At the insistence of President Roosevelt, Captain America goes in search of the "meta-humans" he worked with at Pearl Harbor along with Green Lantern and Sky Captain of England and the Russian hero Red Phoenix. They worked together under the name of "The Liberty Guard", a name suggested by Roosevelt and Churchill.
SAFEGUARD
Sometimes contiguous with the Trenchcoat Brigade timeline, these are the adventures of those dedicated souls who serve their country by day while keeping subtle watch for corrupted authority by night.
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1942
May
The Liberty Guard
Military action -
1998
22 March
John De'Salle relocates
Life, RelocationJohn De'Salle ends therapy with Dr. Gironde and withdraws from Wyldfire. He moves to Michigan and forms a partnership with Floyd Lawton/Deadshot. He reminds Thomas that it's a life-risking move to be in contact with each other -- but also encourages Thomas to "stay in touch". Floyd privately instructs Thomas to keep it to email only for a few years -- give John time to figure himself out and settle down. John and Floyd join a pilot project spun off of SAFEGUARD that specializes in containing metahuman incidents too complicated for regular law enforcement.
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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.
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1998
12 October
Breaking News: Phoenix Industries Head Kidnapped
Life, CrimeIntergang forces stage a daring raid on the boardroom of Phoenix Industries, drugging the executives at a conference on the construction of a high-tech prison for metahuman lawbreakers. More as this story develops!
Location
MetropolisAdditional timelines
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1999
25 August1999
5 September
Deadshot and Timber Wolf go to war against local corrupt politicians
Political eventAs is the mandate for secret organization SAFEGUARD, two implanted agents (under cover of running a metahuman Private Investigations agency) discover that certain key aldermen in Chicago have a corrupt deal with a hospital administrator and a pharmaceutical research company to run their own little criminal enterprise, using city infrastructure to conceal their work. Deadshot and Timber Wolf team up with local law enforcement to investigate and dismantle the entire network.
Feral has a minor supporting role near the conclusion of this event.
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1999
8 December
Timber Wolf takes assignment from Orion Club
Life, Organisation AssociationIn what may turn out to be an early indicator of trouble, Timber Wolf impulsively takes on an offered hunting assignment from elitist mercenary network The Orion Club. John assures his partner Deadshot (and, later, his contact for SAFEGUARD) that he has handled undercover operations like this a thousand times in his career. The bad guys will start him on simple tasks, work gradually down through the shades of moral grayness, until they think he can be trusted for access to their true goals. They drew his attention this past summer by trying to smuggle some of their "captured prey" through Chicago, after all! They cannot know how much Timber Wolf knows about their activities.
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1999
15 December2006
5 July
JOHN DE'SALLE GOES OFF THE GRID
Life, RelocationThe fight against both the corrupt politicians and undercover work with the Oiron Club left a trail of damage across Chicago, putting a warrant and a price on John's head.These events aggrevated the chemical kill switch implanted in John, poisoning him to the point of being irrational and dangerous. John packed up and headed north to avoid hurting anyone else.He is missing for almost seven years. -
2000
6 February
Incantation 'Oops'
Political eventSinister motives are at work at a young people's pro-mutant/metahuman rights rally and concert. The PCs go undercover to catch anybody trying to take advantage of this attempted Woodstock revival to make a darker political statement.
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2000
17 February
Das Vunderkind
Political eventFeral and Nomad make plans to kill the Red Skull in the hospital. Unfortunately, Jack gets beeped by SAFEGUARD to go play "Captain America" again - his assignment: protect Red Skull so that he will be able to stand trial.
Location
MetropolisAdditional timelines
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2000
6 April
Beauty is in the Blood
Cultural eventPCs are drafted to protect the remaining contestants in this year's Miss America pageant, which is being terrorized by unknown assailants.
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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 -
2002
17 September2002
26 September
LBJs
Life, CrimeTrenchcoat Brigade Adventures: LBJs
Agent Chameleon and Litmus meet up at Daniel's Donut Shack to sign the finalized report on the Silent Seven incident. Suddenly everyone's phones ring, including the Top Secret Super Spy phones that the Trenchcoat Brigade have! An accentless male voice says, "Hello, Metropolis. How many Marxists does it take to change a lightbulb?" and then the line goes dead.
It's never good when the Idiot King calls....
Location
Metropolis -
2002
19 December
PQL: Triage
Population Migration / TravelDon Blake's ambulance gets smashed at a storage facility in western Metropolis.Because a soldier in power armor landed on it.
Location
MetropolisAdditional timelines
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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 CityAdditional timelines
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2004
July2004
August
Project: Quantum Leap miniseries
Discovery, ExplorationWyldfire Adventures: Another Bad Idea and Wyldfire Adventures: Noble Favors are two among the series of very short adventures run when a PC can't make it for a current in-progress adventure.
Location
Metropolis -
2004
July
Another Bad Idea
Discovery, ExplorationAnother Bad IdeaNewTech has requested that Feral and Medkit come help their technological research company with a "missing personnel" issue. The business is hidden underneath a junkyard, west of the Metropolis city borders.
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2006
5 July
Mason-Baptiste Lafayette arrives in Detroit
Life, IdentityJohn returns from Canada, where he recieved experimental, and risky, treatments that strip the induced metal poisoning from his system. This inadverdently fully triggered his mutant gene. However, he survived.He returned to Chicago to find the warrant still out for his arrest, His former partner, Floyd Lawton ( aka Deadshot ) had been murdered along with other former associates. Those that hadn't been killed, scattered, their lives taking a downward turn.Unable to pick up the pieces, John heads to Detroit to try and rebuild his life. Though former co-workers he inadverdently comes into contact again with SAFEGUARD. With their assistance, "John De'Salle" is no more. Instead, Mason-Baptiste Lafayette sets up in Detroit.John, now Mason, gets counceling from Father Abrigail Hannigan and sets up a private investigator business.
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2007
6 May
When it absolutely, positively needs to get there
Life, CrimeInfinity Inc and Hammer Empire are squabbling over a serum sample currently in the possession of SAFEGUARD.
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2007
26 May
Racing time
Technological achievementSAFEGUARD and Wyldfire try to save the lives of captured Infinity Inc minions, and stop a new I.I. plot, oh and completely wreck an I.I. minion-converting base.
Location
Canada -
2007
1 June
Three Card Loki
Life, CrimeWith an unusual break-in to a concealed SAFEGUARD lab, a strange field ‘silencing’ the Vault, and Loki being unwilling to talk to anyone except Thunderstrike … Safeguard and Wyldfire must team up to unravel the puzzle of who or what is behind the thefts, and what has happened to Jeremy Ballard, Brian Tanner and Susie Dolfin when they were abducted while trying to stop the theft in Metropolis?
Location
Metropolis -
2007
5 June
A Dish Served Cold
Life, CrimeWith Loki detained, he gives the heroes information that leads them to a location in the New Mexico Mesa Verde region where a hidden AIM base is. Loki doesn’t know the exact location, he only knows it is in in the Coyote Canyon area.
The heroes must deal with the inhabitants of the AIM base to recover the kids and all the stolen items.
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2007
6 June
The Fast and the Madman
Metaphysical / Paranormal event -
2007
August
Noble Favors
Discovery, ExplorationDoc (known to P:QL as "Medkit") and Feral went to an alternate universe where the Hammer Empire (sorta!) had succeeded in taking over the world. Everyone lives under one repressive regime.Needless to say, Wyldfire has never signed on to the Prime Directive.
Location
About Earth 17 -
2008
15 April
Between the Panels: Agents of SAFEGUARD
MiscellaneousMeanwhile … in an abandoned eastern US town, now the site of the Rehabilitation and Correction Facility known as “The Vault” …
Location
North America -
2009
31 May
The Lost World
Technological achievementTwo years and five days after Racing time, the Trenchcoat Brigade is called in to deal with the sudden silence at a lost, then recovered US missile silo in Pennsylvania. The missing team reported strange creatures, an underground chamber covered in fine sand, and a robot more advanced than anything SAFEGUARD had encountered before.
Location
Shadow Lands -
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 CityAdditional timelines
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2009
15 August 12:00
The Journals of Dr. Hans Adelberg
Life, CrimeSAFEGUARD brings their action team, working with Captain America, to Wewelsburg, Germany, in search of the journals of Dr. Hans Adelberg, who led something called "Project Bell" either during World War II or shortly afterward.
Location
Europe -
2009
17 August 08:00
Deep down and dark tiding
Metaphysical / Paranormal eventSAFEGUARD's field team, still in the Wewelsburg Castle area, goes looking for the lost tomb of Alexander the Great.
Golden glass pyramids, ancient batteries and holograms. Holy Indiana Jones, what a find!
What could it all mean? There were map locations from all over the ancient world. For what reason? How are those important to the Hammer Empire, AIM and others?
Location
Europe -
2009
18 August 06:00
Strangers in a Strange Land
ExpeditionSAFEGUARD's field team goes to ORBIT around SATURN and Elektra thinks she has bodily transported into Heaven. Captain Fel Kur'Talak would disagree. So would General Zod!
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2009
18 August 10:00
The Black Order
ExpeditionCaptain America drafts Wyldfire to aid him (and SAFEGUARD) in assaulting the nearby Black Order base. Finally, the sort of organized chaos we understand!
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2009
18 August 11:00
Directed Misdirection
Discovery, ExplorationLocation
Matumaini -
2009
19 August 11:002009
19 August 15:00
House Calls
ExpeditionAfter causing a disruption at the estate's borders, Dr. Tatiana Von Brandenburg and Dr. Teleios escort Elektra inside the estate. Not far behind is the rest of the team, intent on uncovering the secrets inside the mysterious estate.
Location
Africa -
2009
15 October2009
20 October
Specter of Peace: a Wyldfire Adventure
Criminal ActivityThis Special Project starts in Metropolis, Pennsylvania, but leads us ever eastward. We will encounter unanticipated allies and deadly opponents.
Location
North America
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