"I think you'll need full-on Hannibal Lecter restraints," Darien said as he watched the lady-cop struggle with the cuffs on Doctor Cobra. There wasn't much else for him to do except wait for the ambulance and occasionally scan the scaly doctor for signs of consciousness. "So... crazy day."

The Spook looks about the room. There were a lot of bodies indeed. "We still have no idea what was done to these people... but the others - the ones that escaped in the sewer - they might have answers and we may yet be able to track them," the Spook suggests to the room "Escorted of course by you, officer, while your partner tends to the fallen. There's little time to waste and we can provide significant support."

Karen looked at the masked individual and shook her head. She wasn't going into a dark, contained space with unknown potentially powered individuals- no matter how cooperative they might seem. Plus, she couldn't just leave a bunch of unconscious civilians alone.

"Officers will canvas the area- including the sewers- once back-up arrives. Until then, we're securing the scene and make sure that no other civilians are endangered."

Seeing as her handcuffs wouldn't work, Karen took out some zip-tie restraints and worked on restraining the reptilian doctor. She'd have to use multiples- the lizard might have super-strength and though these were ostensibly super-zips, it paid to be cautious.

With Dr. Cobra tied up, the ambulance arrives.  One of the paramedics sees the scene and says "Holy #$%^!"  ignores Darien and goes for the first body on the floor, "She's alive! Pulse is strong"  Looking up at everyone he says "Don't just stand there, check these people out!"  He then tries to wake her.  The unconcious woman comes too then screams as she sees Dr. Cobra.

Gyre had glanced at/through everyone when he saw them down.
"None of them have any serious injuries and are stable they are just unconscious for some strange reason. The kid is shot though.  You might not want them to..."

After the woman screams "... see the mutated human cobra."

"Unconscious people have priorty. The fact that I can say that is evidence of the fact. I'm stable and not bleeding," Darien said. "And I'm not exactly a kid. I'm nineteen. Old man," Darien added with a smirk.

"Well, you do look young."
"Not my fault."
"No, it's my fault."
"True. No biggie. I'm just giving him a hard time."
This message was last edited by the player at 05:22, Tue 28 July 2015.

"Don't feel bad," Devilgirl whispered to Darien. "I'm six hundred and two, which in mortal terms would be..." She creased her brow in thought, then blushed, turning an even darker red.

"Uh... actually about nineteen."

Darien fidgeted a little, still his eyes not quite being able to make direct contact with the red woman. "Whoa. So... you're... um... really... that's something."

Gyre laughs "Sorry... I should call you by name.  Mine is Gyre when I'm on spin cycle."

"But really they have no broken bones, their hearts and organs look fine.  Well a couple of them had their appendix out... think that is the appendix.  Shot and bleeding seemed more important to me."

"Wow, six hundred... How long have you been on earth?"

Devilgirl started counting on her fingers. "Uh... let's see... about eleven months and seven days. Non consecutively." She looked up and smiled sheepishly. "To tell you the truth I wasn't the most senior gal Down Below."

"Why do you keep thinking about your grandmother?"
"Because she'd kill me if she knew I was hanging out with a..."
"I'm sure she'd have a few choice words the devil girl as well."
"Oh, there'd be some olde timey religion going down for sure."

Darien almost chuckled. "Now that we have all gathered here... What now?"

The paramedic says to the screaming woman "Now, just calm down, the alligator is sedated.  Look at me." that seems to calm her down.  He shines a light in her eyes. "No unusual reaction, doesn't seem to be drugs, we'll have to take them in to be sure."

The other paramedic checks a few others, "This one's snoring, I think they're just asleep, but how?" looking at the odd collection of heroes. Then looking at Dr. Cobra responding to Gyre "Yeah, I'll get a blanket." which he proceeds to do and tosses it over Dr. Cobra.

The woman says "I don't remember what happened, I was standing in line to get some change for the bake sale, then you woke me up." Glancing at the now covered Dr. Cobra and cringing.

The other paramedic says to the police "Do you have forensics on the way?"

Gary says "Uh... no, just called you and for backup, where are they? I'll call this in too" proceeding to do so. in the background you overhear him talking 'Where's our backup?

---

Spoiler text: (Highlight or hover over the text to view)
(They're out sick)

---

Blue flu? *#$%! What a day for that!  Why wasn't I told?

---

Spoiler text: (Highlight or hover over the text to view)
(Don't ask me, ask your union rep, this isn't an information booth)

---

How about forensics, we've got a whole bunch of unconscious people the paramedics don't know what's happened to them? 

---

Spoiler text: (Highlight or hover over the text to view)
(They went to the mayor's office)

---

  Why'd they go there?

---

Spoiler text: (Highlight or hover over the text to view)
(The mayor wanted someone to look at the evidence left behind.  Get to the point, we're understaffed here too)

---

*#$*# what're we supposed to do here we've got some giant snake man...

---

Spoiler text: (Highlight or hover over the text to view)
(Snake?  I'll call animal control)

---

Animal control?  #&*%, why not.  How about the National Guard or DHS or the FBI they deal with the weird X-files @^*% right?

---

Spoiler text: (Highlight or hover over the text to view)
(Why do you need the FBI for a giant snake?)

---

*#*#% #$%(^ $*#$ D#*$% I give up!'

Karen sighed to herself.

"If the police don't have enough people, call the Sherriff's. And warn them that we're going to need a special cell- the perp may have some crazy powers.

As to what we're going to do. I'm going to get statements from everyone, contact info, and then I'm going to look at the bank's security system. If it shows all you guys are not involved beyond trying to be goof samartians, you'll be free to go. Except for the Gyre and the seventeen year old.

I just need to get statements as to why you two were having a super-battle in our city."

Darien did a double-take. "You talkin' about me? Sure, flaming red devil woman--no offense--gets a pass but not the black kid with a bullet wound."

Gary gets back on with dispatch... after some time the gist is the Sheriff won't touch anything in the city with the Blue Flu going on.  He says "I'm tempted to call the FBI from the land line here.  What do you think?"

The Parmadics get everyone else awake and none seems terribly worse for wear though one guy has a nasty bump on his head.  One looks at Darien (He's recovered completely by the time they get to him, full health) "Just a scratch, it's not even bleeding anymore" and put some antibacterial spray and a band-aid on it.

The manager turns the alarm off, and gets the security video, it shows the four snake men walking in slowly and calmly as each person turns to look at them they stare at them for a few seconds making no sound, and slowly just slump over.   As well as the subsequent fight, snake men hissing and screaming at Darien, falling over, then getting back up and the final bit where the rest come in and one shooting Darien.

Animal Control arrives during the watching, the guy squats, uncovers Dr. Cobra and stares him for a bit scratching his chin. "The patterning looks kinda like a king cobra, never heard of one this large, or with arms and legs.  Maybe the Zoo will want it.  We'll need the big cage for this one. Someone help me with it, it's really heavy?"  He tries to lift the Doctor but has no luck, even trying to drag him.
This message was last edited by the GM at 16:51, Thu 30 July 2015.

As people struggle with Dr Cobra "I really don't think that a zoo is going to be able to contain an intelligent cobra man who can knock people out with his hypnotic eyes.  Plus he probably still has hench-snakes."

Turning to Karen Wong "As for a statement on the super battle.  Well I was keeping an eye on the conference and saw what looks like a devil girl with fiery wings flying in.  So I bounced on over to make sure nothing bad happened.  Looks like Tremere, the time traveling wizard that seems to have it in for me, mind controlled her to attack me.  We fought... well mostly she fought and I tried to get out of the way.  Eventually I got close to Tremere  and redirected her attack into him breaking his hold on her mind.  Tremere ranted and then vanished."

Gyre is still hovering and spinning but takes a short break in which you can hear a sigh.

"Honestly I had no idea that there were other people around with powers but welcome to a whole new world of comic book action I guess.  I've been practicing and looking for an opportunity to help and now with supervillians around you are going to need all the help you can get officer."

The Spook observes from the corner until something Gary says piques his interest."Blue Flu?" He sinks over to the man and tilts his head questioning "What do you mean, Blue Flu?"

"Thanks," Darien said to the paramedic. He knew it wasn't really that bad, but it gave him a good pretense to stick around and keep an eye on Doctor Cobra.

Overhearing the conversation about what to do with him, he said "Look, he ain't an animal. Just one dangerous and weird-looking dude. Putting him in a zoo will just let him escape again. You're gonna have to find a place to put him, Silence of the Lambs style."

He tried once again to peer into the reptilian's mind and got a shooting pain through his eyeballs for his trouble. He let out a small cry of pain and pressed the heel of his hand against his eye.

23:30, Today: Darien Hooker rolled 1 using 1d100. Mind Probe on Dr. Cobra.

Gary frowns at the Spook and says disapprovingly "It's just an expression. They're out sick"

One of the paramedics comes over to check Darien after his outcry, shines his pen light in his eye. "Something..." looking around "I'd swear there's something shining out of your eyes.  We better get you in and have a doctor look at you.

The other paramedic says "If it's just hypnosis that had these people out, there's not really any reason to take them all in."

Gary looks over at Gyre "Mass hypnosis, yeah, I must have been hypnotized, I didn't really see all this, and there's not snake people on the security tape." Sounds like he's trying to convince himself or wishing that were true.

Darien batted away the paramedic's hand and turned away. "I'm fine. Just a headache from being hypnotized," he lied. He glanced down to Doctor Cobra and shook his head.

"I'm never getting in there."
"His mind does seem rather strong... must be to hypnotize all these people."
"He may not even be human anymore."
"If he ever was."
"True dat."

"The Feds seem like a good idea. And call the sherriff's- seems like we'll need the best isolation cell they have. If the reptilian Doctor's mass is any indication, we're talking about a lot of strength."

Karen paused as she took in the scene.

"It seems like you know this Tremere if you're able to talk about time-traveling and mind-control. Not too sure about the time traveling, but it does seem that there are beings in this world who can at least affect a person's mind.

So, can you fill me in a bit?"

"I read a bunch of comics as a kid... so I'm throwing stuff out there that fits the evidence."

The hovering vortex with a man spinning inside pauses a moment to see if the officers or EMTs would like to comment on "the evidence".

"I bet you can find plenty of videos on youtube or national news by now of the fight near the mayors office.  Tremere was there and I pulled in into the fight at the end.  Take a close look at the video from then and compare it to when you saw him outside.  He was older before and this time didn't know who the devil girl was.  Hence 'time traveling wizard' ... just my running theory."

"Other than that I can't tell you much I didn't already.  I developed the ability to create spinning vortexes of energy a little while back.  Then today I meet some super villain who has it in for me, a pretty woman who I'm inclined to believe is a reformed devil, and a guy who can turn invisible... oh and lets not forget the snake people."

"Who were probably turned that way by the person calling himself Doctor Cobra--he's the cobra-looking dude over there," Darien pointed. "Based on some other dude I talked to, they might have had terminal illnesses--like cancer--and he gave them a cure... that turned them into reptiles." He remained stone-faced as he said this. "And he funds his research by robbing banks, apparently."

Gary borrows a desk phone and calls a number apparently the FBI, who'll be here shortly.  With the alarm off, people start trying to come in the bank, Gary holds them off, and asks someone to watch the door while he gets the police tape.

Most of the victims want to leave, and the Manager wants to get the bank reopened.

The paramedics and animal control stick around at Gary's request waiting for the FBI.

Eventually a pair from the FBI arrive, a pair that looks near retirement age, a redhead woman and a stooped man.  They get statements from Gary & the Paramedics, and ask for further statements from everyone else regarding the events.  They ask Animal Control to load up the Snake-Man and deliver him to a federal secure facility, give out cards and ask for contact information for everyone befoe leaving with the Snake-Man, and asking everyone to return to their business.

With the immediate situation settled, the Spook turns his attention to the group. With a nod of his head he addresses Devilgirl and Gyre, the spinning man "We seem to have the same priorities... the same goals. You can count on my aid in the future."

Then he turns the young man he hadnt met"And you - You seem to know more than you are letting on. How are you connected to all of this? How do you know so much about Cobra?"