DC Modern - Session 2 - 1/20/19

 

Hello Gatewayers Cat Grant here with your days Cat-bites.  All the news worth to know in 3 sentences.

 1. Looks like Gateway has a bonafide Super Team, Achilles and the Myrmidons! For those that did not see the horrible Bio pic Troy, the Myrmidons in ancient Greece were Achilles personal troops. Though this group is less golden Adonis and more 90's comic book, minus the pouches.

2.  Science Reporters are very excited as Star Labs reports finding a new type of energy source.  If reports are accurate this clean, unlimited source of power could revolutionize the energy sector.  Now if they could just figure out how to get rid of the cellphone dead zones near my house.

3.  After the Battle of Metropolis the Congress passes Law making super crimes a federal offense.  Plans underway to reopen the Federal Prison on Skull Island.  The Island was named after the infamous Pirate, Captain Skull, who terrorized these shores in the late 1600s.

4. Recent reports have shown a sharp increase in organize crime here in Gateway.  Though police sources have confirmed the increase, they tell me that this is not your usual suit wearing loan shark variety.  Seems like the rumors are true of Intergang moving into town.

5. Former Teen Heartthrob and Titan - Changeling - is here in town on a book tour.  His new best seller  - To all the Girls who love me - is part autobiography, part Hollywood tell all.  Sadly, despite the title there are too few lascivious chapters.

And that is all you need to know.

 Journal of Achilles

Couple of weeks have passed with us stopping various crimes. No sign of Kestrel OR MY SPEAR!!!!!!

Fearsome Five attacking Star Labs—Mammoth, Shimmer, Psimon, Gizmo, Jinx. We lost badly and they escaped with something in a box.

I made the mistake of getting Changeling’s help and he tries to take over the team. I beat him up and he ran off.

They stole an experimental energy source—chunk of mystical rock—that could power the nation. Star Labs had hired expert—Anton DeVere—to check it out to ensure it wasn’t dangerous. It came from Genworld. Star Labs acquired it after it was found in a dig in East Africa by Lawrence Terrance and Phillip McClain. He gave Changeling the same information, because he’s in town working with Raven to investigate the underworld.

We went to Dabblers to shake down mystic wannabees for information. Find out from a guy named John that his boss General Immortus is looking for mystical artifacts. Rachael suggests stone from Gemworld might be connected to the meteor that gave Vandal Savage his immortality.

The archaeologists have been looking for ancient human tribes. In East Africa they have uncovered a lot of ancient tribes. This enforces suspicion Vandal Savage is connected.

Orichalcum has her grandfather fake a magical aura on an artifact. He gives us a fake Eclipso diamond, which we give to John and ask for a meeting with General Immortus. He tells us to come back tomorrow. Quantum put a tracer on the diamond, which we trace to a warehouse on the bay. Changeling is there.