S097_Lizard_Men Recap Sunday January 6, 2019 The group
would also incur liabilities such as having to follow the law, require warrants
to enter non-public areas during an investigation, surrender their ‘secret
identities’, add their fingerprints to AFIS, and submit DNA to the federal DNA
registry, forfeit the payments made for the royalties on their images, and be
on-call 24/7 (except when on vacation or taking personal time). The cold
section and the hot sections are becoming more extreme. The cold is –20 to –30
degrees while the warm zone is getting hotter 80, 90, and 100 degrees. Sunday January 6, 2019 Big Tuna: Tuna is
working on getting Grandpa home to Japan. He is also
looking for Red Tie Guy’s cyber-ninjas Big Tuna
learns of a Koi, a member of the Bloody Rain Yakuza can make travel
arrangements for people. He normally brings them into America but he can
arrange for a trip in the other direction. He learns
that Koi hangs out at a Snooker hall in Little Japan called Pocket Paradis. He
is described as wearing dark sunglasses, white t-shirt, usually with a half
consumed cigarette in his mouth, with a pack of cigarettes rolled in his left
shirt sleeve. The woman
at the counter rents snooker balls sets to the patrons for $10 for the first
hour, $15 for each additional hour. After 12-noon you can buy beer. Tuna spots
Koi shooting Snooker with a group of men as he enters the parlor. Koi bets on
every game he plays. Tuna
challenges him to a game and they discuss getting Tuna’s grandfather back to
Japan. Koi agrees for the price of $10,000. He gives Tuna a piece of paper with
a time later tonight and address on it. Bring the passage here and Koi will
take make sure that he gets home to Japan safe and sound. 1PM Tuan goes
home and gives Grandpa the good news. Grandpa complains that he was never asked
if he wanted to go back. Tuna basically tells him that it wis what is best for
him. Grandpa accuses Tuna of just wanting to get him out of his way. Their
conversation is interrupted when Tuna’s trouble alert signal is activated. Impact: Impact
spends the day working on digging tunnels, developing his ability. He zips out
of town in a wide open field and practice his digging. He brought a sack lunch
with him to the field because he knows he will get hungry. He decides that the
negative 40+ is too cold for him to endure long term he decides to stay in the
unnatural tropic zone. While
looking for a good spot to practice his hyper-digging he comes across a young
woman, twenty years old or so, who is struggling with a flat tire. Her elderly
father is in the car with the AC blasting trying to keep cool. The girl, Deanna
Graham, is dressed in a yellow sleeveless vest, denim cut-off shorts, and thong
sandals. Impact decides to help her. He
runs back to the Bunker and asks Babs if she has a tire that would fit a 1997
Chevy Nova Hatchback. She doesn’t and it being Sunday finding an open tire shop
is going to be a hardship. Still she promises him that she will find one.
Impact thanks her and rushes back to Deanna. Half an hour later Babs calls him,
she had arranged for a replacement tire. She also lets Impact borrow one of the
hydraulic jacks she uses in the motor pool. She tells him pointedly that she
wants the jack back. He agrees and runs off to rescue the fair maiden in
distress. Revenant and
Paladin independently decide to check out the Empire State Building where this
unnatural heat seems to originate from. They spy each other as they are flying
across the river. They get together and travel together. Reaching
the 102 story building Paladin senses danger from above and below. He decides
to go up and Revenant goes to the basement levels invisible and desolidly. As he
approaches the top of the building he notices the temperature rises noticeably
but not radically. Reaching the top he finds the communication towers,
microwave arrays, and cell phone antennas all in place and working normally but
something tells him that something is wrong and they are dangerous. Paladin
calls Doctor McQuark’s office and his call in answered by Lydia. After a quick
explanation he is transferred to the good doctor. Using the cameral on his
phone he lets McQuark check out the equipment. He is impressed and says, in his
opinion, the array is definitely the source of the warming around Manhattan. He
says that it can’t be the sole source of warming but it is the master unit. He
says there must be repeater stations scattered around the warming zone. The
smaller the units are the more of them there will be. He says they can’t be
smaller than a fire hydrant and (probably) not larger than a dumpster. He also
says that the power needed would be huge. If the array of devices drew on the
local power grid the energy drop would be noticed, blackouts and brownouts and
such.. He thinks they must be operating on some kind of broadcast power system
but not of his equipment has noticed anything. He is going
to summon Mick Krammer and Bill Brady (GM Note, in the game I said James Price
but I goofed. Price is the sales and service
manager while Brady is a gifted electrician) to help he run sweeps
looking for evidence of a broadcast power system. As McQuark
ends the call he warns that the amount of power going through the system is
considerable and might be volatile. He suggests not touching or hitting
components of the array otherwise there might be a huge explosion! Meanwhile
in the basement …. Revenant
has found a trio of lizard-men (actually dragon-man) building a large device.
One of the dragon men stands over 13 feet tall and sports a pair of wings. The
big guy has a tail but the smaller, man sized ones, are tail-less. The large
one is directing the others in their tasks. While he is watching a video
screen lights up as the large dragon-man receives a video call. The image on the screen looks like
an orange human-dinosaur hybrid. The orange thing demands a status update from
Draco (the big, winged dragon-man). Draco calls the orange one Stegron and
informs him that they are partners, Draco is not his minion. Draco tells Stegron that The
Neutralizer will be ready within the hour. He also says that The Lizard is out
recruiting lizards and reptiles to their army. When The Neutralizer is
activated the crocodiles, serpents, and other lizards will feast on man-flesh. Stegron tells Draco his
resurrection ray is ready. When The Neutralizer is activated he will restored
all the dinosaur fossils to living (and hungry) status! Today the world that
was stolen from them by a cosmic fluke (the meteor the extinguished the dinosaurs)
will be corrected! Draco tells Stegron that ‘Dragon
King’ is at the Empire State Building providing security. Stegron ends the call so that
Draco can finish The Neutralizer. Revenant calls McQuark. Doing the
same thing that Paladin did he lets McQuark look over The Neutralizer. McQuark
believes The Neutralizer will deactivate biological energy sources. Depending
on how much power is feed into The Neutralizer it could cause unconsciousness
or death on a massive scale. He would need to be able to examine the device and
comb through the device’s programming to see what it would most likely do. McQuark thinks it might be set to
target only humans, and again depending on the power source it might kill or
render everyone in the areas of effect dead or unconscious. He also cautions
about banging on the machine because, with the amount of power it could be also
be volatile. Bang on machine and it might blow up. Paladin recalls the team to the
Empire State Building to engage Draco and neutralize The Neutralizer! The battle begins … to be
continued, Same Bat-Time, same Bat-Channel.