Setting Information
Posted: Thu May 28, 2015 1:16 am
Game Information
The game's universe is that of the Marvel X-Men, mutants who have strange and wonderful powers exist, and in fact are only becoming more and more common in the world though society remains skeptical if not outright hostile. Xavier's University is an extension of the Xavier Institute program to the collegiate level, and is still nominally overseen by Charles Xavier, though age is catching up with the formidable Professor X, and he is much less active in the administration.
The setting is in the city of Maldon, England. More specifically, the game takes place mostly in and around the University, the Xavier's University, or more commonly called XU. The year is the current one, on somewhat on a sliding scale to account for the game moving a bit slower than real time. Check the date and semester information at the top of the forum for the current date, if you're reading this sometime after the game begins. The world of the X-Men is a familiar one, much like our world, but there are more fantastic people and occurrences than we normally see. Technology is more advanced and robust, mutant powers are becoming abundant, and there is occasionally contact with aliens or other weird entities.
The player characters are students at the University, mutants who have a some degree of control over their abilities, but still have much to learn before they can stand among the giants of their people. Player characters are somewhere along the way to becoming the new generation of legendary X-Men that will fight the heroic battles of the coming years as they defend humans and themselves from the threats and villains of the world, be they mutant, human or something else entirely.
The time scale of the game will not be linear. Rather, each school semester will have one or more action plots that we will call Issues, in honor of the comics that inspired the game. Each Issue will take place over the course of several real life weeks, and the in-game time the issue takes will depend entirely on the type of plot that is happening. An issue may take months of game-time, or it may happen in the space of a single game-day.
Between Issues, there will be a 'downtime' period where a fair amount of game-time will usually pass, and where more mundane occurrences like classes and the like will be summarized or played out in short scenes. We will try to schedule these downtime periods around holidays and other times when people are busy and unable to play as much whenever possible. Once the downtime period is completed, another Issue will take the fore, and exciting and dramatic plots will play themselves out.
The game's universe is that of the Marvel X-Men, mutants who have strange and wonderful powers exist, and in fact are only becoming more and more common in the world though society remains skeptical if not outright hostile. Xavier's University is an extension of the Xavier Institute program to the collegiate level, and is still nominally overseen by Charles Xavier, though age is catching up with the formidable Professor X, and he is much less active in the administration.
The setting is in the city of Maldon, England. More specifically, the game takes place mostly in and around the University, the Xavier's University, or more commonly called XU. The year is the current one, on somewhat on a sliding scale to account for the game moving a bit slower than real time. Check the date and semester information at the top of the forum for the current date, if you're reading this sometime after the game begins. The world of the X-Men is a familiar one, much like our world, but there are more fantastic people and occurrences than we normally see. Technology is more advanced and robust, mutant powers are becoming abundant, and there is occasionally contact with aliens or other weird entities.
The player characters are students at the University, mutants who have a some degree of control over their abilities, but still have much to learn before they can stand among the giants of their people. Player characters are somewhere along the way to becoming the new generation of legendary X-Men that will fight the heroic battles of the coming years as they defend humans and themselves from the threats and villains of the world, be they mutant, human or something else entirely.
The time scale of the game will not be linear. Rather, each school semester will have one or more action plots that we will call Issues, in honor of the comics that inspired the game. Each Issue will take place over the course of several real life weeks, and the in-game time the issue takes will depend entirely on the type of plot that is happening. An issue may take months of game-time, or it may happen in the space of a single game-day.
Between Issues, there will be a 'downtime' period where a fair amount of game-time will usually pass, and where more mundane occurrences like classes and the like will be summarized or played out in short scenes. We will try to schedule these downtime periods around holidays and other times when people are busy and unable to play as much whenever possible. Once the downtime period is completed, another Issue will take the fore, and exciting and dramatic plots will play themselves out.