Session 5 (6/13/22)
This week I decided to turn Catbits over to a person almost as qualified as me to tell you the news of the day and what is important. As to save column inches and your time without further ado I give you Dr. Tripod, candidate for Mayor.
Thank Ms. Grant it is an honor to fill in for such an illustrious journalist. So the three things you need to know.
1. SUPER CRIME IS ON THE RISE and I have a plan to stop it. While we have a somewhat adequate semblance of a home town super team could they really handle the teen titan kind of villains. But what are we going to do if someone with bigger guns comes to town. Such as Giganta, Grodd, or heaven forbid Amazo?
2. PEDOPHILIA is a serious crime and no matter how "famous" the person thinks they are they should be arrested and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. And if the police or defunct embassy is hiding or protecting such a person they should be prosecuted as well.
3. GOD GAVE THIS LAND TO AMERICA and anyone that would side with the enemies of AMERICA is no hero! They should be arrested and deported back to where they came from!
This has really been an honor God
Bless Ms Grant and God Bless this great city of Gateway!
The next day, Quantum is at
work when King Faraday tells him that he was rescued after the mission where we
took down his clone. The captive has revealed other agents that have
infiltrated and are set to infiltrate the agency. Three highest priority
targets are head of the DEO Mr. Bones (already replaced), head of Task Force X
Sarge Steel (to be replaced) and one of the Kings of Checkmate (already replaced)--White
King Alan Scott or Black King Taleb Beni Khalid. He says he, Quantum, and Mark
Shaw are the only ones to be trusted outside the Myrmidons.
Black Diamond and Flamebird
return from the “canceled” mission to the Moon.
Jimmy Thorne, son of Rupert
Thorne, announces candidacy for mayor. He was the owner of the tenements that
almost burned. He plans to bulldoze Chinatown to redevelop it, with residents
provided space elsewhere.
Rachael also reveals that she
is running for mayor. Her campaign manager Herb “Funky” Flashman sets up her
launch announcement for tomorrow at the Princess Diana Elementary School.
Achilles agrees to show up to be hot.
Orichalcum gets a package
inside which is a steel box that sets off her magic senses. This is just like the
one that Black Diamond got his diamond from. Instead, this one has a monkey’s
paw. She throws it in the river. The box also had a green candle from Neron
that Black Diamond also received that he used to wish for super powers. Orichalcum
starts building a mystical vault to hold it and other artifacts. Black Diamond
says that he got a bonus item for recommending her and his friend Charlie
Wilkinson, who’s missing and whose family died horribly a month ago. The orb
shows that he might become a short-lived villain named Armagibbon who has
Captain Atom-level powers.
Akasha finds an entry in his
grandfather’s diary that mentions the code to open a safe deposit box located
in Gateway City. He accesses it and finds $10k in cash in different currencies,
$300k in bearer’s bonds, and 4 fake passports from 1927 (one of which is
magical psychic paper). There’s also a journal/ledger/notebook written in a
strange cypher and a small magical pendant. One of the fake passports is
Harmonia Li, and the other two are Grandfather’s brothers’ names and birthdates
but not their pictures.
Rachael has her event and gives a rousing speech:
Ladies and Gentlemen,
Thank you very much for inviting me to this wonderful place here in the great heartland of America but also pretty near the coast. It is an honor to speak from this podium, in this storied courthouse, where so many profound legal judgments were handed down that they more or less canceled each other out.
In their own unique and unforgettable way, each storyteller examines our crisis of access to care in ways that are at turns haunting, heartbreaking, and outright funny.
I am a simple woman with a solid understanding of tractors. When I was a young girl, my father took me on his knee and told me the principle that has guided my life ever since: “Agree with some things, disagree with other things.” His was truly the Greatest Generation, along with a few that came before and a couple that have come since.
Why am I running for mayor of Gateway City? That’s a good question, and perhaps there’s no good way to answer it. Or perhaps there is a good way to answer it. Either way, it’s a good question and I’m glad it was raised. Many people consider me out of touch and I can assure you I am not. Our city is sharply divided over a important issues that need careful consideration. We need to take a strong stance on these issues.
I want to talk a little bit about our city's children. Before this speech, a young man named Stanley Exley came up to me. Stanley is a mechanic, a noble profession if there ever was one. Or perhaps he is a chemistry professor, also noble. He was holding his small daughter, Emily, an adorable 3-year-old who was recently diagnosed with leukemia. Stanley is a straight shooter, and he came up to me and asked me a question I’ll never forget: “Do you like children?” And I looked him straight in the eye and said, “Yes, Stanley, I very much like children.” Maybe that’s not a popular opinion, but it’s what I believe. And to those of you who would say, “I don’t think children are our future,” I must reply in the strongest of terms: “I disagree.” Sometimes you have to take a stand for what you believe in.
The state of our economy is in flux. Every single day, the stock market goes up or goes down or stays the same. If elected, I will ask the city treasury to take a good long look at the interest rate and decide whether or not to change it. If elected, I will create jobs where there are none, and where there are jobs, I will create internships.
Let us take actions that will make people happy.
Let us take actions that will make people healthy or perhaps have the private sector do it.
And let us move boldly so that our children and our children’s children can look back and say, “I’m glad they moved boldly on this, this, and that.”
It's not just a slogan:
GRADUAL CHANGE, SLOWLY APPLIED!
Thank you.
Thomas gives Orichalcum some
steampunk device to put on the mystical vault to allow only her, Achilles, and
Rachael to access the vault in pairs.
We decide to start with Sarge
Steel. Flamebird will disguise herself as a villain for us to turn into Belle
Reve and infiltrate Task Force X in order to give us the chance to use Akasha
to see if Steel has been replaced. She will be Sonja-Zod aka She-Devil since
she might be detected as Kryptonian. Orichalcum puts depowering cuffs on her,
and Achilles renders her unconscious.
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