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Post by Hollywood Heidi on Mar 13, 2017 23:30:01 GMT -8
I've started to create the location threads! I have tons more pics saved on my computer for lots more X-Mansion locations but it's way past my bedtime so I have to get to bed!
The only locations within the X-Mansion I couldn't find were inside of the dormitory bedrooms and classrooms. I know they showed some in the movies but I just couldn't find them tonight.
I know I'm also gonna need some Trask Industry pics for Maeve's workplace. Any other locations you guys need, please post those along with pictures in the Request a Location!
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Post by Hollywood Heidi on Mar 14, 2017 23:03:33 GMT -8
Alrighty everyone, I'm done posting all the pics for all the locations I could find for now. I think I got a lot of the main areas and quite a few other ones that will be good for a bunch of stuff. Take a look at the maps I posted in the Maps thread. There are still a lot of rooms I haven't been able to find pictures for. If you find them, please post them in Request a New Location thread so that I can get those locations up for everyone! Please also post in the Request a New Locations whatever other locations you may need for your character, mansion or non-mansion. Let's also decide where we want to start things off. It's easy for those at the mansion to already start, kinda just interact and get a feeling of playing your character. I'm really hoping that we can get everything established and ready to run before our next marathon so that we're not distracted the whole time doing set-up stuff!
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Post by Ariel on Mar 16, 2017 10:17:29 GMT -8
It all looks fantastic, Heidi ! I'm all for starting the rpg at the mansion! My character will be arriving there, as it is the first stop on his mission. Also, anyone that is not sure which direction they want to take their character plot-wise, you're more than welcome to ask Quicksilver if you can help him on his mission while he is at the mansion. He just found out that Erik/Magneto is his father and he is on a huge hunt to track him down.
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Post by The Jester Of Tortuga on Mar 20, 2017 23:08:18 GMT -8
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Post by Lady Lee-o on Mar 25, 2017 21:01:37 GMT -8
So, Ororo is going to need some help to defeat a mutant. It/he/she, is causing trouble and drying up the land. It's very powerful and can control water.... anyone want to come to her aid?
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Post by james on Apr 6, 2017 20:02:36 GMT -8
Hi folks, I watched XMen First Class again tonight, and I have a few observations and questions for you all: 1) As Professor X's player, I am going to create Beast(Hank McCoy), Moira MacTaggert, and one or two others as members of staff for the mansion and school. Both Beast and Moira will be open to be played by whoever the team decides wants to run them. I will run them both on a very simple level until someone wants them for themselves. I will make efforts to ensure that my characters don't interact in a way that gives me an unfair advantage in the game, and I will be hoping that you all will hold me accountable if you do feel that I am being unfairly biased towards my characters.
2) Which of the characters from the movie do we want to have represented in our game? Angel, Azazel, Banshee, Darwin, Emma Frost, Havok, Mystique, and/or Riptide?
3) Darwin- dead or alive? From the movie, it appears to be resolved that Darwin is dead. Allow me to offer an argument for him to still be alive. In the comics, Darwin doesn't die. His mutation allows him to convert to energy, specifically red energy that all the Summers children use(Gabriel, Scott and Alex), and hibernate in that energy state until he is discovered and revived. In 'First Class,' Darwin is forced to absorb Havocs red ring blasts by Shaw. Darwin's mutation attempts to evolve the energy, going through various states, until he 'explodes' becoming energy. I tell you folks, Darwin is alive!
Just some thoughts,
Xcelsior
James
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Post by Hollywood Heidi on Apr 6, 2017 21:59:41 GMT -8
That's awesome, James! We refer to playing canon characters without players as temp-playing and there's no need to go through all the work of submitting a bio for them. Not unless you want to play them permanently. I can create alters for whatever non-play characters we think we need and can assign the alter to whoever will be playing them the most. If you like to create bios, then by all means, go for it! Just wanted to be sure you didn't think it was something you HAD to do. We all try to pitch in as much as possible to temp-play canon characters whenever someone needs to interact with one of them. If it's small interactions, sometimes we just put that non-player character's dialogue and actions within our own character's post. Definitely not as much fun as having someone else play the character but it can get a quick important scene/interaction/dialogue done in a pinch if back-and-forth with another player feels like it may take too long for a scene that's intended to be more of quick plot push. I totally trust that you'll be awesome at temp-playing any character as you know the X-Men world so well and it's so great to have someone volunteer! Especially since we've got a skeleton crew of characters right now. It'll make the RPG lots more fun! I have total faith that you'll play them fairly and unbiased. As far as item 2, that's a good question! I don't feel like I know any of those characters well, except for Mystique and Emma Frost. The others felt like they had such small roles that I didn't get to know them, so it'd be great to get to know more about them by seeing them around if they're needed. I don't even know or remember Azazel (was he the devil looking dude from First Class?) or Riptide! If they were in the movies, I either forgot their name and/or they must have been small parts. I always liked Angel, for some reason, even though I never knew much about him. Mystique, I won't be too sad if we don't see that much of her. I think they overused her in the last couple of movies but she has a bond with Professor X and Magneto, so it'd be no surprise if she resurfaced. Item 3, I did get the impression that Darwin was a goner but you have a good argument. I didn't know the character very well, just from what they explained in the movie that he adapts. With the further insight you provided, I could totally believe that he's alive. Question is, do we need him right now? We could put that on the back burner and if someone comes along that would like to play him or someone feels they need him for a plot involving their character, then we could totally hash that out!
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Post by Hollywood Heidi on Apr 6, 2017 22:19:00 GMT -8
Oh, I just looked up Azazel as I figured it was the devil looking dude and recalled that they showed him as dead in Days of Future Past. I and a few others of us rewatched Future Past in prep for this RPG and there's a scene where Mystique breaks into Trask's secret files. She flips through autopsy reports and I definitely remember him in there and that girl with the wings that spits fireballs. This article says "If thereās one thing X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST made clear is that a bunch of mutants were killed during the 10-year gap from FIRST CLASS. Angel Salvadore, Azazel, Banshee and Emma Frost were all named by Magneto as being killed, though we only get to see visual proof of Angel and Azazelās lifeless bodies from autopsy photos. Well now Cinema Blend has official pics (click here to see āem all) of some mutants who were studied and sewn back up... most notably, Angel."(reference: x-menfilms.com/blog/2014/10/06/mutant-autopsy-photos-from-x-men-days-of-future-past/)The "click here" from above leads to the below link. I'm not 100% sure who some of them are but if they're dead in Future Past, then they're dead, dead. I don't remember seeing some of the autopsy photos on this link in the movie so maybe they didn't make the cut. If they weren't shown in the movie, at least not prominently, then we're totally in the clear. There's an E. Kephart, J. Zurfluh, G. Ferderber, W. Marlett, J. Kontos, F. Mancini, S. Byl. I don't recognize the characters, at least not from their autopsy photos or by those names. www.cinemablend.com/new/X-Men-See-Disgusting-Things-Being-Done-Mutants-Exclusive-Photos-67557.htmlThings are always up for discussion if someone has a good argument and a need to bring someone back. Those autopsy pics did go by fast and only Angel (the fireball spitter, not the mutant name Angel) and Azazel stood out prominently to me every time I saw Future Past.
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Post by james on Apr 7, 2017 0:06:17 GMT -8
Moira Wilson-MacTaggert, CIA Agent is created and available as a temp-play.
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Post by james on Apr 7, 2017 1:25:49 GMT -8
Hi Jinx,
I have created Victor Wanyama, who will take part in your battle against the water-based powered mutant if you would like. Have a read of the character bio and tell me what you think.
James
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Post by DarkSideCookie on Apr 8, 2017 12:03:11 GMT -8
Hey James, I do write to you here, as you posted here as well, though one of the mods later should move this conversation to the Potential Plots Thread. Jinx and I did come up with an Ororo/Logan plot, before you asked this. But we still need someone telling them about Professor X and his school of mutants. I'm not sure wheather Viktor shall know about the Professor already in the current timeline, but would be cool to have someone else join the situation in Kenya anyway! What you guys say? james Lady Lee-o
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Post by The Jester Of Tortuga on Apr 18, 2017 23:21:36 GMT -8
jamesDavid has yet to be introduced into the Movie Canon which we are going off of. So David hasn't been mentioned yet in the movies.
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Post by Hollywood Heidi on Apr 18, 2017 23:51:58 GMT -8
Yes, I was going to bring that up as well. I think maybe you're looking at X-Men too much from a comic book standpoint. We're going with the film timelines. David has never been mentioned and if we were to ever bring him into it, I think we'd need to discuss it with the group because he's such a crazy Omega level mutant that I don't see how he can be introduced without him becoming the center of attention. His powers just make him so pivotal. Enough so that he got his own TV show and the events of his life are so all-encompassing that the creators had to change their initial plan of linking Legion to the film universe and making it alternate universe instead. Oh, and a format note, please don't use bold for your own dialogue. We use that when we're copying and pasting some dialogue from the other character's post that we're having our character respond and react to. You can look at some of the other location threads to see what i mean. Let us know if you have any questions or comments!
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Post by Kristi Lynne on Apr 30, 2017 7:25:09 GMT -8
If I wanted to play Moira MacTaggart, would you guys be going with the movie version? A CIA agent rather than a geneticist? That might give her reason to interact with Maeve and Trask Industries. And does she still have no memory of Charles and his school? I know he restored her memories in X-Men: Apocalypse.
In other news, I had no idea that David from "Legion" was supposed to be Charles' son. But that does make sense.
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Post by Hollywood Heidi on Apr 30, 2017 8:48:55 GMT -8
If you'd like to play Moira, I think what happens with her memory is totally up to you! We're ignoring anything beyond the past scenes of Future Past so since this is set two years after the past scenes of Future Past, we all get to make up what happened to our characters during the two years between then and "now". You could totally say that something happened between movie end and now to where Charles gave her her memory back or you could even start her in the RPG with Charles seeking her out to give her her memory back. Perhaps they need her help! If she's also working at Trask, that's definitely a reason to give her her memory back so that they'll have two people on the inside! Yup, David is Charles' son in the Legion comic books! I learn a ton of stuff from my favorite podcast, Marvel Movie News.
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Post by Kristi Lynne on Apr 30, 2017 11:26:45 GMT -8
Ooh, good idea! Having Charles restore her memories because he needs her help. Now I just have to come up with a reason for her to be working with/for Trask Industries.
Heh, there she is, sitting down to an important at Langley, when she gets a message from Charles -- "Save me from this maniac in a red suit, please."
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Post by Hollywood Heidi on Apr 30, 2017 11:38:09 GMT -8
Lol!!
Well, if she doesn't have memory of what she went through with Charles and the mutants, then perhaps that means she also doesn't think she's ever known any mutants and therefore doesn't have a personal connection to sympathize. Maybe she works at Trask because it's a good job with good pay (women didn't get many options in that time) and even if a part of her felt what they were doing wasn't great, hey, it's a job and it pays the bills.
Lots of people work at places they might not support or be happy at for some reason or another. Maybe, even though her memory was erased, somewhere in the back of her mind, that investigative part of her, told her to embed herself within that place?
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Post by Hollywood Heidi on Apr 30, 2017 11:53:24 GMT -8
Just had another random thought. What if she's there undercover? After Bolivar was arrested, what if the CIA is still keeping an eye on Trask Industries since the place seemed to trot along just find even after Bolivar's arrest?
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Post by Just Joe on Nov 8, 2017 2:51:46 GMT -8
I'm happy to play a young Scott/Cyclops since I'm a massive fan of the character. I noticed in another thread that you're also looking for non-mutant villains so in addition I'd be up for playing the head of the Purifiers, the religious group that believes mutants are an affront to God and need to be exterminated. They were pretty intense in the comics and took out a good number of the secondary mutant characters.
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Post by DarkSideCookie on Nov 8, 2017 9:45:29 GMT -8
Oh that would be awesome!!!! And I'm looking forward to Scott/Logan (one of my chars) scenes!
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Post by Hollywood Heidi on Nov 8, 2017 16:05:46 GMT -8
So happy to see Cyclops on board! That character is so under appreciated.
Joe, you sound like a total X-Men x-pert (I apologize, I could not avoid the pun). š Iāll definitely have to consult you if we come across things we need to figure out!
The Purifiers sound really interesting. Bonus that we havenāt seen them in the movies so itāll feel like a fresh new character. Weād love to have you play the main villain! We donāt have one and the leader of the Purifiers sounds like itās be great!
The only think we really kinda set in stone is that the main villain is running things from or through Trask Industries. We were just saying Stryker took over after Bolivar was arrested but noted that we could easily change out the mentions with the name of the person who will end up being the main villain in case itās not Stryker.
Would it make sense that the leader could have taken control of Trask Ind and be running things from there? If not, we can still say itās Stryker running Trask but he answers to your villain or we can keep them separate. It would just be more fun to have an actual player character to interact with since weāve embedded Maeve (my OC) and Victor Creed there. Magneto is also being held there.
Let me know what you think!
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Post by Just Joe on Nov 10, 2017 1:58:06 GMT -8
Sounds good to me, Heidi. In the comics the Purifiers were using a lot of experimental technology so in our RP they could be getting that from Trask Industries. If you've already set Stryker up to run Trask Industries then we could say that he's brought the Purifiers in to help deal with the mutants but he ends up biting off more than he can chew and as the Purifiers become increasingly fanatical and gain more public support from anti-mutant groups their leader starts to take control away from Stryker. That would set up some conflict where Stryker ends up losing control over them and they become a danger to everyone. I think the most dangerous thing about the Purifiers was that they were outright religious zealots who wanted to eradicate mutants through any means necessary and because they were doing it in the name of God they attracted a lot of religious support and couldn't be reasoned with. They were essentially genocidal terrorists.
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Post by Hollywood Heidi on Nov 10, 2017 13:27:47 GMT -8
Oh they sound like amazing villains! Itās up to you if you want Stryker to have been running Trask. We were careful not to mention him often so itās easy to switch out his name in the few places with whatever your villainās name will be!
Whoever is running Trask, Maeve worked her way to becoming his assistant. Sheās a mutant but the reason she doesnāt set off the mutant detector alarms we say are around the building is cuz sheās not really there. Itās her carbon copy, part of her mutant power. Creed has a device locked into his wrist when heās there to report to the boss, which is why heās not setting them off either. Creed is more of an āindependent contractorā so heās not on he payroll and is called in when needed.
Right now, Victor Creed and Maeve are waiting for the man in charge to call Creed (and maybe her too?) in. We said there was some sort of crisis so heād called Victor to come in.
Maeve has gained a lot of the person in chargeās trust. She found out about the lower secret basement levels but has never been and we were just going to have the man in charge finally have her accompany him there for his random questioning of Erik regarding Brotherhood.
I think skimming over the Trask Industries posts would help the best if youāre gonna make a bad guy for there. š Thereās a lot of Maeve and Erik getting to know each other that might not be as important to your character but thereās mentions of guy in charge questioning him. I know my Maeve bio has info on why sheās working at Trask and how sheās able to get away with that since sheās a mutant.
Let me know if you have any questions! Iām so excited at the thought of getting such an awesome villain!!
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Post by Hollywood Heidi on Dec 16, 2017 21:10:55 GMT -8
We finally have our arch nemesis!! Welcome, Roderick! Just Joe we haven't said much regarding what's going on at Trask. Only that Stryker is running it and right now, that Stryker is kinda in a tizzy because something went wrong at one of the Trask bases. We didn't say where or what or who was involved. He's been in his office on a private call and Victor and Maeve have been waiting for him to finish and call them in. We're just having him do that but we're gonna time jump passed the meeting and not specifically say what Stryker might have said about whatever the issue is, so if you want to tie that into something with Roderick, let us know! Or if you want to have Roderick pay a visit in person, that works, too! Right now, just to give Maeve, Victor, and Erik something to do, we're just saying that Stryker instructed Victor to accompany Maeve to the secret basement levels. We'd said that Stryker usually questions Erik about the Brotherhood so he's sending Maeve in his place to take care of whatever the issue is. Let us know what ideas you have for Roderick!
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Post by The Jester Of Tortuga on Jan 6, 2018 1:34:15 GMT -8
Just curious what is happening with Xavier.
Should I just do a Hope post and have them all exit to the office with Peter and Deadpool or... is there something else?
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Post by Hollywood Heidi on Jan 6, 2018 18:07:48 GMT -8
I was waiting for Hope to post before doing another Xavier temp-play. But seeing as we don't actually have a Charles, I think you can have her leave alongside her new escort, Scott. james The Jester Of Tortuga
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Post by Hollywood Heidi on Jan 15, 2018 21:23:22 GMT -8
Joe and Jester, Hope and Scott are heading to the office but Scott is supposed to be showing Hope to guest quarters. I see we don't have any guest quarters (or any quarters, for that matter) so I'm going to create one. I'll name it Hope's rather than guest as she's going to be staying. I could actually use some help finding pics. I've searched and searched and there's surprisingly no bedroom/dorm pics online. I know we've seen them in the movies so it's weird. Joe, you've read the comics and you know the X-Men well. Based on the movies, it looks like every student has their own room. Am I right on that? I think if we find just one good pic, we can use it for everyone's dorm. It's good enough to give us a general feel for the environment. Just Joe The Jester Of Tortuga
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Post by Hollywood Heidi on Feb 11, 2018 12:12:41 GMT -8
Just Joe I IM'd you but I'll write my question here, too, in case you see it here first. Has Maeve ever met Roderick? Has he been at Trask before for meetings or did you want them to have crossed paths at some base or some event? Or would you prefer first time meeting? I'm totally fine with whichever way you prefer!
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Post by Hollywood Heidi on Jun 9, 2018 14:27:11 GMT -8
I'm feeling like I should hold off a bit with a Charles temp-play. I'm thinking of time jumping Maeve free from the scene she's in and getting her going on the road to connecting everyone. I think she's gonna learn about the X-Mansion from Erik and pop over, then from there, figure Charles asking her to pop over to Logan and Ororo to get them heading for the X-Mansion. She's also gonna be meeting with Moira as she's the link to Trask and Roderick and then that will bring Moira back into the fold with the X-Men. I don't have a preference of which happens first, only that we start making it happen! We've gotta get all the separate groups together into a team for Mission: Breakout Magnet Man.
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Post by DarkSideCookie on Jun 9, 2018 18:20:46 GMT -8
Yay looking forward to that!!!! And definitely would like to be the getting Logan and Ororo over there first on her list! Which brings me to another point: Lee-o, I thought we could time jump to a little later when those people got Logan's car repaired and they have a little chat of farewell until Maeve will appear at some point during their conversation, telling them about the school of mutants and that the professor had sent her out to get them there? As we're not far away from that to happen and our current scene seems to be at kind of a dead end anyway, I thought it would be a possible way to handle that scene. What do you guys think?
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