Marathon
The other day, @voxorbisdesigns and I were discussing a superhero setting we're working on, and he trotted out one of those ideas that crops up regularly: the idea that, maybe, people get the superpowers that they subconsciously desire.
I have mentioned in the past that every TTRPG I run, no matter the genre, will eventually turn into a horror game, so it is unsurprising that, wholly unbidden, a horrible possibility occurred to me.
They're a runner. They run for fun. They run for pleasure. They're always out there on the track in the park; they sign up for 10K runs and marathons. They rarely come in first, but they're not there to compete with anyone but themselves, always pushing to go a little farther, go a little faster.
And when they get hit with super-powers, they get superspeed.
Perfect superspeed.
Full-on physics-be-damned comic book superspeed. Frictionless, intertialess. They can move as fast as they want, as fast as they can conceive, with barely any exertion or effort.
The down side?
They never realized it, but they ran for the endorphin high, the surge of Happy Neurochemicals that you get when you push yourself to your limits and past them.
But now … they don't have any limits.
Which means they can't get that high by running.
Inspired in large measure by "Marathon", by Rush.
