Marvel Prep

Characters: All of them!
NPCs: Most of them!
Location: All around Manhattan
Timeline: Saturday 27 October 2012 [forwarddated]
Description: Having learned of HYDRA's dastardly plot to mind-control the entire eastern seaboard, a decisive strike is needed to defeat them once and for all!
Rating: R
Notes: Remember to read this and track this.

( The only thing worse than sending a bunch of school children out to fight a war was letting Nazis mind-control millions of Americans. )

Characters: None, open to reactions.
NPCs: Red Skull
Location: Internet, then picked up by News channels
Timeline: Monday 8 October 2012, late evening.
Description: The Red Skull sends a message.
Rating: PG

( What is the Cosmic Cube? Who is Fury? And what would the Red Skull do to Manhattan if he didn't get what he wanted? )

Characters: Open to All
NPCs: Open to All
Location: Manhattan
Timeline: Monday 8 October 2012 (forward-dated)
Description: ZOMG!!! HYDRA CONQUERS MANHATTAN!!!
Rating: Let's just go ahead and start this at R.
Notes: Read the three main subthread starters. They contain useful exposition.

Update 10/7: Weapons lockers (random staff NPC) and Sanctum Sanctorum (Wong) are being opened up and lootz handed out. If you have a signature weapon or want a gun, you can go get one. Except Grace, she stays put.

( And then everything began to go wrong. )