The World Must Have Been a Very Different Place Before the Sky Broke...
It's funny how much the unknown can scare people to death. They would rather pretend that a mystery doesn't exist at all rather than admit the fact that they're clueless about the universe. It was once thought that humans were pioneers, brave explorers, fearless in the face of the task to learn all there was to learn about the world around them. They considered themselves an unstoppable force and the only thing that could hold them back was their own lack of willpower failing to propel them to even higher and more incredible heights. They were a powerful force that nothing could reckon with, until they were all shown the harsh reality of the truth: they lived in a world where they were powerless, and somethings could never be understood.
It all started when the sky broke. Above Russia, to be exact. Without warning a massive crack appeared upon the horizon, shining with a brilliant blue light that blazed in the night sky the like the Aurora Borealis. It covered the entire skyline of the tiny town it had appeared above and terrified absolutely everyone. There were accusations of attack, terrorism, aliens... But soon after one day, then two, then three days passed they begun to become fascinated by what seemed to be a harmless and unexplored phenomenon. People described it as if there was suddenly light pouring out of a fissure that broke the clouds, and for a while that was the only news story anyone talked about around the world. Researchers and respected scientists came from around the globe over the next few weeks to study it, and soon they deemed that it wasn't dangerous. It was something for the entire world to fixate on, and to fall in love with it's incredible beauty... And then it vanished. Just like that, gone. Twenty-four hours later, another opened in Brazil. This one stayed for a month just as the last, and the world tried to study and understand it with no avail before it disappeared after thirty days. The next one appeared in Africa and at that point things turned from fascination and playful joking about what people had become to call 'the Rifts' to something much more sinister. Suddenly people began to ask why these Rifts had such a firm pattern, why there were here... And what they could be doing. Every government in the world began to send people to study this Rift as quickly as possible and yet nothing anyone did to try and determine its secrets seemed to work. According to any sort of sensors or scans from their machines, the Rift didn't exist. They learned absolutely nothing about what was becoming an impossible mystery.
The Rift continued to follow it's pattern of only staying for a month, this time opening up above Britain. Once it disappeared this time however, it opened back up above Russia once again. For the next year the world watched as it continued its pattern over and over again... Russia, Brazil, Africa, Britain, again and again as the world was becoming forced to face the fact that they didn't know what it was, or what it meant. However they didn't seem to be dangerous, and so the general public began to move on. For nearly a year nothing changed and the newfound phenomenon was all but passed as an occasional side-note to the average onlooker. That was then things began to change. Odd news stories began to pop about grisly murderers, impossible crimes, and horrifying accidents. At first they were brushed off and largely ignored, that was until things were suddenly proven to be impossible to avoid taking notice of when the entire world was forced to watch as a hulking beast was shown on live broadcast absolutely destroying a small town within Brazil. After this everything began to go from bad, to worse. Humans began to appear all over the world with vastly different and terrifyingly powerful abilities that defied the laws of physics and nature itself. Some could fly, others controlled the very world around them, and the entire world saw them begin to appear from no where. It didn't take long for people to realize that those who were gaining these abilities were all connected in one way: every single one of them were beneath the Rifts when they first opened. Soon these superhumans, who were quickly deemed 'Rifters' by the media, began to be subjected to hunts from the terrified people who knew nothing of these strange new abilities. Most of these people were terrified, and had no intention of ever harming anyone however that all ended now. The world was in a state of terror and it would never be the same again.
The RolePlay
Okay! Sorry about the long slab of text up there, but I wanted to sort of set the world I wanted to have this Roleplay in. The idea is that the actual roleplay will be set 8 years after the first Rift's opening within Russia. A large war broke out between the Rifters and the Governments of the world, and it lasted nearly an entire year. For the most part, the Rifters began to band together to fight back against the world for attempting to hunt them down although a few did attempt to remain peaceful and resist the war. Unfortunately, the Rifters were far superior to anything the worlds governments had thanks to their newfound abilities and the world truly didn't stand a chance. That changed however, when the world created what was known as 'The Order'. It was essentially a global super-force made of the the entire worlds most powerful Governments, and with the world now bound together under one name they were able to work hand-in-hand to eventually defeat the Rifters with sheer numbers and advanced tactics. Once this had been done, the Rifters were forced to sign a peace-accords which essentially stated that they could live in peace so long as they stayed within the boundaries given to them by the Order, and that they never returned or they would be destroyed. Because of this, every single one of the Rifters who had sided against the Order were forced to live within Britain due to the entire country having been heavily damaged and nearly destroyed from an incredibly powerful Rifter who had used the ocean to flood the entire land mass temporarily. The roleplay is set within Britain, where things are far from perfect however the Rifters have since begun to make a life for themselves. They've mostly split into smaller factions based on their ethnicity, however aside from occasional turf wars and harassment from some of the smaller gangs which have cropped up, they've created a fairly decent community based around their abilities. The Role Play will be pretty free-form, with only some guiding on the plot, but truthfully I just want to see what people do with this idea!
The Rifts
Every single Rift is unique in the type powers it gave when it first opened, and the Rift only gives its powers once. If someone was underneath it the first time it ever opened, they could gain abilities, however if they were underneath it the second time they would receive nothing. People from the same Rifts can receive different types of abilities, however they all fit a certain theme based on the Rifts. Everyone is unique in their abilities, so even if two people have powers which are similar in theme they both have ways of using them that would be different to the other.
The Russian Rift
The Brazil Rift
The African Rift
The Britain Rift
Okay so that's basically all I have! It's been a long time since I've been on this site, and every time I've tried to come back I've basically overwhelmed myself. So I decided to simply make one roleplay I could dedicate to and hopefully make a a good community out of! Please let me know if you're interested, have any questions, or want to know more! Thanks for reading!
