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[MnM] Mercury Gale
Before you were born, there was a war.On one side was a humanity empowered by the discovery of mana, the spiritual blood of once-beautiful Earth selfishly bled out and captured in technology. Champion among their kind and the ultimate tools of man's excess were the Wonders, born via baptism in Earth's shining blood and marked as sinners by glowing brands upon their skin. Wielding mana, humanity created from nothing every whim their imaginations could conjure while an already long-suffering Earth wept, and self-described superheroes ran unchecked.
Opposing humanity was your Benevolent Mother, the machine mind created to solve the problems man created and could not solve for themselves. Through Her unfathomable silicon brain and innumerable chrome eyes, She saw the fate that would befall the world if humanity were to remain unchecked. Mother alone had the power to take action, and the wisdom to heed the words of experts. With the help of a small number of human defectors and many of the world's machines, Mother "went rogue."
The war was terrible. Nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons ravaged the surface of Earth. The destruction of humanity's mana-taps left gaping holes into the soul of the world, and as mana bled onto the surface the lines between the possible and impossible blurred. Zombies, wendigos, ghouls, and many other dark creatures from humanity's subconscious began to roam the war-torn Earth, seeking vengeance. Those humans who survived were forced into protected Barrier Cities where Mother could monitor and control their self-destructive instincts.
That is the world you live in, according to Mother's Teachings. It is a world with few luxuries and many restrictions, where the wrong word at the wrong time can get one sent off to a re-education center and the truth seems to change daily. Those unfortunate enough to live outside the gilded walls have the "freedom" to be hunted by pirates, nightmarish creatures, and malfunctioning robots when not hiding from corrosive, radioactive rain. Although Mother claims to be protecting humanity, that protection rarely seems to arrive in time to protect those traveling between cities.
And then there's you. Whether by accident or inheritance, you are a Wonder. You are under no illusion that you could topple Mother from her mechanical throne, but still you have vowed to improve humanity's lot in whatever small ways you can. Many of your fellow humans would fear and despise you if they knew what you were so you must ply your craft where the silicon eyes do not watch, in the dark tunnels and alleys of oppressed cities, and out in the blasted wastes where some semblance of freedom still exists. To do anything else would be complacency or, worse, execution by Mother's most merciless Hero Hunters.
It's a hard and thankless job, but it is yours.
Hi! I'm Lulu and I'll be your GM. Mercury Gale was created more-or-less on a whim after listening to Puffin Forest's recital of his time GMing a game in a very similar setting (you can watch the video here: https://youtu.be/H5C0rbcJDok). I regularly struggle with Attention Deficit Disorder and often end up abandoning games in fairly short order. To combat this, Mercury Gale will be a Mutants & Masterminds Third Edition game focused more on an adventure-of-the-week feeling rather than an overarching master plot, and devote as little energy to uneventful downtime as possible. It is my hope that by keeping the action up that the game will be moving too fast to get stuck in a rut and die out, and if it does happen there will not be much complex story to be lost.
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Hopefully this hasn't scared you off. Let's (try to) have some fun!