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♦ Topic: Major corruption scandal expands to state government!
In: Boards ► Places ► America ► Brockton Bay
Iamnotpaidenoughforthis314 (Original Poster) (Veteran Member)
Posted On Feb 17th 2011:
In further news from the far reaches of local government, the corruption case sparked off by Brockton General hospital following yet another incident involving a student from Winslow High School with severe injuries is now known to have expanded to implicate three people working for the state school board.
So yeah. Looks like it's much bigger than anyone realized. Mayor Christner is absolutely livld about the entire thing from what I've seen. He called yet another meeting at City Hall and spent nearly a solid hour explaining in very, very clear words how this was going to be handled. Believe me, no one who was there is in any doubt at all that he is about as far from happy as you could possibly get...
I won't go over the entire story as we already have
two other threads discussing how it started, and what the immediate aftermath has been. But to briefly recap, In early January a student from Winslow was transported to Brockton General after what has been variously reported as a '
prank,' '
hazing,' '
attempted murder,' and '
the most vicious personal assault I've seen in years.' That last one was apparently from the lead EMT who posted confirming the initial rumors, of course, although he wasn't able to go into detail due to privacy laws.
And this is coming from a twenty year veteran of
Brockton Bay, so you can get a pretty good idea that it wasn't a trivial issue.
In any case, the hospital administration took this as the last straw, and went completely feral on Winslow. Audited everything, and I mean
EVERYTHING, that had ever even peripherally involved that place or anyone connected with it, found more sketchy shit than I can believe, and it's turned into a complete political firestorm. The school board is fucked, Winslow is closed and the entire staff fired, with most of them under investigation by BBPD
and the FBI for more crimes than I care to consider, people are being arrested all over the damn place like it's going out of fashion...
Like I said, if you want to read all the gory details go look at the other threads, but make sure you tie a string to something so you can find your way out again
It's a deep dark maze with unexpected pitfalls.
And now the latest discovery goes right to the top of the state government. Or pretty damned near to it. At least one of the people indicted today, according to my information, worked in the Governor's own office! From what I was told the Governor went ballistic when he found out, and he was already in a very bad mood about the whole thing anyway.
No one can believe that all this has been brewing in the background for at least a decade, and probably a lot longer. Even in Brockton Bay it's stretching credulity. And that it took some extremely irate doctors to kick the whole thing off is weird, but I get the definite impression that you really,
really don't want to fuck with Brockton General.
Lots of people just found out. They're not going to be doing much fucking around for a LONG time once the system gets through with them.
My latest information is that the total of all the lawsuits, which now extend all the way to Boston, is somewhere north of seventy million dollars! At least twenty families of students affected by previous incidents that were covered up by Winslow have been added to the legal case as plaintiffs, and there's reason to believe that's not the end of it. Several local companies ranging from construction through food supply to textbooks and stationery are also implicated in bribery, which is causing some
really bizarre fallout in places you wouldn't believe. Even the PRT is getting in on the game, having been informed about a number of their own staff who seem to have been supplementing their pay with little favors for '
friends'...
I bet Director Piggot is at least as pissed off as the Mayor and the Goveror. And she's got a lot more guns than both of them put together
Exciting stuff, I guess. Certainly making the office a lot more lively, that's for sure.
God knows how long this will take to settle down, but there are going to be some massive changes all over the place. The city's down a high school for the foreseeable future, which is having all sorts of effects on the entire educational system, at least six cops have been fired, three or four PRT staffers too, who knows how many other people in various places, and now these last three.
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►Miss Mercury (Protectorate Employee)
Replied On Feb 17th 2011:
You know I can't answer that
All I can say is that rumors that the Director tried to strangle someone when she found out they were working for the Empire as much as her are... greatly exaggerated.
Mind you, happy she was not. And the person in question is much LESS happy with life in general now
►XxVoid_CowboyxX (Verified Massive Pain In The Ass)
Replied On Feb 17th 2011:
Just shut up. Like I've said before, I went to Winslow. It is a horrible place. Anything you've heard about it is true, and it's probably worse actually. So no the reports aren't '
blowing it all out of proportion,' believe me.
I'd rather live in Mos Eisley than go back to Winslow. It would be safer.
And smell better...
So stop trying to make it sound like everyone's overreacting. You weren't there. You don't know.
I was. And I do.
Asshole.
►Dreamy Lasers (Verified Cape) (Verified New Wave)
Replied On Feb 17th 2011:
If Void is being almost normal for once, you should probably pay attention. It's not common
Yeah, I heard that place gave shitholes a bad name too. Glad I never went there.
►OfficeDroneNumber4
Replied On Feb 17th 2011:
My kid sister went there and somehow managed to get out alive. If half of what she told me is right she was fucking lucky to survive it. There was only one good teacher in the whole school, she was convinced that one of them was a total pervert and WAY too interested in teenaged girls, the Principal was a total bitch, the chemistry lab was making meth, and there were gang recruiters everywhere just to hit a few highlights. Not sure if the meth thing is actually true but I sure wouldn't want to bet it wasn't.
The place was falling apart too, even though the last I heard the school board had allocated at least three million bucks for refurbishment two, three years back. Allegedly paid a local construction company for the work, they poured a little concrete and ran a few new wires, and that was about it. Good value for money ain't it?
No question that most of the cash went into someone's pocket. Probably split it between the owners of the construction company and the school administration. I mean, I read a report that the Principal was driving a brand new Mercedes about six months later... You know, the ones that cost about two hundred grand?
Pretty well paid, those Winslow staff
And that's just the flat out embezzlement. The violence was off the scale. God knows how much bullying was going on but my sister said there were people who acted like they ran the school and anyone who got in the way regretted it. No end of brutal assaults, kids fighting and making bets on it, gang members selling drugs and weapons if they weren't actively hurting people for fun.. Wannabe E88 footsoldiers practicing on minorities wasn't exactly rare, she told me.
I mean, I know for a fact that one guy got stabbed around January last year, and it wasn't a little poke with a knife, it was some E88 fucker trying to gut him and nearly succeeding. She never saw the guy again. You know what happened to the E88 asshole with the knife?
Fucking nothing, that's what happened.
The cops came, interviewed him, he claimed it was all a set up, and they just FUCKING LEFT!
If they weren't being bribed I'll eat my own shirt. I wouldn't be surprised if they were Empire too. Fuckers.
There's a
REASON I don't trust the cops.
And if someone burned Winslow to the ground I'd pay to watch
She would pay to light the place up.
►Brocktonite03 (Veteran Member)
Replied On Feb 17th 2011:
I thought Winslow allegedly had a Ward going there? Wouldn't THEY try to stop this sort of thing?
►XxVoid_CowboyxX (Verified Massive Pain In The Ass)
Replied On Feb 17th 2011:
I sure never saw any one I'd believe was a Ward. They're supposed to be heroes.
There were no heroes at Winslow. Only victims and fuckers.
BItter? Me?
►LizardsAreCool
Replied On Feb 17th 2011:
For the first time ever I'm feeling sorry for Void Cowboy. It's a really weird sensation and I don't like it.
►DoorSlash
Replied On Feb 17th 2011:
Don't worry, he'll be back to normal soon enough!
►XxVoid_CowboyxX (Verified Massive Pain In The Ass)
Replied On Feb 17th 2011:
Hey, fuck you.
►DoorSlash
Replied On Feb 17th 2011:
See?
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►XxVoid_CowboyxX (Verified Massive Pain In The Ass)
Replied On Feb 17th 2011:
Asshole.
►BBMod (Moderator)
Replied On Feb 17th 2011:
Cut it out, both of you. If you want to fight go find somewhere else. This is not suitable behavior for this thread.
Don't make me do something you'll regret
►Man_with_no_plan
Replied On Feb 17th 2011:
Is there any information on the latest victim of this insanity? The one who triggered the whole thing?
Did they make it?
►Iamnotpaidenoughforthis314 (Original Poster) (Veteran Member)
Replied On Feb 17th 2011:
Medical privacy laws prevent the hospital giving out any real information on that case, or any other, which is obviously the right thing, but unofficially I heard that they were released from hospital after a week or so. I'd assume Panacea was involved, but that's all I know.
►LizardsAreCool
Replied On Feb 17th 2011:
At least they made it, so I guess that's good.
I hope they get a lot of money out of that fucking place. And find somewhere better. They're probably around my age and it makes me sick to think of what might have happened.
I need to go hug a lizard.
►TheyComeFromElsewhere
Replied On Feb 17th 2011:
Thus speaks a disciple of THEM.
►Kid Win (Verified Cape) (Wards ENE)
Replied On Feb 17th 2011:
Oh hell. He's back...
I thought he got banned?
Again?
►Not_A_Demon_Honest
Replied On Feb 17th 2011:
He's tricky like that
But just a little amusing. Don't worry, stay very still and he'll lose interest and wander off...
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♦ Topic: Vista and the giant wasp...
In: Boards ► Places ► America ► Brockton Bay
KeyboardCivilian (Original Poster) (Terminally Online)
Posted On Feb 20th 2011:
Um...
UMM...
UUMMMM!!!
What the fuck is happening?
I mean, look at that! Just
LOOK AT IT!
How can an insect be
THAT BIG?
...Sorry. Let me start again now I've gone and had some well aged muscle relaxant.
OK. I was at Brockton General ER because like an idiot I dropped a sledgehammer on my fucking toe. Hurt like a bastard, but it turns out it's not broken, so there's that I guess. Just a bone bruise which I didn't even know was a thing.
So I'm sitting there minding my own business and reading random fanfics on PHO when the whole entire room suddenly goes so quiet that it was eerie as hell. Then this weird deep hum kind of faded in. I looked up, everyone was staring at the door, so I looked in the same direction...
Honestly, I nearly had a heart attack. That fucking HUGE wasp I got the photo of, when I recovered enough to pick my phone up again, just casually flew in through the automatic doors carrying
VISTA of all people and put her on the floor. The kid was properly fucked up, she was absolutely COVERED in blood and looked like she'd tried to fistfight a rabid woodchipper. Which considering what I heard a little later isn't far from the truth, but I'll get to that.
Everyone in the room basically dived away from the damned thing then froze when it looked at them. I'm not ashamed to say I did the exact same thing. And anyone who claims they'd have just sat there is a damned dirty liar and they know it.
The fucking thing must have been as big as Vista was! Unless you were there you have no
idea how wrong that is.
Obviously the first thought that went through everyone's minds was that it had attacked the kid.
Well... More accurately the FIRST thought that went through everyone's minds was "
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!" Or I guess that might just be me, but I seriously doubt it
<-- this is a very nervous smile by the way...
Then it spoke.
Yeah.
The fucking huge fucking wasp the size of a fucking 12 year old SPOKE. Weird as hell voice, sounded pissed off really, but it was completely understandable and very much not even a little human.
That goddamned thing is intelligent. Which somehow makes it all that much worse.
The thing said Vista needed medical attention, which, duh. I'm surprised she had any blood LEFT there was so much on the floor and her costume. The doctor in charge kind of backed away and came back a moment later with Panacea, who I think was taking a break or something. That girl has way bigger balls than I do, I can promise you, because she basically took a look, somehow managed to deal with it, and went to help Vista.
I don't think I could have got that close to that insect without being drunk off my ass... Not sure even then honestly.
No one said a word, but you bet we were all listening fucking hard. The wasp said that it, she I guess based on the voice, had saved Vista from Hookwolf who was the one who sliced her up like a cucumber. He was definitely going for the kill. The thing had apparently taken him out somehow, which terrifies me to the depths of my soul because while it's a fucking huge insect it's only a tiny percentage of how big
he is when he's doing his thing. Anything that can shut him down, apparently easily from what I heard, is... well, I'm not going to risk upsetting it, let's put it that way.
Then it evacuated Vista to the hospital, which definitely saved her life. I'm no doctor but no one can lose that amount of blood and walk it off. And it brought her directly to Brockton General too, like it knew where Panacea would be...
I have no words to express just how fucking confused and worried I am. I mean, I guess it's friendly? So there's that. But still...
Fucking Huge Wasp From Hell.
Christ.
You think you've seen everything this city can throw at you then something like
this happens.
After Panacea started fixing Vista, the thing just left and flew away. Not surprisingly no one tried to stop it. The PRT turned up quite a bit later, and almost everyone who'd see what happened stuck around to see what
else happened. So we all got interviewed. I don't think they actually BELIEVED us, even Panacea, until they saw the security camera video. Lieutenant in charge of the first lot went a REALLY funny color when he watched
that.
They got a copy of my photo, and some video another guy managed to shoot, but no one else seemed to be able to use their phones. Which doesn't surprise me any.
I hung around because after Panacea told them where the wasp said it left Hookwolf, they went to find him if he was still there and I was by that point invested enough in the story to want to see how it ended
And my toe still hurt like a fucker.
So Hookwolf is screwed. Yay.
No one seems to know exactly what happened other than Vista and she's probably still unconscious I'd think, but the guy is FUCKED UP. That damn insect did something that put him into a coma. I managed to overhear Panacea telling the PRT that before they threw me out.
From what she said, he's not going to be killing minorities any time soon. As a minority I'd like to take this opportunity to laugh my ass off. Go, giant killer wasp.
I'm still buying the biggest can of Raid I can find though...
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►Chrome
Replied On Feb 20th 2011:
Jesus Fucking Christ.
That is all.
Oh, yeah. First!
►Chrome
Replied On Feb 20th 2011:
Seriously though, what the fuck is THAT??
►KeyboardCivilian (Original Poster) (Terminally Online)
Replied On Feb 20th 2011:
A fucking giant fucking killer fucking wasp is what that fucking is.
...I may have used a little too much well aged muscle relaxant. I'll be lying down over here, please don't step on me.
►GloryToTheHive!
Replied On Feb 20th 2011:
That's not a wasp, giant or otherwise.
That's a mature Vespa Mandarinia, aka Asian Giant Hornet, aka Murder Hornet.
I study insects. I know one when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.
I dearly wish I wasn't.
Insects are fascinating. Insects large enough to steal a moped are... Let's go with less of the fascinating and more of the running and screaming.
My old professor would probably love this damn thing, but actual sane people might feel a little differently no matter how much they like insects. And if you knew what I do and could guess how much venom that creature can inject someone with...
Christ. I feel a little ill.
OK, just as a PSA? Seriously, and I cannot POSSIBLY emphasize this enough no matter how hard I try, DO NOT UPSET THE IMPOSSIBLY LARGE MURDER HORNET!
The ones that are less of an actual literal fiend from the pits of hell and more just hellish are around a couple of inches long, form nests of maybe a hundred to a hundred and fifty individuals, and absolutely WILL kill a fucker who is stupid enough to annoy them. They're not known to be particularly aggressive, and in fact are generally pretty chill unless you're a honeybee, but if you fuck with one, you fuck with the entire nest. They do not appreciate being fucked with.
And they make that very, very, very clear indeed.
A bee suit won't save you.
I doubt a full NBC suit would save you.
THAT THING?
Plate armor wouldn't save you.
A single sting from a single hornet is incredibly painful, but if you're not allergic or a kid or very old it probably won't kill you. You sure won't enjoy the experience though.
A dozen stings? That'll kill you right dead.
Looking at the size of this thing, it could inject at least a few thousand times the amount of venom a normal one could. You'd be dead before it took the stinger out. Assuming it didn't just shank you through the heart...
Oh, yes, one other glorious tidbit of information: They can spray their venom.
Yeah. They don't even need to sting you, they can literally shoot you in the face at range. If it gets in your eyes you'll BEG for someone to scrub it out with pure capsaicin. And going blind is quite possible.
I'm not even going to speculate on how strong it must be even to just fly, never mind take out HOOKWOLF! I don't want to think about it.
I have zero idea how the existence of this creature is possible other than Parahuman Bullshit. Case 53 maybe? I personally doubt it, it's too close a match to a normal hornet. Projection? Biotinkered minion? Who the fuck knows. But my Ph.D tells me that if you meet the thing on the street, you nod very politely, and leave. Immediately.
The only thing that makes me not start looking up tickets to somewhere, anywhere, else is the fact that it went to some trouble to save Vista, so I'll give it the benefit of the doubt for now. I still don't want to get within a block of it...
This has been an infodump from your local, and literally shaking, entomologist. I will now get very drunk. Later, guys.
►Feychick
Replied On Feb 20th 2011:
Holy Christ. I'm glad I don't live in Brockton Bay.
Every day I wake up I think that, but after looking at that image, I feel I need to think it extra special hard.
►Laotsunn (Kyushu Survivor)
Replied On Feb 20th 2011:
I DO live in Brockton Bay and while that's, probably, not quite the most bizarre thing I've ever seen, it's way the hell up there.
It's definitely the most TERRIFYING thing I've seen though.
I grew up in Japan. Murder Hornets live there. We know damn well how dangerous they can be, and believe me no one from the far east is going to look at that and not feel an immediate urge to be somewhere else extremely fast.
I'm feeling that right now and it's only a photo, for that matter.
I hope to god it's friendly.
Edit: Oh. Fuck. I just realized.
I think that's a QUEEN hornet...
Now I'm scared.
►KeyboardCivilian (Original Poster) (Terminally Online)
Replied On Feb 20th 2011:
Queen? You mean... the one that lays eggs?
Please tell me you don't mean that.
►Laotsunn (Kyushu Survivor)
Replied On Feb 20th 2011:
Yes.
I do mean that.
Fuck.
► Foxx_The_Fox (Verified Cute)
Replied On Feb 20th 2011:
What do we do?
►Laotsunn (Kyushu Survivor)
Replied On Feb 20th 2011:
Run?
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►Dreamy Lasers (Verified Cape) (Verified New Wave)
Replied On Feb 20th 2011:
I don't think that will help.
► I.Like.Big.Bangs
Replied On Feb 20th 2011:
Nuke the site from orbit. That's the only way to be sure.
►Dreamy Lasers (Verified Cape) (Verified New Wave)
Replied On Feb 20th 2011:
I don't think that will help...
►ToolmakerSix (Not a tinker)
Replied On Feb 20th 2011:
Leaving aside the horrifying new... whatever the hell that really is... do we have word on Vista?
►Laotsunn (Kyushu Survivor)
Replied On Feb 20th 2011:
I want to leave it aside but I CAN'T.
Perhaps alcohol will help. Worth a try.
►TinnyTinTin (Probably not an AI)
Replied On Feb 20th 2011:
I hope Vista is all right. She's cool.
Why was Hookwolf trying to kill her?
►KeyboardCivilian (Original Poster) (Terminally Online)
Replied On Feb 20th 2011:
Because he's a murdering nazi bastard who should have been melted down for scrap years ago, that's why.
Can we get back to the whole eggs thing?
That's the part I'm having issues with.
►Laotsunn (Kyushu Survivor)
Replied On Feb 20th 2011:
Trust me you're not the only one. Incidentally alcohol isn't helping.
►TheWhiteMage (Verified Cape) (Verified New Wave)
Replied On Feb 20th 2011:
Vista asked me to pass on that she's physically fine and is recovering. Healing her injuries was a major operation and she needs rest, so will be off duty until further notice, but rest assured she'll be all right.
And Clockblocker? I know it was you who changed my PHO name somehow, and when I find you, we're going to have words, you and I.
►Laotsunn (Kyushu Survivor)
Replied On Feb 20th 2011:
Whee! Cape fight!
...The alcohol might be hellpin a Litle...
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►KeyboardCivilian (Original Poster) (Terminally Online)
Replied On Feb 20th 2011:
WHAT DO WE DO ABOUT THE EGGS?
►LizardsAreCool
Replied On Feb 20th 2011:
Lizards like eggs
All we need is to import some really BIG lizards.
It'll be cool. You can believe me, I know what I'm talking about.
►Swordmaker
Replied On Feb 20th 2011:
I can feel where this is going and I'd like to ask that it doesn't this time. The giant hornet is bad enough
►Laotsunn (Kyushu Survivor)
Replied On Feb 20th 2011:
booz nerly worrkng
yay
►Dreamy Lasers (Verified Cape) (Verified New Wave)
Replied On Feb 20th 2011:
Hey... If we assume the giant-ass Hornet of Doom is a hero, there's something we all missed!
What do we call it?
►GloryToTheHive!
Replied On Feb 20th 2011:
Absolutely anything it wants to be called.
►Dreamy Lasers (Verified Cape) (Verified New Wave)
Replied On Feb 20th 2011:
That's a fair point, I have to admit.
►XxVoid_CowboyxX (Verified Massive Pain In The Ass)
Replied On Feb 20th 2011:
Oh shit. I just remembered something. That girl who claimed she was rescued by a giant wasp a couple of weeks ago. I bet it was this one.
►KeyboardCivilian (Original Poster) (Terminally Online)
Replied On Feb 20th 2011:
I HOPE it was this one. Because if there's TWO of them...
I keep flashing back to the concept of '
eggs'...
I really, really wish I didn't.
►Dreamy Lasers (Verified Cape) (Verified New Wave)
Replied On Feb 20th 2011:
We may owe her an apology.
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►RunTheRaces
Replied On Feb 20th 2011:
Yeah you do.
I fucking
TOLD you.
►Feychick
Replied On Feb 20th 2011:
You did. Sorry.
►Dreamy Lasers (Verified Cape) (Verified New Wave)
Replied On Feb 20th 2011:
We still need to come up with a name. Asian Giant Hornet is kind of a mouthful.
►Laotsunn (Kyushu Survivor)
Replied On Feb 20th 2011:
gah
agh...
nrly ther
►KeyboardCivilian (Original Poster) (Terminally Online)
Replied On Feb 20th 2011:
AGH is pretty good. Asian Giant Hornet,
and it's the noise you make when you see it
►Feychick
Replied On Feb 20th 2011:
I'm not entirely sure Lao was suggesting a name
Someone might have to check on him...
It kind of fits though.
►Kid Win (Verified Cape) (Wards ENE)
Replied On Feb 20th 2011:
Hornet of Unusual Size?
I mean it's nearly as big as a HOUS
►TheWhiteMage (Verified Cape) (Verified New Wave)
Replied On Feb 20th 2011:
Are you filling in for Clockblocker while he tries to hide from me?
It won't work.
Trust me.
I'm a professional.
►Man_with_no_plan
Replied On Feb 20th 2011:
I wonder what Kaiser's going to do when he finds out his stabby dog got wiped out by a giant terrifying bug?
►GloryToTheHive!
Replied On Feb 20th 2011:
Shit himself if he's got any sense at all
Hmm...
I wonder if we could persuade the HOUS/AGH to go and have a talk with him
But I'm sure as hell not going to be the one to try.
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►SenorEel
Replied On Feb 20th 2011:
Does anyone even know where it came from?
►Not_A_Demon_Honest
Replied On Feb 20th 2011:
I heard it came from the direction of the docks.
►Brocktonite03 (Veteran Member)
Replied On Feb 20th 2011:
There's a shock...
Where else would it come from? It's ALWAYS the docks.
►Laotsunn (Kyushu Survivor)
Replied On Feb 20th 2011:
x
gh
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