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To: Danny Heldt
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Thought you would want to know.
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We both have common business interests. I know you can react like lightning when an opportunity appears. We can make a fist full of money in working together.
The Nicotine’s are expecting a new product shipment in 4 days. They will be at the docks from 6 to 9 pm. You can meet them for a management conference at 9003 Fireside dr., Winthrope Station. While a hostile takeover of their business is the likely outcome, I have confidence in your management skills.
Always Follow Your Dreams,
The Oracle
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To: David Piper
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Thought you would want to know.
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I know you have lost something dear to you. It opens a whole of possibilities and expands your mind. You don’t have to be a nomad searching the world for it. Enjoy a good show. The Gambino Brother’s circus will provide a great direction and the man with the scar will be in back.
Always Follow Your Dreams,
The Oracle
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To: Gunnar Weston
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Thought you would want to know.
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You are on the right track. Keep moving ahead. If you think your sights are off, then a gunsmith can adjust them. Remember no matter the age no one retires from teaching and a student has been found in the most abandoned places in the Foundry.
Always Follow Your Dreams,
The Oracle
Tuesday, September 7, 2010
The Quest: The Meeting of Masters - Issue 0
In an upscale neighborhood within the most exclusive gated community in all of Megalopolis a meeting is occurring. A meeting of a magnitude that has not taken place since the “greatest” generation was young. It is a solemn meeting. Most do not like each other. Some outright hate each other. None trust the other.
They are in a grand library. It is a private library which people would say rivals the Main Library of Records of Megalopolis. They would be wrong. The MLR does not contain books a quarter as old as the sacred texts which can be found here. The owner of the library as well as the estate itself is the host of this meeting. Dr. Avery slowly finishes drinking his tea. Once he is done, he turns his head and calls to his student. “Pietor, please take my cup and saucer”. Pietor is not a young man but he follows the instruction of his teacher as a pupil would. Once done, Pietor then walks behind his mentor and grabs the handles on the wheel chair. He slowly rolls Dr. Avery to where the others are. Pietor leaves the room shutting the grand doors behind him.
“Diana, is the crime spree contained to Center City only?” Noticing the fierce look given him and the sound of her foot tapping angrily Dr Avery stopped speaking. “Sorry, Ms Huntington, old habit, I am sure CHESS has it contained.”
Taking another minute to gather his thoughts, Dr. Avery looked at the august assembly. “Maybe, I have been away too long”, he thinks to himself. He looks up at Diana again.
“Yes, Dr. Avery, we have it contained … unfortunately we can’t stopped them but only Center City is endangered. CHESS has 2 full squads of Knights and Valkyries reacting to the Crushers every move. We haven’t had a crime spree like this since the Infidels were able to capture the Crusaders. Hopefully the Crusaders will be back soon and we can mop up this mess.”
“Humpf, you should let me call in the Super Forces, between them and my MEDUSA Agents the Crushers will be made short work of.” Dr. Avery looked at the speaker. Dr Alexi Vlasov was also wheel chair bound but that is where any similarities ended. Alexi believed in science only and the power of brute force. Dr Avery believed in, well other things, which were equally as powerful but more subtle.
Sensing the flow of the conversation, Dr Avery looked toward William Gaunt, Director of the Department of Superpower Affairs or DSA. “Dr. Vlasov, you know that can’t be done. Your MEDUSA Agents don’t exist, right Alexi? The Super Forces are a branch of the United States Armed Forces and as such are directed by the Commander in Chief. The President will not use the US Military to stop crime, even if they are super powered criminals.”
“I think that is why Mocker changed the team name from Infidels to Crushers to make sure that military intervention isn’t even considered.” Seeing the looks from several of those gathered, Director Gaunt nods his head, “Yes, my sources do believe that Mocker is back and leading the Crushers.”
Seeing the other members of the meeting starting to leave, Dr. Avery raises his hand. “Baron, Matthew, and Solomon, please wait. I am sure the ‘Crisis in Center City’ under control. My reason for mentioning it was not for us to solve as a committee but to recognize that you have issues on hand that require your resources. Which means that my issue is not something that CHESS or MEDUSA can handle for me?”
“There has been a releasing of artifacts. I don’t know the details but I have received a scroll of significant power. The recovery of the four companion scrolls and the other artifacts are of the upmost importance.”
“I will be recruiting my own team to perform this quest”
Dr. Avery is overwhelmed by verbal onslaught of his ‘guests’. Slowly he raised his hands and asks them to air their concerns one at a time. After listening quietly for an hour, he shakes his head in disagreement.
“It has to be done. They have already been identified and I will start contacting them this week. Diana and Alexi, all I ask is don’t attempt to stop me in this endeavor. William, they will need licenses immediately. Pietor will provide the necessary paperwork and data. I myself will be providing the recommendations. I will brook no delays.”
“Now Baron, I will need passports to Hollow Hills. While I know it has joined the Megalopolis with the other sister cities but my research shows that Hollow Hills did not give up its sovereignty. I still don’t know how it obtained independent nation status on the same legal basis as American Indian Reservations but obtained it was.”
“Solomon as leader of the Chosen, I have no intentions of collecting your artifacts. If any of the artifacts we find grant access to the Domain, then by all means I will turn it over to the Order of Sceva. That is a burden that your team has handled through the years and I have no desire to attempt to take that burden on.”
“Matthew while I appreciate your offer. The Redeemers are very much like the Super Forces with your representation of ‘The Holy’ for Hollowed Hills. You and your team have to maintain your vigilance. Don’t scoff Baron, without them present, your leadership would have more challenges to it. The pleasurable truce, which you enjoy so much, would die quickly, leaving only open warfare. It would be just like the old days”
Looking back at the group, Dr, Avery set his jaw and steeled his eyes, “Now leave me, this was not to be a forum for discussion, but to let you know that Dr. Arcane was forming a new team and that we would be active again.”