Feral

Formerly a villain's designer minion, this compact metahuman leopard-human hybrid is now a spouse, mother, and Field Leader for Wyldfire

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Tuesday, November 10, 2009

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Wyldfire: Resurrection Protocol Campaign

Wyldfire

Adel Don Doc Reynolds Amythyst Feral
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Run by Kummer Wolfe
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Jarissa

I taught myself to read at 4 years of age because I was impatient. I decided the available books were not the story I wanted to read, and wrote a story, at 5.
It was pretty awful.
I mean, I was five, that's not going to be a coherent plot anyhow! But still. It was awful. I was astounded to realize that good stories don't just burst off the page because I apply a crayon. I went back to reading for a while, but sometimes I was looking at what made one book a good read while another was merely a way to pass the time.
Here we are, twoscore and change years later, and I think I am starting to really grasp how a plot is different from a narrative which is not the same thing as a roughly chronological sequence of scenes?
Building worlds certainly makes for a better story!
 
My native language is American English, with several regional contributions as I moved around a lot in my early years. I can communicate tolerably well in a couple of other languages, if the other converser is patient and of good cheer. I'm familiar with several specialized vocabularies in the greater category "Nerd" and I know the responsibility for being understood is mine.
(I also sometimes have trouble understanding spoken words because I'm missing a bit of the hearing register in the middle. Maybe that's why I use the "Maximum Verbosity" setting in written communication! Sorry.)

Other characters

Formerly a villain's designer minion, this compact metahuman leopard-human hybrid is now a spouse, mother, and Field Leader for Wyldfire

Jarissa Paxton (née Venters) is a mutate, kidnapped out of college and experimented upon and trained by employees of Infinity, Inc. With other subjects, she escaped in late 1997; by October 1998, Dr. Gironde hired Feral for the Wyldfire team, and by the end of 2000 she was promoted to Field Leader within that organization. Jarissa's "day job" is as school guidance counselor for the Gironde School.


 

In 2006, Jarissa accompanied Dr. Gironde's fiancée's daughter as her bodyguard on a shopping trip to get ready for the upcoming wedding. Mercenaries kidnapped Mirabelle the daughter, in the process capturing Feral the bodyguard. Because the middleman handling the kidnapping saw an opportunity to make more money, both women promptly vanished beyond even the original hiring villain's knowledge. They were not seen again for over two years.


 

Feral spent that time on an alternate Earth, not realizing that it was an alternate reality.


 

Since Wyldfire rescued her in November 2008, Feral is relearning how to be a hero instead of a villain. She has mostly recovered from the physical effects thanks to the excellent surgical skills of Wyldfire doctor Steven Reynolds and the patient physical therapy work of Gironde School doctor Don Blake.

Date of Birth
30th of September, 1971
Gender
female
Eyes
brown, vertically slitted, normally almost no whites visible
Hair
black with brown undertones, wavy verging on curly
Skin Tone/Pigmentation
sandy base tone with darker brown rosettes in roughly oval groups of five spots, lightening toward white as it gets close to the front of her torso
Height
5'0" to the top of her ears
Weight
around 110 lbs

Appearance

Physical Description

Feral is a 110lb amur leopard hybridized with a five foot tall human woman in good shape. She is flexible, resilient, strong enough to drag two full-sized combatants but too short to carry them. She has been trained to keep fighting despite damage.

Body Features

Cat ears poke through human-style hair; her jawline is elongated to form a cat muzzle like a real leopard.

Her entire body is covered by amur leopard fur: sandy base tone with darker brown rosettes in roughly oval groups of five spots, lightening toward white as it gets close to the front of her torso, which is usually covered by clothing.

She has a leopard tail about 3 feet long from sacrum to white tip.

Her fingers are very short and her palms wide, giving a sturdy base to her claws. Her legs are very short in proportion to her torso, and digitigrade like a real leopard's rear legs, ending in classic cat paws. Because of the strange proportions, Feral is able to transition to running on all four limbs. She has avoided doing so in the past but grew comfortable with the option during her time as Sinister's thrall.

Facial Features

Feline face, with elongated jaw.

Dark brown dots on a sandy beige base color of fur

Brownish black nose leather

White whiskers

Tips of upper fangs sometimes stick out when lips are in "closed" position

Very large brown irises compared to normal human eyes, with vertically slit irises which would be more appropriate to a house cat (close-in hunter) than to a real leopard

Identifying Characteristics

Leopard fur would do it in most circumstances.

Younger sister Jessica looks very similar, but spot placement is not exactly the same and her face is slightly rounder

Physical quirks

  • Right-handed

  • tends to portray a lot of body language outside the face, which does not always move the way a human face would

  • also tends to "talk with her hands" even when intending to use a verbal language

Apparel & Accessories

Jarissa Paxton normally chooses solids in earth tones, but occasionally a family member will present her with an outfit and demand that she wear it for a specific occasion.

Traveling Amur Leopard Catgirl by Jarissa


Feral's work clothes are matte black with a curly pattern woven into the fabric to break up sight lines.

Specialized Equipment

Wyldfire Comms Gear

{BODY: 01, Radio Communications (Encrypted): 06}






Wyldfire Comms Gear


Item
| Oct 20, 2018




Special abilities

One of the last experiment steps overseen by the original Hybrid Minion Project's Lead Designer was to add a genetic modification and surgical implant of materials from the Infinity Inc sample vault into the two feline Hybrid Alpha Series Minion prototypes. The Project Lead's time on the project terminated without either of the prototypes displaying any sign that the modification had activated.

It ought not to have worked.

Even Mr. Arkangel did not express disappointment when no change in behavior appeared. That sample had been from a specimen of dubious, possibly inhuman origins. He had authorized the trial in order to gain as much valuable information from these prototypes before moving on to the next phase of the Hybrid Series projects.

Prototypes 003a and 004a each possess one half of the original subject's powerful "empath" psionic ability. Because it is a neurological sensory experience much like sight, pressure, et cetera, it was overwhelmed by the pain and distress of recent genetic surgery for several weeks -- a sufficient amount of time that no evidence of it showed while either prototype was under corporate observation. However, once sufficient recovery happened, the prototypes' brains did begin to process sensory data that they could not have received through more typical human senses: they experience echoes of emotional states which did not originate in themselves.

While both prototypes had the same genetic graft applied to their overall genetic code, the original tissue implanted into the top of each spinal columns was slightly less than half of the total material harvested from the original subject. (The remaining fragment had been extracted for testing and for a failed cloning attempt.) Since the large male feline prototype had inspired this project upgrade, he was fitted with more of the material that measures signal strength and calculated range, making him better at intuitive determination of angle and distance to source. The smaller, more skittish female feline prototype by default received more of the material that measures subtle frequency variations.

 
Both prototypes had to learn by solo experimentation that they had a psionic ability at all, what it could and could not do, how to use it, how to not use it, and what happened when they overused or neglected it. They had escaped from Infinity Inc before they achieved enough physical stability to realize any of their experiences were not an overtaxed imagination.

 
No human sensory organ behaves quite as these two separated components behave.

If a piece of donated skin is implanted into one metahuman subject, and a formerly adjacent piece of the same skin is implanted into another, they do not pass information to one another across intervening space. They do not function at a greater power level, higher sensitivity, or more impressive range, merely because their new hosts happen to be aware of one another.

The original psionicist was neither human nor metahuman ... which is precisely why Mr. Arkangel expected only negative results.

When Feral and Puma are within a certain range of one another, awake and aware of the world, and not overwhelmed by other sensory information, their Empathy can combine to the original source's capabilities:

  • Their maximum possible sensory range may increase to approximately four hundred yards in an otherwise low-content environment, provided the two prototypes are less than ten feet apart.

  • Each prototype's inherent ability to refine trilateration and triangulation analysis becomes significantly swifter and more precise because two psionicists are jointly processing the sensation in question. Puma is still more accurate than Feral at determining exact locations of sources, but in this scenario he is exponentially faster and more accurate than normal.

  • Each prototype's inherent ability to refine details and nuances of signal becomes significantly swifter and more complex because two psionicists are jointly processing the chaotic sensation in question. Feral is still more accurate than Puma at analyzing convoluted or entangled sources, but in this scenario she is exponentially faster and able to detect more minute details than normal.

 
Six years went by before the two former prototypes learned that neither one of them was the lone psionicist with this seemingly pointless implanted ability. They have had a few encounters since 2003 in which to cautiously experiment. They do not know if they have discovered all the facts about this shared ability.

They do not know if they want to know any more facts, either!

Mentality

Personal history

The past


1992


Jarissa Venters, age 21, had a pretty final-sounding argument with her parents (Paul and Stefani Venters) about how she should live her life, and particularly about whether metahumanity is a sin, right before she had her final midterms for her Bachelor's degree in Physics. She got through midterms, worked on her applications for graduate school and internship programs, got her final project ready to present, studied up and took her finals ... and realized that her parents were not going to try to talk with her again. She would have to apologize and grovel and all the usual placations.

And she thought about what her life would be like if she just ... didn't. If she went ahead with her own decisions about what internship, what school, what religion, what everything. Without being meek.


She was just putting away some books after a long night of planning her next several months when black-clad strangers burst into her apartment, grabbed her, drugged her, and she woke up strapped to a medical gurney in a bio lab.


It took her failing to attend several interviews and her final presentation and never returning her advisor's calls before she was reported missing. Her cousin (Wapasha Venters), a Sheriff's Deputy, had a quiet encounter with "ATF agents" who told him that she snapped and ran away to California, got killed in a car accident when she hitchhiked and the driver was drunk. Her parents got a visit from "undercover DEA agents" who confided that she had been recruited by the CIA to infiltrate a marijuana cartel, and they named a motorcycle gang in Oklahoma, specialized in smuggling, recently slaughtered in the crossfire between rival drug cartels, unable to give any information. Eventually they decided that they believed the car accident thing was the real end to that story. Rissa was too timid to tell an effective lie, after all....


 

1997


They were not supposed to admit to having been people in the past.


That was stupid.


When they spent enough time around a peer to think this one might live long enough to be an ally, they found little chances to rebel: to give advice, to mutter a name, to lament a favorite pastime, to speculate on the reason they were still alive. To compare their enemies' entirely dimwitted plans to the trashiest old pulp stories of the nineteen-fifties and -sixties.


Sometimes they were kind to one another.


Sometimes they fought each other.


Then the catgirl -- the one whom the authorities all believed to be meek -- found a once in a million opportunity. A moment when all the precautions were discarded. A moment when the worst threat was removed.

A moment when she could use everything that had been done to her, exactly as designed, but on the targets that should never have been possible.

The first quartet of viable prototypes got out of their cages, out of the facility. They wreaked havoc.
They escaped.


They scattered in four different directions, hoping to obscure their trails. One went southwest; one went east; one went on a spiraling trail that changed direction every time his nerves got to him.


Feral traveled westward along Interstate 90 until the congestion approaching Chicago frightened her too badly. She made the mistake of heading north, sneaking aboard trains or hiding herself in tourists' campers, changing transport every time the vehicle slowed.


By the time she woke up in the Skyway suburb in the southern part of Seattle, Rissa's memory for the past six years had glazed into a mostly useless fog. She knew that she was hunted, that she was afraid, that she was alone, and that she was not safe.


She also knew that she could help other people.


 

1998


Things went so badly on the West Coast that, at a loss for any guiding ideas, Jarissa fled east as far as she could go. She never noticed that she knew the route into New York State.


The principle of helping people was sound: Rissa had made some small differences. She had made a couple of friends. The problem was that the bad guys had too many home-court advantages. To stop their biggest moves required Rissa and her friends to make entirely too public a spectacle of themselves. They accomplished what they could, but they agreed to call it quits after they defeated the biggest supervillain on live television.


Rissa finally settled herself in a remote area of Catskill Park, thinking to give the whole hero thing a pass ... at least, for a few years. Until she learned to not feel frightened all the time.


That plan fell apart within months, when one of her friends, Silverwing, tracked her down. First Silverwing started living with her part time as if this were a plan they had already discussed; then he started bringing along news from the world outside the forest, including of people Rissa could probably help; and once he had gotten her more than six months back into the habit of going to stop bad guys, he relocated Rissa into his apartment in Metropolis, Pennsylvania.


 

Somehow that meant she had been hired by a covert supergroup called "Wyldfire". To this day, Rissa wonders why she was never asked whether she would like to join. To do any of this.


 

(But it worked out well enough!)


 

The present: Wyldfire


 

Rissa is now content with her life. She has a husband, "Blackjack" Paxton, a man she met because of those "look at the people you could help" maneuvers by her friend Silverwing. She has a son, Grayson. She has close friends and some steady casual friendships through work. She has reconnected with the friend she lost when she fled Seattle. She has connected with Jessica, the younger sister she had not known existed. She has even talked a little, very cautiously, with the long-lost peers who escaped Infinity Inc with her. Her life is not ideal, but it works.


 

So, of course, she lost all of it when an evil mastermind paid for mercenaries to supply him with a hunter minion. Mister Sinister liked to purchase his "thralls" from alternate realities, without giving hints to the major changes in timeline, then convince his new acquisitions that he had destroyed their towns of origin with missiles. He found that this took all of the hope away from the minion, making them so much easier to control.


 

Sinister was not prepared for the vicious, vengeance-minded, self-destructive obstinacy of an Infinity Inc Hybrid Minion creation such as Feral.


 

Feral was not prepared for the moment when Silverwing, Thunderstrike, Doc Reynolds, Amythyst, and Jessica arrived just in time to avert a reality-shattering final showdown.


 

She was not prepared to get her family back. Her friends. Her life.


 

Her heroic life . . . after two years of being a villain. . . .


Mental Trauma

Feral has PTSD from her time in Mr. Sinister’s control. She has violent reactions to anything that a quick glance might interpret as the pronged control boxes, or something being attached to another person’s back.


Like the Drawback “Psychological Instability”, the PTSD is triggered by rolling double ones on any Dice Action. Also like “Psychological Instability”, a Character undergoing the PTSD must experience this effect and is not subject to any form of powered assistance (Exorcism, Recovery, burning Hero Points, et cetera). The full effect will last 10 APs of time — however, that includes coming down off the PTSD episode. If the Character makes a Will/Will roll (must roll at least an 11), she can begin sorting reality from her perceptions again, calming down; but she will spend the rest of her “full effect” period exhausted and on edge. Reduce all subsequent Int and Will checks by -2 Column shifts. An ally can make a Persuasion attempt as a Teamwork effort to help the Character succeed in her Will roll.


(This is a Subplot because it is not a permanent Drawback. It will be removed at the conclusion of the Subplot.)

Intellectual Characteristics

Feral/Rissa thinks in a visual language which has become her "native language". She has been having some trouble switching to thinking in English, but has an easier time doing so if she's highly caffeinated or if the subject matter is sufficiently abstract.

person.sexuality

  • demisexual/demiromantic

  • bisexual

person.gender_identity

she/her

Known Languages

Personality

Motivation

Seeking Justice

Feral struggles with her own ethics, sometimes dipping over the line into "Villain" status. She has learned to accept who (and what) she is enough that she would no longer even consider going back to being an unaltered human; "Unwanted Power" stopped being her motivation several years ago.

A character with the Seeking Justice motivation finds their moral balance by matching the evil they fight -- which can drift into circumstances that other heroes who Uphold the Good or feel the Responsibility of Power judge villainous for excellent reasons. Feral believes that those who frighten their victims will only avoid repeat action if they are themselves afraid of the consequence. She may stop short of killing a killer because her allies insist that murder is always wrong; but then Feral will switch her tactics to cause permanent injuries, taking away the opponent's capacity to act on an evil choice.

We are working on improving her worldview.

Quotes & Catchphrases

Stupid humans don't look up!
— A young Feral announcing her immediate strategy to teammates in Seattle, Washington, February 1998

 
You did good.

Welcome to Wyldfire.
— Feral pats Gravitar roughly on the shoulder, August 18th, 2009

Likes & Dislikes

Hates catgirl jokes more than she hates short jokes.

Vices & Personality flaws

Feral is trying to be a good person in order to please others, not for the sake of goodness itself.

 
The word "kitty" is an irresistible trigger for a murderous rage. Don't use it. If someone calls her "nice kitty", grab them and run, because Rissa is not at home in that skull for at least the next ten minutes.

Social

Birthplace

Wahpeton, North Dakota, USA

Current Residence

Gironde School

Wealth & Financial state

Ask Blackjack. Or Silverwing. I am not permitted at any time to access more than around fifty dollars in spending money, because I inevitably do something with the money which makes my husband try to explain that we are not destitute. Husband says I have the money sense of an ambush predator.

(( Wealth: 03 ))

Family Ties

Social Aptitude

Okay but sometimes quiet in small groups, nervous to the point of vanishing from location in larger groups. If she has to stay in a large group for work reasons, Feral starts patrolling behavior, obviously looking for signs of danger either from inside the group or from areas surrounding.

Speech

  • tends to use the wrong grammar rules for spoken language

  • common phrases include "no get" instead of "I don't understand", or to use {"Feral" / "leopard"} and third person construction instead of {"I" / "me"} and first person construction

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Thursday, December 10, 2009

Society of Cover Identities

by Feral

Thursday, December 10, 2009
 

I am working my way toward a kitchen -- I want to see what I can repurpose for making the Society of Rao cover hold up a little stronger.

(And maybe I will draw Castle out, after all?)

 
After disabling camera, smoke detector, monoxide detector, and room lights: I have used bleach gel to etch the Society of Rao symbol in the kitchen, as if carved with heat vision.

 
Meanwhile, Kilimanjaro is attacking at the lobby.

 
  • AIM set up multiple "emergency 'ejection' tunneling devices", Mole Men style straight from The Tick cartoon

    •  
  • Golden Lotus plans to have Kilimanjaro raise up a magma tube that did not already exist in this area to create a "volcano" and melt this building

    •  
  • we're on LIMESTONE

    •  
  • -- which is why the Metropolis Underground is a thing! --

    •  
  • about half a decade ago, this part of the oldest part of the city of Metropolis abruptly sank in a giant sinkhole

    •  
  • about 20+ years ago, frakkin' Dr. Teleios built a secret lair below Metropolis with a gigantic natural cavern full of an artificial environment

    •  
  • about 8 years ago, a secret government effort built an underground complex a little ways west of here, (headed by now disgraced and arrested General Thunderbolt Ross) to create Project: Quantum Leap


 
We need to halt this fiasco in progress. If we don't, the bedrock will get cracked, and the Lackawanna River will flood the Hollows -- drowning everyone who lives here. And possibly sinking the rest of southern Metropolis in a ground collapse event.

 
I have one can of whipped topping. I'm shaking it as I head toward the lobby fight.

The topping will add a disrupting slickness to what Kilimanjaro does, which might give me a thirty second gap in which to talk sense into the lot of the combatants. They are about to kill themselves, their allies, and all surrounding citizens, which will make them Acquisition Number One for Team Luthor and Teleios both. Maybe don't?

Feral's Journal Ordered oldest to newest

  1. Breakfast in the Alps
    August 17, 2009
  2. 8.18.09 pt 1: Officially Official Burning
    August 18, 2009
  3. 8.18.09 pt 2: DPS
    August 18, 2009
  4. 8.20.09: Glowing Crystals
    August 20, 2009
  5. 8.20.09: Interdimensional job hopping supervillain
    August 20, 2009
  6. 8.20.09: Mind over Matter lasts 12 seconds
    August 20, 2009
  7. 8.20.09: Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire
    August 20, 2009
  8. Raid on Oscorp Metropolis
    Thursday, October 15, 2009 through Saturday, October 17, 2009
  9. Let's not be Fred.
    Saturday, October 17, 2009
  10. I'm not a lab 'accident', I'm a lab 'intentional'
    Saturday, October 17, 2009
  11. These are my good clothes.
    Monday, October 19, 2009
  12. the opposite of competent infiltration
    Tuesday, October 20, 2009
  13. we may be fired
    Tuesday, October 20, 2009
  14. We are not fired after all.
    Tuesday, October 20, 2009
  15. I do like aquariums.
    Tuesday, October 20, 2009
  16. Tappy-Tappy
    Tuesday, October 20, 2009
  17. He ought to be easy to spot
    Tuesday, October 20, 2009
  18. Five Front Battles
    Tuesday, October 20, 2009
  19. Misbehavior
    Tuesday, November 10, 2009
  20. Danger: Electrical Hazard
    Tuesday, November 10, 2009
  21. Grimm Phase Two
    Tuesday, November 10, 2009
  22. Think Tank
    Tuesday, November 10, 2009
  23. We have detectors now
    Tuesday, November 10, 2009
  24. Historically, H.E. "Warwolves" are feline.
    Tuesday, November 10, 2009
  25. Be sure where the attack will land
    Tuesday, November 10, 2009
  26. Kaiju Plauntie
    Tuesday, November 10, 2009
  27. Preparations: Resurrection Protocol
    Wednesday, December 2, 2009
  28. Technical Difficulties in the Hollows
    Thursday, December 10, 2009
  29. Society of Cover Identities
    Thursday, December 10, 2009

The major events and journals in Feral's history, from the beginning to today.

Resurrection Protocol, Chapter 2

04:26 am - 10.06.2023

Society of Cover Identities

Thursday, December 10, 2009 [in]I am working my way toward a kitchen -- I want to see what I can repurpose for making the Society of Rao cover hold up a little stronger.[/in] [in](And maybe I will draw Castle out, after all?)[/in] [in]After disabli...

03:18 am - 10.06.2023

Resurrection Protocol, Chapter 2

11:54 pm - 09.06.2023

Resurrection Protocol (Take 2)

05:07 am - 01.04.2023

Resurrection Protocol (Take 2)

01:42 am - 01.04.2023

Resurrection Protocol

01:37 am - 01.04.2023

AIMing to Misbehave: Chapter 8

06:18 am - 07.01.2023

AIMing to Misbehave: Chapter 8

01:21 am - 07.01.2023

Kaiju Plauntie

[articleblock:1701bf64-dcfd-45d5-946b-ad89ff38d846] [right]Tuesday[/right] [right]November 10[/right] [right]2009[/right] [right]about 5:50 pm[/right] ...

12:10 am - 07.01.2023

AIMing to Misbehave: Chapter 7

04:58 am - 27.11.2022

AIMing to Misbehave: Chapter 7

10:16 pm - 26.11.2022

AIMing to Misbehave: Chapter 7

02:38 am - 26.11.2022

AIMing to Misbehave: Chapter 7

01:05 am - 26.11.2022

Be sure where the attack will land

[articleblock:23e6dfc6-827c-463b-bdbd-3cfb41e417e7] [right]Tuesday[/right] [right]November 10[/right] [right]2009[/right] [right]about 5:30 pm[/right] [in]Pain, I can handle.[/in] [in]Either it will end, in which case I can recuperate; or it will ...

12:20 am - 26.11.2022

AIMing to Misbehave: Chapter 6

05:05 am - 29.10.2022

AIMing to Misbehave: Chapter 6

12:10 am - 29.10.2022

Historically, H.E. "Warwolves" are feline.

[articleblock:99a0fe6c-527b-4b73-a7a4-5d1f9b0748a0] [right]Tuesday[/right] [right]November 10[/right] [right]2009[/right] [right]about 5:00 pm[/right] [in]Historically, @[Hammer Empire](organization::0b524d05-a4c5-4ba7-8b70-fac4661855fe) "Warwolves...

09:43 pm - 28.10.2022

AIMing to Misbehave: Chapter 5

04:09 am - 01.10.2022

All out of pizza! What's next?

Tuesday, November 10, 2009

AIMing to Misbehave: Chapter 5

12:35 am - 01.10.2022

We have detectors now

[articleblock:d1b77844-512b-4158-8c0c-ebb45725e82e] [right]Tuesday[/right] [right]November 10[/right] [right]2009[/right] [right]about 4:45 pm[/right] [quote] [p]Dear @e627a5da-d08e-46da-9809-8ef76c7a547f [/p] [in]BBB has a Caramel Pumpkin M...

10:31 pm - 30.09.2022

[p]Dear @e627a5da-d08e-46da-9809-8ef76c7a547f [/p] [in]BBB has a Caramel Pumpkin Milkshake for the seasonal. How do you feel about adding "pumpkin jambalaya" to the meal plan for next week? Should I check for roadside farm truck stands on our way back to base?[/in] [in]I am off mushrooms and bean sprouts for a bit though.[/in] [p]Love, F[/p]

Tuesday, November 10, 2009

AIMing to MIsbehave: Chapter 4

12:41 am - 04.09.2022

AIMing to MIsbehave: Chapter 4

09:02 pm - 03.09.2022

Think Tank

[articleblock:187e0c8c-d2f0-48ba-85b9-e98f42bc24e5] [right]Tuesday[/right] [right]November 10[/right] [right]2009[/right] [right]about 3:30 pm[/right] [in]As we piled out of the SUV in the parking lot for Bait Foundation (not called that), my heads...

06:26 pm - 03.09.2022

AIMing to MIsbehave: Chapter 3

04:59 am - 20.08.2022

AIMing to MIsbehave: Chapter 3

12:11 am - 20.08.2022

Grimm Phase Two

[articleblock:bc7021a3-13a2-44e9-9062-a97f8c76cb45] [right]Tuesday[/right] [right]November 10[/right] [right]2009[/right] [right]about 3:30 pm[/right] [in]My "Field Leader" security report was super scanty.[/in] [in]But I typed it on my phone -- ...

08:03 pm - 19.08.2022

AIMing to MIsbehave: Chapter 2

02:31 am - 07.08.2022

AIMing to MIsbehave: Chapter 2

08:57 pm - 06.08.2022

Danger: Electrical Hazard

[articleblock:1da4e29e-6615-4e78-8fdc-b8a302422c4e] [right]Tuesday[/right] [right]November 10[/right] [right]2009[/right] [right]about 2:10 pm[/right] [in]I hope my "Field Leader" interim report filed correctly before we cross this threshold. I l...

08:45 pm - 03.08.2022

AIMing to Misbehave

03:58 am - 25.06.2022

Misbehavior

[articleblock:835ae7ae-766d-4324-a50b-b42529b02424] [right]Tuesday[/right] [right]November 10[/right] [right]2009[/right] [right]about 2:00 pm[/right] [quote][p]Briefing Notes[/p] [p]Dr. A says brownouts on the north[br] - also Lex stuff on north...

01:12 am - 25.06.2022

I may be Field Leader still, but this project came to us through Dr. A. She's Project Lead today! Not me!

Tuesday, November 10, 2009

AIMing to Misbehave

12:18 am - 25.06.2022

Specter, Chapter 11: Fate of Justice!

05:31 am - 28.05.2022

1 Current Body point of damage due to repulsor bubble blast

03:05 am - 28.05.2022

Specter, Chapter 11: Fate of Justice!

12:15 am - 28.05.2022

Five Front Battles

[right]Tuesday[br] October 20[br] 2009[br] got to be around 10:30 pm EDT, right?[/right] ...

11:47 pm - 27.05.2022

This wetsuit, since it's a loaner, does not fit me quite correctly. And I'm still drippy. And let me tell you about the coffee they brew down here in SeaBase Alpha!

09:20 pm - 27.05.2022

Specter, Chapter 10: Live Free and Thwart Hard!

04:51 am - 16.04.2022

He ought to be easy to spot

[in]We need to find @[Amythyst](person:c0db45e7-d7ac-4850-a943-f789bc93c22a) -- he called for support on whatever he is currently facing.[/in] [in]Amythyst is [i]tall[/i]. And a bright shiny purple crystalline guy.[/in] [in]He ought not be hard to locat...

12:12 am - 16.04.2022

Specter, Chapter 10: Live Free and Thwart Hard!

11:52 pm - 15.04.2022

Specter, Chapter 9: Dire Villainy and the Deep Blue Sea

04:22 am - 02.04.2022

Tappy-Tappy

[quote][p]I do the tappy-tappy again. Aim at Dr. Joara Soap-Opera's kneecaps this time.[/p] [p] [/p]|Feral then hands the Kryptonian-Oscorp Ray Emitter thingy to Dr. B[/quote] [in]We have AIM Commandos here. Maybe they'll decide we are on their side?[/...

12:50 am - 02.04.2022

I do not like the way this swimming gear pinches my knees.

12:18 am - 02.04.2022

Specter, Chapter 9: Dire Villainy and the Deep Blue Sea

12:17 am - 02.04.2022

Specter, Chapter 8: A Good Day to Hero Hard

05:34 am - 05.03.2022

I do like aquariums.

[in]I'm not so thrilled about being in a "Sea Base Alpha" which we reached through a transparent elevator shaft.[/in] [in]Also there's something at the eastern edge of visibility that might be a whale, a fluid tank, or a submarine.[/in] [in]Dr. B says...

03:29 am - 05.03.2022

Specter, Chapter 8: A Good Day to Hero Hard

01:12 am - 05.03.2022

Specter, Chapter 7: Heroing Hard on the High Seas

06:03 am - 05.02.2022

Specter, Chapter 7: Heroing Hard on the High Seas

01:11 am - 05.02.2022

We are not fired after all.

[right]Tuesday[/right] [right]October 20[/right] [right]2009[/right] [right]early afternoon[/right] [right]somewhere above the @[Atlantic Ocean](location:10ca759f-01f9-4a91-9117-d1c2fdcff34e) [br]near the coastline for the state of New Jersey[/right...

10:20 pm - 02.02.2022

Specter, Chapter 6: The Heroic and the Thwarted

05:54 am - 22.01.2022

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(( At start of session: I am down to [b]Current Body 04[/b]! )) ...

01:18 am - 22.01.2022

Specter, Chapter 6: The Heroic and the Thwarted

01:16 am - 22.01.2022

Specter, Chapter 5: Heroing Hard with a Vengeance

06:24 am - 08.01.2022

2 points of Body damage from a Paragon blaster type

05:52 am - 08.01.2022

the opposite of competent infiltration

Whatever I do, I seem to be taking too long to do it and then getting myself into more danger instead of less. Thank goodness for Dr. B being here, at least someone is doing their job as per spec. ...

04:08 am - 08.01.2022

Specter, Chapter 5: Heroing Hard with a Vengeance

01:16 am - 08.01.2022

Specter, Chapter 4: How To Thwart Villains and Influence People

05:17 am - 13.11.2021

These are my good clothes.

[right]Monday, October 19, 2009[/right] Dr. M has an update for us on his findings so far. He thinks Oscorp is grafting cloned cells onto some biological androids. We're going to Atlantic City. We need to poke around at a data center. Oscorp data go...

02:25 am - 13.11.2021

grumpy leopard hybrid misses being able to taste the caramel in her snickerdoodle latte

01:16 am - 13.11.2021

Specter, Chapter 4: How To Thwart Villains and Influence People

01:07 am - 13.11.2021

Specter, Chapter 3: Appointment for a Rescue

05:23 am - 31.10.2021

Oscorp Drones in the ceiling

Dr. B is able to lock down the elevator car so we don't have to worry so much about it disgorging more security teams. But there are drone access tracks in the ceiling that let supplies from the northwest storage room be scanned and individual supply unit...

01:32 am - 31.10.2021

Specter, Chapter 3: Appointment for a Rescue

12:07 am - 31.10.2021

Specter, Chapter 2: What Are Little Supers Made Of?

04:30 am - 16.10.2021

Let's not be Fred.

[quote][p]You remember what happened to Fred, right?[/p] [p]Let's not be Fred.[/p][/quote]...

12:31 am - 16.10.2021

As is the tradition: (1) I get TERRIBLE results from the Diceroller As is NOT the tradition: (2) I can see the Live Dicelog on this character!

12:10 am - 16.10.2021

maybe on my holiday gift list this year, I'll let ShadowStar take me shopping for a coffee thermos that's comfortable to carry in my work clothes

12:09 am - 16.10.2021

Specter, Chapter 2: What Are Little Supers Made Of?

12:04 am - 16.10.2021

Specter of Peace, Chapter 1: Ooze, Spice, and Things Not So Nice

04:19 am - 02.10.2021

Raid on Oscorp Metropolis

[right]Thursday, October 15, 2009[/right] [left]We don't need specially prepared containers for the samples we are supposed to get, at least not for the things we have heard about so far. [/left] [left]Five patients are missing.[/left] [left]We a...

02:53 am - 02.10.2021

Specter of Peace, Chapter 1: Ooze, Spice, and Things Not So Nice

12:25 am - 02.10.2021

Ambushed in the Mountain of the Universe: Chapter 5: High Tidings

05:22 am - 07.03.2020

Ambushed in the Mountain of the Universe: Chapter 5: High Tidings

01:19 am - 07.03.2020

Ambushed in the Mountain of the Universe: Chapter 4: Rising Stakes

05:25 am - 22.02.2020

omnimorph problems need a temperature drop solution, how is it I'm in the depths of the sea off Newfoundland and there's not an slushy station or anything?

04:39 am - 22.02.2020

I am UNDERWATER with NO WARNING and I am the very definition of Not Okay

03:35 am - 22.02.2020

8.20.09: Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire

After warning everyone about the false Dr. DeClerk, I go have a direct conversation with Red Siren. She keeps insisting on things that can not be true. [ol][li]Trying to get The Secret Meditation Technique of More Mentalist Power is going to be fin...

02:10 am - 22.02.2020

Ambushed in the Mountain of the Universe: Chapter 4: Rising Stakes

01:19 am - 22.02.2020

Ambushed in the Mountain of the Universe: Chapter 3: Mind Over Matter

04:50 am - 16.11.2019

8.20.09: Mind over Matter lasts 12 seconds

Savannah is safe, if frightened. She was in a very sensible ambush position ready to defend the villagers. If I send [hero:9b634142-15c6-41f0-808f-a8a6abb3a1ab] off to do a high flight with thermal goggles, he can look for a heat source about factory ...

02:29 am - 16.11.2019

Step one: We will get straight to our daughter Step two: ... uh ... ???

01:24 am - 16.11.2019

Ambushed in the Mountain of the Universe: Chapter 3: Mind Over Matter

01:16 am - 16.11.2019

Ambushed in the Mountain of the Universe: Chapter 2

04:53 am - 19.10.2019

8.20.09: Interdimensional job hopping supervillain

I explained to Wyldfire about my miscarriage in 2004 and now here is my little girl. I could have been hallucinating/off my meds, but Blackjack sees her too. (I did not tell them about her teleporting us. If they did not see it, they can figure it out lat...

02:49 am - 19.10.2019

[sm]I want my mate.[/sm]

02:45 am - 19.10.2019

Savannah has told us about [ol][li]Dr. Solomon Grundy the Evil Gadgeteer[/li] [li]several people in black uniforms always around Dr. Grundy[/li] [li]They have a gadget for traveling across realities [/li] [li]Dr. Don (evil) is looking for a thing that is not quite right so far [/li] [li] also Dr. Don (evil) is looking for 2 people in particular [/li] [li] oh and Scivias (evil) [/li] [li] and and Devanna Hawk [/li][/ol]

01:25 am - 19.10.2019

Ambushed in the Mountain of the Universe: Chapter 2

12:37 am - 19.10.2019

Ambushed in the Mountain of the Universe: Chapter 1

06:20 am - 21.09.2019

The Shadow does this occult stuff! Maybe he's out here occulting!

04:42 am - 21.09.2019

I hear a little girl. A frightened girl. She is calling for her Maman. She is *probably* a figment of a malicious psionicist's imagination. *My* little girl did not survive. ... She would be four.

04:24 am - 21.09.2019

This is supposed to be a photo of the temple from the side, but it keeps inserting the photo from above instead *after* I click "share". This is not ominous at all!

04:11 am - 21.09.2019

Some of my teammates are experimenting in there with trying to rescue a chicken before they go for the people.

04:06 am - 21.09.2019

Temple view from above. (The crystals are purple with a red energy pulse, and have live animals or people paralyzed inside them.)

04:03 am - 21.09.2019

8.20.09: Glowing Crystals

I have had [ol][li][b]shower[/b][/li] [li]food, not know what, is whatever Blackjack give[/li] [li]drag all blue unconscious Thunderstrike out of shower and drag down to medbay. But no go in.[/li] [li]go get sleep[/li] [li]breakfast! something French...

02:48 am - 21.09.2019

Ambushed in the Mountain of the Universe: Chapter 1

01:42 am - 21.09.2019

New teammate

The albino who was reshaping the warp field is now a member of Wyldfire. He did good. We should find out what his name is.

07:57 am - 18.05.2019

The list of amazing people following the adventures of Feral.

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I taught myself to read at 4 years of age because I was impatient. I decided the available books were not the story I wanted to read, and wrote a story, at 5.
It was pretty awful.
I mean, I was five, that's not going to be a coherent plot anyhow! But still. It was awful. I was astounded to realize that good stories don't just burst off the page because I apply a crayon. I went back to reading for a while, but sometimes I was looking at what made one book a good read while another was merely a way to pass the time.
Here we are, twoscore and change years later, and I think I am starting to really grasp how a plot is different from a narrative which is not the same thing as a roughly chronological sequence of scenes?
Building worlds certainly makes for a better story!
 
My native language is American English, with several regional contributions as I moved around a lot in my early years. I can communicate tolerably well in a couple of other languages, if the other converser is patient and of good cheer. I'm familiar with several specialized vocabularies in the greater category "Nerd" and I know the responsibility for being understood is mine.
(I also sometimes have trouble understanding spoken words because I'm missing a bit of the hearing register in the middle. Maybe that's why I use the "Maximum Verbosity" setting in written communication! Sorry.)

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