Prophets Questions Thread

[prophet118]

man... its too much for me to just keep posting a new thread each time... so unless you guys disagree, im just gonna post what comes up in here...

first questions i have

1.) Black Gene, how many people are affected with this (we assume from the book its everyone)

2.) the initial triggering was when a suffiecient amount of chimerean tech was in the atmosphere, the current trigger is just chimerean presence near said person, correct?

3.) if i did my idea of having the PC's on a El Train system (raised train platform like chicagos), and had it attacked by a Chimerean, or having him crash into it while during a fight, would the entire occupants of the train be triggered, or could i just say that since the PC's are indeed PC's they are the only ones triggered?

[Jerry D. Grayson]

1.) Black Gene, how many people are affected with this (we assume from the book its everyone)


Almost everyone, with the highest concentration probably in Africa, the near east and Europe. Australia would probably have the lowest instance of Black gene active people.



2.) The initial triggering was when a sufficient amount of Chimeran tech was in the atmosphere, the current trigger is just Chimeran presence near said person, correct?


Most members trigger at puberty but the presence of a Chimeran near a Black Gene active person could trigger it.
If you have a Black Gene that will manifest you will probably do it around puberty (give or take a few years). If a person triggers later in life, say in his mid twenties or thirties at the very least he will get very ill and die, at the worst they will spontaneously combust or just explode releasing all their stored Ka energy.



3.) if I did my idea of having the PC's on a El Train system (raised train platform like Chicago’s), and had it attacked by a Chimeran, or having him crash into it during a fight, would the entire occupants of the train be triggered, or could I just say that since the PC's are indeed PC's they are the only ones triggered?

Only Black Gene active people will trigger. Think of Black Gene active people like red heads; you may have one in your family but it doesn’t necessarily mean everyone in the family will have red hair.
Black Gene active people are very rare, maybe 1 in 125,000 will be Black gene active just off the top of my head. Black October finds maybe less than a quarter of these people and indoctrinates them.

[prophet118]

ok doke, that clears up quite a bit..lol

thanks

[Jerry D. Grayson]

3.) if I did my idea of having the PC's on a El Train system (raised train platform like Chicago’s), and had it attacked by a Chimeran, or having him crash into it during a fight, would the entire occupants of the train be triggered, or could I just say that since the PC's are indeed PC's they are the only ones triggered?

That’s a great way to introduce players to the game by the way and a cool origin story. Total strangers all riding on a train have the same traumatic experience and manifest powers.

[prophet118]

yeh..lol

im hoping the players think so too..hah

its just tiring to go "ok, so you are all on a team", before you even start..lol

[Jerry D. Grayson]

I once ran a game where everyone got super powers at the same time but didn’t know what powers they had. I kept the powers they had secret for the 1st half of the game and didn’t reveal until halfway through.
One character believed that he was upper strong and could fly but really had telekinesis. Another thought he was super fast but really had the power to manipulate time.

Keeping stuff like that doesn’t always work. It failed terrible when I did the same thing in a Cyberpunk 2020 game.

[prophet118]

sounds cool..lol


my first idea was going to be the players are just USER lab rats...lol

the ultimate test run of the aegis serum.. "wide spread" dispersion..

wide spread meaning they picked however many players i have..lol