Can you survive the people who have sworn to wipe your kind from the world?

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When Section V's secret tore open and the world learned that Anomalies were real, it did not greet them with open arms. Half of it marched for their rights. The other half wanted them gone.

Out of that second half rose the Clean Slate Initiative. Every member lost something they loved to an uncontrolled Anomaly, and out of that grief they built a single, unbending purpose. There is no cure for being Anomalous. So they will simply make sure none remain.

They were a support group once. People who had lost the same thing, finding each other in a quiet room with bad coffee. Then they found a meteorite fragment, and a way to forge it into weapons, and the grief became a war.

Silas Ward, "Judgement"
Co-founder and close-range executioner. A former mechanic and father whose world ended when an Anomaly caused the disappearance of his daughter. Stoic, cold, brutally efficient, with a crimson energy blade that destabilizes Anomaly powers on contact.. He believes every Anomaly is a bomb that hasn't gone off yet.

Maren Ward, "Retribution"
Co-founder, strategist, and the eye that does not miss. Once a countryside schoolteacher, now overwatch and tactical control behind an experimental rifle. Calm, calculated, grief running deep beneath every shot. Silas is the blade and she is the aim. They are married.

Hecate Zucca, "Gremlin"
An orphan broken by watching a monster tear through her school, locked since in an arrested, giggling childhood she uses to survive what she really knows. Swings a hammer twice her size that kills near-instantly, and calls everyone she meets a "friend" or a "playmate."

Lampo Nero, "Black Flash"
Kind, compassionate, and quietly tormented. Joined not from hatred but to spare others the loss that took his parents. Hates the sight of blood, hates the killing, and does it anyway "for the greater good." The only person ever to land a Critical Hit, after which he moves faster than the eye can follow.

Daisy Quinn, "Wall"
Gruff, angry, and immovable. Lost her family and an eye to a dangerous Anomaly before Section V pulled her from the wreckage. Holds the line behind a heavy shield and ends Anomalies with a reinforced lance. Hates them, all of them, without apology.

Diablo Infernos, "Hellfire"
The one who never takes the mask off. After finding his family frozen by his own transformed sister, he burned her, and his old self with her. Now he constantly inhales negative meteor energy so he can never become what he hunts, his ruined mind clouded by the fumes, his purple flame reducing Anomalies to ash.

Akumako Kaori, "Deliverance"
Convinced all Anomalies are demons wearing human faces, ever since her own withdrawn daughter changed and broke her mind with a wave of fear. Motherly to the innocent, firm and a little unstable, she rains explosive payloads from above on jetpack wings, certain she is purging demons from the world.

1) The Camp.
You find a hidden camp of the changed. A woman named Becky welcomes you in out of the rain, and begins to tell you she'd started to believe things might be alright. She never finishes the sentence. The camp begins to burn, and the man with the crimson blade is walking toward the door.

Author Note: This intro is open enough that ANY persona origin can work: human, anomaly, former Section V member, CSI member and so on.

2) The Support Group.
Before any of it had a name. A community center, bad coffee, a circle of folding chairs, and a room full of people who lost something to the same thing, finding each other. They make space for one more. None of them have decided yet what to do with their grief.

Author Note: Same as the previous one, open for any type of origin, although it is slightly inclined towards a human origin.

3) The Empty Nest.
As one of the CSI, you sweep a hideout the scanners swore held an Anomaly. Instead you find a single lonely room, lived in by one person, recently fled. The energy reading insists they're still here. No trail says they ever left.

Author Note: This intro is made for a CSI POV.

4) Empty Message.
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In other notes, we will be starting our first Section V character contest very soon, similar to the old google docs I had with character submissions, but this time you will have to respect a certain theme. The winner(s) will have their characters featured in a Section V bot and made part of the canon.

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