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Here's the wiki for our Masks game, which has no good title. I'll post some background here soon.
And here are the requisite links:
HOW THE TEAM CAME TOGETHER
We defeated a dangerous enemy. Who or what was it?
Steel. He busted into town, I think he was from down south somewhere. He started pushing around the street kids, strong-arming the local gangs into his organisation. Gun smuggler mostly. He was violently pushing to get a foothold in Halcyon. King sent me, told me to run him out of town. I thought he was just some guy, but he had gravity control powers, and a lot of guns. He wasn't short on goons either.
We destroyed our surroundings in the fights. Where was it? What did we destroy?
We were at Steel's warehouse, where he stored his guns. I ran into Flickr, or Flickr ran into me, and he persuaded me to go along with him to the place. I hadn't actually done any heroing before, I just tried to find safe places to practice using my power. Anyway, turned out I was more powerful than I thought. Some stray bolts cooked off his ammo, and it blew up. It wasn't an uncontrolled fire - it turned out Steel was able to control the fire pretty damn well with his gravity powers, but the place was gutted by the end of it.
I don't want to give you the impression I completely sucked. There were some steel bars he was keeping - quite possibly as weapons because that's what he used them for, and I was able to stop him mincing us with them.
We didn’t trust each other at first, but that changed. How? Why?
When Steel started flinging the flames around with his power, he didn't particularly care who gets onto the shot, almost killing a couple of his own in the process. At this point, everyone had a choice - run away, try to get a clean shot on Steel while he's occupied with other heroes, or help the others out to regroup and think of a plan. I'm proud to declare, we picked the latter option.
We saved the life of someone important, either to the city or to us. Who was it? Why are they important?
"So we hear about this big weapon dealie thing going down, which, cool, right? Not the deal, but being able to stop it. So we go in, all guns blazing. Or electricity blazing and bones hurling and all that, and that's all great... except, eh heh, there was an undercover cop there. Detective Marcus Chen. He's got the total John Woo vibe and all which is neat but... well, he was there to get whoever was giving Steel the weapons and stuff and we kinda... uh... messed that up. Stopping the weapons was a big deal, but apparently the bigger deal was Steel's boss. So, um, yeah. Detective Chen was not happy. It made such a splash it totally messed up his undercover gig, and they kicked him upstairs. He kinda keeps tabs on us now. Sometimes, he points us at something. Sometimes he tells us not to do something, which we do anyway. Which he probably knew we would do anyway, so maybe it's reverse cop psychology? Anyway, it's kinda neat having the local cop boss on your side. It would be nicer if he didn't get so mad, though."
All things considered, we did well and impressed an established hero. Who was it?
El Corazón de León, a lucha-themed Silver Age hero and former member of the Exemplars. Also known as Lionheart because people weren't as comfortable with foreign-sounding superhero names when he was active. Semi-retired now, in the sense that everyone knows his neighbourhood and not to mess with it, because even though he's old and has no flashy powers he will kick your ass if you try to sell guns or drugs on his turf. He'd heard about Steel moving into town and was keeping an eye on the situation when we stumbled into it.
