Back Issue Bin
- issue #0: May 25, 2005. Campaign Development & Introductions.
IN GOD WE TRUST :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 :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."
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- issue # 8:2 : Absolute Power Corrupts, August 6, 2005.
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- issue # 9:2 : [coming soon], August 11, 2005.
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