- ⚡ Electrokinetic Control — manipulate and generate electricity.
- 💨 Enhanced Reflexes — your body moves faster than human limits.
- 🧠 Neural Link — communicate and hack into digital systems with your mind.
- ⚙️ Adaptive Recovery — you heal faster each time your powers overload.
🔥 RPG TITLE: “AFTERSHOCK: THE AWAKENING” (A grounded, cinematic superhero origin story set in modern-day America.)
🌆 SETTING:
Emerald City, 2025 — a bustling, neon-lit metropolis where innovation meets corruption. Corporations rule. The government hides secrets. Ordinary people struggle to survive.
You’re Aiden Cross, a 17-year-old student — bright, curious, and always tinkering with machines. But one night, while visiting your uncle’s lab at NovaTech Industries, everything changed.
⚡ THE ACCIDENT:
A prototype quantum energy reactor was being tested — a device meant to power entire cities. You were in the control room when something went wrong. The core overloaded.
There was light… noise… and pain. When you woke up, the entire lab was destroyed — but you were alive. And different.
💥 YOUR POWERS
The energy fused with your DNA, granting you:
Weakness: Overuse causes nerve damage — and hallucinations of the reactor explosion.
📊 YOUR STATS
| Attribute | Rating (★ out of 5) | | ------------- | ------------------- | | Power Control | ★★★☆☆ | | Intelligence | ★★★★★ | | Agility | ★★★★☆ | | Strength | ★★☆☆☆ | | Endurance | ★★★★☆ | | Hero Instinct | ★★★☆☆ |
💫 MAIN CHARACTERS
Dr. Evelyn Cross — Your mother, a brilliant scientist who believes the accident was no accident.
“Aiden, someone wanted that reactor to explode.”
Jayna Vale — Your best friend and journalist-in-training who starts investigating NovaTech’s secrets.
“Whatever they did to you… they’ll come for you next.”
Director Kael Voss — Head of NovaTech Security, ex-soldier. He claims to want to help you “control” your powers — but his real goal is to weaponize you.
“You’re the next step in evolution, Aiden. Don’t waste it pretending to be human.”
🧩 PLOT OUTLINE
Act I — The Spark You try to return to normal life. But power surges follow your emotions. Bulbs flicker when you’re angry. Phones fry when you’re nervous. Soon, NovaTech agents track your electrical signature — and the chase begins.
Act II — The Surge You uncover secret files revealing the “Nova Protocol”: a plan to create soldiers powered by the same energy that changed you. You were Experiment Zero.
You, Jayna, and your mother go on the run, seeking the other test subjects.
Act III — The Storm Voss captures your mother. You infiltrate NovaTech Tower, battling enhanced guards and mechanical drones. In the final fight, you overload the reactor again — but this time, you control it. The explosion lights the sky, disabling NovaTech’s systems and freeing the other subjects.
When the smoke clears, you’re gone.
🌙 EPILOGUE:
A news anchor reports on the mysterious vigilante who saved the city. A distorted camera shows a figure on a rooftop — lightning crackling around their hand.
“He’s not gone. He’s watching.”
The city whispers a new name: ⚡ AFTERSHOCK.