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Topic: Lung arrested
In: Boards News Events America Northeast Brockton Bay
Bagrat (Original Poster) (Veteran Member) (The Guy in the Know)
Posted on April 11th , 2011
Last night, Lung, of the ABB, was found unconscious on the ground next to several ABB members, having apparently fallen victim to what analysts are calling a "textbook cape ambush". According to on-scene forensics, Lung, together with almost forty of ABB's heaviest hitters, were preparing to engage in some kind of major action when several opposing capes staged a well-planned, rehearsed assault that took caught Lung by surprise in the opening salvo, and neutralized him before he could begin his transformation, while at the same time flooding his enforcers with a wave of rats, mice, monsters, and at least one hamster. The entire engagement is estimated to have taken less than five minutes, perhaps as little as three, before the attacking parties routed the ABB, and then withdrew. As of now, there are no firm leads as to who conducted the ambush, although footprints on nearby roofs suggest that the parahuman known as Hellhound was present on the scene before or immediately after the ambush. PRT agents, led by Armsmaster, arrived on-scene in slightly less than twenty minutes, after a disturbance was phoned in by locals. The PRT agents tranquilized Lung, and have placed him to a maximum security holding cell pending transfer to a more secure location.
Sources describe Lung's injuries as being consistent with electrical burns, and believe there to have been at least four, perhaps as many as seven capes involved with the fight. No word is available as to who made the attack, or why.
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Reave (Verified PRT Agent):
I can verify that Hellhound was present, as the tracks her dogs leave are very distinctive. Unfortunately, we don't have any way to verify if she was part of the ambush, or if the Undersiders as a whole were present. We do know that the Undersiders are not documented to have powers that would match the description of some of the abilities used, especially not the electrical-based attacks—no, it was not a taser—or the large numbers of rodents which engaged immediately after. Given the diversity of powers involved, we are currently looking for at least two Masters, a Blaster, and Shaker of some description. One of the Masters and the Shaker may have been provided by the Undersiders, but to our knowledge that group does not have either the right type of Masters, or the Blaster to have pulled this off on their own. As of right now, we are unclear as to where the Blaster, in particular, came from.
Noveltry:
Implying that you already have some idea of who the other Master could be.
XxVoidCowboyxX:
Does anybody know what's up with the hamster? I keep reading the original post, and that bit about the hamster has been really bugging me.
Tumbles:
Maybe the hamster is the Master? Maybe he's Triggered due to the local cats harassing him one too many times, and now he seeks revenge upon those his human overlords once looked up to as heroes!
TheGnat:
Hey, do you think that he has a costume? Maybe something done up in red, with a cape, so he can pose menacingly against the darklit sky?
Sothoth:
Now that's funny. Suddenly, I have this urge to see if I can find hamster superhero art.
XxVoidCowboyxX:
You know, I know this one guy who lives in the area whose hamster escaped recently. You think maybe it's the same hamster?
****User has received an infraction: No speculating on the identities of capes!*****
XxVoidCowboyxX:
Hey! How could I be speculating on the identity of a cape? I thought only humans could become capes!
Shower (Admin):
Sorry, force of habit. Have an internet cookie by way of apology.
Ron_of_Couches:
But that would explain all the coconuts in Mercia...
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Topic: Has anybody seen Shadow Stalker?
In: Boards Teams Wards Brockton Bay
Nakyak (Original Poster) (Cape Geek)
Posted on April 10th :
As you may have guessed from my tag, I tend to follow cape reports pretty obsessively, and that tends to include trying to keep track of when they move around the country. I don't like to break capes' rebranding, and I don't try to find civilian identities, but I'm more than willing to admit that I'm obsessive enough to come across as being a little creepy. But in this case, I think this is worth mentioning.
On March 5th , the heroine known as Shadow Stalker made her last public appearance, mounting a solo night-time patrol in the Docks area. Whether she completed her route, or not, I have no idea, but I can tell you that there have been no public appearances of this heroine since then. Does anybody know what happened to her? Is she okay? Did she get hurt, or is she in trouble? What happened?!
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Vista (Verified Cape) (Wards ENE)
Shadow Stalker is currently in recovery, I'm afraid. Somebody close to her took a serious shot at her, and she got pretty badly hurt by the aftermath. We're trying to get her back, but she's pretty badly shaken. No idea when you'll see her again. Sorry.
WhedonRipperFan:
Oh crap. I hope she's okay. Did they get the one who went after her?
Vista (Verified Cape) (Wards ENE):
Can't say, sorry. But I can tell you that they've made sure it won't be a problem again.
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Topic: Rats in Costumes
In: Boards Places America United States Northeast Brockton Bay Weird
Mr. Fabuu (Original Poster)
Posted on March 25th :
I know that this is Brockton Bay, and anybody who lives here for any amount of time learns to put up with a certain amount of weird in their lives, but this is weird even for Brockton Bay.
I work as a sort of roving janitor/handyman for the Brockton Bay school system, and I've learned to expect that certain schools are going to give me problems. Something about those places just makes them different from normal. Winslow High is one of those, and not just because I have to clean off gang graffiti half the time I get called there. But last night, I saw something that even with almost thirty years of cleaning and fixing buildings, I've never seen before.
Namely, I saw a rat, wearing a suit and tie, standing on a teacher's desk. I don't know what it was doing, or why it was there, but it seemed to be going over the day's lesson, and squeaking to an empty room. Every so often, it would stop, and gesture to the board, before it resumed its...I don't know...lecture, I suppose. I stood there and watched it for a good five minutes, once I'd seen it, but until it saw me, it never stopped.
And then once it looked in my direction, it fled, and I couldn't find hide nor hair of it.
Now the surveillance cameras at Winslow are a joke, and even the ones that are working have never recorded rats (or any other rodents) wearing suits and ties running around the place, so I don't know what's going on. But one of the regular janitors there says that he's been seeing it, too. Something about the rats taking advantage of one of the math classrooms for something or the other. He won't say what they're doing, just that it involves a lot of circles and geometry on the chalk board, but he did say that one of them is wearing what looks for all the world like a tiny maroon robe. And while it's good to know that I'm not just imagining things, it is kind of freaking me out a little. Has anybody else seen anything like this lately? Or am I just going crazy?
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Mock Moniker:
The question is, were the robed mice squeaking in Latin? And if they were, was it ominous?
Nondeceptive
No, they weren't squeaking in Latin. Not that I could tell, anyway. And the pentagram was just made out of ketchup, not blood. So I'm pretty sure they weren't summoning a demon, or anything like that. I just...don't know what they were doing.
Noveltry
Maybe they were practicing?
Antidiocesan (Verified Loony)
Be freed from all thy sins, mortals, for the demons come to claim your souls! Repent for thy sins, for the Lord's judgement is near!
Morgan Sinister
I swear to god, Nondeceptive, if you've inspired all the Jesus freaks to come to Brockton Bay along with the white supremacists, I'm going to hunt you down and scalp you.
*****User has received an infraction. Personal threats will not be tolerated. Even if they are warranted*****
Good Ship Morpheus:
Mousedalf the Maroon defies you, LoA Quest! You shall not frighten him with your silly human ways, and your pagan doubts! For he is a servant of the Inner Light of Squeakanor, and you shall not pass!
Ne
Practicing for what? Cause I gotta tell you, the idea of the mice in my basement holding some kind of Black Mass is...kind of disturbing.
General Prancer
Wow. This thread is generating replies a lot faster than I'd expected. Also, Nondeceptive, see attached image. [Link failed—image no longer exists]
Geronimo
Your image link is broken.
Digawell
Link doesn't work...dammit! Also, seriously? A mouse summoning a demon? What would a mouse demon even look like, anyway?
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Topic: Playing in Traffic, WTF?
In: Boards Places America United States Northeast Brockton Bay Weird
FuckMarryKill (Original Poster)
Posted on March 30th :
While I am not a resident of Brockton Bay, I do drive an 18-wheeler on long-haul routes from Maine to Florida, so I have reason to pass through the city on a semi-regular basis on the way from Boston to points further north. And while there's not much traffic headed further north from Brockton Bay, there's enough for me to think that I'd become somewhat adjusted to the city's weirdness during my frequent visits. But yesterday I ran into the damndest thing: namely, Glory Girl hovering in mid-air, in the middle of the road, waiting for the light to change. I've posted a picture, here.
All I can say is...what the hell? I know New Wave is all about transparency and following the law, but that's just silly when you can just fly over the traffic signals.
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Lasersmile
I don't see the problem, to be honest. She wants to use our roads, she can follow the traffic laws, just like everybody else. Why would this be any different from any other Mover?
Procto the Unfortunate Tinker (Not a Tinker)
Don't most intersections use magnets or pressure plates or something to tell when it's time for the lights to change? Wouldn't her floating above the pressure plate mean that there isn't anything to trip the sensors, and meant that the light would never turn? Cause I seem to remember something about that happening with bicycles and motorbikes, when the stopped on the pressure plates?
Vista(Verified Cape)(Wards ENE)
Yeah, Glory Girl does that. I've seen it, too. I mean, it makes complete sense, but it's still weird.
FuckMarryKill
Why would she do that? It is the stupidest thing I've ever seen! WHY?!
Glory_Girl (Verified Cape)(New Wave)
Look, it's really simple, okay? I got lost, I was looking for a specific address, and that kind of thing is easiest to deal with at street level. It's not that complicated. And if you're going to be going at traffic speeds, you might as well do it on the road, where nobody's going to get hurt.
Nod
YOU CAN FLY, YOU STUPID BITCH! WHY THE HELL ARE YOU STOPPING AT AN INTERSECTION WHEN YOU CAN JUST FLY OVER IT?
Sasketchew:
Gah! Volume!
Glory_Girl (Verified Cape)(New Wave)
I mean, I could fly over, but that would be illegal. They give tickets for that kind of thing, you know.
You seem really stressed out about this. Would it help if I gave you an autograph to make up for it?
Nod
AN AUTOGRAPH ISN'T GOING TO HELP WITH THE FACT THAT I HAVE TO STARE AT YOUR STUPID ASS IN THE MIDDLE OF TRAFFIC!
Vista (Verified Cape)(Wards ENE)
Hah! So that's the problem! You're a butt-looker!
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