Aberrant: A Better Tomorrow

Background

A game about power, politics, and poorly-considered philosophies. Try to make the world a better place as members of Team Tomorrow, possibly succeed, possibly fail and set the world on fire.

Chargen

Elite/45 NP. People who want special options (Psion, 2nd Gen Nova) should ask first.

Chargen Questions

Choose 5-10 questions from the categories below. This questionnaire will be slowly added to for a while so don't worry too much about the lack of choice. Obviously some questions may be mutually exclusive.

• At least 2 from basics
• At least 2 from nova life
• If you have an odd affiliation (Aeon, Teragen, Psion, 2nd Gen), answer at least 1 question from the list.

Basics

• What triggered your eruption and why?
• When you were young, you had an idol of sorts, real or imaginary. How did this influence your powers?
• You could have had a career in another, far less risky field, such as politics or law, which would still be able to do plenty of good in the world. Why didn't you take that offer?
• You make plenty of money from Team Tomorrow, celebrity endorsements, speaking roles, and more. Yet you prefer to donate significant amounts to charity. What charity and why?
• You make plenty of money from Team Tomorrow, celebrity endorsements, speaking roles, and more. Yet you don't have much money to go around. Why?
• Name the one vice you could never do without.
• When you first got your powers, you committed an act of petty revenge against someone who you believed had wronged you. What was it?
• Have you ever killed someone? If so, what was your first kill?
• Do you think you could ever kill someone? If so, how evil would that person have to be?
• Do you believe mind control powers like Mentalism, Possession, and Dominate are always/never/sometimes equivalent to rape?

Nova Life

• Some novas have codenames for marketing or anonymity reasons. You don't use one, preferring your real name. Why?
• How did you get your codename? Did you make it up yourself or did you get a consultant to do it?
• Once you badly injured another nova. Under what circumstances, and what is your relationship now?
• Your eruption once destroyed a promising relationship with a friend or lover. How did that happen?
• Being a nova is about having the power to change the world in fashions that suit your viewpoint. What is the one thing in the world you would most like to change?

Special Chargen Questions

Aeon

• Most people only end up being scouted to join Aeon when they find out about it on their own. How did you learn about it?
• You are old, much older than your peers. You were once, in fact, called a 'Stalwart' and later an 'Eximorph'. What was your most memorable experience in the age of Adventure?
• You were once called upon to do something you disagreed with morally for the greater good. What was it and what made you finally agree? Did you still keep working for Aeon afterwards or did you quit?
• You were reluctant about Aeon from the start, but no longer. What made you think of it as less 'the lesser evil' and more 'necessary for mankind'? When was that tipping point?
• Going from Aeon for a more public existence is rare. What made you do it?

Mercenary/Elite

• Most novas entertain the idea of going mercenary, but very few do it. What attracted you to the lifestyle? Was it the glamor, the money, or something else entirely?
• Who would you consider your best employer and why? Who would be your worst?
• Was your role in a mercenary group ever military or paramilitary in nature? Did you ever fight as an ally of a faction that you found morally reprehensible? Why?
• You keep having nightmares about your involvement in a country. What was that country and what are those nightmares?

Teen Tomorrow

• Growing up as a nova is generally a tough thing to do. How did you handle normal teenage life alongside the blessing and burden of your powers?
• Utopia offers free top-end schooling for Tn2M members. Did you take them up on that offer, or did you insist on staying with your friends?
• When your friends asked you for favors, such as money, transportation, or just endorsements, how did you respond?

2nd Generation

• Your powers make no sense to anyone but yourself. How do you link them together?

Characters

• Waverider, the Biological Accelerator
• Zero, the Ultimate Nullifier (tentative)
• Imago, The Shapeshifter
• Cyclotron, the Particle Beamer
• Feng Xiao
• Justice, fighting for truth, freedom, and the American... oh God, I'm so sorry, I didn't mean to do that.
• Curnocopia Entropy Manipulating supergenius in a battlesuit.
• Lara Luddington, who isn't Lara Croft, no matter how hard she pretends otherwise.