Editing Satyrical (section)

==History==
===Background===
Satyr has been implied to have received his powers from Cauldron.<ref name="SB1">'''Wildbow:''' So her 'Division' vial turned up, say, seven or eight different powers in the course of testing.<br/><br/>'''Wildbow:''' A cape with exceptional shapeshifting and self-duplication abilities.<br/>[...]<br/>'''Wildbow:''' And the vial's own tendency towards brute/shifter powers. - [https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/13900178 Wildbow on IRC, archived on Spacebattles]</ref>

===Post-[[Battle against Echidna|Echidna]]===
When it came out that Cauldron was behind many parahumans within the Protectorate. With Satyr being zeroed in on as a client of Cauldron, Pretender killed a [[Watchdog]] Thinker who had discovered Satyr's past.<ref name="I24.y e2">Satyr seemed to take that into consideration, rubbing his chin. When he spoke, though, he spoke of something else. “What you did… you knew that they’d figured you out, and that I was next in line, that I’d get questioned too. You killed her for my sake, to buy me time.”<br/><br/>“Are you mad?”<br/><br/>Satyr shook his head. “We’ve killed before. Selfishly, selflessly. Only difference is you got caught.” - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/06/25/interlude-24-donation-bonus-1/ Excerpt] from [[Interlude 24.y]]</ref><ref name="23.2 c1">Worth stating that the PRT is outing Cauldron capes in positions of power. Team leaders, etc. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/05/28/drone-23-2/#comment-24704 Comment by Wildbow] on [[Drone 23.2]]</ref><ref name="23.2 c3">But what can you do in their shoes? What would you do differently?<br/><br/>The info about what Alexandria is was inevitably going to leak, even before she died, and the death could readily be a catalyst for many people talking about it. Only Contessa was really holding them back (and Cauldron, behind the scenes, decided to stop protecting the Triumvirate: see number man’s interlude). So it was bound to get out somehow.<br/><br/>Alexandria dies, and you have to tell the public -something-. Chevalier makes the call to tell the public about her shady background, with the caveat that he has to reassure the public that the Alexandria situation won’t recur. He promises to vet the leadership, makes it public so the ones in power know to step down while there’s still an excuse.<br/><br/>But you get isolated cases like Pretender, who are too committed to their careers to leave, people who know they have immediate subordinates who are Cauldron Capes. Who find themselves between a rock and a hard place, in a situation where things were already strained at best (ie. Las Vegas). - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/05/28/drone-23-2/#comment-24742 Comment by Wildbow] on [[Drone 23.2]]</ref> When [[The Protectorate]] came to take Pretender away for his crimes Satyr was not happy about it.<ref name="23.2 e2">Nix, Blowout, Leonid and Floret joined Satyrical in their anger.  Heroes in more flamboyant and colorful costumes than normal, their moods a contrast in how dark they were.  Spur and Ravine seemed more lost than angry, but the way they retreated into their group as we passed told me that they would side with their team over us. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/05/28/drone-23-2/ Excerpt] from [[Drone 23.2]]</ref>

Arrived to fight off mercenaries that Pretender had hired to free himself.<ref name="23.2 e3">“What a mess,” Satyr called out.<br/><br/>Heads turned.<br/><br/>The Vegas Wards had arrived, perched on top of the nearest wall.  They didn’t move to help, didn’t leap to intervene.  Satyr glanced at Bambina, who was struggling to free herself from the bola.  There was something in his eyes.<br/><br/>Were they in on it?<br/><br/>“Help us!” Vantage called out.  “Rime’s out, and we can’t save Weaver!”<br/><br/>Satyr didn’t speak.  He glanced at the ship.  He couldn’t see from the angle he’d approached, but the woman inside had pulled the lever, and the door at the back was slowly closing.<br/><br/>I drew out words on the side.<br/><br/>Pretender in danger<br/><br/>The heroes turned, eyes going wide.  Satyr, Blowout and Leonid rushed forward, joined by Vantage. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/05/28/drone-23-2/ Excerpt] from [[Drone 23.2]]</ref> There he announced that he and his team were leaving the protectorate.<ref name="23.2 e4">Arbiter looked up at Satyr and Nix, “If you leave, the Endbringers-”<br/><br/>Nix interrupted, “We’ll still fight Endbringers.  But the Protectorate was going to take Pretender from us because of how he got his powers.  It’s ridiculous.”<br/><br/>“He was still going to be on the team,” Arbiter said.  “Just… we can’t let him be leader if he’s beholden to a group like that.”<br/><br/>“It shouldn’t matter.”<br/><br/>“Cauldron’s evil,” Arbiter said.  “They experimented on people to get the powers Pretender has.”<br/><br/>“It doesn’t matter,” Satyr said.  His voice was rough.  “Pretender’s gone, and so are we.  We’ll get our teammates and we’ll go.” - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/05/28/drone-23-2/ Excerpt] from [[Drone 23.2]]</ref>

His best "friend" was kidnapped by the same people.<ref>[[Drone 23.2]]</ref>

Attended the fight at [[New Delhi]], arriving in a way separate from the rest of the Protectorate.<ref name="I24">Vegas was absent too.  They’d turned traitor, walked away.  Satyrical had turned down the offer for a ride to the battle, claiming they’d make their own way.  It was disconcerting, to think they had access to transportation in that vein.  Teleporters?  A craft that could and ''would'' carry people halfway around the world fast enough?  Disconcerting to think they had access to resources like that so soon after defecting. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/06/22/interlude-24/ Excerpt] from [[Interlude 24.x]]</ref> Survived the entirety of the fight and was there when Behemoth attacked the hospital Satyr was seen marching out to defend the building along with other capes.<ref>[[Crushed 24.5]]</ref>
===Post-[[Timeskip]]===
Ran his team independent of the Protectorate, and did several missions for [[Doctor Mother]] during this period.<ref name="29.6 e4">“Custodian.  We’ve crossed paths, as my group ran some errands for the good Doctor.  I think she ''likes'' me, even.” - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/10/01/venom-29-6/ Excerpt] from [[Venom 29.6]]</ref>
===[[Gold Morning]]===
Infiltrated the [[Cauldron Compound]] to find out what had happened to the [[Doormaker]], ambushed [[Revel]] and [[Exalt]] to control the situation. Tried to side track the follow up team led by Weaver but was unable to.<ref name="29.3 e1">“Great,” I said. “Great. Now let’s drop the fucking act.”<br/><br/>“I gave you the answer you wanted,” Leonine said, smirking. “What the fuck?”<br/><br/>“Spur?” I said, “Raise your right hand?”<br/><br/>He did. There were bugs on the fingers.<br/><br/>“He was moving his hand. A one-handed sign language. I assume everyone on your team knows it.”<br/><br/>“I was thinking of Canary’s music,” Spur told me. He stepped forward, putting a hand on Canary’s shoulder as he did so. She turned, so they were both facing me. “Piano keys. Mnemonic tool. ''That'' is something our team uses.”<br/><br/>“You’re being a ''little'' crazy paranoid,” Imp said. “Just a little.”<br/><br/>“They’ve been playing us since the start,” I said. “The men were batting their eyelashes at you and Canary, probably the targets they thought they could work. Revel… I’d think she’s under some kind of compulsion.”<br/><br/>“A ''lot'' crazy,” Imp said. “Way crazy.”<br/><br/>“Maybe Tattletale can chime in,” I suggested. “Tattle?”<br/><br/>''“Mostly right. Exalt, Revel, Vantage, Leonine, Floret, all fakes.”''<br/><br/>“No shit,” Imp said. Her mouth dropped open. “No way.”<br/><br/>“Jig’s up,” I said. “We know.”<br/><br/>One by one, the Vegas capes changed. Flesh altered, and they assumed identical appearances.<br/><br/>Six copies of Satyrical. Leaving only Spur and Nix.<br/><br/>One of the Satyricals looked at the two who remained. “Take care of yourself. I’ll see you shortly.”<br/><br/>“I know,” Spur said.<br/><br/>Satyr looked at us, as if taking us all in. “And ''you'', I suppose, we’ll run into. Sooner or later.”<br/><br/>Then the Satyrs died. Flesh withered, and the Satyrs crumpled up. They made bloody messes as they hit the ground, like overripe tomatoes might, but with teeth and the occasional bit of withered organ.<br/><br/>Self duplication, and each duplicate had shapeshifting abilities. <br/><br/>I bent down and picked up the devices from the heads of Revel, Exalt and Vantage’s clones.  Earbuds, phones…<br/><br/>“Revel,” Cuff said, her voice small.<br/><br/>“Where are the real ones?” Golem asked.<br/><br/>“With the real Satyr,” I guessed.<br/><br/>“And how did he know the passwords?” Golem asked.<br/><br/>''“He guessed the cake thing through cold reading.  White with blue, like Weaver’s costume.  Made sense.  That Taylor didn’t eat much… well, look at her.  The rest… torture?  Coercion through other means?”'' - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/09/24/venom-29-3/ Excerpt] from [[Venom 29.3]]</ref>

Used his power to kill many of the Case 53s that made up the Irregulars, either by ganging up on them,<ref name="29.6 e1">We came face to face with the group that had been working their way through the steel. A mole-man, an ‘extreme deviation’ case that seemed to be made up of lasers, with her petrified body parts capping the ends.<br/><br/>And others, dead. Satyr’s clones littered the area, where they’d brutally fought and killed several of the digging capes. Where they’d died, they’d withered. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/10/01/venom-29-6/ Excerpt] from [[Venom 29.6]]</ref> or infiltrating them and using [[Floret]] to clean up any evidence.<ref>Blood, corpses. Three dead case fifty-threes. Two men and a woman. A cat-man with far too many teeth in his mouth, even covering the roof and the space beneath his long, narrow tongue, something that looked like keyboards on his forearms. A reptile, not so different from Newter, but with no mouth or nose. Only two overlarge eyes. The last was a girl, squares of flesh intersped[sic] with patches of cloth. Her mouth was only a tear in the cloth.<br/><br/>Their throats had been neatly slashed -the patchwork girl bled like anyone else might- and they’d been dragged into this room. It was clear from the way that the blood trail suddenly stopped that someone had cleaned up.<br/><br/>“Stragglers. The Irregulars were moving as a tight group, keeping close to one another, but Satyrical and his team blindsided the ones at the back. Killed them, dragged them off, then one of them cleaned up the evidence. Floret, probably.”<br/><br/>“And Satyr probably masqueraded as these three,” I said. “He’s in Weld’s group.”<br/><br/>[...]<br/><br/>I glanced into the room as we passed. Two more bodies. Two men, large, both bristling with horns. One with curling horns like a ram, the other with horns like a bull.<br/><br/>“Satyr,” Tattletale confirmed. “Again.” - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/09/26 Excerpt] from [[Venom 29.4]]</ref>

Would come face to face with [[Taylor]]'s strike team.<ref>[[Venom 29.6]]</ref> He tried to prevaricate and wasted time. Presumably trying to find a way to rescue [[Pretender]], and other members of the Cauldron staff, without their interference.

Later fell in with [[Teacher's Group]].