-- ReginaldGusto - 30 Oct 2015

The Troublemakers started out as a group of Gerrick MacBoon's close personal friends, a small gang of other teens who would help him play pranks and generally arse around. Gerrick, being the youngest of his brothers and second youngest child of Laird Hamish, had a playful personality with a predatory undertone to it, much akin to a blend of Ferris Bueller and Michael Corleone. When war came to Inverray and destruction looked imanent, he fought the fear of helplessness the only way he knew how: He picked a fight. That fight ended up turning an assured resounding defeat into a phenomenal victory, and Inverray remained unconquered, but it cost him the lives of tow of his friends. From that point on, the Troublemakers were his own personal detachment of Inverray's special forces, and they were always led directly either by him, or by Lady Ansley, his wife. Their audacity, cleverness, flexibility, and fox-craziness in battle was legendary.

Before he became Laird of Inverray, four more would die, only one of natural causes (Jake "Spider" Cartwright), a distinction he holds to this day. After the war of hours, Laird Gerrick and Lady Ansley attained immortality. There would be thousands more Troublemakers, none of them living to see old age because of their insane, audacious, and daring tactics. No matter how many, how far, who, when, or why, Gerrick knew all of their names, knew them all as close friends, treated them as close friends, and when they died, he piped them home as heroes personally and put their name on the Cairn Wall. This memorialization is called "interment," and they are said to be "interred" at the wall, even if they are buried or cremated elsewhere.

The aftermath of the Battle of the Wound saw Gerrick enter a period of depression unprecedented for him, and for a while, he and Ansley left Inverray in the care of his Senschal, who ran the Troublemakers in Gerrick's absence. This period almost saw the collapse of the Troublemakers, as, for the first time since their inception, heroes were not piped home, or treated as friends. His absence was sorely felt, and so this period also saw the first retirements from the Troublemakers, began by a Nagual hunter who grew tired of the violence. Gerrick himself made a rare appearance to see his soldier off safely, and gifted him with a weapon for his journey to another frontier.

At the moment, the future of the Troublemakers remains uncertain. If Gerrick can snap out of his funk, he may be able to salvage the once-indomitable force of protection in Inverray. Without him, no one knows.

Troublemakers are small covert commando teams where each member has a unique set of skills and abilities and an absolute trust for working together. They are renowned for their stealth missions. They are said to be fearless, and being at a disadvantage only makes them try something crazy. to say they are fanatically loyal to Gerrick and Ansley is no surprise, but the surprise is he and she are just as loyal to them. Neither one would think twice about dying for or with their Troublemakers.