Parahumans: the First Dawn

[ThomazM]

|Pam & Sam's Grocery Store|
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To no avail, the door would not budge. It had been locked tight from the other side.
But this was not to be all. A knife came careening for Christopher's head at high speed, and it did actually make contact, for the barest split of a second, before it disappeared entirely. Though he never got a look at it, the full image, like a photographic memory, was now in his mind's eye. The storm continued.

|Christopher Walker|
|Pam & Sam's Grocery Store|

"Hallucinations, this is what I have come to?" - He thought, smashing the counter in front of him with rage. He reviewed his surroundings once more, trying to find the next course of action, endeavoring to shake the terrifying image he now has stuck into his head. Avoiding overthinking the situation too much, he jumped over the counter once more, running into the opposite side of the grocery store. "The bathroom!" He thought to himself in an small instantaneous epiphany . The bathroom, in regular fashion, has a small upper window, which may or may not lead him to his escape.
He kicked open the door, remembering to lock it behind him once he entered. The window was a bit smaller than he remembered, but still, he jumped onto it, squeezing himself thorough, managing to break some glass while doing so. Christopher now found himself in a small alleyway, analyzing both sides in a glance, he ran to the one which appeared to contain less obstacles: the left.

 

[Jess887cp]

|Dennis|
|Hospital|

I pulled up my hood, thinking. It wasn't drugs. I wasn't tripping. Weird crap had been going on, but at least there was a plan. Plans are good. Plans save lives. I would know. Always have a plan. You can't blame me for not predicting that something straight out of a comic book would happen.


"Alright," I finally said, "What's the plan?"

I stood up from the wheelchair, and my headache spiked. I tried to ignore it.

My fingers played over the surrounding items, before nervously pulling away and going into my pockets.

I turned and looked at him.

"Well?"

 

[GPuzzle]

|Simon|
|Hospital|

Both of us were very anxious. You could see it in the guy's eyes.

"Name's Simon. The plan is to figure out who has been attacked by weird shit today. When you were attacked by something weird today, did anything happen that just made you go "What the fuck is going on?" - like a power or anything like that? When goddamn Ghost Rider threw a door at me, the door decided to dodge me in the air. When Sarah, the girl who helped me bring you here, was attacked by a coffee machine, she went through an orange portal of some sorts, and the guy you were talking to created destructive air currents."

I drank a bit of water and then looked at him again:

"What I'm saying is that if we are superheroes and that guy was so bloody nervous about you being attacked, that means that there are more of us."

 

[yoy1zoz2mom3]

[Hospital]
"Agreed. Right now I think we should go find that guy. He seemed to know what was going on and if he was nervous, we should probably be too."

 

[pc_assassin]

|Jason|
|Hospital|

"Can you help people that go into a spasm attack and then make computers turn into raging spider monsters" Kyle says sarcastically under his breath as he drags Jason along. Jason doing the best he can to stay on his feet. He was exhausted, not from physical exertion but from what had happened. How many people just go crazy and turn machines into animate creatures he wondered to himself. As the come up to the service desk Jason spots a small group down the hall of 2 guys one girl and one of the guys was in a wheelchair. They all looked pretty shaken but Jason just shrugged it off as them just being ordinary patients.

 

[the_j485]

|James Wilson|
|Hospital|

James rushed into the hospital, doors left to bang open behind him, as he ran into the hospital, looking around fervently for the ones who'd ran away while he attacked the earth-man.
Finding them in a corridor, he ran over to them.
"Guys, we have to go. That guy who was attacking us, he's coming this way. I need you guys to help me take him out, he's too heavy for my power to affect him much. Any of you, have you developed your powers yet? Something paranormal happened to you, besides getting attacked by the deliverers?"

 

[pc_assassin]

|Jason|
|Hospital|

Seeing another guy run in as if he was being chased by something unnatural made Jason curious. He looked to see if Kyle was watching then shuffled down the hallway after him. He kept close to the side of the wall hoping to make it look like he was another patient. He just could faintly make out what the newcomer was saying "ing attacked by the deliverers?" he heard him say. "Deliverers? Like mail carriers? No that can't be it this seems a bit more sinister." and at that same moment Jason tripped over something he handnt seen, a bag carelessly left in the hall by a visitor, and landed within kicking distance from the odd looking group.

 

[the_j485]

|Mekhan inc.|
The gear flew incredibly fast, and smashed into the woman, throwing her bodily at the wall, and then through it, crashing into the room adjacent. In there, the lights were off, so Esaias wouldn't have been able to see the being's fate. A slow rumbling, however, would be telling of what it would be, presumably as it burrowed its way out of the facility.

 

[Nisteth]

|Mekhan Inc.|
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Her curiosity is incredibly piqued as she watches the gear fly at incredible speed, to the point where the being crashed through the wall. In shock, she looks at her hand, slowly turning it as thoughts explode in her mind, all at the same time. So that's how it works! That's amazing! Normally this wouldn't even be possible... let alone be an ability. Perhaps I'm dreaming? Doubt it, cause I've been lucid thus far... what the heck is happening to me!? Listen to yourself! Obsessing over this... power, trying to find out how it works. There's no way this has scientific applications. Wait... my friends! How are they going to react? They'll see me as insane, delusional. But I can prove I have the power... but there are so many excuses.

Maybe I should get checked up at the hospital to make sure that I'm not having hallucinations or anything... or at least make sure that whatever this... thing is can be controlled and tamed. Don't want to go hurting people. Esaias smiles before she pushes herself up off the floor and takes a deep breath. "It's getting late... I need to check out anyway. Off to the hospital." she says, before gazing around and noticing that nobody was in the room. Oh. Right.

 

[yoy1zoz2mom3]

[Hospital]

"Well, a bunch of objects animated and attacked me, and I managed to escape through a portal. I don't know if that was me or if I can control it though so don't peg too much on me. Also, who the hell are you and why are we all being attacked by these...things?!? I expect an answer now mister because, power or no power, if I don't get any answers to all these questions I am going to throw you out a window"

 

[GPuzzle]

|Simon|
|Hospital|

"Well, some biker threw a door at me and the door changed trajectory mid-air. I'm pretty sure that counts as being unusual. But I still have a few questions to ask. How do you know that we have powers, and why is this happening all of a sudden?"

 

[pc_assassin]

|Jason|
|hospital|

Not seeming to be noticed by the group Jason decides to listen in on their conversation. "Well a bunch of objects animated and attacked me" the girl said before Jason tuned them out to think to himself could she be like me and got attacked by machines that came to life for no apparent reason. Jason didn't get to hear what the other guy was saying but he deemed it not important. Jason sprung up and looked at the girl. "You were attacked by things that just came to life also?" he asked her rather desperately.

 

[Nisteth]

|Esaias|
|Streets|
As she makes her approach, practically shooting down the road on her bike, she rounds the corner towards the Hospital, only to spot what looked like some form of man made out of concrete. Oh, brilliant. So I'm not the only person involved in... whatever the heck is going on right now. Well, at least I can put my power to good use... maybe I should've brought a gear or two along in case this happened. Crap, what do I have on me that I can spare...?

Frantically, she quickly pats herself down with one hand, keeping the other gripped on the bike handles as she stops pedaling to let herself slow down and stop. Elbow and knee pads? No, those are built to pad and protect - not good for kinetic force. Oh, I have an idea! Without even thinking about it, she reaches into her pocket, grabs the first item she touches, and reaches it back behind her head as she begins to charge her throwing arm. Boy, I hope I figure out I can do this without having to raise my arm up like a weirdo. I was never good at throwing. As soon as her bike starts to topple, she quickly brings it to a stop, putting out the kickstand with the object still behind her head, and hopping off. Let's see how powerful this throwing arm gets.

 

[the_j485]

|Streets|
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The card shot towards the tarmac man like a speed bullet, careening for its back. As Esaias would now just realise, paper's pretty light, and doesn't hold its momentum well, allowing for easy changes in momentum. As any self-respecting pupil in secondary education learning physics would know, air resistance increases as speed does.
These two effects combined caused the card to harmlessly spin off to the side, getting nowhere near its intended target of the man who'd now turned around, and noticed the super-powered girl on her motorbike. Ripping up a section of pavement, it threw it at its miserably failed assailant.

|Hospital|
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"A biker? Dressed all in black? Shit, that means Ior's here... And you say it jsut changed direction while flying at you?...maybe you can manipulate projectiles, missiles, that kind of thing? I don't know, just give it a try. Chuck a pen or something."
"The animated objects, that's probably Garren, but the portals... that must've been your doing. Stress helps make powers work, so it was probably your mind's response to the danger making the portal. Do you think you could try making one? That could be seriously useful for getting around."
"And you... you were attacked by Garren too? No, that can't be right. Tell me, specifically, what happened to you?"

 

[GPuzzle]

|Simon|
|Hospital|

"Who the hell are those people? Ior, Garren... Sounds like something out of Mass Effect. And what do they have to do with us? Why us, specifically?"

I concentrated very hard on trying to move a cup of water, hoping it'd move.

If that guy was correct, I had fucking telekinesis.

 

[pc_assassin]

|Hospital|
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"And you... you were attacked by Garren too? No, that can't be right. Tell me, specifically, what happened to you?"

"I was walking across a room and I started twitching uncontrollably then I fell to the floor shaking. When shaking stopped my body moved out of its own accord and my hand touch a computer as if it was possessed. But the computer when my hand came into contact with it turned into a freaky spider thing that tried to eat the face off my girlfriend. When one of my friends grabbed her and the rest of them escaped I got backed into a wall by the beast. When I realized this I turned around and smashed it with a piece of piping." Jason told the stranger.

 

[the_j485]

|Simon|
|Hospital|

"Who the hell are those people? Ior, Garren... Sounds like something out of Mass Effect. And what do they have to do with us? Why us, specifically?"

I concentrated very hard on trying to move a cup of water, hoping it'd move.

If that guy was correct, I had fucking telekinesis.

"Ior's the man who attacked you. Garren would have been the guy who attacked... uh, what's your name? Portal-girl? Anyway, I'm not really sure who sent them, but they attack people who have latent powers - as in, those who haven't managed to use their powers yet, but have the ability to. They sometimes go for people who already do use them- like how Alin, uh, the tarmac guy, kept attacking me earlier. That's how I can tell that you guys must all have powers. Now, try and get your powers to work, we're going to need them all to work on stopping these others."
"That... that sounds like Murtu - Murt - Mur-tyu-un, Murtuun, that's it. Never get his name right... he didn't create the spider-thing, though, by the sounds of it that's your power, cannibalising tech to make other things, like the spider you mentioned. Murtuun jsut controls those with powers, which was why you had the seizure - he was taking control of you.

 

[Nisteth]

|Streets|
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Adrenaline soars in her body as she sees the massive pave of tarmac come flying at her, and as quick as she can, does a duck-roll over to behind her bike. Okay, so we have an earthbender from Avatar. That's nice to know. Crap, my bike is probably the only thing with stuff that I can throw... but it's so nice! I worked on it for ages! Aw, man... well, I'm glad I brought my tools, as usual. These puppies aren't sparable.

In haste, she reaches down and grabs the kickstand, pulling a hammer out of her belt and smashing it against the area where it connected to the bike frame, eventually causing it to fracture and fall off. "Ugh, best thing I have right now..." Esaias mutters to herself as she presses her back up against the bike, both giving her hiding space and propping the bike up since it now lacks a kickstand. She holds the kickstand up against the bike diagonally, hopefully having the same effect at pulling it behind her head. "This is one heck of a jury-rig I'm doing right now..."

 

[pc_assassin]

"That... that sounds like Murtu - Murt - Mur-tyu-un, Murtuun, that's it. Never get his name right... he didn't create the spider-thing, though, by the sounds of it that's your power, cannibalising tech to make other things, like the spider you mentioned. Murtuun jsut controls those with powers, which was why you had the seizure - he was taking control of you.

|Jason|
|Hospital|
"So now your telling me I'm possessed?" Jason asked sceptically. "This is starting to sound more like a dream then reality" he added Man I got some imagination he thought to himself. "I'm going to go wake up now" Jason told the group "See ya around" Then he turned to leave.

 

[the_j485]

|Jason|
|Hospital|
"So now your telling me I'm possessed?" Jason asked sceptically. "This is starting to sound more like a dream then reality" he added Man I got some imagination he thought to himself. "I'm going to go wake up now" Jason told the group "See ya around" Then he turned to leave.

"No! Please, you're not dreaming, you're not hallucinating, this isn't fake. It's real. All of this. I know, it's hard to understand, but it's all true. You have to believe me. Just... try and use your power, you'll see."