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I... I think I may just fall in love. She's a hot socialite who is secretly a power playing Serpent who is acquainted with cyborg Napoleon, has dealings with Lord Caleb Belle, engaged to French royalty, and runs a criminal empire. How is that not hot?
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Ford Prefect wrote:
Peregrin wrote:Vivian sounds like a smarter and even more powerful version of Vice... which makes her kinda scary. :shock:
Apart from being beautiful women born in France, they really don't have anything in common.
Both are also really influential people who moonlight as baronesses of crime.
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Peregrin wrote:
Ford Prefect wrote:
Peregrin wrote:Vivian sounds like a smarter and even more powerful version of Vice... which makes her kinda scary. :shock:
Apart from being beautiful women born in France, they really don't have anything in common.
Both are also really influential people who moonlight as baronesses of crime.
Except that when you actually look at why and how they're influential, or their histories, or their methods and modus operandi, they're basically totally different. Jurgen Baccara is also an influential person who moonlights of something of a crimelord, but he's still totally unlike any of the other criminals the world has.
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Behold (and Shroom, if I missed anything, just say so :)):

Mister Li – The Serpent of South-East Asia

“Imagine… Imagine that catlike face, imbued with all the cruel cunning of the entire Eastern race! That high brow, that giant intellect, the guttural voice. The face of Satan, sculpted in gold. The ancient terror, the yellow peril incarnate…” – Diary of Detective Smith, as dictated to Nurse Clarisse van Buuren, Saint Dymphna Mental Hospital (Hong Kong, 1923)

All Serpents have a status to uphold for their ruthlessness and cunning. But there is one who exceeds all others in his reputation for his singularly devious and wicked nature. It is the man who was a member of the original Serpents when they were first assembled more than a century ago, the man who has survived a thousand plots and has himself plotted a million more, the man with a thousand aliases: the devil doctor, the malevolent mandarin, the emperor of crime, master of the orient, talon of the east, Ancient Li, Old Man Li, Mister Li. He is arguably the most feared of all the Serpents, entirely without compassion or mercy, a terrible intellect dedicated entirely to crime and darkness.

The story of the infamous Mister Li began a long time ago, in the year 1644 when the Manchu dynasty conquered the Middle Kingdom and founded the Qing dynasty. Mister Li (none beside him know the rest of his name, or even if that is his true name) was born into the Manchu dynasty in the year 1850. The Manchu yet ruled China, but their power had been slipping for decades: foreigners ran rough-shod over the once-proud empire, regions broke away in revolt, and civil unrest ran rife. Dissatisfied with the ineffective rule of the Tongzhi Emperor and later the Guangxu Emperor, Li plotted to assassinate the Emperor and take the throne for himself in order to restore the might of the cruel Manchu’s. Unfortunately for him, but fortunately for China the Boxer Rebellion broke out before his plans could bear fruit, and like many members of the Qing Dynasty Mr. Li was forced to abandon his plans and flee the capital.

Furious that his scheme had been foiled so close to being carried out, Mr. Li immediately began to plot against the newly formed Chinese Republic – but before he could succeed again turmoil swept through China. The country fell to communism, and Li was forced to abandon his plans yet again.

But even today, after so many years, Mr. Li does not accept this status quo. Among the myriad schemes he plots, perhaps the most important and overarching of all is his plan to restore the China of old. Bending his huge criminal empire to the task of throwing the Europeans out of Asia, destroying communism, and claiming the dragon throne for himself, Mr. Li is perhaps the most dangerous of all enemies faced by the People’s Republic of China.

To truly understand the magnitude of the threat posed by Mr. Li one only has to look at the extent of his secret empire. Its tendrils are spread through all of South East Asia, from his secret lair in the underworld of Hong Kong all the way through India and across China, into Central Asia and west to Japan, even to the Middle East, the West Coast of the United States and south into Indonesia. At the core of it is the ancient secret society known as the Sin-Lo, at whose head sits Mr. Li himself. The minions of the Sin-Lo are legion, but some are worthy of special mention.

Perhaps the most dreaded of all agents of Mr. Li are the Sin-Lo themselves. They are an elite group of Chinese assassins who have served the Manchu dynasty since the third Manchu emperor. Desiring to build the most formidable army the world had ever seen, the Emperor of the Great Qing sent one hundred soldiers into the remote Qinghai mountains in order to find the greatest master of kung-fu who had ever lived, a man who went by the name of Master Evil. All but three of the soldiers died of exhaustion and the cold until they found Master Evil. For ten days they pleaded with him, but Master Evil would not be persuaded to come until one of the soldiers mentioned that the Emperor had also sent word to the great Shaolin Temple of Mount She, and that the great kung-fu master Shan-Yuan had already agreed to train the Emperor’s soldiers. Then Master Evil made his way to the Forbidden City and there defeated Shan-Yuan in single combat by breaking his neck in front of the Emperor himself. The fearsome master then agreed to train a select cadre of the Emperor’s soldiers in the six heavenly movements of the snake, a deadly form of kung-fu. It is this martial arts style that the Sin-Lo have expanded and perfected over the years, moulding them into the lethal mystical assassins they are today. Every time a rivalling underworld boss declares himself Serpent, Mister Li will send a squad of these elite assassins at him or her. If they can successfully fend off or even defeat the Sin-Lo, then Mister Li shall be willing to tolerate them for a while. Suffice it to say, most don’t make the cut (which you may take quite literally in this context.)

Only marginally less dangerous than the Sin-Lo is Mr. Li’s obsession with the mysterious. His murderous plots are marked by the extensive use of arcane methods: peculiar animals such as scorpions, pythons and spiders, poisons and other natural chemical weapons. He is known to breed homunculi and cat sized intelligent tarantulas, has formed a pact with one of Xabathos’ fern-queens, is in possession of the One Yeti Egg and has enslaved several Yeti clans: he even commands a dragon.

And if that is not bad enough, there are his innumerable foot soldiers: the dacoits, the kali-worshipping thuggee cults, the triads and yakuza clans and other street thugs whose loyalty he has bought with blood money, an army of living terracotta soldiers, communal hippies of San Francisco transformed into soulless abominations by Mr. Li’s fiendish opiates, Japanese biker gangs and LA street racers, squads of renegade Chinese soldiers longing for a restoration of the Imperial throne, and a number of lieutenants with esoteric abilities almost (but not quite) as cunning as Li himself, who run various aspects of the Sin-Lo.

There is his daughter, Tsai Chin Li, who is as treacherous as she is beautiful. A devious mastermind in her own right, she is perpetually plotting to take control of the Sin-Lo from her father and otherwise making things difficult for him. But although she frequently rebels and sides with her father’s enemies, make no mistake – she is as untrustworthy and merciless as her father.

Finally, there is Mr. Li himself. He remains youthful and vigorous by using the Elixir Vitae, an concoction he has perfected over the years which that allows him to extend his life significantly – perhaps even granting him eternal youth. Mr. Li is a master of hypnosis, an expert wielder of arcane drugs and poisons, one of the few people on Earth who yet speak the Manchu tongue, a man of diabolical intellect and fearsome genius. To look upon his visage is to despair of his cruel cunning. His evil schemes threaten not just China, but all the world, and his influence – both worldly, political and economic – cannot be underestimated. Of all the Serpents, he is very likely the hardest to dislodge from his position of power. Indeed, it is all too likely that his penchant for dramatic monologues and manic cackling is the only reason why all the world does not yet speak Mandarin by now.

The enemies of Mr. Li are many. There are of course the New Ghosts, China’s elite metahuman soldiers, his fellow Serpents (in particular Walter Ironsides, who perpetually vies with Mr. Li over control for the Western Seaboard, and Hank deBruce, who does the same for Oceania). He is embroiled in a war against a variety of eco-heroes over control of the One Yeti Egg, and he hates anything that has to do with socialism. Finally, he is a ruthless imperialist with a boundless expansionist drive, so wherever his underground empire expands it is bound to come into conflict with whomever tries to guard justice and the peace in those parts.

Mr. Li’s serpent ring modified in several ways: it is fitted with a deadly poisoned needle, a chemical substance that produces a fierce flash and prodigious smoke that allows him to escape from a tight spot, and a tiny reservoir containing a powerful mind-dulling potion, a few drops of which is enough to drug and incapacitate even a powerful man.
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*cackles insanely*

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A typo though:
For ten days they pleased with him, but Master Evil would not be persuaded
Pleased would imply freaky-deaky stuff. Like opium-addicted chinamen playing dodgeball with decapitated heads.

Pleaded.
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It was just ten days. But indeed, appealing to Master Evil's pride is one way of getting his attention. ;) Waging kung-fu battles before the Emperor himself may be overly dramatic for him, however.

About the terracotta soldiers though: a member of the New Ghosts also does it. While that's okay, we need to decide if Mr. Li's minions are just a terracotta army or the Terracotta Army.
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SiegeTank wrote:And if that is not bad enough, there are his innumerable foot soldiers: the dacoits, the kali-worshipping thuggee cults, the triads and yakuza clans and other street thugs whose loyalty he has bought with blood money, an army of living terracotta soldiers, communal hippies of San Francisco transformed into soulless abominations by Mr. Li’s fiendish opiates, Japanese biker gangs and LA street racers, squads of renegade Chinese soldiers longing for a restoration of the Imperial throne, and a number of lieutenants with esoteric abilities almost (but not quite) as cunning as Li himself, who run various aspects of the Sin-Lo.
Holy motherfucking shit.
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Shroom Man 777 wrote:Pleased/pleaded.
Corrected for your convenience!
Invictus wrote:It was just ten days.
Well, they were just soldiers. To have them survive for a month or longer on some forsaken mountain top would be a bit odd. As for the dramatic bit, he probably considered the invitation of the shaolin master insulting, and that was his way of letting off steam :).
About the terracotta soldiers though: a member of the New Ghosts also does it. While that's okay, we need to decide if Mr. Li's minions are just a terracotta army or the Terracotta Army.
Didn't know that. "Just a" would be fine with me, though.
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I've been re-reading. Clockwork Wars and Napoleon mentioned in the Saint-Blancat article. Clockwork Wars? Does that mean that France had to fight the clockworks of the other European nations? :twisted:
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Shroom Man 777 wrote:Clockwork Wars? Does that mean that France had to fight the clockworks of the other European nations? :twisted:
It's got to do with this particular snippet (which can be found in The Coming of the Saint):

Cyran St. Ordine Borne 22 September 1791 in St. Ordine, France (…) Cyran grew up to become one of France’s greatest mechanical engineers. (…) Among English engineers, mechanics and programmers he became known as “Cyrus the Virus” because of his development of remote-interface intrusive programming. Single-handedly he delivered France her victory in the Clockwork War of 1822-1823, his machines and programs ultimately proving superior to those of his English nemeses Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace." - From the Book of the Saints Mechanica

Though a discussion of scale and what the Clockwork War entailed precisely (etc.) is probably more suited for the Mad Ideas thread...
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Awesome. And, just like the other articles, very well detailed.

Although, part of me still can't get over the "Li", since now I'm imagining Max Li as a distant relative or something. :P
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Indeed, it is all too likely that his penchant for dramatic monologues and manic cackling is the only reason why all the world does not yet speak Mandarin by now.
I absolutely love this guy.
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Siege (and I) wanted him to cackle - because it is so cliche. But then I pointed out to him that the Fu Manchu book I have (the copy is from the 60s, the story was first published in the 30s) had a notable lack of cackling.

So it was a compromise.


Anyway, Saint-Blancat's article stated that Mr. Li is the only one who's not impressed with having France's Queen-to-be as an opponent. That's probably because back in his day (you goddamn gaijin whipper-snappers), Mr. Li probably did take on actual-factual Kings and Queens and Prince and Princesses. Whether or not he won or lost is up for debate.

Hell, he could've been the one who offed that Austrian/Prussian/German dude to instigate WWI.
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This is easily the best Seprent so far, and quite frankly untoppable. You should have saved him too last, because none of the others will be as impressive now. :D
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I think instead of Terra Cotta warriors, which the New Ghosts already have, it would be more befitting for Mister Li's more supernaturalistic side if he utilized the secrets of Chinese Vampires.

These Jiang Shi of Mr. Li (RHYMES!) could levitate instead of hop around like idiots. They could take insane damage and do stuff like eat souls or cut you up with their tongues or shoot lasers out of their eyes or something.
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Mustafa ‘Scar’ Crimson – The Serpent of Africa

Of all the Seven Serpents, Colonel Mustafa Crimson is probably the one most open about his vile nature. He can afford to be open about it, because he is the ruler of his own country, Shaka Abeeku, a small nation of some 30,000 square kilometers on the western bank of Lake Edward deep in Central Africa. As the despot of a sovereign country Crimson enjoys a degree of immunity even Saint-Blancat lacks – which is something Crimson makes the absolute most of.

The colonel has had a very stormy career. Not ten years ago he was merely one of many cruel colonels in the Shaka Abeeku Army – but then came the revolution, and Crimson’s life was transformed forever. The general to whom he owed his fealty made a bid for power against the president, but the revolution went awry and the rebels were crushed. As loyalist troops stormed the final stronghold the colonel very nearly took an RPG in the face, and was left for dead in the mud.

He was found, more dead than alive, by mwami pygmies, evil scavengers from the dark forests attracted to death and destruction. For some unfathomable reason, but perhaps sensing his malevolent potential, the pygmies chose the half-dead colonel as their champion, and there, on that very scene of carnage and bloodshed, they performed the arcane ritual that saved the life of the colonel. There, under an evil African moon, they crafted a crystal eye from a piece of mystical quartz to replace the eye Crimson had lost in the attack.

Crimson had fallen a warlord and a human, but he rose something more than human, and a true lord of war. With the aid of the evil mwami, masters of secrecy and wickedness, he slipped into the capital and slaughtered the entire government. Standing over the broken body of the president, covered in blood, he claimed the nation of Shaka Abeeku for himself. And in a three-year-long civil war, he eventually triumphed to transform his nation into a heart of evil beating in the diseased chest of Africa.

For transformed as he was by the black ritual that restored his life, Mustafa Crimson now derives power from the misery and suffering of the people of Africa. The more people live in war, hunger, despair, the more powerful Crimson becomes.

Crimson is a force to be reckoned with: dark pygmy magicks course through his veins, infusing him with superhuman strength. His crystal eye flickers with unholy power and has the power to kill with a mere glance. At his command are the armed forces of his nation, thousands of rag-tag but vicious soldiers riding an eclectic combination of obsolete Soviet tanks, Hind-helicopters, technicals and other vehicles. But beyond this earthly power, Colonel Crimson can access through his mwami benefactors strange shamanic magics, and Crimson has used that dark knowledge to create for himself a myriad creatures obedient to him: fell coyotes, evil, ever-hungry beasts with glowing red eyes; child soldiers who, through starvation and shaman-drugs, have been transformed into wraith-like creatures; pygmy warriors from the deep jungles; the bodies of dead soldiers, imbued with evil unlife and sown together with armor or body parts; ravenous spirit creatures; swarms of locusts and intangible diseases; and other terrible things.

The Colonel has moved his seat of power from the former capital city – now a necropolis populated by reanimated corpses that move with the jerking puppet movements – to the long-lost Mines of King Solomon, whose location was shown to him by the mwami. Using gold and diamonds mined by toiling slaves, Crimson funds insurrections and militias across Africa and bribes those in positions of power across the globe. And so Africa’s misery increases, and Colonel Mustafa Crimson reinforces his reign of terror, and grows ever more powerful.

The enemies of Colonel Crimson are legion. A hundred superheroes have tried to dislodge him from his throne of skulls, but thusfar all have failed. Wayward Son in particular has a habit of coming to Africa to derail Crimson’s plans – in their very last battle, Fawcett’s version of Toto’s Africa very nearly cost the Colonel his life, even though he escaped at the very last minute. Another opponent is Anthony Saint, who has taken a noted interest in the location of King Solomon’s Mines. His Deep Blue and Wild Geese mercenaries have clashed several times with the minions of Colonel Crimson. And finally of course there is the UN. Sanctions have been in place against Shaka Abeeku since the day Crimson took power, but this has so far not deterred him in the slightest.

The Serpent Ring held by the Colonel is one fashioned from the same mysterious quartz crystal as his eye, and has the ability to summon up a pack of ravenous spirit animals. The strength of these spirit-creatures, however, is far greater at night than it is during the day.
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Yes!! I am so glad to have helped with this, since the final product is pure awesome evil African Warlord.
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Oh, but you weren't the one who suggested that Mustafa harness the power of HUMAN SUFFERING and that his weapons would be EVERYTHING WRONG in Africa ;)

EVERYTHING WRONG in Africa itself would make him more than a match for any Serpent :twisted:
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Another opponent is Anthony Saint, who has taken a noted interest in the location of King Solomon’s Mines.
Undoubtedly he would also be somewhat miffed at someone causing even more suffering in Afirca than he. ;)

And while I really like this article on its own, it's probably stretching credibility to assume that he can openly be this evil, demented and twisted for a period of years without being taken down. I can accept The Wayward Son failing to defeat him, but I can't accept The Wayward Son giving up. He'd probably be back in the next day or so, tag-teaming Crimson with Archwind.

There's no grey area here. He's fiendishly despicable in a delightfully over-the-top way (basically everything from 'fell coyotes' on is great, in an awful way), and he's never done anything to provide a net increase in good for anyone other than himself. Admittedly, it's more thematic for his defeat to be caused by something like 'peace in Africa' than 'dragged out by the ear and flung into a deep dark cell by the UN'.
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Well, while Crimson is an evil asshole, I doubt it's Archwind or Wayward's call to depose of world leaders :P

And I'm sure guys like Robert Mugabe, General Tiger, Leon Molefi, and Ipo Tambutu, would vouch for the inherent goodness of our Mister Mustafa Crimson.
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Shroom Man 777 wrote:And I'm sure guys like Robert Mugabe, General Tiger, Leon Molefi, and Ipo Tambutu, would vouch for the inherent goodness of our Mister Mustafa Crimson.
Most of whom would be more than happy to jump on the Crimson bandwagon :).

Frankly I think that of all the Serpents I've written thusfar Crimson is most likely to be the one to go down first. He's probably already attracted way too much attention to himself, and only the fact that he's quite a powerful figure in his own right (he's intended as being just a notch below Wayward himself in terms of prowess, at least as long as he stays in Africa), and he's got tons of supernatural gee-whats to throw at his opponents has saved him thusfar.

(Of course, he's also got that uncanny Cobra Commander talent for slipping away after being defeated, only to re-emerge with another dastardly plan the very next day. We're dealing with a very Shredder-esque villain here, after all!)
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Colonel Crimson sounds like one mean dude, to use a gross understatement... the fact that he literally thrives off human misery leads me to classify him as an Absolute Existential Terror. That last one is a category I've decided right now to define as an entity whose Platonic ideal of a person or perhaps underlying abstract archetype is just plain wrong and disturbing on a deep, philosophical level. It is less a measure of concrete power than one of being - as a defined distinctive res cogitans - totally and utter fucked up, though the two often overlap. :)

In plain English... though he might be the weakest Serpent, he is the one that scares me the most. At least, in sheer AET factor he is tied with the South American serpent who has a bit of a Lovecraftian alien demigod thing going on.
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Wait... this guy has a crystal eye and he feeds off the malevolent forces which plague Africa so? This guy is awesome. I'm sure he approves of John Baylor the gunrunner's giving guns and shit all over Africa. has he had dealings with said Baylor, BTW? maybe him buying a gold-plated AK from the dude or somesuch?

Oh, and i also wonder if Spider Simango (if he's still gonna be integrated in Comix) fucks with him or at least those associated with him for teh lulz.
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Re: The Seven Serpents

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It will be an epic clash, Spider Simango versus Colonel Crimson. Baylor would be but a pittance on the side, but I think he's going to side with the oppressed masses who'll pay him with crops and livestock, in exchange for guns that'll help fend off Mustafa's ghost hyenas.
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