Reputations In Freedom City (And Beyond!)

[Breella]

Gwen:

Gather Information:

DC10:Gwendolyn Barr is new to Freedom City

DC15:Gwendolyn Barr is a junior botanist who has traveled the world extensively for the past nine years.

DC20:Gwendolyn Barr is the daughter of two world famous botanists and the grand daughter of former Venezuelan UN Representative Jose Raoul Rivera.

Notice

DC10:Gwen's hands are very calloused

DC15:Gwen's sun bleached hair and sun tanned skin suggest a long time outdoors

Knowledge: Life Science

DC10:Gwen's muscle tone suggests a long time of manual labor, maybe farm work.

Flora

Gather Information

DC10:Flora's first appearance in Freedom City was during the attack on the Green Freedom initiative.

DC15:Flora's influence over plants seems to be her main power

Knowledge: Life Science

DC10: The vines appearance and flowers are that of real life plants, often tropical in nature.

DC15: The vines are stronger than normal plant life

[Tendril]

Kelly Clematis

Gather Information

DC 10: Kelly is freshman student at FCU, majoring in English Lit.

DC 15: Kelly has stunned her teachers with her knowledge of botany and astrophysics.

Knowledge: Life Sciences

DC:20 The knowledge that Kelly has demonstrated seems to be far beyond anything a girl with her background should know.

Knowledge: Physical Sciences

DC:20 The knowledge that Kelly has demonstrated seems to be far beyond anything a girl with her background should know.

Tendril

Gather Information

DC 10: A plant based heroine has been acting in The North End lately, frequently in the area around and in Liberty Park.

DC 15: Going by the name Tendril, she uses her vines to grapple criminals and poison barbs to incapacitate them.

Knowledge: Life Sciences

DC15: The Vines Tendril uses is actually a symbiote

DC20: The Tendril symbiote is not related to any terrestrial plant.

DC30: The symbiote is actually a member of a very agressive plant species that has conquored many worlds.

[Tiffany Korta]

Revenant

Gather Information - Revenant*

DC 10: Revenant is a fairly new female hero currently active in Freedom City.

DC 15: Revenant has currently taken resident in the “Little India†district of the West End.

DC 20: By accident or design Revenant seem to be drawn to supernatural related incidents

DC 25: Revenant bears a striking resemblance to a woman know as Lucy Harker.

*Or Knowledge (Streetwise), except you can't achieve the DC25 result

Gather Information - Lucy Harker

DC 10: The only source is a picture of Lucy taken in 1927.

DC 15: It was taken after her winning a murder case against a notorious Gangster.

DC 20: Day’s after the case she went missing, presumed murdered.

Knowledge (Civics) - Lucy Harker

DC 10: Lucy Harker was the lawyer that tried one of the earl cases that help define how the legal system deals with those caught by Superhero’s.

DC 15: Lucy managed to win a case against Sebastian “the Revenant†Giovanni after he was apprehended by one if the early “Mystery Men.â€

[quotemyname]

Zachary Vandermol

Gather Information

DC10: Zach and his sister are foreign exchange students attending Claremont.

DC15: Zach and his sister are actually permanent transfer students from The Netherlands.

DC30: Zach and his sister are not actually from the Netherlands. Their story has too many holes and inaccuracies to be true. No one knows where the pair is really from, however.

Knowledge: Life Sciences

DC15: The twins physical appearance marks them as albinos.

DC20: The twins are not actually albinos, they just look like them.

DC30: Not only are the twins not albinos, they aren't even human. Their actual race is a mystery, though.

[Raveled]

Starlight

Gather Information

DC 15: Starlight is a heroine with energy controlling powers. She can fly, blast enemies, and create shapes of pure energy

DC 20: Starlight was active in Spain for a couple of years before appearing in Freedom City. In addition to the above, she can heal herself or others.

DC 25: Starlight is bearer of the White Light, the same mystical power that empowered Beacon, and White Rose and White Thorn.

DC 30: (Only if the character is an alien/has connections off-planet) Starlight's nemesis is a member of the Grue Arcane, a powerful sorcerer who uses illusion and fear magics.

Liz Moya

Gather Information

DC 10: Elizabeth Moya is a student at Freedom City University.

DC 15: Liz (as she prefers to be called) is originally from Spain. She's here on a student visa.

DC 20: Liz is an intern at the Albright Institute. Her job mostly involves running and fetching.

[Electra]

Gather Information:

DC 5: Miss Americana is a superhero who operates in Freedom City! She's drop-dead gorgeous and shoots lasers from her fingertips! She's an all-American hero, and so nice as well!

DC 10: Miss Americana is also a genius scientist who is a founding member of The Lab in Hanover. She is currently acting CEO of ArcheTech.

DC 15: Miss Americana has a sidekick named Citizen, who is also a member of Young Freedom.

DC 20: Nobody knows much about Miss Americana, where she comes from or any hints to her secret identity. She is most often seen in Hanover.

DC 30: Miss Americana has a young female assistant who works with her at a private lab somewhere in Hanover. The assistant is an eminently forgettable sort of person, and very timid, so is almost never seen or heard from.

Knowledge: Technology

DC 10: Miss Americana is a founding member of The Lab in Hanover. Her specialty is engineering. She is also Acting CEO of ArcheTech.

DC 15: More specifically, Miss Americana is an engineer who specializes in medical prosthetics and bionic organ replacements.

DC 20: Miss Americana has participated in a successful operation to digitize the brain of a terminally ill child and download it into a robotic body. Some wonder if it was in fact the first time she performed that operation.

DC 25: Miss Americana has a private lab in an office park somewhere in Hanover. This might be her secret HQ.

[Aoiroo]

Catalyst

DC 10: Catalyst is a newer hero hanging around South Freedom in a van.

DC 15: She's identified by a non bagging yellow hazmat suit and blue goggles.

DC 20: Catalyst is a weird hero who fights with guns though no bullets are ever found.

DC 25: Catalyst actually fights with paintball guns, and apparently has no powers.

DC 20: Catalyst's paintballs all exhibit different chemical effects that resemble different types of common products.

DC 25: Her balls most unique feature is the area they can cover for any small amount of chemical a paintball gun will use.

DC 30: Her smoke balls seem to have a formula that are similiar in components to the original midnight mist with the exception of being a much lighter color.

Jasmine Benoitt

DC 20: Jasmine is a lab assistant at one of the large chemical labs.

DC 25: Her parents are both professors in the Linguistics department of Freedom University and live over in Kingston.

DC 30: Jasmine shares a condo with several previous college classmates.

DC 35: She is enrolled as a part time student over at HIT and is working on getting a Doctorate.

DC 15: Jasmine Benoitt graduated forth in her class with a Masters in Chemistry at HIT.

DC 20: She works at Franklin and Wesler Co. as a lab assistant for the biochemical and industrial department.

DC 25: She's recently been working on a thesis about potent chemical bases that increase expansion range as an alternate to sprinklers or cropdusting for fertilization and pesticide spreading on plants.

[Tiffany Korta]

Young Britannia

Gather Information or Knowledge (Popular Culture) - Annice

DC 10: Annice was a winner of a talent show around couple of years ago.

DC 15: After a couple of massive hits her popularity declined and she was dropped by her label.

DC 20: She dropped out of sight a year ago after being shot defending the pop guru Simone Kowal

DC 25: Recently she is planning a comeback involving an hip American studio and producer.

*+5 if from outside the UK

Gather Information – Young Britannia

DC 10: A new superhero who has appeared in the UK.

DC 15: She has also been recently sighted operating in Freedom City.

DC 20: Her powers and costumes seem similar to the hero Britannia herself.

DC 25: There were a number of similar looking hero dubbed Young Britannia by the pressin the year before this Young Britannia first appeared.

[Airon]

Saeid Ashoubi

Gather Information

DC 15: The Ashoubis immigrated from Iran in the seventies, and have owned a carpet store in the West End since.

DC 20: The quality of the carpets improved almost drastically in the late nineties, and they became quite wealthy.

DC 25: This improvement happened when Saeid finished high school and started working in the family business.

DC 35: Saeid has been seen sporadically in company of Sallah, Adrian Eldritch’s aide.

Knowledge [current events] or Knowledge [business]

DC 15: Saeid Ashoubi is socially active in the Muslim community and in general helps immigrants who try to open a business in his neighbor.

Knowledge [art] or Knowledge [business]

DC 15: The Ashoubi's carpets are some of the finest in the city, clearly hand-woven, sporting inspired and imaginative patterns.

Weaver

Gather Information

DC 10: Weavers is a superhero who operates between the West End and Greenbank; he appeared during the Gorgon Invasion.

DC 15: Weaver became known during the Gorgon Invasion, but had been moderately active pretty much all the previous two years, stopping robbers and muggers while staying out of the spotlight. He rides a flying carpet.

DC 20: Weaver seems particularly protective of the small businesses owned by immigrants in the West End.

DC 30: Weaver has been seen leaving Adrian Eldritch’s brownstone in Riverside.

Knowledge [streetwise]

DC 10: Criminals stopped by Weaver usually don’t present wounds, but are always very well bound.

DC 15: Criminals stopped by Weaver present sometimes signs of suffocation or tight bondage. They usually are left for the police tightly tied by stuff around the scene of the crime: flags if they’re near an embassy, hawsers if they’re near the port, etc…

DC 25: Weaver uses any type of cloth or fabric as a weapon. He can animates your own clothes and make them immobilize you.

Knowledge [arcana]

DC 35: there is an old Persian legend, from a time as old as Alexander the Great. Ashan, Master of all Wovens, was an artist of the loom renowned for having covered the floors of the palace of Emperor Darius himself. Peukestas, a young and arrogant Macedon captain, raided the home of Ashan and stole his works for the Greeks. That night, Peukestas military tent collapsed and he was found under it, dead, along with his most trusted lieutenants, their faces red and swollen and signs of suffocation around their necks.

[Paragon]

Gather Information

DC 10: Quintessence is a Hero who works mostly in the Downtown area of Freedom City.

DC 15: Quintessence is invulnerable to physical damage, super strong and can fly.

DC 20: Quintessence has an obsession with information about Aliens.

DC 30: Quintessence has been see flying out of various locations in the Fens before responding to emergencies.

Streetwise

DC 10: Quintessence operates most often between the North End and the Fens.

DC 15: Quintessence is especially hard on criminals who hurt or endanger law enforcement personnel.

DC 25: Quintessence is rumored to be a student at FCU.

[supersheep]

Enzo Flores

DC 10: Enzo recently moved to Freedom City from Arizona, and stays somewhere near the Boardwalk.

DC 15: He is currently employed at Frank's Auto Emporium as a mechanic, and can regularly be found there Monday through Thursday.

DC 20: Co-workers report that Enzo sometimes disappears while on his shift, or takes mysterious calls for someone in need of being towed. Records would contradict otherwise.

DC 25: Reports also coincide with signs of a mysterious vehicle with a strange visage inlaid within the fender appearing about the same time as Enzo's supposed disappearances.

Quarrel

DC 10: A new hero on the scene, Quarrel seems to be some sort of deadly-keen archer.

DC 15: He mostly makes his rounds about South Freedom and West End, and is recognized by his Aztec-inspired Eagle Mask and costume. Quarrel also appears to lack any sort of superpowers himself, but possesses some degree of mechanical ingenuity based on the craftsmanship of his personal array of arrows.

DC 20: Quarrel might be new to Freedom City, but not to being a hero. Sources say he was once a member of a super-team in Mesa, Arizona known as "The Underdogs" before they split up near 2008. One of two non-powered members of the team, Quarrel made his mark alongside the rest of The Underdogs after the takedown of the Los Muertos' head honchos in a daring raid on their main base of operations in Mesa.

DC 25: Eyewitnesses speculate that Quarrel resides somewhere near the Boardwalk area of South Freedom, as passers-by have seen a mysterious car zooming through the streets and then disappearing, only to have a man in a cape-and-cowl appear, leaping from rooftop to rooftop towards an undisclosed location.

[Cube]

Louis Ross

Gather Information

DC 10: Louis Ross is an artist and writer working for Castle Comics. He currently resides in Riverside with his wife Audrey and daughter Faye.

DC 15: Louis Ross has worked on titles such as Freedom League Adventures and Bowman and Arrow, but his signature title is Dr. Mystery, a fictional comic published under the Castle Unlimited label.

DC 20: Louis Ross was apparently set on fire while signing comics at a local convention. There was no apparent cause, and fans were escorted out of the area until paramedics arrived.

DC 25: Louis Ross was apparently mutated into a four-armed, psuedo-demonic form mid 2011. Fans of Dr. Mystery note that his appearance is almost identical to that of "Lord Pyre", Dr. Mystery's arch-nemesis.

Knowledge: Pop Culture

DC 10: Louis Ross is an artist and writer working for Castle Comics. He is famous for his work on Freedom League Adventures and his signature comic: Dr. Mystery.

DC 15: Louis Ross has been keeping his public appearances somewhat limited lately, though he does frequent certain comic shops in Riverside.

DC 20: Louis Ross was transformed into a form almost identical to one of his characters during a convention in 2011. AEGIS has yet to publicly release a reason for this.

Pyre

Gather Information

DC 10: Rumors of a four armed demon residing in Riverside have been appearing on the internet lately.

DC 15: Said demon does not seem hostile, and has alternatively been seen battling criminals and walking the street with a woman and child.

DC 20: The Riverside Demon's description matches that of the fictional supervillain "Lord Pyre", created by one Louis Ross, almost perfectly.

Knowledge: Arcane Lore

DC 10: A demon is an extra dimensional being typically representative of evil.

DC 15: There are numerous creatures that resemble demons, but do not actually share the same traits.

DC 20: It is possible, in rare cases, for an outside force to transform a human into a psuedo-demonic form.

Knowledge: Pop Culture

DC 10: Lord Pyre is the arch-nemesis of the fictional superhero Dr. Mystery in a series of comics create by one Louis Ross.

DC 15: Lord Pyre is super-humanly strong and tough, and has near perfect control over flame.

DC 20: Louis Ross has made multiple attempts to create a redemption arc for Lord Pyre over the past few months, all of which have been turned down by Castle Comics.

DC 25: A creature resembling Lord Pyre has been spotted in Riverside. It does not appear to be hostile.

[Brown Dynamite]

Foreshadow

 

Knowledge (Business) - Erick Sloane

Spoiler

DC 5:  Erick Sloane is a venture capitalist with an MBA from the London Business School.

DC 10:  Sloane has successfully invested in several high technology startups, turning his millions into billions all before he even acquired his MBA.

DC20:  Though Sloane is a managing partner and founder of the Sloane Solutions Venture capitalist group his assistant actually manages the day to day operation of the business.  Leading many to believe Erick Sloane is simply a pretty mascot leaving others to handle his portfolio.  

 

Knowledge: (Popular Culture) - Erick Sloane

Spoiler

DC 10: Erick Lutrova was a child prodigy in competitive gymnastics with sponsorship deals before he even hit puberty.*
DC 15: He disappeared from the public eye after the death of his parents in a freak fire. Erick and was adopted by David Sloane soon after the event.*
DC 20: He came out of retirement for a single year and actually placed in every male event in the World Gymnastics Competition for Team USA.*

*-5 if one already has a background in competitive gymnastics

 

 

Knowledge: (Current Events) - Foreshadow II

Spoiler

 

DC 5:  Foreshadow is a member of the UK based superhero team Vanguard.

DC15:  As the sole American on the team Foreshadow is rarely featured on promotional material related to the rest of the Vanguard.  However, when he does appear it can be noted he's always positioned near Synapse.

 

 

Knowledge: (Streetwise) - Foreshadow II

Spoiler

DC 10: The crime syndicates in Freedom City have been more on edge as more of their businesses have been shut down as of late with Foreshadow spreading out from the Southside more often.  
DC 15: Foreshadow can be found in equal measure taking apart street gangs in the UK, leading some to believe Foreshadow some sort of vengeful spirit who punishes wrongdoers around the world.

DC 20: Foreshadow's gravcycle previously belonged to King of Suits
DC 25: The current Foreshadow is in fact the second person to take on the mantle.  Sharing his mentor's predisposition for showing up at just the right time, but with an added level of martial talent.

 

Edited August 8, 2019 by HGM

[Dragonsong]

Trent Venfield - Defiant

Gather Information:

DC10: A dark-armored figure on a hoverboard has taken to patrolling Downtown Freedom.

DC15: This man goes by Defiant, and uses incredible future technology to fight crime.

DC20: Defiant's real name is Trent Venfield, and he's a tough fighter even without his technology.

DC25: Defiant is a refugee from another dimension who arrived in Freedom City in December of 2011.

DC30: Defiant was a rebel leader on a world in the Terminus, fighting to free his planet from Omega.

Knowledge (Technology):

DC10: Defiant's "hoverboard" doesn't hover, exactly. It is completely unaffected by gravity, and operable in high altitude, in vacuum, and underwater.

DC15: Defiant's staff is a modified version of an Omegadrone's standard weapon.

DC20: Defiant's biosuit is studded with tiny thrusters which enable him to fall in a safe, controlled manner from any height.

DC25: Defiant's biosuit, though as advanced as unique feats of modern super-science, shows signs of being a standardized design.

DC30: Defiant's technology is powered by miniaturized cold fusion energy cells. This is beyond incredible.

Knowledge (Life Sciences):

DC15: Despite his origins far beyond Earth, Defiant is biologically a normal human in every way.

Knowledge (Pop Culture):

DC15: Defiant's staff is a modified version of an Omegadrone's standard weapon.

Knowledge (Streetwise):

DC15: Defiant often tells criminals he apprehends how lucky they are to live in the world they’re ruining.

[Supercape]

Synth

Gather Information

DC 10 Synth is a superstrong superhero, a bit scruffy, but quite a looker.

DC 15 Synth is can change her body, she often grows extra arms, for instance.

DC 20 She has often been seen helping the homeless or poor.

DC 25 Synth can change form! She might even appear as a man. Nobody really knows who she is, or what she has done...

DC 30 At times, Synth has spouted some quite political opinions, complaining about income distribution, corruption, and out of control capitalism. She even attended a few protests about the banking system. Some police and intelligence agencies have suspicions she may be a communist...

DC 35 But these are quite unfounded! There is evidence Synth drifts around jobs, but she has quite clearly demonstrated she is pro-democracy and liberty. She has reportedly voiced a particular concern about SHADOW.

DC 40 SHADOW have been after Synth, and claim that they developed her.

Knowledge (life sciences)

DC 25 Synth's shape changing abilities are limited to human tissue only from reports.

Knowledge (life sciences) - if a sample of her tissue / blood is being analysed...

DC 10 [untrained possible] She has a cellular structure

DC 20 [untrained possible] But it is not human!

DC 25 Synth's cells are partially artificial, with a very radical biochemistry and inter-cellular structure. Her cells all show stem cell properties, and are highly metabolically active.

DC 30 Her tissue is connected by an extremely intricate system of silicon-base biomolecules, far superior to the human nervous system.

DC 40 Her "DNA" based molecules show a basis in Ultima DNA.

Knowledge (behavioural sciences)

DC 20 Synth behaves quite oddly, with apparent inexperience and a niave understanding of human civilisation and interaction.

DC 25 Synth's behavioural responses are abnormal, but not dysfunctional. She does not show any signs of mental illness, however. It is as if she is not quite human.

DC 30 Synth shows an inability to lie or deceive in her speech, becoming uncomfortable or freezing in these situations, but never actually lying.

[Thunder King]

Thomas Morgan

Gather Information on Thomas Morgan

DC10: Thomas Morgan is a young, recent high school graduate

DC15: Thomas works at his father's computer shop

DC20: Thomas Morgan has no criminal record

DC25: Thomas Morgan was in a coma for four days

Voltage

Gather Information

DC10: Voltage is a young, up-and-coming super hero that controls electricity.

DC15: Voltage seems to not have a focused area of patrol

DC20: Electricity isn't all he can do, he's also super-smart and can hack computers with his mind

[Cube]

Peter David

Gather Information

DC 10: Peter David was a skilled researcher in the field of robotics.

DC 15: Peter David has been rather reclusive over the past few months. Not even what remains of his own family has seen him.

DC 20: Peter David's lives in a Mansion out near Lantern Hill, but he doesn't take visitors often... I'm not even sure if he still has staff.

DC 25: I've heard the old David mansion is practically abandoned now. There hasn't been a food order for weeks, but everything seems to be running just fine...

DC 30+: There's a rumor going around that Mr. David might be dead, but... who is running his mansion if that's the case?

Knowledge (Technology)

DC 10: Peter David's work primarily focuses of robotics, though he has dabbled in programming.

DC 15: One of his more unique inventions was a special nano-fabric composed of a swarm of specialized nanites. It was licensed to the US military in the past, and several heroes use it in their costumes

Steel Shrike

Gather Information

DC10: The Steel Shrike is a superhero in the style of The Raven or Midnight.

DC15: He wears a suit of powered armor that grants him enhanced strength and durability.

DC20: His most important powers are centered around his cape, which can allow him to fly, grab enemies, or even turn completely invisible.

DC25: His suit also has some sort of life support built in. Things like poison and toxic gas don't seem to bother him.

DC30: Some of the people who worked with the Steel Shrike in the past say he's been acting... different lately. Like something's off.

[Thunder King]

Reputation of Crimson Tiger

DC 10: Crimson Tiger is a young, up and coming super hero who seems to be a good fighter

DC 15: Crimson Tiger specializes in martial arts and rides a red and black motorcycle

DC 25: Crimson Tiger's fighting style is Muay Thai

DC 30: Crimson Tiger is a legacy hero, the original was Black Tiger, a hero in Thailand.

Reputation of Benjawan Mali

DC 10: Benjawan Mali is a 16 year old high school student

DC 15: Benjawan Mali is a student who has just started attending the prestigious Claremont Academy

DC 20: Benjawan Mali's parents are well off, her father being a financial adviser.

DC 25: Benjawan Mali's grandparents immigrated from Thailand years ago.

[Derin]

Whiplash

Gather Information -- Helen Crey

DC 10: Helen Crey was convicted of theft once and jailed.

DC 15: She served her sentence quietly and apparently reformed, now raising her daughter alone in Freedom City.

DC 20: Helen is suspected of several thefts for which she was never convicted. When she was caught, it was because she and her partner had remained at a crime scene too long, while she defended a child from him. She testified against him.

DC 25: Helen's move to Freedom City was based on tensions with her old criminal friends after her reform. A few of the friends of the partner she betrayed came forward as witnesses to her participation in other crimes, but their accounts were not enough for conviction.

DC 35: In mid 2011, a break-in and robbery of Helen's home resulted in a personality and behaviour change; she became security conscious, secretive, and started to spend a lot of unexplained time away from friends and acquaintances.

Gather Information – Whiplash

DC 10: Whiplash is a costumed hero in Freedom City who favours a whip as a weapon.

DC 15: She tends to frequent Southside and focus on busting drug rings and similar organised crime circles, although she has been sighted in other areas, tackling other problems. Whiplash relies on stealth and agility to accomplish her goals.

DC 20: Whiplash's avoidance of police and attention in general seems to be deliberate. She has not evidenced any superpowers, although as she relies on stealth it is difficult to be certain.

DC 25: Whiplash doesn't seem to have super powers. She is highly protective of children.

[Dr Archeville]

Learning about Protectron

Gather Information or Knowledge (Current Events)

DC 5: Protectron is some dude in a suit of armor who works with The Lab. He's been around since late 2010; he helped against The Gorgon.

DC 10: That's no suit, I saw his head pop off! It's a real robot! It helped The Lab against The Conquering Mind, too. It's only been around since early 2011.

DC 15: There are many theories as to who made it: The Lab, some other super-genius, the government (of this or of some other country). Maybe even aliens, or some supervillain!

DC 20: No one has any clue who built it or where or why. Good thing it likes being a hero and to protect people!

DC 25: Protectron makes a note of the preferences of the people it interacts with, and will often bring small personalized gifts when it re-visits them.

Knowledge (Technology)

DC 5: Protectron is the mascot for The Lab, and is often seen at their functions, interacting with children. It's probably some next-generation animatronic; you'll see more like it at DisneyWorld next year.

DC 10: Protectron is no simple animatronic, it's a real working android! He simply appeared January 1st, 2011, in an abandoned home in Freedom City.

DC 15: Protectron is an incredibly advanced robot, both physically and mentally. It can fly and is superhumanly strong, see and hear across a wider range of frequencies than humans, and can wirelesly interface with any electronic device within a few dozen feet. It is fully sentient and sapient, able to learn from its experiences, and capable of self-initiative, creativity, and empathy, sympathy, and compassion for others. There are many hypotheses on where it came from, but none seem sufficient.

DC 20: It's probably not of extraterrestrial origin: its code interfaces too well with Terran computer systems for it to be an outsider, and its body is not constructed from anything that could not (at least theoretically) be formed on Earth. So who built it?

DC 25: The advanced components do point to one possibility: it is from the future. But from how far, and why did it come back? Unfortunately this will be difficult to verify, as it has (or at least claims to have) no memory of anything from before it came online in Freedom on 1/1/11.

[Gizmo]

Ghost Girl

Ghost Girl

Gather Information

DC 15

Ghost Girl is either a member or frequent ally of the current iteration of the teenage hero team known as Young Freedom. She appears to be a young metahuman with the ability to turn invisible and pass through solid objects, hence her codename.

DC 20

She has also demonstrated limited cryokinetic abilities as well as a vocally cheerful disposition.

Knowledge (Arcane Lore) - Available after a successful Gather Information check or personally seeing Ghost Girl in action.

DC 15

While it's possibly a coincidence, Ghost Girl's abilities match up with those of an actual wandering spirit, specifically a poltergeist. If she truly is undead, her coherent personality and apparent mobility would be unusual, though not unheard of.

DC 20

Ghost Girl's bouts of icy powers may be a clue to the cause of her death, as spirits often take on qualities indicative of their final, traumatic moments. Freezing to death, for example, would be a reasonable guess.

DC 30

Assuming the above conjecture proves correct, she would almost certainly have an aversion of high levels of heat or even fire.

Kimber Storm

Gather Information - Current Claremont students as of the 2011-2012 school year may subtract 10 from the DCs of these checks.

DC 20

Kimber Storm is a recent transfer to Claremont Academy from Thunder Bay, Ontario.

DC 25

A chipper and gregarious youth, she has quickly endeared herself to the faculty and her fellow students, though some admittedly find her constant cheer 'a little off-putting'.

DC 30

It is surprisingly difficult to find records concerning Kimber, becoming essentially impossible the further back one searches.

Her schooling costs are apparently being covered by a branch of the Canadian Government. This may suggest a connection to Daniel Storm, a frequent member of the national superhero team True North.

[Blue Rose]

Gather Information

DC10: 'Kit,' real name Samantha Vance, is a recent transfer to Claremont Academy as of February of the 2011-2012 school year, into their current freshman class. She holds above average grades with minimal effort, not taking her studies particularly seriously.

DC15: Samantha Vance is the recently-adopted daughter of Talia Vance, one of Chicago's wealthiest who revealed herself a few years ago as the hero, Masque.

DC20: Kit has a criminal record longer than some supervillains, though she was a minor through all of it and not entirely culpable. She's currently under scrutiny from AEGIS, who are also putting some effort towards burying the fact that she was the not-very-publicized sidekick to the legendary thief, the Phantom Fox (whereabouts currently unknown).

DC25: Kit is not a citizen of any nation on Earth, and records of her existance go back only a few years, having appeared out of no where under the command of a rampaging (if weak) demon.

Knowledge: Arcane Lore

DC25: The brand on Kit's back is not the product of mortal magic. It's clearly of demonic origin, the kind that usually means the bearer traded their soul for power.

[Shofet]

The Penitent's Reputation

Gather Information

DC10: The Penitent is a superhero from somewhere in Appalachia with apparent demonic powers.

DC15: The Penitent does not seem to actually have a home and usually spends his time on the street and earning money doing odd jobs.

DC25: The Penitent is not in fact a demon, but a sin-eater who has taken on the burden of carrying damned souls with him to help them achieve absolution.

DC30: The Penitent's real name is Bram Davis, and he was born just outside of Charleston, Virginia.

[Dr Archeville]

Old & Busted Rep

Learning about Doktor Archeville:

Gather Information

DC 5

"It's that science guy from the tee-vee, Doctor Arkavil!"

DC 10

Herr Doktor Viktor Archeville is a German scientist who shows a dizzying amount of knowledge in a huge number of fields. He's also quite photogenic, and has made numerous television appearances, a la Stephen Hawking and Neil deGrasse Tyson.

He’s worked as a Science Hero in and around western Europe (primarily his homeland of Germany) for over a decade (since mid-1999). He's mostly worked solo, but has worked with a few small teams there; later (in 2008) he came to Freedom City and started working as a hero here. He lives in Hanover.

He has been quite busy since coming to Freedom. He singlehandedly stopped a riot at Blackstone, without his equipment (May 2008); fought Doc Otaku (Apr 2009), the Power Corps (twice, Oct 2008 and Jul 2009), and the Tyranny Syndicate (Jan 2010); faced Captain Knievel (Mar 2009, Sep 2009, Apr 2010) and Malice (Apr 2010); a Grue invasion (May 2010), the second Bee-Keeper (Aug 2010), helped stop a giant asteroid from hitting Earth (Jan 2011), faced the Fenris Wolf (May 2011), the (alien?) villain that usurped his company (June 2011), and Breaker (May 2012).

Many respect and admire him for his works (both as a superhero and as an advocate for science & technology), but a few cannot see past the fact his grandfather worked loyally for the Nazis (as well as rumors of other madmen in his family line). The Freedom League saw the good in him, and in early 2010 inducted him into the Freedom League Auxiliary.

Of late his reputation took a big hit, when something (possibly an alien) took control of him & his resources and used them to attack multiple cities in June 2011.

DC 15

Archeville uses numerous devices in his superhero work. His labcoat is bulletproof, and his belt allows him to manipulate gravity to fly, teleport, generate a powerful force field, and cloak himself from sight and radar. His most potent device is his Electromagnetic Screwdriver, which can generate and manipulate any form of electrical or electromagnetic energy. He’s really good with technology -- so good, in fact, he sometimes does not even need to touch it to make it work!

Archeville’s largest achievement is ArcheTech, his international chain of research laboratories, the first of which opened in late 2009. Following the events of June 2011, and the loss of faith in his abilities, he transferred CEO status to the photogenic paragon Miss Americana.

2008 was not when Archeville first came to Freedom City: he attended the Hanover Institute of Technology, graduating in 1999.

Archeville claims his immense intellect is simply the result of dedication and hard work, but he has let slip that there might be some minor mutation at work. All tests, however, proved negative on the presence of any metahuman genes.

Archeville completely disappeared for a few months (June-Dec 2011); he was completely absent during the Gorgon Event. There is lots of speculation as to what happened; most assume he was recuperating and rebuilding from the assault on him & his resources, but the fact he didn’t return for the Gorgon makes some think he was far off-word or even in another dimension.

DC 20

He was only completely gone from June-Sept 2011, from Oct-Dec he was spotted around ArcheTech. From June-Sept he was in another dimension, rescuing Fulcrum, who had been seemingly killed (but really shunted to another dimension) during the Interceptors battle with the titanic monstrosity in June 2011.

Archeville’s vast intellect is the result of nanotech enhancement. He also has nanotech performing minor enhancements to his body (diseases & poison warding, minor regeneration) and is what allows him to mentally/wirelessly access electronics.

DC 25

The nanotech is a recent development -- while he has been known to use it in the past, it’s only been since July 2011 that he has been regularly using it for personal enhancement.

The rumors about Archeville’s family containing more madmen than just his Nazi grandfather are true. And he himself seems to suffer from some sort of bipolar disorder, though he seems to have it under control.

DC 30

There are rumors that Archeville’s mental enhancements, before relying on nanotech for them, were actually the result of some sort of magic, not mutation.

Knowledge (Arcane Lore) - Available after making a successful DC 25 Gather Information check, or using a Detect Magic or Magic Awareness super-sense on him.

DC 5

The Archeville line has long been tainted with madness and some sort of subtle (or extremely uncommon) magic.

June 2011, something called up every Archeville, living or long-dead, from across the globe, and pulled them through the air to the northeast section of the USA.

DC 10

This magic has been passed down for thirteen generations, from father to son, for the past 600 years. Longevity and a strong resistance to disease and poisons seem to be the main benefit from these magics, but others in the family line have exhibited other abilities, though usually these were enhancements to existing abilities and not wholly new abilities. Doktor Viktor Archeville is the latest recipient of these gifts.

Those hundreds of people were pulled, screaming, to Freedom City. They weren’t screaming in terror or pain, they were calling out to something.

DC 15

One of the Archevilles, the extremely bipolar but medically gifted Venn Helmuth Archeville (1546-1645), served under Swiss clockmaker Hans Locarno -- aka Master Mage Lord Deosil -- for 45 years. Deosil tried to help Archeville which his madness, but it was linked inextricably with the magic of his bloodline, and the best Deosil could do was suppres it for periods of time, not remove it completely.

DC 20

The magic is the taint of alien gods from outside reality, pseudonatural beings of cosmic power and unknowable intentions.

Those hundreds of Archevilles were pulled to Viktor Archeville, in Freedom City, and merged into one titanic mass, which served as a body for one of these alien gods, which had completely overwritten Archeville’s personality.

DC 25

For most of his life Archeville had a “Shoulder Angel” and “Shoulder Demon,” which he thought were merely a hallucinatory manifestation of a growing bipolar disorder. In truth, the “Shoulder Demon” was the sliver of the pseudonatural entity within him, clothing itself in all his fears and hatred and prejudices and all the other negative aspects of his psyche, feeding into and feeding on them in a vicious cycle. All the positive aspects of his psyche were shunted off to one side, manifesting as his “Shoulder Angel.”

In August 2010, a chance encounter with a tome of eldritch lore exacerbated the split. He no longer saw the two daemons, and only felt the positive side; he became more carefree and manic. But the “Shoulder Demon”/pseudonatural entity was still there, taking control when Archeville slept, and while in control it warped his body into a hideous Deep One. When the “Evil” Archeville was finally confronted, after nearly a year of committing all manner of unspeakable acts, by a brave band of heroes (who had been stung the worst by Archeville’s betrayals). But when he fell, the full extent of his pseudonatural heritage manifested, by calling to and forming a body out of hundreds of his kin.

DC 30

Postcognitive scryings have revealed how that taint first insinuated itself into the Archeville line: it was Viktor Archeville himself, who had traveled back in time, and put the curse on his family line (in an attempt to save his ancestor’s life from Deep Ones), which is what gave him the monomaniacal drive and skill needed to develop the technology required to travel back in time to do so.

But now this chain has been broken: not long after the pseudonatural being manifested, it was faced and destroyed by the Interceptors (the aforementioned brave band of heroes). The corruption was cast out of him, leaving him the first fully human, non-afflicted Archeville in thirteen generations.

Knowledge (Behavioral Sciences) - Characters with ties to Providence Asylum may subtract 5 from the DCs of these checks.

DC 5

Crazy German Mad Scientist!

DC 10

Not crazy, at least no moreso than most highly focused science-types. He does often play the role of the stereotypical "Mad Scientist," obsessing over some given project to the exclusion of all others, only to flip abruptly and completely to some other topic.

The incident in June 2011, in which his company was taken over by an unknown supervillain and used to distribute Grue super-soldiers throughout the world, took a heavy toll on him -- he retired completely from the public eye for almost six months. Not even the coming of The Gorgon was enough to bring him back to the public eye.

Archeville asserts that supervillains, especially tech-oriented ones, often become villains due to psychological problems, and that their villainous tendencies could be curtailed with proper psychological treatment. He has devoted much research to mental problems, and made numerous donations to a number of facilities and organizations, including Providence Asylum.

DC 15

This "abrupt flipping" applies not only to his work but also to his personal interactions. Archeville has been reported, on numerous occasions, to "flip" his own personality and take on radically different personae. His "baseline" persona is that of the Obsessed Scientist, showing a superhuman intelligence, an above-average strength of will, but a poor-to-average interpersonal skill. But he has a second (and more commonly seen) persona, the Suave Charmer, with an above-average intelligence and strength of will but a near-superhuman force of personality. There is also a third persona, rarely seen, the Serene Observer, showing near-superhuman intelligence, a quiet and overlooked personality, but a keen insight into both human nature and his surroundings, and a nigh-indomitable strength of will. There is considerable debate, however, over whether these are truly distinct personalities, or just Archeville shifting his prodigious intellect (i.e., is the “Suave Charmer” really a different personality, or is it just him using his intellect to work out what best to say & how best to say it?)

Archeville spent two weeks after the June 2011 event in Providence Asylum, but then checked himself out. He was spotted two weeks later, but then vanished for two and a half months. He was spotted again, briefly, then disappeared again for another two and a half months.

Many of Archeville’s relatives have some sort of documented mental illness. His father, Varick, suffered from a unique combination of late-onset Tay-Sachs disease (a disorder prevalent among Eastern European Ashkenzai Jews and Cajuns of southern Louisiana) and something akin to Lesch-Nyhan syndrome. Viktor’s grandfather, the Nazi collaborator Verrill Archeville, had clear signs of antisocial personality disorder (i.e., psychopathy).

Archeville's company, ArcheTech, offers a very generous benefits package, including numerous mental health services; all facilities had on-site therapists.

DC 20

Before his stay at Providence, Archeville had (reluctantly) admitted he struggles with a form of bipolar disorder, but was keeping it under control with self-medication and therapy from a trusted “mind-worker.”

DC 25

The “mind-worker” he was receiving help from was the Scarab, one of the world’s most powerful telepaths.

DC 30

Archeville’s mental problems were caused, at least in part, by some manner of mystical influence, but that influence was removed June 2011.

For most of his life Archeville had a "Shoulder Angel" and "Shoulder Demon," which he thought were merely a hallucinatory manifestation of a growing bipolar disorder. In truth, the "Shoulder Demon" was the sliver of the pseudonatural entity within him, clothing itself in all his fears and hatred and prejudices and all the other negative aspects of his psyche, feeding into and feeding on them in a vicious cycle. All the positive aspects of his psyche were shunted off to one side, manifesting as his "Shoulder Angel."

In August 2010, a chance encounter with a tome of eldritch lore exacerbated the split. He no longer saw the two daemons, and only felt the positive side; he became more carefree and manic. But the "Shoulder Demon"/pseudonatural entity was still there, taking control when Archeville slept, and while in control it warped his body into a hideous Deep One. When the "Evil" Archeville was finally confronted, after nearly a year of committing all manner of unspeakable acts, by a brave band of heroes (who had been stung the worst by Archeville's betrayals). But when he fell, the full extent of his pseudonatural heritage manifested, by calling to and forming a body out of hundreds of his kin.

Knowledge (Business or Civics) -

DC 5

”ArcheTech? They’re some kind of construction firm, right?”

DC 10

ArcheTech was founded Dr. Viktor Archeville, who wanted an international chain of research laboratories unconnected to any one government or any business interests. His vision was to establish a unique center for multi-disciplinary research in a number of scientific fields, especially those pertaining to metahuman activity and the increasing emergence of metahumans. In addition to its exotic research, ArcheTech also provides humanitarian aid in times of crisis.

ArcheTech’s reputation (and stock) plummeted after it was overtaken & used by some sort of alien invasion in June 2011. While fighting off that invasion, the European HQ was destroyed.

DC 15

The first two branches opened in late 2009, in Freedom City, NJ, USA and just outside Donaueschingen, Germany; these two serve (served) as their region’s corporate headquarters. In the United States, there are branches in California, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, and Wisconsin. Outside of that country, there are branches in Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, Russia, and the United Kingdom.

While much of the initial funding for his company did come from Archeville himself (who was a multimillionaire even before establishing his company), most of the staff and facilities came from Darts, Inc., the weapons manufacturing company he had joined some months prior, shortly before its chief shareholder Eric Micheals was outed as the supervillain Malice.

ArcheTech has a reputation for hiring the best & brightest.

ArcheTech offers a very generous benefits package, including numerous mental health services; all facilities had on-site therapists. This is in keeping with Archeville's assertion that supervillains, especially tech-oriented ones, often become villains due to psychological problems, and that their villainous tendencies could be curtailed with proper psychological treatment.

DC 20

The European HQ (the one destroyed during the invasion) had actually been Archeville's personal castle, refitted to serve as both a research & development and an educational center.

In July 2011, the genius paragon Miss Americana became CEO of ArcheTech. In late 2011 Archeville had some contact with his former company, but has had reportedly no contact with them since the New Year's Day 2012.

ArcheTech has a reputation for hiring the best & brightest includes criminals from the Project Freedom supercriminal rehabilitation program, primarily gadgeteers and victims of reckless self-experimentation. Such hires receive regular psychological/psychiatric evaluation and therapy, to insure that any criminal tendencies are kept in check.

DC 25

Some believe Archeville had insider knowledge, knowing Micheals was Malice, and positioned himself to essentially inherit Darts when Malice was finally captured. Archeville insists he was simply fortunate enough to be in the right place at the right time to make the most of a bad situation (which is true).

Knowledge (Current Events or Popular Culture) -

DC 5

Aaah it’s the Nazi Scientist Doktor Arkavil!

DC 10

The King of Science!, and the secret (or not so secret) crush of tech-heads everywhere.

Unlike most "Mad Scientists," Archeville does take time to care for his appearance, and to enjoy fine foods. He prefers the food and beers of his native Germany, but is always up to try new delicacies.

Doktor Archeville has worked as a superhero since 1999 (primarily in western Europe), and was inducted into the Freedom League Auxiliary in early 2010.

Sorry, ladies, but he’s taken: Viktor Archeville & Mona “Fulcrum” Teymourian got engaged in May 2011!

DC 15

Archeville lives in a small community in Hanover, Freedom City, mostly inhabited by HIT students. He is often at the top of the guest lists for block parties, partly because he always brings top-notch alcohol (most of which he brews himself).

He’s also a mainstay of the Oktoberfest festival in Munich, which he’s attended every year since 1999. He tends to make several "hook ups" while there, but this came to an end when he started dating Fulcrum in early 2010.

There are many rumors of children he’s sired during these Oktoberfest trysts...

DC 20

All such rumors that have been investigated have proven untrue.

DC 30

And if there had been any offspring, they’d all have been killed when every living (and dead!) member of the Archeville line merged into a titanic monstrosity in Freedom City in June 2011.

Knowledge (History) - Natives of Europe, or historians focused on European history, may subtract 5 from the DCs of these checks.

DC 5

The Archeville name is well-known throughout Germany, though is met with roughly equal parts reverence and revulsion in the Black Forest. His grandfather, Verrill Herman Archeville (1896-1965?), was loyal to both the German Empire in World War I and the German Nazi party in World War II, as a soldier in the former and, inspired by the use of chemical weaponry on the battlefield, as a “mad scientist” in the latter (specializing in size-alteration, clockwork automata, and time manipulation). Reportedly died 1965 in an accident in his Brazilian laboratory.

DC 10

Archeville's father, Varick Heinrich (1940-2011), was a supremely skilled computer technician. Sadly, he was committed to an asylum in 1990.

Varicks’ wife, Cynthia Bauer, died of complications while giving birth to Viktor.

Varick's grandfather (Viktor's great-grandfather), Victor Hobart Archeville (1848-1914), was a highly skilled glass-blower and silversmith, and moderately skilled clockmaker. He had a (very) minor role in reuniting the Austrian-held sections of the southern German states and the Prussian North German Federation into the German Empire in 1871, by providing replacements for cracked mirrors in the galerie des glaces (the Hall of Mirrors) of the Palace of Versailles, where Prussian King William I was declared German emperor.

DC 15

Archeville's father, Varick Heinrich, was committed to an asylum shortly after suffering some manner of psychotic break and attempting to murder his son.

Varick is half-Jewish (his mother, Margaret Schneider, was, unknown to Verrill, an Ashkenazi Jew), which makes Viktor Archeville one-quarter Jewish. (Except that, by Jewish law, it goes by the mother’s side, and since Viktor’s mother was not Jewish, he would not be considered one of them.)

At least three of Viktor Archeville's ancestors -- his great-great-great-grandfather, Vitto Hilliard Archeville (1719-1809), his father Virgil Hartwig Archeville (1682-1757), and his father Vid Hackett Archeville (~1634-1705) -- were all mighty warriors. Vid was a berserker who kept to the Black Forest, Virgil a mercenary who worked for the highest bidder (and shared some of Vid's berserk fury), and Vitto was a borderline-psychopath who fought against Napoleon's forces largely out of a hatred of the French. Curiously, Vitto's son Varian Hodffman Archeville (1796-?) was a genteel courtier, and had a small hand in the transformation of the Confederation of the Rhine -- Napoleon's organization of the German states -- into the German Confederation in 1815, but he later tried playing both Austrian and Prussian forces against one another in an attempt to gain more power, which was one contributing factor to the Austrio-Prussian War of 1866.

DC 20

Cytnhia Bauer, Viktor’s mother, was a Sinti, a European Romani.

An ancestor, Valdemar Heller Archeville (1475-1533), attended the relatively new Albert-Ludwigs-Universitat Freiburg (Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg, one of the oldest universities in Germany) in the late 1400s, first as a student and then as a teacher of Natural Sciences. His son, Valter Herbert Archeville (1516-1592), also attended, studying Humanities. Valter's son, Venn Helmuth Archeville (1546-1645), grew to become a skilled doctor and surgeon.

DC 25

Valdemar’s father, Vadim Hademar Archeville (1430-1480), was a vicious blackguard who found some success as a mercenary, working more for the joy of slaughter and rape than gold or silver. His father, Vischer Harbin Archeville (1407-1453), the founder of the family line, was a simple fisherman living in Freiburg im Breisgau.

DC 30

That really weird day in June 2011, where hundreds of people, living and dead, from all over the world, were seen yanked through the skies and dragged off to Freedom City? Every one of those people was a direct descendant of an Archeville!

Knowledge (Physical Sciences or Technology) -

DC 5

Doktor Archeville does Science.

DC 10

ArcheTech was founded Dr. Viktor Archeville, who wanted an international chain of research laboratories unconnected to any one government or any business interests. His vision was to establish a unique center for multi-disciplinary research in a number of scientific fields, especially those pertaining to metahuman activity and the increasing emergence of metahumans. Fields of research & development include bionics and cybernetics, energy projection, force field generation, genetics and genome stability, gravimetrics, advanced metallurgy, nanotechnology, particle physics, and others.

DC 15

The first two branches opened in late 2009, in Freedom City, NJ, USA and just outside Donaueschingen, Germany; these two served (served) as their region’s corporate headquarters. In the United States, there are branches in California, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, and Wisconsin. Outside of that country, there are branches in Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, Russia, and the United Kingdom.

Most ArcheTech facilities are equipped with a teleporter, used primarily for moving bulk materials from place to place. In emergency situations (such as the Grue Invasion of May 2010), they can be used for mass evacuations.

Archeville uses numerous devices in his superhero work. His labcoat is bulletproof, and his belt allows him to manipulate gravity to fly, teleport, generate a powerful force field, and cloak himself from sight and radar. His most potent device is his Electromagnetic Screwdriver, which can generate and manipulate any form of electrical or electromagnetic energy.

DC 20

The European HQ (destroyed during the June 2011 event) had actually been Archeville’s personal castle, refitted to serve as both a research & development and an educational center.

Archeville incorporated some form of nanotech into his body some time in late 2011. This nanotech gives him several abilities: it enhances his mental processes, protects his body from disease, poison, and other ailments, and allows him to mentally control/interface with computers and other electronic devices.

[Tiffany Korta]

Blodeuwedd

Gather Information – Cerys

DC 10: Cerys Pefr is a citizen of the UK from Wales.

DC 20: All information on Cerys only goes back to around the middle of 2011

DC 30: There have been a number of Cerys going back decades using the same details, apart from changing the obvious details.

Gather Information – Blodeuwedd

DC 5: Blodeuwedd is a new hero prowling the alleys and backstreets of Freedom city.

DC 15: Along with weird name she also speaks, when she speaks, she has this weird accent.