Log:Mayor Cangelosi - Press Conference

2006/01/23 	 Dancing Coyote Darnell Ellbeth Kibin Spirit

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City Hall

The interior of City Hall is a resplendent example of the neoclassical architectural style, which is like taking a walk into the past. The gothic style architecture is the main highlight of this older building. From the street, a short entrance hall leads visitors across polished marble floors into the center of the building with its high vaulted dome ceiling. The high arched dome with the murals painted upon the interior gives anyone entering into the City Hall a glimpse into history. A large chandelier hangs from the domed ceiling into the center of the lobby area, which provides ample light to view the magnificence of the structure. Two grand stairways, on opposite sides of this cavernous hall, allow access to the offices and archives on the upper floors. The walls bear bas-relief carvings reminiscent of the ancient Greek style, spaced out at even intervals, and fluted decorative columns flank most of the doorways and archways.

Dancing Coyote has arrived a little early to this gathering, suspecting he will end up more directly involved than he would entirely like. He is standing next to the cordoned-off area, waiting patiently for things to begin.

Darnell walks in and finds a spot near the back, leaning against the wall as he looks on. He's maybe half a head taller that most folks here, so he's not likely to have a problem seeing the podium.

Dancing Coyote waves to Darnell as he enters, but stays up front.

Kibin comes into the gathering as well. A little bit on the short side, he sighs, being shorter than most of the people here.

Darnell waves back, casually.

Spirit comes in through the main door, and looks about for a place to stand to one side...and finally picks a place on the right hand side, well out of the way of any press.

Dancing Coyote waves to Kibin, and to Spirit.

Kibin scoots over to Dancing Coyote. "Be glad you're tall."

Dancing Coyote shrugs. "I'm not especially tall, at least not by local standards. But why does it matter?"

Spirit waves to DC from across the room.

Kibin says, "Up here it doesn't matter... But it's kind of hard to see over the tops of people's heads."

Dancing Coyote nods. "Ah, I see. Well, you could always watch from the walls, I suppose."

Kibin asks, "From the walls? What do you mean?"

Ellbeth has arrived a little early and picked a spot near the rear of the area close to a pillar that with help her maintain an inconspicuous presence.

Dancing Coyote looks surprised. "I thought you could climb walls?"

Kibin says, "Well, yeah. I just don't do it often. And I enjoy jumping better."

Dancing Coyote nods, a little puzzled. "Um... well, yes. What I meant was, you could find a high-altitude perch if you wanted. Of course, a seat near the front works well, also."

Darnell spots Ellbeth and moves over to where she is near the read. "Doc," he says with a nods, welcoming her.

Ellbeth

A fusion of racial backgrounds resulted in a youthful exotic beauty that has transformed over the years into an almost classical Mediterranean appearance with increased maturity. She's not overweight, as she'll readily tell you, merely undertall. Attentive green eyes with a distinctly humorous glint look outwards behind semi-mirrored sunglasses from a genial matronly face, a knowing gaze suggestive of having seen a lot, forgiven most and forgotten little. Is it something about the posture of her body and the firmness of her jaw that indicates a steadfast resolve and a determination to make her views heard?

A silver clasp gathers her hair into a long ponytail of snow-white hair down her back. She wears a shimmering full length hooded mid-grey damask robe hemmed with dark sable fur, belted at the waist with a white slash and held shut at the neck by a silver owl brooch, the hood thrown back. A long polished oaken staff inscribed with arcane runes is held in her left hand while her right hand holds a state of the art laptop computer.

Kibin nods. "Yup."

Ellbeth nods and smiles. "Hello Darnell. How goes?"

Dancing Coyote notices Ellbeth for the first time and waves. He considers joining the pair, then thinks a minute.

 Dancing Coyote says, "Out of curiosity... who in range has one of Fate's communicators?"

Darnell says, "Good. Yourself? I figure on keeping a low profile, in case the Judge decides to have us all locked up."

Kibin says, "I guess we wait, then. Anything interesting happen lately?"

Darnell chuckles a bit.

Ellbeth chuckles softly, "Likewise."

Dancing Coyote says, "My last 'interesting' moment involved nearly having my brain consumed in the sewers... it's been fairly quiet since then, spirits be thanked. You?""

Darnell raises his fingers to his temple for a moment.

Dancing Coyote nods, for no obvious reason.

Darnell says, "So Doc, how's the boat shopping going?"

Spirit stretches a bit, and looks around at the crowd, and then at the clock...wondering what's taking the officials so long.

Ellbeth grins. "Ordered, paid for, and being remodeled at the boatyard. Should be ready for use in late March."

Kibin says, "Nothing much here. Happily, noone has thought that I'm in a costume, or thought to test that idea." Kibin waits more...

Darnell smiles. "Congrats. By the way, Dancing Coyote sends his regards."

Dancing Coyote looks puzzled at Kibin. "Does that happen a lot?"

Spirit: This man...assuming that's what it is...stands about five and a half feet tall. His body glows constantly, giving off light...in fact he appears to be made of pure light, or some other kind of energy. No facial features can really be made out. There's no clothing on the figure...but then again, there's nothing that seems offensive that's visible, either.

He almost looks angelic...the glowing body, the slightly disembodied voice...but there are no wings.

Kibin shakes his head. "Nope. And I'm glad for that."

Dancing Coyote nods, unenlightened. "Well, then. I'm glad that it remains uncommon."

Ellbeth sighs. "Team communicator? Ever since Fate altered them the last time I haven't been able to break the encrpytion. Good for the BSS team but bad for me ego." She grins to show the sigh was put on.

Kibin yawns again. So bored...

Kibin feels short...

Looks like everyone's here. A large amount of people is seated before city hall, where a podium is set up for the induction ceremoney. The media is all here... Even Buddy Barnwell is here.

Asylum drops Mayor Barnwell.

The security is tight around where the politicians are. Looks like Chief Camus and Event Stanislaw Faust is here. There are several special vehicles in the area as well. On the outskirts of the event there are protesters. The heroes will recognize them as the green.

The Green contingent consists of several metas.

Ellbeth slips a little further into the cover offered by the pillar and uses the distraction of the Judge's and Barnwell's arrival to discertly cast a thought reading on Buddy Barnwell, figuring if Pride is planning anything Buddy may know about it.

Currently, someone is speaking, and going on about the change of the guard. Blah blah blah..

Barricade is there with the SG people. Horatio said something was going to happen with SG..

The boring speeches continue...

Kibin continues listen to the boring speeches. Wow, interesting...

Spirit figures he's here as a figurehead at this point, and just waits patiently, looking around for people he knows.

Kibin wonders why he came here again. Hmmm.

Dancing Coyote watches the Green for a while. He's been meaning to talk to them about the Trinity situation for some time, to clarify their confusion, but has never gotten around to it. Perhaps after this event would be a good time.

Ellbeth stops the Mind reading spell and perpares to cast Displacement if it's needed.

At this time Mayor Barnwell is up there to talk. He talks about his hope that the New mayor will do well etc etc.. Blah blah..

Dancing Coyote listens idly to the speechifying and periodically takes a careful look through walls and floors for anything that seems out of place. Admittedly, DC's grasp of what is and isn't "in place" is a loose one.

Finally its time for Judge Cangelosi to be inducted. This part goes without incident. He recites the lines instructed to him.

Finally its time for the New Mayor to speak some.. (Ok, here comes all the intersting (hopefully parts).

Barricade looks up in anticipation to what will be said.

Kibin listens idly, eyes more interested by all the people.

Ellbeth starts recording the Judge's speech so she can analyse it at lesiure.

Judge.. er Mayor Cangelosi smiles and speaks up at the podium. "Thank you. Thank you all for allowing me this opportunity to lead Colonial Bay. This city has a great future.. Blah blah blah.." The speach is typical stuff. Motivating, inspiring.. nothing really important. Then it starts getting relevant...

"I've been doing a lot of thinking and planning for the good of city here. We are fortunate to have so much meta heroes who love this place, where they call home. They have formed teams to help provide us with security and safety. It is important to provide communication between the government and its heroes. Thus I have established three ambassadors to the teams here in Colonial Bay."

Kibin looks back at the podium, listening fully now. Okay, so it's a little interesting npw.

Dancing Coyote wonders who these 'ambassadors' are.

"Let me present them to you know. I see that we have representatives from each team", says the new Mayor. "For Starguard, we have Robert Eagleton. For the Black Sheep Samaritans we have Maggie Huckabae, and for Spirit of Justice, I present you with Joseph Lee. These three excellent people will be representing the City in speaking with each team. This way, we may coordinate a little better and avoid conflicts and turmoil."

The three ambassadors stand up and wave and then sit back down.

Barricade chuckles. "Ah. More bureaucracy."

Dancing Coyote looks over the ambassadors, especially Maggie Huckabae, then shrugs.

Kibin wonders when Barricade came in here. Hmmm.

The ambassadors look like normal people.

Ellbeth thinks. o O (Mmm... I feel a data search on those three names coming on...)

Mayor Cangelosi smiles and waits for cameras to stop and for people to settle down before continuing. "I have also promised to bring about a stronger police force and to increase the safety of our city. In order to do this, I am having Stanislaw Faust.. our director of special crimes to form a new unit of meta officers to help deal with special crimes. This will take some time to establish, but as Mayor, I am confident in the abilities of Mr. Faust to make a team that the City can be proud of. While Starguard deals with United Earth and Alien matters, This police team will deal with police matters. I know our hero teams are there, but they lack many police powers, so a police meta team will be established!"

Dancing Coyote looks intrigued.

Spirit tilts his head, listening...wondering exactly who's going to end up on this 'police team'.

There is much applause by the audience.

Mayor Cangelosi smiles and continues after it quiets a bit. "Well, I have much to do as Mayor. But my first act will be seen by all. We will put Trinity behind bars.. Send them to strong hold!" There is much cheering, but much booing as well in the back (mostly from the green and supporters of the green.)

Dancing Coyote nods a bit, and looks puzzled over at the Green. . o O (Surely they don't actually support Trinity? I thought it was just the Treeform they objected to. Hrm.)

Some officers go over to where the trees are at. They have special restraints ready.. Some other officers go to where Dancing Coyote is.."Excuse me, Dancing Coyote? Can you remove your spell?"

Ellbeth thinks. o O (Is the Judge insane?)

Dancing Coyote seems puzzled. "I can, yes. But you understand that Trinity will be fully active when the spell is cancelled?"

Dancing Coyote examines the trees carefully, making sure that these really are the Trinity trees.

The officers nod to Dancing Coyote. "Come up there with us please? We need to make sure everything is ok."

Dancing Coyote nods, and steps up front with the officers.

Dancing Coyote appears a bit wary, but cooperative.

Barricade looks around to see what other precautions the police are taking.

There seems to be some sort of energy barrier surrounding the trees.

Darnell mutters. "Stupid risky flipping publicity stunt..."

Dancing Coyote nods, and says more quietly. "Not to offend anyone here, but I know little about these matters... would you mind if Barricade took a look at this arrangement? He knows more about energy barriers than anyone I know.

The audience is very quiet as they watch to see what is going to happen.

Ellbeth thinks,, o O(Heck, I can't keep quiet while this insanity carries on) and steps out into full view from behind the pillar. "Judge, I strongly advise against taking the treeform spell off Trinity before they are secured in Stronghold."

Dancing Coyote nods. "I would be happy to accompany the officers and release Trinity there, with fewer innocent bystanders should something go wrong."

The officers will allow Barricade to go help. The Judge smiles to Ellbeth. "Dr. Wyrd. Stronghold will not take them in tree form. We have to revert them back to human form before stronghold will take them. They have a transport vehicle right here. And these officers are from Strong hold.. Please feel welcome to help in this effort."

Barricade offers, "I can put an extra barrier around just in case something goes wrong.."

Spirit shakes his head slowly, watching.

Dancing Coyote seems puzzled. . o O (Won't take them in treeform? How odd.) To Barricade he adds "You've had more experience with Trinity and force walls than anyone... does this field seem strong enough to prevent their escape? Especially given Holy Spirit's ghostform, and Son's mental domination?"

Ellbeth wants to walk out in disgust but she can't. Too many bystanders to get hurt. Nodding reluctantly she steps forward and casts a Shield spell.

Barricade shakes his head. "I can't tell actually. "

The officers wait for Dancing Coyote to reverse the spell. The Green look on with anticipation.

Spirit mutters, "Bleh...I can see where this is going to go. They get loose...we get blamed, and all teams are outlawed except the police and SG."

Dancing Coyote, increasingly worried, looks to the officers. "This barrier can prevent mental abilities from taking effect? You guarantee this?"

Ellbeth speaks quietly to Dancing Coyote. "Can you take the spell off them one at a time, so we only have to deal with one threat not three?"

Dancing Coyote nods to Ellbeth. "I expect so, yes." he says, quietly.

Ellbeth nods. "I'd suggest Father first, then Son, and only lastly Holy Ghost. What do you think?"

Dancing Coyote shrugs. "If this barrier cannot withstand Son or Ghost, I'd rather know that before we release Father. There's only the one field around all three of them, after all."

The officers blink. "Mental abilities? Not sure. But our restraints will put them out of commission.. So once you take the spell off we will immediately place the restraints on."

Dancing Coyote looks puzzled. "Then what is the energy-barrier for?"

The officers tell DC. "To make sure nothing goes wrong. Protection." A typical answer..

Dancing Coyote shakes his head. "You have to take down the barrier to put the restraints on Trinity, right?"

Ellbeth says, "My thought was that Father is tough and strong, but hasn't got his cross weapon and as far as we known cannot transform the others back. Son and Holy Ghost do have unusual powers and just may be able to do that."

Dancing Coyote nods to Ellbeth. "Hadn't thought about it that way. All right, then, Father first."

The officers tell DC that they will be inside the barrier when DC reverses the spell.

Barricade puts up his barrier for extra protection.

Dancing Coyote nods, slowly. "All right, then. I am willing to release Trinity if that's what you want me to do," he says to the new Mayor, "but I would feel more comfortable if there were not so many innocent bystanders around."

The mayor nods to DC and waits for him to reverse the spell. The media has certainly caught all the words said by the heroes.

Dancing Coyote nods, and cancels the Treeform spell on Father... assuming he can tell which one of the three is Father. (heh.)

Spirit keeps an eye on the Green members while this is going on...there are enough of them here, that if they wanted to, they could help the Trinity escape.

The biggest tree must be father..

Mud Dauber waves to Spirit!

Dancing Coyote nods, and cancels the Treeform spell on the biggest tree.

Spirit waves back to Mud Dauber...but it's impossible to tell if he's smiling or scowling.

After some time.. The large tree reverts back to Father's form. He seems a bit dazed. The Stronghold officers quickly restrain him with no problem. The crowd breathes a sigh of relief..

Dancing Coyote seems even more relieved than the crowd.

There are two trees left. A normal sized tree and a very thin, withering tree.

Dancing Coyote says, "Ready for Son?"

Ellbeth nods. "As ready as I'll ever be."

Dancing Coyote waits for the officers to acknowledge readiness, then cancels the Treeform spell on the normal tree.

The Green has stopped their protesting and watches as well. They don't seem to be doing anything bad.

The normal sized tree slowly reverts to the form of Son. He too is a bit dazed and the officers quickly restrain him. He is then taken to the Strong Hold transport vehicle along with Father.. One tree left.

Again the crowd breathes another sigh of relief. There is much tension in the crowd.. Very very quiet.

Barricade shifts his barrier to protect against desolid forms..

Dancing Coyote says to Barricade "It might be best to keep your ghost barrier up, just in case." He waits for barricade and the officers to be ready, and cancels the last spell.

Ellbeth also sighs with relief. "One to go. If he goes into Ghostform there's nothing I can do to hold him."

Barricade nods to DC. "On it.."

Dancing Coyote waits for barricade and the officers to be ready, and cancels the last spell.

The last tree is reverted to human form. It is Holy Spirit. He blinks as is about to desolid. But the Stronghold officers are quick and highly trained. They get the restraints on the villain before he can do anything. He is led away.. The audience applauds the effort!

Barricade removes his barrier. "Wow.. Good work, Coyote. Ellbeth."

Barricade didn't do anything but seems exhausted..

Ellbeth breaths a long sigh of relief as the third Trinity member is led away. She still thinks the whole idea of doing this with a crowd of bystanders around was crazy.

Dancing Coyote gestures to the Stronghold team. "It is these men you should be praising. Nicely done. I apologize if I seemed untrusting of your abilities before."

Mayor Cangelosi applauds the heroes and officers. "Villainry has no place here! They will be sent to Stronghold and justice will be served!"

The officers thank the heroes for their help.

Dancing Coyote wonders if "villainry" is actually a word. Snake never taught him that one. But he applauds politely, nevertheless.

Spirit rises up into the air a little bit....looking over the crowd closely.

Kibin wonders how those restraints work. Hmmm.

Dancing Coyote thanks the officers, generally copes with the social nonsense, then makes his way over towards the Green.

The Green are there chatting, the whole thing seems over and they seem about ready to leave.

Barricade goes to sit back down. "Man. I need a drink. That was tense."

Dancing Coyote approaches whichever of the Green seems most approachable and smiles. "Hello... I'm Dancing Coyote. I've been meaning to talk to you for some time... I gather you have issues with how Trinity was restrained?"

Rose, a pretty young thing with green leafy outer wear smiles to Dancing Coyote. "No.. just how the trees were being treated."

Dancing Coyote nods. "Ah, I see. Yes, fair enough. We did our best to take care of them... hopefully in the future it won't take this long to transfer villains into custody. I never intended it as a long-term arrangement."

Dancing Coyote says, "In the future, however, if you have suggestions for their care, I would be happy to hear them." He gives Rose his contact information."

Sequoia, a large large man standing over 7' tall look down at DC. "You look like you like nature. Do you wish to join the Green? We understand it is not your fault." Rose also states, "Yes, It wasn't that they were trees, just how the police were handling the trees. Did you see that one? It looked like it was dying."

Rose happily accepts the contact info.

Spirit flies over to where the mayor is, landing in front of the august personage. "Mayor...you might want to leave the stage shortly. I think there might be an attempt on your life." He looks out into the crowd at several people, and brings up a shield of light.

Kibin wanders over to Dancing Coyote.

The Mayor nods and heads off with Chief Camus.. The start down the stage. Everyone stares at the stage thinking Spirit has something to say. They quiet down and await his speech.

Dancing Coyote shrugs toward Sequoia, amiably. "We can discuss it, certainly." To Rose, he adds "I think that was more due to the Holy Ghost's nature than how the tree was handled --" he cuts off, turning to listen to Spirit.

Barricade glances over to where Spirit is.

Spirit moves with the mayor, trying to shield him as best he can...rather than giving a speech.

Dancing Coyote, not quite sure what's going on, waves hastily to the Green and makes his way back to the podium, casting Protection as he goes.

Kibin follows Dancing Coyote.

Barricade stands back up wondering what Spirit is doing.

Spirit does seem to have a power up, like he's shielding the mayor from something.

Kibin tries to figure out what's going on.

For those who see...There are two groups of men. 4 Men in each group. One group looks like they are in cheap suits. The other group, some dock workers.. They seem to be about to take out weapons to attack...

8 Shots are fired first.. all towards the new Mayor.

Barricade doesn't see anything wrong at the moment..

Dancing Coyote dives in the path of as many of the shots as he can manage...

Spirit attempts to deflect as many as he can...

Ellbeth casts her prepared spell and attempts to displace the shots harmlessly.

Ellbeth gasps, and holds up casting her spell as the faster reacting Spirit blocks all the shots aimed at the new mayor.

Spirit shouts, "Someone get the mayor under cover!" The light shield flashes as bullets bounce off the shield, and upward into the ceiling.... "Now! Start running!"

Dancing Coyote also holds back. To Ellbeth, he says "Blind them!" pointing to the group furthest from him, and he closes the distance towards the other group.

The crowd is stunned at the attack. They don't sit there not sure what to do. Chief Camus takes the Mayor and the DA out to safety.. Looks like the villains aren't done yet though..

Barricade is surprised at the action. He tries to think about what to do..

The Green is also surprised. Members starts to say, "We aren't responsible for this!"

- Ed Note: Some shooters are Triad, some are from the Cangelosi family. -

Two of the shooters get hit. One seems to be still standing but the second is knocked down. Looks like a good hit on the second!

Barricade moves closer to try to entangle of of the members in a barrier!

A glowing force barrier surrounds one of the shooters! "Argh! Get this off of me!"

Ellbeth considers Dancing Coyote's advise but has to reject it. She can blind two out of eight, and those two can still shoot wilding in a room full of normal citizens. So she instead jumps up onto a chair to give the goons a clear shot at her, with a line of fire that will impact walls and not citizens if the goons miss, and unleases a Spirit Swarm spell into the area covering all of them.

Dancing Coyote thinks. o O (Oh... right, I forgot she could do that. Excellent.)

The two that Coyote struck are definitly out of commission after that attack. The others.. are pissed with an aweful headache..

Ellbeth sees six goons with guns looking angily towards her and thinks. o O(Here we go again...)

Dancing Coyote grabs his remaining target and hurls him at the other group. BAM! Two more assassins are unconscious.

A chaotic scene, The induction ceremony has turned into a shooting scene.

Spirit flies over to the group of three that are still standing. "You guys shot at me...I'm sure you guys shot at me. That's making me angry." He gets just above them, to try to minimize the chance of hitting a bystander, and lets go with a beam of light at two of them, spreading the beam just enough.//Half move 5", Spread 1 Hex, 6d6 EB vs. ED.

Spirit blasts the two of them, the light washing over their forms, and both are driven down to the floor, slamming into it. One of them quite hard.

Barricade tries to snare the remaining shooter.

And Just like that, the Battles over. It was a few seconds of action. People didn't even have time to flee. When the dust is settled, the heroes are triumphant. The spectators get back up and applaud the heroes. Some might even think it all a publicity stunt.

6 of the Villains knocked out, 2 entangled. The police quickly move to secure all the shooters.

Spirit looks around quickly for any other gun toting thugs, and then settles back down on the podium.

Dancing Coyote helps the police deal, then joins Spirit. "Good job protecting the Mayor."

There does not appear to be any other shooters.. or villains. (According to Spirit anyways.)

Police Chief Camus informs everyone that they will have to sit around to make statements to the police. Feel free to sit around and enjoy coffee and refreshments such as donuts and bagels, cheese, lox, etc that have been provided for the ceremony.

Dancing Coyote adds, a little curious, "The Green member who waved at you... was he your, er, well, your killer? I thought I recognized him from the media archives, but I wasn't sure."

Barricade shakes his head. "Wow. And I thought Trinity was what we had to worry about."

Ellbeth gets down off the chair. "DC, don't want to risk the Blindness spell. Could only affect two of them and they might have started shooting wildly. I'll have to work on it, see if I can get it working like the Spirit Swarm."

Spirit nods to DC, "Thanks." He turns to the microphone, "Sorry about that, folks. Apparently some of hte criminal element of this city doesn't like our current mayor." He looks back to DC, and turns away from the mike..."No...the killer was Yellow Jacket. Hopefully she'll be away a long time.

Spirit says, "That one is Mud Dauber. Also a dangerous guy, but I guess he made a plea bargain."

Dancing Coyote nods to Ellbeth. "Entirely sensible. I forgot about your other attack spells, actually."

Barricade joins with the others after getting some coffee. "Some day, huh?"

Dancing Coyote nods to Spirit. "Ah. My mistake." He shrugs. "Compared to the last several weeks? Not especially, no. I was expecting to have to fight Trinity again."