Editing TALON (section)

==3x3 NPCs==
===FRIENDS===
* '''The Great Owl''':  aka. Castor Grace II  [age 32, at time of death - 1962]  Castor Grace became the Great Owl to fight the oppression that he endured as a child growing up in Boston following the Great Depression.  Little is known about Castor Grace II, he made a fortune with his work in metalology, developing a heavily tested "Adamantium-Aluminum" alloy that is only now being seen on high end space craft and equipment in need of extremely light/thin but shielded metal.  The Space Tether used this material to great effect.  It is known that the Great Owl was a solitary man, married only once to his childhood sweetheart - but family don't even know her name.  Castor was a master martial artist, tending toward pugilism and kickboxing - using his size and strength to intimidate Boston roughians.  Nothing is known of his disappearance, but the city of Boston held silent vigil for the Heroic Huntsman in the monthes after the loss and most all heroes rever the name to this day. '''DECEASED or MISSING'''

* '''Eagle Owl''':  aka. Gael "Gracey" Grace [age 23]  Gracey is the grand-daughter of the Great Owl, the daughter of Amanda Grace and Harlan Robinson!!  Gracey grew up not knowing her father until just before her teen years when she stumbled on artifacts of the Great Owl (her Grandfather).  When she had too many questions for her mother to answer they asked Harlan to step in.  It was only meant to be for a short while to help her understand what this secret was and what it was about.  They've maintained their monthly visits ever since.  It made Harlan a little prideful but at the same time frightened when he heard about "the new" Eagle Owl...  because without investigating he knew it was Gracey.  She now prowls the streets of Boston where her father and grandfather did before.

* '''Dr. Nathaniel English''':  Dr. English is an atache of the greater Pacific Northwest Division of [http://wiki.rpg.net/index.php/V%26V_meets_M%26M_in_..._%22PROJECT_VIGILANCE%22#Good_Guys F.I.S.H.] (the Federal Investigation and Security Headquarters).  Nathaniel is director of forensics and investigation.  He trained with Harlan in graduate school.

* '''Condor''': Power-armored winged-flight suit, with low-levels of super strength. Older hero who is semi-retired. Operates out of New York City, NY.  Condor has the Great Owl's basic flight harness principles and technology to thank for his own suit.  Talon tracked down Condor when he came on the scene and developed a friendly working relationship with him.  This is continued for decades and now the two are lifelong collegues.



===CONTACTS===
* '''Fitsgerald "Fish" Dodson''':  [age 52]  Fish is the guy down at the trainyards that overseas the big train-cars and crates goin' on or comin' off the boats from the trains that skirt Seattle's ports.  He's the kinda guy that'd help a workin' stiff cause he'd rather not have "the man" win one over on them.  He ain't dirty but he ain't exactly clean.  Fish is a big guy, fat around the middle but thick as a redwood and just as stubborn, sometimes it takes some shakedown to get any info out of him but when he gives it's usually good dish on what the "in's and out's" of Seattle are from the docks.  Talon developed a mutual relationship with Fish, patrolling for lowlife scum on Fish's docks while Fish sometimes can offer some dirt now and then.

* '''Colonel Rutherford Langley''':  [age 54]  Colonel Langley is a military liason assigned to the Seattle Space Tether secrutity force.  Langely is a West Point man all the way, sharp and strict.  He knows the dangers of the tether, were it to fail and he reminds himself and his men with his stodgey attitude daily.  He was the first non-astronaut to ride the tether into space and loves the facility like family.  Harlan works as a private contractor to Colonel Langley on occasion, flying the Colonel from Seattle to points across the map to visit family and other liasons that Langley would rather the military stay out of.

* '''Racheal Raine''':  [age 48]  Racheal is the assistant director of flight control at SeaTac Airport.  She and Harlan have developed a casual friendship over the years.  While they live only 20 minutes apart in a decade or more they only have dinner a handful of times a year when Harlan comes to SeaTac for air-support, fuel and the like.  If Racheal or Harlan wants more, neither have said anything to one another in all these years - it's almost not worth it anymore.  That said, Racheal does act as a source of info for Harlan about the local happenings and hubbub at the airport.



===ENEMIES===
* '''Amanda Grace''':  [age 46]  Mother of Gael Grace.  Amanda had always secretly loved Harlan, and as she entered college on the West Coast she began "stalking" Harlan.  Harlan did his best to decline her advances even though he did feel similarly, he knew with the age difference and his failure to her father - he couldn't develop the relationship further.  Amanda distraught and scorned decided to use her knowledge of Talon, the secret identity and his failure of her father as a tool to "make him love her back".  This did not work.  Harlan convinced Amanda that this was the wrong thing to do, but it was a this time that Amanda took what she wanted, seducing Harlan in return!  Becoming pregnant in their short but intimate relationship, Amanda was lambasted with criticism from her extended family and friends - citing Harlan to be too old for her (at 40) and was shamed into saying and doing things to push Harlan away.  Although Harlan would come to have a secret friendship with his daughter Gracey, Amanda's shame eventually turned from feelings put on her to real feelings of hate.  The only reason she hasn't used her knowledge against him is for their daughter's sake.

* '''Kingston Abrhams''':  [age 34]  Kingston is the CEO and founder of "Funny-Bone-Toys".  He'd always been a fan of the Great Owl and Talon, with a legacy collection of the various action figures, lunchpales, pez-despencers and the like gained from his father.  It's well known that the Funny-Bone Forum, a mini-museum in the lounge of their Seattle Factory, contains the largest collection super-heroic memorabilia, focusing on the Great Owl and Talon.  As founder of Funny-Bone Abrhams bought the old copyrights to the Great Owl's memorabilia estate out from under the family in backroom deals.  Throughout the 80s-90s Abrhams made millions of dollars pushing Great Owl and Talon toys in every market.  The height of this campaign was marked by the hit live action spoof-series "Birds of a Feather - the Owl/Talon variety hour".  Toy sales remain constant today to Talon's dismay,  and while the toys are now somewhat more "respectful" of the fallen hero and his old sidekick it's still a hard pill to swallow when the public still thinks of Talon as the "Golly-Gosh" kid-hero presented by Funny-Bone Toys.  Ever since Talon unsuccessfully tried to convince Abrhams to stop production of Talon Toys the CEO has turned his love of Talon into bitter grudges that are satisfied by making more and more outragious toys.

* '''Death-Adder''':  aka. Terance Tessler  [age 40s]  A former villainous-sidekick, Death-Adder is a villain that seemed to follow Talon from coast to coast so many years ago, or perhaps Talon followed him.  Talon never learned if it was Death-Adder's mentor that did in the Great Owl but his suspisions were strong.  If it was Adder is not telling - he would rather let the "little birdy" languish in not knowing!  Known for theft and larceny of valuable information, Adder has connections within S.C.U.M. but has also ventured into simple larceny when funds are needed to maintain his reptile preserve on the outskirts of Seattle...  <br>  Adder has not inborn powers but has been trained in the most extreme martial arts and is uncannily flexible and dexterous.  He is very viperlike in appearance, having triangular shaped cowl laticed with dense scales. His protective gear appears to give him vertical pupils and many small scales on the top of the head. Like a viper, he is rather short (5'2") and solid boned.  His colors are black and red, with greenish-yellow.  <br> Tessler doesn't deal very well with people, because of this his minions - even his friends have likely been hired.  In life and crime he is an ambush hunters, concealing his body under thick cover, with superb camouflage, this renders him nearly invisible to both predator and prey alike. When a potential victim is found, he strikes with lightning speed and nearly perfect accuracy. Venom, delivered through darts that string back to his wrist, makes his bite one of the most dangerous in the world.  The venom is neurotoxic. It blocks the post-synaptic neuromuscular transmission from the acetylcholine receptor. One bite can causes paralysis. While this paralysis is very minor at first, it compounds on itself in the seconds to hours following.  It can cause death from a complete respiratory shutdown in as little as six hours. Symptoms of envenomation can be reversed through the use of antivenom.  While Tessler isn't a cold killer, he isn't likely to waste time worrying about those he "bites" with his fanglike retractable claws.  He rounds his arsenal out with an amazingly compact set of catburglar tools and various gas grenades.



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===ORGANIZATIONS===
* '''S.C.U.M. (the Society Consicrated to Usurp Mankind)''':  S.C.U.M. is an uncaring villainous organisation of assassins and spies sent out into the world to collect the knowledges of secrets for use in blackmail.  The levels of their deceptions vary for the many causes individual hiarchy members set out to control.  Formed as counter-culture in the 60s the organization generally used ninja-like agents known as "C.O.G.S." (Civil Operations Gentlemen in Service - the cogs in their machines), but more recently they have built a trust of supered villains and vigilantes.  Taking roughians off the street and upgrading them with the Knowledge of Ninja! or at least a more tactical approach to their theft of information.

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