Olcanucklehead said:
Personaly I was gona ask mike to edit that part as to not have to much detail on it until we could decide. And I figured that maybe they had been around for a while but agencies like yours could have done a good job at keeping the situation contained and out of public veiw.........until now. Whatcha think?
Well, that would conflict with people whose character(s) have been in the game for a while (Master Bruce's mention of being around for about 8 months or so for example).
As for having past situations kept contained, we can always spin it so that government agencies, such as the BMA, have kept things pretty much under wraps (ala MIB). Only problem is, short of a neuralizer
o), it'd be damn near impossible to have kept everything under wraps for years.
It's not like the whole UFO conspiracy thing in the world today. Metas would have been walking among humans every day, all year long. And not all of them would want to keep a low profile. Some would rob banks. Some would act as simple thugs. And then there's the ones who'd go completely psycho and start wasting people dozens at a time.
How about this for a flexible guideline (and everyone feel free to shoot this down if you aren't comfortable with it, expand upon it if you wish, or totally come up with something else):
Metas have been around, publically, since the ending of the second World War (or Vietnam, or whenever...doesn't really have to be an event in real history. We could create our own), when it was discovered that the governments of the world used them as soldiers (the event that made them known could be anything, and could become a nice little piece of history for our Earth).
The governments, now forced to acknowledge their existance, began setting up special agencies to keep them under watch and police their activities. After many years, metas have become a part of human society and are no longer widely feared for their powers and hated (though some groups may still harbor hatred for them. Sort of like a KKK against metas, or what not). Some metas have used their powers to help people, becoming heroes in the public eye, and protect the populace from the ones of their kind who would abuse their powers and use them for their own selfish ends.
Mike wouldn't have to edit his post completely, as it could be said that their is simply a major metahuman prison in San Fran. Just as each country has their own facility for holding the super-powered criminals.
Now, I'm not saying you all have to run with my idea. You can alter it or suggest something else entirely.
My point is that we all should agree on something before we start to really move on in this RPG.
