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These are all ideas I am trying tp bring together... but here is the stuff I have, so far, for a game I intend to run this weekend. Inspired by Aberrant, but with my own touches once I get around to mapping everything out.

The Legacy

The world of the Legacy Universe is one going through sever changes, as the world adapts to the appearance of super-human beings with powers beyond the ken of normal mortals. World Governments have banned together to assess the threat that the Elites pose to normal humanity, or "baselines" as most people refer to non-powered humans.

Elites have been in existence since 2004, after the arrival of Ghenther's Comet, an unknown comet that passed through Earth space in the summer of 2004. The first documented elite was Michael McCoy, also known as Miracle, an elite capable of controlling the primal forces of the world to great effect. He was able to manipulate the Earth to create a barrier and shield himself from an out of control semi-truck. Since his appearance, elites have appeared consistently over the intervening ten years.

One of the best-known elites is the international hero, Paragon, an advocate for peaceful integration of elites and baselines. He is one of the most powerful elites on the planet and the team leader of Justice Elite, an international team of elites who work in conjunction with the newly strengthened United Nations to protect baselines from elite threats. They do double duty as spokesman and work on several humanitarian efforts throughout the world, such as the terraforming of the Sahara, and furthering study into the elimination of disease and cancer.

In general elites tend to be viewed with awe by most folks of the world, powerful beings who are capable of either great good, or even greater evil in the eyes of most baselines. They often make headlines, and live public lives if they do not maintain a secret identity.

Justice Elite- The Premier Elite Team

Paragon (PL 16): Paragon is perhaps one of the most powerful elites on the planet, perhaps only because he is one of the earliest of the elites to come onto the scene. He is a household name, and is an advocate for elites to live peaceably with baselines, and works tirelessly to defend those that can’t defend themselves. But this is his exterior, he is very much into saving people, but he is a terribly vain hero, who expects to be listened to, and believes he is the authority on how Justice Elite should work. He is the team leader for Justice Elite, and is a virtual icon synonymous with the team. Despite his arrogance and pride, he does do good work for the people, and hopes to do so for some time to come.

Vanessa “Redline” Wilson (PL 12): Vanessa, better known as Redline, is the resident speedster of Justice Elite, she is also the youngest member, and has a bad girl attitude which has made her instantly popular with both young men, and young women. She is a fashion conscious woman, and loves to be seen, and enjoys the attention she gets for being apart of Justice Elite. When not out doing work for Justice Elite, she is typically doing modeling shoots, and promoting her clothing line, Redline Threads. She is a speed freak and owns several expensive fast cars. She is flighty in attitude and changes her men just as fast as she runs. She looks up to Paragon, and sees him as an excellent team leader, despite not being able to work her charms on him. Redline is inhumanly fast, she has been clocked at breaking the sound barrier with ease, and is even able to vibrate her body so quickly that she can slide through solid structures.

Suzuki “Kensei” Kanaka (PL 14): Hailing from the still recovering Japan islands, Kanaka is an old standby of Justice Elite. He is called the sword-saint by his people, because of his ability to generate an energy blade by sheer force of will, as a matter of fact, Kanaka has excellent mastery of light energy, and can immolate his form in a licking glowing light which causes damage to any that touch him. This energy is barely contained in his frame and energy occasionally arcs across his body in strands, growing in intensity when he is angered. Kanaka is a focused man in his late twenties, and a kenjutsu master, and an excellent swordsman. He and Paragon though have their differences, he sees Paragon as a vain, and arrogant bastard who cares more for his image then the team. While Paragon views Kanaka as a hothead who is always riding the fence of reliability. After the Tokyo Quake of 2012, Kanaka lost his wife and child to the damage and the fallout of the natural disaster. His performance has suffered slightly, but in the end, he has become more focused to the mission at hand, and has taken Redline under his wing, seeing potential in the young girl.

Doctor Petrova Stockov (PL 14): Eschewing tradition, Dr. Stockov has no codename, and perhaps one of the most brilliant minds on the planet. Outside of her incredible genius, she has patented nearly 300 unique devices since her latent elite powers manifested. She is a master gadgeteer, and a very capable scientist. She is responsible for the hardsuit technology used by the United Nations Defense Force, which far outclassed the United States designed, powered suit concept. Dr. Stockov is a visionary, and tends to be one of the most aloof of Justice Elite, but is often present on many of the Science Boards held by the UN Scientific Advancement Council (UNSAC), as they determine technology that will improve the general standard of living, and eliminating any technology that may be deemed as harmful or unethical.

Magdalena “Oracle” Olivera (PL 13): Where Redline is the bad girl of the team, Magdalena, Oracle to her fans, is the elegant Latin beauty, with the captivating eyes, and a force of will that makes men and women melt in her hands. She is a powerful psychic force, and is capable of great telekinetic abilities. Magdalena was a supermodel before her latent powers manifested, and she was already a celebrity before she joined Justice Elite. Now she works to further her popularity, and also spends time doing humanitarian work in her native Brazil, where she is a national hero. Oracle is genteel, and sophisticated, and her manner is disarming, and charming. She is the second in command of Justice Elite, by sheer force of personality.

Atlas (PL 13): The massively strong elite named Atlas is a living mass of stone, given form and function. He stands at about thirteen feet in height, and gifted with incredible superhuman strength. Not much is known about Atlas’ past, but he is a favorite among the fans of Justice Elite. The tough non-nonsense elite is a powerhouse capable of dishing out and sustaining incredible levels of punishment. Atlas is a long time fixture of the team, and also recently the star of a highly successful action film based on his exploits, where he starred himself. Despite his popularity, his alien appearance, does keep him distanced from baselines, and more and more he finds more and more in common with some of the beliefs of Pantheon, though he won’t admit this to himself. For now he is loyal to the cause, for now at least.
 

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World Stuff-More Info for players

These are all ideas I am trying tp bring together... but here is the stuff I have, so far, for a game I intend to run this weekend. Inspired by Aberrant, but with my own touches once I get around to mapping everything out.

The Legacy

The world of the Legacy Universe is one going through sever changes, as the world adapts to the appearance of super-human beings with powers beyond the ken of normal mortals. World Governments have banned together to assess the threat that the Elites pose to normal humanity, or "baselines" as most people refer to non-powered humans.

Elites have been in existence since 2004, after the arrival of Ghenther's Comet, an unknown comet that passed through Earth space in the summer of 2004. The first documented elite was Michael McCoy, also known as Miracle, an elite capable of controlling the primal forces of the world to great effect. He was able to manipulate the Earth to create a barrier and shield himself from an out of control semi-truck. Since his appearance, elites have appeared consistently over the intervening ten years.

One of the best-known elites is the international hero, Paragon, an advocate for peaceful integration of elites and baselines. He is one of the most powerful elites on the planet and the team leader of Justice Elite, an international team of elites who work in conjunction with the newly strengthened United Nations to protect baselines from elite threats. They do double duty as spokesman and work on several humanitarian efforts throughout the world, such as the terraforming of the Sahara, and furthering study into the elimination of disease and cancer.

In general elites tend to be viewed with awe by most folks of the world, powerful beings who are capable of either great good, or even greater evil in the eyes of most baselines. They often make headlines, and live public lives if they do not maintain a secret identity.

Justice Elite- The Premier Elite Team

Paragon (PL 16): Paragon is perhaps one of the most powerful elites on the planet, perhaps only because he is one of the earliest of the elites to come onto the scene. He is a household name, and is an advocate for elites to live peaceably with baselines, and works tirelessly to defend those that can’t defend themselves. But this is his exterior, he is very much into saving people, but he is a terribly vain hero, who expects to be listened to, and believes he is the authority on how Justice Elite should work. He is the team leader for Justice Elite, and is a virtual icon synonymous with the team. Despite his arrogance and pride, he does do good work for the people, and hopes to do so for some time to come.

Vanessa “Redline” Wilson (PL 12): Vanessa, better known as Redline, is the resident speedster of Justice Elite, she is also the youngest member, and has a bad girl attitude which has made her instantly popular with both young men, and young women. She is a fashion conscious woman, and loves to be seen, and enjoys the attention she gets for being apart of Justice Elite. When not out doing work for Justice Elite, she is typically doing modeling shoots, and promoting her clothing line, Redline Threads. She is a speed freak and owns several expensive fast cars. She is flighty in attitude and changes her men just as fast as she runs. She looks up to Paragon, and sees him as an excellent team leader, despite not being able to work her charms on him. Redline is inhumanly fast, she has been clocked at breaking the sound barrier with ease, and is even able to vibrate her body so quickly that she can slide through solid structures.

Suzuki “Kensei” Kanaka (PL 14): Hailing from the still recovering Japan islands, Kanaka is an old standby of Justice Elite. He is called the sword-saint by his people, because of his ability to generate an energy blade by sheer force of will, as a matter of fact, Kanaka has excellent mastery of light energy, and can immolate his form in a licking glowing light which causes damage to any that touch him. This energy is barely contained in his frame and energy occasionally arcs across his body in strands, growing in intensity when he is angered. Kanaka is a focused man in his late twenties, and a kenjutsu master, and an excellent swordsman. He and Paragon though have their differences, he sees Paragon as a vain, and arrogant bastard who cares more for his image then the team. While Paragon views Kanaka as a hothead who is always riding the fence of reliability. After the Tokyo Quake of 2012, Kanaka lost his wife and child to the damage and the fallout of the natural disaster. His performance has suffered slightly, but in the end, he has become more focused to the mission at hand, and has taken Redline under his wing, seeing potential in the young girl.

Doctor Petrova Stockov (PL 14): Eschewing tradition, Dr. Stockov has no codename, and perhaps one of the most brilliant minds on the planet. Outside of her incredible genius, she has patented nearly 300 unique devices since her latent elite powers manifested. She is a master gadgeteer, and a very capable scientist. She is responsible for the hardsuit technology used by the United Nations Defense Force, which far outclassed the United States designed, powered suit concept. Dr. Stockov is a visionary, and tends to be one of the most aloof of Justice Elite, but is often present on many of the Science Boards held by the UN Scientific Advancement Council (UNSAC), as they determine technology that will improve the general standard of living, and eliminating any technology that may be deemed as harmful or unethical.

Magdalena “Oracle” Olivera (PL 13): Where Redline is the bad girl of the team, Magdalena, Oracle to her fans, is the elegant Latin beauty, with the captivating eyes, and a force of will that makes men and women melt in her hands. She is a powerful psychic force, and is capable of great telekinetic abilities. Magdalena was a supermodel before her latent powers manifested, and she was already a celebrity before she joined Justice Elite. Now she works to further her popularity, and also spends time doing humanitarian work in her native Brazil, where she is a national hero. Oracle is genteel, and sophisticated, and her manner is disarming, and charming. She is the second in command of Justice Elite, by sheer force of personality.

Atlas (PL 13): The massively strong elite named Atlas is a living mass of stone, given form and function. He stands at about thirteen feet in height, and gifted with incredible superhuman strength. Not much is known about Atlas’ past, but he is a favorite among the fans of Justice Elite. The tough non-nonsense elite is a powerhouse capable of dishing out and sustaining incredible levels of punishment. Atlas is a long time fixture of the team, and also recently the star of a highly successful action film based on his exploits, where he starred himself. Despite his popularity, his alien appearance, does keep him distanced from baselines, and more and more he finds more and more in common with some of the beliefs of Pantheon, though he won’t admit this to himself. For now he is loyal to the cause, for now at least.
 

Justice Elite is a major team in the setting, the Legacy Universe, the gifted school is located in the newly terraformed lush landscape of the Sahara, a delicate breadbasket, in the city of Mudaba Adin. It is an internation institution run by the United Nations, to help young Elites adapt to the change of manifesting powers, and controlling them. The school dean is Doctor Bashar Hudabo, an Ethiopian elite with brilliant intellect, and powers of cyber networks. He runs the secluded school, and is a fairly personable fellow.

The school is called the UN Gifted Youth Institute

The PL for the characters will be 8, they are young teens just manifesting their powers...
 



very Cool stuff Tokiwong! Read some more over on the M&M board also... now stealing ideas for my own face-to-face game this weekend (plus I had already got some good ideas from Strom's story etc). Any thoughts on the character ideas so far? The character I am most leaning towards is Gargoyle just cause the mental picture I am getting :)

So I am mostly leaning towards a flying brick of somekind
Set is looking at a Super-Soldier type Hero (cool btw)
Samnell has a bunch of one, but I really like the water-one AND the split one (two characters in one body :) ya baby!)
Thain has two that are both really cool (I have a soft spot for archers but Vanish is pretty darn cool to)
Starman may or may not post an idea
and Hammerhead
 

Sen Undo-Mal: Thanks for the props, I will be going over the concepts tonight, I like the ideas, yeah the game is going to be run sort of concurrently, with stuff happening in my live game having effects on what happens in the PBP and vice versa... the gargoyle sounds like a really cool idea :)

I have some more to post like the Justice Elite stuff, and the info on Pantheon... :)
 

Justice Elite

Justice Elite

“There are three things you can count on in life, death, taxes, and the Justice Elite. Anything more then that is just fluff.”

- Sarah Miller, Accountant at Vice World Banking

“Why do we exist? We exist for one purpose, to better our fellow man, and I want everyone to listen to those words, ‘fellow man’. We are all in this together, elite, baseline, we all live on this planet, and we will survive and die together, that is the fact of it. Why did I volunteer to serve my planet, I did it because I have a responsibility to use my gifts in a positive manner, not just for my own immediate benefit. Like they said in the Spiderman movie, remember that film? ‘With great power comes great responsibility.’ That is about as best as I can put it in a nutshell…”

- Suzuki “Kensei” Kanaka during an interview on 60 Minutes

The cavalry, the good guys, the heroes that make people cry with their unrelenting heroism, the Justice Elite. Formed August 10th, 2006, after a distinct rise in anti-elite sentiment, the United Nations unveiled Justice Elite to a skeptical public. But the international team proved to be a great Public Relations boon, and was actually effective, and inspired many world governments to put together their own elite teams, along with private interests. It should be noted that this was in addition to the more secretive and often Black Ops styled elite teams already in existence at the time.

Justice Elite though, was instantly popular, featuring many of the more popular elites of the time. The initial roster consisted of Paragon, Kensei, Oracle, Dash, Raptor, and Dr. Stockov. Of the original roster, two members have been replaced over the intervening seven years. Dash was killed in action during a particular elite conflict in Belize with a drug cartel employing mercenary elites. Raptor retired, having been critically injured in a battle with Pantheon Acolyte, Razor in the fall of 2013. Atlas joined the team shortly after Dash’s death, and in early 2014 Redline joined Justice Elite, and has proven to be a rather popular choice with the general populace at large. Each of the team members is a celebrity in their own right, and the media, making them high profile individuals, often scrutinizes their every move.

Justice Elite though is more then a public relations coup; they are a United Nations sanctioned team for combating elite violence. That is their primary objective, and they serve to maintain peace throughout the world, especially areas that lack nationally sanctioned elite teams. But even Justice Elite cannot be everywhere, and the organization works with both the United Nations Defense Force, and member nations to quell the threat of elite violence. Though rivalries have cropped up over time between the Justice Elite and various nationally sanctioned elite teams, outright violence has to this point been avoided. Justice Elite also does many humanitarian projects and efforts; such as the terraforming of the Sahara Desert, assisting in the construction of the first human inhabited orbital expected to be completed in late 2015, and the massive international effort to rebuild Japan and the surrounding region after the Tokyo Quake of 2012. They act as ambassadors of the United Nations as well, and fulfill many different public roles, using their popularity to sway international opinion. Since the creation of Justice Elite, the United Nations influence and power has increased greatly, and it is a world power in and of itself. The UN Intervention of 2011, forced the United States to back down, and allow diplomatic negotiations resolve a nasty matter between the US and China, which ended in no bloodshed. Since that time, the United Nations has become a force to reckon with, and the United States has shown some resentment to the opposition it faced during the 2011 Negotiations, but so far relations have remained amicable. Though it should be noted that Justice Elite does not have law enforcement powers on United States soil, they must cooperate with local jurisdiction and authorities.

Currently Justice Elite is looking to expand, and the first step in that process is Justice Elite: Beta, a second tier team to deal with smaller threats, to free up more time for the main team to handle what needs to be handled. Justice Elite: Beta works on the same principles as the original team, but consists of fairly new elites who have yet to make their mark on the world. This move was done for two reasons, the first is to free up time for the main team, but also to bring fresh faces to the scene and expand the United Nations influence. Justice Elite: Beta is just the beginning, the eventual plan is to have Justice Elites in major regions of the world, each team international in makeup to express the United Nations view of a United Earth. This is a long scope plan, but is being tested with Justice Elite: Beta, if it works as planned, several Gifted Elite Institutes are planned to further educate elites on the proper usage of their abilities, to maintain the safety of themselves and those around them. These institutes would again serve a twofold purpose, to educate young elites, and to form a pool from which to recruit for future Justice Elite teams.

The general populace of the world recognizes Justice Elite as heroes, they work tirelessly to defend the weak, and work to better everyone’s lot in life. They are the good guys, the marketing, merchandising, and franchising of Justice Elite supports this. They make the news, they are the news, and everyone wants to know what they will do next. Justice Elite is simply a team of men and women gifted with abilities who are trying to do the right thing, despite the politics involved, they earnestly believe they are the good guys. Besides each of them makes an easy six-figure salary with several perks.
 

Pantheon

Pantheon

“Perhaps the most infamous elite organization on the planet, Pantheon is a threat to world security. They are an organization of zealots, and supremacists. Their ideals are based on bigotry, and the oppression of those they feel inferior to themselves. What does Pantheon stand for, the same ideals that any terrorist organization stands for, terror. They inflict terror upon the baseline populace, and expect their demands to be heard. Their rhetoric is tired and old, and in the end pointless. They are evil miscreants and they will be rooted out and brought to justice for their crimes…”

- Paragon at a Justice Elite press conference

“I don’t like Pantheon per se, but I think Razor, that is his name right, he is pretty cool. I mean anyone willing to screw with the Justice Elite has to have some balls right? Though I hear they want to destroy the world, or some crap. I just hope they destroy my school; I really hate my teachers. Razor is cool though, real tough, even if he is a bad guy, he is still cool in my book.”

- Richard Dawson, Middle School student

Just what is, Pantheon? Pantheon is an elite organization, a group that espouses elite superiority to baselines. The core philosophy behind the Pantheon movement is that elites are the next step in evolution, and therefore are the superior species to baseline humanity. By that right, baseline justice and law do not apply to them, they are in effect above such things, and they see baselines as mere insects. Certainly the power distinction between humanity and an insect is quite distinct, even though insects outnumber humanity, humanity is the more dominant species. This is the same with humanity and elites, even though baselines are more numerous, elites are the dominant species of Earth. It is elites that will lead the way into the next century, not baselines, who will simply follow in the wake of the elites.

At the heart of Pantheon is the mysterious elite who goes by the name of Cardinal, styling herself as both a political and religious leader. Deeper into the Pantheon mythos, one finds a quasi Judeo-Christian belief system that espouses that elites are the chosen of God, and they shall inherit the Earth and usher in a time of prosperity and peace. But first there will be the Time of Chaos, the Long Night before baselines accept the superiority of elites. Cardinal has gathered around herself a loyal cadre of followers she calls her Acolytes, the most loyal and powerful of her followers, of which it is known that there may be as many as ten and as few as six. Information about Pantheon is still sketchy; outsiders have yet to pierce the inner veil that shrouds much of the inner circle. Cardinal has been at large since the group went public, back in 2006, with the defilement of the DC monuments.

The Acolytes form the ring of influence around Cardinal, they owe their allegiance to only Cardinal, and they do not always agree with each other, but try to do what is best for Pantheon for the movement so that they can attain their goal, which at the moment seems simply to defend elites from baseline exploitation, and to counter any baseline actions to curb or limit elite activity. Pantheon has clashed with Justice Elite, and several other baseline and elite agencies across the globe, on several occasions. Their general modus operandi for their exploits is that they attack baseline operations, agencies that support baseline exploitation of elites, and threats to the elite way of life. They are not above using violence and terror to forward their agenda, and see violence against baselines, as most baselines see violence against animals. A necessity at times, to solve a given problem, for the greater good of the elite species, in the end baselines are the inferior species and are therefore simply tools to be used and disposed of as needed.
 

Sen Udo-Mal said:
Samnell has a bunch of one, but I really like the water-one AND the split one (two characters in one body :) ya baby!)[/B]

I'm actually leaning towards the speedster at the moment, but I'm going to run the numbers and see how they look on paper before I make any final call. Super Speed is (and rightly so) pretty pricey.

I'm not sure how I would do the alternate form on the water guy. Typically liquid form guys in the comics can still manipulate things like normal and hold a relatively near to normal shape. My concept invovles him being able to turn it off, but with it being on as the default and it takes him concious effort to develop a sort of soild skin that works like a regular body, but is still essentially made of water. It's kind of the reverse of the way M&M has durations set up. I don't know if my concept would fit as a flaw (because he would lack easy manipulation of the world around him) but it's a benefit too because he gets the protective effects of liquid form basically all the time. I guess it's kind of the opposite of a continuous duration. The power lasts until he willingly suspends it which has a sustained duration.

Did that make any sense? Any ideas how to stat it up? :)

The two-for-one guy is easy. I just pick two sets of powers I like and buy them up in proportion. Pure role-playing to handle it. But I'm not sure it's the one I like most. :p
 

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