S108_Saving_The_World_Can_Wait_Til_After_Dinner

Tuesday January 15, 2019 Recap: S108_Fatal_Continues.... The Brigade defeated all the Femmes except for Peekaboo, Infama, and Wood Nymph. Only Infama continued to fight while the other two seemed to be running away. Peekaboo was invisible while Wood Nymph merged with the ground and escaped through the earth. Peekaboo put an illusionary constructs behind the wheels of both the vans the Femmes arrived in, having them start the engines to appear they were going to use the cars to flee. While the Brigade was dealing with the get-away vehicles and fighting Infama who seems to be indestructible and incredibly strong Wood Nymph managed to carry the rest of the Femmes to freedom. PRIMUS was called to take Infama into custody. While she was being restrained she taunted them that her boyfriend, the even more powerful Uberman, would free her. When PRIMUS arrived they tried sleep gas and other means of restraint on her but nothing worked. They suggested using a 'Hot-Sleep' system but they are not standard equipment. They asked Big Tuna if he would help get her to the PRIMUS facility in Manhattan. He agreed. Big Tuna carries the naked Infama into the PRIMUS building where they put a 'Hot-Box' rig on her head. It proved to be useless. They were not able to find a room that could contain her physical might so as a last resort they implemented the Juggernaut protocols. They had Big Tuna toss her into a room and activated the zero-G system. She is suspended in the center of the room, too far from the walls to touch, so she can not tear through them to escape. Leaving her neutralized. PRIMUS asked who hired the Fatal Femmes to kill the Brooklyn Brigade but no one on the team knew who it was. Resume: January 15, 2019 In regards to the Special Edition of the Daily Bugle P aladin goes on r ecord to the GM that Jessica Black's assertion that the Brigade saved OPSEK has no supporting evidence and there is no way she could be aware of the activities on board the space station. The Brigade used the courier ship that the Count of Ubudgin gave them to stablize the decaying orbit of the OPSEK station. Tuesday night finds Tyler in the arms of his fiance Amy. They are celebrating the Brigade's victory over the Fatel Femmes and their engagement. Paladin goes back to the base where he reads the Daily Bugle's Tuesday Special Edition. He calls Prestige Legal and speaks to his lawyer Harold Leland about the report about Peregrine's Perch article. He (Paladin) want to know more about the investigation into the Brigade by Executive Sanction. Leland says as far as he can tell there is no evidence that the Sanction is looking into the Brigade's activities. Leland offers Paladin his tentative congratulations on the birth of his daughter. Paladin is confused for a moment so Leland continues. Cherry Darling gave birth to a healthy near-human baby girl. She then left the hospital AMA (Against Medical Advice) but not before listing Paladin as the baby's father. Now according to New York law her assertion is considered to be an absolute fact BUT we can have your name expunged freeing you from obligation to the child. All that is required is that you contest her claim and a simple paternity test to prove it. Paladin can be free of the 'burden' in a few hours. Paladin declines taking that action, so far. He asks what about Cherry? If Paladin contests being the baby's father baby Jane-Doe Darling will considered abandoned 72 hours after Cherry left her behind at the hospital. When that happens the baby will be turned over to the state for care and Cherry will be charged with Child Abandonment if she fails to return,This is a class 4 felony. He tells Leland that Cherry has to be found. Leland says that he will assign one of the firms investigators to find her. Leland also tells Paladin that Sacred Heart would like him to contact them. Among other things the baby girl needs a name. Paladin tells Leland to let tehm know that he is coming. When he arrives at Sacred Heart to see his 'daughter' he asks when she can be released to come 'home'. The staff tells him that they usually like to wait 3 days to make sure the baby is healthy but in baby Jane-Doe case she seems exceptionally healthy, alert, attentive, and responsive. Plus Paladin is a super hero she could not be in better hands as far as the hospital is concerned. They have a bag that they give to every baby at discharge, it contains some diapers, a baby bottle, some formula, and a hand made woven hat for the for the baby. Pink for girls and blue for boys, baby Jane-Doe got a pink one, of course. They ask Paladin for a name for his daughter, he names her Sarah, Sarah Darling. Paladin calls the base and has Preston put Babs on the phone. He asks her to get a room ready for the baby. Babs says she will recruit Preston and Rocko to help and everything should be ready within an hour...if they know what is good for them. Babs gets formula, diapers, baby monitors, crib, playpen, stroller, a papoose baby carrier, bottles, bottle brushes, Rocko gets a half dozen baby outfits, a dozen baby blankets, a couple mobiles, rattles, plushies, and baby books for story-time. Preston gets baby fresh scent laundry soap, bath soap, diaper rash medicine, air freshener, and baby powder. Network reprograms the robot tiger to be Sarah's guardian, protector, and playmate. Impact goes to see Chiasia. She is surprised but extremely happy that he actually showed up. 'Girls in my line of work are used to men lying to them.' They decide to go to a 'great little Chinese' place near her apartment but before they go she has something to tell him that might make him change his mind about the plans he has for the evening. Before the Brigade secured their freedom from Bloodmoon he had Aardwolf use his stable, some 20 women and a handful of men, to spread the Glove Cleaner spores to their 'customers'. The Johns (and Janes) breathed in the spores and more of them were dusted on the clients clothes so they were carry them home, work, or wherever exposing random people to Glove Cleaner. She knows that Aardwolf was spreading the virus but she thinks he stopped after Bloodmoon's control over them was broken by The Brigade securring the stabilization serum formula and means of production and giving them to Aardwolf. Bloodmoon's kindred need to take a weekly stabilization serum otherwise they will continue their evolution to their base animal forms. In Chiasia's case that would be a house cat. She and all other members of the Kindred are immune to Glove Cleaner. Chiasia expected Impact to run off to save the world and abandon their date after hearing her confession. Instead he said that sometimes saving the world can wait until tomorrow and they went on their date anyway. She was so happy that she offered to pay for dinner. Impact refused saying that he was taught the gentleman paid for dinner. He did offer to get her a t-shirt that said 'Saving the World Can Wait Til After Dinner', but she said she would never wear it (or even shirts in general). Impact said he would get her a hoodie instead. Impact and Paladin are considering producing the t-shirt and adding it to the Brooklyn Brigade Merchandise product line. Big Tuna spent the afternoon at Ryker's keeping Infama from being able to escape. After she was secured by the Juggernaut protocols he was able to work on the trouble in Chinatown and Little Tokya. He review the information published about the murder of ATF agents, their families, and friends last New Year's Eve and compared it to the claim Karsuou Yamada made that he single handedly killed the 21 people in daring one night lightning strike of vengeance for the death of his brother after the cigarette raid last December 18 th . The information was inconsistent at the very least. Big Tuna reaches out to his friend in the FBI, Jimmy Woo. Jimmy listening to what Okina Maguro (Big Tuna) says and agrees that it does not sound plausible and will take an unofficial look into it. Meanwhile Network gets a confirmation notice that Murderworld Inc. has received payment and is begging preparation for the guest of honor's party. As the host for the party, the paying customer, will receive a complete recording of the event and a commemorative coffee table book filled with photos and a written account of what the guest of honor experiences during the party. Network also starts working on developing, or finding a vendor who can provide, a seismic tracking system. He wants to be able to track Wood Nymph as she moves through the ground. After spending time with Chiasia Impact has some thoughts on Bloodmoon's plan to spread the Glove Cleaner though sexual coupling. He suggests that maybe the person who is getting exposed to the spores isn't the intended target. Maybe it is the victim's future offspring. If this is the case Bloodmoon might have his vision on the extreme long game. After getting Sarah settled Paladin puts in a call to Doctor McQuark. He tells McQuark that Revenant is sending a bottle of white wine to Lydia. Then they settle into talking about Glove Cleaner. The Brigade has given McQuark a large supply of Glove Cleaner spores giving him the material needed to produce the vaccine en mass but he does not have the facilities to do mass production. Paladin asks about giving the production means to the government? McQuark agrees they would be able to produce the vaccine in huge quantities but suspects that the President, Congress, the Supreme Court, followed by the military and law enfocement would get the priority for being inoculated. They then discuss if the process that creates the Glove Cleaner could be perverted into other uses. McQuark said it absolutely could. The process could produce terrible biological weapons that make make his worst nightmares pale in comparison. The Glove Cleaner procedures could lead to cures in cancer to wipe out all life on this planet should it fall into the wrong hands. The next question would be 'whose hands are the right ones?' There are no right hands. They decide to keep the secret of the Glove Cleaner to themselves. McQuark has a sigh of relief that it is a good thing that Stephen Fuergeson is out of the country. Fuergeson is one of the few people that could create a air-born contagious version of the Glove Cleaner. Paladin tells McQuark that Fuergeson is back in the country and has been for a few days. McQuark is concerned by this news but what are the odds that he would become involved in the Glove Cleaner issue? Practically zero, which means it is an absolute certainty. Considering the dangers posed by just the means of producing the vaccine McQuark and Paladin decide it can not be released. They will keep it to themselves. Paladin tells McQuark to start acquiring what he needs to go into mass production of the vaccine, he will finance it as best he can. McQuark pledges his pocket book volunteering to help cover the expenses. Paladin laments that after the death of Father Benedict of France and the mass murders of the rest of the Defenders of the Cross by vampires, werewolves, and other creatures of the night, he is the last surviving member of his order. Paladin DID NOT REALZE that he was the sole surviving member of his order, The Defenders of the Cross. With the baby at the Bunker they are considering hiring a nanny for round the clock care. For now Babs and Rocko are planning to taking turns caring for little Sarah. Wednesday January 16, 2019 0800AM Babs and Rocko are taking turns caring for and fussing over baby Sarah. NYPART officers show up at the Bunker; Lt. House, 2 Turtle Armor Agents, and 5 PART officers. They want to question Revenant. Paladin tells them Revenant is not on site but he will come to the PART offices at 9AM. House accepts Paladin at his word and the PART officers leave. Paladin calls Revenant who is at his 'Haunt' with Amy. They are in bed and are very surprised to hear the police want to question Revenant about something, something that they haven't given any details on. After he agrees to see the police Amy is incensed that they want to talk to him. While they are getting dressed and grabbing a quick breakfast Tyler tells her about the possible, possible, side effects of the dietary supplement her dad developed. In time it will build up in the system of the people using until it becomes fatally addictive. At first she isn't concerned because she has been taking it for a long time. Then the realization that she gave the supplement to Ellie (Tyler's mom) and her dad has been taking it forever! Revenant has to go see the police and she will go to Ellie's and get the unused supplement from her and then go warn her dad! Everyone has to stop taking the supplement and needs to go see a doctor. Revenant tell Doctor McQuark they are on their way. His office is located way out of town. It is where he rebuilt after Bloodmoon tried to kill him and burn down his lab. 9AM Harold Leland meets Revenant at PART HQ. Lt House starts by asking Revenant to state where he was at various times and if he could provide proof. Revenant said he was with his girl friend. House wanted her name but Leland interjected that could compromise Revenant's secret id. Leland and Revenant wanted to know why he was being questioned. House produced a photo of someone in armor that appeared to be the same as Revenant's except it was red instead of white. The Red-Revenant reached through the walls of safes and extracted sensitive and valuable materials. The victims so far have been LexCorp, Wayne Enterprises, Eclipse Industries, and MBI. House asked if the Red-Revenant's powers were similar to Revenant's own and he said yes, they were. Leland asked if Revenant was under arrest, House said no he was not but warned him against leaving town in case they had more questions for him. As the left the PART HQ Leland asked him if anyone else had access to his tech. Revenant said he would start checking his father's old files to see what his one-time employer might have. He then called Amy and told her what was going on. She said that was stupid there were any number of people who could have done it, the Martian Manhunter for instance is a shape shifter who can turn invisible and phase through walls. Amy, Ellie, and Hank (his fiance, his mom, and Amy's dad, respectfully) are almost at McQuark's. She will call him when she has an update of their conditions. Network and Big Tuna are prying into the death of Karsuou Yamada, the self confessed killer in the New Year's Eve ATF slayings. While Big Tuna is looking into the confession Network is looking into his death while in police custody. The local police are sharing jurisdiction with Federal enforcement so the FBI has copies of the security footage outside the holding cell where Yamada was being housed. Network used his link with the FBI to access the recordings. The recordings are not ideal, it is a series of snapshots every 10 to 15 seconds. The suspect is lead to his cell at 0230 and his mutilated body is found by police at 0600. The hallway is empty and vacant between those two time stamps and there is no audio accompaniment. Network painstakingly goes through them frame by frame, modifying the zoom and magnification to emsure nothing was missed. Then he saw it. At 0330 a small metallic 'tail' was caught entering Yamada's cell through the food gap near the floor. Network redoubled his scouring of the tape and finds a metallic bulbous 'head' exiting the cell using the same egress at 0430. Network brings this information to Big Tuna who decides to sit on it, for now. He wants the authorities to find it themselves so that they will not know that Network (or anyone else) has pried into their systems. If the authorities knew about the security breech it could cause the evidence (the 'mouse') to be called into question. The team debates why did Yamada confess? During his deposition Yamada claimed he was confessing to prevent Law Enforcement from going after the Surenos and the Tsukihama-gumi clan with lethal vengeance in their hearts. He alone was the executioner and with his confession the circle of death is closed. Confession is good for the soul and he wanted the those responsible for his brother's death to know it was Karsuou Yamada who beat them! After Revenant is questioned by the police he contacts Network. He knows that Network has a habit of creating blueprints of tech that the group encounters. He want to know if the team's cyberkinetic made any copies of, or blueprints detailing, his power suit. Network says no, he hasn't. Revenant asks Network if he might be willing to crack computer networks including military systems to help him find who has a copy of the Revenant armor. Starting with the computer systems of his father's old company. Paladin overhears the conversation between Revenant and Network. He has Revenant demonstrate his suits stealth systems rendering himself invisible. Paladin then sends this video to Lt. House proving that if Revenant did not want be seen he would not have been seen (or recorded as the case may be). Paldin warns House that arresting Revenant on such flimsy evidence would be more than just embarassing for PART and the the DA's office. House, quite coldly, tells Paladin that as a officer of the law his, and his department, job is to gather the evidence. It will be up to the DA's office to charge or not charge based on the strength of the case. House also tells Paladin that PART and NYPD might have more than just a picture of Red-Revenant phases through safes and stealing data from LexCorp, Wayne Enterprises, MBI, and Eclipse Industries. The prosecutor in-line to handle Revenant's case, one way or another, is ADA Gabrielle Katina Perez. She is the same prosecutor that handeld the Constable / Bear trial. She landed a conviction but she was not satisfied with the results. She wanted capital murder and only managed to prove intentional man-slaughter.