Thought I'd post something a little different for the Superman
Unbound Universe, had the name floating around for a couple of months
thought I'd turn it into a DETAILS.
All forms of C&C are welcome both TIMELINE and normal.
This is just one of the techniques Avalon used to gain access to
advancements in technology or ideas that occur outside Avalon.
The long life span and advanced medical equipment and knowledge
Avalon has managed to salvage, rebuild or collect has led them to the
policy below.
In the last 1000 years or so Avalon has developed the policy of death
bed or near death bed recruitment of outsiders with skills and
knowledge they want. They fake the death of the person they are
interested in and move them to Avalon usually they are able to extend
the life span of the person they recruited by 50 to 150 years.
NOTE
This DETAILS is based loosely on a few facts taken from Mr. Babbages
life and the period he lived in.
Joshef Yamaeta and Annabel are my creation and for anyone to use.
If you want to write more about Mr. Babbage feel free to do so.
Joshef Yamaeta
A mixed Asian English descent and a mid level operative for the
Avalon council, with makeup he can appear to be fully asian or fully
English.
Born in Avalon to a Asian Mother and a Englishman his family has been
part of Avalon for well over 1000 years.
He has two silver millennium artifact a judges amulet from his family
and a telekinetic fire-ring that he aquired on a mission some time
in the last 50 years.
He is around a 100 years old in 1870 and has worked as an Avalon
agent for over 70 years.
Annabel Hood
A English woman born in Avalon is low level operative for the Avalon
council.
She has no artifacts and her family has only been in Avalon for the
last 200 years.
She is around 30 years old in 1870 and has worked as an Avalon agent
for over four years.
If a writer decides to the use them they are free to determine the
rest.
early fall 1870 AD London England
Recruiting for Analytical Difference
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Joshef Yamaeta and his assistant threaded their way through the crowd
a small band creating an annoying clamor as they marched back and
fourth past his target's home. Joshef almost froze as he felt the
pickpocket's hand push into his protective aura fighting the urge to
badly burn all her fingers he instead focused his ring given
pyrokinetic ability and made it feel like she had pricked her finger
on something very sharp and hot.
Joshef managed to maintain his stride as a large part of his mind
focused on maintaining and expanding the heat the young woman was
feeling in her finger and now her entire hand. Joshef motion finally
stopped, hand raised to knock, when the distinctive sound of ripping
cloth followed closely with the sound of coins, jewelry and assorted
pocket trinkets striking cobblestone, made him shiver.
In an instant he realized what had happened, the distinctive sound
had somehow found a lull in the cacophony surrounding the Babbage
home and it had brought an ominous silence to the 40 or so
individuals around the Babbage dwelling..
Joshef looked over his shoulder wishing the instant he saw the now
almost silent crowd that he had never turned his head, quickly
turning from the silent almost frozen tableau behind him he started
to knock. The frightened pick pocket had had an instant to escape at
the moment the thread bare cloth bag had torn on a organ grinders
battered music box, but that instant was gone. The organ grinders
hand had closed around the young womans extended arm and her brutal
beating and probable death was assured.
Joshef fought to keep the desperation out of his knocking as a growl
rose from the crowd, the pickpocket had been good and it looked like
she had been greedy, the crowd was starting to recognize various
personal items and it was not happy.
Joshef was greatly relieved to see the door open and took only a
second to verify it was Annabel before he picked her up and quickly
entered his assistants nearly stepping on his heels in their haste to
get a solid door between themselves and what had just become an angry
mob.
What! Joshef what is going on? Joshef frowned as Annabel broke cover
for an instant. Joshef frowned and said"Sorry Miss? I'm Joshef
Yamaeta and these are my assistants, we have come for our appointment
with Mr. Babbage." Joshef paused setting the young woman down and
taking a breath and finished by saying "The mob outside caught a
pickpocket ."
Joshef watched as Annabel's eyes widened her face growing pale, she
suddenly darted between him and his assistants checking the locks and
quickly kicking a couple of nearby wedged shaped pieces of wood under
the base of the door.
Raising one eyebrow Joshef said questioningly "Miss?" after a second
of silence Annabel remembered her role and curtsied saying" I'm sorry
sir, I'm Mr. Babbage's maid Annabel, he is being harassed and it
has grown worse lately windows have been broken and I've found dead
cats at the doors."
After a couple of seconds of awkward silence Annabel shook herself
and said" please follow me Mr. Babbage is expecting you."
Joshef turning to follow the young lady and sighed as he released the
protective field surrounding his body, he was getting tired and his
reserves were getting low, that encounter with the pick pocket had
been draining in more ways than one.
Joshef frowned what to do? Thanks to the Mr. Babbages actions the
conditions around the man had deteriorated badly and Avalon needed
him and his work badly.
Mr. Babbages earlier designs had the Avalon bankers and business men
frothing to get more of his mechanical devices and designs, somehow
he had managed to develop a crude mechanical version of what existed
as part of the esper circuits of every functional Silver Millennium
artifact and more importantly his ideas and machines did not require
black krptonite.
Joshef smiled his own sister was an accountant in Avalon and every
time he returned for a vacation or a visit she always commandeered
the family amulet around his neck for the duration of the visit, it
had gotten so bad he forced her to spend one hour visiting before she
cloistered herself checking her figures and balancing books.
Joshef's smile dropped from his face as his thoughts were returned to
his current assignment by a dimly heard yell, this situation was
getting out of hand, his operative might need help.
Joshef lips thinned the dead cat's meant that a person or group of
people had escalated to a new level, from drunken threats to active
violence. Annabel had the extensive martial arts training of any
Avalon operative, but she was listed as an average student at best.
He needed to get back up for her, but couldn't see any way to achieve
it. Her esper rating was very low, far to low to use a esper device
without a black kryptonite booster circuit and he didn't have the
resources to issue her one.
"Gentlemen Mr. Babbage will see you now" shaken from his thoughts on
precautions for Annabel and Mr. Babbage Joshef quickly shifted gears
and with a skill born of hundreds of previous mission he prepared to
start the process of persuading a genius to fake his own death and
come to Avalon.
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howard melton
God bless
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