This story begins with a meteor (comet? Who cares.) falling over a mid-sized city in New York (the state). The meteor comes so close to crashing to Earth in the center of a complex of schools, where Elementary, Middle, and High schools sit close to a small college on the edge of the city. And then the meteor just vanishes the instant it would have hit, and with it more than a dozen individuals (the original story had 20, but I'm not going to deal with that in RP format).
These "disappeared" individuals go from wherever they were when the meteor struck to suddenly laying on their back in the middle of a grassy clearing. No one knows how they got there, but those with watches can see that no time has passed since they were taken. The only one who seems to know what is going on is a young boy who was standing in the middle of the clearing as everyone else came to terms with their new surroundings. All of the abducted individuals soon display impossible, incredible, terrible abilities. The boy is there to teach them how to use their powers, but what happens when he lets them do what they want? Conflict is inevitable, trouble rising, between gods and gods, gods and man, gods and things they have to business troubling.
This is basically a superhero/powers RP with some walls knocked down. Just because I'm calling the characters gods does not mean that they are omnipotent. Each god only has one basic power, and while some gods with absolutes in their power will start at full potency, others will be constantly growing in power. Either way, powers evolve and change over time, and there is no cap at how powerful a god can be. They are also still very much mortal, and they die just as easily as any other person. Don't try headbutting bullets just yet.
All of the character will be normal people at the beginning of the RP but will come into their power very early in the story, in the first day actually. The young boy who abducted each of the new gods is my character, and he is not a god, at least not in the same way that the player characters are. He, and others of his type, will be controlled by me and used to set up story events and keep peace on occasion.
In the beginning, all of the god characters will be confined to a large underground bunker as the boy teaches them about their power and just observes them. This will be the time to interact with each other and make friends and enemies. Keep in mind though, you are being held against your will at this time. How long your character will be confined can change depending on how fast people post and how fast I can advance the days, but I expect it to be a little while as this time sets up for the entirety of the rest of the story. I may PM individuals on things I would like them to influence, so keep in mind that I am trying to steer events at most times from behind the scenes.
Once the gods are released into the wild and my overseer conveniently vanishes for a period, things will become more violent. (You're free to attempt to kill each other or yourself even before then, but my character will most likely intervene then.) Tiny disagreements can turn into reality-warping battles between two gods, and the military will get involved as the gods are seen and become known. Maybe you go visit your family that you couldn't see because you were abducted and thought dead by the world, only to be ambushed by fighter jets and tanks, or maybe an enemy god is there waiting for you. Shit will really hit the fan when word gets out that so many gods existing at once is causing reality to break apart. Is that incentive to go on a killing spree I see? Why yes, yes it it.
In this RP, you can die. I fully expect many characters to die. For that reason, I will allow people to have multiple characters, probably three max. Though death isn't always final for gods. Some gods, should they die at specific times or in specific ways, come back as something different. These are special cases, and if you find yourself in a situation where this is an option I will make you aware of it.
There's more, but this is just an iCheck so I think that's enough for now. It's basically a character-driven super RP where everyone slowly becomes OP or dies off. PMs and collabs would be used to give each player information specific to their character and deepen interactions, and any direct conflicts between players would be done in collab with me overseeing the power creep. All I have left to say is probably the most important thing for those who think they might be interested in joining: You make your character, but you don't choose your power. I will look at your character and accept or deny them, but you won't know what power they have until the event where each character finds out at roughly the same time. If you are uncomfortable with that not knowing or the possibility that you might get what you see as a "useless" power, then thank you for reading and I'm sorry to see you go. Not all powers will be created equally, and some will be more offensive or defensive than others. The only influence you have over what powers your characters get is two sections that will be on the CS where you list the top three powers you think would go with the character and the bottom three you think wouldn't go at all with the character. They may influence what power is given, or be read and ignored.
For reference, here's a spoiler with some one word descriptions of some of the powers that may be given out.
I'll probably read this in the morning and realize that I can't understand a word of my own writing, but it's late, so... posting anyway. Ideally I'm looking for about four other people each playing two or three characters, but I'm not going to force myself to stick to that. I consider myself a pretty loose GM, and I'm very open to the ideas and suggestions of others. If I do something that you don't like, please, call me out on it. As always, I look forward to RPing with you in the past, present, and future.
Edit: Just looking at what's here... I think I put too much. Eh... sorry 'bout that. I might have to add a TL;DR version if people are put off by the wall of text.
These "disappeared" individuals go from wherever they were when the meteor struck to suddenly laying on their back in the middle of a grassy clearing. No one knows how they got there, but those with watches can see that no time has passed since they were taken. The only one who seems to know what is going on is a young boy who was standing in the middle of the clearing as everyone else came to terms with their new surroundings. All of the abducted individuals soon display impossible, incredible, terrible abilities. The boy is there to teach them how to use their powers, but what happens when he lets them do what they want? Conflict is inevitable, trouble rising, between gods and gods, gods and man, gods and things they have to business troubling.
This is basically a superhero/powers RP with some walls knocked down. Just because I'm calling the characters gods does not mean that they are omnipotent. Each god only has one basic power, and while some gods with absolutes in their power will start at full potency, others will be constantly growing in power. Either way, powers evolve and change over time, and there is no cap at how powerful a god can be. They are also still very much mortal, and they die just as easily as any other person. Don't try headbutting bullets just yet.
All of the character will be normal people at the beginning of the RP but will come into their power very early in the story, in the first day actually. The young boy who abducted each of the new gods is my character, and he is not a god, at least not in the same way that the player characters are. He, and others of his type, will be controlled by me and used to set up story events and keep peace on occasion.
In the beginning, all of the god characters will be confined to a large underground bunker as the boy teaches them about their power and just observes them. This will be the time to interact with each other and make friends and enemies. Keep in mind though, you are being held against your will at this time. How long your character will be confined can change depending on how fast people post and how fast I can advance the days, but I expect it to be a little while as this time sets up for the entirety of the rest of the story. I may PM individuals on things I would like them to influence, so keep in mind that I am trying to steer events at most times from behind the scenes.
Once the gods are released into the wild and my overseer conveniently vanishes for a period, things will become more violent. (You're free to attempt to kill each other or yourself even before then, but my character will most likely intervene then.) Tiny disagreements can turn into reality-warping battles between two gods, and the military will get involved as the gods are seen and become known. Maybe you go visit your family that you couldn't see because you were abducted and thought dead by the world, only to be ambushed by fighter jets and tanks, or maybe an enemy god is there waiting for you. Shit will really hit the fan when word gets out that so many gods existing at once is causing reality to break apart. Is that incentive to go on a killing spree I see? Why yes, yes it it.
In this RP, you can die. I fully expect many characters to die. For that reason, I will allow people to have multiple characters, probably three max. Though death isn't always final for gods. Some gods, should they die at specific times or in specific ways, come back as something different. These are special cases, and if you find yourself in a situation where this is an option I will make you aware of it.
There's more, but this is just an iCheck so I think that's enough for now. It's basically a character-driven super RP where everyone slowly becomes OP or dies off. PMs and collabs would be used to give each player information specific to their character and deepen interactions, and any direct conflicts between players would be done in collab with me overseeing the power creep. All I have left to say is probably the most important thing for those who think they might be interested in joining: You make your character, but you don't choose your power. I will look at your character and accept or deny them, but you won't know what power they have until the event where each character finds out at roughly the same time. If you are uncomfortable with that not knowing or the possibility that you might get what you see as a "useless" power, then thank you for reading and I'm sorry to see you go. Not all powers will be created equally, and some will be more offensive or defensive than others. The only influence you have over what powers your characters get is two sections that will be on the CS where you list the top three powers you think would go with the character and the bottom three you think wouldn't go at all with the character. They may influence what power is given, or be read and ignored.
For reference, here's a spoiler with some one word descriptions of some of the powers that may be given out.
I'll probably read this in the morning and realize that I can't understand a word of my own writing, but it's late, so... posting anyway. Ideally I'm looking for about four other people each playing two or three characters, but I'm not going to force myself to stick to that. I consider myself a pretty loose GM, and I'm very open to the ideas and suggestions of others. If I do something that you don't like, please, call me out on it. As always, I look forward to RPing with you in the past, present, and future.
Edit: Just looking at what's here... I think I put too much. Eh... sorry 'bout that. I might have to add a TL;DR version if people are put off by the wall of text.
