Post by Mana4X2 Admin on Nov 14, 2010 13:21:50 GMT
Mana4X2: An X-Men RPG started out like any other X-Men RPG. Interested ones joined, took up characters, and helped to continue the Fan Fiction our little universe picked up from. Some stayed. Others disappeared; some coming back after real life stopped kicking them in the butt. Characters grew. Writers grew. The site had to be edited, defined, and reorganized to compensate. From Yahoo Groups, we moved to EzBoards. From EzBoards, we moved, and settled right into, InvisionFree. From no applications to desperately needing them. From no rules to having the need to define them for the advantage of everyone.
Now, we are settled in and heading towards our 7th Anniversary in April of 2011, our little version of the X-Men universe dealing with the after effects of a plot that reminded all mutants that no matter how much the President says he wants human/mutant equality, there will ALWAYS be people out there who hate them. We still have many, many other exciting new Side Plots to get through, and are now 3, possibly 4 Site Wide Plots in advance! In other words, we have enough already planned to help Mana4X2 last for a LONG time to come!
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Plot = Man's Best Friend
They had worked so hard to make the perfect killing machine. To create it from scratch. To take and alter. To force and coerce. They had thought themselves proud to be ready long in advance. Ready to unlock the cages and, under the direct orders of the Leaders of the Friends of Humanity, send them into the field, where every mutant in New York City would be their targets. They had succeeded in what they had set out to do, but none of them could have imagined how wrong they could be, because, in giving the most efficient of hunters a brain on par with a humans, they gave them the capacity to think; to learn; to decide for themselves they no longer wanted to follow the exact thing they had been made for.
Beast: “Indubitably, not merely an alpha at all but something different. We've already established they're intelligent and from what the others have said, they appear stronger, more agile and durable. It's the determination I find most frightening, that and looking in that dog's eyes and seeing it looking back.”
Just after 11PM on November 31st, 2005, continuing on until just before dawn December 1st, Man’s Best Friend became their worst enemy!
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Plot = There Is Never Just One
It started small, the mutant kidnappings happening all over the United States, someone using the information from the canine attacks to target mutants who fought against the genetically mutated dogs. It got worse when one of the X-Man's own was taken, and eventually all of it was found out to be arranged by none other than Mr. & Mrs. Crestmere, Amara Aquilla’s, AKA Magma’s own family. Housed in a facility that served similar purposes as that of Jeremiah York's and Stryker's... the experimentation, to either control mutants or completely remove the mutations altogether, began...
~Deadpool~
"Anyone... get the number... of that semi?"
~Deadpool~
"Hey look... birdies... I think that one's a swallow... heh... swallow."
~Bea Arthur!!!~
"What?! Where?!"
~FINALLY, now you need to-~
"That was cold, dude... really."
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"We dream for a better world
Where the struggle for acceptance no longer exists.
My X-Men, believe in me, as I believe in you.
Our Passion. Our dream. Our ultimate success."
“My X-Men, the President of the United States himself has approached me to form a sort of alliance with the government, a partnership if you will, where we will be called upon when those without the abilities we can offer them cannot achieve the desired result. At first, there was a list of terms given to me, to us, orders, if you will, of which I was quick to point out to the Department of Defense that the X-Men answer to no one now, nor will they ever answer to anyone in the future. My refusal to follow those terms was met with something I have not seen towards mutant kind in a very long time… understanding, compassion, an outright asking me what our terms would be, the first of which they were not the least bit surprised with, ‘Only if the majority of my X-Men agree this could be a step towards all of us living side by side in peace will I even consider your proposal’. This is why I am coming to you now. I am asking you all to consider what this could mean for our future, for the future of all mutant kind…”
Times are changing, the canine attack has brought mutants into an entirely new light. The above proposal is for all mutants living in the US… will YOU keep an open mind and possibly eventually agree to become a member of Agency X?
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Boilmet, the CEO & Founder of DME: "Shall I begin with showing you a list of the Departments we offer here, Information Technology, An extensive Security Division, Antiquities & Art, Automotive & Transport, Music, Building Contractors, Hospitality, a chain of NYC Nightclubs, and at least one entire floor dedicated to Fashion & Accessories. Please, sit, tell me what it is you believe you can offer my company."
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The White Queen of The Hellfire Club: "If you are ruthless and have a tendency to enjoy following the dark side, we can offer you the best place in town to stay. Come and join the forming new Hellfire Club! We offer bed and breakfast. Just don't forget the presence of an eventual poisoned cookie! So do you have what it takes to be one of us?"
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Nick Fury, the Director of S.H.I.E.L.D.: "We are the most advanced law enforcement international directorate in the world. We've got good people, the latest technologies and a viable and flexible way of work. If you want to be a soldier and fight for a better world against all threats human or mutant alike, find the recruitment center nearest you and join us, the Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement and Logistics Division, AKA S.H.I.E.L.D.!"
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For future reference, and only known to be in existence by some, there is a prehistoric jungle in the heart of Antarctica facing a moment of turmoil. Two sides are fighting over domain of this land. Would you like to live in a jungle? Come to The Savage Lands! Dinosaurs and nearly all extinct animals are a common sight in this mysterious jungle kept tropical and alive by the existence of natural volcanic activity, which has kept the heat flowing through the land secluded by ice as its tectonic plate moved over the millennia. A weird field generated by a fortress decades ago constructed by Magneto, now slightly modified by Sinister, can have undesirable effects on the mutations of natural mutants. Mutates genetically engineered by the castle's creator and his successor seem to be totally unaffected by it so far.
If you want to live in this land of times long past, which side will you choose? Sinister offers the continued struggle for domination over the natives using the leftover technology built by the Master of Magnetism. Then there is Ka-Zar, a baseline human intent on freeing this land from the new unwanted outsider. Make your choice and, whether you are human or mutate, make your presence known among the Savage Land Inhabitants!
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