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==3x5 NPCs, Locations and Organizations==
===Friends===
* '''Simeon Juarez Escudero''', her grandfather, who raised her after her mother's death.  A dour, severe, but honourable old man and a devoted catholic, horrified with his grand-daughter's blasmemous pretentions to godhead, who nevertheless still loves her.

* '''Dr. Madelene Emmerling''', a Dutch-born archaeologist studying [[Wikipedia:mesoamerican|mesoamerican]] civilizations.  After an inauspicious start when Warcry thought Emmerling had reached Chantico in order to plunder her people's cultural resources or to spy on behalf of some enemy, the two became friends. Madelene Emmerling is a short, blonde, forty-ish woman with startling blue eyes and gold-rimmed glasses, an easy laugh, and nerves of steel.  She is extremely well-read and fluent in a dozen languages.

* '''Tomas Panitzin Ballestero''', a Guatemalan [[Wikipedia:mestizo|mestizo]] agronomist who used to work in the hinterlands to help small communities farm more efficiently.  He is now the administrator of Chantico in Warcry's absence, as well as a close friend and someone she can rely on to pass messages to other people discreetly.

* '''Baraka''', a super-villain from [[Wikipedia:Algeria|Algeria]].  Baraka, like Warcry, is classified as a villain because she works entirely within the law she sets for herself rather than the "law of the land."  Baraka has the ability to manipulate probabilities on a quantum level.  She hunts down warlords, criminals, slave traders, weapons dealers, pirates, etc. &mdash; and makes sure that they meet with an unpleasant end.  She and Warcry are friends and partenered up on a couple of fights back before the invasion.

===Contacts===
* '''Manuelita Perez Thompson''', a muckraking journalist who compiles information on corporate corruption and abuse, and occasionaly supplies Warcry with useful information.  Manuelita started by working for the financial section of the ''[[Wikipedia:L.A. Times|L.A. Times]]'', then moved up to the ''[[Wikipedia:Wall Street Journal|Wall Street Journal]]'', eventually becoming completely fed up with corporate greed.  She left to write a whistle-blower book that was successful with left-wing readers, and used the money to found her own independent magazine and Web site, based out of [[Wikipedia:Eagar, Arizona|Eagar, Arizona]] (population: 4,265) &mdash; a decision that appeared wise a few years later, after the alien invaders leveled most large cities.  

* '''Rob Zinser''', a hacker and fan of all things occult or bizarre, who styles himself a [[Wikipedia:Fortean|Fortean]] investigator.  Rob's idea of a career is to emulate the ''X-Files' '' "[[Wikipedia:Lone Gunmen|Lone Gunmen]]", but with better fashion sense.  In the last two years, he has been accumulating as much information as he could on the Star Khan and the Grue.  

* '''Paul "Pal" Palinski''', a smuggler, fixer, and all-around deal-broker hooked up with the Russian, Sicilian, and Jewish [[Wikipedia:mafia|mafia]].  Despite his unsavoury connections, Pal somehow manages to stay clean himself, and will often turn down deals without giving a reason.  His sense of business &mdash; or perhaps more arcane, unadvertised abilities &mdash; have kept him alive despite this.  A good go-to guy when one wants to find something or someone unusual.

===Enemies===
* '''Jack Donald, CEO of StarBase Coffee''', who cut his teeth by rising through the ranks of Albertson's, Bromwell's Department Stores, and Harvest Supermarkets corporate sharks.  His tactic of employing super-villains to stage fights near competing coffee outlets in order to clear the way for new StarBase stores is notorious, and he refuses to use Fair Trade-certified shade-grown organic goods for more than a fraction of the company's coffees and teas -- which he marks up by an extra 25%.  Of course, in his secret identity as Dark Roast, he too now battles the Star Khan and the Grue, which makes things awkward at SHADOW meetings.

* '''Eskil Diaab Prasutagus''', the alien with whom Warcry fought during the original series published by Savage Worlds Comics (a V'sori in the original series, retroactively changed to a [[Stellar Khanate|Khan]] in the more recent series published by Mutants & Masterminds Comics).  He has not forgiven Warcry for defeating him &mdash; and made sure none of the guards who were present survived the battle.

* '''Shattenf&uuml;rst''' (Shadow Prince), a.k.a. Sieghardt Haussmann, son of a [[Wikipedia:Nazi|Nazi]] super-villain and current ruler of a jungle kingdom in Uruguay.  His father, Wilhelm Haussmann (code name ''Shattenk&ouml;nig''), was an ''[[Wikipedia:&uuml;bermensch|&uuml;bermensch]]'' created during one of the secret experiments of 1930s Germany; when the [[Wikipedia:Third Reich|Third Reich]] lost the war, he escaped to a Nazi colony in Uruguay and installed himself as ruler.  Haussmann's son Sieghardt later took over.  The Haussmanns have both benefited from an expanded life span thanks to the super-serum that reated them, and for decades were active collaborators of [[Wikipedia:Operation Condor|Operation Condor]].   Shattenf&uuml;rst constantly shows utter contempt for the "traitor" Overshadow, for "non-Aryans", and for the "weak" in general.  He and Warcry have had spectacular aerial fights over the fate of native populations in Central and South America; Warcry is partly vulnerable to Shattenf&uuml;rst's dark energy powers.

===Locations===
* '''Chantico''', the City-State domain she carved from the Guatemalan highlands.  As the Aztec goddess Cihuacoatl, she had her people rebuild the ancient city that had lain in ruins around the mysterious temple where she received her birthright and her powers.  Size: Awesome (6); Toughness 15 (2); Features: Isolated, Living Space (2) (Total cost: 10).

* '''Mystic Islands Lair''', a hiding spot in the Mystic Islands of Great Bay, NJ.  Warcry can easily fly there, but otherwise access is by boat only, through a maze of wetland channels in the Mullica River delta.  The site is part of the [http://www.fws.gov/northeast/forsythe/ Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge], but that is hardly a concern now under Khanate rule.  Size: Medium (1); Toughness 5 (0); Features: Concealed, Isolated, Dock, Living Space (also known as a shack) (4) (Total cost: 5).

* '''The Dead Zone''', a region of the Great Bay which seems invisible to satellites and impassable to overflights.  Warcry suspects it may contain a Stellar Khanate base; she has so far been unable to get past its forcefield without using brute force.

===Organizations===
* '''[[The Band of Steel]]''', a loose cooperation of former super-villains now working with the Overshadow and his SHADOW cells to organize the resistance against the [[Stellar Khanate]] invaders and their [[Grue]] minions.  Warcry has a somewhat unorthodox take on the Band of Steel: she sees them as reflections of the Aztec gods: Boneyard = Mictlantecuhtli the god of death, Madame Shade = Coatlicue the sorceress, Doctor Steel = Quetzalcoatl the artificer, Noise = Ehecatl the god of the winds, Carnivore = Tlaloc the monster with nasty sharp pointy teeth.  Let's see what she'll make of Whiplash and Man'O War.

* '''[http://www.globalexchange.org/  Global Exchange]''', an international human rights organization dedicated to promoting social, economic and environmental justice around the world.  Before leveling corporate headquarters, Warcry always verifies whether the megacorp supports fair trade and workers' rights.  The righteous are spared, the greedy punished.  Warcry works with Global Exchange to set up cooperatives of coffee, cacao, and yerba mate growers in Central America.

* '''[[Wikipedia:Opus Dei|Opus Dei]]''', spiritual heir of the [[Wikipedia:Spanish Inquisition|Spanish Inquisition]], has been keeping a close watch on Warcry.  She embodies the sacrilegious claim of the heathen Native gods which the Inquisition fought for over 350 years in the Americas.  Perhaps the Opus Dei may have relaxed its attitude since the alien invasion... but probably not.  After all, isn't the invasion a sign that God has turn his back on humanity because of mankind's wickedness?  Someone like Warcry may be ''exactly'' what's wrong. 
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