An insanely wealthy, anonymous benefactor selects a small crew to man and test-drive the Infinity Engine, a staggeringly high-order piece of theoretical technology capable of surfing dimensions.
The Infinity Engine throws our intrepid adventurers on a rollercoaster ride of dimensional shifts, only to return them to exactly where they started. The jaunt through a million dimensions occured in just under one minute. Outside of a vortex of light, sound and sensation, the crew of the Infinity Engine have no recollection of their experience.
Soon after, however, the crew begins exhibiting strange and fantastic new powers, apparently as they have been changed by their experiences. Maybe it was weird radiations, inexplicable dimensional fluxes, psyche-swapping with aliens, an alternate divergent lifetime realized--who knows, but the adventurers are in our world now. Heaven help them.
And so begins The Infinity Crew, an ongoing campaign that I envision as an updated version of the Fantastic Four taken to its inevitable bizarre end.
Ideally, the Infinity Crew would start out as normal humans, though it would stand to reason these 'normals' would represent some use to an experiment such as this. It stands to reason, for instance, that a theoretical physicist, astronaut, linguist or cosmologist would be chosen before, say, a fashion model, gang member or soldier.
Does the Infinity Crew involve the Marvel Universe? Possibly. Though an element of the campaign may involve some dimension-hopping, during which anything is possible, the main storyline is not part of the mainstream MU. This also marks the PCs as their world's first superhumans.
What will the Infinity Crew do? That's a good question. Initially, the game will revolve around the PCs discovering how the Infinity Engine has changed them. Discovery will remain a constant theme. From there, however, we might take the game in any direction.
Are you in? Post here, or drop me a private line. Either way, I'd like to hear your ideas.