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Superheroics 101

I had to go out of town to pick up some legal documents. It wasn't fun, and a total waste of time because the documents 'expired'. Kinda draining. I should've at least given a heads up. Sorry about that.

Still, I have an idea of what I want to do, and I'll get something by later today at most.

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Tony went into the meeting dressed as sharply as he could be, with his nice wool suit and his lucky red tie and a dab of cologne. First impressions did go a long way towards establishing some measure of credibility, he figured, and it wasn't like it'd hurt him to look good.
Or well, as good as a 57-year-old man could look. There wasn't any respectable way for him to hide his age, so he didn't bother. Really, it was his way of saying that this whole endeavour was important to him, even before he actually walked into the briefing room.

Granted, his teammates didn't seem to share the same idea. At least, the ones that could be bothered to try. There was a rat that was literally in rags, but given the smell, it was probably living on the streets right now. No chance for it to clean up there. A few others who didn't seem that far off from the streets, either. Well, if nothing else, starting from the bottom means there's nowhere to go but up.

Tony eased into his chair, and relaxed a bit. No real reason to worry about escaping or anything like that. If Kaden really wanted him dead, surely a billionaire wouldn't have to go through with such an elaborate ruse. It was also pretty doubtful any of his teammates came with ill-intentions.

Tony was content to listen for a bit before talking. Now, he himself didn't have any real questions for Merlovich, since his comrades had taken all of the really good ones. Really, it was nice enough to just be there, and enjoy the show.
Hell, he couldn't help but smile when one of them turned into a bona-fide Velociraptor. He hadn't seen that kind of enthusiasm in a while, and it was kinda refreshing.

That said, not everyone seemed to be as upbeat about the whole thing. One of them asked if this was the best the Billionaire could afford. Seemed like a really pessimistic thing to say, but then, it didn't seem all that unreasonable.

Tony turned to guy who asked.
"Excuse me," he started, before realizing he didn't actually know this persons name. Or the name of anyone here, really. "I don't mean to speak for Mr. Merlovich, of course, but strength-of-character is as important as actual strength, if not moreso," He said. "And that's one thing money alone can't buy. Yet, here we have it in spades."

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Name: Tony Crea, 'Wiseguy'
Persona: The Suit
Appearance:

Age: 54
Archetype: Specialist
Power set:
- (1) Eyes for Detail:
Whether you're playing poker, or cleaning a house, or trying to stop a maniac who can throw cars, the details matter. Tony learned that early on in his career, and he's been honing his eyes since then, just to make sure the slightest glimpses don't get past him. It lets him do parlor tricks like spot cards as they're dealt, or find the bulge of a gun in a fat mans' coat. Small things, or things that appear for a fraction of a second don't elude him as much as they would any other person.

- (1) Surgeons Hand for Shooting:
The other thing he's practiced from the beginning of his career, was shooting things. It's a remarkably useful skill when you are in the business of 'Enforcing'. To set himself apart from the other mooks in his syndicate, (who couldn't hit the broad side of a barn), he practiced shooting until he was absolutely sure he could put a bullet where he wanted it. It's the sort of thing that comes in handy when you're trying to shoot people at the slightly-less-than-dead amounts demanded by his boss.

Origin Story:
Tony joined a crime syndicate when he was just another teen in Dodgeville, and eventually became a 'muscle'.
An uncle of his was kind of a big deal in The Family, and Tony's school life was going south really quickly, as he got in one fight after another. This uncle wasn't going to let Tony's energy go to waste getting roughed up for no good reason, so said uncle put him to work as an errand boy to keep him out of trouble. In a way, it worked. The Family was a crime syndicate that dealt in every vice imaginable on it's little piece of turf, but it also had a fair sense of work ethic drilled into it's members. After a bit of time and discipline, Tony went from being a testy little brat to the most meticulous enforcer for The Family. Even after dropping from school.

With a lot of hard work, and a good amount of luck, Tony rose in the ranks over the next few decades of his life. Superheros went and came to challenge The Family, which was par for the course in Dodgeville. None of them ever managed to stamp out The Family completely, though a few came close. Tony got used to fighting them, even the really nasty ones who didn't really care much for the life of a mook like him.
Thankfully, none of them managed to kill him before he reached retirement age. None of them managed to catch him, either. It was all about him being cautious, paying attention to what the Supers could do, and what they couldn't.

It was what he called 'The Easy Life'. Booze, Cigarettes, and gambling, with a bit of harmless killing and extortion on the side.
He never figured there was anything wrong with it. It was just the way things were, right?

One day, they changed his boss rather forcibly. The Boss had a brother with ambition and ricin, and said boss promptly found himself staring at the inside of a pine box. The brother kept the part about ricin a secret, and took over business, whereupon things went very badly very quickly. The rules the old boss laid down were broken. Lines were crossed. The Family went after people who had been off-limits before.

Superheroes, for one, were not people The Family was ever supposed to actually kill. Neither was their family, if you could find them.
It was escalation to a great deal more violence than The Family would ever prefer to deal with.
The Old Boss knew it was a bad idea to hold a grudge with people who could punch holes in concrete and whatnot.
It was better to be diplomatic, stay under the radar, and find bigger fish for them to fry. And scare them off if they kept trying to interfere with business.

So, Tony, finding the new boss rather disagreeable, and the circumstances of his promotion questionable, took matters into his own hands.
He traced the source of the ricin back to said new boss, and did something he thought was fairly reasonable at the time; Shoot him to death.

Having violently lost any sort of leadership, The Family splintered off soon after into several different groups, while Tony himself decided to find a new identity and retire quietly. He was 38 at the time. He moved out of town, and found himself a job as a prop for a small casino. He kept his gun, and practiced with it just enough to avoid getting rusty.

Quietly fading into obscurity, he once or twice tried going back to Dodgeville to make amends for what he did. Not the shooting of his boss, he thought that was pretty righteous all things considered, but rather all of the stuff before that. None of that was very nice either. The killing, the threatening, the supplying of narcotics to people who couldn't say no if you held a gun their head, and so on.

Heroes had it right, he realized, but he was just a guy. He alone couldn't hope to make a dent in Dodgeville. Every time he tried, he found himself reeling and feeling just how past his prime he was.

Then he got word of a billionaire building a team of odd talent, trying to make a difference. This got Tony interested. This was his chance, he figured, to make something happen. So he picked up the offer, and there was simply simply no way he would refuse.

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