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[psychoticdreams]

I'm bored and wanted to share the first session of my playtest game for Beyond Human. Should be ok since there are no rules related stuff in here. Just story. It's long and probably boring, but the players and I had fun. If you read it, please, share your thoughts. Not sure why I feel the urge to share this with the world.



Episode #1 - Beginings

Life for most people in Smithsburg has been fairly normal. However 14 years ago on this very day a space ship crashed in the woods outside of town. David Cabbot, CEO of Omni Corp, was the one to discover this ship. To most of the world it was reported as a meteor. On board this ship were 6 children that looked exactly like humans. They were taken to a lab and examined.
The examinations showed that there were subtle genetic differences between these children and humans. However the differences were extremely tiny. Mister Cabbot decided the best way to proceed was to put these children with families in the Smithsburg area. He setup an orphanage and placed the children with families.
The parents were told of thier childrens special nature, but were sworn to secrecy. They were not even supposed to tell the children themselves and were only supposed to take them to a special doctor, Doctor Stephen Conrad.
For the next 14 years they lived relativly normal lives, other than the yearly examinations. However recently each of these six children began to develop abilities that were far from human. This is their story.

Monday, September 8th, 3002

George Washington is much like any other small town high school. It has various cliques and tensions between them can get quite fierce. Today is the first day of school. The opening day assemble has just let out and the students are making their way to their classes.
The rumor running through the halls is the Gym teacher mysteriously turned up dead in his home last night. Currently there are two main flavors of the rumor. One is he commited suicide due to the thought of another loosing year with the Football team. The second is he was murdered by an angry parent of a kid on the football team.
All of the "star children", as Mister Cabbot has taken to calling them, have lockers next to each other and have almost identical class schedules. Currently five of them are at leir lockers. There is Adam Angers, Hannah Bryce, Jay Carter, Sati Carter and Emma Lynn Cowler.
Sati is a tall, somewhat skinny Indian girl with short hair in a small ponytail. She has on a Smithsburg High sweater and jeans.
Emma Lynn Cowler is a tiny girl (4'11" and 95Lbs). She has long blonde hair that hangs down loose to the small of her back. Currently she is dressed in blue jeans, a black tee-shirt and a jeans jacket. Her long, nearly six inch, finger nails are painted black.
* JayCarter is 5'9, 155#, has brown hair and blue yes, generic caucasian in appearance, is extraordinarily good looking (though he doesn't act as though he knows this) and dresses rather nondescriptly in jeans, a white t-shirt and flannel shirt with sneakers.
* Adam_Angers is about average height, pale skinned kid, who normally has his hair in a foot tall mohawk, along with his leather jacket covered in metal spikes has opted for a more conservative Oxymoron hoody and dickies with a safty pin necklace hanging from his neck, and his hair in a spiked Mohawk
Hannah Bryce is slight of build and of medium height. She has shouler-length blonde hair, slightly reddish. Her clothes are stylish for a teenager without seeming to follow any trend recognizable among her peers. She rigorously avoids logos, slogans, and school emblems.
Emma Lynn: "So did you hear about Coach Strand?" She says to no one in paticular.
"Yeah! Can you believe it?" Sati asks her. "I heard someone say Mr. Douglas over there last night."
* JayCarter pokes around in his locker but listens at the same time.
Like Jay, Hannah listens to the conversation from the edge of the group without immediately involving herself.
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* Adam_Angers looks around for his new Girlfriend Sarah, the JV head cheerleader, hopeing maybe she would may have heard something
Emma Lynn: "I would be suprised if it was suicide. He always seemed a little depressed. What was Mr. Douglas doing there?"
"Well, duh!" Sati narrows her eyes and lowers her voice. "What do you think?"
* JayCarter decides he doesn't need his highlighter and hands it to Sati.
Sarah spots Adam and comes running over. She is dressed in the current fashion, as always. He shoulder length redhair is pulled back in a simple pony tail. Her makeup as always is perfectly applied. She looks sad and says, "I can't beleive it about the coach. The football team is already talking about having a memorial for him. I mean he wasn't good coach, but they all liked him."
"Uh. Thanks Jay," Sati says, slipping the highlighter into her backpack.
* Adam_Angers looks over, "Yeah, not exactly a football fan, but still it kinda sucks."
Emma Lynn stands behind Sarah and rolls her eyes and makes a silly face.
* SatiCarter grins at Emma, then covers it by coughing. "Yeah..."
A bird flies past a nearby window, momentarily distracting Hannah. As it flies off, she returns her attention to the group.
Something in Jay's backpack beeps, and he gives it something vaugely like a stern look for half a second.
* SatiCarter eyes Jay's pack suspiciously.
* Adam_Angers turns back to Sarah, "Do any of the meat heads have any ideas what might have happened?"
* HannahBryce fails to suppress a chuckle at "meat heads."
mumbled "Just wants charging...
Sarah: "They think it was murder. They aren't buying this whole suicide thing. They say the coach was really excited about this years team."
* SatiCarter shakes her head at Jay, then turns back to the others. "See! I bet it was Mr. Douglas."
(quietly) "Did Mr. Strand have a history of depression or mental illness?"
Sarah: "I've gotta meet the other girls before class, but I'll see you in English, right, Adam?"
* SatiCarter giggles suddenly, then coughs again.
* Adam_Angers turns to her, "Yeah, have fun, see you in class."
Sarah: "Of course not. The school wouldn't higher a teach with a serious mental illness." She then turns and takes off.
"If your whole life was football, wouldn't you be depressed?"
* JayCarter shrugs distractedly.
Emma Lynn: "Wonderful girl you've got yourself there Adam." The sarcasm is thick.
* SatiCarter nods to Hannah. "Yeah. What a lame sport... All you do is run back and forth."
"They wouldn't if they knew about it..." (seemingly to nobody in particular)
* Adam_Angers looks at Emma, "You're just mad cause you'll never ne half as hot as her."
Emma Lynn rolls her eyes and says, "Yeah that's it. Like I'd want to be a bitch like her."
* Adam_Angers looks at Jay, "Ok, I'm begining to think you are from some other planet or something."
* JayCarter glances at Emma and seems to consider that statement for a second, then goes back to paging though a book without commenting.
"Hey! Back off," Sati snaps at Adam. "Don't you have somewhere else to be?"
Hannah affixes some small, avant-garde art sketches to the inside of her locker door. She tries to avoid getting entangled in the growing dispute.
* Adam_Angers to Sati, "Ever heard of a joke?"
"Ever heard of 'My jokes are lame'?"
Emma Lynn suddenly smiles and says, "Maybe tonight we should check out Coach Stand's house. See what we can find out. Kind of like the movie Scooby Doo."
"Yeah, your right, your jokes are pretty lame"
"Wow, that's clever. Wait, no. It's not."
"So which one of you is going to wear the ascot?"
* SatiCarter stares blankly.
* JayCarter frowns and seems a bit uncomfortable with having attracted enough notice to start an argument.
Emma Lynn ignores Adam's joke and says, "I mean wouldn't it be kind of cool to solve a murder/suicide-thingy?"
"Well..." Sati shrugs. "Swim practice doesn't start until next week... Jay, what do you think?"
"Cool... if a little late for the coach," Hannah adds to no one in particular.
* JayCarter gives Sati a little nod.
"All right, we're in." Sati glares at Adam. "You can wear the ascot."
"There are two things I don't wear, spandex and gay neck wear."
Emma Lynn giggles at Sati. "I'll ask if Jamie wants to join us."
"Either one would be an improvement, if you ask me..." Sati nods at Emma. "Maybe Susie and Sue, too..."
* Adam_Angers looking around at the others, "So where do we get a talking dog?"
* Adam_Angers smirks
Emma Lynn can't help it and finally laughs.
"Oh, I don't know. A cheerleader, same thing, right?"
* JayCarter looks thoughtful for a moment, then resumes paging through a textbook.
* HannahBryce unwillingly flinches at the mention of "talking dog." She tries to quickly cover it with laughter at Adam's joke.
Emma Lynn smiles at Sati.
* Adam_Angers puts his arm around Jays shoulder, "Don't you ever put those books down?"
* SatiCarter glares at Adam.
* JayCarter suddenly looks as though he's been cornered.
"Jay, don't you have a class up on the second floor next?"
"Uh... yeah after I read them I don't need them anymore..."
Emma Lynn: "Does anyone else find it odd that the National Enquirer setup a local office here a few weeks ago?"
* JayCarter nods to Sati.
"You should go before you're late," she suggests.
* JayCarter nods to Sati.
"Maybe the Enquirer murdered Coach Strand, so they'd have something to report," Hannah suggests sarcastically.
"Or maybe it was the CIA."
* JayCarter makes a mental note of these possibilities.
"Jay... class?"
* Adam_Angers walks back to his locker, "Yeah, what would the enquirer posibly find interesting around here."
* JayCarter nods and follows Sati.
"Lots of people stupid enough to buy their paper?"
* SatiCarter gives one last glare at Adam. "CIA. Or maybe the NSC."
"So do we wanna meet there tonight?" she asks as she starts off.
Emma Lynn smiles and says, "Well there are the local urban legends. Anyone heard about the alien landing in the forest like 10 years ago? That's been getting a lot of talk lately. I bet thats why they are here."
"Yeah, there here making sure aliens from some other world havn't crash landed and infiltrated a little midwestern town."
* SatiCarter just rolls her eyes.
Hannah finishes putting up a poster for some indie band no one has heard of, completely covering the last spot of bare metal inside her locker.
Emma Lynn: "Let's all meet at my house at 9. My folks wont be home, they're never home, and we can go from there."
"Okay, cool. See ya later," she says, smiling at them all except Adam.
* JayCarter gives everyone an uncertain little wave, almost as an afterthought, and follows Sati off to their next class.
* Adam_Angers turns to sati, "Love you too" and makes a kissy face
Hannah nods. "I'll take the bus after I'm done with my art class at the community center."
"You're less and less funny every second. It's amazing."
* SatiCarter heads off to class.
* Adam_Angers shuts his locker and takes off to class
Emma Lynn grabs a book out of her locker and heads off. Waving to the others.
A bird -- the same one? -- lands back on the window ledge. Hannah just stands and watches it for a while before finally heading off to class.
Later that evening everyone, except Jamie, has gathered at Emma's house. They are currently sitting in her living room. Her home is in the upper class section of the town. Her parents are quite well off, but as Emma has often complained about they are almost never home. "Can I get anyone anything while we wait for Jamie?"
"How long are your parents gonna be gone?" Sati asks.
Emma: "They're out of town until next Monday. Some auction in England." There is a note of bitterness to her voice.
* SatiCarter nods, embarassed. "Uh... got any beer?"
* JayCarter sets up his laptop on a coffee table.
Emma Lynn: "I can see what I can find. Anyone else want something? Beer, soda, coffee, tea or something else?"
"I'm good with anything I guess..."
"Soda is good"
Hannah makes a face at "beer." "Coffee would be good."
"Thanks"
* JayCarter starts tapping at his laptop.
Emma heads out of the living room. As she turns the smile fades from her face.
"So what do we know about Coach? Isn't that how you start this kinda thing?"
"well, sarah said he was pretty excited about the new football team."
"If the new team was going to do better, why kill him now?"
"Maybe it was someone from another town?"
"Other than that, I'm not really a football person, so I didn't really know anything about him."
Emma returns with a smile and a tray full of drinks. "I didn't know what soda so I grabbed a bunch." The tray has several kinds of beer, about a dozen different types of soda, a pot of coffee and a tea pot. She sets it down on the table.
* SatiCarter grabs a can of beer. "Cool!"
"Now we just need some scooby snacks and we are all set."
* HannahBryce helps herself to a cup of coffee.
"Man, what is it with you and Scooby Doo?" Sati asks as she takes an experimental sip of beer.
* JayCarter nods thanks and takes a can of soda, all without looking away from the screen of his laptop even to see what it is.
"Hey, I'm not the one who came up with the Scooby doo idea."
"Yes you were."
"Uhh, no, Emma did"
Emma Lynn nods to Adam.
"Well, whatever."
"Maybe it was another teacher. Like, someone upset over the football team getting all the money while the other teams got squat."
Emma Lynn: "Actually I heard their money was getting cut back this year. More was going into the computers."
(absently) "He got good performance reviews from the school staff..."
"Really? Well, that sucks for them."
"Should we go break into his house?" Sati asks after taking another sip of beer.
* HannahBryce sips the hot coffee slowly. "And that's a good idea... why?"
"To find clues."
Emma Lynn quickly fixes herself a cup of tea and says, "That was my thought. That's why I wanted Jamie here. He has a knack for getting into locked places."
"Ah. 'Everything I Needed To Know About Crimesolving I Learned From Scooby Doo.'"
"Well, what's YOUR idea?"
"This is strange..."
"Nah, Hannah, if it were that easy we would have already figured it out."
* HannahBryce throws her hands up. "I didn't say I wouldn't do it. I'm just not looking forward to a night in jail if we get caught."
"What is it, Jay?"
"So we, uh, don't get caught?" Sati shrugs and looks over at Jay as he speaks up.
Emma Lynn: "If we get caught I'll call my folks lawyer and get us off."
"Uhm.. he's got some really wierd e-mail here..." (taps more keys and looks perplexed)
"weird how?"
"What do you mean, kiddo?"
"Well, there's no sender... Not anonymized or masked headers or anything like that, it shouldn't be possible."
"Who's it from?"
"That's the problem... Literally it didn't come from anywhere the computer can identify... They're all about some sports drink called Super Jump Juice..."
* JayCarter turns his laptop slightly so Sati can read the screen.
* SatiCarter leans forward and stares at the email.
"So this displays skills outside the realm of the average football booster, then?"
"I think they need to think of a new name"
Emma Lynn: "Yeah. That's pretty lame."
* JayCarter shrugs.
"I'm not even sure I could do whatever they did."
"Really?"
"Does it look like the message was sent specifically to Coach Strand? Or to a whole bunch of people?"
"Has anybody heard of this Super Duper Jumping Juice?"
"His is the only address in the header. If it was sent to anyone else, they would have been entirely seperate mailings."
* SatiCarter reads the email again. "Maybe it's in code or something?"
Suddenly chimes playing the Imperial March from StarWars can be heard. Emma Lynn giggles and says, "I decided to change the doorbell. Must be Jamie. I'll be right back." She leaves the living room.
* HannahBryce just shakes her head sadly at the dated pop culture reference.
* JayCarter nods slightly to Sati brings up the entire message in raw form, then uses a seperate application to convert it to a screen full of binary numbers. He proceeds to study it carefully for a minute.
"No, there doesn't seem to be anything hidden in the message..."
* SatiCarter continues to drink the beer.
"Well..."
* SatiCarter stands up and looks around for a phone book.
"I'm glad that means something to you," Hannah says to Jay between coffee sips as she watches him work.
Emma Lynn returns a few minutes later with Jamie Nash. He stands about 5'8" tall and is quite skinny. His jeans are extremely out of date, his shirt has never been in style and his glasses are tapped on the bridge. His brown hair is slightly greasy looking.
"Well, the drink stuff is all we got to go on at the moment... so..."
* SatiCarter waves at Jamie as she continues the phone book hunt.
Emma Lynn: "Whatcha looking for Sati?"
* JayCarter runs a mundane, simple Google search of "Super Jump Juice."
"Phone book. We can find out who makes that drink."
Emma Lynn opens a drawer and pulls out the phone book. "Here ya go."
Jamie stands in the doorway to the room.
"Cool. Thanks." Sati sits back down and thumbs through the phone book.
"Maybe Coach Strand was part of some taste test or something. Maybe Super Jump Juice turned out to be *really* bad."
"Or maybe it wasn't on the up and up."
"So they killed the Coach because... why?" Sati asks, looking for a Beverages entry in the phone book.
"Maybe he got sick from the juice and was going to sue?"
"I'm not even sure how someone could hide the origin of their e-mail like that, much less why anyone trying to sell something would want to."
"Could you have done it?"
"Oh, this is interesting..."
Emma Lynn: "Maybe someone who knew about the emails wanted the coach dead? A teacher at school?"
"Well, I've never tried... It's more efficient to just use an anonymizer..."
* SatiCarter nods, pretending comprehension.
"Omni Corporation hosts the web site for Super Jump Juice..."
* HannahBryce pours herself another cup of coffee. "Thanks for this, Emma."
"Our Omni?"
* JayCarter nods.
"That's crazy."
* SatiCarter finishes the beer. "Thanks, Emma. So you think they had him killed cuz the drink was dangerous?"
Jamie: "Well OmniCorp does host websites for other companies."
* JayCarter nods to Jamie, seeming to notice his presence for the first time.
Emma Lynn: "I've heard of stranger things, Sati."
"I wonder if any of the coach's players know about this drink."
"Like what?"
"Oh, there's an Enquirer article too..." (without much enthusiasm)
Emma Lynn: "Off the top of my head I'm drawing a blank, but I know I have. Seriously."
Jamie: "Really? My dad says they are a bunch of nutbags there. Writing about monsters and aliens and celebrities."
"Yeah, what do the Enquireer goons have to say? Three-headed giant butterflies predict the end of the NFL?"
"You don't believe in celebrities?"
"I don't think thats what he ment."
"Uhm, they claim the stuff works but turns people psychotic."
* SatiCarter grins.
"We should check out the coach's house, see what's there."
Jamie gives Sati a dirty look and says, "You know what I mean. They have no journalistic intergrity there. They write whatever crap they want."
Hannah starts in on saying, "Actually, celebrities are manufactured by the media--" before she realizes the importance of the Enquirer's claim. "Negative publicity for a new product might be a reason for murder."
"There could also be stuff in the school records that isn't on their computers yet, they're still not totally paper free."
"Do you think the coach was a source for the Enquirer article?"
"Yeah, maybe this company was trying to cover up the drawbacks of the Jump Juice. Knocked the coach off cause he was gonna come clean about it."
"Also, could try finding out from Omni who's paying them to host the SJJ site."
"So what are we all sitting around here for? It's getting late."
Jamie: "Do you think you could get on Omni's computers?"
"There's also supposedly a source the Enquirer has... So they say..."
"Sure I can."
Jamie: "Cool."
* SatiCarter grins proudly.
* JayCarter smiles a little.
"Uhm, are we all going to go look in different places?"
Jamie: "I can get us into the coaches house, but you have to promise to keep what I can do secret."
* SatiCarter gives Jamie a look, then nods. "Promise."
"So you can pick a lock, like the rest of us havn't done something a little illegal before."
* JayCarter looks at Sati and actually shows something like concern.
"Don't get in trouble..."
Jamie: "Pick locks. Yeah. That's it."
* SatiCarter looks back at Jay. "It'll be okay, Jay. You can stay here if you want," she replies quietly.
Emma Lynn: "Yeah. Stay here and see what you can find out Jay. Call me on my cell if you find out anything?"
"Well, the more people who're there the more likely it is someone will notice."
"See? So... me and Jamie and who else?"
"I'd kinda like to go to the coach's house."
Emma Lynn: "I can go or stay here with Jay. I'm flexable."
"Okay, just make sure you have your phone set on silent." (helpfully)
* SatiCarter stifles a giggle at Emma's comment.
"Okay Jay, you stay here and work your magic on that computer and we'll go see what we can dig up on the coach."
"Hmm... maybe that wasn't the best choice of words."
"Uhm, if anyone wants to look at the paper records at school, I can access their security cameras..."
* SatiCarter stands up. "Okay, well."
Emma Lynn: "Ok. I'll go to the school then if you are ok being here by yourself?"
"Ok.. I can, like.. tell you if the coast is clear.. and stuff.. On your phone.."
Emma Lynn: "Cool."
Jamie: "Sounds like we have a plan or at least a skeleton of a plan."
* JayCarter fits a little cordless earpiece on his ear for his cell, which he sets next to his computer.
"Yeah. All we need is a talking dog, right?"
Hannah says nothing.
* JayCarter seems to contemplate the talking dog thing again for a second.
* Adam_Angers stands up and walks over to Sati "Now your gettin it."
"Thanks."
Jamie: "Why would we need a talking dog?"
* SatiCarter bites her lip.
* JayCarter decides to file the idea away and goes back to the laptop.
"Its a whole Scooby Doo thing. Forget it."
* SatiCarter fidgets. "Can we go? I wanna find out what happened."
Jamie laughs a forced laugh.
"Yeah Velma, lets get going." winks at Sati
"Call me that again, you meathead..." Sati grumbles.
* HannahBryce quickly finishes her coffee and leaves the cup in the sink.
(to Emma) "I can disable the school alarm system. Text me when you get there..." (scribbled down the number of his cell and hands it to her, as an afterthought)
Emma Lynn: "You are soooo cool."
* JayCarter ponders for a moment, then brings up another window for a connection to Omni Corp."
"Oh, there might be something in his office too..."
"Yeah, cool, calm and collected is apparently something you are born with," looks at Jay "not something you learn" looks back at Seti
* JayCarter keeps one ear open, interested to hear Sati's retort even though he's still focused on typing.
"I'm sure eventually someone will take you seriously, Adam," Sati replies. "Keep trying."
"And I'm sure someone will eventually take you... well if we're lucky they'll just take you."
* SatiCarter holds a hand over her heart. "Wow. That was almost a good one. Did your mom come up with it or something?"
* JayCarter looks at his screen with a slight frown, though it's not clear whether he's frowning at something on the screen or Adam.
"Everything okay, Jay?"
"And the best you can come up with is a jab on my mother?"
"Nah. What makes you think you're worth my best?" Sati says, yawning. "How far is the Couch's house, anyway?"
"Oh, fine.. Thanks..." (distractedly)
Sati, Hannah, Adam and Jamie stand outside Coach Strand's house. It's a small house. The door is covered with police tape. The windows are dirty. The white paint is peeling off the walls. Jamie smiles and says, "Watch this." With that suddenly Jamie vanishes with a slight popping noise. The door swings open and standing there is Jamie smiling.
"What the - "
"Whoa."
* SatiCarter stares long and hard at Jamie.
"huh... Well, thats handy."
"Yeah..."
Jamie: "That's why I want ti kept a secret. Cool though."
* SatiCarter hurries inside, still staring at Jamie.
"Hey, I don't think anyone is gonna say anything. Who would believe us anyway?"
* HannahBryce looks around the neighborhood, then cautiously enters the house.
Jamie: "I haven't tested my limits yet, but I wonder if I can bring anyone with me when I teleport."
"You can - that's just - " Sati tries and fails to offer a coherent sentence.
* HannahBryce walks slowly through the house, examining it room by room.
"It would be cool if you could, but I'm not gonna line up to be your test."
"I would."
* Adam_Angers looks around the house
The main room contains a small TV. A dirty easy chair and several piles of news papers, each of them a different tablod. There are dirty cereal bowls on the stand next to the chair.
* Adam_Angers looks through the news papers
* SatiCarter follows after Adam and begins rooting through the papers he hasn't grabbed.
"Hey, these go back a good 10 years."
* HannahBryce sees Adam with the newspapers. "His taste in literature was certainly questionable, that's for sure," she says in regard to the coach.
Jamie begins going through his mail sitting on the table.
* HannahBryce opens a curtain and peers out the back of the house, seeing if there's a yard, and if so, what it might contain.
* Adam_Angers holds one of them up "Well here is the Enquirer that Jay was talking about"
"Lemme see."
* Adam_Angers tosses it to her
* SatiCarter catches it and flips to the article in question.
Jamie: "He had bills pilling up."
* Adam_Angers to Jamie"Anything out of the ordinary?"
The backyard has junk parts of several dozen cars.
Jamie: "Credit cards. Lots of high end electronics charged to his card, but I'm not seeing any here."
* HannahBryce sighs, finding the backyard as disappointing as the house's interior. She turns back to follow the newspaper investigation.
* SatiCarter sits down and reads the Enquirer.
* Adam_Angers looks around, "He doesn't seem like the type to be buying electronics."
Jamie: "Exactly."
Jamie: "Do you think it was just someone else using his credit card or something more sinester?"
"Maybe there's a basement?" Sati suggests, looking up from the tabloid.
* Adam_Angers begins looking around for a basement
"Is it stuff he'd want? Big screen TV? Stuff like that? If he was getting money in addition to his regular paycheck...." Hannah trails off, not sure where her supposition is taking her.
* JayCarter sits back once the others have left and continues to work on his computer, without touching it.
As he is trying to access the accounting department of Omni Corp to see who is paying for the hosting of the Super Jump Juice website he suddenly ends up in a strange chatroom. The only other occupent is someone named Security. 'Who are you?' appears on the screen.
*** SatiCarter has quit IRC (Read error: EOF from client)
*** SatiCarter has joined #parahuman
*** HannahBryce sets mode: +o SatiCarter
* JayCarter frowns and then looks curious.
"Someone who was curious if you were paying attention or not," he mumbles to himself, and the words appear on the screen just as quickly without being typed.
'I monitor all traffic in and out of Omni Corp networks.'
"You have successfully passed audit. What is your employee ID?"
'I am Security. Who are you?'
* JayCarter considers for a moment.
"I am an internal auditor. To whom do you report?"
'I am Security. I report directly to David Cabbot, CEO of Omni Corp.'
"You have successfully passed an internal audit of Omni Corp intranet security systems. Thank you for a job well done, the report will be available within two business days."
'I am Security. I know you are not who you claim to be. This conversation will be terminated. We will find who you are.' Suddenly the connection to Omni Corp's computer is dropped.
* JayCarter frowns and shrugs, doing some routine work to cover his connection tracks.
* JayCarter switches his attention to the school network, getting ready to help Emma break into the building.
Back at Coach Strand's house. The group found the basement. The light has burned out and their is no sign of a flash light in the coach's house.
"Great... anybody bring a light?" Sati asks, looking around in the darkness.
"Umm... I think I got this one."
* SatiCarter glances at Adam. "Huh?"
* Adam_Angers opens his hand and a ball of bright blue light appears in his hand
Jamie: "Whoa."
"Jesus H. Vishnu!"
"What? You think you are the only one who can do cool things?"
Jamie: "Well yeah, but it's cool to know I'm not the only freak."
* SatiCarter stares. "This is too crazy."
* Adam_Angers begins walking down the stairs using his powers to light the way
"I was already wired from the coffee.
"So what do you do?" Sati asks Hannah in a whisper.
"Ummm, I'm good with animals."
"Whatcha mean?"
* HannahBryce seems a bit uncomfortable sharing this detail. "I kinda know what they're thinking. What spooks 'em and stuff."
The basement looks like something out of a madscientists lab. Rows and rows of chemical vials. Several strange looking devices.
* SatiCarter is about to reply when she gets a look at the basement lab. She stops. "Oh, God. What are we doing here?"
Jamie: "Man who would have thought the head jock was a science geek?"
"Well, it explains why he had so much credit card debt"
* HannahBryce can't repress a laugh as she examines the vials. "What is all this stuff? Anybody good with chemistry?"
* SatiCarter nervously goes down the rest of the stairs. "This is so crazy."
* SatiCarter picks up a random vial and looks for a label.
Jamie begins examing the various experiements. After a moment of silence. "It looks like he was doing a chemical analysis of something. Some strange stuff here. Nothing I've ever seen outside of scifi. I think he was checking out the Jump Juice, but it's just a guess."
None of the vials are labeled.
"Hang on. Who has a cell phone here?"
"I do."
"Can I see it?"
* HannahBryce hands the phone to Sati.
* SatiCarter dial's Jay's number.
* JayCarter mentally commands his cell phone to answer, still focused on the school security system and camera.
"Hello?"
"Hey, dork. Any luck there?"
"Omni's got some paranoid security person guarding their accounting machines. Anything interesting there?"
"Ooo, boy. There's a mad scientist lab in the basement. It's kinda like yours, but with... um... vials of goo," Sati replies, describing what she sees as best she can.
* JayCarter frowns.
"Is there anything that looks like an incubator..." (Jay describes what an culture incubator would look like.)
* SatiCarter looks around for an incubator.
With Jay's description Sati indeed finds one.
"Yeah."
"Uh.. Don't open ANYTHING. He could have been culturing germs or maybe viruses...
Jamie is continuing to poke around and examine different things.
* SatiCarter goes pale. "Guys! Guys! Don't touch anything!" she blurts out. "Okay - so - what do we do?"
* HannahBryce grabs Jamie's wrist as he reaches out to prod a vial.
"Uh... Is there a computer, or notes?"
Jamie: "I don't think he was doing anything dangerous. Although if he had labeled stuff I could say for sure."
"You're not entirely reassuring there, Jamie. Just so you know."
Sati finds a computer and as she turns on the monitor she sees it is counting down from two minutes.
"Ahhh!"
Jamie: "Sorry." He sounds quite sad.
"We gotta get out of here!"
"What's wrong?" (sounding very alarmed)
* Adam_Angers glances around quickly for anything of any importance
Jamie: "Grab on to me and I'll get us out of here."
* SatiCarter grabs Jamie's arm.
"It's okay, Jay, we're leaving NOW!" Sati yells, glaring at the others.
* HannahBryce is taken aback by Jamie's reaction. "Hey, it's okay--" She takes Jamie's arm, too.
Jamie and everyone holding on to him vanish. They appear upstairs for a second and then outside. Jamie colapses to the ground.
"Are you okay?" Sati asks, then into the phone: "We're okay, Jay, we got out, the computer was counting down like a bomb or something!"
Jamie: "Just tired."
* Adam_Angers uses his power to grab up the incubatior and the vials of goo and then flies his butt out of there fast
"That's wierd.. Why would anyone use a computer as a bomb timer?"
"I don't know!"
After the two minutes is up there is a slight shaking underfoot and the building crashes into the ground.
* HannahBryce checks herself for missing limbs, then breathes a sigh of relief.
* Adam_Angers flies out the front door, incubator and vials in tow
* SatiCarter stares at it. "Okay. I'm going back to Emma's house and then Jay and I are going home."
"Yeah, the neighbors are sure to notice that the building just collapsed. We should all get out of here."
"Uhm, that was loud.. Is everyone alright?"
* Adam_Angers lands in front of the others. "Um.. they went to a lot of trouble to cover this up. Hopefully wonder boy can figure out what it is."
"We're okay. And - I'll be there soon, okay? We're going home."
"Alright.. Emma's on the way to the school though. Should we tell her not to go after all?"
"Hang on." Sati covers the phone for a second. "Should we still let Emma go to the school and get captured by goons?"
The group heads off to Jamies car, a beat up old mini-van and he takes off.
Jamie: "Do you really think there are goons at school? Well other than the football team?"
"I didn't, but then we went into the mad scientist's lab and his house blew up and you all have superpowers!"
"Yes, call Emma off," Sati tells Jay.
"Umm... yeah... maybe we don't make that a well known fact."
Jamie: "The house didn't explode. The lab did and it caused the house to collapse."
"Details, details."
* JayCarter commands his cell phone to send a text to Emma with a thought.. "Come back, there's problems."
"There was an explosion, okay?!"
Emma text backs to Jay, 'On my way back.'
Jamie: "None of us are hurt and I'm sorry my being special freaks you out."
"I didn't say it freaked me out," Sati grumbles. "It's just this is a lot to take in on a school night, okay?"
"Its ok man, she just has some issues she needs to work out."
"Hey, Jamie, I'm not complaining! You just saved my life! You're not-- you're not the only one who's special, anyway."
"Shut up, Adam."
* Adam_Angers uses his powers to make a giant hand and give Sati the bird
Jamie snickers at Adam.
"You are such a prick."
* Adam_Angers makes it into a giant needle, "If you say so"
* SatiCarter glares silently.
Jamie: "You are just like the Green Lantern minus the ring."
* HannahBryce just shakes her head, a smile on her face.
* Adam_Angers turns the needle into a sad puppy dog face
* Adam_Angers turns to Jamie, "The green what?
* SatiCarter shakes her head. "I should have walked home."
Jamie: "Comic Book Super Hero."
"Ohh."
"Doesn't anyone in this town read real books?" Hannah asks with mock annoyance.
"I read Hamlet last year."
Jamie: "Yeah. I read those too."
"Sorry, more of a music person."
Jamie: "I read anything ranging from scientific journals to comic books to classics."
"It's a start."
* Adam_Angers looks at Sati, "I hope your brother can figure out what some of this stuff is."
* SatiCarter smiles proudly. "He sure will."