Hello,

My name is Eric Palond. My father Thomas was the head of Weapons development for Phillip Manning. I also work for Manning. My father and I developed a suit of powered armor that manipulates light particles in it's various forms. It was a pet project, part of our Father/Son bonding. We never showed it to Manning, and built it ourselves on our own time. Shortly after the suit was completed, my father disappeared. Fearing Manning had a hand in this, I went to CHESS.

Now, I work for CHESS as a Rook, spying on Manning, because CHESS suspects he has sinister machinations. Since I brought the armor with me, they've also assigned me to work with a group of heroes. Not being used to the super hero business, I chose the not so glamorous code name of Glare. Yeah, it's cheesy, but I think it helps make potential enemies underestimate me. Which is good, cause I'm still wet behind the ears.

I saw Manning and his son get into it today. Looks like the kid wants nothing to do with his father. I need to see if I can exploit that to dig up some dirt for CHESS.

Some loser villain named Ray took on a new identity. He faked his own death in order to get to Black Mesa, and kill some heroes. Calling himself Death Ray, he went after Black Warrior. I tried to laser him, but he was in some kind of ghost form. He was scared when I tried to blind him, but in the end, Dark Warrior went into the same ghostly form, and kicked him in the nuts.

We had to take him back to Deep Six. It was pretty boring. this guy is kind of challenged, so he kept watching cartoons on the trip. turns out he really likes the Smurfs.

On the way back, we got a distress call that a cruise ship was being attacked by a giant squid. I accessed satellite info, and we saw it was being controlled by the Sub Human. This guy was a hero who went MIA 2 years ago. I'm pretty sure he's gone insane, which means if we don't stop him fast, the Moevians will. He also had some servants that looked like those sea monkey things they used to advertise in the back of comic books.

Dark Warrior flew Modi and I with him (as he flies faster than my armor does). DW went right after the squid after throwing Modi at Sub Human. What I saw next scared me worse than our mission in space.

Modi literally took off Sub Human's right arm with his hammer! I almost threw up in the armor, but I had to save his trident. It might be of use, so I wanted to save it. I did, but had to get the arm off it. Gross.

Warrior was going toe to toe with the squid. Not sure what to do, I set off a wide range flash of light, affecting the Squid and the monkey things. The monkey things jumped off the ship, which meant the passengers and crew would be ok.

Though blinded, the squid got the upper hand on Warrior. I charged it, and stabbed it's closed eye with the trident, but don't know if it did much. I kept hearing Modi and Sub Human fighting (they had crashed into the ship through it's deck while brawling).

Warrior came back at the Squid, and knocked it up out of the water. I fired off a series of laser beams, cutting off 4 of it's tentacles. It fell back into the water, and appeared to be dead.

One of the monkey people waved at me. I approached him, but he spoke to me in German! I don't know German, so I didn't know what to do. Warrior showed up, and used some kind of mind communication with the thing. I touched him, joining in. turns out these monkey people were transformed by Sub Human, and used to be german citizens. This is bad. This guy is nuts, and can transform people and sea life into monsters. I am so out of my depth here (no pun intended)

Modi and Sub Human are in the water now, and a giant wave is approaching. I'm trying to get the people on the ship organized, but they're in a panic about the giant wave. Except it's not a wave. It's a whale larger than the cruise ship! Trying not to hyperventilate, I try and come up with a plan of action.

Modi is on the surface, and he's beating the whale with his hammer. I go for a blinding flash on it, but this thing is so huge. I'm contemplating a suicide run into it's mouth, and just firing lasers at it's inside. I might do some damage before I die.

Warrior actually thought of something I should have. He mentally connected with the whale, and convinced it to leave. Thank god! Even Modi was hardly doing anything with his hammer of doom!

The ship is damaged though, and we need to evacuate everyone. Over a hundred passengers and crew died when the whale struck the side of the ship with it's massive fin though. I call our sub, and instruct them to organize a massive rescue operation. With Warrior's aid, we get Johan (the sea monkey who spoke to us) to have the sea monkey people help save everyone.

Sub Human got away, but he lost an arm, and Modi says he broke the other one, and part of his leg. I hope he doesn't come back. That whale could have killed all of us.

Now we need to find a way to help Johan and his fellow sea monkeys. They were people once; can they be so again? And is this trident just plain old coral, or something more?

I still feel out of my league, but my confidence is growing. I still think I need to try and figure out how to replicate Dark Warrior's Omni Wave though. If he ever turns crazy like Sub Human did, it might be the only way of stopping him. I know my armor alone wouldn't last five seconds against him.

Still, I'm starting to realize that even though I rely on my armor, I'm possibly the only one who won't go insane some day. Which means I may be the only one who may have to stop my team mates if they go over the edge. I don't stand a chance in hell, but I still have to prepare myself to try.

Nice!! Glare is already planning on Killing Me!! I Love It!!

Wally Spec,

A.K.A. The Dark Warrior

THE ONI wrote on Nov 13^th, 2010 at 6:08pm:


Seeing what he can do, and seeing him lose it on the first mission scared the shit out of Glare. Seeing what happened to Sub Human, and how powerful he was as a lunatic, also made him realize that one day, his team mates might go that same route.

so he figures that even though he likely has no chance in hell, he needs to at least make some preparations. Kind of like Iron Man with his Hulkbuster/Thorbuster armor, I need a Dark Warrior buster armor 

Two words for Ellusion.

Devitalization Ray.

It is Under Control!!

Wally Spec

You guys are too much!

thanks Majestic. I look forward to the next session, to see what new comments Glare has about his team mates, and the threats they face

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Rumor has it they were together, in the darkest room of the dark mesa, if you catch my drift.

Yes Elusion is dead. Very sad day but what can you do.

Gerry,
I made the bad guys so bad ass because I thought you were comming!

Well one of her main advantages was her supereyesight, so maybe your blinding attack could have nullified that and changed the course of the battle.

Not all attacks involve a die roll!

This is really good stuff Gerry!!!!

Oh..and MODI misses you too...or he will...when he sobers up

Gerry, I am enjoying your writing. Keep up the great work.

Paul wrote on Feb 26^th, 2011 at 3:11pm:


Yeah, that comment didn't come out the way I intended. I was writing that stuff before I forgot the ideas I wanted to convey, and I was pretty tired when I did it.

Elusion was probably the one guy Glare respected the most, since he seemed the most sane. Even Marshal Strong made him nervous, since he tended to hit things when non violence might have been an option 

Things are really getting crazy. I didn't sleep well the night before. Had some weird dreams I can't fully recall, but I know they were bad, cause I woke up sweating. I was working on that kill switch in my lab, when Dr. Robson came in. It appears that Dr Yurt, who designed Science City, appeared in the morgue on the first floor of the complex.

Dr. Yurt went a little bonkers when Manning didn't follow his designs on how the city was supposed to be built, and kept claiming there was something wrong with its symmetry.

Robson asked me to suit up as Glare, and accompany security to the morgue. I did so, and saw that one of the guards was no a metahuman, obviously changed by the White Event. He kind of reminded me of that Elric character whose stories I read as a kid. He seemed a bit paranoid, as he was keeping his distance from me. He wouldn't walk in front of me, so I just ignored him. I did contact CHESS with my communicator, and inform them that an unknown Metahuman was in the research complex.

When we got to the morgue, the guards started cocking their weapons, because Yurt wasn't alone. One of his two companions was a Moevian! What the hell was he doing here? I thought all of them were gone! CHESS needs to know that they left someone behind! I tried to get the guards to lower their weapons so I could question the Moevian, but that albino dude blasted Dr. Yurt. All hell broke loose as the guards opened fire. I blasted their weapons, but Yurt's other companion started to fight with the albino. The Moevian brought us all together telepathically, and we all learned that Robson was a metahuman himself!

Seems that CHESS was right about covert experiments. Robson was calling something called "Zomborgs". I tried to blind everyone to stop the fighting, but then some weird fog rolled in from the street. I got blasted by the albino, which damaged my armor. Another blast of something hit me, but I didn't really hurt me. I started calling CHESS for an assault team, because I was in way over my head!

The Moevian knocked Robson out around the same time, then warned us that the Zomborgs were coming. Sure enough, these men with cybernetics were coming down the hall at us. They looked dead, and appeared to be drooling. I fired a blast at one, but as I was freaking out, I missed, and blew a gas line. The explosion knocked me out.

When I woke up a little while later, it seems all the new metahumans were fighting these zomborgs together. Through the mindlink the Moevian had with all of us, I learned that someone on the floor above knew one of us was a CHESS agent, and that they wanted to use us as guinea pigs for an experiment. I almost threw up at that point, because I suspected they wanted to make us into zomborgs.

I blinded the ones attacking us, and albino guy and someone who was apparently invisible took them out. Yurt was up, looking pretty beat up, and motioning for us to go through some door. More importantly, there was this humanoid frog thing in the morgue. It had been autopsied, but was now sitting up, pulling pins out of it's body!

Figuring this was some experiment they did, I wanted to take it with me. However, the albino turned it into mush with a blast of energy. Seeing Robson unconscious nearby, I grabbed him, and went to escape with Yurt. The Moevian and his companion joined me. Albino and this other person (who may have been the invisible attacker from earlier) hesitated, but then joined us. Now we're in these tunnels underneath Science City, running for our lives. I hope that CHESS team arrives soon. Robson is proof that Manning is doing something. If we can survive long enough to meet up with them, I'll have accomplished the mission CHESS recruited me for. Maybe Robson knows what happened to my dad. If he wakes up, I might just have to "ask" him about that.

As scared as I am, I have to get Robson to CHESS. Nothing else matters right now.

[To be continued]

Edit: forgot the plot point about the bad dreams, I edited it in

Nope he didn't. I think the only bonus was to Jimmy for combat.

Still, if someone seconds it,  I think Glare should have gotten the Hero Bonus.