steelheart part 2

Ch 14 pg 141

We are bonding and whatnot.  The trail they're following is from the bank to the insurance company.  Hoping the insurance company has records of everything in the bank and that might point to steal hearts weakness.  David is gonna go on a fieldtrip.

Ch 15 pg 154

David goes with Megan and Abraham to an arms dealer down in the catacombs. There's a fun thing with a group of nare do wells where Abraham is like, how about instead of all of us fighting, we do a single mono i mono fight.  Abraham lets the other guy shoot first (cause Abraham has magic armor) and he shrugs off a few bullets.  Then he shoots him in the leg and bandages him up.  It's fun.  Abraham is fun.

They get to the arms dealer and the "guard" is a little girl.  It's fun.  Diamond the arms dealer seems fun.

Ch 16 pg 170

They find a cool gun.  The problem is each shot requires more electricity than their biggest battery can hold.  But they have this plan to capture an epic that generates electricity so maybe that won't be a problem long term.  Problem,  Night Weilder is here.

Ch 17 pg 189

They go to a dead end and use the sensor to make an escape tunnel.  But they make too much noise.  David thinks they're caught.

Ch 18 pg 196

David grabs Abraham's gun and runs over to the arms dealer (diamond) and tells him he fixed it and knows enough about guns to pass as diamonds assistant. Night weilder asks about forensics. One of these forensics shines a uv light. David wants to test out his theory that uv light makes night wielder corporial.  He shines on night wielder. 

Ch 19 pg 203

Night weilder notices, but David keeps staring at the device like he was trying to figure something out and he successfully removes the memory chip from the device.

Night weilder destroys the device.  David gets away and rejoin Megan and Abraham. He watches rhe video and the uv light definitely does something to Night weilder.

Megan hates david.

Ch 20 pg 210

David.and prof talk about the plan to kill steelheart.  David tells prof about how he got proof uv lights make night wielder become solid.  Prof tells him hes being too reckless and if things go bad cause of said recklessness prof will kill him and there won't be any evidence of David's existence. 

Ch 21 pg 225

They're gonna blow up a power plant.  Megan and David are sneaking around and setting explosives.  David is getting good at using the sensor gloves to burrow through steel.  There's trouble when a room they were going to burrow into has a bunch of people in it.  The only way around is up a elevator. David says no big deal, wait for an elevator to go up and jump on.  Pronlemis its the middle of the night.  David is able to make little hand and foot holds with the tensor gloves and they climb up.  Big problem,  security heard them and have opened the elevator door right above them.

Megan hates david because she doesn't like what the team has become. They used to go after the worst of the worst.  Newcago might be the best city in the world because of steelheart.  Megan is from Portland. You know what's there now?  Nothing. 

Ch 22 pg 247

 They do more burrowing around and they steal some fuel cells and they do a small explosion to get an evacuation going.  They really get people in the mood to GTFO when they claim its an Epic doing the destruction.   There's stuff as they evacuate about this building that just doesn't add up to David.  Mystery stacked on Mystery. One thing David got from diamond was a pen that had blasting caps and could be used as a detonater. David finds some explosives that look like they're part of a self destruct system and sticks a blasting cap in just in case.

Good thing too.  Their explosives aren't enough to blow up the building.  David uses his trigger pen and the explosion is way bigger than expected and the building is demolished. 

steel heart part 1

Preamble

There are people with super powers called epics.  Narrator's father thinks despite the fact this far all of them have been evil,  eventually there will be good ones.  Narrator is in the bank with his dad when an epic shows up and starts killing people.  Another epic shows up and narrator's dad thinks hes there to save the day.  Hes not.  He's Steelheart and hes the emperor of this city.  All shall bow down before him.  Narrator's dad shoots him and it goes badly.  Steelheart is basically superman and he can also turn stuff into Steel.

Ch 1 pg 23

It's 10 years later.  Narrator is a grown man.  He lives in what used to be Chicago with an awesome name, Newcago.   It's bad, but most other places are much worse.  Steelheart has been able to keep a semblance of order here.

There's an organization that goes around killing epics.  There's an epic that can see the future and hes their target tonight.  There's a sexy lady thats trying to lure him to a club where there's probably a trap set for him.  But another epic seems to be wise to this and gets involved.  Narrator rushes in.

Ch 2 pg 35

It works, narrator is able to get the other epic away so the lady can move forward with her trap. Problem is narrator tells this epic he works for a dead man.

Ch 3 pg 40

Narrator runs down an alley.  Fortuity,  the epic that can see the future comes back, but hes in handcuffs.  The other epic gets shot by a sniper.  Red dress lady comes back.  She is thinking killing Narrator is a good idea but then he talks about all the stuff he knows and hes trying to help and she let's him live.  But hes on his knees hands behind his back and the sniper is told to kill him if he moves.  But then a bunch of thugs come and red dress lady is gonna die so Narrator pulls out his gun and shoots at the thugs.

Ch 4 pg 46

Narrator's name is David.  He catches up to red dress lady.  He gives her his gun and steals a car and goes after fortuity. There's some cool action movie stuff where David is chasing fortuity and red dress lady , who's name is Megan, is shooting and the windshield is destroyed and fortuity does cool flips.  The end is that David is enough of a distraction for Megan to shoot fortuity in the chest.

Ch 5 pg 52

They are rescued by a garbage truck.  They get away and go down into the steel labyrinth. David is a little excited he might be accepted onto the epic killer team.  But one look at the garbage truck driver told him that wasn't happening.  At best, he was a friendly captive.  

Ch 6pg 60

They do a blood test to make sure hes not an epic.  They ask who told them they were gonna hit fortuity.  He says he figured it out on his own.  He says he wants to join them.  Megan seems to be for it.  But the rest of the team is worried.  So they leave him.

Ch 7 pg 66

As they leave her shouts that hes seen stealheart bleed.  They come back to hear his story.  This causes a sudden swap in Megan's demeanor. She thinks he lying and it PISSES HER OFF!!!  But the leader is intrigued.  He asks who he thinks theyre gonna go after next.  Turns out hes close enough that theyre gonna change their plans.

Ch 8 pg 76

He talks about how all he does is obsess about the epics and the reckoners.  Eventually this gets to him talking about how hes got notes at his apartment. 

Ch 9 pg 83

At first doc just wants to firebomb the place and be done with it.  David convinces him his notes are worth the trouble.  David and Cody and Megan go to his place.  Most places to live in Newcago nowadays aren't traditionally built.  They're carved out of the steel that steelheart has turned the land on the northern half of Chicago into.  David's room is one of these.  It's quite extraordinary for an 18 year old to have their own room.  David basically blew all his factory earnings on it so he can focus on documentation of epics.

They scope out his place and figure out there's a team there waiting to pounce with an illusion epic keeping them hidden.  David concludes the epic must be Refactionary. Her weakness is smoke.  The plan is for David to go inside and use this smoke bomb to expose Refactory and Megan and Cody will cover him from outside.

Ch 10 pg 95

The plan goes ok.  One wrinkle is that one of the enforcers, Roy, knows David.  David convinces him he had no part in the attack, he just heard there was gonna be an epic fight and was there to watch.  When cody and megan start shooting Roy and one other enforcer make it out alive.  David tells them an Epic named limelight is coming to take out steelheart.  The smoke bomb thing doesn't work.  Refactory isn't inside David's room like he thought she'd be. What David does is calls her with Roy's phone and cody and megan are able to take her out.

Ch 11 pg 104

Megan wants to kill Roy and the other enforcer. Cody is the veteran and says no.  The enforcers are not the enemy.  Epics are the enemy.

They make their way to the hideout.  They tell David about the cool gloves they have that turn stuff into powder.  Makes for mining through steel real good.  Supposedly it can carve through anything but doesn't affect living beings. I need A LOT more explaining of that.

Ch 12 pg 116

The team goes through David's files and they are impressed.  What doc isn't impressed with is David's plan to kill Steelheart.  He tells David yes gotta convince Megan that its gonna work.  That's gonna be a tough road to hoe as Megan still thinks David's story where he saw steelheart bleed is a lie. 

Ch 13 pg 120

David talks about the other high level epics in Steelheart's organization and what he suspects are their weaknesses. His basic plan is to take out other epics and claim to be an enemy epic and eventually lure Steelheart out into a fight and then kill him.  Lots of holes in this plan.  But Doc is in and that's all that matters.