In the summer of 2018 humans all over the world suddenly began developing what are known as Superpowers. Some appeared overnight, some grew gradually. Some tried to use their new powers for good, others used theirs to commit unspeakable evil.
In this maelstrom the unaltered human governments of the world unified, and with the support of many civic-minded Supers reestablished law and order.
Numerous “Axis of Evil” fortresses and hideouts exist where so called “New World Order” Superpowered warlords reign, in varying degrees of evility…
Into this universe your character was born. Sometime. I mean, not now, unless you are some kind of Super Baby, which might be interesting, but would probably be weird…
The government has instituted mandatory tagging and personality and psych profiles on all “Supers.” Those that fail to submit or can’t pass the exam standards are hunted and locked away in ultra-security prison facilities. The press doesn’t report this an awful lot.
Those supers that are deemed “benign” are drafted into government service. Most wind up doing extremely well paying, but menial, jobs that their powers allow them to excel at - one gentleman with massive strength and extreme body altering and stretching abilities works as a crane, extending 4 protuberances from his ‘base’ and grabbing onto the object in question and stretching to lift it great heights. I think they call him the Tower.
The characters all work for the government in some menial, thankless capacity as part of the Superpowered Municipal Upkeep Team - for now - and live at S.M.U.T. HQ. All have voluntarily registered and agreed to testing, and have passed and are deemed “benign.” It might be possible that certain powers could be used to alter or mask those test results however…
I previously ran a few scenes of a very similar version of this game - see here for some example characters and ideas on style
https://storium.com/game/hero-work/chapter-1/scene-1
I’ll be limiting participation to 4-5 authors, at least to start. This game is tagged NSFW because I don’t want to have to worry about letting a ‘fuck’ slip. You shouldn’t either…
This game can be silly and gritty and playful and dark or none of these…its all up to you folks. I will just guide, collate, and summarize…
When you win control, take control. Use the outcome information from the challenge cards as a guideline, then go nuts.
REMEMBER TO READ ALL THE CARDS IN A SCENE - LOCATION, CHALLENGE, ITEMS, ETC.
Word limits are set to off by default. I figure folks will be judicious and not dominate scenes too much, so I don’t feel the artificial limits are necessary. If I see something getting uneven I’ll mention it in the commentary.
Hosted and narrated by:
D C (DACJ)
Started 03/06/17.
Scenes played: 4
License: Community License
18+
