East Coast Guardians (IC) Issue #3

[UglyPanda]

"Escape is the yellow line." The nurse points to the floor, where there are a number of thick colored lines painted on.

[JeminiZero]

Doc Atom

Doc Atom quietly follows the rest through the portal.

"Escape is the yellow line." The nurse points to the floor, where there are a number of thick colored lines painted on.

"Well, I suppose we should follow the yellow brick road then." Doc Atom says as he follows the yellow line, and tries to find the reception. I wonder why the Janice couldn't just have the portal exit to the correct room...

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Take 10 on survival check for navigation: 10 + 7 = 17

[UglyPanda]

The yellow line is actually quite convenient and ends at the front desk.

"Can I help you?"

[The_Reaper]

"Thank you." He smiles at the nurse, and followes the yellow line.

[Archpaladin Zousha]

Gravatar follows the yellow line as well. When the nurse asks if she can help, she responds:

"Yeah, we're here to talk to some of the people who were injured in the bank robbery, please."

[UglyPanda]

"Which one? There were five yesterday. It was busy."

[Archpaladin Zousha]

"Uh, the superheroes." Gravatar replies sheepishly. She didn't want to sound insensitive to any civilians that might have been hurt in the fight, but she'd stuck her foot in her mouth now.

[UglyPanda]

"I meant which robbery. There were five yesterday. And most heroes keep their identities a secret, we're not allowed to specifically identify people as powered."

On the desk is a copy of today's Big City Times. While the main article is about the conviction of Vito Bianchi, Aaron Roman's famous "I Hate You All" column on the front page is an angry rant about simultaneous bank assaults yesterday and how the police are withholding details.
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Meanwhile, Cross has appeared through the portal and is wondering if any of the heroes are making asses of themselves.

[Obscurejones]

Alex takes puts away the music player stands up and blurs to the front desk.
"Cross might be able to give us an ID on who we're here to see."
He glances about looking for Cross

[Archpaladin Zousha]

Gravatar facepalms.

"Oh."

She looks at Impact.

"You know which ones we're lookin' for, Impact?"

[Obscurejones]

Alex rolls his eyes under his mask and blurs back to the portal.
So who we here to see Cross?

[UglyPanda]

"Over there"

Cross points to the two locked private rooms next to the portal. She knocks on the door and asks "Hey, it's Cross, can I come in?"

"Yeah, I'm decent." replies a man's voice.

The door opens and you can see a well-built man lying in his hospital bed, surrounded by about a dozen flower bouquets and gift baskets. He is watching ESPN classic with the sound off. You recognize him as the disgraced former first-baseman of the Big City Metros, Carl Coste.

[Obscurejones]

OOC: Name and position he played?

[JeminiZero]

Doc Atom

"Good day to you, I'm Doc Atom latest addition to the Guardians." Doc Atom says as he enters the room. "So how are you doing?" The cowled man searches around for the patient's case file to give it a quick look over.

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Presumably, this is where my +8 to medicine should tell me something. Maybe take 10?

We buying time until Collin recovers from the fish?

[kpenguin]

Captain Unstoppable

The Captain walks in and immediately makes the connection.

"Heavy Hitter, I presume? Haha! I hope you're recovering well!"

[UglyPanda]

"Yesterday sucked but it was better than last week. I'm just happy I'm still on the team after that disaster."

The medical file tells you that he received several dozen dog bites and a sprained ankle. He had to receive several stitches as well as rabies and tetanus shots. He blacked out for a few hours, so they're keeping him for observation, but it's more likely that they're only keeping him around today because he has good insurance.

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Your characters are free to do whatever they want until 3:00 PM game time. I don't even care if you stay in the same place, just do what your characters want.

Unstoppable saw him yesterday and he doesn't wear a mask. It's obvious that it is Heavy Hitter. It's just that none of your characters could recognize that he used to be a professional baseball player.

[Obscurejones]

Alex blurs to the lobby grabs a news paper and blurs back. He leans against the wall and blurs through the article on the robbery's.
From what I can tell you did about as well as any of us could have. No one expects their first mission to be against Cerberus's Dogwalker.

[The_Reaper]

Impact waves at the injured man from the back of the group. "Hey. So, uh, how you feeling?"

[UglyPanda]

"I talked to Vulcan about it after last night. He said that Dog-Walker has never been able to summon anything bigger than a greyhound before. He got some sort of upgrade."

"Anyways, I'll be fine, don't worry about me." Carl stares at the TV, not looking at anyone. He probably would feel better if he were left alone.

[kpenguin]

Captain Unstoppable

Well, we'll leave you to your rest! I'll see you out in the field soon, I hope.

Captain Unstoppable makes to give Carl a friendly punch in the shoulder, but decides against it. He heads out to the hall and over to the other room.

[Obscurejones]

"Well I'll leave you to your rest. See you on the beat."
Ducking out of the room Alex takes a moment to ponder.
"Hey, Cross? Can I talk to you for a second?"

[JeminiZero]

Doc Atom

"Yes, yes. Just flesh wounds and no serious complications, you should be able to get discharged tomorrow." Doc Atom says as he closes the file, and replaces it where he found it. "See you around Carl." With that, he follows the Captain to the next room.

[The_Reaper]

Impact moves back out into the hall. "Well, that was a fine way to meet someone. 'Hello, we're the people that could have kept you from getting mauled'. Perfect."

[Archpaladin Zousha]

"Hey, it's not like I could have done anything! I was indisposed. I had an encounter with Pete the other night, and I was still recovering from it."

[Obscurejones]

Alex archs and eyebrow above his mask.
Pete? That doesn't sound like a villain. You get a little, Gravatar?

[kpenguin]

Captain Unstoppable

Unstoppable coughs.

"I could have prevented his mauling. Perhaps if I had taken down Dog Walker sooner."

[Archpaladin Zousha]

"Pete's his real name. Peter Thompson. He got powers from the same accident that gave me mine, but he got burn scars that he can't get rid of. He went loco and started calling himself "The Plastic Surgeon," and for some reason blames me for his problems. He's a vain and whiny prick, who disfigures celebrities with his superpowers because he thinks it'll make him feel better, and he discovered that my weight affects my powers, so I usually end up leaving fights with him much slimmer than I was when I went in. It really sucks when you lose all the muscle mass you've spent weeks trying to build in an instant."

[Obscurejones]

"Ouch. That's a rough one. De-powering sucks."

[Archpaladin Zousha]

"Well, not so much depowering as weakening. I don't lose my powers completely when he pulls crap like that, I just can't affect gravity as well. Which means I can't fly as well, or lift heavier objects. Back when I first started working with my powers, I was pretty skinny, and I couldn't lift anything much heavier than a fork."

[Obscurejones]

"I hear you. When I started it took me a month to break mach one."