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Xander Mercury's Bow

> *"While a crossbow is a blessing for an untrained army, skill with a longbow will always outperform it."*
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**Xander Mercury's Bow**, nicknamed the **Tactical Bow** and the **Retaliator**, is a unique collapsible recurve bow used by Xander Mercury. It is a high-tech bow made of a durable alloy, and launches arrows at high velocity.

## Capabilities

Xander Mercury’s personal weapon of choice is a specialized recurve bow which greatly accommodates his unique combat style, allowing him to accurately shoot enemies from a considerable distance, or quickly and effectively fire at enemies during a close range fire fight or brawl while dodging gunfire and attacks from numerous enemies.

* **Sight:** To further aid in combat, the bow has a red laser sight to help Xander quickly draw a line of sight when targeting enemies at close range.
* **Durability:** When pushed to hand to hand combat the bow is durable enough to serve as an effective melee weapon.
* **Collapsibility:** The bow is collapsible, with breaks above and below the handle, as well as midway down the length of each limb. This allows the bow to be folded into a more compact form that makes it easier to conceal, carry, store, and transport. When deployed, the bow can swiftly re-assemble in one quick motion as the limbs lock back into place.
* **Remote:** Four buttons running down the length of the bow’s grip, in line with each of his fingertips, allow Xander to request specialty arrows from his quiver without taking his mind off the battle. Xander can also use these controls to remote trigger certain specialty arrows such as the explosive tip.
* **Staff Conversion:** The bow has the capability to transform into a bo staff which can be used for melee combat.

## Trivia

* The color of Xander's bow is in **Midnight Black**, because he claims it is subtle, powerful, and slimming.
* Recurve bow arrows can travel up to 300 feet per second (204.54 miles per hour).
Supergalaxy

A **supergalaxy** is a large structure that resembles a galaxy, but itself made up of galaxies. They are always elliptical in shape, and contain a vast number of galaxies; dwarf supergalaxies contain around 500,000 galaxies, normal supergalaxies contain around 50 million, and large supergalaxies (sometimes made from every galaxy in an entire universe) can contain over 50 billion.

Supergalaxies often appear as the end state of a supercluster in the late universe when the cluster has mostly coalesced.

They can be found inside turtlies.
Abandoned Station

The **Abandoned Station** is a landmark in Dockland, Illinois.

## History

This incomplete train station was the infamous setting of a blood-soaked shootout between the Dockland South Club and law enforcement on September 3rd, 1955. Three police officers were brutally gunned down on the station's platform, while five Club members escaped unharmed. This shootout became so romanticized, it inspired copycat murders in and around the unfinished station. As a result, work was soon abandoned
Empire City Police Department

The **Empire City Police Department**, often shortened to the **ECPD**, is the largest municipal police force in the **United States of America**, and the primary responsible for law enforcement and investigation within the five boroughs of Empire City.

## Facilities

* 15th Precinct - Hell's Kitchen
* 26th Precinct - Harlem
* 29th Precinct - Harlem
* 65th Precinct
* Empire City Police Department Contraband Disposal Facility
* Empire City Police Department Evidence Storage and Vehicle Impound
* Police Headquarters

## Paraphernalia

### Weaponry and Gadgets

* Handguns
	+ **Smith & Wesson 586 Magnum**
* Shotguns
	+ **Remington 870:** A 12-gauge pump action shotgun with a large barrel that allows for enhanced range.
* Assault Rifles
	+ **M4**
WKZ-TV Mad Mile

> *"Maybe a \*slight\* exaggeration, but who can resist?"*
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**WKZ-TV Mad Mile** is a tower in Dockland, Illinois.

## History

As Dockland's oldest TV station, WKZ-TV has covered the election campaigns and inaugurations of every major political player in the city for the last 70 years. Equally impressive, it has also covered the exposure and arrest of nearly every major political player in the city for the last 70 years.
Statue of Liberty

> *"My fellow Americans. Over a century ago, this nation erected a monument in New York Harbor. A Statue of Liberty. That Statue looked down upon Ellis Island, where thousands of immigrants came to seek refuge, from a home country that didn't want them, that wouldn't have them. But America took them in. That is our story. The American people today, stand as one with history."*
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The **Statue of Liberty** is a historic landmark of Empire City.

## History

The Statue of Liberty was the first sight a young Xander Mercury saw when he immigrated from Ireland to the United States of America.
V Alley

**V Alley** is an alley in Dockland, Illinois.

## History

February 1971: the Vulpines had spent the last year in a turf war with an upstart gang known as P.D.C. - gang violence came to a head in this alley, when 5 unnamed Vulpines ambushed and killed 15 key members of P.D.C. The massacre was covered by every major newspaper in the state, and brought the Vulpines legitimacy ad power, while the remaining members P.D.C went into hiding or joined the V's.
Albert Einstein

April 18, 1955

> *"Once you can accept the universe as being something expanding into an infinite nothing which is actually something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy."*
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> *"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science."*
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**Albert Einstein** was a US theoretical physicist; born in Germany; founder of the special and general theories of relativity. Often regarded as the greatest scientist of the 20th century, he was influential in the decision to build an atomic bomb. After World War II, however, he spoke out against nuclear weapons.

## Biography

### Early Life

Without his ex-wife Mileva's help, he would have still been working as a patent clerk in Vienna. She herself was a fellow nuclear physicist.

### Theory of Relativity

Einstein developed his theory of relativity when he was 28.

## Personality

> *"Two things are infinite: the universe, and human stupidity."*
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## Abilities

* **Genius-Level Intellect**
* **Bilingualism**

## Trivia

* His surname is a noun, meaning a genius.
* Einstein never had a driver's license.
Decommissioned CDC Facility

The **Decommissioned CDC Facility** is an abandoned facility used by Xander Mercury for interrogations of criminals.

## Interior

While appearing like a 1970's furniture outlet, the second floor of the building is a decommissioned CDC facility. When Xander Mercury was in Spec Ops, he was their investigator, and in his time held some patient zeros there.

The building has a hermetically sealed room with a soundproof wall. Xander Mercury rigged a safeguard to the wall. Once people are behind the room, they become inaudible.

The water in the hermetically sealed room is a conductor to an open wire, due to Xander Mercury jerry-rigging it with his former Spec Ops interrogation skills.
QuadCopter

The **QuadCopter** is a large drone.

## History

The Agency developed the quadcopter as a tool for capturing humans.

## Capabilities

* **Transportation:** The QuadCopter is an advanced quadrotor VTOL aircraft designed for the quick capture and transport of Inhumans. It possesses four large rotors, one on each wing, for propulsion and takeoff/landing.
* **Extraction Claw:** To secure its targets, the craft will hover over the area and deploy an Extraction Claw, which retrieves and returns the victim to the QuadCopter.
* **Weapons System:** For offensive purposes, the QuadCopter is armed with various missile pods built into the hull of the craft as well as a GAU-17/A Gatling Gun mounted on the underside of the cockpit.
* **Advanced Technology:** The drone uses an advanced fiber optics relay system. The drone also has 160 kilometer range.
Loop

**The Loop** is a district in downtown Dockland.

## Layout

* 35 East Wacker Drive
* Abraham Lincoln State
* Ambrose Theatre
* Aon Center
* Bloody Maxwell Police Station
* Bootlegging Factory
* Bram Steffan Pavilion
* Carding Center
* City Marina
* Cree Theater
* Desplaines Street Police Station
* Dockland Arts & Sciences Center
* Dockland City Hall
* Dockland Commerce Building
* Dockland Eastland Disaster
* Face Fountain
* Forever Sculpture
* Fort Dearborn Massacre
* Harbor Lighthouse
* Haymarket Square Riot
* Lexington Hotel
* Lombardo Murder
* Meadowmoore Dairies
* Miller's Rail Bar
* Ocean Tower
* Palin Correctional Center
* Randolph Street Subway Terminal
* Raven Building
* Saffard Memorial Fountain
* Saint Jude Police League
* Secret Six
* Seventh Federal Bank
* South Tech University
* Tremont House Hotel
* Vault Tower
* Willis Tower
* WKZ-TV Center
Bridge Construction

> *"Keep it cheerful! We don't want jumpers."*
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**Bridge Construction** is a landmark in Dockland, Illinois.

## History

Due to the barriers encountered in attempting to replace neighboring bridges, the municipal government has begun construction on a more modern connection to the rest of the city of Dockland. The bridge has yet to be named, but for the sake of promotion, developers Barbieri & Salcedo are currently attempting suggestions on their website.
Supergod

**Supergods** are a species of entity native to the Transcendentem that inhabit Beyond bubbles, notable for their tendancy to create monocosms with complicated internal behaviour and to form complex societies, and their high levels of sentience relative to their power. Typically, supergods possess omnipotence2 and omniscience2, though depending on the supergod these range from omnipotence1 (such as Monopolum and other Pygmy Supergods) to omnipotence3 (many notable examples, including Conceptilum and Xenixel) and similar variance along the omniscience scale.

Supergods are made up of and get their power from godsmoke, an assemblage of independently omnipotent particles that are the "cells" of the supergod, produced in supergod eggs before they hatch into supergods.

Relative to the local monocosm, the only relevant group of supergods is the Supergod Council, the creators of the monocosms and omnipotent entities in the local Beyond bubble. The oldest member of the Supergod Council, Conceptilum, is downstream of a larger society of supergods that interacted frequently with other species in the transcendent ecosystem, though the current equilibrium that the Supergod Council is in is part of a much less hospitable and inhabited Beyond bubble cohort downstream of a Transcendentem collapse and Transcendentem Breaker activity.

## Psychological colour-clusters

Due to their high levels of sentience relative to their power, supergods have a large amount of psychological variance, which far from the median distribution of traits forms identifiable clusters that as translation convention are named after and rendered as colours. Some of these clusters are green, magenta, and yellow.
Second Regiment Armory

> *"Not far from here is the former site of the Second Regiment Armory. We could not get the legal rights to place a plaque on the actual site, but this is close enough."*
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The **Second Regiment Armory** was a site in Dockland, Illinois.

## History

845 bodies from the Eastland ferry disaster were brought to the Armory until they could be identified by their relatives. To this day people claim to hear sobbing, whispering, and doors slamming, and a phantom woman dressed in early 1900s attire has been drifting through the site.
Empire City

> *"Empire City is a very different place in the 21st century. The most famous skyline in the world now belies a city gripped by fear and suspicion. In the shadow of an uncertain economy and the threat of terrorism, organized criminals, corrupt officials, and beleaguered security forces vie for supremacy in a city that is desperately trying to become a suburb. It is still a place where anything is possible, depending on how much of yourself you are prepared to sacrifice in the process."*
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**Empire City** is a major city and port in southeastern **New York**, situated on the Atlantic coast at the mouth of the **Hudson River**. It is situated mainly on islands, linked by bridges, and consists of five boroughs: Manhattan, Brooklyn, the Bronx, Queens, and Staten Island. Manhattan is the economic and cultural heart of the city, containing the stock exchange on **Wall Street** and the headquarters of the **United Nations**.

## History

New York City was renamed Empire City at some point.

## Layout

### Manhattan

* Abe Lebewohl Park
* Apollo Theater
* Arcane Apartments
* Atlantic Standard Public Deposit Bank
* Barbuto
* Carnegie Hall
* Central Carousel
* Chelsea Piers
* Chesterfield Hotel
* Chrysler Building
* Columbia Presbyterian Hospital
* Columbia University
* Condon's Pub
* Eaves Condominium
* Empire City Hall
* Empire City Police Stations
* Empire County Courthouse
* Empire Presbyterian Hospital
* Empire State Building
* Empire University Langone Medical Center
* Feast
* Grand Central Terminal
* Hero Hospital
* Hidden Hotel
* Irish Mafia Club
* Leaman Liquor
* Lenox Hill Hospital
* McGregor's Bar
* Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
* Midtown West Apartments
* Mount Sinai Hospital
* Pearce Electronics
* Per Se
* Pier 81
* Plaza Hotel
* Press Lounge
* Rockefeller Center
* Russian Mafia
* Saint Patrick's Old Cathedral
* Saint Vincent's Hospital
* SoHo House
* South Street Seaport
	+ Pier 16
* Square Diner
* Statue of Liberty
* Superhero Headquarters
* Superhero Tower
* Superlative Coffee
* Tech Tower
* Times Square
* Trinity Church
* Tryon Public House
* United Nations Headquarters

### Brooklyn

* Decommissioned CDC Facility
* Ebbets Field
* Kings County Hospital Center
* Law Office

### The Bronx

* Montefiore Hospital
* Northeast Correctional Facility
* Rikers Island

### Staten Island

* Richmond University Medical
* Staten Island University Hospital

## Residents

* Samuel Garamond
* Duncan Grey
* Xander Mercury

### Former

* Adrianne Mercury
* Simon Mercury

## Crime

### Gangs

* Empire City Triads
* Harlem Hustlers
* Kitchen Irish
* Mexican Cartel
* The Russians
* Yakuza

## Culture

### Sports Teams

* Brooklyn Bolts
* Empire Nines
* Empire University Panthers
* Kitchen Hellions

### Radio Stations

* Empire City Hardcore
* Empire Rock Radio
* Public Empire Radio
* Radio Brooklyn
* WNEX
Big Jim Colosimo's Café

**Big Jim Colosimo's Café** is a café in Dockland, Illinois.

## History

Before Torrio and before Capone, Big Jim Colosimo ran Dockland's outfit. Big Jim controlled the South Side's hundreds of gambling saloons, opium dens and brothels from 1902 to 1920. Big Jim sealed his fate when he refused to expand the business into illegal liquor smuggling. Johnny Torrio, anxious to expand his business, ordered a hit on his boss. Colosimo was gunned down in his own establishment.
Samuel Morton's Home

> *"Imagine what he would've done to telemarketers."*
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**Samuel Morton's Home** is a residence in Dockland, Illinois.

## History

This site was the home of Samuel "Nails" Morton, a Jewish gangster who served in World War One before establishing his life of crime in Dockland. Morton was a member of the North Side Gang along with Dean O'Banion. He reportedly shot two police officers for interrupting him as he ate dinner.
Russia

> *"Regimes fall every day. I tend not to weep over that. I'm Russian."*
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**Russia** is a country in northern Asia and eastern Europe.

## History

The modern state originated from the expansion of the principality of Muscovy into a great empire. Russia played an increasing role in Europe from the time of Peter the Great in the early 18th century. Following the overthrow of the tsar in the Russian Revolution of 1917, Russia became the largest of the constituent republics of the Soviet Union, with more than three quarters of the area and over half the population. On the breakup of the Soviet Union and the collapse of communist control in 1991, Russia emerged as an independent state and a founding member of the Commonwealth of Independent States.

### Birth of Leona Zolnerowich

Leona Zolnerowich was born here in Stalingrad, on November 22, 1984.

## Trivia

* There is nothing money cannot buy in Russia.
* In Russian, there is no word for "optimist."
May Stadium

> *"Sit yourself among 35,000 fans for a game. When you're hungry, chow down on a tasty hot dog from the stadium's concession stand. Just make sure you have a shot of penicillin handy, because you'll need it!"*
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**May Stadium** is a baseball stadium in Parker Square, Dockland.

## History

May Stadium is a great place to catch a game. Built in 1901, the May was one of the first large-scale baseball venues in the country.

## Champions

### Series

* 1904
* 1905
* 1920
* 1934
* 1936
* 1937
* 1941
* 1974
* 1988
* 1999

### Division

* 1990
* 2005

## Staff

* Alan Gomez - Stadium Security Clearance/Security Guard
Xander Mercury's Motorcycle

**Xander Mercury's Motorcycle** is a special motorcycle used by Xander Mercury.

## Capabilities

* **Kinetic Energy Recovery System:** The bike's Kinetic Energy Recovery System uses the bike's axle power to generate energy for the hyper cell battery. This power can be delivered to the back wheel via a direct drive brushless motor, giving the bike a hi torque speed boost.
Garret Runnels

**Garret Runnels** is an Agency specialist and rival of Xander Mercury.

### Recruitment

Garret eventually became a military assassin. However, he was dishonorably discharged, as he became an obsession discovering creative ways to kill.

He was in custody until recruited by the director of the Agency.

He underwent combat enhancement, but was slowly fed doses of Lastrapium Trioxide, without his knowledge.

## Powers and Abilities

### Powers

During his time at the Agency, Garret underwent combat enhancement for wakefulness, to numb the pain center, ad push the adrenergic system for strength and stamina.

* **Pain Suppression**
* **Enhanced Strength**
* **Enhanced Stamina**

### Abilities

* **Expert Combatant**
* **Expert Assassin**
* **Expert Marksman**
Burned Down Factory

> *"That's one way to deal with heartburn."*
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The **Burned Down Factory** is a factory in Dockland, Illinois.

## History

> *"I'm sure she would've been content with flowers."*
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A modern-day relic, this old factory serves as a reminder of the perils of love and obsession. The story goes that an employee, spurned by the love of his life, walked into work wearing dynamite on his belt, and brought the building down around him. He left a note saying that this was meant to be "one last gift" for his true love.
Desplaines Street Police Station

The **Desplaines Street Police Station** is a police station of the Dockland Police Department.

## History

October 1893: The very troubled Patrick Prendergast went to the home of Dockland Mayor Carter Harrison Sr., and shot the mayor three times before escaping. Shortly after, he turned himself in to police at the Desplaines station. Prendergast's motive was a meandering tale. His lawyer attempted to have him declared insane but the attempts failed. Prendergast was executed by hanging in 1894.
Parker Square Marina

**Parker Square Marina** is a marina in Parker Square, Dockland.

## History

Though not as large as the city's main marina, Parker Square's humble little harbor was recently the subject of a twenty million dollar city revamp. Rather, it was until the Dockland South Club did its own "financial reevaluation" and the money went to the main marina instead. Kind of makes you wonder what's hidden beneath the waves, doesn't it?
Emmet Rose

**Emmet Rose** was an assassin who developed pyrokinetic powers.

## Powers and Abilities

### Powers

* **Fire Manipulation:** Emmet has the ability to generate and manipulate fire to a multitude of dangerous effects, from setting a match aflame, to making fire emerge on the floor of the jail he was kept inside. He can even make fire appear on his hands without it hurting him. At full power, Emmet can generate entire huge columns of flame from his palms, but his power can also be as precise at lighting just one single match and making it appear on a surface. Emmet had the ability to create and manipulate small flames, however, training greatly enhanced his powers, and he became able to create stronger burst of flames, powerful enough to burn a hole in a person's chest or burn another to ashes. He also uses his powers in a defensive manner, by creating a shield of flames around him that is able to melt bullets shot at him. He is immune to his own powers due to special heat-resistant platelets in his blood.

## Weaknesses

* **Water:** Emmet's powers are countered by a large amount of water.

## Trivia

* Emmet's core temperature is 666°F (352.2°C).
Samuel Garamond

> *"Don't naively squander your opportunity to engage listeners and readers by setting for dubious, inadequate, or ineffective words when you can select persuasive, lucid, and even luminous ones. Be ambitious, not lackadaisical, and practice the fundamental discipline of choosing the optimum word at each precise moment. Whether you want your audience to agitate, speculate, or innovate, the right word keeps your communication brisk and agile. Practice daily, and your zeal for efficient communication will earn you accolades and affirmation."*
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> *"If you let people's perception of you dictate your behavior, you'll never grow as a person, But if you leave yourself open to experience, despite what others think, then you'll learn and grow. And when you grow and mature, then you can rub their noses in it."*
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**Samuel Garamond** is a librarian and friend of Xander Mercury residing in Empire City.

## Personality

Samuel believes a real hero is someone who does the right thing when the right thing isn't the easy thing to do.

## Trivia

* Garamond is a typeface much used in books, originating from the mid 19th century, named after Claude Garamond, a French type founder.
Peter Marshall's Suit

**Peter Marshall's Suit** is a suit used by the speedster vigilante Peter Marshall.

## Sections

* **Cowl**
	+ **Earpieces:** A two-way headset with a camera modified and typically designed to combat battlefield impulse noise, or in his case, potential sonic booms. These can be turned off. The radio waves emanating from them is about 1,900 megahertz.
* **Bodysuit:** The bodysuit's vulcanized Teflon, which neutralizes any electron imbalance, keeps the friction from building up a lethal dose of static charge.
	+ **Defibrillator**
	+ **Thermal Threading**
* **Boots**

## Trivia

* The suit takes inspiration from *The Flash*, from both CW Television and the DC Extended Universe.
Queens

> *"Like the suburbs, only worse."*-Xander Mercury
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**Queens** is one of the five boroughs of Empire City.

## Layout

### Neighborhoods

* Arverne
* Astoria
* Bayside
* Bayswater
* Beechhurst
* Belle Harbor
* Bellerose
* Boulevard Gardens
* Breezy Point
* Briarwood
* Broad Channel
* Broadway-Flushing
* Cambria Heights
* Chinatown
* College Point
* Corona
* Douglaston
* East Elmhurst
* Edgemere
* Elmhurst
* Far Rockaway
* Floral Park
* Flushing
* Fresh Meadows
* Fresh Pond
* Glendale
* Glen Oaks
* Hammels
* Hollis
* Howard Beach
* Jackson Heights
* Jamaica
* Jamaica Estates
* Jamaica Hills
* Kew Gardens
* Kew Gardens Hills
* Koreatown
* Laurelton
* LeFrak City
* Little Neck
* Locust Manor
* Long Island City
* Maspeth
* Middle Village
* Neponsit
* North Shore Towers
* Ozone Park
* Queensboro Hill
* Queensbridge
* Queens Village
* Rego Park
* Richmond Hill
* Ridgewood
* Rochdale Village
* Rockaway
* Rockaway Beach
* Rockaway Park
* Rosedale
* Roxbury
* St. Albans
* Seaside
* South Jamaica
* Springfield Gardens
* Sunnyside
* The Hole
* Whitestone
* Willets Point
* Woodhaven
* Woodside
* Wyckoff Heights
Harbor Lighthouse

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The **Harbor Lighthouse** is a lighthouse outside Dockland, Illinois.

## History

Harbor Lighthouse has been a beacon to passing ships and teenagers looking for a place to make out since it was built in 1893. At the time it was considered state of the art engineering and has always been upgraded accordingly. The lens is extremely rare.
Saint Joseph Cemetery

**Saint Joseph Cemetery** is a cemetery in Parker Square, Dockland.

## History

Among the tombstones of honest, hardworking men and women, there is one grave site in the cemetery that is particularly notable. Dug into the cemetery's mountain, bearing a sculpture of his likeness, is the grand tomb of Finnegan Jones, Dockland's most popular Lincoln impersonator. Upon his death, Jones received a state funeral attended by over 1000 adoring fans.
Harlem

> *"Now, Harlem is a community that welcomes everyone. All people. But at the same time, since the days of Langston Hughes, Malcolm X, Zora Neale Hurston, Duke Ellington, Harlem has been the jewel of black America. It's a perpetual symbol of hope and prosperity and excellence. For black lives to matter, black history and black ownership must also matter. Now, the multifaceted plan for the Crispus Attucks Complex is just another way to bring hope to a new generation, to incubate the kind of innovation and creativity and progress that Harlem's famous for."*
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> *"He changed. He evolved. You see, Harlem would do that to you. Where some people see a warzone, Duncan always sees a pasture. A breeding ground for artistry, greatness. From Billy Strayhorn, Teddy Riley, Big L, A$AP Rocky. All those brothers came from right here. Roses from the concrete."*
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**Harlem** is a district neighborhood of Empire City and the place where Duncan Grey grew up.

## History

Harlem is located north of 96th Street in northeastern Manhattan. It has a large black population and in the 1920s and 1930s was noted for its nightclubs and jazz bands.

### Duncan Grey's Vigilantism

> *"Harlem is supposed to represent our hopes and dreams. It's the pinnacle of black art, politics, innovation. It's supposed to be a shining light to the world."*
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## Landmarks

* Andrew Jackson High School
* Apollo Theater
* A Train Diner
* Boulevard
* Colon's Gym
* CVS
* Frederick Douglass Hospital
* Genghis Connie's Chinese Restaurant
* Harlem's Paradise
* Harlem Women's Clinic
* Jackie Robinson Park
* Jumbo's
* Marcus Garvey Park
* Mount Morris Park
* Mount Olivet Church
* Pop's Barber Shop
* PS 154
* Red Rooster
* Spurlock's Mortuary
* United Palace Theatre
* VIM Jeans and Sneakers
* Wendy's
* Willie Burger

### New Harlem Renaissance Housing Complexes

The following housing complexes are vibrant communities reflecting the change that keeps Harlem black.

* Crispus Attucks
* Madam C.J. Walker
* Adam Clayton Powell
* Shirley Chisholm

## Culture

> *"I believe in Harlem. You know, my Harlem is saturated with jazz, and good food, and the pure genius that permates the streets. Harlem is risin' like a phoenix out of the ashes. I mean, that's what all the various complexes is about, restoring that luster."*
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Hydroxy-Cyclosarin

**Hydroxy-Cyclosarin** is a nerve agent. Xander Mercury describes it as the apocalypse in the form of a chemical weapon.

## History

Hydroxy-Cyclosarin was about to hit the open market, and members of the Agency uncovered a manufacturing plant in a country bordering Egypt. All samples were accounted for, except for one. The Agency's sources traced the sample through Europe to an estate in a small country in Europe.

## Capabilities

* **Lethality:** One milliliter of Hydroxy-Cyclosarin has a kill radius of ten miles, and it only took half that amount to produce results.
Stalingrad

**Stalingrad**, formerly known as **Tsaritsyn**, now known as **Volgograd** and nicknamed the **City of Blood**, is an industrial city in southwestern Russia, at the junction of the Don and Volga rivers.

## Trivia

* Stalingrad being nicknamed the "City of Blood" derives from *Call of Duty: Black Ops 3*, one of Xander Mercury's favorite video games.
Lexington Hotel

The **Lexington Hotel** is a hotel in Dockland, Illinois.

## History

The Lexington was Capone's last stop before he was arrested in 1931 for tax evasion. Built in 1892 as a standard luxury hotel, when Capone and his gang moved in they gave the Lex a shooting gallery, a vault and secret passageways leading to taverns and brothels. They were meant to be an easy escape from the police and other potential threats. But not even secret tunnels can save a guy from the IRS.
Jewelers' Building

> *"This was once the tallest building outside of Empire City, you know."*
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The **Jewelers' Building**, also known as **35 East Wacker**, is a skyscraper in Dockland, Illinois.

## History

One of the tallest buildings in the world, the Jewelers' Building was constructed with a specially designed car elevator to transport jewelry merchants safely into the tower. What isn't widely known is that a billion dollars' worth of jewels is rumored to be encased within this 90 year old building's walls.
Empire State Building

> *"Standing over 1400 feet tall and weighing 365,000 tons, the Empire State Building was opened in 1931 and has remained one of Empire City's most recognizable landmarks ever since."*-Xander Mercury
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The **Empire State Building** is a landmark in Empire City.

## History

When construction began on March 17, 1930, the framework rose at a rate of four and a half stories per week.

It took seven million man-hours to build, leading Xander Mercury to view it as a 102-story testament to human will.

## Trivia

* From the lobby to the top, there is a total of 1,816 steps.
Lie Detector

The **Lie Detector** is a device modified by the Agency to detect lies.

## History

The Lie Detector was designed by the Agency to determine if a subject is telling the truth about the questions they are asked.

The original lie detector only measured a person's hear rate, blood pressure, motor responses, and especially autonomic reactions while talking.

## Capabilities

* **Lie Detection:** The Lie Detector measures galvanic skin response, oxygen consumption, micro-expressions, biofeedback, brainwaves, pupil dilation, and voice biometrics, with 96 variables in all.
Saint Jude Police League

The **Saint Jude Police League** is an organization in Dockland..

## History

1932: In the midst of the Great Depression, Prohibition, and the reign of Al Capone, the Dockland Police Department founded the St. Jude Police League, a charitable organization that honors police officers killed in the line of duty and supports their families.

Two decades later, the St. Jude Police League Memorial March was initiated. The parade, dedicated to remembering fallen state and city police officers, has since become an annual tradition.
Murder Castle

**Murder Castle** is a castle in Dockland, Illinois.

## History

The 1893 World's Fair was the perfect bait for Dr. Henry Howard Holmes (aka Herman Mudgett) to lure his estimated 200+ victims to his front door. Holmes built the 60 room, 3-story building with secret passageways, trap doors and chutes. Holmes advertised for tourists and staff. These unwary visitors and employees checked in and never left. The building burned down in 1895. Holmes was convicted and executed in 1896.
Sands

> *"What do you do if you're a mayor in 1850 with a criminal shantytown in your beloved city? If you're mayor Long John Wentworth, you lure the residents of the Sands to a fake horse race and then have your mean tear all the shacks down. I'm not sure how long it took for the prostitutes, gamblers, thieves and murderers to figure out the horses weren't racing, but when they got back they started one helluva riot. Just when the situation could be described as really bad, someone lit a match. The entire area - roughly the size of a horse track - was flattened into a smoking rubble."*
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The **Sands** is a landmark in Dockland, Illinois.
Hell's Kitchen

> *"What is it, to be a hero? Look in the mirror and you'll know. Look into your own eyes and tell me you are not heroic, that you have now endured, or suffered... or lost the things you care about most. And yet, here you are... a survivor of Hell's Kitchen... the hottest place anyone's ever known. A place where cowards don't last long. So... you must be a hero. We all are. Some more than others, but none of us alone. Some bloody their fists trying to keep the Kitchen safe. Others bloody the streets in the hope they can stop the tide, the crime, the cruelty... the disregard for human life all around them. But this is Hell's Kitchen. Angel or devil, rich or poor, young or old, you live here. You didn't choose this town. It chose you. Because a hero isn't someone who lives above us, keeping us safe. A hero is not a god or an idea. A hero lives here... on the street, among us, with us. Always here but rarely recognized. Look in the mirror and see yourself for what you truly are. You're a New Yorker. You're a hero. This is your Hell's Kitchen. Welcome home."*-Xander Mercury
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**Hell's Kitchen** is a neighborhood of Midtown Empire City.
Triomphe Tower

> *"If you have the wallet for it, a night's stay in the Tri-Tow comes highly recommended, you rich so-and-so."*
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The **Triomphe Tower** is a skyscraper in Dockland, Illinois.

## History

Named after the notorious hotel tycoon, the Triomphe Tower is an elite residential building and hotel built by the wealthy for the wealthy, and is known for its luxurious elegance and high prices.
Leona Zolnerowich/Quote

A collection of quotes from Leona Zolnerowich.

## Main

> *"Born to fight, trained to kill. Prepared to die, never will. Keep low, move fast. Kill first, die last. One shot, one kill. No luck, pure skill."*
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> *"Looking over your shoulder needs to become second nature."*
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> *"Stay low. Move quickly. Head down. Don't make eye contact. Stealth is speed and motion."*
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> *"People trying to kill you. It's unsettling. But you get used to it. I did."*
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> *"I was taught not to trust **anyone**, and that's something everyone has to learn. Especially every girl."*
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> *"I can't do it forever. Just like I can't hide from myself forever."*
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> *"When you don't know who to trust, and it seems like you often do, you get used to it."*
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> *"A gun might as well shoot both ways at once. You want to take out the person in the crosshairs? You have to get okay with taking out the person at the trigger. You don't get to choose."*
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> *"Could I really be that full and that empty all at once? And, except for the other versions of myself, that alone?"*
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> *"Stay focused, Leona. It's all about the mission. Keep your mind on the mission."*
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> *"I find everything about children disorienting."*
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> *"My only instincts are to shoot and run."*
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> *"Morale? I pretty much suck at that."*
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> *"Outnumbered. At least ten to one. Been there before."*
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> *"My expectations are appallingly low."*
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> *"The appearances of things are deceptive and the hope of men is deceived."*
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> *"When will it be my turn? When will I get to let go? Who will be holding me?"*
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> *"Love is for children."*
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> *"Keep your true self buried under several layers of untrue selves."*
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> *"Nothing lasts forever."*
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South Tech University

> *"What do you mean, you've never heard of South Tech Univeristy?*
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**South Tech Univeristy (STU)** is a university in Dockland, Illinois.

## History

this is one of the finest universities in the country, well known for its Geology, Interpretive Dance, and Astrobiology departments. Their football team, the South Tech Sandtippers, is expected to do well each season.

## Sports Teams

> *"Go, Sandtippers!"*
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* South Tech Sandtippers - Football
Japan

**Japan** is a country in eastern Asia that occupies a chain of islands in the Pacific Ocean roughly parallel with the eastern coast of the Asiatic mainland.

## History

From the late 19th century Japan began a modernizing process that eventually made it into a major world power. It fought wars against China 1894-95 and Russia 1904-05, and after World War I occupied Manchuria 1931 and invaded China 1937. Japan entered World War II on the Axis side with a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941. The country surrendered in 1945 after the US dropped the atom bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Japan is now a highly industrialized country and the leading economic power in the region.

### Edo Period, Mid-17th Century

#### 1641: Feudal Japan

In the Kansai Region, on the island of Honshu in the vicinity of Kyoto, the Shogun at the time was Tokugawa Iemitsu (Iemitsu Tokugawa), a particularly brutal warlord, with men trained in the art of war by Shimura himself. The reason he sticks out in the history books is because he liked to murder his wives,

In Samurai tradition, a warrior is always prepared for death, and a woman celebrates when her husband dies with honor.

## Trivia

* Ninjas are a secret brotherhood of men trained in the art of assassination.
Owl Motel

The **Owl Motel** is a motel in Parker Square, Dockland.

## History

This quiet little motel had its own short moment of heated excitement in 1967, when an informant crucial to the conviction of Sam "Teets" Battaglia was kept under wraps in room 205. For the time of Battaglia's trial, the informant, Joseph Joyce, had to be moved repeatedly to escape being murdered by Battaglia's men. The Owl Motel was Joyce's last relocation before he took the stand, putting away Battaglia for good.
Rossi-Fremont

> *"Rossi-Fremont. They had such big hopes with this place. All that did was bring the gangs together under one roof. Loyalty to your neighborhood just became loyalty to your housing block."*
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> *"If Dockland is focusing on being a smarter city, let's hope they stop being stupid about this place."*
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**Rossi-Fremont** is a housing co-op in Dockland, Illinois.

## History

The infamous Rossi-Fremont Low Income Housing Co-op was doomed from the start. Idealists thought they could build an instant community, but decades of poor infrastructure, policing, and funding has turned it into more of a gang-ridden prison. Many of the citizens living here are trapped.

## Residents

* Latoya Asad
* Russ Gaines
* Veyshawn Glover
* Shawna Harris
* Anderson Lewis
* Guy McNeil
* Darnell Rice
* Shanice Williams
Pawnee Dam

> *"It ain't just beavers who can build dams. Check out this beauty."*
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The **Pawnee Dam** is a dam in Pawnee, Dockland.

## History

> *"Tours are available on select dates, so if you're into hydroelectrical engineering, you will have a ball."*
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The Pawnee Dam was built in 1936 in an effort to push back the Pawnee River and facilitate development in this outskirt of Dockland.

The dam was a success until the Illinois drought of 1981 caused the Pawnee River to dry up.

Now the dam stands there, not really serving a purpose besides being a historical monument.
Face Fountain

> *"No, Dockland is not being invaded by monsters with giant heads. Oh those fancy artists and their wacky inspirations. I'm guessing the inspiration for this fountain involved cubes. Lots of cubes. I'm just guessing here."*
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**Face Fountain** is a fountain in the Loop, Dockland.

## History

Situated in Millennium Park, this unique fountain is a cross-section of city life and digital art.
Duncan Grey's Suit

**Duncan Grey's Suit** is the protective body armor worn by Duncan Grey.

## Sections

* **Bodysuit**
* **Electrostatic Bracelets**
* **Utility Belt**

### Utility Belt

Duncan' specially designed belt, with its many pouches filled with an arsenal of numerous gadgets, weapons and tools at all times, to aid Duncan in his mission. Such gadgets include cell-phone microtransmitters and receivers, latex fingerprint covers and digital face-recognition tech scramblers.

* **Sidearm**
* **Tactical Microflashlight**
* **Microdarts:** Duncan has three Agency microdarts, each containing enough toxin to put down an elephant.
* **Switchblade:** A compact switchblade, inspired by James Bond.
* **Alert Device:** A device that alerts when someone is in the area, giving Duncan enough time to get to safety or suit up. It uses advanced chemoreceptors to pick up on unique smell profiles, essentially tracking people by their smell.
Chrysler Building

> *"This is maybe my favorite spot in the city. Not the highest, because those bring tourists. Not the quietest or the warmest, not seventy-one stories up in the winds. But the freest. It's my happy place. From here, I can imagine myself diving into absolutely anything."*
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The **Chrysler Building** is a skyscraper in Empire City.

## Trivia

* On top of the Chrysler Building is Xander Mercury's favorite spot in Empire City.
Dockland Water Tower

The **Dockland Water Tower** is a tower in Dockland, Illinois.

## History

> *"Which makes sense, if you think about it. After all, it is a water tower, right?"*
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The Dockland Water Tower was built in 1869, and was one of the few buildings in the city to survive the Great Dockland Fire of 1871.

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Upon seeing it, Oscar Wilde called the water tower a "monstrosity."
Sienna Brick Factory

> *"For you film bluffs, the bloodcurdling climax between rookie cop Kate Houston and the Stone Cold Killer was filmed on the rooftop. The Stone Cold Killer had his iconic death on the pile of cinder blocks next to the building!"*
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The **Sienna Brick Factory** is a factory in Dockland, Illinois.

## History

Known as 'the old rail station', Sienna Brick Factory not only provided building materials to the region, it was also famous for being featured in the 1985 horror classic The Stone Cold Killer.

## Trivia

* Sienna Brick Factory is nicknamed "The Bricks."
* Sienna is a kind of ferruginous earth used as a pigment in painting, normally yellowish-brown in color or deep reddish-brown when roasted.
Deadman's Corner

**Deadman's Corner** is an intersection in Dockland, Illinois.

## History

Few cities can claim one, let alone more than one, corner so notoriously named. A few blocks from Bloody Maxwell is an intersection known as Deadman's Corner. The slum area was the location for a series of fatal shootouts that had taken place here. A swamp of criminals, this location was reportedly where more police were killed by thugs than any other in Dockland's long criminal history.
Hawthorne Hotel

The **Hawthorne Hotel** is a hotel in Dockland, Illinois.

## History

The Hawthorne was famous in its day for being one of Al Capone's many headquarters.

January 17th, 1926: Al Capone's men decide to give their boss a birthday present. The gang kidnapped jazz musician Fats Waller and brought him to play for Capone's birthday party. Waller played for three days straight with a gun to his head. Waller later said he was paid "really well."
William Brighton

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Farris Halstead Library

**Farris Halstead Library** is a library in Parker Square, Dockland.

## History

The Farris Halstead Library may not be much to look at from the outside, but it provides a valuable service to the community. The library is a popular gathering place for local youth. They use its parking lot to skateboard, play basketball, and find love. If they were to ever go inside the library, they would also find a lot of books.
South Street Seaport

The **South Street Seaport** is a seaport in Manhattan, Empire City.

## History

When a blackout occurred by the South Street Seaport, criminals utilized a Vibration Cannon to dig up an artifact from the East River.

The Vibration Cannon being used by criminals was projecting towards the East River from the seaport. If the Vibration Cannon went too hard, the whole seaport would have crumbled into the water it wasn't for Xander Mercury investigating the power failure.

After an intense battle, Xander Mercury foiled the plans and disabled the Vibration Cannon.
Windy City Shipyards

> *"Not a place to go fishing, if you catch my drift."*
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The **Windy City Shipyards** are shipyards in Dockland, Illinois.

## History

Tens of thousands of shipping containers have moved in and out of the shipyard every year for over a century. The Windy City Shipyards is one of Dockland's most vital lifelines, and lately, with so much mob activity near the yards, it might become one of Dockland's most notorious.
Klaus Schlechtnacht

**Klaus Schlechtnacht** is a superpowered criminal with plans of world domination.

## Powers and Abilities

### Powers

* **Dark Energy Manipulation:** Klaus is able to manipulate dark energy in a variety of ways, especially projecting bolts of dark energy that appear as twisting black smoke and stun whomever they contact. Klaus is able to send dark energy outward to his intended targets to absorb them, even able to select individual targets though gathered. Klaus also learned to use the cold of dark energy as a very effective torture device without killing his target.
	+ **Energy Manipulation:** Klaus is able to suck the energy out of anything around him, making light bulbs blink when he passes and rendering most conventional weapons useless against him. Klaus can kill with a touch by absorbing the electrical impulses of a human. Klaus has a limit on how much energy he can absorb at one time.
	+ **Matter Absorption:** When the emotional level of Klaus is heightened through anger or fear, he gains the ability to transform a living thing into dark energy and absorb it into his body, which extends a scar on his body.
	+ **Invisibility:** Klaus can absorb all forms of light around him; since sight occurs when the eye absorbs light reflected or emitted from an object, Klaus cannot therefore be seen.
	+ **Intangibility:** Klaus can temporarily become molecularly intangible.
	+ **Shadow Manifestation:** Klaus has the ability to manifest a sentient form of dark energy in form of his shadow, able to shift its density at will. This allows the shadow to harm others while being able to not get touched by others.

### Abilities

* **Master Scientist:**
* **Master Tactician:**
Humans

**Humans** are the inhabitants of earth.

## History

### Superhumans

There exists a small percentage of the population with a dormant alien gene mixed into their DNA. There is a chemical compound that activates this gene, giving them unnatural abilities. This chemical compound was recently released into our ecosystem. They call themselves superhumans.
Dockland Bloom Headquarters

> *"Besides being the inception of our smart city central operating system network, Bloom is involved in lots of high tech research and development. Behind that scary super secret security, we may never know what that tech is. I do, however, try every now and then to sift through their dumpsters and see if I can find a hover car or ray gun."*
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The **Dockland Bloom Headquarters** is the headquarters for the Bloom Corporation in Dockland, Illinois.

## Staff

* Bradley Caughlin - Security Director
* Tim Colding - Guard
* Bryan Deeley - Guard
* Gene Deloray - Assistant Operations Manager
* Charlotte Gardner
* Ross Horitz - Security Chief
* Nate Lloyd - Guard
* Angus Shostack - Security Chief
* Pete Wright - Guard
Hanson Park

**Hanson Park** is a park in Dockland, Illinois.

## History

As the Dockland South Club spread, their reach inevitably met the resistance of the Dockland Outfit and other outlying gangs. One act of retaliation took place near this park, and while details of the attack have never been agreed upon - whether the Dockland Outfit was responsible, how many Club members were killed - only one survivor was seen fleeing the scene.
Seventh Federal Bank

The **Seventh Federal Bank** is a bank in Dockland.

## History

It's a grand old building that's seen its share of thieves.

### September 1933

One day in September 1933, bank robber Alvin Karpis used machine-guns and smoke bombs to rob the bank. With five sacks loaded in the car, Karpis made his getaway right into a head-on collision. When an officer stopped to investigate the accident, Karpis gunned the officer down and stole a car. The escape took Karpis to a south side hideout where he discovered the sacks were full of mail.