The new 5e game started off at a Gala fundraiser at Capitol City University Medical Center on the CCU campus.
The clapping was much less than would normally be expected for such a gala fundraiser, when his adoptive mother, a brilliant doctor, got up to deliver the keynote address. The global pandemic, the continuous spread of Covid-24, the "Purple Plague", has brought normal life to a standstill in Capitol City. Important gatherings such as this are necessarily sparsely attended. Wolf's adoptive father is obviously distressed when he turns to Wolf and makes a confession; the vaccine has no long term viability. He pleads with Wolf to go up in the lab and retrieve the single sample of the serum. He will come clean in the morning and turn over the fake to the proper authorities.
Knockback was upstairs in the hospital lab working late, double-checking her work. The administration said they would handle the formulation issues she uncovered in initial trials. They hadn't! How could something like this get past the team leaders? It was just then she heard a heavy thunk in the virus containment vault.
"That's not good." Jumps Knockout. She approaches the vault door just as a viscous, purple mucus extrudes through the steel door and forms a horrid looking humanoid. It seems senseless and incoherent. Knockout asks "it" if everything is alright? At the sound of Knockout's voice the creature leaps violently at the hero. Instead of hands and feet it has starfish shaped appendages with grasping, gaping maws lined with jagged teeth. It wraps its boneless arm around Knockout's neck and begins sapping the strength from her body.
It was then that Wolf comes in and encounters the struggle. Wolf recognizes the resident technician Olga Knox, so springs into action against the monster. Working together, Knockout delivers a devastating blow while the monsters limbs sought out its new assailant, Wolf! The purple beast explodes into a spray of goo and liquid tissue.
The two heroes catch their breath and introduce each other with the tried and true "Hey, I know you." Wolf secures the sample and the two exit the lab out in to the hallway. Wolf is immediately blasted with a spray of liquid ice which suddenly hardens, trapping Wolf's arms and legs in unyielding ice. They turn to see who their attacker is.
"I'm sorry boys I need to be taking the sample you have on you." She was dressed like an Olympic speed skater, if the Olympics were held in the Thunderdome and the skaters had an iridescent, frosty aura around them! Red and blue, the tight suit showed the body of an Olympian at least.
"What sample, what are you talking about lady? And let my friend go!"
"The sample your frat boy friend pocketed after you blew up that, that thing."
"You mean you just stood there and watched? You weren't even going to help us?"
"Why get my hands dirty, besides you two almost looked like you could win it. I thought I would give you a chance."
"The serum is leaving with us!" yells Wolf as he breaks out of the immobilizing ice.
Knockout takes her que and thunders forward with a smashing fist. Alas, the ice aura surrounding their attacker absorbs Knockout's blow, seemingly to leave her untouched. For her troubles Knockout takes a blast of blue ice from the villain's hands, sending her bouncing down the hall. Wolf engages with his concussing magnetic powers and this, the second unknown assailant of the night, staggers back clutching her sides. He may have heard one of her ribs snap.
"What the hell did you just do to me?" she says. "You want to take the gloves off with me boy, with Icicle? Well you got it... !
(to be continued)
What was established so far? The vaccine doesn't work in the long term. May even cause serious harm after 90 days. Having an initial limited roll out in three cities; Capitol City, Millennium (old Detroit), and San Caliente (replaces LA, its still shitty though).
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9:07 AM
] The feds/administration is going to do a phased withdrawal after 30 days so they can fix and reintroduce a safe vaccine. Problem is, Dr. McKeever is being extorted for a sample of the corrupt, dangerous serum.
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9:08 AM
] In an act of conscious he wants to take the sample from the lab upstairs so no one can use it and then in the morning come clean about the whole thing, no matter what it will do to his reputation and standing.
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9:11 AM
] Some hideous slime monster oozed out of the containment vault which tried to drain Knockout's strength with starfish like hands, but Knockout and Wolf's teamwork obliterated the postulant thing.
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9:12 AM
] … and you are now in a fight with a ice blasting villain demanding they turn over the serum to her.
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9:12 AM
] a dangerous felon known as Icicle.
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