Some mood music...


On December 21st 2012 at precisely 00:33 GMT, the world as we know it ended.

From deep in space – from an unknown point of origin – a beam of blinding light sheared through the heavens at struck the Earth. Though it's initial point of impact was in Africa, the effects of the beam were felt worldwide.

Three hundred and thirty million people were simply gone. Vanished from their beds, their homes, their work places; as whole families or as individuals, they were – are – gone.

For those who remained – suddenly bereft of their families, their children – the time to grieve was short. The light gave as much as it took, and soon the streets of cities all over the world were full of confusion and anger as people of all ages began to demonstrate abilities beyond the realm of human understanding or found their bodies somehow transformed into forms awe-inspiring or grotesque. At least, that was the only way that they could explain the appearance of the bizarre creatures now walking among them.

For some, the light purified and cleansed away disease and illness; for others, it inflamed their sickness and soon unstoppable waves of virulent plagues began to decimate entire cities. Some say that even the dead stirred in their graves.

What's left of Earth is a fractured, confused mess. Some governments – or corporations – were quick to react and create high-security quarantine zones, whilst others lost complete control of their people to rioting and anarchy.

Groups both large and form small formed, banding together amid the wreckage to fight against the rising chaos. Rallied by religion, by fear, by anger, by their new-found powers, by suspicion or greed, by hope and hopelessness alike.

The world as we know it ended. Now it's time to start again.



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Anyone interested in exploring this GenRP idea?

I suppose the plot would revolve around the different factions that have risen up as a result of the change in the world, people coming to terms with their new lives / powers, people trying to understand what has happened to the love-ones that they 'lost' and so on.