Rhett Bronson

Known to all and detested by many, Rhett Bronson is the mayor, founder, and primary employer of Wellspring City.

## Personality

While in the public eye, Bronson has a sickeningly fake cheerful tone and optimistic outlook, and is quick to sweep anything out of the ordinary under the rug.

In private, Bronson is demanding and somewhat short-tempered with both his employees and his daughter.

## Appearance

Rhett Bronson is a fairly realistic Frankenalie toon with blond hair and blue eyes. He is always dressed in a fancy suit and well-groomed for the public eye.

## Backstory

Decades ago, Bronson built Wellspring City from the ground up, keeping control of the vast majority of its apartments and businesses as Wellspring grew from a small town to a bustling city. He is now a very wealthy, powerful, and influential man in Wellspring City, and the majority of the population seems to support and like him, though there is a vocal albeit smaller subset of citizens that strongly dislike the man.

## Shenanigans

Bronson's first appearance came in A Watershed Issue, where he made a morning news broadcast informing the citizens of Wellspring City that the subway system would be shut down due to construction downtown following a car crash. The players immediately knew this was a lie, as the damage to downtown was due to the slime monster Factoid, and set out to investigate the subway system. Wellspring's robo-cops were guarding subway entrances, but after sneaking past them, the party discovered giant mutant worms and bugs in the subway tunnels, and a mysterious ink monster fighting the other mutants.

He is briefly mentioned in the flashback FPS Old is New when Brittney tells Kat not to talk to her dad if they run into him.

At the beginning of A Fright to Remember, Bronson makes another city-wide announcement wishing the citizens a happy Halloween and telling them about various festivities for the day, including the Halloween parade the party end up disrupting.

Mayor Bronson has his first player-character-ish role in the micro-FPS Familial Lies, where he interrogates Brittney about what happened at the Halloween parade. Brittney manages to convince him she didn't know the disruption wasn't scheduled, and he demands she do better at keeping an eye out when strange things happen.

In Look Out!, Mayor Bronson greets Nikola and Brittney as they head for the roof. He remembers Nikola's mom Quartz as a former intern of his, and asks Nikola to tell her that he said hi before heading down to the offices. While Nikola and Brittney activate the mutant-repelling device on the roof, Kat spies on Mayor Bronson's office, where he discovers that the police are searching for the device. After the device is shut down, Bronson storms into his office and confronts the robots about the device still existing, revealing that he knew about it being in the parade float. After Brittney and Nikola return to Brittney's room, Mayor Bronson's assistant fetches Nikola and Brittney and brings them to the mayor's office. Mayor Bronson asks both of them if they noticed anything on the roof, and after they both pass Deception checks, he sends Nikola out of the room and scolds Brittney for not being more aware of her surroundings and noticing anything useful. Bronson says that what's happening in Wellspring City must be stopped and then dismisses Brittney.

Mayor Bronson also appears at the beginning of Fixing News, where he shows Brittney the Hellspring City blog and tasks her with trying to find the blog's author.