Editing Topsy (section)

==History==
===Background===
Topsy worked at his job as a guarantor for the Folk on the edges of Chicago for more than a decade, becoming very wealthy in the process.<ref name="25.3 e1">The apartment was one of many detours in an extended distribution chain that saw guns and drugs making their way to the Folk, one of the rare criminal organizations that predated capes and still functioned in more or less the same fashion today.  Topsy and his underlings were guarantors, middlemen who made it possible for diehard enemies to do business.  If a fight erupted, he and his minions would deal with the situation quickly, promptly and efficiently.<br /><br />It was a simple job, and it was one he’d done for nearly a decade.  In the process, he’d apparently grown exceedingly rich, and he had recently started to become more ambitious.  Campanile and Shuffle had interfered with a deal, and Topsy had hired some mercenaries to seek out retaliation.  If the escalation of the situation wasn’t bad enough, the mercenaries had crossed lines, and Topsy had been relocated to the heroes’ shit list as a consequence.  He was an acceptable target.<br /><br />The only thing that would make Campanile and Shuffle happier than us fucking up and giving them an excuse to step in would be a perfectly executed operation and a humiliating loss for Topsy.  I’d do my best to oblige on that front. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/07/06/scarab-25-3/ Excerpt] from [[Scarab 25.3]]</ref>
===Post-[[Battle against Echidna|Echidna]]===
When Chicago [[Protectorate]] members [[Campanile]] and [[Shuffle]] interfered with one of his deals, Topsy sent mercenaries to retaliate, breaking rules and becoming a wanted villain.<ref name="25.3 e1" />

Chicago [[Wards]] Weaver, [[Annex]], [[Cuff]], [[Tecton]], and [[Grace]] subsequently executed a counterattack against Topsy's team by cutting off their communications and forcing them out of their hidding place. They got the Folk themselves to disavow him eventually leading to the [[PRT]] capturing Topsy, [[Watch]], and [[Mockshow]].<ref name="25.3" />