Daredevil: The Adventure

By Tatu Kairi

Step 1

You play an adrenaline junkie. The point of the game is to go around the world pulling stunts.

Step 2

Step 3

The secret society live among normal people. But instead of securing their financial life by working, they spend their time doing crazy stunts and living on their own.

Step 4

In the beginning...

In the beginning of time, the Reality was born. "They" were born a few seconds later. They were The Ancient Ones. Their purpose was to watch over Reality and see that it worked properly.

But Reality grew. And then it grew some more. When Reality grew REALLY big, they created Earth in the crossing point of all the universums, thus becoming the nexus, crossing point of these universums. Through the planet, they controlled all the universums. But then came the Ancient Evil (which isn't exactly as ancient as the Ancient Ones), who wanted the Reality for itself, and the key to this was the nexus, the Earth. It created a man on the planet, a man who started a war with The Ancient Ones. The Ancient Ones lost, I mean, how do you keep Reality in check AND fight humans? They had to flee. But as they left, they made damn sure that Evil wouldn't win. They planted a seed in humans, a seed we call the adrenaline gland. This gland produces adrenaline (whoa! Slow down here!).

For centuries, adrenaline was wasted on actions like getting away from beasts (This was because The Ancient Ones wanted The Ancient Evil to get away from Earth before their plan would mess up the Evil's plan). But then evolution come into the picture, and soon humans had no real threats. But the craving for adrenaline was still there, and soon humans started to invent dangerous and potentially lethal actions to get the adrenaline dose they needed.

Then...

During the millennia, The Ancient Evil came back and the Crave left the people due to its actions. The plan of the Ancient Ones was failing, so they had to return. They chose a few people, whom they told what was going on. These men and women, Daredevils, as The Ancient Ones called them, had to take care of the Nexus now. By doing certain stunts, like jumping off a certain building on certain time, they re-channelled the Chi, a controlling force of Reality, through themselves to where it belongs. The very first Daredevils quickly noticed that the Crave wasn't removed, it was repressed. So they started to wake people up, see what was going on and make their duty to keep the Reality in control.

Now...

These stunts are considered sports, extreme sports. The practitioners of these sports are spread all over the world. So, when you see a skater pull 900 at the park, or read about another woman who has climbed Mount Everest, you know they're just keeping everything in check.

Step 4a

Then later on there'll be people who think the Chi should flow freely. (Still have to make sure it flows, but appointed "jump there then, so a new universe would born somewhere" actions are unnecessary).

Step 5

How about... the Ancient Evil I mentioned earlier? The Ancient Evil works through people who're against extreme sports.

Optional Rule: It's against law to practise extreme sports in this world. (For those who want to be even more away from reality :)). Also through misfortune: every time the bungee rope "happens" to break, it's the Evil behind it.

Step 6

Of course, the "tribes" are actually divided by sports. We have rock-climbers, bungee-jumpers, bladers, etc... Get me? Each have different attributes. (i.e rock-climbers have "climb" where skaters have "air". Some attributes are universal, though.)

Step 6a

Daredevil: the Adventure hasn't got one specific dead group, but every "tribe" has this mysterious, now dead, "old-school". There are sill few people who belong to this "old-school" and they are considered wise but also bit of insane about the Purpose (see Step 2).

Step 6b

Again, there's no specific "bad group" but again within each "tribe" is a group of "wannabes". They are the henchmen of The Ancient Evil and their purpose is to damage the image of sport in the point where public turns against the Daredevils of this exact sport.

Step 7

Daredevils all have increased bravery, when compared to normal people. The other special powers are heavily associated with the sport the PC plays (i.e wall-climbers are good at climbing, BMX riders can ride their bike practically anywhere.)

Step 8

Gotcha, they go in the Player's Handbook

Step 9

Hehee, I'm one step ahead of you: there will be different character sheets for each sport!

Step 10

Every attribute is called by the appropriate slang word.

Step 11

There are no parties. They are called teams.

Step 12

Picture of a guy hanging on a ledge with one hand, facing the viewer: "Some say we're crazy. We know better."

Step 13

Why play "Daredevil: the Adventure LARP"?

Well, it's easier, you don't have to spend lot's of time and money to find suitable gear. Just lot's of money (brand clothes, etc...) :)

(Maybe do sponsor deal with Nike say, and then promote their clothes in the book. Big pimpin' baby!!!)

Step 14

Gotcha. T-Shirts. Produced by Nike who we now have a sponsor deal with. Big pimpin' baby!!!

Step 15

Of course there will be Second Edition. And also lot's and LOT'S of Handbooks how to play each sport and and and... >:)

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