Superhero 101

About the adventure

The city is a gothic fantasy metropolis on the brink of ruin. Corruption is everywhere — in city hall, in the police, in the streets. Lunatics stalk the alleys, mob bosses rule entire neighborhoods, and street thugs enforce their own brutal order while ordinary people try to survive another night. Then the sky breaks. After a strange and violent weather phenomenon tears across the city, things begin to change. Some people develop impossible abilities. Others don’t. Rumors spread, fear rises, and the balance of power shifts overnight. The city doesn’t know what it’s becoming — and neither do you. In this one-shot, you play figures caught in that moment of collapse and transformation. You might be a newly empowered hero struggling to define yourself, a masked vigilante relying on skill and obsession rather than powers, or an anti-hero willing to do what others won’t. Capes and masks exist, but so do doubt, compromise, and consequences. This is a player-driven game with no railroading. Your choices shape the night, the city’s response, and the story’s outcome. Who you protect, who you confront, and what lines you’re willing to cross all matter. Power — or the lack of it — changes people, and not always for the better. The tone is dark, stylish, and dramatic, inspired by gothic superhero fiction and noir storytelling. Heroism is possible, but never simple, and the city always pushes back. The Mage: the Awakening system is used purely as a flexible mechanical framework to represent powers, extraordinary abilities, and cinematic action. Characters are not mages in the fiction, and no prior system knowledge is required session 0 will be free to ensure everyone is having fun and feels welcome and safe. We are gonna play weekly or bi-weekly based on the preferance of the group.