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Apparently his power also makes him immune to magically binding contracts, cause he snuck into Central Hills and threw the memory into one of the cracks in reality there.

And he's also been captured by them to get tortured for all eternity as he is now one of two people in existence that knows anything about the second super soldier program.

Couldn't have happened to a nicer guy. Good riddance. RIP bozo. If he'd even bothered talking to me instead of trying to kill me, he'd know that memory never contained anything useful to the super soldier program to begin with.

Not like he knows anything about what was done to him either. So it's not like there's any danger to not rescuing him.

Plus, the House is very well connected and knows lots of very powerful people. Both figuratively and literally. Ain't no way picking a direct fight with them is a good idea. He pretty much ruined my only chance to bring them down. This is really just karma for what he did.

He also tried to kill me. Actually, no try about it. I was clinically dead before the healing magic hit me. This was of course after he spent years training me to murder his nemesis, abandoned me, and then didn't even show up to help when I was fighting that same nemesis.

I have no reason to rescue Sluagh. Except that I'm a superhero.

FUCK.

Does anyone want to help me with a rescue mission?

I don't ask for much from Sluagh. Him not being part of my life was honestly the best thing that happened to me.

All I was hoping for with him was to keep up that trend. Parent of the year didn't just try to claim the underworld bounty on my head.

He told me he's the one that suggested my name to the House as the target of the year.

I didn't bother talking. I mutated and charged. He sliced his hand off and sprayed me with blood. Then stuck a sword through me while I was shifting black.

I would have died had Solar Fire not been there to heal me.

I was unconscious long enough that it was counted as a loss. The House has Typhon's Memory now. They get to keep their assets, and Sluagh gets to walk away with a lot of money.

I fought a slasher movie villain, a liche and aad scientist in a fucking mech and I still lost to Sluagh. He can still effortlessly get in my head and take me down.

I.... I wish he wasnt Immortal. Cause I want to kill him.

What happens when a Liche gets sent back in time to the Cretaceous period and comes back the long way? He gains plenty of time to become the biggest pain in my ass in existence.

He's some kind of undead cyborg with a mix of technology and magic. He was responsible for the cyborg zombie incident a while back.

Power Versatility: five stars.

He's probably the most feared supervillain the House has on their payroll, and definitely one of the few I'd label a "kudzu".

Reputation: Five Stars

Motherfucker didn't even show up. He sent a corpse that had all of its limbs replaced with miniguns. Fucking thing was flying all over the place spewing bullets in all directions. I took cover until it was done spamming bullets and then ripped its limbs off.

Conduct: 0 stars.

Fight: 0 stars.

Bravery: 0 stars.

Average: 1.6

Today's opponent was Turbine. A mad scientist obsessed with spinning machines. He has some kind of device that can teleport them right to a location.

Power versatility: five stars.

He's a bicycle villain, and a super merc. He's known for being annoying to fight and actually working well with other villains. He seems to get hired fairly often in the criminal underworld.

Reputation: Three stars.

Prior to the fight, he entered the comic shop to, and I quote, "get to know the guy I'm gonna kill soon". I can respect that, but I very much don't want to be bothered at work. Especially considering the line behind him. He also mentioned he would have to apologize to Sluagh later cause he's joining his team. I toned him out and told him to buy something or leave.

He bought a Tales From The Tomb omnibus.

Conduct: two stars.

Taste in teams: negative infinity stars.

His opening move was to summon a mech with what appeared to be a gigantic, plane-engine-sized fan in it. The fan started spinning quickly, pulling in air and sucking me towards the mech. Luckily, my mutated form this time had a pair of tail with bone-hooks on the end. One of them managed to catch a bike rack.

He then tried to finish me with the mech's drill arm and buzz saw arm. Unfortunately, his big mech thing is piloted from the top. Out in the open.

So I just swung the other tail at him, stabbed him in the shoulder, and pulled him off of it. Since the fan was still whirring, he almost got sucked into it. He managed to shut off the mech remotely. But the fight was over at that point.

I dragged him around with the tail till he begged for mercy.

Fight: One star.

On average, negative infinity stars.

I don't think I'm gonna get make my money back on all those minifigs he brought to life.

I was sorely tempted to let the tiny chaos demons that came out of the tiny warp he accidentally created when he animated the figurines.

I am a bit worried that he was powerful enough to turn my comic shop into a tiny 40k universe. Like, the tyranids seemed to have a tiny hive mind, the orcs seemed to have actual spores. The tiny weapons actually worked. We might have had a real problem if the magic keeping them sentient wasn't localized to the store. The demons had an actual fucking warp hole.

I've sent a message to Poker. She says taking away the minis newfound sentience goes against her standards, but she's willing to cast a spell to nerf them a bit to make it so their weapons and ships don't work. And close the warp hole.

I'd like to think Larry won't be back after we rescued him from the Tiny Tyranids, but I suspect he won't learn a damn thing.

Serial killer that ended up as the executioner of a dictator. Killed when the dictator was overthrown. Came back from the dead somehow. Absorbs negative emotions and turns them into physical strength.

Likes ripping people apart with his bare hands or murdering them with improvised melee weapons. Might have the ability to teleport when people aren't looking at him.

He showed up covered in blood. From a bloodbank, as I later discovered. A smart strategy, considering my abilities and his.

He also can't die.

I've probably made him sound like a real threat. But I've fought a much tougher undead and have thought very hard about killing someone with a much more annoying form of immortality.

I got a pretty bad roll (think a mass of organs with wings and exposed nerves everywhere), but it didn't matter. He'd covered himself in blood. Every blow I dealt him I shifted back to human form. Healed completely. Mutated again.

I sliced him up with bladed limbs. Bit him with various mouths. Tore at him with claws and pincers. Crushed him with tendrils, impaled him with horns and antlers. Basically hit him with every natural weapon I had in whatever form I was in.

Until he wasn't capable of getting up anymore. A condition of the contract was that if they sent an immortal after me, I could win by rendering them completely unable to continue fighting.

Does anybody know how to get get squished zombie smell out of a brand new super suit?

A bunch of losers are showing up at the comic shop to pick fights with me. Or try to recruit me or some mix of both (fucking vampires, man).

At first I thought it was just a few villains that wanted to boost their rep by going after the guy that (with a lot of luck and help) took down Typhon.

But there is more to it than that. There's a group of wealthy supervillains that run a little game where they put a bounty on a hero that recently garnered attention and make bets on who takes them down.

Last year they were betting on who could take down Ark Knight. Whoever bet "none of them" must have won the pot.

I don't think I'll be able to mobilize everyone on here again to take them down. So I won't.

Instead, I've issued a challenge. See, I've been helping out the Central Hills relief organization on weekends. And I have acquired an item: Typhon's First Happy Memory.

I bought it from an interdimensional worm guy. Not sure what he traded that memory for. I hear he also offered it to Woodsman.

I can confirm: this memory involves the super soldier program. Considering all records of it were lost, I bet any information on the techniques used to create one of the most feared supervillains on the planet are worth a lot of money to the right people.

I've placed my own bet: none of these jerks manage to kill me. Of course, there are terms and conditions to this: I will fight one supervillain a day. First come first served. They can't go after me during work hours or too late at night.

I will meet them at a location chosen by me. We will fight. If they die, beg for mercy, or are knocked unconscious for more than ten seconds, they lose. Same for me... though I don't think the villains are going to stop if I beg for mercy or lose consciousness.

If I go down they get the bounty, and the House gets the memory.

If I don't go down by the end of the year, the House and its members forfeit all their assets to the Typhon Victims Relief Organization.

They took the bet.

I'll be fighting Viscero the Ripper this afternoon.

But I don't deserve it. Agent Anywhere they called me but an agent of whom? Not of the people. Agent of them. Just a codename but I made a mistake let it start to mean something. Start to feel something. Wasn't supposed to do that. Not since they made me in the 60s. Became an icon. Became a super hero. But they wouldn't let me be a hero. No.

Heroism was a mask I wore while I served my country. Served my country up some poor bastards to be experimented on. For the greater good they told me. Russians and Chinese are doing it so if we don't we'll be up to our asses in supers.

Supers and the other threats. The Shadow. The Perfect Men waiting for their chance to strike. The God Parasites. The Violators of All. The leftovers from the first attempt. The Mimes.

They were gonna flood us all if I didn't bring them the children. They told me they'd already tested it. That it was safe. That we'd be taking them off the street and making them super heroes. Maybe we'd make the next Perfect Man or the next Impact or the next whoever the fuck.

It was a nice half truth. They did test it out. And got the deaths down to half. HALF.

I knew deep down they were bullshitting me but I did it anyway. The threats they told me about made me very, very afraid. Just a few human sacrifices to quell that fear.

But the fear wasn't quelled, merely replaced with guilt. All that blood and suffering and we just gave the world a new thing to be afraid of. Typhon was only slightly less dangerous than the things we'd hoped he and the others would save us from.

I don't know if the things that are coming can be stopped. But me, Impact, Perfect Man, The Cake Crusader, the Hooded Hag and Labyrinth have all, each in our own way, failed to save this world.

We had high hopes for Typhon's powers. He could have at least stopped one of the threats we lived in fear of.

By the time you read this, I will have thrown myself into one of the cracks in reality in Central Hills. Maybe in another world I can be a hero.

(OOC: End of Typhon arc)

So Mirror Man wasn't just Typhon's double agent. He was mine.

I met him when I joined the supervillain reform program. Our plans changed a bit when my son started moving against Typhon. I wanted to wait and see if he had the guts to see it through to the end.

He did not. So I finished the job. I must admit, I was sorely tempted to let him rot in prison, in a bed he'd never leave. But there's always a chance his powers would return. And with it his control of his things.

So I gave Carl... his real name is Carl, by the way. Pretty unassuming, for a big scary bastard like him. No wonder he chose Typhon.

Anyway, I gave him the old Giles Corey treatment. I figured it was a fitting end for someone calling himself Typhon. Not to mention, that's similar to how my wife died after being Typhonized. Her bones slowly wrapping around her lungs, making it harder and harder to breath. If you don't know who Giles Corey is, google it.

Mirror and I are putting together a mercenary team now. Anyone of you wants to give up the goody good life and use your power for profit, hit me up.

Not sure what he plans to do with a depowered, mostly paralyzed Typhon, but it can't be anything good.

If he's got some way to restore Typhon to full power, then we could end up doing this dance all over again someday.

I'll get the anti-Typhon gear I kept just in case.

Edit: Oh. Nevermind.

In my heart, I knew this would probably happen, but some part of me was hoping I'd save them and we'd put all the Typhon shit behind us and go back to being a hero team.

I can't blame them though. Having your body forcibly changed against your will is traumatic. Being under the control of someone else is traumatic. Combine the two and there's no way you're getting out of there with no scars.

Donut is going back to sidekicking for the Cake Crusader. Poker is gonna hang out in her girlfriend's dimension for a while... yeah, she's like a DND warlock, she's dating her patron, it's a whole thing. Harvest-Man said if I'm ever in another hero team to give him an invite.

Even if I do make a new team in the future, I don't think I'll keep the name. It's been tainted.

Donut and Poker at least have told me they'll be showing up to the support group.

Good work, everyone. Thanks to your efforts, Typhon has been captured, Impact, most of the Typhonized have been cured (except for Perfect Man, but we'll figure out why it's not working on him), and the president isn't sending the military to kill us. Probably because working with Typhon was already a bad look and now he's got nothing to show for it.

The Mirror Man has also been exposed as a spy. The intel we fed him that silver would block the cure guns clearly made it to Typhon, who had his victims covered in silver armor. By which I mean he taped a bunch of silverware to them.

I went into battle already shifted, having tried multiple times till I got a form that was good enough. If you a tall humanoid with ten arms and with poison-spitting mouths all over its body... yeah, that was me. Thanks to those who helped me turn back into a human each time.

The raid was quick and precise. The Mirror Girls distracted the military guys, the field disruptor caused the portal to shut and the Anywhere Gun to fail to work, and Zap's sudden blast incapacitated Typhon long enough for Ogre, Delta and me to close in.

Blastwave also did a perfect job blasting away Perfect Man just as he was about to turn me into a smear on the pavement.

I was caught off guard when Harvest-Man and Donut showed up to the fray with a what appeared to some kind of human blood sprayer.

Thankfully, the cure guns had better range. Harvest-Man would normally have been much harder to hit, but his Typhonized form just wasn't as agile.

Poker also showed up to the fight, but thankfully Solar Fire engaged her in a fight before she could start blasting us with magic.

The fight with Typhon was pretty brutal. He started by punching the ground hard enough to create a shockwave and a cloud of dust, then rushed at me. We engaged in a physical fight. He managed to use the Impact Suit to punch three of my arms off. Which I let him do. I predicted a sadist like him would try to take me down in the most painful way possible. Got close enough for me to spit poison into eye-slot in the Impact suit.

Funnily enough, I think it was the same kinda poison I shot him in the face with in our first encounter. The non-lethal but incredibly irritating kind.

Then Ogre picked him up from behind. The two of us were able to get a hold of him, and pry the suit off of him with minimal damage to Impact. I'm glad we didn't need the acid in the Nth metal container we brought. At least not for that part.

This is the first time since our first encounter that I've gotten a good look at his face. And it's no wonder he's been wearing a mask lately. It's covered in scars. Scars that make it look like he's constantly been scratching at it for a while. Surely the itching effect of the poison wouldn't last that long?

By this point, Delta had already fired the cure gun at Agent Anywhere. Typhon realized he was going to lose around this point.

So he did something I didn't know he could do. And he probably wasn't sure he could either: he Typhonized himself.

Now I'm fighting some kind of humanoid mass of snakes. Some of which are venomous, some of which are really long and covered in muscle. One of them spat venom into Ogre's eyes (don't worry, he's fine).

He started pulling me closer so his smaller snakes could start biting me to death. But I had two advantages he didn't. The first, was that I had more experience fighting as a monster. The second, was that I was currently covered in poison spewing mouths. I had the ones closest to the snakes bite down, while the rest sprayed poison in all directions.

You ever seen a humanoid mass of snakes flailing in all directions trying to scratch itself with fingernails it no longer has? It would have been a pretty disturbing sight if it happened to anyone but that bastard.

I managed to get one of my arms free and get my hands on the Nth-metal container of acid to throw on the snake that was wrapped around me. By that point, he was on the ground flailing.

I considered leaving him to that fate. But instead, I picked up the cure gun and fired it at him. He made one last attempt to come at me with a knife. But then, something struck him in the spine.

A perfect strike to the spine from Perfect Man. Who, despite still being Typhonized, was no longer under his control.

Long story short, after Typhonizing himself and then being cured, Typhon lost his powers. Just as one of the heroes he'd just lost control of returned to his side. So Perfect Man took his revenge. Horrible thing to do to a defenseless enemy, but I can't blame him.

By the way, good job Blastwave, Zap, and Sin the Kid for keeping him pinned down so long. I heard you guys even managed to render him unconscious for a bit.

Oh, Typhon is still alive. But he's probably gonna need a lot of care. For the rest of his life.

I... I just wanted to throw him in a cell with some stuff in it to keep him from using his powers. I don't know how to feel about this outcome. It's not like he didn't deserve it but... Jesus Christ.

Anyway, with some help from Agent Anywhere, we were able to invade Lazinam and un-Typhonize the heroes there. I was pretty exhausted after that, so I wasn't part of the invasion.

You guys can tell me all about how your parts in that went.

I would show you a screencap of the results of the dice roll, but the screencaps are gone. So I had to redo the rolls.

Counting Ark Knight, Delta, Blastwave, Zap, Ogre, Sin the Kid, The Mirror Girls, Fenix, Solar Fire and Mr Mutate, your dice pool is 10 d6. Yeah, I forgot he HAD confirmed Ogre and Sin the kid's participation. Good thing I went back and reread a few threads. Here is the results:

This outcome pleases me.

All those dice, and you still tied with Typhon. Meaning Incomplete Victory.

But wait...someone else is rolling a dice?

Who picked the Mysterios Stranger perk?

And they got a success! But for which side? Guess we'll find out!

But how will I determine the success of this mission? I am going to roll a d6 for every advantage Typhon has. Every 6 is a success.

At some point tomorrow (or maybe the next day if I'm busy) I'll roll a d6 for every character participating. If the number of successes is higher, complete victory. If it's the same, incomplete victory. If it's two dice lower, defeat. If it's one dice lower, you'll see.

Typhon's advantages: Perfect Man. Impact. Agent Anywhere. The Military (forgot to mention they'd be present oops) and his own powers. 5

Characters participating so far: Blastwave. Zap. Mirror Girls (counting them as one). Ark Knight. Delta. Mr Mutate. Ogre and Robot mentioned but not confirmed. 6

Failure or incomplete victory will result in having to do another fight.

Lets see how well Typhon does:

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Well fuck... the odds aren't in your favor. Maybe more people will join.

This definitely was not an easy decision. But there's just no chance of beating him. Especially now with the US government on his side. Guess the government is just going to let Agent Anywhere, who served them faithfully for years, continue his horrible existence as a living portal gun for a supervillain as long as he's being used to bring them oil.

I'm going to instead focus on local hero work.

(OOC: The rest of this post takes place on a more secure forum, on a thread called Operation Etna Drop)

MrMutate: Don't worry, the raid is still on. I just know Typhon is always watching the subreddit. Some guy in a suit offered to make the BS charges against me go away if I publicly cancel the Typhon Raid.

Normally I would have told him to fuck himself, but the option to trick our enemies into thinking we aren't attacking seemed like a good idea.

Anyway, we won't be attacking Lazinam directly. See, one of us recently encountered Typhon and brought back some intel that Typhon did not know she had: Typhon's next scheduled visit to the US. A brief one where he will open a portal and deliver an unknown quantity of oil.

To do this, he'll need a portal. Meaning the Agent Anywhere (who Typhon has essentially turned into a living portal gun) will definitely be there. Finding and curing Agent Anywhere should be top priority, as Typhon's entire operation hinges on him.

The following is a list of obstacles we will need to get past:

Typhon and the "Impact Armor". Typhon will absolutely be there. You know his powers by now. Invisible energy blasts that can go through some walls and turn people into monsters. Only works on humans. Can give psychic orders to his monsters, but they don't work on anyone else. Walks with a limp due to Sluagh shooting him in the leg years ago.

The Impact Armor: When he Typhonized Impact, he turned him into some kind of freaky living power armor. Can increase or decrease the power of impacts between solid things. Can make the highest caliber gun known to make as effective as a peashooter. And can make the wimpiest fist fighter into One Punch Man. I don't know what'll happen if we cure him while Typhon is... is wearing the armor, lets say.

Perfect Man: One of the top heroes before he was Typhon. Super strong, super fast, super reflexes, fast healing. Now he's also got extra arms, extra muscle, and bone armor to make him just slightly more durable. He will need to be removed from the battlefield.

The Anywhere Gun: will be in Typhon's hands. He might use it to summon more of his minions.

Any suggestions on how to deal with these problems will be appreciated.

(OOC: Warning: this one is gonna have some body horror. You may wonder what the fuck is wrong with me after reading this one. Me too man, me too.)

Since it seems like we're going to have a big fight on our hand. This is all I know about Typhon's forces.

Typhonized heroes: These are heroes that were turned into monsters and put under Typon's control. These are just the ones I've been able to determine were definitely abducted and Typhonized by him.

Poker: Magic user. Has a deck of cards that she uses to draw magic. The better her hand, the more magic energy she gets and the more powerful spell she can cast. Once created a barrier strong enough to contain a nuclear explosion with just a full house, which I'm told isn't the strongest one. If she pulls out a Joker, she loses control of the magic and something random happens. Her current form looks kinda like a human, but enlongated, with multiple arms and slits on its back to pull cards out of.

Harvest-Man: The dash is important. He got bitten by a harvestman, which I'm told is kind of like a spider, but not quite. He's got super strength, reflexes, a danger sense of some kind, can stick to walls, and has a pair of web shooters that let him swing around. Typhon turned him into some kind of eight-legged, non-spider monster.

Donut: Formerly the sidekick of the second Cake Crusader. He made the anti-Typhon gear I've been handing out. He has no powers but he was trained by one of the most dangerous people in the world and carries some gadgets. Typhon turned him into some kind of multi-armed monkey man with blue fur... yeah save your furry jokes.

Agent Anywhere: Not sure what agency she was an agent of, but she has the ability to make portals to anywhere on the planet. Typhon turned her entire body into some kind of large, fleshy portal gun. You'll know it when you see it.

Perfect Man: You all know who this guy is. He was one of the top heroes before Typhon showed up. Super strength, super durability, super intelligence, super reflexes, perfectly precise movements. Typhon made him taller, covered him in some kind of exoskeleton, and gave him extra arms. If you see someone standing right between you and Typhon, it's probably this guy.

Speedblitz: Was, at one point, one of the fastest heroes alive. He slowed a bit with age, but the last time he was seen he was recorded going 105 MPH. After being Typhonized he's grown a bunch of extra legs and has spikes jutting out of him at various points.

Impact: He has the power to increase or decrease the power of impacts. So for example if you punch him in the face he can reduce the power enough so that it barely hurts him. And if he lightly flicked you on the forehead he could make it so that your head exploded from it. Typhon... oh god this one's gross. So he was always a big guy and... the term "meat mecha" comes to mind. That's what he is now. Power armor for Typhon. Made of person.

Psionerds: A team of five super heroes with various mental powers that operated out of Lazinam until Typhon's recent takeover. Noone has seen their Typhonized forms yet, but they're believed to be generating the barrier around the capital building.

Labyrinth: She's a magic user from the bronze age that got put into a magical sleep, and then woke up in the modern day. She got her nickname cause she liked to raise a labyrinth of earth walls to trap criminals until they surrender. Typhon turned her into some kind of mole person. I haven't seen a picture, and that's the only description I was given.

Minora: She's a barbarian hero with a magic claymore that can cut throug supernatural creatures. She has some kind of magic oath that keeps her from aging as long as Labyrinth doesn't. Typhon turned her into some kind of minotaur monster... I guess even he runs out of ideas for horrors to inflict on people.

Laserface: A cyborg whose head is a giant, really powerful laser gun. Now he's a laser gun that's sitting on platform of bone carried around by a bunch of freakishly long legs.

Also, whoever is left of Rose's supervillain team. I just typed out all that, I don't feel like going back and crosschecking which of them is in custody.

There's also his cult members. Mostly human. A few that were voluntarily turned into monsters. Most typhonized aren't that much stronger than a regular human.

Those of you who want to help me with Typhon, this is what we're up against. If any of you want to pick an opponent, be my guest.

Right when I'm caught up in some legal bullshit, Typhon goes and makes a bigger move than he's ever made.

Dude just showed up with an army of Typhonized heroes and wiped out that the country of Lazinam's entire government.

Guys, we need to mobilize and deal with him before he digs in his roots and becomes a problem. Or before before Sluagh shoots his way into Lazinam and probably kills a bunch of innocent people.

Why would he do something like this? Does he not realize that this is going to make him a lot of enemies, including the US government? The Orange Man is probably just waiting for an excuse to go there and "spread democracy".

Edit: WHAT DO YOU MEAN THE ORANGE MAN JUST RECOGNIZED HIM AS A LEGITIMATE RULER?!

Some people from a certain Agency showed up at the Central Hills Relief Organization. Says they suspect fugitives and inter dimensional aliens are hiding out in the town.

Technically not wrong, but what the fuck are they gonna do about Typhon? Seems way outside of their jurisdiction.

They demand we suspend operations until they leave. The guy in charge of the CHRO warns them to bring some protective charms or teleport charms to help them not get themselves killed.

They tell him to shut up and let them do their jobs, and then head down one of the most dangerous routes into town. Soon as they disappear.

I head in that direction with other assembled heroes. It's a shitshow. One person guy is screaming at a tree and shooting it. Another one is hitting a dude on the ground with a baton. A few of them are on the ground, some definitely gone. One guy was in the process of dragging his friend towards a crack.

I Mutated. Got a mid roll. Lots of wings and tentacles and one of the tentacles had a bone axe.

I restrain the guy with the gun, and another hero takes down baton guy.

The guy dragging the other guy towards the crack stops, draws his gun and opens fire on me. The bullets go through me and hit the guy I'm holding down.

I unmutate and for a moment I think he's gonna shoot me again and that's it. But then green smoke starts seeping out of the crack, and SOMETHING reaches out and grabs him.

I get up and run towards him and try to grab him before he can get dragged into the crack. Whatever is pulling him is strong enough to pull two people. In desperation, I try mutating again.

Bad roll. Hook hands. Dude gets dragged into the crack. Afterwards, we gather up the remaining agents and get them the hell out. We have to leave behind the bodies cause the thing in the crack was reaching out with it's... I don't know how to describe it's limbs.

The other hero with us says he's going to bring backup to banish the beast. I head back to camp.

A few hours later I get a ping on my phone on the Supervillain Registry App telling me a new hero has been added to the Suspected category. Yeah, it's me.

And then a friend sends me a video where one of the people whose asses I saved is claiming attacked the agents.

They don't have any case. No way they're gonna successfully put this on me... right?

A character bible, for those not in the know, is a list of rules that define how a character should be portrayed. Usually for characters with large franchises.

I think since we kind of have a tendency to share villains, might be a good idea to set some groundrules for depictions. That is, if you feel like sharing a character at all.

Here is the template, feel free not to use it:

Character name/Alias:

Distinguishing Traits:

Personality Rules: How you want their personality depicted.

Power Rules: What the character can and can't do.

Timeline rules: Their age, how long they've been operating under their current name, any status changes if they're depicted before a certain point. ETC.

Relationship Rules: How do they feel about heroes? Villains? Specific characters?

Things They Absolutely Would Not Do:

Other Rules:

Here is an example for Typhon.

Character name/Alias: Typhon. Real name unknown.

Distinguishing Traits: 40 years old, though looks a bit younger. Pale white skin. Blue eyes. Always dresses in expensive suits, usually ill-fitting ones due to the fact that his entire wardrobe is stolen. Walks with a slight limp in his right leg, and has a scar on it from being shot. Carries a cain with a silver top piece sculpted to look like the monster from greek myth he took his name from. Recently has started wearing masks while appearing in public and reaching under said masks to scratch his face fairly often.

Personality Rules:

• Typhon has a gigantic ego.
• Typhon has a predatory moral philosophy that justifies anything he does as being righteous because he is powerful. This philosophy has been reinforced by the fact that he's never had a real loss. Setbacks sure, but no true defeats. Of course, he would convince himself any actual defeat was just a setback.
• Typhon's master plan is a mystery, but his goal is to make an unassailable place for himself where he can do what he wants and get away with anything.
• Pointing out how childish his goal is will get you Typhonized.
• He hates the term Typhonized. He prefers to say he's "evolving" his victims.
• He does not actually understand the theory of evolution.
• He only collects heroes who are interesting to him. He has no interest in grabbing any super hero without powers unless he has a specific need for their expertise. He only Typhonized Donut, for example, because Mr Mutate mentioned Donut was working on a cure and he needed to make sure it was destroyed.

Power Rules: (I have not revealed a lot about his powers)

• Typhon has the ability to turn people into monsters. He says he's evolving them, while Mr Mutate coined the term "Typhonized". The range of this ability is unknown, but he can do it from afar to multiple people at once. Through the walls too.
• He seems to have some level of control over the way someone changes.
• He can't give people super powers. At least, not things like super speed or telekinesis. He can maybe give you the ability to fly with lots of wings or maybe give you some sticky hairs to cling to walls.
• Once he's changed someone, he can't change them again. That's part of the reason why his powers don't work on Mr Mutate.
• Typhon has psychic powers that seem to only affect people he's Typhonized. He can send mental orders to them if they're in range. When not in range, they continue to follow whatever orders were given to them before.

Timeline rules: 40 years old. Was 10 when he was abducted and experimented on in the super soldier program. 15 when he gained his powers. 16 when he escaped, 19 when he had his falling out with Mr Mutate's parents, and around 25 when his infamy started to grow. At some point he was involved in a "big villain teamup". Around two weeks before the creation of the subreddit in universe, he fought Blastwave and defeated him but didn't Typhonize him.

Relationship Rules: Generally sees people as toys, tools, or both.

• Blastwave: Who?
• Mr Mutate: A bug he could squash at any time... though lately he's upgraded him to an annoyance.
• Other supervillains in general: Contempt.
• The team he's currently on: bait on a hook, to lure in more heroes.
• Typhonized Heroes: He sees them kind of like someone might see a luxury car they bought, or an expensive piece of clothing they wear to a party. They're things he has, not people.
• Cult Members: Cannon fodder.

Things They Absolutely Would Not Do:

• Collect someone that has no powers or no other use to him. Though he might Typhonize them if it suits his needs.
• Sacrifice any of his prized possessions (read: heroes he's Typhonized and then collected).
• Fight on the frontlines. While he does have training in martial arts and the use of firearms, he prefers to let his monsters do everything for him.
• Leave any of his hideouts without a bodyguard. And by bodyguard, I mean one of the Typhonized heroes by his side.
• Kill a hero that he could potentially Typhonize, unless it was a hero without super powers.
• Anything sexual. He's not interested. In anyone. In any way.

Other Rules:

• None.

(OOC: Might as well make a joke about it)

I found it in a box at the relief camp, with a note saying "careful where you leave your things". I'm probably going to have to have someone disassemble it to find tracking devices. And then have someone that understands phone operating systems go through it to see if he left anything else on it.

Can anyone show me what his one answer in the AMA was before reddit smited it? Anything that helps me get into that guy's head is useful.