LoH/story/Unraveling the Upstarts
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| Beginning of Issue | |
| [[Image:LoH_Cards_{{#varpull: LoH/cards/Shimmerstorm: Warning|LoH/Card|image}}|180px|]] | Shimmerstorm: Line is wrong the time! ... |
| [[Image:LoH_Cards_{{#varpull: LoH/cards/Shimmerstorm: Warning|LoH/Card|image}}|180px|]] | Shimmerstorm: We are sorry...sometimes we get out of synch during our time shimmers. The timeline is wrong! |
| [[Image:LoH_Cards_{{#varpull: LoH/cards/Shimmerstorm: Warning|LoH/Card|image}}|180px|]] | Shimmerstorm: We are a shard of Shimmerstorm from more than 20 years ago. And we have come seeking your assistance. |
| [[Image:LoH_Cards_{{#varpull: LoH/cards/Shimmerstorm: Warning|LoH/Card|image}}|180px|]] | Shimmerstorm: Two fiends have escaped back in time from the now. We know that you have fought them before. |
| [[Image:LoH_Cards_{{#varpull: LoH/cards/Shimmerstorm: Warning|LoH/Card|image}}|180px|]] | Shimmerstorm: Unless we are getting the details mixed up again... We guess there is only one way to find out. |
Ghost of Culverton Past
| End of Fight: Shimmerstorm: Warning | |
| [[Image:LoH_Cards_{{#varpull: LoH/cards/Shimmerstorm|LoH/Card|image}}|180px|]] | Shimmerstorm: Very impressive. We were right to choose you. Now be very careful...an old foe is lurking about. |
| Beginning of Fight: Ixnay: ostLay | |
| [[Image:LoH_Cards_{{#varpull: LoH/cards/IxNay: ostLay|LoH/Card|image}}|180px|]] | Ixnay: ... |
| Beginning of Fight: The Strays | |
| [[Image:LoH_Cards_{{#varpull: LoH/cards/The Strays|LoH/Card|image}}|180px|]] | Stray: What do you think you are doing sporting those colors on our street? You'll see what you get when you mess with The Strays! |
| Beginning of Fight: The Undone | |
| [[Image:LoH_Cards_{{#varpull: LoH/cards/Shimmerstorm: Warning|LoH/Card|image}}|180px|]] | Shimmerstorm: As you can see the streets of Culverton are overrun with gangs... and worse. We have had our hands full with The Undone. |
| [[Image:LoH_Cards_{{#varpull: LoH/cards/The Undone|LoH/Card|image}}|180px|]] | Shimmerstorm: They are the source of our troubles. They are the absence of a human being. They absorb life the way a black hole does light. |
| [[Image:LoH_Cards_{{#varpull: LoH/cards/The Undone|LoH/Card|image}}|180px|]] | Shimmerstorm: They are an aberration in the timeline and we have not seen them before. And we don't know where they come from. |
Lunatic Love Triangle
| Beginning of Fight: Crime Blotter: Upstart | |
| [[Image:LoH_Cards_{{#varpull: LoH/cards/Crime Blotter: Upstart|LoH/Card|image}}|180px|]] | The Crime Blotter: Forgive me if I don't completely trust Shimmerstorm's judgement. Recent events have left her rather frayed -- have left the Upstarts frayed to be frank. |
| [[Image:LoH_Cards_{{#varpull: LoH/cards/Crime Blotter: Upstart|LoH/Card|image}}|180px|]] | The Crime Blotter: You want to help the Upstarts put things right? We are going to play this by old-school superhero rules... |
| [[Image:LoH_Cards_{{#varpull: LoH/cards/Crime Blotter: Upstart|LoH/Card|image}}|180px|]] | The Crime Blotter: ...you are going to have to prove yourself... By getting through The Crime Blotter first! |
| Beginning of Fight: Devastatrix: Upstart | |
| [[Image:LoH_Cards_{{#varpull: LoH/cards/Devastatrix: Upstart|LoH/Card|image}}|180px|]] | Devastatrix: Shimmerstorm tells me you are a student of The Phaeton Project in the future. Helios has just started breaking ground on the school in this time. |
| [[Image:LoH_Cards_{{#varpull: LoH/cards/Devastatrix: Upstart|LoH/Card|image}}|180px|]] | Devastatrix: I admire what he is doing, teaching young Emergents to use their powers... But where is he using his powers now while his school's town needs him? |
| [[Image:LoH_Cards_{{#varpull: LoH/cards/Devastatrix: Upstart|LoH/Card|image}}|180px|]] | Devastatrix: Fighting in space and beneath the sea while this town gets torn apart. That is why we formed The Upstarts...to protect these streets. |
| [[Image:LoH_Cards_{{#varpull: LoH/cards/Devastatrix: Upstart|LoH/Card|image}}|180px|]] | Devastatrix: You may be good enough for Helios, Moxie, The Abyss, and Stopless... But I am going to need some more convincing. |
| Beginning of Fight: The Undone | |
| [[Image:LoH_Cards_{{#varpull: LoH/cards/The Undone|LoH/Card|image}}|180px|]] | Devastatrix: You are very convincing. Your teachers have done well by you. I only hope you can remember their training after fighting The Undone. |
| Beginning of Fight: Feral Dogs | |
| [[Image:LoH_Cards_{{#varpull: LoH/cards/Feral Dogs|LoH/Card|image}}|180px|]] | Devastatrix: It seems Culverton is besieged by literal strays as well as the two-legged variety. There has been a sudden spike in coordinated animal attacks. |
| Beginning of Fight: Little Susie Homewrecker | |
| [[Image:LoH_Cards_{{#varpull: LoH/cards/Displaced Anger|LoH/Card|image}}|180px|]] | Little Susie Homewrecker: WHO ARE YOU?!? WHY WERE YOU TALKING TO THE CRIME BLOTTER?!? |
| [[Image:LoH_Cards_{{#varpull: LoH/cards/Displaced Anger|LoH/Card|image}}|180px|]] | Little Susie Homewrecker: hesavedmefromdaddy-oandistheonlypersonwhounderstandsme WHAT DID HE SAY ABOUT ME?!? YOU WILL TELL ME!! |
Beast and Man
| Beginning of Fight: Conservator: Protector | |
| [[Image:LoH_Cards_{{#varpull: LoH/cards/The Conservator: Protector|LoH/Card|image}}|180px|]] | The Conservator: I don't know who you are but you will not help these animals steal my charges. We have already lost too many souls in the past weeks. |
| Beginning of Fight: The Strays | |
| [[Image:LoH_Cards_{{#varpull: LoH/cards/The Strays|LoH/Card|image}}|180px|]] | The Conservator: Please forgive the earlier misunderstanding. But the shelter has been under siege by this gang. |
| [[Image:LoH_Cards_{{#varpull: LoH/cards/The Strays|LoH/Card|image}}|180px|]] | The Conservator: They are kidnapping the homeless. For what reason I dare not imagine. But we have already lost one dear soul. |
| [[Image:LoH_Cards_{{#varpull: LoH/cards/The Strays|LoH/Card|image}}|180px|]] | The Conservator: He took care of our animals and they have been going crazy without him. Help me take care of these strays and then see if you can't find him. |
| Beginning of Fight: Flotsam and Jetsam | |
| [[Image:LoH_Cards_{{#varpull: LoH/cards/Flotsam|LoH/Card|image}}|180px|]] | The Conservator: Crime Blotter is reporting an uptick in animal activity around the culverts in the industrial district. I know I am desperate but maybe it has something to do with our missing friend. |
| Beginning of Fight: Pesticide: Receiver of Wreck | |
| [[Image:LoH_Cards_{{#varpull: LoH/cards/Pesticide: Receiver of Wreck|LoH/Card|image}}|180px|]] | Pesticide: Pesticide? Is that my name? You know who I am? I don't remember much before being in that laboratory. |
| [[Image:LoH_Cards_{{#varpull: LoH/cards/Pesticide: Receiver of Wreck|LoH/Card|image}}|180px|]] | Pesticide: They tried to unmake me but something happened. Something emerged inside of me and I was able to escape through the sewers. |
| [[Image:LoH_Cards_{{#varpull: LoH/cards/Pesticide: Receiver of Wreck|LoH/Card|image}}|180px|]] | Pesticide: I found Flotsam and Jetsam down there. They helped me find my way out... |
| [[Image:LoH_Cards_{{#varpull: LoH/cards/Pesticide: Receiver of Wreck|LoH/Card|image}}|180px|]] | Pesticide: They are my only friends...and you attacked them. Are you with them? Did you do this to me? |
| End of Fight: Pesticide: Receiver of Wreck | |
| [[Image:LoH_Cards_{{#varpull: LoH/cards/Pesticide: Receiver of Wreck|LoH/Card|image}}|180px|]] | Pesticide: My friends are telling me that you are not part of the problem. That you have been fighting the vermin that did this. |
| [[Image:LoH_Cards_{{#varpull: LoH/cards/Pesticide: Receiver of Wreck|LoH/Card|image}}|180px|]] | Pesticide: Perhaps I will follow your example and do the same. |
Familiar Symmetry
| Beginning of Fight: Diamonoid | |
| [[Image:LoH_Cards_{{#varpull: LoH/cards/Diamonoid|LoH/Card|image}}|180px|]] | Diamonoid: Listen kid, I don't wanna fight you. Just walk away and we don't have to do this. |
| [[Image:LoH_Cards_{{#varpull: LoH/cards/Diamonoid|LoH/Card|image}}|180px|]] | Diamonoid: I know I look like one of you super-types... But I am just a cat burglar who fell in the wrong vat of synthetic diamonds. |
| [[Image:LoH_Cards_{{#varpull: LoH/cards/Diamonoid|LoH/Card|image}}|180px|]] | Diamonoid: Diamonoids may be not real diamonds... But if you insist on stopping me yer gonna find out how tough they can be. |
| Beginning of Fight: Southside Sentry: Upstart | |
| [[Image:LoH_Cards_{{#varpull: LoH/cards/Southside Sentry: Upstart|LoH/Card|image}}|180px|]] | Southside Sentry: I don't know which gang you are with stranger... But the Southside Sentry is getting a little tired of you all making life tough on the citizenry. |
| Beginning of Fight: Shimmerstorm: Upstart | |
| [[Image:LoH_Cards_{{#varpull: LoH/cards/Shimmerstorm: Upstart|LoH/Card|image}}|180px|]] | Shimmerstorm: Forgive my spotty notifications of the other three members of The Upstarts... And forgive me for starting one more fight with you. |
| [[Image:LoH_Cards_{{#varpull: LoH/cards/Shimmerstorm: Upstart|LoH/Card|image}}|180px|]] | Shimmerstorm: But we are both being tested for the task at hand. |
| Beginning of Fight: Scarlet Tiger | |
| [[Image:LoH_Cards_{{#varpull: LoH/cards/The Scarlet Tiger|LoH/Card|image}}|180px|]] | Scarlet Tiger: I thought I detected my pawprints on your fighting style when last we met. It stands to reason that Shimmerstorm was involved. |
| [[Image:LoH_Cards_{{#varpull: LoH/cards/The Scarlet Tiger|LoH/Card|image}}|180px|]] | Scarlet Tiger: I am Scarlet Tiger. I am in Culverton helping to refine the fighting skills of the Upstars. Before I join up with The Genesis Squadron to help them set up The Phaeton Project. |
| [[Image:LoH_Cards_{{#varpull: LoH/cards/The Scarlet Tiger|LoH/Card|image}}|180px|]] | Scarlet Tiger: I have no quarrel with you but for reasons that will become clear later... I must, quite literally, teach you a lesson. |
The Thing from Beyond
| Beginning of Fight: Little Susie Homewrecker | |
| [[Image:LoH_Cards_{{#varpull: LoH/cards/Little Susie Homewrecker|LoH/Card|image}}|180px|]] | Little Susie Homewrecker: If you had a chance to undo every bad decision you ever made... Wouldn't you do everything in your power to make that happen? |
| [[Image:LoH_Cards_{{#varpull: LoH/cards/Little Susie Homewrecker|LoH/Card|image}}|180px|]] | Little Susie Homewrecker: An innocent family is dead because of me... ...The Crime Blotter hates me... |
| [[Image:LoH_Cards_{{#varpull: LoH/cards/Heartbreaker|LoH/Card|image}}|180px|]] | Little Susie Homewrecker: The Upstarts hate him because he let me escape... ...and blame him for those people that died. |
| [[Image:LoH_Cards_{{#varpull: LoH/cards/Little Susie Homewrecker|LoH/Card|image}}|180px|]] | Little Susie Homewrecker: I can't let you stop the coming of The Schism. I may never have another chance to start over. |
| Beginning of Fight: Trebuchet | |
| [[Image:LoH_Cards_{{#varpull: LoH/cards/Trebuchet|LoH/Card|image}}|180px|]] | Trebuchet: You must be quite a discomfort in someone's posterior... Because they are paying me good money to stop you. |
| Beginning of Fight: The Undone | |
| [[Image:LoH_Cards_{{#varpull: LoH/cards/Nick of Time|LoH/Card|image}}|180px|]] | Shimmerstorm: Something terrible is coming... The Undone have frayed a hole in this corner of the universe! |
| [[Image:LoH_Cards_{{#varpull: LoH/cards/Nick of Time|LoH/Card|image}}|180px|]] | Shimmerstorm: Something not of this earth...or even this reality... Is going to be here soon and we have to send it back. |
| [[Image:LoH_Cards_{{#varpull: LoH/cards/Nick of Time|LoH/Card|image}}|180px|]] | Devastatrix: First things first... We need a little help with the task at hand. |
| End of Fight: The Undone | |
| [[Image:LoH_Cards_{{#varpull: LoH/cards/...the Hand|LoH/Card|image}}|180px|]] | The Southside Sentry: All hands on deck ... no pun intended! This is even worse than you foretold, Shim! |
| [[Image:LoH_Cards_{{#varpull: LoH/cards/Remand...|LoH/Card|image}}|180px|]] | Shimmerstorm: It is a celestial being known as The Schism. It is trying to claw its way into our reality. |
| Beginning of Fight: The Schism: Handhold | |
| [[Image:LoH_Cards_{{#varpull: LoH/cards/The Schism: Handhold|LoH/Card|image}}|180px|]] | The Southside Sentry: Can we stop it? Shimmerstorm: I don't know...but we cannot let it get a handhold in our world. |
| [[Image:LoH_Cards_{{#varpull: LoH/cards/The Schism: Handhold|LoH/Card|image}}|180px|]] | Shimmerstorm: Or our entire reality may come undone. |
| End of Fight: The Schism: Handhold | |
| [[Image:LoH_Cards_{{#varpull: LoH/cards/Investigative Journalism|LoH/Card|image}}|180px|]] | The Crime Blotter: That was too easy... as scary as that thought is. I think it might have been a feint to test our defences. |
| [[Image:LoH_Cards_{{#varpull: LoH/cards/Investigative Journalism|LoH/Card|image}}|180px|]] | The Crime Blotter: This is all tied to the homeless abductions and The Undone. And that all points to suspicious activity I uncovered at a storage facility. |
| [[Image:LoH_Cards_{{#varpull: LoH/cards/Investigative Journalism|LoH/Card|image}}|180px|]] | The Crime Blotter: That is where we will find out who is responsible... And how we can stop it before that hand drags whatever is on the other end of that portal through with it. |
Time Bandits
| Beginning of Fight: Torrent | |
| [[Image:LoH_Cards_{{#varpull: LoH/cards/Lay of the Land|LoH/Card|image}}|180px|]] | Torrent: Just like he predicted. Everyone is converging on us. Guess it is time to earn all the money we are getting paid. |
| [[Image:LoH_Cards_{{#varpull: LoH/cards/Lay of the Land|LoH/Card|image}}|180px|]] | Torrent: Which is definitely the better end of it than those poor suckers getting their tails kicked for free. |
| Beginning of Fight: Ixnay: ostLay | |
| [[Image:LoH_Cards_{{#varpull: LoH/cards/OtHay otShay|LoH/Card|image}}|180px|]] | The Crime Blotter: I will wrap up these mercenaries down here. You deal with Deadeye Dick up top! |
| Beginning of Fight: The Hat: Lost | |
| [[Image:LoH_Cards_{{#varpull: LoH/cards/The Hat: Lost|LoH/Card|image}}|180px|]] | The Hat: I sincerely believed I had seen the last of you. I don't know if I should be peeved or grateful. |
| [[Image:LoH_Cards_{{#varpull: LoH/cards/No Witnesses|LoH/Card|image}}|180px|]] | The Hat: After all, I have learned so much since our last encounter. While you still have no idea what is at stake. |
| [[Image:LoH_Cards_{{#varpull: LoH/cards/Time Capsule|LoH/Card|image}}|180px|]] | The Hat: Even if you manage to stop me today... I have made contingency plans. |
| End of Issue | |
| [[Image:LoH_Cards_{{#varpull: LoH/cards/Oh, Really?|LoH/Card|image}}|180px|]] | The Hat: I wish I could stay for round two but you are about to have your hands full. Besides I will ultimately be victorious... |
| [[Image:LoH_Cards_{{#varpull: LoH/cards/Oh, Really?|LoH/Card|image}}|180px|]] | The Hat: There is so much time and so little you can do! |