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 Post subject: Current Events
PostPosted: Sun Aug 15, 2010 11:14 pm 
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Prismatic Pangolin

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So, this thread is for two things: A quick summary of events, and, so people can post upcoming world level events that I ought to be aware of. (As some of you might be aware, I don't tend to notice stuff in the news, much. So if you want a major real-world event to show up in game, you should probably mention it.)

Saturday, August 8, 2009: An earthquake hits the bay area in the morning. High enough on the scale that everybody felt it, but overall damage is low. A few cars went off of roads; stuff fell off of shelves; and one giant sinkhole opened up in an abandoned parking lot in East Palo Alto. Matthew, David, and Sam investigate. Three bodies buried in the rubble; all members of the "White Caps" gang, and armed with foreign (and highly illegal) assault rifles and steel-cored armor piercing rounds. Evidence of some sort of firefight immediately prior earthquake. Sinkhole itself looked like a footprint to the Sight; something mammalian; perhaps a (metaphorical) giant bear or badger? Nearby buildings include: One abandoned corporate HQ for "Flamingo Chemicals Co." - it's been officially out of use for about seven months, and was at least zoned for administrative work, not actual experiments or production. One "barber shop", of questionable status; it appears to include far too much space, a bunch of folding plastic chairs, and a guy with a shotgun, in addition to amenities that would allow it to function as a barber shop were it actually open. One small non-chain grocery store. One pawn shop - offering top dollar for gold jewelry!
Additional investigation reveals possibility of blood magic in use by a competing gang, the "cutthroats" - though there is little evidence to support them being capable of causing an earthquake.

Sunday, August 9, 2009: Eric Saint, spokesperson of the Volunteer Earthquake Response Group (VERG), contacts Ryan - since the East Palo Alto city government hasn't demonstrated any interest in rapid emergency response to events such as the sinkhole the previous day, they're trying to put together a team capable of safely investigating such locations and extracting any survivors; an armored exosuit (or maybe two or three) is intended to function as the centerpiece of such efforts, supported by scouting robots, a crane (for use with sinkholes, where falling / further collapse is a serious danger), a generator on a truck, as well as conventional emergency response tools.

Also on Sunday: Sam gets called in to back up a VU team that's got some ghouls cornered in a cave in the blast zone. Matthew wanders by just in time for the showdown, which involves much running around. Then, of course, there's the slight issue of cleanup... The ghouls have satellite internet? What? They've also got their PC stuck in an ancient sumerian blood magic circle - human blood, designed to rip the blood out of any human foolish enough to cross. Can't take it down with wizardry, either; calling in a wizard would just result in a fried computer. Fortunately, Samantha has Tsuki's phone number (that's Inali's mother, if you weren't keeping track), and a full blooded kitsune is perfectly capable of carting the machine out without triggering the magical trap. Analysis on the captured machine is pending; the VU has its hackers trying to figure out exactly who the ghouls were talking to, but this may take some time.


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 Post subject: Re: Current Events
PostPosted: Tue Sep 07, 2010 4:02 pm 
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Prismatic Pangolin

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The VU hackers report back: They've been unable to track down who the ghouls were working for (the best they've got is a username on a private network: "Ravinath"), though they have found evidence that the computer was being used as part of a networked statistical analysis of ancient sumerian runes.

Saturday, August 15: Prompted by the FBI suspending his application for security clearance, Ryan gathers help (Sam, Inali, and Matthew) and goes to investigate the VERG offices. Where they find that the group is sponsored by the white caps gang, and was planning on using armed and armored combat exoskeletons - though there's no indication of why they thought they needed such extreme combat capabilities.


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 Post subject: Re: Current Events
PostPosted: Fri Sep 10, 2010 7:08 pm 
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Note to self: Massive fire on thursday, september 9, 2010. Odds of me remembering this post when game's caught up to that date? I'd guess about 3%.


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 Post subject: Re: Current Events
PostPosted: Sat Feb 12, 2011 12:09 pm 
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Hm. Yeah, I should keep this thread more up to date; maybe post actual game summaries or something. Oh, well.

September 18, 2009: Red court attack on SU, involving multiple bombs and a small airplane filled with explosives. One bomb was successfully disarmed prior to detonation, due to the presence of FBI agents assigned to discreetly guard Ducky (see: HMTI students of note). Damage from the series of blasts was notably less than it could have been; according to the public record this is due to quick action by FBI counter-terrorist units in evacuating the affected buildings and several now-deceased bomb squad volunteers who managed to disable portions of the devices before they went off. However, there have been remarkably few reports that have gone into any detail about the "freak weather conditions" that left several buildings coated in a thick layer of protective ice, or the "microvortices" that caused the airplane (also coated in ice) to crash into a nearby construction site instead of the SU library.

There is, however, much noise about how the bombs seem to have been set specifically to target those students with minors or majors in "applied mythology", and one Mr. Filstin is wanted for questioning regarding possible religious motivations behind the attack...

Current official numbers: "Less than thirty" deceased. Another 12 in the hospital in critical condition, but expected to survive. "Less than a hundred" with any notable injuries.


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 Post subject: Re: Current Events
PostPosted: Sun Mar 13, 2011 3:02 pm 
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For potential future reference, earthquake and tsunami in Japan 03/11/11. Will be of interest to Inali regardless of whatever might be happening in-game.


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