Parasol Family

**Parasol Family** was the first campaign played by the original Team 21 cast, which included TripleA, Kas, Lazarous, Casey, and the now retired Maryla. The game began on April 9th, 2019 and ended July 9th of the same year. Conceptualized by Flurar Inuyi after watching *Umbrella Academy*, they posted a Looking For Players request on the Masks Discord server, to which the listed players applied, as well as two more who dropped before the game began or shortly after.

Parasol Family utilized a modified version of the *Masks: A New Generation* rules in which the players are all part of the same family, as well as adding questions to the playbooks about how the Father NPC acts and how the mansion the team uses as a base of operations is customized.

## Plot

### Meeting The Family

On April 20th, several children were born. While that is not unusual, these children where atypically in the fact that the mothers of those children were not pregnant beforehand. Dr. Arthur Parasol; wealthy weapons dealer; went out to gather them. He got five.

Portals AKA Christian Parasol had the ability to warp reality, not only creating portals across distances, but also having the ability to survive in space and create blasts of kinetic force.

Blasts AKA Isac Parasol had the ability to create beams of superheated energy, but his powers were particularly unstable. After an accident where he hurt Arthur, Arthur augmented his body with cybernetics to give him more control of his powers.

Blink AKA Jason Parasol had the ability to alter light waves, though he didn't utilize it enough to achieve it's full potential. He primarily used this ability to travel through light as though teleporting.

Telepathy AKA Sierra Parasol had the ability to read minds, though she later found out it was a specialized version of electrokinesis localized to the firing of synapses in the brain. Her powers in doing so were limited to anyone she can physically see. Her powers did not manifest until much later than the rest of the family, and for fear of her not gaining her powers, Arthur chemically augmented her muscular system to make her superhumanly strong.

Brains AKA Silva Parasol was a super genius, to the point that she created a robot companion to do things for her so she could continue to create in the lab provided to her by Arthur.

### Missions From Father

The first mission given to the family by Arthur was to go to a local museum and stop a hitwoman named Charolette Breknek. The family successfully stopped her, but Chris lost control of his powers and caused severe collateral damage by becoming a black hole for a moment. While this was happening, Jason completed a secret mission from Arthur to steal a piece of white metal from the museum. This metal seriously affected his powers while in his proximity.

The second mission given to the family by Arthur was to go and deal with an eco-terrorist who called himself Lizarus who was threatening a local mining operation. While the mission went off without a hitch, Sierra was given secret orders to collapse the mine anyways, and did so without harming anyone. When the family returned from the mission they found a new fixture to the house; a palm tree in a pot in the living room. Everyone was suspicious of this palm tree, but no one had any proof that it was anything but a palm tree.

The third mission given to the family by Arthur was to protect an artifact that was coming into the city from a master thief calling himself Gull. This mission took place on a cruise ship, and through the assistance of marine life, Gull escaped with the artifact, but Isac completed his secret objective of interfacing with the ship and downloading it's navigation system.

The fourth mission was not actually given to the family by Arthur. Arthur hired Charolette to attack the mansion to keep the family occupied while he worked on a dimensional rift machine. While Arthur was able to complete the task and send himself to a different dimension, the family captured Charolette and questioned her. She refused to answer their questions, and when Sierra tried to read her mind she ended up giving her an aneurism and killing her by accident. It was soon after this that the family realized what had happened to Arthur, and Olivia; their robotic 'mother'; explained that Arthur was originally from that other dimension, and came to this dimension to find a solution to the problem in that dimension. She also revealed that in the other dimension a discovery was made of a material called Dimensium, a pure white metal that nullified the powers of anyone who had them and could also kill them if exposed for a long enough time. She explained that Arthur had used a small amount of Dimensium in the creation of the dimensional rift machine and the family could use that small amount to build up a resistance to the radiation before going after Arthur.

### An Alternate Dimension

After going through intense training to build an immunity to the radiation of Dimensium, the entire family went through the dimensional rift and found that they entered a dimension where they were powerful villains, the first one they met being Silva's counterpart who called herself Mastermind, having replaced quite a lot of her body with robotics and creating robotic servants to protect the Parasol Manor which she had taken over, using Isac's counterpart as a power source for her experiments, fittingly calling him Battery. After being captured by the family, Mastermind blew herself up and the family successfully rescued Battery who revealed that Mastermind was nearly done creating her own dimensional rift machine and they had just barely stopped her.

Drawn to the sound of the explosion, the family met Salvation, a man who appeared to have Superman-like powers including flight and super strength. The man pointed the family in the direction of the rebellion, though Jason was distracted by meeting his counterpart who called himself Prism. Prism had a much better understanding of how to use their powers and Jason became ashamed of his own ineptitude.

While the rest of the family went off to explore the world and learn what they could, Sierra remained at the Parasol Manor to tend to Battery. The rest of the family learned that parts of New York were covered in a shield created by Christian's counterpart who called himself The Powerful One, and other parts were zombified by a version of Sierra who had mastered her electrokinetic powers and was calling herself High Lord Bend. They also learned all of the enemies they had encountered in their own dimension had counterparts in this dimension who were assisting the remaining children with powers after the military took action against them using weapons made of Dimensium. They also learned Arthur had found these people and had been staying with them, and they met their adoptive sister Alice Parasol, who had given herself magic-like powers through experimentation and started calling herself Arcana. Meanwhile, back at the Parasol Manor, Salvation had turned on Sierra and knocked her out before using Battery to power the dimensional rift machine and return to the family's original dimension.

### The School Of Power Warden

Because they had found Arthur, the family returned to their dimension in chase of Salvation, and after locating a few other people with powers, found him out on a farm in Italy after sending a girl with enhanced accuracy named Lucille Bellezza to said farm for her own safety. After a lengthy monologue, Salvation was easily defeated when Lucille threw a knife into his forehead, killing him.

Upon their return to New York, the family found their name was being slandered by a man wearing a black outfit and mask calling himself Power Warden. When they tried to confront him, they found he had a group of people protecting him, each using a new kind of Dimensium they hadn't seen before. Contrary had a sword and shield made of Blue Dimensium, Militia had a glove made of Red Dimensium, and Eyecandy had powers that caused people to be drawn to her charisma and appearance. Though the family was able to cause this group to flee, Power Warden approached the family after the media had arrived and touched Isac with a glove made of Black Dimensium, causing Isac to release a powerful blast of energy which harmed a lot of people. This was enough to get Power Warden's message across, and his announcement of a place for these people to learn how to use their powers was received extremely well.

The family infiltrated this school easily, and met several students, most of which remain unimportant despite most of them being quickly befriended by the family. Sierra and Silva ended up befriending a girl named Patricia Ambrosio Batista who had notability control and ended up leading them into the basement to try to kill them, though Sierra learned how Patricia's powers worked and counter-acted them, easily defeating her. The family found out that Power Warden had been experimenting on people to learn how their powers worked as well as creating a machine that would allow him to take people's powers. This machine required the forced cooperation of Mandy Violeska to interface with the machine using her technomancy, Godelieve Dubois to use her cosmic powers as a battery for the machine, and Lucille Bellezza's enhanced accuracy to pinpoint people with powers. Though the family attempted to stop him, Power Warden was able to absorb all of the powers of everyone in the world into himself and begin to take over the world, starting with New York. It was then that he finally removed his mask, revealing that he was the Arthur Parasol of this dimension.

The family ended up not bothering to make a real plan and decided to fully wing it, with Jason broadcasting live to infuriate Power Warden and draw him back to the school where Sierra, whose enhanced musculature was not a power she was born with, was able to keep Power Warden busy while Silva reworked the controls and Isac put the last of the power stored in his cybernetic parts into the machine to power it. Christian took the powers into himself and used them to torture Power Warden before killing him and returning the powers to those who had them before.

## Important NPCs

* Alice Parasol
* Charolette Breknek
* Dr. Arthur Parasol
* Godelieve Dubois
* Gull
* Lizarus
* Lucille Bellezza
* Mandy Violeska
* Olivia Parasol
* Patricia Ambrosio Batista
* Salvation

## Important Locations

* Parasol Manor
* D-213
* D-6031

## Trivia

* April 9th is also Gerard Way's birthday. Gerard Way is the creator of *Umbrella Academy*, which heavily inspired Parasol Family.