'S cool.

That's fine. I wasn't planning on being in the fight scene anyway.

Just start posting and we'll figure it out.

Yeah. That's usually the best way. If a fight starts up, I might maneuver myself into it in some stealthy, creative, and timely way.

Anybody who wants to can pick it up from here. Find the three bodies in the street however you like. Tasha's close to flatlining, Damanor will probably recover pretty quickly, and the cop - well, he'll be in a lot of pain, when he wakes up.

Obviously, Damanor isn't thinking very clearly at the moment.

Slightly confused here. Tasha was at WCK Headquarters, then she's in texas then she's back in Chicago...

Can I get filled in here? *head spins*

Damanor took Tasha to Texas in order to lose the two of them, and has now returned to Chicago.

Damanor used to be based out of Houston, and set up a few safehouses with his one-time partner. When he believed his sister would recover, he went into hiding. When the later symptoms came up, he concluded that the only way to save her was to get her to the WCK infirmary. Alchemist is the smartest doctor that Damanor knows, so he warped back to Chicago to try to get help.

Sorry I wasn't more clear on that.

On a different note, my postings will be erratic (again ) because of a new work schedule. (I'm in D.C. over the summer, working for a lobbyist.)

Okay, I think we need to know, what's happening with Alchemist? As a player, is he dropping from the WCK like Jager is, or is this some side story?

Sorta curious since it feels like the WCK project is on the verge of failing.

This is a change in character direction. The story's not done yet.

Jager is taking a leave of absence, not gone for good.

I've got a few things on my plate, so I can't set down and write this out, but:

The day after Heaven Fell, April grabbed the team members she could find and told them that Alchemist's kids had been abducted by someone and taken to a Rashoud Fac, and that he had rescued them and was on his way to Chicago by an indirect route.

This takes a few minutes to work out entirely, since she makes the announcement alongside her assumption that Project Utopia was after Alchemist and possibly the rest of the team and what are we going to do, etc, etc. It isn't hard to get her to recognize that Alchemist didn't really say anything like that.

1, How would april know? From what I read of Alchemist's fiction, things stayed relatively encapsulated as to who was involved. Not to mention I doubt that transmission he sent went very far. Just to his real self. So, how would anyone know untill after he returns and he briefs us (at least with what he wants us to know) on the situation.
2, Alchemist OOC should let us in on if we're involved in any way. By having all of us on the run it would effectively kill the game as concieved. Since right now all WCK members are in the public eye. We bail, and ther will be alot of prying eyes around trying to see what we're doing.
3, From Alchemist's story, we don't know WHO exactly is behind the kidnapping what-so-ever. It could have been an independent group.

He sent April a letter. By mail. Because Alchemist doesn't trust important stuff to electronic comm's, and at the moment he's in full paranoid mode.

April would either mention the letters, or wave them in front of you.

Whooo boy. This is going to change the game.

Okay, I posted up a seed thread to sort of catch up ourselves on the current status of the WCK, and where we should go next It's an IC thread. It's called "Many Happy Returns?"

I think people with technical skill, or people monitoring their com-links would know DigiGeist is back in the house, as it were.

So, if anyone feels like updating him on anything, feel free to ring his doorbell.

Jager will be back soon. Just a few things for me to take care of.

I'm there.

Note that there isn't really anything for April to do in either Optimal thread until someone else picks it up - assuming we're still doing that.

Anyway - thanks for putting up that thread. I've been meaning to do something for a while, but the existing threads didn't have much for me to do and (as I think I've mentioned) I'm pretty horrible at doing anything that requires taking the initiative.

:p

Jeeze. Talk about mach speed, kiddo.

Yeah, that's the idea - April's the hyperactive kid sister I never had. With superpowers. ( ;

If required, someone could FFWD to the Diner, and pick our conversations there.

I expect I could handle that.

As for Didge referring to "hearing" some of what happened with Alchemist, It was through contacts.

I'm offline for a couple days, incidentally.

I'll post up soon (likely tomorrow), but in the meantime, a question. Are we going to go somewhere with Happy Returns? Now that we've touched base, it's kind of set to putter out and die.

Actually, we might want to steer the thread more towards Bandwidth. It would be very un-knight-like if we just left him sitting in our basement.

He might correct me here, but I think he already has plans - he mentioned OOC on chat that Bandwidth was back, if leery of CKing after his troubles.

I'll be offline starting Tuesday - I'll be out of town and without an internet connection. I'll be back a little more than two weeks later.

Well, I look foreward to you returning.

Then we can get the last ends of Optimal cleaned up, then work on the next arc.

I should be back soon as well.

I'm back now

And I'm also back. I'll jump in shortly.

After all these time, I wonder if my char. could return to the group. As Alchemist knows I had a family problem that forced my leave of the board.

For the moment this problem don´t bother me and I could be able to post. Well, I hope you would accept the prodigal son.

Go for it.

I'm not averse to it. Sandcaster also wants to join the group.

We haven't done much in this forum lately, but I think that's mainly because we haven't been struck by inspiration lately.

Thanks, I am going to do a fiction about the return to the Earth of BlackStar and the trip to Chicago.

Al, don´t worry about inspiration, you know, the Muses are very capricious.