Prologue

Shadows stole over the town, darkness hiding its most sinister elements. During the day, it was easy to pretend they didn't exist, to go about life without worrying, but at night only the most vile of characters ventured out. They met in alleyways, or haunted the back rooms of the saloons long after closing time, gambling, drinking, and plotting their next strike against the very foundations of the town.

It was in one such backroom that it started. And before it was over, many of the town's citizens would wind up dead. None of them knew it then, but the plot went to the core of the town's structure, involving the Mayor and most of the town council, as well as the law. Only one group of people could stop it, and thus, when it became too much for the honest citizens of the town, they called upon that group. They sent for the Masked Riders.