Spliced Realms

• All Gifts must be generated randomly. After earning a gift, GM generates a random power for each victorious Contractor. Gift must be taken as it was generated, no changing its enhancements, drawbacks, or parameters.
• Contractors may opt to spend an improvement on removing a drawback from gift of their choice.
• You may ignore gift cost, as well as Veteran and Seasoned locking. Cantrip no longer caps gifts on a power.
• Fill out non-randomized options for your power, including, but not limited to, Activation and Defensive Roll, Gift Name, Visual Description. These options must all make some sense together.
• Contractors cannot be created with Gifted or Charon Coin.
• Because this is a private playgroup, and also because of the nature of the powers, Contractors are not portable, and cannot participate in Contracts outside of this playgroup under any circumstances.

It has been only two weeks since the first occurrence of supernatural was discovered. First Contractors participated in first Contracts – not all of them making it out. Some Contractors kept things under the wrap, be it via their skills, or circumstances of their Contract. And some were, well…

[A low-quality video is being played. It is recorded from phone in vertical position, and is shaking quite heavily. Video shows a rural area; some buildings are seen in the distance. It is dusk. A giant spider is running in a middle of a field, before being run over by an SUV. A person jumps out of the SUV, and runs away, as spider tries and fails to get SUV off of itself. Seconds later, the SUV explodes, together with the spider. The video ends.]

The video quickly becomes the talks of the world news. The place where the video was recorded is soon identified – some small town of barely thirty people somewhere in rural USA. Investigation resulted in a shocking discovery – an entire population of the town covered in web (thankfully, still alive, if terrified), as well as five unwebbed bodies and two dozens of dead dog-sized spiders.

According to victims, they came at night out of nowhere, broke into their houses, webbed them, and dragged them out, onto the streets. They were expecting the worst, until only half a day later they could hear gunshots, a single explosion, and then, silence. They thought they were being rescued by the police or the military, but it seems like the townsfolks were saved by the group of six people, with five of them dying in the process. Their identities were not released to the public, and the only survivor of the group is yet to be identified.

Fear grips the nation, as the small communities arm themselves, afraid of their town suffering the same fate, with no one being there to save them in time.