eXcal Only

[xp_loa]

Alright, let's get ready to get feet on the ground and people at comms so we can get this little mission done nice and easy.

An update if this is the first thing you've read on the situation this morning:
- We've lost Sneezy but he's still with us in our hearts (and hopefully when we go through we have an opportunity to pick him up so we're not fucking with this other universe).

- From our readings we’ve observed a number of super-powered individuals whose power progression makes no sense to how we understand them to work — one such individual, the one that took down Sneezy, seemed to have flight, energy projection of electric nature, and something else that I'm trying to pinpoint, so an additional note to anyone anyone going through with me: BE CAUTIOUS, there are unknowns in the air.

- The current cause of what's pinging us for an anomaly is unknown. Once our field team is in, we'll have a clearer picture and will relay the information to the best of our ability.

[Excalibur Only] Field Report

[xp_meggan]

So it looks like this is a reality where the flying multi-powered ones that were detected are part of a larger scale thing.

There’s a huge contrast between all the shiny and glowing neon advertisements with those constantly streaming influencing type of people that they’re putting out down here, and what the actual people are really doing and how they’re behaving. Everyone’s just hiding out in fear as higher up people are destroying things. It's a whole dystopian situation happening.

They’re really just hunkering down daily to ride things out against the tide of shady influencing sorts.

-They're scared where they're gathering. They’re really just absolutely terrified. With the first attachment, you will find collected interviews with several people that were willing to speak with me about their situation, and what’s been going on.

There’s nobody that would probably ever feel safe enough to go wandering out in the open in the streets from what I’ve learned. Everyone’s watching those endless streams compulsively; I’ve attached a relevant portion of one of them, too, so you can see it for yourself.

-The gist of it is that these mysterious influencer types are staging an assault on the city.

-Just before I went to post this report, I heard the sirens beginning to go off. So that's really happening right now.

Two attachments:
Video—7 minutes, interviews with six civilians about what’s up.
Video: Stream Extract—Mysterious Influencer Bragging About Big Plans

eXcalibur: Interrogation Report / Sit-Rep / Infiltration

[xp_hawkeye]

INTERROGATION:

Results post-questioning were mixed, but the gist seems to be that Dr. Henry McCoy has created a virus that allows mutants in close proximity to one another to share mutations. That's how the captive managed to acquire his peculiar set of powers. The process is apparently painful and there's no guarantee that either or both of the mutants involved will survive the process.

The captive utilized a lot of slang, the term Chimera came up a lot, which given the context of these stacking powers and strange combinations, explains some of what we've been seeing in the advertisements and hashtags #ChimeraElite, #EpicChimeraShowdown, #ChimeraBattle, and #SurgeChimera. From what he's said, a vast majority of these Chimeras have collectively decided to siege this metropolis just for funsies.

Dr. Henry McCoy has apparently offered some type of incredibly rare, highly valuable mutation to be stacked with the winner's other abilities. The idea seems to be that each Chimera will stake out a part of the city and then begin attempting to take over everyone else's.

We've got the names of as many participating Chimeras as the captive knew as well as the locations they're taking over as their own. Should be easy enough to avoid them.

SIT-REP:

Our location is secure for the time being. While the captive has one again been rendered unconscious, we have no idea how long that will last. Moving will be necessary shortly. We can't leave the captive behind for risk of him alerting others. He's already been flashing hot and cold in an effort to damage the bindings we've used to restrain him. From what we've seen so far, the virus isn't especially good at self-replicating, meaning that no one here or on the outside of McCoy's high rise lab has been exposed to live virus.

INFILTRATION:

After analyzing the situation, we've come to the conclusion that the only feasible response that will help end the anomaly here is stopping McCoy from further experimentation/development of the virus. Since it can't be spread from person to person effectively after it's burned itself out, destroying the source is our best option.

We have been surveilling McCoy's lab and, from what we've seen, all employees entering the building first move through an adjacent structure and come out the other side wearing hazmat suits. This seems to corroborate the captive's insistence that all he had to do was stand in the room with another mutant for a few minutes before the pain of stacking something new began.

The plan is as follows:

Daredevil: Overwatch
Namor: Aerial Scouting/Wrecking Ball/Shock & Awe
Bruiser: Drones/Ground Level Surveillance
Loa & Meggan: Medical Support/Bystander Intervention
Hawkeye & Magik: Taking Point/Scouting Interior/Vanguard

Step 1: Acquire hazmat suits.

From there, we get in, we find the right lab, we destroy the research and all viable samples, we get out.

[eXcalibur] Field Report

[xp_magik]

These Chimera-people have multiple mutant powers seemingly smashed together and do not mind hurting children. This is offensive to me on many levels, and I will not have it.

The one with weird fire and ice powers thought to attack a place full of children around myself and Namor, and we decided to engage. With Clint's assistance, we managed to arrange portals, punches, and arrows until Ice-Fire was thoroughly knocked out. I might have kicked him through a portal and into the side of a very smelly dumpster. I do not have regrets. Matt and Namor are very good at punching.

Alani and Meggan did very good work to keep others safe. Molly and Kitty are still working on weird problems with technology. Please use the googles to look up words you do not know in their future reports.

No one is to tell brother I can type like this. I am only doing it so Matt's text-to-voice thing will work correctly.