Yuletide adventure hooks

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greycrusader
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Yuletide adventure hooks

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I posted these on the M&M Facebook page a few days ago, and while I imagine there is overlap with the Echoes membership, I decided to repost here for anyone else who may be interested. Just a few short adventure hooks themed around the yule season holidays featuring appropriate ne'er-do-wells. Hope this inspires a night of gaming or two!

All my best.

Doc Holiday: The corrupt spirit bonded with Mark Holiday never misses a chance to wreak havoc during the happiest time of the year; while the villain's entry in Freedom City casts him as a malevolent Jack Frost during the Yule period, there are certainly other possibilities: Doc Holiday might take the form of a brawny, leather-jacketed clad Santa on a rocket propelled chopper, using a seemingly endless supply of weapons from his “gift bag” to assault the city's Christmas celebrations; a one-man phalanx of Seleucid warriors, armed with flaming swords, besieging the city's Jewish community during Hanukkah; or a pestilent gremlin (a Tikoloshe), spreading famine and disease among the celebrants of Kwanzaa. Doc Holiday is mostly focused on perpetrating destruction, without any long-term plans besides feasting on despair.

The Candy Crew (see Rogues Gallery): While the gang's confectionery theme might seem better suited for Easter or Halloween capers, the gaudy and festive nature of American Xmas always moves the gang to commit a felony or three. The villains often dress up as holiday characters-Candy Czar as an ersatz St. Nick, Gobstopper a youthful Mrs. Clause, Synnamon Styx as the ogrish Krampus, and Gumball Rally and Wicked Licorice as mischievous elves; while in character, the gang members delight in dispensing toys and candy to kids while staging a mini-Christmas pageant. Of course, the gifts come from a semi-truck the Crew hi-jacked earlier, and the performance is cover to case the shopping district for a robbery-blitzkrieg, but hey-charity begins at home. Meanwhile the Looking Glass Gang (from Threat Report), their even more outlandish West Coast counterparts, delight in crashing staid, commercialized Yuletide events and transmogrifying them into truly outlandish tableaux. While these extraordinary festivities are unquestionably memorable, they are also frequently terrifying for the Gang's hapless “captive audience”, subjected to illusions, mind-control, and physics-breaking effects.

An iteration of the cyber-intelligence Dollface (also found in Threat Report) grows lonely during the season, and seeks solace in providing charity to those less fortunate. Unfortunately, Dollface does so by inhabiting an android built to resemble the late Freedom League member Mary Minstrel and using its sonic powers to steal from the rich and give to the poor, dispersing ill-gotten lucre to those in soup kitchens, homeless shelters, and orphanages. The pseudo-heroine is aided in her efforts by robot “carolers”, targeting Emerald City's ritzier residential neighborhoods, without much regard for whether those robbed truly deserve such treatment. More subtly, the Dollface mainframe hacks corporate accounts and transfers funds to various charities.
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