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As Arthur had agreed with him, Max called him later that day and told him that Nessa and Jessica would be "transferred" to his retainer for the foreseeable future a week from today.

He thought that this was perfect, because it meant that he had about a week's worth of time to get to doing a lot of things he meant to do.

Like actually experimenting and researching his power!

His little stint at the Boat Graveyard told him the following: his upper carrying limit seemed to be ridiculous, he was dangerously flexible with his power (as evidenced by the fact that he turned a dozen cargo ships into a bar of steel with more or less only thrice my volume), and that there was more he could do with my power.

Indeed, when he had walked down the sidewalks of Brockton Bay towards the parking lot after my meeting with Max, he had felt the whole world around him, but this sense was limited by what he felt were irons, because aside from bacteria, what else did pedestrians waiting for a streetlight, cars deep underground, knives, and the asphalt road have in common?

Iron.

Sure, aside from the knives and the cars, the iron in the road and people were too miniscule for him to draw upon, which meant that he found his "lower" limit just by walking around and paying more attention instead of thinking about sex as he had done with Claire around like he had done so while walking up to Medhall and during the elevator ride.

Speaking of Claire, she called before Max did and told me that she would be moving into his house. Considering that his new house in Brockton Bay had more than enough room, he told her to go ahead.

And here he was now, in the basement of his new house by himself with a bunch of iron sand. Unlike the miniscule amounts found inside people, he could control iron sand in large quantities like this. Or rather, his power seemed to designate a certain mass and volume of them as a singular unit.

Arthur raised his hand up, thinking about what he could do with iron sand. After thinking about it for a while, he had an idea.

Arthur gestured with hand slowly, and the iron sand on the basement floor rose up towards me. He kept calm as the iron sand moved like a dancing snake, swaying from side to side. Then he jerked his hand back, and the entire mass of iron sand in front of him lunged towards his gesturing hand like a grainy version of a slime attack from some RPG.

The iron sand morphed into a single rod before the rod itself began to rotate the iron sand rapidly as dictated by his power and thought. He stared as the iron sand became a blur and soon form into a grainy, rough form of a longsword in his hand, partially see-through and yet clear to anyone with a working pair of eyes that a lot of somethings small were moving really quickly.

He gave this iron sand longsword a test swing, striking down at the floor, and paled as the sword left a groove on the concrete floor. What made it scarier was that he hadn't felt a single resistance.

"Yikes," he muttered to himself. And then he grinned. He now had a weapon he could call upon with ease that was inconspicuous yet powerful.

Arthur waved it around, and watched as more grooves carved themselves into the cement. He stopped and dispelled it before clumping the iron sand and dropped them into the grooves that he made. A perfect way to conceal something odd like sand, especially since it blended in better due to its darker color than bright and yellow regular sand.

He continued to experiment into the day and then the night until he heard the door open. Only one who should have the key to his house was Claire so…

He grinned as I stopped experimenting and walked back upstairs.

'Tonight is going to be great,' he thought cheerfully.

-VB-

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Today is February 8, 2011.

Topic: New Cape, Verification Needed. Call me Eisenfeld.
In: Boards ► East Coast ► Brockton Bay

EisenfeldBB (Original Poster)
Posted on Feb 8, 2011:

Hello to the city of Brockton Bay! My name is Eisenfeld, and I hereby declare my entrance to this city with this VIDEO!

Bagrat (Guy in the Know)(Veteran Member)
Posted on Feb 8, 2011:
I can confirm that an unknown parahumans has indeed cleaned up some of the sunken ships in the Boat Graveyard. If you don't see it on the news, then you can go see it yourself.
My source in the PRT confirmed that the video is real.
Are you an independent, hero, or villain? Your name in Brockton Bay suggests something nasty…

TrollMe85
Posted on Feb 8, 2011:
Is Bagrat insinuating something? Gotta let the man say something first, man.

SpecificProtagonist
Posted on Feb 8, 2011:
We have another Nazi cape in the city, huh?

EisenfeldBB (Original Poster)
Posted on Feb 8, 2011:
I am an independent, neither a villain nor a hero. I'm just here to do my own thing, and my own thing right now is to get rid of the eyesore that is the Boat Graveyard.

Bagrat (Guy in the Know)(Veteran Member)
Posted on Feb 8, 2011:
So what are you going to do then? Sign up with the PRT as an associate or just go around and do nothing?

Maktargorah69
Posted on Feb 8, 2011:
EisenfeldBB The Empire will help you navigate the treacherous waters of the city, my friend. PM me to get in contact with them.
User has been warned.
I can't delete the post because you are not strictly breaking the rules, but you are skating very close to it. - TinMother

Ashen1 (Veteran Member)
Posted on Feb 8, 2011:
I lived in Brockton Bay since before the days of Allfather, and I saw every single "metal" capes. I know that I'm not any sort of authority on parahuman matters except just a very old man living in a fucked up city, but after watching that video, I have to say that Eisenfeld as a cape may be on par with Kaiser at the very least.
Note how many tons of metal he was squeezing and holding up in the air. It has to be in excess of a hundred thousand tons. Not all of the ships are cargo ships, but at least a third of the ones shown on video being dragged into that gory mess of steel ball were. Most of the ships Eisenfeld pulled in weren't small-time fishing boats; they were at least Feeder class container ships. We saw at least two dozen ships get pulled together, meaning that the weight of the steel balls at to be at least in the lower hundred thousand tons. Despite the fact that he was lifting a literal building, he still moved it with the casualness from before.
And at the end of the video, he created something with the density far exceeding most materials available. By the virtue of the density alone, those metals could be classified as tinkertech alloy.

XBaronOfBoomX (Hater of BandOfBrothers)
Posted on Feb 8, 2011:
Ashen1 so to summarize, the bastard's worse than Kaiser and Iron Rain combined?

BandOfBrothers1337 (Hater of XBaronOfBoomX)
Posted on Feb 8, 2011:
XBaronOfBoomX of course, that's not the case. Kaiser and Iron Rain could both create metallic substances from ex nihilo. Eisenfeld has to use

EisenfeldBB (Original Poster)
Posted on Feb 8, 2011:
BandOfBrothers1337 I hereby declare reverse psychology: did everything I show in my video all I could do?!
Find out on … the next episode of "Eisenfeld and the Boat Graveyard!"

IAmSorryJon
Posted on Feb 8, 2011:
Goddamnit, is Eisenfeld a stupid gamer like Uber and Leet? Did we get another joker in the bay?!

EisenfeldBB (Original Poster)
Posted on Feb 8, 2011:
I am not the Joker but I certainly can be a joker.
On a more serious note, I think that people don't give enough credits to parahumans who just want to be like me. I'm going to clean up the Boat Graveyard and that's a promise.

Bagrat (Guy in the Know)(Veteran Member)
Posted on Feb 8, 2011:
Why post this online if you wanted to just clean? You realize that you will be putting a target on yourself, right?

EisenfeldBB (Original Poster)
Posted on Feb 8, 2011:
It was either I do this or let people (gangs and PRT) harass anyone that gets close to the Boat Graveyard, people that might have gone there trying to determine why the PRT swarmed the place not too long ago. So I thought that maybe it was a good idea to let people know that no, I'm not there right now.

AmRealYankeeAmericanNoble
Posted on Feb 8, 2011:
Eisenfeld, I appreciate the fact that you are willing to go out of your way to help the city, but there are those who would take advantage of your action to further their insidious goals.

-VB-

He posted the video of myself clearing up a little of the beach after Claire left for school today, and the response was ... a lot. The page went on and on with people trying to talk to him and talking with each other, and there were nine more pages already. It hadn't even been two hours yet. He did try to respond casually as possible, and that included the use of humor.

He just wasn't used to humor. Hell, he had to actively do some research while he was replying just to create that character trait. He was a consummate businessman; he was far too used to writing and typing formal emails and other such formal responses!

There was a point to doing all of that work, of course. It was to create a cape persona that would definitely differentiate itself from his real civilian identity. If there was one thing he agreed with his family, then it was the fact that cape identities were tools to be used.

Arthur just happened to want the destruction of people and organizations like Empire Eighty-Eight that based their foundation of stupid, hate-spewing, and inefficient ideologies like "white supremacy," but he didn't want it to be linked to Arthur Anders.

And that was the second point to talking as he did online: to make the persona of Eisenfeld to be approachable.

He knew that he would eventually have to end E88 either as a cape or as Arthur, but as it was, he really wanted to put an end to E88 as Eisenfeld.

But being a cape meant that he would be forced to kill, and when he killed, he needed the public on his side when the PRT tried to come down on him. The court of public opinion was a very powerful tool, and if he started his "cape career" as someone who was "honest," "approachable," and "helpful," then the PRT would be forced to stay their hand when he finally did something violent.

He would also be able to explain my actions as "unavoidable" in "helping" the community put down a rabid dog.

That said, it was really tiring to actually respond to people in real-time. He actually debated with himself against this AMA style of introduction, but the more he had thought about it logically, the more it made sense to do engage people in these talks while avoiding the wrong questions. First impressions were important, and he hoped that he sent an impression of "Eisenfeld" being a "harmless, helpful, and haphazardous" cape.

After all, if someone who couldn't even properly "plan out" their reveal and did on the spot because a whim, then how could they have planned out the destruction of E88 and the death of Kaiser and his most violent and fervent lieutenants?

… At least, those were the plans for now. Part one had been completed, and part two was underway.

Claire was already attached to him. Nessa and Jessica would soon fall prey.

After that, maybe Kayden. It wasn't as if she was married to Max anymore.