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Armphid and I have been kicking around an idea for a while, and finally got the idea together enough to see if anyone's interested. Especially since most of our threads start strong and kinda . . . limp to a sad end. So, hopefully, we'll get good writers on this one.
Okay, so, the intro:
Since history began, there have been tales of people with extra-ordinary abilities, people who are more than mortal.
Tales of super heroes.
Those stories were dismissed as fantasy, stories for children, to inspire courage and spark the imagination. Until a real super hero appeared.
During World War II, a man appeared, an American in the Frenk Foreign Legion, transfered to the front. Hugo Danner seemed the same as any soldier, braver than most, and luckier than many. Until the day a gas attack his trench, killing everyone with in. Except one. Danner lept from the trench, through the toxic gas, through an unfelt rain of bullets, he advanced, solo, on the German position. And destroyed them, man and machine, with his bare hands.
With Danner's revelation - and acceptance - other super humans emerged from the mundane lives in which they had been hiding. And form a team, to fight for justice and right, joining with the Alliance. Or the Axis; darkness lurks in every heart, after all.
After the war was won, the Axis and their superhuman weapons defeated, the remaining super heroes were valued as protectors and paragon of virtue. But suspicion and McCarthyism changed all that. The original super team were called forth during the inquisitions, told to unmask and reveal the sources of their powers. To a man, they refused, and became pariah.
In the 1960s, a renaissance of super heroes began, empowered and encouraged by the Civil Rights movement and the cultural revolution. There were whispers of mutants backing the Civil Rights movement, but none of those rumors were ever confirmed. But the result was the same either way: A new acceptance of all men, and women, and super-men.
But, of course, it couldn't last. The greed and moral standards of the 1980s shifted the paradigm again - to the negative. Being super-human wasn't illegal. But showing those abilities was. No more heroes except the businessmen.
In the late 1990s, Earth was under attack by an interdimensional being bent on galactic conquest. He was beaten back, barely - but with many lives lost in the fight. Humanity turned to those it had embraced and rejected time and again, to stand guard against future crises.
After the forming of new teams, the interdimensional tyrant returned - seeking vengence on Earth - and was beaten handily, by the new guardians of Earth. And all the few lives lost were super-human.
So many were lost - to fighting, to age, to the powerful pull of a comfortable home and loving family - that the teams, both freelance and national teams are looking for new heroes to join their ranks.
So, that's the background and the basic idea. We're looking for people who are interested in writing some of the new heroes, or new villians, even. The rules would be pretty simple: Any superpower source would be acceptable, but we're looking for balance in characters - no one who's completely invincible, please. They can follow legacies of other heroes, or be totally original.
You can join either the freelance team (which has yet to be named) or any of the national teams (there won't be many). That's all we've got for now, but we're just putting out feelers for anyone interested
So . . . who's up for it?
Okay, so, the intro:
Since history began, there have been tales of people with extra-ordinary abilities, people who are more than mortal.
Tales of super heroes.
Those stories were dismissed as fantasy, stories for children, to inspire courage and spark the imagination. Until a real super hero appeared.
During World War II, a man appeared, an American in the Frenk Foreign Legion, transfered to the front. Hugo Danner seemed the same as any soldier, braver than most, and luckier than many. Until the day a gas attack his trench, killing everyone with in. Except one. Danner lept from the trench, through the toxic gas, through an unfelt rain of bullets, he advanced, solo, on the German position. And destroyed them, man and machine, with his bare hands.
With Danner's revelation - and acceptance - other super humans emerged from the mundane lives in which they had been hiding. And form a team, to fight for justice and right, joining with the Alliance. Or the Axis; darkness lurks in every heart, after all.
After the war was won, the Axis and their superhuman weapons defeated, the remaining super heroes were valued as protectors and paragon of virtue. But suspicion and McCarthyism changed all that. The original super team were called forth during the inquisitions, told to unmask and reveal the sources of their powers. To a man, they refused, and became pariah.
In the 1960s, a renaissance of super heroes began, empowered and encouraged by the Civil Rights movement and the cultural revolution. There were whispers of mutants backing the Civil Rights movement, but none of those rumors were ever confirmed. But the result was the same either way: A new acceptance of all men, and women, and super-men.
But, of course, it couldn't last. The greed and moral standards of the 1980s shifted the paradigm again - to the negative. Being super-human wasn't illegal. But showing those abilities was. No more heroes except the businessmen.
In the late 1990s, Earth was under attack by an interdimensional being bent on galactic conquest. He was beaten back, barely - but with many lives lost in the fight. Humanity turned to those it had embraced and rejected time and again, to stand guard against future crises.
After the forming of new teams, the interdimensional tyrant returned - seeking vengence on Earth - and was beaten handily, by the new guardians of Earth. And all the few lives lost were super-human.
So many were lost - to fighting, to age, to the powerful pull of a comfortable home and loving family - that the teams, both freelance and national teams are looking for new heroes to join their ranks.
So, that's the background and the basic idea. We're looking for people who are interested in writing some of the new heroes, or new villians, even. The rules would be pretty simple: Any superpower source would be acceptable, but we're looking for balance in characters - no one who's completely invincible, please. They can follow legacies of other heroes, or be totally original.
You can join either the freelance team (which has yet to be named) or any of the national teams (there won't be many). That's all we've got for now, but we're just putting out feelers for anyone interested
So . . . who's up for it?
