All of us except Necros and Spectral Spear suddenly have an ear-splitting headache and we hear the voice of the Mastermind in our head. He says “You are the only ones left who can stop me! First Carbon City, next stop the world!”

Jade Monkey uses a spell to counteract the mind control, and is able to tell that Mastermind is somewhere northeast of the city. He does not have a range, so we will need to start traveling to find him.

Necros drinks the blood of the deceased Crusader to satisfy his thirst.

Eventually we all recover from Mastermind’s telepathy. We pile into the OctoPod and drive. We get a few miles out of town and come across an abandoned Sanitorium. Jade Monkey senses that he could be here. It is 3 stories tall and very old. We start to circle around in search of a weak point, but Harry sees that the weather vane is of a strange and different design. It is moving but doesn’t seem to be moving with the wind. Nitro hurls his sickle at it and strikes it. It seems to be destroyed. Harry stops the car behind the building and turns off the power to the whole place.

Necros steps through the wall of the house and takes a look around. He is shaken by a psychic damage field that exists around the building. Jade Monkey casts a spell to control a swarm of rats and has them search through the building for any people. We hear them go through the upstairs and then into a closet. We follow and Jade Monkey casts a spell to make the rats explode without actually dying. We hear an explosion, a scream and follow the rats into the closet.

Nitro is first and sees a staircase at the back of the closet. He runs down and sees Mastermind there, pretty much the worse for wear with his clothes disheveled, his mustache singed and his monacle askew. Nitro attacks immediately. Spear goes down the stairs behind him, followed by Octo.

Octo doesn’t see anything in the room, even though Nitro looks like he just vanquished a foe. “There’s no one here,” Octo says. “Not any more,” Nitro says. Octo sees that a huge mass of power lines is coming from the floor through the ceiling. This is probably what was powering his device on the roof. He also sees a door at the back of the room. He runs for it and is immediately hit in the face with an energy blast, almost knocking him down.

Jade Monkey uses a spell and creates the illusion of dozens of superheroes, all the ones he’s seen so far, surrounding Mastermind, who is in the room with a strange device on his head. We attack and Nitro literally gives him a heart attack by striking him with the hammer in his chest. Aqua comes to help him.

Jade Monkey uses the power of Negation to take away his intelligence. He is now a drooling idiot.

We take his ray gun and his Colt 1911 with special HK ammunition.

Octo checks out the machinery in the lair and sees that this was a device to modify Mastermind’s own powers. He packs the equipment up to see if he can reverse engineer it later. He also discovers that the raygun is a Negation Ray, and takes it for his use later on.

We head back to Carbon City and begin reconstruction of the OctoLair.

We are at the OctoCave, and we hear a huge explosion. We run out of the rooms we were in to see that the lift to bring vehicles up and down from the surface has exploded and been broken into by someone. The base is being infiltrated.

We see a man in armor jump down and land amidst the wreckage of the lift, and four more follow him. Strangely we recognize them as fellow heroes from Carbon City. They are the Crusader, The Ice Queen, Soothsayer, Kilowatt and Brimstone. They are ready to battle. We see that their eyes look strange. Jade Monkey senses that they are being controlled by someone magically.

Nitro, using his jetpack, flies over to them and hammers a great strike on the knight. Suddenly his attack is turned back on him in a blinding flash of light, and he goes down. The other team members make attacks with varying success. Kilowatt jumps down the hallway and crashes Jade Monkey into Octo. Brimstone then blasts them both with magic power. Necros attacks the Ice Queen. Spectral Spear grabs Nitro and tries to fly him to safety. A huge shark emerges out of the ground and bites onto the Crusader. Octo tries to attack Kilowatt but fails, and one of his arms malfunctions. Jade Monkey goes intangible and tries to get away. Octo strikes again and takes down Kilowatt. Necros goes incorporeal and then re-emerges inside the Crusader. He goes down.

The battle over, Jade Monkey heals Soothsayer and asks her who did this. She says that she doesn’t remember when it happened, but it was Mastermind who did it. Spectral Spear and Dr. Aquatic heal Nitro.

As we run toward city hall, we see a gardened area with a pool and walkway. There are civilians here with several bad guys threatening them. Spectral Spear makes a force field around some of them so they cannot attack. Jade Monkey similarly makes an earth wall to trap two others.

We take out the others, and Jade Monkey creates a huge illusion of a dragon to scare them. One of them is so scared that he passes out.

We go to city hall and as we approach, someone from a second floor window calls out and tells us not to go through the front door, as it’s wired for explosives. Nitro immediately launches himself up with a jetpack and uppercuts him, knocking him out. Necros phases through the wall and deactivates the bomb. Nitro goes in and speaks with the mayor, letting him know that he is safe now. He introduces himself as Nitro and says that he has come on behalf of the Carbon City Sentinels.

Outside, we hear someone clapping. We see a man in an expensive suit with a long mustache, short gray hair and a monacle. He introduces himself as Mastermind, and says that we have done a great job of saving the city, but he will come back and beat us later and he won’t even have to try. Necros tries to attack him but he goes right through. Octo tries a ranged attack but it doesn’t work either.

He laughs and disappears. We head back to the OctoCave.

The Scarlet Scourge wakes up and thanks us for helping him. He and the Occultist say that they will take care of Cyrus Sharpe themselves. We bid them farewell.

We ask Jade Monkey where he is going next. He says that we will accompany us to Carbon City if we wouldn’t mind giving him a ride. We do, and drop him off in the Chinatown area of Carbon City. We tell him that we’d like to work with him again and give him our information.

We jump forward from November 1937 to February 1938. The Nazis have already annexed Czechoslovakia and Austria, but things have been relatively quiet in Carbon City. We have been helping out with minor things like fires and getting kittens out of trees. We begin wondering what is going on.

The team starts asking informants in town what might be happening.  Between the Chinatown contacts that Jade Monkey has and the people working at the car factory, there has been a “gag order” put on crime. We aren’t able to find out anything else.

We have a meeting in the OctoCave one morning, and suddenly all hell breaks loose. We get notifications that there are robberies, arson, bank robberies and a tank advancing on city hall. The newspapers report that people are stealing payroll.

We take the OctoPod downtown and find the tank. It looks like a weird science contraption. Harry parks the OctoPod in an alley and we all jump out. We see that the tank has mad science parts on it, like a Jacob’s Ladder.

We all attack and Nitro breaks the tread on one side of the tank. Jade Monkey strikes his staff on the ground and it cracks open, partly swallowing the tank. It stops moving. Dr. Aquatic tears the door of the tank off and begins attacking the jumpsuited minions inside. Spectral Spear and the others follow up.

Spectral uses her martial arts skills to jump inside the tank and knock out several minions. Octo jumps in as well and uses his tentacles to take out three men. Only one remains.

Jade Monkey reads the mind of one of the men in the tank and learns that his mission was to get to City Hall and to kidnap the mayor. As to who ordered this, it seems like the memory of this has been removed from his mind.

Dr. Aquatic tears the door off of the cockpit and takes out the pilot. Octo binds up the others so they can’t move.

The Asian man introduces himself as Sun Woo Kong, a disciple of the Temple of the Monkey King in the mountains of China. When the temple was taken over by the Japanese, he fled to the US. He came to this area because he sensed a magical disturbance here, as he has some magical abilities.

The team introduces ourselves to him, and he also meets The Occultist. We urge him to change his name to make it more friendly to Americans. He chooses the moniker “Jade Monkey”.

Harry asks The Occultist more about the murderer, Cyrus. He says that he does not know his whereabouts or how he had managed to summon the Black Coachman. He assumes that we could follow up with him later.

The Occultist tells Jade Monkey that he should be able to wield the stone to de-power the Black Coachman when he returns tonight. He asks the rest of us to assist as soon as the Coachman becomes corporeal.

At thirteen minutes past midnight, the Coachman appears. Jade Monkey uses the stone and he becomes mortal. As he does this, we see Monkey pull out one of his hairs to cast the spell. He has several bald patches on his head.

Gazing at the Coachman, Harry becomes very afraid and is permanently mentally scarred (minor phobia to all demonic entities).

Nitro surges forward and strikes him with his hammer. Jade Monkey casts a spell and the ground grows up around him and captures his legs. Suddenly the Coachman grows in size and power.

We hear the sounds of an angry mob approaching and there are villagers coming down the hill with torches and pitchforks. At the same time we see a man in a white costume float down. This is Titan, a Superman-like hero from Carbon City.

Octo leaps into the fray and tries attacking the Coachman, but is not successful. Nitro swings his hammer and brings him low, and he turns into mist and disappears along with his coach and horses.

The Occultist drops his spell and the Scarlet Scourge awakens. He seems disoriented.

After this ordeal, a bolt pops off of Necros’ mask, bringing him one step toward redemption.

We hear someone running toward the church. We see a short Asian man running in. Behind him we hear horses. The man takes cover in the corner.

The coach comes through the mist and comes to a stop. A man wearing a top hat with a flaming skull is atop a flying black coach with demon horses.

Octo shoots a net on him and Nitro jetpacks to him and strikes him hard with his hammer an sickle (196 damage!).

Octo has the stone but does not use it in time. The Coachman disappears and we must wait 24 hours to try again.

We are at the base. Necros feels a psychic “tugging” to the north. We gear up and take the OctoPod north. We arrive at Reedsburg, an unincorporated town. There is a closed general store, a diner, and a municipal building. Up the hill there is a very old church.

Nitro sees someone vaguely familiar. Octo knows him — he is a mystery man from Carbon City. His name is The Occultist. He has spats, an Inverness cape, and a black top had with a blue band. He asks for some help with a presence in the church, and it may also help with Necros’ issues. He does not elaborate.

In the church there is a circle of candles and an altar. The Scarlet Scourge is inside the circle, unconscious. He is known as the “tool of God’s wrath on Earth” and is red as his name suggests. The candle flames have a strange smell to them, and The Occultist tells us that they are warding candles.

The Occultist says that there is a demon that has been alive for many years, recently referred to as the Black Coachman. He can be summoned and when he is, he takes thirteen souls. Cyrus Sharp, a convicted murderer, is trying to take out the jury that convicted him using the Coachman. The jurors are already dead, but the Scarlet Scourge’s alter ego is a man named James Rand, an investigative reporter who brought evidence against Cyrus. The murderer tried to kill James but The Occultist saved him. He is expending his life energy to keep James alive so he needs our help to stop Cyrus and the Coachman.

Necros fills us in on his backstory. His mask is stuck on. He is thousands of years old. He was in the service of an army long ago and was captured by natives, tortured and starved. But he did not die. This made the tribesmen fearful. They bolted a mask on his face, trapping him in darkness. He has dark powers but he doesn’t know where they came from. He needs to drink blood to survive. The Occultist says that a good deed may loosen one of the bolts on his mask.

The Occultist says that Nitro’s weapon will injure the Coachman but only he himself can banish him. We must use a binding stone to stop it, and then bring it to the Occultist for him to deal with.

The Coachman will come at 12:13 am, so we have about an hour. The Coachman must stay within 13 miles of the person who summoned him.

We are in the OctoCave; Necros and Dr. Aquatic are not here. Spectral Spear gets an urgent mental communique from Dr. Aquatic. He is at the bottom of the lake and is asking for our help. He wants us to bring a vial of water from his room.

We take the OctoPod south. We arrive at a shipwreck, the USS Alpena which is a steamer. He is leaning against a rock outcropping. We are almost 150 feet underwater here.

We go to him, and see that his right hand has been torn off. He is barely concious. He gestures toward the left and says to get him there. We take him into the OctoPod and travel the direction he was pointing.

Soon we see a kind of structure ahead, three rock-like claws sticking up from the lake floor, and a dome. There is a ship here as well.

We pull off Aquatic’s helmet. We’ve never seen his face before. He looks human with bluish skin. He has gills. His breathing is labored. We pour some of the water on his gills. He wakes up briefly and tells us not to waste the water.

We dock at the structure. Surprisingly it interfaces with the pod. There is no one here but we find a gun and some blood, but no bodies anywhere around. There are living quarters and eating areas. We find equipment to repair Aquatic’s armor. We take it with us.

Suddenly in the corridor we are attacked by a huge creature, seemingly the same race as Aquatic. He has claws, though! We defeat him and put him in the walk-in cooler.

We find a medical bay There is a bacta tank with an opening for the vial. We put Aquatic in there to heal and use the vial.

The last wing has a lab. Tons of blood and bodies are in this area. A smashed bacta tank is also here. There are written logs. Spear translates them, as she can read any type of language. They were making a genetically engineered combat machine, and it got loose and killed them.

Aquatic wakes up and he has a strange watery arm where it had been previously torn off. He says that he is Atlantean. He says they they were rogue scientists who created the creature. The creature probably absorbed them. We decide to kill the creature by cutting it and burning it up.

Aquatic says that he is actually half-Atlantean. His mother was a land-dweller. He says that all Atlanteans are slightly telepathic. He asks us to keep all of this a secret.

We go to Veterans Square, a memorial of World War I. A space ship has crashed in the park, and men with bad Russian accents Tommy guns. The cops warn us that they have threatened to detonate a bomb and kill everyone in the square. Nitro talks to them in Russian and they do not understand. We attack.

Necros phases through the space ship and finds finds that the bomb is completely fake. This is likely a distraction. Spectral floats above the buildings and sees a robbery going on to the east, and a car chase to the north. We decide to go to the robbery to try and stop it.

We take out the fake Russians but Octo is wounded. Dr. Aquatic heals him with water that envelops him and the bullets pop out. They are strange bullets with blue tips.

We go to the bank and the Radio Marauders are robbing the place. They do not have the same bullets and they do not hurt us. We take them out and see they were in the safe deposit boxes again. They only took jewels and coins. No papers, etc. The cops take them to jail. We rush to the north, to see if we can catch the getaway car. We see some smashed cars but the bad guys are gone. We head back to the OctoCave.

Harry works all night on the radio devices and figures out how to get a fix on their signals. Meanwhile, Nitro calls the cops about the strange bullets. They are calling them Hero Killers.

We trace the radio signal to the northeast side of town, about five minutes out — the old radio factory is there.

Harry spends more time on the device and figures how to shut down radio signals with it.

We do a records search and find blueprints of the factory. There are three loading docks. We go to the front door. It is an office. Further in, there is an assembly room and lab. There is a mad scientist here in a white jacket. He shoots us with a stun gun.

We take them all out, then call the cops as usual. He told us that he was trying to make a sleep gun. We see the plans on his journal “Professor Moltry Dobbs” and his studies in using radio waves to put people to sleep. He was trying to put the entire town to street, then rob them blind. The machine he was working on is here.

For our trophy room, we take his stun pistol, a mind-reading hat, and a jetpack. Also a camera with a spinning colored disc in it. There are guns here with cop killer bullets — 100 rounds.

We head quickly to the bank on 5th and 3rd. We take the Octo-Pod. We switch over to telepathic links as our other coms go out. At the site we see a black panel van and sedans with their engines still running.

Necros cuts the engines of the vehicles with his powers. He phases into the truck and sucks the blood of the driver.

Nitro smashes the bank door open with his hammer. We all go inside and attack — some are KOd and several are killed.

The police arrive and we search the place. The safe deposit boxes have been disturbed, and also the records room. The window is open, and someone must have escaped. Spectral goes after him and finds only a helmet and a backpack. We try to interrogate the Marauders that are still alive but they have had some sort of conditioning and don’t break.

Octo tries to check some of their equipment to see if he can hack it. He needs his lab to do anything. We have them taken to jail, and head back to base. After some tinkering, Octo sees that the helmets can communicate with one another. The backpacks cancel signals.

Two days later, an announcement comes over the regular radio. It says that a ship has crashed in Veterans Square downtown and there is a “Communist Revolution” going on. We quickly head there.