored to be backed by high-tech units. The necromancer is presently in Khartoum, negotiating some kind of power-sharing arrangement with the ruling government."
3. Media Clip of Horatio Shepherd, lawyer to supervillains, on a talk show: "...this new team of so-called "Superheroes" are nothing but a bunch of vigilantes that the state lets do their dirty work. I wouldn't be surprised if they were just a front for AEGIS. Even if they aren't fact that the police have let them operate with impunity and plan to use their "evidence" in court makes them de facto agents of the law, and as such they must be subject to the same laws of evidence that the police are. These guys are just an end run around the 4th Amendment, not to mention habeus corpus and the Geneva Conventions. Some of my clients have been turned over with no memory of what happened to them in captivity, possibly destroying evidence of torture. Others were confronted with evidence from illegal wiretaps and computer hacks. The whole process is barbaric, unlawful, and hypocritical. The police need to enforce the law against these thugs, and I am confident that the evidence against my clients will be thrown out as improperly gathered."
Intel Data Sent Around:
Space launches detected over the past few days from numerous remote sites worldwide. These, and many pre-existing components disguised as commercial satellites, have combined with the Lighthouse to develop an ever-expanding space base. They must have been planning this for a long time, and must have been building these pieces for a long time.
Text to Hope: got info -mr f.
As Optic watches the game, he finds that his showoffy predictions are not coming true nearly as much as they should. In fact, he detects the ball slightly defying the laws of physics at time, moving slightly into or away from the bat at the last moment. It seems that someone with powers is manipulating the game.
News Reports On Everyone's Phone:
1. "The US Navy was called to a shipwreck in the Mediterranean today, which was apparently the floating base of an arms dealer named Anatole Voderac. Data salvaged from the scene and financial data indicate that Voderac may be one of the biggest arms smugglers ever taken down. Through their press agent, the same supergroup that has been carving a wide swath through Freedom City's rogues gallery has asserted credit for the raid, but said that Voderac himself had escaped. Voderac's two sons, however, were delivered to the authorities."
2. Two stories out of Africa: "The transitional government of Somalia was suddenly overthrown yesterday by forces allied with the previous government. Several mechs and a squad of troopers in power armor quickly overwhelmed government forces, allowing militiamen to retake Mogadishu."
"In other news, the last of the join United Nations-African Union peacekeeping forces have been driven from Sudan by Ubunga-Na's undead hordes, also rumored to be backed by high-tech units. The necromancer is presently in Khartoum, negotiating some kind of power-sharing arrangement with the ruling government."
3. Media Clip of Horatio Shepherd, lawyer to supervillains, on a talk show: "...this new team of so-called "Superheroes" are nothing but a bunch of vigilantes that the state lets do their dirty work. I wouldn't be surprised if they were just a front for AEGIS. Even if they aren't fact that the police have let them operate with impunity and plan to use their "evidence" in court makes them de facto agents of the law, and as such they must be subject to the same laws of evidence that the police are. These guys are just an end run around the 4th Amendment, not to mention habeus corpus and the Geneva Conventions. Some of my clients have been turned over with no memory of what happened to them in captivity, possibly destroying evidence of torture. Others were confronted with evidence from illegal wiretaps and computer hacks. The whole process is barbaric, unlawful, and hypocritical. The police need to enforce the law against these thugs, and I am confident that the evidence against my clients will be thrown out as improperly gathered."
Intel Data Sent Around:
Space launches detected over the past few days from numerous remote sites worldwide. These, and many pre-existing components disguised as commercial satellites, have combined with the Lighthouse to develop an ever-expanding space base. They must have been planning this for a long time, and must have been building these pieces for a long time.
Text to Hope: got info -mr f.
