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Planning to invoke the mystical Gathering of Five and needing the required five artifact shards, Norman Osborn, one shard already in his possession, has Override steal a second one from the Technomancers. As payment, he gives Override a seat at the Gathering. The Scriers tell Norman that Kaine failed to procure "the package," which has been placed in his sub-lab. Joe Robertson finds Alison Mongrain in Paris (SenSM #32, '98). Spidey spots an apparently entranced Molten Man burning his way directly through buildings on a direct course through Midtown. In a Greenwich Village pawnshop, Norman Osborn meets with Morris Maxwell, who is in possession of a third shard. At the docks, Alison Mongrain and Joe Robertson arrive from Paris. Molten Man attacks them but Spidey steps in allowing them to escape. Alison insists she must find Peter Parker. At his office, Osborn gets a phone call from a Scrier telling him that Molten Man has failed, then confers with Maxwell who tells him the Gathering gives three participants ultimate power, knowledge, and immortality respectively but imparts madness and death to two others.