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More Annotated Entries: Maryellen Baxter, Mystical Craftsperson

Maryellen is a native San Franciscan who lives with her husband, David, and their three children in a large Victorian home in the Marina District. (They have since moved to a small farm in Marin County.) Although she once worked as a bank teller, she now stays home in order to keep house and raise the kids. (Kids are now grown and in college.)

Maryellen enjoys a variety of crafts, from scrapbooking to beading to her favorite, making masks out of polymer modeling compound. Oddly enough, these masks can confer strange abilities to those who wear them. X ray vision, limited mind control, a sonic shout attack…all of these and more have been attributed to her masks. Naturally enough, this has made Maryellen very popular with the denizens of Secret San Francisco. (And worldwide, with these masks now being sold on the Dark Web.)

Once a month, Maryellen has coffee with her craft shop owning friend, Maxine, and gives her a half dozen or so masks on consignment. Maxine usually sells all of them in a matter of days, often for as much as $1,000.00 per mask. (Now, the low end is $50,000.00) Oddly, Maryellen is immune to the effects of her masks as well as any other mystical artifact. (This is less so as she goes through menopause.)

Maryellen is aware of her masks powers and of the existence of Secret San Francisco, but she doesn’t let either affect her duties as a mom and wife. She does sometimes go into the City to look for ideas for masks or to visit her cousin Audrey, who is a mutant. (Audrey later went into the superhero biz as the Pink Feminist. Just her showing up somewhere causes MAGA heads to explode.) The money she makes off her masks goes straight into the kids “college money account”. (Almost all spent now, because college is hella expensive.)

She figures that she is about five years away from starting a “retire and travel account”. David is very much a supporter of this idea. (They are not yet retired, but the account is up to $200,000.00)

In her spare time, Maryellen enjoys shopping at thrift stores, watching Animal Planet, sewing and playing “Cheerleader and Football Player” with her husband. (You can now add napping and backyard chicken raising to this.)