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1) Three short scenes a) Doctor Fate goes berserk and attacks the rest of the JSA. b) Alina goes crazy and attacks the rest of the League. c) Ruth and Jay transform and attack the rest of the Titans, but seem even more interested in fighting each other. --Each, fortunately, are subdued by their respective teammates. 2) Three short scenes a) The League calls in Zachary Zatara to investigate on Alina. b) The JSA calls in Mike Blood for their investigations c) The Titans use Ash for a rudimentary mystic investigation on Ruth and Jay. These investigations, sadly, do not seem to lead to much of anything, other than each seeming to be infused with an unusually high level of magical energy. 3) In the meantime, Victoria Craft visits Salome and Mina, intent on checking upon various strange undercurrents in the mystical community. Fortunately, she finds both of them unharmed. Unfortunately, when she takes them to visit another local practitioner she knows, a small time fortune teller who dabbles in chaos magic, they find her powers likewise raging out of control. With the help of the girls, Victoria is able to subdue her. 4) When their own findings turn out to be inconclusive, Zach and Mike turn to Victoria for assistance, since she’s well known within the magical community (and to Zach personally). Comparing notes, they quickly realize that everyone who’s gone crazy has powers specifically tied to either Order or Chaos. 5) Victoria, for once, is stymied in her efforts to find the source of the mystical disturbance. Fortunately, by combining their abilities, the other spellcasters in the group are able to locate a… tipping point, of sorts, in the swirl of Order and Chaos. With many of the major powers in the magic game unable to respond, they travel to the center of the disturbance, the little town of Rutland, Vermont, currently playing host to its annual Halloween festival and parade. Unfortunately, many in the town are under some kind of spell, and the group has to stop them without hurting them overmuch. Salome and Mina’s abilities especially prove invaluable here. 6) Making their way through town, the group heads to an abandoned church, where they discover that whatever is disturbing the magical balance is actively being kept out, as though safeguarding something inside. They head inside and discover Kefka. 7) The group battles Kefka and whatever he can summon up, but it is, at best, a losing proposition for them. They can hold their ground, but not much more than that. Fortunately, however, what they can accomplish is breaking the spell he’s put into place. It doesn’t much matter though, because it’s achieved Kefka’s goals well enough. By stirring up the pot, he’s upset the balance between the forces of Order and Chaos, and potentially stirred Order into greater action. 8) With a potential war between the forces of Order and Chaos coming, the group agrees to band together as the new Shadowpact, in order to protect the world against what magical damage and war they can.
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