It is currently the year 2012, and about six years ago there was an event. Ten million people all woke up one day with powers. All of these people found they had a minor mastery of telepathy and telekinesis, limited to a small range of about 15 feet and small weight limit, usually about 3 pounds. They also found they had an additional power. At first it seemed random, but as the years went by, it has been discovered that for some, their main talent developed because of their personality or a hobby they already had. For example, a wartime sniper developed a hyper-aware focus and force that made it possible for them to snipe someone with a handgun from over 50 clicks away. Another example is a young lady who loved dolls found that she could bring her dolls to 'life' animating them in ways to become her bodyguards and protectors. For many, the pattern fits. For some, it is still a random luck of the draw with their power.
Amongst the panic that arose from the situation, there was a private company that founded an organization in the United States. The organization was dubbed 'Sector X' as a joke, but the name stuck.
Now Sector X is the go to for psychics. They have members in governments, and are always looking out for the best interest in all psychics, as well as keeping relations between non-powered humans and psychics civil. However, they are not without opposition. There are rumors of another group operating all over the world that believe that psychics should use their powers to oppress humans, and even other psychics.
In the six years since the change has happened, there are others who have awoken to their abilities over time, and there is now an estimated 30 million people with psychic abilities in the world.
You may start the role-play by already working for Sector X, or possibly being a target for their next mission. You can even start not even have powers, and being a non-powered human also working for Sector X. It is up to you.
Many of those working for Sector X were people who were brought to the attention of Sector X due to their actions. However, just because you capture Sector X’s attention does not mean you have to work for them. Working for Sector X is fully up to the individual. However, since they are not affiliated with the Government officially, there are some grey areas where some of the operatives can work outside of the law.
Sector X is located in Arlington, Virginia. It is close enough to the Pentagon and the White House, and has representatives in both. However, missions can take operatives all over the world. On the outside, Sector X looks like a bunch of storage units, but that is more like the parking lot for those that work at Sector X. Once you park your car inside, you take an elevator down to the main floor.
Inside there are at least six floors of Operations. There is a tech lab on the second floor, where dampeners were developed and other tech for either containing or helping psychics is in development.
The Third Floor is all the computer floor. It is where most of the ‘Hacker’ class psychics that work for Sector X work. It is all very high tech, with many touch screen interfaces, and more than one AI floating around, courtesy of said Hacker class psychics. The other floors are more like a traditional office building, with operatives having their own workspace/ desk.
Not all Psychic fit into classes with their powers, but here are the ones most often reported by Sector X:
Sniper Class: Hyper-focus, usually with weapons.
Technopaths, or Hacker class: Powers having to deal with computers. I.E. the ability to speak with the computer, or interface with it in a whole new way. Also able to mentally connect with computers and crack firewalls. Sector X has a test firewall set up to help find Hacker psychics, since they are typically rare and are potentially snapped up by not so good groups.
Elemental: Powers having to do with the elements. Hydrokinesis, Geokinesis, Pyrokinesis and Aerokinesis are the four typical ones. There are also those who can manipulate plants and metal, as well as the rare person who has powers that deal with ice and ice manipulation.
Physical: Super strength, heightened senses, healing and flying fall under this. It becomes harder to categorize powers at a point.
There are also those whose powers are more heightened telepathy or telekinesis, and do not have a third power. Those are the people who are able to move boulders with their mind, or easily manipulate people's minds or even wipe them.
Then there is the rarest ability. Null. The ability to cancel out psychic powers. There has only ever been one case of this power. The person in question has been put into hiding by Sector X.
The lady in charge of Sector X. The Big Boss. Head Honcho. Whatever you like to call her, she is in charge. She does not have any psychic abilities, but she commands respect. She is a former CIA operative. No one knows how she lost her eye.
Shadow, as they call themselves, is an organization that works in the shadows and is very shady. There are mostly rumors about them, but a few facts are known. They will abduct psychics and brainwash them into working for them. The head of Shadow believes that Psychics are the next stage in human evolution, and wants to make everyone like them, one way or another. Rumor has it that the head of Shadow is a man who possesses an extreme telepathic talent, able to warp people's mind, and wipe months of memories at a time away. They operate world-wide, supposedly. No one is too sure, since they are very much shadow and rumors.
The Game as it is called, is more a series of friendly competitions. These are places where Psychics with similar skill sets can come together to test out their abilities against one another. Sector X does some recruiting from these, however the games are usually privately funded, and are by invitation.
Since most psychics have had their powers for about six years, most have developed a mental ‘shield’ of sorts, to keep other psychics out. Most psychics do have a common courtesy to others and don’t actively read others minds, but there are the rare cases. With these shields, the most another psychic could read is the top thought on their brain, which could be as simple as something like: “Man, I really want a bagel,” but nothing too complex.
The Director: All around bad-ass, big boss lady. First name, Charlene.
Stella Rivenridge: Head of public relations and botanist. Also works in the research department with plants.
Tobias Rivenridge: Head of the Sector X Tech Research Department. Tinkerer.
Meghan: Telepath. Part time consultant, part time college student.
Christopher: Technopath. ‘Talks’ with computers and manipulates cords.
Team Gaia: Tia, Iggy, Bri and Craig. Friends of Niah.
Sector X is an underground facility, so the 7th floor is the floor you enter on. It has the lobby, and one security guard station. It also has a small cafe like thing.
6th Floor: Gun Range/ Offices. A few of the sniper class psychics pitched in to make one of the floors a gun range, fully sound proofed and well kept.
5th floor: Biology Lab. The whole floor is one giant lab. Partly botany, partly science. This is where the 'crime' lab, as it has been dubbed is. There is also a lab set up experimenting with plants.
4th floor: Offices. Woo.
3rd Floor: Technopaths offices. A lot of computers, touch screens and the like here.
2rd Floor: Technology Lab and Head of Public Relations offices.
1st Floor: Some offices, but the Directors office and another security station. All people going to see the director are required to check in here. Exceptions are made, especially if the person can teleport. However, all personal must show their badge if possible if they pass by.
-Please no god-modding. This is kind of a given, but I’d rather say it here than have to deal with it coming up. Do talk to your fellow role-players and work out things.
For example. if two characters get into a fight, work together to write it out. Don’t just have one character beat the utter crap out of the other without the character’s player having a chance to respond.
Also keep out of character knowledge out of character, please and thanks.
-Try to keep it PG-13. Fighting and cussing will happen. If anything too ‘adult’ happens, please do a tasteful fade to black. You can rp it out in PM if your partner wishes.
-Have fun! That is the most important thing. If there anything you are concerned about, please let me know and I will address it. Thanks!
Power/ Talent: Enhanced Senses (Hyper Senses). Niah’s senses in general are better than a normal human’s, but if she wants to she can hyper focus a sense. When she does that though she loses complete access to another sense. When hyper focused she could see with literal microscopic ability, or hear a pin drop from a mile away. In highly emotional situations she cannot control the hyper focus. When she hyper focuses on Smell she loses Sight. Sight - Sound Sound - Taste Touch - Smell Taste - Touch
Biography: Niah was born in Manila. Her family lived there until 2001, when her father became an Ambassador and moved semi-permanently to America. At the time Niah was in high school, her sister Dalisay was in middle school. They attended a prestigious private school alongside many other statesmen’s children. Niah was a science nerd, and for a good portion of her time at the school attempted to just disappear. When she graduated High School she went to an Ivy league school with the intention of becoming a scientist.
In 2006 her sister was visiting the night of the change. Niah couldn’t find her in the morning. Her family was already stressed over the loss of their mother in 2004, the disappearance of Dalisay hit her hard. The manifestation of Niah’s power did not help; it was uncontrollable.
Niah dropped out of the Ivy league and joined a smaller college to reduce her stress level. There she met several friends, all with powers, but none like her’s. After she graduated in 2009 Niah was looking at potential jobs and Graduate schools when she was recruited for Sector X. [Story for that.]
Even though Niah knew she’d have to cut contact with her father she took the job. Niah knew it’d give her an opportunity not only to work on honing her power, but to also find her sister.
Hobbies: Cooking (she’s a hyper taster, even when she isn’t trying to focus on it), dance (Tinkling), anything to do with science (be it reading or doing).
Personality: Niah is shy, and quiet. She is the type of person who focuses completely on what she is doing forgetting the outside world exists (Niah suspects that is why her power is what it is).
Role in Sector X: Investigator, field agent, walking CSI kit.
Additional Info: Niah does not like to be touched, she does not offer her hand for shakes, but bows at introductions instead. She’s also very conscious of what she buys to wear because seams and tags irritate her. Niah doesn't handle loud noises well either, at least without being warned. If she's warned she shuts off her sense of sound.
Biography: Neil was born and raised in California. He grew up in the Central Valley in Fresno, where he ended up going to college for his undergraduate degree. He went to San Jose State for his Graduate degree in Computer Engineering. Even while he was growing up he was always good with codes and cyphers. His senior year of high school his CS teacher tested him with some supposedly impossible cyphers. Neil spent months on it, and wasn’t able to solve it until shortly before the change happened. The message his teacher had left was gibberish. The solution to the code gave him nothing. He called the school but the teacher was no longer there. Neil spent the next few months using the cypher anyway. In of itself he believed it to be a perfect cypher. When the change hit he understood that the cypher wasn’t perfect and there would never be a perfect one, but he could make them more difficult to crack now.
Neil was recruited by Sector X as he worked for a prominent company already doing their deep level encryption.
Hobbies: Computers in general, D&D (and other tabletop games)
Personality: Neil is, simply put, a nerd. He loves computers and games. He especially loves brain challenges and is always up for a game, be it trivia or something more complicated. He’s surprisingly outgoing, and was in several clubs during his school days.
Awesome! No hurry. I'm waiting for everyone to get their characters up before I figure out first plot post. So no rush. And yes, you can make multiple characters! Just make sure not to over extend yourself.
Power/ Talent: Psychic Camouflage - Natasha has the ability to go unnoticed by those around her. This can be through any of the senses, though the more it drains on her. Through sight, she'd be essentially invisible; through sound, unheard; touch, not there, etc. She can still be noticed through electronic means, as her power affects the brains of those around her. She can extend this power to cover others, if they are incredibly close to her, but it is extremely draining.
Biography: Natasha was quite popular, much to her chagrin, in highschool. She went to a small, backwaters school, and pickings were slim, so she became the object of everyone's desire. She wished for nothing more to be unnoticed, normal, like anyone else. Then one day, it happened. No one noticed her, no matter what she did. She couldn't have been happier.
Until the men showed up for her little brother. She didn't know who they were, but they were there for him, for his powers. They were barely able to get away, thanks to her own powers, but they had to leave their parents behind, for their own safety. They've been on the run together ever since.
Hobbies: Watching people and animals while unnoticed, cooking, and legos.
Personality: Natasha is fiercely protective of her little brother, almost overly so. Being on the run for so long has made her obsessive, controlling, and often paranoid. How she treats her brother though, is very different from everyone else. She never really gets close to anyone, by choice.
Role in Sector X: Not in Sector X (currently :P)
Additional Info: Loves spiders, deathly afraid of birds.
Name: Benjamin Felds
Age: 14
Appearance:
Power/Talent: Object-Environmental Empathy - Benjamin can see the history of any object he grasps with both hands. Where its been, who has held it, what it has done, all of this information is available to him. He can use a much more watered down version of this for areas he's in, more getting vibes and feelings than hard information. This makes him very sensitive to changes and extreme situations. This can work on people, but only with their consent, or if they are unconscious.
Biography: Benjamin was always been a shy boy, preferring the company of his action figures and comics than people. He's always been a very curious boy, which had a tendency to get him into trouble. This culminated one year when his parents took him to a fair, and took him to the Guess Your Age game. The carnie didn't get his age right, but Ben got the carnie's correct, with exact birthday. Surprised, the carnie got him to do it to other people, causing a small fervor. This event is what led to unknown men coming for Ben, for his powers.
He and his sister have been on the run ever since she saved him. They use his powers to find safety, and hers to stay that way. He doesn't talk much, but idolizes his big sister. He thinks of her like a super heroine.
Hobbies: Comics, action figures, guessing games
Personality: Shy, nerdy, sensitive
Role in Sector X: Not in Sector X (currently :P)
Additional Info: Love museums, especially touching the exhibits.
@McHaggis Go ahead and move Brandon over! He works! He and Autumn could make some unlikely friends, since they're both use to being on the run. Bwahaha. Also love his backstory!
@Twhirtley Natasha is approved, but one small thing about Benjamin. Since he is 14, how do you plan to have him fit in at Sector X? He technically can not work for them due to his age. If you bumped him up like two years or so, that would work, but if you have a plan for him to fit in as a 14 year old, just say so and you can also move him over. Otherwise, everything looks great!
I am LOVING what you are all coming up with for characters and powers! You guys are freaking awesome! *hugs*
IF y'all manage to recruit Natasha/Benjamin (IC recruitment can fall of course :p), it's sort of a package deal. She'd work officially, but she wouldn't allow for Ben to be away from her, so he'd be around, though in a sort of unofficial capacity.
IF y'all manage to recruit Natasha/Benjamin (IC recruitment can fall of course :p), it's sort of a package deal. She'd work officially, but she wouldn't allow for Ben to be away from her, so he'd be around, though in a sort of unofficial capacity.
I'll allow it. Move them over. However be aware Benjamin might just get sidelined a bit in the rp due to his age... just a warning.
Alright, just wanted to warn you. However if they both do end up in Sector X I will figure out something for him. Maybe help with Niah, since she's a walking CSI kit, and Benjamin has the empathy.
