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Odd John: A Story Between Jest and Earnest

(Work for a comic adaptation done a few years ago)

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When the young people had enjoyed one another promiscuously for a period of many months, they seem to have passed into a new phase. They gradually sorted out into more or less constant couples. In some cases a couple would actually build for themselves a single cottage, but as a rule they were content to make free use of each other's private homes. In spite of these permanent 'marriages' there were many fleeting unions, which did not seem to break up the more serious relationship. Thus at one time or other nearly every lad was mated with nearly every lass. This statement may suggest that the islanders lived in a ceaseless round of promiscuous sexual activity. They did nothing of the sort. The sexual impulse was not violent in them. But though coitus was on the whole a rare event on the island, it was always permitted when both parties desired it. Moreover, though the culminating sexual act was rare, much of the normal social life of the island was flushed, so to speak, with a light-hearted and elegant sexuality.

Olaf Stapledon, Odd John

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Tomorrow Person/True Mutant/Homo novis/Homo superior (11 or 16-Point Quality)

Call them what you like, they fancy themselves to be the “Next Step in Human Evolution.” They aren’t, as many time travelers have attested, but they are a fascinating mutation-set. Tomorrow People have an Awakening in their teenage years, suddenly gaining many psionic powers. There are groups of people (and other things) out there that seek to guide them, and not all of them have their best intentions in mind. For instance, one race of demons like to guide them directly into their stomachs.

Various members of the supernatural community do not like them very much due to the actions of one “Odd” John Wainwright and his “Mutant Colony” of the 1930s, and his later attempt to win over the public with his “Academy of Tomorrow” in the 1960s (which blew up in his face in the “Phoenix” and “Onslaught” incidents years later) has left the Tomorrow People (and the talents, scions, and other oddities they collected under the label of them being “Mutants”) at odds with most other supernatural nations. Those who manage the Wainwright legacy try their best to turn it away from his manipulations and games, but... they are his students.

Tomorrow People have a +1 to Intelligence and +2 to Willpower. They may raise their Willpower to 8. They gain Wild Card (Psychic Powers) +3 and gain Supernatural Contacts (Other Tomorrow People) 1 because they make a habit of seeking each other out.

They also get a variety of psychic powers. Primarily, it grants them Telepathy 1 and Telekinesis 2. *In the program, they were shown with the ability to Teleport. This can be treated as Blink 5. However, they also had access to advanced technology, so that ability could be the result of that. If it is innately a part of them, then the quality costs 16-points. If not, then it costs 11-Points.

When using Blink, they use Wild Card (Psychic Powers) and Intelligence to determine its success.

They can manifest all sorts of psychic powers, but they have their share of flaws. They have Adversary 5 (Governments, Aliens, and Monsters) due to many years of Government trying to crush/exploit them, and other creatures trying to use or even eat them. They also gain several mental drawbacks. They have mild Delusions of Grandeur. They also have Honorable (minimal) in regards to being protective over other Tomorrow People. Sometimes to terrible results. *This paragraph constitutes an Update.

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Odd John: A Story Between Jest and Earnest. Olaf Stapledon. Methuen & Co., Ltd., London, 1935. First edition. Original dust jacket.

The jacket illustration captures Stapledon's notion of the titular John: half-child and half-philosopher, ruthless but not malicious, "a creature which appeared as urchin but also as sage, as imp but also as infant deity," a fallen angel with a face that is "half monkey, half gargoyle, yet wholly urchin, with its huge cat's eyes, its flat little nose, its teasing lips."

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Comrades, you have the wrong approach. Like you, we are Communists, but we are other things also. For you, Communism is the goal, but for us it is the beginning. For you the group is sacred, but for us it is only the pattern made up of individuals. Though we are Communists, we have reached beyond Communism to a new individualism. Our Communism is individualistic.

Olaf Stapledon, Odd John

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Hers must have been a strange life. Of course she gave herself for money, like any member of her profession, or of any other profession...She seems to have combined in her person the functions of harlot, psycho-analyst and priest.

Olaf Stapledon, Odd John

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There are several others in asylums, quite hopeless. And a hermaphrodite adolescent in a sort of home for incurables. And a man doing a life-sentence for murder. I fancy he might have been the real thing if he hadn't had a bit of his skull knowcked in when he was a kid. Then there's a lightning calculator, but he doesn't seem to be anything else. He's not really one of us at all, but he's got just one of the essential factors in his make up. Well, that's all there is of Homo Superior in these islands.

Olaf Stapledon, Odd John

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