Aftermath Wiki



Welcome to the Aftermath Wiki
This is a resource to be used by both the players and ref team for information such as setting, rules and ability questions. We hope to lay down the basics here so that you can enjoy our game as much as possible. Please feel free to email any queries to aftermathrefs@gmail.com and we'll try to get back to you either online or in real space. We're also available through Skype and Facebook, so please get in touch if you have any questions. Please find the larp's facebook group here

Reccomended reading:

Find the comprehensive rules here. 

Find the character generation guide here. 

Find details on character types here. 

Find the downtime guide here. 

In Character area here. 

What You Know
Brighton has changed a lot in the last six months. Ever since the... The Event, The Awakening, The Wave, The New Dawn. Whatever you want to call it. A small percentage of citizens manifested 'Super Powers', and a lot of them did so violently. Spontaneous combustions, cranial haemorrhaging, mangled cadavers and a huge amount of collateral damage followed this event, but that was pretty much all at the geographical centre. At the edge of the radius, people became sick. Weak willed, violently animalistic and in some cases cannibalistic. Their flesh grew pale and sallow whilst the civilians at the centre exploded or worse.

You, however, were in the sweet zone. You weren't driven insane by a nagging something in the back of your head, and you didn't have that something in the back of your head force its way out through anything in its path. Your powers developed slowly enough that you could control them, and that's when the British government started abducting people like you off the street. Maybe they got you, maybe you avoided them, maybe something else got to you first. Regardless of where you were, the rumours spread faster than the fires caused by the event. Mass imprisonment for the empowered, enhanced and anyone aiding and abetting. Interrogations, experimentation and torture? Everything seemed to be on the table, but things quietened down for a while.

Enforced peace could only last so long, however. Breakouts, political movements and enhanced crawling out of the woodwork upset the balance, just before something massive flipped the whole table. Something from the centre woke up. Someone who should have died in the epicentre. Havoc, violence and mass destruction followed in the wake of the burning man. A once peaceful Brighton is now subject to a strict, heavily militarized cordon until the cause and solution to these "epicentre variants" can be uncovered. Anyone stuck in the cordon is just that. Stuck.

What You Are
You are an Empowered, a Variant, a Supe, a Freak, an Aberration - there are a lot of names for it. For you it means that something happened and now you have wondrous and awesome powers. At the moment you are merely much hardier and vital than a human has any right to be, along with a few minor abilities. Soon, however you will grow into a supernatural being with the ability to control the elements, create marvellous inventions, or see into the minds of others. That is, you will if you can survive...

''Start building your character here. ''

What You'll Do
Being a superhuman among humans isn't all it's cracked up to be. Some will hate you, some will worship you. Most will want to use you for whatever agenda pops into their horrible little heads. A lot of them wield far more power than you can deal with.

It'll be up to you to navigate the various influences attempting curry your favour or force your loyalty. You won't ever be safe again.

You'll also have to deal with your fellow empowered, whatever caused this blossoming of power seemed to be unconcerned with the kind of person affected by it. Imagine the best and worst of humanity - and everything in between - now give them super powers. You won't ever be safe again.

