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What’s Next for NetherWar?

Hello heroes! Alex checking in from the restful halls of my streaming break (more on that in another blog post) to let you all know a little bit about what we have in store for you when I return. I’m spending most of this month working on the next leg of our shared Earth-Prime saga which will be the return of our NetherWar heroes. I’m putting together a story that I am calling Freedom League Dark and the Multiverse of the Master Mage. I’m beyond excited to present this tale to you alongside my gifted cast of players.

This will be an epic piece spanning the breadth of the superhero genre in a way I haven’t tackled before. We will be visiting so many universes and facing off against some of the biggest threats in the Earth-Prime omniverse and beyond. There are so many villains in this piece that I have been dying to play for most of my superhero gaming career. As a writer, I’m approaching this very much with the mentality of an “epic level” campaign and our Freedom League Dark is the perfect group of characters to handle such a cosmic threat. Our characters are starting this game at PL 13 275 points and we’re only going up from there. I imagine we will probably reach PL 15 by the conclusion of this story arc; a Power Level I don’t think I’ve ever run a consistent game for.

I’ll be ramping up some more lore information about the story in the next few weeks, but we left the Freedom League Dark after their triumph over Una, Queen of the Netherworld, a victory that preserved Earth-Prime, but caused untold devastation elsewhere in the multiverse. This destruction was seemingly planned by their ally Adrian Eldritch, the former Master Mage of Earth. Our heroes are going to work with a coalition of notable heroes to try and set this right, while tracking down their erstwhile Master Mage before he can do anything worse, and they might just find themselves on the trail of one of the elusive Preserver Stones. It’s going to be a huge step forward for the overarching narrative of our shared universe, but also for the characters involved.

We’ll be seeing Resonant, Centuria, Mortis, and Bowman returning, but Overdrive seemed to have hung up the spandex at the end of last season, so Kevin’s character is a bit of a mystery…

These heroes survived a great deal in NetherWar and I’m excited to see them continue to grow and mature as the story goes on. I’m not even going to bother promising a lighter tone with this story, we’re going to be dealing with some pretty traumatic stuff in some pretty bleak places. However, that doesn’t mean there won’t be light. There are some uplifting plot points on the horizon that I’m excited to explore such as Mortis’ wedding, Resonant’s role in inspiring a new group of heroes in a Leifandi not unlike her own, Centuria reunited with Davey (even if he is in Ray Gardner’s body), and Bowman becoming a better mentor to his sidekick.

As for where we’ll be traveling in the multiverse, I won’t spoil everything, but I have a sizable list of locations to explore including:

  • GemStars version of Leifandi
  • Anti-Earth-Prime
  • Earth-Primal, but everyone’s an animal
  • The Terminus
  • Titan City
  • The DC Universe
  • The Marvel Universe
  • Earth-Prime 2140

Our heroes will be free to explore the multiverse at their own pace. I will be leaving most of the direction of their investigation in their hands, and my intent is to make this experience a sandbox in a way I never have as a GM before. It’s a challenge I’m eager to face. The Freedom League Dark will be based out of a location I’m calling the Nexus Point. The Nexus Point is a side effect of NetherWar, the cascading magical energies caused the Nerian Nexus, the Sanctum Sanctorum, Club Tartarus, and the Tower of Fate to collide and reform into this bizarre architectural monstrosity. The Point will have its own mystery to solve, and I’m eager to see the players’ reactions to it.

The last thing to announce is when this show is getting on the road. We will begin the Multiverse of the Master Mage on February 20th, 2023 and we will be back to our weekly Monday schedule. I anticipate that this story will take at least a year to tell and I am so excited to have you along the way to support us. Thank you again for bearing with me while I take some time to get this game going and I look forward to seeing you all again real soon!