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#Post#: 606--------------------------------------------------
Re: Month by Month: 1971
By: insert name Date: February 14, 2018, 3:36 pm
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August
Superheroism!
A man in a flamboyant costume calling himself "Buster Two-Fist"
publicly beats up suspected racketeer Peter Artuso before
leaping into the sky and flying away This is the first recorded
incident of costumed vigilantism by metahumans (there are some
close calls, like Captain Thunder and the Physicist, but the
former has yet to technically enact any vigilantism and the
latter is less vigilante than enemy combatant).
After the incident, Buster Two-Fist leaps up and flies away.
Tina Shaw
Weeks speaks with Hertz at a very fancy new Estate in Vermont
(owned by the Shaws), and the two compare notes about the spate
of implosions. Weeks brings up that Shavians (his name for the
homonculi) have been targeted, and a horrific horned devil
appeared out of thin air, killed one in front of Tina and
promised her he'd do the same to her parents if she created any
more Shavians.
Despite the existence of other horrific incidents of metahuman
murders, those made by this man ("Do", according to O'Doyle) are
fairly distinctive. They're scattered, and the dead soviets are
the big question mark hanging over everything. Weeks thinks that
may be an effort to prune the potential spread of Dark Energy
from a hyper-mind operating in the USSR, but is cagey with the
fine details. Presumably he's afraid of what a man so clsoe to
Johnson might find himself doing with the information.
By coincidence, Abe Sykes and his daughter are in the guest
house at the time. Hertz doesn't speak to them much, but gathers
from Tina that Amy's a friend of hers and has come up to visit.
Amanda Sykes
Having her identity as Green G outed by Abe while he was under
V1's control, Amanda finds herself giving a press conference
about the My Lai. She is obviously uncomfortable throughout, but
her sincerity wins people over to her side.
Ireland
Where to start?
By mid-month there are 12,500 British Soldiers in Northern
Ireland, there's been a huge flood of regugees down to the
Republic of Ireland, and the army is taking civilians into
custody with no sign of proper trial proceedings. Violence and
firefights abound.
Weeks
In addition to promising to help Shaw with the metahuman
assassin, Weeks manages to circumvent violence between Tanzania
and Uganda by offering a new influx of Superheath+TM to both
nations. He continues to leverage promises of new technologies
that will help nations to bring about slow social reform across
Africa.
Canada
Canada's first gay rights demonstration takes place.
Bangladesh
On August 1st the two Concerts for Bangla Desh take place.
They're organized by George Harrison and Ravi Shankar, and have
an incredible list of stars including Ringo Star, Bob Dylan, and
the magnificant Deionne Bright. It is the largest
benefit-concert ever held to date, hosting over 100,000 people
and raising more than $650,000. It's mission is to raise money
and awareness for refugees fleeing East Pakistan in wake of the
genocide there.
The Physicist and other metahumans do what they can to forestall
the massive flooding in the region, saving thousands of people
and hundreds of houses. This earns them considerable local
goodwill, and further hatred from the Pakistani government.
The United States, receiving a request form Pakistan for
assistance dealing with the Physicist have their man inside
Cerberus talk to Dr. Horne about elimiating the Physicist
without getting the US's name to far into it.
Vietnam
Australia and New Zealand officially decide to remove troops
from the conflict, and begin their withdrawal from the war.
#Post#: 607--------------------------------------------------
Re: Month by Month: 1971
By: insert name Date: February 19, 2018, 2:05 pm
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The Rest of September
Attica Fallout
After order is restored a headcount reveals that 106 prisoners
are missing, presumably removed by the teleporting lawyer before
March was done on the intercom. Since they were likely
teleported out, the government is concerned about potential new
metahumans. The FBI has taken special interest because all 106
escapees are black, most are muslim, and March is connected to
the Black Panthers.
March himself is loaded into a special designed armored car to
return him to the prison that previously held him. This time the
prison has been reinforced with select locations for the fungus.
Boris Mizurski goes AWOL, refusing outright to return to his
post.
Somehow sensitive documents from Attica fall into the hands of a
few hard working journalists at the Washington Post (and a few
other select newspapers), and the story gets out of how horrible
conditions there really were. Discussion about how prisons are
being run across the country increases.
Tropical Storm Doria
The Northeast United States is ravaged by Doria, and several
cities are declared disaster zones by Johnson and residents
enabled to apply for federal assistance.
There are 7 deaths and over $147 million in damages. Abe Sykes
gets involved soon enough, and the first undisputed sightings of
a rainbow light helping people emerge.
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Re: Month by Month: 1971
By: insert name Date: February 19, 2018, 3:25 pm
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October
Entertainment
Walt Disney World opens! In an effort to capture attention and
the imagination of the world, the resort hires several metahuman
performers.
As superhero comics feel increasingly less escapist in a
frightening world, DC makes an unexpected move by relaunching
several old horror lines. Marvel, contrawise, doubles down on
the loss of escapism with a comic called Superpeople, featuring
"real" stories of metahumans, though with names and details
changed to protect the innocent (and the publishers).
Metahuman appearances on variety and talk shows have become
common enough that the stereotypes around metahumans are slowly
shifting from 'criminals' and 'soldiers' to 'celebrities'. Lin
Wen in particular seems to be thriving off of it, with a new
book coming out (Lucky Accidents) and talk about moving to
Hollywood and making movies. The Hollywood deal falls through
(there are rumors that she's too difficult to work with as an
actress and unwilling to demean herself to stunt work.
Atlantis
The island splits in two. Exactly what happened isn't clear, but
the CIA believes that an earth mover other than Carls decided to
break away the large Vietnamese population onto their own
island. It's only part of growing instability, as the CIA
believes that many on the island recognizes Carls as the leader
but the US recognizes and will only deal with Moses.
KKK
The overt actions of known Black Panther Howard March at Attica,
and his use of metahuman powers to Africanize honest white
Americans trying to restore order brings more recruits into the
new KKK. While Dowd himself denies any connection, he states in
an interview he understands the desire. "For all that Johnson
and others have done to bring African Americans fully into
society, groups like the Black Panthers are simply digging fresh
divides. I can understand why people start to wonder if black
people can really be part of a civilized society." Dowd himself,
rather than waiting on Hertz, has his race restored by Lucy
Carter.
Vietnam
Christopher Marshall, creator of the Turf Soldiers, is
dishonorably discharged. Ever since March he has refused to use
his powers on the military's behalf, and still refuses to
explain why. Only Colt's and Sykes's speaking on his behalf has
kept him out of a military prison.
Several of his Metal Officers refuse to continue fighting
without him. Others continue the fight, claiming his politics
are irrelevant to theirs. None enter open revolution, however,
and when arrested for disobedience they go without a fight. Of
course, putting them on trial is a question unto itself, seeing
as they are not human. They sit in a legal limbo.
Halloween
Jacques LaVere, the self-proclaimed Voodoo King, holds an
astoundingly large 'Wake the Dead' party in New Orleans. More
than 50,000 living people attend, and estimates at least half as
many again dead.
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Re: Month by Month: 1971
By: insert name Date: February 19, 2018, 3:39 pm
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November
Dark Energy Entities
In Los Angeles, a shavian calling itself Juniper slaughters a
classroom full of sixth grade students and their teacher. Exact
details of what happened or why are not entirely clear, but
supposedly the creature left the evacuated building as though
nothing had happened. It complied with police when they arrived,
but insisted repeatedly that it was illegal and immoral to deny
it an education. There was considerable confusion as to what to
do with Juniper, as like the Metal Officers it was not human. In
all liklihood it would have been destroyed, had not Beatrice
Rollins intervened and volunteered to represent the creature
pro-bono.
The incident spurs Congress to finally pass a long halted bill
concerning the creation and rights of Dark Energy Entities.
Notably, it outlaws the creation of DE Entities save with
special permission.
Mizurski
Boris Mizurski gives an interview claiming to have been mind
controlled by president Johnson. He describes his conditioning
by the president in detail, and suggests that Dowd and Hertz may
be under the same control. It comes out in the interview that he
believes Hertz is actually complicit in the mind control, as he
was associated with mind freeing Hoffman and was developing
anti-mind control devices of his own, but never deployed them on
those affected by Johnson.
Boris is largely lambasted for disloyalty in the press, but
Cronkite takes a more measured approach, proving himself once
again willing to stand up to Johnson's administration.
Cerberus
Dr. Horne is warned that if he wishes continued support for
Cerberus, he must put the project into a workable format.
Otherwise his supporters are likely to pull their resources
elsewhere (Weeks doesn't seem to concerned with the time, but
both the government and MVA are eager to get this off the
ground, and the November incident only makes them more anxious).
#Post#: 617--------------------------------------------------
Re: Month by Month: 1971
By: PlebeianTyrant Date: February 22, 2018, 2:04 pm
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Hertz hires Marshall to generate a cheap workforce for his
Citadel project.
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Re: Month by Month: 1971
By: insert name Date: March 24, 2018, 5:52 am
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December
Cerberus
After settling some family affairs, Franklin Herbert spends some
time in New York discussing the future of the program and test
his powers with Horne. His ability to detect people in distress
is useful, but often vague. He seems to have a sense of who the
most distressed person somewhere over a thousand miles away from
him, but his power doesn't help identify the source of distress.
Since it detects relative distress in everyone, he tends to get
drawn to areas with a lot of people in distress.
Rainbow waits till after Christmas to drop by New York. She
doesn't volunteer an explanation. Once in New York, however, she
streaks through the sky in plain view and actively gets involved
in car crashes, muggings and other hazardous moments. When she
talks to Dr. Horne it becomes obvious that she thinks they
should take down the mafia while in New York.
Cole Allen also shows up in New York, responding to a letter
from Horne. He maintains outward calm, but is clearly out of
place in the big city. He spends a lot of time down by the
water. It proves challenging to test his invulnerability, as
pushing it to the point that would actually hurt him is
questionable. He says he thinks he swims much faster now too,
but isn't sure as he didn't before. He can apparently survive
indefinitely without breathing underwater, however. He's
interested in helping people, and doesn't mind a fight... and so
long as it's someone like Jarvis West he says killing's okay.
Martin Landow, apparently intrigued, invites Rainbow to a New
Year's Eve party by means of a newspaper advertisement. Horne
talks her into it, and she takes him as her +1. They invite
Cole, but he refuses the high society affair. Not surprisingly,
Landow is delighted to have a two for one Metahuman celebrities
at his dinner party. Naturally, most of the guests (various
rascals of high society mostly, though there's at least one man
Horne suspects might be connected to the Families) treat them as
oddities to be stared and gawked at, but Landow seems to be
genuinely interested in them.
Landow is young, coarse and awkward. Horne's eyes glow unusually
bright in his presence, but everyone else seems to like him.
Which is weird. Usually when a metahuman applies persuasive
powers they have to still be actually persuasive... Landow
doesn't. People just like him regardless of how he acts.
Alen Cole
India-Pakistan
A brief and horrific war takes place, starting with a preemptive
attack by Pakistan on Indian airbases for fear of India
supporting Bangla Desh. These assaults include three confirmed
metahuman combatants on Pakistan's side, but suspicion of others
are rampant.
India's response is spearheaded by a previously unknown
metahuman calling itself karma. Reports on karma's appearance
(including gender) and powers vary wildly, leaving the reality
unclear.
Indian's forces rely heavily on conventional means, with Karma
the only clear use of metahuman force. Pakistan spreads out
their three metahuamsn (or more) and uses them to press hard on
India.
Pakistan is repelled nevertheless, largely thanks to the
Physicist and other Bangla Deshi metahumans supporting the
Indian army.
The Pakistani government rounds up a 1,400 Bangla Deshi
intellectuals and prepares mass executions across Daka for
December 14th. The Physicist leads a metahuman rescue attempt;
he and his cohorts manage to save most of the intellectuals.
Unfortunately, since the executions were spread across the city
the saviors couldn't be anywhere (and not everyone survived the
mass escape). 469 of the prisoners still died.
Entertainment
The Montreux Casino burns down during a Frank Zappa concert
(next year the song Smoke on the Water, inspired by these
events, will come out)
Muhammad Ali (still four years out of major competition due to
his jail time for resisting the draft) makes headlines by
offering to box a metahuman. Lin Wen accepts the challenge,
despite never having boxed. The match is scheduled for Friday,
March 24th in Las Vegas.
Bruce Lee laments the new directions in cinema on a TV
interview, saying he'd rather do a Western. His concerns are
compounded by the increasing prevalence of metahumans, both as
stars and subject matter, in the industry making his skills less
impressive.
Rick Lane, a real life Zipperman, is announced to be playing
Superman in a film now in production.
Vietnam/Shavians
A Shavian calling itself Bargle declares a worldwide revolution
against human oppressors, and then leaves with a small army of
Shaw Monstes to Vietnam for reasons unclear to the public.
(Though, those familiar with Do's work suspect Bargle has
identified the source of the mysterious Savian deaths)
Just Shavians
A horrendous creature that looks mostly like a blob of fat with
horns and two faces melted together is caught and taken into
custody in Milwauke on Christmas Eve. It had apparently broken
into fourteen houses by the chimney, leaving behind gifts under
Christmas trees. The creature, calling itself Nick, says it was
only trying to make Christmas dreams come true. The fact that
it's 'gifts' included raw meat, bricks, broken bottles, and the
skeleton of a squirrel makes the courts less inclined towards
Nick. He did also include toys (stolen or salvaged from the
trash), but not with any particular emphasis.
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