OverconfidentMagi
Laugh Like You've Won Always
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 locations all over the world. That's Omega. Alpha started appearing shortly after, appearing 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.
Powers:
The powers in this RP aren't exactly superpowers. For one, they aren't something the character can control, and they don't have any off switch. They are always-on passive abilities that don't care what their owner thinks or does. Let's use fire as our example. Pretty basic power in most contexts. So the character is given fire as their power by Alpha, and their entire body combusts into a pillar of flame, and they die right then and there screaming as their own power consumes them. The general rule here is that characters are not immune to their own power. So how might a fire power work? Well, given the no self-immunity rule, elemental powers are tough. In any extreme form, they will end up killing their owner. So for fire what if the ability took the form of lighting whatever touched the character? It would be incredibly inconvenient, yes, but it would come close to being able to pull of the same kinds of tricks as the standard pyromancer. Or for something less obtrusive, what about simply not being burned by fire? Less flashy with the tradeoff of being much less obtrusive handling the downsides. The key point here is that big powers generally have big prices, to the point that most of the survivors with these powers consider them a curse, or the price they paid for living through Omega and Alpha's appearance. There's some more to the system, but I'll expand on that all in the comments below or in the actual RP. If you have a power in mind just let me know and I can held you adapt it, or I can pull something from my vault of abilities that I think might fit.
Roles:
Now to explain where the players will be and what they'll be doing. Everyone will be playing a survivor with powers that was either in New York or Philadelphia when Omega appeared there. They were 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. The beginning will allow for interaction and dealing with these new and uncontrollable powers, and will last some time. Small spoilers, but that won't last forever. Omega will eventually show up nearby, destroy the facility, and the survivors will either stay with Pandora or escape. Your characters will be the ones who choose to escape because the staying with Pandora option doesn't lead to much excitement. Act accordingly so that that decision doesn't seem too forced when it happens.
The characters will then be on their own and very suddenly have to fend for themselves against all sorts of threats. Omega and Alpha are causing order to break down all across the world, and there are very few people out there that have a favorable view towards these special survivors.
So yeah, this will be a small-medium group RP. I'd split the group into two smaller groups based on when players are on if the group seemed too large. Writing expectations would be detailed paragraphs minimum, maximum limit unset unless Someone really forces me to make one, and I'd expect a post every 2 days minimum. There will be action, but most of the mass-destruction typical of other superpower RPs will be done by Omega and not the players, as that kind of power would probably kill the one outputting it. What happens later in the RP is TBD though, so who knows. Most of the situations will focus more on surviving or getting away than on actually overpowering the enemy.
This is a pretty barebones summary of what I have in mind, and I probably left out a lot, so feel free to ask any questions you have down below and I'll use that to expand on what I have in mind and clarify everything.
If this sounds like something you might be interested in joining let me know.
The RP has been made, but you're still free to chat here.
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 locations all over the world. That's Omega. Alpha started appearing shortly after, appearing 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.
Powers:
The powers in this RP aren't exactly superpowers. For one, they aren't something the character can control, and they don't have any off switch. They are always-on passive abilities that don't care what their owner thinks or does. Let's use fire as our example. Pretty basic power in most contexts. So the character is given fire as their power by Alpha, and their entire body combusts into a pillar of flame, and they die right then and there screaming as their own power consumes them. The general rule here is that characters are not immune to their own power. So how might a fire power work? Well, given the no self-immunity rule, elemental powers are tough. In any extreme form, they will end up killing their owner. So for fire what if the ability took the form of lighting whatever touched the character? It would be incredibly inconvenient, yes, but it would come close to being able to pull of the same kinds of tricks as the standard pyromancer. Or for something less obtrusive, what about simply not being burned by fire? Less flashy with the tradeoff of being much less obtrusive handling the downsides. The key point here is that big powers generally have big prices, to the point that most of the survivors with these powers consider them a curse, or the price they paid for living through Omega and Alpha's appearance. There's some more to the system, but I'll expand on that all in the comments below or in the actual RP. If you have a power in mind just let me know and I can held you adapt it, or I can pull something from my vault of abilities that I think might fit.
Roles:
Now to explain where the players will be and what they'll be doing. Everyone will be playing a survivor with powers that was either in New York or Philadelphia when Omega appeared there. They were 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. The beginning will allow for interaction and dealing with these new and uncontrollable powers, and will last some time. Small spoilers, but that won't last forever. Omega will eventually show up nearby, destroy the facility, and the survivors will either stay with Pandora or escape. Your characters will be the ones who choose to escape because the staying with Pandora option doesn't lead to much excitement. Act accordingly so that that decision doesn't seem too forced when it happens.
The characters will then be on their own and very suddenly have to fend for themselves against all sorts of threats. Omega and Alpha are causing order to break down all across the world, and there are very few people out there that have a favorable view towards these special survivors.
So yeah, this will be a small-medium group RP. I'd split the group into two smaller groups based on when players are on if the group seemed too large. Writing expectations would be detailed paragraphs minimum, maximum limit unset unless Someone really forces me to make one, and I'd expect a post every 2 days minimum. There will be action, but most of the mass-destruction typical of other superpower RPs will be done by Omega and not the players, as that kind of power would probably kill the one outputting it. What happens later in the RP is TBD though, so who knows. Most of the situations will focus more on surviving or getting away than on actually overpowering the enemy.
This is a pretty barebones summary of what I have in mind, and I probably left out a lot, so feel free to ask any questions you have down below and I'll use that to expand on what I have in mind and clarify everything.
If this sounds like something you might be interested in joining let me know.
The RP has been made, but you're still free to chat here.
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