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The Adventurers The Adventurers (and Doctor Killowatt) Leader(s): Red Spider Base of Operations: Subterranean Command Centre Concept: Classic costumed heroes & street fighters fighting gangs & organized crime. Founded: 14 February 2014 Website: Click Here Members: Red Spider, Fox, Cryo-talon, Black Asylum, Ocelot, Guidelight, Ravel Leen, Unlucky Seven, Artifex, Guardmaster, Illusion, Shift Shot, Owen, Artifex, Malignance

The Adventurers is a team of costumed heroes from Millennium City. Small in number, but strong in determination and skill, they work together to keep the city safe.

Adventures

Weapons Smuggling Investigation

The Adventurers began investigating a major weapon smuggling ring in 2014. To date it is still operating, but the top of the incredibly secretive organization has been revealed as a new supervillain.

Chapter 01: Investigation

Red Spider, working alone, discovered the smuggling ring in late 2013. Stowing away on their ship, she was going to let them take her back to their port to learn anything she could about the organization - but when they discovered her aboard, they scuttled the ship in Lake Erie, attempting unsuccessfully to take Red Spider down with it.

Curiously Red Spider learned that none of the advanced weaponry being smuggled was ending up on the black market - it was not being sold, it was being stockpiled.

Chapter 02: Tracking Ghosts

With the help of Fox (aka Zero), Red Spider began tracking threads on possible smuggling ring participants. The ring proved incredibly well-organized and secretive, and Fox was injured while apprehending one of their members. Red Spider questioned this one, and got the address of an abandoned tenement which had recently been occupied, but witnesses said a bunch of crates had been moved out days before.

Later, Fox and Red Spider exploited Fox's past identity as a renowned assassin to try to set up a gun buy. Red Spider sprung into action too soon, and with Fox managed to take down all of the gun runners.

Chapter 03: The Adventurers

A team was formed to fight organized crime in the city! The Adventurers now had Cryo-Talon, Ocelot, and Black Asylum, along with Fox and Red Spider, with other new members soon to follow. The Adventurers continued patrols, but the smuggling ring remains elusive and must be drawing closer to accomplishing their plot - whatever it is!

Chapter 04: Icy Reception

Luck allowed Red Spider to stumble onto the smugglers loading their weapons crates into trucks. She was detected and had to fight; Red Spider managed to avoid the workers, but the leader of the smugglers - someone wearing a strange electric tech suit - managed to 'shock' Red Spider with his suit's abilities, incapacitating her.

Red Spider woke up tied inside an empty weapon crate with a giant ice cube dangling overhead, threatening to melt enough to fall from its suspension and crush her. Red Spider narrowly escaped, and began following the spotter who was supposed to make sure she died, hoping she might learn something useful about the leader of the smugglers.

Chapter 05: Showdown at WCOC

An alert at the underground base sent Guidelight and Red Spider to the WCOC TV station. There they found the place under siege by Doctor Killowatt and a group of his well-trained henchmen. Red Spider got caught up in a net while trying to break a barricade into the server room; Guidelight moved in to save her, and took a harsh electrical backlash when he drove into Doctor Killowatt. The villain and his henchmen all managed to escape the server room through a precision hole cut in the ceiling, and boarded a waiting helicopter.

In the aftermath, Ravel Leen gave Guidelight a healing potion to speed his recovery. Illusion took some technical specifications of the experimental surge protector that Doctor Killowatt stole from the station - a clue to his overall intentions. Guardmaster arrived to help secure the building.

Witnesses in the WCOC building noted Killowatt's desire to avoid 'civilian casualties'.

Chapter 06: The Lab Ruse

Tipped by independent hero Night Terror, the Adventurers assembled to storm a laboratory which had a great supply of Kendrium - the mineral abundant in the self-powering surge protector which Doctor Killowatt had stolen from WCOC. The team was in time to foil a raid by Killowatt's henchmen, but it was all a ruse: the 'henchmen' were just made of gel torsos. Shift Shot - on her first mission with the team no less - was lured into a sealed industrial smelting compartment along with Night Terror and Red Spider.

With time running out until the facility automated, the remainder of the team stuck outside - Ravel Leen, Black Asylum, and later Illusion & Guardmaster - attempted to break down the massive doors keeping their allies trapped. With little time to spare, the door's control was overriden, and the team managed to escape.

The team assessed that a large spool of copper wire and some coolant was taken, but apparently not any Kendrium.

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