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Street Time (2) in Hit the Streets: Defend the Block

Sat, 22 Feb 2020 00:00:00 -0800

Jason Cox is the GM for this series!!!! The pitch: You used to be in the supers game as a black hat, but you never hit the big leagues and it was a long time ago. Maybe the power faded, maybe you took a trick arrow to the knee, or maybe you just got wise. Now you just want to meet your PO and blend in, but since when did you ever get what you wanted? Last session wasn't recorded. Here's the summary: Rigel Tellers (Dead Star) and Jeong Chung (Six-Star) both grew up here, left, and find themselves back again. In his youth Rigel was a gang-leader who had dated Jeong for a time before she stole a bunch of drugs from him and disappeared. He got caught in an industrial accident at Wilson Chemicals (which had a different name at the time), granting him super strength and the ability to absorb and expel tremendous energy. He became a supervillain for a while before giving himself up for unknown reasons. He studied and got his degree to be a CPA while in prison, and is now trying to go straight. Jessica Finch (Songbird) is a retired hero who acts as his patrol officer, and encourages him to do community service as a part of his rehabilitation. Jeong is a trickier case. She woke up a few months ago from a car crash on the edge of town without much of a memory. She had a PI license in her possession, and set up shop in her old home town to try and piece together what happened. She knows she was a super-thief for the Whisper Syndicate, and the clues seem to suggest they have some kind of interest in Shore City. She has come to Rigel for help and, like a chump, he has provided it. Sometimes they meet at the Hawaiian BBQ place under Rigel's apartment, Big Luau Burger. Jeong doesn't actually like it, but it's convenient. In the last episode, Rigel's buddy Evan asked to meet with him. Evan used to be in the gang as a kind of negotiator, and is now a supervisor for Wilson. He is also dating Thunderstrike (Europa McNiel), whom Rigel dislikes intensely. The three of them met at The Library, a bar near the factory, and Evan asked Rigel to try and talk to the workers on his behalf. Apparently they see him as a sellout. Across town the head of the Union, Jimmy Soon, hired Jeong because he thinks Wilson is cooking the books. Jeong went looking to talk to some of the employees to look for leads, and ended up coming into the bar right when Thunderstrike was leaving. She stole Thunderstrike's phone, but was unable to hack it so she later dumped it in Evan's car. Evan saw her, and got excited about the idea of Rigel and Jeong going on a double date with Europa and himself. Rigel faked a big fight with Jeong so that people wouldn't realize the were heroing on the sly together, and Jeong left. Rigel drank more than he should have. Later Rigel goes to Jeong's and they compare notes. He heads home and she decides to shadow Thunderstrike. Six Star is acrobatic as hell so finds her way on to the Wilson grounds pretty easily, and hears Thunderstrike talking to someone on the phone about how nobody is going to find out anything. The other person doesn't agree, so she calls Hurricane Harry to join her for guard duty. Rigel is about to sleep but the police scanner alerts him to the fact that some police never reported in from the college area. Since he is still drunk, he gets a cab to take him out there. The cabbie is excited to recognize the ex-villain, and tries to get him to tell why he turned himself in. When they get to the college though, the numerous cops laying inert on the ground convince him to go. Dead Star investigates and finds they have been hit by sleeping darts. He heads towards the superhero studies wing, and disturbs people in Dr. Faulkner's office. He hears a voice in his ear "No one spies on the Whisper Syndicate!" He fills the hallway with light and a horde of demonic ninja hiss and disappear in a cloud of smoke. He extinguishes the fire he finds in Dr. Faulkner's office by pulling the water pipes down, and pulls the good doctor himself out of the building Six Star is at Wilson Chemicals when Hurricane Harry arrives, and follows the capes to a secure back room. Well.... secure to most people. She employs her superhuman acumen and training to contort and worm her way through the ducts, and finds herself in a lab. Four figures float in tanks, one of whom looks disturbingly like Rigel. And that is where we left off.