Earthlings were not ready for super powers. They have been contaiminated by alien technology. Due to this, the sudden ablity to defy gravity or generate nova flames can cause harmful effects in the chemistry of the brain. It is too early to tell, but studies into the source of metahuman powers lead us to believe that they are fueled by some power quite possibly from beyond our universe. That fuel enters our brains via some conduit directly into our cerebral cortex. This vast power can influnece our thinking. It was thought that metahuman powers work simply because they are thought to work. And there seems to be a great amount of validy to that thought. Now, in some cases, the metahuman can loose themselves in their powers. They can no longer distinguish what is real and what is imaginary, and do to their conection to this otherworldy power source, their imaginations can become real. We have seen this with the Sub Human. For whatever reason, he went mad. His insane mind formed a city beneath the sea. In its creation he caused an earthquake that killed four hundred people, and worse, he populated his city with those people's souls. The Subhuman has created a subset of humanity! This is the power of his madness. The Moevians, the race with the longest experience with metapowers, have their metabeings fly off into a black hole every few years. They do this due to fears of them going mad, and to prevent them from taking political power. They formed a religion around this, and Metamoevians view this as a sacred act of becoming one with their goddess. The Moevians fear the psychosis, and with good reason. The Humurru State, as they call this psychosis, can wipe out planets. They have a world that is taboo due to this. They blockade this world so that no thinking person may enter or leave that dread planet. The Moevians had Moon Girl killed due to her achieving Humurru. They said that they see it as their duty to wipe out the Earth if they have to as we don't know how to shepard our metabeings. It is for this reason, we monitor our "superheroes". Some of them are already showing traces of unstablity. The Cosmic Warrior is on the top of this list. It is believed that he has enough power in his cells to atomise a galaxy, and if he finaly goes mad? Modi too, is a being to watch. He pulled a spear from the very air and believes to be a Norse god. Which brings me to Thor. A homeless man that was given the power of a mythological being. In fact even after his death, his hammer is being used as a powersource for CHESS. What if, in his madness he did create Asgard? What if Modi really is his son? And now poor Scion, poor likeable Scion believes she is the child of the marraige of the Lords of Order and the Lords of Chaos? She seems so normal, but when she talkes about serving the balance I just want to quietly walk out of the room. And as callous as it sounds, I for one am relived that the Oni is dead. He scared me. never has schizophrenia shown itself in such an ugly way. The Subhuman is pressumed dead. He must have bleed out under the Atlantic. His arm was slashed off from the shoulder down. Its hard to believe he could survive that. But then only three years ago, it was hard to believe in aliens or that a man could fly.
Joesph Turner, Nexus, monthly report to the Director of CHESS.
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