Editing The AMERICAN GODS (section)

==Setting Background==
Fundamentally the same as the real world, things in the American Gods campaign took a dramatic turn on September 11, 2001, with an extra, fourth plane hijacked from Boston Logan airport.  This plane, too, went down, but everyone on it survived, though they were lost to consciousness for four years.  When they wake up they come to be called, variously, The Survivors and The Godlike.   

It soon becomes apparent that the Godlike have each awoken with a special power as, unwittingly, they begin to exhibit abilities such as superhuman strength, flight, healing touch and even clairvoyance. Eager to revisit their past and reunite with those they love, two worlds collide as these people, acclimated to the world before their coming, are forced to deal with the new challenges of being god.  They are people dealing with traumatic changes, driven by the mystery of what happened to them and why.  This is their platform to explore politics, religion, society, responsibility and ultimately, the question of power: what it means, what it does and what it costs.  It echoes the adage, "Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely."  <br> <br>   Hyped as a hoax by many, it is rumored that the Godlike were infected by some government experiment, that they are angels or demons ushering the end times, or perhaps they are the results of alien abduction.  With the world understandably curious, rumors begin to spread about the Godlike's abilities and public opinion soon becomes divided between those who embrace the Godlike and those who fear them. As the members of the Godlike struggle to resume and rebuild their “life interrupted,” each will come to play a pivotal role in events still to come... events that will shape the destiny of the human race.