CHAMPIONS FROM THE B-MAN

Introduction:

That's right! It's time for another installment of "Champions from the B-Man"! Castle Security Inc. (CSI) is intended for use with Champions and can be an adversary or ally of the heroes, depending on how they react to each other.

Although it would be unusual, a good campaign could be developed by players creating former supervillains that could be recruited into Castle Security Inc.

If there's any segment of the populous more psychologically interesting to play than heroes, it would have to be ex-villains. Torn between old habits and trying to make a new life on the right side of the law, these folks have some unique problems. The entire text is (c) Brannon Boren, except Citadel, Ultraviolet and Pile Driver, who are (c) Hero Games.

Champions Organization Information Sheet

Organization Name: CASTLE SECURITY INC. (CSI)
Founder: Citadel, aka Robin Farnol
Current Leader: Citadel
Current Members: Ultraviolet, Piledriver
Base of Operations: Los Angeles, CA.
Scope of Operations: Primarily Southern California, but they'll accept a job anywhere if transport is paid for.
Purpose of Organization: To provide security services to clients that wish to have "superhuman" retainers. Also available as investigators, but at a higher fee.
Financial Assets: A growing company but still short of liquid capital. Offices downtown.
Other Assets: A large plot of unused rural land in Orange County, used for training.

Background and Personnel:

Castle Security Inc (CSI) was founded by former supervillain Citadel. After getting out of Stronghold, he finally realized what a mess his ego had made of his life and decided to go straight. He wanted to get back into the law enforcement game, but didn't want to associate with the hero crowd (who wanted nothing to do with a former villain anyway). He hit on the concept for CSI and found two other former villains who wanted to join him in "turning over a new leaf".

Ultraviolet: Martha Bradshaw was only in the supervillain game because of a bad decision on the part of her late boyfriend. She finally realized that she only has enough power to get into trouble, not to get out of it. She also figured that she might not get off so lightly next time she was captured (seeing how they threw the book at the rest of the group, especially Orb). Of course the fact that Robin Farnol is sooooo cute has nothing to do with her decision to go straight.

Piledriver: Rich Donalson never really wanted to be a bad guy in the first place. The accident and subsequent surgery at the hands of VIPER that had given him his trademark "piledriver" was completely involuntary. Citadel convinced him that he could make an honest living on the outside, and Piledriver agreed to join Castle Security on his release from Stronghold.

It might seem that a group consisting of ex-cons might not get far in the Security field, but Robin has worked it to his advantage. Their angle is "We can deal with supervillain threats better than anyone, because we've been there. If someone tells you they know how super- criminals think, ask 'em what it's like inside Stronghold. I've seen it like a native. Nobody knows supervillains like we do. Nobody."

The group is fairly unpopular with the supervillain crowd, who consider them to be "traitors". Of course they can't really count on help from the superhero segment either (who's gonna trust a group of former supervillains?). This isolation has forced the three of them to depend on each other to a greater degree than any of them want. The three of them are the closest thing to friends that they've got.

Well that's CSI. Hope that this organization finds a home in your game. As always I'd love to hear some feedback, so drop me your opinions at (brannonb@blarg.net)

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