TED-M 4

• John Evans, MD
  
• Doctors Without Borders
• Had a cousin named Jack who disappeared a few years back while on a DWB trip. Now part of the CCC crowd.
• Bitsy Klein, Convention Organizer
• Doug Miller, Palmer Tech Representative
  
• Doug Miller is the head of Applied Sciences for Palmer Technologies.
• He is not an engineer. He is not a scientist. He is a Public Relations flack. He looks like he is ready to invent a laser gun out of coconuts, using sheer determination and motivational speech to make it happen.
• approximately 200 total "kidnapped citizens" who were Convention attendees

• Smear:
  
• Gerd Frank, older Danish woman who does not speak English
• Carsten Frank, teenage son of Gerd
• They can separately create blurry effects in air in a 3 AP dome as if the air is lightly smeared with petroleum jelly (-2 CS to AV), or can work together to cover a 6 AP area with a more intense distortion (-5 CS to AV). This does not actually STOP or DEFLECT an energy beam, but might bend it or diffuse it.
• Gerd has heard the myths of Ran from her grandparents but remembers very little in the way of details. Gerd has been a gardener since she was young and has mostly organized the few herbs and crops that the "prey" harvest from the jungle or grow for their own survival purposes.
• Carsten speaks English better than his mom. Their native language is Danish.
• Arcade bills Carsten as "Smear" and does not advertise Gerd on the posters.
• Mirabelle Sinjin
  
• Gray catgirl, college student, daughter of Tafey Anne Sinjin-Gironde who disappeared February 5th, 2006.
• Kidnapped by Catastrophe on contract. Lex Luthor meant to wind up with her but Simon Kincaid instead did a quick auction of her and some other meta prisoners. Arcade picked her up to be one of his jungle-themed attractions. He did not expect the daughter of a biochemist to be trained by Vigilante in dirty fighting. She has been careful to appear like a soft target and use lots of traps and environmental hazards to prevent "contestants" from ever getting near her, without drawing attention to how hard she is to find.
• Arcade bills her as "The Panther".
• The "Prey" or "Target" set include a total of 30 people, half of whom have been trying to protect the other half from Contestant predation.

• Jaqstones
• Comanche
• Shades
• Callisto
• Mazikeen

• Vicious
  
• She has throwing knives and a high Dex and less of a fear instinct than Parker. She definitely recognized Thunderstrike as a biker gang dude who got arrested and never turned back up. She is not sure if she feels like hooking back up, but she definitely does not feel like not hooking back up. Has he got a good thing going, and does she want a piece of it?
• http://www.writeups.org/vicious-dc-comics-birds-prey/#stats
• Killer Croc
  
• The heroes came up with some great Persuasion for Croc to switch sides. He is not merely keeping an eye on the civvies, he is actively in favor of dismantling the entire "Murder World" setup. Some of that is because the earnest blue-eyed Boy Scout over there guaranteed that Croc will get the money he needs to buy the old plantation, and will help him get the worst parts of the renovation done. A lot of it is because the whole quartet of Capes 'n' Cowls are treating Waylon like he's a good guy at heart, a guy stuck in a set of bad breaks, who packs a fantastic punch. It's reminding him of everything he dreamed of becoming in his "sideshow wrestler" career.
• He will cheerfully talk about eating people. He is not, in fact, a cannibal. He is playing to the stereotypes about himself to keep trouble at a respectful distance. He will not expect the heroes to see through it, or treat him decently.

• These numbers do not count the 16 prisoners who were initially guards (formerly disguised as catering staff, Convention Security personnel, and Freakshow protesters), half of whom managed to get away during the move, leaving 8 still contained.
• These numbers also do not count the Astrologer and his minions, currently prisoners, and some of them also patients in need of medical supervision.

• The Astrologer and his Zodiac minions
  
• See darkc_animated page 39.
• In our version, he's a gadget-blaster. He has a staff that does stuff. He used to be a toymaker, so traps and stuff should be a good option.
• He also has goons wearing black bodysuits with stars on them, named after the astrological signs, with the sign on the chest in silver.

• Arcade
  
• generic Murder World Security goons
• Negate
• Rán
• Carcharo
• Geist
• Marrow
• Mongrel
• Sunder

Environmental Clues

• Pisonia Grandis, sometimes known as "the grand devil's-claws" has edible leaves.
• Erythrina variegata, "Coral Tree," with the red flower clusters. The bark and seeds have narcotic properties. Leaves and bark contain a poison called erythrinine
• "Cynometra ramiflora," an evergreen tree, is not edible but its wood makes good fuel. Very little will grow directly under it.
• Guamia mariannae, also known as "Guamia", is a very definite clue that this island belongs in the Marianas Islands archipelago. Which is definitely not where it is. It's evergreen, and its fruit are eaten by birds and bats, but the only use people will have for it is "HEY WTF".
• Pinus virginiana, scrub pine, should not be growing here at all. If it is, it ought to be crowding out the plants native to the tropical dry forest. Instead, it's growing mostly on the three southern peninsulas, especially the center one which has rolling hills and a lot of wind exposure that messes up the soil quality. It appears near the shores of the outer peninsulas, but not much inland.