Dragons Wake (SWADE PbP)

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Characters

Ashton Eldridge, the Night Haunt (played by Max)

Olivia 'Liv' Gray, Agent Iris (played by IMGoose)

Milton Moreira, Codename: Velvet (played by Fred)

Max Macht (played by CKirby)

Setting Brief

The world is broken, and we can’t even be sure who did it.

The years after the Great War — the War to End All Wars, the explosion of all the illusions of the Belle Époque - were thick with race-hate, aggression, hypocrisy, greed and wounded pride. All that was worst in humankind seemed to fester at the core of Europe and flow outward, like a boil on the world bursting and spreading its infection.

The world responded in kind. Or, perhaps, the war was a manifestation of a deeper madness in the world. Abominations arose from the sea, crept from the dark holes in the earth, slithered down from the sky between rain drops and made the war of nations into a battle of humanity against something inextricably Other... and against those humans who would ally themselves with anything, no matter how evil or alien, in order to overcome those peoples they understood enough to despise.

But even as Earth’s mortal inhabitants learned, to their sorrow, that they were not alone, the weird entities arrayed against them found that they did not possess sole dominion over the laws of time and space. A few women and men, very few, saw the impossible and became impossible themselves. Faced with alien gods, they became, themselves, godlike.

All the nations of the world put these godlike superhumans, these Talents, to work in their war efforts. The Allied powers formed a Talent Operations Group as a military arm equivalent to their Navies, Air-Forces, and Armies.

Around the world and throughout the war, Talent commandos use their amazing abilities to confront superpowered Nazi "Übermenschen", Japanese "Thousand Dragon Sons" (roughly translated from Watatsumi No Sen-Ri No Musuko) and the secret, awful Mythos creatures the Fascists attempt to release and control to win the war.

Things You Need to Know

Superhuman individuals - Talents - have occurred at a very low percentage for a long time.

A huge increase in Talents manifesting happened during World War I, though scientists and academics do not know why, or how, or in response to what stimulus this explosion of Talents occurred. Even after WWI, the existence of Talents wasn't fully accepted by scientists, experts, or the general public. That changed in 1936, when Hitler had a crew of Übermenschen demonstrate their awesome abilities at the opening of the 1936 Olympics.

By 1935, Allied Intelligence agencies become aware that a secret occult research organization called Black Sun begins working for the highest echelons of the Nazi government. Black Sun operatives scour the earth for occult writings and occult artifacts.

In 1939, Allied Intelligence learns that a new occult military unit called Nachtwölfe has been created. By early 1940, they are putting occult based weapons into the field for use against the Allies. Allied Intelligence finds no similar occult preoccupation among Italian nor Japanese forces up to the start of the game (mid 1942).

In July 1940, at the beginning of what becomes known as The Battle of Britain, Black Sun and Nachtwölfe operatives summon a massive tentacled Mythos horror in the English Channel, hoping to direct it towards the British coast. It is defeated by a brave group of Allied Talents who utterly obliterate the thing.

In the fall of 1940, Japan claims to be able to manufacture Talents. These claims are downplayed by Allied Intelligence at first. By April, 1941, it's clear that Japan is fielding "Fire Teams" of Talents who all have remarkably identical elemental superpowers. Surrounded by a nimbus of energy that resembles a ghostly Japanese dragon, these individuals have control over Air, Earth, Fire, Water or Darkness. Japan calls these manufactured Talents the Thousand Dragon Sons. They continue to field the more idiosyncratic "natural" Talents in the field as well.

After the US enters the war in late 1941, the Allies combine their Talent Operations Groups and assign these superhuman troops as needed to critical operations and missions where the Axis powers are believed to be deploying their own Talents or utilizing Mythos derived technology.

Game Rules

The game will be played using Savage Worlds Adventure Edition along with the Super Powers Companion for that game.

Setting Rules

The following setting rules are in effect for this game:

From SWADE Core

• Born a Hero
• Conviction
• Creative Combat
• Fanatics
• Fast Healing
• High Adventure
• More Skill Points
• Unarmored Hero
• Wound Cap

From Super Powers Companion

• Comic Book Combat
• Death and Defeat
• Larger than Life
• Never Surrender
• Throwdown

Veils & Lines

The following are Lines for this game:

• No harm to kids described or alluded to at all in the game
• No torture described or alluded to at all in the game
• No attempts by players or players' characters to excuse or justify real life horrors (e.g. Fascism) unless coming from obvious, explicitly immoral antagonists
• No sexual coercion or violence described or alluded to at all in the game

The following are Veils for this game:

• Romance is fine, but any displays of affection are limited to hand holding or a chaste kiss "on screen"; anything else should be a "fade to black" moment
• This is a WW2 game, but I do not want graphic descriptions of violence / the impacts of violence described in great detail

Game Notes

Mission objectives, background and other information go here.

Marine Gear Issued to Characters

Fairbairn-Sykes Fighting Knife

Bowie Knife

Two Mk II "Pineapple" fragmentation grenades

Your choice of:

• M1 Garand semi-automatic rifle and bayonet, and an M1923 Cartridge Belt with 88 rounds of .30-06 ammo in eleven 8-round clips (1 in gun, 10 on belt), or
• M3 "Grease Gun" submachine gun, and an M1923 Cartridge Belt with 180 rounds of .45 ACP ammo in six 30-round magazines (1 in gun, 5 on belt)

Boondocker suede “low top” boots

US Army reversible brown/green herringbone twill camo two-piece uniform

US Army M1 helmet with jungle camo cloth cover

US Army rucksack containing:

• Lightweight jungle hammock and mosquito netting
• Rain poncho
• Jungle first aid kit
• Canteen

Fairbairn-Sykes Fighting Knife - Damage Str+d4 | Range 3/6/12 | AP 1
Bowie knife - Damage Str+d6
Mk II grenade - Damage 3d6 | Range 4/8/16 | Medium Blast
M1 Garand rifle - Damage 2d8 | RoF 1 | Range 24/48/96 | Shots 8 | AP 2, Semi-Auto
M3 submachine gun - Damage 2d6+1 | RoF 3 | Range 12/24/48 | Shots 30 | AP 1, Auto