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Refuge of the Dreaming Ones
Premise: In the fall of the new school year, something extraordinary happened in the small town of Middlepoint, Colorado. A number of individuals, all between the ages of twelve and seventeen spontaneously awakened to incredible powers, bewildering not just the town and their peers, but the entire world as well. Not even the brightest scientific minds could explain this phenomena, at least no more than the religiously devout who saw only portents of the divine.But the explanation was stranger than imagined, for instead of cosmic radiation or genetic tampering, the source of their miraculous powers were enigmatic extradimensional entities seeking safety within the minds and souls of children, teenagers, and forging a symbiotic relationship with their new hosts. For they were refugees from an implacable Enemy in an ancient war.
An Enemy who had hunted them across the cosmos, across dimensions, leaving them no place to turn. An Enemy with mighty weapons and vast armies at their disposal. An Enemy with a relentless will to see the refugees destroyed to the last being.
But the entities were not powerless in their war against the Enemy, for they offered their hosts powers beyond normal human ability. And they will need these powers in the coming war, for the Enemy has followed them to Earth...
Notes: Within this game, a group of mysterious entities create a lasting symbiotic relationship with their human teen hosts. Beyond that we'll want to explore themes like horror, the loss of innocence, the burdens of leadership, dealing with an alien invasion while also balancing a real life of going to school, having friends, whether the ends justify the means, et cetera. There's a lot to explore beyond the wacky premise. The greatest theme, of course, is the coming of age, or the bildungsroman, as so often occurs during these sorts of stories.
System: I am more interested in characters and story than in system mechanics. As such, while this game uses a home-brewed mixture of Dungeons and Dragons and Mutants and Masterminds, the fiction will often triumph over mechanics. I will always go the path that makes for a better story.