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ARCLight "With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility."

Atlanta, Georgia. 1998.

High atop the tallest building in the city, the NationsBank Tower, the armored supervillain Scourge has just broadcast his ultimatum to the Mayor. Suddenly (dum-dum-dum!), the members of the local superhero group ARCLight appear. The dark shadows near a wall converge and coalesce into the shape of Shadow Wolf, ready to do battle. Silverblade swings up from below, landing on his feet near Scourge. Valkyrie smashes through a rooftop access door to confront Scourge. Flashback takes cover behind the ventilation shaft and readies himself for an energy blast. Shard takes flight, shrinking down to the size of a dime. It's just another day for our heroes.

Our campaign began in 1985. The original superhero group, the first ever in our campaign world, was Heroes, Inc. and consisted of a cyborg (Defensor), an armored space marine (Thud), a martial artist (Black Panther), and a fashionable and dexterous lady (Stiletto). Of this group, only Defensor and Thud are still around, the survivors of an ultimate battle of good vs. evil that occurred in another universe. Afterwards, there were few super-powered beings of any sort in the world for several years.

Our current campaign began in 1989. A number of people who had been born during the period of atomic testing in the western United States during the 1950's were examined by the Advanced Research Consortium. The doctors of ARC discovered that they possessed certain mutations which could be enhanced to provide the subjects with super-powers. This study was done at ARC-Emory University by Dr. Richard Thornton and Dr. Mordecai Scourge. The original members of ARCLight, as the group called themselves were the Electric Knight, BlueFlame, Shadow Wolf, and Silverblade. It was during this study that Dr. Scourge suffered an accident that left him dependent on the armored suit that he wears today.

Granted a charter and police powers from the city of Atlanta in 1994, it is ARCLight's duty to put down the criminal element whenever it rears its ugly head. More recently, the group became affiliated with the United Nations Investigation of Super Human Abilities (UNISHA), and was housed in the UNISHA headquarters, located in downtown Atlanta, in Hero Park, just across the street from the World Congress Center.

Active ARCLight Members ...

	Austin D. Beaumont	ET with a dimensional suit
	Defensor	Clean living, pure thoughts, and linked to the hyper-field
	Flashback	Absorbs any attack and fires it back in kind
	Psirvente	Mentalist and French expatriot
	Shadow Wolf	At one with the shadows
	Shard	The Tiniest Titan
	Silverblade	Mentalist, swashbuckler
	Stormwatch	The Dame of the Night
	Thud	Space Marine and One-Man Army Corp
	Valkyrie	Warrior goddess

Inactive and Reserve Members ...

• Blue Flame -- Speedster
  
• Guardian Angel -- He's ... well ... a Guardian Angel!
  
• Mountain -- Retired Professional Wrestler and strong man
  
• Oroyo -- Guided by his spirit totems -- bear, wolf, falcon, rat
  
• Penraven -- Master of the occult
  
• Taurus -- Strength of a bull
  
• VannGuard -- Magnetic-powered creation of Vann Enterprises
  

• It is very difficult to kill somebody under Champions rules, and we don't even try. We don't even try to beat people up too badly. It wouldn't be heroic.
• Characters are built on 100 base points + 150 points in disads. (We've been at it so long, new characters start with 200 base points.)
• Speeds are 3-6. DEX is 15-26.
• Powers are unlimited; although attacks generally do not exceed 12 dice, except in extreme circumstances.
• All weapons and gadgets are bought with character points, except for small, common items (flashlights for instance) which may be granted at no cost, by GM permission.
• Code against killing is recommended. Otherwise a "Reluctance to Kill" is assumed.
• Official members must buy an ARCLight membership package, which includes communicator and police powers.

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