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♦ Topic: Introducing: Catherine AKA Cat
In: Boards ► Brockton Bay ► Introductions
Cat The Great (Original Poster) (Verified Cape)
Posted On Feb 2nd 2011:
Hello, Brockton Bay. I'm not really interested in keeping a secret identity, so I'll just go by my real name here. I've been active in Brockton Bay since early-mid January, but preferred to keep a low profile until now.
I like to think of myself as a hero, but I wager most other heroes would disagree with me on account of how I do things. Bluntly, I hunt down the really bad Villains - the ones that repeatedly kill/hurt innocent people and never seem to stay locked up - and kill them without giving any chance to resist. I have absolutely no compunctions about shooting a target in their sleep, just ask Oni Lee. Oh wait, you can't because he's dead.
As for what I'm willing to share of my capabilities:
-Lots of minor stuff associated with being a cat; night vision, great acrobatics, etc.
-Quite a few powers just plain don't work right on me. This includes precogs, most Masters, quite a lot of Strangers, and all parahuman Healers.
-I can materialize five kilograms of mundane equipment per day. Yes, I can bank mass over multiple days if I want to make something big.
Now, for what I've been doing, in rough chronological order:
-I offed Coil; scheming mastermind with a janky precog-adjacent power. He was planning on kidnapping and drugging a little girl to exploit her power, and the PRT can back me up on this with the evidence they recovered from his base.
-I shot Oni Lee, Othala, Victor, and Purity in their sleep.
-I killed Shadow Stalker IN SELF-DEFENSE. Seriously, she absolutely 100% would have shot me if I hadn't done it first. And she was using lethal bolts.
-I blew up a big meeting with most of Brockton Bay's remaining Nazis at the Medhall building. Using a bomb (Californium nuclear bullet, actually) that powerful was a carefully calculated move, borne out by the total lack of civilian fatalities.
-I teamed up with the adorable precog Coil wanted to kidnap, and set up an ambush for Bakuda when she entered the city. If we hadn't taken her out, she would have started shoving bombs into people's heads and killed HUNDREDS of civilians. That's at the bare minimum.
-The same day as Bakuda's ambush, I shot Lung's brains out before he could transform. He's dead, and won't kill any more innocent people.
- At one point, a mildly villainous Thinker tracked me to my apartment. I wound up killing her in something that could vaguely be considered self-defense if you really squint, and cremated her remains with Thermite. I'm honestly still beating myself up about that one, since in retrospect I can think of several ways I could have handled the situation without killing her. But at the time I was too scared out of my mind to come up with any of them.
As for my latest bout of activity? That adorable precog I was working with warned me the Slaughterhouse Nine was coming to town. Figured out I couldn't deal with them on my own, and we went to the PRT with the information.
I personally wound up assigned to shoot Jack Slash by Emily Piggot herself (thank you for the honor, ma'am), a task I carried out successfully. With the rest of the marksman team I was assigned to, we then proceeded to torch his body with a perhaps excessive amount of Thermite, just to be sure. I later wound up gunning down Mannequin after he slipped past the team set up to ambush him.
This was part of a larger operation to deal with the Slaughterhouse Nine, which can be talked about in its own thread. In summary: It succeeded. Mostly; Burnscar's location is unknown, and Crawler is on the run from pretty much every branch of the government authorized to use lethal force. I bet fifty bucks it's the postal service that finally takes him out (this is a joke; I don't gamble).
You're welcome; you should expect a couple new Wards soon, though I won't be one of them.
Also, as a note: yes, my tail and ears are real. No, I'm not a Case 53; I remember my entire life in acceptable detail, and they've always been part of me. A big part of why I'm going public is just that I finally got fed up with hiding them.
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►Coyote-C
Replied On Feb 2nd 2011:
This has to be fake, you're talking out of your ass. Well, tail. I believe you about the cat stuff, but not about all the murders you supposedly did.
►Bagrat (Veteran Member) (The Guy in the Know)
Replied On Feb 2nd 2011:
I don't think so; Cat's account of her actions lines up pretty damn well with what's been going on in Brockton Bay over the last few weeks. Suffice to say, we've had a lot less cape fights than before. Still, this is definitely... drastic. Was this much violence really necessary to make the Bay a safer place to live?
►Cat The Great (Original Poster) (Verified Cape)
Replied On Feb 2nd 2011:
Yes, Bagrat. Yes it was.
►Miss Mercury (Protectorate Employee)
Replied On Feb 3rd 2011:
Speaking in my official capacity, I can confirm that Cat's accounts of her activities are basically accurate. We can't confirm that Shadow Stalker was using lethal bolts, but it seems plausible given she was regularly violating her parole in other ways.
As for that Thinker who apparently tracked you to your home... do you want to talk about it in DMs?
►Cat The Great (Original Poster) (Verified Cape)
Replied On Feb 3rd 2011:
No, I don't.
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♦ Topic: The Slaughterhouse Nine has been Defeated
In: Boards ► General ► S-Class Threats
PRT ENE Official (Original Poster) (Verified PRT Account)
Posted On Feb 2nd 2011:
On 01/22/2011, we were approached by three Parahumans with information about an upcoming attack by the Slaughterhouse Nine. This group included the cape known to the PRT as Safari at the time, along with two others. One of these others is a powerful precognitive.
With the cooperation of these independents, a plan was put together to ambush each member of the Slaughterhouse Nine separately as they entered the city. In the majority of cases, these ambushes were successful. Listing by member:
-Jack Slash: Shot multiple times with a .700 Nitro Express rifle by Cat, then incinerated with Thermite.
-Bonesaw: Captured. Currently under 24/7 observation in the PRT's brig, pending transfer.
-Siberian: Deceased, thanks to Cat informing us of its nature as a projection; critically wounded two PRT agents, one of whom died before reaching the hospital.
-Shatterbird: Gunned down with a .50 BMG machine gun by Miss Militia.
-Mannequin: Shot with .700 Nitro Express loaded with High Explosive Squash Head ammo (again by Cat), then incinerated with Thermite.
-Hatchet Face: Killed in close combat by Armsmaster.
-Crawler: Currently at large, being actively pursued. There is a tracker site for his current location here.
-Burnscar: Currently at large, location unknown. Burnscar is suffering from a gunshot wound to her right arm. Expert reviews of gun-cam footage indicate that the shot likely broke her Humerus.
While the surviving former members still have Kill Orders, the Slaughterhouse Nine can be considered defunct as an organization.
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►Lasersmile
Replied On Feb 2nd 2011:
Finally! It's been way too fucking long! That band of psychopaths should have been offed over a decade ago!
►XxVoid_CowboyxX
Replied On Feb 2nd 2011:
Anyone want to bet we'll see a medical Tinker "mysteriously" turn up in the Wards somewhere down the line? Because I could easily believe that the PRT would try and brainwash Bonesaw into someone they could control.
►Reave (Verified PRT Agent)
Replied On Feb 2nd 2011:
Legitimate question for Void Cowboy, how would we even do that? We don't have any human Masters capable of long-term brainwashing on staff for security reasons. We also don't have the tech or the Tinkers to do it that way.
Though I suppose hypothetically we could hire Cranial, but that would be a security nightmare.
►XxVoid_CowboyxX
Replied On Feb 2nd 2011:
You don't have any human Masters capable of long-term brainwashing that you KNOW about. There could easily be one squirreled so far up the PRT's black budget that the rank and file never hear about them.
►Vista (Verified Cape) (Wards ENE)
Replied On Feb 2nd 2011:
Tinfoil hats aside, I'm just really glad that the Slaughterhouse Nine is gone. I had to read up on them for a school project once, and let's just say that I really wish I hadn't.
Also, despite my mixed feelings about Cat, I think I'm really glad she set up shop in Brockton Bay. There's still a long way to fix this place, but for the first time in a while I think I can see some hope for stuff to get better.
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