Meanwhile at the same time, but in another reality, events take place which will change this world forever…
Monday, May 4th, 1891 – Meiringen, Swiss
After the final contfrontation with his archenemy Sherlock Holmes at the Reichenbach Falls where he supposedly found his demise when he plunged into the depths, Professor Moriarty was found with shattered bones and a damaged face, after hitting the rocks at the bottom of the cascades, by his accomplice Colonel Sebastian Moran, who managed to salvage his severely injured partner in crime and bring him to a sanatorium where Moriarty was treated.
Believed to be dead to the rest of the world, Moriarty slowly recovered from his worst injurys in a swiss sanatorium while being in a coma for over 3 years and when he finally awakened, he realized to his horror that he was now cripled and paraplegic. Since his crime syndicate was crushed by his nemesis Holmes in the meantime, he used his still superior criminal intellect to start a new criminal organisation that will later become know as the global operating “Network” – a sort of a job center for thieves, killers, mercenaries and whatnot.
But there was still the problem with his health. He wasn’t getting younger and his physical condition deteriorated in the following years so much that he was even willing to fall back on unconventional methods to prolong his life. One of this methods included the work of german scientist who already had experimented with transplantations some decades earlier. When searching for his scientific journals Moriarty eventually encountered Viktor Frankenstein’s very own monstrous creation “Frank” who would oppose him to prevent his “fathers” work to fall in the wrong hands.
In search of allies in his battle against Frankenstein’s monster Moriarty eventually rallied more infamous monster of its time and founded a group called “Monsters Society”. With their help, he managed not only to get possession of said documents, but also to collect some powerful ancient artifacts from around the world. Through the combination of magic and science Moriarty was finally able to overcome his physical limitations and become even more powerful than ever.
The Team from left to right and front to back:
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Renfield was a 59 year old zoophagous maniac who suffered from delusions which compelled him to eat living insects, spiders, birds, and other creatures in the hope of obtaining their life-force for himself. When Count Dracula met him as an inmate at the lunatic asylum overseen by Dr. John Seward he offered to provide Renfield with an endless supply of food if he worshipped him. But when confronted by Mina Harker Renfield suffered an attack of conscience and attempts to fight Dracula who in turn severely injured him. Shortly after he died Renfield was bitten by Dracula and turned into a Ghul, an undead creature who feast on corpses. After the death of the vampire Count Renfield became a long-standing servant of Dracula’s son, “The Nightstalker”. |
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Powers:
Similar to a vampire, the Ghul possesses superhuman strength, speed, stamina, agility, reflexes and some sort of healing factor due to his undead nature. But unlike a real vampire he doesn’t feed of his victims blood, but rather of their flesh – preverably when they are already dead. In turn he can only shapeshift into myst but is also much less vulnerable to silver, wood, sunlight and religious icons than a common vampire would be. |
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Dr. Henry Jekyll was a man of fifty who occasionally felt he was battling between the good and evil within himself and had spent a great part of his life trying to repress evil urges that were not fitting for a man of his stature. In an attempt to mask this hidden evil within his personality he created a serum that transformed him into the smaller, younger, cruel, remorseless, evil Hyde. As time had gone by, Hyde growed both in power and size and after taking the potion repetitively, since it was Hyde’s violent activities that gave him the most thrills, Dr. Jekyll no longer relied upon it to unleash his alter ego. Eventually, Hyde growed so strong and violent that Jekyll became more and more addicted to his alter ego in his “need” to unleash his inner demons. This of course also drove him to attack and murder random people without apparent reason, making him a hunted outlaw throughout England. |
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Dr. Jekyll can transform himself at will back and forth into a huge, powerful being which possessed superhuman strength sufficient to lift about 41 tons, advanced musculature that generates considerably less fatigue toxins during physical activity than the musculature of an ordinary human, a body that is much harder and more resistant to conventional physical injury than the body of a normal human, and an accelerated metabolism that allows him to rapidly heal from mild to moderate injuries faster than a normal human. As Mr. Hyde the effects of the aging process is slowed down drastically which provides him with an extended lifespan. Although well over 80 years of age, Mr.Hyde retains the health, appearance and physical vitality of a man in the physical prime of his life. |
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Professor James Moriarty, one of three brothers (the others were Colonel James Moriarty and a station master in Western England), came from a good family. Already in his childhood, he showed an exceptional talent in mathematics, wrote a spectacular treatise on the binomial theorem at the age of 21 and subsequently received the professorial chair at one of the smaller English universities. Soon there were rumors that forced him to leave the chair and go as a military advisor to London. In the metropolis, he built up an extensive criminal syndicate, in whose center he sat like a spider in its web” registering the trembling of each of the countless threads. Holmes made him responsible for the organization of half of all crime in London, and “nearly all that is undetected.” |
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Professor Moriarty’s most dangerous weapon is his intellect. He is one of the top mortal minds on the planet and specializes in physics, robotics, cybernetics, genetics, biochemistry and even magic. His potential in the mystic arts comes from several ancient artefacts and learning lost Dark Arts from masters all over the world. He is considered one of the most powerful practitioners of sorcery but considers his scientific abilities to be more important and uses magic primarily to enhance his technologial creations. His cybernetic improved super-genius class mind works in the same way as an organic computer with unlimited storage capacity, only much faster, and is able to perform multiple tasks at once without losing focus on any of them by allocating a partition of his brain to each task. |
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The young American student Jack Weston was visiting his maternal great-uncle Talbot MacKenzie in Scotland when he foolishly decided, despite clear warnings of the villagers, to take a walk in the highlands during a full moon night. Wandering alone through the darkness, equipped only with an oil lantern, he quickly became uneasy when he heard a howl and he just started back to the village when the full moon came out from behind the clouds. At the same moment the noises got steadily closer until he was finally stopped by a supernaturally large animal that attacked and bit him. Barely surviving the mauling, Jack was taken to a hospital in London by his uncle, where he surprisingly quickly recovered from his severe injuries and woke up three weeks later. But when the next full moon rised, Jack realized that he was attacked by a werewolf and that heself now was cursed with lycanthropy. |
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Over the years Jack Weston learned to control his curse and can now transform himself into a supernatural human/wolf hybrid through sheer force of will at any time while still retaining his normal intellect. During a full moon, however, he transforms in a more animalistic version of a werewolf and completely loses control. In his intermediate form he possesses superhuman strength and is able to lift about 1 ton; superhuman levels of stamina; enhanced agility, balance, reflexes, speed and bodily coordination; and superhumanly acute senses of sight, smell, and hearing similar to those of an actual wolf. The Wolfman’s claws and teeth are extremely sharp and tough, and his body is capable of completely regenerating massive tissue damage such as bullet wounds, slashes, punctures, blunt force trauma, and severe burns without so much as a scar in a short amount of time. As a “real” werewolf Jack Weston has a special vulnerability to objects or weapons composed of silver due to it’s mystical purity. |
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One of the last surviving members of a race of amphibious humanoids, the “Gill-man” was only known in local legends of a “man-fish” living in the Amazon Rainforest. That was until he was one day captured and taken away from his hidden family by an American adventurer who took him to the states and sold him to P.T. Barnum for his cabinet of curiosities. It was there, where Moriarty found and freed him, granting him the creatures absolute loyality. |
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The Gill-man is fully amphibious, capable of breathing both in and out of the water and possesses superhuman strength as well as large, webbed hands with sharp claws on the tip of each finger. His scaly skin is extremely tough, which combined with a fast acting healing factor, allows it to survive wounds which would be fatal to humans, such as gunshots. |
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Griffin was a brilliant young university medical student with a psychopathic streak who discovered a formula that could make a human being invisible. But once he performed the process on himself he was unable to reverse it and wandered invisibly the streets of London, struggling to survive out in the open, unseen by those around him. After stealing some clothes, including a trenchcoat and hat, he wrapped his head in bandages and covered his eyes with large dark goggles to make himself visible again and took up residence in the village of Iping, where he tried to reverse his experiment with the assistance from a tramp named Thomas Marvel. To bankroll his experiments he resorted on burglary but was soon robbed himself by Thomas who he pursued to to the town of Port Burdock, where he ran into his old schoolmate Dr. Kemp who alerted the police and rallied the people of Port Burdock in order find and overcome Griffin. After being seemingly killed by navvies, the invisibility weared off in death, and Griffin’s corpse became visible again. However, as it turned out later, Griffin was able to make the fleeting Thomas Marvel, whom he then administered his serum and with whom he exchanged his clothes, after which Marvel was confused with Griffin by the villagers and died in his place. |
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Griffin is just plain invisible, making people seeing through him, but still somehow able to direct enough undistorted light to his eyes to retain his full range of vision. In addition to that he learned over time that he can also make other objects temporarily invisible by touching them. |
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In ancient Egypt Kharis was a high priest of Karnak who was sentenced to be mummified alive, without a tongue, to serve as the guardian of Princess Ananka’s tomb as punishment for attempting to bring her back to life out of forbidden love. Entombed alive and cursed to rest immobile but conscious for centuries Kharis was eventually revived three thousand years later when despoilers entered the tomb of the Princess. After accomplishing his tast to hunt down and kill all those who desecrate Ananka’s tomb he realized to his surprise that he continued to “live” and was now free to do whatever he wanted. But what does a rotting immortal do with the rest of his endless life? Well, he vowed revenge on his torturers and went on a quest for their reincarnated souls as well as any of their descendants to make them finally pay for what they’ve done to him. |
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Despite millenia of inactivity and decay Kharis possesses magically fortified musculature and skeletal structures, granting him superhuman strength and stamina. His tissues are also reinforced through his course which makes them much harder and more resistant to conventional physical harm than those of normal humans. Also, while he’s indeed vulnerable to fire, it is just impossible for him to be killed through any physical means. |
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Vlad III. is the son of the notorious Count Dracula and his second wife Ilona Szilágyi, a cousin of the Hungarian King Matthias Corvinus. Born in 1468 in SighiÈ™oara/Romania (back then Hungary), Vlad IV. was the favorite son of his father and turned into a vampire at the age of 19. After his fathers demise at the hands of Jonathan Harker and Abraham van Helsing, Vlad jr. became the king of all vampires. Out for revenge on his fathers murderers he moved to the Carfax Abbey in London, England and ultimately killed van Helsing’s wife during the birth of her daughter, Abigail, who was thus born a dhampir and would later become Vlad’s greatest nemesis. |
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Like every vampire, the Nightstalker is capable of transforming an individual into a vampire by biting them and possesses superhuman strength, speed, stamina, agility, reflexes and some sort of healing factor due to his immortality or rather being undead. He is also able to hypnotize others by gazing into their eyes and to shape shift into (sometimes human-sized) bats, rats, a wolf, and mist. Vlad is furtermore a very powerful magician who can summon and command lesser vampires, undead, packs of wild dogs, bats, and rats. But also like all vampires Vlad has a number of special vulnerabilities, including that he must ingest fresh blood in order to maintain his vitality and being highly “allergic” to silver, wood, sunlight and religious icons. |
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