PROLOGUE
07-24-2005 00:32:08 Entering Industrial Avenue and into the Sewers.
[NPC]The Leech: Dr. Vahzilok warned us you might try to stop him, Miss Hail!
Malichi Samson has defeated Reaper.
Malichi Samson has defeated Mortificator.
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[NPC]Dr. Vahzilok: This is an emergency medical situation, and amateurs are only going to get hurt. If you don't step aside, I'll treat you as I treat all infections: I'll wipe you from the face of the Earth. This is my mess; I'll clean it up.
Miss Hail goes down to Dr. Vahz, and spends the rest of the fight unable to help Malichi and the Shadow.
Malichi Samson has defeated Reaper.
Malichi Samson has given you Respite.
Miss Hail: Thank you both.
Malichi Samson: No problem; sorry you got knocked out, Jen.
Miss Hail: Happens a lot. Miss Med says I have an ice jaw.
07-24-2005 00:48:46 Team task completed.
The Shadow explores the upper reaches of the lab while Malichi and Miss Hail examine the main platform.
Shadow IV: The Shadow knows!
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Malichi Samson: Disco Ball Time!!!!!
Once out of the sewers:
[NPC]Karl: Hey, everybody, Miss Hail faced down Dr. Vahzilok himself!
07-24-2005 00:51:19 Shadow IV has quit the team.
Suddenly a group of vampyri over-run the trio.
Dr Bones has defeated Equinox Parasite.
Dr Bones has defeated Equinox Parasite.
Malichi Samson has defeated Equinox Parasite.
Dr Bones has defeated Equinox Parasite.
Miss Hail goes down to an over-aggressive vampyr.
Malichi Samson has given Miss Hail Respite.
Malichi Samson: Sorry about that, Jen, I couldn't act fast enough.
Dr Bones: Same here.
Miss Hail: D-Dr. Bones, do you LIKE looking scary?
Dr Bones: As a matter of fact, yes, I do; it makes my job easier and it makes it easier on the criminals too.
Miss Hail: Um. Well, you look scary to ME. You look like you ought to be leader of the Skulls -- not a hero. Um. Sorry. That was rude of me.
Dr Bones: I used to be a Skull, as a matter of fact.
Miss Hail: <a little intimidated> Oh.
Malichi Samson: And that is why you decided to look like one still? A reminder?
Miss Hail: Um. How did you come to, um, change your ways?
Dr Bones: <to Malichi> Yes, somewhat. <Turning to the girl> And, as to your question, Miss Hail … I killed a man as part of a stupid prank A neighbor. Not a friend, perhaps, but someone who was familiar to me.
Miss Hail: <distressed>Oh, dear. Then -- you are an ex-convict?
Dr Bones: No, the police never were sure who did it.
Malichi Samson: From your powers you were up in Bone Daddy status, I take it?
Dr Bones: No, I was a scrub.
Miss Hail looks a little more scared.
Malichi Samson: No worries, Jen; he's not going to hurt us, I don't think, and if he tries -- 3 against one isn't good odds for him.
Dr Bones: The old man, though, was a founder of sorts. He was deeply into the philosophy, but really bad shit. I read some of his books after he died. And, no, I'm not going to hurt you. Not unless you go villain.
Miss Hail: <trying to recover her poise>Have I got this straight? Your father founded the Skulls???
Dr Bones: Nah, one of my neighbors.
Miss Hail: Oh. You mean… the man you -- killed? He founded the Skulls?
Dr Bones: Or he at least discovered the methods the Bone Daddies use to get their powers. He wanted to die.
Miss Hail: Wanted to? Why?
Dr Bones: He said I was the instrument of his destruction that he had picked.
Miss Hail: <whispers> This sounds like a horror story.
Dr Bones: It is. He was always a weird creepy neighbor and I foolishly read some of his stuff and it was just like one of those stupid movies. Couldn't stop reading.
Dr Bones chuckle darkly.
Miss Hail: Go on. Is his death associated with how you got your powers? If you were a minion rather than a Bone Daddy...
Dr Bones: Nah, at the timeLL had a gun. No powers. But his books taught me how to tap into the dark side of the human unconsciousness -- some sort of dark self actualization shit.
Miss Hail definitely is uncomfortable.
Dr Bones: And after that I decided I was going to do bad things to bad people instead of good people.
Miss Hail: That -- sounds so odd. You learned about the dark and it turned you to the light...?
Dr Bones: You could say that, or you could say that I had a falling out with the Skulls that grew to cover all of crime. ‘Cause think about what we do: we attack other people with terrible forces and yet we claim we are pure.
Miss Hail: <rattled> I d-don't claim anything, Dr. Bones.
Malichi Samson: Hell, I know I'm not pure, but I'm just trying to make a difference in the world.
Dr Bones: What we do is attempted murder; we just pick targets society would rather be rid of. Just look at the way we are portrayed in the news: we are the good guys, the valiant defenders. But we are all predators; we just pick prey that people fear.
Miss Hail: I never thought of it that way. I make ice and bubbles... those don't hurt much.
Malichi Samson: Ice doesn't hurt?
Malichi Samson blinks in disbelief.
Dr Bones: <sarcastically>Yeah. Falling down constantly while some other guy kicks you in the kidneys is no big deal. Just try not to be sentimental about what we do is all I’m sayin’.
Miss Hail: Um. When you put it that way, it makes me rather sick.
Dr Bones: Well, that’s good; this is not a pretty thing we do.
Malichi Samson has defeated Equinox Parasite.
Dr Bones has defeated Equinox Parasite.
Miss Hail: You are a very grim man, Mr. Bones.
Dr Bones: Yes, yes, I am. But as to the way I look, it scares people, which means I need to hurt less of them. That’s why I don't look friendly.
Miss Hail: When I was growing up and being a super hero healer -- it was all in my dream box, I know. Miss Med said it was cryo-suspended animation -- all the heroes were brightly coloured and happy. There was no one like you, Dr. Bones.
Dr Bones: Your dream box?
Miss Hail: Um, yes. Dr. K said it was a cryo-mental adjustment chamber. It was how I learned.
Dr Bones: So tell me about how you became a hero, Miss Hail.
Miss Hail: I've always been a hero, Mr. Bones. Well, not when I was little.
Dr Bones: Nah, now that you're a big time hero.
Miss Hail: But Miss Med says it's hard to tell what of my memories is real and what is not.
Malichi Samson: Well, not everyone is a happy person, Jen.
Dr Bones: Many heroes especially are troubled bunch of drama queens, the lot of them.
Malichi Samson: I don't think anyone that I've met in Champions is like that though, Bones.
Dr Bones: Well, they did put me into Dark Champions, but ask the people you work with. They are all troubled, I'd bet.
Malichi Samson: Ah well. Other then you and Shadow, I've not seen anyone from that group, I don't think.
Krazy Joe: Shadow? Ah, man, that dude is creepy.
Dr Bones: Really never met him.
Malichi Samson: He didn't say much. Just a really corny "The Shadow knows," followed by a silly laugh.
Miss Hail: Shadow laughed in Dr. V's lab. It was really creepy.
Krazy Joe: Yeah. Every time I get around him, he just gives off this air of "don't talk - I already know what you're thinking".
Dr Bones: Yeah, that must really grate on ya.
Malichi Samson: Sorry that you found it creepy, Jen, I found it silly myself.
Krazy Joe: I mean, seriously, ask Ban if he likes bein’ around him and even Ban can be kinda creepy at times.
Malichi Samson: Yet another I've not had the chance to be around much.
Krazy Joe: Ah, you'll like Ban, Mal.
Malichi Samson: Well, I've liked everyone I've met; just haven't had much time to meet many.
Miss Hail: I don't think I've met Mr. Ban either.
Krazy Joe: Tell ya what, Mal, when we're done, give Ban a call and ask if you can meet him somewhere. He's kinda like Eric. He's almost always available.
Malichi Samson: Ok, I'll do that, Joe; have a question to ask him anyways.
Krazy Joe has defeated Equinox Adjutant.
Malichi Samson has defeated Equinox Parasite.
[NPC]Archon Snyder: How did Malichi Samson get in here? Heads will roll for this!
Krazy Joe has defeated Equinox Parasite.
Krazy Joe has defeated Transformation capsule.
Team task completed.
Miss Hail hit SL21 while Joe herded war wolves.
As the team members went their ways:
Krazy Joe: Yo, little dude...give Ban a call.
07-25-2005 00:56:58
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