It is Wednesday morning in Clearview
Estates. It isn’t like last Wednesday. Honestly, it’s not even
like last week in all the
ways that matter. Oh, it’s the same crap living conditions, the
same troubles with the authorities, but there is something new. A
frisson in the air. Stories that are half-doubted, but there are many
of them, growing every day. People who are doing things that people
can’t do. Fire in fingertips. Flight. A girl who walks through
shadows as though they were doors. People who can touch walls and
break them with no effort at all. Some stories are about saints and
devils, but most are just about weirdness. About people being able to
somehow make the impossible real.
And
you are one of those stories. Perhaps it started early Monday
morning, when everything began. Some people claim there was a light
show or meteor shower, but no one is sure if that was true. What’s
now is the stories began, and they’ve been building. Everyone knows
one, or knows someone who knows some story they half-believe is true.
The Estate is changing, but no one knows into what. No one knows why,
or even how. Did the government experiment on people? Were there
aliens involved? No one knows.
There
seem to be no answers save for those found within. Gifts. Talents.
Abilities beyond the ordinary. Some are welcomed, some shunned, some
baffling or useless. But they mean the world has changed, in ways
large and small, and no one can be sure where it is leading.
Only
there have been more police cars around during the day – and even
at night – than usual. As though the authorities are aware the
zeitgeist has changed, but have no idea what to make of it yet.
It is a warm spring day, and the world feels as though it is holding its breath, but that could be your imagination and nothing more ....
GM
Note: The first use of power(s) is often tied to emotion. Maybe
trying to get someone to be quiet, shut off an alarm, deal with
having forgot your keys: something triggers you, and power(s)
manifest. You’ve no idea if you have more, or really how to test
them, or how many people like this exist.
