Shadow Heroes

This metaplot deals with real life superheroes and super villains in Seattle. Runs involving the Shadow Heroes meta plot are simple to create, just anything specifically involving superheroes or supervillains qualifies. However, there are a few established groups within the plot already involved.

Factions Involved

KSAF

• Carly Reeves is not directly involved in the events, but is invested in getting the scoop and reporting on the events of the metaplot.

City Watch

• The City Watch are an organized group of real life Super Heroes. While technically independent, they are backed by Horizon in exchange for exclusive broadcasting rights of their heroics. The members are required to wear SimSense Recorders, cameras, and are expected to allow camera drones to follow them and record their heroics. They are also expected on occasion to take part in thwarting staged crimes for the show Superheroes of Seattle, of which the City Watch are the biggest stars.

Goals

• Use their abilities and sense of justice and decency to protect the innocent in any way possible.
• Assist and cooperate with local authorities, stay out of their way but assist in areas where the authorities do not have the resources to address the issue.
• Bring down the Neo Assembly

NPCs

Name	Archtype	Description
Bold	Augmented BioSam	Bold is the leader of the City Watch. A fit human, augmented with unknown bioware. He is an expert in both Unarmed combat, as well as with various types of Firearms. He always uses non-lethal methods against metahumans, and frowns upon lethal combat.
Screamer	Aspected Summoner (Shaman)	Screamer is a summoner, who provides most of her support in the form of spirits. She is an Elf Shaman who has the channeling metamagic, and may channel spirits if pushed into a direct fight that appears to be especially difficult. She is trained in various types of firearms, and only fights with non-lethal options against metahumans.
Jammer	Rigger	Jammer is a human Rigger who shows signs of an old injury. While he is also skilled in various types of firearms, due to his injury he stays behind and provides support while jumped into his drones. He is a hardware specialist, and a highly skilled rigger. Like other members of the City Watch, he only uses non-lethal options against metahumans.

Neo Assembly

• The Neo Assembly traces its roots back to NeoNet buying their custody contracts off of Lone Star. NeoNet then performed experiments on them, installing highly specialized prototype cyberware, bioware, generic augmentations, and nanoware. They were to be used as expendable test subjects to create a proof of concept for the next generation of super soldiers for NeoNet's Elite HTR teams. It is unclear if any of them suffered from CFD, but the experimentation alone caused them all to snap in a way. The fall of NeoNet left them abandoned, and they have finally broken out of their building and have begun a crime spree.

• The Neo Assembly serve as the primary antagonists in this metaplot. They are basically the Fearsome Four, the Legion of Doom, the Injustice League. Their exact numbers are not known, and it is highly encouraged to create new, gimmicky villain concepts.

Goals

• Revenge against a society that allowed them to suffer their fate.
• Increase their numbers.
• Take down the City Watch.

NPCs

Name	Archtype	Status	Description
System Crash	Decker	Captured Held in Watchouse Containment	System Crash is a corpulent human who is a skilled hacker. He has a cyberdeck implanted in such a way that its removal would kill him. NeoNet was attempting to create a way to allow a mundane decker to at least mimic some of the abilities of a technomancer, but these experiments were largely a failure. Still, he does appear to have extraordinary abilities on the matrix.
Agent Orange	Poisoner FBR Street Sam	Captured Held in Watchouse Containment	Agent Orange is a man who was originally convicted for attempting to lace the Seattle water supply with a deadly toxin. His obsession with poisons has become fanatical, and he exclusively uses them in combat. Gas guns, Dart guns, Gas Grenades, if it can deliver a toxin he is using it. His battle suit is an armored Orange hazmat suit, and his cyberlimbs are rigged to dispense toxins in various forms with implanted weapons. Even when exposed, he appears often unaffected by his own toxins, suggesting either some kind of immunity, or additional cyber to filter the toxins from his own system.
Skullboy	Necro Mage	Captured Held in Watchouse Containment	Loyal Butler to Alice Patterson "Hellraiser." Johnathan Kilroy grew up side by side with Alice as a butler to the Patterson Estate. Having an affinity for magic also Alice taught him Necro magic along side herself. He only knows loyalty to her and will gladly follow her into the abyss (MAG 8)
Hellraiser	Necro Mage	Captured Held in Watchouse Containment	Hellraiser "Alice Patterson" ex debutante to the Patterson estate, After witnessing the death of her parents and leaving her cripple at a young age she became obsessed with the study of resurrection and necro magic. Believing one day she may bring her parents back to her. Her sense of reality became twisted to the point where she believes that true life is what comes after and the necro spirits help guide those there. (MAG 10)

Runs

Name	GM	Date	Runners
The Incredible Behemoth Volume 1	Aurora	26 March 2082	Paragon Canis Nogitsune Rhicter Six of Hearts
Streetwise Hercules	Sarcarian	10 December 2081	CAPTAIN FREEFALL Nogitsune King Beef Sp4rks
It Is Wednesday My Dudes	Atlatl	17 June 2081	Trash Panda CAPTAIN FREEFALL Hybrid Moth
My Hero	Teksura	13 May 2081	Captain Boomerang John Brown
All In A Daze Work	mudge	12 April 2081	Good Boy Gh0st Mendacius Tobias
It's A Gas	Teksura	4 April 2081	Yata Itztli Moth La Rapide
Calling All Heroes! Hellraiser	DocMcGuffin	4 March 2081	Trash Panda Kani Granuaile Esper Rasputin
CALLING ALL HEROES: The Horror Before Christmas	DocMcGuffin	23 December 2080	Trash Panda Frag Face CAPTAIN FREEFALL Spider Crusader
FOR JUSTICE	Teksura	8 December 2080	Eyes Mynx CAPTAIN FREEFALL

News

Name	Date
Gas Leak Leads to Robbery at Tacoma Mall	30 March 2081