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| == Ghost of Culverton Past == | | == Ghost of Culverton Past == |
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| {{LoH/DialogueBegin|End of Fight|Shimmerstorm: Warning}} | | {{LoH/DialogueBegin|End of Fight|Shimmerstorm : Warning}} |
| {{LoH/DialoguePanel | | {{LoH/DialoguePanel |
| |art={{LoH/CardArt|Shimmerstorm}} | | |art={{LoH/CardArt|Shimmerstorm}} |
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| Now be very careful...an old foe is lurking about.<br /> | | Now be very careful...an old foe is lurking about.<br /> |
| And you are going to need quickness or cleverness to defeat him. | | And you are going to need quickness or cleverness to defeat him. |
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| {{LoH/DialogueEnd}}
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| {{LoH/DialogueBegin|Beginning of Fight|Ixnay: ostLay}}
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| {{LoH/DialoguePanel
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| |art={{LoH/CardArt|IxNay: ostLay}}
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| |text='''Ixnay:''' ...
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| {{LoH/DialogueEnd}}
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| {{LoH/DialogueBegin|Beginning of Fight|The Strays}}
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| {{LoH/DialoguePanel
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| |art={{LoH/CardArt|The Strays}}
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| |text='''Stray:''' What do you think you are doing sporting those colors on our street?<br />
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| You'll see what you get when you mess with The Strays!
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| }}
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| {{LoH/DialogueEnd}}
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| {{LoH/DialogueBegin|Beginning of Fight|The Undone}}
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| {{LoH/DialoguePanel
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| |art={{LoH/CardArt|Shimmerstorm: Warning}}
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| |text='''Shimmerstorm:''' As you can see the streets of Culverton are overrun with gangs... and worse.<br />
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| We have had our hands full with The Undone.
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| {{LoH/DialoguePanel
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| |art={{LoH/CardArt|The Undone}}
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| |text='''Shimmerstorm:''' They are the source of our troubles.<br />
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| They are the absence of a human being. They absorb life the way a black hole does light.
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| }}
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| {{LoH/DialoguePanel
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| |art={{LoH/CardArt|The Undone}}
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| |text='''Shimmerstorm:''' They are an aberration in the timeline and we have not seen them before.<br />
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| And we don't know where they come from.
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| }} | | }} |
| {{LoH/DialogueEnd}} | | {{LoH/DialogueEnd}} |
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| == Lunatic Love Triangle == | | == Lunatic Love Triangle == |
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| {{LoH/DialogueBegin|Beginning of Fight|Crime Blotter: Upstart}}
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| {{LoH/DialoguePanel
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| |art={{LoH/CardArt|Crime Blotter: Upstart}}
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| |text='''The Crime Blotter:''' Forgive me if I don't completely trust Shimmerstorm's judgement.<br />
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| Recent events have left her rather frayed -- have left the Upstarts frayed to be frank.
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| }}
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| |art={{LoH/CardArt|Crime Blotter: Upstart}}
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| |text='''The Crime Blotter:''' You want to help the Upstarts put things right?<br />
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| We are going to play this by old-school superhero rules...
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| }}
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| {{LoH/DialoguePanel
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| |art={{LoH/CardArt|Crime Blotter: Upstart}}
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| |text='''The Crime Blotter:''' ...you are going to have to prove yourself...<br />
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| By getting through The Crime Blotter first!
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| }}
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| {{LoH/DialogueEnd}}
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| {{LoH/DialogueBegin|Beginning of Fight|Devastatrix: Upstart}}
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| {{LoH/DialoguePanel
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| |art={{LoH/CardArt|Devastatrix: Upstart}}
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| |text='''Devastatrix:''' Shimmerstorm tells me you are a student of The Phaeton Project in the future.<br />
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| Helios has just started breaking ground on the school in this time.
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| }}
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| |art={{LoH/CardArt|Devastatrix: Upstart}}
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| |text='''Devastatrix:''' I admire what he is doing, teaching young Emergents to use their powers...<br />
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| But where is he using his powers now while his school's town needs him?
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| {{LoH/DialoguePanel
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| |art={{LoH/CardArt|Devastatrix: Upstart}}
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| |text='''Devastatrix:''' Fighting in space and beneath the sea while this town gets torn apart.<br />
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| That is why we formed The Upstarts...to protect these streets.
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| }}
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| {{LoH/DialoguePanel
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| |art={{LoH/CardArt|Devastatrix: Upstart}}
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| |text='''Devastatrix:''' You may be good enough for Helios, Moxie, The Abyss, and Stopless...<br />
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| But I am going to need some more convincing.<br />
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| Show me!
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| }}
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| {{LoH/DialogueEnd}}
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| {{LoH/DialogueBegin|Beginning of Fight|The Undone}}
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| {{LoH/DialoguePanel
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| |art={{LoH/CardArt|The Undone}}
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| |text='''Devastatrix:''' You are very convincing. Your teachers have done well by you.<br />
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| I only hope you can remember their training after fighting The Undone.
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| }}
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| {{LoH/DialogueEnd}}
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| {{LoH/DialogueBegin|Beginning of Fight|Feral Dogs}}
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| {{LoH/DialoguePanel
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| |art={{LoH/CardArt|Feral Dogs}}
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| |text='''Devastatrix:''' It seems Culverton is besieged by literal strays as well as the two-legged variety.<br />
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| There has been a sudden spike in coordinated animal attacks.
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| {{LoH/DialogueEnd}}
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| {{LoH/DialogueBegin|Beginning of Fight|Little Susie Homewrecker}}
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| {{LoH/DialoguePanel
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| |art={{LoH/CardArt|Displaced Anger}}
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| |text='''Little Susie Homewrecker:''' WHO ARE YOU?!?<br />
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| WHY WERE YOU TALKING TO THE CRIME BLOTTER?!?
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| }}
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| {{LoH/DialoguePanel
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| |art={{LoH/CardArt|Displaced Anger}}
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| |text='''Little Susie Homewrecker:''' hesavedmefromdaddy-oandistheonlypersonwhounderstandsme<br />
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| WHAT DID HE SAY ABOUT ME?!? YOU WILL TELL ME!!
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| }}
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| {{LoH/DialogueEnd}}
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| == Beast and Man == | | == Beast and Man == |
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| {{LoH/DialogueBegin|Beginning of Fight|Conservator: Protector}}
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| {{LoH/DialoguePanel
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| |art={{LoH/CardArt|The Conservator: Protector}}
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| |text='''The Conservator:''' I don't know who you are but you will not help these animals steal my charges.<br />
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| We have already lost too many souls in the past weeks.
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| }}
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| {{LoH/DialogueEnd}}
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| {{LoH/DialogueBegin|Beginning of Fight|The Strays}}
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| {{LoH/DialoguePanel
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| |art={{LoH/CardArt|The Strays}}
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| |text='''The Conservator:''' Please forgive the earlier misunderstanding.<br />
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| But the shelter has been under siege by this gang.
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| }}
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| {{LoH/DialoguePanel
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| |art={{LoH/CardArt|The Strays}}
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| |text='''The Conservator:''' They are kidnapping the homeless. For what reason I dare not imagine.<br />
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| But we have already lost one dear soul.
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| }}
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| {{LoH/DialoguePanel
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| |art={{LoH/CardArt|The Strays}}
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| |text='''The Conservator:''' He took care of our animals and they have been going crazy without him.<br />
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| Help me take care of these strays and then see if you can't find him.
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| }}
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| {{LoH/DialogueEnd}}
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| {{LoH/DialogueBegin|Beginning of Fight|Flotsam and Jetsam}}
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| {{LoH/DialoguePanel
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| |art={{LoH/CardArt|Flotsam}}
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| |text='''The Conservator:''' Crime Blotter is reporting an uptick in animal activity around the culverts in the industrial district.<br />
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| I know I am desperate but maybe it has something to do with our missing friend.
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| }}
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| {{LoH/DialogueEnd}}
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| {{LoH/DialogueBegin|Beginning of Fight|Pesticide: Receiver of Wreck}}
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| {{LoH/DialoguePanel
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| |art={{LoH/CardArt|Pesticide: Receiver of Wreck}}
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| |text='''Pesticide:''' Pesticide? Is that my name? You know who I am?<br />
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| I don't remember much before being in that laboratory.
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| }}
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| |art={{LoH/CardArt|Pesticide: Receiver of Wreck}}
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| |text='''Pesticide:''' They tried to unmake me but something happened.<br />
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| Something emerged inside of me and I was able to escape through the sewers.
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| }}
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| |art={{LoH/CardArt|Pesticide: Receiver of Wreck}}
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| |text='''Pesticide:''' I found Flotsam and Jetsam down there.<br />
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| They helped me find my way out...
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| }}
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| |art={{LoH/CardArt|Pesticide: Receiver of Wreck}}
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| |text='''Pesticide:''' They are my only friends...and you attacked them.<br />
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| Are you with them? Did you do this to me?
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| }}
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| {{LoH/DialogueBegin|End of Fight|Pesticide: Receiver of Wreck}}
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| {{LoH/DialoguePanel
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| |art={{LoH/CardArt|Pesticide: Receiver of Wreck}}
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| |text='''Pesticide:''' My friends are telling me that you are not part of the problem.<br />
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| That you have been fighting the vermin that did this.
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| }}
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| |art={{LoH/CardArt|Pesticide: Receiver of Wreck}}
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| |text='''Pesticide:''' Perhaps I will follow your example and do the same.
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| == Familiar Symmetry == | | == Familiar Symmetry == |
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| {{LoH/DialogueBegin|Beginning of Fight|Diamonoid}} | | {{LoH/DialogueBegin|Beginning of Fight|Diamonoid}} |
| {{LoH/DialoguePanel | | {{LoH/DialoguePanel |
| |art={{LoH/CardArt|Diamonoid}} | | |art={{LoH/CardArt|Light Jab}} |
| |text='''Diamonoid:''' Listen kid, I don't wanna fight you.<br />
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| Just walk away and we don't have to do this.
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| }}
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| |art={{LoH/CardArt|Diamonoid}}
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| |text='''Diamonoid:''' I know I look like one of you super-types...<br />
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| But I am just a cat burglar who fell in the wrong vat of synthetic diamonds.
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| |art={{LoH/CardArt|Diamonoid}}
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| |text='''Diamonoid:''' Diamonoids may be not real diamonds...<br /> | |
| But if you insist on stopping me yer gonna find out how tough they can be.
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| }} | | }} |
| {{LoH/DialogueEnd}} | | {{LoH/DialogueEnd}} |
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| {{LoH/DialogueBegin|Beginning of Fight|Southside Sentry: Upstart}} | | {{LoH/DialogueBegin|Beginning of Fight|Southside Sentry: Upstart}} |
| {{LoH/DialoguePanel | | {{LoH/DialoguePanel |
| |art={{LoH/CardArt|Southside Sentry: Upstart}} | | |art={{LoH/CardArt|Southside Sentry: Upstart}} |
| |text='''Southside Sentry:''' I don't know which gang you are with stranger...<br /> | | |text='''Southside Sentry: Upstart:''' I don't know which gang you are with stranger...<br /> |
| But the Southside Sentry is getting a little tired of you all making life tough on the citizenry. | | But the Southside Sentry is getting a little tired of you all making life tough on the citizenry. |
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| {{LoH/DialoguePanel | | {{LoH/DialoguePanel |
| |art={{LoH/CardArt|Shimmerstorm: Upstart}} | | |art={{LoH/CardArt|Shimmerstorm: Upstart}} |
| |text='''Shimmerstorm:''' Forgive my spotty notifications of the other three members of The Upstarts...<br /> | | |text='''Shimmerstorm: Upstart:''' Forgive my spotty notifications of the other three members of The Upstarts...<br /> |
| And forgive me for starting one more fight with you. | | And forgive me for starting one more fight with you. |
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| | But we are both being tested for the task at hand. |
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| |art={{LoH/CardArt|Shimmerstorm: Upstart}}
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| |text='''Shimmerstorm:''' But we are both being tested for the task at hand.
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| {{LoH/DialogueBegin|Beginning of Fight|Scarlet Tiger}}
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| {{LoH/DialoguePanel
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| |art={{LoH/CardArt|The Scarlet Tiger}}
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| |text='''Scarlet Tiger:''' I thought I detected my pawprints on your fighting style when last we met.<br />
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| It stands to reason that Shimmerstorm was involved.
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| }}
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| {{LoH/DialoguePanel
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| |art={{LoH/CardArt|The Scarlet Tiger}}
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| |text='''Scarlet Tiger:''' I am Scarlet Tiger. I am in Culverton helping to refine the fighting skills of the Upstars.<br />
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| Before I join up with The Genesis Squadron to help them set up The Phaeton Project.
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| }}
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| |art={{LoH/CardArt|The Scarlet Tiger}}
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| |text='''Scarlet Tiger:''' I have no quarrel with you but for reasons that will become clear later...<br />
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| I must, quite literally, teach you a lesson.
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| }} | | }} |
| {{LoH/DialogueEnd}} | | {{LoH/DialogueEnd}} |
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| == The Thing from Beyond == | | == The Thing from Beyond == |
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| {{LoH/DialogueBegin|Beginning of Fight|Little Susie Homewrecker}}
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| |art={{LoH/CardArt|Little Susie Homewrecker}}
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| |text='''Little Susie Homewrecker:''' If you had a chance to undo every bad decision you ever made...<br />
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| Wouldn't you do everything in your power to make that happen?
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| }}
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| {{LoH/DialoguePanel
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| |art={{LoH/CardArt|Little Susie Homewrecker}}
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| |text='''Little Susie Homewrecker:''' An innocent family is dead because of me...<br />
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| ...The Crime Blotter hates me...
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| |art={{LoH/CardArt|Heartbreaker}}
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| |text='''Little Susie Homewrecker:''' The Upstarts hate him because he let me escape...<br />
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| ...and blame him for those people that died.
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| |art={{LoH/CardArt|Little Susie Homewrecker}}
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| |text='''Little Susie Homewrecker:''' I can't let you stop the coming of The Schism.<br />
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| I may never have another chance to start over.
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| }}
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| {{LoH/DialogueBegin|Beginning of Fight|Trebuchet}}
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| {{LoH/DialoguePanel
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| |art={{LoH/CardArt|Trebuchet}}
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| |text='''Trebuchet:''' You must be quite a discomfort in someone's posterior...<br />
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| Because they are paying me good money to stop you.
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| }}
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| {{LoH/DialogueEnd}}
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| {{LoH/DialogueBegin|Beginning of Fight|The Undone}}
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| {{LoH/DialoguePanel
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| |art={{LoH/CardArt|Nick of Time}}
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| |text='''Shimmerstorm:''' Something terrible is coming...<br />
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| The Undone have frayed a hole in this corner of the universe!
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| }}
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| {{LoH/DialoguePanel
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| |art={{LoH/CardArt|Nick of Time}}
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| |text='''Shimmerstorm:''' Something not of this earth...or even this reality...<br />
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| Is going to be here soon and we have to send it back.
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| }}
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| {{LoH/DialoguePanel
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| |art={{LoH/CardArt|Nick of Time}}
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| |text='''Devastatrix:''' First things first...<br />
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| We need a little help with the task at hand.
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| }}
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| {{LoH/DialogueEnd}}
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| {{LoH/DialogueBegin|End of Fight|The Undone}}
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| {{LoH/DialoguePanel
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| |art={{LoH/CardArt|...the Hand}}
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| |text='''The Southside Sentry:''' All hands on deck ... no pun intended!<br />
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| This is even worse than you foretold, Shim!
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| }}
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| {{LoH/DialoguePanel
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| |art={{LoH/CardArt|Remand...}}
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| |text='''Shimmerstorm:''' It is a celestial being known as The Schism.<br />
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| It is trying to claw its way into our reality.
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| }}
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| {{LoH/DialogueEnd}}
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| {{LoH/DialogueBegin|Beginning of Fight|The Schism: Handhold}}
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| {{LoH/DialoguePanel
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| |art={{LoH/CardArt|The Schism: Handhold}}
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| |text='''The Southside Sentry:''' Can we stop it?<br />
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| '''Shimmerstorm:''' I don't know...but we cannot let it get a handhold in our world.
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| }}
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| {{LoH/DialoguePanel
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| |art={{LoH/CardArt|The Schism: Handhold}}
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| |text='''Shimmerstorm:''' Or our entire reality may come undone.<br />
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| }}
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| {{LoH/DialogueEnd}}
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| {{LoH/DialogueBegin|End of Fight|The Schism: Handhold}}
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| {{LoH/DialoguePanel
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| |art={{LoH/CardArt|Investigative Journalism}}
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| |text='''The Crime Blotter:''' That was too easy... as scary as that thought is.<br />
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| I think it might have been a feint to test our defences.
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| }}
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| {{LoH/DialoguePanel
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| |art={{LoH/CardArt|Investigative Journalism}}
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| |text='''The Crime Blotter:''' This is all tied to the homeless abductions and The Undone.<br />
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| And that all points to suspicious activity I uncovered at a storage facility.
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| }}
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| {{LoH/DialoguePanel
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| |art={{LoH/CardArt|Investigative Journalism}}
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| |text='''The Crime Blotter:''' That is where we will find out who is responsible...<br />
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| And how we can stop it before that hand drags whatever is on the other end of that portal through with it.
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| }}
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| {{LoH/DialogueEnd}}
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| == Time Bandits == | | == Time Bandits == |
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| {{LoH/DialogueBegin|Beginning of Fight|Torrent}}
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| {{LoH/DialoguePanel
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| |art={{LoH/CardArt|Lay of the Land}}
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| |text='''Torrent:''' Just like he predicted. Everyone is converging on us.<br />
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| Guess it is time to earn all the money we are getting paid.
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| }}
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| {{LoH/DialoguePanel
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| |art={{LoH/CardArt|Lay of the Land}}
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| |text='''Torrent:''' Which is definitely the better end of it than those poor suckers getting their tails kicked for free.
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| }}
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| {{LoH/DialogueEnd}}
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| {{LoH/DialogueBegin|Beginning of Fight|Ixnay: ostLay}}
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| {{LoH/DialoguePanel
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| |art={{LoH/CardArt|OtHay otShay}}
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| |text='''The Crime Blotter:''' I will wrap up these mercenaries down here.<br />
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| You deal with Deadeye Dick up top!
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| }}
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| {{LoH/DialogueEnd}}
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| {{LoH/DialogueBegin|Beginning of Fight|The Hat: Lost}}
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| {{LoH/DialoguePanel
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| |art={{LoH/CardArt|The Hat: Lost}}
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| |text='''The Hat:''' I sincerely believed I had seen the last of you.<br />
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| I don't know if I should be peeved or grateful.
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| }}
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| {{LoH/DialoguePanel
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| |art={{LoH/CardArt|No Witnesses}}
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| |text='''The Hat:''' After all, I have learned so much since our last encounter.<br />
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| While you still have no idea what is at stake.
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| }}
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| {{LoH/DialoguePanel
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| |art={{LoH/CardArt|Time Capsule}}
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| |text='''The Hat:''' Even if you manage to stop me today...<br />
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| I have made contingency plans.
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| }}
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| {{LoH/DialogueEnd}}
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| {{LoH/DialogueBegin|End of Issue}}
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| {{LoH/DialoguePanel
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| |art={{LoH/CardArt|Oh, Really?}}
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| |text='''The Hat:''' I wish I could stay for round two but you are about to have your hands full.<br />
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| Besides I will ultimately be victorious...
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| }}
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| {{LoH/DialoguePanel
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| |art={{LoH/CardArt|Oh, Really?}}
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| |text='''The Hat:''' There is so much time and so little you can do!<br />
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| }}
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| {{LoH/DialogueEnd}}
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