Recap!
(by Margie)
Circle of people looking at their own bodies.
- Mercury looks terrified. Both of them.
- Jason looking at “his” breasts and blushing.
- Charlotte is has a continuous chat with Numina and Pneuma and Otto.
- Concord is bouncing up and down because he’s so *tall*.
- Harry’s eyes continue to widen as the Sol talks to him.
- Leo keeps trying to access the brain chip.
For the record:
- Leo is in Quill
- Harry is in Concord
- Adam is in Mercury
- Charlote is in Link
- Jason is in Ghost Girl
[Charlotte: -Afraid ]
That was the cover teaser. But right now, in the present …
Into the action!
Same shot. But everyone’s expressions have changed and body language.
Standing over the collapsed HHL.
Vigil: “Okay, boys and girls, it’s time to go to work.”
- Jason in GG: Fists clenched, mien grim and angry.
- Leo in Quill: Calm, placid, eyes-half-closed, “same shit as always” look.
- Charlotte in Link: On his knees, looking down at Blackbird, trying to figure out what to do with These Stupid Solid Hands.
- Adam in Mercury: Mute confusion, we didn’t do this, the adults are all …
- Harry in Concord: Looking at Streak and Tempest, both of whom are out (slumped forward onto table, slumped backward in chair).
Vigil: “I’m sorry, are you done doing your session recap? Can we talk? I don;t have much to add – you’re going to be mostly on your own. It’s up to them to apologize for their actions.”
Jason: What’s happened to them? “They’ve fallen asleep.” Jason: Why? Who? “Nobody knows that right now, so I can’t tell you. Oh, right. Vyortovia.”
Why are those three people out there still awake? Charlotte: because they’re kids. (Spell was set for adults as the limitation.)
Social media! Leo: (Phone is blowing up.) Charlotte: (unread messages are shooting upward)
Harry: How widespread?
Leo: How do we maximize your answers? “City is under attack, but doesn’t feel that way, they are sneaky little monkeys.” Flying monkeys? “In … some sense.”
Leo goes out to find the other kids.
“You will deal with magic first. You will deal with not-magic later. If you are very clever.”
“I assume everyone’s frustrated and has walked out because I have no more on the transcript.”
Messages about subzero blizzard and people passing out.
Kid Kelvin by the window, protesting it’s not anyone he knows, not his dad-er-anyone.
Demurs doing anything about it. Harry browbeats him.
A-10 comes over to Quill. Are they awake?
Leo tries to get them aboard with the program and come into the other room.
She shoos everyone into the main room.
Jason wants to try and wake them up. Some sort of magic on them. A BIG whammy. Powered by country-wide Oestre celebrations, Superbowl parties nation-wide. It’s tapping onto baseline assumptions of millions of people. It’s simple (“Everybody grown-up sleeps”) but has tremendous weight.
Harry – any sign of where Hecate went. Jason: Looks like some sort of scram spell, in her Sanctum … but could be asleep.
Does Stingray have access to the tower, weapons, facilities. Starts to equivoc-- A-10 punches him, and “No, I don’t.” Nor does A-10.
Harry – “Concord” goes over and manages to login as Silver Streak (since Dad always uses the same passwords).
Give guest access to a war room two floors down.
Adam looks out at the streets. No vehicles. Fires. Weird flashes. Something … big.
Charlotte is letting the Ponies know what’s going on. Help people.
Get Kid Kelvin to help vision to the “big” thing. Big black thing, walking around … quadrapedal, the size of a factory …? Underlit.
GG-vision: Heavy concentration of the same sort of magic that put everyone to sleep.
Paladin shows up.
But he’s obviously “young.”
Leo asks him to help access communications stuff.
Otto: Trolls vandalizing things, maybe grabbing people and stuffing them in sacks.
A-10 to Mercury.: what can I do? Ask her to call her friends.
Leo, Jason, Harry … and Stingray (who knows computers) go to comm center.
Scanning Twitter hashtags – the snow is all over the place, but targeted on Halcyon City. Videos – someone running down the street, 15, and this big duded 7’ tall, loping after her, looks like his tongue snags her, pops her into a bag (but it’s a small bag!) People calling for help. Military can’t fly in.
Jason: Not sure what to do. [Stuck in Charlotte’s head]
Leo: We are the voice of what’s going on: conference call the interns at the TV station. No-No did a research paper, need to get that. We need to tackle the social media – get home stay off the street stay secure …but report in where the bad guys are.
Harry: Adam’s younger sister!
Adam: Need to be planning this, but cryptic dude said we have to deal with magic, which seems to be the big thing.
Jason: … Holiday magic? St Nick down chimneys. Krampus. No-No says no. Some other traditions? Ice-Land-ick traditions?
Harry: At the HHL HQ – junior HHL, and the A-Team.
Jason: Jaguar?
Charlotte: AEGIS?
No-No’s research comes through :
Gryla
Rides a ‘yule goat’ made of straw.
Devours children as her favorite snack.
Mother of the Yule Lads
Some of the Yule Lads
* Stekkjarstaur - Sheep-Cote Clod - stiff peg-legs.
* Giljagaur - Gully Gawk - Hides in gullies, waiting for an opportunity
* Spoon-Licker - Long tongue, extremely thin
* Hurðaskellir - Door-Slammer - slams doors, especially during the night
* Bjúgnakrækir - Sausage-Swiper - Hides in the rafters
* Gluggagægir - Window-Peeper - a snoop
* Gáttaþefur - Doorway-Sniffer - scent-based hunter
* Ketkrókur - Meat-Hook - Hooks meat.
* Kertasníkir - Candle-Stealer - steals lightYule Cat
Huge black cat the size of a three story building.
[From a 1950s book of Vyortovian holiday tales. Got it from Taz.] [Why does Taz have that book?]
Charlotte’s helmet is ringing. Agent 1337 from AEGIS. Gets a contact number to get in touch. Anything we should know? Sends over information on all team capes.
Telekinesian is en route. Alloy is out punching people.
Magic people? Armiger. Old enough she’s probably asleep.
Get people on the streets, fight Yule Lads, save people, fight fires, look for a guy on a goat.
Need someone to coordinate support people. Stingray?
A-10: we’ll do the street level guys, beat the crap out of them, bring them back here.
1337 will try to get magic folk in.
Leo: Teen villains?
Harry: Alycia?
Jason: She can’t see me like this. No, wait, forget I said that.
Vyortovia Island must be nearby.
Leo calls up Taz to get the book.
Send Stingray off to get the book.
The Menagerie heads out to the cat. On the Quill hoverdisc.
(grab handsful of ear buds to hand out to others)
Go after it. Not finding it. Everything goes dark snow stops, lights get harder to see and …
And we’re in the shadow of the Cat.
Leo is watching for Yule Lads. Assess:
- Most vulnerable? Element of surprise!
- What here is in the greatest danger? The people in the house the cat is bending over.
Into combat:
- Leo is in the lead.
- Purpose: Whup the cat? No, defend people.
- Trust the leader? Yeah.
- Not off-balance.
Leo tries to pilot the disc ONTO the cat, distracting from the people below.
Harry flies, with unhelpful suggestions from Sol. But has problems, and Charlotte uses Link’s cable to reach out and wrap around the flailing Concord.
Swinging toward the cat, Harry wants to defend with a force field, and is distracted / aggravated by the contact prompting by Sol – but Adam: don’t get resentful! Leo: “Potato chip [shape]!” Dome shape over the house, as Harry bang against the cat, and takes the claw takes a powerful blow.
(Leo finds the yowling of the cat scary – and now he’s beginning to feel the nanobot stuff starting to work.)
[Harry rolls a third 5] - the cat’s swat seriously tag him, blocks with the arms, force fieldy thing pops up all spiky, explodes when hits, Concord goes down hard, even though it leaves the cat off-balance and vulnerable and lurching back.
Concord flies in a straight arc back, slamming into a house. Link is still attached, flying/falling.
[Harry: Guilty over hurting Adam’s body and how sister will react, also Insecure]
Adam is mostly paralyzed in fear, not knowing what he is doing. No powers are kicking in, no voice is directing.
The Concordance asks – then initiates Agent Override. MOMENT OF TRUTH! It’s Adam’s moment of I’m-not-cut-out-for-this, but it’s the Concordance’s moment of truth. Harry is shoved into the back seat. Teleports up to Mercury, apologizes, hand into chest! (Swaps bodies back.)
Jason/GG does the primal scream / fear. It yowls back, but the Anger sustains Jason.
Create an opportunity, as it flinches and crouches …
Charlotte – shoots a cable over at the cat … to counterbalance the fall, swinging around onto its back with a cable wrapped around its neck.
Adam: Concordance has the power source, and flies in mid-air in front of the Yule Cat. “Yule Cat, your presence is unwanted. Leave now and nothing will occur.”
But the Concordance can tell that the cat wants to leave, but it’s not allowed to – sense the goad that leads it to lunge forward (ignoring Charlotte) and it turns out to be an energy duplicate.
About a block away, one finger pointed, “Understood.”
Laser … connects … feel the connection to the people who sent it to the city. Room, a weird mix of tech and magic, full of guys, overseen by a terrifying woman, a large group of people doing different rituals, and …
… THE ATTACK ON THE CITY IS NOT THE POINT! It’s a distraction!
The cat “pops”.
Ah! Harry is back in Harry’s body. Drop into snow, but super-heal. Adam is Adam-ish body. But they are still in the spell.
Adam passes on the info. “MIss Charlotte, please extend your arms.” Adam falls and Charlotte-in-Link catches.
Book is en route to the HHL tower.
The A-Team had two Yule Lads, then Gryla showed up, and they lost one.
A-10: but if it’s adistraction … from what?
Or is it preliminary to swapping out Halcyon City they way Iceland was?
Charlotte / Link uses Otto to fly over to the graveyard. It looks like Elliot’s house in ET – all lit up with spotlights, etc. Calls in the team.
Aftermath
- Charlotte: Closer, influence to Adam (experiencing the different aspects of him).
- Leo: Closer, influence to Charlotte (went in there swinging). +Freak [maxxed → Anger], -Savior == influence to A-10.
- Harry: Closer, influence to Adam (Hands). Potential!
- Jason: Closer, influence to Charlotte (scream!). Potential → Advance! … +Danger -Mundane
- Adam: Closer, influence to Harry (respect for not having someone in his head telling him what to do). [Savior locked.] +Freak, -Superior
author: *** Dave H.
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