This is the landing page for Project Switch related writings. Project Switch is a worldbuilding project for the work-in-progress tabletop RPG that I am also working on. This page serves as a collection of the handful of short stories and speeches that I’ve written for the world.
If you’d like to know more, or are interested in playing the RPG, check out the itch.io page and Discord server, linked below.
Across the world, millions of children under the age of 5 disappear from their homes. A few days later, they are returned, but in the wrong places. A few days later, the first superheroes reveal themselves: they had always been here, but this time, they had failed.
Nearly 20 years and numerous tragedies later, the world is a very different place. ASALEA, the Anti-Superpowered Attack League of Europe and the Americas, controls and regulated superhuman policing efforts, led by the Zodiac Team of Heroes. However, an anti-supe terrorist organization known as Wildfire has emerged, and may change the face of the world once again…
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Libra addresses the world at an ASALEA press conference on February 15, 2041: the day after the Valentine’s Day tragedy at Philadelphia. Yesterday was a tragedy. I don’t think that I need to tell any of you that. Millions of lives were lost. Though we at ASALEA managed to prevent the anomaly from spreading across read more here!
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On the horizon, the city burned. Leo watched the flames rage and bit his nails. He wasn’t sure how the fire had started. Kaiju didn’t make fire, only steam, and there were plenty of pyrokinetic supes in the fray, but nobody who could start something on this scale. Maybe some electrical lines went down, or- read more here!
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The woman, glowing with a pale golden light, floated above the city of Fukuoka and looked down over it, surveying the destruction. It was horrifying. At least a quarter of the city was completely leveled. You could visually trace the path the monster had taken: it had broken shore a ways west of the city read more here!
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CW: animal abuse, child abuse Kyle Fredrickson looked down at his hands. They were not particularly interesting hands. They were boring, even: lightly calloused from his years of work as a bartender, a few freckles on the backs, and some wispy brown hair on the backs of the knuckles. He clenched both hands into a read more here!
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Delivered at the United Nations Headquarters on July 12, 2031 in response to the public emergence of Heracles as the first hero and the fallout from the Switch. This speech announced the creation of Aegis and would become (in)famous as the start of the first Age of Heroes. People of Earth, I am sure that read more here!