MISSION: GRAB THE EYEBALLTAUR

[initiates]

Date & Time: March 7th, 1994
Location: The MICA campus: Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
Characters: Everyone
Summary: All transports are shipped back to 1994 to steal art from art students. Also, some of them arrive bodyswapped.

The Initiative has timed the incoming waves of Transports to the MICA campus for Freshmen Orientation, but even so, the flood of newcomers gets a few surprised glances. Looks like MICA's up for a major boom in attendance next year, wow. But do some of those freshman look a little old to you? …And do some of them seem to be freaking out a lot more than usual about being in Baltimore?

The cloaking devices, with holograms visible only to the natives, will be blending everyone in with the native 90s fashion senses, and all non-humans will find themselves getting much more tame curious glances than they might back on Exsilium, as they project a human appearance to natives around them. So at least there's that. Just try not to get arrested, hit by cars, or challenged to any break dance competitions as you grab and run off with bizarre works of art, alright? The weirder it looks, the more likely it probably is to be the power source the Initiative needs for the Transporter.

Oh, yeah, and sorry about the body-swap-around. Just deal with that as best you can, because the mission really must go on. Any harried and worried Initiative employee along on the mission that you might be able to find will just sputter a hasty not-really-explanative explanation and hurry away, trading frantic messages with the headquarters in Exsilium. They'll get this all sorted out by the time you get back, don't worry.

Comments

[superwonder]

How do you know that? I don't know even know the guy. [ It's an easier topic to focus on. Desperate situation or not, saying the words out loud is another reminder that he doesn't know Stephanie, either. Not really. ]

...I might've had an accident a little while ago. Over by one of the libraries.

[controlledvariable]

Because I do know him. [She'll have to find the actual Conner later, and work things out. She might not like him, but if he's from home, well. Later.]

Right. [They're going to have to be careful about that.] Was it the strength or the telekinesis? Or, uh, I think he has heat vision?

[She's never paid much attention.]

[superwonder]

I kinda stuck my fist through a wall. [ He rubs at the back of his neck, embarrassment creeping up underneath the unease.

But oh that little tidbit is something new. ]

Heat vision? He has heat vision?

[controlledvariable]

[She just looks at him for a moment, then shakes her head] It happens to the best of us.

[She's put her fist through more than a few walls, and she doesn't even have superstrength.]

He should. If he's who I think he is.

[Even if the face hadn't been familiar, the name, and the super strength has just confirmed her suspcions.]