What If? : X-Men-roleplaying game

[Radiant]

Great sounds like a plan to me but now I'm wondering if I should tone Alicia down to a PL4. She shouldn't have much of an idea of what she can do in till she meets the Xavier. (Or that’s how I imagine it; I could change to reflect that she does know how to use her powers before their meeting.)


Sweet works for me.

if you worry about those rules one more time I will hit you with that silly green hat I won yesterday night.
The game has started Alicia is fine and if she is a tad too powerfull on the first mission she might even survive it.

 

[Brother Shatterstone]

if you worry about those rules one more time I will hit you with that silly green hat I won yesterday night.

Ahhh do your best...?

The game has started Alicia is fine and if she is a tad too powerfull on the first mission she might even survive it.

Fine be like that. though to be honest surviving the mission would be Alicia preference.

For now I'll just limit my worry to finding a heroic "codename" for Alicia...

 

[Radiant]

"...Hrmmrmmm....hmr?..."

One of his eyes pop open and surveys the room around him. Mostly pillow from this vantage point. That won't do. The brawny teen levers himself up to a seated position and rubs his eyes. The hell was that? People coming or going? Nah...going. Prof won't let us stay out that late. Not that it stops me mosts nights.

But not tonight. Then one of the older kids runs by the door. What was his name? One-eye? Red-eye? Sean? Something like that. Whatever. I'm hungry dammit.

As is his custom, he wakes up with ravenous hunger. Just one of the side effects of his mutation- apparently the strain is great enough on his body that in order to keep from cannibalizing himself, he eats almost constantly. His mutation? The ability to take on the physical mass of others...by stealing it. It's a gruesome thing to behold, but when it's done, he's a giant taken straight out of the fantasy books, and is capable of lifting a semi over his head. That's why they call him FLEX.

Flex stumbles down the hall in nothing but his white boxers and nipplerings. His thick shoulders and arms take up most the passage, so much so that the little hotty redhead almost slams into him on her way around the corner.

"Watch it! What's goin' on?"

She ignores him. Oh well, not the first time. She's got a thing for the bad boys though, I can tell...

Later, in the kitchen, he's scarfing down a grilled chicken breast (one of about fifty kept in a tupperware container in the fridge) when he hears another weird noise. He stops mid-chew and looks down at his feet, then behind him to the rear window...

Sorry Velenne, I can do nothing with this post.
Then "I wrote the X-Men left yesterday and didn't return yet", I meant "The X-Men have left yesterday and didn't return yet" nothing more, nothing less.
So I would asume that is highly unlikley that Cyclops can run by your door or Jean bump into you on your way to the kitchen.
Also I am not sure that you noticed that you didn't hear that sound later but you've been woken up by it. And it didn't come from the rear window but from below you.
Please try to read my posts. If they are unclear in any way you can allways ask.
Still I think everything I just wrote was in that post from me.

As the newest resident of the mansion Flex has so far been spared early morning sessions and didn't have much contact with the other students. But yesterday you saw the strangest thing. All the older students hurried through the house with worried faces. Even stranger you saw them put on some strange costumes and vanish through a secret door into an elevator you didn't know even existed.
The Professor promised you that he would explain everything to you once they return. So far they didn't but now you wake up from the sound of something heavy and mettalic scratching over a stone surface. The sound comes from under you and is dimned as if very far away but it is still loud enough to wake you up. Either they have a whole road construction team complete with vehicles in the basement or something "really" strange is going on.

 

[Brother Shatterstone]

Radiant, even with the threat of getting beat bloody with a green hat I feel I must share an idea with you.

With if Shar’s ability to unlock x-genes was needed to unlock Alicia’s powers? Say Alicia never developed powers and that only Mistress Mind did, this would allow me to play Alicia as being very naïve with her powers like I really want her to be but she would still have the powers to be as effective as a PL 5 could be. This would also allow Calinon to use this power in game also.

Obviously Shar would have to be okay with it, but it seems like a win, win situation to me but what do you think?

 

[Radiant]

Good question. Figured Science:computers would be more "computer trivia", as in "who made Cobol" and so on (shows how little I really know about computers, I guess, of course Cobol was made by more than one guy ) but the more I think about it, it seems you're right.

Any thoughts on this Radiant? If it's okay, maybe I could move some points to Search (massively boosted by 8 points of Super-Int, hee hee), or whatever is closest to the CoC skills "Library Use/Computer Use". (the latter exists in modern CoC right?)

Dude, never considered using Search for research (was thinking of Gather Info). Thanks for the heads up.



Gotta be 80's. Bring out the hairdos.

even though I'd say you could realistcally split the computer skill in a few dozen ones we are talking about a comic here and everything you can do and know about them should be in that one skill, so feel free to use the points for something else.

Radiant, even with the threat of getting beat bloody with a green hat I feel I must share an idea with you.

With if Shar’s ability to unlock x-genes was needed to unlock Alicia’s powers? Say Alicia never developed powers and that only Mistress Mind did, this would allow me to play Alicia as being very naïve with her powers like I really want her to be but she would still have the powers to be as effective as a PL 5 could be. This would also allow Calinon to use this power in game also.

Obviously Shar would have to be okay with it, but it seems like a win, win situation to me but what do you think?

Well to be honset the hat is pretty soft...
It caused a bad headache for me but I just remembered that wasn't because of the thing itself.
Shar has the ability to activate latent X-Genes, not particular powers. Either Alicia's X-gene is active or it isn't. In either case both of her personalities would or wouldn't have powers. Even MP can not influence the body down to the genetic code.
If you want Alicia to only have access to her powers after some training that is fine by me but you should at least take a look at the issues name before you sent her in without them.

 

[Brother Shatterstone]

Shar has the ability to activate latent X-Genes, not particular powers. Either Alicia's X-gene is active or it isn't. In either case both of her personalities would or wouldn't have powers. Even MP can not influence the body down to the genetic code.

and this from the person who just said it was a comic book... *put the hat down* Changes in eye color, height, weight, and other bodily factors have all been link too MPD so why not the functions of the brain? If you look at Alicia’s and Mistress Mind's skills you'll notice that they are hardly similar at all.

If your not game for it no biggy but if she is just coming off of the street then yeah I don't like the idea of Alicia having acess to the powers...

If you want Alicia to only have access to her powers after some training that is fine by me but you should at least take a look at the issues name before you sent her in without them.

I'll honestly have to think about it, and yes I did note the name of the adventure. Also I don't think Professor X would just send her out there untrained as he is to much of a humanitarian to do so.

 

[Brother Shatterstone]

Shar has the ability to activate latent X-Genes, not particular powers. Either Alicia's X-gene is active or it isn't.

Or Professor x could do some sort of physic surgery on her mind to at least allow her to gain the use of the powers… Only time and experience can teach how to use the power.

 

[Keia]

. . . .at least take a look at the issues name before you sent her in without them.

Fire? Gulp!?!

Keia

 

[Radiant]

and this from the person who just said it was a comic book... *put the hat down* Changes in eye color, height, weight, and other bodily factors have all been link too MPD so why not the functions of the brain? If you look at Alicia’s and Mistress Mind's skills you'll notice that they are hardly similar at all.

If your not game for it no biggy but if she is just coming off of the street then yeah I don't like the idea of Alicia having acess to the powers...



I'll honestly have to think about it, and yes I did note the name of the adventure. Also I don't think Professor X would just send her out there untrained as he is to much of a humanitarian to do so.

Even with my very limited knowledge of biology I do know that genetic information is not influenced by brain activity. In fact it wouldn't even change if you cut it right out and replaced it with a rotten tomato. And once again, Shar can't do anything about the brain, her power is to activate latent X-genes.
Plus the X-Gene is not something unimportant but the ONE important background in the whole X-Men universe.

*sigh*Of course Xavier would not call her to sent her on a mission she can not handle. As I am tired of reasoning about this (it is deffinatly the first time a player wants less powers from me. I think I have to make a note in the calendar) you can have it. Just don't change her rules again. If you prefer it she will simply have access to her powers only after Xaviers training.
*hands you a shovel*

 

[Brother Shatterstone]

Plus the X-Gene is not something unimportant but the ONE important background in the whole X-Men universe.

Agreed.

(it is deffinatly the first time a player wants less powers from me. I think I have to make a note in the calendar)

Hands a pen to help out yeah I'm interesting like that but to be honest, I'm as power hungry as the next player, but I'm not much for min and maxing, I don't spend a whole lot of time to see what stacks and what doesn't, all I what is for every character I make to make sense.

Of course Xavier would not call her to sent her on a mission she can not handle. As I am tired of reasoning about this you can have it.

I'm not sure what your saying I can have and I’m sorry that you think I'm being unreasonable, a pain or what not. I just want this to make sense.

Just don't change her rules again.

How did I change her "rules"? The only change I have seen was to her back story and my working around that change so that it makes sense.

If you prefer it she will simply have access to her powers only after Xaviers training.

Well if Xavier can not unlock it somehow before we see combat she will quickly become scared out of her mind and change into Mistress Mind so hopeful the shovel will not be needed.