It began a year ago, a bank robbery in Oakland, California was interrupted by what appeared to be a sixteen year old girl in a pink cosplay outfit of some kind. She pointed a wand crowned with a large pink gem shaped like a heart at the robbers and demanded they surrender. The robbers were more bewildered than anything and told her to sit down and shut up. That's when the gem on the girl's wand began to glow brightly, melting the barrels of all the robber's guns. Before the robbers knew what was happening the girl quickly knocked them out using her incredible speed and strength. The girl introduced herself to the now thoroughly confused and terrified bank employees and customers, saying she was Callie the Radiant, a Magical Girl. A simple girl who was empowered to bring justice to the world.

Hours later, there were numerous reports of similarly empowered women and men across the world. A Man in a top hat in Taiwan stopped a typhoon using only a tea cup. A woman in France on a broomstick who stopped no less than 20 murders in a day, seemingly knowing they were happening before they even occurred, and a girl lifting an entire sinking refugee boat out of the water using only the power of her staff and flew them to safety, to name a few examples. All would tell a similar story, claiming a magical artifact had appeared before them and asked a single question.

"Do you hold Justice in your heart?"

They came to be known as the Empowered, people of all genders, from roughly the age of 16 up to 35, who had been given magical artifacts sent by unknown forces. These artifacts could, at the will of the user, transform them into an empowered state. Granting them various abilities and magical powers, ranging anywhere from simple increased strength and speed, flight, to shooting beams of intense power, to even manipulation of nature and time itself. Their empowered state transformed them physically as well, changing their physical appearance and giving them a new outfit. Everything from dresses and stylized Tuxedos to trench coats and armor. As far as many were concerned, they were Magical Girls (And Boys) made reality.

The first few months were good, the Empowered all seemed to be people of sound moral character, who truly held justice in their hearts and did what they could to help the common people. Crimes were stopped with minimal violence, disasters were prevented and numerous lives were saved. Privately however, governments around the world were beginning to panic as they realized they were now dealing with hundreds of people with powers ranging from super human to those who could manipulate the fundamental forces of the universe, with their numbers growing by the months. Few ways to effectively counter them emerged, states around the world quickly realized it was effectively impossible to steal an Empowered's magical device. And the study of devices brought by those Empowered sympathetic to their governments revealed nothing. The device's technology made no sense to anyone who studied even on the most basic of levels.

Plans were being drawn up around the world for what to do about the Empowered but little action was taken during those first months. Then, four months in, something changed. The character of those who had a device appeared to them began to grow more broad and dangerous. Extremists of every variety soon began to acquire devices to disaster results.

A self-declared Reichsbürger Magical Girl in Munich would end up destorying much of the city after the police tried to arrest her, fleeing into the Swiss mountains before the army could be called in. In another case, a pink haired man who called himself Loki emerged out of the backwoods of Nnrthern Idaho, declaring the gods had granted him his power to 'purify' America. Loki would kill thousands in a week of terror before a half dozen other Empowered took him down in a battle that left most of Boise in ruins.

To further complicate matters, even those who were empowered during the first days, those who seemed to be everyone with a pure heart and sound mind, were beginning to change. With their powers seemingly defying all scientific explanation, many empowered people began to believe that their powers had a scientific or even divine origin, which led many of them to become more and more convinced that their judgement, their morals, stood any government's. Most notable Callie the Radiant, some ten months after she stopped that robbery and revealed the empowered to the world, began to attack LAPD officers after a series of incidents involving police brutality. When questioned about her actions she said simply, "They were given their power by flawed men, I was given my power by god. Only my kind are allowed to deliver justice to the world".

The Loki incident, followed by the Radiant growing increasingly rogue lead to government crackdowns on the Empowered world wide, to often disastrous results. Most empowered hide their civilian identities well or simply abandon them, remaining constantly transformed. This forced militaries and police forces to engage them when they were at their strongest. For months across the world, the Empowered have been fighting against their own governments, and winning for the most part. A few governments, mainly China and parts of South America, have found some success, mainly by allying with some of the empowered to fight against their more destructive counterparts. But for most countries it has been nothing short of disaster.

The media had been doing it's best to downplay things for a while, saying the Empowered were little more than troublemakers and rioters who would soon be forced to obey the law. Then Natasha, the so-called Gentle Witch, laid waste to most of Moscow in a giant pink explosion, followed shortly thereafter by the unexpected surrender of the German government to a coalition of Empowered. After that, people stopped pretending and acknowledged that the world was beginning to fall apart.

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You have watched helplessly from the sidelines. What could you do? You were just an average person just trying to survive, utterly powerless to change anything, just one of millions in a similar situation. You never believed one of those magical devices would come for you. Until everything changed one day.

When did it occur?

[] On the Best Night of Your Life.
You had finally, finally, worked up the courage to propose. It was silly that it had taken you so long, the two of you had been high school sweethearts, even if you had to hide from your more conservative teachers, and you dated all the way through college. You'd been together for years, heck the two of you even lived together. It should have been easy, but part of you had always been scared that popping the question would somehow change things, ruin them. But you finally built up the courage, took them out to to a nice dinner, then you got on one knee and finally asked the question you've been wanting to ask for years now. They said yes! You hugged, you cried, you cried a lot. And just as they put the ring on their finger, it appeared.

[] On the Worst Day of Your Life
Your parents alway preached the importance of love and forgiveness. Turned out that was just nothing more than words, words that meant nothing to them. You thought they understood, you thought they accepted you, but just turned out to be even more words, useless empty words. They tossed you out the day you turned 18, "We no longer have to tolerate your deviancy" they said, without any hint of shame or remorse. They kicked you to the street with barely anything more than the clothes on your back. You wandered aimlessly for hours in dismay. Deep down you knew there were people you could turn to, people who would take you in, friends or relatives. But your heart was so filled with fear and rage you dare not even consider reaching out to them in fear of more rejection. You had just calmed down enough to realize you desperately needed to eat when you were nearly thrown to the ground by a sudden, brillant light.

[] In a Moment of Terror
It had just been one of those days were everything seemed to go wrong. First your car broke down, so you had to take the Bus to work. Then second shift had to call out sick, because of course they did, so you were forced to work several hours past your shift, without any help, and of course today was the day that almost every customer decided that their bad mood wa directly your fault. And when you finally, finally, got off shift, what happens? Two thugs corner you and put a gun to your head! You knew this wasn't going to end well, the predatory look in their eyes told you this wasn't just a robbery, this was probably the end. A Mediocre end to a life that should have been so much more. And then, just when all seem lost, it appeared. Shooting out of the sky like a thunderclad, sending the thugs running for their lives.

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You stood there, transfixed as a bright light shot down from the sky. A single object rocketed downwards before stopping suddenly just before it touched the ground. It hovered before you. It was a-

What is Your Magical Artifact?

[] A Ring
It's a simple thing, a gold band with a Seven pointed star made of crystal as its stone, each point a different color of the rainbow. It granted you the power to shoot beams of energy from your hands, strong but not strong enough to punch a hole in a tank. You had modestly increased strength and Stamina, and you could fly though not particularly fast. You wouldn't say your powers were unimpressive but they were decidely average and you couldn't help but feel a bit let down. That's when you discovered the Ring's true power, it could create up to six copies of yourself. You're weakened slightly by each copy you create but your combined power is greater than you are alone. The copies are able to exist for up to three days before being forced to merge back with you. Your copies are exact copies of you mentally at the time of their creation, though you cannot directly control them. Not that you've been in a situation where they would strongly disagree with you. You don't absorb their memories when they merge back with you either. Thankfully it's rather simply to have them explain what they did and saw before hand.

[] A Broomstick
You expected something more rustic looking for some reason, not this seemingly modern look thing with a smooth black handle and yellow bristles that looked like it was one of a dozen others you could buy at the store. Despite lacking any seats the boom is shockingly comfortable to ride. Which is good because the thing was fast as a fighter jet and yet could turn on a dime and dash between alleyways with ease. You can make it turn effectively invisible to the naked eye for periods of time but doing it for more than a few minutes leaves you exhausted. Beyond the broom, you also can materialize a bow and quiver of arrows. The arrows regenerate overtime and come in two varieties, homing and explosive. You have supernaturally good aim with the bow even while riding your broom.

[] A Wand
At first glance your artifact appears to be nothing more than some cheap children's toy. The handle looks to be nothing more than white plastic with a pink trim, with a big switch towards the top. crowned with a big heart. And yet the thing is far more than it seems. In up position the heart glows red and begins radiating heat, while in the down position it glows a light blue and is cold to the touch. Without any charging the Wand can let out a stream of either near boiling or freezing water. Not deadly on its own but enough to deter even other magical attackers. It's when the Wand charges that things start to get interesting. Fully charged the wand produces either a pressurized stream of burning lava that can melt most anything made by man, or ice so cold it would probably freeze a person solid in moments. The wand seems to absorb from the air around it as while it's charging it will either increase or decrease the temperature in a five foot sphere around it drastically in the opposing direction to current mod. Charging an ice beam leaves the air around you hot enough to boil asphalt while a heat ray turns the air bitterly cold. You aren't affected by your wand though that does not make you immune to temperature extremes, you can still burn or freeze from other sources.

[] An Orb
It is a large glass orb, about the size of a mango and dark blue in color, though you can see what appears to be an unending storm constantly raging inside of it. The orb appears to have some kind of mental link with you as it obeys your thoughts. When transformed it is near constantly floating around you unless commanded otherwise. You can easily launch this thing fast enough to break the sound barrier at your enemies but that's not it's true strength. The strength is the beam that emits, a brilliant pink beam of energy. The beam burns hot and can easily melt through the side of a building. The orb can also divide itself into numerous smaller orbs on your command, giving you numerous but weaker beams. You can't fly; a smaller section of the orb can flatten itself into a disk for you to hover around on.

[] A Surfboard
You don't think there's ever been a magical surfer before, not that you've heard of anyways. And your surfer attire strikes a rather different image of most of the empowered. But few deny your status as one once they see your powers. You can control water itself, manipulating up to an olympic size swimming pool's volume of water at any time. You can shape it, mold it, create blades of ice out of it or transform the water into steam only to have it rain down on your enemies as hail. The purity of the water seems to matter little though you cannot control water that is inside any living beam. The Surfboard itself can fly, treating the wind like it was just another wave. But of course it's much faster on the water.

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You stared at the object, transfixed by the sight, amazed and horrified at the same time. Then it asked you the question that thousands before you had been asked.

"Do you hold Justice in your heart?"

You answered yes, what else could you do? Maybe you believe in justice with all your heart, maybe the appeal of power was simply too tempting, either way you found it impossible to refuse. In an instant, you were transformed. Your clothes replaced, your face and body reshaped the artifact. You had become one of the Empowered.

That was nearly three weeks ago. Despite the awesome power you had been granted, you kept a low profile as you figured out your powers. You had become powerful, not on the same near god-like level as some of your fellow Empowered, but you weren't helpless anymore. You could do something, you had the power to change things. You just weren't sure how. You had no intention of letting the feds kill you or lock you away forever but you were also weary of some of the other Empowered.

As you tried to figure out your place in the world, others took action. It happened suddenly, the President-elect was killed in an explosion while a group of Empowered swarmed DC, taking the president and most of Congress hostage. The news was filled with images of various magical girls and boys, floating above the White House, threatening to shoot down anything that approached.

They called themselves the Wild Hunt, A dozen or more Empowered, all led by Callie the Radiant. They denounced the recent crackdown on the Empowered by the Federal Government and have declared martial law across the country, saying they would guide the country into a new age. Several states have already denounced the Wild Hunt as nothing short of coup. Rumors abound that one of the Cabinet had escaped and was organizing something in the midwest. Meanwhile dozens of Empowered were making their way to DC. Some seek to fight the Wild Hunt, others want to join them. Beyond DC there are reports of multiple Empowered doing battle with state and federal forces, seeking to carve out chunks of the country for themselves.

You could make your way to DC, fight the Wild Hunt, Join them, try to protect the people from the battle that is about to erupt. You could also stay home, protect the ones you care for, try to build an empire for yourself. This country, indeed the whole world seemed to be coming apart at the seams, maybe you could stop it, or maybe you could help forge the new order to come.

What Do You Do?

[] Head to Washington D.C
A Group of Empowered have just taken control of the Nation's capital. Maybe they could hold, maybe they wouldn't, either way, history was about to be made there. The events of the next few days could shape generations to come. Maybe you want to help the Wild Hunt create the next page in American History, maybe you want to try and stop Callie the Radiant and the others from imposing some kind of Magical Girl Dictatorship, maybe you just wanted to save as many as you could from the fight that would no doubt ensue. Regardless of your reasons, you new you had to be there.

[] Stay Home and Prepare
You get to D.C sure, even now there where plenty of ways you could reach the capital quickly, but what for? Dozens, if not hundreds of Magical Girls, Boys, Magicians, Witches, what have you, were about descend on D.C along with who nows how much of the Military. What difference would you among all that? More importantly, what would happen if you returned home only to find that some boy in a top hat had declared himself king? The news is filled with reports of various Magical girls forming their own factions and declaring themselves rules of some chunk of the country. Maybe you have people here you care about, maybe it's just hometown sentimentality, maybe you just wanted to conquer it for yourself. Regardless of your reasons, you refuse to risk a trip to DC. Whatever happened, your fight would be here, close to home.

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QM's Notes: So for those of you who remember, this inspired by the Cape Wars GSRP from last year/earlier this year. This is my attempt at doing an original setting, I hope you like it. This is going to be a fairly mechanics lite quest, I may add some depending on how things play out but this is largely a very character focused quest. This is one person's journey as the world crumbles and changes around them. This will not interfere with Rhaenyra Quest, the 40k one is on Hiatus but there's entirely seperate from this, my inspiration for that just dried up completely. Also the Player Character, whatever we create, regardless of gender, is going to be LGBTQ, that's just what I envisioned when brainstorming this. I hope you guys enjoy this, this is rather experimental for me.

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