Basic Game Concept
There have always been metahumans.   In recent decades, the world has become dramatically factionalized with the emergence of the Thresh, a meta-only faction that holds itself as "beyond human, therefore beyond human law."

PCs will play as part of a small unit "engagement team" tasked with all sorts of sometimes-deniable missions: investigations, infiltration & exfiltration, sabotage and sometimes direct sanction.  This will probably involve a fair bit of combat and will be an extremely episodic set-up.  No deep intense overall storyline.

To RTJ to this game
Please submit one or more pitches, which should consist of:

A High-Concept - boil down the concept to a couple of words....  Think of how your character would be described in the following statement:
"Who, Her?  Oh, She's..."

• the last son of a dead planet  (Superman)
• a billionaire orphan vigilante  (Batman)
• the wielder of a cosmic ring of power (Green Lantern)
• the mythological daughter of power (Wonder Woman)

Some more basic details - Then I want a couple more things.   Please give me a rough idea of

• Who this character was and is
• Why they got involved with the "vigilante" life,
• What they want,
• What kind of personality this character has.

I don't need paragraphs and paragraphs of writing.  But a one-line sentence-fragment doesn't give me anything to really go on.


For the record, here's who we've got on-board at the moment:

• Ace - Telekine, Model, Martial-Artist
• Punching Bag - Former wrestler, straight-on brick / close-combat specialist
• Virginia - Gravity-Fairy... Tinkerbell on crack.  No, really.
• Cytheria - Cult-survivor Teleporter
• Marie - Telepath suite with some complex emotional problems
• Open Spot

This message was last edited by the GM at 22:09, Mon 24 Oct 2022.

Note on Gadgeteering:
I'm not a fan of gadgeteering.  I feel that it's a solo-activity that does not provide much in the way of roleplaying opportunities in a text-based medium like rpol.  Even worse, it provides even less opportunities for engagement with other PCs.  Gadgeteers are going to find that particular action backgrounded.  If this is your jam... you'll be disappointed here.  To be clear, I don't have a problem with gadgeteers, I just have zero interest in roleplaying out the invention process.

Character Concepts & Complications:
I like complications.  Use them.   However, some complications tend to be divisive in a text-based asynchronous medium like rpol.  I don't mind there being drama between characters, but I don't want it to dominate the story. Be prepared to discuss these things, because I will be looking at how these might all mesh together.  A team that can't fight beside each other won't last.

If You've Gamed With Me Before...
This is a different world.  However, some themes and story-elements may be familiar:

• Sentient microbial colonies - Some metahumans may have been colonized by the extra-dimensional colonies.  This is entirely optional, but it comes with strings... The colonies have an agenda, after all... and you don't have much choice in complying.
• Cascadia - ten years ago, a new island appeared in the North Pacific.  Satellite activity shows a profusion of flora, but no manned expeditions have been able to make landfall to explore the new landmass.  It's often in the media.

This message was last edited by the GM at 22:11, Mon 24 Oct 2022.