"God I hate YouTube."
_{- Director Manning, Hellboy 2: The Golden Army}

As does the Seattle Police Department. That's how all of this started--a video of a woman in the international district flipping over a Dodge minivan like it was a card table. Armchair physicists and flame warriors called it a hoax with equal certainty and it was dismissed as the sort of adrenaline-fueled activity commonly associated with extreme stress. A day later the emergency room was flooded with broken eardrums--apparently a local homeless man's argument with a lamp post rose to levels capable of shattering every window within a block. By the end of the week the media had gotten hold of things, and a Breaking News Update was released.

The street called it 'neon'. The interview said as much, and listed another few names for the drug that no one had before, identifying it 'a small pill filled with what might be mercury that appears to inspire extraordinary abilities in its users'.

Which is a long way of saying it gave them goddamn superpowers.

The powers may be temporary but the ramifications of them are not. Almost immediately the drug was of high interest to various universities, government agencies, criminal organizations, and other research groups, but similarly almost immediately it disappeared from the market. While many of them still got their hands on it the effects were mixed, the chemicals incredibly difficult to identify--something technical to do with the limited shelf-life combined with the unpredictable results. Nobody really knows. What they do know is that neon changed the game, and the best they can do is keep up.

Which is where the characters come in.

God Neon will be about our merry band of characters working together to start bringing some necessary firepower to the streets. While most manifestations of powers under the effects of neon are a) short lived and b) of only mild danger to public health, some are very much not. Neon imbues its users with the same power each time they take it (something about a psychoactive component that changes based on the influences of a person's psyche, or something, no one's quite sure yet), and as people learn this and learn to take advantage of it in the second wave super-crime and other such threats become very real propositions. The overarching plot of the game is still under construction, and will vary significantly depending on some of the choices that you (as interested parties) help me make. I can see this going one of two ways:

• The players are members of an elite task force organized by the SDP to deal with neon-related crimes, provided with still-in-testing synthetic neon and sent out to keep the streets safe. The game would focus on balancing drug-induced super-powers with a normal life, discovering the source and plot behind neon distribution, and (of course) kicking ass and taking names.
• The players are members of an ambiguously benevolent local gang whose cooker managed to crack the code. With a fresh-but-limited supply of neon (so long as they can secure the necessary supply lines), they might be the city's only real shot at keeping things together. The game would focus more on staying ahead of the cops (and various other people interested in them), balancing the rest of their lives with their super-powered gang war, and (similarly) good old badassery.

More information will be provided in the OOC should enough interest be demonstrated, and of course any questions are welcome. So whaddya say, guys?

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