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After Action Report

Roll Call

Ghost Girl (Donald Kubasak)
John Gilmore (Shannon Appelcline)
The Light (David Pickering)
Rad, the Radiation Man (David Woo)
Riff (Eric Fulton)

Audio Log (MP3)

Tape 1 [7.0 MB] (1:02:06)
Tape 2 [7.1 MB] (1:02:24)
Tape 3 [7.0 MB] (1:02:11)
Tape 4 [7.1 MB] (1:02:32)

Synopsis

John Gilmore tracks down a kidnap victim. Felix Faust has taken her to Mount Kilauea (on the Big Island) to sacrifice her and summon three demons. John arrives just as the demon is forming. He shoots the Red Jar of Calythos, freeing Abnegazar from Faust's control. The demon imprisons Faust and then turns his attention to John, who has freed the girl during the confusion. Meanwhile the room is shaking and the volcano is about to erupt. John says "look behind you" then runs as Abnegazar looks. The tunnel caves in, allowing John and the girl to escape as Kilauea erupts.

Later in the week, the Island City Heroes are given a mission. President Roosevelt wants a concentrated super-hero strike against the Axis Powers. The ICH's part of the operation will be to destroy an experimental Japanese radar site on the island of Nirikawa. There is also a Japanese resupply base at Bungalow Bay on the same island. The group will go in two teams in two subs. Sub 1 has John, Ghosty and the Light.
Mysterious things start happening from the get go. The Light wins a lot of money at a poker game and the money disappears. A search of the boat finds the money in John's duffel bag. The next day Ghosty's food tastes salty to her, but normal to everyone else. The day after John wakes up covered in cockroaches. And then the engine breaks down. Obviously it's Abnegazar, surmises John.

Good thing there's a second sub. As the three heroes transfer to the other sub (where Rad and Riff are), two Jap planes attack but are beaten off. The next day Riff's gun comes to life and attacks him. And then Abnegazar shows himself and attacks John. But the demon waited too long for he is unable to defeat all five heroes at once.

Once at the island, the Axis Mystic Shield takes effect, taking over Rad and Ghosty. The plan is for Ghosty to invisibly place demolition charges and destroy the radar site. That will signal two teams (Rad with John and The Light with Riff) to attack the resupply base. Ghosty uses this opportunity to report to Kamikaze, who commands the radar site defences.

They warn the garrison and set off a fake explosion. Rad knocks out John and takes him to the radar site. Meanwhile The Light and Riff do their half of their operation. They contact Ghosty and Rad, who meet them and immediately attack the two. Although gaining surprise, the two controlled heroes are unable to defeat Light and Riff. The two remaining heroes rescue John, destroy the radar site, and then capture Kamikaze.

The return trip is uneventful. The Doolittle Raid goes off as planned, in part thanks to the heroes' work (though Ghosty's warning did allow the Japanese to spot the task force early). Once back in Hawaii the heroes learn that other hero groups suffered the same problems due to the newly revealed Axis Mystic Shields that sorround Germany and Japan.
Copyright (c) 2003 Kevin C. Wong
Page Created: December 5, 2003 Page Last Updated: December 5, 2003