Editing Baroque Blue (section)

====The Good====

Usually Capes, but sometimes just ordinary men with extraordinary conviction, those presented here fight the good fight against seemingly impossible odds.

=====The Midnight Samaritan=====

The original mask. He started keeping Gods Peace in the 30's, working out of the Carrivagio Quarter, patrolling in his cross-emblazened leather and wearing a cowl. Back then, he killed with his weaponized crozier. Word spread among the Made Men of the day that the Lord's Vengeance was descending on Baroque. However, in 1939, as Arturos Nocturnes English Socialist armies begun to descend over Europe, the Midnight Samaritan battled with Halloween Jack atop the Cathedral Basilique and fell.

When cautious crimes were recommited and no shining cross appeared with whispered threats, confidence returned. The Five Families, desperate to regain ground lost to the new freaks and weirdos, made alliances with other immigrant groups, forming the Second Council of Trent.

Twelve years ago, just as the Council initiated the 13th member using the syncretic anti-Catholic/voudan rituals, the Midnight Samaritan burst through the skylight and announced his return. Since then, he has arrested every one the Rogues gallery at least once, brought down the entire Mediccani Cammorrae and reduced crime in the Vespers by 30%. He even smuggles advanced medicines and supplies into the worst parts of the Inferno.

Some guys say he doesn't kill anymore. Some guys say he is just a normal human. Some even say he is a Vatican supersoldier returned from the Brazillian Wars with some sort of Da Vinci tech enhancements. Regardless, every criminal dreads their "Confessions" and nearly pass out at the idea of their "Time of Repentance" being at hand.

=====Paul Revenge=====

The toughest motherloving player to ever wander these fucking streets, brother. Given he is no longer on the force (at least, not this week), he isn't technically any of the categories listed above, but he is so damn badass still ranks a mention. Once a black uniformed beat cop, once a ranking inspector in the Major Crime Unit, usually out on his ear for flouting discipline, always kicking ass, taking names and refusing to die.

Despite being a normal joe, he has singlehandedly arrested Haloween Jack and he killed the first Mister Mystic. Think Shaft or John McClane facing the Joker and you're in the ball park.

=====Streetwalker=====

This vigilante lurks around the Hawksmoore District. Dressed in fishnet stockings, a low-cut black leather jacket and a skirt made entirely of flashing blades, she isn't afraid to maim or kill. So extreme are her methods that outside the Vespers, even Baroque cops would be howling for her blood. As a rule, she doesn't pursue crime in the general way the Samaritan does, instead focusing on abusive pimps, rapists, corrupt cops and abusers of authority or women. It is an open secret that she collects "dues" from the hookers and wheelbarters of the area.

=====Black Arrow=====

This vigilante steals from the rich and gives to the poor. The only problem is that he brutually and grusomely murders his victims, stalking them for weeks, and then dispatching them like a hunter finishing off his prey. Choice steaks are usually sent to family members the next day as proof of a kill. Nonetheless, Baroque being Baroque, he is idolized in the Inferno, perhaps even more than the Samaritan who battles him.

=====OneShot=====

Once a night, somewhere in Baroque, a shot rings out. It always hits its target and always kills. No matter how powerful, how dangerous, how invulnerable, the evil that lurks always falls to OneShot. 

Of course, it only happens once a night.

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