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Real Name: Brigid O’Rielly
Occupation: Former police detective, now vigilante
Legal Status: Citizen of the United States with no criminal record; now dead
Identity: Secret
Place of Birth: Unrevealed
Marital Status: Single
Known Relatives: None
Base of Operations: Unrevealed
Past Group Affiliations: Ally of Cloak and Dagger
Known Powers:
Fingernails: Mayhem’s fingernails serve as a Typical Edged attack.
Paralysis Gas: Mayhem radiates a strange green gas that affects all targets in the same area as Mayhem. Any person cut by Mayhem’s finger nails (or anyone who has been damaged by an Edged attack and still has an open wound) must make an Endurance FEAT or be paralyzed. It has not been revealed how long the paralysis lasts. Mayhem can also use her gas to force her victims to tell her the truth; the victim must make a Yellow Psyche FEAT to avoid the effects of this “truth serum.” Mayhem’s gas also neutralizes Dagger’s “Daggers of Light.”
Flight: Mayhem can levitate herself and travel at Typical air speed (6 areas/round).
Talents:
As Brigid O’Rielly, Mayhem had Law Enforcement and Detective talents.
Contacts:
Mayhem is an ally of Cloak and Dagger. She may retain a few police contacts as well.
Role-Playing Notes:
Mayhem is an absolutely ruthless vigilante, showing no mercy to criminals, save that of a quick death as opposed to a slow death. She carries on her crusade against crime from beyond the grave. Mayhem is particularly dedicated to killing corrupt police officers.
History:
Brigid O’Rielly was a police detective in Manhattan’s 21st Precinct. She learned that two strange vigilantes were attacking pimps, pornographers, and drug pushers in her precinct. Finally, she saw the two vigilantes, Cloak and Dagger, fighting “chickenhawks” who had gathered runaway children to exploit. In the course of the battle, one of the children was killed by a stray bullet. Although neither Cloak nor Dagger had fired the shot, O’Rielly blamed them for the boy’s death, claiming she could have saved him if not for their interference. She was now determined to capture Cloak and Dagger, but they teleported away.
Later, Cloak and Dagger came to O’Rielly to seek her help in tracking down Duane Hellman, who was poisoning aspirin used by children. O’Rielly cooperated but was appalled when Cloak swallowed Hellman up in the darkness within his cape, sending him into another dimension. O’Rielly decided to bring Cloak and Dagger to justice, but changed her mind when Cloak gave up Hellman to her. After Cloak and Dagger told her their origins, she resolved to trouble them no longer.
Later, O’Rielly and other police officers investigated a warehouse allegedly containing millions of dollars worth of illegal drugs. The ware house belonged to Marshall Pharmaceuticals, formerly owned by Simon Marshall, whose experimental drug had given Cloak and Dagger their powers. In the warehouse, O’Rielly and the others were entrapped by corrupt policemen including Roger Falcone, who were in league with the Maggia family smuggling the drugs. The four captives were exposed to a gas created by Marshall in order to asphyxiate them. Furious at Falcone, O’Rielly said if she could escape, she would not wait for a judge and jury but would punish him herself. She said, “The mayhem I’d cause would purify the whole department of your kind.”
The other three captives died, but Cloak and Dagger found O’Rielly near death. To protect her, Cloak surrounded her and Dagger with his darkness, and Dagger tried to revive her with her “living light.” But O’Rielly died, only to rise alive but transformed into the being calling herself Mayhem. Mayhem aided Cloak and Dagger in fighting Falcone and his two accomplices, and Mayhem her self killed Falcone.
Mayhem has allied herself with Cloak and Dagger in hunting down dealers in illegal drugs. Mayhem is herself now a vigilante, showing no mercy to the criminals she pursues.