Explorers RPG: The Ill-fated Truth of Metasus

The year is 40 years after the Great Galaxian War. Exploration has become a major occupation in the vast emptiness of space, as corporations and world governments hunger for new resources and trading partners. Such is the case of a small space colony living on a small dwarf planet of Metasus. It is here that a small colony of ambitious scientists and doctors perform experiments on a small populace ravaged by a mysterious disease know as Turvald's Syndrome. Highly contagious and deadly, vast amounts of people have been quarantined and taken to the major medical and research facility Honnoji.

Little do these the victims know that the disease is a hoax, and the true nature of the facility is for military purposes once again. Only a small rebel faction known simply as "The Truth" is able to uncover this true agenda of the ruling officials and they aim to make themselves known.

Led by Captain Manuel Gravitas, "The Truth" has secretly infiltrated Honnoji and looks to shake things up. Players are members of the quarantined victims who soon find themselves caught in the throngs of the rebellion.

The Secret Agenda of Metasus:

Individuals are being subject to a powerful substance known as Elynsium. Found on a distant planet discovered by Alexander Odin and Captain Oliver Cromwell, this substance was found to have unique affects on biological life as well as a reaction to most materials. Dr. Turvald was able to extract the material and isolate its material by bombarding it with controlled burst of radioactive energy. He then synthesized a formula which he nicknamed the "Elixir" and began experimenting on a number of individuals to learn more about the element and its unusual affect on living beings. Eventually, one of the great factions of the Galactic Government, the Rannagard Family caught wind of his research and granted Turvald more funds in order to weaponize certain individuals and create an army of beings that would come to be known as Elites.

Thus, the mining colony of Metasus was chosen for such a project.


The Elynsium Effect:

Individuals that are exposed to Elynsium in raw form tended to exhibit radical changes from rapidly bubbling skin, spontaneous combustion, molecular phasectomy, and many other severe uncontrollable symptoms that mostly proved fatal. However, Dr. Turvald's perfected "Elixir" uses a small amount of Elynsium, which although still fatal in a majority of tests, has yielded significant results in a select few as well. The reason for this phenomenon is still unknown. Individuals who survive procedure, have been given the code name of Gifted and usually generate one of 6 Major distinctions:

Molecular Manipulator: Individuals in this class have the ability to manipulate molecules to accomplish a number of things such as changing phase, density, and size to name a few.

Alchemical Manipulator:Individuals in this class have the ability to transmute elements and compounds, even living beings. Though the number of elements they can transmute is limited at first, they can grow and develop their abilities to transmute a wide range of elements later on.

Perception Manipulator: Individuals in this class have the ability to affect the psyche of others or perception the world around them. Very few individuals have demonstrated this characteristic. More info is needed.

Elemental Manipulator: Similar to Alchemical Manipulator, individuals have the ability to manipulate elements, demonstrating such abilities as bio-electricity, pyro-kinesis, hydro-kinesis, cryogenesis, etc. Their ability to generate specific elements and control them is quite useful, although individuals of this class tend to be limited to controlling only one element.

Biological Manipulator: Individuals in this class have demonstrated advanced control of their own (and in some cases others) biological structure. Abilities anywhere from regeneration, hyper-active evolution, derma-morphism, cellular and hormonal manipulation, pheromone produce to name a few. This tends to be the most abundant of traits produced from exposure to Elynsium.

Alteras Embalta: This grouping is the classification of individuals whose abilities vary in specificity but tend to closely relate to space and matter manipulation. The rarest of cases.


Despite having these abilities, mastery is something that can only be achieved through continued practice. Even then, abilities need to further be broken down into specific techniques in order to accomplish a specific goal. The number of techniques or ways to use an ability depends solely on an individuals experience (Wisdom divided by 10 rounded down).