The Playaz

Bäbel Thorgarten.
Age: 31.
Kingdom: Avian.
Totem: Thor.
Birthstone: Celestine.
Affiliations: Køpi; NeuBashi Skybridge.
Occupation: Telecommunications industry.
Nationality: Germany.
Superpowers: Skateboarding, Kung Fu, can break glass with her voice. Fluent in the Universal Language.
Element: Air.

Ichiro Sato.
Age: 66.
Aliases: The Professor.
Claim to fame: World's leading expert on the search for extraterrestrial intelligence.
Favorite Beverage: Green tea, Yamazaki whiskey.
Hobbies: Fly-fishing, detective novels, flamingoes and alligators (their skins of course!)

Mark Day.
Alias: Thr0back.
Species: Neanderthal.
Totem: King Kong.

Mustafa Hasan.
Age: 27.
Occupation: Sufi mystic.
Life mission: To destroy the New World Order.
Aliases: Ishmael the Invincible, the Green Man.

Brett Weir.
Age: 26.
Aliases: Weary; the Lyrical Prankster.
Totem: Loki the Trickster.
Favorite music: Nine Inch Nails, Surfer Punk, or Iceland.
Obsession: The irresistible Cheung Li.

Cassius Croon.
Age: 33.
Kingdom: Marsupial.
Totem: Kangaroo.
Soul Family: Cheung Li, .
Aliases: Marc Spoon, Frank Sloon, Trent Prune, Jose Garcia.
Lacanian Clinical Structure: Neurotics (Obsessive).
Occupation: Secret Agent.
Superpowers: Polyglot. Martial Arts. Dreamwalker.
Favorite Haunts: Swinging London, the south of France or Spain, the Orient and anywhere with a Tarantino vibe.

Cheung Li.
Age: 28.
Kingdom: Amphibian.
Occupation: Semiologist.
Personal history: The daughter of China's richest man, interested in non-grammatical communication.

Gerald McCumbie.
Age: 43.
Occupation: Director at the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
Affiliations: Deep State.

Magda Maria.
Occupation: Actress.
Superpowers: Hiding in plain sight; telepathy.
Lacanian Clinical Structure: Neurosis (Hysteric).
Affiliations: The Splice Girls.
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Matt Egan.

Paval Poznyak.
Age: 26.
Aliases: The Green Man.
Kingdom: Chlorophile.
Occupation: Activist.
Nationality: Ukraine.
Superpowers: Photosynthesis.
He later helps to establish the first private colony in Antarctica which eventually becomes the Selrin Utopia, the largest city on the continent, based on hydroponic agriculture.

(Read the prologue of the CASSIUS CROON IMPLOSION,

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Cassius Croon Implosion: The Players

Cassius Croon: Secret agent who worked on both sides of the Atlantic, serving various security agencies. Polyglot, Junglist, . his face something of the viperine V.Of basically Negroid extraction, his hair was wavy rather than frizzy, with a cleft chin and a flat nose. Lifelong Macfanatic (that's McDonald's, not Macintosh). Favorite haunts: Swinging London, the south of France or Spain, the Orient and anywhere with a Tarantino vibe.

Franz Hoebbard: Australian engineer. Kidnapped by Jacky Tung to work on his Menagerie 09 space station, which will provide a home for humans and endangered animals in orbit around the Earth, to escape the impending destruction of the Earth.

Ishmael the Invincible: Nickname of Ishmael Mohammed Mahmud, a Palestinian terrorist and heretic who became the first suicide bomber to conduct two successful missions. He achieved this through the art of "Permanent Resurrection" or branic tunneling. Founder of the 0th Pillar of Islam.

Karafilpa: Antarctician name for Gaia, the Planetary Stewardess, the elemental being which inhabits the Earth. Soul sister of Mercury, Venus and all the solar family.

Cheung Li: Chinese linguist investigating animal and alien communication; in her free time, a roleplaying gamer and anime addict. A colleague of Dr Ichiro Sato, and wife of Brett Weir. Born in the Year of the Rabbit.

Dr John Omotayo: Nigerian cult leader who prophesized that the world had ended in 1999. He is publicly executed by Cassius Croon in order to stop the implosion of west Africa into millennial madness.

Dr Ichiro Sato: Astrophysicist and sociologist, and founder of the postMayan calendar. One of the first Immortals, using cryogenics to take a one-way tour of the future.

Julian Offer: Australian atmospheric scientist, stationed at Tuggera Station in the Australian Antarctic Territory, at the time of the Gaian Intervention. Introverted, masochistic, and shy around women. A supporter of the Chloro Revolutionary Posse and radical action.

Meen E: Stage name of Matthew Egan, rapper and serial killer. Soul brother of Paval Pozynak, Totem: Bruce Banner.

Ral Millennia: .

Son Carriad:: Son of Gaia, and Continental Steward of Antarctica, the lost continent which Karafilpa has preserved as a gift for humanity. Thanks to Matt Tumbers.

Babel Thorgarten: Granddaughter of Karl Stormgarten, musician, skateboarder, martial artist and anarchist. Thor is her totem.
Jacky Tung: Sixth richest man in the world, posthumanist, and with a Reptilian fetish. Abducts Babel Thorgarten to gain knowledge of the Universal Language. He has also designed a species of women who can jump out of buildings using spider silk.

Brett Weir: Mimic and prankster; declared a persona non grata in China. Favorite music: Nine Inch Nails.