In the year 2075, the combined powers of The United Nations assembled a small group of scientists from around the globe in order to combat a most virulent problem: The growing severity of third world hunger in the wake of global warming, which had rendered most developing countries incapable of developing their own crops.
Almost 80% of the human population, therefore, was in a state of famine.
They were tasked with the innovation and improvement of early 21st century 3D Printing technology, with the expressed goal of creating machines capable of mass-producing edible food from other basic materials: It was dubbed Project Aid (or “Project Feed The World”), and was to take two decades to complete.
However, four long years into the project’s life, a terrible accident occurred.
On July 1st, 2079, a mechanical fault in an experimental new type of printer resulted in a fiery explosion, and the destruction of Project Aid’s laboratory in Stockholm, Sweden.
None of the scientists, fortunately, were killed: However, the project’s leader, a Doctor Oskar Louw, was seriously scarred and, it was theorised, would spend the rest of his life in a burn-ward.
Project Aid was disbanded following this news, their facilities were forsaken, and The United Nations moved on in search of other methods of combating third-world starvation.
Or they would have, had Louw not made an utterly remarkable recovery.
Within a week, his scars had healed and his burns simply disappeared: Oskar Louw was as fresh-faced and unharmed as he had been in 2075, and physicians everywhere called it a miracle.
Louw, however, knew better.
And so, despite Project Aid’s funding being revoked following the event that would come to be known as The Stockholm Surge, the scientists involved returned to their old facility- which had been decimated weeks prior – to find the most remarkable thing.
The entire facility had been reconstructed, but not by human hands: It was as if the building’s wounds had healed, just as Oskar’s had.
They quickly descended into rigorous experimentation.
Soon, Louw’s group would learn that the printer that had caused the explosion was not, itself, damaged.
And, even more curiously, they found that it seemed to be absorbing the data present on their laboratory equipment: Their computers, calculators, phones and web routers.
Louw theorised that- through some miraculous mistake- Project Aid had given birth to something far greater than simply rearranging matter.
He suggested that, perhaps, that they had discovered a way of manifesting digital data in the physical world.
He was right.
By 2105, world hunger was a distant memory, and Project Aid had long since been put to rest…
So that Project Gemini- or The Augmented Reality Project- could live.
After successfully recreating their ‘Data Printer’ in a safe laboratory within the tundras of Russia, Louw’s Gemini Project saw them distributed around the planet, in the hopes that he might one day join the digital and physical worlds together, and produce a reality that exceeded what man alone could build.
This was the birth of The New World.
Across the planet, data began to pour- almost seemingly from the sky- and reconstruct the world as we knew it.
Villages became towns. Towns, cities.
And cities… Mega-Cities.
Sky scrapers began to grow larger, and sleeker: Massive, smooth black obelisks through which data flowed at a constant, in the form of neon lights.
All manners of life changed: The sky became subject to the whims of whoever controlled the data, and as a result, so did weather.
Bridges were replaced by data-highways, and transportation between nations became near-instant, as scientists learned how to turn human beings into data themselves.
Louw passed away in 2110, knowing that he had created a utopia, in which disease was non-existent and there was data for all.
But all was not well, in this New World.
What humanity hadn’t realised in their haste to build their Nirvana is that data is not inherently good.
And neither are the people who control it.
Shortly after this age of light, there came a decade of darkness.
Viruses began to appear, in the hundreds of thousands: Present, tangible… dangerous.
And like wild beasts, they devoured and destroyed al l they saw. Data Skyscrapers crumbled, data-crops wilted, and the sky became a deep, unshifting black, which neither the sun nor the stars could breach.
Viruses did all of this, and more.
They burned cities to the ground, razed towns and devoured human beings who- over the generations- had become imbued with data themselves.
This is where they drew their power: They fed on data. Each byte made them stronger yet.
And all at the command of their invisible masters: A group so secretive that even their true name is not known.
Some claim that, at some point, they were a group known as “Anonymous”, hackers who ‘d taken advantage of the New World in order to wreak a campaign of fear.
Others yet suggested that, perhaps, they were the “Illuminati” those same hackers had once claimed to fight again, imposing their New World Order…
It didn’t matter.
Civilians just called them “The Morbi”, The Disease.
By 2121, all hope seemed lost.
Colossi thundered across the planet’s surface, unopposed as they devoured the bare rock face and terrorised whoever it was who dared stand up against them.
People cursed Louw’s name, and the names of Projects Gemini and Aid.
And that is when things truly changed.
In 2122, they came.
Soundlessly from out of the night, as though they had been born from the same abyss as The Morbi, as their virus brethren.
But of course, this was not the case.
They burst from the dark with swords of radiant light, and with them they tore, they severed and they skirmished.
These were the first Moderators. These were our heroes.
Claiming to be the children of Project Aid’s original participants, they- just as The Morbi had- had discovered how to empower themselves through the manipulation of data.
From head to toe, they were protected by shining material, which blocked blows like steel but flexed like silk: And in each of their hands they grasped a new weapon, which tore and devoured viral data as if they were the flaming swords of angels.
But they were not equals: They had the advantage. The Morbi had only copied Louw’s work, only emulated it…
The Moderators possessed it. And they had improved it.
Powerful, and benefiting from being unexpected, they marched, and beat back The Morbi’s army.
But even then, they alone were not enough: And so they revealed their secret to the world.
The Initialisers.
Produced from half-finished blueprints left by Doctor Oskar Louw in his will, and the technological ingenuity of Project Aid’s successors, these brave warriors had managed to develop a device which would temporarily issue them superhuman abilities.
They would become masters of data, able to form weapons, and- when they were weak enough- seal viruses away forever.
This revealed, they issued sixteen of these Initialisers to four other groups of four from around the globe, and- together- they crushed the virus threat.
They could not, however, find The Morbi , who- following their loss- simply disappeared altogether.
But The Moderators knew that, someday, they would be back… so they asked the UN to issue them the rights to form a new police force, an anti-virus army in the guise of civilians.
The UN, of course, granted them full permissions.
The year is now 2240, almost one hundred and twenty years after the original Moderators beat back the virus forcers.
Of course, they are long gone now, and their first Initialiser- Which belonged to an individual who referred to himself simply “W”, the first Moderator leader- is kept safely and securely on display in the lobby of the Moderator’s Central Bureau, in Proto-City, New York.
But they look archaic, now: Times have changed, and so too has technology.
The world has entered its second digital age, in which those stylish, sleek neon skyscrapers have finally been re-erected, and each Mega-City boasts a squadron of Moderators in order to ensure that they remain that way.
The children of those first Moderators are “The Admins” now, a board of politically and data-wise powerful individuals who govern where it is Moderators train, where they are assigned and what position they are assigned to.
And of course, no city is more prolific than Proto-City, in which the first Moderators made their original appearance, and began their ruthless campaign to restore humanity and resist The Morbi.
Not only is it amongst the largest and most technologically advanced cities, but it also boasts expansive shopping districts, numerous world-famous landmarks, and- most importantly- the world’s best trained group of Moderators.
Moderators 101 through 107 are world famous for their shows of dexterity, skill and grace.
They are brave. They are smart. And they are the best Moderators this world has to offer.
Some even say, they’re greater than their progenitors.
But all is not well.
In these last few years, viral incidents have been on the rise: And for all that time, the Proto-City Moderators have kept them firmly beneath their boots.
But suddenly, in the March of this year, they mysteriously vanished during a conflict with a water-based virus plaguing Proto-City’s outer borough.
This is bad, bad news.
Fortunately, whilst they are searched for, they can be substituted without the public ever having to know.
Moderators keep their civilian identities a secret at all times, meaning that- when their replacements are Logged In- they’re virtually indistinguishable from the originals…
Unfortunately, the only replacements available right now are you guys.
With every other Mega-City currently occupied with controlling the gradual increase of virus attacks that have occurred over these last few years, The Moderators Bureau has been forced to take the most suitable candidates available from their private Moderator academy, and issue them with the titles of Moderators 101 through 107.
However, as all of the academy’s top students had already graduated and been assigned to positions elsewhere…
We’ve gotten you. The lowest percentile above passing.
You are poorly trained. You are inexperienced. You are being given power that you cannot yet fully understand.
And you are the only line of defence Proto-City has against the threat of a Virus resurgence.
God help us all.
Best of luck, Proto-Moderators… B-Team.
[MODERATORS PROFILE]
Name:
Age: (All academy graduates are 20+)
Gender:
Nationality:
Moderator ID No.: 101
Moderator colour code:
Initialiser: I’ll send you a link to your Initialiser image after you’ve finished the profile.
Modifier Chosen (lvl 1): The fact this is “lvl 1” is significant: As the roleplay goes on, the characters will gradually be promoted through the ranks and unlock/acquire more Modifiers along the way.
Moderator Weapon and Description: Each Moderator forges their own weapon at the end of their Academic career. It can be a firearm, a blade or a battle-axe, just know that it consist of data.
Its aesthetics and mode of attack are yours to design: But keep in mind data-swords and data-guns are equally effective in dispatching viruses.
Moderator’s Appearance:
I will accept pictures drawn specifically of the character, but otherwise no dice: And either way, I’d like at least a brief written description. These CSs are, after all, an examination of your writing capability.
Moderator’s Bio: What was life like before they were a Moderator? What drove them to become one?
… why did they end up in B-Team, if they were so keen?
[MODIFIERS]
Initialisers are the most powerful tools you have as Moderators. They gift you increased strength, increased speed and increased dexterity...
And, to each individual, they grant a unique power: A Modifier, to help you in battle.
As you rank up amongst the Moderators, you'll unlock and gain more of them. But as you're all level ones, you've got access to seven to choose from:
The Hookshot is a grappling tool that- when summoned- appears on a Moderator's wrist.
Its use is simple: To lift a Moderator to a specific location, and then suspend them there for as long as the power is in use. If a new hookshot is generated, the original will disintegrate into binary data before rejoining the Augmented Reality grid.
Your chains will also disintegrate if you are subject to an attack and take damage.
Due to the density of the hookshot, it cannot be used as a weapon on standard virus threats- who are not very dense at all, and thus are subject to having denser data pass through them- but on larger threats it may be used to grapple onto and pierce body parts.
These incidents are very rare, however, and this should be considered nothing more than a transport tool.
Invisibility is one of the most commonly used level one Moderator tools available: By convincing the data integrated into your Moderator suit to correlate with that of your surroundings, you will slowly fade out until you become totally invisible to the naked eye.
Most Viruses (save for those in possession of 'Allsight') will be incapable of seeing you, as will most civilians. Your footfalls will also be silenced.
Invisibility does not render your weapon invisible, however (for health and safety reasons), so it is better to keep it sheathed until you are poised to strike.
Being hit whilst invisible will terminate the power and render you visible again.
Binding is arguably the most useful first level Moderator Modifiers available.
Similar in nature to the hookshot, binding works by generating a pair of chains from the data present in the Augmented Reality Grid, and then manipulating them into restricting a virus' movements, rendering the average virus totally incapable of escape, and slowing the progress of larger ones.
Only one virus can be subjected to binding at any given time, however, meaning that it is not applicable to group attacks.
The binds will break if you take damage whilst upholding them.
Allsight is a favourite among teams who have an Invisibility-orientated Moderator present.
With allsight, a moderator becomes capable of seeing data in its rawest form, revealing any invisible presences, such as viruses, within their vicinity, as well as the weaker spots of larger viruses.
Allsight is compromised when you take damage, but can easily be reactivated, as it is the quickest Modifier in terms of recovery time.
Another Modifier that's very commonly used in A-Teams, Flight grants a Moderator the ability to fashion a pair of mechanical wings from the data present in The Augmented Reality Grid, and defy the laws of gravity by taking flight.
The wings are not as quick as the hookshot, but are continuous and far more dexterous.
They're risky, however, as taking damage will terminate them, and it's very rarely that they recharge before the Moderator using them hits the ground.
Still, they're a favourite amongs those who prefer aerial combat.
A newly created Modifier, Metallurgy grants a Moderator the ability to encase their entire body in data-steel, rendering them totally immune to harm, but also incapable of moving.
It's been found quite popular by teams who prefer distraction tactics, but has been critiqued by many as being hard to use otherwise.
It is, however, one of two level one Modifiers not subject to being terminated upon hostile contact, and is instead bound to a ten minute time limit.
Phasing is one of the most difficult Modifiers to master, but also one of the most useful in terms of guerrilla warfare.
Phasing allows a Moderator to momentarily render their bodies as pure data, and pass through physical objects.
During this transition, they are physically intangible: They cannot be harmed, but nor can they do harm to others.
Whilst this would seem ideal, the act of phasing is extremely physically taxing and has been known to cause even the most prolific Moderators to faint with over-use.
All of these Modifers are physically taxing, and thus cannot be used for more than ten minutes at a time without rendering their user exhausted and incapable of fighting. They are all, however, very useful in moderation.
A pair of Moderators can combine their Modifiers and weapons together as long as they're in physical contact, but this can be twice as physically and mentally taxing overall.
All is said and done, so go forth and make your characters!
The lovely artwork was done by my good friend Companion, who did it for nothing just because she's utterly fantastic.
Proto-City Moderator's Roster
Red 101 - CaptainJenno
Blue 102 - Darkwoflsoul010
Green 103 - Pumpkin Prince
Yellow 104 - Position vacant, Moderator terminated
Pink 105 - Vess
Black 106 - Scarifar
Orange 107 - Position vacant, Moderator terminated
Almost 80% of the human population, therefore, was in a state of famine.
They were tasked with the innovation and improvement of early 21st century 3D Printing technology, with the expressed goal of creating machines capable of mass-producing edible food from other basic materials: It was dubbed Project Aid (or “Project Feed The World”), and was to take two decades to complete.
However, four long years into the project’s life, a terrible accident occurred.
On July 1st, 2079, a mechanical fault in an experimental new type of printer resulted in a fiery explosion, and the destruction of Project Aid’s laboratory in Stockholm, Sweden.
None of the scientists, fortunately, were killed: However, the project’s leader, a Doctor Oskar Louw, was seriously scarred and, it was theorised, would spend the rest of his life in a burn-ward.
Project Aid was disbanded following this news, their facilities were forsaken, and The United Nations moved on in search of other methods of combating third-world starvation.
Or they would have, had Louw not made an utterly remarkable recovery.
Within a week, his scars had healed and his burns simply disappeared: Oskar Louw was as fresh-faced and unharmed as he had been in 2075, and physicians everywhere called it a miracle.
Louw, however, knew better.
And so, despite Project Aid’s funding being revoked following the event that would come to be known as The Stockholm Surge, the scientists involved returned to their old facility- which had been decimated weeks prior – to find the most remarkable thing.
The entire facility had been reconstructed, but not by human hands: It was as if the building’s wounds had healed, just as Oskar’s had.
They quickly descended into rigorous experimentation.
Soon, Louw’s group would learn that the printer that had caused the explosion was not, itself, damaged.
And, even more curiously, they found that it seemed to be absorbing the data present on their laboratory equipment: Their computers, calculators, phones and web routers.
Louw theorised that- through some miraculous mistake- Project Aid had given birth to something far greater than simply rearranging matter.
He suggested that, perhaps, that they had discovered a way of manifesting digital data in the physical world.
He was right.
By 2105, world hunger was a distant memory, and Project Aid had long since been put to rest…
So that Project Gemini- or The Augmented Reality Project- could live.
After successfully recreating their ‘Data Printer’ in a safe laboratory within the tundras of Russia, Louw’s Gemini Project saw them distributed around the planet, in the hopes that he might one day join the digital and physical worlds together, and produce a reality that exceeded what man alone could build.
This was the birth of The New World.
Across the planet, data began to pour- almost seemingly from the sky- and reconstruct the world as we knew it.
Villages became towns. Towns, cities.
And cities… Mega-Cities.
Sky scrapers began to grow larger, and sleeker: Massive, smooth black obelisks through which data flowed at a constant, in the form of neon lights.
All manners of life changed: The sky became subject to the whims of whoever controlled the data, and as a result, so did weather.
Bridges were replaced by data-highways, and transportation between nations became near-instant, as scientists learned how to turn human beings into data themselves.
Louw passed away in 2110, knowing that he had created a utopia, in which disease was non-existent and there was data for all.
But all was not well, in this New World.
What humanity hadn’t realised in their haste to build their Nirvana is that data is not inherently good.
And neither are the people who control it.
Shortly after this age of light, there came a decade of darkness.
Viruses began to appear, in the hundreds of thousands: Present, tangible… dangerous.
And like wild beasts, they devoured and destroyed al l they saw. Data Skyscrapers crumbled, data-crops wilted, and the sky became a deep, unshifting black, which neither the sun nor the stars could breach.
Viruses did all of this, and more.
They burned cities to the ground, razed towns and devoured human beings who- over the generations- had become imbued with data themselves.
This is where they drew their power: They fed on data. Each byte made them stronger yet.
And all at the command of their invisible masters: A group so secretive that even their true name is not known.
Some claim that, at some point, they were a group known as “Anonymous”, hackers who ‘d taken advantage of the New World in order to wreak a campaign of fear.
Others yet suggested that, perhaps, they were the “Illuminati” those same hackers had once claimed to fight again, imposing their New World Order…
It didn’t matter.
Civilians just called them “The Morbi”, The Disease.
By 2121, all hope seemed lost.
Colossi thundered across the planet’s surface, unopposed as they devoured the bare rock face and terrorised whoever it was who dared stand up against them.
People cursed Louw’s name, and the names of Projects Gemini and Aid.
And that is when things truly changed.
In 2122, they came.
Soundlessly from out of the night, as though they had been born from the same abyss as The Morbi, as their virus brethren.
But of course, this was not the case.
They burst from the dark with swords of radiant light, and with them they tore, they severed and they skirmished.
These were the first Moderators. These were our heroes.
Claiming to be the children of Project Aid’s original participants, they- just as The Morbi had- had discovered how to empower themselves through the manipulation of data.
From head to toe, they were protected by shining material, which blocked blows like steel but flexed like silk: And in each of their hands they grasped a new weapon, which tore and devoured viral data as if they were the flaming swords of angels.
But they were not equals: They had the advantage. The Morbi had only copied Louw’s work, only emulated it…
The Moderators possessed it. And they had improved it.
Powerful, and benefiting from being unexpected, they marched, and beat back The Morbi’s army.
But even then, they alone were not enough: And so they revealed their secret to the world.
The Initialisers.
Produced from half-finished blueprints left by Doctor Oskar Louw in his will, and the technological ingenuity of Project Aid’s successors, these brave warriors had managed to develop a device which would temporarily issue them superhuman abilities.
They would become masters of data, able to form weapons, and- when they were weak enough- seal viruses away forever.
This revealed, they issued sixteen of these Initialisers to four other groups of four from around the globe, and- together- they crushed the virus threat.
They could not, however, find The Morbi , who- following their loss- simply disappeared altogether.
But The Moderators knew that, someday, they would be back… so they asked the UN to issue them the rights to form a new police force, an anti-virus army in the guise of civilians.
The UN, of course, granted them full permissions.
The year is now 2240, almost one hundred and twenty years after the original Moderators beat back the virus forcers.
Of course, they are long gone now, and their first Initialiser- Which belonged to an individual who referred to himself simply “W”, the first Moderator leader- is kept safely and securely on display in the lobby of the Moderator’s Central Bureau, in Proto-City, New York.
But they look archaic, now: Times have changed, and so too has technology.
The world has entered its second digital age, in which those stylish, sleek neon skyscrapers have finally been re-erected, and each Mega-City boasts a squadron of Moderators in order to ensure that they remain that way.
The children of those first Moderators are “The Admins” now, a board of politically and data-wise powerful individuals who govern where it is Moderators train, where they are assigned and what position they are assigned to.
And of course, no city is more prolific than Proto-City, in which the first Moderators made their original appearance, and began their ruthless campaign to restore humanity and resist The Morbi.
Not only is it amongst the largest and most technologically advanced cities, but it also boasts expansive shopping districts, numerous world-famous landmarks, and- most importantly- the world’s best trained group of Moderators.
Moderators 101 through 107 are world famous for their shows of dexterity, skill and grace.
They are brave. They are smart. And they are the best Moderators this world has to offer.
Some even say, they’re greater than their progenitors.
But all is not well.
In these last few years, viral incidents have been on the rise: And for all that time, the Proto-City Moderators have kept them firmly beneath their boots.
But suddenly, in the March of this year, they mysteriously vanished during a conflict with a water-based virus plaguing Proto-City’s outer borough.
This is bad, bad news.
Fortunately, whilst they are searched for, they can be substituted without the public ever having to know.
Moderators keep their civilian identities a secret at all times, meaning that- when their replacements are Logged In- they’re virtually indistinguishable from the originals…
Unfortunately, the only replacements available right now are you guys.
With every other Mega-City currently occupied with controlling the gradual increase of virus attacks that have occurred over these last few years, The Moderators Bureau has been forced to take the most suitable candidates available from their private Moderator academy, and issue them with the titles of Moderators 101 through 107.
However, as all of the academy’s top students had already graduated and been assigned to positions elsewhere…
We’ve gotten you. The lowest percentile above passing.
You are poorly trained. You are inexperienced. You are being given power that you cannot yet fully understand.
And you are the only line of defence Proto-City has against the threat of a Virus resurgence.
God help us all.
Best of luck, Proto-Moderators… B-Team.
[MODERATORS PROFILE]
Name:
Age: (All academy graduates are 20+)
Gender:
Nationality:
Moderator ID No.: 101
Moderator colour code:
Initialiser: I’ll send you a link to your Initialiser image after you’ve finished the profile.
Modifier Chosen (lvl 1): The fact this is “lvl 1” is significant: As the roleplay goes on, the characters will gradually be promoted through the ranks and unlock/acquire more Modifiers along the way.
Moderator Weapon and Description: Each Moderator forges their own weapon at the end of their Academic career. It can be a firearm, a blade or a battle-axe, just know that it consist of data.
Its aesthetics and mode of attack are yours to design: But keep in mind data-swords and data-guns are equally effective in dispatching viruses.
Moderator’s Appearance:
I will accept pictures drawn specifically of the character, but otherwise no dice: And either way, I’d like at least a brief written description. These CSs are, after all, an examination of your writing capability.
Moderator’s Bio: What was life like before they were a Moderator? What drove them to become one?
… why did they end up in B-Team, if they were so keen?
[MODIFIERS]
Initialisers are the most powerful tools you have as Moderators. They gift you increased strength, increased speed and increased dexterity...
And, to each individual, they grant a unique power: A Modifier, to help you in battle.
As you rank up amongst the Moderators, you'll unlock and gain more of them. But as you're all level ones, you've got access to seven to choose from:
The Hookshot is a grappling tool that- when summoned- appears on a Moderator's wrist.
Its use is simple: To lift a Moderator to a specific location, and then suspend them there for as long as the power is in use. If a new hookshot is generated, the original will disintegrate into binary data before rejoining the Augmented Reality grid.
Your chains will also disintegrate if you are subject to an attack and take damage.
Due to the density of the hookshot, it cannot be used as a weapon on standard virus threats- who are not very dense at all, and thus are subject to having denser data pass through them- but on larger threats it may be used to grapple onto and pierce body parts.
These incidents are very rare, however, and this should be considered nothing more than a transport tool.
Invisibility is one of the most commonly used level one Moderator tools available: By convincing the data integrated into your Moderator suit to correlate with that of your surroundings, you will slowly fade out until you become totally invisible to the naked eye.
Most Viruses (save for those in possession of 'Allsight') will be incapable of seeing you, as will most civilians. Your footfalls will also be silenced.
Invisibility does not render your weapon invisible, however (for health and safety reasons), so it is better to keep it sheathed until you are poised to strike.
Being hit whilst invisible will terminate the power and render you visible again.
Binding is arguably the most useful first level Moderator Modifiers available.
Similar in nature to the hookshot, binding works by generating a pair of chains from the data present in the Augmented Reality Grid, and then manipulating them into restricting a virus' movements, rendering the average virus totally incapable of escape, and slowing the progress of larger ones.
Only one virus can be subjected to binding at any given time, however, meaning that it is not applicable to group attacks.
The binds will break if you take damage whilst upholding them.
Allsight is a favourite among teams who have an Invisibility-orientated Moderator present.
With allsight, a moderator becomes capable of seeing data in its rawest form, revealing any invisible presences, such as viruses, within their vicinity, as well as the weaker spots of larger viruses.
Allsight is compromised when you take damage, but can easily be reactivated, as it is the quickest Modifier in terms of recovery time.
Another Modifier that's very commonly used in A-Teams, Flight grants a Moderator the ability to fashion a pair of mechanical wings from the data present in The Augmented Reality Grid, and defy the laws of gravity by taking flight.
The wings are not as quick as the hookshot, but are continuous and far more dexterous.
They're risky, however, as taking damage will terminate them, and it's very rarely that they recharge before the Moderator using them hits the ground.
Still, they're a favourite amongs those who prefer aerial combat.
A newly created Modifier, Metallurgy grants a Moderator the ability to encase their entire body in data-steel, rendering them totally immune to harm, but also incapable of moving.
It's been found quite popular by teams who prefer distraction tactics, but has been critiqued by many as being hard to use otherwise.
It is, however, one of two level one Modifiers not subject to being terminated upon hostile contact, and is instead bound to a ten minute time limit.
Phasing is one of the most difficult Modifiers to master, but also one of the most useful in terms of guerrilla warfare.
Phasing allows a Moderator to momentarily render their bodies as pure data, and pass through physical objects.
During this transition, they are physically intangible: They cannot be harmed, but nor can they do harm to others.
Whilst this would seem ideal, the act of phasing is extremely physically taxing and has been known to cause even the most prolific Moderators to faint with over-use.
All of these Modifers are physically taxing, and thus cannot be used for more than ten minutes at a time without rendering their user exhausted and incapable of fighting. They are all, however, very useful in moderation.
A pair of Moderators can combine their Modifiers and weapons together as long as they're in physical contact, but this can be twice as physically and mentally taxing overall.
All is said and done, so go forth and make your characters!
The lovely artwork was done by my good friend Companion, who did it for nothing just because she's utterly fantastic.
Red 101 - CaptainJenno
Blue 102 - Darkwoflsoul010
Green 103 - Pumpkin Prince
Yellow 104 - Position vacant, Moderator terminated
Pink 105 - Vess
Black 106 - Scarifar
Orange 107 - Position vacant, Moderator terminated
