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Below are a few words from the PUAD's 2 founding Deans, Bolt Crank and D-Shift A word from Head Dean, Bolt Crank Ahem, um GREETINGS FELLOW STUDENTS, I am Dean Bolt Crank. Glad you could all make it to this seminar by Dean D-shift and I. Well, lets begin shall we? According to this little piece of paper here, I am registered by MAGI as a Class I / A Tanker. I know many of you have wondered just how this little department of ours got started. Well, some numbers got moved around on little insignificant machines. But more than that, the roots of the PUAD go back a long long time… to a place far far far away… I remember the smells of the labs most. The pungent odor of Alchemical creations the Circle of Thorns would make in a vain attempt to turn lead into gold. In that time, long ago, the Descendants of Wu where different than what most people know of them now. I was created, and bound to serve them against threats. A task I very much enjoyed, fighting against Trolls, Demons, and the occasional Faerie-kin. However, witch hunters proved to be the undoing of our cabal. Left under the collapsed temple, I fell into a deep slumber. I awakened when I felt a cold hand turn something on my chest. Following my last orders, I battled the strange people that had inhabited the fallen temple, and sought out my former masters…. only to find them corrupted by demonic influence, and changed into what we all call the Circle of Thorns. In a rampage at a following of theirs, it was D-shift who was able stop me. He trapped me in a pit that I could not jump out of. My soul burned with rage, I, a dragon, who took an oath of service and bound to a mechanical shell, now left behind to rot, while my masters cowed to demons. I would have my vengeance. The Paragon University has provided me with ample opportunities of such. Recovering artifacts that used to be common household objects seems to be their desire. On occasion though, we stumble onto something greater, something that could change the world. It is these artifacts that Archeologists have to fight to gain control of, lest it fall into the wrong hands. The world is more perilous now than ever, with things like elevators, cars and toasters, threatening us in every room. Talking boxes try to rot our minds and make us buy their objects. Somewhere people invented these noise sticks that shoot little things out. None-the-less, some things never changed, mans lust for exploration, power, and godhood are still abundant. There are more artifacts out there still, waiting for someone to find and wield them. It is our job as archeologists to recover, protect, and maintain these precious gems of our history.

A word from Head Dean, D-Shift Hello everyone and welcome to the Paragon University Archeology Department’s website. I am Dean D-Shift. My origins are a lot more humble than Bolt’s. I was just a simple Physics student interning at Fermilab in Illinois when a freak accident during one of the accelerator tests changed me into the person you see today. “Blessed” with the ability to control kinetic energy and emit radioactive blasts I also have some limited ability to fold space. I was kept under close study at the lab for several months afterward, while the scientists tried everything to undo the changes the accident had caused to my body. They soon discovered that a microwave in the faculty lunchroom had malfunctioned and this rogue element would not be able to be duplicated to create a cure for me. I spent the entire Rikti war in a drug induced coma at a government hospital in a containment room until the doctors were sure I would be able to control the radiation flowing from my body. After learning to control my new abilities, I registered with SERAPH as a Class K/R Defender. I was offered a full scholarship to Paragon University to continue my doctorate work. I took it and upon arriving I was requested to perform a favor for the Archeology Department. It seems that a large metal statue one of the professors had been working on had awoken and crashed its way out of an archeological dig and was heading towards Paragon City. At the time I was one of the only meta-humans attending the college, all of the previous meta-students had died in the Rikti War defending their classmates in the initial assault. I chased the golem down and tricked it into a large pit where it was recovered. The golem was called Bolt Crank by the archeologist who was studying it because it was the only two words that could be translated from the socket in the chest where the professor had placed the Dragon Eye gem. We soon found out that Bolt Crank had the limited ability to reason and it was decided that I would study the development of his sentience. The faculty decided that we should form the core of a University sponsored supergroup to attend to the many mundane and magical artifacts that the University was responsible for. The faculty had felt that with the loss of so many heroes during the war, MAGI could not attend to all of the artifacts in the city with the proper level of security such artifacts demanded. I registered The Paragon University Archeology Department at City Hall with Bolt Crank as both our first member and first recovered artifact. That was over one year ago and our little supergroup has fought toe-to-toe with the worlds worst and shoulder-to-shoulder with the best heroes this world has to offer. As a small but dedicated group it is our charter to recover artifacts from villainous organizations and to be explorers into other dimensions in the pursuit of knowledge. We have performed so well as a matter of fact, the faculty is looking into securing an off-campus base for us to reside, work, and warehouse the artifacts we recover. Please feel free to look around we welcome all walks of heroes to join in our adventures in Paragon City in the Infinity universe.