Editing SURGE (section)

==3x3 NPCs==
===FRIENDS===
* John and Amanda Mathers - Mary's Parents. They've forgiven their daughter for her youthful indescretions and are just happy to have her home again and pulling her life together. The subject of her powers is still an uncomfortable one, but at least they've finally gotten used to Mary popping in and out through the telephone.

* Edmond and Francine Botz - A geriatric couple who work with Mary at the museum. They love waxing poetic about the good old days and the War, something that would drive most other college students away; Mary loves listening to their stories, though.

* Madeline "Maddie" Cable - A girl from several of Mary's History classes and the closest thing Mary has to a friend her own age. They often team up for group projects, and occassionally sit together at lunch to debate the Louisiana Purchase or the Munroe Doctrine, but they have different ideas of 'fun' for their down time and don't hang out much.

===CONTACTS===
* Adriane - Adriane isn't a person you meet, he's a person other people introduce you to. A FreeSA fashion-design grad who never quite hit it big, Adriane has a gift for sewing spandex that doesn't look ridiculous. He runs a small business out of his day job where he makes costumes, no questions asked, for whoever has the cash. Many small-time villains, neophyte heroes, and professional wrestlers do their best to keep on the fickle man's good side.

* Damien Mathers - Mary's 15-year-old brother. Damien is at the stage where he hates everyone and everything, and is going through a phase where he blames his sister's accident and her breif life of crime for him not being 100% happy. He tends to give her the cold should when she visits unless she's buying his something.

* Gertie - Gertie is the usual soda jerk/waitress at the Sodableu, a small restaurant and ice cream shop where Mary usually studies when she's not in the library or the museum. She's worked at the shop for nearly 30 years and knows most of the regulars.

===ENEMIES===
* Pension Hughes - Mary's boss at her part-time job at the Hunter Museum. Hughes is a terrible little man who enjoys beuracratic power more than most anything and doesn't understand much about pre-Columbian culture (unfortunate, since that's his department). He enjoys threatening to fire people, but doesn't know enough about the work they do to ever hope to replace them on his own.

* Brain Child - Mervin Tecker is the supergenius who first organized the Red Guard (Surge's old superteam). He was the only member who escaped capture at the hands of Next Gen 18 months ago and hasn't been heard since. His modus opperandi was a clear plastic dome head (he likes for others to see his brain) and his self-designed 'Omni-Gun', an over-sized pistol with a variety of cartridge plug-ins that do everything from inflict damage to shrink to transform people into ducks. Mervin was constantly working to develop new cartridges to make him 'the most versatile mastermind in history!' and mostly used the team to steal new technology for him (or create distractions so he could steal it himself).

* Neriad and Megastar - While most members of Next Gen are overjoyed when a former supervillain turns over a new leaf and goes straight, some just can't drop it all and let bygones be bygones. Surge tangled with Next Gen on four different occassions (two independant and two with the team); three times resulted in runnng away as quickly as possible and the fourth resulted in her capture. Megastar just loves to harass everybody, but Neriad still bares a grudge from the only time she and Surge actually fought; neither will discuss the matter, but apparently it involved an industrial cake mixer.

===LOCATIONS===
* Sodableu - An old-fashioned soda fountain near Liberty Park. The tiny shop makes most of their sodas and ice cream from scratch, using the same recipies they had when the shop opened just after WWII. One wall is covered with photographs of heroes picking up something to snack on at the bar, including the original Johnny Rocket, the Centurion, Foreshadow, and more recently, Neriad and Sonic of Next Gen.

* The Pym Building - Mary's dorm building, located near the FCU science buildings. Most of the building houses science geeks and various nerds, but the 6th floor (right above Mary's) is known for it's wild parties.

* Francine Dox Memorial High School - A typical suburban high school lacated in Grenville; the Dox Dragons. Mary never officially graduated from this school, but considers it 'her' high school.

===ORGANIZATIONS===
* Oratek - Oratek is a small think-tank owned by Majestic Industries. They're primary goal is the research of superconductors and energy storage technology, but they've only met with limited success thus far and the company is constantly on the verge of being shut down. They aren't evil, per se, but there are things deperate men will do that comforable men would never consider. The current CEO of Oratek is Walter Wilson.

* Hunter Museum of Natural History - A museum located on the FCU campus dedicated primary to archeology. It's collection is vast and it's archives are impressive, extending several stories underground.

* The FCU History Club - A small study group for history majors where Mary tutors when she has spare time.
 



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