Sandman

[Mr.Sandman]

In august of 1917 the sky lit up around the world for 24 hours with what seemed to be a huge metior shower with an aurora. The fighting stopped on both sides in the trenches as the people below looked on in wonder and horror. The next day certain people found that an item that they carried gave them extraordinary abilities based around mythological figures. These people quickly became known as Legends. The addition of these beings to the battlefields intensified the war and soon thereafter all sides withdrew to restratigize. This led to the beginning of a cold war with Russia and Germany leading one side and the U.S.A. and England leading the other. Things came to a head in 1924 when unprovoked attacks hit both sides. With each thinking it was the other war was inevitable. This was all the plan of Apep, an egyptian legend who had gathered like minded individuals in a bid for world conquest. With the two sides fighting eachother in a new world war all countries would be greatly weakened allowing Egypt and Apep to sweep in and take over. His mechinations were foiled by a group of americans. Private Investigators with no links to the government who had been on his trail from early on. The war ended in 1925 with the countries signing a treaty and there was piece again.
Most Sandman games are set during these early days or in Modern times.

All legends are based on human myths and legends from Zeus to Johnny Appleseed. The cause of the light show were energy based aliens entering the atmosphere. They had no physical form and created a bond with certain humans in the form of small trinkets. There seemed to be no rhyme or reason to who was choosen with people on all sides being given extraordinary abilities. When the aliens were discovered they were termed Fairies to fit with the myths theme. All powers are bought as 3 point you only Device first non powered stats such as ability scores, skills, and feats are bought as normal.

Any thoughts or anything else you would like to see?

[Corebrute23]

Are there super teams like comic books, or costumed heroes? Has technology advanced in any significant way, compared to our world? What are the government laws/restrictions/attitude towards 'Legends'?

Just some points to help flesh out the setting.

[Mr.Sandman]

The Sandman games i have run so far have been in 1924 exploring the Legends War so the Modern is still in developement. Most Legend teams are government funded special forces teams and most are not public though some other legends team up for periods of time. Technology has not made many major advances because there are so few legends at about .01% of the population. Most legends are very secretive because if someone knew who they were and took their item while they were off guard it would render them powerless. Occasionaly the powers come with a costume of sorts but other than that costumed Legends are rare and spandex like materials are nonexistent. Pro athletes are not allowed to carry or wear anything other than regulation uniforms and are checked for any devience from this but other than that no laws are in place.

[Corebrute23]

You are aware that 0.1% of the current population is close to 684,050,700 people right? According to google (who has lied to me before) that's close to the population of Africa.

Perhaps you should make the percentage even smaller, cause right now that's a freakish number of space alien artifacts. Alternatively you could make it .1% of the population in 1917, which means there's about a million space artifacts (including any that were destroyed or haven't been found etc).

Maybe we need a different number-or we can just handwave it, it's a super world, there's no need for it to make sense. I'm sure someone will correct me about my maths.

[Mr.Sandman]

.001 would make that around 6 million and the aliens inhabit normal objects. If the object is destroyed the being goes to another ant that Legend loses their power

[imfarias]

In 1917, the world population was just under 2 billion.

So do the Fairies "reproduce" and if so, how? Or are there the same finite number there was when they arrived?

[Mr.Sandman]

The entire population came to earth. not all chose to bond with humans. some chose to fully meld with animals creating beings called Monsters but these are rare and some chose to simply exist in nature. A fairy bonded in a monster dies when that creature does but can also reproduce naturally with other monsters of which there can and often is more than one of each type. fairies in their natural state such as those between items and those that choose to exist that way as an energy entity reproduce by splitting much like a cell but much less often.

[Corebrute23]

So there might be centaurs (horses bonded with spirits), Kitsunes (foxes bonded) and other such creatures wandering around? Nice.

Wait, does that mean we're going to be facing Godzilla? Dang it! And by dang it, I mean that is really awesome, please do it.

[Mr.Sandman]

essentially yes, you might encounter a few of those, they tend to stay away from civilization though. most animalistic myths are represented as Monsters though there can be some crossover. Pheonix was originally a legend but more recently they have appeared as extremely rare Monsters. some Monsters even gain human level intelligence but they are rare and powerfull ones like The Dragon or slightly humanoid ones like Centaurs

[Doleth]

Interresting concept, I do have a few questions. What happen to a fairy when a legend loses the item containing them? Can they leave it any time they want or only if the legend dies or if their item is destroyed? Assuming they get stuck in their item as long as it is intact and their "host" is alive, could they eventually "imprint" on someone else after a while? Do fairies decide what power they grant when they first bond with an object or they can change anytime they change receptacle? Is it possible for multiple legends to get their power from the same mythological being? What if there is more than one version of the same character(for exemple, one legend get his power from Herakles of greek myth fame while another get hers from Hercules from roman myth)? Is there a cutoff point for the myth chosen, or modern legends could get power from iconic movie/urban legend/books character(like Corebrute23 mentioned with Godzilla)? History wise, is there major difference before this setting's and our's history after 1924? Why was Germany and Russia allied during the mini cold war?

Sorry for these questions, like I said, I think the concept is very interresting.

[Mr.Sandman]

I had not considered lost items as of yet so i will say after a small amount of time without the simbiotic bond between human and fairy active within the item a fairy can abandon the item and treat the human as dead, this is rare though as a Legend always knows what item gives them power and makes a point to hold on to it. Normaly they can only leave a destroyed bond caused by a dead human or a destroyed item but rare situations like the one above can happen. I dont know what you mean by imprint but there are some Legends known as Legacy Legends among those that know of them , they are caused by a fairy bonding with a family line during there time as bonded to a member of the family. One of the longest bonded Legacys has been Boogyman who has passed down the same family line in the same item since he first bonded and the Boogyman Legend has inhabited both male and female hosts. The fairys can change anytime they change item. The same mythological being no but multiple instinces of a similer being, greek and roman being most popular, is allowed, during the Legend War both Athena and Minerva were active and even met more than once. There is no cutoff point but to be a more modern Legend the being must be eather rather famous or the human must be a uberfan of a nonfamous being, the superhero comic book genra never came into existance though. There has not been much different between 1924 and now that i have come up with, all games i have played in this setting have been set in 1924 and most are still going. The U.N. of this world was created slightly sooner and World War 2 never happened, Legends have become rather common and Monsters roam away from civilization but it is mostly the same. Historicaly Russia went through its revolution in the real world right before the Fairy Fall which caused a difference in views from the former government of the czarhood, this led to them siding with Germany.

[Doleth]

Sorry, I may have use the word imprint wrong. I meant that the fairy could bond with someone else, so you managed to answer the question anyway. Good job answering my wall of question, thank you.

[Mr.Sandman]

Monsters, Demons, and H.E.R.O.s

This post will be about the 3 other types of beings connected with Legends and Fairies.

Monsters- as spoken about above Monsters are Fairies bonded with animals. The bond is not accomplished with items but is instead a direct possession of sorts. The animal and the Fairie become 1 being. Monsters live in the wilds of the world, away from civilization and only very rarely bother humans. The name came about when the first discovered Monster, a Minotaur, was accidentally teleported to Washington DC during a failed mission by the B.O.I.s Griffon unit. The being was swiftly killed by Pheonix units leader, Pheonix herself, and all present were very surprised when it did not revert to human form as usually happens. The being was studied by Sphinx unit and the new classification was born. Monsters can interbreed if they are the same or similar species but the Fairy can never leave the union.

Demon- Demons were the next classification. They were not so much discovered as created. The english Legend Dr. Morou, based on the scientist from th H.G. Wells story, had transmutation powers and was a brilliant geneticist before the term really had much meaning. He was able to syntheticly create a weaker version of the Fairy creature in syrum form and injected them into humans. He called these beings Demons because they all took on powers based on the 7 deadly sins based on which of the 7 syrums he used. These beings were key to the war he was planning with Apep. The attacks on both sides were carried out by troops of Demons and they were offered as mercinaries to both sides. The U.S.A. side turned them down and the team later responsible for Apeps fall took out the lab producing them. Recently rumors of a second generation of Demon syrum, in the form of a new designer drug, have been heard.

H.E.R.O.s- Americas answer to the Demons. H.E.R.O.s have the least to do with the Fairies of these three. Anyone could be a H.E.R.O., they are mechanical battlesuits designed during the war to combat Demons on even ground and a few working togather could take down powerfull Legends as well. Designed by team sphinx's Merlin, Athena, and Vulcan they proved an asset on the battlefield as the users did not have to be struck by luck or become lost to mindless power, they simply needed to be extremely physically fit. This perfectly describes the special forces teams upon which these weapons were trusted. In the modern days H.E.R.O.s are only used when a particularly dangerous Legend needs to be captured or killed. They usually work in teams of 5 called Quests.

can anyone help me come up with what the accronym H.E.R.O. could stand for? Please remember they were named in 1924.

[Mr.Sandman]

Fort James NY

Fort James is a small town located near the Adirondacks (near where Queensbury is in RL) built up around the giant fortress at the towns center. This is the Fort, built when the Legend War hit U.S. soil. It was named after James Morphean, the original Sandman, after a major battle in the area. The town was created in the late 1920's after the war had ended and, after a brief period of population boom, its population is rather steady. It's high school boasts a rather famous cafeteria simply because of its size, but that and the fort are its only real draw for tourists, especially with Lake George being only a 15 minute drive. The local children enjoy hanging out at the Ice cream shop, the library, and the town park, but all in all it is not the most exciting of towns. The Fort is still an active military base, and quite a few of the towns inhabitants are military families. No one really knows what goes on in there and conspiracy theories are legion, with some even going as far as saying the bodies of Apep and his greatest generals are entombed in a deep subbasement.