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Wed 18th Aug 2021 03:15

Li'l Trouble in Little China

by Jerry J. Vahn

I was contacted by Runeforce and asked to join in an interesting investigation.
 
There was a strange robbery in the china town section of the city. Seems that a refrigerator unit was stolen from a store in china town. Just before it disappeared, the people nearest to it were blown back and away from it, then it just disappeared. What was even stranger, is that it reappeared the next day, in almost the same exact way as it disappeared, except that there wasn't the 'explosion' from before.
 
Sandcrab decided that he would tunnel underneath the store and use some of his tech to investigate the store. I was going to go with him, right up to the point that I realized that I would be in a small tunnel.... I almost started to hyperventilate. I glad that we were talking over the coms, so I was able to not transmit while I collected my thought. I told him that I would wait topside in an alley near by if he needed me in the store for anything.
 
Some of the others, Maximum Resistance, Wildthing, and Ghost were also topside and near by. Maybe they know something that I didn't about Sandcrab's tunnels.
 
Anyway, we're up topside outside the store when Sandcrab calls us that apparently there is an open area under the store that wasn't on any maps, and there are some people there trying to cut him up. Socrates sends us a location beacon of where he is at. I run over and pick up Wildthing and down we go.
 
Wow, I didn't know there was a whole group of people living in the sewers. There were houses and businesses and all sorts of things down there. Not exactly sure what all I saw, as we were moving so fast.
 
I drop Wildthing off just outside of the area where Sandcrab is. I'm not sure what good we'd do, as he had already dropped the roof down on some of the people with swords. Ghost arrives just about the same time as us, and takes the sword away from the one guy, well, I say guy because I think he was male, but his face, well, it looked like he had horns on his head and his skin was reddish... He really looked more demonic in the old sense than anything else. Anyway, I'm not sure what I can do at this point.
 
Wildthing jumps over at the guy / demon, and threatens him. He seemed a bit cowed by her. I start moving around the room, just making sure that there are no other surprises waiting for us.
 
Well, there was another surprise, the roof was starting to cave in. "Hey, uh, the roof is about to cave in, I'm going to go topside and clear everyone out of the store, just to be sure." I take off to above ground.
 
I get up to the store, and start pulling people out of the store and putting them outside across the street. I tell each one, "Stay here, the floor may collapse." While I'm doing this, Ghost appears, and lifts up the freezer unit that had disappeared. "Hey Ghost, that is the unit that disappeared." I don't know if she heard me, or what, but she put it back down.
 
About the time that I get everyone out, the group underground calls over the coms that they have the roof fixed, and that we are going to investigate something else related to the disappearing freezer.
 
Socrates called over the coms that there wasn't any reports of 'superpowered' activity.... Weird, but, good I guess.....

Continue reading...

  1. Jerry J. Vahn's Journal
  2. Strange Dreams
  3. Long Watch Over
  4. End of the Journey
  5. NAGA Equipment Liberation
  6. This was a DUMB thing....
  7. First Live Trial
  8. Meetings
  9. Li'l Trouble in Little China
  10. Down to the Spiders lair
  11. My First Rescue Mission
  12. Ancestor in the Woods
  13. Soal's Legacy
  14. An Empty City Sector
  15. What Happens in Vegas...
  16. Secrets of The Commission
  17. Out of a Frying Pan
  18. And Back in to the Fire
  19. Thoughts of Home
  20. The Long Night Ends
  21. More Cells Call Out
  22. Destroyer's Depravity begins
  23. Disinformation Intensifies
  24. Slanderous Libel
  25. So close and so Far away
  26. Flightus Interuptus
  27. From Russia with Love?
  28. Overkill
  29. "Education" Camp
  30. Rocket Research
  31. Peaceful Lunch?
  32. Danger Room?
  33. Chef's United?
  34. A Real 'Education' Decamped
  35. Fires Bricks Snakes and Cats
  36. The End is Nigh!
  37. Can I really do this?

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