Hi there everybody.  I originally posted this blog back in April after we had our twelve CCCN winners in tribute to all the great stories and fantastic comics we were anticipating.  We have so much activity now on the site and so many new members I thought some of them might enjoy reading this little crossover idea I had.  I am only allowed three tags so I put none of my fellow CCCN winners in the tags, but if any of you reply and put your properties in your reply this will show up on your page as well (as it should).  Now onto the original blog;

Paul Harvey does this little radio show and it's really cool, so I've stolen his title for this Blog.

Gather round the campfire and make yourself comfortable. Mind you don't get too close to the flames. You all know that CCCN has been going on for a few months and that there have been twelve winning stories so far from Blake Undying to November's Song. This, however, is not the end of the story.

Our story begins with the discovery of a journal. Seems there was this girl named Abigail who lived back in the Seventeenth Century, first in Salem and later in Quebec. In her journal she mentions a daughter born out of an illegitimate affair with a man she identifies simply as L_____. This daughter inherited her mother's power and this power remained in the line through the generations.

Seven generations later Abigail's descendent meets a young Irishman visiting America who goes by the name of Jack O'Breen. The two have a brief fling but the young woman always feels that Jack's heart isn't in it. About the time she is to deliver his child, Jack is boarding a ship to return to the Emerald Isle. The distraught young mother leaves her daughter in the care of the prestigious ALMA boarding school and commits suicide. Her spirit flies over the ocean to aide the Sidhe in their torment of Black Jack.

Years later, her mission complete the spirit returns to the College in time to spook Jumbo the elephant, causing the animal to be run over by a train. She meets her daughter and embarks on a plan to show her daughter and the other girls at the school the ways of POWER. They learn their lessons well, eventually leaving the college and having families of their own.

The result of this, decades later in the twentieth century is the rise of super powered humans.

One of these humans is captured and experimented on by Doctor Lance McCitrick who takes the DNA he has extracted to a lab at UBC to see if he can replicate the powers first in mice, later in humans. Dr. McCitrick dies in a car crash resulting in powers coming to more than 100 Vancouverites. Unfortunately these powers cause their users to die and eventually all of them do. Except one.

Meanwhile, in Meekton, the parents of many of these super powered beings in the States send their children to a special school, hoping they can live a 'normal' life at Hero High. Being teens, there is no chance this is going to work, and over time what we have is open rebellion and a new generation of super powered beings in search of a leader.

At the same time, in New York City, a man named Blake is unable to die. He is bored and fed up with life, tries to kill himself in every way possible, and eventually becomes a super hero as he searches for a villain who can finally put him out of his misery. It doesn't work. So, instead, he becomes a hero named STEEL and meets the Meekton kids.

A few years later Byron Reborr lends his mind out to pay off a gambling debt in one of a series of Mind Crimes. Unfortunately for him David Caine uses Byron's body to very publically kill his wife. This leads Byron to find the Soul Priestess Shandria who is an expert on mind merging. She is able to hide Byron by merging him with the final survivor of the Vancouver Minus One project. This person goes on to live in a quiet little cabin on the waterfront.

In another part of earth a powerful alien woman named Fugue comes to help the super heroes of Canada. She, however, has an ulterior motive as she knows she is destined to destroy the planet. To avoid doing this she trains a series of heroes, one per month, in the hopes they will be able to stop her. Knightcap is one of these heroes, November's in fact, but in the end he is not strong enought, physcally or emotionally to manage alone. He enlists the aide of Steel and his team and together they are able to destroy Fugue and save the planet.

Seeing the danger of allowing humans to decide their fate Steel and his team decide that there will be a new world order, an Age of Heroes so to speak. Super heroes will make the rules and humans will serve their new masters.

Eventually the humans tire of serving their new masters and rebel. The key moment in the battle comes when they are able to kill Steel by injecting him with the DNA from the child of the mind merged Minus One survivor. Now Blake is finally killed by his own power.

The new rise of the humans leads to a world of cybernetically enhanced humans. One particular woman, experimented on before she escapes, is code called Deutschmaschine. She is activated and goes on a secret mission to overthrow the corrupt powers that be. In the end she is successful. Sort of. You see, her success triggers the world wide apocaypse.

This leads to certain humans turning into zombies, certain ones hiding in clusters and certain ones of questionable morals exploiting the situation to make money by forming Slaughter Inc. Greg Heathcliff does his job so well he winds up forcing his rival Eric to shatter the dams, flooding the earth and forcing humans to live in small areas which used to be mountain tops.

The people of Rip Current lead hard lives, struggling for food as they seek to keep raiders at bay. One day Lucia meets a strange underwater dwelling man who turns her life upside down. As it turns out, this man was another descendent ofthe final mind merged Minus One survivor. Their offspring comes to the attention of Dak, a time traveling Hollow Man. He transports the little one back in time to the year 1676 where she is presented to two proud parents. They decided to name their new precious bundle of joy . . . . Abigail.

And now you know the rest of the story.