<div align="center"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 18pt;"><strong>GM UPDATE</strong></span></div><br/>Sorry to interrupt your Nicholas Cage love-fest. Lol... Just kidding. I like watching Nicholas Cage do his freakouts. Great stuff. I can't believe, however that his VERY BEST movie hasn't been mentioned: Gone in 60 Seconds. That tops National Treasure IMO. But maybe that's just cause I like fast cars and the rest of the cast from the movie so much. Anyways... getting distracted.<br/><br/><hr/><br/>So I originally put Maria Hill into the plot to be a mild antagonist, and Photo has come up with a great idea to truly fulfill that calling. We've been ironing out the details and this is basically what it's shaping up to be, just for everyone's info - especially the other villains:<br/><br/>Maria Hill HATES the fact that Tony is an Avenger member and has such a powerful weapon that he uses and abuses for personal use. She, like many members of the American Government - and other world governments - think that the Stark-tech Ironman Weapon should be taken out of Tony's hands and put in some else's who is more responsible. So Maria is going to initiate a new SHIELD program that pulls the Mark 2 Platform War-Machine suit to analyze and replicate with some of the UN's top scientists. This is a top secret program that nobody outside of SHIELD will know exists, except possibly Captain America. At least until Maria or Captain decides to reveal it.<br/><br/>The goal of this sub-plot is to give Captain America another angle, since he's pretty much immune to the Enchantress moral corruptive-type of magic. It will give him a good internal battle to fight along with the rest of us. Maria's end goal is to get Stark's Ironman suit completely taken away - which won't happen; but she will at the very least, end up building a suit for herself - and possibly some type of augments for Captain America to try and replace Tony's spot in the Avenger team. If she can't take away his power, at least she can squeeze him off the team by making him less-essential. Captain James Rhodes will be an added NPC at the very least, and possible PC (I had someone PM me with interest in playing Rhodey if I was going to add him). Photo will also create any other smaller NPC's she needs for the program such as scientists and government officials. Maybe even Justin Hammer! Lol... Who knows. Jarvis and Eric Selvig will not be cooperating parties with SHIELD; and of course Tony, Pepper, Jane, Bruce, and Betty all have no desire to aid SHIELD in any way. Natasha and Clint may take orders from Maria to spy and steal Data from Stark Industries - which of course comes with its consequences if they are caught.<br/><br/>If Loki plays some part in aiding this rift, that is totally fine as well - though as I said above it is a sub-plot for Maria and Captain, since the rest of us will all be dealing with relationship issues due to Enchantress corruption. Loki of course is free to create chaos as he pleases with small battles, skirmishes, and also impersonations - possibly even to the extent of impersonating a PC (though try to keep those to a minimum MadMartigan.<br/><br/><hr/><br/>Hope this gives you all a little bit more story to work with and get involved in. I'm off for the day to go watch my Peyton Manning led Broncos take down the Bears (its just preseason, but w/e. I'm Jazzed!). I'll probably be checking in via my phone, but no posts from me until probably tomorrow.<br/><br/>Cheers!