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Five heroes from across the country are personally summoned by America's most revered heroine, Star Citizen, to the Patriot Headquarters in D.C. for a special assignment. These heroes are given the task of doing grunt work Star Citizen hasn't the patience for.
The city is abuzz with rumors about once rival criminal gangs and their more than insane super villain leaders teaming up together for something big. The city is also going on and on about a new super team that's made a big name for itself in just a short time, by murdering one of the bigger threats to the city, a power hungry mutant by the moniker of Monolith and those loyal to him.
It's the job of the five heroes to track down the source of the rumors and find any legitimacy to them and also to reign in the killing spree of these vigilantes who seem to be at the heels of every criminal connected to these strange stories of villainous alliances.
The city is abuzz with rumors about once rival criminal gangs and their more than insane super villain leaders teaming up together for something big. The city is also going on and on about a new super team that's made a big name for itself in just a short time, by murdering one of the bigger threats to the city, a power hungry mutant by the moniker of Monolith and those loyal to him.
It's the job of the five heroes to track down the source of the rumors and find any legitimacy to them and also to reign in the killing spree of these vigilantes who seem to be at the heels of every criminal connected to these strange stories of villainous alliances.
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{slide=Important History}
Cataclysm of 1989: A magical explosion in East Berlin caused by mages loyal to the Third Reich that tore a hole in the natural veil surrounding Earth allowing for planar energies to seep through and become significantly more accessible to mages. This lead to mages abandoning society completely for a time fearing global witch hunts would arise to wipe them out. It's theorized that the invasion of planar energies into Earth's natural world has increased the rate in which mutations occur in humans.
Heroic Patriot Act of 1995: Legislation passed that requires all super humans to register their powers as weapons. As technology advanced, it was later amended that those with cybernetic enhancements to far surpass average human capabilities and those wishing to use power armor needed also register. This law is barely, if at all, enforced out of the general public's fear of losing their super power and heavily armed protectors.
1996, Super Human Incarceration Field Team founded: A United Nations initiative, SHIFT was founded on fear that super humans would inevitably stop protecting humanity and start ruling over them. SHIFT soldiers these days are equipped with a variety of advanced tech engineered to incapacitate super humans and render their abilities null. Over the years they slowly stopped being the Heroes watch dogs and began working along side them to stop super who are truly dangerous to society.
2000, First Contact with Extra-Planar Being: Humanity made it's first contact with a being from another dimension, thus giving credence to the multiverse theory (Mages were long since aware of this, however). Queen Artoria was met in England from her astral plane of Avalon. She has since become England's greatest hero and is ruling monarch.
Dimensional Immigration Act of 2006: America's law granting citizenship to dimensional beings who wish to reside in Earth's plane of existence and live in America. As most Extra-Planer beings possess powers or skills above and beyond average human capabilities they are automatically registered through the Heroic Patriot Act during their citizenship testing.
2013 - 2025 Advancements in Technology:
In 2013 the first power armor was made by military engineers and scientist. It quickly rose to popularity among first world countries and was quickly slapped down to limit construction and use during war time by the United Nations Security Council. Over the years novice and enthusiast engineers began tinkering with their own, thus America amends the Heroic Patriot Act to force citizens to apply for a special license and register their power armor as a weapon.
In 2016, scientist figured how to contain energy within a concentrated beam heat energy. Original designs for energy swords were often clunky and impractical given that they needed a strong magnetic field to contain them. It wasn't until 2019 that the technology for energy weapons advanced allowing for practical energy melee weapons and guns which became the standard a year later. It wasn't long after that metal alloys started springing up for Power Suits and body armor that could withstand energy weapons.
By 2025 the first Artificial Intelligence is constructed by Harold Laserus, founder of Laserus Industries. His creations can be found in most homes these days as household assistants. His designs are also used extensively by the military, FBI, and SHIFT.{/slide}
{slide=Recent Events}
February 26th, 2030: Washington D.C. Police and the local SHIFT agency get their first confirmed sighting of the vigilante known as Barghest in Tenleytown. Three dead found decapitated with their heads scattered among three separate television and radio towers. The victims were members of the cultist gang run by The Priest. Amateur footage turned in to the police show Barghest decapitating his victims with a large, metal blade.
April 10th - 16th: Law enforcement and SHIFT officials encounter Barghest over the week. Every instance he was involved in also had The Priest and his cultist mixed in. The fight that broke out at the Treatment Plant in Ward 8 was the most interesting. Barghest can be confirmed for being either a mutant or a mage. Pyrokinesis, be it genetic or magic, is his forte. We can also confirm Barghest has allies. One unregistered A.I. assassin droid (We believe it to be droid of some kind) that answers to the name Aegis and a mutant who was told to retreat when fighting broke out between SHIFT, Barghest and Co, the cultist, and surprisingly enough, Chimera's misfit mutants. Fighting lasted twenty minutes with the Cultist and the Mutants suffering the biggest casualties. All SHIFT soldier's involve were left largely unscathed. Barghest and Co left SHIFT officers alone during the fight.
May 18th: Stories continue to spread about D.C. the Priest and Chimera working together. Warehouses in neighboring Arlington and Bethesda hit by each. Millions of high-end tech stolen. Sightings of Barghest and his associates in each area at well, seemingly looking for clues at the crime scenes. Aegis is believed to possess cloaking technology.
June 10th: Star Citizen has a brawl with the Iron Hammer vigilantes, as they've taken to calling themselves. Handed her ass to her on a silver platter. She was livid when news broke the next morning. Then again, it wasn't exactly a fair fight. One super against five. This happened in Arlington, Virginia around the same warehouses Chimera's group hit last month. Seems the Iron Hammer stopped an attempted break in. SHIFT officers found corpses of Chimera's abominations around the area.
June 11th: Star Citizen, with a bug up her ass about the Iron Hammer incident, calls in five heroes from across the country to deal with the group. Says "she's got bigger fish to fry and won't bother wasting any more time with a bunch of punks". Sets up this new team to deal with them and investigate the Priest/Chimera alliance rumors and all the other rumors starting to spring up about D.C.{/slide}
{slide=Notable Organizations and Groups}
The Patriots
Led by Star Citizen, the Patriots is America's all-star super team. It was founded in 2000 by her and four other heroes and became the go to team for all things super power related in America. Today, the Patriots have roughly around 100 heroes under it's banner deal with problems both nationally and globally. Almost every hero in America is signed on with the Patriots and are regularly in and out of D.C. with the Patriot's headquarters located there in Downtown.
Notable Members
Star Citizen
Super Human Incarceration Field Team (SHIFT)
Founded in 1996 when fears about super humans were at an all time high, it was the United Nation's idea to help calm the world's nations down. Today there are SHIFT bases spanning the globe offering assistance to the world's heroes in bringing down super humans who are less than upstanding citizens. SHIFT has at it's disposal the latest high end equipment designed in house to tackle supers and bring them back down to a normal human level to be locked up. The best energy weapons, power armors, and gadgets that money can make. They own an extensive database of almost every super human around the globe with more than enough information to ruin your life. Despite working along side heroes, they still keep an unsettling close eye on them.
The Iron Hammer
A vigilante group consisting of five people who operate within D.C. Their exploits have caused quite a media stir and have heroes and general public alike with mixed feelings. Many are terrified, fearing this is exactly what would happen with those with super powers. A few are saying this is just what the world needs, heroes who can strike fear into the hearts of villains. They've already made swift enemies out of The Patriots and SHIFT along with many, if not all, of D.C's criminal organizations.
Current Members
Barghest
Aegis
Heartbleed
Royal
Lavada
{/slide}
{slide=Criminal Groups}
Church of Unseen Glory
Run by a man simply known as the Priest, this cultish group commits some of rather heinous crimes in the name of their "gods". A handful of citizens of gone missing only to be discovered as a rotting corpse in some sacrifice. Priest's followers call themselves the Enlightened.
Chimera's Mutants
Chimera's gang has no special name. Despite artificial DNA modifications to produce mutations being illegal, Chimera went hog wild with it and became somewhat of a abomination as did the people who wanted in on the action. Now at night citizens have to worry about humanoid beast and reptile men stalking them down.
The Vandals
Run by an complete lunatic by the alias of Disdain. Vandals are only a handful of mutants and humans but they cause a lot of chaos whenever they decide. Death and property damage follows in their raids. They take what they want whether they need it or not and unlucky be the soul who's unfortunate to get in their way.
Tyrant
A one man army. Tyrant is a powerful mutant and dangerous scientist with an armada of machines under his command. Seldom is Tyrant seen unless he's executing some grand plan and seldom is he without an army worth of his robots.
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{slide=Important History}
Cataclysm of 1989: A magical explosion in East Berlin caused by mages loyal to the Third Reich that tore a hole in the natural veil surrounding Earth allowing for planar energies to seep through and become significantly more accessible to mages. This lead to mages abandoning society completely for a time fearing global witch hunts would arise to wipe them out. It's theorized that the invasion of planar energies into Earth's natural world has increased the rate in which mutations occur in humans.
Heroic Patriot Act of 1995: Legislation passed that requires all super humans to register their powers as weapons. As technology advanced, it was later amended that those with cybernetic enhancements to far surpass average human capabilities and those wishing to use power armor needed also register. This law is barely, if at all, enforced out of the general public's fear of losing their super power and heavily armed protectors.
1996, Super Human Incarceration Field Team founded: A United Nations initiative, SHIFT was founded on fear that super humans would inevitably stop protecting humanity and start ruling over them. SHIFT soldiers these days are equipped with a variety of advanced tech engineered to incapacitate super humans and render their abilities null. Over the years they slowly stopped being the Heroes watch dogs and began working along side them to stop super who are truly dangerous to society.
2000, First Contact with Extra-Planar Being: Humanity made it's first contact with a being from another dimension, thus giving credence to the multiverse theory (Mages were long since aware of this, however). Queen Artoria was met in England from her astral plane of Avalon. She has since become England's greatest hero and is ruling monarch.
Dimensional Immigration Act of 2006: America's law granting citizenship to dimensional beings who wish to reside in Earth's plane of existence and live in America. As most Extra-Planer beings possess powers or skills above and beyond average human capabilities they are automatically registered through the Heroic Patriot Act during their citizenship testing.
2013 - 2025 Advancements in Technology:
In 2013 the first power armor was made by military engineers and scientist. It quickly rose to popularity among first world countries and was quickly slapped down to limit construction and use during war time by the United Nations Security Council. Over the years novice and enthusiast engineers began tinkering with their own, thus America amends the Heroic Patriot Act to force citizens to apply for a special license and register their power armor as a weapon.
In 2016, scientist figured how to contain energy within a concentrated beam heat energy. Original designs for energy swords were often clunky and impractical given that they needed a strong magnetic field to contain them. It wasn't until 2019 that the technology for energy weapons advanced allowing for practical energy melee weapons and guns which became the standard a year later. It wasn't long after that metal alloys started springing up for Power Suits and body armor that could withstand energy weapons.
By 2025 the first Artificial Intelligence is constructed by Harold Laserus, founder of Laserus Industries. His creations can be found in most homes these days as household assistants. His designs are also used extensively by the military, FBI, and SHIFT.{/slide}
{slide=Recent Events}
February 26th, 2030: Washington D.C. Police and the local SHIFT agency get their first confirmed sighting of the vigilante known as Barghest in Tenleytown. Three dead found decapitated with their heads scattered among three separate television and radio towers. The victims were members of the cultist gang run by The Priest. Amateur footage turned in to the police show Barghest decapitating his victims with a large, metal blade.
April 10th - 16th: Law enforcement and SHIFT officials encounter Barghest over the week. Every instance he was involved in also had The Priest and his cultist mixed in. The fight that broke out at the Treatment Plant in Ward 8 was the most interesting. Barghest can be confirmed for being either a mutant or a mage. Pyrokinesis, be it genetic or magic, is his forte. We can also confirm Barghest has allies. One unregistered A.I. assassin droid (We believe it to be droid of some kind) that answers to the name Aegis and a mutant who was told to retreat when fighting broke out between SHIFT, Barghest and Co, the cultist, and surprisingly enough, Chimera's misfit mutants. Fighting lasted twenty minutes with the Cultist and the Mutants suffering the biggest casualties. All SHIFT soldier's involve were left largely unscathed. Barghest and Co left SHIFT officers alone during the fight.
May 18th: Stories continue to spread about D.C. the Priest and Chimera working together. Warehouses in neighboring Arlington and Bethesda hit by each. Millions of high-end tech stolen. Sightings of Barghest and his associates in each area at well, seemingly looking for clues at the crime scenes. Aegis is believed to possess cloaking technology.
June 10th: Star Citizen has a brawl with the Iron Hammer vigilantes, as they've taken to calling themselves. Handed her ass to her on a silver platter. She was livid when news broke the next morning. Then again, it wasn't exactly a fair fight. One super against five. This happened in Arlington, Virginia around the same warehouses Chimera's group hit last month. Seems the Iron Hammer stopped an attempted break in. SHIFT officers found corpses of Chimera's abominations around the area.
June 11th: Star Citizen, with a bug up her ass about the Iron Hammer incident, calls in five heroes from across the country to deal with the group. Says "she's got bigger fish to fry and won't bother wasting any more time with a bunch of punks". Sets up this new team to deal with them and investigate the Priest/Chimera alliance rumors and all the other rumors starting to spring up about D.C.{/slide}
{slide=Notable Organizations and Groups}
The Patriots
Led by Star Citizen, the Patriots is America's all-star super team. It was founded in 2000 by her and four other heroes and became the go to team for all things super power related in America. Today, the Patriots have roughly around 100 heroes under it's banner deal with problems both nationally and globally. Almost every hero in America is signed on with the Patriots and are regularly in and out of D.C. with the Patriot's headquarters located there in Downtown.
Notable Members
Star Citizen
Super Human Incarceration Field Team (SHIFT)
Founded in 1996 when fears about super humans were at an all time high, it was the United Nation's idea to help calm the world's nations down. Today there are SHIFT bases spanning the globe offering assistance to the world's heroes in bringing down super humans who are less than upstanding citizens. SHIFT has at it's disposal the latest high end equipment designed in house to tackle supers and bring them back down to a normal human level to be locked up. The best energy weapons, power armors, and gadgets that money can make. They own an extensive database of almost every super human around the globe with more than enough information to ruin your life. Despite working along side heroes, they still keep an unsettling close eye on them.
The Iron Hammer
A vigilante group consisting of five people who operate within D.C. Their exploits have caused quite a media stir and have heroes and general public alike with mixed feelings. Many are terrified, fearing this is exactly what would happen with those with super powers. A few are saying this is just what the world needs, heroes who can strike fear into the hearts of villains. They've already made swift enemies out of The Patriots and SHIFT along with many, if not all, of D.C's criminal organizations.
Current Members
Barghest
Aegis
Heartbleed
Royal
Lavada
{/slide}
{slide=Criminal Groups}
Church of Unseen Glory
Run by a man simply known as the Priest, this cultish group commits some of rather heinous crimes in the name of their "gods". A handful of citizens of gone missing only to be discovered as a rotting corpse in some sacrifice. Priest's followers call themselves the Enlightened.
Chimera's Mutants
Chimera's gang has no special name. Despite artificial DNA modifications to produce mutations being illegal, Chimera went hog wild with it and became somewhat of a abomination as did the people who wanted in on the action. Now at night citizens have to worry about humanoid beast and reptile men stalking them down.
The Vandals
Run by an complete lunatic by the alias of Disdain. Vandals are only a handful of mutants and humans but they cause a lot of chaos whenever they decide. Death and property damage follows in their raids. They take what they want whether they need it or not and unlucky be the soul who's unfortunate to get in their way.
Tyrant
A one man army. Tyrant is a powerful mutant and dangerous scientist with an armada of machines under his command. Seldom is Tyrant seen unless he's executing some grand plan and seldom is he without an army worth of his robots.
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{slide=The Hidden World}
Magic has always been prevalent in the world. Many of the wild tales you'll hear about various places are most likely actual events. Until the Cataclysm, magic users were few and far between. Nowadays you have whole towns full of them. Despite that fact and a couple of heroes outright saying they're mages, the general public still has mostly no idea magic does exist even after the Cataclysm and mages would prefer to keep it that way.
It takes a mage years to properly call on planar energies and use them responsibly so one doesn't backfire or summon something they shouldn't. A rare few are lucky, having some sort of connection to a planar realm from birth. It comes at a price that manifests over years of use but one might consider it a small price to pay to summon and command gratuitous amounts of energy. Though, you'll have a tough time fitting in to normal society with glowing eyes and that's if you're lucky to get just that. Even if one doesn't possess a natural connection such things still happen to the oldest and most practiced mages.
{/slide}
{slide=Planes of Existence}
Since Queen Artoria's arrival on Earth, slowly but steadily other extra-planar beings have come to Earth's plane of existence prompting countries around the world to decide whether or not they want these sometimes strange and exotic beings within their country. Not every planar being is human or has they same reasoning abilities as humans.
They are three planes of existence known to mages.
The Physical Planes
Earth and the universe it resides in and every iteration thereof in the multiverse.
The Astral Planes
Realms of dreams, fantasy, the heavens and hells of our religions. Here a vast number of gods reside in physical manifestations as here they are born in to existence. Gods can not interact within the physical planes without being severely restricted in their prowess. It is also in these planes were many of the planar beings who visit Earth reside naturally and where the summons of mages are pulled from.
The Cosmic Planes
Planes of pure energy. Things beyond comprehension inhabit these realms. It's here where mages pull their magic powers from and where the things lurking on the other side try to use the mage as a way through to the physical world.{/slide}
{slide=Political Rituals}
Every mage has a mentor and every mentor a mentor above him and so on and so forth until you reach those who sit among the Council of Elders. The Elders, simply put, govern the magical world. If you're endangering the general populace expect the Elders to place you under witch hunt to be dealt with permanently.
The hierarchy goes as so:
Elders at the top who govern magical affairs and all mages over an entire country.
Then their pupils, the Vizers, who manage over whole regions.
Then their pupils, known as Illum who govern a city, or a couple if they're small in population.
Then their pupils, the High Mages, who may govern over a small town.
And then their pupils, your typical mage.
If you want to climb the power ladder one must study hard and well and prove their worth to the mage society... Or just be very skilled and hope your mentor has an tragic accident... And pray they don't find out it was you who did him in!
{/slide}
{slide=Magical Science}
One doesn't need artifacts or words of power to cast spells. A mage calls out with their soul across the planes. Their will resonates with a being in a cosmic plane and that being might grant you some of it's power. Some beings are more malevolent than others. A mages soul must dominate over the will of the being in question else the spell may fizzle or worse, backfire. Worse yet, you may just let something through that you'll soon wish you hadn't.
Artifacts do exist and can amplify one's power. Such things are usually left by a god who wishes to have some influence on the physical planes. Other times an artifact is simply a mundane item with an enchantment placed upon it made by a mage for the sake of convince.
An important thing for all mages to remember is spells can be prepared and saved in memory for later. This takes up space in the mind, however, one is libel to forget any number of things if they save too many spells.{/slide}[/stabs]
{slide=The Hidden World}
Magic has always been prevalent in the world. Many of the wild tales you'll hear about various places are most likely actual events. Until the Cataclysm, magic users were few and far between. Nowadays you have whole towns full of them. Despite that fact and a couple of heroes outright saying they're mages, the general public still has mostly no idea magic does exist even after the Cataclysm and mages would prefer to keep it that way.
It takes a mage years to properly call on planar energies and use them responsibly so one doesn't backfire or summon something they shouldn't. A rare few are lucky, having some sort of connection to a planar realm from birth. It comes at a price that manifests over years of use but one might consider it a small price to pay to summon and command gratuitous amounts of energy. Though, you'll have a tough time fitting in to normal society with glowing eyes and that's if you're lucky to get just that. Even if one doesn't possess a natural connection such things still happen to the oldest and most practiced mages.
{/slide}
{slide=Planes of Existence}
Since Queen Artoria's arrival on Earth, slowly but steadily other extra-planar beings have come to Earth's plane of existence prompting countries around the world to decide whether or not they want these sometimes strange and exotic beings within their country. Not every planar being is human or has they same reasoning abilities as humans.
They are three planes of existence known to mages.
The Physical Planes
Earth and the universe it resides in and every iteration thereof in the multiverse.
The Astral Planes
Realms of dreams, fantasy, the heavens and hells of our religions. Here a vast number of gods reside in physical manifestations as here they are born in to existence. Gods can not interact within the physical planes without being severely restricted in their prowess. It is also in these planes were many of the planar beings who visit Earth reside naturally and where the summons of mages are pulled from.
The Cosmic Planes
Planes of pure energy. Things beyond comprehension inhabit these realms. It's here where mages pull their magic powers from and where the things lurking on the other side try to use the mage as a way through to the physical world.{/slide}
{slide=Political Rituals}
Every mage has a mentor and every mentor a mentor above him and so on and so forth until you reach those who sit among the Council of Elders. The Elders, simply put, govern the magical world. If you're endangering the general populace expect the Elders to place you under witch hunt to be dealt with permanently.
The hierarchy goes as so:
Elders at the top who govern magical affairs and all mages over an entire country.
Then their pupils, the Vizers, who manage over whole regions.
Then their pupils, known as Illum who govern a city, or a couple if they're small in population.
Then their pupils, the High Mages, who may govern over a small town.
And then their pupils, your typical mage.
If you want to climb the power ladder one must study hard and well and prove their worth to the mage society... Or just be very skilled and hope your mentor has an tragic accident... And pray they don't find out it was you who did him in!
{/slide}
{slide=Magical Science}
One doesn't need artifacts or words of power to cast spells. A mage calls out with their soul across the planes. Their will resonates with a being in a cosmic plane and that being might grant you some of it's power. Some beings are more malevolent than others. A mages soul must dominate over the will of the being in question else the spell may fizzle or worse, backfire. Worse yet, you may just let something through that you'll soon wish you hadn't.
Artifacts do exist and can amplify one's power. Such things are usually left by a god who wishes to have some influence on the physical planes. Other times an artifact is simply a mundane item with an enchantment placed upon it made by a mage for the sake of convince.
An important thing for all mages to remember is spells can be prepared and saved in memory for later. This takes up space in the mind, however, one is libel to forget any number of things if they save too many spells.{/slide}[/stabs]
Name: (Your Character's Birth Name)
Appearance: (Civilian appearance. Please, no pictures of real people)
Age: (18+ please)
Gender: (Self explanatory)
Race: (Human or Human Mutant)
Civilian Bio:(How your character lives and acts out of the super suit, this includes their personality as well)
Alias: (Your characters chosen moniker)
Costume: (I don't want to see any Superman's or Wonder Woman's, got it? Be original.)
Organization:
Weapon: (If they have one. Otherwise, leave it blank. And yes, power armor is a weapon.)
Power: (If they have one. Otherwise, leave it blank. If magic, just leave as magic though you may wish to choose a specialization.)
Rankings (From 1 to 9. One being way below average and nine being demi-godlike. You have 40 points to allocate amongst the six stats. Spend wisely)
Strength: (How hard you can punch and just how much you can lift)Appearance: (Civilian appearance. Please, no pictures of real people)
Age: (18+ please)
Gender: (Self explanatory)
Race: (Human or Human Mutant)
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Alias: (Your characters chosen moniker)
Costume: (I don't want to see any Superman's or Wonder Woman's, got it? Be original.)
Organization:
Weapon: (If they have one. Otherwise, leave it blank. And yes, power armor is a weapon.)
Power: (If they have one. Otherwise, leave it blank. If magic, just leave as magic though you may wish to choose a specialization.)
Rankings (From 1 to 9. One being way below average and nine being demi-godlike. You have 40 points to allocate amongst the six stats. Spend wisely)
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Speed: (How fast you are on your feet)
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