• Make sure to get your Contractors and Gifts looked over by the GM before playing a Contract with them for the first time!
  
• In character creation, can take a maximum of 5 Assets/Liabilities that cost XP. Zero cost Assets/Liabilities are exempt from this rule.
• Until Playgroup Leader (TotalFarmage) says otherwise, players are limited to a total of 2 Contractors each. This number will go up eventually (new Contractors need to be approved still!)
• Supernatural Powers: All non-mastery, non-concealed Powers must be obviously supernatural when activated or grant a mutation that marks the wielder as supernatural or bizarre if discovered.
• Restricted Assets/Liabilities cannot be taken on your first Contractor for the Playgroup. For your 2nd+ Contractors, work things out with your Playgroup Leader first.

Our world has begun to crack open, they say.

Long in the future of an alternate universe, the world has split in two. The eastern and western hemispheres have isolated themselves from each other, and things have tried their best to stagnate. The Americas became allies, then partners, then the same thing. They joined together into a new country, known simply as the "New West", and assimilated the surrounding waters and locales until everything was under the same banner. They acted as though they were gearing up for war, but instead... they just didn't. Like nothing had ever happened, life just went back to normal.

It was a tough adjustment for a lot of people. The sudden snap away from wartime efforts induced a confused whiplash on the populace, confused and concerned about the sudden change in demeanor. With the downtime in effect, New West began to develop, and many cities and areas began coalescing, development clumping people together into clustering supercities. One such city is the 'Sidewinder Supercity', which has formed out of the entirety of the former United States' west coast, stretching from the coast itself to the Rocky Mountains. At the end of the day, it was obvious that peace was far better than war, and with resources and attention turned elsewhere, the public quickly forgot as life was (somewhat forcefully) returned to normal.

But now, decades and decades later, evidence begins to pop up that it was never normal to begin with. It soon became obvious that the sky was slowly tinting red with each day and each year has the world's temperature ticking upwards. The world is on a slow downward spiral to the end, and its source is mysterious and logically absent to even the most dedicated of public researchers.

To go along with these strange changes, whispers of the occult have become far more pervading in modern day. Mentions of strange beings lurking in the shadows of alleyways, derelict buildings and abandoned basements make strange sounds, and sewers tint themselves colors never before seen. Those especially superstitious say that the world is fragmenting, and that beings from another dimension have begun invading ours.

And with mystery comes The Powers That Be. Those who are interested by nothing more than conflict have begun to surface in the world once more, and spread their tendrils through New West, and through Sidewinder. Their agents slip through the shadows above, just as monsters skulk through the shadows below. What The Powers want, nobody knows, but one thing is for sure.

Harbingers have begun to reach out, and Contracts are being signed as we speak.