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===The Hellfire Society===
: Composed primarily of former members of the now defunct East India Trading Company, The inner circle of the hellfire club consists of wealthy merchants and chiefs of industry who are determined to regain their lost finances. Instead of mutants, there powers derive from a demonic contract with the mysterious demon Blackheart (who is unknown to all except the inner circle). membership includes Sebastian Shaw, his layabout opium addict son Shinobu (Shinobi always struck me as an odd name), the cyborg Donald Pierce, (who's more like the amazing screw on head, attaching his still human head to various robot bodies) Emma Frost (who controls her husband with psychic powers), and the time travelling Trevor Fitzroy. There current plan involves building giant clockwork men called Sentinels and using them to provoke World War I (which Fitzroy knows about via time travel) early, leading to the eventually collapse of western civilization.
: a Masonic order.  Perhaps the most singular club in all of London. The Hellfire Society's admissions policies are as secret as its membership rolls, traditions, initiations, and politics. All that is know is members of this most peculiar club are rumored to have been involved in the most sensational and importable adventures of the age, and every man, woman, and child in the great metropolis of London- and indeed, the entire British Empire- owe their lives and freedom to the secret actions of this club's members.
: One only joins the Hellfire Society by invitation, and the club’s distinct silver ink on black stationary missives always seem to find their way into the recipient’s hand, without passing through normal post channels. Almost as if they were delivered by unseen ghostly hands. But such an invitation means the Hellions have been watching, judging, and assessing- and if you meet their peculiar standards, that ominous black envelope will find its way onto your nightstand or into your smoking jacket’s pocket.
: The Hellions tend to stick to the shadows, lurking in the darkest streets and social circles and political back rooms, moving through the dark places of the world and of society with the easy grace of nighttime predators. They partake of London’s rich and miserable underworld, managing vice and crime rather than trying to stamp it out in a moralist crusade, and they are known to keep scandalously close ties to some of the worst villains in London- though if truth be known, since the Club opened, the criminal underworld of London has been quieter, cleaner, better organized, and less obtrusive. Vice may still rule the slums, but no longer do evil men exclusively rule that vice.
: More troubling perhaps than the rumors of criminal ties, the Hellfire Society is said to be involved in all manor of occult goings-on- spiritualism, the worship of foreign gods, pagan mysticism, invoking the dead, and sorcery of the blackest sort. But despite this reputation for unseemly congress, the Club is still consulted regularly by Her Majesty’s officials on matters of the deepest state secrets. The Hellfire Society serves the empire like a keen-eyed helmsman guiding his ship through dark, shoal-torn waters. Without the Club’s guidance and uncanny insights, the ship would surely founder and break on unseen dangers. 
: Perhaps you are one of Dr. Moreau's escaped animal-men. Or a man burdened with one of the Old World’s ancient curses- lycanthropy or vampirism. Or a spiritualist, who speaks with the dead. Or perhaps even one of the Dead yourself. No matter how freakish, bizarre, unseemly, or scandalous, if your heart is sound, the Hellfire Society will welcome you.
: There is an assassination attempt on her Majesty the Queen! The sniper is a gloating pirate and thug using an Air Rifle named Brock "Crossbones" Rumlow. Despite the grevious nature of his crimes, he seems unafraid of the hangman's noose. Perhaps more disturbingly are his confederates whom seem to have the strength of many men. 
: It is during this time that London is wracked with a series of powder bombs and threats that Parliament and other land marks will soon join them. Scotland Yard is utterly baffled by the notes that claim responsibility for they are signed by Stephen Rogerson. A great British Patriot and Captain of the Armies whom disappeared while doing special work for her majesty not too many years ago. It is also covered in a special seal that is a Hydra.
: A little detective work and a narrow call to prevent the London Bridge from being blown up will note that most of London's underground is being recruited by Brock and his gang. They primarily focus on immigrants but the core is being recruited from the lower class with a mixture of nationalist rhetoric touched on with class warfare ideas (i.e. National Socialism but don't call it that). Either on the bridge or rescuing Brock they will confront the Mastermen whom fight to the death but may reveal the fact that they are only pretending to be English, they're KRAUTS!
: Mycroft Holmes (who employs Sir Nicholas Fury as his top field agent/Second in command), head of the Foreign Office Information Service, will then reveal that Doctor David Bannerson (whose story reached the London audiences as the case of Doctor Jekyll and Mister Hyde thanks to a leak) had helped create a formula that turned a simple man into an extraordinary one. It was used upon a polio victim as a test but created an amazingly skilled man whom was sent to Germany to investigate a revival of the Freemason born Bavarian Illuminati. Hydra.  Of course, the players no doubt will realize that the true culprit is Roter Totenkopf. The German diplomat (who wears a ghastly death mask while conducting Hydra business) whom is organizing what he hopes will turn into a general civil war as the Kaiser makes plans to invade Eastern Europe. He has captured Rogerson in a block of ice with the help of his henchman Baron Heidrich Zemo and they've managed to use blood extractions from his still living form to create their supermen.
:If they prevent his uprising, can they stop his "scorched Earth" plan to use a zeppelin to cover all of London in Zemo's Death Dust?
: The Hydra Strikes
: Brock Rumlow is the real name of the Captain America villain Crossbones. His sniping is an homage to Sherlock Holmes return story "The Empty House" where Moriarty's 2nd in command uses an air rifle. His role as a thug paid by the Skull and a traitor fits his origins. He's likely a lower class Londoner here.
: Stephen Rogerson is Captain America here, though now a special agent for the Queen with no real Codename. Perhaps calling him "Union Jack" as a codename is more appropriate since that was the Captain's British counterpart.
: The Hydra born from the Bavarian Illuminati is an adaptation of Hydra that was created as Nazis fleeing the Third Reich to continue their quest for world domination. Effectively, here, they become proto-nazis tied to the beginning German nationalist movement and occultism that LEAD to the birth of Hitler's ideals.
: Masterman was a Captain America villain with Golden Age Superman like powers. Here, they are effectively Super Soldiers like Captain America made from blood transfusions.
: Mycroft Holmes being M is a nod to the League of Extraordinary Gentlement.
: Sir Nicholas Fury is, of course, a nod to Nick Fury, Agent of SHIELD but he's yet to ascend to the head of the future MI6 here but still takes orders from Holmes Brother.
: Bruce Banner aka the Incredible Hulk being Doctor Jekyll and Mister Hyde's inspiration is fitting. Him working on the Super Soldier serum is a nod to Ultimates continuity.
: Most likely Mister Hyde is the Gray Hulk whom is Banner's id than the rampaging green hulk.
: Roter Totenkopf is, literally translated, The Red Skull. Here, he is not yet deformed but merely wearing a mask. He's foreshadowing WW1 German adventurism.
: Baron Heidrich Zemo is in fact Baron Zemo and still a Nazi scientist with a Hooded face cover. Here, he's discovered keeping a patient in a state of coldness to incapitate him while blood is extracted. This is a nod to Captain America's suspended animation in ice.
: The Red Dust is the Red Skull's preferred method of killing a victim. It turns their face into a hideously deformed Skull visage. If history repeats itself, the players probably will knock him into a batch of it and his mask will become reality.