The Resident & Extreme Classes
Following the New Class’ trial by fire at the Surrey Royal Institute, the Professor immediately began recruiting a new class of resident students… but it was only a matter of weeks before a self-proclaimed God announced their intentions to remake the world in their own image. This would dictate the decade to follow, and the extreme measures the Academy would go to…
Sadly, Otkid would not return to teach.
Most of the children are orphans, and many don’t have any family; the school becomes their only family. Having become more serious and focused during his years away, the Professor refers to the children purely by their numbering, 1 to 16, despite teacher Mr. Zymmer’s protestations; the children quietly rebel and give themselves cool superhero nicknames.
Many of the children show very minor or even no visible powers, and feel chided and ignored by the Professor. Inspired by the kindly janitor’s stories of adventure, the kids, inspired by their predecessors, go on local adventures.
Life at the Academy is quiet for two months...
They claim humanity has a decade to put things right; if not, the world will be purged of the weak. The strong may find a home at the Peacock's feet if they are able to survive the trek. The strongest will be chosen by the Peacock to rule at their side.
The broadcast is discovered to have come from Mount Aragats in Armenia, and the Russians, Chinese, United Nations and American military forces mobilize. However, something prevents them from passing the Armenian border without explosive pain, no war machines passing through at all. Parahumans and religious devotees from across the globe are able to pass through, and reports suggest a bright citadel has appeared on the mountain top. The Armenian people call the Peacock “Prince Ara”, believing them to be the return of their legendary founder.
The Peacock, in full eight-winged splendour, appears before The Academy, The Guild, many Alumni, and even The Alpha and Collective, asking them to consider the offer, otherwise their survival is uncertain. The Professor, with vocal support from the new students, protests that this is not the way, and all this will do is spur on fear and disdain. The Peacock acknowledges, warning the Academy that they have a decade to put their lives right.
The Alpha is regaled worldwide as a hero for peace, despite publicly being yet another threat, and a Cult of Personality arises around them. Known as the Unconquered, both humans and Parahumans that publicly announce allegiance to The Alpha are soon swept away in a blur, and taken to their safe haven. The Unconquered mobilise multiple times against threats, and have ex military leaders with access to war machines at their disposal.
Prominently seen at The Alpha's side is the messiah-like long-lived Sant, an androgynous self-declared knight and healer who claims to have a connection with The Peacock.
The Collective see the Unconquered as foolish cowards, and hold no alliance to their one time leader...
A meeting with D & his Homonculi reveals that the wily hermeticist knows more about PARIS than he is willing to discuss...
Among the confirmed PARIS deaths over the decade include -
[TBD]
Barracks claims to come from the future, a world where the Peacock was victorious and wiped out humanity, now a slave race to ruling “Primary” Parahumans. Barracks has come back to ensure this timeliness doesn't come to pass...
The so-called Extreme Class, under Barracks, have a curriculum based more on developing their powers for combat and fighting, and are deployed to actively intercept and fight threats rather than just respond. An air of distrust begun to emanate between the Resident and Extreme Classes.
Throughout the decade, the Resident Class would study, protest against Purity First, and work closely caring for PARIS victims. If they clashed with anyone, it was the Collective, The Guild, Purity First & the Unconquered.
The Extreme Class.dealt with nastier problems up close and personally; Purity First's Paratroop, The Code, ACTAEONS, the Military, the Homonculi, and of course The Collective, Unconquered & Purity First.
As the Code are exposed by attacks on Alumni, the Classes, the Milliners Guild and even the Collective, it becomes more and more apparent that The Code are rogue, immeasurable in number, and near undetectable, posing as people before exploding into black, spidery circuitry. The Academy, Collective & Guild, working together, discover the Code's hive minds are guided by none others than Perry Botch, Hayden Peters, Jerome Newton… and deceased Alumni “The Nerd” from the New Class. This revelation convinces the alliance to destroy the Code before their combined intelligence can run amok.
Eventually, the Code are defeated when, driven by some inhuman urge, they attempt to build a colossal antennae from themselves to contact and summon… something. Led by Barracks, and working with The Nerd's virtual intelligence, the alliance succeeds in destroying the Code. Stragglers survive, but the virus is considered contained...
In the fallout, the Academy work out that Glammer isn't infected... but that her partner, Jane Dunne, has recently died, prompting her to try this risky attack.
Sant discovers that Purity First have access to something of great importance, and swears to destroy them...
The ritual is successful, to a degree; the two have minimal versions of the powers, and can combine their abilities together to get close to the original. To D's dismay, he cannot control the spirits or powers summoned, and he and his Homonculi are finally destroyed, though no remains are found...
The La Bete Noir powers are able to destroy the PARIS virus, one case at a time, but it requires time, extraneous concentration... and sometimes it doesn't even work.
They vanish, and soon it becomes apparent that the Peacock has taken Felix with them...
Furthermore, the Professor’s interest in the children of both classes does not come from a need to protect or train them, but from a fear that any of them, born under La Bette Noir’s influenece, could cause a world-ending event, supposedly based on one of Dunne’s predictions. This has inspired Lieber’s crueler, more distant personality.
The Extreme class turn their back on both their mentors, and go their own way.
Barracks is never seen at the School again.
The Extreme Class teams up with Glammer & the Collective, Sant & the Unconquered and a number of Alumni to fight the Mysteries and destroy the Angelic Technologies creating the fields. Sant & two Extreme Class students are killed in the process, disheartening the Resident-Student-Turned-Mystery, who escapes alongside the other Mysteries.
The Resident Class, The Alpha, and Alumni venture straight into Armenia, protected by The Alpha's gravitational powers. They confront The Peacock directly, attempting to reason with the Angel, who wryly claims they're a decade late before summoning the “wrath of God” to test them. The Peacock kills Winterborn & Respawn, protecting their allies, during the fracas, determined to ensure that the Earth is “tested”. Sickened by the Peacock's disdain for what they claim are “their own people”, the Alpha brings the citadel down on both themselves and the Angel, whisking the rest to safety.
As the debris calms, The Peacock, little more than a broken torso, drags themself from the rubble, proclaiming they were wrong; humanity has proven itself stronger than expected. Parahumans saved humanity from Parahumans ... so are Parahumans even needed? They are abandoned there to die, quietly watching the sunrise as they bleed white blood down the mountain...
The Alpha is considered dead, the Unconquered worshipping them as a Saint.
The surviving Class members return to the Academy, wounded but alive, their tenure over.
Less than 2% of the world's population is killed.
Nobody knows at the time, but seeds have been sown...
2) Free!
3) Johnny Rivers, Aka Johnny Be Good, musician.
4) Kip Spriggan, Aka Seedling, Teacher
5) Harmony Septum, Killed by The Peacock
6) 17, an unknown student.
7) Camilla Saunders, Aka Chameleon, Teacher
8) Jules Adams, aka Adamantine, Guest
There is One player spaces available in the Resident Class.
NPC
Milan Ledovy, Aka Winterborn, Killed by The Peacock
Jace Lynch, Aka Sunbeam
Kim Wise
2) Victoria Bailey, Aka Vixen, Empowered by D & La Bete Noir, Detective
3) John Burton Aka Fireball, joined The Collective
4) Adrinna Lama, Aka Loki, joined The Collective
5) Christina Lawrence, Aka Captivate, Banker
6) Umbra
7) Paul Metcalfe, Aka Respawn, Killed by the Great Mysteries
8) Moonbreaker, killed by the Great Mysteries
There is One player space available in the Extreme Class.
NPC
Involved with PARIS
Contracted PARIS
Involved with D & the Homonculi
Involved with The Collective & Glammer
Involved with Prime Minister Grey & Purity First
Involved with Barracks
Involved with the Unconquered & Sant
involved with The Code
Sadly, Otkid would not return to teach.
Resident & Extreme Class Events
November 1989, “Fourth Genesis”
Less than five weeks after the Twilight incident, The Professor gathers a number of Children they have been studying secretly for a decade. Each child was born during the Lost Class Years, under strange circumstances, and specifically on dates during which Psion used large amounts of La Bette Noir’s power. Sixteen students are admitted to the School, and following Otkid’s ideas, the students are prohibited from adventuring.Most of the children are orphans, and many don’t have any family; the school becomes their only family. Having become more serious and focused during his years away, the Professor refers to the children purely by their numbering, 1 to 16, despite teacher Mr. Zymmer’s protestations; the children quietly rebel and give themselves cool superhero nicknames.
Many of the children show very minor or even no visible powers, and feel chided and ignored by the Professor. Inspired by the kindly janitor’s stories of adventure, the kids, inspired by their predecessors, go on local adventures.
Life at the Academy is quiet for two months...
January 1st 1990, “Revelations”
All television and radio broadcasts are hijacked by an androgynous blue figure, calling themself The Peacock, speaking in a language understood by everyone on the planet. They claim to be an angel, slumbering for aeons “in a prison of storm and static”, and are the predecessor of all Parahumans on Earth. As such, they are disappointed in the continuing oppression and hate levelled at “the inheritors”, and equally sickened by those Parahumans who do nothing to stop it.They claim humanity has a decade to put things right; if not, the world will be purged of the weak. The strong may find a home at the Peacock's feet if they are able to survive the trek. The strongest will be chosen by the Peacock to rule at their side.
The broadcast is discovered to have come from Mount Aragats in Armenia, and the Russians, Chinese, United Nations and American military forces mobilize. However, something prevents them from passing the Armenian border without explosive pain, no war machines passing through at all. Parahumans and religious devotees from across the globe are able to pass through, and reports suggest a bright citadel has appeared on the mountain top. The Armenian people call the Peacock “Prince Ara”, believing them to be the return of their legendary founder.
The Peacock, in full eight-winged splendour, appears before The Academy, The Guild, many Alumni, and even The Alpha and Collective, asking them to consider the offer, otherwise their survival is uncertain. The Professor, with vocal support from the new students, protests that this is not the way, and all this will do is spur on fear and disdain. The Peacock acknowledges, warning the Academy that they have a decade to put their lives right.
February 1990, “Precautions”
Gone for the best part of a decade, The Alpha returns, stealing hundreds of Weapons of Mass Destruction from an American-Iraqi Conflict. Disgusted at humanity refusing to change, and even dealing with an alien presence with immediate conflict, the Alpha holds World peace to ransom; if the Governments of the world act against Parahuman kind, they will destroy all world capitals from their unknown base of operations.The Alpha is regaled worldwide as a hero for peace, despite publicly being yet another threat, and a Cult of Personality arises around them. Known as the Unconquered, both humans and Parahumans that publicly announce allegiance to The Alpha are soon swept away in a blur, and taken to their safe haven. The Unconquered mobilise multiple times against threats, and have ex military leaders with access to war machines at their disposal.
Prominently seen at The Alpha's side is the messiah-like long-lived Sant, an androgynous self-declared knight and healer who claims to have a connection with The Peacock.
The Collective see the Unconquered as foolish cowards, and hold no alliance to their one time leader...
April 1990; “Achilles”
Ex-Collective member Thunderchild comes to the Academy for aid, dying of a mysterious wasting disease. At peace, he and the Professor bury all disagreements before he dies. It becomes apparent Seth died from a Parahuman-only virus. The British government, under Prime Minister Grey admits to knowledge of Parahuman Relapse of Immunity Syndrome, AKA PARIS for at least a decade. The Professor is sickened and outraged, and devotes the next decade to working with Dr. Macllynllawr on a cure.A meeting with D & his Homonculi reveals that the wily hermeticist knows more about PARIS than he is willing to discuss...
Among the confirmed PARIS deaths over the decade include -
[TBD]
September 1990; “Extreme Measures!”
The Academy is approached by the mysterious, heavily armed Parahuman known as Barracks. The Professor seems to know who this more practically-minded stranger is, and the two spend hours discussing something amidst raised voices. Eventually, the Professor announces that Barracks will be taking half the students under their own wing, to teach a more radical class.Barracks claims to come from the future, a world where the Peacock was victorious and wiped out humanity, now a slave race to ruling “Primary” Parahumans. Barracks has come back to ensure this timeliness doesn't come to pass...
The so-called Extreme Class, under Barracks, have a curriculum based more on developing their powers for combat and fighting, and are deployed to actively intercept and fight threats rather than just respond. An air of distrust begun to emanate between the Resident and Extreme Classes.
December, 1990; “Apocrypha; The First”
The Extreme Class investigate the disappearance of First Class Alumni Zephyr. Depowered and betrayed by Lawyer Perry Botch, it looks like they attempted suicide, but no body is left...May 1991, “Stains”
Prime Minister Grey never truly retracts her ruling for increased security measures against Parahumans, but she does finally illegalize Parahuman-motivated hate acts, following riots after the Alpha's return. Unfortunately, this only brings the racists out of the woodwork, as the Order of St Michael, The Paratroop and the Humanity League unite under the banner of “Purity First”. The anti-Parahuman protests and marches sweep up and down Great Britain. Despite police and even military action, the hate movements continue, and the Extreme Class find themselves intervening. The Collective clash multiple times with Purity First, and the Extreme Class find themselves split on who to protect from the others.Throughout the decade, the Resident Class would study, protest against Purity First, and work closely caring for PARIS victims. If they clashed with anyone, it was the Collective, The Guild, Purity First & the Unconquered.
The Extreme Class.dealt with nastier problems up close and personally; Purity First's Paratroop, The Code, ACTAEONS, the Military, the Homonculi, and of course The Collective, Unconquered & Purity First.
October 1991, “Apocrypha; The Second”
Temperance contacts the Academy to let them know that event though the Milliners Guild won't admit it, The Peacock appeared before the Chosen and after giving an imposing speech, Chosen Member Judgement was gone without a trace...July 1992, “Priam and Hecuba”
During a clash between his Homonculi & the Extreme Class as they destroy the memorial for Psion, D reveals that Paris is his doing... to an extent. He “conjured” the living, changing disease in a simpler time for “a more specific purpose than genocide”, but it has evolved since then...October, 1993; “Apocrypha; The Third”
Lost Class member Flame crashes a Halloween party at the Academy, panicked and dishevelled, claiming to having visions, dreams, and hallucinations of The Peacock. Convinced they are safe and among friends at the Academy, it is startling when they vanish during a sudden blackout, leaving no trace...1994; “Covenant of the Code”
The whole year is dominated by the ongoing conflict with “The Code”, a sentient techno-organic virus devised by the ACTAEON scientists, a hive mind of Parahuman and human hosts.As the Code are exposed by attacks on Alumni, the Classes, the Milliners Guild and even the Collective, it becomes more and more apparent that The Code are rogue, immeasurable in number, and near undetectable, posing as people before exploding into black, spidery circuitry. The Academy, Collective & Guild, working together, discover the Code's hive minds are guided by none others than Perry Botch, Hayden Peters, Jerome Newton… and deceased Alumni “The Nerd” from the New Class. This revelation convinces the alliance to destroy the Code before their combined intelligence can run amok.
Eventually, the Code are defeated when, driven by some inhuman urge, they attempt to build a colossal antennae from themselves to contact and summon… something. Led by Barracks, and working with The Nerd's virtual intelligence, the alliance succeeds in destroying the Code. Stragglers survive, but the virus is considered contained...
July 1995, “Apocrypha; The Fourth”
As The Collective clash with ACTAEON units, member -- vanishes...September 1996, “Erys”
The Resident Class join the Professor to aid Professor Macllynllawr doing PARIS research on Anglesey, close to a breakthrough. The Extreme Class are busy fighting the Collective on the mainland… meanwhile their leader Glammer sneaks into the facility to kill Macllynllawr, but a confrontation with the Resident Class slows her down. Glammer claims not only that she is infected herself, but even though the Collective fight against human oppression of Parahumans, she has reason to believe that PARIS can be weaponized against humanity. Macllynllawr confirms this; PARIS is evolving, and has even infected her, and she's a normal human. A bomb causes a distraction, but Glammer doesn't get away clean; quick thinking from the team leaves Glammer with a recognizable scar, though she does steal Macllynllawr’s research.In the fallout, the Academy work out that Glammer isn't infected... but that her partner, Jane Dunne, has recently died, prompting her to try this risky attack.
January 1997, “Apocrypha; The Fifth”
Fearing the disappearances and abductions are linked to Alumni, the Extreme Class are sent to monitor the New Class members. Sadly, their endeavours are misplaced, as Surrey Royal Institute alumnus and school nurse Obsidian vanishes instead...March 1997, “Fall of Troy”
Dr Arianrhod Macllynllawr dies from complications caused by PARIS. Though her research was stolen, she dies happy surrounded by her students and family, knowing that Glammer could not have afforded to destroy the research; it still exists, somewhere.June 1997, “Acts of Hate”
On the eve of a new election, Prime Minister Grey plans on reversing their anti-Parahuman laws, when they are kidnapped by Purity First. Sant & The Extreme Class team up to rescue the Prime Minister, however, a confused Collective sees Grey with the racists and assassinates her, the act caught on television. Realising Parahumans had come to rescue her, she laments her actions before dying. Purity First is officially recognised as a hate group, and all acts and members are made illegal.Sant discovers that Purity First have access to something of great importance, and swears to destroy them...
August 1998, “Rhebus”
D kidnaps twins Felix & Vixen, claiming he can finish Macllynllawr's PARIS cure with their donation of blood and consent. They agree, but it soon appears to be more devious than that; D believes the answer lies in replicating his creator, The Peacock himself, rather than a certain chemical concoction. Because he can't replicate that, he'll do the next best thing; resurrect the powers of La Bete Noir, now diluted between two bodies… under his thrall!The ritual is successful, to a degree; the two have minimal versions of the powers, and can combine their abilities together to get close to the original. To D's dismay, he cannot control the spirits or powers summoned, and he and his Homonculi are finally destroyed, though no remains are found...
The La Bete Noir powers are able to destroy the PARIS virus, one case at a time, but it requires time, extraneous concentration... and sometimes it doesn't even work.
December 1998, “Apocrypha; The Last”
The Peacock appears on the Academy Grounds, flanked by the missing Alumni, now transformed into similar Angelic beings, his “Great Mysteries”, those the Angel believes are “Humanity's strongest potential”. They offer one last time, to Barracks directly, to come join “humanity's destiny” alongside the Angels, or they will take the final Mystery without question. Barracks responds with a point blank gunshot, which does nothing. In the brief fracas that follows, The Peacock tears the ground apart with just a hand motion to protect the entourage, before claiming this is pointless, and telling the Academy to “reap what you have sown”.They vanish, and soon it becomes apparent that the Peacock has taken Felix with them...
September 1999; “Smoke & Mirrors”
It comes to light that Barracks may not be telling the truth about coming from the future; records show they spent the 1980s in an asylum, being treated for dangerous delusions, writing long diatribes about Angels watching over the Earth. It turns out the Professor knew this, and has been complicit in Barracks’ fantasies, as it aligns with the Professor's goals.Furthermore, the Professor’s interest in the children of both classes does not come from a need to protect or train them, but from a fear that any of them, born under La Bette Noir’s influenece, could cause a world-ending event, supposedly based on one of Dunne’s predictions. This has inspired Lieber’s crueler, more distant personality.
The Extreme class turn their back on both their mentors, and go their own way.
Barracks is never seen at the School again.
December 31st 1999, “In The Beginning...”
The Peacock's judgement barrier begins expanding rapidly across Europe. Six more fields appear across the continents, wounding and killing millions, each headed by one of the Mysteries.The Extreme Class teams up with Glammer & the Collective, Sant & the Unconquered and a number of Alumni to fight the Mysteries and destroy the Angelic Technologies creating the fields. Sant & two Extreme Class students are killed in the process, disheartening the Resident-Student-Turned-Mystery, who escapes alongside the other Mysteries.
The Resident Class, The Alpha, and Alumni venture straight into Armenia, protected by The Alpha's gravitational powers. They confront The Peacock directly, attempting to reason with the Angel, who wryly claims they're a decade late before summoning the “wrath of God” to test them. The Peacock kills Winterborn & Respawn, protecting their allies, during the fracas, determined to ensure that the Earth is “tested”. Sickened by the Peacock's disdain for what they claim are “their own people”, the Alpha brings the citadel down on both themselves and the Angel, whisking the rest to safety.
As the debris calms, The Peacock, little more than a broken torso, drags themself from the rubble, proclaiming they were wrong; humanity has proven itself stronger than expected. Parahumans saved humanity from Parahumans ... so are Parahumans even needed? They are abandoned there to die, quietly watching the sunrise as they bleed white blood down the mountain...
The Alpha is considered dead, the Unconquered worshipping them as a Saint.
The surviving Class members return to the Academy, wounded but alive, their tenure over.
Less than 2% of the world's population is killed.
Nobody knows at the time, but seeds have been sown...
Resident Class Members
1) Felicity Bailey, Aka Felix, Empowered by D & La Bete Noir, Later the Final Mystery, Missing2) Free!
3) Johnny Rivers, Aka Johnny Be Good, musician.
4) Kip Spriggan, Aka Seedling, Teacher
5) Harmony Septum, Killed by The Peacock
6) 17, an unknown student.
7) Camilla Saunders, Aka Chameleon, Teacher
8) Jules Adams, aka Adamantine, Guest
There is One player spaces available in the Resident Class.
NPC
Milan Ledovy, Aka Winterborn, Killed by The Peacock
Jace Lynch, Aka Sunbeam
Kim Wise
Extreme Class Members
1) Free!2) Victoria Bailey, Aka Vixen, Empowered by D & La Bete Noir, Detective
3) John Burton Aka Fireball, joined The Collective
4) Adrinna Lama, Aka Loki, joined The Collective
5) Christina Lawrence, Aka Captivate, Banker
6) Umbra
7) Paul Metcalfe, Aka Respawn, Killed by the Great Mysteries
8) Moonbreaker, killed by the Great Mysteries
There is One player space available in the Extreme Class.
NPC
Flavia Charbonnet Aka Esprit, Barracks’ Protégé
Class Story Links
Involved with The PeacockInvolved with PARIS
Contracted PARIS
Involved with D & the Homonculi
Involved with The Collective & Glammer
Involved with Prime Minister Grey & Purity First
Involved with Barracks
Involved with the Unconquered & Sant
involved with The Code
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