Project Nemesis is a fan driven website for games that use the One-Roll Engine (like Nemesis, Wild Talents, Reign and Monsters) or Chaosium's Basic Roleplay System (BRP) (like Call of Cthulhu) and the Delta Green setting.
The invasion started slowly and without any clues that it was even
transpiring. The harbingers hit the psychics first and within weeks
every secret known to mankind had been passed along to their leader:
The Exo-titan. It quickly infected the mind-readers and then began on
the big name groups that held the most powerful talents: The
grail-knights, the Juggernauts, and even Hex-Corp were under the sway
of the hive mind of the Exo-Titan.
A small group of relatively new
talents calling themselves “The hell-makers” unknowingly uncovered one
of the psychics and began to spread the word that even Earths most
powerful talents might not be what they seem anymore.
A world-wide purge began after it was discovered how to tell them apart
from those who still had their freewill. Villains acted on the
information to settle old scores with long-time foes and claim that
their actions were justified. Heroes crossed the line that previously
they would never waver with out of paranoia and opportunity. The earth
was a battle ground and the frontline was on every street corner. The
fights ranged from the dark alleys of Cairo to the towering skyscrapers
of New York and thousands of talents on both sides were killed by
friends and old foes alike. Not long after most were rooted out, a
divine ritual of untold power parted the space between mars and earth.
The Exo-Titan had arrived.
The remaining puppets of the Exo-titan took to space to help their
master use his technological mental powers on the unsuspecting populace
of earth. Heroes and villains set aside their bubbling feuds and took
to the vast expanse of space to combat the monstrosity from another
dimension before all of humanity talents and normal alike were willing
hosts to its demented over-mind.
The shock waves of battle hit the coast cities in the form of massive
waves and radiation rained down from the heavens above as the talents
fought for the survival of humanity. The orbital space station ‘America
1’ broadcast amazing footage of the battles and could even pinpoint the
deaths of some of earth’s most iconic talent heroes. It broadcast it’s
signal to an anxious earth before the Exo-Titan hurtled an armored
platform driven by ‘The Rex’ through it. It plummeted into the
atmosphere and the burning remains landed on the screaming populace of
Detroit. Italy was devastated by a stray blast from an unknown source.
The world trembled while its fate hung in the balance. After a
sleepless week of waiting, an explosion filled the sky and it appeared
that the threat had passed. The Exo-Titan that could be seen hovering
in the sky with the naked eye was gone. Parts of its burnt and
crumbling body fell to earth with devastating consequences.
A sigh of relief was had by all of earth, but troubles were just beginning.
A secret pact of villains that had stayed underground during the
conflict suddenly emerged from their hiding and picked off the
remaining exhausted talents as they returned triumphantly to earth.
Quickly, they eliminated any remained threats and took positions of
power. It wasn’t long until borders meant nothing anymore and
governments as stable governing powers as we knew it had been
obliterated.
Lines have been drawn in the sand by the villains turned dictators. To
cross them is all out war. The people of earth live in enslavement at
best while the new kings of earth rules with fist of iron.
But not all hope is lost. A group of talents comprised of former
villains, new heroes, and anyone else looking to sign up have formed
together to rise up in secret against these tyrants and return their
world into the hands of those who deserve it.
How they do it is up to them.
Comments
I plan to have all sorts of moral choices in there as well. Such as the
small country that has yet to be taken over by villanry because it
shares a border with two huge empires that both require people. Both of
them want the country, but to set foot into it means war with the
other. War means an attack of oppurtionity from someone else, so
currently it's the last free nation.
However, attacking one of the tyrants on either side will trigger the
other to march in and claim every last soul in the country in a matter
of hours.
One villain converts people into undead slaves while the other drains
their essence to power his giant robots.
Which is better?