[PBEM News] Game Announcement- Legendary (Superhero RPG)

From: charonmacd@yahoo-dot-com.no-spam.invalid (mtm2)

Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2006 03:58:40 +0000

Legendary

Age Limit: None- swearing is tolerable, sex should only happen �off
camera�, and evil and cruelty and pain will happen.  Hopefully not
every day.

Detailed Description:  Teen Drama, Superheroes

Sixty years ago, superheroes fought in World War Two.  Back then, men
and women flew through the air, or commanded the forces of nature,
spied from the shadows, lifted tanks, and all the feats of superhero
stories.

After the war ended, there was a short time when the remaining heroes
fought gangs and crime, and then slowly they faded away from the
headlines- and the world was normal once again.

Last year, the first modern day superhero took to the skies.  Since
then, more heroes and villains have appeared, and a new age of powers
has arrived.  The people of the world do not quite know what to think
about the re-emergence of superpowered individuals- even a year
later, superheroes are able to operate as they choose... and are
still accountable only to their own sense of justice and duty.

**********

The large coastal city of Fairview, Georgia is an engineering marvel-
built out over the water of the Atlantic, made of concrete and steel,
a city built on top of the waves.

Nearly half of the city rests on pillars and platforms, the water
surrounding the sub-basements and sewer tunnels.  Towers and homes,
warehouses and apartment buildings, tourist attractions and parks,
scattered throughout the city.

A major city, with over half a million people living there� and what
looks like an economic recession in the very near future.

But that really wouldn�t affect YOU.  You�re still in high school.
All you have to worry about is surviving school politics, finding a
clique that supports you, and getting good enough grades to please
whoever you respect- or don�t want to upset.

That�s how it was supposed to be.

Except�

Now you have the power to be among these few superheroes.  To do
things almost no-one in the world can do.  In a world that hasn�t
seen this kind of power for a long time, any hero�s story becomes
legendary.

**************

Sheffield High School, a public school in the southern school
district, a pair of tall buildings on the very edge of the
waterfront, has had two days of the new school year.  The
back-to-school assembly on Thursday had a few speeches from the
�cool� principal, a display by the football team members from last
year, introductions of new faculty staff, and appearances of the
other sports teams in the school.  The next day was a full day of
school, a Friday where evil teachers passed out homework and started
talking about tests, and good teachers only began to introduce their
plans for the semester� and when school let out, the parking lot
jammed with cars turned into a dance party, with parked cars blasting
music and each owner trying to be the coolest DJ around.

For no known reason� a hole opened in the sky next to the school and a
giant dark ape-like creature climbed out.  Before it could rampage
further, a small number of heroes appeared and fought it off, using
water and earth, attacking the twenty-foot monster with fists and
claws, hurling cars... and managed to drive it back into the hole in
space.

Only one hero stayed around to talk to the press and policemen, the
others scattering as soon as the fight was done.

It�s now Saturday, the last weekend that might be considered part of
summer, and back
to school parties are planned- a party hosted by the school for
freshmen, transfer students, and anyone else who wants to attend.  A
beach party thrown together by a group of juniors seeking status and
fame.  A popular party at a rich kid�s house whose parents are
traveling abroad.

Some fun before school�s start strikes home� and the trouble begins.

The oldest member of the security staff for the public school claims
he�s seen monsters late at night.  The vice-principal has control of
the school budget and is an easy mark for the seniors who want it
all.  The cheerleaders lost most of their team when last year�s
seniors graduated and their status in the school is endangered.
Goths claim to have magic powers and already some strange accidents
have occurred to their loudest nay-sayers.  Some of the faculty are
in danger of being fired� new staff are changing the unspoken rules
of teacher-student relations.

People have changed since last year.  Families are struggling with the
onset of a recession, teenagers are coming back to school with
different attitudes than they had before summer, a group of
wolf-masked vigilantes stalk the streets, stray cats and dogs are
forming feral packs, a group of crystal-enhanced psychics are
planning an event to raise themselves to a new level of power�

�and a villain who was there for the days of the last age of heroes
has decided to have one last master crime before he retires.

***********

We have outcasts and new students in great numbers.  We need jocks,
cheerleaders, popular kids, and normal people.  Students whose lives
have changed- and players who want to cross their stories with the
others in the game.

This world is not drawn directly from any comic or television show.
There are no cross-over characters. No need to know a setting or
having to follow continuity.

Write your own story in a setting that does not have years of
history.

Create your own legend from the very start- dramatic, tragic, or
exciting... the world has never seen your story before.

Our current cast of characters are outcasts and transfer students,
with a few popular kids scattered among the others.  I am looking for
more outgoing characters who want to make a name for themselves,
players who really love joint storytelling, and some people to fill
the gaps between the popular crowd and the strangers to the school.

Other Information:

Say hi, so I can have you join the group-, so that you can look at the
framework for the databases, the few files about the setting, the
starter photos of the city and places in it�  more places and
characters exist than have been written up so far, but I will get the
setting details on the list as we go.

There is a basic game system in play, if you like making a character
sheet.  If you don�t, then describe how capable and powerful your
hero is, what hobbies and skills they know, where their personal
strengths lie- and I�ll put one together for times when that might be
needed.

I want to talk to new players before you start posting- to get
character biographies, possibly do some joint posts to set up the
character�s story if you like, or samples of writing if you have any
to share.  There are no posting minimums or maximums other than
please don�t bail out in the middle of something and don�t flood the
list with a million replies between just two players. The pace of the
game varies greatly depending on who is involved in scenes- we�ve had
some rush forward and others handled off list and posted when they
were done.

Any questions are best answered by email�

Homepage: http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/legendaryrpg/

Who To Contact: charonmacd@yahoo.com

PS- I�ve been running games for years, off and on.  I�ve been involved
in pbem�s for many years also.  I�ve been playing in games for almost
twenty years.  I have had few serious complaints (some, but few).
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