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In other words, he’s strong and incredibly tough by most standards. But he’s almost impossible to harm when he’s standing in front of someone else.

Bulwark is a Stormer – meaning he got his powers from the Silver Storm – the incident which happened in our first episode. That will likely have repercussions for the character down the line. He’s inexperienced with his powers, and also happens to be over 80 years old. So, being a grandfather surrounded by superhumans who are mostly the age of his grandkids is going to be an interesting experience.

Crucible

Crucible is played by Alex, and is the other Stormer among the PCs. In his case, he’s a much more typical new hero. He’s in his early twenties, and his power set is a fairly conventional power for the comics, being the control of magnetism.

What is setting Crucible apart is Alex’s ability to write detailed backstories that really work into the heart of the campaign. Ethan has a family and ties to several of the universities and businesses around Emerald City – all of which gives me great material to exploit as a GM.

Khione

Khione is played by Aunt Puppy. She’s the newest player at the table both to tabletop role-playing in general and Mutants & Masterminds in specific. But she’s creative and fun to have as a part of our team.

Her character is based on a character she played in the DC Universe Online MMO, but that made it easy to import her into M&M. Cindy doesn’t know why she has these ice powers (jokes about being Elsa’s long-lost cousin aside), and she’s adopted. She has traced her roots to Emerald City and hopes to find out more about her origins here. Of course, she happened to be here during the largest single outbreak of new metahumans ever, and if it wasn’t for the fact that she already had a costume, no doubt people would believe that Khione is a Stormer herself.

Portal

Portal is played by Brandon, and as someone who has gamed with Brandon for nearly two decades, he is very much the kind of character I’ve come to expect (and love) from him.

Peter Washington was a teenager who was kicked out of his house when his parents discovered his sexuality. Shortly after going on the streets, he discovered his metahuman powers – the ability to create portals from pretty much any two areas he could see (or precisely describe, such as “twenty feet that way”) to another. As a teen, he used his powers for petty theft, moving up to bank robbery before being stopped by The Raven. Raven realized that this kid was no hardened super-criminal, and while he did go to Juvie, he was then sent to Claremont Academy.

Peter is now out of Claremont and has decided to try to go to a new city to make a name for himself and redeem himself, with Raven’s blessing. Emerald City had been quiet for decades, with no superheroes who made the city their home, so it was the perfect place for him to make his stake.

Or it would have been, had it not been for the Silver Storm…

Professor Cephalapod

Professor Cephalapod is played by Wiccy, and in truth, the concept started as a joke. When we did Something… Something… Mutants, and were having our Session Zero, someone commented on the intelligence of octopi. Wiccy had been considering several concepts (finally settling on Flashdrive) but commented about wanting to ditch the concept to play an Octopus in a Mech Suit.

When it came time to have the Session Zero for City of Destiny? She again came with a slate of possibilities, and the joking concept of the Octopus in a Mech Suit, at which point everyone else said “Dude, no, play that.”

We had some fun banter about the idea, including how to make it more of a character and less of just a joke. There was also a lot of jokes about what the name should be for said Octopus, especially since a learned individual with an advanced degree and the abilities of an octopus is already heavily trademarked by the House of the Mouse, and so the name Professor Cephalapod was born.

There’s a lot going on with the good Professor, and I really look forward to revealing it to our audience and players in the coming weeks and months. And that includes revealing some things to Wiccy that she may not be expecting. Because that’s what GMs do.

So, there you have it. A behind-the-scenes peak at the PCs for our newest streaming game. We hope you enjoyed it!