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• issue #0: May 25, 2005. Campaign Development & Introductions.

IN GOD WE TRUST | Arc 1

In this story arc we meet the main characters. We follow them from their mundane lives into an event that literally changed mankind's history - the terrible events of September 11, 2001. These events had a profound additional effect on the passengers of American Airlines Flight 283. The story opens as the passengers arrive at Boston Logan International Airport all lives bound for LA, all lives bound for destiny. Following the events of the terrorist actions our story jumps 4 years when the passengers of Flight 283 awake simultaniously. They wake comprimised, held by a corporation specializing in genetic testing. Not understanding the events that have transpired and slowly learning they came back "changed" these... SURVIVORS take control of their lives and seperate following an escape cross-country. And soon Jack, Brian, Arthur, Mandy and the Survivors announce themselves to the country in more ways than one.

• issue # 1:1: "In God We Trust part I" , June 1, 2005.
  • RECAP: We join the lives of Brian Jaffe, Jack Bennet, Arthur Redford and Mandy Smith as they arrive at BOS International Airport all bound for Los Angeles, California. Each passenger makes their way through the airport on a fateful morning. Intersecting the lives of others who share their destiny they board American Airlines Flight 283. But once in the air their destiny becomes apparent - terrorist seek to take this plane at the cost of anyone standing in their way!!

• Game Called: June 1, 2005, Dee was sick and Jason had Graduate papers to finish.

• issue # 2:1 : "In God We Trust part II " , June 15, 2005.
  • RECAP: Terrorist's had bellowed out orders, a few passengers wouldn't let this happen. They strike back at the terrorists! In the midst of the resistence several are killed and someone yells out "They've just crashed a plane into the World Trade Center in New York!!"... This fateful day is September 11, 2001! With aid Arthur Redford manages to overpower the terrorists, killing nearly all of them with the constructed AK-rifle taken from their lead. Communications are poor, this is a dark day for America - this "fifth plane" has been retaken by the passengers. Unfortunately the Vice President was unaware or perhaps didn't want the risk - as four F-15 Eagles respond to the order - "take her out of the sky"!!
• issue # 3:1 : "Coming Out Party" , June 22, 2005.
  • RECAP: Missles, an explosion, then BLACKNESS... Awoken - cold, sore, and tired. The passengers of Flight 283 find themselves in individual rooms blindingly stark white. They each lay on their own thin matress, more laboratory table than bed. Each seperated in a larger facility room by room each passenger awakes finding themselves incubated with extreme muscle atrophy. Sounds are blurred and slurred slowly coming into focus. Their eyes blind until they readjust to being used. The passengers react differently accross the board - some docile, some actively irrate. All are forced to wait. Slowly they start to realize the enviroment is alien but strangely familiar. Placated by a "councilor" our main characters request more. Soon they're given tidbits of information - enough to demand they speak with their fellow "survivors". They've just learned that four years have passed and for all intents and purposes - they're prisoners of a corportation called Celera!!
• issue # 4:1 : "Meet the Press" , June 29, 2005.
  • RECAP: As demanded the Survivors are allowed to gather in the open air atrium of Celera's Seattle Branch - a DNAlaboratory called Seattle Genetics. The survivors begin to learn they've awoken "changed", some begin exhibitting abilities beyond human! In the midst of the gathering a young woman reacts to seeing her pregnacy has been terminated in those missing years - she blasts a sonic wave taking all but a few of the survivors off their feet. Following much debate one survivor who's power signature seems to dwarf others, sweeps his hand and escapes with the Survivors to Celera's Washington DC facility - where they've learned is the holding facility for the child ripped from the womb. The crowd disperces most confused just wanting to go home - but Arthur Redford finds evidence that something strange is happening with Celera. The child is dead as told by Celera officials, but they are surprised to learn there are FIVE children - all apparently the same child at different age stages being autopsied...
• issue # 5:1 : "the Crash", July 6, 2005.
  • RECAP: Following the strange events in Washington DC, the Survivors open themselves to the world. Lead by Brian Jaffe several Survivors take the stage of a surprised Celera-NSA Press Conference giving the ??? address. Inter-cut are the events of the night prior a private meeting at a hip Georgetown restaraunt to discuss the direction the next day's conference would take. Interupted by the crash of a city bus and a taxi cab - our heroes rush into action learning that their special abilities are truly godlike...

• Game Called: July 13, 2005, Kevin had to work late.

HOMECOMINGS | Arc 2

In this story arc The Survivors of AA FLight 283 have just announced themselves to the world. Having left Celera in a wake of negative accusations the passengers split to return home to family and friends. The world will slowly begin to react to odd events occuring around the Survivors. They will begin to investigate the extent of their powers and learn about the reprecussions of other powered Survivors, as well as events concerning the Government, Celera and the world...

• issue # 6:2 : Homecomings part I, July 21, 2005.
  • PREVIEW: The Survivors have their day with the press, but will the events of the night prior have any reprecussions. Meanwhile, literally dozens of survivors learn they have unusual abilities as they make their way homeward. Following debriefing time with officials and amoungst themselves in Washington DC - Jack Bennet, Brian Jaffe, Mandy Smith, Arthur Redford and the Survivor Group say their goodbyes as they reintroduce themselves to their lives. As each Survivor learns being godlike isn't easy.
  • RECAP: We are reminded of the events leading up to the Press Conference announcing the Survivors to the world. Following their aiding the bus/taxi accident in Georgetown the Survivor group rushed to escape the cameras and emergency services. Brain and Mandy rush away with a group of 20+ onlookers following as Agent Marks orders Arthur to get Jack's lifeless body to a hospital. Brian and Mandy escape with new revelations of their powers as Jack finds his way from an astral plane back into his body. Some two hours later the Survivors and their extended group settle for the night at Arthur's father's apartment building, waiting for the Press Conference near the Lincoln Memorial the next day. Questions pummel the Survivor panel and Brian takes most of them with grace. Only Arthur and Jack would surprise the world with blunt statements (Arthur) and undecernable language (Jack). The group is greeted off the stage by NTAC, a new branch of Homeland Security assigned to the passengers of AA Flight 283. Now the survivors seperate to return home to settle with their families, planning to see how the world will react to them if not react FOR them, when they next return to the Lincoln Memorial...
• issue # 7:2 : Homecomings part II, July 28, 2005.
  • PREVIEW: Given time to regain their center's, find themselves in the struggle of these newfound abilities - in this newfound world... A melancholy is cast as the Survivors return home for the first time following 4 years of being "lost". For some the homecoming will be joyous, for many it can not be. To paraphrase a poem for this issue's theme... "The winter here is cold and bitter, chilled to the bone. Haven't seen the sun for weeks. To long - to far from home. Feel like I'm sinking and claw for solid ground. Pulled down by the undertow. So it's better this way, having seen this place before. Where everything we say and do, hurts us all the more. Its just that we stayed away, too long. Pulled down by the undertow. Never thought I could feel so low. Oh darkness I feel like letting go. With all of my strength and all of my courage, come and lift me from this place... Full of grace. Full of grace."
  • RECAP: The group split for their homecomings. Mandy stays in DC not wishing to see her brothers and Ladder family for her personal demons, but is able to do some good stopping the robbery of a DC convenient store. Arthur finds his best friend who happens to be his father and saves his life after giving him a heart attack. Jack finds his mother and they pick up where they left off ending both passed out from the night of binge drinking. Brian finds his life collapsed with his parents divorced and the family home sold. He and his dad share words but not worlds...

• Game Called: August 4, 2005, Rescheduled for Saturday.

• issue # 8:2 : Absolute Power Corrupts, August 6, 2005. (SPECIAL SATURDAY EVENT)
  • RECAP: Brian and Jack spend time together as Jack focuses and pulls his astral self to Brian's power signature - in OUTER SPACE! After much debate and practice Brian becomes the first man to walk on the moon in decades, just before hurtling back to Earth. Jack manages to worm his way back into his body and learns he's responsible for kicking his mother off the wagon. Mandy seems lost in the streets of DC but catches glimpses of an event that would happen in the future - a fire-burning of a young Survivor, and she races to find and help her travelling from DC to Georgia. Unable to change this "future" she reconnects with Brian with plans to gather the group with Arthur - but not before snapping the neck of the 15 year old rabble rouser! Arthur and his father take the trip from New Jersey to West Virginia to get reaquainted. And finally the group gathers together crossing into the wilderness on Ware Mt. in West Virginia. But before the end Arthur sees hint of a girl noted in the local paper, as he runs a recon of the camp - amid corn stalks some 10-12 feet high...
• issue # 9:2 : From the Mountain Tops, August 11, 2005.
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• issue # 10:2 : Metropolitans, August 13, 2005. (SPECIAL SATURDAY EVENT)
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  • issue # 10.1:2 : Jack & Arthur: Jack's Contingency, August 11, 2005.
    • The following is a Bluebooking Roleplay conversation between Jack & Arthur.
      Jack leads Arthur down the street and into a buildings basement from there he makes his way to an odl abandoned store room and through a hole in the wall into an old sub basement that had been built over after a while he leads him through a series of utility tunnels into the sewere making a quick hope from the water treatment tunnel over into the subway he leads him into an old set of abandoned tracks to an old 1920's Platform station that was built over during a period of regrowth in the city. Here Jack confesses his weakeness to Arthur and explains that if he doesn't get this new alloy held in a military facility that he will die and not come back. He and Arthur then discuss there similar concerns that we need to be ready incase things turn bad. To have a safe heaven to work from our hide to or retreat to or to hide others. Jack calls this place contingency. A few crass jokes are made about comicbook bat caves back and forth. Jack basicly asks Arthur to work as a super fast one man or "13" man construction crew to get this place remodeled quickly and soon without having to bring a lot of other people in on it. Arthur says we will need a lot of escape routes in and out. Jack agrees.

• Game Called: August 18, 2005, Cancelled - Jason's unavailable.
• Game Called: August 25, 2005, Cancelled - Jason's unavailable.
• Game Called: September 1, 2005, Cancelled - Jason's unavailable.
• issue #0 part II: Sammy, Cat and Kevin gather to talk character...

AMERICA'S MOST WANTED | Arc 3

In this story arc the Survivors of Flight 283 will encounter something both terrifying and amazing. America fosters heroes in the form of celebrity, with abilities far beyond mortal man some will use their abilities for fortune and fame. Others will find the power uncontrollable and at the same time ultimately controlling... The courts of man try several Survivors for crimes and slights against humanity, while the world looks inward at America's newfound "arsenal" asking when will the boot drop. These "Godlike" will become America's Most Wanted in more ways than one.

• issue # 11:3 : America's Most Wanted, September 8th, 2005.
  • RECAP: The scene opens on the majestic steps of the Lincoln Memorial. Just two weeks ago the Survivors agreed to regroup and meet here in the nation's capitol. Here on the steps of white Mandy Smith has the "right to remain silent...". NTAC a new division of the FBI used to monitor the survivors of Flight 283 secured the area and fellow Survivor Agent Marks is to bring the murderer in. In a series of instantanious events most of the people in the area find themselves unconcious from a sonic blast from Beth Manly. In seconds someone pulls a trigger and sniper shots surround the Godlike. In the hail Jack Bennett-Kennedy is hit, taken down hard. The news media swarm the scene before police arrive and a country watches, not fully knowing what unfolds before their eyes. Making their way from the scene the Survivors learn Marks is not the absolute traitor he appeared to be and Jack through a miracle watches his body have life forced back into it. But it is Arthur that discovers his true horror... The food to restore his energy ceases to work, and he finds his body slowly disappearing! Saved from his horror only by the vast intellect of the Godlike, he realizes that his duplicate selves must originate from somewhere - that somewhere is in his future... his "YET". Because those events... while they are in his personal future, they have Yet to be.

• Game Called: September 15th, 2005, Cancelled - Dede's got pinkeye, ick!

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"title" | Arc 4

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The AMERICAN GODS