Very simply, it was the end. Ironically, it had not come in the form of a new virus or flaming stones falling from the sky, it had come in the form of a small fifteen year old girl at a McDonald's table in Etowah, Tennessee.

She'd caught a spoon falling off a table.

With her mind.

As if that was the trigger the floodgates were looking for, these events started popping up all over, and classical views of science and human nature crumbled. Not everyone had the same control, however.

The deaths mounted as some of these people tried to take power for themselves, and the governments acted. “Deviants,” as the super powered beings were called, were outlawed, forced into military service, or killed depending on the country. The deviants fought back.

Now, as the world is torn apart from within and the conflict reaches a new head near the cradle of civilization, is your story. Welcome to the End of Days.

Setting: The world is in ruins, destroyed by the never ending war. The Etowah Incident happened 15 years ago, and small terrorist strikes evolved into full fledged combat, destroying much of the world. Play will primarily be limited to the fictional city of Antire in the Middle East, one of the few remaining bastions of civilization. Relative peace exists here, with the most happening being small skirmishes.

The Hole in the Wall: A small bar crammed between two ruined department stores in the west of the city, the Hole in the Wall is a common meeting place for the more peaceful deviant residents. The owner is a woman named Synthia Albright, a deviant sympathizer. Recently a man wearing a white suit and speaking of something in the desert has taken up residence here.

Richardson's Last Stand: A squat building to the east of the city named in honor of a general who was killed here by deviants, this is the main base of the army forces. Colonel Sutherland, commander.

Don't go here as a Deviant and try to take it out without an army backing you up. They're trained for this.

Character Sheet:
Name: (What is your character called?)
Age: (Obvious)
Species: (Deviant or Human)
Faction: (Neutral, Deviants, Army)
Powers/Skills: (This is the section for you to describe your character's powers and what they're good at. Deviants are nowhere near the level of Superman, so no city leveling :P)
Appearance: (Images are very nice, but I'll accept descriptions)
Personality: (optional)
Weaknesses: (An overly strong power can be offset by a major flaw)
Other information: (Background, occupation, etc.)

Rules:
Don't be a ninny, listen to the staff (me XD) and pay attention to the site rules. I assume I don't have to explain what these are and why we don't bunny, gmod, or metagame. I'm gonna try not to use the hammer of obvious rules, so don't make me regret it.

Also, murdering without permission is bad.

I don't care too much about romance, I like writing it myself. I do, however, care about the RP. If I feel that you're becoming inappropriate, there's this little thing called a timeskip. Blur it. Fade to black.

Respect other players, please.

That should be it.

Current Events: The army is searching for something in the desert, rumored to be linked to the origin of the Deviants. Interested parties should see Colonel Sutherland or the man wearing a white coat in the Hole in the Wall.

Now, staff profiles:

Name: Synthia Albright
Age: 31
Species: Very weak deviant.
Faction: Deviant sympathizer.
Powers/Skills: Synthia can do exactly one thing. She can guide light objects, like a paper airplane, through the air.

As far as physical abilities go, Synthia is surprisingly strong for her size and can make food like no one's business.
Appearance:
Personality: Caring but rough, Synthia often accidentally hurts those she seeks to help. However, get past the brusqueness and you'll have found yourself a true ally.
Weaknesses: Synthia's power isn't much good except for guiding a patron's bill to him or her.
Other information: The owner and bartender of the Hole in the Wall, Synthia's past is very much a mystery, though she certainly seems to want to help the deviants in their fight for rights.

Name: Colonel Thaddeus Sutherland
Age: 52
Species: Human
Faction: Army
Powers/Skills: No powers, but the Colonel is a crack shot and still in top physical shape, despite his age.

An expert strategist and planner.
Appearance:
Personality: The Colonel is actually a very nice guy, if you bleed red, white and blue and that blood is pure human. It's no secret that he hates deviants with a passion unmatched.
Weaknesses: He's an ordinary human.
Other information: The leader of the military forces, the Colonel lost his daughter and wife to a deviant strike. Since then, he's given no quarter, no mercy, and not a second thought.

Name: Markus Finch
Other names/titles: Finch, The Fox.
Age: 49
Gender: Male
Species: Human
Faction: Neutral
Powers/Skills: Charming, Cunning, Businessman
Appearance:

Height: 6'0
Weight:160 IBs
Style/Clothing: Suit and tie generally.

Personality: Finch cares little for other people and will do almost anything to reach his goals. He is charming and often can talk people into doing things he wants.

Weaknesses: Arrogant

Bio: Before the war Markus Finch was one of the wealthiest men in the world traveling the world on an early retirement.

He had been raised by his father alone and was an only child.

His business career skyrocketed after a series of risky stock investments that payed off.

It wasn't until the deviants were discovered that it seemed anything would be bad in Mr. Finch life again.

Finch was lucky enough to be in the middle east when the deviants were discovered.

He eventually wound up in Antire and survived the war.

With the world economy gone Finch found himself with nothing, and so his new life began inside the foreign city.
(There is far more to Finch this is just what people say about him.)

Basic Information

Name:
Arik Gantz

Gender:
Male

Age:
29

Height:
206 cm

Weight:
112 kg

Appearance

Hair Color:
Blonde

Eye Color:
Blue

Ethnicity:
Caucasian

Nationality:
German

Physical Appearance:


Personality

Outward & Innate Personality:
Arik is, on the outside, a tough and uncaring individual, seemingly calloused by years of unpleasant experiences. On the interior, this couldn't be less true. Arik is one of the most caring and emotionally attuned people in the world, and this was only heightened by the onset of his powers.

Hobbies/Interests:
Smoking, drinking, playing card games.

Abilities

Power:
Enhanced Empathy
As an empath, Arik is able to fully interpret and replicate the emotions, moods, and temperaments of others without reading apparent symptoms, allowing him to understand introverts or discover one emotion is actually hiding another. He can attack someone in a personal and emotional way since he knows exactly what emotion is flowing through them and can use this knowledge to play against them. Along with this, Arik can use his own emotions to empower himself, or to make emotional constructs.

Weaknesses/Limitations/Drawbacks:
There is no way to turn this ability off. Arik is constantly experiencing the emotions of everyone around him, and this can be overwhelming sometimes. When using emotional constructs, Arik must choose which emotion to use wisely, as different emotions have different strengths and weaknesses.

Name: Summer Jordan

Age: 27

Species: Deviant

Faction: Deviants

Powers/Skills: Teleportation (or ‘jumping’ as she calls it)

Appearance:

5’10”
180 lbs.
Blonde hair, blue eyes

Personality: Kind, bitter/holds a grudge easy, easily frightened, naïve, trusting, open minded, thoughtful, genuine

Weaknesses: Not quick or speedy, easily manipulated by emotions, still holds guilt about not saving her sister or family leading her to want to save everyone (puts herself at risk), has never tried to teleport somewhere she hasn’t seen first (unsure if she is able or not)

Other: Born in Etowah, Tennessee, Summer is the younger sister of the 15 year old who caught a spoon falling off her table with her mind 15 years ago. Summer was 12 at the time and saw it happen, and has experienced everything that has happened since her sister made that move so long ago. Prior to that experience, her sister hadn’t done anything like that at least in front of Summer, and at first, Summer was jealous. A media firestorm went off and her sister was like a celebrity and got all the attention. Then came the deviants who used their powers in a negative way. It wasn’t too long before her sister was blamed for everything and sought after. Summer and her family had to hide, and once again Summer hated her for what she’d done. Her family got captured eventually and grilled about whether or not they had abilities. Summer had yet to discover any and despite some mild torture they couldn’t tell that she was anything remarkable, just as she claimed. They let her and her parents go, but they never released her sister that she knew. Summer can only believe her sister was killed. She wasn’t so jealous anymore. It was a few years after that, when Summer was 18, that she discovered her own ability.
From the time she was about 14, Summer would wake to find herself somewhere she didn’t fall asleep. Everyone, her parents, she herself, attributed this to sleep walking. One day when she was 18 though and still living with her parents, they were screaming at each other. Summer had locked herself into her closet and put her hands over her ears. When she moved them, the screams were different and there were other loud voices. Panic set in. She had no idea if it was the people who had captured them before because of her sister or deviants coming to rob them or what, so she closed her eyes and pressed her hands to her head again, willing with everything to be somewhere else. She blacked out briefly but when she peeled back her eyes and her hands, she wasn’t in the closet. She was in the shed out back and locked in from the outside. Confused, she banged on the door for a while, trying to get out. Panic trying to set in again, she tried what she had done in the closet, and concentrated as hard as she could on being just outside the shed. When she opened her eyes again, now feeling nauseous, she was between the shed and the back door to her house, laying on the yard.
In 9 years, she has honed and practiced enough with her power to not black out and aim pretty well. She still has to put her hands to her head and concentrate, and can’t go a great distance, but it’s a power nonetheless. A lot has happened in those 9 years besides honing her power however. Summer has just about lost all her childhood memories, whether from her power causing memory loss or her own attempts to block everything related to her sister caused it, she has no idea. She has also had some minor plastic surgery to repair some evidence of torture done to her face, and dyes her hair. Like she's trying to forget who she was and be someone else...

Rarely seen out of his mask, this quite genius mechanic is one of few that can fix up even the most sand drowned engines. Wearing protective goggles and mask to not inhale any sand or lethal gases. He stands quite tall but have a very starved body structure.
Name:
Nestil Chugun

Age:
19

Species:
Deviant

Faction:
Neutral

Powers/Skills:
Being able to pass through solid matter, can pass through solid matter such as walls or doors. Any object really as long as he is being able to focus enough to get through it and as long as it is not moving to fast.

Weaknesses:
Can't pass through very fast moving objects like bullets, if disturbed while passing through a object he might die simply from his body being split or damaged when merging with a object when becoming solid again so to speak. Can be shot and killed pretty easily, easily disrupted power while being done. Also if passing through a object that is electrified or in any manner lethal it may severely injure him.

Other information:
All that is known about this young mechanic of the sandy wastes is that he arrived a few years back to Antire, got work as a trainee under the a mechanic and when he died from a unknown cause. The young mechanic took over, he is known as Nes with those who have heard of him or use his services. Nes is a kind loving person who always has a chuckle brewing in his throat, there's not a soul who would take hate to such a kind soul - it is even rumoured that with every major repair you get a free cup of coffee and some old dried out cookies. Nobody really knows why he came here or how, he simply appeared and took over the local mechanic shop when the previous owner died. Nobody asked any questions as nobody really would and it stayed that way, maybe even for the best? Who knows what kind of secrets he hides behind that mask of his, some even say that he is a deviant that had that mask fused to his face. But, who knows?