M&M.EmeraldCityHeroes

M&M Presents - Emerald City Adventure!

Welcome to the Wiki for our RPG.Net Play-By-Post game of Mutants & Masterminds 3rd ed. the Heroes of Emerald City.

The HEROES

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Welcome to Emerald City

WELCOME TO EMERALD CITY, Storm City, the City of Destiny, City on the Red and White Rivers, City of the Three Hills... a city in flux. Emerald City is a thriving Pacific Northwest metropolis, a port city known as a home to hardy pioneers for well over a century and a half. The people of E.C. need their pioneer spirit, too, since the city has also become the focus of world-changing events.

It has been almost one year since the Silver Storm Event -- an explosion on the city's famous Yellow Brick Row shopping district/farmers market. The explosion killed and injurdd hundreds of people but it also resulted in hundreds more gaining metahuman powers. The goernment determined that the Storm was somekind of alien experiment that released tiny nanabits into the air that altered the genetic make up of humans; changing many in strange ways and giving their targets metahuman powers! Some where driven mad by their body's mutations while others turned to crime as they felt it was there due or that they were owned. A few have tried to help but most seem to want to keep their heads down and return to their old lives.

Now the City is in need of heroes like never before. Villains and secret societies have sprun up like weeds throughout the city.

Emerald City At A Glance

Emerald City is centered on the sheltered inner peninsula jutting into the Albian River, with access to Malory Bay and the islands, built upon three main hills, modest in size compared to the mountainous terrain in the surrounding area, but still fairly steep. The city has since spread across the inlet to the western or outer peninsula and along the south of the riverbank eastward as well as pushing south towards the mountains.

The downtown area of the city is towards the waterfront, the early center of Emerald City’s livelihood and activity. Royal Hill, the northernmost of the city’s three main hills, lives up to its name with some of the most expensive real estate in E.C.. To the south rise University Hill, home of Emerald City University (ECU), and Sunset Hill, bordering the Red River. As the hills level out into a broad valley, the neighborhoods give way to the Eastern District and Lakeside, curving around Lake Vallee.

Neighborhood and Districts

Downtown Core: Emerald City’s downtown area runs from the riverfront and slopes up and around Royal Hill. A main highway runs along the waterfront, connecting up with the two main bridges, crossing the Albian and Red Rivers to the north and west, running along the Albian River towards the east.

The Riverfront is still quite active as a port; much of the shipping has shifted eastward along the river and westward towards the outer peninsula, leaving much of the downtown waterfront area to piers dedicated to shopping, pleasure craft, and tourism. Rumors abound that smugglers still ply their trade in some parts of the Riverfront.

Emerald City’s most famous shopping area; it is paved in yellow-painted brick, forming a large pedestrian mall along the north-facing slope of Royal Hill. Yellow Brick Row is also the site of the infamous Silver Storm, which transformed Emerald City—along with a number of its residents.

Crown Heights: The summit of Royal Hill is known as the Crown Heights neighborhood, expensive real estate commanding a good view of Emerald City (although not quite so good as it was before the soaring towers of the downtown area were built). The Crown Tower hotel, a local landmark, is found in Crown Heights, along with some highclass condos.

The Undercity: Emerald City suffered early flooding problems, which led to the city administration literally covering over and building on top of the old central part of the city in the lowlands. This created an “Undercity” where buildings and even streets from the 1800s are preserved beneath the current downtown area. The Undercity is connected to various tunnels and underground structures now inhabited and used by “underdwellers” like Pack-Rat and his gang, Fomorians, Morlocks, and, via deeper connections, even to the denizens of Sub-Terra.

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