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Greetings folks,
I am interested in running a Roll20 game using the Cypher System RPG. Here is the score.
The world that we know has more malleable laws of physics than what we can perceive. In the past centuries, the growth of technology has occurred in leaps and bounds pushing the line further from what might have seemed in the past impossible. In the 19th and 20th centuries the "Mad Sciences" lead to development of the modern conveniences that we enjoy to day. Things however came to a head in the second world war, when the power of the Atom was realized and the threat of nuclear Armageddon became a very real concern. Still this was also an age of science where a larger educated population and the propagation of Science fiction has brought many to push the boundaries of science much further than past ages. In the wake of the Red Scare, an organization called Indigo Technologies was created as a response to the dangers that these news technologies represent.
Indigo Technologies in its pubic persona is a think tank that develops new and advanced technologies for the open market. Behind the scenes however, Indigo and its agents investigate the propagation of "Mad Science" and control or contain the threats they maintains. And indeed, threats of Mad Science are many. Some that need to be released gradually while others threaten the very stability of the world at large. Occasionally the threat of Wormholes, Dimensional Portals, Time Anomalies, Ultraterrstial invasions, Doomsday Devices and other unstable technologies involve direct action from Indigo teams to deal with the threats.
Other than dealing with the threats of Mad Science a new threat has risen in this new age. The human mind has the potential to be a great and powerful weapon and some rare individuals have the power to tap into this potential and wield powerful psionic powers. Indigo Technologies utilize psionic users in their ranks but also seek to cover up and contain those who wield such abilities. For if the world finds out that they exist then mass panic may indeed occur.
Indigo in their job makes use of the most high tech devices they can muster. Using advanced technology, psionic powers and the resources of US government funding the Agents of Indigo are the last and only line of defense for the threats of Mad Science.
Character Creation
In Agents of Indigo, you play as a character that works for Indigo Technologies as a Field Agent. The four roles for the team are Pointman (Warrior), Infiltrator (Explorer), Faceman (Speaker) and Psi-Opp (Adept). If you chose to make an adept you MUST chose one of the following disciplines and take a related focus:
Telepathy, Telekinesis, Technokinesis, Pyrokinesis, Hydrokinesis, Terrakinesis, Electrokinesis, Cryokinesis, Photokinesis, Vitakinesis, Aerokinesis, Absorbsion, Levitation, Clairvoyance or Manifestation.
If you are not an Adept, you must take a focus that is not extraordinary in nature. You can take technology based focus or any focus that allows for some kind of mundane ability as some of your options. Psionics are only emerging in this setting hence why only Adepts can take full blown psionic powers. The only exception to this is if your character has been "Changed" by some kind of Mad Science exposure. If so, please include it in your background and I will decide if it is viable and allow an appropriate focus.
When making your backgrounds, please include at least one instance where you encountered mad science and/or psionics. If you were fundamentally changed by exposure to said mad science, please add it to your background story. Your characters may have done a few cases in the past but are generally new agents to the organization.
So who would be interested to become Agents of Indigo?