1888: Hero
1888, the times are changing. Whether the world is changing for better or worse is anyone's guess. Society is changing, industry is booming, the borders are even changing. For some, the list is grand, for others, your lucky enough to have some soup every week. You would think that after all these changes, the world wouldn't have anymore surprises in store for us. You thought wrong. It arguably started when Jack the Ripper started his reign of terror, they never found him. Spring-Heeled Jack made a few appearances all across London around the same time. Those were the small fry. Geniuses started popping up all over the world, mostly for the worst. An exiled Prussian noble took over his homeland, using an army of Automatons to rule the nation with an iron fist. In Asia, a man calling himself Captain Nemo has built a powerful aquatic machine that can travel under the water, calling it the "Nautilus". In France, the crown has recently made their "Paranormal Research Society" known as the "Institution" public.
We live in strange times, but they're about to get a lot stranger...