Revision as of 20:13, 31 January 2024

Characters

Villains

• Cryderman, Edgar Percy - AKA Ascendant. Descendant of Confederate officer. Desired to use the Peyasaskew Stone to rewrite history to something more favorable to the fortunes of his family and his political ilk. Briefly fragmented space-time using the Peyasaskew Stone; the Adventurers helped prevent his attempts to change history.

• Devastator - AKA Rodney Fellowes. Tech armor-wearing adversary of the Adventurers. Hired by Ascendant in 2017 to try to help change history. Tends to go into hiding between jobs. With renewed interest in his capture after he attempted to use the superhero Battery to power a large, destructive robot in battle against the Adventurers, his remote workshop was located in rural Nevada in late 2022. Captured by Adventurers Gold.

• Father Maro - Magic user who has sought to claim the pantheonic powers possessed by Catfight. Abducted Catfight's daughter Ayla in 2017; used his powers to kill Red Spider during the Adventurers rescue of Ayla.

• Liddell, Cosmo - Leader of the Liddell crime family. Involved in extortion rackets, heists, contraband smuggling, trafficking in weapons, and dealing in controlled super-tech and biotech. Attempted to have his cousin Lester Brownlee contest for the Democratic nomination to represent Millennium City in Congress, but upon their connection being exposed, Brownlee lost to Olivia Ellison. Jailed in 2023 as part of a plot by the Overseer to acquire Liddell territory; released later that year when charges had to be dropped upon revelation of the Overseer's true identity and schemes.

• Lord Aurum - Aged villain being kept alive by cybernetics housed within power armor. He has numerous aliases, including Dr. Adem Altun (possible original name) and Gil de Edmunds. Has a fascination/obsession with gold. Apparently is troubled by visions of a future calamity. Has gone to extreme measures to achieve his goals, including murder his future self to steal his armor. Attempted to gain control of the Nereid people of the Undersea, below Cretoa, in 2020, but was defeated by the Adventurers and Royal Cretoa's army. His mansion sits upon a small island in the Aegean Sea, maintained by servant robots.

Organizations

Heroes

• Adventurers, The - Formed 2014 by Red Spider (Webcrawler), a superhero team based in Millennium City, MI, USA. Notable victories include exposing the corrupt superhero David Lyons, stabilizing and defending the island nation of Cretoa, repelling extradimensional invasions by beings like Xagrim and War Boar, and dismantling the criminal organization of the Overseer (Clayton Ewing).

• Adventurers, The (Classic) - Formed c.1905, consisting of the heroes Mr. Adventure, Tank, El Sombra, the Aviator, Sister Savior, and Eagle Eye. Their final mission in 1917 saw them claim the Worldbreaker Gem in France in the midst of the First World War, and convey it into hiding in North America under the watch of Eagle Eye and Sister Savior. They were also enemies of the Order of Osiris and Lord Aurum (in his guise or original identity of Dr. Adem Altun). Their efforts helped the 21st century Adventurers team expose the Order of Osiris and finally destroy the Worldbreaker Gem.

• Birds of a Feather - Formed 2021, a crime fighting duo of Cardinal and former Adventurer, Bluebird (Ellison).

Companies/Corporations

• **MC News** - Newspaper produced in Milennium City under owner / editor-in-chief Sirus Blatt. Blatt's alleged connections to the Order of Osiris in 2019 caused him to step back from editorial duties, but he remains the paper's majority stakeholder.

• Source Biotech Enterprises - Biotechnology and biochemical research and development firm. Had numerous unethical members selling mutagens on the black market, creating some of the Adventurers early adversaries. Defeated c.2017 and raided by the FBI. A number of its projects have been carefully catalogued and are kept in a warehouse as evidence, but many of its illicit mutagenic products remain unaccounted for.

Law Enforcement

• PRIMUS - Primary Response and Interdiction Military Unified Service - originally a military group established in 1964 to handle intelligence and operations dealing with "paranormals," their blanket term for all super-powered entities. They have been under Department of Justice oversight for some years. They have significant resources, but they are ultimately run by the US government and its agenda. The Adventurers were the target of a PRIMUS capture operation in late 2016, until the team were able to prove that the superhero David Lyons had framed them for crimes of his doing. Relations between PRIMUS and the Adventurers have been frosty since, though Webcrawler does maintain necessary ties as a voluntarily (secretly) registered paranormal to keep the agency at ease. PRIMUS operates the Stronghold prison in New Mexico, where the US's paranormal criminals are kept awaiting and following trial.

• UNTIL - The United Nations Tribunal on International Law - Established 1963 to counter the growing threat of super-crime world-wide, emphasizing a highly-trained international force of ordinary human officers able to deploy around the world, more reliable than the disparate groups of costumed crime fighters whose identities and agendas were unknown. The USA was not an UNTIL signatory until 1993, when the American public was outraged to learn after the Battle of Detroit in 1992 that UNTIL assistance was prevented from crossing the border to help due to treaty and jurisdictional hurdles. Since then, UNTIL may conduct law enforcement operations in the US, but must defer to jurisdiction of relevant authorities. The Adventurers have acted in concert with UNTIL operations, notably against VIPER in 2015, David Lyons in 2016, and the Order of Osiris in 2019. Captain Christopher Suzuki of the Office of Superhuman Resources (OSR) is a contact for the team, and has been a reliable ally. Red Spider registered with the organization in 2016 in order to gain help for her clone ('Samantha') and herself in treating their monster mutation. The organization has provided material support for the team, including medical care and transport, but expects assistance with its operations in return.

Opponents

• Incognito - A hacktivist collective formed in 2007. They are decidedly against the association of masked vigilantes with the justice system. Are willing to go to extreme lengths to expose such associations. More radical members have tried to dox superheroes by uncovering and exposing their secret identities, though many members are more moderate 'white hat' hackers trying to make sure the public knows the true toll of superhero conflicts on regular people.

• Liddell Company, The - Legitimate face of the organized crime group led by Cosmo Liddell and his family in Millennium City. Enterprises include the Horizon Casino (Liddell's HQ and home) and Swift Shipping & Logistics (transportation and warehouses)

• Order of Osiris, The - Ancient cabal formed in Egypt thousands of years ago. It was created by a group who obtained, studied, and worshipped the Worldbreaker Gem, generating some of the earliest empirical knowledge of its workings. When the Worldbreaker was lost to them, the Order remained together, keeping as its top priority the recovery of the gem; but as a secret society with powerful members, they wielded political and economic power, and spread throughout the globe over the centuries. In 2019, they were revealed to exist to the public through the actions of the Adventurers team.