by Ashlie Minamida » Fri Mar 11, 2022 3:52 pm
((I'll assume Sam showed up, feel free to add a post-fact arrival post if you want))
"Thank you everyone for showing up on such short notice. As you all know we've seemingly been under attack by, for lack of a better term, Titans exhibiting excessive manifestation of mutant powersets. Information on their exact nature is still sparse and anecdotal but we believe to have pieced together a decent amount from various sources and filled in the rest with educated guesses. This I want to stress, very little of what I'm about to say is unquestionably true, but it is the best we have."
She taps the large screen and brings images of the three Titans to the front along with a bunch of labels and text.
"We suspect they are outgrowth of the same power-source that Mutants have evolved to access. In the case of the Rock Titan it seems that power crystalized around an ability to change the state between minerals and biological materials, forming a chunk of extremely potent Mutant Growth Hormone which served as an anchor point to animate the bedrock around it. It was defeated by physical disruption of it's shape coupled with more... arcane methods based on Samantha's telepathy."
"The second Titan, designated Eil Mor, we only know it likely formed off-shore in the ocean. It's shape and core organ seemed to be better developed, more defined, at least by our standards and it's destruction disintegrated the larger shape entirely, suggesting it's basic physical make-up was dependent on access to it's source of power."
"The third one, currently simply the Chronos Titan, attacked from a much more oblique angle, suggesting a possible evolution in tactics. Based on your reports and what little usable security footage I was able to salvage it seemed to actively hide it's core, suggesting a rudimentary ability to adapt to the defeat of previous Titans and perhaps more importantly, there was crude communication. It also left behind debris that allowed us some insight into their physical structure." she says, indicating the piece of debris that almost looks like a broken-off hour-hand from an enormous clock.
"I strongly suspect the nature of these Titans is determined by two factors. One is it's Spark, the name that has been given to the kind of conduit specific to each Mutant that is connected to the specifics of their power. The other appears to be circumstantial. As in, the area of it's formation has an impact on it's shape. Perhaps those two factors are intertwined, the Spark seeking out a suitable environment for it's particular 'specialization'. Either way we have learned two important things. One, this is not a natural occurrence and goes against the normal behavior of these Sparks, induced by a force outside of our reality, one that possibly calls itself 'Li Ban' and is in some way connected to Samantha's Spark. This lines up with Sam's apparent ability to observe these Sparks as well as the Cailleach's claims to be able to manipulate them in some manner. Two, they are being send here with a mission which appears to be focused on Victor Freud for reasons unknown. It's possible his power has some unique access to quantum mechanics but at this point I am simply guessing."
"Now as for why I asked you here. We discovered that more Titans will be coming and that this 'Li Ban' may be improving her ability to imbue them with better, more complex capabilities. Will correctly surmised that this is not a war we can win by staying on the defensive. So our objective, should you chose to help us in this endeavor, is to open a controlled ingress into this extra-dimensional space and to find a way to safely enter it. This is a space with little to no material properties, perhaps even just a theoretical zero-dimensional plane between our reality and the pure energy source of the Sparks that so far only thoughtforms have been able to enter by approximating metaphorical spaces. And that is our one ace in the hole. We know that both the Sparks and this space in-between is highly reactive to the quantum observation effect. Or in less technical terms, it's highly adaptive based on the observer. Will was able to manifest a computer uplink that proceeded to interact with the Cailleach's perception of a deep sea environment. We can make it work certain ways simply by choosing how to engage with it."