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Message: <blockquote data-quote="The Shadow" data-source="post: 4925136" data-attributes="member: 16760">Extant VillainsThe following villains have recently been causing a stir in Seattle:Captain Kidd is a new arrival in town, having terrorized several West Coast port cities before making his way to Puget Sound.  He has claimed on various occasions to be the descendant, reincarnation, and/or spiritual heir of the original Captain Kidd, and dresses the part.  Some claim he is a pathological liar, others suspect he merely likes to muddy the waters as much as possible.  He has somehow got his hands on a small but heavily-armed robotic submarine.  (It is unknown how many crew it has aboard, but by its size probably eight or so.)  The sub has grapples that resemble the tentacles of a squid.Captain Kidd is a skilled fencer, and his sword can shoot lightning.  He is highly resistant to many forms of damage by unknown means.  Some believe he has a mild form of mind control - certainly he's been able to enthrall people with his voice for longer than seems reasonable.Kidd has been harrassing the Navy shipyard at Bremerton, and seems to be looking for something.  Shadow-Force was tracking him up to the time of their dissolution.Enigma is a sorcerer, a mage who calls upon spirits - highly unpleasant ones in his case.  He specializes in curses and bindings.  Shadow-Force tangled with him once, inconclusively.  Engima made his escape (though without the loot he was after) by binding the Phantom into a circle, then suggesting to Erebus that the Phantom was about to be destroyed;  this made Erebus hesitate just long enough for Enigma to get away.Enigma has desecrated several Native American burial grounds, apparently trying to dig up a mystic artifact of some kind;  he is much hated by the local tribes.  He himself is Nordic in appearance and has a faint accent.  One newspaper editor foolishly suggested in print (without any real evidence) that Enigma might be a neo-Nazi...  Enigma's comment on the matter was to curse the man to have his head turned backward on his neck and his back bent double;  as he put it later in a statement, this was his way of suggesting the man was "talking out of his ass".  (Mystra dispelled the curse, and noted it would have worn off after a few days.)Wraith is a legendary thief, able to turn invisible and insubstantial.  (The Phantom ruefully commented the man was giving him a taste of his own medicine.)  Wraith is a true professional, cutting and running at the first sign of trouble;  therefore he has been almost impossible to catch.  He seems to be a "Robin Hood" of sorts;  at any rate, he once engaged in a string of robberies against a corporation noted for EPA violations... the medical clinics in the neighborhoods most polluted by the company received large anonymous donations shortly after.--------------------------And here are some of Portland's villains:Puppeteer is a familiar sight up and down the Willamette Valley of Oregon... he has engaged in supervillainy for over forty years, and hardly appears to have aged in all that time.  Puppeteer can animate objects - statues are among his favorites.  (One trick he has repeatedly used is to bring the Golden Pioneer off the dome of the Oregon State Capitol building in Salem.)  Though grandiose in his ambitions, Puppeteer is unwilling to hurt anyone;  on one occasion when someone was seriously hurt by one of his statues, he was greatly distressed and called 911 himself.He rarely serves long prison terms, and indeed he's hard to keep in prison.  (There is no way known to nullify his powers - their source is a mystery.)  The state government has tacitly decided to go easy on him in exchange for his cooperation with cleaning up collateral damage from super-battles, at which he excels.  Indeed, he could probably make very good money doing that for a living, but he thinks hard work is for suckers and insists on getting rich "the easy way".  (As one can imagine, Moke finds him an ideal audience. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />Shifter, as the name implies, is a consummate shapeshifter, able to take the form of any solid object or person that he can imagine.  He has a violent temper, and has maimed several people over the course of his five-year career.  Shifter seeks power, constantly trying to infiltrate the government, the military, corporations, and so on.  Fortunately, his acting ability is not up to the job - though he has been getting better, which worries the authorities.  Though Shifter's human forms (when not impersonating anyone in particular) typically look to be in their mid-twenties, many suspect he is actually younger, perhaps even a teenager.When Shifter's powers are nullified, he becomes a shapeless mass of protoplasm;  when restored from that state, he is reduced to babbling, incoherent terror and seizures.  The courts have ruled that this constitutes cruel and unusual punishment, and so he is difficult to imprison.  The state of Oregon has recently built what it claims to be a "Shifter-proof" cell, but there hasn't yet been an opportunity to test it.  (They built it because he has always manged to escape while being transported to Stronghold.)Yin and Yang are Japanese twins.  (Yin is female and Yang male, naturally.)  They have magical powers appropriate to their names;  Yin often wields cold powers and Yang fire, though they seem to be able to generate other appropriate powers as needed.  Newcomers to the super-scene, they are thieves who apparently cherish a personal hatred for several particular large corporations.  The two apparently possess a mental link.  Once when Yang was knocked unconscious, Yin cried out and dissolved into apparently ordinary water.  The Protectors gathered up as much of the water as they could, but could detect no life or intelligence in it.  Shortly afterward, Yang disappeared from his holding cell, and the two struck again about a month later.</blockquote>

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