Category: Masks: A New Generation RPG

I’m on the Masks Discord, and I’m currently running a game I’m calling Fight for the Future. We’ve done a session 0+1, and a session two. I’ve asked certain members of the party to create ‘Issues’ based off their character’s PoV during the session. For the first session, here is the narrator’s writeup of “Issue One.”

“We open fifty years in the future. Halcyon City has become a haven for supervillainy in the world, and any hero that tries to stand up to the might of the once-revered members of the Dominion is destroyed. This is a bleak time, and the citizens of Halcyon live in fear. Metahumans are registered and regulated under the watch of the Reign, a constabulary established by the Dominion. Regular citizens have been turned into a workforce that serves the whims of the Dominion, and politicians have been utterly corrupted. Only the Dominion is law.

There is an underground group of resistance fighters, named the Control, that seeks to displace the Dominion. There’s only one problem; they can’t do it in this time.

The Control has selected one of their own, a young woman named Antiphon, to go back in time using a portal that one of their escaped metahumans created. Antiphon managed the jump back to the present day — the Now — and must find powerful young heroes of the past, and together they must prevent the future Antiphon knows.

She was given a rota. Four powerful young heroes whose names still appeared in the rewritten history books. Alloy, a former underground gladiator, Aether, a being from outer space, Aria, an air-weaver who studied under the golem hero, Breakout, and Nightfall, whose family legacy stood as a paragon of hope in the old Halcyon city.

The heroes of the Now don’t know this yet. Right now, they’re getting pizza from a bowling alley, Sal’s Pins and Pies in the Commons neighborhood. It’s been a long day for these four heroes — Captain Zeppelin and the High Flyers attacked the city — they still have dust in their hair, but nothing says ‘kicking it’ like bowling and arcade games.

They receive a mysterious message attached to the top of the pizza lid, and although suspicious, they decide to follow its instructions, and meet up with the author at an abandoned warehouse. There, they find Antiphon, who explains the terror of the Future, and enlists the four heroes to at least try to help save it.

After some debate, the four heroes agree, and Antiphon gives them all small communicators which nestle into their hands, embedding Future technology into their palms. She asks that they meet her at the same place in two days. When they come back…Antiphon isn’t there.

They wait for her, and she finally crashes through the ceiling, yelling for the heroes to run. Aria and Nightfall bring the team together and as they prepare to fight, an all-encompassing darkness surrounds them all, resisting their attempts to break free. It doesn’t take long, there is no fight, no battle, no struggle. This darkness drags them all in. The issue ends, and all of our heroes are floating in a dark, inky in-between, caught in a time-bending limbo.”