Pictured left to right: Agony, Butcher, Cranky, Diamond Mike, Gloom, Madnut, Screech, Seism, Slasher
The Society for the Cataloguing Of Unusual Things or SCOUT is a public organization dedicated to categorizing all the effects of magic and other general weirdness.
The organization was founded in Kota in 1889 by frontier doctor Stanley Charles Pierce and arcanologist John Light. The day of the founding, Pierce found a glass lantern that didn’t break no matter how intensely he battered it. Taking it to Light, Pierce discovered that the object was imbued with innate magical energy. Pierce became obsessed with finding more magical objects with Light’s help, eventually founding SCOUT.
In the over a century since, SCOUT has grown to encompass every country on Earth, and operates several subsidiaries, including The Gallery Of Unusual Things or GOUT, a museum of unusual objects, The Survey Of Unusual Places or SOUP, a travel guide specializing in unusual places, and The List Of Unusual Diseases or LOUD, a home medicine guide for treating unusual illnesses.
The Pierce lineage has kept control of SCOUT under the pseudonym Dr. Anomalous. In 2017, SCOUT created their own nine-member superhero team called The Anomaleague. They were enlisted after the current Dr. Anomalous offered to take the superpowered art collective Is That Cool Or What? under his wing as community service for causing an outbreak of Stendhal syndrome.
The Anomaleague’s members are:
Miranda "Agony" Maxwell, a pain inducer who led ITCOW
Jim "Butcher" Carrington, a predatory animal controller with Down Syndrome
Cranky, a robot of variable intelligence depending on Wi-Fi strength
Mike "Diamond Mike" Clinton, a former spelunker made of crystal
Shreya "Gloom" Pierce, a darkness controller who wasn’t actually in ITCOW; she was Dr. Anomalous’s stepdaughter
Madnut, a retired ent superhero
Ronald "Screech" Long, a scientist with sound-projecting power armor
Natalie "Seism" Holt, a former acrobat with vibration powers
Melborn "Slasher" Sinatra, a former NHL player who took up art during a suspension, and now has anti-gravity skates
The Anomaleague deals with crimes so weird, other teams don’t even know where to start. They rose to prominence after saving 1 (yes, the number) from a kidnapping attempt by a jealous 2.
Since then, they’ve taken over for other teams, such as when the FBS investigated B-list celebrities robbing banks.
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