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Not Quite X-Men (Ensemble)

Welcome to The Jean Grey School for Higher Learning

Here mutants young and old, new or experienced are going to learn about the wonders and the dangers of what it means to be a mutant. It is here where the X-Men, heroes, vigilantes, and occasionally acclaimed terrorist will educate and train you to become the best version of who you can be.

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That's the message for those who are still naive enough to believe that crap people put on the ads. If you're remotely aware of what happens in the home of the X-Men the only thing a student in this school really needs to know is that once a month, if not a week there will be a new threat getting ready to blow up the school because of what someone, the teachers did, to that one guy, or group, probably some sort of intergalactic or mystical creature. on certain occasions it may just be some normal humans who have a bone to pick with mutants for some reason, or maybe its another mutant who's angry or ticked off because they can't control their powers and now they're out for revenge. Maybe it's SHIELD trying to spy on the school, or maybe the brotherhood trying to play SHIELD so they can blow up the school, or it could be the Avengers and the X-Men are having a another stupid fight because of that one thing or that one person, again.

Honestly the adults who run this place are incompetent when it comes to teaching new mutants and the students who are actually trying to learn, so finally someone smart, who's name probably doesn't start with H and M decided let's have the students who are only really here because they have nowhere else to go. They have the experience, the skills, and they actually want to do it instead of homework.

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This story follows the adventures of a group of Jean Grey Institute students as they are recruited to form a special task force meant to tackle the school’s problems when the teachers are away dealing with intergalactic troubles. The characters will fight gangs, B to D list villains, deal with enemies after the X-Men, and guide the new mutants as they become a part of the more complicated matters that the X-Men has to deal with. They'll also try to teach and train because god knows the actual teachers can't afford to teach the near hundreds of new mutants who are in school for schooling.

NOTE: As for characters we are limited to characters who are canonically in the Jean Grey School, as far as I know as of writing this.

My Hider

• Armor
• Dust
• Rockslide
• Pixie
• Match
• Bling!
• Hellion
• Indra
• Trance
• Cipher
• Mercury
• Manuel Enduque
• Surge
• Transonic
• Velocidad
• Primal
• Crosta
• Gentle
• Graymalkin
• Ink
• Face
• Ernst
• No-Girl
• Anole
• Blindfold
• Glob Herman
• Oya
• Shark-Girl
• Sprite
• Eye Boy
• Broo
• Nature Girl
• Kid Gladiator

If anyone is familiar with the New X-Men, Young X-Men, and the Wolverine and the X-Men titles this story will follow characters introduced in those titles, and will go in line with the stories presented in those stories wherein the adults are too busy to deal with the people they're supposed to help.

There is no need to read up on the comics, and you do not need to be up to date. Minimal knowledge of the X-Men will suffice. The only thing you need to know is that these students are canonically in the marvel universe and are students in the school, Xavier and Wolverine are currently dead, Storm is running the school, and the campus currently looks like the picture above, details will be added later.

As for the plot it will mostly follow the group of characters, and their staff adviser. They'll go on missions and do action stuff, most of which will be about dealing with the things that the X-Men are too busy dealing with, such as looking and rescuing for new mutants, dealing with old and new enemies, and going on finding themselves as they journey into adulthood without the X-Men and the school as a net.

Size wise I'm pretty fluid, but I'd like to keep it to a maximum of eight people, me included. Standard RP rules apply of course. If you want to create or play character not on the list talk to me about it, but just understand that the main reason I made this RP was because I felt like these characters are being done a disservice by being stuck in the background when they have their own story potential.

Sense8

I'll bump this just in case.

Sense8

This story would basically follow the same premise as that of Sense8, Netflix's new original series created by the same people behind the Matrix Trilogy, and Cloud Atlas.

The general premise of the story, without spoiling any of the show is that there are a group of people who are linked together telepathically allowing them to share their senses, emotions, knowledge, skills, language, and history. These people would then have to learn how to cope with their newfound abilities and the fact that they are no longer alone, deal with the things in their own lives, and somehow escape the people who are hunting them because of who they are.

Each of the characters, the sensates, live around the world and have their own lives, but when their cluster, the group, is linked together they begin sharing their lives to one another. Within the cluster they can visit each other in the present allowing them to openly communicate, talk, and feel one another's presence to seek guidance, be with someone, and find comfort in the openness that is inherent in their connection.

Sensates

The sensates are basically telepathic, but are only limited to other sensates, they're not the only cluster around. Sensate basically have two powers, visiting and sharing. Visiting is being with someone telepathically to share the same experience presently, but it is not limited to the cluster. Visiting however is something that the person lets you happen, and by "let happen" the sensates must be emotionally open and vulnerable enough that another person can enter world, or they are simultaneously letting each other into their worlds. Visiting is an active process wherein the people visiting each other are openly communicating with each other, and while all sensates can openly visit one another the connection is stronger within a cluster.

Sharing is their power that is limited only to those in the cluster. This allows them to sahre the emotions and experiences of those within the cluster. Those in the cluster can actively call upon those in the cluster when they need to embody the power of another to call upon their talents and knowledge. The connection works in all directions. It is a more passive process wherein a sensate can call upon the power of another sensate, or trigger a reaction from another sensate.

One thing to take note of this power is that there are many pros and cons, especially when the cluster is young and fresh out of the birthing process, that's the series term not mine. When the connection between sensates is weak and young their sharing and visiting ability is weak, and will most likely only show itself in times of emotional distress. At this stage they have little to control on what they share with those in the cluster no matter how bad or how good what that may be.

A key aspect of the connection between the sensates is that their link is based on emotions. Calling upon a sensate to visit is possible when both are willing, but more often than not a visit occurs because of a need to do so, like an instinctual defense mechanism that allows them to protect themselves and one another both physically, emotionally, and mentally. The connection between the sensates are raw and emotional as such there are no lies, only pure emotional honesty. They are constantly aware of one another's feelings when in comes to one another, the situation, and those around them.

Example: From weak to strong cluster connection

1. A woman is currently dancing and celebrating in a loud club with rave music in Miami, but suddenly she begins hearing a violin playing. Halfway around the world a young man in Paris is watching an street performer with a violin.

2. A man is on a date with his girlfriend in a fancy restaurant in Los Angeles, suddenly he is transported to a boat in the middle of the ocean off the coast of Santorini. The man in Santorini wakes from his nap and begins tasting steak even though he is a vegan.

3. A young woman is shopping in New York city and while shopping she finds worms in her boots and screams. Somewhere in the Amazon rain forest an entomologist finds herself wearing a nice clean outfit.

4. A man is running away from unknown pursuers in the streets of Sao Paulo, trapped between two building on his left and right, and a tall fence in front of him. Filled with anxiety and fear he blindly jumps the fence and lands on the other side with a flip. In Philadelphia a young freerunner suddenly finds himself speaking Portuguese.

5. Feeling intense sadness, loneliness, and doubt a woman in her hotel room in Las Vegas begins conversing with another woman wearing swimwear. A woman in the beaches near Perth begins conversing with a woman dressed in pajamas. The two talk and exchange stories afterwards they find themselves comforted and loved.

6. A man goes rock climbing in the Grand Canyon and wakes up to see a beautiful sunrise enticing tears of joy. Three others join him from Alaska, Russia, and Egypt, the four share a beautiful sunrise together.

7. A woman is in a small rundown hospital in Manila is mourning the loss of her daughter. In Ireland a bartender finds himself uncontrollably sad, tears flowing down his eyes, with a crushing pain in his heart as if he was being stabbed, suddenly he is in the hospital room with her.

8. A man was just in a car accident with his son while driving in the rainy Seattle. He calls upon the abilities of a doctor who helps him bandage his dying son. Using the skills of a taxi driver from Sao Paolo he drives a manually operated car.

This RP would basically be Sense8, but with original characters.

Now in all honestly this RP is very rough around the edges as the premise is a little odd, but what i do know is that it's very much character driven. There will be a main plot namely that there is an organization is hunting the group, but that process is slow. For the most part and for the majority of the story each character has his and her own storyline that would be affected by those in the cluster because of little conversations and influences that they have with and on each other with the main plot slowly creeping in on them.

Question: Group Size

Thanks for the input guys. I guess I'll just put in that i'm specifically looking for seven or less amount of players.

Question: Group Size

The story would basically be about eight survivors in a post apocalypse america, and by post apocalypse i mean they are literally the only humans left, for a while anyway...

Question: Group Size

Hello all, I haven't done any RPs in a while becuase of school and work, but the semester is almost over for me and I'm starting of going back. Anyway before i start going back i was wondeirng what you guys consider to be a small or large group?

For me a small group consists of around five people, plus and minus two or three, whereas a large group would be ten and above. When i say people i mean role players, not characters, or should it be the other way around in a sense that when you say group size you mean the amount of playable characters in the group?

The reason i ask is because a possible RP that i'd want to do in the nearby future with a maximum of at least eight players with one character per person, would that kind of story be considered a small group or a large group?

Carcer City [Reboot]

Highly interested, but whether I join or not depends on how much activity is needed on a daily basis. If this the type of RP that requires me to post three times a week then I probably won't be able to join given my schedule.

I have a question as well. Will there be any limits to how much power a playable character can have in this city? Say for example can my character be a rich billionaire business mogul who is running an organized crime syndicate on the side?

Pokemon: Tribal (Low advanced)

This seems interesting.

What's the limit on the Pokemon we are able to choose from? Are we going to be region specific or every pokemon is available? I'd rather we be region specific just so it's not too chaotic.

Also what kind of posting schedule do we have? My schedule is pretty tight so i can mostly do two per week, on an easy week.

Island in a Sea of Death

I will try and have something up by Thursday,.

Zombie/ Community Management RP

This seems interesting. I was in one of these some time ago, but it never took off. I'd love to participate if possible.

Questions:
1. How active does a player have to be. My schedule is pretty tight these days and given my track record RPing i can probably make a decent length post (A good few paragraphs) twice a week.
2. What sort of roleplaying level are we thinking of here?
3. With regards to all the characters I'm assuming the player characters are "key" characters that make stuff happen, and have some sort of special characteristic.
4. This is kind of a suggestion more than anything, but wouldn't it be ideal for each character to have a set goal that they wish to accomplish, and have a set community goal, a form of crisis that everyone is also trying to accomplish, but the personal goals may get in the way.
* For Example let's say we have "Nurse Fred" his set goal is to secure a clinic for the sick and injured, but the current goal is to find food, immediately, as such he has to set aside his own plans for now to go with the group.
5. This is kind of a wild guess, but i'm getting a Dead of Winter vibe from this RP.