X-Men: Imagination - Recruiting - Long Running Big Game (LGBTQ+)

[Alias]

1987
Recruiting New Players

The world is like burning down, damn. A volcano down in Colombia got all biblical, Magneto just stole some Military Helicopters and a Geomancer mutant, U2 is coming out with new music, kids are destroying their brains in front of nintendo machines and televisions, humans are mutating into superheroes, and chimpanzee’s are learning sign language. What a time to be alive...!

Ok... MY name is Jubilee, JamesSureWould and Alias have asked me to keep this brief, but there is actually a lot going on. So, I'll do my best. I mentioned Magneto, well, he's convinced that there is a war, and he's starting to take more actions lately. A lot more... The UN gathered after he and his brotherhood destroyed, like, billions in military assets. I guess, like, Controlling dangerous mutants is everybody's new thing. Registration programs, Sentinels funded by the UN, teams of specially trained operatives to find and kill mutants. Super scary, right... An  organization has been taken from obscurity, funded, and encouraged to track supernatural events on Earth, primarily focused - Now - at the Mutant Emergency: S.H.I.E.L.D. Led by Nick Fury, and a team of super ambassadors, SHIELD is like the world police now. I don't think anyone outranks them. There's like a triangle conflict in the world, and it super sucks, and reverberates through the entire population. Quietly, the ‘evolution of humanity’ has been picking up speed since the 1940’s. There was the founding of Charles Xavier’s school for the gifted in 1975, and the emergence of Erik Lehnsherr as Magneto in ‘79, the world has begun to cyclone into, like, total madness. Mutants hate other mutants. So, one half of the governments, and the senates, and stuff… They are trying to get along, working with Professor Xavier, and making peace. The rest are just, all about killing Magneto and the rest of us. Then, even regular people argue about it. No one can really agree, ya know.

Anyway. That’s the big picture stuff. I guess we’re really here more to focus on our path. We all have a journey that we’re on. It may not feel important yet, but in this world, it probably will be. There are a lot of us, now. what you all know as X-Men. And, you might have these big ideas about how to use your powers and help out... And you can; and like i said, you probably will.


Welcome! Let’s all thank Jubes for the commencement speech. If you missed any of that, or if it was too stylized to make any sense, this is X-Men: Imagination. We tell a big story here, but players aren't expected to carry the weight of that storytelling unless they want to. The name says it all, whatever you imagine, it will probably fit into this game. X-Men is a wonderful canon for this because mutations can be or do almost anything.

• If interested, please submit a character in PM form to both GMs. Only players with accepted characters are permitted to use our boards.
• JamesSureWould and Alias are your God and Goddess here, and we present an X-men RP with no walls.
• Almost all characters are acceptable as long as they aren't omega level mutants. This is a frantic AU set in 1987 with tensions boiling all over the world. And a lot of classic X-men plots are happening at the same time.
• In Character urgency is ramped up. Characters are currently being tested, challenged, and forced to act. OOC pressure on players is scaled down significantly by our format and our community.
• We're providing the space for heroic characters to go and save the planet. We're also providing a Full mansion with all the bells and whistles. Internally, The mansion Roleplay is present. However, adventure is well in the realm of possibilty. Players are free to explore the entire planet, outerspace, other planets, and other planes of existence if the story makes sense.
• The GMs will be providing NPC allies and all villains. Players are free to write villains, but it is discouraged in most cases, and villanous PCs are not welcome. We are X-men here.
• Squads of X-Men form naturally in this game as players get their characters into positions to beat up on the brotherhood, or save a city from being destroyed. The Groups are not permanent, players typically choose the missions they want to write together (we have a dozen available missions), and can even write their own for the GMs to implement into the game. Clique's form naturally, this formalizes it in a fun way. If people want to mix around, or leave a group to join another. If they want to converge or combine forces. All of this is possible.
• Student characters, teacher characters, and characters that are not yet X-Men are all acceptable. As of now, Student and Teacher characters are not required to have class schedules. Xavier would expect this of characters. But we are not asking this from players yet. Any X-Man can take a class, or teach a class if it all adds up, logically. Older characters should not be students, and young people should not teach advanced collegiate lessons.
• Also, it's the eighties, cheeky and fun is sort of encouraged.

We have 30 characters in total.
7 Male
22 Female
1 Genderfluid (though typically femme presenting)

Loves to all!
Thanks for reading!
JamesSureWould & Alias


Rules and Regulations...

• Be respectful of other players.
• Be respectful of other players.
• If arguments must be had, please keep them out of the OOC.
• Please PM me if someone is breaking either of the first two rules and we don't seem to notice. It means that we probably don't see it.
• Three Characters per player.
• Follow the Rules of Elliquiy.

Information Thread
Character Thread
Out of Chracter Thread

Notable Characters that are Vacant
(This is a list of interesting X-men that are currently not being used by anyone. Note: Original characters, characters from other Marvel comics, and Genderbent Characters are all allowed. And, there are many more X-Men available, we just thought that this list was very enticing!)
Angel
Armor
Banshee
Bishop
Dazzler
Dust
Emma Frost
Forge
Hellion
Jubilee
Magma
Northstar
Pyro
Quicksilver
Rogue
Storm
Thunderbird
Wolverine

If there’s someone you think we unfairly kept off this list, we apologize! That certainly doesn’t mean you can’t play them though. Heck, you should play them just to spit us for forgetting your favorite!

X-MEN ON ROSTER
(All names are links)

Arc Knight
Blind
Blink
Chamber     
Cyclops
Domino
Dragon
Force

Gambit
Gates
Jean Grey
Luca Weiland     
Mercury
Nightcrawler

Polaris
Psylocke
Shadowcat
Star Flight
Toad
Z’Cann Dorrek-Spawn

X-MEN STUDENTS

Aftershock
Blackout
Catseye
Firefly
Pixie
Qiang Nuo
Quentin Quire
Siren
Snowbird
Wolfsbane
Wordsmith


OTHER CHARACTERS

Beast
Hollow
Scarlet Witch

Forbidden Characters

Erik Lehnsherr - Magneto - GM
Charles Xavier - GM
Mystique - GM
Madelyne Pryor - GM
Omega Mutants - Too powerful for game structure

GAME INFORMATION

X-men Information Report

Mutant Interest, Brotherhood Update & Global Climate:
Magneto's War may have officially started...

On February 26th,1987, Magneto’s squad of Jamie Madrox, Pyro, and Havok were unleashed upon Bolivar Trask’s facility in Mexico. The target was Trask, to get rid of his sentinels would be pointless without removing him, the source. A bloodbath ensued around and within the partially completed sentinel factory. 47 innocent staff members were killed, almost as many were injured, and over two dozen sentinels were completely destroyed. Trask managed to escape the massacre with Master Mold.

Less than four hours later, Magneto himself and Sabertooth, his chief agent of death showed their presence in Polk City, Florida. Outside of the city there was a town like compound, more closely resembling a cult than a town. The privately owned land was vying for legal township hiding from society, a town that despises mutants as a hobby. The ‘town’ desires to be known as Eden. Protest groups made of mutants were already starting to gather around the compound, in Polk City, and within Eden itself. Upon Erik’s arrival, he covertly worked in regular clothing to secretly recruit as many of these angry mutant protesters as possible. Not all of their mutations were useful, but there were almost 300 mutants gathered here, and nearly violent already from anger. Uppity in Erik’s presence, a small group of mutants were caught committing arson inside of Eden, trying to burn down the community center where many of the town meetings were held.

The leader of this small cell was captured, and within the hour, she was executed by gunshot from the ‘mayor of Eden’. Erik witnessed this and viewed the celebration of the townsfolk, and the pain in the eyes of the departed woman’s friends.

That night, Erik made it his mission to abolish this community as well as recruit for his brotherhood. In the early morning, before the dawn, Magneto was spotted entering the gates of Eden. Armed men and women tried to stop him, but he was determined. After moving through town, and searching out the leaders that were perpetuating the hate, Magneto and his newly recruited group of mutants became exceptionally violent in their self defense. A serious mass murder happened. Magneto with a small army of 50 mutants were organized, and dispatched in an effective battle strategy for kidnapping the mayor, the ‘town sheriff’, and several others in positions of power in the young hatred cult. Erik was successful. Rescue crews are still sorting through the rubble, looking for survivors. The death toll is currently around 300 people.

In the early morning of the 27th, the three members of the brotherhood in Mexico tried to cross the border through Eastern Texas. And they were stopped by a U.S. military force of infantry, landed tanks, and helicopter support. Madrox didn’t have to buy much time. Magneto arrived in a timely manner from the East on a platform of metal, floating over from Florida. Mexican officials were coming at them from the south, and there were three options for Magneto’s small contingent there on the border: Fight the Mexican military. Fight the American military. Surrender to either, or turn tail and try to run.

Erik was calculated, a short negotiation ended in a skirmish.

What took place on the Texas/Mexico border was awe inspiring, and truly magnificent, if not terrifying, and utterly destructive. Magneto did not come alone, the four dozen mutants from his massacre of Polk City were with him. But, Lehnsherr did most of the horror on his own. With some support, the brotherhood cut a swath through the American military. The battle saw thirty six casualties on the side of Erik Lehnsherr. The casualty number for the American military has not been listed, but the loss of money has been reported in the billions. A dozen helicopters were destroyed, and all but one tank were reduced to nothing but balls of crushed metal. The Brotherhood Commandeered four helicopters and the last tank that ‘inexplicably floated away’ with them as the helicopters were flying North and away.

Drastic measures have been taken in response to the very real threat of hostile mutants. The UN gathered, and have decided to fund Trask’s Sentinel program. There are talks of a registration program for all mutants, with each country in the UN held responsible for reporting their mutant population. Alcatraz, other retired prisons like it, and plans for new prisons all around the world are being made in order to incarcerate especially dangerous mutants.

And a defunct organization for the UN was revived, given syphoned billions in funding, and made responsible for investigating, and taking action on the new threat of mutants as dangerous as Erik Lehnsherr. They are known as S.H.I.E.L.D. headed by international badass Nick Fury. Project Aegis is a new team of rehabilitated mutants. They are Fury’s proud young child, and work directly underneath him, giving them nearly as much authority than any world government.

Even Xavier’s mansion has been affected. A small team of S.H.I.E.L.D. agents have been assigned to monitor the ‘school’ and its activities, the lead in this undertaking is Maria Hill. She moves into the mansion on the 10th of March. SHIELD is well aware of the international criminals being kept at the mansion, but they are willing to work with the school due to its history in heroic moments, and it’s priority on peace. Maria living on campus is a concession Xavier was forced to make. In addition, All future X-Men missions must now be given a nod of approval from Maria Hill, or Xavier and anyone involved in the conspiracy can be arrested for treason. This will complicate things.

Global political Climate:
Volatile, but no major wars between current countries. There is a quiet war of social agenda, Capotlism vs. Communism. Many of the smaller countries in the middle East, Africa, and South East Asia are fighting for independence, or quelling rebellions. The large powers in the world are funding and supporting these minor skirmishes. Many civil wars are raging, some as old as ten years into conflict. The Soviet war with Afghanistan is still teetering along, Irangate is happening with President Reagan in America. The European countries of France, Great Britain, and Italy are all involved with the Lebanese conflicts as well. All of this, as well as the major political issue of mutants in society.

Timeline
? ? ? - Mystique is born. Unknown origin
1918 - Charles Xavier is born (68 in 1986)
1927 - Madelyne Pryor is found as a three year old child, abandoned and without parents. (62 in 1986)
1933 - Erik Lehnserr is born (53 in 1986)
1947 - Henry McCoy is born (39 in 1986)
1959 - Jubilation Lee is born (27 in 1986)
1965 - Charles Xavier begins to reside in his family home. And begins to recruit young mutants with exceptional talent to live in his home. Erik, Mystique, and Hank McCoy are included among his friends.
1968 - Cerebro is constructed, and Xavier’s mansion begins construction on lower levels.
1974 - Construction is completed
1975 - (January, the coming fall is his first class)Xavier turns his home into “Xavier’s school for Gifted Youngsters”
1975 - (February) Erik Mystique, Hank, and Xavier arrive in Portugal. While protecting the city of Porto from a mutant with destructive capacity. Erik and Mystique reach a boiling point with the other two. Charles is left paralyzed, and loses two of his closest friends.
1976 - (March) Madelyne Pryor finds Magneto, brings along some friends, joins his cause and suggests some strategy to him
1976 - (April) Sabastian Shaw is relieved of his helmet, and Erik Lehnsherr finds a way to protect himself from Charles Xavier
1979 - The Brotherhood emerges in force when Magneto tries to steal nuclear warheads from a cache in Houston, Texas. Charles and his team stop this from happening.
1986 - (December 13th) A saturday. Game start

• (July), Psylocke embarks on an undercover mission within the brotherhood
• (December 16th)A Tuesday. Xavier sends four squads out on operations across North America.
• (December 17th) The X-men rescue Britain's economical nightmare, and apprehend the most infamous bank robber's in the history of the UK.
• (December 17th) The X-men sink a pirate ship in the bering straight and apprehend the international criminal known as Crows.
• (December 17th) Memo, a powerful young mutant joins the Brotherhood.
• (December 18th)Bridgette Desjardins is discovered in the town of Yachats, Oregon. She was taken to the mansion peacefully
• (December 29th) Joan Jett is exposed as a mutant and takes up temporary residence in the X-mansion.
• (December 30th) Boliver Trask's facility is attacked and his original sentinels are shown to be incredibly inneffective. The report does not go worldwide or even nationwide. But Four x-men were witness to it.
• (Late December) A cult in the middle of America is pacified, and made less destructive. The leader has been broughten back to sanity, and the church operates well with Xavier's plans.

1987 -

• (Early January) Psylocke returns from a six month undercover mission inside of the Brotherhood base with tons of intel.
• (Mid January) X-Men Black traveled to Pennsylvania and quietly saved Rimesburg from compelte destruction. Cloak and Dagger were removed from the Brotherhood without force or conflict. The device was seen as a failure, and it’s whereabouts are currently unknown. The X-Men were never seen by the brotherhood or the citizens of the town. It was a quiet weekday in their world.
  
• (Late January) X-Men Alpha were sent to New York to track down two interdimensional beings. The beings ended up being versions of Cyclops and Blink from another dimension. They were indirectly hostile, and directly hostile, but peace was made, and their would-be murderer was killed by Jasmine Lawrence.The woman was a version of Gates that had joined her universe’s version of the brotherhood. There were rumours of another Mystique now abandoned on this plane. But it cannot be confirmed
• (February 26) Members of the brotherhood, Multiple Man, Pyro, and Havok assault Bolivar Trask’s sentinel Factory in Mexico
• (February 27) Erik Lehnsherr is spotted in Polk City Florida. He kidnaps the leaders of a community after killing hundreds that were trying to kill him for his actions. The goal being to eliminate the hate mongering society that the leaders were creating. May have seeded more hatred than anything else there.
• (February 27) A conflict between the brotherhood and the US military happens on the Mexican/American border. They are calling it The Magnetic Massacre. Death toll is not being released to the public. Damages in military equipment are astronomical.
• (March 10) Maria Hill moves into Xavier’s mansion. She is assigned to negotiotions and relations with The International group known as the X-Men. As a S.H.I.E.L.D. representative, Ms. Hill is an authority over everyone, including  the professor and any other government officials that may happen upon the property.

The seven years between 1979 and December 13th, 1986 are roth with events including: minor skirmishes, the formation of x-men teams, the acquisition of mutants on both sides (Brotherhood and X-men), government actions, small wars, and much much more. If anyone wants this time period to be filled out more thoroughly, we will do our best accommodate any additions or adjustment requests to the timeline as a whole. But, a lot of it will revolve around things in Character Sheets, and the rest will likely never be referenced in our game unless a specific scene or plot arc calls for it.

CHARACTER SHEET

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[b][u]BASIC INFO:[/u][/b]
[b]Legal Name:[/b]
[b]Codename/Nickname/Aliases:[/b]
[b]Citizenship and other legal info:[/b]
[b]Place of Birth:[/b]
[b]Occupation:[/b] (x-men is suggested by application, anything else?)
[b]Education:[/b]

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[b][u]PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION:[/u][/b]
[b]Height:[/b]
[b]Weight:[/b] 1
[b]Hair color:[/b]
[b]Eye color:[/b]
[b]Gender:[/b]
[b]Ethnicity:[/b]
[b]Age:[/b]
[b]General Appearance:[/b] (differences from photos? description of body/face/clothing style)

[b][u]OTHER INFORMATION:[/u][/b]
[b]Sexual Orientation:[/b]
[b]Ons/Offs:[/b]
[b]Wealth Level:[/b]
[b]Personality:[/b]


[b][u]STATS:[/u][/b] (distribute 40 points among the following stats. We won't be using a system, but I would like a fairly specific idea of what these characters are capable of in case we need a dice roll to solve something. Ten is max, 0-3 is poor, 4-6 is mediocre, 7-9 is exceptional.

[color=blue]Fighting:[/color] 00 - [color=blue]Agility:[/color] 00 - [color=blue]Strength: [/color] 00 - [color=blue]Endurance:[/color] 00 - [color=blue]Reason:[/color] 00 - [color=blue]Intuition:[/color] 00 - [color=blue]Psyche:[/color] 00

[u][b]POWERS:[/b][/u] (limit of total 'powers' is five for original characters. Basically, don't get silly with it.)
[i]POWER[/i] - (description of power)
[i]POWER[/i] - (description of power)

[u][b]ADVANTAGES:[/b][/u] (limit of total 'advantages' is ten for original characters. Examples of advantages: Noble, perceptive, knows multiple languages, brave, detail oriented, willful, charismatic, etc.
[i]ADVANTAGE[/i] - (description of advantage)
[i]ADVANTAGE[/i] - (description of advantage)
[i]ADVANTAGE[/i] - (description of advantage)



[b][u]DISADVANTAGES:[/b] (also known as character flaws. Wolverine is brutish and unfriendly, Cyclops can't use his eyes, Xavier can't walk, and Rogue can't touch anyone. All characters need flaws and shortcomings, torture your creation!! It's fun. Minimum of two for all characters, more is suggested.)
[i]DISADVANTAGE[/i] - (description of disadvantage)
[i]DISADVANTAGE[/i] - (description of disadvantage)
[i]DISADVANTAGE[/i] - (description of disadvantage)

[u][b]SKILLS:[/u] (limit of five for original characters. These are capabilities outside of advantages and powers. Trained skills that took practice and dedication to master. These will usually be referenced to in history below, since it's impossible to learn a skill without spending some time doing it.)
[i]SKILL:[/i] - (description of skill/ how it was learned/ or why it's important)
[i]SKILL:[/i] - (description of skill/ how it was learned/ or why it's important)
[i]SKILL:[/i] - (description of skill/ how it was learned/ or why it's important)


[b][u]HISTORY:[/u][/b]

(the story of your X-man)

[b][u]OTHER NOTES:[/u][/b] (anything else?)

[JamesSureWould]

Hello all!

Co-Gm here!

If you've got any questions let us know. :)

[Alias]

[Tokyorose627]

This sounds super interesting! My muse has been wanting something to get creative with, this sounds great! One quick question, should character we create, OC wise, be more normal mutant in regards to story? Either shunned or ran away? Or are we allowed to create characters with a more extensive background up to being at the school?

[Alias]

This sounds super interesting! My muse has been wanting something to get creative with, this sounds great! One quick question, should character we create, OC wise, be more normal mutant in regards to story? Either shunned or ran away? Or are we allowed to create characters with a more extensive background up to being at the school?

The way we usually handle character histories is pretty relaxed. We would rather have an interesting character than a group of characters with no history conflicts. PM JamesSureWould and myself what you have in mind (whether its an idea, a full sheet, or an unfinished sheet) and we'll see what we can work with. Extensive backgrounds are usually good things, especially for Original Characters that need some grounding in the world around them. But as always, it depends on what exactly you have in mind, and how that meshes with the story we're already telling.

Final note: Our story is sort of designed to allow for a lot of freedom, and we don't mind adding in minor retconns to help out PCs I hope that helps, let me know if I just confused you further. lol

[Tokyorose627]

The way we usually handle character histories is pretty relaxed. We would rather have an interesting character than a group of characters with no history conflicts. PM JamesSureWould and myself what you have in mind (whether its an idea, a full sheet, or an unfinished sheet) and we'll see what we can work with. Extensive backgrounds are usually good things, especially for Original Characters that need some grounding in the world around them. But as always, it depends on what exactly you have in mind, and how that meshes with the story we're already telling.

Final note: Our story is sort of designed to allow for a lot of freedom, and we don't mind adding in minor retconns to help out PCs I hope that helps, let me know if I just confused you further. lol

awesome, thank you!

[Tokyorose627]

I would like to put interest to use Sebastian Stan as a faceclaim please. :)

[Tokyorose627]

Just got accepted! Super excited to be joining the group, and hope to see more people join!

[Alias]

Just got accepted! Super excited to be joining the group, and hope to see more people join!

As do I!

A note to all interested parties! We have an unbalanced character list. The male characters have almost no love interests to pick from. Bring it on ladies!!

[JamesSureWould]

Hi all!

Co-Gm here!

So I know sometimes people wonder what characters we might be looking for, how full we are, etc etc. To help with that, I prepared a

We have 30 characters in total.
7 Male
22 Female
1 Genderfluid (though typically femme presenting)


Of the men, 5 are straight and 2 could be counted as bi/pan
Of the women, 5 are straight. 10 are bi/pan. 7 are lesbians.

[Tokyorose627]

Still looking four some fun and interesting people to come and join us! We've got all kinds of exciting missions and storylines for. people to have fun writing with! Feel free to come along and join!

[Black Howling]

Hey everyone.

I'm gonna put down interest in Wolverine.

[Jag]

Tentatively interested.

[Tokyorose627]

Tentatively interested.

Hey everyone.

I'm gonna put down interest in Wolverine.

Awesome! :)

[JamesSureWould]

Hey, two new intersted people, that's great!

If you have any questions you can post them here or you can pm myself and Alias!

[LunarSage]

Saw an ad for this on someone's tag.  Is this game currently recruiting?

[Alias]

Saw an ad for this on someone's tag.  Is this game currently recruiting?

yuhp! Sure is. We sort of don't have a limit. Plenty of storylines to fit into, and plenty of space to ignore them if you'd like and just hang out at the mansion.

Myself and JamesSureWould are the GMs. Feel free to ask us any questions!

if, or when you get a character sheet prepared, PM that to us, please. :)

Lovesies!!

[LunarSage]

yuhp! Sure is. We sort of don't have a limit. Plenty of storylines to fit into, and plenty of space to ignore them if you'd like and just hang out at the mansion.

Myself and JamesSureWould are the GMs. Feel free to ask us any questions!

if, or when you get a character sheet prepared, PM that to us, please. :)

Lovesies!!

Sweet.  I'll work on a sheet then. 

Is it alright if I chat some in the OOC thread instead of cluttering up this one?

[JamesSureWould]

Sweet.  I'll work on a sheet then. 

Is it alright if I chat some in the OOC thread instead of cluttering up this one?

Hi there, other gm here!

Happy to see that your intrested, but the OOC thread is for approved players only.

(Plus, we prefer this thread being cluttered up; it means it stays at the top of the charts for longer!)

[LunarSage]

Hi there, other gm here!

Happy to see that your intrested, but the OOC thread is for approved players only.

(Plus, we prefer this thread being cluttered up; it means it stays at the top of the charts for longer!)

*salutes*

Fair enough!

[LunarSage]

Should I PM questions about concepts to the both of you, or ask them here?

[Alias]

Should I PM questions about concepts to the both of you, or ask them here?

either or works for us, which ever makes you more comfortable. :)

[LunarSage]

Is Colossus available as a PC?

[JamesSureWould]

Is Colossus available as a PC?

Good question!

We had a Colossus player, but he put his characters onto Hiatus. So I've checked with him to see if he intends to come back to the game.

[LunarSage]

Good question!

We had a Colossus player, but he put his characters onto Hiatus. So I've checked with him to see if he intends to come back to the game.

Hmm, if the PC already has some established history in the game, maybe I should choose a different character.