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'About time...' Shadow thought as she watched a few people finally arrive. She sighed a bit and had just turned to go back to the appartment when...she suddenly couldn't move. At all.


Mary Jane had been watching everything from a safe distance for a while, waiting and watching for Peter to show up. There were a few people she didn't recognise, but then there were new people popping up all the time. Finally she caught sight of a familiar red and blue costume, but somehow, it didn't like Peter. Suddenly she realized that she couldn't move.


A mischivious grin curled around Alcina's lips. "Well, as far as lives go, I believe there are a few people around that a few heros care very much about. And unique treasures with power...well I know of a rather nice collection of things from planets that no longer exist. It just depends on what you would like to go for. And duplication isn't a common ability, so I don't think you'll have to worry about that too much." she replied.
Suddenly she felt a very strong bit of magic burst into the room and glanced out the window. She gave it a bit of a look and walked over to it to look out. Ah, the wizard was here...and not very happy from the looks of it. Well, she could move at least...but it would be rather hard to leave the city untill the spell was lifted. She wasn't feeling like using any unneeded effort, and he was busy with those below, so she could just wait around for a bit.

Alcina turned back to Greed a moment and realized that he had been effected by Strange's spell. "Oops. Sorry about that. Not used to being around others who are vulnerable to spells. Nothing really effects me unless it's completely direct. Even then it has to be strong magic. Here, let me see if I can give you some mobility back." she said as she walked back to him and placed a hand on his arm. She paused a moment, then gave a half puzzled, half interested look. "Oh, interesting. The human's either very good or very mad." she said, then placed both her hands on his arm. "This actually might take a bit of effort. Worse comes to worse I can just open a telepathic link so you can at least talk until the spell wares off." she said as the tips of her fingers started to glow a bit. This should work, unless the mans spell was that strong...in which case she was going to have to have a little word with X once she could leave.

[enter Rorschach from DC Universe]

Rorschach appeared in the middle of an almost-New York City, momentarily stunned by the fact that he was no longer in the Arctic Tundra. It looked remarkably like New York City, it even had most of the same landmarks, but it was still a little different, and that was enough to tell him it was wrong. "Hurm..." he murmured, thinking to himself. He looked around, and saw, about four blocks away, what appeared to be the scene of an epic battle, ripped right out the pages of a comic book, colorful characters and all. The comic book reference was made even more vivid in his mind by the fact that it was perfectly still. Wait... was there someone moving in it? There was... but he was too far away to see beyond the fact that a person was moving freely in an otherwise perfect real-life stillframe of the funny pages. The whole thing reminded him of Moloch the Mystic, especially of the plans Moloch used to create in his early days, before moving on to more impersonal crimes, like drugs and racketeering the ones he read about in Hollis' book. Speaking of the book, one of the people there reminded him of a comic book superhero Hollis mentioned in it... What was his name?... Superman. His name was Superman. And one of the people, even from this distance, looked exactly like him. The area stank of crime and corruption. He needed to investigate. He started walking to the frozen scene, determined to start his investigation there.

(( I especially liked how I was able to have him only say one thing the whole post. 3nodding ))

((And it wasn't even coherent! *fangirl sqees*))

"Alright," Strange said, his tone considerably quieter but no less coldly furious, "Would someone like to explain what is going on, please?" Quite suddenly everyone in the vicinity found that they could talk. They still could not move, otherwise.

Alcina's attempt to break the spell holding Greed seemed to do precisely nothing.... Except that he could now talk, just like everyone else.

((Oooh yeeeeess!!!))
Pixie mumbled something to herself as she struggled to try and move. I need to get out of here. she thought to herself in a panic. She really needed to try and find Spidey. Well, mini Spidey.