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Dream Flying: Dr. Hertz, Dr. Horne, Dr. Jones
By: insert name Date: June 22, 2017, 2:34 pm
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There are very few reports of metahuman activity beneath the Rio
Grande. When there are, they're almost invariably in Mexico.
Activity from Jarvis West tends to only reach American ears
after he's moved on from wherever it happened. Now intelligence
is suggesting West isn't even in Mexico, since the Mexican
government has paid a million pesos to get him out of the
country, and he seems to have honored it. $80,000 is the kind of
money you honor.
The few other stories of below the border metahumans are mostly
grouped around where West conducted his campaigns of terror and
extortion. Intelligence suspects West has created a pose of
superhuman thugs around him by this point.
There has been, however, another possible sighting that's
appeared here and there across first Mexico, and then further
south. Reports of some kind of rainbow colored angel, with black
wings, flying through cities and helping people have been noted.
Almost universally these occur at night. The help ranges
significantly. Saving people from fires, flying travelers across
mountains they're struggling with, interrupting muggings, are
all par for the course, but one report describes the angel
tilling a field. Another describes the angel talking to a young
woman in a dark alley, while escorting her. It reportedly speaks
fluent Spanish, which it was lucky the Brazilian woman
understood. She described the creature as having skin like
stained glass, wings like obsidian, and the head of a jaguar.
The angel supposedly talked about the world being a dream and
wondering what would happen when it woke up as a normal man
again.
These reports were considered potential metahuman sightings, but
they could have easily been a series of hoaxes. Enough hoaxes
were happening lately that the government could no longer check
every report.
On August 10th the CIA confirmed that the creature was real,
however. Argentina had it's corpse, though there was no sign of
what killed it. The creature was eight feet tall, with a 20 foot
wingspan. It did in fact have skin like stained glass and wings
that appeared as razor sharp obsidian
On August 13th things got complicated when other CIA agents
confirmed that Mexico had two corpses.
On August 18th, while Hertz was at Woodstock, there was a
sighting in Peru where one of the creatures grew to a massive
size by apparently creating a shell of solidified light around
itself. It used the size to lift a sinking ship out of a harbor.
Then the light shed from it in a burst of lightning, and it flew
away.
On August 19th, a group of German tourists found the body of the
creature in the mountains. Originally they thought they'd found
an ancient mesoamerican statute.
On August 22nd, Private Julio Gonzalez, one of the personnel at
Johnson Airbase, came forward and said he thought he might be
the creature.
According to Pvt. Gonzalez, he'd been having dreams for months
about being a god, or a superhero, or something. Only recently
did he find out about the stories from a Mexican tabloid, and it
sounded just like his dreams. Having seen what was going on in
the airbase testing, he thought there might be something to it.
It's not long before they find out what he can do. By focusing
on a place, he can cause a tremendous blast of what looks like
lightning to strike the spot (Dr. Hertz's analysis suggests that
it is an incredible build up of static electricity, so lightning
is fair enough), and in its wake the strange creature appears,
apparently made from the lightning. As some reports indicated,
it is indeed an eight foot tall winged man with the head of a
jaguar, a body like stained glass, and wings like sharpened
black obsidian.
When the creature pops into reality, Pvt. Gonzalez falls
unconscious. He seems to actually rest, at least as one with
very vivid dreams would. His mind, however, seems to shift into
the created entity. He seems to have his full faculties, and
wake up with relatively clear memories.
The creature can fly, but not with the same kind of incredible
speed as some of the swifter fliers. With some effort, Gonzalez
can reinforce the already super strong and swift body with a
rainbow corona of hardened light. This makes it bigger, tougher,
and more dangerous, but taxes Gonzalez immensely.
With some practice, Gonzalez realizes that he doesn't even have
to form the shell of light into other forms and extensions of
the body, making strange and unique features, but it makes it
harder to control the body as it deviates further from a human
norm.
With an exertion of will, Pvt. Gonzalez can then return to his
body. Simply waking up, and the body falls lifeless. Not that
the body was truly alive to begin with. Based on what Dr. Hertz
can tell the body is a single solid mass, rather than a
collection of cells, but on a macro level moves like a living
thing regardless.
Not only does the body remain, but if enhanced by the hardened
light, that light remains around it.
Pvt. Gonzalez seems to have great difficulty using the power to
create the body in any kind of rapid succession, nor does he
seem to have any capability to manipulate them after he's
vacated them.
Pvt. Gonzalez starts referring to the constructs as 'Ultimos'.
The name sticks with some of the men.
On the base, these tests become quite a spectacle with a lot of
people coming out to watch what Ultimo can do. The spectacular
godlike bursts of lightning are a hell of a show, and watching
an eight foot tall god/angel/monster run exercises is
fascinating.
If not for Hertz's watchful photoreceptors, it's almost certain
that Pvt. Gonzalez would wake up from these exercises with all
manner of things written and drawn on his face.
As of yet, no one has worked out how Pvt. Gonzalez managed to
create Ultimos in foreign countries while dreaming, as he seems
to need to see the place he's summoning them to.
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OOC
$80,000 in 1969 is about $544,072.11
#Post#: 386--------------------------------------------------
Re: Dream Flying: Dr. Hertz, Dr. Horne, Dr. Jones
By: PlebeianTyrant Date: June 23, 2017, 8:01 am
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OOC
YAY! He's finally here
IC
Hertz calls a meeting between himself and the other two doctors
regarding Gonzalez and whether we want to invite him to the
super team.
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