THE ACROBATIC FLEA LIVES!!!

Al's take on The Acrobatic Flea costume, created through an AI art engine

Knight City, my superhero RPG setting, may stand abandoned but its most famous resident, my signature character, The Acrobatic Flea continues to fight crime thanks to fellow gamer. blogger, and podcaster, the force of nature that is Al Bruno III.

After sharing his AI-generated take on the Flea's costume (for his universe, part of the ever-expanding Flea-centric Multiverse), he explained that my old character was a cornerstone in the backstory of a new campaign he was just launching:

"It’s the first time I’ve run a superhero game in at least a decade maybe more. It [is] set in a little city and they don’t have a super hero anymore.

They used to be protected by a guy named the Acrobatic Flea but he took an offer to join my world's version of the Avengers.

I plan on having him make an appearance in the fourth session of the game assuming we make it that far. He’s going to give the player characters his old base of operations to help them out. Yes, it is called the Flea Pit."

In Al's universe (I'm calling it Earth-Al), The Acrobatic Flea's backstory is:

Sean Edward Ridire moved from the United Kingdom to the city of Devsham at age 18, to take an internship at The Devsham Herald. While reasonably competent as a cub reporter, what he didn't tell anyone was that he was actually a mutant and was spending his spare time leaping over roof tops and tackling petty crime as The Acrobatic Flea.

After several years his activities soon caught the attention of some of the Legion of Protectors and he found himself moving up in the world.

The team relocated him to Woldercan and he found himself saving the world on a regular basis.

There are similarities to my Earth-A origin story for The Flea (the universe where Knight City exists in its current, frozen in time, gathering dust, state), but with enough differences for its to have spawned its own parallel reality.

Al is using The Tiny Supers system - one I've heard of, but know absolutely nothing about.

Here's the Flea's character sheet:

I cannot express how happy and flattered Al's announcement made me feel, to think that someone else is keeping my character alive and helping to perpetuate my silly idea about a Multiverse of Acrobatic Fleas.

The Mannequin (2020)

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