He grinned, and nodded. "Sure, I am a full member of the... least of the 'chapters,' with a few privileges of the mid level chapter. There were three chapters in total, including the one that all the serious villains belong to. The lesser one I joined is more like a giant fraternity, you don't even have to commit crimes to join it. I took a super power exam, an intelligence test, and an evil laugh test to get in. It is more to generate contacts and let the higher end villains see who the up and coming villains are, deal with the more... unstable ones that we don't trust the heroes to deal with properly, and basically meet and ensure no one is going to step on anyone else's plans.<br/><br/>The mid level one is where you have to start doing crimes, at least a major bank robbery annually or something equal, to get in, and you can start tapping resources the lower group can't. I was one of the resources, hence how I know so much about it. That is where the more serious villains showed up, rather than the ones like me just around for the parties and the contacts. You start finding people like Blast Bomber, Yellow Plague, and other guys that don't really have that old school style like Manipulator or The Mime.<br/><br/>The high end one is reserved strictly for the super of the villains. The ones like Red Commissar, Demon Lord Xyx, Manipulator, The Mime, and similar. Not sure what they do in their private meetings, I got to see them at the parties and get togethers, but didn't get invited to the back. Which is just as well, some of the 'lessers' they called back didn't come back out, and anyone caught making a mess of the parties was dealt with immediately by whichever one happened to be closest.<br/><br/>But as I said, I mostly was a supplier of more esoteric things that they would usually have to deal with other races to get, and while the equipment was not superb, they still did pick up the occasional item to cover gaps in their powers. Very few actual weapons, mostly items like shields, invisibility fields, a couple electromagnetic disruptor bombs, and one freeze grenade for Heatsink a year back. You know, the one he didn't throw fast enough and ended up freezing himself so he could get captured? That was my toy.<br/><br/>But as I was saying earlier, there are three layers, but you hero types never really seemed to realize we had that 'lesser' level as you never tried to pick up any of them to see what they might have overheard, and frankly it offended a good number of the supers with minor powers. They wanted to be martyrs, and the heroes were ignoring them. I thought it was hysterical."