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The Otaku
 
Shinji Takamatsu is an obsessive consumer of manga and anime to the point that he barely sleeps eats or bathes. his appearance is a disheveled weakly looking japanese male of indeterminate age somewhere between 18 and 35. always Dirty and smelling of BO. he is usually seen wearing ramen stained pants and anime or manga inspired tee shirts usually of the fan service variety.
 
he is perhaps the most powerful member of the stereotypes. He is able to bring character and weapons from his favorite series into reality and with the right character he could quite literally blow up the moon.
 
Shinji is only a super villain for two reasons. firstly he needs the money to fund his massive anime manga and merchandise collection and secondly because he can summon the most beautiful women in anime to do his bidding but always passes out from blood loss from the nose at the slightest contact. plans by the japanese government to defang him by getting him a girlfriend have so far failed as no woman will put up with his petulant man-baby personality and his condescending attitude towards people with less knowledge of manga . 

Dead Eye
 
Dan Edsley was born in rural virginia and was always a great shot from his first bb gun to hunting rifles he was always a remarkable shot he took that skill to the marines when he left high school and was selected for Force recon where he excelled for several years.
 
During a deployment in Iraq Dan found out that his father had developed cancer the family was struggling to provide care and might lose the ancestral home. Dan was desperate to do something so when the opportunity arose to take part in a black market smuggling scheme taking looted antiquities out of Baghdad he jumped at it and it worked he salted away tens of thousands of dollars until the marine corps Criminal investigation department caught up with him and the rest of the conspirators.
 
he was quickly framed by the others as the mastermind which the marine corps was happy to go along with especially as the real ring leader was a senators son. dan spent 5 years in the Camp Pendleton brig before being dishonourably discharged.
 
Almost immediately after the discharge he was approached by a private military contractor who aware of his skill wanted to recruit him. it went pretty well for a year Dan preferred the less rigid discipline of the mercenary life.H e probably would have stuck it out for a few years and built a nest egg before retiring, if his fire team hadn't triggered an IED on patrol.
 
Dan was rear guard and only caught part of the blast the rest of his team where not so lucky. dan took shrapnel to his right eye and blast damage to his left leaving him with only 50% vision.  he thought was never going to shoot again that was until the defence contractor that hired  his firm offered him a chance to take part in their experimental cybernetic program his right eye was replaced and his eye socket rebuilt with titanium allowing Dan to see in infra red and thermographic vision the implant also allows him to control specially designed drones .
 
Dan was fed up of being poked and prodded and used like a Lab rat with no end in sight. He reached out to an Old friend LA Lake. Lake and the rest of what would become the seven agreed to bust him out of the R&D lab he was being held in dan escaped with his cybernetics a lot of corporate secrets and most importantly for him the advanced combat system his eye was designed to interface with advanced body armour a pistol and rifle slaved to his new optic and most importantly 6 energy weapon totting  spherical micro drones which he calls his Evil Eyes.
 
Dan is the Sevens range specialist weather its precision fire at long range with his smart rifle or close in with his smart pistol he is a deadly shot combined with the 6 evil eye drones each carrying a different energy weapon he is able to face off against a large number of foes Dan also uses The drones for recon due to there small size they make excellent scouts.
 
the 6 eyes are 1 Sharp Eye: precision laser, 2 Cold Eye: Freeze ray, 3 Red Eye: Heat ray 4:Quick Eye: Auto fire pulson blaster 5 Lazy Eye stun blaster & 6  Eye Scream sonic blaster.
 
As Dead Eye Dan wears a black eye patch to cover his implant unless he is using his rifle scope when he will flick it up he wears a black leather duster over his combat armour which is a dark grey pixelated urban camo the duster allows him to conceal his weapons and the drones which flatten into compact saucers when not in use he also carries a few grenades and other tools on a utility belt.
 
in combat Dan tends to stay in cover sniping foes and using his Eyes to flank opponents He is a great believer in researching enemies and has committed to memory dossiers on heroes and LEO groups that the Seven may face he will try to use any weaknesses to his advantage for example targeting heroes with super hearing with Eye screams sonic weapons etc.
 
he is definitely a follower not a leader and is more than happy to do what he is told  as long as he gets rich doing it.

William "Big Boy" Boyd
 
William Boyd was born a record breaker the biggest birth weight on record.
 
he continued to grow at an exaggerated rate. a giant relative to other kids his age. he was often ostracized by other kids and bullied because he couldn't fight back without hurting someone. Through out his school career treated like a big dumb brute but William was gifted with a world record IQ William would keep his mind a secret barely maintaining a passing grade in school while studying college level subjects at night.
 
when he dropped out of school at 16 he got a fake ID and started working as a doorman. Normally his giant size and strength would be enough but one night he got in trouble when he went up against a drunk who actually knew how to fight beaten and bloody.
 
he was rescued by his co worker a relativity petite woman who was a  semi professional MMA fighter. She suggested he take a few martial arts classes.
 
William  found that he loved the martial arts the precision and mental discipline appealed to him greatly He also developed a love for the great tacticians Sun Tzu and the book of five rings to begin with then Von Clausewitz and modern tacticians..
 
It was shortly after he got his first of several back belts that he was approached by a local gangster who wanted him as a bodyguard.
 
The money was great and there where perks like girls and nice cloths that 19 year old William appreciated. William worked for his boss for a while but realized he was over reaching and left before his empire collapsed. William Moving to work for a bigger boss he kept noticing the same thing that the men he worked for where stupid brutal men who could barely plan.  William had become fed up with it and wanted to start working for him self and as luck would have it that is when he met Jack Nicholls.
 
Together they put together the Seven  William is the mastermind making up the strategic plan Jack is the teams fixer he arranges things gets equipment and makes agreements and L.A. Lake is there tactical commander .
 
William is a normal human slightly stronger than most due to his prodigious size.. he is often mistaken for a brick and acquired a force-field belt for this very reason as superheroes often assumed he could take more damage than he  can his knowledge of over a dozen martial arts and quick intellect make him a fearsome opponent but generally when operations he acts like a dumb brute, communicating his observations to his team mates using a system of code-words and hand signs he developed.
 
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4X4 the 
 
4X4 is the newest recruit fro the Crazy 8's and has only been with the latest incarnation of the team
 
4X4 is the alias of Nelik Xavier Chetyre The youngest son of a Russian oligarch and his gorgeous Estonian wife born into wealth an privilege he lived a pampered life But Nelik was a trouble maker and thrill seeker.
 
He was kicked out of one exclusive school after another for dangerous stunts climbing the ramparts stealing tests or sedcuing female staff. Eventually at 18 Nelik dropped out of University and took his trust fund and disappeared travelling the world learning parkour and urban exploration paris, Escrima in the philippines  spent several months fighting in an illegal fight circuit in bangkok. he also participated in every extreme sport imaginable .
 
While participating the Famous Dakar rally in South America his teams custom offroader fell victim to a sudden rock slide Nelik was thrown clear and when he regained consciousness he found him self trapped in a deep cave exposed by the land slide unable to climb the steep sides of the crevice he had fallen into and with a  severely broken leg Nelik forced him self to crawl through the cave system to search for a way out. After what seemed like days but could have been merely hours, Dehydrated exhausted and delirious from the pain of his broken leg
 
Nelik found him self in a cavern that seemed to be a temple pictograms of a style unlike any he was familiar with where carved into every surface of the the living rock. at the very center of the cavern was a huge Geode split in half and filled with water the crystals within glowing faintly illuminating this lost place. Nelik crawled to the geode alter and drank hungrily and that's when he heard the voices  they where in his head and also all around him speaking in a language he didn't know but could understand as if it was his mother tongue.
 
"it has been a long time since anyone has completed the trials we deem you worthy warrior" and with that Nelik passed out he was found an unknown time later wandering the jungle by a search team that had rescued his team mates. 
 
Nelik just assumed the cave had been a dream from concussion and pain after all his leg wasn't broken when they found him actual the doctors had been amazed what good shape he was in no dehydration starvation or other symptoms of exposure other than the confusion he was in absolutely perfect health.
 
Fed up with the jungle and more than a little disturbed by the vivid dreams he was still experiencing about the caves,  he headed to moscow to drown out the whole incident he was drinking in one of his favorite clubs but no matter how hard he drank he could barely get a buzz when a cute girl started giving him the eye. Of course it turned out she was some crazy Bratva thug's woman and he pulled a knife on Nelik the knife ruined a nice silk shirt but didn't even scratch Nelik's skin and when he pushed the thug away he flew 30 feet across the club and smashed a huge mirror . shocked by the events Nelik fled the club and spent the next few days experimenting with his new abilities.
 
4X4 is a mid level brick not hugely strong but with skin that can turn aside bullets he has also retained his natural agility and speed making him something of a surprise to heroes who expect a straight up brick fight 4x4 will use Parkour to come from unexpected angles martial arts and even guns to give him self an edge against a stronger foe.
Nelik is also very much against type for a brick while he is in superb shape he has much more of a surfer or climbers physique than that of a body builder or worlds strongest man contestant like many bricks
 
4X4 is a skilled driver and pilot and often operates as the Teams getaway driver.
 
he has also performed some seemingly insane stunts as part of operations such as wing suiting through a 60 story window while the rest of the team set up a diversion at street level robbing jewelry store in the opposite building.. just to acquire some blue prints for a client.
 
Nelik is a thrill seeker and dare devil with a seeming death wish he is not truly happy unless he is throwing himself out of a plane or hurtling down a mountain since getting his powers he has been forced to go to even further extremes the main reason he is on the team is that its the best way for him to get a real thrill and challenge now that he has powers.
 
He completes team 8 leaving a minimum of 2 and a max of 5 to complete all the teams

4X4 the 
 
4X4 is the newest recruit fro the Crazy 8's and has only been with the latest incarnation of the team
 
4X4 is the alias of Nelik Xavier Chetyre The youngest son of a Russian oligarch and his gorgeous Estonian wife born into wealth an privilege he lived a pampered life But Nelik was a trouble maker and thrill seeker.
 
He was kicked out of one exclusive school after another for dangerous stunts climbing the ramparts stealing tests or sedcuing female staff. Eventually at 18 Nelik dropped out of University and took his trust fund and disappeared travelling the world learning parkour and urban exploration paris, Escrima in the philippines  spent several months fighting in an illegal fight circuit in bangkok. he also participated in every extreme sport imaginable .
 
While participating the Famous Dakar rally in South America his teams custom offroader fell victim to a sudden rock slide Nelik was thrown clear and when he regained consciousness he found him self trapped in a deep cave exposed by the land slide unable to climb the steep sides of the crevice he had fallen into and with a  severely broken leg Nelik forced him self to crawl through the cave system to search for a way out. After what seemed like days but could have been merely hours, Dehydrated exhausted and delirious from the pain of his broken leg
 
Nelik found him self in a cavern that seemed to be a temple pictograms of a style unlike any he was familiar with where carved into every surface of the the living rock. at the very center of the cavern was a huge Geode split in half and filled with water the crystals within glowing faintly illuminating this lost place. Nelik crawled to the geode alter and drank hungrily and that's when he heard the voices  they where in his head and also all around him speaking in a language he didn't know but could understand as if it was his mother tongue.
 
"it has been a long time since anyone has completed the trials we deem you worthy warrior" and with that Nelik passed out he was found an unknown time later wandering the jungle by a search team that had rescued his team mates. 
 
Nelik just assumed the cave had been a dream from concussion and pain after all his leg wasn't broken when they found him actual the doctors had been amazed what good shape he was in no dehydration starvation or other symptoms of exposure other than the confusion he was in absolutely perfect health.
 
Fed up with the jungle and more than a little disturbed by the vivid dreams he was still experiencing about the caves,  he headed to moscow to drown out the whole incident he was drinking in one of his favorite clubs but no matter how hard he drank he could barely get a buzz when a cute girl started giving him the eye. Of course it turned out she was some crazy Bratva thug's woman and he pulled a knife on Nelik the knife ruined a nice silk shirt but didn't even scratch Nelik's skin and when he pushed the thug away he flew 30 feet across the club and smashed a huge mirror . shocked by the events Nelik fled the club and spent the next few days experimenting with his new abilities.
 
4X4 is a mid level brick not hugely strong but with skin that can turn aside bullets he has also retained his natural agility and speed making him something of a surprise to heroes who expect a straight up brick fight 4x4 will use Parkour to come from unexpected angles martial arts and even guns to give him self an edge against a stronger foe.
Nelik is also very much against type for a brick while he is in superb shape he has much more of a surfer or climbers physique than that of a body builder or worlds strongest man contestant like many bricks
 
4X4 is a skilled driver and pilot and often operates as the Teams getaway driver.
 
he has also performed some seemingly insane stunts as part of operations such as wing suiting through a 60 story window while the rest of the team set up a diversion at street level robbing jewelry store in the opposite building.. just to acquire some blue prints for a client.
 
Nelik is a thrill seeker and dare devil with a seeming death wish he is not truly happy unless he is throwing himself out of a plane or hurtling down a mountain since getting his powers he has been forced to go to even further extremes the main reason he is on the team is that its the best way for him to get a real thrill and challenge now that he has powers.
 
He completes team 8 leaving a minimum of 2 and a max of 5 to complete all the teams

Michael " Mack the knife" Mackenzie
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was a successful circus performer an expert knife thrower until he ended up in a bar-fight in a small town somewhere down south.
 
Some drunken moron drew a gun and Mack had drawn and thrown one of his knives before he even consciously registered the threat. The gun totting yokel went down with a knife in his throat and Mack went to jail. Where he discovered said yokel was the nephew of the local sheriff, grand son of the local judge and good friend of everyone on the jury that indicted him for murder.
 
Mack went to a supermax prison. He was willing to just bide his time and try to appeal the case somewhere he wouldn't be railroaded by friends of the man he killed. that was until he stepped in to protect this skinny little rube who was about to get shived in the lunch room one we thrown spoon followed by a running tackle and the rube was looking to Mack as his bodyguard.
 
On the plus side turned out the little guy had juice. Mack started getting the best of life in prison and the little guy turned out to be connected with some serious guys on the outside he was their fixer and money launderer and for his help he invited mack along when he got busted out. when he got out the fixer helped him get set up as a Super-villain with a collection of trick throwing knives and a reputation as a honest and honorable criminal Mack had worked with several other members when they got the idea to start the Seven and he was a first pick.

Sugar Skull
 
Flamboyant vigilante working across the southwest and Mexico. The sugar skull takes his name from the traditional confectionary for dio Los Muertos the day of the dead. Sugar skull is chaotic hyperactive described as being like a grade schooler on a sugar high .
 
His powers are illusion based able to generate costumes and props at will and with psychokinesis to add punch to his phantom weaponry. No one knows what he really looks like and the fact he can appear to be anyone using his powers he seems to come out of nowhere dish out chaotic cartoonish violence and vanish again.

The Tardigrade is not exactly a arctic animal but perhaps the most successful extremophile organisms on earth. Found from the top of everest to deep underwater trenches from the poles to the equator.

 

The tiny Water bear is natures toughest creatures. and that's what Dr Bjorn Vannesønn a scandinavian bio-geneticist hoped to unlock with humans when exposed to an untested retroviral cocktail containing tardigrade genes Dr Vannesønn was trasformed into the giant beastial 8 limbed thing called simply the Tardigrade.

 

his lab destroyed in his initial confusion not knowing his own strength and attacked by the police, the army and local heroes, he fled to the far north away from people a brilliant mind trapped in a hideous form that does not allow him to perform the research that would cure him or even to speak.

 

But the tiny tardigrade has given him gifts too able to survive crushing pressure or vacuum temperatures close to absolute zero and temperatures over the boiling point of water safe even from famine and drought and able to enter suspended animation Dr Vannesønn is the perfect survivor.

Supremo
 
From Brazil comes Supremo, master of Martial arts football ! (Soccer to the Yanks amongst us). See the masked footballer Supremo kick a football at people and take them out or take them down. Watch as he dives and weaves avoding return fire. Howl in dismay as he blatently dives so that his team mates can get a clear shot at you. Snarl in fury at his good looks that get the girls and the merchandise deals whilst still taking performance enhancing drugs. Be at least satisfied that no major club in the world will employ him due to his drug taking; or the bets he makes to fix games; or the fact that he is corrupting youth with his antics.

From India comes Iron Flower, a beautiful woman who wanted to be a Bollywood star. Much like the western counterpart, their are human 'sharks' looking for prey. Showing up for a 'casting session', she was rendered unconscious, then woke up in an underground hospital with many of her orgins removed and replaced with cybernetics. Excaping, she joined the group, secretly enraptured with her new parts.

A scion of high ranking party members, Lu Hung has made a name for himself as the Dragon's Breath. His skill with martial arts and his ability to corrode, or evaporate, substances have made him a prime opponent for the heroes of China such as the Tiger Squad, and the Spirit FOx
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For Russia I have their version of a young, albeit crooked, Tony Stark: a Metvie Losev who dawns his Red Sormovo armor and commits crimes. He came up with the name for his armor when robbing a military museum that housed the first ever armored tank that Russia manufactured.

Crusader
 
The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus was a great wonder of the world  overlooking the city of Halicarnassus for many years. It was untouched even when the city fell to Alexander the Great and after attacks by pirates . It stood above the city's ruins for sixteen centuries. Then a series of earthquakes shattered the columns and sent the bronze chariot crashing to the ground. By 1404 AD only the very base of the Mausoleum was still recognizable.
 
In 1404 the knights of st john of rhodes a crusader order, invaded the region and built Bodrum Castle , When they decided to fortify it in 1494, they used the stones of the Mausoleum. In 1522 rumors of a Turkish invasion caused the Crusaders to strengthen the castle at Halicarnassus (which was by then known as Bodrum) and much of the remaining portions of the tomb were broken up and used in the castle walls. 
 
During the fortification work, a party of knights entered the base of the monument and discovered the room containing a great coffin.the histories of the Mausoleum state the following happened: "The party, deciding it was too late to open it that day, returned the next morning to find the tomb, and any treasure it may have contained, plundered. The bodies of Mausolus and Artemisia were missing too." but that was not the truth the Knights did open the coffin and within was a golden suit of greek armour .
 
when the leader of the knights touched the armour it flowed over him like water and formed into a perfect duplicate of his own armour.
 
he collapsed causing his men to flee fearing witchcraft but the leader heard the voices of angels telling him that  it was a gift from god that it would give him the strength to slay his enemies and to take the lands for his god. only it wasn't the Christian God it was Ares god of war to whom the temple at the heart of the mausoleum complex had been consecrated. the leader arose from the tomb and swore all of his men to secrecy this was a gift from god and word must not get out to the saracen heretics .  The voices where true to their word the armour gave the bearer undying strength in combat and vengeful blood fury and the armour itself would turn all but the luckiest of blows .
 
The Leader of the knights would used it to great effect passing the armour down from one knight to another within in a secret order the Knights of the Golden Cross a hidden sub-group within the order that would eventually become the Knights of Malta.
 
Yet even the wondrous Golden armour could not stop the Knights defeat at the hands of Suleiman the Magnificent  some time in the tumult of battle the last bearer of the armour was lost cut down despite his god forged might crushed under a wave of foes and thus the suit vanished from history.
 
Until a few years ago when a new super villain appeared suddenly clad in glorious golden armour acting as muscle for neo nazi crime organisations across europe. he is The Crusader a Xenophobic hooligan with a love of battle and mayhem. (of course unbeknownst to him a small but very formidable secret order of knights is hunting him and the Knights of the Golden Cross will stop at nothing to recover their most holy relic.)
 

oops accidentally did a hero lets try again
 
Professor Pyramid was a B-list super villain in the 1970s granted extraordinary powers from the ancient energies of the pyramid. drummed out of academia as a quack.
 
Prof Pyramid travelled the world investigating pyramid sites and committing pyramid themed he disappeared following his final defeat in 1977 almost 30 years later he returned seemingly unaged and massively more powerful seemingly having discovered the true secrets of pyramid power.

Tricky. The only truly "exceptional" properties I see are the hair and several tatoos. I'll go with the tatoos.
 
In magic, a lot of things have power:
Names. Sounds. Images.
If those are aplied to a living being thier power can sometimes increase in unique ways.
 
Pigment's power come from ancient egiptian tatoo lore, that was once used to cure and empower the pharaos of old. However this specific kind of magic only works on beings of sufficiently pure noble egyptian blood and (in her case) a person of prophecy. The old guardians of egyptian medical magic found her through a prophecy mentioning the "women of many colors". For obvious reasons they asumed it is her, thanks to her hair coloration (wich was created using very mundane methods).
"The one of many colors" is supposed to guard egypts indipendence and the prophecy comes (no wonder) from the varius times egypt was under foreign control. She does not really believes in that prophecy, but there are a suprising number of ancient gods and cursed undead pharaos that want to establish thier rulership again. And then there is the whole backlash of the 2011-2014 crisis to clean up.
 
Each of her tatoos grants her magic powers and all of them are based on plants or animals:
The rose grants her beauty. But it also grant her "thorns", wich manifests in a very high striking power.
The Cactus grants her the ability to sustain great heat and cold.
The Camel gives her the endurance and ability to go without food as her namesake.
 
The snake however is a totally normal tatoo she got before she was found by the priesthood. Like her hair it has no special meaning. But people just keep asking about it.

Mirabile Day, "Daytripper".  
 
Oh no, must be the season of the witch,
Must be the season of the witch, yeah,
Must be the season of the witch.
When I look, when I look
 
Humming to herself, Mirabile walks into police headquarters, her multi-coloured hair blowing in a wind that isn't there.  Once upon a time, being here would have worried her, but that was before she'd been exposed to the custom-made designer drug that could unlock her hidden potential.  One cop tries to intercept her, but gets distracted by those bugs under his skin.  She leaves him scratching furiously.  She's here on the business of The Cause after all and Everywoman wouldn't be happy if she didn't make it to the meeting.  
 
Upstairs, fat old men are getting together after all to decide the fate of those people in the streets.  They're afraid they'll be thrown down, and they're right to be afraid.  So they'll call out the cops and soldiers, the guns and the tanks.  A little slaughter to "restore order".  Well not all of us want your "order".  There are two guards on the door.  One of them decides his clothes are on fire so he takes them off of course.  Another starts talking to an invisible friend.  Daytripper smiles and steps inside.  She has some fat old men to loosen up.  The cops will be back to their normal fascist selves in a few minutes.  The ones who call the shots will take rather longer to come down.  They'll still be chasing the imaginary butterflies tomorrow.  That should give The Cause plenty of time to do it's work in this city and others.  

Magnetite detested paperwork; if he'd known how much he'd have to deal with, he might not have taken on being Chicago's VIPER Nest Leader.  So he was quite happy when two VIPER agents interrupted his daily administrative slog with a young woman in tow.  He ignored her tattoos, lip piercing, and multi-hued hair; many supervillains had very distinctive looks, and hers was milder than some.
 
The Nest Leader stood and smiled.  "Amethyst, isn't it?  A pleasure to meet you.  I'm Magnetite, but you probably already know that since you did apply to work with VIPER."  He reached out and shook her hand, and wasn't all that surprised when his heads-up display warned of psionic activity.  He was mildly surprised, however, to see her hair changing colors slightly as she used her powers.  "I should warn you, my helmet will make mental attacks against me quite difficult.  And it really does get us off on the wrong foot if you try to manipulate me."
 
The young woman shrugged and smiled.  "Sorry, old habit.  I was just trying a touch of telepathy.  It's nice to know how a potential boss thinks."
 
"Understood."  Magnetite sat back in his chair.  "Just don't try it again, and we'll get along fine."  He pulled up her file on his HUD and glanced through it quickly.  "Full suite of mental powers.  That's good.  Specialty in... neural location and telepathic links.  Interesting.  Tell me, how many people can you mentally link at once?"
"Fifteen to twenty with minimal effort.  I can go as high as sixty, but can't maintain that for longer than a few minutes."
 
He shrugged.  "A lot can get accomplished in a few minutes, especially by a dozen teams of VIPER agents.  Cross-communication, or do you have to relay?"
 
"Once linked, everybody can communciate with everybody else."
 
Magnetite smiled.  "Excellent.  And would you mind giving me a demonstration of your scanning capability?  Where is state senator Michael Clayton right now?"
 
Amethyst closed her eyes and tilted her head back.  Once again, her hair began to change color, ranging from turquoise to deep violet.  Magnetite noted that she really was quite lovely.  "He is... at the Garfield Park Conservatory."  She concentrated a bit more.  "Going over his speech in his head right now."  She opened her eyes.  "Want to know what his new crime bill's about?"
 
"Not necessary.  We've had a copy of it for several weeks."  He drew a few sheets of paper from a folder on his desk and studied them for a moment.  "Tell me, how skilled are you at manipulation?"
 
She looked mildly uncomfortable.  "I can do okay, but it's not my strong suit.  I can nudge people to do things they wouldn't mind doing anyway, and push to do things they're not flat-out against.  But I can't make someone shoot himself or a friend, if that's what you're looking for.  The more they're against it, the more likely they'll know they were mind controlled."
 
Magnetite shook his head.  "Not to worry, I'm not looking for anything overly dramatic."  He pulled out a thick envelope and slid it across the table to her.  She opened it to see banded stacks of money.  "I hope that is an adequate retainer."  He stood and handed her the sheets of paper he'd been reading.  "And I would like this to be the speech that Mr. Clayton gives.  Nearly identical, but we'd mainly like him to go off the rails for this bit here." 
 
He pointed to a paragraph, and Amethyst's eyes widened as she read it.  "What is his stance on S-Squad, and superheroes in general?"
 
"Senator Clayton's not a huge fan.  Has called them 'costumed vigilantes' in private, but since they're media darlings right now he holds his tongue."
 
Amethyst smiled.  "Well, I think I can make him let it go for a bit."

custom AR lower receivers
 

 

 
a prototype of a new one
 

completely ridiculous and totally over the top but a must for any Rhine stone cowboy. 
 

Kay Shen, The Dragon of Shang Hai, visits the club every few years. Every time he arrives, he has been wounded, and he looks different from the last time. When asked, he puts it down to stepping out the wrong door at the wrong time. He leaves when he has healed up.
 
There is two theories. One is that Kay is really a bunch of different versions of the same man who know about the club and use that to hold up before returning to their original divergent line.
 
The other theory is Kay navigates across divergent timelines and that changes his appearance as he goes.
 
Kay wont confirm either thought
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The Magnificant Marconi is a master of stage magic who may have discovered pieces of the real deal. He typically appears to give club members advice on things before he goes back to his own timeline. He is frequently found in the kitchen when he does appear in the club.
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The Timewalker
 
This is a time traveller who apparantly has it as an inherent ability rather than having a device that lets him do it (i.e. a TARDIS). He can only take himself places and not anyone or anything else. Instead of being jaded or a thrillseeker he seems to help people. However in history books or accounts there is never any mention of him. He also does not let anything anacronistic be left in the past when he travels there. He is also the 'oldest' member of the club having been there at its creation. He also tries to help those who seek the help of the club by travelling backwards and forwards in time to get answers for them or for the club in case of infiltrators/saboteurs/parasites. He only smiles enigmatically when asked about what money he has and what he does with it. The theory among some is that he placed a number of bets and made money from bookmakers that way but never that much all in one shot that would attract undue notice.
Sir Graham views him as a close friend.
 
Next one gets to pick the next team.

A hero to some, a villain to others, Dr. Jedidah Fix is accompanied by two constant companions on his visits to the club-the sizzling sound of lightning, and MAD SCIENCE itself
(Apologies to Jonah Hex)
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I had one for both of the last two teams but didn't have time to get them submitted under spoiler so as not to disrupt the flow.
 
 
 

completely ridiculous and totally over the top but a must for any Rhine stone cowboy.