The rain was still coming down very hard. Suddenly, you can hear gun shots coming from a nearby alley as the few people on the streets scatter.

Well, now.  Cait's clothes shifted, forming the Wolfsuit variation that was Hood, and she hurried in that direction.

You see a group of three people trying to take cover, with a fourth on the ground, bleeding as two people unload on them with handguns.

Well, simple enough.  With a howl, Hood charged at the gunmen!

Init 27

(OOC: Go first with that roll.)

Hood was upon them at once, slashing and kicking!

OOC: Got Takedown 2, so: a 12!  Um.  Probably a miss...

"What the hell is that!" one of the thugs screamed as they barely dodged your attack before firing at you.

(OOC: One toughness save vs DC 19)

19!

Hood laughed, howled, and renewed the attack with savage force!

Crit this time.

The thugs went down this time.

Cait examined them to try and see who they were, or who they'd been with.

The men didn't seem to have any gang colours or anything obvious, besides both of them wearing a red, scowling smily pin.

Well, that was significant.  Hood took one and started looking around for more.

The pins do have some strange circuitry on the back of them when removed, but you hear more shots coming from down the street.

She kept a pin, but went sprinting off in the direction of the shots.

A group of five figures in heavy raincoats were walking down the street and firing at any people they saw.

Yeah, that wasn't going to stand.  With a howl, Hood was upon them, slashing and tearing.

28 is a crit!  If they are grunts, Takedown 2 to hit more of them, taking 10 on subsequent attack rolls.

You manage to takedown three of them, the remaining two opening fire on you.

(OOC: One possible hit. Toughness DC 19)

19!

The bullet was absorbed by the Suit, and she snarled, lunging at the remaining two gunmen.

23 and Takedown!

You managed to take them down as well.

This was pretty crazy.  Why were they doing this?  She looked them over, seeing if they had any more similarities than the badges.

There are no other similarities. These ones do have the same badges with with a whole lot of circuitry

Hood had a bad feeling about this.  What did the badges actually do?  She tried to examine one...

Technology 33!

You can tell that these things put out a signal that effects the victim's mind, introducing thoughts a victim can't ignore.

Yeah, that was bad.  But where had the come from?  She tried checking on one of the gunmen, hoping that they might have answers.

"What happen?" the clearly dazed man asked.

"The badge," said Hood.  "Where did you get it?  It was controlling you."

"Huh? It was from a rally. You know, the one for Doug Means, the mayoral candidate?" the man said.

Cait tried to remember what she knew about him...

He hasn't appeared in the news much, the election is excepted to be a landslide victory for the incumbent. From what has been on the news, he owns a local chain of convenience stores, married with no kids and is an overweight man in his mid-fifties.

Odd... well, first, she needed to prevent more shootings, so she set out to patrol for more gunfights.

You can hear more and more shots starting to ring out coming from several directions.

Yeah, that was bad.  If it wasn't so urgent, she'd try and figure out how to jam the signal-- but people would die if she took that time.  She went to investigate the shots.

Out on this street you see more people with the pins firing at people on the street and inside of buildings. You can hear the sounds coming from near by streets as well.

...all right, this was getting badly out of hand.  Time for a change of plans-- she'd never get to all the shooters in time.  She took the badge apart, attempting to see if she could work out a way to jam it or shut it off.

Technology roll 29!

With a bit of work, you hear a loud buzzing noise and suddenly the shooting stops

Good.  Next step-- track down the source of the buttons.  And that meant tracking down the candidate-- she set off to do just that.

When you reach where the rally was, everyone seems to have fled with a few staff members in coats clearing up the area.

She didn't hesitate, approaching the nearest.

"The buttons!" she said.  "Where did they come from?"

"Buttons? We didn't have buttons to hand out," the worked said, before turning to another one. "Hey, Bill, you know about any buttons?"

The man picking up trash stopped. and thought.

"Oh yeah, there was this old man who was handing them out. I thought he was with us, but he never showed up for anything else, so maybe he wasn't."

"The buttons are sabotaged," said Hood.  "Can you describe him?"

"Uh, he was like late fifties, early sixties. Bald with a bushy white beard," Bill said.

"...Not enough," said Hood.  "Any distinctive features?  Did he leave anything behind besides buttons?"

"Oh yeah, there was this weird stuff bear that I found where he'd been set up," Bill said. "It's in the lost and found which is up near the stage."

She went off after it without another word.

You find it without any problems. The teddy pair is dressed in a suit and tie and has one of the campaign buttons on it.

Hood studied it carefully, seeing if the button was the same kind and had the same circuitry.

It did have circuitry and it was similar to the ones on the other pins. It appeared to have been some sort of master controls for the others.

She set out to see if she could use this to track where other ones might be.  That seemed like the best solution...

Technology:  27

You get a large reading to the north east.

She headed in that direction.

After a bit of walking, you came to a small, rundown house.

Unexpected... she approached it, cautiously.

There were no sounds or movement as you approached the house.

Well, nothing for it.  She went in.

When you walk in, you notice that the interior is in much better shape than the outside. The wood floors looked rather new, but there was no furniture. The only door was the one going down to the basement.

Well, her course was clear.  She went through the door.

When you opened the basement stairs, down a flight of stairs was a heavy looking metal door.

She opened it.  With brute force.

It takes a couple of tries, but you manage to bash the door down. It appears to be some sort of lab, with the man that was handing out buttons at the rally inside.

"Stay back," he said, levelling a pistol at you.

"If your puppets with guns couldn't stop me, what makes you think you stand a chance?" asked Hood, slashing at the gun.

Sundering the gun.  20 to hit.

The gun is cut in two.

"I surrender!" the man said.
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She flexed her claws for a moment, looking at his throat... No.  That wasn't who she was.  She looked over the room, instead.

There were several machines, work tables and a pile of the badges.

"Why?" Hood asked, waving her hand to indicate the whole room.

"Revenge of course. That damn fool ruined my life, so I set about ruining his," the old man said.

"Yeah, by killing a lot of random people," said Hood.  "That's not happening."

"You can't blame a guy for trying," the old man said.

"To kill people?  No, I can," said Hood.  "Why, though?  What did he actually do to you?"

"He had a bunch of thugs beat the hell out of me so I'd sell my business to them and then he stole my wife," the old man said.

"Yeah, and you could have tried to use your buttons on him to make him do something without endangering random bystanders," said Hood.  "No sympathy."

"Then just call the cops already," the man said.

"Yeah, gonna do that," said Hood, placing an automated 911 call.  "But... I'll also watch that guy.  I don't mind taking on a big boss, too."

"I don't know if he's done anything more," the old man said. "I don't really care."

"About anything, apparently," she said, leaving a note for the police.  Maybe they'd handle it.  Maybe they wouldn't.  Whatever.

As you step out of the house, you can hear sirens approaching.

Yep, time to go!  She ran off into the night.