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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WayneLigon" data-source="post: 1643530" data-attributes="member: 3649">I just finished a Mutants and Masterminds game with a time travel twist.  The PC's were the world's first superhumans, along with a few others, but they were not alone for long. The physics experiment that gave them (and the others it touched - roughtly 1 out of every 40,000 exposed to the effect get super powers, though about 10-15% of those gain powers that kill them) powers put them into very brief contact with the first few fematoseconds of the Big Bang, before physical law stabilized, even on a quantum level. So they can suddenly do all the physics-defying acts from the comics. The fire blaster is actually creating energy, moving heat to hotter areas rather than the other way around; the strong guy can pick up a car by it's bumper and not have everything just rip apart in his hands, etc.  They quickly for an actual team and deal with the first major impact of the wavefront on a major city: Detroit. They note that some people that gain powers simply go crazy, and they decide after some debate that they must be the people that contain such people. They also oppose the husband of one of the PC's, who gained incredible mind control and telepathic powers in the Event.  What they do not know is the the telepath - who has been a complete bastard to his wife for most of their marriage (she doesn't leave because of the pre-nup she stupidly signed when she was way younger; if she leaves, she leaves with the clothes on her back and nothing else) - saw himself through another's eyes for the very first time when he gained his telepathic powers. And it changed him.  The PC's basically live through Timeline B. Timeline A is where they did not band together and most eventually were as bad or worse than the people they later fought. It led to a terrible backlash from the normal people of Earth and resulted in World War III.  Trevor, the husband, sees this happen and realizes he must stop it if he can. One of the few things that has actually be posited about time travel is that thought could go back and forth in time. So he 'downloads' his personality, memories and powers to his much younger self 15 years before in an attempt to change the past.  He meets and marries Melissa, tricks her into signing the document, and proceeds to be a much worse bastard to her than he ever was before since he can now know exactly which mental buttons of hers to push. She grows to hate and despise him. This pushed her into having friends apart from the high society they move in, which brings her into contact with ... the other PC's. She constantly tells them what a bastard her husband is, creating a bond with them and simultaneously setting up Trevor as a joint enemy in their minds. This creates another bond. They attempt (in the pre-powers portion of the game) to help her in a couple ways.  The Event happens and they all gain their abilities. Now, instead of striking out on their own, they band together. Trevor reveals his 'new' powers and they decide he's a great danger to them all. They also deal with the villains made insane by the effect. Well, not by the effect. Trevor is actually the one driving them insane, so that the group bonds through both combat and in having a known foe to band against.  At the time when they finally kill Trevor, they have four separate teams of paranormals moving along the wavefront to keep civil order, maintain the infrastructure, save lives and averty disasters. In the last episode they keept Mount Rainer from blowing up and setting off a world-destroying chain reaction all around the Ring of Fire. They actually don costumes for the first time and are well-respected by the government and the populace. Humanity now has a group of protectors rather than a group of exploiters (which in pre-game discussions seemed the vastly more likely route they would go) that would lead the world into one last war. All because one man sacrificed his own life and changed the past.</blockquote>

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