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Personas of the Possibility Wars

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The Character Collection

Personas of the Possibility Wars

TABLE

CONTENTS

Introduction

Aysle

Core Earth

The Cyberpapacy

The Land Below I Space Gods

The Nile Empire

Nippon Tech

Orrorsh

106

Appendix: Advanced Character Generation

126

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The Character Collection

Mike Bowling, Marc Brenowitz, Bryan Covington, Steve

Crow, Greg Farshtey, Andrew Frades, Gordon Holcomb,

Paul Langlois, Eric Lazarian, Mike Levay, Barbara

Maloney, Robert Martinez, Shawn Metcalf, Scott

Mitchell, Patrick Murphy, Jim Ogle, Bill Olmesdahl,

Laurie Seubert, W. John Seubert, Bill Slavicsek, Bill

Smith, Steve Stelter, Jon Stinger, Steve Tanner, John

Terra, Dan Viger, Colleen Wetzel, Dave Wetzel, Jon

Woodman and Ed Stark

Design

Greg Farshtey

Development and Editing

Cathleen Hunter

Graphics

Dell Harris

Cover lUustration

Pete Venters

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Introduction

he Guild master drum-

med her fingers on the

surface of her mahogany

desk. Her long nails,

painted silver, gleamed

in the light of a small lamp. Her face

wasc1o.1ked in shadow asshestudied

the files. struggling to decide which

Storm Knights would be sent to al-

most certain death.

The import of this contract was so

great that she had taken a personal

hand in its arrangement. All of her

agents within Orrorsh reported a ...

stirring in the ether. as if something

momentous were about to happen.

And she held other ways - ways her

lieutenants could not even begin to

imagine - to know that the Gaunt

Man was soon 10 retum to the Possi-

bility Wars.

Her clients' needs were simple: a

coordinated strike against the heartof

Orrorsh, sufficient to slow down any

plans of expansion the Gaunt Man

may have formed while locked in the

maelstrom. At the same time, there

was a new threat emerging in Caea-

or was it simply the reemergenceofan

old one? -that had to be challenged

and overcome.

The mission would entail great risk,

but the rewards of success would be

greilt, even if measured only in the

time purchased for the forces of Earth

to ready themselves. But the choice

was a difficult one, for the Guild hild

studied so many stormers and Storm

Knights, each with unique abilities.

Which ones were right for this danger-

ous aSSignment?

Before her lay dossiers on Knights

from Aysle, theCyberpapacy, the Nile

Empire, ippon Tech, the Land Be-

low, the Akashan realm and Orrorsh

itself. There was too much data still to

be gathered on Tharkold for Race

agents to be trusted, and the denizens

of the Living Land often seemed to

have difficulty grasping the concept

behind the Guild. But she felt confi-

dent she would find the men and

women she needed among these files.

The harsh buzz of her special, se-

cure intercom drew hera"ention from

her work. She pressed the "receive"

button and heard the voice of Kenson,

her aide.

"Forgive the interruption, Guild-

master;' he began. "We've received a

dispatch from Dr. Mobius. Apparently,

he's ru n intoa spotoftrouble in Greece.

He's requesting two Ayslish mages

and some people who are good with a

gun -Coar Akashans, if we have any

available."

TheGuildmastersighed. "He's not

getting any Akashans, Terry. You

know Mobius - he'll toss them into

theOmegratron and start taking apart

the biotech. Send him the sorcerers,

but makesure we get paid in advance.

And have them report on his opera-

tions the moment they get back."

"Yes, madam."

The Guildmaster hung up the

phone, chuckling to herself. What

would Mobius think if he knew from

whom he was getting his operatives?

There was no possibility of his guess-

ing, ofcourse - to him, a woman was

someone to give a few pulp powers

and a skimpy outfit toand send out to

rob a few banks, blow upa few build-

ings, enslave entire nations ...

That last brought her back to the job

at hand. She glanced at a photo of a

young man, wheelchair-hound. Yes,

she remembered this one ... he had

been through a great deal, of late. Still,

he had the mental toughness that

would be needed.

With one member of the team se-

lected, the rest began to fall into place.

An edeinos dad in armor, known for

not caring about the odds- certainly

an asset on this mission. An Ayslish

gangster, who could be convinced to

help by the suggestion that Orrorsh

might soon threaten his own empire.

Another bandit, of a sort, known for

skill and bravado, cunningand knowl-

edge. Yes, that would do nicely. And

for the final member, a Cyberpapist,

one who had helped foil the Gaunt

Man's plans once before, high in the

Himalayas. She might well welcome a

rematch ...

She spread the photos before her

and took a long look at the faces. So

young, so brave, so eager for battle-

did they have any idea of the horrors

they would face before this war was

over? 0, their kind neverdoes- that

is part of what makes them warriors.

Shereached upand doused thelight

in a room as silent as death.

The Possibility

Wars

Earth has been invaded. Powerful

beings who call themselves "High

Lords" have come from different re-

alities to steal the energy of this cosmo

Each High Lord has conquered a sec·

tion of Earth and reshaped its reality

to suit his/her wishes. That is thesitu-

ation in the Near Now of Yorg: Role-

playing the Possibility Wars.

Amidst the chaos, powerful orga-

nizations have sprung up to oversee

the efforts of Storm Knights and

stormers. These groups provide

money, supplies and infonnation to

Knights in exchange for their occa-

sionally performing select missions.

Often, they send agents out to chal-

lenge Knights and stonners to test their

combat skills before offering them

membership.

One such organization is the Storm

Guild, operated out of Honolulu, Ha-

waii by the Guildmaster. Her identity

remains unknown, but her reach is far.

There are some who believe she is a

defector from the Delphi Council;oth-

ers thinks she may have once been a

high-ranking lieutenant of a High

Lord; still others that she is a naliveof

Earth, a Stonn Knight whose particu·

lar skills made her better suited for

organizing others than going into

battle herself.

Whatever the truth, the Guild has

had a hand in many of the most rno-

mentousevenlS of the Possibility Wars.

ow they have been retained for an

extremely dangerous job in Orrorsh,

necessitating a search through their

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