🌎 general comicverse

• Borrowing from ~lineart, comicverse weeks happen during the third week of each month. During CV weeks, characters may assume their comicverse identities and get involved with CV week plot. CSA and SPYRAL activity (more below) may increase during CV weeks, as more supers will be aware of their CV lives and who they are. At comicbooks, all characters are automatically opted in to CV weeks. Each month, the mods will post an opt-out post for those who choose not to participate.
• Outside of CV weeks, characters are not aware of their CV lives unless they've been told about them by other characters or if their CV selves have left notes for them. They'll notice that they've missed a week out of the month but won't be able to account for their whereabouts or their actions during that time. What happens during CV week does not completely stay in CV week, as these weeks do have lasting effects including as property destruction and injuries. Characters might have powers or items unlocked in the AU, but they might think that costume is just a costume and they're 'special' but not that special. Characters will carry on as always, but living in a reality where it's been confirmed that superpowered individuals exist.
• Characters who have "lifted the veil" after experiencing at least three CV weeks will be able to remember CV weeks and live their CV identities all the time.
• In addition to canonical comicverse teams like The Avengers and The Justice League, supers are also allowed and encouraged to create their own teams and work together. We welcome and encourage players to form new teams!

📖 publishers

• CVs from Marvel, DC, Dark Horse, Image Comics, IDW, Titan, Boom! Studios and Valiant Comics are welcome as long as they fit into the superhero/supervillain theme. If you have questions about whether a CV fits, just ask the mods. We do not allow characters from Dynamite Comics in the game.
• As of August 2021, we now allow licensed characters to be played in game. What is a licensed character? A licensed character is a character that originated in other forms of media but also appear in comic books. For example, Buffy from Buffy the Vampire Slayer is now available for play as Buffy has a series of licensed comics published by Boom! Studios (and formerly Dark Horse).

💎 the snappening

• In August 2018, Boston's underground population of supers and their loved ones mysteriously vanished, only to reappear in the San Francisco Bay Area as if they had always lived there.
• Thanks to a mischievous imp named Mister Mxyzptlk and a Mad Titan's snappy fingers, the world of shifters and regular humans has been altered completely. After four years of living in the shadows, supers have been exposed to the public, leading many to question how the world is going to handle them. Superhero insurance has been created to offset damage related to their cause and lawmakers are attempting to make sense of the legal in-and-outs of this new reality. And these supers aren't 'just' heroes; they're the heroes and villains the world has known, loved, and hated for years thanks to comic books.
• Since The Snappening, superheroes and villains are free to integrate themselves into public life, with or without the masks they wear. Being a superhero is treated similarly to being a celebrity, and some may bask in this while others do not. Business owners court the endorsements of heroes for their businesses and even more fan clubs have popped up.

💼 the commission on superhuman activities (csa)

• With the world now aware of their existence, the government has publicly stepped in and claimed responsibility for cleaning up after supers and helping businesses recover from any damages incurred as a result of superhuman activities. Unbeknownst to anyone, a movement embedded deep within the government has been trying to deal with the activities of heroes and villains for years, and as a result: a top-secret federal program called the Commission on Superhuman Activities (CSA) was established and has been operating under cover of darkness since 2015. The CSA was developed to monitor, study, and handle superheroes villains and their affairs. Think of this as something similar to the Men in Black but for supers: for the past few years, this is how the public has been left unaware of previous battles and superhero-related events. While the CSA could not control the "powered" folk, they could attempt to provide regular citizens with protection from their actions. But even they had no idea that these people were comic book characters. As far as they were concerned, they were simply people with strange abilities.

• The CSA is currently run by Nick Fury and Natasha Romanoff, with Natasha Romanoff running the SPYRAL Division. Recently, Rip Hunter has been absorbed into the CSA in order to run the Time Variance Authority. All are NPCs run by the mods.

• If you would like to have your character join the CSA, please contact the mods here!

• 🏢 WORKING FOR THE CSA

• CSA DIVISIONS

CSA Agents

🦸 vigilantes

Those who choose not to work with the CSA but continue to live as supers are considered vigilantes. Currently, being a vigilante is not illegal, but insurance companies are hesitant to take chances and risks on them, and the general public may have questions and concerns over these types of supers as well. Despite their lack of official program participation, vigilantes are still being monitored by the government, as the CSA continues to keep a close eye on current events to find those who exhibit powers or abilities that seem…well, super), whether hero or villain.