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Mutants & Masterminds:[Emerald City] Welcome To Emerald City


Dave ST

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Everything seemed to be going well today. The sun was bright, not many clouds in the sky, and Yellow Brick Row was packed full of people out and enjoying their day. The open air pedestrian mall was bustling with activity as moms shopped for new outfits for the kids or themselves, people relaxed in the open air cafes and all manner of scents from the various restaurants filled the air.

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Suddenly an explosion caught everyone's attention. People screamed and ran from the area but it was quickly apparent that is wasn't a concussive blast. One of the store fronts a Starbase Coffee house was filled with a thick gray smoke and people were evacuating, coughing and hacking.

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Two guys left the coffee shop in a rush, one of them was wearing a glove that projected a reddish beam, at the end of the beam just a few feet away is expanded into a bubble which inside held what looked like several laptop computers. The second guy was wearing the same glove but his beam held the establishment's cash register.

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“Dude, these are sweet!” The guy holding the laptop bubble proclaimed.

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The second shot him a glare and dropped a board onto the floor. “Shut up and let's go, ass hat.”

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His pal dropped a board too, they looked like skate boards without the wheels. Suddenly they both lifted from the ground and sped off on their hover boards, scattering the people of Yellow Brick Row.

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Miss Mystery, Kything, Echo, this is your thread. It's Yellow Brick Row... the odds of you being here don't require me to explain away why you might be in the area... especially since one of you actually runs a business here.

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The crowd is slowing the guys down, so they're moving along at about 8 mph. If you're going to initiae combat ONE of you can take an action against ONE of them. Then initiative like normal.

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You guys decide who takes the surprise attack, despite not all being together at the moment, you can discuss it OOC.

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Hero Heads Up: Area attacks risk hurting bystanders. Be careful.

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Harrison Ellis didn't get many days off.

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Well, more accurately, he didn't take many days off. He found it hard to relax and rest, thinking of all the people he wasn't helping. It was a nice day for it though, he thought. Sitting at a cheap fiberglass table outside of Chipotle's on the Yellow Brick Row, splitting his attention between a few emails he needed to send, the gorgeous weather and spectacle of all the people, and of course...the burrito he was halfway through. You know, he thought to himself, Maybe mom was right. Maybe the city CAN handle itself for just one day without...

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Explosion. Screams.

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...nevermind.

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Abruptly, to Harry, the light streaming down from the sun dimmed and plunged into monochrome shades of red. Everything went quiet, cut-off in mid chaos. And everything stopped. Well, everything except Harry himself. He took a deep breath and finished his burrito, then took the foil wrapper with him and let it go directly over the maw of a trash bin. It hung there in midair, ready to complete the fall when he let it.

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As he walked, he undressed. Under his button-down short-sleeved shirt was something very different. Even in the dim frozen light that surrounded Harry, the undersuit shimmered and glimmered like quicksilver. It followed the contours of his body closely (and was for that reason a powerful incentive to get to the gym more often) and looked like it was made of tiny silver fish scales or fibers or something. He had to pause to peel out of his shoes and socks, then got a plastic baggie out of his pants pocket before shucking them too. Clothes went in the bag, bag went in another trash bin...one he took a moment to memorize the location of. A bulge around the back of his neck turned out to be a hood he could pull down to cover his head and top half of his face.

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His pace was slow and methodical, and Harry paused every so often to scrutinize the scene. Near the Starbucks...who robbed a Starbucks for pity's sake?...people were frozen in mid-stagger, one woman in the process of falling over backwards. Harrison positioned himself behind her...and suddenly light flared back to normal. Chaos re-ensued, and the woman continued falling over only to thump against him. He made sure she was on her feet, then the red sun returned.

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Harry followed the two on the fancy skateboards, taking a few seconds to stop a teenager from hitting his head against a bench as he fell trying to get away, and taking a young child who was in the path of some fleeing people back to the woman who was halted in mid-desperate run to try to intervene but would never get there in time. He didn't stay long enough to offer words. He had to start time again for each intervention, letting the two start to make good their escape again.

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Even so, it didn't take long for him to stroll up alongside the pair of crooks with their ill-gotten gains held in weird-looking forcefields. Harry frowned at that, and leaned over to get a better look at each of them. The two were pretty young looking, and obviously stupid and overconfident. The snatches of dialogue between them he'd caught between freezes didn't make him think they'd built it. Found it maybe? Stolen it?

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Who makes things like this though?

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First things first.

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To the two thieves, the quicksilver man appeared from nowhere directly in their path. His gaze lingered on the one with the laptops, and that one stopped immediately in his tracks.

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He then looked at the other one, the one with the cash register, fully expecting him to stop when his friend did.

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...but nope, he just swooped right on by! Echo sighed to himself and shook his head at the frozen would-be thief.

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"You need to pick better friends," he said.

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(OOC - Using my Temporal Freeze affliction on Laptop Thief; Rev rolled his defense in chat and failed it. He's now Incapacitated. That's my 'surprise' action.)

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