Ascension - A World Changed By The Resonance

# ⚡ ASCENSION ( Version 1.4 - 07/10/26 ) > Pull someone out of a collapsing building. Miss your dinner reservation. Discover that the person you saved has much stronger opinions about your technique than you expected. > > Welcome to Nebula City. Superpowers have become part of everyday life. People build careers around them, hide them, exploit them, study them, and occasionally use them to make an ordinary job slightly easier. Hero agencies answer emergency calls. Hospitals deal with injuries their textbooks barely cover. Neighbourhoods rebuild after incidents that everyone else has stopped talking about. Somewhere, someone is making a dangerous plan. And the city keeps living. **Ascension brings superhero action, personal stories, romance and everyday life into the same world—with room to decide where you belong.** ## 🧬 Build Someone You Want to Play Create your character’s appearance, personality, background, professional standing and approach to relationships. Choose a superpower and the experience you bring to using it, or build your life around ordinary skill in an extraordinary city. You might be an established professional, a civilian discovering new possibilities, an aspiring hero, or someone whose choices attract less welcome attention. Power classification, practical expertise and public reputation each matter in different ways. Tremendous power can belong to an inexperienced person. Years of training can belong to someone without a power at all. **Decide who you are when the story begins. Discover who you become through play.** ## 🏙️ A City With Places Worth Returning To Nebula City has agency offices, medical districts, industrial neighbourhoods, crowded markets, community spaces and somewhere to get a decent meal after a difficult day. Browse Harbor Mouth Market. Spend an evening on the Promenade Boardwalk. Watch the skyline from Stargazer Observatory Cafe. Get drawn into the problems facing Crater Row—or become a familiar face to the people trying to improve it. Authored locations, factions and characters give these places their own concerns and connections. Your next visit might involve unfinished business, a familiar argument, or someone pleased you came back. ## ⚔️ Power, Practice and Consequences Develop skills, learn techniques and put your abilities to work in combat, rescue, investigation and ordinary life. Health and stamina give injury, exertion and recovery a place in the story. Equipment supports what you do. Training matters when a situation calls for precision, judgement or a steady hand. There is room for spectacular action—and for the consequences that follow it home. ## 🫂 People Behind the Powers Meet heroes, physicians, technicians, administrators, workers and people who would very much like to finish their shift. They have ambitions, loyalties, disagreements and lives outside your immediate concerns. Some are easier to like than to work with. Some show affection by remembering your order. Some will argue with you because they care what happens next. Friendships, rivalries and romance can develop through what you actually share. An interested person might make the first move. A close friend might remain exactly that. An established relationship has room for familiar affection, shared routines and disagreements that do not erase everything that came before. ## ☕ Yes, You Can Just Have an Evening Challenge someone at an arcade. Try a food stall. Join a casual game. Discover that a highly competent professional has an enthusiastically mediocre hobby. Humour comes from personalities, shared history and people being people. Quiet time has a place here: a date, a conversation, a small project, or an afternoon you needed after a demanding week. **The city has room for days you will remember because they were good.** ## 🔎 Follow What Catches Your Attention Optional local stories involve the people and places around you: housing, workplace safety, medical services and decisions with consequences for those who live there. Deeper in the city, suspicious activity and hidden agendas offer more dangerous questions. Choose what interests your character. Investigate, help, negotiate, walk away, or return when something gives you a reason to care. ## 🛠️More to Come Ascension is an ongoing project, built with detailed character creation, authored world content, interconnected systems and extensive guidance for character behaviour and continuity. Future updates will bring additional content, refinements and fixes. Reports from actual play—what worked, what felt off, and what you would like to see—will help shape where the world goes next. **Feedback / requests on discord appreciated : alexein9**