OverconfidentMagi
Laugh Like You've Won Always
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If anything about this idea for a story interests you, please to say so. I will answerany most questions, and if you give me your idea for an ability I will work with you to adapt it into a form that works in this setting.
The story is set in the near future, only a handful of years to allow for some extra creative freedom and all that, no flying cars or the like. The summary of things isn't too complicated. A strange being shows up in Shanghai, couple hours later there is no more Shanghai, being disappears. Rinse and repeat in random populated locations all over the world over a period of years. That being comes to be known as Omega. Alpha started appearing shortly after Omega, though it's hard to say exactly when due to Omega's appearance being so destructive, always in the wake of Omega's destruction. Omega killed countless people wherever he appeared, but it was possible to still survive unharmed with enough preparation or dumb luck. Alpha's appearance is what killed almost all of those survivors. And the ones that were somehow still alive after both Omega and Alpha were done weren't quite the same.
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The few survivors exhibit unnatural and impossible abilities, but these aren't quite the superpowers of heroes in comic books. In most cases they are considered something of a curse, some of the survivors using the term 'price' to describe their ability, as in the price they paid to live. The abilities of the survivors are not something they have any control over. They are constant, unable to be controlled and unable to be turned off. More often than not, not even the survivor themselves is safe from their own ability. It's theorized that the remarkable casualty rate resulting from Alpha's appearance is mostly due to abilities granted killing the host, making the survivors the few with much weaker or less destructive abilities, those terms being rather relative, all things considered.
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Characters will be those who survived Omega appearing in either New York City or Philadelphia. They are recovered from the rubble and transported to a large underground facility somewhere in Pennsylvania, where they are contained and studied by an organization called Pandora. The survivors of the New York incident have been in the facility for quite a while already, a year now, but the Philadelphia survivors will be coming in fresh following Omega's appearance there at the start of the RP. Act 1 of this story is set in the Pandora facility interacting with each other, the Pandora scientists, and coming to terms with both your new ability and the fact that everyone and everything you knew is now dead and destroyed. For unknown reasons, the majority of survivors found are young, children and low teens mostly, though there are outliers. If you wish to make a character that isn't one of the survivors just let me know, I may be willing to okay it.
Story:As I said, Act 1 will be set inside the Pandora Pennsylvania Location. If you're looking for action and flashy superpower fights, I doubt you will find this part very enjoyable. Ideally I'd like to have an even showing of the characters acting like normal people that just have to deal with their abilities, and the reality of the scientists treating them like hazardous materials that need to be studied and learned about. So plenty of interaction, very little action action. The planned closing end of Act 1 would involve the player characters leaving Pandora's control to escape out into the larger world, where they will have to deal with a world very changed by the arrival of Alpha and Omega and the survivors with impossible powers. Everything from there on really depends on how the player characters act and how the other moving pieces of the world react to those actions, which is another way of me saying that there's no way of knowing what happens beyond the rather rigid Act 1.
Expectations:This will be a detailed RP, so I expect relatively good grammar and higher quality posts. I won't put any hard size requirement for posts, as that tends not to go as well as people hope. A single paragraph that moves the story forward is better than a novella that says nothing. I want you to write a character, not a power. Don't put what you want to happen, put what the character would do. Once enough interest is shown to get this started, I will ask for a writing sample to get a feel for how you write. I'm looking for a small to mid sized group, so around 4-6, or if there is more interest I could handle up to a dozen players, though at that point I would be further dividing the characters into groups.
If anything about this idea for a story interests you, please to say so. I will answer
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