I originally wrote up a scenario for an adventure in d20 Modern for a PNP RPG group, since they wanted me to do an adventure in CWCville. The challenge was thus to somehow portray Chris and the cast of recolors as sympathetic, and, using a worse evil as a backdrop, I got to work.
CWCville has stood for some time, but little is said of the administration it supplanted. Chris speaks of his father founding it, but of nothing else. Few, if any records of the previous administrator survive. Chris' seeming benality over the event belies the truth of what occured. Chris' seeming dictatorship, militant aggression, and draconian laws are all largely a front to draw attention from a far bigger threat, and it was only brought to light when an aged soldier, found deep in CWCville's oldest neighborhood, revealed the truth.
In ages past, Chris' father founded what was known as RFCville, and, during the building of the city, uncovered terrible artifacts dating to a bygone age. Already a covetous and bigoted man, the artifacts worked a terrible change on the aged man's psyche, twisting him from a decent-if-flawed human being into a monster, one who ruled with an iron fist and whose administration made CWC's look downright benevolent in contrast. With a brutally-loyal regime behind him, he began to expand his land, and his rule. It was believed that unless he was somehow stopped, overt military action between his forces and the outside was a dreadful inevitability. Something in RFC had changed; he had become something inhuman.
The young CWC was barely out of high school when he noticed the change in his father. Gathering the most loyal men from his father's personal guard, young Chris was forced to do the unthinkable, and lead an uprising against his father. And though RFC was cast down, the evil presence that had taken root in his psyche remained. Chris was determined to not let this evil spread. Deep below the CWCville shopping center, a massive vault was created, and within it, the dread spirit within the form of the deceased RFC was chained and imprisoned - sealed away and forgotten. But though it was trapped in its form, it proved far from helpless. Chris was terribly scarred by the ordeal mentally, and wound up crashing into slumber from the psychic trauma. The spirit in RFC railed against its containment; it could only reach out to kindred spirits, ones that felt the caress of darkness, as RFC had. Mary Lee Walsh and Graduon were the first to be lured by the subconscious signal from beyond - but they would not be the last.
Since then, Chris has used all of his powers to keep the monster under CWCville restrained, and sealed away, with help from the electric hedgehog pokemon and his closest allies. He alone knows the depth of the crisis thus far; he cannot be sure who, even among those closest to him, can be trusted or not. And so he fights in CWCville against villains for outwardly the most spurious of reasons - he cannot take risks - he must ensure that the corrupted cannot be influenced by the dread spirit. CWCville chafes under his rule, and his antics, and it pains him, but the alternative is unthinkable, for if the dread spirit escapes, the damage to the world will be incalculable. His erratic behavior is easily dismissed as mere Autism, but it's the protracted stress of keeping a monster from beyond entombed.
The electric hedgehogs know of the plight, to different degrees. Sonichu knows, ironically, the least, with Magi-Chan the most.
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