Capes of Denver
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here.The year is 2005 on Earth Bet. This earth is much like our own. Human civilization rose at the same time. The Babylonians, the Roman Empire, Great Britain, the American Revolution, industrialization, two World Wars, so on and so forth. There is, however, a point of divergence. May twentieth, 1982 is a day that irrevocably transformed the world. A man appeared floating over the ocean. A golden man radiating his golden light like a beacon was found by a group of people on a ship, one of them dying. After a brief, silent interaction with this golden man, the sick aboard the ship were cured, healthy as the day they were born. The golden man turned and left, but his impact on the world was far from over.
The golden man traveled the world for many years, simply watching. Simply observing. Any who caught a glimpse of the golden man could feel only one thing from him: sadness. A deep, disquieting sadness that seemed to define his very existence. In the wake of it all, more like the golden man began to show up. More people with superpowers. These people were once normal, but gained amazing abilities through a process still unknown by the world at large. These people, newly dubbed "parahumans," became the biggest topic of discussion the world over as more and more of them began cropping up. Some began using their powers for selfish gain, while others became heroes like the comic books and stepped up to fight crime. Meanwhile, the golden man was not yet done making his presence known.
For years the golden man zoomed around the world nonstop, helping people. He would save orphans from wars, stop burning fires, cleaned up after disasters, destroyed a nuclear test missile, a gesture the world governments took to mean that the Cold War was over and he would intervene if any country wanted to continue it. Then in 1999, shortly after appearing with a brand new white body suit, something unprecedented occurred. The golden man was caught on camera helping put out the fire of a burning library. In the midst of it a woman spoke to him, asking his name. He moved in closer to her and, for the only time ever on record, spoke. "Scion." Then Scion was gone, off to help with a different disaster elsewhere in the world.
Scion is not the only larger than life figure to appear, however. In the last couple decades many heroes and villains have come and gone, the largest and most well known being the Protectorate. However there exist beings of unimaginable, horrible power: The Endbringers. Nobody knows where they came from, but the Endbringers are believed to be parahumans of unstoppable magnitude. The three are Behemoth, Leviathan, and the Simurgh. Ever since Behemoth made himself known in December of 1992, they have taken turns attacking one at a time approximately once every five months, leaving countless dead in their wake with each encounter. In 1999, Leviathan's attack on Kyushu, Japan, left the country devastated. Japan practically became a third world country overnight, and Japanese immigrants have flooded the States. The Simurgh turned most of the Swiss nation into violent, psychotic murderhounds. Behemoth himself is known as the "hero killer" for his body count alone. When an Endbringer shows up, everyone bands together, hero and villain alike, just to fight them off. Killing them is largely considered an impossibility, and the only individual in the world powerful enough to take them on is Scion himself.
Whether you like it or not, you are a parahuman. You have developed super powers. The world is going to Hell, so now the real question is will you take a stand to stop it? Or will you act in your own interests while you can?
Out of Character
Woo, that was a bit to take in, wasn't it? Alright, so as all the flavor and fluff up above suggests, I am planning to run an RP based on Wildbow's serial webnovel
Worm. This takes place in 2005 at the start of autumn, in Denver, Colorado. I wanted a few years before the main storyline but after most of the important background events have occurred, hence the date. As for the location? I needed a big city that wasn't mentioned in the canon story proper, and since I'm a native I decided to write what I know, so Denver it is!
For the purposes of this RP, I'm looking for players that are interested in one of three groups. You can either play as a villain on a local team that recently got together (up to five spots), a member of the local Wards team (also up to five spots, the Wards are basically the junior heroes sponsored by the government, think Justice League sidekicks, or the Titans), or you can be an independent hero/villain. Looking to see how much interest I can garner here to decide if I can officially launch this bad boy, and I sure hope so! I've already developed quite a bit of background info, hahaha.
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