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ID@Xbox August 2021 presentation will show an upcoming slate of Xbox indie games
In mid-August, Xbox is set to show off a wealth of new games for its upcoming indie slate coming to Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S.
Xbox has been working on a number of additions coming to its latest hardware this year, but while it chips away at getting those big releases ready, there are a number of indie games set to sate your palette in the meantime. It goes through a little thing called ID@Xbox, which is the umbrella Xbox's partnering indie developers go under. ID@Xbox had a presentation alongside Twitch Gaming earlier this year in which it showed off quite a few would-be bangers of 2021 indie gaming. It seems they're set to do it again next week with another ID@Xbox presentation.
Xbox announced the ID@Xbox presentation coming up next week on the Xbox Wire Twitter alongside a blog post on August 5, 2021. On August 10 at 9:00 a.m. PT / 12 p.m. PT, the new ID@Xbox presentation will go live on the Twitch Gaming channel and Xbox Twitch channel to showcase some of the newest info on upcoming Xbox indie games. OlliOlli World, The Artful Escape, and Aragami 2 are among the games expected to appear on the presentation. We could also see some new reveals.
Get ready for new game announcements and sneak peaks at upcoming releases during the second /twitchgaming Showcase: ID@Xbox on August 10. Details here: https://t.co/du4uwYiJKO
— Xbox Wire (@XboxWire) August 5, 2021
At the previous ID@Xbox presentation back in March 2021, we got to see quite a few delightful indies on display. Omno appeared on that presentation before going on to see a good review in late July and Death's Door also made an appearance, arguably a contender for indie game of the year. Meanwhile, The Artful Escape has already been turning heads at events like the recent Annapurna Interactive showcase and OlliOlli World looks like it could bring new, charming life to that franchise.
Games like The Artful Escape are set to appear alongside new info and reveals on the ID@Xbox presentation with Twitch Gaming.
ID@Xbox presentations are proving to host good crops of indie games so far and we can't wait to see if there are any surprises in store when it goes live on August 10. Stay tuned for more coverage and details.
TJ Denzer is a player with a passion for games that has dominated a lifetime. When he's not handing out beatdowns in the latest fighting games, exploring video game history, or playing through RPGs with his partner, he's searching for new food and drinks in the constant pursuit of good times with good people inside and outside the South Texas area. You can also find him on Twitter @JohnnyChugs.
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Nigeria's main opposition candidate, Atiku Abubakar signed an election peace pact on Wednesday, saying a 'communication lapse' had prevented him from participating in the initial process with other candidates.
Atiku, Donald Duke and Oby Ezekwesili, were some of the opposition candidates, who were notably absent at Tuesday's ceremony in Abuja, at which President Muhammadu Buhari and dozens of other candidates vowed to ensure non-violence.
Voters in Africa's most populous nation go to the polls to elect a new president and parliament on February 16 next year. Gubernatorial and state assembly elections follow two weeks later.
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) said Abubakar was not at the event "due to (a) communication lapse between the National Peace Committee (NPC) and our party's national secretariat".
Ezekwesili, who was education minister under Olusegun Obasanjo and is an ex-World Bank vice-president, also signed the peace accord on Wednesday.


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GCH Heritage Foundation, a local, private foundation, presented two grants totaling $89,000 to local health care providers that are introducing new programs designed to address unmet health needs with children in southeast Michigan.
Hope Clinic, which has sites in the city of Wayne and Ypsilanti, received $47,000 to provide a year-long "Family Health Practices Program" designed to provide families with education and services to develop a safe and healthy family lifestyle.
"The patients and clients served by Hope are typically low-income and belong to households that struggle to make ends meet. This grant will assist us in implementing an encompassing program aimed at addressing health issues in the home — not just in a clinic," said James Gajewski, Hope's CEO.
One specific impact area will be to replace Hope's aging laundry service for their clients. This program is designed to meet the growing challenge for health care providers to focus on "population health" and not just single patient interactions.
Development Centers, serving Detroit and surrounding communities, is the recipient of a $42,000 grant for the implementation of "Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Program" which will prepare early childhood clinicians to address and mitigate the effects of trauma on children through age 5 and their families.
Dr. Robert Shaw, CEO of Development Centers; receives a grant check from Gary R. Ley, executive director of GCH Heritage Foundation. (Photo: Submitted)
Research indicates that families living in urban poverty often encounter multiple traumas over many years and repeated exposures to traumatic events that are left unaddressed can lead to severe and chronic negative outcomes.
"Funding from this grant will be spent on professional development and outreach activities specific to ensuring the unique needs of these families and young children are addressed," said Robert Shaw, president of Development Centers.
"Our organization admires Hope Clinic's and Development Center's outstanding work with family health services which give young children a chance for a healthier start in life," said Gary Ley, executive director of GCH Heritage Foundation. "We are excited to support both creative programs."
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Ivan Shearer Scholarship for study in Oxford or Cambridge – call for applications
A generous bequest by the late Professor Ivan Shearer AM RFD has enabled the creation of the Ivan Shearer Scholarship to support St Mark's Collegians to study at the University of Oxford or the University of Cambridge. An international law academic and practitioner who developed a high global reputation, Ivan Shearer (1938-2019) was Dean of …
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Remembering Bob Hastwell, Bursar (1958-84) and Honorary Fellow
Flags have recently flown at half-mast at the College in memory of the long-term and much-admired Bursar and Honorary Fellow, Robert Duncan (Bob) Hastwell (17 March 1927 – 29 September 2021). Bob Hastwell was a student at Prince Alfred College, Adelaide, and joined the Commonwealth Bank in 1944, before enlisting to serve in the RAAF …
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Remembering Honorary Fellow Richard Watson
The College community mourns the passing of our Honorary Fellow Richard Wyndham Watson (5 September 1936 – 14 June 2020). Richard was a medical student at St Mark's from 1956 to 1961, and later served the College in many capacities, including as a member of the College Council from 1976 to 1993, in which year …
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Dr James Muecke AM named Australian of the Year for 2020
The St Mark's College community warmly congratulates Dr James Muecke AM, who was a resident student at St Mark's from 1982 to 1987, on becoming Australian of the Year for 2020. The award, in recognition of James Muecke's pioneering work in blindness prevention, was announced by the Prime Minister in a ceremony at the National …
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St Mark's College Reunion 1996-2000
What a fantastic night! Over 20 Old Collegians and their partners joined us on Saturday for the 1996-2000 St Mark's College Reunion. The Dean, Dr Areti (Ari) Metuamate welcomed Collegians back to St Mark's who were students during 1996-2000. Throughout the evening, Collegians shared fond memories of their time at St Mark's and their exciting …
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Australia Day Honours 2019
Congratulations to St Mark's Old Collegians Mr Ian Wall AM (alumnus 1950-54), current Board member Dr Angela Evans AM (alumna 1982-84) and Professor Bruce Kemp AO (alumnus 1966-69), recognised with Australia Day Honours for making an impact locally and globally for their service and contribution in improving the lives of others in community health, research, business innovation, volunteerism …
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John Monash Scholarship Awarded to Alex Makarowsky
"We're identifying the future leaders of Australia and the globe. These are the people who have the potential to change the world," Jillian Segal AM., Chairman of the General Sir John Monash Foundation Graduate student of Adelaide University (Engineering Faculty) and resident of St Mark's College Alexander Makarowsky has been awarded this year's John Monash …
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Celebrating 50+ Years
It was such a pleasure to celebrate with Old Collegians who were at College over 50 years ago at the annual 50 Year Club Luncheon. Old Collegians had the opportunity to meet up with peers and reminisce about their time at College and share their experiences since leaving. The Rev'd William Goodes (alum 1954-57) said grace …
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Old Collegians reunite in Melbourne!
What a night Victoria! Over 40 Old Collegians and partners joined us recently for a lively reunion at the Hotel Windsor in Melbourne. Old Collegians who were at St Mark's from 1950 right through to 2017 fondly shared their memories of College life and updated friends on life since College. The Master welcomed guests and shared …
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Prof John Finnis awarded honorary doctorate
Along with 4750 graduates at the recent University of Adelaide graduation ceremonies, Professor John Finnis was one of nine eminent Australians awarded an honorary doctorate. Prof Finnis was awarded his Doctor of Laws on Saturday 6th May in recognition of his work as an Australian legal scholar and philosopher specialising in the philosophy of law, …
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Our new Engineering graduates
It was all smiles at the University of Adelaide Engineering graduations yesterday with a number of St Mark's collegians receiving their Bachelor degrees after many late night projects and countless College tutorials. Particular congratulations to Tim Grinter who graduated third overall in his cohort of B.Engineering (Chemical), and Tom Muecke who was fourth overall in …
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With holiday season on the way, there will be countless events focused entirely on food and other seasonal treats. Before we give thanks, let's think critically about where this food comes from, how it's produced, and its impacts on our health and environment. Together we can radically transform our food system for a more sustainable future. See you there!


(Natural News) Weeds are a home gardener's nightmare. There are many ways to eliminate pesky weeds, from old-school hand-pulling to using herbicides, but there is a natural and effective alternative that is worth considering.
If you are facing a weed problem in your garden, try using horticultural vinegar as an alternative to store-bought herbicides that may contain toxic chemicals.
The video below, which was uploaded on the official Natural News Brighteon channel, discusses horticultural vinegar and how you can use it to make some eco-friendly weed killer.
Horticultural vinegar has at least 20 to 30 percent acidity, and you will need it to make a natural weed killer. This eco-friendly alternative to store-bought herbicides is free from toxic chemicals that only harm your crops and the environment.
Combine four parts of horticultural vinegar with one part water.
Put the mixture in a spray bottle.
Use the vinegar spray to get rid of pesky weeds in your garden in early summer or spring. The weeds will turn brown and wither after eight to 12 hours.
For best results, spray the vinegar solution from mid- to late afternoon.
Dig carefully – When you remove grass on your lawn, you're also creating a new place for weeds to grow. Some lawns have hidden weed seeds so dig carefully.
Hand-pulling – If you don't mind putting in some hard work, hand-pulling is an effective and natural method for eliminating weeds. Wait until after it rains, which can soften the ground, then pull weeds from beneath the soil. Use a knife or screwdriver to loosen any stubborn taproots.
Outnumber weeds– For this method to work, you need to plant various flowers, garden crops, or ground covers that will naturally beat out weeds for nutrients, sunlight, and water. This method taps into the natural competition for resources among the plants in your home garden.
Pour boiling water on weeds – Boil plain tap water, then carefully pour it on weeds that grow in the cracks in sidewalks or your driveway. This method is perfect for young weeds. Add a tablespoon of salt to the boiling water to make it even more effective. Boiling water produces immediate results, so use this method if you're in a hurry to kill certain weeds on your property.
Smother weeds – Cover low-growing weeds, such as clover or crabgrass, with newspaper. In time, the lack of sunlight will get rid of them. You can also put down sections of newspaper, then cover them with mulch to prevent new weeds from sprouting in your garden.
Use mulch – Mulch can help kill weeds, and it also helps keep the garden soil cool and wet. Mulch can also eliminate the light that weeds need to grow. Don't use mulch near your lawn and keep it about two inches deep so it doesn't kill your grass.
See the full guide on how to make natural herbicide by watching the video, which you can view at this link.
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There are 150 Pokémon, if anyone says otherwise they are simply not to be trusted. With that off my chest we can focus on the startlingly ageing fact that Pokémon Red and Blue are celebrating their 20th year since we first held that wonderful game in our young tender hands. We wasted hours if not days of our precious childhood running through tall grass trying to catch these fantastical creatures with the intention of becoming a Pokémon Master like no one ever was.
With this in mind we think it's about time we pulled out the old GameBoy Colour, jabbed a couple of AA's into the back (with the battery cover still missing of course), took a hearty blow into that cartridge one last time and relived our epic childhoods…..Pfff who are we kidding, as much as we love retro here at Goos3D, the future is cool. all about the future and Pokémon is about to get a massive revamp all thanks to augmented reality.
Recently we brought you a piece on how augmented reality is going to be used to remove manuals from cars in the near future, but where is the fun in that. So get ready to turn that cap backwards and strike your proudest pose because Pokémon GO…. I choose you!
With the 20th anniversary in mind Nintendo are set to release a limited edition of the 3DS with both versions of the original game built in. Don't get us wrong, this is a cool piece of kit that if we're perfectly honest we will probably be investing in ourselves; so strong is our nostalgia for those crazy critters. With that in mind, Poéemon GO is really where the brand will get a much needed update and this game is going to be available on iOS and Android, so no need to invest in anything other than a half decent smartphone.
Niantic, the guys behind Ingress, have been commissioned by Satoru Iwata and Tsunekaza Ishihara of Nintendo and The Pokémon Company respectively, to create the Pokémon GO game for iOS and Android. So far between all three parties they have invested a whopping $20 million into bringing Pokémon to life through the augmented reality game alongside the Pokémon GO Plus, essentially a small wearable developed by Nintendo to compliment the game by using Bluetooth to notify users when a Pokémon is nearby by way of an LED and light rumble.
The game will allow you the standard user to battle, capture, train and trade all their virtual Pokémon through the real world. This is how world peace begins, instead of fighting in the playground or have someone at work giving you grief, challenge their dainty little Starmie go up against your Pigeot and let the Pokémon decide. The game will be free to play which is quite awesome, although it will support in app purchases so you can buy all the Pokéballs after some funky capturing.
The idea for the game was originally conceived in 2013 and has taken this long to get to a stage where they feel confident for an expected release around November this year. With augmented reality the way it is the game will be able to have different Pokémon live in different areas of the world. For example water type Pokémon will live near the water, so to catch that Crabby get down to Lahinch. Given Ireland's general landscape, one can only imagine the type of Pokémon we will be able to catch here. The creators have also decided to bring this idea a step further with plans to create events world-wide for players to trade, compete in competitions and they have even teased that they will create limited time frame events for gamers to capture the Legendary Pokémon like Mew-two.
The Pokémon Go plus wearable will ship with the game to allow the users a more heads up gaming experience, where the player can be alerted to any of the aforementioned events or sightings of nearby Pokémon, The decision to create the Go Plus rather than create a smart watch app was to increase uptake among players for whom a smart watch is prohibitively expensive.
I can imagine such a world where Pokemon, wearables and augmented reality come together to back a young boys dream come true. Just hurry on and make it happen .
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Who Wins with Non-Lawyer Ownership? Just the Bankers (Part 1)
by Brian Focht | Dec 10, 2013 | Ethical Use of Technology | 0 comments
"I would write a shorter sermon, but once I start I get too lazy to stop."
Today in the Prism Legal blog, I read an article titled "Rule against Outside Investment in Law Firms Stifles Innovation." In the article, the author asserts that the "dangers" of allowing non-lawyer ownership in law firms are largely theoretical, but the "harm" in refusing non-lawyer ownership is "concrete and immediate," including:
Legal costs remain higher than they otherwise would be
Lawyers cannot pursue professionally rewarding paths
Investors miss an opportunity to earn a return
Society continues to pay more for law that is possible or necessary
Innovations these firms create cannot "trickle down" to conventionally owned law firm.
The author then suggests that those who support upholding the prohibition on non-lawyer ownership should bear the burden to provide justification as to why the prohibition on non-lawyer ownership prohibition should stand. Basically, he argues: "We should change. If you can't give me good reasons why we shouldn't change, I win."
I accept his challenge, but with a caveat. I believe that the burden is on the party seeking change to demonstrate why it's necessary. Neither his article, nor any of the other articles arguing from the similar position, provide logical arguments for change. As was reported in the Lawyerist: "I don't see the advantage to law firms, unless something about law firms makes them incapable of changing their business models without non-lawyer investment and control. That's a scary concept without a strong justification."
I also believe that to allow non-lawyer ownership would fundamentally and irrevocably change the way legal services are provided (which, for many, is the real purpose behind deregulation). It is my position that the negative aspects of such a change have been largely ignored by those arguing for deregulation, and dramatically outweigh any potential benefits.
1) Allowing non-lawyer ownership will not substantially decrease the cost of legal services OR increase the access to justice.
This first argument has two important aspects. Almost every single argument I've seen in favor of non-lawyer ownership accepts, without any argument, that the cost of legal services will go down, and that such decreased costs will increase the access to justice. These are two completely different issues, neither of which is addressed effectively by the idea of non-lawyer ownership.
First, the basic idea forwarded by most proponents of non-lawyer investment is that the introduction of a corporate environment, where executives answer to investors, will increase efficiency and lower the costs of providing legal services. But they provide no supporting evidence.
Many authors point to companies like Legal Zoom as examples. However, none address the fact that those services, constituting basic form practice, ARE ALREADY AVAILABLE. Your bank has the forms you need to set up a basic will, your state's secretary of state has the basic forms for starting a business, and your local courthouse has the forms for divorce.
What many of these companies who advocate reform want to be is the Quicken Turbo-Tax of law. However, all they're really doing is assembling information that was already publicly available (without an attorney) and putting them into software. Just like what Turbo-Tax actually does (automate a home accounting process you could have done without an accountant).
Second, many argue that the accepted-as-gospel decreased costs would increase access to justice. It's crap. When we speak of true lack of access to justice, we're not talking about someone who wants to spend a little less on the form setting up their grandchild's trust. We're talking about the victims of foreclosure fraud who can't afford an attorney to fight the banks. We're talking about the victim of medical malpractice who can't get an attorney because their $15,000 medical bill, while crippling, would not provide a contingency fee sufficient for any attorney to afford to bring the case. We're talking about people who won't benefit from having Walmart providing basic legal services.
In fact, many of the interest pushing deregulation of the practice of law are actually trying to DECREASE access to justice. They're the same interests who push tort reform, private and confidential arbitration instead of trials, and new eDiscovery rules that will make it even more expensive to litigate in federal court. Look beyond the words, and the notion that this argument will increase access to justice just melts away.
2) Investments in new processes and technology is NOT inhibited by prohibiting non-lawyer ownership.
One of the most ridiculous arguments I've heard was actually the basis for the Prism Legal article. The post discusses an attorney who claims to have "an innovative and entrepreneurial idea" to open a law firm that utilizes automation. In other words, he wants to open a law firm. But he can't get the funding to "build and market the new technology." So revolutionary is this new law firm idea, automating insurance claims, that it's really MORE than just a law firm.
Here's the thing, if you could only get investors for your new idea by giving them a stake in your law firm in exchange for investment, it wasn't a great idea.
The author makes another leap that is common in these articles: "Lets' stipulate that automating corporate legal work benefits both clients and society by reducing legal costs."
No, let's not. Automating legal work is nothing new, and it happens all the time. Yet even as legal work has been automated more and more over the last 30 years, has it reduced overall legal costs? Why do we allow these arguments to make such huge assumptions without any factual support?
The amazing thing is that the author actually turns investment capital on its head. The reason that not every invention gets investment is because sometimes it works, other times it doesn't! He gives no thought to the possibility that potential investors in this guy's automation process considered any investment to be too risky. The fact that your friend wasn't able to get funding on the side for his automation project means he has to do what every other attorney does to open a new firm: GET A LOAN.
If it's so difficult to get money for innovations while ALSO being a lawyer, why isn't that the case for doctors? It scares me to think that doctors would be smarter than lawyers about starting a company to test and market the new drug or device.
The prohibition has nothing to do with precluding lawyers from seeking out investment money for innovations (or pursue professionally rewarding paths, an argument so stupid it's not worth its own section). The prohibition prevents greedy investors from obtaining a portion of the law firm in the event the innovation doesn't work. And what if this guy's innovation sucks? Any investor gets to recoup their losses through law firm profits that may have gone to such things as capital and technology upgrades.
No new technology or process has died just because the lawyer who thought it up wasn't able to capital without using his law firm as collateral. Arguing otherwise is ridiculous.
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Prague: A People, A City, A History
Prague is a city close to my heart. I spent a few memorable months in a town closer to the Slovak border as a teenager teaching English. It was a bitterly cold winter of 1993, only months after the fall of communism and it was just as Czechoslovakia had become a new Czech Republic. It was a unique and life changing moment in history, both for a young girl from Britain and for the Czech and Slovak Republics. The red tape and bureaucracy involved in entering the country to work in a school was immense. I had to sign a form which was also required to be signed by the headmaster, the state police and central government, then photocopied eight times.
The experience was life changing and the memories of a people, as yet untouched by western culture, was an eye opener. Lives were lived simply and with family gatherings a frequent occurrence. The emphasis on Czech culture and folk music, and stories handed down through generations, on lives determined by fierce winters and the need for thick boots, coats and hats (none of which I owned), created a seed in me; a seed that would later grow to become a story.
As I listened to the lives of people who had lived under daily threat of the communist state police, and with the risk of imprisonment, a world opened itself up to me. This was a world where post was intercepted, movement restricted, media heavily censored and ordinary lives monitored secretly, and scrutinized by a power that eventually collapsed in 1989 after the Velvet Revolution and the fall of the Berlin wall. The chain of events across Eastern Europe was cataclysmic. I was amazed to hear different sides to a story that remains a powerful historical period. Girls my age missed the security of one hundred percent employment under a communist government and the comfort of rules and regulations, but as I listened I heard stories of those who were less fortunate and whose families were torn apart by deceit as people were forced to turn on their own friends and family, and parents were imprisoned for being deemed traitors, enemies of the state.
That a land so beautiful and so rich in culture and stunning in its elegance had endured such a savage and restrictive past, was a message to me that over the years grew into a story, and subsequently a book. Take Me to the Castle became my debut novel, published in 2012, and it went on to win The Peoples' Book Awards in 2013. It was a story that had to be written, a story that developed out of listening to first hand experiences and of staying in Letovice during a unique turning point in history at a time when I heard not a single English voice and felt the chill of the snow as it reached Charles Bridge and the Vltava River, as it covered the musicians and artists, the castle and the cathedral. The silence betrayed a deeper history of Jewish graveyards and of former prisons and government offices filled with files on ordinary people.
I fell in love with Prague and I have been back since to a much changed city, but my memories of 1993 remain and will stay with me.
Photo credits clockwise from top left:
1. Word-visits.blogspot.co.at, Trips to Prague
2. Free-picture.net, Cities of the World
3. Wikimedia, Daniel Wabyick, Prague – sculpture (about the deteriorating effects of communism on man)
4. Prague-guide.co.uk, Velvet Revolution Memorial
5. Panic on the Streets of Prague, Prague-life.com
6. teflworldwidepraguereviews.wordpress.com, Prague Streets
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The bay is listed by the UNESCO since 1979 as world heritage. The image and reputation of the bay are strongly linked to the landscapes surrounding the Mont Saint-Michel.
Ducey is located on the banks of the Selune in the Mont Saint-Michel Bay, Ducey has several tourist attractions.
Discover the cities in La Manche department.
Montjoie Saint-Martin is located on Saint James' way and the Mont Saint-Michel's way where different monuments are scattered along the way.
Near the Emeraude Coast, between Saint-Malo and Mont-Saint-Michel, not far from Dinan, Fougere and Rennes, the 'Pays de la Baie' offers many tourist infrastructures.
Dol-de-Bretagne is a commune located in the Ille-et-Vilaine department in the region of Brittany.


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Cell 22.2
Posted on May 7, 2013 by wildbow
Miss Militia handed me a phone and uncuffed one hand from the table. I dialed the number I'd memorized and waited while she and Director Tagg watched.
"Mr. Calle, Esquire," the voice on the other line said. He sounded distracted, and the voice was slightly muffled. I could hear noise in the background, voices.
"It's time," I said. "I'm at the PRT headquarters, second basement floor."
"Ms. Hebert! Excellent! I was just telling myself that I'd almost run out of things to see in your city, here, and was about to let myself start being concerned for your welfare if it got much later. I'm in your territory as we speak."
"My territory?"
"Getting a sense of who you are as a person and a personality. There's a number of people here who are very concerned for your welfare. They don't quite believe me when I say I'm looking out for your interests."
"Okay," I said. "Big guy? Beard?"
"A young lady, dark-haired."
I thought for a second. "Tell her 'fly in a paper box.'"
He didn't cover the mouthpiece of his phone as he spoke the phrase. There was a pause, then Mr. Calle spoke into the phone once again, "That did it."
I don't really care, I thought. I just didn't want him getting in any trouble. "How soon can you be here?"
"A five minute drive."
"It's not a five minute drive from there to here."
"I'm a fast driver. No need to worry, but… maybe don't mention it to the law enforcement officials that are looking over your shoulder. Do you have any preferences for donuts? Coffee?"
There was a murmur on the other end.
"Someone's telling me you want tea," he asked.
"Just-" Just get here, I was about to say, then I reconsidered. I knew where he was, and I was tempted at the thought. Besides, I knew Tagg was watching me. "A BLT on toasted white and a sugar donut. And tea."
"They don't sell any tea here, but I'm sure we can contrive to get you some in a timely manner. I trust you haven't said anything to the glowering heroes?"
"Excellent. Keep your mouth shut, now. I'll be there in six."
With that said, he hung up.
"A sandwich, donuts and tea," Tagg said. He had his arms folded.
I smiled a little, but I didn't reply.
"Very casual," he mused. He took the phone, gripped my wrist in his hand and set the handcuff back into place.
I shifted position, and the movement raked the chain of my cuffs against the ring that held them fixed to the table. It was hard to get comfortable. The table and chairs were bolted to the floor, and my hands were held in front of me. I got the impression the setup was meant for villains just a touch taller than I was – I couldn't quite lean against the chair back without the cuffs cutting into my wrists.
"I'm trying to figure you out," Tagg said.
I ignored him.
"My aims aren't very high. I'm not a psychologist, like Mrs. Yamada, I'm not experienced in the ins and outs of the traumas you capes go through or the damage that shit causes. You and I haven't really squared off yet, like you have with Miss Militia. Those two understand you on levels I never could."
I glanced at Miss Militia. Her expression was inscrutable behind the stars-and-stripes scarf she wore over the lower half.
"I'm setting my sights lower than that. I'm trying to figure out if you really think you have the upper hand, here, if you're arrogant enough to expect everything will go your way…" Tagg paused, studying me, as if looking for a response. "…or if you intend to martyr yourself. Is that the idea? You go to the Birdcage, but you make some demands first?"
I would have put my head on the table and tried to close my eyes for a minute, but the setup wasn't very accommodating. I didn't want to try to then realize I couldn't get comfortable.
"Maybe you don't really get what the Birdcage is. See, I hate it. I was in Lausanne in two-thousand two through oh-three. Fought a whole mess of ugly. People that couldn't be reasoned with, people who were hopeless, in the grand scheme of it. Victims, as much as anyone else."
I found myself listening, despite myself.
"We shot them, the people who heard too much of the Simurgh's song, who weren't just walking disaster areas, but who'd listened long enough that they lost something. Men, women and children missing that moral center that people like Miss Militia and I have. Hell, even you've got morals. They didn't. I'm sure you heard about it, you're not that young. Suicide bombers, dirty bombs. Terrorism, if you will. Eleven year olds and old men making their way to Amsterdam or London and opening fire in a crowded area. Just like that."
Tagg slammed his hand down on the metal table, coinciding with the 'that'. I jumped a little, despite myself.
He's just trying to rattle me.
"Once we realized what was happening, we had to act, contain the damage. Contain families. Had to act against people who went home from a day of trying to kill the rest of us and cooked a nice dinner, oblivious to just how fucked they were in the head. People who were otherwise good, who got warped on a fundamental level, left open to the preaching and the incitement of their angrier neighbors. Two years of fighting before we got the word down from on high, that they couldn't rehabilitate the ones they'd captured, the ones who'd listened too long. The poor assholes would play nice until they saw an opportunity, then they'd take it, do as much damage as they could. Two years fighting good people who'd been convinced they had to throw their lives away fighting an enemy that didn't exist. So we closed the perimeter, bombed them out, herded them and gunned them down."
I glanced up, briefly meeting his eyes. The lines around them seemed just a little deeper. I wasn't sure if it was emotion, memories coming to the surface, or if it was just the lighting in this interrogation room.
"Which takes me back to my original point," Tagg said. "The Birdcage. I hate it. Hate what it stands for, the affront to our freedoms. The farce of it. You know what that word means, little girl? Farce?"
I almost took the bait and responded, bit my tongue instead.
"Guess not. And Miss Militia said you were smart. When it comes to the monsters and the menaces who are more trouble than they're worth, I wish with all my heart that we had another option. Look me in the eyes, now. I want you to see I mean what I say."
I met his eyes.
"I'd rather do what we did in Lausanne than use the Birdcage. End result's the same. You're gone from this world. It's more merciful, understand? If it was legal, if I got the okay from on high, I'd make you kneel in the center of this very room and end you with one well placed bullet. Better than you getting in a van and getting disappeared, dropped into a pit that some of the scariest, meanest capes around haven't figured out how to escape, a literal hell on earth."
"But as much as I hate the Birdcage, I'll gladly use it if it gets menaces like you off the streets and out of the way of civilized Americans who are trying to live their lives. And my bosses know that. They know I'm just as stubborn as the worst of them, because I've fought bastards like the sad souls in Lausanne, who didn't even know how to yield, and I outlasted them."
I wasn't sure I could have responded if I'd been willing to open my mouth.
"I want you to think on that. As much as you see me as an asshole, maybe you look down on me because you think you're smarter than I am, but you think about what it means that I'd sooner shoot a misguided sixteen year old girl than send her to that place… and I'd sooner send you there than let you go free to keep perverting the system."
"My lawyer's here," I said. I could sense him, striding through the lobby to talk to a receptionist at the front desk. "Mr. Calle. He's upstairs."
"Someone will show him the way down here," Tagg said. "You and I, we can keep chatting here."
I shut my mouth, frowning. Miss Militia wasn't acting, wasn't saying a thing.
"I wonder if you realize what you've really done. Pulling the shit you have in this city. Forget the PRT, forget me and the people I work for. Let's talk about the grander perspective. The precedent this shit sets. You know there's already been others who tried to do what you're doing? Take over?"
People have been trying to take over for a long time, I thought, but I didn't say it aloud.
"People are getting hurt, hurting others, trying to follow in your footsteps. You're a fucking pioneer, aren't you? Do you get that? That part of what we're doing, here, is not just stopping you, dealing with you Undersiders, whatever your excuses might be. It's the effects that reach across this entire country. The world."
I didn't reply. My focus was on Mr. Calle, who was making his way downstairs in the elevator, accompanied by the same PRT soldier who had taken me to my cell.
"What's the name of the fellow who tried to take over that town in Alaska just a few days ago? You remember, Miss Militia?"
"Hiemal."
"Hiemal. How many did his people kill?"
"Three dead," Tagg said. He pulled a chair away from the table, set one foot on it, so he was looming over me.
Mr. Calle appeared in the doorway. I'd looked him up prior to first contacting him, and I'd seen his photos online. I was caught off guard, nonetheless, on two very different fronts.
"Good afternoon," he said, putting his briefcase down before extending a hand to Miss Militia, smiling in a way that showed off his very white teeth. I'd assumed that his prim appearance in the pictures had been because he'd been anticipating having his photos taken, or because he'd been appearing in public. His black hair hadn't just been cut, it had been styled, his eyebrows shaped. He had long eyelashes, I noted, and a small cleft in his chin. He was an exceptionally handsome Latino guy, in a light gray suit with a white vest beneath, and a red tie. He had a folder and a paper bag under one arm, in addition to the briefcase he'd put down.
His immaculate appearance was the first thing that caught me off guard, and it set a stark contrast with the corner of one nostril and one of his cheekbones, where, apparently, one of his clients had done some damage. It was a cut, but puckered around the edges where it had been burned, either with fire or some kind of acid.
He extended a hand to the Director, who glowered but shook it. He flashed another white smile at Tagg, "Quinn Calle, I-"
"I know who you are," Tagg replied.
"Excellent. That should make the rest of this easier. I'd like some time alone with my client. I already have the bulk of the paperwork, but if you could give me anything that came up in the last short while, I'd appreciate it."
"I'll see what we have," Miss Militia said. She and Tagg turned to leave.
Calle brushed the seat clear where Tagg had stepped on it, then sat down just to my left. "And Director?"
Director Tagg paused in the doorway.
Mr. Calle pointed at the one-way mirror at one side of the interrogation room. "This is a confidential meeting with my client. I would never imply that anyone in the PRT would be so crass as to listen in, but… let's leave that room empty until further notice, okay?"
Tagg visibly bristled at the implication. Wordless, he turned to leave.
"And cameras stay off!" Mr. Calle called out at the Director's back.
Tagg shut the door with a little more force than necessary.
"Ms. Hebert," Mr. Calle said, without looking at me. He set the folder on the table and began sorting out the contents. He waited until the paperwork was all arranged in front of him before he turned his attention to the paper bag, retrieving my sandwich, a small carton of six donuts, and a small thermos. He met my eyes and spoke, "We finally meet."
Again, that smile, the kind of smile someone could only really give if they were attractive and they knew it. He didn't seem to mind the blemish on his face, acted as though it weren't there, as if that dictated how others would react to it.
"Can we cut out the charm and get to business?" I asked, as I reached for the thermos and sandwich. "There's something of a time limit."
The smile dropped from his face, and he was all business. "A time limit. Can I ask?"
"It's twelve past one," I said. "We have until eight-thirty."
"Very well. Let's get moving. First off, I want to get some things clear. I'm an excellent lawyer, I've worked with more than a few big-name villains, as well as heroes who went astray. I have the rest of my firm backing me, and their talents are but a phone call away. But." He paused in a very deliberate way. "You should know that I'm not the lawyer you want at a jury trial. We've run simulations, and I don't sell when it comes to juries. This little mark is a good part of that."
He touched his face, where the scar was.
Mr. Calle continued, "If it comes to a serious trial, I'll take the backseat and one of my senior partners would represent you."
"Okay," I said. "That's fine. I don't want this to go to trial."
"Alright. We can work with that. In the meantime, let's see what we're up against…"
He turned the first page in one of the neatly bound sheafs of paper. "Charges… chime in, but don't panic, alright?"
"April tenth, criminal negligence with a parahuman ability, sixteen charges of assault, sixteen charges of battery with a parahuman ability."
I tried to think. April tenth? Early in my career?
"Lung," I said, "I attacked him and his gang. They're seriously charging me for attacking Lung's henchmen?"
"They're going to charge you with everything they think they can get away with and see what sticks. Depending on who they could actually find and convince to testify, they'll drop charges after the fact. We can maybe use that, or we could, if circumstances were different and we were wanting to take this to trial. No need to worry. Gut reaction? Could they make it stick?"
"The Lung part, yes, but the rest… probably not."
"Okay. Let's run down the list. April fourteenth. Thirty two charges of willful felony assault with a parahuman ability. Thirty two charges of hostage taking, technically domestic terrorism, each perpetrated with a parahuman ability. Robbery with a parahuman ability. Willful damage to government property. Disturbing the peace."
"The bank robbery. I didn't damage any property."
"Right. April twenty-fourth? One case of battery."
"I don't remember that."
"An… Emma Barnes. She appeared-"
"Right. No, I remember what that was. It happened, didn't think anything would come of it."
"One of the girls who bullied you. Odd that they took their time filing charges on it. Only this past week."
Tagg must have talked to her. I shrugged.
"Moving on, then. Incidents taking place at the… Forsberg Gallery, May fifth. Five cases of assaulting a law enforcement officer. Five cases of battering a law enforcement officer, three performed with a parahuman ability."
"That's attacking the heroes?"
"No. That'd be an entirely different charge, and…" my lawyer flipped through the papers, "Just double checking… there's a conspicuous lack of charges involving your altercations with major heroes. It could be that they discussed it and didn't feel it necessary. Things get complicated when capes take the stand, given the issues of identity and character, and they might not have wanted to dredge up old business. If not that, the only way I could imagine it is if the heroes in question withdrew all charges?"
He pitched his voice to make the statement into something of a question.
I thought of Armsmaster. Him? Maybe. But Assault? Miss Militia? That was harder to picture. The Wards? Harder still.
"I don't know which it is," I admitted.
"All right. Something to look into, if we have time. Still on May fifth, eighty-one charges of willful felony assault. Still at the fundraiser."
He raised one eyebrow. I only nodded confirmation.
"Skipping ahead a month to June third, we've got… complicity towards one count of kidnapping using a parahuman ability. This was-"
"Sophia Hess."
"One of the girls who bullied you. Extenuating circumstances, perhaps," he said. He made a note in the margins of the document. "June fourth, you're supposedly complicit in class two extortion with a parahuman ability, criminal negligence with a parahuman ability and false imprisonment with a parahuman ability."
"They… can probably make that stick."
"June fifth. Treason."
"Treason."
"That would be, in effect, declaring war against the government of the United States of America."
"That's not what I did."
"It's what they're going to say you did when you took over the territory. I'd expect they already have strong arguments lined up on that front. On the same day, thirty cases of assault and battery. Six cases of aggravated assault with a parahuman ability."
"June eighth, eight cases of assault with a parahuman ability. June ninth, we've got twelve more. June tenth, three cases of assault with a parahuman ability, one case of assault in the third degree."
"Alright," I said.
"Thirteenth, we have three more cases of assault with a parahuman ability."
"Sixteenth of June, disturbing the peace, property damage."
I nodded. The days were starting to blend into one another, to the point that I wasn't sure I could guess which charges were referring to which events.
"Seventeenth, five charges of assault and battery. One charge of aggravated assault with a parahuman ability. One charge of criminal extortion."
"Attacking the mayor," I said, almost relieved to be able to pinpoint the crime in question.
"And his family, it seems." Mr. Calle paused, then paged through the rest of the pad. "June eighteenth. Destruction of government property, four counts. Hostage taking, assault and battery of a law enforcement officer. June nineteenth, complicity in another count of treason. Complicity in manslaughter, nineteen counts."
I nodded. Dragon and fighting in the debate. Given Dragon's response in the cafeteria, I'd almost expected her to drop any charges involved in the destruction of the suits she'd sent against me. Maybe people higher up than her had charged me anyways. Then there was the manslaughter. "Apparently the murders were staged."
"We'll have to look into that. And… that's the last we have in our actual records. The PRT was slow in sending us the rest, but Miss Militia should deliver it soon. There's been more in the last week, I take it?"
"More assault and battery," I said, feeling a touch weary. "Whatever charges come up with the thing at the school. I sort of arranged to have a psychopath kill herself. Um. However you'd charge putting maggots in someone's eyeballs. In self-defense."
He didn't even flinch at that. "I see. And any other charges that might catch us by surprise?"
"Premeditated murder," I said. "Of a law enforcement officer. Miss Militia knows, but she's kept quiet on it."
"I see," Mr. Calle said. He frowned briefly.
"It was Coil. Director Thomas Calvert was Coil."
"Alright, then," Mr. Calle said. He met my eyes, then smiled. "Believe it or not, I've handled worse."
I wasn't sure if I should feel relieved at that.
"Now let's talk about our goals. For the record, if we took this to trial, I think we could knock off most of these charges on a lack of evidence and degrees of amnesty surrounding your participation against the various class-S threats. They're going to want to put together a jury that hasn't heard of you, which would be difficult. To those people, it's going to sound downright preposterous that a sixteen year old girl is being charged with treason and terrorism, especially after we reduce the number of assault and battery charges to single digits."
"I don't want a jury trial," I said. "I've said this twice now."
"I know," Mr. Calle said. "Hear me out. I'm wanting to make sure our expectations are realistic. Theoretically speaking, I think we could get you charged as a minor. Paint a picture of a bullied teenager pushed to the limit, caught out of her depth and, following the Leviathan attack, ensnared in an ugly situation where she's trying to protect people and the heroes are being unreasonable in how they interact with her. We could use the unwarranted unmasking to indicate just how aggressive and ruthless the PRT has been in regards to you."
"And if I decided to plea down, in exchange for certain considerations?"
"We can still reduce the charges, which would help reduce the penalties you'd face, but where I'm confident we could get you off in a trial by jury, you'd face some consequences if you insisted on taking this route."
"Alright," I said. "I can live with consequences. In terms of holding them to the terms I stipulate, is there any way to set it up so they can't change their minds after they've gotten what they want from me?"
"We can prepare a contract, but that only imposes financial penalties," Mr. Calle answered me. "The PRT could theoretically get it thrown out of court, and that's ignoring the possibility that you could be sent to the birdcage. It would depend on the penalties you're able to levy against them…"
He trailed off.
I thought of Tattletale. "I think I have some ideas."
"Excellent. But the best way, I'm thinking, is to make it all common knowledge. Let the rest of the country hold them to it. It would depend on whether we could share the details with John and Jane Q. Public."
"Can we talk about the terms, then?" I asked.
"We can. I got the impression you were able to tell time?"
"It's one twenty-seven. Six hours and three minutes left."
"Right then," he made a pained expression. "A good thing I told my wife I wouldn't make it to dinner. I'll get a few of my coworkers on the line. They can pitch in and put an intern to typing things up while we hash this out. You don't have much ground to stand on, but we can make the legal ramifications as ugly as possible for them if they throw you under the bus."
It took one and a half hours, roughly, to get everything worked out and organized. After that, I had to put up with twenty minutes of waiting while Mr. Calle's law firm typed it and emailed it to us. It took ten more minutes for my lawyer to run to a nearby print shop and get the paperwork we'd put together. Mr. Calle then insisted on reading the entire thing through. The wait was almost intolerable.
Fifteen more minutes passed as he went through it page by page, with agonizing slowness. I winced a little every time he stopped and went back to check earlier details against whatever it was he was reading.
"It's bare bones," he finally said.
"I didn't expect much else," I said.
"We could have done better with more notice, I have to say."
"Too many variables to lay anything out ahead of time," I said.
"Very well. Let's bring them in."
More minutes ticked away as we waited for the others to arrive. Director Tagg, the Deputy Director, Miss Militia, Clockblocker, and Mrs. Yamada… they were gathering in force. Tagg took a seat opposite us, Miss Militia to his left, his second in command to his right.
"Let's hear it," he said.
Mr. Calle stood, then walked around the table, handing each person present a copy of the document. I was the only one who didn't have one in front of me.
"My client, Taylor Hebert, is offering official surrender to the PRT, for a select handful of crimes. This surrender and an admission of guilt would be televised locally, nationally and possibly internationally, dependent on which outlets were prepared to cooperate. In exchange, my client, Taylor Hebert, known by the alias 'Skitter', requests some concessions from the Protectorate, PRT and Wards."
"Televised?" Tagg asked.
"It serves as insurance for my client, and it serves to signal the Undersiders to stand down, should they be considering any sort of aggression for the capture of their leader and friend."
"Right," Tagg said. "Let's pretend she didn't plan for that. Go on."
"To begin with, the remaining members of the Undersiders will be given leniency for past crimes. With the understanding that the Undersiders are serving to police this city's underworld where the Protectorate is unable, the group would cease to be the target of any aggression or harassment on the part of the PRT, Protectorate or Wards. This fact would not be disclosed to the public, but would serve as a truce to allow both sides to carry out their respective duties in the service of Brockton Bay."
"You're kidding me," Clockblocker said.
"You want us to play nice," Tagg said.
I watched Miss Militia. We'd already discussed this point. I'd gauged her response. Now I was putting it out there in simple, clear terms, making it official. I couldn't be sure if she'd hold to her word or if it would collapse under the bureaucracy.
I'd tested her once, and she'd informed Tagg of what I was planning. This would be a second test, of sorts.
"Special allowances," Mr. Calle said, "Would be made for crimes committed in the future, within specific limits detailed on page three of the paperwork you have in front of you."
"You want to neuter us," Director Tagg said. "Stop us from policing the criminals who run this city."
"As my client phrased it, Director, we're hoping to free you to focus your efforts on real targets."
"You can want it and begin again," Tagg said, "But I won't stand by and watch it happen."
"Quite alright," my lawyer responded. He flashed a smile, "I expect that's why Ms. Hebert has asked that you retire, Director Tagg. Her colleague, known by the alias Tattletale, has apparently confirmed that you've put in the requisite number of years. You could collect your pension without issue."
I watched as Tagg leaned back in his seat. He gave me a smug look. He thinks he got to me.
"You're dangerous," I said. "You've got a soldier's mentality at a time when we need peace. You'd let the world burn to… give me a bloody nose. You said it yourself. You're unyielding, and we need compromise."
"A reality that Ms. Hebert feels Miss Militia would be better equipped to accommodate," my lawyer added. "That's our third term."
There weren't any retorts or rebuttals from the 'good guys'. Instead, they exchanged glances across the table, everyone looking between Miss Militia and Director Tagg.
"The PRT is led by non-capes," Miss Militia said.
"That can change," I said. "Nearly a week ago, you and I had a conversation. We talked about the issues within the PRT, the fact that you had to kowtow to non-capes and all the problems that posed. I think the non-capes who tend to find powerful positions in the PRT are getting there by dangerous roads. They tend to have backgrounds with the police, military, and anti-parahuman strike teams. It sets up a combative mindset, where we don't need one. With a cape in charge of the local team, at the very least, I could hope that there'd be a shared perspective."
"You think Miss Militia would be easier to manipulate," Tagg accused me.
"I think she's a no-nonsense type. I know she's a respected cape, that her power… it's not one you want to cross paths with, so there'd be little doubt she could put up a fight if it came down to it. And she listens. She doesn't always do what I'd want her to, but I can live with that."
"This sets a precedent," Miss Militia said. "One that I doubt our superiors would be happy with. One I doubt the public would be happy with."
"When I showed up the night you guys outed me to the public, Tagg was boasting about your fantastic public relations department," I said. "How virtually anything could be sold to the public, given time."
"It's ultimately up to the Director," Triumph said, "But what if, hypothetically, we had a figurehead leader, with Miss Militia as the person that was really calling the shots?"
I shook my head. "Not good enough."
"You actually have the temerity to play hardball?" Tagg asked, his voice rising a notch. "I think you're missing the fact that you're securely in our custody, and you already surrendered. If it comes down to it, we can see you shipped off with Dragon and Defiant, keep you airborne and away from any large body of insects until your trial by teleconference."
"And my teammates?" I asked.
"That's up to you," he said, "But I don't think you have it in you to sacrifice them for… this."
"I guess I have a higher estimation of them than you do. Don't tell your people to stop underestimating me, only to slip up and expect to win wholesale against the rest of the Undersiders. I think they'd surprise you. Surprise all of you."
"You said you need compromise," Miss Militia said. "But you won't budge on this point? A figurehead leader would keep the public content and give you what you're asking for."
"What I want," I said, "Is to set a precedent. Fixing Brockton Bay doesn't do a thing, if we don't leave doors open to fix things elsewhere. If one cape becomes head of the local PRT, then it could happen elsewhere."
Director Tagg drummed his fingertips on the metal table for a few seconds. When he spoke, his tone was derisive. "Your arrogance boggles the fucking mind. You want to change the world, and you think a confession on television and the threat of your friends attacking the PRT will be incentive enough? You're not that big a fish."
"I don't want to change the world," I said. "I want to make it possible for things to change."
I sighed. My glasses were slipping down my nose. I had to bend over to put them in reach of my hand so I could push them up.
"Is that it?" Miss Militia asked.
"One more thing," Mr. Calle said. "My client has a request."
All eyes turned to me. I straightened. "I recognize that I'm asking for some big things. I'm hoping that the… scale of some of what I'm asking for is tempered by the fact that this is all constructive. It puts us in a better place and leaves us prepared to face down the real threats: the impending apocalypse, the Endbringers, the forces who'd want to move into this city and abuse the portal. I'm going to ask for one more thing in that vein. Don't send me to the Birdcage. Don't send me to juvie, or hang me for treason. It's… not constructive."
"What would you have us do?" Mrs. Yamada spoke up.
"Use me. I get that it wouldn't work, having me join the Wards. Too much baggage. But… the end of the world hinges on Jack Slash doing something within the next two years. You absolved Armsmaster of his crimes and sent him out to hunt them down. Do the same with me. I can cover a lot of ground in a search, I have experience fighting them, and if you needed it, nobody would even have to know I was doing it. I'd be one more body on the ground, relatively discreet, and maybe that gives us all a slightly better chance of keeping Dinah's prediction from coming to pass."
I wasn't even done talking when I saw the looks, felt a sinking in my gut as the various people in charge exchanged glances. Tagg smiled a little. Miss Militia looked… concerned. The only person who looked as confused as I felt was Clockblocker.
"Your intel is out of date," Tagg said. His heavily lined eyes were staring at me, studying me.
"What?" I asked. "You already stopped them?"
"No," he said, and the word was a growl. He didn't elaborate further.
"Taylor," Miss Militia rescued me, "Do you know where the Slaughterhouse Nine went after leaving Brockton Bay?"
"A series of small towns, then Boston," I said.
"Yes," she said. "And they struck one target after Boston. Toybox."
I remembered seeing the name on Tattletale's bulletin board. "Who or where is Toybox?"
"What's Toybox, you mean," the Director said.
"What's Toybox?" I asked.
"May I?" Miss Militia asked Tagg. He gave her a curt nod, and she took hold of the laptop in front of him. It took her a few moments to log in and open the page. She unplugged the cord from the laptop and handed it to Mrs. Yamada, who handed it to my lawyer. He set it so we could both see it. Mr. Calle clicked the touchpad to page through the various images and documents.
"Toybox is a black market organization," Miss Militia said. "Tinkers who operate solo find life rather difficult, due to a lack of resources and the fact that gangs and government organizations are very, very persistent when it comes to recruiting them. Faced with the prospect of spending their lives on the run, trying to avoid being forcibly recruited into one organization or another, most turn to the Protectorate or the Wards. For those few who don't, Toybox is… was a refuge of sorts. Tinkers would join, share technology, stay in the enclave as long as they needed to build up a reputation and whatever tools they needed, they would share thirty-three percent of any proceeds with the rest of the group, helping to keep others afloat. Toybox sustained itself with barter, by moving frequently, operating between the scope of heroes and villains, and by selling less-than-legal goods to criminal groups."
I could see the images, grainy black and white photos of various tinkers huddled together, or standing behind tables loaded down with ray guns and the like. There was a chronology of sorts, to the point that I could see the group evolve, some leaving as others joined, the enclave shifting from a group as small as four members to as many as fifteen.
"The Slaughterhouse Nine attacked them at the end of June," Miss Militia said. "In doing so, they appropriated all of the tinker technology and all of the tinkers that were staying with the group. See page thirty-six and on."
Mr. Calle paged forward until the images showed up.
Pyrotechnical. A tinker focusing on flame manipulation, special effects, guns.
Cranial. A tinker specializing in neurology. Brain scans, draining thoughts, recording thoughts.
Big Rig. A tinker who built drones that built things in turn, particularly buildings.
Bauble. A girl who specialized in glassworking and glassworking tools, including tools that could turn inorganic matter into glass.
Dodge. A boy, twelve, who made access devices for pocket dimensions.
Toy Soldier. A powersuit user with a suit the size of a small building.
Glace. A tinker specializing in cryogenics and stasis.
"The Nine have access to all of their work?" I felt an inarticulate feeling of horror creep over me. I couldn't imagine anything particular, but anything that enhanced the capabilities and options that Slaughterhouse Nine had at their disposal?
"And access to the work of Blasto, a cloning specialist they assaulted and kidnapped in Boston," Miss Militia said.
I sat back and the chain of my cuffs went taut, my arms stretched out in front of me. "This doesn't change things. If anything, you need all of the help you can get. This is serious."
"It's complicated," Miss Militia said.
"Seems pretty damn simple," I said.
"No," she said, shaking her head. "Because they're gone. They stopped."
I shut my mouth, staring.
"The Slaughterhouse Nine attacked Toybox, taking the group's devices for themselves, and they disappeared. We suspect they used Dodge's devices to exit into a pocket dimension, and by the time we'd found a way to follow, they'd exited elsewhere."
"They're dimension hopping?"
"Dodge's devices only exit from Bet to pocket worlds he creates with his devices, back to Bet. We believe they exited somewhere on Bet, possibly in another state, then used another device to hide. Which would be where they are now. Without knowing where they entered that particular pocket, we can't hope to find them," Miss Militia said. "We know their patterns. They tend to cut a swathe of destruction across North America, and it's rare for even a handful of days to pass without them taking any action at all. Between the PRT's past experience with the group, our thinkers, and the fact that they haven't made an appearance in nearly ten days, we believe we've worked out what they're doing."
I stared at the laptop. It was still on the last page. Glace.
"Cryogenics," I said.
"Stasis," Miss Militia agreed. "The pressure grew too intense, with Defiant and Dragon's pursuit, they weren't recovering from losses fast enough. They've gone into hiding, and we think they plan to wait."
Wait, I thought.
"How long?" Clockblocker asked.
"We can't know for sure," Miss Militia replied. "But if they've put themselves in a cryogenic sleep, they could wake and resume their normal activities days, weeks, months or years from now. Depending on the resources they have available, they might well emerge with clones of their current members at their side."
Tattletale should have told me, I thought, even as I knew why she hadn't. Her power had been out of commission. She'd been out of commission. We'd known the Nine attacked the Toybox, but we'd missed what that meant in the grand scheme of things. Through a combination of Tattletale's ailment and a hundred other small distractions, we'd missed out on the reason Defiant and Dragon had been able to abandon their hunt for the Nine and visit Arcadia.
"Does Jack know?" I asked. "I mean, I know he knows he's supposed to end the world, but does he know he sets it in motion within two years?"
Miss Militia shook her head. "We don't think so. Which means that, unless there's something specific they want to wake up for, we can't even begin to guess when he'll have his team wake up."
Silence hung in the air for long seconds.
"Now you know. These are your demands?" Tagg spoke up.
"We'll need to discuss things and revise our terms with this new information in mind," Mr. Calle said, glancing at me. I nodded once.
"Better do some heavy revision," Director Tagg said. "And do it fast, because it's not that long until sundown, and I won't be accepting any of your terms as they stand. You said it yourself, nobody wants this fight."
I frowned, watching each of them making their way out of the interrogation room.
Tagg joined Miss Militia's side, and I couldn't help but notice the way she adopted a guarded position, folding her arms as he approached. It gave me a flicker of hope.
Until the bugs I'd planted inside the fold of Tagg's collar caught a fragment of something he was saying.
"…her father."
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Reviews	• NYC • Off-Broadway	Published 23 November 2021
Review: Morning Sun at New York City Center – Stage I
New York City Center - Stage I ⋄ 12 October - 19 December
Simon Stephens' new play focuses on the ordinary life of one woman in Greenwich Village, but what makes the ordinary worth depicting on stage? Lane Williamson reviews.
"Morning Sun" at New York City Center – Stage I (Photo: Matthew Murphy)
It's easy to compare Simon Stephens' new play Morning Sun with Edward Albee's Three Tall Women. Both plays take a panoramic view of one woman's life, told through three women at different ages. Albee's play splinters the same older woman into three versions of herself, while Stephens' play focuses on the middle-aged woman in the center and extrapolates out, also showing her mother and daughter. The three actors then play every other character that figures into the narrative, while Albee keeps it contained to the three characters in the room. Albee's play is based in conversation, while Stephens takes a more declarative approach, having the characters describe life events to each other like they are narrating a second-person novel. In MTC's premiere production of Morning Sun, Lila Neugebauer's gentle and well-paced staging keeps this narration from taxing patience, but the play does not ignite much of a spark.
Stephens' play tracks Charley McBride (Edie Falco) from pre-conception to death. Her mother, Claudette (Blair Brown), moves to New York, falls in love, and gives birth to Charley. They live in a walk-up apartment in the West Village that becomes a contentious point between Charley and a boyfriend later in the play. Charley eventually gives birth to Tessa (Marin Ireland) and Tessa grows up, and devotes her life to a career she feels neutral about, at best. The play drops pins all over New York as these three women navigate their lives, sometimes actually naming the street address where things take place.
The play is insistent that there is nothing particularly extraordinary about these three women. They're all just trying to make it through, holding down menial jobs, dating men who are sometimes great, sometimes awful, and finding a modicum of contentment. Entire lives transpire in the play, but it can also be said that nothing actually happens. There are moments of tension (Claudette castigates Charley for poor parenting and tells her granddaughter she won't amount to much), but they register as slight blips. The play is unconcerned with the kind of bombastic events in other family-centered works. But Stephens uses the ordinariness to look at mental health and coping mechanisms: Claudette is a suppressor, Charley self-medicates with alcohol, Tessa confronts it. Depression runs rampant under the surface of this play, but until the third generation, they do not have the means to address it. Even when Tessa eventually tells her mother that she's unhappy, Charley does not have the language to help her. If the way we deal with our own mental well-being is the point of the play, I wish it had been slightly more focused in that direction.
The play takes its title from an Edward Hopper painting and the physical production follows suit with the kind of austere spareness found in Hopper's work. Stephens calls for "A liminal space. / Defined more by light and sound than by objects." The scenic design collective dots has fashioned a space that feels like a church basement, with carpeted floors, a low ceiling, and small windows high up that let in a tiny amount of light. I still find myself considering what the space represented, even more than a day later. I'm not sure I have an answer. Lighting designer Lap Chi Chu plays with shadow and color. Overhead lighting is subtly augmented and slivers of "natural" light come peeking through the windows, transforming the gray/beige space several times over. Lee Kinney and Daniel Kluger's sound design allows some of New York City to penetrate the bunker-like walls, filtered not only by concrete, but also by memory.
The trio of actresses are all extraordinary in their parts. Brown and Ireland are two of the greatest stage actresses working, and although Falco is better known for her television work, she has an uncanny stage presence and her performance is lived-in and incredibly natural. Falco has a monologue towards the end of the play that is bone-chilling and one of few moments where the play achieves something dramatically exciting. These three women, Neugebauer, and Stephens know how to tell a story and this one is a bold experiment with form. As well-made as it is, though, its focus on the ordinary holds it back. But maybe that's the point. Not everybody's life is thrilling.
Lane Williamson is a theatre writer and editor in New York City.
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Review: Morning Sun at New York City Center – Stage I Show Info
Produced by Manhattan Theatre Club
Directed by Lila Neugebauer
Written by Simon Stephens
Scenic Design dots (Set), Kate Voyce (Costumes)
Lighting Design Lap Chi Chu
Sound Design Lee Kinney, Daniel Kluger
Cast includes Blair Brown, Edie Falco, Marin Ireland
Original Music Daniel Kluger
Running Time 1hr 40min
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After a 10-hour drive to Athens, Georgia, that was only supposed to take five, the North Carolina swimming and diving team prepared for its first dual meet of the season.
In Saturday's meet against Georgia at Gabrielsen Natatorium, the women's swimming and diving team finished four points away, 152-148, from obtaining a victory and snapping Georgia's 20-year home win streak.
Junior Hellen Moffitt took first place in both the 200-yard medley relay and 100-yard backstroke. She also took second in the 200-yard backstroke and set career bests for both the 100-yard backstroke and 200-yard backstroke.
The men suffered a close loss as well, with a score of Georgia 170, UNC 125.
"Going into the meet, I was really excited and had the right mindset," said junior Jack Nyquist, the current one-meter dive record holder for UNC.
For the past several weeks, UNC's swimming and diving team has been practicing in various locations because of a filter replacement at its home pool.
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DeSelm said the practice conditions haven't been ideal, but the team has held together.
"The adversity has helped our team come together and it really shows that our team can overcome any challenge," Moffitt said.
With the pool on its way to being fixed and Athens in the rear view mirror, the team is ready to face the next challenge.
"We had our opportunities to win with a tie. The outcome, though disappointing, was very positive for our women's team." — DeSelm on how he felt about the women's close win.
Nyquist said the pool will be back at the UNC's swimming and diving team's disposal within the next week or two.
94: UNC's women's team was four points away from erasing Georgia's 94 dual or tri meet winning streak at home.
445.73: David MacDonald holds the record for the three-meter board at 447.5, but Nyquist came close to breaking the record at the meet on Saturday with a score of 445.73.
13: The number of first-place spots won by both the UNC men and women.
UNC travels to Bloomington, Indiana, for a meet with Kentucky, Tennessee and Indiana at 2 p.m. on Oct. 30.