Destiny 2 - Shadowfall II

Versenne : engineer : Magda-9 : warlock : Vergift : armorer

1 : the City burns : an empty Sky : the Pyramid : your god has forsaken you : a Queen falls : a Queen rises : Darkness ascendant : salvation--

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The entrance to the Braytech manufactory had been cracked open some time long before, snow and ice crusting over many surfaces inside the vestibule. The power had been cut off in this part of the facility, with only a handful of flickering emergency lights providing illumination. Elsie Bray didn't need the lights to see, with her Exo eyes, but Aunor Mahal did not have the same advantage, so her Ghost had compiled out and was shining his light around. Here and there, disabled security frames stood wreathed in ice, and fallen Exos had collapsed against walls or counters.

"Bahaghari, can you detect Wahei?" Aunor asked, warily regarding the area.

Destiny 2 - Shadowfall I

"Vergift, I'm on approach."

"Welcome back. Did you have any problems?"

"Nearly got my head taken off by the Rachis. But I got the amethyst."

"Good. Ruin's prowling around in Gale's Watch. Some House Salvation bittereinder still lurking around there."

"And Kalki?"

"Dormant for the moment. But he'll wake up when we need him."

"Noted. Djinn, take us in for landing."

~*~*~*~

Ana Bray lifted her head from the sensorium, shared a look with her Ghost, then turned to her sister. "Just caught a transmission from Bog. Looks like the whole crew has arrived. Jinju thinks she can backtrace it and locate where they're holed up, but it's definitely somewhere in Eventide. Possibly in Riis-Reborn."

Destiny 2 - Transcript of a Planning Meeting

TYPE: Transcription

DESCRIPTION: Conversation between persons of interest, concerning high-value targets

PARTIES: Six [6]; One [1] Guardian-type, Class Warlock, designate Wahei Ohr [WO]; One [1] Guardian-type, Class Titan, designate Donovan Morgan [DM]; One [1] Guardian-type, Class Hunter, designate Rega-7 [R7]; One [1] Guardian-type, Class Hunter, designate Ana Bray [AB]; One [1] Exo-type, designate Elsie Bray [EB]; One [1] Guardian-type, Class Hunter [u.1]

ASSOCIATIONS: Bog, Dredgen [AKA Kashaf, Afa]; Bray, Ana [AKA Bray, Anastasia]; Bray, Clovis I; Bray, Elisabeth [AKA Bray, Elsie; Stranger, Exo]; Calus, Emperor; Clovis Bray (corporation); Crown of Sorrow; Europa; Eventide Ruins; Exo; Glykon Volatus; Malphur, Shin; Morgan, Donovan (POI #0268); Ohr, Wahei (POI #0247); Pyramids; Rasputin; Rathmore Chaos; Riis-Reborn; Ruin, Dredgen [AKA Ainu, Hadil; Ruiner, The]; Shadows of Salvation; Splicer; Traveler, The; Vergift, Dredgen [AKA Versenne, Magdalene; Magda-9]; Warmind; Ziggurat

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Destiny 2 - Transcript of an Investigative Conversation

TYPE: Transcription

DESCRIPTION: Conversation about a recent disappearance

PARTIES: Four [4]. One [1] Guardian-type, Class Warlock, designate Aunor Mahal [AM]; One [1] Guardian-type, Class Titan, designate Donovan Morgan [DM]; One [1] Eliksni-type, designate Mithrax [MIS]; One [1] Eliksni-type, designate Klyfiks [KLY]

ASSOCIATIONS: Black Armory, The; Bog, Dredgen [AKA Kashaf, Afa] (POI #0478); Botza District; Caiatl, Empress (VIP #3829); Drifter, The (VIP #1315); Eliksni [AKA Fallen]; Eliksni Quarter; Endless Night; Klyfiks; Light, House of; Mithrax [AKA Misraaks]; Morgan, Donovan (POI #0268); Ohr, Wahei (POI #0247); Ruin, Dredgen [AKA Ainu, Hadil; Ruiner, The] (POI #0492); Saint-14; Salvation, Shadows of; Schnell Corporation; Splicer [AKA Sacred Splicer]; Vault Ebisu; Vex; Young Wolf, The (VIP #2014)

[TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES: Text presented in { } is translated from Eliksni. --MIL-921]

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Some More Comic Book Style Worldbuilding

Preface: I recently posted about some random superhero setting world-building that I did, showing off a villain from the setting called Wildcard. As I have plenty of notes about this thanks to the way my brain refuses to let things lie sometimes, I'll post up a little more about this setting.

Today, it's about metahumanism, the meta-gene, origin events, and a few notables. Below the break, I'll expound on how it works in the setting of the Allied Heroes Commission, with the note that when I world-build, I will frequently describe things in a vague nature, to leave things open for development down the line, creating potential story hooks to explore later.

Wildcard - A Comic Book Villain

Preface: So my brain working the way it does, when I'd rather focus on writing things like the Firmament or a supernatural western story (i.e. things I can proper publish and maybe get paid for), it instead wanders off to start world-building something else. In this case, it's a superhero setting, complete with origin events, villains, and hero organizations. A lot of it is relatively short, barely more than a paragraph in most cases. But when I was filling in some stuff on an origin event, I suddenly came up with a villain character that ended up getting more than that. So... here we go.

In this setting, everyone possesses the "meta-gene," though it is not active in the majority of the populace. What activates it varies on a case by case basis, and even with multiple present at an origin event ("meta activation events"), maybe only one actually develops superpowers. And even if a second person develops them, they can be wildly different from the other. Despite millennia of study and research, no one understands how the meta-gene works.

Despite the dangers inherent in trying to activate one's own meta-gene, people still persist in trying to understand the unfathomable. This inevitably leads to origin events like the Bright Spark Flash, which led to several early modern heroes' rise and ultimately the genesis of the Allied Hero Commission, but also to the rise of one of the first modern metahuman terrorists...