news: dc update
Hospital staff that could be cajoled into providing information saw their hospitals untouched. Hospitals that refused on grounds that they do not provide such information through unofficial channels, as most of them did, saw their paper records ransacked and their electronic records hacked during break-ins. Hospital after hospital, clinic after clinic, this pattern repeated.
Just as police in the various cities began to cooperate on the series of mystery break-ins, reports began to filter out that a man had broken into Gotham General. Unhackable files and no paper records meant that someone was holding one of the doctors hostage until they provided their admittance records. Initial reports claimed biological weapons had been used, with several injuries, but no apparent fatalities. By the time the evening news rolled around, newscasts began showing clips of witnesses. Doctors, staff, and patients alike claimed a seven foot tall man (or possibly robot, depending on the witness) in a metal suit came in through the emergency room entrance, freezing the doors shut with an as-yet unidentified piece of weapons technology. He froze the legs of anyone who attempted to flee, and the hands of anyone who reached for their phones. Once the doctor was done telling him no one of the description he was looking for had been admitted, he left. Police turned up no giant metal man, no robot, and have no apparent leads. Gotham General has been temporarily locked down as a precaution.]