Mortal+/Theme/Lost Boys/Overview

 Philadelphia is home to one of the more active cells of the Lost Boys Network. The Delaware Valley holds satellite campuses for companies like Merck, Johnson & Johnson, Wyeth Pharmaceuticals and others. Companies heavily involved in medical research. Merck and Wyeth are both rumored to be heavily involved with the Delta Protocol, making the region something of a gathering point for Lost Boys from across the eastern seaboard seeking ready access to treatment.

 This is also a hot spot of the resistance. While there are those who are happy to toe the line and play nice with the Protocol like the good former soldiers they are, there are an increasing number of Lost Boys who have become fed up with being human guinea pigs and are seeking a ready means of producing their own serum, if not uncovering a means of undoing what was done to them entirely. For obvious reasons they tend to be somewhat circumspect about their operations, and few outside of the inner circle know the true identities of those involved in it. The cynical assume it's just the Delta Protocol trying to flush out trouble-makers, others swear they're on the up and up and are gathering in cells of their own, awaiting some signal to act.

 The resistance call themselves The Detail. Which sounds very martial and cool until it's realized it's meant to imply being sent to the kitchens as a punitive measure for misconduct while in uniform. Some say it came about because the founders of the Detail tried throwing everything at their problem, including the kitchen sink. Whatever the origin of the name, the Detail focus on getting serum to those most in need, spreading news of movements within the Protocol, and preparing its members to handle the withdrawal that comes from a loss of access to the serum. Their cooks and chemists are starting to produce their own low grade serum, and rumors are they're working to develop a version of the serum that can stave off withdrawal and rejection of the enhancements without the all the negative side-effects. A version cleaner, even, than what the protocol produces. There are even rumors, as yet unsubstantiated, that they're working to create a serum that allows for over-clocking, even without the side-effects of withdrawal. Whoever is in the inner circle, whatever is behind the Detail, membership provides a second source of serum that the Protocol does not control.