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VIOLENCE! VIOLENCE!
The news story in the Aberrant core book is dated "06/08/07", but for reasons you'll see tomorrow, that doesn't work for me. The item is reported by Monica Gaspar as the top story on the WSSB eleven o'clock news — I think she's with the WSSB-40 in Sarasota, not the one in Hartford (CT).
According to the item, Geryon appeared outside the mayor's office at 2:10 PM, bashed his way through building security, "snapped Rupert's neck with one hand, and promptly left the way he came", leaving 12 baselines (both security and police) dead and 25 (police and civilians) hospitalized. In a public statement, Raoul Orzaiz "offered sympathy for the victims' families," but opined that Booth did not act in the wrong; he likened Rupert to
Other novas were less sanguine about it, of course; in a press conference on behalf of Utopia and T2M, Caestus Pax said point blank:
May 8
[Aberrant] Geryon brutally kills Tampa mayor Frederick Rupert, the driving force behind the city's ban on novas.
The news story in the Aberrant core book is dated "06/08/07", but for reasons you'll see tomorrow, that doesn't work for me. The item is reported by Monica Gaspar as the top story on the WSSB eleven o'clock news — I think she's with the WSSB-40 in Sarasota, not the one in Hartford (CT).
According to the item, Geryon appeared outside the mayor's office at 2:10 PM, bashed his way through building security, "snapped Rupert's neck with one hand, and promptly left the way he came", leaving 12 baselines (both security and police) dead and 25 (police and civilians) hospitalized. In a public statement, Raoul Orzaiz "offered sympathy for the victims' families," but opined that Booth did not act in the wrong; he likened Rupert to
a rabid dog [who] might well have bitten someone rather more useful than himself.... To be frank, the loss of an atavism such as [Rupert] is no real blight on your species.
Other novas were less sanguine about it, of course; in a press conference on behalf of Utopia and T2M, Caestus Pax said point blank:
The Null Manifesto is nothing more than a trumped-up excuse for Teragen members to indulge in whatever criminal activity they choose without a pang of conscience.... We are all human together — and this Divis Mal and his radicals need to realize that quickly. If they don't, they will face the consequences.
