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
Nasreem Kadisha - Nasreens character sheet - Nasreens stories
Other Novas
Other normal people:
Major Organisations:
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.
- One of these Organisations (indeed the most recently founded taking most of its members from the World Health Organisation) is Project UTOPIA (United Nations Taskforce for Observation and Policing of International Anomalies . Initially tasked with investigating the anomalies that appeared in Giza, Sailsbury, Tibet, Brazil and Mexico City. UTOPIA incorporates a number of other groups that have mandates that include NOVAs and the Anomalies. Including:
- Project HEART (Hazardous Environment Armoured Rescue Response Team) - An American squad of power-armour wearing marines who specialise in search and rescue opperations.
- Team INSPIRE (INternational Specialist Personel Immediate Response Elements) - A proposed front-group for Project UTOPIA that intends to highlight the good that NOVAs can do in the world and provide their abilities to help prevent disasters and assist newly emerged NOVAs.
Locations :
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.