Revenge of CRUQUIUS: Chapter three and four

And Welcome back to two new Chapters of Revenge of CRUQUIUS! Two chapters this time because of their common elements and because I am to lazy to write commentaries for all of the single chapters.. Or at least ones I find interesting.

Last time I talked about the faceless goons that made their appearance. Now are goons, minions and henchmen underused in my humble opinion. But once used, often to great effect. Think of Dr. Steel and his army of toy soldiers. Maybe the doc is (sadly) gone, his minions The Toysoldiers remain. Both as a community and as a charity.

Logo and battlecry of the Army of Toysoldiers.
Read all about them on Toysoldiersunite.com

Kind to think of it, there are alot of communities based upon henchman. The Starwars Stormtroopers alone have dozens, if not hundreds of groups world wide. In the Netherlands we even have Resident Evils Umbrella Corps Troopers.

Sorry, got a little sidetracked there. Anyway, to utilise hero's as best you can you got to put them up against something. What something depends. If the scoobie-do-gang would square off against the Xenomorphes from the aliens franchise... Well, the aliens the aliens would probably have gotten away with it, even with those meddling kids...

"Jinkies! The Chestburster was in Scrappy-Do all this time!" 
"Jikes! Game over Scoob! Game over!"
"Screw this chickens**t outfit. Split up gang!"

Hmmm, kinda think of it. That probably would be hilarious.

Back on topic (again). Antagonists are an important part of any world you want to create, but it has to fit the story. Often the opposite of the antagonists. In case of Steampunk, a very individualistic culture with a positivist view on technology the best kind of opponents would be the opposite of that. Conformistic and scientific backward... Neh, just kidding. Conformistic en using technology to harm rather than good. In this case the mayor took lessons from a Captain Planet episode and started polluting. But fortunately there were no 'five gifted young people' so annoying you'd want to straggle them in their sleep. Instead we have three kickass chicks with guns!  

Chapter three.
 
While working on cleansing the waters, Lady A takes a rest when Bartho's goons spot her and    
Emma.

Emma McMurphy, Lennart Tange, Bonsart Bokel, Michel Julsing, Serge Smulders, Constance Bashford and Anouk van Wetten

What will they do!?


Chapter four

with Michel Julsing, Bonsart Bokel, , Emma McMurphy, Anouk van Wetten and Constance Bashford

The goons charge and capture Emma. Lady A attempts to save Emma, but decides to flee, to
prevent herself from being captured too. She runs through the woods to find the Captain. Not knowing what the Mayor will do to Emma, they must hurry!