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[khajidont]

Hey, everyone. I’ve got some information to share, and I hope you guys have some to share too. Here’s one thing that I’ve noticed: newbies are way, way out of the loop when it comes to everything that’s happened, and you guys deserve to know. We’ve already got a few detailed accounts by Kate Bishop (she’s written up a FAQ and a guide to the Hornets. See the links? Click on the links. Seriously, it’s good to know). But what we’re missing here’s a timeline. You’ve probably been hearing a lot about imPort events being attacked, so I’ve got a little something set up here. It’s pretty bare bones, but it tells you some major events that you need to know. If you think anything needs to be added to it, tell me. It’s just so that new people coming in know what kinds of things they have to deal with (and the associated risks of attending imPort events).

But I’m just here to talk about the kidnapping in July. Here’s a little more detail for you:


In July, 2014, a summer camp was held for teenaged imPorts and natives, though they were accompanied by adult chaperones. They were due at the airport to fly home on the 22nd, but failed to do so after their bus was hijacked, taking them all to a facility in the mountains where they were forced to fight artificially mutated animals and technology. These fights were held in enclosed arenas, separate from the bedrooms they spent the rest of their time in. The bedrooms were equipped with power nullifiers to prevent them from escaping. Included in these bedrooms was a television where the recorded fights were played - and it’s almost certain that the recordings of these fights made their way into other people’s hands, probably anyone who was interested in seeing how well their technology did. We formed a search party, and we were able to help get them out. After the last person was out, the entire facility exploded. Nobody but the people who were kidnapped were found there.

I wasn’t in there. I was just in the search and rescue party. If I’m missing anything important, tell me.

The really important thing is that they still haven’t been caught. Me and a few others have been doing some digging around based on the tech we found. All of the technology was sourced from legit, global companies, and all the funds paying for the tech were wired over through several funds in Switzerland, Brazil, and South Africa. The last two were independent banks with tons of private investors. All of the chips were delivered to the States to a series of warehouses. This was a seriously global affair, but it’s looking like it’s all branching from one place.

Unless I’m seriously out of the loop, we still don’t know who did this, and we should. Did anyone else manage to find anything else?

PS: I know I'm not the only one who's noticed that everyone's been going kind of crazy. Does anyone know what's up with that? Seriously.

EDIT 1: The most important tech they've developed in the camp was a gas that induces aggression from anyone who inhales it for approximately 20 minutes, but this was a long time ago. They could have increased that time since then. Here's a list I'm starting up though:


-Aggression inducing gas
-Artificial bugs containing neurotoxins, paralyzing agents
-Bioengineered bears containing super strength and hyperaggression
-Small robots (approx the size of a ping pong ball) able to interlock and create different shapes for attack or defense

EDIT 2: Freddie Lounds reported finding Daniel Punnett's business card in the ruins. He's in the genetics business and worked in the industry of genetically modified animals. She reported that he denied involvement and refused to answer further questions.

[OOC: A few notes! All the information from the summer games, I got here! The plot was run by KC, our lovely Annie player (lyingheart). The game history can all be found here, but as far as I could tell, it wasn’t information that was available ICly, so this is just an effort to put it all out there. Please let me know OOCly if I’m missing anything past May, which is when I joined the game.

Also, please feel free to handwave that this was a wee bit more detailed re: the company names and bank names as those weren’t provided. Thank you!]

Comments

text; ID says KID FLASH

[runningstart]

i dunno if its at all related to the kidnappings but
a little while before those bombs went off in sofia and florida my teammate and i got this message in each of our personal inboxes:

[ Other than Nathan's mere lies, key cheated. ]

this was after we started investigating the disappearance of one of the older heroes liam
got it 10/17 at 4:52 AM

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[khajidont]

Okay, that's weird. Did you do a lot of your investigating word of mouth style?

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[booyahh]

[ it comes several hours after this post because she read literally everything. so maybe she shouldn't make fun of people about not having lives. ]

i think your text was wrong.

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[khajidont]

Thank you for the support. It's the good kind of no life-itude

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[huntergames]

[ Sasha takes her time reading this entire entry. She reads it twice before she makes her decision. ]

Back in August, one of the headmasters of Xavier's told me he had found one of the pilots. He didn't know much, but they said those people were willing to kill him if he was caught by us.

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[khajidont]

Do you know what happened to him?

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[restitute]

[ ID reads ➹ ]

Has anyone discovered this world's underground?

Black market, gangs, mobs and mafia - they'd be the kind of people with information on whatever tapes survived Colorado.

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[khajidont]

[It is so hard to restrain from pointing out that that arrow is green. So hard.]

Probably, but I'm not the guy you're going to get that information from, because I don't have it.

If someone has, I'd be interested in hearing about it.

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[microbrobotics]

....... dude, that is MESSED UP.

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[khajidont]

Yeah. I'm not arguing that one.

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[andaway]

[Clark hesitates for a while, not sure if he should be replying to this as Clark or as Superman now that he has got the option. He decides it's safer to still go as Clark, investigation is his thing after all- something Jaime is really aware of.]

This is a lot of information you've gathered, Beetle. It's going to be really useful for quick-searching. If we're going to be sharing things with the new arrivals I think Thomas's notes could come in handy as well.

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[khajidont]

I'll add it to the list. Thank you, Mr. Kent.

[yatagarasu]

Hey, thanks. Do you need someone to help you fill in the event deets?

I was at the summer games and I did see the bears and those tiny robots, but I also saw these weird monsters that looked like some sort of rodent or whatever. I kicked one into the river and it suddenly became two.

I think there were two kinds of bears. The full-sized, angry version, and the koala-like version, also just as angry.

[khajidont]

Yeah, might as well get as much detail as possible. Thanks. I'll add them to the list.

[He didn't even know Kay was there! He feels kind of horrible now. Poor Kay.]

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[redhairring]

for more information, check out the Terror on the Mountain series written up at Tattlecrime! contains interviews w/survivors & a bit about something jayden and i found at the crime scene

[ shameless self promos. ]

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[khajidont]

[Goddamn it Freddie. He throws a tiny temper tantrum on his own, but eventually...]

Thank you for telling me, Ms. Lounds. I'll add the information you found to this post.

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[theoryandcalculation]

[That sounds even worse than what he was told...]

I guess it's too much to hope that something was salvageable from the rubble?

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[khajidont]

I couldn't find anything, and I checked. There's always the chance that someone got luckier than me.

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[kanadian]

This is...pretty thorough.
So does anyone have a plan where to go from here?

[ Good job, beetle bro. ]

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[khajidont]

Not a solid one. Now that we can travel legally, we can do some research abroad. That's got to help.

[earnedmystripes]

[For once this is hero business he can't reply to as Wild Tiger, so the comm ID reads KOTETSU T. KABURAGI]

the february swear-in was attacked too, by a giant bird
plus there was a weird thing where people started getting sick afterward?

oh and more things in colorado: attack koalas and hippos with null tech

[he's not even kidding.]

[khajidont]

Could you tell me about the February swear-in in more detail?

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[fridgeflower]

I don't have a lot to add. I guess I'd rather just forget all of this happened, even though that's not terribly responsible.

My roommate mentioned Professor Xavier up there, all of that stuff. I'm not sure how forthcoming Ms. Frost would be, if she knows anything. You might also want to know that she's a telepath, if you do choose to talk to her.

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[khajidont]

[Ughhh telepaths...]

Thank you. I appreciate the heads-up.

You don't have to talk about it if you don't want to. I know it was a really tough time for you all, and we have plenty of volunteers who have already shared the important parts.

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[walks_the_earth]

[He's tried texting before, it just doesn't come out right most of the time and it's too slow. So, video it is!

His expression is somewhat concerned.]

Blue... beetle, mmn? What do you mean by 'people going crazy'?

[That's one of the main concerns right now. The other things look like they can be dealt with somehow, even if they'll be extremely hard to do anything about, but if people are randomly going insane...]

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[khajidont]

[Sorry, Ginko, he's sticking to text. Unless someone specifically requests otherwise for a good reason, that's the way it's going to stay.]

I mean people who have been here for a long time beginning to believe that they're something they're not. They also seem to think that they haven't been here for as long as they have been.

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[hoboagogo]

i don't know what's up with the people going crazy
aki thinks hes the president and i dunno what to do about that

but if you got any questions about the kidnappings i can try and answer
they could fuck with gravity i dunno if anyone mentioned that
had to fight some bigass turtles while gravity kept switching back and forth

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[khajidont]

[Ehhhhh. Ehhhhhh this is really awkward should he... should he pretend like he doesn't know Shinji? He already knows about the Scarab, they just never brought it up again.

"Hey bro, I'm the Blue Beetle?"

His life is weird. This is weird.]

It's all about people thinking that they're different people. Maybe if you show him making different posts on the network it will help snap him out of it.

Nobody mentioned the gravity thing yet, so thanks for letting me know. Is there anything else important you think people should know?

[you_tried]

You've been busy

So whoever's responsible has had 6+ months to upgrade their toys?

[khajidont]

That's basically it, yeah.

[He feels horrible for not have found more yet. Booster's pointing out a pretty big problem, there.]

[selfequipped]

Sorry if it goes without saying, but I think we should hesitate to link the Hornets to what happened last summer. The motivations are entirely different. The Hornets tech would have had to make a major leap from July to October, and it actually went backward.

I'm not sure if you're connecting the two, but I want that to be extremely clear moving forward. They aren't linked.

Not yet, anyway. If the Hornets are looking to upgrade? We might be worried.

[khajidont]

I wasn't linking the two at all. I only linked your post as part of the timeline I wrote up so people would have a little background for whenever I mentioned the Hornets in it. What happened over the summer is a whole different ballpark.

I don't know about the Hornets upgrading, though. The amount of money that's been pushed around is pretty huge. Do they have the money for that?

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[excitababble]

so the people that kidnapped a bunch of kids have been on the loose for months? wow...

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[khajidont]

Yeah. But not for much longer, I hope.

[text] cries HELLO FRIENDS I AM HERE NOW....A WEEK LATE...

[luckynumber42]

[Holy crap. He didn't know what to expect out of this new world, but this definitely wasn't it. He thought there'd be less villainy--some, sure, but nothing of this magnitude.]

People got kidnapped and were forced to fight each other?

[Wait, dumb question. Of course they were, otherwise this post wouldn't be here.]

Did they all get out okay?

[text] WELCOME FRIEND

[khajidont]

I wish they all did, but they didn't. People died. I don't have a number.

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[isaytheeneigh]

I'd like to talk to you about the summer camp. Do you do off-network meetings?

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[khajidont]

Yeah. Just name the time and we'll work something out.