Pacific City Chronicles

Fort Rogers After the Rose Hill massacre, the ne colonists wanted protection. Fort Rogers was the answer, and it stood on this rise of land for many decades until age forced it to close and be torn down. Some parts are preserved in a museum in the area. The area has a decidedly Bohemian quality to it, and is sometimes referred to as 'Little Berkeley'. The city's gay quarter along the south beach bleeds into a thriving artistic community that has several galleries, both public and private, small niche museums (The Museum of Masks has everything you ever wanted to know about various masks that heroes have worn, along with souvineers and a gift shop), homey Mom-and-Pop eateries and bakeries, and the first clock tower in the city. As it flows north and west, it shades into student housing, cheap fast food and various other University-oriented commerce. 'Chinatown' With the largest Asian community in the US outside of San Francisco, Pacific City's oriental community ...

Further cleaning up of the map, plus the addition of place names and area names. I need to find out why the text tool makes everything so blurry.

Universities and Colleges UWPC – University of Washington at Pacific City. Extension of the UW university system PCU – Pacific City University. Largest and best institute in the area. Crown Pointe College – The chief rivals of PCU in the athletics area as well as scholastic merit. Crown Pointe is a private college known for a very exclusive student body. St. Anthony’s College – Oldest college in the area, privately funded. Buckley Conservatory of the Performing Arts – Music, dance, theater Adams Polytechnic University – Leader in aerospace and electrical engineering

Barrow Hill Barrow Hill has a murky past involving murders, mysterious mass suicides, and general strange goings-on. It’s said to be one of the most haunted areas in the US because not only is it on the site of an old Indian burial ground, it’s the site of Rose Bay , the first settlement on Crown Island. Rose Bay, founded 1835, is named after the Fireweed wildflower that dotted the area and was one of the first permanent settlements of any size in the Northwest Territories. The Mtaki Tribe natives seemed friendly and helpful, and eagerly aided the settlers; for this reason the town grew rapidly and also didn’t feel the need for much protection. By 1837, though, increased contact with other nearby tribes revealed that the Mtakis were shunned as demon worshippers. Scouts who tried to relay this information to the city fathers were laughed at until the summer solstice of 1837, when the Mtaki revealed their true nature and slaughtered every white man on the island and nearby mainland in a...

What are the best places to live in Pacific City? Within the actual city limits (basically, just Crown Island)…. Gold Row This downtown area centered on 24th Street is the site of five-star hotels, exclusive stores and boutiques, the best restaurants and high-rise luxury condos. It’s the third most expensive address in the US. Most high-end retailers in the US and quite a few international ones have an outlet here. Many corporate headquarters are located here as well. Gold Row is generally considered to start in Township Square with the old Pacific Herald building. Cicero Park Old homes around the actual park area combined with a great deal of police presence make this a safe and expensive place to live. Rows of spacious brownstone reconstructions, Victorian corner homes and turreted brick hotels are scattered around this residential neighborhood. Most of the waterfront development is newer and up to modern codes because it was destroyed by Lemurian bio-machines during the invasion of ...

What are the worst areas of Pacific City? Iron Harbor . In 1956, this was the shipping center of the city until it the shipyards were destroyed by the Silver Sentry's battle with a Korexian invasion force. The new shipyards were in a different area and Iron Harbor spiraled into poverty. Rezoning attempted to correct the problem but only produced an industrial hellhole where people once lived. Today, the area is block after block of abandoned warehouses, rusting gantries and dockyards surrounded by outdated housing projects, factories, chemical facilities and mills. Crime is a tremedous problem and the Bonelords gang rules the streets and alleys. The area abuts the north end of the red light district, which certainly doesn't help matters. The vigilante Raven is often seen in this area. Isla Maria . The Spanish ghetto, more commonly known as La Hoya ('The Pit'). Povery and rampant unemployment, overcrowding and gang warfare between a dozen different rivals creates an almo...

StahlKorps : The Steel Corps. Nazi Germany had help from many strange quarters as it’s scientists ranged far afield in their search for any means to prevail over their enemies. One of the strangest was the Steinhauer Wormhole, an unstable hyperspacial bridge to the planet Korex, in the Andromeda galaxy. The Korexians were fanatical militaristic expansionists who ruled over 10,000 planets, and who thought the Third Reich had the right idea. Messages and information flowed back and forth, and from this the Nazi science corps was able to build the armored walking machines, the VogelPanzer , (Bird-Tank, called so because the two long legs are reminiscent of a bird’s) and the TotenPanzer (Death-Tank, a massive armored fortress on four legs). At the height of the program, there were almost 200 AusländerMaschines within the Empire. The units were high-maintenance because the builders simply did not understand some of the technologies used. They were capable of tremendous devastation but wer...

Minutemen Memorial Battalion Park has several statues and plaques to fallen heroes of all sorts, but the largest is the Minutemen Memorial. Five bronze statues stand atop a marble pedestal, depicting the first Pacific City superteam: The Minutemen. Originally started by Amazing Woman, Red Ace, and Mercury, the Minutemen served in every theater of WWII though they concentrated on the Japanese threat. They gained and lost members over time until they numbered five in 1958: Red Ace (Super strong war hero), The Shield (Alien with a golden force shield), Vesper (Formerly the villainous Mind Maiden), The Eagle (Weapons expert with mechanical wings) and Raptor (Eagle’s former sidekick Wing). On July 4, 1958, they stopped a plot by Reichmaster (II) to turn the entire city into mind-controlled Nazi zombies but at the cost of their own lives. The city erected the Minutemen Memorial Complex in 1960. It consists of the north end of Battalion Park, with the bronze statues surrounded by plaques and ...

NFL : Wolverines Major League Baseball : Kings, Redwoods National Basketball Assoc : Silver Knights American Hockey League : Stars Barber Stadium Complex , including the BarberDome, the Levy Arena, and the St. John Olympic Center. Named for James ‘Buddy’ Barber, a local philanthropist and sports enthusiast. The Barber Complex was the centerpiece of Pacific City’s 1984 Summer Games hosting, and has since been expanded even further.

Some campaign Miscellany: Aliens There is regular extraterrestrial contact though most access to the two publicly-known Alienage enclaves (one near Las Vegas, the other in The Azores) is restricted. Alien researchers, explorers and cultural exchange personnel typically have limited three-day visas in the US, after which they must check in with an INS agent or facility. There are about a dozen different races that regularly have contact with humans; most are humanoid themselves. It is known that there are interstellar empires and the Earth has been invaded a few times. Atlantis Atlantis exists somewhere in the Burmuda Triangle near the edge of the continental shelf. Relations with the nation and the US are shaky at best. It maintains a Mission to the UN in New York, San Fancisco, and Pacific City. It is known that the Atlanteans posesses very strong mental powers and a high level of technology, but they keep to themselves a great deal. Their city-state is protected by a psionic barrier ...

SQUIRE Some of the early mystery men of the 20's and 30's occasionally had assistants that were younger than they but none were consistent or noted. It took the unusual action of putting a minor into combat to bring the term 'sidekick' into the American vocabulary. Squire, the assistant to the Quantum Knight, was the first teenager to put on a costume and fight crime, beating out the first appearance of Kid Superior by two full years. In one interview the hero now known as Sentinel said that he regarded Squire's appearance as an inspiration to him to use his gifts for the betterment of mankind. William L. Shirer's monumental work Godlike , his 1965 follow-up volume The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich which details the entrance of true metahumans onto the world stage, contains a lengthy interview with the Quantum Knight and Squire done soon after the end of the war. Later in the book he examines the proliferation of young assistants to the metas of the time wit...

Steel Corps Steel Corps is made up of mercenaries that use robotic technology. Several types of armored merc are available to them, all the way up to military-grade main-battle-tank-level mecha suits. many of the members are cyborgs and some are robots or androids. Steeel Corps usually hires itself out as covert military units for governments who don't want personal involvement, corporations who wish some illegal weapons muscle, or to combat metahumans for various villains. They also stage raids on high-tech facilities and sometimes steal new robotic suits or prototypes. Sometimes they kidnap scientists to design upgrades, or make emergency repairs they cannot.

Bloody Mary It's said there has always been a Bloody Mary, but then with an assassin of her caliber legends spring up like drops of rain. She's told at least five convincing, provable and conflicting accounts of her life including that she was trained at the original Shaolin Temple, that she is the reincarnation of Kali born to usher in a new age of destruction, and that she is Morrigan, Goddess of Death, bound to a mortal body until she kills as many people as there are stars in the sky. That she is a metahuman of some type is undeniable. She's been seen to walk through walls, and survive a direct hit from a space-based laser platform. She seems to have a weakness regarding fire but most that have faced her and lived have outwitted her in some way rather than face her in direct combat. She only tries to kill a person once per contract. If she fails, the contract must be renegotiated. Given her price and that she only accepts payment in advance in diamonds of the first wate...

Canada's Main Superteam: AEGIS Referring to the invulnerable shield of Zeus, AEGIS is the largest superteam in Canada and the only one with national recognition. It's funded by the government, with a base in Toronto and one in Vancouver. It's had many members over the years, usually staying around six, but has been sometimes as high as nine. Aegis Leader of AEGIS Secret ID : Gavin Lords Powers and Equipment: Superstrength, flight, highly resistant to damage, solar beams from eyes. History: It's known Aegis has ties to the Canadian government on some level. He's the founder and leader of the team for the past 10 years, though he's now the only original member left. Gavin was born with his superpowers and trained in a government facility all his life to control them. Mobius Secret ID: Amanda Lords Powers and Equipment: Teleportation, opening wormholes in space, time travel History: Amanda Lords is Aegis' older sister, also born a mutant with the ability to ...

Doctor Arachne She has the form of an emaciated young woman with thin spider-legs attached to her back. They look too fragile to work, but they support her weight, spin steel-strong webbing cables, and are tipped with deadly poisonous barbs. She is an android created by persons unknown (despite reports otherwise, Die Nachtspinne is not her creator but he may have had a hand in her creation) to further the Nazi cause. She does this with the bloody single-mindedness of a machine, but she has been known to display emotion and be swayed by arguement. She is very intelligent and can keep track of hundreds of plans all at once. She commands hundreds of troops, legions of semi-autonomous robots, elite forces like the Spider Trooper pictured here, at least a dozen supervillains, (including the former 'sidekick' of Die Nachtspinne), and an organization that brings in tens of billions in illegal and legitimate monies. She is considered a Class A threat by the UN Security Council and AT...

ARACHOS Arachos was formed in 1937 by a Nazi physician interested in psychological manipulation, Doktor Blud. It was a secret spy organization meant to experiment with terror techniques but it became so much more... Blud soon was tasked with creating and recruiting metahumans in the beginning days of Hitler's regime, especially psychics. Die Nachtspinne was one of his first recruits, and proved to be one of the most horrific villains of the war with his mind manipulation powers. In many ways he planted the seeds that later blossomed into the HUAC scares almost two decades later. After the War, Arachos was fragmented by spyhunters and heroes, driven underground in a half-doxen different guises. Each part tried to ressurect itself but usually failed before it achieved much. Finally, in 1975, it was reborn when The Iron Ring brought all the survivors together for the first time since VE-Day. The scientists and their proteges, the aged spymasters with vast webs of contacts, the technic...

Legion Legion is a mystic with eight non-human souls bound to him; each holds a different ability for him to use. He is a former member of Westguard, and highly regarded in the Pacific City mystic community, though he is quite disturbing to deal with. Maybe it's the way he constantly talks to the other souls in his body, or how his voice has an inhuman 'depth' to it that you don't normally hear outside of small choirs. 'Jackie the Vampire Slayer' No-one knows Jackie's real name or why she despises vampires with a passional that borders on the pathological. What is known is that she's turned herself into a living weapon against the undead. Armed with several weapons of her own invention and a very practical working knowledge about vampires, she tries to kill as many as she can by any means needed. Most people avoid her, and only seek her out when they have an undead problem they can't solve by other means. She works cheap and she gets as dirty as nee...

Most of my vampire inspiration comes from Buffy and from the Harry Dresden books. Vampires exist and have much the same weaknesses and strengths as your typical Buffy vampire: they are strong as four or five men, they can be shot and stabbed with little effect unless it's in the right place (heart or brain), they burn in direct sunlight but can stand indirect light for a time, they die instantly if staked or beheaded or if enough fire is used on them, they must drink blood but it can be animal blood. There is a class of vampire that is basically mindless; these are created when someone needs a group of savage killers but doesn't want to really increase the vampire population in the city. They disintergrate by themselves in about 24-72 hours after they rise. There is a large subclass where power flows in the bloodline - if you kill the sire, the children revert to normal humans (dying quickly if beyond their normal lifespan). There are rarer classes or types of vampire, all wi...

SIBL Supers Information B-Layer A network protocol that effectively creates a 'shadow Internet', allowing registered metahumans and law enforcement to share information, databases, email and more in a more secure environment. It's a secure registration-only system that can work from any device connected to the net, thanks to the software engine invented by SCI-Tech.