[MoDaVader]

The MERLIN Chronicles is an Indiana Jones-like game, with ancient treasures, mysterious powers and lots of adventure. We finished the second chapter and need some new volunteers going into the third. Players new to the system are more than welcome. Note: this game is slow-moving, with an average of a post per week. That's just the reality of how this game works, so don't expect to go too much faster. If that's too slow for your tastes, please don't apply.

New characters will be part of the European resistance, as there is no other plausible way to get your characters involved. That doesn't mean you can't be American (perhaps you were a paragon soldier separated from the others). You must also be able to speak English. Format your applications like the ones on the Volunteer List here. Make sure you include a name (no code names), physical description (pictures are nice but not required), personality, background, a description of your powers, and a writing sample. I'm using the Paragons and Golden Age supplements to MnM 2e, but neither are required. The game is now PL 6, but effectively 5 for all limits and caps required at character creation. Stats are not the most important part. The other PC's were accepted more on the strength of their characters than anything else. When it comes to powers, don't tell me in game mechanics what you want to do; tell me what you want to do and we'll make it work within the rules. Remember to try and be appropriate to the time period and tone and you should be good to go.

Take a look at the Volunteer List in the game forum for what's already in the game (and the Records Office to see who used to be). Give me something different than what's been done. Remember, if you want to play an American male character, you either need to have a reason to be exempt from military service or have a rank; otherwise you're not likely to be in Europe anyway. I like to see a variety in age, race, economic class, education--not just a variety in powers. The more original an idea is, the more I'm likely to like it.

The ancient gods were real. Over two millennia ago, a group of con artists gifted with paragon abilities assumed the mantle of the Greek gods and Chinese Immortals. War eventually split them apart. This war was over the secrets contained in the scroll of Zeus: the formula of their immortality and the truth about how they'd received their paragon abilities. On one side, the power-hungry Zeus led the Olympians in stopping the Immortals and the rebel Greek gods (that is, Apollo, Artemis, Hades, and Hephaestus). Though many gods were killed, the rebels successfully hid the scroll beneath the Parthenon and went into hiding as mortals. The surviving Chinese Immortals disguised themselves as the characters of Arthurian myth: Merlin, the Lady of the Lake, and Morgan Le Fey.

A thousand years passed and the Blackout happened. It was 1937 and a whole new generation of paragons appeared on the Earth. An American volunteer team learned of the scroll beneath the Parthenon and went in search of it. After dodging the Italian fascists, they recovered it. They also discovered that their mysterious ally Albert Finchley and his sister Adelaide were truly Apollo and Artemis, protecting the scroll from the agents of Zeus. Hades, the keeper of the paragon dead, now went by the name of Mr. Hector Rose. Though the volunteers now have the scroll, the only one who can decode it is Merlin, who was captured by the Nazis in Vienna, Austria. While Finchley keeps the scroll safe, the volunteers are now headed into Vienna, hoping to rescue the one man who can decode the scroll and reveal the secrets of the paragons' powers . . .

I think that about covers it, but if you have any questions, feel free to ask. Now let's see what you got.