Been having the itch to run supers more lately, so I've fired up the long-running Guardians campaign. Though instead of running with the big boys (the team itself), instead I've been running some lower level supers, who've started up their own West Coast team!
I ran on consecutive nights, and this will now make the fourth "comic book" in the 25+ year campaign. Besides the 36 issues of Justice Force (that started it all back in the early 90s) and Exploits (more solo tales and issues that run parallel to the Guardians, but don't fit into the main title), there's now the Sentinels as well.
#1 – The Horns of Hades – San Francisco city manager Jeremy Braddock encourages Psilight to form a team in the Bay Area, and the city donates a closed down fire station in the Tenderloin neighborhood for use as a base. He calls in Chronovator and Contagion, and new superhero Rejuvenator offers his services as well. Psilight’s contact Miles Jefferies texts him, alerting him that the Horns of Hades biker gang, at the Lucky 13 bar, are the ones responsible for the disappearance of prosecutor Conner Mattheson. Psilight races to the biker bar by foot while the other three fly in Chronovator’s ship, the L’Engle. Psilight finds out little by questioning patrons, so Rejuvenator starts a bar fight by blasting a man. The ten men and women of the Horns of Hades attack the heroes with knives and chains, but the adventurers make quick work of them all. Suddenly Rejuvenator becomes accusatory and shoots Psilight, so Contagion swiftly renders him unconscious. Chronovator and Psilight take the gang’s leader, Anglo, out behind the building, and Chronovator creates a portal, threatening to strand him in prehistoric times. The biker immediately spills, revealing that his group didn’t take the man, but that they were asked to do so by the supervillain Mammoth, who is holed up at a home in Pacific Heights. Psilight confronts Rejuvenator, who explains that he inadvertently switches between two personalities. The teammates pledge to try to work past their differences.
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