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Message: <blockquote data-quote="NekoAli" data-source="post: 1503554" data-attributes="member: 12665">This is the story hour for my new d20 Modern game. It is a homebrew setting,using all the rules from the d20 Modern and Urban Arcana book. It is sort of an'everything and the kitchen sink' game, not entirely unlike the Urban Arcanasetting but with some significant differences.The world as we know it seems normal. People work, live and spend their liveswithout knowing of a wider existance just below the surface. For the world as weknow it is only one of countless other Earths, each varying to some smaller orgreater degree. Some worlds are hardly differenet from the one that we know,while others are radically different, with monsters only known to us in myth andlegend commonplace. Sometimes however, there is a crossing between worlds, withpeople, creatures or things moving from one Earth to another.Most people aren't aware of these things though. Some crossovers come fromEarths so similar, that what crosses over blends in easily with our world. Sometimes it's a bit harder to explain things, but people have an amazing ability torationalize the unusual away. In some cases though, what crosses over is tostrange, to different or to dangerous to be left alone or explained away. Inthat case, someone needs to step in and deal with with the situation before itgets to far out of hand. This is where AEGIS comes in.AEGIS is a shadowy government agency dedicated to protecting American (and bydefault the world's) citizens from dangers from these other Earths. While thegeneral populace is unaware of these things beyond science fiction and fantasystories, AEGIS and it's various other counterparts around the world seek tomaintain this illusion or normalcy, to allow people to go about their lives asusual. These people step up to face the dangers of dimensional travellers, roguepsions or magic gone wrong and stop them quickly and quietly, before normalpeople find out about them.Some of these agents are talented people from our world. Some are dimensionalrefugees with no way to go home, trading their skills and talents for arelatively safe place to live. AEGIS works under the cover of a special eliteanti-terrorist military unit. Different bases are located in several locationsaround the country, each protecting their own area. Only the members of AEGISand certain highly placed goverment personell are aware of the orginization'strue agenda.Policy is very strict on dealing with dimensional crossovers. Items are located,studied and stored in various secret warehouses about the country. People andcreatures from other Earths are a bit more difficult to deal with. Those thatexhibit obvious danger to the people of this Earth are to be destroyed wheneverpossible, or trapped and sealed away when that isn't possible. For those thatare not dangerous, they are given a choice. Either join the agency and work forthem, or be routed into specially created enclaves monitored by AEGIS. Those whochoose not to join the agency are provided with some assistance and mostly leftto live life as best they can, providing they follow our laws and certainrestrictions. For those people who look human or nearly so, it is relativelyeasy to ease into society with AEGIS' help. For obvious non-humans, it isharder, but the agency helps where they can and arranges homes away from theprying eyes of ordinary citizens. Unfortuantely, the nature of cross-dimensionaltravel makes it impossible to return back to the same world a person originallycame from. With untold countless parallell dimensions, and more being createdconstatly, sending something back to the same world it came from is notpossible.Those that choose to work with the agency are given better treatment. They oftenprove to be the most valuable agents that AEGIS has, with different and usefulabilities, and a familiarity with what the agency routinely has to deal with.The majority of other upper level agents come from people who have either had anencounter with the unusual, or abilities that set them apart from ordinaryhumans. Lower level agents, support personel and functionaries are generallyenlisted military personel or civilians who have been brought in to support theactive agents and support the anti-terrorist task force facade. While they areaware of the truth of the matter, they are carefully selected for secrecy andthe ability to deal with the truth.The players are the members of the Alpha team of Bay City's branch of AEGIS.They are the primary team, the best that AEGIS has in the area. Bay City is anold industrial city on the coast of New Jersey, once heavily occupied by variousheavy industries, but now mostly in disrepair and falling down as more and moreindustries move out of country for cheap labor. AEGIS has established a militarybase as cover, with a high-tech headquarters underneath to run their operationsout of. They have also secretly bought up real estate around and outside of thecity to use as private enclaves for dimensional refugees.The Alpha team currently consist of these members:Alexandra, a human telepath. A civilian, she was recruited for her psychicabilities. Alex is played by DevilGirl.Argus Bloodbane, an elf sniper. Though with his build and ears, he looksdifferent from humans, but fits in close enough to pass as one under casualinspection. Argus is played by Silvr_DragonJack 'Answulfs' Bristelle, a teifling gunman. A native to this Earth, but bloodfrom another runs through his veins, marking him as different than others, andgifting him with some abilities that other native humans don't have. Jack isplayed by Nadal.</blockquote>

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