They say the Jigsaw Man has magical powers. Even if he doesn’t, he’s plenty scary enough. He leads the street-gang/blood-cult they call the Mara, which holds Hardwick Park in its iron grip. Born in the steaming jungles of Honduras, the Mara are a gang, a religion and a way of life. They practice witchcraft, it is said, and their leaders are immune to bullets. The Jigsaw Man rose to be their Rey de Brujas some time within the past five years. He’s unusually savage and obsessed with the Mara’s strange religion. No one knows his name. There are no photographs of him. They say his face does not come out in pictures.

Eentsy Z hates the Mara worse than anyone. He’s the fifteen year-old leader of a coalition of African-American street gangs in Wolverton, organized to defend their neighborhood against the Mara next door. Even united they don’t have the same muscle, let alone whatever sinister occult powers the Mara might wield, so for now they’re focused on holding their own territory rather than wiping the Mara out.

Eentsy Z was the little brother of Tiny Z, who used to lead the coalition. Then Tiny Z got eaten up by rats—from the inside out! Eentsy Z is too crazy and savage to let this scare him. A very small boy with a lot of very big guns, he kills on a whim and laughs in the face of death. Anyway, he says mysteriously, he’s got magic powers of his own.

Unlike Eentsy Z and the Jigsaw Man, who might or might not be superhuman, the man they call the Cold Killer undeniably is. He likes to freeze people to death in the middle of summer. They hate him down at the morgue—you have to autopsy his handiwork with a buzzsaw and a blowtorch. Never caught, he’s only been glimpsed a couple of times. He seems to be a tall man in a white costume. Whoever the Cold Killer is, he’s got Bedlam on the brink of a hysterical anti-metahuman panic. The long hot summer they’re having isn’t making things any better. Perhaps someone ought to shut the Cold Killer down for the good of the city. Perhaps someone like the PCs?

The giant trailer park complex called Shady Meadows, just outside of Bedlam, is riven with constant violence and chaos. It’s full of bikers, rednecks and crank-fiends. Right now a biker gang called the Brotherhood rules the roost at Shady Meadows. Their leader is Delbert Graves (most people just call him Graves)—a cold-blooded psychopath who seldom speaks and never takes off his reflective sunglasses. For some reason Shady Meadows produces a lot of little gangs of meth-heads who dress up in costumes. There was a “beatnik gang” a gang that dressed like cartoon characters, a disco gang and weirder groups. Supervillains love recruiting henchmen from Shady Meadows.

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