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It all started with a Big Bang. Not the universe, but the story. Every hero has an origin. Some... more complicated than others. In this case, it starts with a chemical factory on the outskirts of a Toronto Suburb. And a botched attempt to steal an experimental drug. In the stand-off between the authorities and the would-be criminals, and series of unlikely circumstances resulted in an explosion that vaporized a large portion of the facilities stock, adding a new flavour to the morning's smog. A public service announcement swore it was non-toxic and harmless, aside from the smell and triggering of asthma attacks. But every cover story is a cover for something. And all a fancy chemical mix really needs is the proper potential to catalyze with to give birth to a metagene, and a story is born.

A group of friends, a future of endless possibilities, filled with strange witches, giant bugs, political twists and turns, and directed by a fate as fickle as a cat.

The Big Bang is a roleplay run using the Mutants and Mastermind D20 system, run online in collaborative pads. Plagued by time zones and metaknowledge, it's still an all around fun time.

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Heroes

Trevor Greyson

Played By: Greycat

Previously a student about to graduate, now a anthropomorphic feline recluse trying (badly when you think about it) to hide from society. On the flamboyantly empowered ones in the group, he's also on the not very enthused about it all side of the discussion.

• Cat Folk: One of two on the cast actually.
• Deadpan Snarker: Very much so. He's not going to just go along with something without snarking on it.
  • His character is played by Greycat. It's to be expected.
• Genre Savvy: He's a reader. He knows things.
• GMPC: Even the Game Master wants to play.
• Jerk Witha Heartof Gold: He has lots of these moments.
• My Instincts Are Showing: He's still getting used to them.
• Superpowered Evil Side: Not evil per say, but is Feral. He trashed Erin's new place and dragged her off before being knocked out.
• That Came Out Wrong: Trevor is somewhat prone to this.
• The Call Knows Where You Live: Literally. The bugs followed him home and the mysterious people followed him to James' place.
• With Great Power Comes Great Insanity: Without a proper vent for his power build up, he's slowly getting there.

Erin Rachel O'Neill

Played By: Yellow 13

• Big Creepy-Crawlies
• Body Horror: With her first transformation: Oh so much.
• Painful Transformation: her first transformation again.
• Put on a Bus: Likely for good due to some recent developments.
• Straight Les: Erin is a lesbian. If Marina wasn't there, one might never know.
• The Call Knows Where You Live: The queen decided Erin's house was awesome real estate.
  • Not to mention Feral Trevor

Felicia Tonallia

Played By: Yellow 13

A socialite by day, a cat burglar by night. She was a thief even before the blast, but with invisibility, cat shifting, resurrection,

• Cat Girl: She can turn into one with her Neko form.
• Classy Cat-Burglar: Has that vibe.
• Friendly Enemy: Very much so. She might turn good. Maybe.
• It Amused Me: The big reason she became a cat burglar.
• Socialite: Her daylight identity.
• Stalker with a Crush: She found Trevor through the papers, and had a crush on him ever since.

Marina Fisher

Played By: mew77

Daughter of the owners of the local aquarium, turning into water girl first. Has some weird ideas about how to use her powers, and is pretty much stoked about the whole thing.

• Shapeshifting Squick: Exact details are not safe for work.
• Power Perversion Potential: Marina morphed into Erin's costume for the convention, and has shown interest in doing it again.
• Slime Girl: Occasionally. As well as bouncing clay girl.
• Missed the Call: While some of the others were off fighting bugs, she was at Erin's stuck between forms. Still...

Henry Mason

Played By: necar

The oldest and most level headed one in the group. While not the smartest, he makes up for it in experience. He used to work at the chemical plant were the Big Bang originated, but with them shut down, he's out of work for now.

• Badass: He has the highest bug kill count and has wielded freezers, boulders and cars for weapons.
• BigDamnHero: Erin and Marina trapped in a room with a powerful psychic? Cue Henry breaking down doors and tossing freezers.
• Chick Magnet: No one knows why. It started with a witch, and now every NPC since.
• Dumb Muscle: With an Int of 8, he's the dumbest of the group, however he makes up for tht with a Str of 20.
• Flying Brick: Trevor already calls him superman.
• It's the Only Way to Be Sure: He burned Erin's house down. It really was the only way to be sure, but really.
• There Was a Door: A common tactic of his.

Jezelle Rivers

Played By: Blazinvire

An athletic student, Jezelle gained duplication and teleportation. She bunks with Trevor (his parents are out of town for the start of the game) and is out looking for work, but seems ready to take on anything the new world can toss at her. Now, at least.

Alexander Nochin

Played By: Irbynx

The second cat on cast, and the youngest in the group. Something of a technophile and a pervert, he hasn't quite pinned down what his powers are.

• Cat Folk: Yeah, second one of the cast.
• Genre Savvy: When the hospital was assaulted by siren and her friends and everyone fell asleep, Alex figured out what was the source of danger and managed to make himself earplugs. That wasn't put to a good use, however, as he simply hid in the corner after that.
• Put on a Bus: While his player was at camp, Alex got conventionaly injured and had to spend a week in a hospital, visited only by Jezelle, his dad and Trevor.
  • The Bus Came Back: After that, when Irbynx returned, Alex went out of the hospital and went on with his Alex stuff.
• Kid Hero: Alex is 16 years old, got superpowers and already got close to death twice in two weeks.
• Walking Tech Bane: Alex possesses a power that can break any piece of electronics, provided he's close enough and can give it a death glare.

James Nelson

Played By: Fenix 250

A rich kid introduced to the group when Trevor was taken. A bit on the naive side, he's still a good illusionist, so much so that he deceives himself.

• Master of Illusion: His main power.
• Rich in Dollars, Poor in Sense: Somewhat. Trevor scammed in out of two hundred dollar to clean up a mess that he made.

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Villains and Antagonists

The Bugs

• Big Creepy-Crawlies

Polly

• Stalker with a Crush: She REALLY want to jump Henry's bones.

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Drinking Game

Take a sip if

• Someone other then Trevor gets stunned
• Marina expresses a desire to be worn
• If anyone misses an attack
• If anyone fails a skill check
• A laptop is destroyed
• If a Stargate reference is made
• Henry fails a notice check

Take a shot if

• A female character expresses interest in Henry
• Trevor gets stunned
• If anyone fails a save
• Any time Trevor gets punched in the nose
• If Erin’s laptop is destroyed
• Every time Trev does something shady
• If Alex is sitting out on major actions
• Someone gets a good roll AFTER it matters.

Finish your drink if

• Cassandra possesses someone
• Henry burns down another building
• If a supervillian is psychotic
• The group has to fight their own members (Erin, Marina and Trev)
• When a player made villain shows up
• If someone dies, only to find later that they got better

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Funny

• After they finally get through the horror of Marina's power reveal, the cops show up due to (mainly) Erin's constant screaming. Having to think fast, Jezelle run's interference why Trevor hides the puddle that was Marina. Where does he hide her? The washing machine. Then he removes the drain hose. Just in case.
• After the hospital visits incident, the party, split between a hospital room and Trevor's car, were having a speaker phone conversation. Trevor's sneeze introduced him to the complications have snot and fur.
• During their first power training in the forest, after Marina turned into a coat, Trevor's Jump Scare ended up with him a Cat Up a Tree.
• The Jezelle clones decided to pass the time by playing a few video games. The fact that they are clones of the same person and share a mind link led to all sorts of laughs.
• Henry and doors do not get along. He's broken three so far.
• For some inexplicable reason, 80% of the female NPC somehow get smitten with Henry. He has the lowest charisma in the cast. Even the Game Master can't explain it. It must be the muscles.
  Greycat: I swear... I'm not doing this on purpose... It just keeps happening...
• Trevor got fleas. He refused to talk about them.
• Alex has a bit of a mishap when experimenting with his new equipment.
• During the Street Fight battle between some of the PCs and a horde of bugs, Jezelle and Alex took refuge in a car. The bugs attempted to crash through the windshield after them. Of the three that tried it. Only one survived and only one made it through. They weren't the same bug.
• Erin, one of the offensively weaker party members, managed to break Trevor's nose while under control of the queen bug. Dainty Punch!!!
  • Of course, Henry eventually got annoyed and just tossed her out the front door and into the building across the road.
• Erin when she found out her house got burned down.
  • And her second laptop, the first getting smashed in the Hospital Incident, got destroyed.
• Alex didn't want to go on con, and that was pretty damn in character. Solution?
  Irbynx: Allright, Alex is not going to con.
  Greycat: He is getting possessed by ghost. Roll Will.

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Tropes

• Anticlimax Boss: Feral Trevor. Oh so much. He lasted about three punches from Henry. Lady Red adverted this though. Granted, she did appear out of nowhere.
• Applied Phlebotinum: The thing that actually causes metahuman and abnormal powers has yet to be explained in game, but considering the DM's love of this trope, you know it's one.
• Author Appeal: Kidnapping and conspiracy theories, two fetishes of the DM.
• Author Avatar: At least three of the cast fall in this trope.
• A Wizard Did It: No one really knows what caused the explosion in the first place, and the legal tie up relating to the site...
• Beware the Nice Ones: Erin is the second worst fighter in the group... Yet she broke Trevor's nose and mercilessly tried beat Trevor and Henry (the second and top fighters) in the group before being taken down.
• Butt-Monkey: The Dice gods are fickle. For one; Trevor fails his toughness at the most inopportune times and cannot hit a thing (he missed a tree. Twice.) Erin only seems effective when fighting the wrong people...
  • In a recent fight, the Grey said this with his less then steller proformance as a Superpowered Evil Side "Yeh... that pretty much did it. Rather anticlimatic for a giant cat when you think about it... All he did was cause a bit of property damage."
• Car Fu: Henry likes picking up heavy things.
• Deadpan Snarker: The cast takes turns really. Alex, Jezelle and Trevor do a lot.
• Exactly What It Says on the Tin: The GM has a habit of naming the ministories and arcs. Sometimes though, he can be rather uncreative with it. He's commented on it too. "Not everything can get cool names. Sue me."
• Extreme Omnivore: Trevor's reaction to the bugs that attacked his house? Cook one for breakfast.
• GMPC: Is it a game made Greycat? If yes, he has a PC.
• Memetic Badass: Henry, just Henry (his super hero alter ego too.) Of course, when you do things like get shot out of the sky and still get up to rescue people from an exploded building...
• The Men in Black: A few who may qualify showed up.
• The Nicknamer: Trevor shortens everyone's name. His nicknaming get's worse when he's grumpy. They all seem to want to give him nicknames back in return though.
• No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: After the gentle approach didn't work with the girls, and vice versa. Happened again when Henry vs Big Guy.
• Shower Scene: One with Trevor after the bug attack, Marina during power experiment, and the Jezelle's had there moment as well.
• Super Registration Act: There is talk of one.
• Tempting Fate: The Game Master can and does use anything players mention in his plots. He has no vices against turning player ideas against them.
• Webcomic Time: The story started the same date as the real life starting. Since then, it's fallen behind by a few months.