Top Secret: Skulls
Contents
Top Secret: Skulls
Federal Bureau of Super-powered Affairs
***CLASSIFIED
Suspected Skulls leaders, Marrow Snap and Marrow Drinker
The Skulls were founded in the mid-90s by a group of Eastern European refugees who moved into Paragon City, fleeing civil strife in their home country. Many of them settled in the Perez Park zone, but found it hard to find employment, and found themselves falling through society’s cracks once again. They were subject to harassment and extortion from local gangs, primarily by the Shadows. Two brothers, Radoslav and Emil Petrovic, saw the Shadows as little more than street trash – they decided to show the local punks what a real war was.
The Petrovics’ apartment was on Hollow Oaks Lane, the front line of the war. Rado and Emil gunned for any member of the Shadows who walked down their street. When that did not scare the gang off, they targeted the Shadows’ girlfriends, sisters, and mothers.
The Shadows fought back, of course, attempting to take the Petrovics out once and for all. The Shadows broke into the apartment one night, and caught Rado’s and Emil’s parents alone. But the brothers knew this would happen. They jammed the exits and burned the building down, killing most of the Shadows. The building was destroyed, and their own parents died at their hands. But their reputation was forever made.
Rado and Emil were arrested as they stood quietly, watching the building burn. Something had happened to them, however. Perhaps they saw something in the flames, or were haunted by the spirits of the dead. Before they even reached jail to be booked, they reached out to the arresting officers with tendrils of cold energy, and drained them of their lives.
A few weeks later, two men were seen hunting around the ruins of the collapsed apartment. The locals had begun calling it the Boneyard. They sifted through the debris and uncovered a few grisly trophies. Shortly thereafter, Rado and Emil were reportedly seen, wearing frightening masks made from human skulls, and radiating with a dark, unearthly energy. Having crossed a threshold, they abandoned their old names, and rechristened themselves Marrow Snap and Marrow Drinker. Remnants of the old Shadows flocked to their side, as did other discontents from their neighborhood. Rather than scare off potential recruits, their terrifying reputation attracted violent and brutal gang members to their banner – the Skulls were born.
