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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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Like I said, we didn't get a chance to do a head count. But I want to say that yes, most people did make it out okay.

Couldn't you ask them about all this stuff?

I have. The people who were captured got to watch each other on televisions while they were in the arenas, but they were mostly kept divided in small groups. Nobody I asked knows how many people were there in total, and I'm not discounting the idea that some of them survived in the arenas but didn't have their injuries properly looked at once they were back in their rooms.

[God, he feels guilty for telling this to a kid. He shouldn't be, but this is public. He has to be as clear as possible for anyone reading.

Sorry, kiddo.]

[Miles goes silent for a few minutes, thinking about it.

He finds himself coming back to the fact that apparently there were modified animals involved in this--it's the one thing sticking out to him the most right now. After all, he has personal experience with that sort of thing, it's how he and Peter Parker both got their powers.]

Maybe a chemical or medical company's behind it.

They're at least one of the companies working with whoever was in charge. They might be in charge, they might not be, but there's definitely involvement from other companies. Only way to explain the gas.

What makes you say that anyway?

There was a company in my world that modified animals like that too.

[Somehow, he's not surprised.]

Can you tell me a little more about them? I don't know if we'll be lucky enough to find any similarities, but it's worth a shot.

I don't know much. It was a company called Oscorp--I think they were a chemical company doing experiments on animals. They were the ones who made the spider that bit me and gave me my powers.

I don't know how exactly but they also made something that can turn you into like--some giant superstrong fire-monster. Real hard to stop.

[He pauses for a few minutes, and then adds on:]

The guy who ran the company and who turned into that monster later was Norman Osborn. There's a version of him here too, but not the same one. I don't know if he ran an Oscorp like the one I know, or if he's behind any of this, though.

People can be pretty different between universes. They can be the same too, but I've seen some universes where heroes are villains and vice versa.

[That doesn't mean he's not going to look into Osborn anyway. God, that's going to make him feel like a hypocrite.]

Was the spider designed to bite people and give them powers on purpose?

I don't know. People have been warning me about him but I don't really know anything about why or what he's been up to.

I'm not sure about the spider either. I think so. I think it was all part of the research on giving people superpowers in the first place.

Have they been? What have they been saying?

Huh. So if you don't know, that means your powers were a mistake. Am I right?

To avoid him, and that he's been up to no good, but nothing out in the open yet that they can actually call him out on. I didn't hear any of the details about it.

Yeah, they were. The spider came out of nowhere and bit me when I was at my uncle's place.

Darn. Thanks for telling me anyway.

So it got loose by accident or did your uncle work at the place or something?

Both?

[Both. Yes, both is good. That seems like an accurate enough summary of what happened. Y'know, except for the stealing part.]

Oh. So it gets back home on top of your uncle, he brings it home, it bites you, you Spider-Man it up. That sound right?

Yeah, pretty much.

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