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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ShaggySpellsword" data-source="post: 3968827" data-attributes="member: 17626">My friends and I had just finished slaying the Herald of the Lord of Dust, Tak-Haziiz, ending our Eberron Red Hand of Doom Campaign.  On our way out of the door of my house, a shot rang out.  My friend Bryan fell to the ground, dead.  Within a few seconds, he got back up, and his body ran one way, his spirit another.  His body proved to be super-strong, throwing my neigbor's truck into a helecopter.  His spirit found that it could possess the living.  We were surrounded by mysterious commandos and cultists, attacking us from all directions.  My friend Jason turned to stone...then to water, and then to air.  With each form, he found himself stronger, and able to control the elements within.  Eventually he found fire.  Everything my friend Jeremy did just seemed to work...it was almost as if he had a destiny for greater things.So...they had super-powers.  Eventually my brother discovered that he could absorb kinetic energy and redirect it in different ways.  Jeremy's destiny found direction when he was visited in a dream and defined his power into 23 swords of destiny, each with different abilities.  Our friend Johnny created a mace out of pure mental energy that stole memories and disrupted the mind.  Our friend Adam found that he possessed unusual senses and could summon giant hunting hounds to his defense.  Bryan's brother Ryan occasionally appeared, showing the ability to travel through and access the internet from anywhere.They discovered secret societies that had managed world affairs for centuries.  They stopped a plague that threatened to destroy Atlanta.  They dismantled a government-sponsored organization created to contain and destroy super-powered individuals.  They found that there were 24 lines of pure-spirit that passed from person to person.  When meaningful, life-changing interactions happened between people, their spirits interacted.  Certain crossings of these lines of spirit produce unusual strengths in individuals--strengths activated in times of great distress.  They also discovered that these "enlightened ones" were not the only powers in the world.  There were some whose DNA provided them unique benefeits-mutants.  They discovered and stopped death cults bent on summoning the Destroyer, called Apocalypse-the End of Days to earth, killing all.They fought others like themselves, bent on using their powers for personal gain.They ventured into the source of all spiritual powers, The Well of Souls, and unlocked the power potential for all mankind, fullfilling the prophecies that one, the Nexus of All Powers would bring enlightenment to the world.They also discovered that I was in fact one of the most powerful of the Enlightened and a member of the council that controlled things behind the scenes, arranging for them always to be in the right place, at the right time.The game was fun.  We started by making ourselves as PL 10 characters with only 45 PP.  I then created 45 PP super-powers for them.We loved the stories and the plot interactions, but as time passed, we grew to HATE the Mutants and Masterminds system.</blockquote>

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