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The Gifted (Reborn)

@Zeroth Nope it's not a requirement to be in either of those places! I would just recommend you be somewhere in the vicinity.

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@Wayward@Troubleshoot Hey there! Just checking in! Are you both still in this? We'd love to still have you guys! (Also I totally get it if life stuff has just been in the way of posting lately!)

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@Zeroth love it! Great job! He's approved!

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@bugmeatWe'd love to have you! we definitely need a healer!

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@cosmiccowgirl heya thanks for the reminder! If you can explain how these enhancements developed over time (like she did intense physical training and conditioning over a span of several years or so) without being inherently genetic, and have it make sense, then I would be ok with her having some mild enhancements. Otherwise it does seem just a little too close to having a second power for my liking and would recommend you stick with just the plasma blades

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@Zeroth this all sounds good to me! I look forward to seeing what you come up with!

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May or may not be contemplating the idea of Dragonheart jumping out of a helicopter and landing like the hulk to scare the shit out of the Hunters while a bunch of NPC rebel soldiers storm the gates

@Blizz

Ok but this has GOT to be playing in the background as Dragonheart launches himself from the helicopter lmao

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@Zeroth I will try to answer all your questions to the best of my ability! Firstly, your idea for your character's power is interesting! You're encouraged to use your character's powers as creative and be as complex as you'd like! The only rules are that you can't be OP (so you're character is not a god, there has to be some drawbacks because at the end of the day your character is still technically human and therefore get hurt and could even die), and it has to make sense within the scope of their powers.

As for your questions regarding the world:

The World

1.) The gifted have become fairly common amongst the populace as nearly 200 years have passed since the first gen of Gifted were made. As for exact numbers, roughly between 10% and 15% of the worlds population are considered gifted but the exact percentage is still unknown due to the amount of Gifted hiding their powers or "passing" as non gifted contributes to those results. They're still very much the minority.

2.) Much like any other genetics, some genes are dominant and others are recessive; gifted genetics work very similar. Some non-gifted can even be carriers for certain genes but will never manifest powers of their own. It takes centuries for certain genetics to be passed on and become a dominant trait and there just hasn't been enough time for it be more common than it currently is.

3.) There isn't anything necessarily stoping the Gifted from getting ahold of the technology in the same way you or I getting our hands on military weaponry. Sure it's possible but it'd be incredibly difficult and most certainly is illegal. It is likely a couple Gifted have gotten ahold of Hunter tech but they wouldn't know how to use it or have the resources to reconstruct the tech they've obtained

4.) The commonality percentage of each class rank as follows: Alpha = 5%, Beta = 45%, Delta = 49%, Omega = 1%

5.) So this question is a bit tricky, because while the Gifted are technically human and therefore come from the same building blocks as the non-gifted, there are obviously differences between the non-gifted and the gifted humans. Each gifted has their own drawbacks and so oftentimes, they are not immune to their own powers but could in theory gain a certain level of tolerance over time. For example, my character, Ophelia, has the ability of pyrokinesis but she's not fireproof/heatproof; her body can burn and she can get heatstroke but the temperature would have to be higher than what a non-gifted person's body could handle.

I hope this provides some clarity!

The Gifted Reborn (Looking for more players!)

It all started with the looming climate crisis facing the world and it growing ever more dire during the first two decades of the 21st century. Humanity was running out of time to make the necessary changes to curb the threat and preserve what natural resources were left; and the world's leaders and most brilliant minds were scrambling for solutions.

It was the year 2067 when the solution was found... but at a cost. Yes, both technology and humanity arose and evolved to meet the crisis, but it was thanks to the "successful" results of human experimentation. In an effort to preserve the human species in a rapidly changing environment, the world's brightest biohackers, biologists, and doctors banded together to expedite the human evolutionary process via gene splicing. This resulted in a new generation of mutated humans known as: "The Gifted". These gifted humans were born with all different sorts of supernatural abilities ranging from human-animal hybrids to being able to control the weather. Realizing these abilities could be harnessed to stabilize and heal the environment, the now unified world government would end up exploiting The Gifted for their abilities but would regard them as selfless heroes that "voluntarily" dedicated their entire lives to the cause of restoring the planet aka Operation Gaia. When in actuality, these first generations of gifted "heroes" were made, raised, and trained in military facilities before being shipped out to the outside world. Though, of course, very little of what Operation Gaia was or what was happening behind the scenes actually reached the general public.

As the decades passed and the environment began to stabilize once again, the topic of The Gifted and talks of human rights began to erupt. For you see, as The Gifted and non-gifted humans began to mingle and reproduce; the population of new Gifted children began to rapidly grow with each new generation. With the exception of the first handful of generations, the Gifted were being born rather than artificially made. These newer generations of Gifted were inheriting the altered genetics from their Gifted parents and ancestors, and when you play the lottery of genetics things get even more complicated. Some children's powers manifested differently than their parent's while others inherited their gifts from ancestors father back. In some more uncommon cases, children of Gifted parents never manifest powers of their own but instead are carriers for the gene.

In the end, though, the world's leaders were met with an unexpected problem: What do we do with these Gifted children now that they have served their purpose in restoring the planet? Do we simply continue to assimilate The Gifted into the non-gifted population and, if we do, how do we keep their dangerous abilities under the control of the world government?

The year is currently 2245 and the solution the world came to all those years ago was Operation Tartarus. The Gifted are now being relentlessly hunted down by the ever so aptly named police force, The Hunters. This police force is mostly are made up of Non-Gifted humans, but there handful of Gifted that were made the exception; only after they were beaten into submission and then molded into the perfect super soldiers, of course. In order to keep the upper hand over the Gifted, the Non-Gifted Hunters were given the worlds most advanced armor and weaponry. The world government, now known as The Republic, established countless military concentration camps around the world where The Gifted would be contained and where the most dangerous classes would be imprisoned. These imprisoned Gifted, the average aging between 10 - 35 years old, are exposed to all sort of inhumane and harsh conditions while surviving confinement. However, all is not lost for The Gifted, as whispers of a Gifted rebel army echo the metal halls of the military camps and with it, hopes and dreams of freedom and equality....

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Hey all! Just wanting to put this into the interest check because I'm hoping to reach more people! We have just started the story but we are still looking for more people to join so I'm certain that it wouldn't be difficult for more people to jump in! We currently have a lot of female characters so I'd love to have more male/nonbinary/etc characters to add a bit more diversity! Having multiple characters is also welcomed as long as you feel like you can handle it! Please let me know if you have any questions!
Link to the OOC!!

The Gifted (Reborn) (Looking for more players!)

Just updated the first post to give a bit more lore and context to the story!