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OK, so I’ll admit that my creative juices had definitely stalled.  I had a reasonably clear conception of Bashal and Hunter’s genesis and how they might meet.  I had no idea what would happen immediately after that, except for an ill-conceived, vaguely Terminator-style time travel strand (revolving around a character named Pharoah, since scrapped).

With the introduction of the character of Catastrophe, I think I may have resolved this Act 2 crisis (or, at least, delayed it).  There would be some minor plot changes to get us to that point.

• Rahul is established as before and comes to US as before.
• Hunter, instead of working at a Blockbuster clone, instead works as a laboratory security guard (this is more consistent with his personality and family life, anyway).  He’s still an alien, Marine, and predator.
• Shortly into the story, we are introduced to a research assistant (working name: John Fox) working on what he erroneously thinks is a research project for a revolutionary, new sunscreen: FACM 99.
• The project has been considerably delayed and the project’s sponsors are getting antsy for results.  When the research assistant begins to question the application of the “sun-screen,” his boss pushes him into a vat of what is actually a Fast-Acting Chemical Mutagen, transforming him into Catastrophe, the third supernatural entity in the St. Louis area (see his description here).
  • The remainder of the time in the US is divvied up between Catastrophe’s quest for revenge, Hunter’s attempts to maintain a semblance of law and order (and figure out what links, if any, exist between the new chemicals and the terrorist cell operating out of his house), and Rahul’s feeble attempts to figure out what the #&@# is going on.

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