How The Hollow Empire came to be...
It was cold. An icy wind briskly tormented Agent Reed's face as he trekked through the snow. "It won't be long now," he convinced himself as he trudged onward. The taste of ale seemed all too familiar as he sat down in the local pub. For weeks he had been investigating a group of Austrian gun smugglers. An undercover strike force was sent in to reveal and dispatch the situation, but something went wrong... horribly wrong. His team was ambushed in the dead of night. As far as he knew, he may very well be the only one to escape. "How did they discover our secret location?" he asked himself. Questions were lingering and foul play was suspect.
As Nicholas Reed once again lowered his mug another man entered the pub. He was shorter than most men, but he had cool hair and nice pants. He slowly approached the table where Nick was sitting and casually sat down. "I think we can help each other. My name is Shane Simms and I'm well aware what happened to you," he said. Nick didn't reply. "You see, I belong to a secret organization called The Hollow Empire," Shane stated. "My partner J-Rok and I investigate conspiracies and we've been tailing this one for months." "What does this have to do with me?" Nick asked. "We have information we gathered from a captured operative. We believe far more is going on with their operation other than petty gun smuggling and we believe you know the location of their base of operations," Shane replied. After a moment of consideration Nick agreed to join up with The Hollow Empire if it would be a means to obtaining revenge on his enemies.
So Nick went with Shane to The Hollow Empire headquarters where they met up with J-Rok. J-Rok had a large collection of small blunt wooden objects he had gathered on his recent expedition to Africa. He used them for various purposes, mainly weapons. The three wasted no time in preparing for their attack, but soon realized that with the obstacles they may face it was time to call in some heavy artillery. A quick Google search for "demolitions expert" yielded Jeff Ramer. Jeff had been incarcerated 2036 times in a two year period. Seriously. They called him up and he quickly agreed to join up with The Hollow Empire as well.
The four met up on the outskirts of the wilderness near the location Nick's team had been ambushed. They were ready for anything. They slowly climbed the snowy hill in front of them but when they reached the top an overwhelming sense of defeat crept over them. They realized it was close to 150 yards to the enemy's base. They collectively agreed that it was way too far to walk so they all moved to Dallas, TX and started a band.
-Based extremely loosely on a true story by The Hollow Empire
