Halt Evil Doer! thread IV - (Zombies!)

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A Baker's Dozen of Angel Girl foes, for your consideration, and in no particular order:

1. Belial: The Demon Price of Lies, Illusions, and Temptations has set his dark servants and hellish offspring against Angel Girl on more than one occasion. However he mostly enjoys manipulating those close to her into corruption, or forcing her into "impossible" situations where she will be forced to accept Belial's infernal bargains.

2.Baba Yaga: The ogre-witch-hag of Russian legend, driven from the human realm decades ago by The Atomic Comrade (nuclear-hero of the communist revolution) but still a baleful figure in the Otherworld. Angel Girl first clashed with the "Little Mother" when Baba Yaga started kidnapping children from the mortal world again, seeking a worthy female apprentice (the boys and the unworthy girls made for pets and servants, once suitably transformed). Angel Girl has thwarted other evil plots of the hag since then.

3. Glamazon: The space-maruader/alien wrestling heel mostly clashed with Angel Girl prior to the Iron Age, menacing Earth with stolen advanced weapons and technology. Recently Glamazon returned to Earth to renew the grudge, merged with a symbiotic crystal giving her strength nearly equal to that of a Mithran.

4.Morwen: The two first battled when Morwen was masterminding an atrocious cult which lured foolish young women and hedonistic men into her clutches; since then the Mitran Maid has fought against Morwen several times further, with Morwen often acting at the behest of Belial, Dracula, the Iron Khan, or other supernatural villains who need to distract Angel Girl while their schemes are in play. The half-human succubus is usually willing to barter her services because she genuinely enjoys tugging the ultimate good-girl's cape.

5.Dark Lustre and Lamialith: The South African born villain is a recurring thorn in the Mithran Maiden's side, even since their first encounter during the Iron Age, when Angel Girl shut down Dark Lustre's "vigilante" activities and exposed her true depraved nature. Repeatedly losing, Dark Lustre appealed to her patron-demon, Lamialith, for aid in return for even greater acts of evil. Angel Girl travelled to Hell and defeated the Princess of Lust, Lies, and Romantic Retribution on the Demoness' home soil. Needless to say, she has earned the ire of both many times over.

6.The Adjudicator: Once mostly forgotten on Earth since the 1970s (when he battled the first Never-Man and Starfall), the cosmic bounty hunter and freelance "contract enforcement agent" is pursuing a warrant against Angel Girl issued by the Tsavong Empire. More powerful and better-armed than ever, the Adjudicator has proved a match for the Last Daughter of Mithra.

7.The Power-Thran: This ultrapowered champion of the Thran Empire has served as both foe and friendly rival to Angel Girl, depending on the circumstances. While adhering to a code of honor in her own right, the Power-Thran is first and foremost a defender of the empire, and this role has brought her to blows with Angel Girl several times over. They have also cooperated to stymie interstellar threats far beyond their individual powers.

Whew! Seven down, and the six to go! I realize this are all short takes, so anyone who wants to expand on them should feel free. Tomorrow I hope to do Evil Doppelgangers, Ironica, Satan Girl, Dr. Mabuse, Moon Master, and the Doomsday Twins.

All my best.

[Charles Phipps]

Doctor Henrietta West a.k.a Doctor Reanimator

Theme: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BnOUOkcr9c

The original Doctor Herbert West was a WW1 Doctor who was the American equivalent of Doctor Frankenstein. Ironically, despite the similarity of their research, Doctor West achieved all of his results independently of Sweden. Really, comparing the two, it's easy to see the differences. Doctor Frankenstein wanted to create a man who would never die. The Doctor West wanted to bring the dead back to life.

Like Doctor Frankenstein, Doctor West turned to alchemy to supplement his scientific research. Ironically, Doctor West managed to achieve signicant results with it despite his ardent atheism (alchemy being as much a spiritual discipline as a chemical one). With the assistance of an unnamed partner, Doctor West successfully replicated the Philosopher's Stone in liquid form and attempted to use it as a resurrection formula.
The irony of Doctor West's research is that he achieved what most alchemists could only dream of.

Unfortunately, it was not what he wanted. The problem with excluding the spiritual discipline of alchemy was that all of the corpses he revived were soulless. The few which weren't had the souls of the Damned trapped in them. It didn't help that, in the name of science, Doctor West occasionally reanimated heads or body parts independent of their forms.

The Hand is a inherited item of the Allans Family from Doctor West. The Allans are quite possibly the spookiest family in all of Freehold, Massachusetts and the Hand fits right in. Ironically, being the reincarnated soul of a murderer and thief, the Hand has taken his oddball escape from hell as a chance to reform himself. The Hand really is the least threatening member of the creepy and kooky clan.

Doctor West eventually met a grizzly end at the hands of his disgruntled creations. However, it was not known at the time that he had several nieces and nephews.

It was a scandal when one of the extremely wealthy West family married into German aristocracy, especially with the recent war. It was equally scandalous in Germany, especially when the family gave birth to the infamous Count Reich I and II. It should come as no surprise that the two inherited Doctor West's books.

Copies of the notes of Doctor West's family fell into the hands of cousins after WW2, neither believing the defecting Nazi family of Count Reich II should have them. This is the modern branch of the West family and the one who is presently menacing creation. You've undoubtedly heard of, if not seen, the movies based on Herbert West (esq). The sociopath Doctor's rampage through Freehold's prestigious medical schools is still infamous.

It is his daughter, impossible as to believe the man procreated, who occupies us presently,however. Henrietta West is the unofficial Zombie Queen of Heroic Earth. In many ways, she's a much more successful necromancer than her ancestors ever were. She's fully mastered knowledge of the Spirit World, she just doesn't care to use it that often. Henrietta West claims her goal is to eliminate death but, really she's fascinated by the process. Her experiments probe the boundaries of ethics and sanity before gleefully running over them.

Henrietta West creates unintelligent zombies, thinking zombies, cannibalistic zombies, zombie viruses, zombie mutants, mummies, artificial vampires, summons ghost hordes, and occasionally one-ups Doctor Frankenstein by building her own flesh golems. The sheer number of corpses she's defiled over the years, plus the number of people she's killed, is staggering.

Henrietta West, herself, rarely engages in overt murder. Instead, the fresh bodies that pile up around her are usually due to carelessness. Henrietta West has mastered complicated pheromone control over her creations, so she rarely has to fear them, but that defense doesn't apply to anyone else.

Henrietta West is a old school mad scientist in many respects, caring little about money and more about research. She's fully capable of resurrecting people from the dead and has done so in exchange for the money to carry out her grotesque lifestyle. Prison does little to stop her as friends in the Foundation for World Harmony are interested in her research, despite the fact it's resulted in at least one institution being completely leveled.

Henrietta West is an enemy of Angel Girl, Black Wing, Crimson Wing, Lady Grayhaven, and Splotch. Really, this isn't a proper description of her encounters with them, however, as she's quite fond of them. In her twisted mind, superheroes are amongst the few people she gets to see socially. She even thinks of Angel Girl as a close friend due to the number of times she's disabled her in order to perform bizarre experiments.

While Henrietta West has no real powers of her own, superheroes should be wary. In addition to the horde of undead minions she commands, she's also a super-genius in other respects. Many a hero has been disabled by her undead viruses or 'monsters in a test-tube' she can release at a moment's notice. The fact she's deceptively cute and chipper (looking a bit like Amanda Righetti with glasses) causes plenty of heroes to drop their guard.

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[Charles Phipps]

C.O.U.P.L.E
(Citizen Organized for Undead and People Living Equally)

...Yeah.

COUPLE is an organization disproportionately large to the fact vampires aren't technically proven to exist. COUPLE, of course, isn't limited to vampires. They have protecting the rights of ghosts, revenants, intelligent zombies, mummies, and so on as part of their agenda. A lot of people are surprised this organization exists but it's actually almost as big as its parent organization MATE (Metamen Alliance Trying for Equality).

In fact, the fact it IS almost as large as MATE is one of the more horrifying things about civil rights in Heroic Earth. There's more well-meaning citizens concerned about the already deceased than there are humans with powers. COUPLE actually has about three times the budget and ends up assisting MATE in many of its rallies.
Needless to say, most superheroes with any knowledge of the undead are appalled.

What's absolutely insane is COUPLE is not controlled by the undead. Most vampires assume COUPLE couldn't possibly exist and those who do believe it must be some secret plot of Dracula's. In fact, Vlad Tepes has never heard of the organization and would be completely bewildered by the idea of humans welcoming the undead as friends for reasons other than a naked desire for power.

COUPLE's chief goal is to gain proof of the existence of vampires while simultaneously setting up legislation which will protect their rights in the event of this occurring. They consider superheroes who actively target the undead for destruction to be engaging in vigilante murder and believe attempts to "cure" the undead to be prejudiced. Most people consider COUPLE to be a harmless group of oddballs, even if they do support Metaman rights, and ignore them.

In fact, COUPLE is quite good at tracking down the movements of vampires. It's lost several of its representatives but is genuinely naive enough not to realize they were murdered by the undead. Still, they've gathered a large amount of proof with the intent of championing the causes of the undead without the Vampire Nation realizing it.

Part of the problem, amusingly, is Stacy Blackthorne. A homonculus created by Randolf Curwen in the image of the late Tiffany Blackthorne. She has little in common with her progenitor other than an incredible good nature. In fact, Randolf Curwen has actually weaponized her goodness by alchemically enhancing it in a lab.

He's also developed ways of extracting "evil" and injecting it in people he wants to corrupt. Really, he needn't bother, Stacy is almost a saint already.

The problem with being such a moral paragon is that Stacy actually can't approach vampires. Unbeknownst to her, they tend to burst into flames and meet the Final Death within ten feet of her. Just being in her presence also eliminates anyone's mesmerization by a vampire and has been known to spontaneously cleanse Renfields of their addiction. She is thus incredibly surprised when people (usually spies sent into COUPLE) seem to flip out into angry tirades against the undead before storming off.

Interestingly, Stacy is studying to be a biochemist and has one of the better knowledges of vampirism in the world. She was actually a student before Cynthing Van Helsing kicked her out and is working on several formula for reducing the savagery of the vampiric form. Stacy actually may create the vampire anti-psychotic, though she'd need to figure out a way to restore their souls first.

Dracula, of course, would genuinely FLIP HIS LID if he found out she'd discovered a way to do that.

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All right, the second half (approximately) of my Angel Girl villains list, three (un)worthy adversaries in this post, three more to follow:

8. Dr. Mabuse: No known relation to the original, this American-born, younger (well, depending on his body du jour)Mabuse is every bit the manipulator, mesmerist, and body-hopper as his infamous predecessor. Not employing the "crude" surgical techniques of "lesser intellects", Dr. Mabuse instead uses a combination of astral projection and a weird science apparatus to switch mentalities/personalities with other beings.

(He actually stole the basic design for the apparatus from vintage blueprints of the first Prof. Moriarty, though Mabuse refuses to admist this). Of course he covets superhuman bodies, and Mabuse has attempted to usurp Angel Girl's physique in at least one instance, while just being contracted by other masterminds to put the Mithran in a harmless body at other times. He's also engaged in more sordid and materialistic schemes, such as selling fresh young forms to evil and aging individuals. Dr. Mabuse is very egotistical, and fancies himself a far more impressive villain than he is, actually. He is however, very sexually magnetic and seductive, in almost any body he inhabits. This allows him to attract lovers (of both sexes) who are physically powerful to serve as his "muscle".

9. Villainous doppelgangers: More than most other heroes, Angel Girl has fought against antiheroic, criminal, or ersatz versions of herself, including several from alternate Earths. These have included:

*The Hell-World counterpart Devil-Girl, who is actually a telekinetic/telepathic metaman rather than a Mithran*
*The Earth-Gamma supervillain Thunderbird-Woman, a ravenhaired duplicate whose powers are derived from a mystic gemstone.
*Celeste*, an older and brawnier clone created by Project Icarus as part of their plan to replace the Patriots with the Super-Nationalists, a team of genetic knock-offs brainwashed into serving Project Icarus without question.
*Dr. Angela Mithras, a genius criminal scientist from Counter-World (the synthetic Earth once conquered by General Venomm); an otherwise normal human lacking metaman powers, Dr. Mithras nonetheless successfully imprisoned and impersonated the Mithran Maid using her advanced technology. She has since been extradited back to Counter-World.*
*The Tsavong Angel-Girl, who was artificially empowered and genetically altered to take over Angel Girl's existence. While this WAS part of a larger Tsavong invasion plan, the scale and success of the Tsavong effort was wildly over-reported and dramatized in Heroic Earth's comics medium.
*Queen Midia, an usurper and sorcercess from the days of Ancient Atlantis (pre-descent into the oceans), revived in the late 20th century. While initially a walking mummy, Queen Midia later regained her full human vitality and was revealed as a dead ringer for Angel Girl once she discarded her wrappings. She dispatched Angel Girl to another dimension using her magic and took the Mithran's place in the Patriots for a time, before the real Angel Girl returned to Heroic Earth and exposed the Queen as an evil impersonator.

10.The Moon Master: One of the few surviving members of the original Lunar race, the self-proclaimed Moon Master holds the Patriots and Angel Girl in particular responsible for the deaths of his family, after Project Icarus and Death Mask III unleashed a doomsday weapon on Earth's sattelite. In truth, the Moon Master despises his own failure to rescue his mate and daughters, and now despises the "false hopes" offered by heroes. Nano-generators implanted beneath his pale yellow skin allow the Moon Master to absorb solar energy for super-strength, flight, and heat-blasts; combined with his use of the Lunarian's gravity tech the Moon Master is a formidable foe for even a Mithran.

[Charles Phipps]

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[Phrozen]

Where do you find this stuff Charles? The music video and now this weird political party in Britain.

[Charles Phipps]

Where do you find this stuff Charles? The music video and now this weird political party in Britain.

The music video was made for "Beyond Reanimator" the third movie in a very silly franchise I happen to love.

The political party was just an advantageous find.

I thought you guys would like them.

[MightyDavidson]

Good stuff Charles. I especially like the impication that there's an homage to the Addams Family alive and living (or unliving as the case may be) in Freehold. Tell me, does HED have a Collins Family as well.

C.O.U.P.L.E would freak out many magic users in the Mightyverse I think.

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All right, finishing up with my final three on the list of major recurring threats encountered by Angel Girl:

11. Satan Girl: Hailing from the independent world of Luminyl III, the young heroine Sata Tyrna was known planet-wide as The Lightbringing Maid due to her powers over the electromagnetic spectrum, which included flight, laser-vision, and the ability to transform into sentient light-energy. She was a member in good stead of the Federation of Interstellar Freedom Fighters, a team of superheroes who defended the civilizations of worlds which existed outside the great star-spanning empire. She first met Angel Girl on Earth, serving as the FIFF's delegate to recruit the Mithran teen for membership. An early mis-translation of her codename into English resulted in the "Satan Girl" confusion. Angel Girl accepted reserve membership in the group, and shared several space based adventures with them, with Satan Girl becoming a sort of special friend.

Many of the FIFF perished or were crippled during a Great Cosmic Crisis (which involved a huge gathering of Heroic Earth's superhumans as well), and the team disbanded. Worse, Luminyl III was ravaged by Doomship Omega, scattering the words' surviving population as impoverished refugees. Satan Girl seems to have suffered a psychotic break; years ago she made romantic overtures to Angel Girl, which were politely rebuffed. Sata Tyrna was disappointed, but accepted the decision. But she has become an obsessed stalker in recent years, becoming reckless and dangerous in her attempts to impress Angel Girl and win the Mithran's love. Her mental state is getting worse, and Satan Girl has started targeting Angel Girl's actual love interests, past and present.

12.The Doomsday Twins: First encountered by Angel Girl a few years prior to the Iron Age, Doomguard and Hellmetal are metamen who thrive and gain strength by metabolizing toxins, pollutants, and excess radioactivity. They targeted the Mithran Maid when she began campaigning against corporations which polluted the ecology, exposing violators of environmental laws and dismantling unsafe power plants (Angel Girl was a bit more optimistic and naive in those days). Doomguard is superhumanly strong, can fly, and can alter his molecular structure to adapt to any single opponent; Hellmetal can control the atomic mass and charge of matter on a grand scale, even able to blackout entire cities or render steel vault doors intangible. Even together, they were defeated by the Girl Guardian of Good, and were little heard of thereafter, until recent years.

The Doomsday Twins resurfaced during Deathmonger's most recent attempt to conquer the 21st century of Heroic Earth, serving as two of his lieutenants. They have since clashed with Angel Girl twice more, and Ultramind II has speculated the pair are more important than they seem. Indeed, they may play a crucial role in determining whether Heroic Earth's future is the Age of Wonders or a Near-Dystopia.

13. Ironica: Angel Girl's version of Puzzles,Ironica began existence as an Angel Girl-robot (both Mithrans experimented with robot duplicates earlier in their careers, but all such attempts ultimately proved failures). Composed of an advanced "mimetic metal" gathered by Angel Girl from a strange asteroid near the Tsavong Hegemony, the Angel Girl Robo Mk VI was more powerful and versative than its predecessors, but displayed odd deficits in logic and understanding of human emotions. Angel Girl ordered the construct to fly into a Cosmic Storm deep in space to dispose of the automaton, deeming it too flawed to exist further.

But something the android encoutered in the heart of the storm changed it irrevocably, awakening a true independent consciousness but badly distorting its' appearance and speech. More powerful and self-aware, but even more irrational in thought, the creature dubbed itself "Ironica", and returned to Earth, seeking revenge and vindication. It considers Angel Girl to be evil for ordering Ironica to destroy "herself", and now seeks to show-up, embarass, or imprison the Mithran Maid for her "fake heroism when you just smash bad things so people be-not in unlove with you, not instead making the worse things better and good like me".

That's all I got. All my best!

[Libra]

You've done splendid work Grey Crusader and I shall do my best to make time to post concerning it (although my schedule has been somewhat preoccupied in recent weeks, owing to volunteer work for a Charity and my body clock taking some little while to get used to it).

I'll do my best to comment, as well as finish my article on the Fellowship of the Inklings (which I'm sure is the less interesting prospect, but I need to learn to FINISH what I start, dagnabbit!).

Before I go:

Good stuff Charles. I especially like the impication that there's an homage to the Addams Family alive and living (or unliving as the case may be) in Freehold. Tell me, does HED have a Collins Family as well.

On Heroic Earth, the inspiration for both families would of course be one and the same!

For extra laughs, let us imagine that the Allan's families' nearest neighbours, the most salt-of-the-Earth, charming and generally blue-collar people they could ever hope to meet.

To be precise, this particular family consists of one of Professor Frankenstein's most disappointingly 'stupid' (read: moral) creations aka Frank, his charming wife Milla (who may or not be a vampire, since the verdict is still out on that one), her eccentric father Radu (who most certainly IS, but has 'taken the pledge' to use the Discworld term), as well as Frank and Milla's werewolf son (who is probably adopted, since I'm not sure even supernatural biology works that way), as well as their niece Norma Jean (a young lady so entirely normal as to be DEEPLY suspicious-looking).

Amusingly, despite the fact that the Allans family is mostly Human, the Mundane family are STILL far more normal than their distinctly upper-class 'neigbours' ever will be.

[Phrozen]

After rewatching Ghostbusters and getting the game.

I now would like everybodies ideas for Ghoul-B-Gone's spectral rouges gallery....

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A further expansion of Rob Jack and Hilda-Anne (The Big Answer)'s oddball adventures and weird investigations:

Though only in existence a relatively brief period of time, the intrepid pair behind Antiquity Investigations have already seen more than their share of excitement. Starting out by only taking on cases in the Great Lakes region and a few other nearby states (they got as far as Pennsylvania and New Jersey), Mr. Jack and Hilda-Anne have ventured much farther out (even off-world a couple of times) as their firm's modest fortunes have ticked upward.

(It certainly does not hurt that both have friends in high places who occasionally farm out detective work to the pair).

However, while the couple now take on cases distant from their home territory if the money is right (or the case is just too interesting to turn down), there is still plenty of weirdness locally for them to deal with. The region actually attracts more supervillains than one might expect, mainly because none of the Big Name heroes are located there to stop them. But given the relatively smaller pickings to be had, many of the super-criminals are minor-leagurers, oddities or misfits, such as Captain Snafu, Die-Cut, The Unrighteous Brothers,, Queen Cossack, The Human Meercat, and the Crimson Chanteuse, all bringing their own brand of strangness. The Lakeland Liberators have several members whose powers (such as they are) result form curses, magic, and tears in the fabric of reality (see: Captain Catastrophe, Paper Knight, and the Big Answer herself). The Ultradoom android hails from a future which may never come to pass, and he now resides in town, happily working in an HR office and rooming with the Gatling-Gun Kidd, another time-travelling hero-none of which does the area's timestream any good. Unknown to almost everyone else, a shadowy counterpart to the grand Otherworld Royal Fey courts exist in a nearby sub-dimension, the Kobalt Court composed of the goblin, hobgoblin, gremlin, and boogeymen aristocracies.
A strain of C.H.U.D.S. dwell underneath and beside the region's cities, though most are harmless scavengers, feeding off garbage, vermin, and sewage. The area is also fairly rife with cults and secret churches devoted to half-forgotten pagan demigods and deities.

Rob and Hilda-Anne rarely lack for clients, though many end up being pro-bono cases or work done for nominal fees.

Walk On The Wild Side:[/b] This began as a reality-television series showcasing the adventures of Robert Jack and Hilda-Anne Sweet (formerly Hannah Black) as they investigated the very strange goings-on of the Quad City area and beyond (they travelled across the US in later episodes); long-time celebrity eye-candy Ginnifer McCauley was added early on, as producters felt the series needed more sex appeal. The blonde wise-cracker did juice the ratings, though only clever editing ever made her appear in danger on the show (Ginnifer is a smart cookie who kept her distance from meta-normal trouble). Eventually Hannah and Robert got tired of the short shrift given to Big Answer and the faux-flirting Ginnifer did with Rob Jack, so they split after three seasons. For the fourth season onward, a male co-host was added (Kane Provost, who once starred in a light romantic comedy re-imagining of Divinos' career) and a rotating cast of minor league metamen were used instead of Rob Jack and Big Answer, including Dark Jeste and Kid Kicks, ex-Elite cast-of)

They two ended up doing the televised reality show to generate more awareness of their firm, as well as defraying the costs of their pro-bono cases. Hilda-Anne was persuaded also because the producers agreed to feature members of the Lakeland Liberators as "ride-along heroes" on some of the episodes.

It was not so much Hilda-Anne really thought Ms. McCauley was really coming on to Rob, as the C-list bombshell was open about dating one of the studio executives behind the show; Ginnifer also made it clear her young autistic daughter Mavis was her first priority. Still, Hilda-Anne didn't need even fake competition for her man's affections, given the various faerie princesses, succubi, aging Silver Age villainesses, and Tsavong shemales who routinely bothered Mr. Jack. Also, part of her reason for doing the show, aside from the money, was to present a size-positive role model.

Rob Jack still officially retains a producer's credit on the show, and both he and Hilda-Anne (Big Answer) get royalties from the show through Antiquities Investigations, their private investigation firm. Rob has diplomatically declined to comment on the new direction of the show, but has communicated to the syndication company his friends in the Patriots WILL make sure it is shut down if Walk on the Wild Side ever endangers the cast or innocent civilians in the pursuit of ratings. For now, he is fairly sure the program is in good hands; while it is both campier and more sensationalistic than the original incarnation, Kane Provost has a lot of respect for real super-heroes, particularly Divinos, and Ginnifer McCauley isn't a bad sort, even if she plays the role of a goofball blonde while actually being whippet-smart.

Both Rob and Hilda-Anne have met King-Size, another ex-Elitist recently hired on as the regular super-muscle for the program. King-Size, a former marine, had some real problems with drug addiction and depression in the past, but has gone through rehab and turned his life around one-hundred-and-eighty degrees, becoming a solid and stalwart man once again. The couple are very comfortable with him becoming the "official" superhero presence in the show.

Hope the above was liked by some or all here. Just because I feel a little bereft of ideas at the moment AND we really haven't done this in a while, I'd like to do another HED challenge!, and ask for contributions detailing the Rob Jack and Hilda-Anne team's Seven Biggest Successful Cases and their Seven Most Embarassing Failed Cases, in no particular order.

All my best!

[Libra]

Hmmm ... I can't think of anything at the moment, but I'll see if anything pops into my head (beyond excuses).

[Charles Phipps]

I mean to get around to Nightwoman but I'm presently debating Los Dios or HED! Noir.

[Libra]

If I might throw in my penny's worth, I would like to vote for HED! Noir (since we already know a bit about Los Dios and any sequence of articles on that City would likely be extensive).

I would also like to note that those other article seeds sound Good too, but that I'm too intrigued by speculation concerning just what 'HED! Noir' might involve to give them anything but secondary billing.