Metropolis. Gotham. NYC. When we think of stories about superheroes defending the world from a global invasion, the story most often focuses on major metropolitan areas, but what about the surrounding, less dense territories? Are they ignored or is it presumed they have already been stomped flat? Hellkite: Year Zero is the first book in…
Name: Warren First Appearance: The Idol Threat Height: 6’1” Race: Earthborn (possessed) Bio: Warren is an Earthborn who picked a fight with the wrong person and found himself thrown into the Breach between planes. Even though he was gone for a short peopled of time, his experience on the other side was long and arduous.…
Name: Grey Simms First Appearance: The Idol Threat Height: 6’2” Race: Earthborn Bio: On the surface, Grey Simms is an everyday citizen of the small city of Miranda, a place exceptionally, almost intentionally, surrounded by vast plots of farmland. He lives on a prominent estate with his grandparents, orphaned at a very young age by…
Big City, Big Problems It didn’t matter which one of me you asked, that was likely the best time of my life. Even though that wasn’t who I was anymore, I still never laughed harder or more living the mortal life. On the inside, my true self was thriving on the barrage of overstimulation. As…
Big City, Big Problems There is a peculiar conflict of emotions when something you can destroy with little effort laughs in your face. On one hand, I was pissed, an iota away from dropping her from the clouds to see if she would survive, knowing full well the odds. On the other, I had to…
Small towns hold no secrets from itself The hero responsible for saving dozens of lives by distracting Cicero’s opening attack watched the scene race away from them as they were dragged into the sky. The high winds from their ascent were whipping wildly from within the helmet they used not for protection, but to hide…
Good Phage / Bad Phage First Appearance: Post Game + Bio: Phage is an NPC who exists in the Hub. Like most of her kind, she was intended to be part of the incongruent mass of background collateral that add flavour to the user’s experience, or suffer in the wake of their collateral damage. Through…
When man's best friend becomes his worst enemy. Cicero was a great dog, the best boy. He was born to a litter on a pig farm to a pair of watchdogs who took advantage of the heat of the season. He wasn’t the runt of his litter of six, but not the biggest either. His…
Evolution or adaptation? The next few days were swarmed by unease and tension. My little town’s grotesque experience was not the only one, and most definitely not the most grandiose of displays by either a man or a beast. Both legacy and social media were flooded with images and videos of monsters wreaking havoc across…
The epitome of mortal rivalry. When the membrane between other shards of the multiverse grow thin, worlds that occupy the same space can overlap, especially where there are concentrations of potential on both sides of the divide. When this concentration exists in a living thing, reality cannot consolidate the discrepancy, and a Nemesis is born…
This Earth: A Fantasy World 