Editing The AVENGERS - 1889 Back Issue Bin

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==[[GM Commentarys]]==
Take a gander here to see commentaries on each issue and references for Easter Eggs and story ideas from where they were "re-imagined".  Note, while not spoilers specifically - these notes will give some "behind the scenes" ideas and details.




==Age of Wonders - the AVENGERS 1888==
===issue #1===
:  ''M&M presents:'' <br> '''INVASION FROM THE CENTER OF THE EARTH - Part I: <font color=darkred>''"the Avengers Cometh"''</font>''' <br> ''October 19, 2007''.  <br> ''GM'': KEVIN 
:: '''ISSUE RECAP''':  
::::*  '''Opening Cut-Away Scene''':  [[the Horrible Case of Bloody Jack]] - [http://wiki.rpg.net/index.php/The_Horrible_Case_of_Bloody_Jack#issue_.231 Ripper Recap PART I] - these scenes have opened on the scenes of "the Ripper" murders.
:::  Gathered together by the Queen - the Wasp, Marshall Rodgers, and the Argonaut read the letter from the Queen and their induction as the first of the new Avengers. Sir Nicholas Fury arranged them on the British Rail headed toward the Welsh country-side. It seems the Isle of Wight has a problem...
:::  Along the train toward the Isle Gentlemen and Ladies watch as the Men of Renown get to know one another. And suddenly the train is rocked!
:::  Decerning that the train is in danger of careening over the edge of a large cliff face as the train tressle is out, Fury bid the Avengers into action.
:::  After much well planned work, there are little injuries and no casualties - save the train engine and the first three cars. The most odd of the events is the thwarting and driving away of strange "Moleoid" beasts... As the team assembles to rush on to the Isle of Wight, Fury bellows the immediate need on the coast.
:::  Arriving at the ferry docks on England's side of the 3 mile channel, the heroes learn that the Empire Guardsmen have faced some beasts coming out of the massive hole that has destroyed the Osbourne House. As men and women that escaped the creatures on the Isle, having "coal burns" across their body's the heroes find an odd cocoon that men are trying to move. It seems inside of this volcanic was a guard, trapped and a little worse for ware - but not dead!
:::  As the heroes questioned the guards and arrived on the Isle, they quickly learned these "Magma-Men" were spreading their radius of heated ground. While the massive chasm sits without activity.
:::  Determining descression might be the better part of valor, the team retreats to search for answers, answers they believe will be had by Henry Pym...! 
:  ''TEAM ROSTER'': [http://wiki.rpg.net/index.php/MARSHAL_AMERICA_1888?wikidb_session=403c5bf75167c304ec3ccf876e5b56ea Marshal America], [http://wiki.rpg.net/index.php/THE_WASP_1888?wikidb_session=403c5bf75167c304ec3ccf876e5b56ea the Wasp], [http://wiki.rpg.net/index.php/ARGONAUT_1888?wikidb_session=403c5bf75167c304ec3ccf876e5b56ea Argonaut]  
:  ''ISSUE APPEARANCES'':  Nicholas "the Fury" Dee, the Moleoids creatures, the Magma-Men (stone-apes) 
:  ''ISSUE CAMEOS/MENTIONED'':  Ripper, Queen Victoria, Pym
: '''EXPERIENCE POINTS'''
::: 2 Power Points for this story first issue.
::: 3 Power Points (if each player completes your wiki page entry)
::'''TOTAL CURRENT Level & Experience''':   PL'''8'''; '''125'''pp


See you next time True Believers!

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===issue #2===
:  ''M&M presents:'' <br> '''INVASION FROM THE CENTER OF THE EARTH - Part II: <font color=darkred>''"Small Challenges"''</font>''' <br> ''November 4, 2007''.  <br> ''GM'': KEVIN 
:: '''ISSUE RECAP''':  
::::*  '''Opening Cut-Away Scene''':  the Horrible Case of Bloody Jack - [http://wiki.rpg.net/index.php/The_Horrible_Case_of_Bloody_Jack#issue_.232 Ripper Recap PART II] - these scenes have opened on the scenes of "the Ripper" murders.
:::  Rushing back to London to find Pym in hopes of explanation or aid, the team learns that Pym had formerly been working in Paris with a mechanics group but now has been relocated to work with Starkweather.
:::  Lady Van Dyne telegraphs Starkweather to arrange his aid in finding Pym.  Even though it is late at night when they arrive, the Wasp's allure aids entrance to Starkweather's home.
:::  The team learns that Pym is working on Starkweather's new textile factory machines and has a "laboratory" in Whitechapel.  Starkweather gives the Avengers the apartment address and notes on the location his investigators have learned where Pym frequents a brothel and opium den.
:::  When the Avengers arrive at Pym's apartment they find the entire floor has been seemingly condemned and boarded over.  After some investigation the team learns that Pym has reduced everything (using his "Pym Perfumes") within the apartments to a mini-city so that he can have immense areas for his colonies of insects and his lab work.  
:::  After minor dealings with the Pym Perfumes and insects the team search to find Pym not there.  Lady Van Dyne retires for the evening as Argonaut and the Marshal seek Pym at the opium den...
:::  Pym had struck the ire of the den's owners and now was being beaten by tough ruffins, but Marshal America saves the scientist before breaking his nose himself for his bad behavour.
:::  Pym wakes the next morning in the cells of the Tower of London.  The team interogate him until they're satisfied that he's not directly responsible for the events on the Isle of Wight.  But they learn much from the scientist about the natures and connections of the trenches and mythology and the faerie realms.
:::  To end this issue the group makes plans to assault the Magma-Men, hoping to capture the large rock at the center of the disturbance believing that it is a key to the invasions!
::: [http://www.zefrank.com/sandwich/tool.html Antipode Calculator]  
::: [[Dimensional Pits 1888]]:  a guide to the locations of the holes that began in Issue #1, as determined by Argonaut.
:  ''TEAM ROSTER'': [http://wiki.rpg.net/index.php/MARSHAL_AMERICA_1888?wikidb_session=403c5bf75167c304ec3ccf876e5b56ea Marshal America], [http://wiki.rpg.net/index.php/THE_WASP_1888?wikidb_session=403c5bf75167c304ec3ccf876e5b56ea the Wasp], [http://wiki.rpg.net/index.php/ARGONAUT_1888?wikidb_session=403c5bf75167c304ec3ccf876e5b56ea Argonaut]  
:  ''ISSUE APPEARANCES'':  Henry "Hank" Pym
:  ''ISSUE CAMEOS/MENTIONED'':  Ripper, Anthony Starkweather (and his iron armored bodyguard), Virginia "Pepper" Potts (executive secretary to Starkweather), Edwin Jarvis (butler to Starkweather) 
: '''EXPERIENCE POINTS'''
::'''TOTAL CURRENT Level & Experience''':   PL'''8'''; '''125'''pp


See you next time True Believers!

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===issue #3===
:  ''M&M presents:'' <br> '''INVASION FROM THE CENTER OF THE EARTH - Part III: <font color=darkred>''"Burned"''</font>''' <br> ''November 16, 2007''.  <br> ''GM'': KEVIN 
:: '''ISSUE RECAP''':  
::::*  '''Opening Cut-Away Scene I''':  Leading in to foreshadow upcoming story arcs - [[Avengers 1888 Issue #4 Preview 1]]
::::*  '''Opening Cut-Away Scene II''':  the Horrible Case of Bloody Jack - [http://wiki.rpg.net/index.php/The_Horrible_Case_of_Bloody_Jack#issue_.233 PART III] - these scenes have opened on the scenes of "the Ripper" murders.
:::  The Avengers seal their plans to invade the Isle of Wight, hoping to rush in and steal the stone Mehir, believing that will diminish the effects on/of the Magma-Men.
:::  As night wanes Argonaut toils away into sleepless hours working with his "father" Master Pym to create a Lava-Skiff to be used to approach the magma-laced land around the hole at the former Osbourne House site.
:::  On the morn the team loads cargo onto the [insert name of SHIELD carrier here] and sailed down the Channel toward the Isle of Wight.  
:::  Arriving in the boiling seas two miles out from the Isle, Argonaut gave word (card) and the carrier's cargo-hold opened to the ocean, jettisoning them out to ride the heated waves.
:::  Holding tight and ducking the siring waves the Avengers used the Lava-Skiff's armor to ride up the, now partially melted, white cliff-faces of the Isle.
:::  Quickly approaching the Avengers could see the movement of the "Stone Apes" as they spread their magma menace.
:::  Only quick thinking saves Marshal America when lava melts the steel bottom of the skiff, spashing heat into the passenger flat then suddenly...
:::  The Magma-Men attack, flipping the Lava Skiff into the air!  Marshal America climbs the flipping hulk landing on the bottom-side as it pitches and begins to sink as Argonaut splashes down and begins to sink in the volcanic lake!
:::  Meanwhile the Wasp rushes toward the Mehir stone, blasting Magma-Men as she flies. Then explodes the base of the Mehir into gravel.
:::  The Crown Chief of the Magma-Men watches, ordering his minions to attack as D and Wasp swarm the pit.
:::  But it is Jinku, the Witch Doctor that proves to be the chief threat as pulses of heat radiate from the ground through the legs and hearts of the Magma-Men - she commands them to wrap the flying heroes in their porous molten rock snares!  Marshal America yells out for his teammate as the Wasp's cocoon smashes to the ground, while D summons up his mystics to thwart the Earth from jailing him!  As Jinku raises her trump card, the captured Professor Harver Rupert Elder of Eton, on a gust of heated air!
:::  Seemingly pleading with his king to stop the invasion, Molto, watches as Jinku is brought from the sky - seemingly killed and falling into the pit... He runs and leaps into the black following his Jinku!  As the Professor falls with them.
:::  Elsewhere the land-locked Avengers survive the onslaught of the Magma-Men, as Argonaut "swims" his way back to the skiff just in time to see the magma landscape super-cool with the fall of Jinku the Witch Doctor!
:::  Rushing the pit D swoops in to save the Professor.  Now blinded and slightly mad from his subterranean "hollow earth" experience the Professor calls out for the sake of his peopl... STUDENTS who were still lost somewhere at the beautiful Valley of Diamonds.
:::  Marshal America and Argonaut close quickly as the massive Mehir stone falls and hovers nearly a foot above the ground, hanging on what D sees and the world "ley lines" - interconnected across the land to the other Mehir stones and through the hole to its antipode!  The good Marshal raises his Star-Spangled Saber to slice the malignant artifact in half - when suddenly D yells out ''"HOLD!"''.
:::  With the eldritch heat of Jinku the Witch Doctor fading the Magma-Men cannot bare the surface world and begin to solidify into stone statues of their former selves.  Only the Crown Chief King yet crawls back toward his home.  With his crown breaking from his brow, it is an Avenger that aids him!  Lady Van Dyne, respecting the nobility of the king, helps the hobbled scion into the darkness as the volcanic pit begins to close.
:::  And looking back, Wasp sees she is the only one small enough to enter the collapsing hole to find and save Professor Elder's students as she, without a goodbye, zips into the black....  (to be continued in "The Wasp at the Earth's Core!")
:::  The team has won the day and the world is save, from the evil hands of the Magma-Men, a threat no single man of renown could thwart!  For more see: [http://wiki.rpg.net/index.php/Avengers_1888_Bluebook_3.411 EPILOGUE to Avengers #3]
:  ''TEAM ROSTER'': [http://wiki.rpg.net/index.php/MARSHAL_AMERICA_1888?wikidb_session=403c5bf75167c304ec3ccf876e5b56ea Marshal America], [http://wiki.rpg.net/index.php/THE_WASP_1888?wikidb_session=403c5bf75167c304ec3ccf876e5b56ea the Wasp], [http://wiki.rpg.net/index.php/ARGONAUT_1888?wikidb_session=403c5bf75167c304ec3ccf876e5b56ea Argonaut],  [http://wiki.rpg.net/index.php/DOCTOR_STRANGE_1888 Dr. Estrange]
:  ''ISSUE APPEARANCES'':  Crown Chief King of the Magma-Men, Molto, Jinku the Witch Doctor, Professor Harver Rupert Elder of the King's College of Our Lady of Eton beside Windsor,
:  ''ISSUE CAMEOS/MENTIONED'':  [http://wiki.rpg.net/index.php/SPYDER-MAN_1888 Spyder-Man], Mr. Scorp, Ripper, Sgt. Kasteel   
: '''EXPERIENCE POINTS'''
::: 2 Power Points for this stories climax issue.
::'''TOTAL CURRENT Level & Experience''':   PL'''8'''; '''127'''pp


See you next time True Believers!

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===issue #4===
:  ''M&M presents:'' <br> '''AVENGERS UNDONE - Part I: <font color=darkred>''"No More Time"''</font>''' <br> ''November 30, 2007''.  <br> ''GM'': KEVIN 
:: '''MINI RECAP''':  For a mini-recap on the Atomic Think Tank M&M fan-site, see [http://www.atomicthinktank.com/viewtopic.php?p=431532#431532 HERE].
:: '''ISSUE RECAP''':  
::::*  '''Opening Cut-Away Scene I''':  the Horrible Case of Bloody Jack - [http://wiki.rpg.net/index.php/The_Horrible_Case_of_Bloody_Jack#issue_.234 PART IV] - these scenes have opened on the scenes of "the Ripper" murders.
[[Image:Jack-the-Ripper-The-Nemesis-of-Neglect-Punch-London-Charivari-cartoon-poem-1888-09-29.jpg|thumb|Artist's rendering of the Ripper]]
:::  The Avengers "wake" in darkness.  We open in media res, why are they in the dark?  What has happened before??  -  THAT is not important now!
:::  Seeing the mighty team fall to prey to "the mountain" which has apparently collapsed on them, during the exciting viewing of John Henry's steam-drivin' race beneath a train tunnel outside Tombstone, AZ - the man-legend realizes that he needs to call on a greater power to help free the trapped men and Avengers - hopefully there are survivors!
[[Image:Tombstone.gif|thumb|Tombstone, AZ]]
:::  Beneath the mountain Argonaut strains his cogs and wheels holding a small cavern of air for the dozen or so railworkers.  Spyder-Man strains to aid the metal giant as Dr. Estrange begins to comfort the oriental railworkers in their own language.
:::  In the distance a small pecking can be heard from beyond the collasped tunnel...  could something be coming for them??
:::  Dr. Estrange reaches out asking for his Eldritch forces to aid the heroes in holding the mountain while Argonaut fights to create structures from the ruined tracks to hold the mass.
:::  The distant pecking begins to be accompanied by a lyrical sound... a germanic sound of man... SINGING!!
:::  And with a spinning dodge flip Spydey leaps from the collapsed wall and in the breach stands the Odinson!! 
[[Image:Giza-Map.gif|thumb|Here we see the site of the Egyptian pit and Mehir standing stone. A shadow hangs on the pyramids from far above.]]
[[Image:Sphinx-Pic.gif|thumb|The great Sphinx]]
[[Image:Sphinx-Map.gif|thumb|Focusing on the area that held hidden Rama-Tut's Valley Temple and the Terracotta Warrior tomb.]]
:::  Following the rescue -  the Avengers make arrangements to rush to Egypt, where Commander Dee has telegrammed to make the team aware of a massive cloud formation above the Giza Plateau, where another one of the Birfrost, one of the great pits with the Mehir standing stones.  Another "Gate to The Well of Urdr".  The Avengers realize that this information could be weeks old at this point and Dr. Estrange agrees to delve into dark ritual to attempt to bridge the gap though the  non-Euclidean portal...  
:::  But then the Odinson calls out - THOR HAILS HEIMDALL FOR AID!!  And in an instant the Bifröst (Rainbow Bridge) explodes from the pit...  A massive hoof is heard on the echoed depths.  The Asgardian Charriot of Heimdallr, an Æsir of Norse mythology. Heimdall is the guardian of the gods who will blow the Gjallarhorn if danger approaches Asgard. His senses are so acute that he can hear the grass grow and he can see to the end of the world; he can hear a leaf fall; he also requires no sleep at all. He is moreover the guardian of the Bifröst Bridge - the bridge leading from the realm of mortals, Midgard, to the realm of the gods, Asgard, which the gods travel daily to hold their councils and pass judgments at Urdarbrunn (Well of Urd) under the shade of the tree Yggdrasill. 
::::  Riding the Bifröst is beyond expectations and yet it also calls to the Gods that ride the charriot...  Heimdallr looks into the depths beneath the bridge seeing for the first time in ages the gathering of Trolls, Hydra, and Beasts from Hel...  They are awakened and climb to the gates!  With a mighty leap the Bridge-Watcher leaps into the defense tossing the reins of the goat-driven wagon to the Unknowable Spyder-Man!  (goats: Tanngrisnir and Tanngnjóstr).. the same wagon that scorched the land and cracked  the mountains cracked as Thor traveled in his wagon across the Earth at the dawn of time. 
:::  Watching his friend-brother pull his sword to fly into battle the Odinson nearly leaps into the fray but holds back to stay with his new companions as Spyder-Man pulls the reigns as if he were meant to drive the mighty wagon!  The Odinson has been tasked to protect and watch Midgard and it is with the Avengers that are now his new brothers-battle!!
:::  Exploding from The Well of Urðr, the holy well - the Well Spring,  where the world tree Yggdrasil feeds,  the Avengers see the great desert expanse.  The Great Pyramids of Egypt loom in the foreground at the causeway and above a shadow permeates the land -  massive and dark, covering the monuments.  Scattered around are the fallen.  Many dead, some survivors of the battles that had raged here as the thing from above took down the majority of the British Empire's armed forces standing to protect the land.  
:::  Riddled with strange shell-casings and fire-damage the fallen seem to have been trying to advance on the Great Pyramid, tomb of Rama-Tut,  or perhaps they were holding a defensive line...?
:::  Meanwhile,  Argonaut has been unusually argumentative and resistant to the joining of "new" teammates to the Avengers and the mighty machine seems uncaring as he walks away from the carnage toward the Great Sphinx front-facing.  There the Avengers re-assemble at Dr. Estrange's call...  Something had been found!
:::  Beneath the paws of the monument lay an opening into Rama-Tut's Valley Temple... there in the sand lies a great tomb opening to a host of warrior statues!  These "terracotta soldiers" in the forms of slaves with the heads of raptors and pharoah alike, as well as camels, leapards and great serpents!
:::  Without a thought Thor leaps into the pit to examine the statues.  Urged by Argonaut that the statues are hollow, the mighty godson smashes a large serpent statue and activates a hidden menace!    
:::  As Thor is wrapped in the coil of what he calls "Jörmungandr" (the Midgard Serpent or World Serpen)...  The Avengers spring into action.  With a few blasts of eldritch and mechanical means the heroes learn that any "force" seems to empower and expand these clay-statues!!  Bringing them to life as they grow doubling in size!!
:::  Spyder-Man and Dr. Estrange manuver to aid their new teammate and out of nowhere the marvel machine rattles the warrior statues with a chain of fire from his newly attached gatlin gun -  Argonaut was purposely awakening the beasts!!!  
:::  With some massive strikes Thor learns that nothing can stand the blows of Mjölnir for long - as the Odinson crushes the giant snake.  And so to does the mage, when Dr. Estrange litterally rips the warriors apart with control of the element of earth!!  But all is still not content... As Spyder-Man seeks out the hidden underground path to the causeway bullets riddle about him...  Argonaut is firing on a fellow Avenger!!!!
:::  And with that we end this incredible issue...  Will the Avengers survive this treachery?  What has happened within Argonaut's innards that has caused this definance??  Who is the horn-helmed figure that watches from the Great Pyramid of Rama-Tut in the distance???  
:::  Tune in next time True Believers!
:::  [[Giza Plateau Map Details]]
:  ''TEAM ROSTER'': [http://wiki.rpg.net/index.php/ARGONAUT_1888?wikidb_session=403c5bf75167c304ec3ccf876e5b56ea Argonaut],  [http://wiki.rpg.net/index.php/DOCTOR_STRANGE_1888 Dr. Estrange],  [http://wiki.rpg.net/index.php/SPYDER-MAN_1888 Spyder-Man],   [http://wiki.rpg.net/index.php/THOR_1888 Thor]
:  ''ISSUE APPEARANCES'':  Thor - Odinson,  the Unknowable Spyder-Man,  John Henry the Steel Drivin' Man,  the Terracotta Warriors
:  ''ISSUE CAMEOS/MENTIONED'':  Mr. Scorp, Whiplash, the Ripper, Tombstone's Railbaron, several of Henry's rail-workin' troupe,  a mysterious figure on the Pyramids
: '''EXPERIENCE POINTS'''
:::  0 Power Points for this issue.
::'''TOTAL CURRENT Level & Experience''':   PL'''8'''; '''127'''pp


See you next time True Believers!

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==No Single Foe - the AVENGERS 1888==
===issue #1===
:  ''M&M presents:'' <font color=darkred>'''''"Sound of Silence"'''''</font>''' <br> ''December 7, 2007''.  <br> ''GM'': KEVIN 
:: '''ISSUE RECAP''':  
::::*  '''Opening Cut-Away Scene I''':  A cranking and rotating handle twists along the outer side of a new-fangled contraption known to the mechanical savy as a "gramaphone"...  As it cracks and crackles the wooden and metal box begins to speak!!  [[Image:EdisonPhonograph.jpg|thumb|"I am Phonograph!"]]
::::::  <font color=darkred>'''''I am phonograph''', created by the great wizard of the new world to delight those that would have melody or be amused.  I can sing you tender songs of love.  I can give you merry tales of joy and laughter.  I can transport you to the realms of music.  I can cause you to join in the rythmic dance.  I can lull the babe to sleep in full or waken in the youth of heart soft memories of youthful days.  No matter what you mood I am always there to entertain you.  When your days work is done I can bring the theatre or the opera to your home.  I can give you grand opera, comic opera, or vaudeville.  I can give you sacred or popular music, dance, orchestra or instrumental music.  I can render solos, duets, trios, quartets.  I can aid in entertaining your guests.  When your wife is worried after the cares of the day and the children are boisterous - I can rest to the one and quiet the other.  I never get tired and you will never tire of me for I always have something new to offer.  I give pleasure to all young and old.  I will go wherever you want me, in the parlor, in the sleep room, on the porch, in the parlor  or in your summer home.  If you sing or talk to me I will regale your song or words and repeat them to you at your pleasure.  I can enable you to always hear your loved ones even though they are far away...  I talk in every language, I can help you to learn other languages.  I am made with the highest degree of mechanical skill.  My voice is the clearest, smoothest and most natural of any talking machine.  The more you become acquainted with me the better you will like me.''</font>
::::*  '''Opening Cut-Away Scene II''':   As the sly man plots his devious ways, the scene fades and shifts.  We find ourselves back in London-town.  A beautiful oaken and leathered den-like office.  The bustle of street sounds echo up from several floors below at street-level, the smell of brandy and cigar permeate the room.  The solid door of the office shutters with a knocking.  Stepping out of a corner shadow in the room the sly man from Asgard walks, with each step his form shifts to an older gentleman.  And on the outer door the massive fist of the knocking man crosses over the name-plate...  '''''"J. Moriarty - Owner Daily Trumpet"'''''.  <br> The mountain sized man, stands some six feet seven inches from the floor - his hand completely encompassing Moriarty's when they shake.  Soon the scene shifts again as the men walk along the docks.  A deed must be done to prepare '''Mr. Garthwaite''' (Dirk) and his roughians for their place in the plots to come...  As Garthwaite introduces his men ('''Henry Camp''' and '''Brian Philip Calusky)''' to their secret benefactor, the older man scrounges a massive crowbar from the East Indian Docks - THIS would be their item to call on the power of '''LOKI'''... 
::::*  '''Opening Cut-Away Scene III''':  Cut-Scene to a crack of thunder as we look up in awe at the god standing on his mountain.  The one-eyed leader of the Asgardians speaks down to his son.  '''Thor, Odinson''' lacks humility.  A lesson must be served.  Kneeling before his father the Thunder God agrees to look over Midgard from this moment on....  In the distance looking across this scene with glee is another, a figure in the dark.  Hidden in shadow.  Toiling his hands over one another, the master of machiavellian manipulations imagines what this "punishment" will allow for him.  Down with his blasted half-brother.  Thor and those that walk with him will be humiliated before their utter destruction!!
:::  The scene is set within the Tower of London,  Marshal America searches the castle for his teammate and friend Argonaut.  The metal Avenger sits quietly calculating the next move on the board of Chess played by he and his longtime opponent '''Dr. Henry McCoy'''.  Soon as Marshal America fills the mechanical hero in on a new mission, from above a sneak-thief drops in on the Avengers!  <br>  The '''Bush Ranger''', with his amazing skills of accuracy and percision litterally drops from the skylite of the Tower.  Surprised and on alert the Avenger duo move to stop the threat - but with quick wit and quicker reflexes '''Mr. Clint Barton''' slows their attack and introduces himself.  "The Fury" has asked for his aid in a matter of state...  <br>  The mission is to be a simple one, the Avengers are to escort one '''Mr. Ronald Pershing''' into the heart of darkness amid the African continent.  On their way to the country of Wakanda, they would protect Lord Gyrich's friend and find their way to the African Mehir Standing Stone following the escort.  <br>  The Avengers' tread the waters down the coasts toward "'''Freetown'''" [[Image:Freetown.gif|thumb]].  Along their way both Marshal America and the Bush Ranger find that playing in the free-time sport of rugby with Pershing's three hirelings from the docks (Garthwaite, Camp and Calusky) is as treacherous as it is entertaining...  Meanwhile, Pershing himself begins to feel sympathy for the poor soundless Avenger Argonaut.  It is with a new material called "Vibranium" that Pershing will give a voice to the mute hero, he swears it!   But on their arrival it is from this British Empirial port, in Freetown, that will be the guide point for their expedition into the interior of darkest Africa.  After several days of planning and preparing the Avengers arrange a guide group delivered them by Freetown's '''Governor Amahl Farouk'''.  Meanwhile, Argonaut spies the near-do-well of Colonel Pershing's trio making a purchase of their own...  A massive African on par with the crew's size and strength - his African name is Mutumbo, but Dirk renames him with an English proper name after his mum's father and his own poppa.  They call the iron-ball-chained man '''"Eliot Franklin"'''.  <br>  Days later as the team makes their way into the depths of the jungles, the team slowly learns that men seem to be going missing.  And not long after sounds begin to eminate from the jungles.  Sounds of the giant cats of the jungles, deadly beasts of hate the native fear!  But it is with wit and guile that the Avengers soon learn that something is amiss.  Colonel Pershing and his men seem to be leading the Avengers off at the exact times during which their guide men go missing.  The camp narrows from 40 men to 30, then to 25 within days.  But their is a new member as well,  a beautiful native girl with the most crystal of eyes and pure white hair -  she seems to be Pershing's... slave!!  <br>  And then the great cat attacks the camp.  The Avengers spring into action, confused as the growling beast tromps around the camp seemingly invisible!!  But it is Argonaut that sees through this deception.  Pershing cranks his gramophone fooling the Avengers as he and his men deal out the camp slaves to the native tribes of the region for information on how to locate (and steal!!)  the precious Vibranium!!  But before the Avengers can foil Pershing's plans his crew returns to defend the master of sound...  Swinging the massive iron bar at the Vibranium rock Argonaut had stripped from Pershing, Garthwaite - finds the power his benefactor noted.  Thus is the dawn of the '''WRECKING CREW'''!!!  <br>  But this is not their day.  This is the Avenger's duty.  And soon thwarted Pershing himself, maddened by the destruction of his life's work (the gramophone) at the hands of Marshal America's Star Spangled Saber -  the man formerly known as "Colonel Ulysses Klaue" during the war, jumps to his death into his masterwork contraption of sound and sonics.  But he does not die!!  He becomes something ... other!!  And with a massive sound-wave blast all the heroes, villains and native alike fail unconcious.  As the madman known as Pershing or Klaue proclaims...  '''"I AM PHONOGRAPH"''' and disappears with a thunderous sonic-boom!
::::*  '''Epliogue''':  The Avengers regroup and contain the newly empowered Wrecking Crew.  Confiscating Garthwaite's iron bar, they make their way on into the Wakanda province.  Meeting with T'Chaka the chief of the Panther Tribe of the African nation of Wakanda, the Avengers request a prison of Vibranium be built to house these Imperial prisoners until proper facilities can be built nearer London.  Happy that their albino African princess has been delivered to them  (Ororo) the Panthers agree, aiding the team to collect the Mehir Standing Stone and begin their journey home.  Collecting Phonograph's "gramophon cylender claw" of Vibrainum as yet another trophy in the Avenger's case!
:::  Tune in next time True Believers!
:  ''TEAM ROSTER'':  [http://wiki.rpg.net/index.php/MARSHAL_AMERICA_1888?wikidb_session=403c5bf75167c304ec3ccf876e5b56ea Marshal America], [http://wiki.rpg.net/index.php/ARGONAUT_1888?wikidb_session=403c5bf75167c304ec3ccf876e5b56ea Argonaut],  [http://wiki.rpg.net/index.php/BUSH_RANGER_1888 Bush Ranger]
:  ''ISSUE APPEARANCES'':  Mr. Ronald Pershing (aka. Colonel Ulysses Klaue, aka. '''Phonograph'''),  the Wrecking Crew ('''the Wrecker''' / Dirk Garthwaite, '''Bull-Smasher''' / Henry Camp, '''Pilecrusher''' / Brian Philip Calusky, '''Thunderball''' / Dr. Eliot Franklin).
:  ''ISSUE CAMEOS/MENTIONED'':  Loki/Moriarty, Thor, Odin, Ororo, T'Chaka
: '''EXPERIENCE POINTS'''
:::  0 Power Points for this issue.
::'''TOTAL CURRENT Level & Experience''':   PL'''8'''; '''127'''pp


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==Age of Wonders - the AVENGERS 1888==
===issue #5===
:  ''M&M presents:'' <br> '''AVENGERS UNDONE - Part II: <font color=darkred>''"Time to DIE Avengers"''</font>''' <br> ''December 14, 2007''.  <br> ''GM'': KEVIN 
:: '''ISSUE PREVIEW'':  
:::   ''...our faithful readers have already seen the unveiling of the Odinson's step-brother in the shadowy peak of the Great Pyramid of Rama-Tut!  In issue #5 we will see the true power at the cause of the great strife that has brought the British Empire's Egyptian protectorate to its knees...  In this issue we meet this would be conqueror and learn his dreadful plans!! '' 
::: '' Issue #5 - AVENGERS UNDONE - Part II: "Time to DIE Avengers!"'' 
:::  ''Goes on-sale tomorrow, Friday - December 14th at 5:30pm!''
:::   ''Stand straight & stay tuned TRUE BELIEVERS!!''
:: '''ISSUE RECAP''':  
:::  Escaping the massive hands of the  [[Avengers 1888 Egyptian Terracotta Growing Warriors|Egyptian Terracotta Growing Warriors]] from beneath the Great Sphinx, the Avengers follow the Unknowable Spyder-Man who has found an ancient vault doorway leading beneath a secret Causeway tunnel toward the Great Pyramid of [[Avengers 1888 KANG the Conqueror|Rama-Tut]].  Spyder-Man, having heard the calls of fellow teammate Marshal America, finds a strange mettle box, roughly the size of a small loaf of bread, hidden in the cracked recesses of the tunnel tomb -  it seems to be echoing the voice of the Marshal, much like the crackling of the strange gramaphone devices of [[Avengers 1888 Mr. Ronald Pershing (aka. Colonel Ulysses Klaue, aka. Phonograph)|Mr. Ronald Pershing (aka. Colonel Ulysses Klaue, aka. Phonograph)]], yet this black mettle box had no such hardware...
:::  As Spyder-Man continued his discoveries the other Avengers made there way into the Causeway Tunnel, bypassing the trapped device newly placed on the ancient tomb vault door - a device that seemed to radiate an electrical charge (after being broken by the Spyder-Man's arachnid powered punch)...  Transporting dimensionally Dr. Estrange brings the others beyond the door as they investigate and dismantle the strange blinking candle lamp attached to the backside of the door with a gray puddy.  
::::: '' ['''Editor's note''':  In reality what our Victorian Era Avenger friends could not possibly know is that these items are to be the first of the technology for which the time-travelling madman - Kang the Conqueror will use to destroy the team.  The former "device" for which Marshal America's voice emitted from - a World War II era [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-way_radio Walkie Talkie], the latter puddy and mettle box with blinking lamp - a good quantity of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plastic_explosive plastic explosives] attached to its detonator timer!!]''
:::  Finding their way to the massive pit created weeks ago, the Avengers find a newly constructed rope bridge crossing the chasm.  Seeing that Argonaut's weight would not be supported, Dr. Estrange conjures an air cushioning spell to hold the Mettle-Avenger's weight aided by Spyder-Man's reinforcing of the bridge with his webbing...  Making there way deeper beneath the Great Pyramid Spyder-Man spies strange symbols on the walls of the tunnel - symbols that Argonaut decipher as ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs - markings that tell a story not yet made!  One in which the Avengers would fight for their lives against strange men, one wielding a massive blade, the other throwing lightning and a lizard thunder beast that prophesied swallowing Spyder-Man whole!! The one that would shortly follow!!!   
:::  Into the main tomb chamber - the Avengers see the lavish interiors left generations ago for the ruler of this land... Rama-Tut the Undying!  Gold, gems, artifacts of ancient make filled the room.  But so to did the voice of their teammate Marshal America!  Emanating from the sarcophagus of Rama-Tut, the team quickly uncovers Captain Rodgers who has amazingly been transported from the Americas (when last they saw him) trapped inside this tomb?!?!!  <br>Meanwhile John Henry, listening to the voices in the either agree to the Odinson's demands and slips his way inside the sarcophagus tomb... disappearing ... for now...  <br>  But for his fellow Avengers, soon this deathtrap would be unveiled - as Marshal America catapulted for the door triggering the trap ...
::::: '' ['''Editor's note''':  How could the Avengers have known that Marshal America suffered the same fate as the previously controlled Argonaut?  One in which the Either Phantom would betray them!!]''
:::  ... as the tomb door began to collapse the voice of a dictator projected from the corner of the tomb - the device uncovered by Dr. Estrange was large as a desk top, flat and erect.  Made of black mettle and shiny wood-like material.  It began to speak!!  And the image of Kang projected onto its surface!! and delivers his speach.
::::  Master of time, Ruler of the mystic realm of limbo, where things never change.  <br> '''''"Put away your childish weapons. They are no more than toys to me!  <br>  I will not communicate with underlings!  Send me the rulers of your primitive world so that I, Rama-Tut, can tell them my demands!  <br><br>  No need for such unseemily speed! <br> Time means nothing to Rama-Tut the Ruler!!  <br> <br> My business? Conquest of course, I claim this planet, this era and all its land areas as my domain. >br> As for you 'Avengers', I shall demonstrate how powerless you are against the immortal pharoah!  At a mere touch of a button I shall render you helpless. <br> <br> It is hopeless to defy me... My name may sound strange because it is not of your century - it is from the future!  The machine I travel came from the year 4000, the 40th century is barbaric savages with men constantly at war, fighting with weapons so scientifically advanced that they cannot even understand theri composition.  It was a simple matter for me to muster the barbarian warriors to my side, to make them my serfs!  Within weeks I had carved out an empire for myself. But it was a hollow one!  For I was merely ruler of a dying world.  So possessing the greatest scientific knowledges of all time... armed with the weapons against which you have no defense... I proclaim myself KANG the first, ruler of the 19th century.  <br> <br> True I have removed myself to Limbo!  But by the powers at my command I shall send another to battle in my sted... For I have all the warriors of the ages to choose from!"''''' <br>  A boom not unlike the crack of thunder breaks the looping speach and in the back of the tomb three portals show shadows stepping forth!! 
[[Image:Img_13362_samsung_42_plas_01.jpg|thumb]]
::::: '' ['''Editor's note''':  Yet again - the future invades the 19th century as this gizmo of unknown nature speaks.  The device - a 42" [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasma_tv plasma television display] screen, powered by a remote battery unit hidden in the corner of the tomb.  These same units would be delivered to the rulers of the various countries across the world as we speak, beginning the demands of the Conqueror!!]''
:::  Tune in next time True Believers!
:  ''TEAM ROSTER'':  [http://wiki.rpg.net/index.php/MARSHAL_AMERICA_1888?wikidb_session=403c5bf75167c304ec3ccf876e5b56ea Marshal America], [http://wiki.rpg.net/index.php/ARGONAUT_1888?wikidb_session=403c5bf75167c304ec3ccf876e5b56ea Argonaut],  [http://wiki.rpg.net/index.php/DOCTOR_STRANGE_1888 Dr. Estrange],  [http://wiki.rpg.net/index.php/SPYDER-MAN_1888 Spyder-Man],   [http://wiki.rpg.net/index.php/THOR_1888 Thor]
:  ''ISSUE APPEARANCES'':  KANG the Conqueror (via recorded screen)
:  ''ISSUE CAMEOS/MENTIONED'':  Merlin the Magician, Atilla the Hun, T-Rex
::'''TOTAL CURRENT Level & Experience''':   PL'''8'''; '''128'''pp


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==Age of Wonders - the AVENGERS 1888==
===issue #6===
[[Image:Scimitar.jpg.rZd.42232.jpg|thumb]] 
[[Image:Attila the hun.jpg|frame|Attila the Hun]]
[[Image:Merlin.jpg|thumb|Merlin the Magician, [http://wiki.rpg.net/images/a/a6/John_Howe_-_Gandalf_the_Grey.jpg Merlin]]] 
[[Image:Dino-tyrannosaurus rex.gif|thumb|the Tyrannosaurus Rex]]
[[Image:Tour Eiffel 1878.jpg|thumb|the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eiffel_tower Eiffel Tower], Paris, France, under constuction]]
:  ''M&M presents:'' <br> '''AVENGERS UNDONE - Part III: <font color=darkred>''"Curieous"''</font>''' <br> ''January 11, 2008''.  <br> ''GM'': KEVIN 
:::  With their new teammate Thor disappearing into the sarcophagus tomb, the Avengers face Kang the Conqueror's deathtrap!  As Marshal America (secretly the mascarading Either Phantom - Phantos) vaults over the heroes activating the tomb collapse, noctious green gases begin to spill into the tomb from the four corners.  And at the tomb's throne head three lightning portals crash open!  Stepping forth from beyond space and time foes called to destroy the Avengers appear from shadow:
:::*  on the right a scruffy massive barbarian with thick black hair and long mustache in black leathers and wolf furs wielding a giant sword called a falchion - this man:  '''Attila the Hun'''!! 
:::*  on the left an elderly sage appears, at first confused the robe-clad man looks about and draws the fabled sword "Caliburn" - this man:  '''Merlin the Magician''' 
:::*  from the center a massive beast looking as a dragon to the mage and warrior at its sides, this thunder beast scrapes its head on the tomb ceiling as it lumbers through, roaring as a dozen grizzley bears and lions combined  - this creature a:  '''Tyrannosaurus Rex'''
:::  The Avengers size up there opponents as Spyder-Man feels the tingle of this danger, spying Marshal America trying to escape.  Leaping to action the Avengers engage the time-displaced enemies as the Either Phantom falls to the ground missing his escape opportunity, shunting the good Marshal into the tomb free from the dimension of Limbo where he was trapped.  
:::  Merlin steps forth at the call of Dr. Estrange - speaking in Latin for diplomacy with the elder mage...  But that is not enough, this realm... ANY realm is the domain of Merlin and this fledgling sorceror would kneel the the feet of the master magus as he blasts bolts of lightning into the fray, commanding the "dragon" to attach the allies of this wizard.  
::::: '' ['''Editor's note''':  Merlin could not know that this thunder beast was in fact NOT a dragon of old, and was only looking for food.  Luckily it followed its nose and turned to seek out the Sypder-Man insted of the mage himself!!]''
:::  Meanwhile Attila spots an enemy and rushes forth sparking flashes of metal deflecting fire as Marshal America fires his Colt .45 at the barbarian.  And with a mighty roar the thunder lizard rushes to feast on a Spyder!!
:::  Seeing that his magics are not yet enough to master the arch-mage Dr. Estrange counters Merlin's transmorgriphying spell with his own eldritch bolt, barely escaping becoming a toad forever!  Swords clash as Marshal America and the Hun crash together.  Argonaut dodges the advancing possessing hand of the Either Phantom at the base of the tomb entrance, as the T-Rex pushes the Spyder-Man into the ceiling corner of the room, Dr. Estrange bellows out to change targets - as he realizes their current foes may overpower the individual Avenger!
:::  With this team plan, soon the mighty mage himself stumbles and falls into the increasing gas clouds - disappearing beyond.  Meanwhile Argonaut makes quick work of the impish Phantus, knocking the villain out cold collapsing his metal frame on the being from Limbo.  Evading the hungry beast's multiple strikes Spyder-Man catapulted from the corner ceiling through the mouth of the beast drawing its attention in the direction of Merlin as Marshal America rushed to aid the web-slinger.  As Dr. Estrange hovered near the ceiling avoiding the dangerous gases ...
::::: '' ['''Editor's note''':  these gases that the Avengers could not possibly know to be noctious riot control gases - [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tear_gas Tear Gas]!!]''
:::  ... Attila spying the wizard, leaped up ancient artifacts climbing higher and higher to draw down on the 19th Century Sorceror Supreme!  With Merlin seemingly fallen soon too would the rest.  With no less than two mighty swinging double-kicks to the massively fanged beast's face, Spyder-Man falls the thing, crushing down on the unconcious magi beneath!  Attila would be the last foe standing, as the combined might of the Avengers showed the elder warrior who rules the ways of combat in this century.  Escaping this deathtrap, in the end the Avengers stand in victory alone!!  '''''"'Tis the stuff of Legend!!"'''''
:::  In Epilogue:  the Avengers collect the trophies  (Merlin's hat, Attila's falchion, and the full carcus of the T-Rex)  as the historic figures fade away unconcious to their own times.  Leaving the tomb the Avengers plan to send a team of Her Majesty's archeologists to uncover the ruins here, a dept to the Empire for sure as these hundreds of priceless artifacts are brought forth.  Following the temple tomb path upward our heroes see the massive cloud is gone but not before finding a secret space within another chamber...  This chamber opened to a lavish room ...  
::::: '' ['''Editor's note''':  One that faithful readers will recognise from opening scenes past!!  Described in detail here [[Avengers 1888 Issue]] (sans occupants of course)]''
:::  ... Within this "futuristic" room filled, much like a London aristocrat's den, sits a wealth of planning materials.  Not the least of which shows a structure for which the Spyder-Man gasps.....  '''''"Gustave Eiffel's tower... Kang is going to Paris!"'''''  
:::  Tune in next time True Believers!
:  ''TEAM ROSTER'':  [http://wiki.rpg.net/index.php/MARSHAL_AMERICA_1888?wikidb_session=403c5bf75167c304ec3ccf876e5b56ea Marshal America], [http://wiki.rpg.net/index.php/ARGONAUT_1888?wikidb_session=403c5bf75167c304ec3ccf876e5b56ea Argonaut],  [http://wiki.rpg.net/index.php/DOCTOR_STRANGE_1888 Dr. Estrange],  [http://wiki.rpg.net/index.php/SPYDER-MAN_1888 Spyder-Man],   
:  ''ISSUE APPEARANCES'':  Phantus "the Either Phantum",  Merlin the Magician,  Attila the Hun,  a T-Rex.
:  ''ISSUE CAMEOS/MENTIONED'':   Kang the Conqueror (aka. Rama-Tut the Undying),  Dr. Marie Curie, Dr. Chen Lu
::'''TOTAL CURRENT Level & Experience''':   PL'''8'''; '''129'''pp


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==Age of Wonders - the AVENGERS 1888==
===issue #7===
:  ''M&M presents:'' <br> '''AVENGERS UNDONE - Part VI: <font color=darkred>''" ??? "''</font>''' <br> ''February 1, 2008''.  <br> ''GM'': KEVIN 


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