M&M (Paragons) game/Keith

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Unity, Wyoming (Act I)

 * Adam used his jump-jet to get to Unity. The Unity police effectively sealed off Unity by setting up roadblocks along Highway 9, the north-south corridor that is the only route into and out of Unity.
 * During their first day in Unity, Dr. Barton and his team's paranormal detection meters (Paragons p.79, note: the technology [in its infancy] already exists) began indicating paranormal activity while they were eating at Ruth's Diner. The incredibly sporatic, and short-lived, detections have continued since and the team ruled out any malfunction with the devices.  Your own detection power picks up a number short-lived bursts too, but you are unable to discern the particular power(s) being used (let alone copying it).  Dr. Barton is convinced that a significant portion of the population of Unity may be paranormal.
 * However, Dr. Barton admitted that no one in the town had displayed any sort of overt paranormal power. And, no one in town had giving any indication of even being aware of paranormals in their midst.
 * Dr. Barton secretly set up detectors at various places around town and had been monitoring them remotely. Of most significance was the detector hidden outside of the Unity police station.  It averaged more than eighty detections per day over the last few days.
 * Finally, your detective (who preceeded you by a day and got in just before the police 'sealed' the town) made contact with, or more to the point, was contacted by two brothers, Derek and Kevin Molloy (age 12 and 8 respectively). They are local boys who have run-away from home.  You might have considered this unworthy of a report, but your detective informed you that from his monitoring of the local police band he has discovered that recovering the two boys is the Unity police department's absolute top priority.
 * The conservative evangelical anti-paranormal Christian sect, The Seven Thunders, has railed against the destructive rampage that has been wrought in their own 'backyard' (The Seven Thunders is based in Laramie, Wyoming). They are getting significant airtime on all of the major cable news channels.  They are, however, also offering considerable aid to those that have been affected by the tragedy.

Unity, Wyoming (Act II)

 * As a scientist, Dr. Barton is not willing to rule out any explanation for paranormal powers for sure at this point. He does, however, lean towards believing that genetics, DNA, and evolution are behind paranormal breakouts and abilities.  Curiously, this puts him in the minority within PSI.  PSI, in general, works under the assumption that the origins of paragon powers are psychic/psionic.
 * Dr. Barton has the main office of PSI, in Richmond, Virginia, email you the schematics for the paranormal detection meter (Paragons p.79).
 * Your second question bullet is a long term idea. Given the information in the first Unity Act II bullet, I assume that you will go forward with your plans for Evanston.  I would say that you ought to build your Community Center/Weathy Spa getaway as you did your mansion (i.e. Wealth rules).
 * The detective asks Adam to meet late that night at the detective’s room at the Main Street Motor Inn.
 * The detective and Derek and Kevin Molloy are in the room when Adam arrives. Also with them is Janice Henderson.
 * Janice claims that she had an experience similar to waking from a very vivid dream. She immediately became aware of the strange glances she was receiving from those around her.  She became creeped out by the actions of her family and left to clear her head.  She barely got away as she discovered that the town police were after her.  For reasons she can’t even explain to herself, she knew that the best person to contact was an outsider (i.e. the detective).
 * The boys were recently in a car accident with their mother. Although they are both fine, their mother, Carol Molloy, is in a coma as a result of the accident and at The Marshfield Clinic just a few miles north of town.  They ran away because something is wrong with their father, Tom.  Together with Janice they describe their interactions with their friends and neighbors as something like Invasion of the Body Snatchers or Pod People.
 * The boys and Janice describe a feeling somewhat like lightheadedness or, in Janice's case, drunkeness whenever someone would touch them. However, in the case of the boys, it never seemed to last long.
 * As for your offer of protection, the boys don't want to leave their family, friends, and home. They just want everything back to normal.
 * You do detect paranormal powers within the two Molloy boys. It is an Immunity power (worth 1pp).  However, you cannot tell what exactly it is an immunity to.  You can tell that the power is exactly the same for each boy.
 * A thunderstorm, on the lower end of severe, rolls in that night as Adam is speaking with the detective, Janice, and the Molloy boys.
 * Things come to a head:
 * There are several loud bangs on the door as someone outside yells: "Police! Open up!"  Moments later the door comes crashing in with a number of police officers quickly entering, guns drawn.

Information and updates

 * The Seven Thunders:
 * The Seven Thunders is an independent Christian evangelical sect. Other like-minded churches have begun to loosely affiliate with the Seven Thunders.  The process has been slow but persistent.
 * The head of the Seven Thunders is the young and charismatic, Rev. Luke Butler. The Seven Thunders 'began' when Rev. Butler began having convulsions during a fiery, though not anti-paranormal, sermon.  When his fit was over he claimed that the Holy Spirit had shown him the horrible truth of paragons.  They were no less than demons incarnate.
 * Another 'gift' of the 'Holy Spirit' seems to be complete immunity to paranormal power. Debate rages as to whether or not Butler is nothing more than a paragon himself.  Unfortunatelty, an definitive objective answer has been difficult to reach.
 * Evanston incident update:
 * The large grey-skinned humanoid that destroyed much of Evanston has been code-named Rampage for lack of a better term.
 * In Australia, several paranormals with very minor abilities are assaulted and murdered by self-styled "witch-hunters" in response to the Evanston incident. In the days following, similar scenes will play out around the world.

Unity, Wyoming (Act III, Part I)

 * Adam plays up the indignant, but in-control billionaire as the Unity police officers storm into the room. They seem very unconcerned with his protestations.  The officers issue commands, which Adam follows even as he continues warning the officers of the mistake they are making.
 * Janice and the Molloy boys are quickly separated from Adam and the detective and taken father back into the room. The officers seem keenly intent on trying to keep the boys calm.
 * As Adam continues his protests, the last thing he sees in the detective being treated in a far better way by the police. Then, the world goes black...
 * Adam next finds himself in a holding cell, most likely in the Unity police station. The sensation he feels, in the moments before it fades away, is similar to what Janice described experiencing.
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