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The Team Justice Campaign
The "Team Justice" Champions campaign was initially set up and
GMed by Bob Iwan. It was set in an "X-Men" kind of universe,
a dark n' gritty world in which the public mistrusts superheroes
and absolutely hates those whose powers are inborn (mutants).
Team Justice was a group of outlaws fighting evil government and
corporate plots, based in the Twin Cities. The only one of the
original characters who is still on the team by the end was Quartz, a
martial artist, played by Kevin Shifflet.
Other characters, with a different agenda, joined (and often left) through the course of the campaign. My
character, Foxfire, a rather ruthless
magician, was one of these. Several heroes who joined at the same time forced the team to go legit,
making contacts with the police and the governor and brought
Team Justice into the spotlight as celebrities and heroes. This insistence on legitimacy and cooperation with authorities ultimately turned out to be the greatest source of strife within the team. Team
Justice now focussed on fighting super-powered criminals and
terrorists and made sure that the press got front-row seats. They
were a bit more subtle when it came to protecting a secret enclave
of mutants, the St. Paul
Underground.
Ray Knapp took over from Bob as GM and Team Justice had to
quietly deal with would-be totalitarians from the future and
publically discredit the politicians and businessmen who were
laying the foundations in the present for the totalitarian regime's
rise to power. Lord Kelvin, Bob Iwan's character, had to be
rescued from these would-be totalitarians. There was also a
dilemma: what to do about Team Vixen: a group of superpowered
women who had decided to rub out men who abused women.
Team Justice decided to let them be, as they were based in the
Southwest and might prove to be valuable allies if the dark future
that the totalitarians were setting up actually happened.
When Ray eloped, Craig Neumeier took over as GM. Mist, Nate
Nolan's character, a magical martial artist, defected to Team Justice
from the Black Lotus Society, a tong dominated by evil magicians. At
the moment, Team Justice is trying to foil a plot by the Black
Lotus Society which involves bringing the Dragons back to Earth,
a very impractical notion at best. All Team Justice needs to do is
catch the magician who carries the Dream of a Sword and reinstate
the Fisher King and they're set...
Craig put together his own description of the
Team Justice campaign for the benefit of new players. The campaign finished up in 1996, but I have a fairly complete plot summary.
I'm starting to post characters from Team Justice Academy:
© 1997 Rebecca Teed
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