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[Frank]

As public opponents of Registration and non-Registered superhumans, your true names and aliases are not safe here on Ryker's Island. You do not know who, specifically, is among the forces arrayed against you, but you do have a few ideas who is not. Last night, you executed a successful raid on an SHRA Enforcement Training facility, where you captured two prominent supporters of the SHRA: Reed Richards, publicly known as "Mister Fantastic," who is second only to Tony Stark himself in the SHRA Enforcement command structure, and the former criminal called "The Taskmaster," assigned to the training of the so-called "Capekiller" units that were to be sent against you. Both were initially slated to be present on Ryker's Island, but instead will be confined to Anti-Reg Headquarters. However, their allies do not know of their capture, giving you an opportunity to assume their identities if necessary.

Richards was predictably uncooperative, providing little information other than what you already know about him. He did let slip that Ben Grimm, "The Thing," has refused to take a side in this conflict and has gone into hiding; Grimm is definitely not on Ryker's Island.

The Taskmaster, however, was much more forthcoming, once promised his eventual freedom - his loyalty to the SHRA was minimal at best, and he is a career criminal, after all. Aside from detailed information on his own background and intended role in the Pro-Registration cause (see below), he also gave information on the small group of Pro-Registration heroes who escaped the facility before you entered it: the psychic Danielle Moonstar, SHIELD agents Gabriel Jones and Thaddeus "Dum Dum" Dugan, and two former criminals: Helmut Zemo and the so-called "Radioactive Man." None of these five are expected to be present on Ryker's Island and all would be safe identities to false-claim in a pinch.

Detailed profiles of your captives, generated by your counterintelligence team, may be found below. Feel free to use, modify, or ignore them as you see fit. PLEASE NOTE: You do not know the intended roles any of the missing were intended to play on Ryker's Island. However, the intelligence you have gathered suggests that most members of Anti-Registration have rather unique powers that are either limited in some way or that do not fall into easy descriptions.

(Translation to in-game terms: most but not all Townies have powers that are quirky in some way; very few have straightforward Mafia roles. You may or may not wish to bear this in mind as you develop false claims, if any).

[Frank]

Welcome to the game; you are The Taskmaster[/i]

REAL NAME: Unknown
YOU LOOK LIKE THIS:
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ALIGNMENT: Town
GENERIC: Backup
WIN CONDITION: All Anti-Registration forces have been neutralized

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BACKGROUND:

You have definitely had an eclectic career. As a child, you watched old westerns with your father and were able to mimic the complex rope tricks performed by the cowboys after just one viewing; with a bit more age and physical strength, you were able to do the same with Olympic gymnasts. Your doctors told your parents that you had what they called "photographic reflexes," a medical term they invented on the spot because they couldn't explain you in any other way.

Simply put, once you have witnessed a physical action, you can duplicate that action with no further practice or training as long as it lies within the limits of your physical strength and endurance. As the perfect student, you naturally gravitated toward becoming the perfect teacher, as well. For the last decade, you have made a comfortable living training elite mercenaries, government agents, and even assassins for a variety of entities both legal and less-so - and, out of a combination of curiosity and ennui, dabbled a bit in various small-scale criminal ventures, as well.

When the SHRA was passed, you were conscripted by S.H.I.E.L.D. to provide expert training to its new corps of elite "Capekiller" units, whose responsibility would be to subdue and capture renegade superhumans. A week ago, they informed you that you would be sent to Ryker's Island for the Registration initiative to provide logistical support. Some Anti-Registration action was anticipated, and they felt strongly that your unique situational flexibility would almost surely come in handy sooner or later.

Looks like they were right.

ABILITIES/POWERS:

1. You will observe the other players on this battlefield very carefully. When a pro-Town player dies, you may use your photographic reflexes to duplicate his or her role. Because you are a very precise mimic, you will generally be subject to the same strengths, weaknesses, and limitations as the player you are choosing to copy (some exceptions may apply).

You may choose to take on the role of any dead player, no matter when they have died or how they have died (lynch, Night kill, mod-kill); however, taking over a role is always a Night action and your assumption of the role will occur at Dawn of the following Day. Once you have chosen to take on a role, it is yours for the remainder of the game.

[Frank]

Welcome to the game; you are Mister Fantastic[/i]

REAL NAME: Reed Richards
YOU LOOK LIKE THIS:
www.adherents.com/lit/comics/img/m/MrFantastic.jpg

ALIGNMENT: Town
GENERIC: Special
WIN CONDITION: All Anti-Registration forces have been neutralized

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BACKGROUND:

First of all, the "Mr. Fantastic" thing was not your idea; it was Johnny's idea, and you've regretted going along with it ever since. Tellingly, the fact that you can stretch your arms, legs, torso, and neck to ridiculous lengths is really only the second- or possibly third-most fantastic thing about you. You are almost certainly one of the ten most intelligent human beings alive, with expert-level or better knowledge in physics, electrical and mechanical engineering, chemistry, and biology. You don't really believe that there's any problem for which a solution can't be researched, designed, and built.

You consider yourself a rational person, and in the weeks and months leading up to the passage of the SHRA you spent a great deal of time carefully considering the ramifications of the new legislation. You even developed a complex simulation - derived from Asimov's concept of psychohistory - designed to predict the probably responses of society as a whole to acceptance of and/or resistance against the Act. What you concluded was that violent resistance to the SHRA would create a number of regrettable circumstances - including social strife, death on a horrifying scale, and compromise of the ability of the so-called "superhero" to keep the actions of the so-called "supervillain" in check to an acceptable degree. You have also predicted that the SHRA will be a temporary measure, and that it will be replaced with more temperate alternatives as the memory of Stamford fades. Accordingly, you publicly declared your support for the Act and your opposition to any resistance against it.

The resistance came anyway, as it often does when reason is over-ruled by emotion. Your own wife and brother-in-law have joined the ranks of those fighting against the Act, putting you in direct conflict with them. You had hoped to avoid violence altogether, and the current offer of amnesty to anyone who registers was your idea, but with the severance of Ryker's Island from the rest of the world you have little choice. Hopefully you can use your considerable intelligence and other, even more unique, abilities to bring the conflict to a successful finish as quickly and bloodlessly as possible.

We'd wish you good luck, but you don't believe in luck.

ABILITIES/POWERS:

1. <Reed Richards has refused to provide any information about the role he was intended to play on Ryker's Island. It will be up to you to develop a convincing set of false abilities>