November 12, 2006

Common Knowledge
  • The session began with all the PCs eating curry in a restaurant in the UK. Yvette then dropped the bombshell about how she is supposed to be relocated. Everyone expressed their own opinion as to how she should handle the situation.

  • Then we went to the museum to recover Indra's staff. While there, a blonde guy in a black turtleneck gave Yvette the finger. After that, a fight with two Rakshasa broke out. The fight ended when a bolt from above struck the last of the Rakshasas. The janitor had the staff and apparently called the lightning. Envoy tailed him to a closet, but when he opened the door, the janitor was gone. The possibility that he might have been Indra was discussed. Durga, Tensile and Onyx went to India to get permission for Durga to protect the staff. Durga traded the museum a valuable 4,000-year-old bracelet for it. Steel Violet, BlueJay and Envoy remained behind to meet Union Jack and explain the situation. He took a liking to Steel Violet. Envoy invited him to the upcoming meeting with the Liberty League, and he accepted.
  • Brian's lawyer, Doc Tomorrow, and Professor Xenon were all contacted as regards the fate of Yvette. Professor Xenon suggested that the whole thing was a setup, especially after finding out that contrary to what the FBI agent told Yvette, Tommy One-Suit wasn't paroled from Blackstone -- he escaped. Elaborate planning ensued: It was decided that Marlene would be disguised as Yvette and meet her pickup agent and then Freedom Watch and NextGen would follow invisibly to see what happened.
  • Switching Yvette and Marlene proved a very smart tactic. The FBI agent used a gas of some kind, trying to knock his charge unconscious. Marlene was unaffected, but pretended to be asleep and paralyzed. The FBI agent, thinking he was free and clear, deviated from the road to the airport and parked in a small clearing instead.
  • When the FBI agent lifted Yvette, the difference in weight blew Marlene's cover. Pretty much simultaneously, Marlene spotted the Mastermind technology behind the agent's ear. At that point, Charlotta de-cloaked and attacked. Envoy nullified the Mastermind technology, freeing the FBI agent. Marlene and Charlotta attacked each other. When Brian flew in to assist, Charlotta exhibited a heretofore unknown ability to mind control him without the use of any technology. She then used some technological device to remove the rest of Freedom Watch's concealment, with the exception of Envoy.
  • Next-Gen held their actions until the final player -- Tommy One-Suit -- appeared. Combat remained basically stalemated until Onyx teleported in to attack him, at which point One-Suit grappled her and stole the ankh that she always wears. One-Suit and Charlotta then disappeared, with a cryptic message: "That's one."
  • The team returned to base to find that the Claremont Academy had been attacked by Chernobyl's team while they were gone. Many of the students had been injured, as well as the Professor. As she escaped, Wallflower waved a disc at the team and taunted, "That's two."

    Uncommon Knowledge
  • Onyx's ankh was left to her by her mother, and allowed her the use of her Gadgets power.

  • The disc that Wallflower took contained a copy of all Xenon's data, included the genetic breakdown and analysis of Nikolai's ability to nullify things.
  • With the loss of her ankh, Onyx has started feeling a little strange...