<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=119103.msg5218791#msg5218791">Quote from: Wintercat on 16-09-2011, 23:04:12</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote"><strong>J7 - Paradox (NYC)</strong><br/><br/>The streets were full of life with people, each rushing on without real care for the others as they moved on. That gave Paradox an anonymity in the crowd, as he moved ahead. Soon enough, following the information, he arrived before what would become the Administrative section. Right now, what stood there was the Federal Bureau of Investigation Headquarters. <br/><br/>That was only fraction of the main area though, but it was at the area the rest of the main section had been built later on. Federal Plaza. The place looked clean, and people moved without real hurry, enough people to make it seem absurd humanity could be cut down to a fraction of this in the future if things went the way they had. <br/><br/>The 'future history' taught that the Paranormal Registration Act had been fought hard, and several attempts to fix time had seen it wave back and forth. Sometimes the act failed to pass, alleviating some pressure but leading to other trouble, but the last time it passed, a metahuman turned the FBI headquarters into a slaughterhouse before being taken down. That massacre aimed at the Bureau in turn tightened legal response to all metahumans at that time. It was not that far into the future that the decision would be made, either.<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/><strong>Paradox (NYC)</strong><br/><br/>Which can't help but get him thinking. If the Paranormal Registration Act passes then a metahuman will turn this into a slaughterhouse. Oversimplified a bit but there was clearly Cause and Effect here. But there was the core nature of his own Paradox. Effect before Cause. That just didn't seem to make sense. If the universe goes out of it's way to minimize paradoxes why is he still around.<br/><br/>Unless maybe he's been incorporated into the new timeline. Turning toward the next Complex 4 landmark, he gets to thinking. What if. . .<br/><br/>Paradox checks the internal historical database to see if he pops up anywhere now, and what else happens today.<br/><br/>He doesn't notice that the people around him have started walking strangely slow.