X-men, take two...

[NikitaFirestar]

I'm well aware that the earlier game of X-men is still there, or at least somewhat going, but at the request of a new friend that joined Elliquiy, I would like to have another started up, to mirror somewhat of what we both had in another rp place that may be closing soon. I would GM the game, but with medical issues and such irl, I'm not certain that it would be fair to everyone the amount of attention I would be able to pay them. If anyone is interested, pm me and let me know, or hit me up on one of my messengers. Thank you!

[thymoit]

I'm interested.  Do you have a timeframe when this would start?  Would we take the roles of classic X-men, or one of the more recent movies?  Or be a new generation of X-men all of our own design?

System or systemless?

[NikitaFirestar]

Free form, and the way it was played in the other site was that there were original characters, if you so choose, but there are other options as well, like in the recent movies. For example, I have to characters that I played there. One was the daughter of Psylocke and ArchAngel, the other was something akin to Daredevil, only younger, and female.

It's pretty open as to what the timeline is, it just needs to be later in life of the original X-men. For example, for my first character to work, it would have to be in a time where Psylocke and ArchAngel are old enough to have a 22 year old daughter. If Psylocke is even considered alive, at this point. *Chuckles*

[Dreamy]

Although considering the amount of timetravel, dimension hopping and magical boosts and alternations, Psylocke and ArchAngel could have a 22 y.o. daughter the day after they first met ;)

[NikitaFirestar]

*Chuckles* This is true, but we're hoping to keep this somewhat simple at first.

[Xerial]

I´m alway pro X-Men... and I beleive in all my ´World´ hopping I´ve been neglectful of a certain post... haven´t I?

[NikitaFirestar]

*Chuckles* If you're referring to where Psylocke is still in the rec room, then yes...

[Zakharra]

 Umm... mind if a old X-Men lover creeps in?

[zarduun]

The more people joining, the merrier :D

As Nikita said, I'm new here though she and I have been rping for nearly a year now.  Also, as she said the characters are rather open to what you would like to play.  One little twist that got thrown in, is this.  DC Comics exhist in this game in two ways.  Fictionaly it appears as movies, comic books and pretty much every way they exhist in reality.

Now the explanation for this is that one of the original founders and still in the employees are people that get dreams/visions of the world of DC Comics.  As a newborn, my character slipped from Marvel NYC to DC Comics Coast City.  He was adopted by Alexander Jordan, a younger brother of Hal Jordan.  He was in Gotham City when Coast City was destroyed by Mongol, and for a little extra twist it was his birthday, too.  He lived in mourning for a few years and during that time slowly came to befriend Kyle Rayner.  Eventually Kyle becomes tired of being the only wielder of the power ring, and feels it is time to be in the hands of a Jordan once again.  When Mark places the ring on his finger, the only thing he can think of is "I just want to go home".  To him, home is Coast City.  In the reality of things however, 'home' is Marvel NYC so that is where he finds himself.

In the original game, due to a few people complaining Mark was the only character allowed to cross over as a player character.  From time to time I npc'ed a character as Mark grew up with the Justice League.  If someone wanted to bring a DC character over, that is fine.  Just so you know they would have previous dealings with Mark.  Most likely they would even have been at the wedding of Nikita's and my characters thanks to a little help from Doctor Fate.

[Elven Sex Goddess]

NikitaFirestar I am also quite interested in a X-Men game. 

[LordAnubis]

As often as I can post I'm intrested in X-men.

[Zakharra]

 Ok, what do I do and who do I have to tortur.. err.. talk to to get in? ::)

[Elven Sex Goddess]

Sent you Nikitafirestar and zardunn a character idea for the game. 

[indarkestknight]

So... I'm not sure anyone here has really expressed interest in GMing the game... but if no one else has, I'd be willing. I'm a bit swamped right now, but things in RL should lighten up when January rolls around, so in the meantime, I could do set up. I'd likely be orienting the game more along the lines of a plot as opposed to the previous X-men game, though.

[ZK]

I like X-Men too, but I lurve Deadpool. But, I'm curious. You play as custom X-Men or those already made?

[thymoit]

Would anyone be interested in playing the other half of a duo for this X-man game?  Many of the X-men had uncontrolled powers in some way, I'm thinking of a pair that is better than the whole, each needing the other to help control their own power.  Example pairings might be:

Fire and Ice
Light and Dark
Life and Death
Order and Chaos
Positive and Negative
Motion and Stasis

Anyone interested?  We could work out details by PM.

[indarkestknight]

I like X-Men too, but I lurve Deadpool. But, I'm curious. You play as custom X-Men or those already made?

I think that would depend on who's DM, really. Me? I'd say either, though certain things do need to be worked out (whether House of M applies or not, what the fallout of Civil War is, and any other issues we have with canon, including whether we want to do an alternaverse, set it in the future of the canon, or both).

That said, would anyone else who's interested in DMing speak up so I know whether to ask the gods to set up the board?

[Zakharra]

 I'm thinking of a unique character, not someone canon for the X-Men universe. I'll send her in as soon as I know who's the DM(s).

[LordAnubis]

I'd like to make a custom character if I get to play.  the major mutants personality are so developed and I don't know them.  Would hate to butcher a character's personality as mine bleeds in.

[ZK]

Yeah, as much as I love the cooky Deadpool, I'd say making custom mutants would be better.

[NikitaFirestar]

Alrighty... From the looks of things, myself and Zarduun are going to be the GMs for the time being. You all can go ahead and start sending both of us your characters, and we'll let you know how things progress! Thanks!

[Zakharra]

 Cool! Sending away..

[ZK]

So what do we send just exactly?

[Praxis]

The more people joining, the merrier :D

As Nikita said, I'm new here though she and I have been rping for nearly a year now.  Also, as she said the characters are rather open to what you would like to play.  One little twist that got thrown in, is this.  DC Comics exhist in this game in two ways.  Fictionaly it appears as movies, comic books and pretty much every way they exhist in reality.

Now the explanation for this is that one of the original founders and still in the employees are people that get dreams/visions of the world of DC Comics.  As a newborn, my character slipped from Marvel NYC to DC Comics Coast City.  He was adopted by Alexander Jordan, a younger brother of Hal Jordan.  He was in Gotham City when Coast City was destroyed by Mongol, and for a little extra twist it was his birthday, too.  He lived in mourning for a few years and during that time slowly came to befriend Kyle Rayner.  Eventually Kyle becomes tired of being the only wielder of the power ring, and feels it is time to be in the hands of a Jordan once again.  When Mark places the ring on his finger, the only thing he can think of is "I just want to go home".  To him, home is Coast City.  In the reality of things however, 'home' is Marvel NYC so that is where he finds himself.

In the original game, due to a few people complaining Mark was the only character allowed to cross over as a player character.  From time to time I npc'ed a character as Mark grew up with the Justice League.  If someone wanted to bring a DC character over, that is fine.  Just so you know they would have previous dealings with Mark.  Most likely they would even have been at the wedding of Nikita's and my characters thanks to a little help from Doctor Fate.

So...just so I have a better understanding.

You're doing an X-men theme that can also include do-it-yourself mutants, as well as heroes from the DC universe?  But they need to have "powers" right?  So no Batman, Robin, Green Arrow, Red Arrow...etc?

[Praxis]

Not Red Arrow...Arsenal.

Sorry about that.

<-- old skool

[zarduun]

Nikita will definetly have a final say on this, but I wouldn't say the characters 'have' to have powers.  Grant it power wise Batman is mortal.  But mortal does not mean helpless.  Why do you think he carries around a sliver of kryptonite concealed in his utility belt?  The man has contigency plans for situations he hasn't even encountered yet.

All niceness aside, Batman is a paranoid and manipulative semi-likeable jerk.  The only time he was ever given news that silenced him was when Superman and Wonder Woman sat him down and told him that WW was pregnant, and that they wanted him to be the child's god father as they felt he would be able to impart a humanity on the child that as an alien and near goddess they could not.  When WW comments that they finally gave him news that caught him off guard and made him quiet...he wasn't caught off guard.. he was quieted by realizing they were basically placing quite possibly the most powerful being on the planet in his care..

So aye, feel free to bring those Mortals in to play, just because you may not exactly fit into the school doesn't mean there won't be fun to be had in New York City.  The Marvel Universe is such a diverse ammount of characters, it seems a shame to limiting people to just being a student at Xavier's Academy.

[indarkestknight]

And if he weren't paranoid and manipulative, the JLA would be screwed. Ever read Trial by Fire? I admit, taking special note of Tower of Babel as I do, that it isn't always for the best, but they need him. Why? Because, yes, he's paranoid, yes, he's manipulative, but he's also usually right.

[Zakharra]

The only time he was ever given news that silenced him was when Superman and Wonder Woman sat him down and told him that WW was pregnant, and that they wanted him to be the child's god father as they felt he would be able to impart a humanity on the child that as an alien and near goddess they could not.  When WW comments that they finally gave him news that caught him off guard and made him quiet...he wasn't caught off guard.. he was quieted by realizing they were basically placing quite possibly the most powerful being on the planet in his care..

WW got pregnat?!  :o :o

[indarkestknight]

Kingdom Come. Non-canon. Possible future. I liked it, though-- good story.

[Praxis]

Nikita will definetly have a final say on this, but I wouldn't say the characters 'have' to have powers.  Grant it power wise Batman is mortal.  But mortal does not mean helpless.  Why do you think he carries around a sliver of kryptonite concealed in his utility belt?  The man has contigency plans for situations he hasn't even encountered yet.

All niceness aside, Batman is a paranoid and manipulative semi-likeable jerk.  The only time he was ever given news that silenced him was when Superman and Wonder Woman sat him down and told him that WW was pregnant, and that they wanted him to be the child's god father as they felt he would be able to impart a humanity on the child that as an alien and near goddess they could not.  When WW comments that they finally gave him news that caught him off guard and made him quiet...he wasn't caught off guard.. he was quieted by realizing they were basically placing quite possibly the most powerful being on the planet in his care..

So aye, feel free to bring those Mortals in to play, just because you may not exactly fit into the school doesn't mean there won't be fun to be had in New York City.  The Marvel Universe is such a diverse ammount of characters, it seems a shame to limiting people to just being a student at Xavier's Academy.

I'm well aware of the type of guy the Bat is...but if the title of the game is "X-Men" then ideally, everyone present is a mutant.

So I'll mull it over and come up with a hero.

A question.  Is it in the aftermath of the mutants getting wiped by Scarlet Witch, as well as Civil War?

[Praxis]

So...how about Task Master, looking to walk the path of the angels now, instead of being a bad ass for hire?

[ZK]

Just what do you want in detail on character definations? What format too? :)

[zarduun]

As far as time frame, etc, we're wanting to keep this rather simple to start out with.  As such the events with Scarlet Witch and the Civil War have not happened.  Nikita and I talked about the Civil War atleast, and we thought something with that much impact would be more interesting having PC's involved with it shaping out, than to expect people to know the complexities of the plot line and throw people into it.

As for what we are looking for in a character profile.  A name, codename (if you want), write up of powers, physical description and a brief history would be good.

As for allowed characters, we are very open.  I'll talk with Nikita about what we can mark the game as, since I think we would both enjoy seeing it broader than just the goings on of the School.  After all, two characters we will likely have in the game are not mutants at all.  Allowed characters are Marvel/DC heroes as well as original characters...  from either setting.  We will be having it in the Marvel Universe however, as the view on vigilantes is much more realistic, people reacting to mutants in a much more realistic way.

[Zakharra]

Nikita will definetly have a final say on this, but I wouldn't say the characters 'have' to have powers.  Grant it power wise Batman is mortal.  But mortal does not mean helpless.  Why do you think he carries around a sliver of kryptonite concealed in his utility belt?  The man has contigency plans for situations he hasn't even encountered yet.

All niceness aside, Batman is a paranoid and manipulative semi-likeable jerk.  The only time he was ever given news that silenced him was when Superman and Wonder Woman sat him down and told him that WW was pregnant, and that they wanted him to be the child's god father as they felt he would be able to impart a humanity on the child that as an alien and near goddess they could not.  When WW comments that they finally gave him news that caught him off guard and made him quiet...he wasn't caught off guard.. he was quieted by realizing they were basically placing quite possibly the most powerful being on the planet in his care..

For those who wonder what the senior members of the JLA do at night when they are not saving the world;
http://www.supermegatopia.com/booty/gallery/gallery.php?thisLink=jlawow.jpg

[LordAnubis]

Stupid word ate my description.  I'll be getting the character to you guys soon.

For someone who has been out of the comic loop for awhile, will you have a tread with any major events that occured?  or at least a link to a site witht he events and you saying (timeline changes at this point)  Just because I'm aware of some things existing, but I don't know the world as well as I used to.

[Praxis]

I'm out.  Thanks for answering my inquiries though.

:)

[NikitaFirestar]

As for right now, I'm trying not to force too much of a timeline onto it. It is goingto be about twenty years or so after the team had Psylocke, Archangel, Rogue, Gambit. All the oldies and Goldies. *Chuckles* Of course, that doesn't mean, like zarduun said, that your character has to be a mutant or anything like that. Just because it says X-men, doesn't mean that there aren't humans. There were plenty of humans that worked with the X-men, like Moira.

[Zakharra]

 And the term mutant doesn't mean they have any powers. To be a mutant, you have to be different somehow.  Most mutants have no powers at all, but it's my thinking that the mutants that always grab the headlines are the ones with powers because they are capable of resisting the best. Plus the snazzy spandex uniforms cost money to get.  :P

[Zakharra]

As for right now, I'm trying not to force too much of a timeline onto it. It is goingto be about twenty years or so after the team had Psylocke, Archangel, Rogue, Gambit. All the oldies and Goldies. *Chuckles* Of course, that doesn't mean, like zarduun said, that your character has to be a mutant or anything like that. Just because it says X-men, doesn't mean that there aren't humans. There were plenty of humans that worked with the X-men, like Moira.

*cough* You know it's been 30 years real time since the team had those characters, of course times doesn't affect the X-Men normally (and the ladies do not get saggy boobs or butts either.  :P ))

[NikitaFirestar]

*Chuckles* I know, but I'm a sucker for the originals like Rogue and Gambit and all them. Fell in love the first time I read/saw them all. And you're right. *Whispers* I think its the spandex!

[Zakharra]

 *waits with eager anticipation*

[Elven Sex Goddess]

Is a board still going up for this game?

[zarduun]

Yes, there is.  Hopefully there will be one going up here soon, Nikita and I just need to touch base which has been difficult past few days.  Have to love flu season :(

[NikitaFirestar]

https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?board=290.0

There we go, the board is up, and I'm working on it today!

[Hunter]

I guess since I've managed to stumble back in (where's the beer again?) I'll try and dive back into this one.