Sarcina and all the other Loricae move into the skyscraper very happily. Robots fly out the window or let themselves out the front door on a routine basis.

(How the fuck did they kill the Siberian.)

Apparently she's a projection and Foil can pop her temporarily. That plus extensive efforts by Dragon and Velocity to hunt her and Bonesaw down managed it - along with some sort of contribution from Grue though the media doesn't seem to know what. Bonesaw apparently managed to slip away but Dragon is keeping up the pursuit and thinks that Bonesaw is spending too much time on the run to tinker up anything too elaborate.

Why in the world would that prevent Bonesaw from tinkering up anything elaborate. As soon as she has something that can drive that will pass to casual inspection in a hat and sunglasses she can park in the back of a van and tinker while traveling to her heart's content.

So far they've caught and destroyed her transport twice and she still needs materials - particularly parahuman bodies - to do anything elaborate. At least that's what the PRT spokesperson said when a reporter questioned their original statement on the subject.

Well, the Loricae don't like betting on that but don't have a particular angle to go after her with.

Lucien gets some messages suggesting that he could scoot some rivers over - not too far, to places they've been in within the last fifty years, but it'll be more convenient if they're over There, for the railroad.

Lucien is happy to be distracted from his current task of trying to figure out how to redeem the $125k in Chuck E. Cheese tokens that the Undersider's apparently count among their assets. 

Oh yeah, I can definitely manage that. You have convenient transport there?

Yes, I have a chassis that can shuttle passengers now, although it's very lightly armed and you'd need to handle security mostly by yourself.

Can you transport an additional passenger?

It's rated for 700lbs total additional weight in the compartment.

In that case he'll bring Bitch and a couple of her dogs.

The shuttle is in a cheerful red, blue, and silver color scheme and settles down to admit them and takes off for the rivers in question.

Lucien has a brought a laptop to work on spreadsheets, while Bitch discovers that she absolutely hates flying.

"Would you prefer to double back and be dropped off?" Rete asks Bitch.

She glares at the speaker.

"No."

Then they will fly the rest of the way to the inconveniently located rivers.

Lucien sends out a array of shallow furrows first at each sight, getting the lay of the land, before extending his power deeper and farther. He carves several parallel trenches along the direction the rivers should be in instead, each half a mile along and two yards deep. Once that's done he sets to work opening up a path from the river proper to the new location.

All of this is to say that he's having the time of his life while the zombie apocalypse starts in Boston.

It is not a particularly slow zombie apocalypse. By the time the media has news helicopters in the air two neighborhoods have been infested. The zombies - monsters, capes, whatever they are - look like rotting corpses but move as fast as any human sprinter. Hundreds of them, perhaps thousands, moving in chaotic mobs, without any seeming purpose. The news anchor on the helicopter speculates over the sound of rotors that the Butcher and her Teeth might be somehow involved given their suspected presence in this part of Boston. A projectile flies towards the helicopter a moment later, lending weight to his final words. 

To Loricae, assorted,

This is a notification that your help is requested by Director Armstrong in dealing with the ongoing B-class threat suspected to involve the Butcher, due to your Master/Stranger immunity plausibly rendering you immune to the downsides of killing the Butcher.

Brief Situational Summary:
Numerous entities (tentative threat rating Brute 1) presumed to be generated from an unknown Master 10 (possibly Spree with a second trigger). Butcher involvement hampering efforts to locate the Master.

If transportation or further information is required you can respond to this email. Operational HQ can be found at [GPS-coordinates].

"Plausibly, they say."

"Yeah, I don't want to count on that, which of us is easiest to contain in a Rete-suit if we go nuts?"

"Is there a reason Rete can't just do it? Rete, ask Dragon -"

The Loricae are reluctant to entrust their sanity to this plausibility. Is there prior art on what happens if I in my own "person" kill the Butcher?

Our best guess is that if you didn't count as a person it would transfer to your creator (based on Butcher V's death to a proximity triggered explosive and subsequent transfer to the creator and user of the explosive), but it's not known what would happen if you did count as a person. Transfer to artificial life forms hasn't been ruled out.

"I... think it's gotta be me. Can't lose Sarcina again, Zephyr can get out of a suit, need Tribune on the foster carers for the Heartbreaker kids, Galea's power could do all kinds of shit with a bunch of Butcher powers on top of it - I guess Castra could do it."