Invisible Island Lair?

Finally, we were able to take the fight to the Robber Baron, rather than continuing to play a reactive role. Anticipating his attack on the shipments coming into Lakeport to replace the commodities he had already stolen, we devised a plan to track him back to his lair, suspecting it was fairly close to the city. We were not disappointed. He had apparently built some kind of mobile island with a cloaking device on it, and had parked it out in the middle of Lake Michigan. From there, he had been launching his attacks on Lakeport without much fear of detection and without the need for long-range travel by his minions.

Thankfully, with the assistance of some of our more official crime-fighting counterparts, we found this lair and were able to storm it, recovering the stolen goods and rendering the base inoperable. By inoperable, of course, I mean full of water at about 900 feet down in a 22,000 square mile lake. We also faced some of his newest creations and showed them to be as inadequate as the prior versions, though they did show some interesting technological advancements I will need to study further. We also faced several supers he seems to have brought in specifically for base security, and were able to take them down as well. We weren't able to capture the Robber Baron himself, but I think it will likely be a long time before he attacks Lakeport again, seeing that the cost/benefit is certainly no longer in his favor.

Shai taishite haidoku.

Robber Baron Back Again

The Robber Baron, Lakeport's most prolific villain, has come off of a period of relative inactivity it seems. he attacked a number of high-end banks and commodity trading bureaus this last week, using a very quick smash and grab MO. The vehicle being used was some kind of phantom steam engine that appeared to warp to and from the sites of the attacks. The speed of these attacks was the most difficult part of stopping him this time, since his henchmen were able to be done with the robbery almost before the victims had a chance to notify anyone. Utilizing no fewer than 47 different investigative techniques, Blackraven was able to anticipate the site of their next attack, giving the New Guard an opportunity to set up an ambush. The fight that resulted was almost pitifully one-sided, a fact that seemed to derail the Robber Baron's plans rather nicely.

Speaking of derailment, I was able to speak to the Robber Baron directly and he seemed none too happy about us knocking his plans off track. He also seems very fond of trains, for some reason. When I asked him whether he wasn't too old to be playing with them, he seemed pretty steamed. He must have put a lot of resources into this little engine that couldn't, so maybe that's why he was so upset. He's probably also worried about being run out of town on a rail, since Lakeport seems to be his target of choice. He's engineered a lot of trouble for this city, but the New Guard will continue to fight him, and I'll continue to rail against him here. Have a wonderful day, citizens.

Hired Guns

I also wanted to let everyone know that there was indeed a group of supers hired by a person or group to come to Lakeport to attack the New Guard around Halloween. We were initially caught off guard by their coordination and tactics, but were quickly able to devise a strategy that resulted in victory later in the evening. As this incident is still under investigation, we cannot release any further details at this time.

A few things you may have heard about

Ohayo gozaimasu! Kusunagi here, wanting to let everyone know about what really happened in some of the events you may have heard about recently.

First, we should probably step back to the biggest, most public fight we had recently, the recapture of Ravenous. There's still a lot we don't know about this one, unfortunately, but we are continuing to investigate and we will get to the bottom of it shortly, I'm sure. The basics are that someone broke Ravenous out of the Supermax prison in Wyoming and carted him all the way over to the Federal compound outside of town. When he was released, he began consuming everything in his path, causing huge amounts of destruction. He was attempting to break through the wall of a federal prison located on the compound. This is when we got the signal to come take him out.

Shift brought us into the area overlooking the compound so we could get a sense of what was going on. We had heard that Bon Vivant had defeated Ravenous previously by lifting him into orbit. None of us were up to that task, but I figured I might be able to levitate him high enough to keep him from absorbing anything else. Unfortunately, that didn't work out. The strain was too much for me or something and I passed out from exertion. When I came to, I didn't see most of my team, but Ravenous was still trying to break through the prison walls. I jumped down, focused my sword and tried to slice through his leg or something, to keep him from moving anywhere else. Thankfully, the energy of my sword seemed to harmonize with the energy of his body and I did a lot more damage than I was anticipating. Pandora was also working her way in to the person floating in the middle of the body, so she may have had something to do with it, too. In any case, he fell unconscious and collapsed to the ground, where the energy body slowly receded back into the physical body of the man. We asked Dr. Daring to help us contain the man so he wouldn't pose any further threat and he graciously agreed.

Really, that was more or less it. The team gathered again near where the man fell and talked a little with Dr. Daring before heading back to the city. Overall, it was a pretty successful day. The prison Ravenous was attacking stayed secure, and he didn't have a chance to get as big as he was the previous time.

Welcome to the New Guard's Official Blog!

Hello everyone. This is the official blog of the New Guard of Lakeport. This will be where we post any information we want to share with the public, as well as some personal accounts of our adventures. We may even do some Q&A or something. Really, it's just a way for us to keep the public informed about what's going on with our team.

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