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*Salisbury, England - <span style="line-height:21px;"> The Salisbury Anomaly, an area 6 miles wide is encompassed in fog that causes interference with most technology.</span>
 
*Salisbury, England - <span style="line-height:21px;"> The Salisbury Anomaly, an area 6 miles wide is encompassed in fog that causes interference with most technology.</span>
 
**Locations
 
 
***Stonehenge - Last seen with a great wide hole in the centre where the alter used to be
**Locations:
 
 
***The Free City of Sailsbury - In the last official visit, this area had been Issolated for 84 years (Relative to themselves) the city has rebuilt its walls and armed its citizens
***Stonehenge - Last seen with a great wide hole in the centre where the alter used to be.
 
***The Free City of Sailsbury - In the last official visit, this area had been Issolated for 84 years (Relative to themselves) the city has rebuilt its walls and armed its citizens 
 
 
**Outsiders:
 
**Outsiders:
 
***The Lady Bound in Rowan and Red Thread (A complete unknown, bound in a hidden chamber beneath Stone Henge, freed by James Swain)
 
***The Lady Bound in Rowan and Red Thread (A complete unknown, bound in a hidden chamber beneath Stone Henge, freed by James Swain)

Revision as of 02:48, 9 May 2013

Welcome to the Aberrant Wiki

This is a version of White Wolf's Aberrant game, set in London in the 2020's and run in Poole, Dorset.

The game is about the emegence of people with fantastic powers, called Aberrants by their detractors and NOVAs (New Organisms with Variable Abilities) by their supporters.

The Player Characters

The main characters are a group of people from different areas of the world who developed quite unexpected abilities.

Matthieu Levec - Matthieu's Scapbook - Matthieu's Prologue

James Swain

Nasreem Kadisha - Nasreens character sheet - Nasreens stories

Other Empowered Individuals

The First Five

Two others gained great power as well, but one has not made themselves known and the other briefly made an appearance before disappearing.

Carlos Escarra - Capable of warping space to create portals, reading and controlling minds and communicating over vast distances, Carlos seems like a fairly happy go lucky Mexican.

"The Monk" - Little is known about this individual who appears to fight for the independence of Tibet from Chinese rule.

Other Novas:

In the following weeks others have emerged:

Mary Jacques - A Healer from the South of France and a devout Catholic. She claims that her miraculous powers were bestowed upon her by God via one of his holy angels. She was the night nurse in an A&E ward in Southern France, On the night she gained her powers, there was a fire at a nearby chemical plant and hundreds of people swamped the ward. Mary was seen fleeing the ward and returned a few minutes later healing with a touch.

Ernesto Cicadia - A construction worker in Venezuela who fell from a new skyscraper. He claims that as he fell he felt a presence upon him and he gained the ability to fly with a thought.

Aisha Rateb - A conservative Muslim woman found in the ruins of Giza, she came home in the wake of the crash of flight 117 just as the quarantine was being announced to discover her husband in bed with another younger woman. Her husband appeared to have been irrevocably turned to salt. She is currently being held by the UN security forces, on charges of murder.

Leanne "Cherry Pie" Longo - An over-enthusiastic orphaned 11 year old girl from Buenos Aires with bright red hair and green eyes. Her erruption came when she escaped her carers and was exploring an abandoned building, which was in a state of decay. She disturbed the building and it began to collapse on her, causing her to erupt in the process.

The Assassain: An unknown man of apparently medeterenian descent, who blew up the stage where the team were about to give their big speech and shot at them. When captured he seemed to disintegrate, promising that he would see them again.

Major Organisations:

The British Government

The Media

The United Nations:

The United Nations (UN; French: Organisation des Nations Unies, ONU) is the world's largest and most prominent international organization.The stated aims of the United Nations include promoting and facilitating cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress, human rights, civil rights, civil liberties, political freedoms, democracy, and the achievement of lasting world peace. The UN was founded in 1945 after World War II to replace the League of Nations, to stop wars between countries, and to provide a platform for dialogue. It contains multiple subsidiary organizations to carry out its missions.

Other normal people:

John Swallow - An archeologist that went missing on the night that James Swain was empowered.

James's film crew - Also went missing around Stone Henge

James's new film crew (Maria and Bob)

Elizabeth Jade - PA to the CEO of ITV

Peter Guiness - Head of the physics department at the University College London (UCL) - A cheerful if absent-minded man in his early thirties.

Agent Cavenagh - Senior Investigator in the RCMP who serves under the High Comissioner Gordon Campbell

HRH Prince Mohammed bin Nawaf Al Saud (The Saudi Ambassador, who usually sends his aides)

UK Prime Minister Felix Taylor (Labour)

Liz Tai - Nasreen's annoying roommate

Locations:

London Docklands - The Isle of Dogs base - A temporary base of opperations for the team.

The Five Gates:

  • Salisbury, England -  The Salisbury Anomaly, an area 6 miles wide is encompassed in fog that causes interference with most technology.
    • Locations
      • Stonehenge - Last seen with a great wide hole in the centre where the alter used to be
      • The Free City of Sailsbury - In the last official visit, this area had been Issolated for 84 years (Relative to themselves) the city has rebuilt its walls and armed its citizens
    • Outsiders:
      • The Lady Bound in Rowan and Red Thread (A complete unknown, bound in a hidden chamber beneath Stone Henge, freed by James Swain)
      • The Princess - Shunned from the Queens court, she planned to help assassinate the queen and take her place. She has not been seen since Sailsbury, but is believed to have escaped into the real world after having left behind a few taunting notes.
      • The Steward - An elderly looking man with a penchant for eating things of emotional value to their owners, he controlled the Queens Court.
      • The Queen of Broken Stars - The unquestioned ruler of a vast (illusionary) fairy castle near Stonehenge. Believed killed after being attacked by Matthew Levec.
  • Giza, Egypt - A place of plague and stagnation. There are a number of ancient diseases that infect anybody in the area. The entire Giza/Cairo sprawl West of the river has been evacuated and placed under a strict quaranteen.
    • Locations
      • The Great Pyramid of Giza - The pyramid its self had a strong draining effect on any who touched it and machines that drew too close. The pyramid its self has had a plane crashed into its side which opened up a long-sealed chamber.
    • Outsiders
      • The Emtombed One - A decayed being sealed away in a tomb.about which nothing is known.
    • Human/Nova Inhabitents
  • Mount Mailash, Tibet/China
    • Locations
      • Lhasa - The capital city of the newly liberated Tibet
      • Lhara - A nearby villiage at the foot of Mount Mailash
    • Outsiders
      • None Known
    • Human/Nova Inhabitants
      • The Monk (Tenzin Palden) - A female monk, The Liberator of Tibet
      • The Ambassador (Karma Choden) - A former tour guide educated in America who serves as the Monk's voice.
  • Mexico City, Mexico
    • Locations
      • Mexico City Centre
      • The American Embassy
    • Outsiders
      • Jack Xipetotec (Head Consol)
  • Unknown location deep in the Brazilian Rainforest
    • Locations
      • The Temple in the Green
    • Outsiders
      • The Woman encircled in Salt

Experience Log  :

Groups with a stated interest in hiring NOVAs

  • Various National governments
  • Academic institutions
  • Corporations:
    • Planetary Resources (Want Nasreems help making a carbon-fiber beanstalk)
    • Google mapping (Want help imaging interesting places)
    • Academi - Formerly Blackwater (Mercenary work)
    • WWF (World Wrestling Federation)
    • CERN (Want Nasreem to create anti-matter and Helium, they )
    • World Wildlife Fund (They want Matthew to help put a face on conservation efforts)

Non-Corporates:

  • Various groups want you to intervene with North Korea and prevent it from increasing its Nuclear weapon stockpiles
  • Irrigating the Saharah.

The News

Breaking News: (this is on the news ticker on the computer in the corner of the room.)


  • Brazil - civil unrest strikes Rio and Brazillia, Drug cartels suspected of fermenting revolt.
  • Vatican City - Pope issues Papal Bull defining Aberrants as being human beings with souls.
  • England - Unknown group breached Sailsbury cordon from outside and then left the area with no harm to security guards.
  • India - Dali Lama announces a visit to Tibet, urging calm in the region and an end to the violence against China.
  • Austin, Texas, USA - Military arms cache raided by unknown individual, sources have said that the suspect was "living shadow"
  • China passes legislation for compulsory registration of Aberrants.
  • Egyptian Government denies a strike team was sent into the Giza containment area.

The story so far:

Session 1: The discovery - Each of the characters stumbles across an ancient structure with a figure imprisoned within, They each release the captive and gain great power.

Session 2: Unification - A fourth individual named Carlos brings the team together and they meet up in the UK, where their existence is revealed to the world.

Session 3: Taken in and supported by the Government they are asked to help investigate Salisbury, where they find a land out of time and escape just in time.

Session 4: Recovering from Salisbury they each try to take back their lives in their own ways and end up helping the police with a drug bust that rapidly gets out of hand.

Session 5: Investigations, recovery and a flight to Cairo and the Giza Anomally. In which much science is attempted and the nature of the plagues is examined.