EVENTS FOR JULY AND NEW COMPETITION

 The HVR birthday celebrations for June are over, but a new month begins! July brings new events, beginning with a new seasonal ops, crime spree days, and a week-long Hero Olympiads.This month, we are giving out ADDITIONAL STRANGE FICTION CARDS for Sentinel editorials, live updates, and reviews on all UP-COMING EVENTS such as the Olympiads, as well as tips and tricks on playing HVR. Advice on any aspect of gameplay, including introductory information for new players are most welcome. Depending...

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Heroes Rising Fiction: Pax Dystopia Part 20

 “Throw me!” A gray-haired nursing home resident yelled with glee at Master Muscle.The powerfully built man guffawed, seized the frail woman, and hurled her upwards. Holding her fist forward, she blasted clean through two Gamer G’s that were coming down to attack. With a well-executed somersault in the air, she kicked another Gamer G in the head and shoved him all the way to the ground. Upon impact, he exploded in a cloud of digitization.“You just got OWNED!” she yelled.A Gamer G darted toward...

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Heroes Rising Fiction: Pax Dystopia part 19

 Dragonborn ran with members of the League he had been connected to after graduation from the BADGE program. All were new, but well-trained, heroes. The confused people of Neo Utopia were now far more scared than happy. Reality had sunk in for them. This was a fake world. However, there were fewer answers and many questions. To complicate matters, a hoard of identical-faced enemies filled the skies. Millions of Gamer G’s were descending from space. “Did Justin give us any info?” GeoGal...

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Heroes Rising Fiction: Pax Dystopia Part 18

 Gamer, with his little control screen still floating next to him, directed Justin to the center of the floor in Operations. Drocha hovered nearby as a disembodied head with the smile of a snake across his face.“This is what is going to happen,” Drocha stated. “You are going to access the Code Black comm channel that accesses all communications devices across the planet. Every human will hear you make a special announcement.”“What would that be?” Justin’s tone was deadpan, not betraying the...

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Heroes Rising Fiction: Pax Dystopia Part 17

 Nova’s comm unit activated. “Parson to Director Nova, please come in.”Nova finished situating a young man on the ground before the medical bot attached the bio equipment. He clicked his comm. “Nova here.”“Sir, we have a problem. One of your people... is dead.”Nova felt his blood run cold. Every face of those he worked with ran through his mind. “Who?”“Mark Boswell. Heart attack.”Nova closed his eyes and took in a slow breath. “Is there anything we can do to prevent any other heart attacks?”“I...

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Heroes Rising Fiction: Pax Dystopia Part 16

 Lights flickered on in the dark, cavernous room that once held the ATLAS teams HQ. There would be a thin layer of dust over everything if the environmental systems hadn’t continued to keep the place clean. The computers were still dormant, which gave the room an eeriness as all the screens were dark.Chase and Dr. Henderson met Justin, with Alex in disguise, right behind them.“Mark, what are you doing here?” Dr. Henderson asked.Chase said, “If this is a farewell party, it is small.”Alex closed...

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Heroes Rising Fiction: Pax Dystopia part 15

 “My head feels funny,” Justin squeezed the bridge of his nose. “What’s wrong with me?”Alex said, “My guess is that you're free of the complete hold of the program and now The Oracle’s program is affecting you. That also means the pumped-up endorphins won’t reach you.”Justin closed his eyes and took in a few deep breaths. “I understand. I can feel it. This place… it isn’t real. How is this so clear to me now?”“The Oracle’s program frees your mind from their control. Now, you can think for...

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Heroes Rising Fiction: Pax Dystopia Part 14

 Justin stood in bewildered silence as he looked at Alex. Alex stood before Justin, in the empty conference room, and asked, “Did you say three weeks?”Justin nodded, “Yes. You had a meeting with Gamer G and then left to find Nova.”“Why wouldn’t I check in with you first if I were going on a mission like that?”“You were going on about something being wrong, and you then started raving about how this world is somehow wrong and that Gamer G is a villain. I was worried about you. Then, you left...

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Heroes Rising Fiction: Pax Dystopia Part 13

 Nova drove the shuttle over Austin, Texas. Inside, he had five security guards and three students from the university. These people were unable to contribute to the work The Oracle and Alex were doing at this time, and Nova recruited them into special service for BADGE.“How do we move them?” One student asked.Nova directed the shuttle to a football field. “The students will pick up young children. Security guards, I assume you’ve had training in lifting and carrying people?” He looked back...

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Heroes Rising Fiction: Pax Dystopia Part 12

 “Why me? How can I do this?” Alex asked.The Oracle said, “Your signature is still in their system. If you enter it, it will not see it as an anomaly. Somehow, you crafted a pocket of your own reality within their dreamworld.”Nova asked, “What do you mean?”The Oracle smiled at Alex. “When they pulled you into their simulation, your powerful thoughts of your wife and your desired life with her forced a strange anomalous code into their program. The simulation generated that home and the wife...

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