Heroes

Heroes
Brief summary of what the protagonists revealed about themselves in casual conversation on their first meeting:
 * Adway Baynes : Outback adventurer (packing a boomerang) who has spearheaded humanitarian efforts in support of Chinese immigrants in Australia.
 * Aliester Wickersham : An elderly gent from Britain with a keen interest in rare and unusual curios. He is obviously wealthy but not flashy about it.
 * Beverly Brooks : A hairdresser and part-time student who enjoys traveling. She later reveals that she works for MI-6.
 * Dick Victory : A private eye from San Francisco. A hardboiled investigator with a skeptical mind.
 * Elatia St. Domaine : An attractive young woman who lives in Brussels (she moved there for a gentleman) and who has an interest in archaeology.
 * Gary Silverstein : A Great War veteran turned Boston cop. He's a workaholic who's had a string of extremely lucky breaks.
 * Milo Milliken : A published and well-regarded author from Chicago who adventures the world in pursuit of big game hunting and fishing. He's also fond of drinking and socializes regularly at writers' haunts in Paris.
 * Nick Danger : Private eye with the third eye, a Yale graduate from Connecticut. He's seen things that he never would have believed existed and after a recent close call he's decided to recruit a group of adventurous heroes to help protect the world from dangers it doesn't know about.
 * Zhang Wei : A short and extremely well-dressed Chinese business man who enjoys cigars. The nature of his "business" is never clearly explained and his name is roughly the Chinese equivalent of "John Smith". He's also quite agile and carries himself like someone that knows how to tangle when it's called for.