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alexmegamiI can't sleep, and it's 10 AM, so I've finally decided - I will not, NOT, NOT go to sleep before 10 PM tonight. I swear it. SWEAR!
To keep myself good and sane during the hour and a half that Pat is still asleep, I will write ABERRANT SUMMARIES~!
Okay, so maybe not "sane". But "good", it will keep me good.
For the subsequent Aberrant stories, you should know the following: Patrick, in lieu of the end of the world, has given us the following option. On a max-out, we can take temporary points of taint to achieve auto-successes. (10 temporary taint gives you a new taint, then resets to 0.)
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Last biweek's (you know, it's like a week, except it happens biweekly... anyway) story ended in CUBA, land of the Panoptikon. Now, for those of you that weren't paying attention, the Panoptikon was the Sekrit Base of EchoMirage (conspiracy of telepaths), where they kept mutants that had Gone Wild, and not in the Paris Hilton sense. Omega, only a few hours prior to dying, killed off a whole bunch of the Barain supporters/more crazily tainted mutants, and handed everything over to Thomas. With stealth helicopters.
Also, Vicki picked up her 6th point of taint right about... --->here.<--- See if you can guess what it is. (HINT: It's a mental aberration.)
So the intrepid heroes fly down to Cuba, and realize, WOE! The Panoptikon, that steel giant in the midst of small backwater Cuban town, used to have mirage shields so no one would notice. And now they are failing. So we FLEE! Back to Canada. Vicki spazzes out most of the trip home, scratching herself raw. Aaron worries.
Once in Canada, Thomas and Jake head over to Québec to take over an old Starchamber base that is in the Laurentian mountains. Vicki and Angel and Arkham, meanwhile, go confront Angel's father in France. Vicki frets because Imago hasn't been seen in a few days.
The intrepid France group heads to an unused nightclub with a secret basement. Vicki miraculously pulls the code out of her ass (luckily... or was it?) and they are nearly attacked by Starchamber agents. You see, we were meeting up not only with Angel's father, but also ALL OF STARCHAMBER.
Her father explained to her that his abuse of her when she was six was to ensure that if she were ever captured, enemy forces could not penetrate her mind. Also, before she became a mutant, she was supposed to follow in his footsteps. The abuse was actually priming her for Starchamber training.
Then, the Teragen attacked Starchamber. Squidboy and a fire-user blasted in with a huge bomb that went off. In a basement chamber. With only one elevator.
Dutifully, Vicki and Angel attempted to beat the living shit out of the intruders (non-lethally), along with Arkham's DEMON DOG. Which ripped off a guy's arm. After that, it was a simple matter of trying to drag 35 full-grown men out a broken elevator shaft after 3rd-degree burns and smoke inhalation, not to mention being crushed by half of the ceiling.
As you can imagine, they all died.
Angel, however, made a stunning sacrifice: by maxing out Healing, and using up ALL HER TEMPORARY TAINT, she raised 32 people from the dead. And died (?) in a brilliant flash of light.
(RIP ANGEL 2004)
Angel's father gives Arkham access to Starchmaber's database, which Arkham promptly goes off to Switzerland to find. Vicki, her sight restored (hours later), ventures back to Canada to notify everyone that Angel is dead.
Meanwhile, Jake and Thomas go to the Hague to convince Robert Masterson that he should 1) help build the spaceship out of here and 2) come on the spaceship himself. Masterson readily agrees, and Jake, Thomas and Aaron start preparing for trips into the United States of TAKEN OVER BY PSYCHOTIC MUTANTS WITH POWERS THE LIKES OF WHICH HAVE NEVER BEEN SEEN.
Vicki arrives back, and mostly not a lot happens besides retrieving various things from the States. Oh, and Vicki starts carving tribal tattoos into her arms with a knife. The group discovers that our teleporter's warp gate wipes computers clean (much to Aaron's chagrin), and Imago is still nowhere to be found, and all his voicemail boxes are full... Though Vicki managed to get in contact with his sister (Imullah), who notified her of a studio that he rented.
But the most important stories in here are these:
Now, maybe you haven't heard of Layla. Back in the old days, before Jake was a mutant, he had a girlfriend. This girlfriend was Layla, the one source of joy in Jake's horrible meaningless existence (except for music, of course). When Jake erupted during a show, he injured a lot of people... including Layla. In fact, he put her in a wheelchair.
Way back, in first season, in exchange for 'crushing' documents that EchoMirage didn't want us to have, Jake had EchoMirage send a healer to save Layla.
Now, he has gone back to get her.
Jake went back to Seattle (via the warper), guitar in hand. And he played. He played until the music was loud enough to make him dorm up into mutant form, and then he "shaped" his sound-self to look like Jake Green. Layla came to the window, crying and watching him. Over her clock radio, he said: "Come with me, Layla. It's time for our second chance."
Five minutes later, she was at his side, duffel bag in hand, and they traveled back through the gate to Québec and the spaceship.
An hour after Jake returned from Seattle, Vicki approached the warper, and had him take her back to Toronto and this studio. The door is unlocked; the front room has a camera tripod (but no camera). She spends a good twenty minutes searching the rest of the apartment, then hears someone out in the front room. Imullah is there, sitting next to the tripod, visibly upset. She says that Vicki is at fault for her brother leaving, that she and all the other mutants just couldn't leave him alone. "If you'd just left him to me, he would have been fine," she screamed, throwing a cellphone at Vicki.
Vicki tries to reason with her, to no effect, and Imullah eventually breaks down. Vicki attempts to comfort her, and says that they'll keep looking. They go to Imago's car (in the parking lot), where Vicki breaks down the lock and the car alarm. Finding his cellphone, she guesses at his voicemail password (his birthday), and tries calling all the people that called him (to no effect). There is nothing else in the car.
Imullah leaves, and Vicki tries to give her a phone number to contact her at (which Imullah crumples and shoves in her pocket without looking at it). Vicki goes back inside to look around one last time...
...and there is a camera on the tripod. A digital camera which wasn't there before, and which Imullah did not put there. However, there is nothing on it... nothing except static.
Vicki realizes that static is not what appears on digital cameras that don't have recordings, and so she takes the camera back to her own apartment and uploads the video onto her own computer.
And there are images, images that symbolize:
-War. People being hurt.
-Sadness. Someone crying.
-Attempted suicide. Cowardice.
-More sadness.
-Resolution.
-Love of viewer, but with contempt.
Vicki's mega-witted, Artistic Genius interpretation:
Every day, because of mutants, people are hurt. Being a mutant hurt me. I wanted to die, but I was too afraid to commit suicide. Finally, I've realized that no matter what, there are things that have to be done. If you go back to that adulterous bastard, I think you're an idiot, but I still love you.
Vicki cabbed back to the camp, picked up her car, and drove back to Québec so that she could keep that videotape. She also picked up any art that reminded her of Imago. And cried.
(RIP IMAGO)
And that pretty much brings us up to the current times.
Will post more when more happens.
To keep myself good and sane during the hour and a half that Pat is still asleep, I will write ABERRANT SUMMARIES~!
Okay, so maybe not "sane". But "good", it will keep me good.
For the subsequent Aberrant stories, you should know the following: Patrick, in lieu of the end of the world, has given us the following option. On a max-out, we can take temporary points of taint to achieve auto-successes. (10 temporary taint gives you a new taint, then resets to 0.)
----
Last biweek's (you know, it's like a week, except it happens biweekly... anyway) story ended in CUBA, land of the Panoptikon. Now, for those of you that weren't paying attention, the Panoptikon was the Sekrit Base of EchoMirage (conspiracy of telepaths), where they kept mutants that had Gone Wild, and not in the Paris Hilton sense. Omega, only a few hours prior to dying, killed off a whole bunch of the Barain supporters/more crazily tainted mutants, and handed everything over to Thomas. With stealth helicopters.
Also, Vicki picked up her 6th point of taint right about... --->here.<--- See if you can guess what it is. (HINT: It's a mental aberration.)
So the intrepid heroes fly down to Cuba, and realize, WOE! The Panoptikon, that steel giant in the midst of small backwater Cuban town, used to have mirage shields so no one would notice. And now they are failing. So we FLEE! Back to Canada. Vicki spazzes out most of the trip home, scratching herself raw. Aaron worries.
Once in Canada, Thomas and Jake head over to Québec to take over an old Starchamber base that is in the Laurentian mountains. Vicki and Angel and Arkham, meanwhile, go confront Angel's father in France. Vicki frets because Imago hasn't been seen in a few days.
The intrepid France group heads to an unused nightclub with a secret basement. Vicki miraculously pulls the code out of her ass (luckily... or was it?) and they are nearly attacked by Starchamber agents. You see, we were meeting up not only with Angel's father, but also ALL OF STARCHAMBER.
Her father explained to her that his abuse of her when she was six was to ensure that if she were ever captured, enemy forces could not penetrate her mind. Also, before she became a mutant, she was supposed to follow in his footsteps. The abuse was actually priming her for Starchamber training.
Then, the Teragen attacked Starchamber. Squidboy and a fire-user blasted in with a huge bomb that went off. In a basement chamber. With only one elevator.
Dutifully, Vicki and Angel attempted to beat the living shit out of the intruders (non-lethally), along with Arkham's DEMON DOG. Which ripped off a guy's arm. After that, it was a simple matter of trying to drag 35 full-grown men out a broken elevator shaft after 3rd-degree burns and smoke inhalation, not to mention being crushed by half of the ceiling.
As you can imagine, they all died.
Angel, however, made a stunning sacrifice: by maxing out Healing, and using up ALL HER TEMPORARY TAINT, she raised 32 people from the dead. And died (?) in a brilliant flash of light.
(RIP ANGEL 2004)
Angel's father gives Arkham access to Starchmaber's database, which Arkham promptly goes off to Switzerland to find. Vicki, her sight restored (hours later), ventures back to Canada to notify everyone that Angel is dead.
Meanwhile, Jake and Thomas go to the Hague to convince Robert Masterson that he should 1) help build the spaceship out of here and 2) come on the spaceship himself. Masterson readily agrees, and Jake, Thomas and Aaron start preparing for trips into the United States of TAKEN OVER BY PSYCHOTIC MUTANTS WITH POWERS THE LIKES OF WHICH HAVE NEVER BEEN SEEN.
Vicki arrives back, and mostly not a lot happens besides retrieving various things from the States. Oh, and Vicki starts carving tribal tattoos into her arms with a knife. The group discovers that our teleporter's warp gate wipes computers clean (much to Aaron's chagrin), and Imago is still nowhere to be found, and all his voicemail boxes are full... Though Vicki managed to get in contact with his sister (Imullah), who notified her of a studio that he rented.
But the most important stories in here are these:
Now, maybe you haven't heard of Layla. Back in the old days, before Jake was a mutant, he had a girlfriend. This girlfriend was Layla, the one source of joy in Jake's horrible meaningless existence (except for music, of course). When Jake erupted during a show, he injured a lot of people... including Layla. In fact, he put her in a wheelchair.
Way back, in first season, in exchange for 'crushing' documents that EchoMirage didn't want us to have, Jake had EchoMirage send a healer to save Layla.
Now, he has gone back to get her.
Jake went back to Seattle (via the warper), guitar in hand. And he played. He played until the music was loud enough to make him dorm up into mutant form, and then he "shaped" his sound-self to look like Jake Green. Layla came to the window, crying and watching him. Over her clock radio, he said: "Come with me, Layla. It's time for our second chance."
Five minutes later, she was at his side, duffel bag in hand, and they traveled back through the gate to Québec and the spaceship.
An hour after Jake returned from Seattle, Vicki approached the warper, and had him take her back to Toronto and this studio. The door is unlocked; the front room has a camera tripod (but no camera). She spends a good twenty minutes searching the rest of the apartment, then hears someone out in the front room. Imullah is there, sitting next to the tripod, visibly upset. She says that Vicki is at fault for her brother leaving, that she and all the other mutants just couldn't leave him alone. "If you'd just left him to me, he would have been fine," she screamed, throwing a cellphone at Vicki.
Vicki tries to reason with her, to no effect, and Imullah eventually breaks down. Vicki attempts to comfort her, and says that they'll keep looking. They go to Imago's car (in the parking lot), where Vicki breaks down the lock and the car alarm. Finding his cellphone, she guesses at his voicemail password (his birthday), and tries calling all the people that called him (to no effect). There is nothing else in the car.
Imullah leaves, and Vicki tries to give her a phone number to contact her at (which Imullah crumples and shoves in her pocket without looking at it). Vicki goes back inside to look around one last time...
...and there is a camera on the tripod. A digital camera which wasn't there before, and which Imullah did not put there. However, there is nothing on it... nothing except static.
Vicki realizes that static is not what appears on digital cameras that don't have recordings, and so she takes the camera back to her own apartment and uploads the video onto her own computer.
And there are images, images that symbolize:
-War. People being hurt.
-Sadness. Someone crying.
-Attempted suicide. Cowardice.
-More sadness.
-Resolution.
-Love of viewer, but with contempt.
Vicki's mega-witted, Artistic Genius interpretation:
Every day, because of mutants, people are hurt. Being a mutant hurt me. I wanted to die, but I was too afraid to commit suicide. Finally, I've realized that no matter what, there are things that have to be done. If you go back to that adulterous bastard, I think you're an idiot, but I still love you.
Vicki cabbed back to the camp, picked up her car, and drove back to Québec so that she could keep that videotape. She also picked up any art that reminded her of Imago. And cried.
(RIP IMAGO)
And that pretty much brings us up to the current times.
Will post more when more happens.
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Date: 2004-11-08 04:43 pm (UTC)Maybe you should consider a mild sedative (afer consulting the Sleep Clinic and your doctor).