Editing LoH/story/Unraveling the Upstarts

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{{LoH/StorylineTopBar|issue=Unraveling the Upstarts|prev=Phaeton Burns|next=Emergent Behavior}}

{{LoH/DialogueBegin|Beginning of Issue}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art={{LoH/CardArt|Shimmerstorm: Warning}}
|text='''Shimmerstorm:''' Line is wrong the time!<br />
...
}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art={{LoH/CardArt|Shimmerstorm: Warning}}
|text='''Shimmerstorm:''' We are sorry...sometimes we get out of synch during our time shimmers.<br />
The timeline is wrong!
}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art={{LoH/CardArt|Shimmerstorm: Warning}}
|text='''Shimmerstorm:''' We are a shard of Shimmerstorm from more than 20 years ago.<br />
And we have come seeking your assistance.
}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art={{LoH/CardArt|Shimmerstorm: Warning}}
|text='''Shimmerstorm:''' Two fiends have escaped back in time from the now.<br />
We know that you have fought them before.
}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art={{LoH/CardArt|Shimmerstorm: Warning}}
|text='''Shimmerstorm:''' Unless we are getting the details mixed up again...<br />
We guess there is only one way to find out.<br />
Come with me!
}}
{{LoH/DialogueEnd}}

== Ghost of Culverton Past ==

{{LoH/DialogueBegin|End of Fight|Shimmerstorm: Warning}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art={{LoH/CardArt|Shimmerstorm}}
|text='''Shimmerstorm:''' Very impressive. We were right to choose you.<br />
Now be very careful...an old foe is lurking about.<br />
And you are going to need quickness or cleverness to defeat him.
}}
{{LoH/DialogueEnd}}

{{LoH/DialogueBegin|Beginning of Fight|Ixnay: ostLay}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art={{LoH/CardArt|IxNay: ostLay}}
|text='''Ixnay:''' ...
}}
{{LoH/DialogueEnd}}

{{LoH/DialogueBegin|Beginning of Fight|The Strays}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art={{LoH/CardArt|The Strays}}
|text='''Stray:''' What do you think you are doing sporting those colors on our street?<br />
You'll see what you get when you mess with The Strays!
}}
{{LoH/DialogueEnd}}

{{LoH/DialogueBegin|Beginning of Fight|The Undone}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art={{LoH/CardArt|Shimmerstorm: Warning}}
|text='''Shimmerstorm:''' As you can see the streets of Culverton are overrun with gangs... and worse.<br />
We have had our hands full with The Undone.
}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art={{LoH/CardArt|The Undone}}
|text='''Shimmerstorm:''' They are the source of our troubles.<br />
They are the absence of a human being. They absorb life the way a black hole does light.
}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art={{LoH/CardArt|The Undone}}
|text='''Shimmerstorm:''' They are an aberration in the timeline and we have not seen them before.<br />
And we don't know where they come from.
}}
{{LoH/DialogueEnd}}

== Lunatic Love Triangle ==

{{LoH/DialogueBegin|Beginning of Fight|Crime Blotter: Upstart}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art={{LoH/CardArt|Crime Blotter: Upstart}}
|text='''The Crime Blotter:''' Forgive me if I don't completely trust Shimmerstorm's judgement.<br />
Recent events have left her rather frayed -- have left the Upstarts frayed to be frank.
}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art={{LoH/CardArt|Crime Blotter: Upstart}}
|text='''The Crime Blotter:''' You want to help the Upstarts put things right?<br />
We are going to play this by old-school superhero rules...
}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art={{LoH/CardArt|Crime Blotter: Upstart}}
|text='''The Crime Blotter:''' ...you are going to have to prove yourself...<br />
By getting through The Crime Blotter first!
}}
{{LoH/DialogueEnd}}

{{LoH/DialogueBegin|Beginning of Fight|Devastatrix: Upstart}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art={{LoH/CardArt|Devastatrix: Upstart}}
|text='''Devastatrix:''' Shimmerstorm tells me you are a student of The Phaeton Project in the future.<br />
Helios has just started breaking ground on the school in this time.
}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art={{LoH/CardArt|Devastatrix: Upstart}}
|text='''Devastatrix:''' I admire what he is doing, teaching young Emergents to use their powers...<br />
But where is he using his powers now while his school's town needs him?
}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art={{LoH/CardArt|Devastatrix: Upstart}}
|text='''Devastatrix:''' Fighting in space and beneath the sea while this town gets torn apart.<br />
That is why we formed The Upstarts...to protect these streets.
}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art={{LoH/CardArt|Devastatrix: Upstart}}
|text='''Devastatrix:''' You may be good enough for Helios, Moxie, The Abyss, and Stopless...<br />
But I am going to need some more convincing.<br />
Show me!
}}
{{LoH/DialogueEnd}}

{{LoH/DialogueBegin|Beginning of Fight|The Undone}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art={{LoH/CardArt|The Undone}}
|text='''Devastatrix:''' You are very convincing. Your teachers have done well by you.<br />
I only hope you can remember their training after fighting The Undone.
}}
{{LoH/DialogueEnd}}

{{LoH/DialogueBegin|Beginning of Fight|Feral Dogs}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art={{LoH/CardArt|Feral Dogs}}
|text='''Devastatrix:''' It seems Culverton is besieged by literal strays as well as the two-legged variety.<br />
There has been a sudden spike in coordinated animal attacks.
}}
{{LoH/DialogueEnd}}

{{LoH/DialogueBegin|Beginning of Fight|Little Susie Homewrecker}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art={{LoH/CardArt|Displaced Anger}}
|text='''Little Susie Homewrecker:''' WHO ARE YOU?!?<br />
WHY WERE YOU TALKING TO THE CRIME BLOTTER?!?
}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art={{LoH/CardArt|Displaced Anger}}
|text='''Little Susie Homewrecker:''' hesavedmefromdaddy-oandistheonlypersonwhounderstandsme<br />
WHAT DID HE SAY ABOUT ME?!? YOU WILL TELL ME!!
}}
{{LoH/DialogueEnd}}

== Beast and Man ==

{{LoH/DialogueBegin|Beginning of Fight|Conservator: Protector}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art={{LoH/CardArt|The Conservator: Protector}}
|text='''The Conservator:''' I don't know who you are but you will not help these animals steal my charges.<br />
We have already lost too many souls in the past weeks.
}}
{{LoH/DialogueEnd}}

{{LoH/DialogueBegin|Beginning of Fight|The Strays}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art={{LoH/CardArt|The Conservator}}
|text='''The Conservator:''' Please forgive the earlier misunderstanding.<br />
But the shelter has been under siege by this gang.
}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art={{LoH/CardArt|The Conservator}}
|text='''The Conservator:''' They are kidnapping the homeless. For what reason I dare not imagine.<br />
But we have already lost one dear soul.
}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art={{LoH/CardArt|The Conservator}}
|text='''The Conservator:''' He took care of our animals and they have been going crazy without him.<br />
Help me take care of these strays and then see if you can't find him.
}}
{{LoH/DialogueEnd}}

{{LoH/DialogueBegin|Beginning of Fight|Flotsam and Jetsam}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art={{LoH/CardArt|Flotsam}}
|text='''The Conservator:''' Crime Blotter is reporting an uptick in animal activity around the culverts in the industrial district.<br />
I know I am desperate but maybe it has something to do with our missing friend.
}}
{{LoH/DialogueEnd}}

{{LoH/DialogueBegin|Beginning of Fight|Pesticide: Receiver of Wreck}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art={{LoH/CardArt|Pesticide: Receiver of Wreck}}
|text='''Pesticide:''' Pesticide? Is that my name? You know who I am?<br />
I don't remember much before being in that laboratory.
}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art={{LoH/CardArt|Pesticide: Receiver of Wreck}}
|text='''Pesticide:''' They tried to unmake me but something happened.<br />
Something emerged inside of me and I was able to escape through the sewers.
}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art={{LoH/CardArt|Pesticide: Receiver of Wreck}}
|text='''Pesticide:''' I found Flotsam and Jetsam down there.<br />
They helped me find my way out...
}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art={{LoH/CardArt|Pesticide: Receiver of Wreck}}
|text='''Pesticide:''' They are my only friends...and you attacked them.<br />
Are you with them? Did you do this to me?
}}
{{LoH/DialogueEnd}}

{{LoH/DialogueBegin|End of Fight|Pesticide: Receiver of Wreck}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art={{LoH/CardArt|Pesticide: Receiver of Wreck}}
|text='''Pesticide:''' My friends are telling me that you are not part of the problem.<br />
That you have been fighting the vermin that did this.
}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art={{LoH/CardArt|Pesticide: Receiver of Wreck}}
|text='''Pesticide:''' Perhaps I will follow your example and do the same.
}}
{{LoH/DialogueEnd}}

== Familiar Symmetry ==

{{LoH/DialogueBegin|Beginning of Fight|Diamonoid}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art={{LoH/CardArt|Diamonoid}}
|text='''Diamonoid:''' Listen kid, I don't wanna fight you.<br />
Just walk away and we don't have to do this.
}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art={{LoH/CardArt|Diamonoid}}
|text='''Diamonoid:''' I know I look like one of you super-types...<br />
But I am just a cat burglar who fell in the wrong vat of synthetic diamonds.
}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art={{LoH/CardArt|Diamonoid}}
|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.
}}
{{LoH/DialogueEnd}}

{{LoH/DialogueBegin|Beginning of Fight|Southside Sentry: Upstart}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art={{LoH/CardArt|Southside Sentry: Upstart}}
|text='''Southside Sentry:''' 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.
}}
{{LoH/DialogueEnd}}

{{LoH/DialogueBegin|Beginning of Fight|Shimmerstorm: Upstart}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art={{LoH/CardArt|Shimmerstorm: Upstart}}
|text='''Shimmerstorm:''' Forgive my spotty notifications of the other three members of The Upstarts...<br />
And forgive me for starting one more fight with you.
}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art={{LoH/CardArt|Shimmerstorm: Upstart}}
|text='''Shimmerstorm:''' But we are both being tested for the task at hand.
}}
{{LoH/DialogueEnd}}

{{LoH/DialogueBegin|Beginning of Fight|Scarlet Tiger}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art={{LoH/CardArt|The Scarlet Tiger}}
|text='''Scarlet Tiger:''' I thought I detected my pawprints on your fighting style when last we met.<br />
It stands to reason that Shimmerstorm was involved.
}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art={{LoH/CardArt|The Scarlet Tiger}}
|text='''Scarlet Tiger:''' I am Scarlet Tiger. I am in Culverton helping to refine the fighting skills of the Upstars.<br />
Before I join up with The Genesis Squadron to help them set up The Phaeton Project.
}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art={{LoH/CardArt|The Scarlet Tiger}}
|text='''Scarlet Tiger:''' I have no quarrel with you but for reasons that will become clear later...<br />
I must, quite literally, teach you a lesson.
}}
{{LoH/DialogueEnd}}

== The Thing from Beyond ==

{{LoH/DialogueBegin|Beginning of Fight|Little Susie Homewrecker}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art={{LoH/CardArt|Little Susie Homewrecker}}
|text='''Little Susie Homewrecker:''' If you had a chance to undo every bad decision you ever made...<br />
Wouldn't you do everything in your power to make that happen?
}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art={{LoH/CardArt|Little Susie Homewrecker}}
|text='''Little Susie Homewrecker:''' An innocent family is dead because of me...<br />
...The Crime Blotter hates me...
}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art={{LoH/CardArt|Heartbreaker}}
|text='''Little Susie Homewrecker:''' The Upstarts hate him because he let me escape...<br />
...and blame him for those people that died.
}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art={{LoH/CardArt|Little Susie Homewrecker}}
|text='''Little Susie Homewrecker:''' I can't let you stop the coming of The Schism.<br />
I may never have another chance to start over.
}}
{{LoH/DialogueEnd}}

{{LoH/DialogueBegin|Beginning of Fight|Trebuchet}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art={{LoH/CardArt|Trebuchet}}
|text='''Trebuchet:''' You must be quite a discomfort in someone's posterior...<br />
Because they are paying me good money to stop you.
}}
{{LoH/DialogueEnd}}

{{LoH/DialogueBegin|Beginning of Fight|The Undone}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art={{LoH/CardArt|Nick of Time}}
|text='''Shimmerstorm:''' Something terrible is coming...<br />
The Undone have frayed a hole in this corner of the universe!
}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art={{LoH/CardArt|Nick of Time}}
|text='''Shimmerstorm:''' Something not of this earth...or even this reality...<br />
Is going to be here soon and we have to send it back.
}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art={{LoH/CardArt|Nick of Time}}
|text='''Shimmerstorm:''' First things first...<br />
We need a little help with the task at hand.
}}
{{LoH/DialogueEnd}}

{{LoH/DialogueBegin|End of Fight|The Undone}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art={{LoH/CardArt|...the Hand}}
|text='''The Southside Sentry:''' All hands on deck ... no pun intended!<br />
This is even worse than you foretold, Shim!
}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art={{LoH/CardArt|Remand...}}
|text='''Shimmerstorm:''' It is a celestial being known as The Schism.<br />
It is trying to claw its way into our reality.
}}
{{LoH/DialogueEnd}}

{{LoH/DialogueBegin|Beginning of Fight|The Schism: Handhold}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art={{LoH/CardArt|The Schism: Handhold}}
|text='''The Southside Sentry:''' Can we stop it?<br />
'''Shimmerstorm:''' I don't know...but we cannot let it get a handhold in our world.
}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art={{LoH/CardArt|The Schism: Handhold}}
|text='''Shimmerstorm:''' Or our entire reality may come undone.<br />
}}
{{LoH/DialogueEnd}}

{{LoH/DialogueBegin|End of Fight|The Schism: Handhold}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art={{LoH/CardArt|Investigative Journalism}}
|text='''The Crime Blotter:''' That was too easy... as scary as that thought is.<br />
I think it might have been a feint to test our defences.
}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art={{LoH/CardArt|Investigative Journalism}}
|text='''The Crime Blotter:''' This is all tied to the homeless abductions and The Undone.<br />
And that all points to suspicious activity I uncovered at a storage facility.
}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art={{LoH/CardArt|Investigative Journalism}}
|text='''The Crime Blotter:''' That is where we will find out who is responsible...<br />
And how we can stop it before that hand drags whatever is on the other end of that portal through with it.
}}
{{LoH/DialogueEnd}}

== Time Bandits ==

{{LoH/DialogueBegin|Beginning of Fight|Torrent}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art={{LoH/CardArt|Lay of the Land}}
|text='''Torrent:''' Just like he predicted. Everyone is converging on us.<br />
Guess it is time to earn all the money we are getting paid.
}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art={{LoH/CardArt|Lay of the Land}}
|text='''Torrent:''' Which is definitely the better end of it than those poor suckers getting their tails kicked for free.
}}
{{LoH/DialogueEnd}}

{{LoH/DialogueBegin|Beginning of Fight|Ixnay: ostLay}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art={{LoH/CardArt|OtHay otShay}}
|text='''The Crime Blotter:''' I will wrap up these mercenaries down here.<br />
You deal with Deadeye Dick up top!
}}
{{LoH/DialogueEnd}}

{{LoH/DialogueBegin|Beginning of Fight|The Hat: Lost}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art={{LoH/CardArt|The Hat: Lost}}
|text='''The Hat:''' I sincerely believed I had seen the last of you.<br />
I don't know if I should be peeved or grateful.
}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art={{LoH/CardArt|No Witnesses}}
|text='''The Hat:''' After all, I have learned so much since our last encounter.<br />
While you still have no idea what is at stake.
}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art={{LoH/CardArt|Time Capsule}}
|text='''The Hat:''' Even if you manage to stop me today...<br />
I have made contingency plans.
}}
{{LoH/DialogueEnd}}

{{LoH/DialogueBegin|End of Fight|The Hat: Lost}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art={{LoH/CardArt|Oh, Really?}}
|text='''The Hat:''' I wish I could stay for round two but you are about to have your hands full.<br />
Besides I will ultimately be victorious...
}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art={{LoH/CardArt|Oh, Really?}}
|text='''The Hat:''' There is so much time and so little you can do!<br />
}}
{{LoH/DialogueEnd}}