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Post by Hollywood Heidi on Mar 5, 2017 14:40:57 GMT -8
This is the place for the writers to discuss potential plot ideas for the RPG. Please keep in mind that these are only suggestions of the players and that a majority of the players must agree to an idea before it goes into effect. If it is a plot that directly involves a character, then the player of that character can decide if it's what they want to happen. Please keep things civil and be respectful of ideas your fellow players may come up with. Remember, this is a fun, stress-free place. Keep things on the topic of plots in this thread so that players don't have to weed through off topic posts. If you have a plot idea that you think will need a lot of discussion, you may create a new thread in the RPG Out of Character Discussions board.
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Post by Hollywood Heidi on Mar 5, 2017 14:59:44 GMT -8
Alrighty everyone! I think before we start submitting Requests to Join, we need to determine the timeline. Let's have a discussion. Which would be more interesting to play around in? The present time (first trilogy of films) or the past (second trilogy of films)? I'm totally cool with either! Present time, we would have to determine where within the events that occurred to start. The second trilogy taking place in the past seems span a long number of years so if we're going with past, we need to determine WHEN in the past. I had mentioned in the sign-up that it might be interesting to go with when Professor Xavier first opens his home as the school or shortly after. We probably don't wanna go through all the boring preliminary set-up stuff so perhaps shortly after it's underway? After some discussion, we could always create a poll thread but let's first see what everyone says. Ariel Lady Lee-o The Jester Of Tortuga DarkSideCookie Medieval Kevin
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Post by Lady Lee-o on Mar 5, 2017 16:16:53 GMT -8
I'm thinking first, mostly so I can play Storm and/or Rogue but I will go with the majority on this one. Considering I can always make an OC or pick someone from the past
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Post by The Jester Of Tortuga on Mar 5, 2017 16:16:57 GMT -8
The second trilogy I think opens it up more character wise, it just makes it a lil harder for the events and characters that appear later. Like I was gonna do Deadpool which is modern day but the second trilogy having the school up and running is end of the 80's beginning of the 90's. So part of it comes down to how much canon are we following?
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Post by Ariel on Mar 5, 2017 19:25:38 GMT -8
I'm okay with either one! I definitely would not be opposed to rping in present day, we could start where wolverine first comes to the school. Although past would be fun as well, i definitely like the idea of starting the past rpg around the time where the school is just started up.
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Post by Hollywood Heidi on Mar 5, 2017 20:00:39 GMT -8
Well, if we have it where the school is just opening, Storm would be younger (like we see in Apocalypse) and we could have her be tracked down and recruited for the school. I'm not sure of exactly how the past timeline works, for example, how long after Xavier opens the school does Apocalypse take place?
Even if it doesn't work out canonically, like Jester said, we could tweak things but also, Jester is right when he says that the first trilogy in present time does open it up to way more characters.
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Post by DarkSideCookie on Mar 5, 2017 20:15:36 GMT -8
I'm still for the idea to have both timelines actually just like flashbacks saying the date above a new rpg.
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Post by Ariel on Mar 5, 2017 20:45:26 GMT -8
I could roll with that as well!! best of both worlds
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Post by Hollywood Heidi on Mar 5, 2017 20:52:10 GMT -8
I'm just thinking that big, roleplayed out flashbacks would be difficult for this. For OUaT it's easy because they're basically separate worlds so you don't have to worry about things happening differently there than in Storybrooke.
Here though, we'd have to be really careful about keeping things linear. Having a character have memories of the past is totally cool but having separate boards or threads for past and for present I think would too complicated, especially considering how Wolverine went back in time and changed things. Kinda gets a bit complicated.
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Post by Ariel on Mar 6, 2017 7:33:18 GMT -8
Ah yeah that makes sense :/
Well I guess we have to choose one lol sooooo I guess I'll place my vote on starting the rpg in the past.
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Post by DarkSideCookie on Mar 6, 2017 11:52:53 GMT -8
I'm for the past than too ^^
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Post by Lady Lee-o on Mar 6, 2017 15:37:46 GMT -8
Luckily, we shouldn't really have to worry. X-men have so many stories, we can just mix as many as we want lol
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Post by Hollywood Heidi on Mar 6, 2017 15:41:56 GMT -8
Alrighty, let's also consider another angle. What canon characters does everyone really have their heart set on playing? We can try to figure an exact year or decade based on that. The good thing about Days of Future Past is that Logan basically reset the future so we can probably easily tweak when exactly a character becomes involved with the X-Men. Our only main concern would be if that character is old enough to have mutant powers show up or even born yet!
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Post by Lady Lee-o on Mar 6, 2017 15:47:29 GMT -8
my little heart is set on storm but I can adapt if necessary XD hehe
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Post by Hollywood Heidi on Mar 6, 2017 16:08:09 GMT -8
I posted a really handy dandy timeline I found in the Maps etc thread! The link is at the top of the post and I copied and pasted everything on the page from my phone. I'm have to pretty is up when I get home. Charles opened the school in 1965, btw. Lee-o, would you mind if she was younger like in Apocalypse? I have to study the timeline more when I get a chance but I think Charles and Eric are fairly young still at that point. Apocalypse showed up in 1983. If we set it soon after, maybe 1985, we'd still have younger Erik and Charles and we'd have young Storm. Let's all kinda study the timeline and chat this through so everyone gets to play who they really wanted to play.
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Post by DarkSideCookie on Mar 6, 2017 19:39:45 GMT -8
As for Wolverine his age is not so important for me, but as for Magneto I really would like to play his younger version! Though old enough that there is Quicksilver around xD
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Post by DarkSideCookie on Mar 6, 2017 19:58:52 GMT -8
Oh btw if Kevin is still interested in the RPG too (cause he has Magneto as forst choice on his list, though said he would make a new one), I also would Magneto give away to him and instead play young Professor X. Only in that case
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Post by The Jester Of Tortuga on Mar 6, 2017 20:36:04 GMT -8
My heart is set on Deadpool who doesn't appear in the timeline till well after the 80's. But if I must I guess I can go to Gambit who would fit into the 80's timeline since the whole Channing Tatum movie isn't happening anymore.. I dont think...
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Post by The Jester Of Tortuga on Mar 6, 2017 22:47:43 GMT -8
I guess the other way we could do it is to ignore the snoozefest that was Apocalypse and do our own Days of Future Past so we could have both timelines. We could have a nice slice of life for a bit in the past before needing to make some changed to save the future while in the future we fight for lives and take every bit of solice we can get.
This way we could have the best of both worlds, you could have two radically different versions of the same character the ones that dont appear in the past can be in the future timeline. If we still wanted we could always push it back and have it take place in the 80's allowing for the younger Cyclops & Jean Grey and whoever else is wanted. If we do it in the past I think 80's/90's is the best time period to set it as it allows for the biggest range of characters for a past period.
But just my two cents after thinking on it for a bit.
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Post by Hollywood Heidi on Mar 6, 2017 22:57:27 GMT -8
Yah, that's why I was thinking about 1985. I was also thinking we could either say the Apocalypse thing happened and it's said and done or we can ignore it. That's the canon tweak I was referring to before.
As I also mentioned before, having two different timelines going at the same time would be far too complicated. If we had it where we start in the future and have characters travel back, that's one thing, but running two different decades at the same time would be a logistical nightmare. Whatever we have them do in the past could easily rip apart what we have set up in our later timeline. It's the whole butterfly effect thing. Basically, if we have them go to the past, then we'd have to close all the "present day" threads and start anew as things will have changed.
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Post by Hollywood Heidi on Mar 11, 2017 11:26:42 GMT -8
Looks like we've decided to set it in 1975. I was thinking that if there are any characters you really wanted to play that weren't around at that time, it's probably not a problem to bring them over. This is the world of X-Men so we can create all kinds of reasons why that person popped up! Since it's close to the time that Logan had gone back and had changed things, we could simply go with the fact that maybe it fractured time which makes it easier for the possibility of time travel, perhaps with the help of a machine Trask Industries was working on or whatever. It can be linked to only working on people with a mutant gene. Just a rough sketch idea. If someone is interested in this, we can definitely hash out plans! Other than that, I think we're ready to start having people submit their characters profiles in Request to Join!
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Post by DarkSideCookie on Mar 11, 2017 11:43:23 GMT -8
Sounds good to me.
Hm, so will our RPG take actually place in the new timeline, but BEFORE Logan travelled in time into his younger self? o.o Sorry for asking again, just want to make sure I did understand right. ^^
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Post by Hollywood Heidi on Mar 11, 2017 11:48:25 GMT -8
You know, I just had another random thought. I don't know how many of you have seen Logan, but without being too spoilery, mutants have died out. Let's just say, someone has poisoned the water hole and that poison killed out the x-gene so the mutants we knew were the last and when they all eventually died, so did mutant kind. That same company started creating their own mutants so that's why we see that young girl in the trailers (and the movie, of course, but trying to be unspoilery). I know I'm throwing a huge wrench into what we already have worked out, but we could also technically set this in the future, maybe a year after Logan which would be 2030 and bring whatever mutants we want from whenever to this time to kind of "repopulate" and go up against the company that secretly committed genocide without anyone knowing it. If they figure there's decades worth of damage that goes so deep that it'd be too hard to pinpoint and fix the issue, why not jump ahead of it? Transigen Corporation (the ones who poisoned the mutant gene) has the DNA of tons and tons of mutants. That (perhaps a time altering mutant's DNA) combined with whatever technology they also created and playing with the fractured time maybe made more vulnerable by Charles Xavier's crazy ass mental seizures in Logan could create a way. If all that is too complicated, especially if you have no idea whatsoever what Logan was about, that's perfectly fine. Just an idea that popped into my head.
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Post by Hollywood Heidi on Mar 11, 2017 11:51:04 GMT -8
Sounds good to me. Hm, so will our RPG take actually place in the new timeline, but BEFORE Logan travelled in time into his younger self? o.o Sorry for asking again, just want to make sure I did understand right. ^^ No, it would be after since we said we're going with what happens after the events of Days of Future Past. So like we said in the FB group chat, Erik didn't end up in prison at the end of the movie. I thought he did because of that timeline I found but that part of the timeline must have been from events in Apocalypse. Since we're ignoring Apocalypse, Erik doesn't have to be in prison, unless it's what you want. If we go with starting in 1975 after the events of Future Past, then anything in the timeline after 1973 can be ignored.
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Post by DarkSideCookie on Mar 11, 2017 12:24:35 GMT -8
Ah okay I see. Hm, actually liked the idea of the break-out though.
I haven't seen Logan yet, and also had no idea what it is about. Besides, I'm more down for playing in the past.
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Post by Hollywood Heidi on Mar 11, 2017 12:29:16 GMT -8
Okay, that's totally fine! And you can totally still do a breakout scene! He can end up in that same prison or a different one somewhere else (I don't remember where he was or who exactly locked him up according to Apocalypse) but it doesn't matter. Total clean slate after the ending of Future Past.
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Post by DarkSideCookie on Mar 11, 2017 12:36:40 GMT -8
I should talk with Ariel about that, as she's gonna play Quicksilver ^^ Maybe we also could come up with another interesting first meet.
As for Wolverine: He isn't remembering what happened? I'm asking because Shadowcat did mention he would be the only one who knows what happened (before she has sent him out).
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Post by Medieval Kevin on Mar 11, 2017 13:01:46 GMT -8
The only one I really have my heart set on right now is Victor so I'm good with any timeline. So the past timeline has a start date. Just out of curiosity if we played in present time, where in the events would we be starting? Was it when Logan gets to the school or something else?
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Post by Hollywood Heidi on Mar 11, 2017 13:21:19 GMT -8
Ilona - Future Past takes place in 1973, I believe, and it ends with Logan being taken up from Alkali Lake so he's going to be in that facility that puts the adamantium over his whole skeletal system. In the very first X-Men, I believe it's the year the movie came out, which would be 2000. That's along ass time for him to be there as a guinea pig. I wonder if he went in early for Future Past. Either way, we have a clean slate so if it's 1975 for our RPG, you can have him just breaking out (do we want to have two break-out stories though?) or he can have been broken out maybe a year into it by Charles and the gang since they now know about him after the future Logan had traveled into the mind of the past Logan. It's really up to you. Whatever occurred in the time between 1973 end of Future Past movie and until 1975, our RPG start year is up to you! Kevin - I have no idea when we would have set it if we went with present. We didn't even discuss it because people were really wanting to play the past timeline and Ilona really wanted to play the younger version of Erik. I'm sure you could get Victor into the storyline. I don't remember the Wolverine: Origins movie so well so I don't remember the history of Logan and Victor's early years. I think that's something that you and Ilona could discuss since they're brothers? If Ilona decides she wants it so that Logan has been free, perhaps Victor helped with that, whether Charles and the gang were involved or not.
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Post by The Jester Of Tortuga on Mar 12, 2017 0:09:28 GMT -8
Who wants to be the first to discover Hope?
She will be freshly sent back in time. High level telepaths would probably be able to detect her but thats about it. On her birth her powers were strong enough to blow up cerebo, so Charles would probably know she arrived.
But if anyone else wants to stumble upon her...
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