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The OOC is up.


A comet crosses the skies of Earth. By eighteen months we watched the unique event, amazed by it's beauty. The truth is that the brightness of the comet changed something in our atmosphere, shedding a virus across Earth. The result: Red Skies. Supers blessed with superhuman powers or cursed with bizarre physical and mental disfigurements. The virus is extremely deadly, killing 90% of the infected. The remaining 10% are transformed in spectacular ways. Most become hideously deformed monsters. A few lucky survivors are popularly known as "saved by zero," meta-humans gifted with incredible powers.



Hello and welcome, this is the part that I talk about myself. My name is Defacto, but you can call me Defacto. As you might guess by my number of post, this is the first RP I'm trying to moderate in this site. I have a space in my heart reserved for George R.R. Martin's Wild Cards-even if I'm on book one-and as such, I enjoy heroes having a slice of life involved. The main idea would be to create a universe filled with "stories" and "things going on," as it should be on an universe. And, provided you can handle, freedom to have more than one character. The timeline might be 1995.



TERMINOLOGY
Red Skies Virus:
In 1997 the Comet Hale-Bopp was visible to the naked eye in Earth's skies, but the beauty of the comet's brightness was hiding something. On Mar 22nd, the same year the skies of New York became red. Those were the Red Skies Days. In the following months the humanity discovered a virus that works by completely altering the victim's DNA. The transformation is extremely individual, no two persons are affected in exactly the same way. In 90% of cases, the victim's body can't assimilate the extreme changes, and the person dies horribly. From the survivors, 9 out of 10 are changed for the worse, becoming monstrous creatures. The miraculous 1% of infected are changed for the better and become meta-humans, gifted with superhuman physical or mental capabilities.

The red skies virus does not always affect the person immediately. In about 30% of cases, the virus stays dormant on the person's DNA. These people can live normal lives for years until some physical or emotional trauma triggers the virus. And then they face the same odds as any other, almost always dying or becoming monsters.

Meta-human
"Saved by zero" is a person who was infected by the red skies virus and gained superhuman powers as a result. To be classified as an meta-human, the person must still be basically human in appearance and generally be able to "pass" in society as normal. Meta-humans are gifted with fantastical abilities that have never been seen before, except in ancient legend and comic books, such as enhanced strength, flight, mind-reading, and shape-shifting. Meta-humans are very rare; only 1% of those infected by the virus become meta-human.

Divergent
A Divergent is a person that was infected by the virus and gained physical deformities. About 9% of those infected by the virus become divergents. Each divergent is unique; no two divergent have exactly the same deformities. Not all divergents are physically deformed, though. Any mutation that changes a person for the worse can be considered a divergent.



In a matter of "cities", we can work with fictional ones or real world. In the second version, the virus hit on an American cities and then eventually spreading around the world (Maybe in an attempt to keep the players together.).

Since this is an interest check, you can expect that everything I wrote change before the final version even this this line.

We have a TitanPad, empty, but better than nothing.
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Interested. I'll be keeping my eye on this.
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I'm either stupid, or your Titanpad is a little broken. Apparently a private pad?

In any case, I could be interested in this. Does the possibility exist for a character with purely mental disfigurement? All of their ugly on the inside, as it were. Or rather, what could be defined as disfigurement? Could it be as subtle as say, albinism, or something similarly superficial?
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Might be Interested.

Out of curiosity have you got a story that we will follow or will we be in a sandbox style rp?
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Interested.
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The TitanPad link is fixed now. Sorry about that, apparently I had no clue of what I was doing.

Do any of you have thoughts on Advanced or Casual?

I'm either stupid, or your Titanpad is a little broken. Apparently a private pad?

In any case, I could be interested in this. Does the possibility exist for a character with purely mental disfigurement? All of their ugly on the inside, as it were. Or rather, what could be defined as disfigurement? Could it be as subtle as say, albinism, or something similarly superficial?

I'm still thinking about it as other effects from the virus—the positive side would be that the person survived. The Thing could be inserted in that category the same way as someone with red eyes (Due to the virus) can be in. I don't see why not a character with mental illness is not considered normal in this regard. I'm thinking about a way to categorizing that—just like metahuman, "maybe-monster" and "monster". Metahuman "looks like" human with powers, "monsters" is humans with extensive physical deformities that can have or not powers related to their transformation; "maybe-monsters" is a middle ground, humans with impressive powers and deformities. Of course, this is only temporary names, as well as the whole idea of the virus bringing deformity for those unlucky. We can always come up a classification just like X-Men.

Might be Interested.

Out of curiosity have you got a story that we will follow or will we be in a sandbox style rp?

This requires a bit of time invested thinking, eventually will be ready before the OOC (I'm open to suggestions .). The possibilities are endless, so to speak. We could be dealing with the effects and chaos, dealing with political problems regarding metahumans, or even play a hero or even villain (I don't want to limit to the two sides of the same coin as villain and hero, we are human; some are altruistic others no etc.).
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Possible interest, but will probably leave if it's advanced.
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don't see why not a character with mental illness is not considered normal in this regard.


I was referring to this line,

bizarre physical and mental disfigurements


assuming that the virus could induce mental illness in afflicted individuals. But I get what you're describing now, and I'll keep an eye on this thread as it develops.
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I was referring to this line,

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assuming that the virus could induce mental illness in afflicted individuals. But I get what you're describing now, and I'll keep an eye on this thread as it develops.


Oh, I see now. I think that the mental "illness" comes in addition to the physical transformation, a side effect of how the society sees them. I cannot see a virus that changes the mental state of everyone something interesting. Nothing prevents it can change someone's mind, as a form of "power" or curse. I'll add things to this thread later so, that is something that will redo.
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I added few things. The OOC goes up as soon I figure out more stuff (No guarantee that is today.).
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I'm in
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Looks interesting.

I'll check out the OOC when you get it.
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Totes in.
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