About Power International (Tobyverse)
Mannie didn't really fit in at Prometheus. To him, there were too many layers, to much misdirection. The things they were creating were fantastical, incredible, but most never saw the light of day. Mannie wanted to change that.
With money he got from somewhere, he began his own little startup research company. And while its day-to-day products were run-of-the-mill, it wast the after-hours work that paid the bills. Mannie and his small staff had perfected a process that would, for a short time, give you the strength of six men and feel no pain. It was quite popular among the local thugs, gangbangers and bouncers. But that was only the beginning. Soon they were offering different treatments, for more people, and opening branches in different cities and towns. The money kept pouring in, and they began taking new contracts. An individual, paying in cash of course, would come to them and say, “I want a gun that shoots toads, that then explode!”. And they'd build him an exploding toad gun. And Mannie sat in the middle of this web, still genial, still smiling, always with exactly what you needed. He even began seeking customers out, offering them whatever tech or weapons or powers they needed that he could give, but at a price. Mannie's company grew and grew. They bought out shipping companies and factories. They began opening dojos, that on the surface were just there to teach the locals but were actually there for gangsters and super-villains to train up their henchmen. They hired the best scientists, athletes and designers money could buy. Today, Power International is a well-known company, highly successful due to its shadow activities and able to make even more off of the legal by-products of their super-tech research. Some say Mannie is walking a dangerous line, and that the likes of Baldur will soon take him down. He tells them...
“They are welcome to try.”
Power International offers every product a supervillain could need. Lair setup, tech, weaponry, connections to groups of disaffected youth easily molded into minions, the works. They have everything from Instant Ninja Just Add Water to flying deathships. But all for a price.
And as for Mannie, well he's a bit like David Sarif from Human Revolution, a genial guy who has read all the corporate hand-books and seems like a bit of a jock. He rarely loses his cool and even if the time comes to punish his employees, he always seems a bit sad because of it. Some people say he seems a bit fake, but they're just jealous of his success. Really! And he's in his element when he's offering someone the world. One of his wider-read employees said it reminded them of the devil, every time.
Some Subsidiaries of Power International
