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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!]

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OK. I've got a good number of friends amongst the locals in Heropa, at least. I'll put the word out so that we can at least compile a better list of which families lost kids out there. They were all kids, right? Who got killed?

That would be a good start. Thank you.

I think so. When I went in there, the only bodies I saw were kids.

[God, typing that sentence out makes him feel a little sick.]

[ Kitty's reaction is a little less businesslike: ]

I'd fucking well like to see them hanging for that.

OK. I'll get on it and tell you what I find.

We'll have to see if that's exactly what happened to the guy they did catch or not. I'll need to take another look at whether or not they still use the death sentence here.

Either way, we'll track them down and get to the bottom of this. They were the ones who put it into motion, but plenty others were watching.

[ Right. ]

Do you think it was all for entertainment?

Not at all. I think that they were filming it for buyers. They're producing cutting edge weapons. I think someone out there is looking for weapons for god knows what, and I think that they'd like to know that it works on imPorts.

It also sounds like they wanted to use the imPorts for more later on.

Whoever was watching this is as sick as whoever was behind it.

"Use the imPorts for more." More fighting, you mean?

Yeah. Some others have reported that they weren't only used for fighting. They were thrown into traps and puzzles too, and apparently whoever was involved stopped things before they wound up dying. We could just assume that they wanted imPorts to stay alive for more testing, but then there would be no reason for the puzzle parts unless they wanted to test how smart they were.

But that's where I start getting into really steep speculation. I feel like I should make that clear. Right now, I don't have any solid evidence.

That's really weird. Maybe that part WAS for entertainment.

I'm not so sure. Either way, it's one more mystery to add to the pile.

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