A Certain Scientific Roleplaying Game
A few hours before the festivities of the Daihase Sports Festival began, a large crowd was gathered at one of the newest department stores of Academy City thanks to a super sale that would put the Black Friday to shame. To help promote it, a number of events have been held. From a humble petting zoo to an overhyped show of one of Japan's most renowed idol bands.
Though, the literal jewel of the crown was the first public presentation of the "Sternherz", the world's first stable mettalic hydrogen crystal.
"Made possible by the combined efforts of Academy City's best researchers and a few high level Espers that could manipulate forces related to pressure and gravity. While this demonstrative sample was shaped in the form of a simple decorative gem, mass production of such crystals might lead the world to a new era of near endless, cheap and clean energy, harnessed directly from where it should be, the Sun's own heart..." the ceremony hostess said just as all the doors and windows of the department store were being closed, so that the whole building would become dark.
Once it was made, an assistant uncovered the bullet-proof glass casing that held the gem in a gravityless environment and as soon as she did that the whole plaza was went silent, take aback the gem's brilliance, though, it was at that time that something unexected happened...
"BANG!"
A gunshot broke the static silence, and soon enough the assistant that wa holding the case fell to the ground amidst a pool of blood. Right at that time several masked men wearing paramilitary looking equipment and all sort of weapons, from simple pistols, to shotguns and LMGs appeared as if from nothing as their leader, a man wearing a black balaklava with a white skull painted over his face, announced "Attention, ladies and gentlemen, from this time onward this gem as well as all of you are under our jurisdiction. Any attempts of escaping the building or trying to fight us will be met with lethal force. And jsut so that the wannabe esper heroes know..." the man made a puse before pressing a button, to normal humans nothing happened, except that a very annoying sound began to play on the store's PA system, but the present Espers started to fall to the ground or hold their heads grunting in pain.
"You see, this thing is called Capacity Down, and it's strong enough to disable even a level 5, so, if any one of you tries anything funny..." he cocked his .50 pistol and shot the assistant in the face "you're gonna join her."