Knight Thrasher is hunted across the rooftops of New York City by a mysterious individual wearing a mask and a cowboy hat. An exclusive organization calling itself "The Orion Club" has put a bounty on live metahuman test subjects, and don't care how they are acquired. Unfortunately for their plans, Thrasher has always loved a good game of tag!
NYC
Superpowered events that take place in New York City often set a precedent for the entire world!
-
1998
17 August
The Orion Club
Life, CrimeLocation
New York City -
1998
19 August
Wally the Weatherman
Disaster / DestructionA former henchman given training and a power boost by unnamed supervillains, "Wally the Weatherman" embarked on his Campaign of Terror by trying to flood out the entire island of Manhattan for
- ransom!
- the hard-line green initiative!
- (various other, much more nonsensical reasons that got more irrational as the event continued)
Even at his later trial and while serving his sentence, Walter never did explain what his motivations were or how he found himself in the position of trying to drown a major metropolis in the first place.
Location
New York City -
1998
25 August
Hearts of Ice
Metaphysical / Paranormal eventDubious motivations are at work when someone creates and activates a prototype cross-reality portal device, which they call a "Stargate". The portal is destroyed by the heroes involved, but not before it transports into our reality a being from an alternate Earth.
-
1998
5 September
The Quiet of It All
Life, CrimeThe Freak Murders begin: Someone is killed, then the corpse dressed up in costume and makeup to look like one of the metahumans currently featured in the news. Law enforcement are stymied by how impossible it is for all of these serial killings to be the work of a single individual.
Location
New York City -
1998
8 September
Beyond and Below
Life, CrimeShimmer, a villain with the ability to temporarily take over a metahuman body, hops from civilian to Robin the Boy Wonder to Feral in her quest to complete a commissioned theft from two high-technology corporations.
Location
New York City -
1998
12 September
The Element Master
Life, CrimeA hypnotic violinist is the chief minion for an "Element Master" who has a quartet of brainwashed minions obeying the violinist's every cue.
Location
New York CityAdditional timelines
-
1998
15 September
DatTek
Life, CrimeChecking his business interests in the shadows of New York City, the Penguin establishes a villainous tradition of capturing heroes and selling them to other villains.
Location
New York City -
1998
2 October
UniSols
Life, CrimeRissa and Angelica, out visiting NYC, are attacked by mercenaries of an unknown organization. These heavy hitters, who call themselves "UniSols", are the result of a super soldier serum program that may have had its origins in the old Project Strongman notes. This latest duplication must not have gotten its subjects into the range of success reached with Captain America, because the UniSols are further enhanced with cybernetic technology and still fall short of the mark.
They still prove a heavy threat to two off-duty heroes on their own.
Knight Thrasher arrives to rescue his friends, turning a frantic scramble into a much more effective counter-attack. They find additional minions or associates or something of the unknown mastermind. The "UniSols" go down under the team tactics of Feral and Thrasher, left tied up with notes for NYPD arrest. Firestar takes one of the additional minions, a cat-man whom the UniSols called "Lynx", back to Metropolis with every intention of asking Dr. Gironde if she can keep the new cat as a pet.
Location
New York City -
1998
9 October
Shadow Walker
Life, CrimeIt was just supposed to be a simple bodyguard/chaperone task, not even a real Wyldfire operation ... but then a hostile psionicist went after the ambassador's daughter.
Location
New York City -
1998
23 October
Revelations Inc
Life, CrimeRandall Kentis, official founder of the anti-metahuman movement "Revelations Inc" and secret sponsor of the somewhat more extreme grassroots terrorist organization "Friends of Humanity", launches himself to the international stage by attempting to physically relocate the United Nations building out of the corrupt, monster-worshipping state of New York.
New Yorkers are not going to have some ignorant, authoritarian pseudoPuritan stomp on one of the greatest cities in the modern world.
Knight Thrasher conclusively wins the hearts of his home city when, mostly on live television, he brings the Revelations Inc plot to a grinding hot; personally disables the bizarre machines being used to uproot the UN Building from its moorings; and, finally, satisfyingly, renders "Reverend Kentis" immobile and silent. All while keeping up a running commentary in the best tradition of the comic book industries native to this city since National Allied Publications, Inc., opened its doors in the early 1930s.
Location
New York City -
1998
14 November
Adventures in Babysitting
Diplomatic actionPlans made by Wyldfire -- even "final exam via live exercise" plans -- seldom go smoothly. Tempest, the daughter of a United Nations ambassador, is not immune to this trend even if her stay is short.
Location
New York City -
1999
11 June 20:001999
12 June 16:00
Joker's Wild
Life, CrimeSurprisingly not about Gotham City's "Joker" nor about anyone from the Card Shark Syndicate!
Feral comes up with a plan to make one last try at stopping the Freak Murders serial killings: she'll take out a classified advertisement in a New York City tabloid, offering to let the killer go for her directly instead of making a "copycat". The first problem with her plan is that others besides the ((current)) killer show up to her proposed meeting. The second problem with her plan is that the Freak Murders were never the work of a single individual ... and evil, death-obsessed hypnotist villain Kadaver is ready to confront any idiot who dares challenge his "art".
Location
New York City -
1999
23 August
Secret Life of Killer Croc
Life, IdentityLocation
New York City -
1999
26 October1999
28 October
Crime and Punishment
Life, CrimeKnight Thrasher gets mutated for a while. Feral kills Rafferty, a previously unmet Hybrid Minion from the Omega series. When it comes to Rafferty, death generally does not take.
Location
New York City -
1999
12 November
People of New York vs Randall Kentis
Political eventSelf-styled "Reverend" Randall Kentis begins his trial for his attempted theft of the General Assembly building at the United Nations Headquarters in New York City. His attorney tries to file a motion for a change of venue and is promptly quashed. Special Witness for the Prosecution Tony Stark will testify as to the farthest reaches of current technology on whether such a relocation could actually have happened, regardless of the level of superscience. Other planned witnesses include Max Abramovitz, the surviving member of the architectural firm which oversaw the construction of United Nations Plaza.
Members of Revelations Inc are protesting this trial in capital cities around the globe.
Will Knight Thrasher be called to testify? Stay tuned!
Location
New York City -
1999
21 November
Optik
Life, CrimeWhen "Special Projects" at the Gironde School needs a quiet intel pickup from a rainy corner of New York City, Jean-Claude Gironde assigns the task to the two adults in the building currently most on his nerves: Sleet and Blackjack. He then puts it out of his mind.
It should have been a quiet, six hour round trip assignment, including twenty minutes for the pickup and forty minutes for a casual meal.
Instead, a mercenary named Retro kidnaps them.
Location
New York City -
1999
10 December
Breaking News: Trial Protestors Take Hostages
Political eventIn simultaneous attacks, people wearing the logo of Revelations Inc take hostages at strategic points throughout New York City to protest the ongoing trial of "The People of New York vs Randall Kentis". All transportation routes through the city are brought to a standstill . . . except for The Rooftop Express. Knight Thrasher swings into action!
Location
New York City -
1999
11 December1999
12 December
Second Date
Life, Relationship changeHarley Quinn and Knight Thrasher have a weekend-long date. Every New Yorker and no few citizens of nearby Gotham City have an opinion on this social event.
Location
New York City -
2000
14 January2000
15 January
By the Sword
Life, CrimeBubba Jordan comes to his Auntie Rissa with a personal mission: an impostor has cruelly framed one of Bubba's two personal heroes for a bank robbery, and it's up to Bubba to clear Big Bird's good name. But, as Bubba (like Big Bird) is a perpetual six-year-old child, he needs an adult sidekick to help chaperone him through the investigation.
Location
New York City -
2000
10 March
Nightmare Trap
Life, CrimeGotham City native supervillain Scarecrow hires a mercenary special-effects wizard to help him catch a pair of "heroes", intending to experimentally determine the typical breaking point of such individuals. The bait, two young women, draws the wrong two heroes: Snake Eyes and Knight Thrasher. Jonathan Crane is in more trouble than he knows how to handle!
Location
New York City -
2000
24 March
Paintball
Life, CrimeJarissa Paxton runs an errand to New York City and gets mugged. She's okay, if rattled, but upset that she had to play the meek victim in her visibly pregnant state. She calls her friend Knight Thrasher for help, who brings in his own backup in the form of local mercenary Snake Eyes. The two men work together to catch the Bullseye Blaster, paintball team turned low-level mercenaries, who were hired to kill and rob anybody who picked up a certain FedEx International package. They in turn are anxious to cover up the fact that some five-months-pregnant short woman managed to run away faster than they could capture ... but, hey, they did get the package!
Location
New York City -
2000
24 November
Dead End
Life, CrimeSeveral criminal organizations pool their resources to pull off a city-wide job on Black Friday. They steal all the babies under 18 months of age from the shopping malls of Metropolis, and arrange to auction them off in lots and ship them away into the adoption black market from a private air strip in NYC.
Location
New York City -
2001
5 November2001
2 December
Freak-a-Lympics
Disaster / DestructionAs they narrow down the choices for their new home turf in the northeastern USA, the Freakshow run a competition. Who will be their ultimate leader's favorite raiding team? Who will get the choicest assignments to create chaos?
This homage adventure introduced some of our tabletop group to our favorite MMO!
Location
New York City -
2002
19 August2002
13 September
Silent Seven
Life, CrimeA hidden organization from the Trenchcoat Brigade's legacy has renewed activity. What Litmus and friends did not know was that the Silent Seven sought to infiltrate and take over SAFEGUARD!
Location
Metropolis -
2003
13 March
PETAttack
Disaster / DestructionDuring a cocktail meeting of the private financial backers for the Watchmen in a renovated section of New York City, some hundred gang members (at the remote direction of the new Simon Phoenix II) cut out the neighborhood power and phone grids, and wreak havok through the city block. It seems that Simon's mutated pet creature, "Fluffy", had been (briefly) confiscated from him in this neighborhood, and he wants to get revenge by depriving area businesses of their animals, money, overseas business contacts, and lives.
Location
New York City -
2003
4 April
Bad Day and a Bomb
Political eventFeral goes on a personal errand to New York City, trying to locate her former teammate and sometime enemy Puma. Her contact's contacts {in SAFEGUARD, though Feral never knew that} had almost accurate information on his current jobsite: the upper floors of a skyscraper close to the United Nations.
Almost accurate.
Instead of an angry blond beefcake, the increasingly frustrated leopard woman finds a mercenary squad on a destructive mission of their own....
Location
New York City -
2003
11 April2003
12 April
The NYC Incident
Life, Relationship changeOn Try number 2, Feral manages to find Puma.
On the day that a theft-for-hire team happens to be enacting their plan ... which includes the assassination of the big, short-tempered man, as part of framing him for their employer's deeds.
Too bad for them that David Ironhorse's behavior patterns change when he's glaring at any of his former teammates.
Location
New York City -
2003
22 April
The Watchmen
FoundingThe Watchmen got established as the official United Nations-sanctioned superteam.
Location
New York City -
2003
3 May2003
5 May
Villain Blues
Life, CrimeKnights Vigilant Adventures: Villain Blues
An adventure from the early days of the team, who weren't calling themselves Knights Vigilant yet.
Location
New York City -
2003
19 July
Night of the Living Finesse
Artistic creationInstead of regular zombies, New York City gets badly-declaiming-historic-poetry zombies. Special guest star: Sahara
Location
New York City -
2003
9 September
People vs Seagurn Insurance
Metaphysical / Paranormal event
Sahara and Moon Knight of the Knights Vigilant cross paths with The Shadow and Kitsune of the Trenchcoat Brigade in a NYC skyscraper where The Science Judge is holding court. The heroes team up to stomp this "Science Judge" villain. One of the villain's gadgets malfunctions spectacularly, dragging the entire building back in time eight thousand years!Limited Series:
People vs Seagurn InsuranceLocation
New York City -
2004
19 April2004
23 April
Tourism for Villainy
Life, CrimeLocation
New York City -
2004
4 June2004
2 July
All Our Dark Tomorrows
Life, CrimeKnights Vigilant: All Our Dark Tomorrows
At the Stark Tech Expo in the Maria Stark Exhibition Hall, Dr. Susan McIverson (the noted villainess Spiderlily) stops at nothing -- not even heroics!!! -- to halt the vile plans of Dr. Augustus Nero Cavendish.
Location
New York City -
2004
15 June2004
24 June
Will of the Earth
Scientific achievementMega Crossover Series:
Will of the EarthIt's the SUMMER SPECTACULAR as teenage students from the summer semester at the Gironde School arrange an official school trip to the New York Public Library for thesis paper research.Location
New York City -
2004
11 July2004
17 July
Mudslinging
Political eventKnights Vigilant: Mudslinging
In American politics, the tactic of 'mudslinging' is considered a dirty trick that reflects badly on the candidate or lobbying group who use it. Yet in other parts of New York City's culture, mudslinging campaigns are used as a matter of routine! What makes Sam any more deserving of indignity than Caleb?
Location
New York City -
2005
21 December
The Malay Coins
Life, CrimeWhy does EVERYBODY keep robbing the Museum of Modern Art a.k.a. the MOMA?! In this case, it's Golden Lotus.
Location
New York City -
2006
5 February2006
28 February
First World Problems
Disaster / DestructionLimited Series: First World ProblemsDuring real world gathering ChipCon 2012, the PCs play the villains for a very special adventure.
Location
About Earth 1Additional timelines
-
2007
9 March
Up for GRABs!
Life, CrimeStrange figures have been seen lurking around the Stalwart Warehouse Storage near Central Park. Figures that seem to come and go at will! Knights Vigilant get thief-for-hire villain quartet G.R.A.B. out of serious trouble. Hammer Empire is using false information on their Darkwolfe Commando project to fish out traitors.
Location
New York City -
2007
16 March
Double Tap
Discovery, ScientificKnights Vigilant meet
BatmanNightwing! A cryptic message from the Batman to guard two chemists at a well-secured research center in Manhattan? Just why is that vial of fluid so important to the Hammer Empire that they would risk another team to get it back? And what has that man with pale white skin with a red diamond on his forehead got to do with this ... and why did he try to take the evidence?Location
New York City -
2007
25 April2007
26 April
Hammer and Demons
Civil actionKnights Vigilant meet The Question! The Hammer Empire's Warwolf Squad attack Code Blue. The League of Shadows also attack the NYC justice system, trying to get at the Hammer Empire prisoners on trial. Quite possibly, the League of Shadows and Hammer Empire do not much like each other.
White Orchid is now Sahara's nemesis.
Location
New York City -
2007
7 October2007
9 October
Burdened with a Great Purpose
Life, CrimeLoki Orinson joins the Knights Vigilant supergroup! There are basically 3 members of this team who did not start out their careers as villains: Mr. Glass, "Statesman" (Trickshot), and Taki. One of those is retired, one of those is on the fence as he was a mercenary for hire, and one of those keeps recruiting all these villains.
Location
New York City -
2008
18 April2008
20 April
Deathless Henchmen of the Weaponer
Cultural eventLocation
New York City -
2008
30 April
Time and Time Again
Life, CrimeThe Knights Vigilant fight The Clock King in a ChipCon adventure guest starring Mr. Glass.
Location
New York City -
2008
25 October
The Sculptor of Death!
Metaphysical / Paranormal eventThe Knights Vigilant (without Sahara, who is busy with the NYPL Halloween events) defend a Chinatown celebration.
Location
New York City -
2009
8 February2009
10 February
Launch Code
Life, CrimeThe Trenchcoat Brigade, sans SAFEGUARD auxilliary support, stop a group of angry young men from devastating New York City.
Location
New York City -
2009
22 March
Knights Vigilant vs The Bishie Boyz
Life, CrimeA new gang is trying to carve a large territory out of Manhattan. The Knights Vigilant will give them a proper "Welcome to the Big Apple"!
Location
New York City -
2009
18 April2009
19 April
Peril of the Rat King
Life, CrimeThe Knights Vigilant find their usual fight against the Disco Boys interrupted by a strangely rat-themed robbery of a nearby high-end restaurant named Chez Tortuga. Special Guest Stars: Mouse Force.
Location
New York City -
2009
12 August2009
19 August
Right to the Bone
Metaphysical / Paranormal eventThe Trenchcoat Brigade is called in by SAFEGUARD to investigate, and cover up, a potential "ghost ship" in the New York Harbor. At approximately the same time, Wyldfire is in Brussels, Belgium, trying to intercept the auction of stolen stem-cell research that when combined with the proper treatment, could regenerate eyesight.
Location
About Earth 1 -
2009
12 August 14:002009
12 August 18:00
The "Ghost" Ship
Life, SupernaturalLocation
New York City -
2009
13 August2009
13 August
SAFEGUARD and the "Safe House"
Life, Failure / MishapSAFEGUARD sends the team to extract the two sailors missing from the Hershaw, only to find more than they bargained for!
Location
New York City -
2010
6 January
Trenchcoat Epiphany
Gathering / ConferenceTrenchcoat Epiphany is not available to link to this Historic Event as a Related Article.
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