The Secret War:

A modern day thriller adventure roleplay:

Modern day, alternate universe. The government controls everything. After the end of World War 2 there was no Cold War; the world powers united to create an authoritarian world government with the interest of uniting the world, but those interests soon turned to greed.  The leaders in power became corrupt and took over. They controlled people's thoughts through propaganda on every media outlet. They controlled speech and secret police have patrolled the streets for years, waiting for any sign of rebellion. 

Every day life is fairly normal, except every conversation is monitored. Black vans that drive back and forth down the streets of every town and city are a common sight. It's fairly common to see people being arrested and shoved in the back of these vans, never to be seen again, taken to secret prison complexes in the world's oceans.

But recently, there has been unrest. The rise of the internet and the anonymity that came with that has been causing problems. The government still monitor what they can but the sheer volume of traffic on the internet has made it impossible for them to see everything. Still, everyone that they could find who opposed the regime was rounded up. With every attempt the government made to contain, the unrest increased. The rebels were getting too organised. The idea of 'democracy' is returning into people's minds, and it's making the leaders nervous.

Making the problem worse, is the rise of the 'Supers'. Powerful humans whose powers awaken during their teenage years. Each Super has one extraordinary ability. Some can see inside the others of other minds, others have super fast reflexes, and the like. The powers are fairly limited as of the current time, but for every new Super that is discovered the government become more and more nervous. What if they were to band together for a rebellion?

Supers, therefore, are rounded up in their masses and put in prison the moment they are discovered. They are taken without trial, whether or not they show signs of any unrest against the government. They are taken to the same harsh prisons in the oceans as all the other potential rebels and locked away to be forgotten. Some lucky ones are selected and trained turned into warriors for the government's police, if they show loyalty. The rest are left to rot.

You are a Super, whose power has just surfaced. That means right away, you are noticed and arrested by the secret police, then sent to a prison complex in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.

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The roleplay will center around a group of Supers who band together to escape the prison and vow to topple the regime.

The idea is your powers will be limited. You can't just make yourself into the biggest badass ever. Every power has to have a weakness. For instance, my character will be able to read others' thoughts, but his weakness is that he has to spend a lot of energy just to filter through them and read what he wants. If he is distracted too harshly, he will lose his grip on sanity as endless thoughts race into his mind without his consent, filling up his mind with so much it's practically painful. Be creative and have fun with that idea.

This is an interest check for a modern-setting rebellion-story roleplay. It will be in the thriller genre primarily. That means there will be fighting, but also drama. I want to focus on the story primarily. Writing a good, fun thriller story with a group of writers is my goal here. It doesn't have to be fantastically well-written, just fun to do. 

The tone of this will be primarily mature and dramatic. There will be action but also character development. I will allow romance if it fits in with the characters, but no sexual scenes, you can keep that in the PMs if you must have them. I would like the plot to focus around fun action and thriller sequences and plenty of dramatic scenes where characters can talk and get to know each other, etc. 

I hope this generates enough interest. I feel there aren't enough modern-setting, non-fandom based roleplay plots out there!