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Post by shockwave on Nov 22, 2010 12:50:20 GMT -5
Who needs frame ups. We have guys who throw grenades at cops. (I'm just glad that someone else shot the cop in the kick dealer's place before someone on our team did.)
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Post by Reen on Nov 22, 2010 22:34:17 GMT -5
Well, no one can blame Rin. Speaking of which, I can't come up with anything good to respond with >.< What you posted, Dead Sidekick, I'm speachless at. And no, I'm not cool enough just to put : 'Rin is speachless' cause he already is! I have to Rp with how he thinks.. and thats too much to think! T.T Rawr! Hopefully I'll get something up by the end of this week. Oh, and that reminds me.... we should totally put Arc in the Battle Royal! That way we can kick het butt without getting in trouble.
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Post by Dead Sidekick on Nov 22, 2010 22:55:43 GMT -5
Well, Arc is only mildly familiar with the teleportation circuitry in Solo's noggin. She could possibly take over / shut down Shockwave's armor, but she'd be awkward at it. Arc is friggin powerful.... and her backstory has her as the remaining member of the first Paladin Institute team to go rogue (the Masters of Menace, now giving Batman a handful of problems in Task's game)
As for Rin's speechlessness, I was leaving his reaction up to him. I didn't expect him to take it in stride, being insane and all...
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Post by Vendetta on Nov 23, 2010 14:34:27 GMT -5
lol will we ever have a full chapter where we are toghther all through the action.
no it's fine really lol I'm having great fun here, and as long as we dont just split up "because thats what we always do" then I'm happy with anything ;D
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Post by shockwave on Nov 23, 2010 20:44:40 GMT -5
So...Xavier school. When does that kind of knowledge become more public?
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Post by Dead Sidekick on Nov 23, 2010 21:21:16 GMT -5
So...Xavier school. When does that kind of knowledge become more public? I'd say the God Loves, Man Kills graphic novel (1982) where the crazy televangelist Reverend Stryker kidnaps Xavier and the X-Men team up with Magneto to save him likely puts Xavier in the spotlight a bit. The New Mutants team forms shortly after this event (and partially because of this event) and well, by game timeline, the New Mutants class is currently being assembled, later to be led by Magneto himself. It's not much of a stretch that Solo might know of Xavier via monitoring Stryker and his merry anti-mutant terrorist cult, but I don't think Elixir would know about Xavier unless he's tuned in to one of Stryker's hate sermons recently. It's not too far afoul that I can't reason it in to working. Elixir definitely would know Hank McCoy (Beast) more as a mutant rights advocate. Beast is currently a member of Dr. Strange's Defenders, and was previously a member of the Avengers. After Captain America took over leadership of the Avengers, several mutants joined their ranks (which didn't help relations with the government much, i.e. Henry Peter Gyrich...) I'm probably going to call for a bit of research and playing with Contacts to achieve a peaceful meetup with either the X-Men or the Avengers. Solo might be able to press that with Silver Sable. I can't say it will be successful, but it will be interesting....
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Post by Dead Sidekick on Nov 23, 2010 21:29:33 GMT -5
lol will we ever have a full chapter where we are toghther all through the action. LOL! We're like Alpha Flight. We could dominate the scene and stop all the bad guys in the world this side of Galactus if only we didn't hate each others guts and appeared together in the same comic book issue more than once a year. I hate to railroad things, but I'll get everyone together again soon. Somehow I just hope we're not going to leave out Ferine, but those paths can cross later.
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Post by Elixir on Nov 24, 2010 18:16:42 GMT -5
As a curiosity, how does the assassination attempt on Senator Kelly's life turn out in this time line? That was back in 141/142 and was a relatively public showing for Xavier and the X-men. Thoughts?
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Post by Deleted on Nov 25, 2010 1:01:07 GMT -5
I was just saying something to elexir. Maybe Solo knows its a school for mutants nothing more. He knows it through its contacts. Just an Idea youll decide what Solo finds.
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Post by Dead Sidekick on Nov 25, 2010 3:10:03 GMT -5
As a curiosity, how does the assassination attempt on Senator Kelly's life turn out in this time line? That was back in 141/142 and was a relatively public showing for Xavier and the X-men. Thoughts? Well, game timeline wise, we're roughly and currently coinciding with the events in Uncanny X-Men #155-157, so they're not home anyway (first appearance of the Brood... so, uh.. they may be in New York... "they" meaning Brood warriors... dang evil demonoidal bad guyness...) So, by the formula 42 issues of comics = 1 MSHG Game universe year, the assasination attempt on Senator Kelly took place roughly 15 issues ago / four "months ago." (June 2009) The assassination was stopped, but the Mutant Registration Act he was pushing only got more popular.... ooc knowledge: One month after the battle (between the X-Men and the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants who were trying to kill Sen. Kelly), the president (Obama), based on Kelly’s recommendation, began Project Wideawake, led by Henry Gyrich, a program that included the possible use of Sentinels to deal with the mutant menace. - adapted from the synopsis of X-Men #142 Sentinels appear in the After Midnight module, as does Project: Wideawake.
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Post by Dead Sidekick on Nov 25, 2010 4:06:32 GMT -5
I was just saying something to elexir. Maybe Solo knows its a school for mutants nothing more. He knows it through its contacts. Just an Idea youll decide what Solo finds. It wasn't that long ago in game time (one month-ish) that Magneto destroyed the Russian city of Varykino (UXM #150) after the Russians sent a submarine to attack his Bermuda Triangle base after Magneto gave the world an ultimatum - cede total political control to him and disarm all conventional and strategic weapons, or he will end life on earth as we know it... So if anything, Solo may have noticed that some terrorists have superpowers... Magneto had one of his first changes of heart about killing in this issue, but the world still views Magneto as a terrorist. Don't know where Solo stands on that, and given that 3.5 years worth of X-Men comics happens in a game universe year... there's plenty of reason for mutants to be feared. Seems like every day they're menacing the world with something new and massively destructive It's not unreasonable for Solo to perhaps know something about the X-Men (viewed as terrorists rightly or wrongly), but probably not where they live and that Xavier is their sponsor / leader. We'll just play that out as Solo uses his Contacts to try to find help for Windchill.
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Post by Dead Sidekick on Nov 25, 2010 4:14:53 GMT -5
I like these temporal "map checks" by the way It really fleshes the world out more. I really need to get with Task and start working out what Oldschool's alien race is, whether it's a new race altogether or one we've seen before.
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Post by Vendetta on Nov 25, 2010 8:16:30 GMT -5
I like these temporal "map checks" by the way It really fleshes the world out more. I really need to get with Task and start working out what Oldschool's alien race is, whether it's a new race altogether or one we've seen before. Skrull
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Post by Dead Sidekick on Nov 25, 2010 10:27:08 GMT -5
We could go anywhere with Oldschool's alien-ness. I do know he's technically not a shape-shifter though....
Hope everyone's having a great Thanksgiving.
Thanks everyone, for one of the longest running Marvel PBPRPGs I've ever been a part of.
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Post by shockwave on Nov 25, 2010 14:20:03 GMT -5
Happy Thanksgiving.
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