Log:Best of the Best 2006, Scene 1

Best of the Best 2006 2006/03/10 	 Barricade Black Mamba Blue Streak Dancing Coyote Fate Fuzzt The Green Haze Kibin Photon Random Factor Rebound Spirit Wasp 1

Friday, March 10th 2006 Best of the Best V Opening Ceremonies Scene

Coliseum

As you enter the Coliseum, the sheer vastness is the first thing to catch your attention. Thereare seats lining every side of the arena, making an oval shape. Lights shine down on the arena below. There are four twenty foot screens to show the audience images of the competitions below.

The Coliseum is set up for the Opening Ceremonies today. There are bands playing, cheer-squads from university and highschools performing for the crowds. The field is of soft turf. 50"x60" Contents: Barricade Dancing Coyote Haze Rebound Blue Streak Black Mamba Fate Random Factor Fuzzt Kibin Wasp Spirit

Barricade: Barricade stands five feet, nine inches tall. His face is covered by an SG helmet. This man looks pretty athletic, weighing in about one hundred seventy pounds. The Starguard uniform is made of some protective, insulating material, but it isnt bullet proof nor is it a form of protective gear. It does allow for free movement of the body and helps protect agains minor environmental inconvienances. Barricade wears a large bluish metallic gauntlet over each hand. This makes his hands and forearms look diproportional to the rest of his body. These gauntlets are the source of Barricades powers. They glow with energy whenever Barricade uses them.

Dancing Coyote: Although DC can adopt any form he wishes, he is by default a handsome Native American man in his early 20s. He stands 5'10", lanky, with pale reddish skin, dark brown eyes, and long black hair braided down to his waist. He radiates an almost palpable presence: likable, easy to talk to, easy to follow. From time to time he strokes the sleek fur of a large dog that isnt quite there. He wears a red robe made of some durable, well-weathered fabric, stitched through with arcane symbols in many colors. The robe is belted at the waist by a yellow sash, and open in the front to reveal animal tattoos on his chest (bear, coyote, wolf, snake, and raven), so realistic they seem to move as you watch. A large pouch hangs from the sash. The robe hangs down to just under his knees, and a pair of leather sandals wrap around his calves. The outfit seems entirely impractical for wintertime, and he definitely seems to feel the cold.

Haze: Haze stands about 5'6" tall with her jet black hair tucked neatly in a bun with chopsticks in the back. She has a slender and athletic build, common of most heroines. Haze's outfit consists of a black domino mask, matching black boots. Her suit, deep purple with black trimming, covers her body.Haze completes her look with nice black gloves.

Rebound: Rebound stands a little over six feet tall in a form fitting uniform that leaves his lanky form on display. The costume is rather pedestrian, seeming to prefer function over form. It's blue in color, alternating with dark blue for the arms and on the thighs of the suit. The mask covers his scalp completely, but leaves the lower half of his face uncovered. He wears a pair of large goggles over his eyes. He's also got a belt on with a couple of pockets and pouches on it.

Blue Streak: Blue Streak stands impressively, looking to be about 6' even and around 175-185 lbs. His full body suit (looking rather dapper in it's tones of blue) doesn't allow you to see much else, even his face being covered by the helmet, but there is a blue lightning bolt that streaks across the chest. The figure seems to be in almost constant, graceful motion. Black Mamba: This heavily muscled humaniod has the black scaly skin and flickering forked tongue of a snake. He stands 6ft 8" tall, weights about 220lbs. His eyes are circular in shape like a snake's and he has no external ears. He is bare chested, wearing skin tight black pants and matching black boots.

Fate: Standing about 5'11" and weighing maybe 150-165 pounds, Fate is note an overly impressive man to look at. His skin is on the pale side, bordering on pasty, but he has a full head of bushy reddish brown hair which includes a healthy pair of mutton chops!

He is dressed in a sky blue leotard under a hunter green poets shirt with a golden sash. A burnt umber hooded cloak with a high standing collar finishes the ensemble.

Random Factor: Standing about 6'2" and looking like he weighs maybe about 185-195 lbs, this young man looks more like some Greek God in spandex than a "mere mortal".

The tones of grey in his uniform are TRES CHIC and accented well by the black leather gloves, thigh high boots, utility belt, plastalloy helmet, and a small, dull gold ring set with stones you've never seen before in it. A hunter green chevron emblem brandished on his chest and matching highlights on his gloves add a needed "splash" of color without being garish or bright enough to give him away while he "travels the shadows".

His short curly black hair and well trimmed mustache and goatee are quite stylish, and the wry smile bespeaks a fun loving sense of arrogance.

Fuzzt: Take a beach ball and blow it up to three feet in diameter. Now cover it with luxurious long soft white fur much like that of an Angora rabbit. Add varying numbers of sinuous light gray tentacles. On the surface of the sphere add two pale blue remarkable human looking eyes and a small pink lipped mouth. That's Fuzzt the alien.

Kibin: A bipedal velociraptor, standing at about 5 feet. He has a snout filled with pointed teeth and a powerful tail behind him. His hands have three fingers and an opposable thumb, all ending in claws. His feet likewise are much like a velociraptor's feet, with two long toes ending in claws, and one smaller toe with a long curved claw on the inside. His scales are thick, and a deep red color. His clothing right now is long pants and a shirt, black with gold stripes down the side, and several pockets to store things on the front of his pants.

Wasp: What is it that about Wasp that first draws attention? Is it her size, or more accurately the lack of it? Wasp is barely a foot and a half tall. Perhaps it's the quietly buzzing multi-hued dragonfly wings upon her back. Then there's her eyes, faceted like an insect and gleaming iridescently with all the colors of the rainbow. She is slender, with long light reddish-brown hair falling well below her shoulders. Her movements are graceful and fluid yet somehow indicative of a notable strength for such a diminative figure. She looks young, no more than eighteen or nineteen years of age.

Wasp is dressed in a almost skin-tight costume covering all except her head. The torso and upper limbs of her costume are white, while the arms, legs and vee fronted collar are a sky blue. There's a glowing blue dragonfly silhouette on her chest and back. Being her size makes carrying items tricky. Wasp has pockets sew into her costume on both thighs, no larger than a normal pocket but looking bulky on her. Pinned to the costume above her heart is a silver brooch shaped in the form of a small wasp.

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.

Black Mamba enters the Coliseum and makes his way over to Spirit. "I'm sure tongues are wagging all over the field. I respect your judgement but are you sure this is wise? You have build up a good reputation for SoJ. I would be unhappy to see that damaged on my account."

Kibin comes to the coliseum, to hopefully help his team, Starguard. He notices Black Mamba, and wonders in the back of his mind why he never met him before.

Spirit smiles, "Well, I'm hoping that the good reputation will count for something...kind of like having a little positive karma banked. What better way to actually show that you're a hero, than by having the backing of well known heroes? Besides...I figured this is like 'pulling the bandaid off quickly'. Better to get the scandal out of the way now."

Thousands upon thousands of people are seated in the Coliseum. They watch as the opening ceremonies commence. There are cheersquads and bands playing in the middle of the coliseum. A large track surruounds that field. A tunnel is there for the teams to march out when their names are called. For now.. the heroes and their teams are huddled up in the tunnel. (YOu can think of flags, banners, etc whatever for your team.)

Haze stands nervously with her teammates.

Barricade waits with team Starguard. He fixes his helmet so its on straight.

Kibin is with Barricade, attention focused on Black Mamba. Hmmmm...

Rebound looks to Haze in the tunnel. "I... are you sure your feeling up to for this, Haze?" He takes a deep breath, maybe a bit of stage fright.

Haze nods to Rebound. "We ain't doing anything yet.."

Fuzzt is in the stands enjoying this wonderful spectacle, even if he had no idea what it's all about,

Photon has arrived.

The music dies down and the announcer's voice booms out loud for all to hear. "Ladieeeees and Gentlemen! Welcome to the Fifth Annual Best of the Best tournament! We would like to thank our sponsors, Nike-Adidas, Covington International, Electrotech, SpaceBurger, Dragon-Palace, Montgomery and Associates, Lazer-Tag Inc, (the list goes on)..."

Rebound nods to Haze and he admits softly, "I'm starting to wonder why we're doing this. It seems like there's so much going on in the city right now that needs fixing."

Kibin looks back outside, wondering how many commercial breaks this event will have.

Haze nods to rebound. "Maybe it gives people an escape. Some hope perhaps?"

Photon arrives late and looks arounf for Rebound. She goes over there. "Hi. Has it all started yet?"

Rebound nods to Photon. "Hey there. No... it's just getting underway."

Kibin asks Barricade, "Were you here last year at this event?"

Barricade shakes his head. "Nope. First time."

The announcer continues, "And now.. We present to you.. the teams competing in this year's Best of the Best competition!" The crowds go wild!! "In alphabetical Order.. Black Sheep Samaritans!"

Kibin waits some more. He hates waiting.

Photon whispers to Rebound and Haze. "Look, I've been thinking. I'll be on your team if you understand I'm not real good at the obeying orders thing."

Haze nods to Photon. "No probs. Just kick ass."

A long, somewhat awkward pause follows... then Dancing Coyote flies down from overhead and lands wherever it is he's supposed to be. He waves and nods and generally looks heroic...and even looks like he's happy to be here.

Kibin asks Barricade, "What type of events are there usually?"

Rebound blinks at Photon, then smiles. "We're not too big on regulations, Photon." He extends his hand to her. "Welcome aboard!"

Barricade shrugs. "I dunno. I never been to one."

Kibin asks, "Have you ever seen one on TV?"

Barricade shakes his head. "Nope, they don't have this in the West Coast."

Dancing Coyote gets a mixed reaction from the crowds.

Photon shakes Rebound's hand and then hugs Haze if she okay with it.

Haze hugs Photon back.

Dancing Coyote marches around the track. Over his head appears a series of larger-than-life images of the rest of BSS... at least, the ones he's met.

"And the next team to compete is "Green!", announces the announcer. The Green, composed of Sequoia, Shitake, Rose, Lumber Jack, Mud Dauber, Ginseng, Tornado Bill, Babe, etc...They have green colors and save the earth signs. They all carry small potted plants with them.

The crowds seems impressed by Dancing Coyote's images. They cheer him and the Green on.

Wasp shivers at the sight of Mud Dauber. "That is going to take some getting used to." She tells Spirit.

Spirit grumbles a little bit, and says quietly, "I still want to smack Mud Dauber around. He got off too easy."

Dancing Coyote thinks. o O (Hm. I wonder if any of them are healers, or biochemists? I should talk to them once this display is over.)

The announcer continues as the two teams march along. "The newest team in Colonial Bay.. I give you, New Blood!"

Rebound smirks to Photon and Haze, as if to say 'You ready?' The electricity of the crowd seems to picking up his mood somewhat.

Haze says, "They called us! What do we do?"

 Midnight says, "Give 'em hell, guys!"

Rebound waves for the others to follow and he starts to bounce out of the tunnel and onto the field, waving to the crowd.

Photon creates a firework specatular of dazzling lights and glowen aura around the team as New Bllod match out into sight.

Haze decides to haze through the tunnel and go through some of the audience on her way to the track and ends up following Rebound!

The Crowd loves the display and applause and cheers even louder.

"Wooo! New Blood!" The fledging group as has a group of masked cheerleaders, with 'New Blood' on their jerseys. They do backflips alongside the teams path onto the field.

 Midnight says, "You have _got_ to be kiddin' me."

The announcer gives some time for the crowd to settle and the heroes to march a bit further along the track before announcing, "The Veteran squad of.. Spirit of Justice!!"

 Haze says, "You watching this on holovid, Midnight?"

 Midnight says, "Yeah... nothin' else is on."

Wasp grins, "Show time."

 Rebound says, "Heh. It's a kind of a farewell performance for Phil and the other girls."

Spirit chuckles, walks out onto the field, waving to the crowd as he does. As he reaches their spot, he starts to glow...and generates light, filling the arena. (128" radius)

Black Mamba steps out alongside Spirit.

The spectators oooh and ahh at the light display.

 Midnight says, "Just make sure they leave the (bleep)in fireworks to Photon, 'kay?"

Wasp flies intricate acrobatics above the other SoJ team members.

Spirit chuckles quietly, "Now...I wonder how long it's going to take for the gossip mongering to start about you, Mamba."

Spirit says, "Probably...right about....now."

The announcer shouts out. "Oh look! It's Wasp! She's returned to Colonial Bay!" The crowd gives a heartfelt cheer to Wasp!

There are indeed some crowd murmurings about Black Mamba's presence.

Lorelei has arrived.

Black Mamba glances at Spirit. "Thank you. I hope this works out but however it plays I want you to know how much this means to me."

After the crowd settles down again and the heroes move further along the track the announcer announces, "I present you.. Starguard Gamma!"

Spirit looks to Black Mamba, and nods...since he can't really smile. "Everyone needs a chance at redemption, I think." He pats Black Mamba on the shoulder.

Barricade smiles and gathers his contingent of SG troops and starts them marching in an impressive march down the track. The SG Gamma members are in the front doing whatever they want.

SG Gamma seems to scare the crowd a bit.. with that army like marching.. The applaud but not a loudly as for the other teams.

Rebound looks aside to Haze and Photon. "It's a good turnout, I think. Hopefully there will be a chance to network and compare notes."

Barricade carries a large flag bearing the SG banner and waves it around as he marches.

Photon chuckles. "If I was a villain I'd be thinking what an opportunity, with all the heroes here. to act without interference in the rest of the city."

The announcer waits for the teams to finish marching into position. There are other teams announced as well, but they aren't getting as much fanfare as the earlier big name teams.

Spirit rubs his chin, "You know...last year, the Stingers took the opportunity to control the Green to try to kill me, and capture Wasp. Having Dauber on that team makes me really nervous, I have to admit."

Dancing Coyote has been thinking essentially the same thing as Photon. He's really not sure he should be here. But, well... symbolism is important.

Lorelei nods to Spirit.

Haze waves to the cheer leaders.

Black Mamba speaks quietly to Wasp and Spirit. "I feel like I should change my name to Daniel."

Amy has arrived.

The announcer tells the teams now (loud enough for all to hear.) "Teams, there will be four competitive events in this year's Best of the Best tournament. We will also have a special compitition on the day of the closing ceremonies. Competitors.. are you ready for the event announcements."

There are six cheerleaders and Philippa seems to be coaching them. She waves back to Haze and to Rebound as well. Right now they're standing on each others shoulders in a human pyramid three people tall.

Photon is eager to hear, bouncing on her toes and occasionally flying a foot or two into the air.

Spirit nods to Lorelei, "Glad you could make it." He chuckles, looking to Black Mamba, "Being out here always has that feeling...all four times, I've felt like I've been under a microscope."

Lorelei says, "I wasn't sure whether it was a good idea, but, well, I didn't want to let the team down...."

Spirit nods, "It's worth it from a public relations standpoint, I think."

"The four competive events are: Tug of War, Danger Race, Pick the Brain, and Save the Maiden. Each team will select 3 member of their team to compete in each event. Tug of War will test to see which team is the strongest. Danger race will show us which team is the fastest. Pick the Brain will reveal which team is the smartest... and Save the Maiden will see which team works the best together in Battle!", announces the annoucer! As the man speaks, the screens show images from past events. Justicar and Sequoia in the Strength competiton, Zip in a race, Celestra trying to figure out an alien puzzle, and a huge combat from previous competitions.

Dancing Coyote comments to Amy "So, I suppose you don't lose games very often, do you?"

Haze hrms. "Rebound.. Do we have any muscle guys on our team?"

Lorelei nods. "I can understand that."

The spectators are taking pictures of the hero teams as they listen to the announcer. Most people are taking pictures of Lorelei.

There's a crew from Avalon Modeling agency taking pictures and video of Lorelei at the event. They are going to sell an Lorelei at the BotB video, probably.

Lorelei says, "Dann - not much there I'd be much use at, I think...."

Dancing Coyote can't help but contemplate the odds, as long as he's here. With Fuzzt and Random, Starguard wins the Tug of War event. The race is somewhat up in the air... and the other two are completely open. Mm. So Starguard is the team to beat.

Lorelei makes sure the get plenty of good opportunities. Probably best for both her career and for the SoJ....

Wasp says, "It's going to be interesting this year. Good idea making team events."

Rebound shakes his head to Haze. "Not really. That's a hole we've got... Hmm. Maybe Exodus. I'm not too familiar with his powers."

"The fifth compeition will be a talent/show-beauty contest of some type. It will let the heroes show off what their special talents are, but will not ..OOh I think I'm in love.." The announcer falls over.. The microphone goes dead as he slumps over after staring at Lorelei.

Haze asks Rebound. "What about that Talos guy? He looks strong."

Lorelei blinks toward the commentator. "Whoops....."

Wasp chuckles. "That's one event we have wrapped up solid, thanks to you Lorelei."

Spirit chuckles, and says quietly, "I'd say so, yeah."

Lorelei says, "What was it like previous years?"

The proceedings continue without a beat though as a female annoucer quickly takes up the mike and continues, "Are there any questions from the teams so far?"

Spirit looks to Lorelei, "Less team based. All about the individual. About half of the contests have been rigged in some way. It seems to be rigged one year, and the next is clean. We're due for a clean one, if it follows pattern, I think.

Barricade has no questions for the Announcer.

Rebound hmms. "It's worth talking to him, to find out where he's coming from."

Haze nods to Rebound.

Lady Luck nods to DC. "Yeah, not much, but then mostly people don't play games with me much, so I don't get much practice!"

Spirit says, "The first one, Pride tried to kill Zip. Last year, the Stingers used the competition to attack the heroes."

Wasp remembers, "About the cleanest year of all was when it was run by the biggest baddest villainess in the city."

Lorelei says, "Hm. That's not very promising...."

Spirit chuckles, "It's always entertaining, though. And good PR."

Rebound hmms, "Softly. I wonder if there's still time to get in touch with Blue Streak."

Photon says, "He'd be amazing in that race the presenter said was an event."

The female announcer speaks, "Alright teams. We have a pool of unregistered people who wish to join teams. You will have until the first event to pick them up. Competitors cannot compete for more than one team."

Haze tells Photon and Rebound, "Well for one leg of the Race at least."

Photon says, "Mm... Yeah."

Dancing Coyote looks puzzled, and a big pink question mark appears over his head.

Lorelei thinks. o O (Well, I guess I didn't really have a choice of teams ... I really must work out what I'm going to do for my New Blood identity...)

The announcer smiles and calls out Dancing Coyote. "Yes, Mr. Coyote?"

Dancing Coyote shakes his head, and the question mark becomes a lightbulb.

The free agents are now waving their hands. The black Cat gets a lot of hoots and hollars. She's almost as popular as Lorelei.

THe announcer chuckles. "Very well Mr. Coyote." She looks around to see if there are any other questions.

Dancing Coyote comments to Amy. "I suppose we should try to recruit Fuzzt for the strength competition... I'd assumed it was working with Starguard, but apparently not."

Barricade thinks. o O (I'd better go talk to Fuzzt before anyone else does..)

Lady Luck says, "Is Fuzzt strong? I don't know anything about it...."

Dancing Coyote nods. "From what I saw of its handling of that meteor, it's remarkably strong."

Rebound hmms and looks around at the other teams. o O ( We'd better get a ringer or two before the other teams get a leg up on us. )

Seeing that there are no more questions, the announcer continues, "For the closing ceremonies competition, individuals should register with the Best of the Best committee before the end of the last event. It is a talent-type competition where the audience will choose the winner!"

"Teams, do you want to know what the prizes are?", asks the Announcer.

Barricade pumps the SG Banner up an down.

Lady Luck says, "I wonder what I could do for the talent competition, I'm only really again good at being lucky...."

Dancing Coyote sighs where the audience can't see his face. The image above his head becomes that of an eager puppy, jumping up and down enthusiastically.

Photon immediately nods.

Haze raises a fist and hollars!

The audience wants to know as well so they made lots of loud noises.

Lady Luck says, "ooh, we get prizes?"

Lady Luck bounces up and down a bit.

Wasp grins at the excitement being shown by the first timers.

"Well then, here it is!" Some people come onto the field with secure boxes. The boxes are transparent and there are medals and trophies etc inside. The announcer continues, "Each top three teams of each event will get team medals for that event. The Top three teams overall will get team trophies and cash prizes." Haze grins. "Oh I'm going to get something I hope."

Barricade thinks. o O (Ah.. that will look nice next to my fishing trophies.)

Lady Luck thinks. o O (Oh, it's just trophies and money. Well, that's still good I guess!)

Rebound looks to Haze and Photon. "Do you have any ideas on others we can recruit?"

Haze says, "Um Talos.. Blue-streak.. um um.."

Photon nods. "That Chinese girl. The one that doesn't talk. She's as fast as Blue Streak."

"Our sponsors will also have a special prize for the Grand Champion team as well.", says the Announcer. She continues. "Don't they look lovely?"

Haze says, "Photon, I think she's on some other team already though.."

Photon says, "Ih..."

Photon says, "Oh..."

Rebound nods to Photon. "Well doesn't hurt to ask."

Haze grins. "But still it doesn't hurt to try!"

Lady Luck Standing only 5'1" tall, this young woman is seldom without a smile on her cherubic face, and her the twinkle in eyes is echoed in the the dancing light motes which always surround her, shifting colours with her mood. She wears her chestnut hair swept back behind her ears, but she is always pushing it back again as it falls forward. She's wearing a bodysuit which is deep purple on her arms and legs as if wearing long gloves and boots, but the torso is silvered and reflects the lights dancing about her. The right "glove" extends onto the chest where it makes a half-star motif with the silver. She has no mask.

Lorelei Lorelei's a gorgeous blonde woman, perhaps in her late teens, though the assurance with which she carries herself bespeaks someone older. No part of her shapely 5'6" body is not alluring, but more striking still that almost her every movement seems an enticing pose such as photographers might spend hours coaxing out of a model. Wild shoulder-length hair frames her face, with its high cheekbones, pouty lips and dark sparkling eyes. She's dressed in a skintight shimmering green bodysuit partially cut away: her left arm and shoulder are bare but for her glove, and her right leg but for her boot. Around her waist a light blue sash is tied.

Rebound smirks at Haze.

Zeal This beautiful lady of dark coloured hair and athletic build is the daughter of the famous CEO maker of laser tag equipment. Zeal stands about five foot seven inches tall and has a snake tattoo encircled on her arm. Zeal is in a cheerful mood. She is wearing a dark red blouse and black pants.

Tundra A large man with a bald head of chinese decent. he wears no shoes and socks and wears simple jeans overalls. There is a slight chill around him. He smiles happily but doesn't say anything.

The Black Cat A buxom beauty with jet black hair that flows to her waist. She has a black domino mask one and a pink bow that ties the ends of her hair together in a long pony tail. The black cat is quite athletic and her body is lean and curvacious. A skin tight black body suit is accesorized with pink boots and gloves. A small pink Hello Kitty packback is nestled on the decidedly female feline temptress' back. The Black Cat has a sexy sultry voice and sparkling white teeth. She is one gorgeous gal.

The announcer waits for the crowd and the teams to settle down a bit before moving on to the next set of information. "The first event will be next week, on Thursday, 4PM at the Coliseum. We start off with seeing who is the strongest team with TUG of WAR! Teams, get ready and have your members set!"

Barricade thinks. o O (We'll need random and fuzzt for this..)

Lorelei says, "Well... I imagine the crowd will find it entertaining to see me pulled flat on my face..."

"The specific rules of the contest will be given at the start of the event.", explains the announcer. "Are there any questions?"

Rebound raises a hand. About 30 feet in the air.

Dancing Coyote smiles.

Lady Luck opens her mough but stops. She'd been about to ask about the specific rules of the tug-o-war.

"Rebound?", asks the announcer.

A giant softball starts out over DC's head and slowly flies towards Rebound's hand.

Lady Luck giggles.

The crowd laughs!

Rebound says, "How many points are awarded for the individual events?"

Lady Luck says, "I wish we had Rocher on our team, he'd be really good at the tug-o'war...."

Dancing Coyote says, "Who?"

"Good Question! As per last years rules, Each event winner will receive 3 pts. Second place 2 pts and 3rd place 1 pt.", states the announcer.

Photon creates an image of a giant catcher's mitt ready for the giant softball.

Lady Luck says, "One of my teammates back in Canada, he's made of rock and he's about this tall!" She jumps as high as she can holding her arm up. "Only taller!"

Dancing Coyote smiles. The softball suddenly skids to a stop, with a cartoonish screeching noise, into the catcher's mitt.

The audience applauds the display.

Photon grins at Dancing Coyote and winks.

Dancing Coyote grins a little.

"Any other questions?"

Dancing Coyote raises a hand.

"Dancing Coyote?", calls out the announcer lady.

Dancing Coyote says, "Are any of your sponsors willing to co-sponsor charitable contributions of any sort? Or are all the prizes just for the competitors?"

The lady announcer grins, "Sponsors?" She looks over to the panel of sponsors who are in luxury seats. They look suprised and start murmuring to each other.

Dancing Coyote smiles placidly. . o O (This might as well do some good for people who actually need it.)

The crowd await with eager anticipation.. They seem to be interested in the answer as well.

Lorelei grins just a bit more - nicely asked.

Dancing Coyote smiles and adds, just a little bit maliciously, "I'll make this simpler. I pledge now to donate my winnings, whatever they may be, to the Colonial Bay bloodbank. Given current events, I suspect they will be _very_ busy in the near future. Anyone wishing to match those funds is encouraged to."

Dancing Coyote smiles. . o O (Heh. This turned out to be worth attending, after all.)

Lorelei applauds, and encorages the crowd to do likewise.

After some discussion, Serena Leung, owner of the Dragon Palace (Now that PRide isn't) stands up and speaks. "We will give monetary donations to which ever charity group the winner of each event decides.."

Bilbo has arrived.

Dancing Coyote applauds.

The crowds stand up and applaud the hero's efforts. They are truly heroes!

Barricade is with Kibin and rest of the SG contingincy.

Haze claps as well.

Lady Luck thinks. o O (Aww.. I never get to keep any prizes....)

Rebound nods to Photon and Haze. "We need to decide on a charity."

The announcer waits for the crowd to settle to see if there are any other questions.

Haze shakes her head and admits. "I don't know of any."

Rebound nods. "Don't worry about it -- we can decide on it later."

Haze nods.

Seeing that there are no more questions, the Announcer tells the teams, "We will see you next thursday for the Tug of War. Please talk to the sponsors if you like. Mingle.. Pick up free agents, sign autographs for the fans.."

Tundra goes to sign autographs.. though most of the fans seem to want the other heroes.

Black Cat is fairly popular and Zeal is as well.

Dancing Coyote goes over to talk to the Green.

Bilbo scampers into the stadium and looks around, only to realize he is too late for the opening ceremony. "Oh. Fudge!"

The Green wave to DC. "Hey there. You joining the green? Quitting the BS team?"

Lorelei signs autographs. She suspects she'll have to get used to this....

Barricade waves to Bilbo. "Over here Bilbo"

Dancing Coyote smiles. "I hadn't realized I was invited... nor that the teams were mutually exclusive."

Bilbo spots Barricade and leaps over to him with several graceful bounds. "Hey! Barry! Any robot attacks today?"

Rose nods and tells DC. "Yeah, They are trying different things this year, it seems. Good Luck to yah."

Kibin is just kind of standing around the Starguard team at the moment.

Barricade shakes his head at Bilbo. "No not today Bilbo. It looks like we worked out a deal with ACRO, but the TWist situation in the city is getting out of hand."

Zeal decides to join the SoJ as a free agent and heads off with Spirit.

Dancing Coyote nods. "And to you, Rose. But actually, I wanted to talk about something else..." DC chats with the Green for a while. (OOC Asylum and/or Argon, check relevant legwork)

Kibin says, "I'll stay away from public food places until the twist is off the streets. Just in case."

Dancing Coyote nods to Kibin. "Perhaps wise... although I get the impression the drug itself is no longer being distributed. Now it's just a matter of counting the corpses."

Haze wanders over to DC. "What? What do you mean counting the corpes?"

Lady Luck says, "It's terrible...."

Kibin comments, "I'll still try to avoid public food places. No idea what that might do to me..."

Bilbo nods slowly, "Yes, I can understand how the combining of chocolate and vanilla icestream into a single stream for cones and sundays would deeply trouble the populace. Oh. Wait. No. You meant that lethal illegal street drug. Yeah, thats a problem too . . . "

Barricade smiles to Bilbo. "Exactly. We still haven't been able to get a cure out."

Dancing Coyote shrugs, a bit despondent now that he's no longer performing for the crowd. "Tens of thousands of addicts. No supply. Gang warfare in the streets." He sighs. "Sorry. Don't mean to bring down the celbration. I should return to work, though. I'll see you later..." He gets ready to fly off.

Haze nods to Dancing Coyote and heads back over to where Photon and Rebound are. She seems slightly down.

Lorelei thinks. o O (Yeah... What are we doing here? But then... it's not like I've been any use on the Twist matter....)

Bilbo thinks carefully, "Um. Well. Guess I could take a look at a sample if you have any to spare. Oh. And you could, you know, set up some weather balloons with sensitive geiger-counter type devices on em to track the radiation maybe."

Barricade says, "Bilbo, Im not an expert in that.. I was hoping you could help with that type of deetection."

Dancing Coyote nods to Bilbo. "Starguard and the police are both investigating the samples... I'm sure they'd be happy for your help. As well as for radiation tracking."

Kibin asks Bilbo, "Wouldn't the geiger counters not be able to do accurate scans? And wouldn't the radiation in the higher altitudes mess up the results?"

Bilbo A small brown-furred monkey with large dark eyes is wearing a child-size Star Guard uniform. His long black-tipped tail peeks out of a small hole in the back of his pants. His furry long-toed feet are bare. He is carrying an impressively large super-soaker squirt gun that is festooned with blinking lights and wires and a small child-size backpack on his back.

Kibin looks over to Black Mamba to see what he's doing.

Black Mamba is ignoring Kibin, after all he's just a silly dino. (GM insertion)

Dancing Coyote leaves Kibin and Bilbo to the scientific discussion, and flies off.

Bilbo glares at Kibin, "What? The upper atmosphere is radioactive now? Geesh, did you humans go set off another couple nukes? How many times are you going to go playing with fission explosions in your backyward?"

Lady Luck giggles at Kibin being called human.

Haze hugs Photon and Rebound and departs.

Kibin turns back towards Bilbo, replying, "If I remember, there's radiation coming from the sun, and most of that is absorbed by the atmosphere before coming down here."

GM note: While everyone leaves, Kibin gets into a huge discussion about science with Bilbo, and Nils Sunderland. Barricade watches and makes idle chat with Lady Luck while Lorelei finishes her shoot with Avalon Modeling agency.

See you next session!