NAME: Reverend Bryian E. Winner

AGE: CLASSIFIED

PLACE OF BIRTH: Nelsonville, OH

GROUP AFFILIATION: Former United States Navy, Boy Scouts, Researcher for the Tesla Institute, Currently Cyclone Rangers Team leader and Technical Expert.

KNOWN ALIASES: Reverend, Mr. B, Maestro, The Voice of Experience, El Cyclone, Lung Shao, Eidiard

WEAPON PROFICIENCIES: Edged weapons,firearms (prefers Soviet era weapons), siege weapons, throwing knives, staff, war hammer, playing cards, lasso, open and closed hand combat expert

BACKGROUND: As a small child in Ohio The Reverend was known to be affected by something known as “Project Teddy Bear*”, the mixing of vitamins and fluoride wash for underprivileged children that was tested on classes of 2^nd and 3^rd graders. Out of the entire test groups nationally only two kids reacted and they were in the same class, the Reverend and Artie Guthrie. The reverend's brain was somehow affected and it caused a shift in his mental patterns causing him to develop a very complex and advanced non-linear thinking style that can easily be mistaken for certain types of psychological disorders. The complexity can sometimes border on the irrational. This is the area affected by Artie Guthrie (Who restyled himself as the Reverends nemesis, Really Bad Guy) who seems to dwell on the irrational edge of the spectrum occasional lapsing into the realms of nonlinear thinking.

After accelerated schooling the Reverend enlisted in the US Navy for a stint but found the training lacking. He then wandered the world for a while spending time as an ascetic religious figure, bar bouncer, private investigator, taxi dispatcher, a seaman and and even some time as a cowboy. There are years in between that he will only comment on with “I could tell you but you wouldn't believe me.” He is known to have spent time with the Anadarko Indians, The Cleveland Indians, The Creole and Cajuns as well as several unnamed groups of Mexicans, Oriental Tongs and RPG Collector groups. He is known to speak parts of several languages and has a very broad knowledge of Soviet era small arms. His usual replies to inquiry about such knowledge are usually answered with “Your tax dollars at work...” and nothing more. Being an autodidact, there are few subjects he cannot be conversant in with some level of proficiency.

Once he returned to Ohio and met up with His Royal Highness Tiny, whom he saved from an assassination attempt, he began to gather around them some of the most interesting if not the strangest people who could be found to take on the problems no government or private organization was willing to take on.

*Footnote: Project Teddy Bear was later found out to be a cover for something known as Project Orcus, a CIA operation named after the Greek God of death and the underworld. Full details have yet to be uncovered.