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[25 Jun 2011|02:24pm] |
Jack Ryder was a man who would notice when something was off. Its part of what made him such a damn good reporter: that excruciating attention to the details that others would miss and lead to a lost source or story. So when he was assigned this, he was looking at strange detail after strange detail that made him almost smile at the assignment. It was about some foreign investor named Bob Gadling who invested a huge chunk of change into the Gotham Gazette...but with no attempt at buyout (which was all the rage for Jacks paper-based associates) or an attempt to restructure the business. It seemed less like an investment and more like a donation.
But the question was why? The Gazette also had some investments in local publishing companies (a deal that was supposed to help save the paper a few years prior, but it didn't really catch water), so was it Gadling, some publishing magnate from Britain, trying to lube up the works for a buying of those publishing houses? All evidence pointed to this Mr. Gadling being in town, supposedly to visit an ex by the name of Gwen Zulli, but Ryder had a hunch this was more than a personal visit. So, time to suit up, Ryder. It's time to show why you earn the big bucks.
So now Jack Ryder waits. According to his sources (and reliable ones at that), this Gadling character likes to visit this shop. Here's hoping Bob Gadling is a man of habit...
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| The Creeper |
[23 Jun 2011|07:48pm] |
Jack Ryder is one of the most recognizable faces in Gotham City, behind only Bruce Wayne in terms of popularity. Called the "Face of Gotham", he is the main anchor and newsman for Gotham News late nights and is a minor celebrity in the city. Known for being argumentative and a bit hot headed in his interviews, he also has a great deal of personal strife. Not one of his relationships have worked out and his time burnt to get where he is has taken a toll on most other aspects of his life.
This changed one night, when he was following through on a case that supposedly put drug dealers using an old chemical factory when he comes across something rather unexpected: he stumbles not on a narcotics business but a variable "steroid" called Venom. Before he can escape, he is captured and used as a guinea pig by the "hood" who was working on the batch. He manages to survive the torture, but when he is saved its found that there has been a small device implanted in his adrenal gland. It turns out that Venom is partially created through a genetically modified human adrenal gland and he was intended to be the source of the next batch had he not been freed.
However, what is not known outside the rescue team is that in times that he would have adrenaline coursing through his veins his strength increases immensely and he begins to laugh maniacally, a result of the stress his mind had been under. He was to get rid of the implant and undergo therapy when the first costumed heroes began showing up. Jack Ryder, seeing an opportunity to get a great story and get some personal revenge, put on the gaudiest pieces of clothing he could find and went out, becoming...The Creeper!
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