Mutation. Adaptation. Equality, superiority, and order. Darwin dreams darkly in a world where change outpaces the norm day by day.
The school that Charles Xavier dreamed of as a safe haven has overflowed; now, all students are referred on to Xavier’s Sister School for Gifted Youngsters, a mansion complete with its own team of X-Men who strive to maintain the balance in New York.
Others have sneered at the Mansion’s naive ideals, and gone through the Sanctuary’s Golden Doors to claim their proper title of Homo Superior.
Still others look beyond these petty squabbles to the world’s rotting roots; war, suffering, chaos. At Mondragon Labs Medical, there is a healer who will cure them all.
The Mutant Factions grow in strength and number day by day; their threat and promise hangs heavy over the human world. Homo sapiens have always been the favored child of Adaptation, however. In the minds of a few rare men and women, a force is rising up to silence these challengers to the throne.
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Rise Of The Adapteds... « Thread Started on Jan 1, 2009, 7:32pm »
Adaptation vs. Mutation It is an observable fact in nature that when a new species of plant or animal is introduced into a previously existing Eco system one of two things will happen. Either the new species will take over and destroy all its competition for life or the previously existing species will adapt in order to counteract this new threat.
What if the human race began to adapt to the mutant threat? What if the human race changed ever so subtley... without the X-Gene.
Full Description Of Idea: Around the world humans are changing. The human race currently uses only somewhere between 4-10% of their brain function capacity. With the mutant threat increasing certain humans are changing so that they use 15-20% of their brain. After having been affected by the X-Gene in some way (i.e. Healed by a mutant, Hurt by a mutant, Controlled by a mutant, etc.) these Adapted Humans will develop the ability to produce an aura around their bodies that extends anywhere between 6-10 feet. This aura temporarily disables the X-Gene as well as turning any objects previously affected by the X-Gene back to their normal state.
Examples: 1. Energy beams fired from a mutants hands would disappear as soon as it hit the 'aura'. 2. Someone with super strength would suddenly find themselves only as strong as a normal person when they got within range to actually hit these people. 3. Someone with super speed would be unable to move at super speed while within the aura. If they were to already be at super speed and suddenly strike the aura inertia would carry them forward but they would suddenly be unable to control things until they were outside of the aura. 4. Someone with special vision, senses, or other abilities would find them nullified upon entering the field. 5. Objects changed and then thrown or otherwise sent into the aura (i.e. Pebble enlarged and then thrown toward an adapted, Bones transformed into a different shape and thrown, etc.) would return to their original state. The laws of inertia would continue to propel the object forward but it would no longer be different than its original form.
Attribute Profile Modification: For an adapted human the sections of Mutated Strength & Mutated Control will be tossed aside. Replacing them will be a stat labeled Adaptation Strength. The following scale will apply to adapted humans.
1-5 = A mutant's power is weakened by not completely nullified. 6-10 = A mutant's power is canceled but objects already affected by the mutation are not changed back. (i.e. bone knives do not revert back to normal shape (Isabel), ice shaped spears or knives do not disappear (CS), etc, etc, etc.) 11+ = A mutant's powers are completely canceled out but the aura.
NOTE: Having a stat over 11 will not increase the adapted's range or control of their aura period. This stat is a stand alone stat in that it does not fight against mutated strength. They are not comparable. This is simply a scale provided for those that wish to have an adapted that does not cancel out the X-Gene completely.
Rules/Downsides/Problem/Explanations: 1. The aura can not be turned off. It is an unconscious projection of the adapteds brain that they can not sense or control. The aura is on even if the adapted human is sleeping or rendered unconscious. 2. The aura has a maximum range of 10 feet period. There will be no power growth beyond that range. 3. The aura can not be recreated by scientists with a machine period. No matter how brilliant the scientist, for at least the next 100 years (until 2109), they will be unable to understand this previously silent part of the human brain. 4. Adapteds can not sense mutants around them period. The aura is produced unconsciously so they do not have the ability to monitor it. 5. The haywire virus does not enhance an adapted's aura. All it will do is make them sick just like any other human. 6. It makes the most sense that physical characteristics (i.e. fur, tails, scales, etc.) do not disappear upon entering the aura, however if you really want to and/or if it makes sense for your character then this is allowable. 7. Organized government strike teams will not appear until, at the earliest, September 2009 period. 8. NPC Adapted Humans will have an attribute profile with an adapted control of 11+. They will automatically be able to nullify all mutant powers. If you want to RP with an NPC adapted that does not completely nullify a mutant's ability ask a MOD for permission.
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Re: Rise Of The Adapteds... « Reply #1 on Jan 1, 2009, 10:53pm »
January 1, 2009: The Plot so far
The Adapted are beginning to appear, but they are very rare--it's unlikely that your character will encounter one, though still remotely possible. The government, media, and public are as of yet unaware of the Adapted's existence--not even the Adapted know what they are, yet.
Re: Rise Of The Adapteds... « Reply #3 on Oct 5, 2009, 8:47am »
The Regional Urban Preternatural Examinations and Recovery Team has finally made its appearance. Only the future can tell what this organization's true goals are and how they will use the Adapted's to futher those goals.
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