As the name indicates...this RPG will revolve around Crossroads and New Beginnings.CrossroadsWe would like to see characters come to a 'crossroads' in their lives where important and life changing decisions have to be made. These events can be very personal...i.e. a relationship beginning, ending or changing, or they can be moral or spiritual. Whatever is decided, they should show 'growth' for your character.New BeginningsThis can be any number of items as well and most likely will relate back to the 'crossroads' in your character(s)' life or lives and/or career. They may be starting a new career as teacher or student at Xavier's School for the Gifted or may have been selected to train for the upcoming X-Men team(s). Their 'new beginning' once again may be as simple as establishing a new relationship or changes in an old one.
The X-Men and all likenesses are the property of Marvel Comics, 20th Century FOX, and ALL the creative minds therein. X-Men Crossroads is a non-profit RPG board. We here participate for the pure enjoyment and satisfaction writing in the X-Men Universe brings.Most of the Bio information is courtersy of Marvel Directory
“So, who’s going to ask them to stop with the noise then?” Pyro inquired.
"I will..." Betsy volunteered as she stepped forward. "But... I expect you all to back me up... Come on," she directed as she began to make her way through the crowd and up to the front near the center of the stage.
"Excuse me!" she hollered, trying to get the attention of those on stage. "I said, excuse me!!!" she demanded.
::Obviously, they can't hear me... The bloody music's too loud...:: she silently reminded herself.
Then, an idea clicked into her head. If they couldn't hear her, then she would make them 'hear' her with her mind. ~*~Listen up! You are causing a disturbance at this school! I urge you to pack up your gear and go play somewhere else...~*~ Betsy warned them telepathically as she glared up at them from the ground.
Re: Mansion:Kitchen-Concert /Pyro/Tags: Kitty, Betsy, etc~*~Listen up! You are causing a disturbance at this school! I urge you to pack up your gear and go play somewhere else...~*~
As one, except for the drummer who tentatively completed his riff - three slow taps of the drum, a clash of cymbols, and then two more soft, faint drum taps - the group on the stage stopped mid-verse, each with a startled expression writ large on their face.
"Whoah, man! You hear that?" the vocalist asked as he looked around. He was an 18 year old guitar player with long dreadlocked brown hair, torn jeans and white logo T under an open brown leather flight jacket.
"Freaky," another noted, looking into his bass guitar.
"Words from above, man, words from above. Run with it!" the keyboardist shouted out, tapping a couple of playful, experimental chords.
The vocalist turned around, holding a thumb out at the keyboardist, his arm fully extended. He then turned around, a beatific smile on his face, thumb still held out as he approached the microphone again. "Freaky, huh?" he announced brightly to the audience, who let out a cheer.
He took the microphone now in both hands, and started talking to the assembled crowd. "Hello, my name is Peace Johnson," a loud cheer went up, "and we are the Placeholders!" A louder and longer cheer went up, as Peace raised his fist, turning left and right to face the entire audience. "I want to welcome you to the 18th annual treefalls concert tryouts: we have a lot of groovy bands and happening people here who all want to entertain you, but before we begin we want to remind you the VEAP foodshelf over there is taking all the canned goods you bought to get in here," Another cheer went up as he pointed to a blue tent off to his left, "and YES! they want to remind me to tell you that they DO take cash, checks, and plastic if you want to help out more! And remember, the winner of this contest fronts for the Green Day concert next August!"
At this the crowd went wild, with loud cheering for a full minute and one half. As the cheering died down Peace turned back to the keyboardist, shouting above the crowd noise: "Run with it!"
Chords started sounding out as the bass kicked in, improvising. The sounds that were emitted similar in style to the Replacement's "Left of the Dial" with a Dylan twang.
"Listen up!" dah de di dum doo do Di di da "Listen up!", this time much louder Peace and the bass player shouted, crowding around the mike. dah de dee di dum doo do didi dada dum "You're causing a disturbance!" dum du du di dum dum "I'm going to kick your ass!" dee di di dum da da dum da da di di da da dum "If'n you don't get off this staaaaaaagggeee". A long twangy guitar riff accompanied that last.
"Go somewhere else to play"
"Go somewhere else to play"
"Go somewhere else to plaaaaayyyyy" the two miked, close to the microphone as chorus.
Re: Mansion:Kitchen-Concert /Pyro/Tags: Kitty, Betsy, etc
OOC: LMAO I like it!
Kitty blinked as she listened to the guys words, "A canned food drive? Ah geez? John..." she whined, looking at him.
Then the music started up again, and she listened to the lyrics, "Huh?" she blinked. Turning back to the others she sighed, "Ok now WHAT?" she shouted.
Re: Concert /Pyro/Tags: Kitty, Betsy, etc
~Well, that didn’t work,~ John thought, glancing briefly at Psylocke. ~These guys must be on some sorta hallucinogen or something,~ he snickered, ~Words from above… yeah right!~
He listened to the lead singer’s comments, a detailed description of what this concert was all about, and why it was being held, did help to answer the many questions mulling over in his mind. ~So, they have no idea then,~ he thought about that for a moment, not completely crossing out the possibility this could be some sort of under cover attempt to get closer to the school; to infiltrate it without them knowing.
"A canned food drive? Ah geez? John... Ok now WHAT?" Kitty shouted.
“WE GO WITH YOUR PLAN!” John yelled over the music, his face screwing up in dislike of the sound of the singer’s voice, ~Man! Even I could sing better than that!~ his next thoughts were directed towards Psylocke, ~Keep talking to them telepathically every so often. Whatever they are high on will serve to our advantage.~
He took Kitty gently by the arm, leading her away from the crowd, towards a quiet area left of the main stage.
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"You know all those dangerous mutants you hear about on the news? I'm the worst one!"
Re: Concert /Pyro/Tags: Kitty, Betsy, etc
Kitty nodded as John drug her away, "Hey look. If the whole 'getting high' thing don't work anymore. Feel free to cause a SMALL distraction. Nothing to big Pyro." she grinned as she eyed the stage.
"Hmm ok, I can phase through here through the stage and walk through. I can hold my breath up to 2 minutes now." she beamed.
"But I'll have to reach those amps quickly, two minutes is my limit. Unless I can sneak around back and just disrupt the WHOLE power supply."
Re: Concert /Pyro/Tags: Kitty, Betsy, etc
(I'm willing to fix things to make it easier for people - I don't want to end up "steering" someone's course of action. On the other hand, this isn't just a bunch of garage band wannabee's with amps, a keg, and a bag o' weed, although that would be fun too and I'll set that up later if people like so they can satisfy their vicarious destructive urges. Send PMs)
Map note: Forgot to add a couple of concession tents at the back of the audience section, mostly selling food, T-Shirts and attitudes.
Re: Concert /Psylocke/Tags: Kitty, Pyro, etc
Betsy was astounded when those dolts on stage stole her words of warning and used them in their idiotic song. "Oh, for the luv of..." she muttered as she saw Pyro and Kitty heading away from the stage.
She followed them.
"So... Wot now?" Betsy asked. "Those bloody idiots up there think that God's talking to them or something... How can we get them to leave?"
Re: Mansion: Concert /Magik/Tags: Colossus, Kitty, Pyro, Psy
OOC: Continued from NYC thread...
Illyana was once again disappointed when she emerged from her stepping disc and found herself surrounded by a crowd of people and horrid noise that this crowd believed to be music - at least, that's what she gathered it was.
Illyana closed her stepping disc behind her and walked around a bit, putting her hands over her ears to help block out the noise. The general area did look familiar to her, a bit. And, she thought that she saw Xavier's mansion nearby!
Illyana began to run towards it, her hands still covering her ears. She was running blindly, her eyes and mind locked on one thing: getting to the mansion and seeing her brother.
OOC2: This would be a great time for Colossus to tag his little sister...
Piotr had watch the others go in silence, leaving the room to go find something to do to keep himself busy. Today was the one day that he took a break from training and classes, his free day. And he intended to enjoy it, even if the others were off doing something else. Besides, alone-time was good once in a while.
At this particular time, the large Russian had gone up to his room and taken up a pen. Aside from visual art, Piotr had recently taken up writing, just for the enjoyment. He did not intend to publish it or anything extravagant like that. Simply to put some of his feelings down in story-form. Piotr had yet to let anyone read his story.
The tale centered around two siblings, a boy and a girl, who had been seperated at a young age. Not unusually, this bore an odd resemblance to his own situation, in which Illyana had been taken from him..
When he switched perspectives to the girl's point of view..he ran out of things to write. Writer's block, it must have been.
So he decided to take a walk, hopefully to get some appreciation and fresh air. he put his shoes on and left the mansion through the front doors. After a moment's thought, he decided to walk outside of the grounds, because he had toured the mansion's premises very thoroughly already.
Running a hand through his jet-black hair, he began to walk. He had no exact goal, he'd go back when he felt the time was right.
His eyes narrowed as he saw a figure running: a girl, blonde. Something stirred inside of him, but he knew not what, nor why. He adjusted his unplanned route so that soon, he'd intercept the girl, and hopefully see what her intentions were.
Re: Mansion:Concert /Pyro/Tags: Shadowcat/Psylocke
OOC: My apologies for taking so long, have been very busy with other RPG stuff as of late. Btw, April, if you like the quote bozes I would be more than happy to tell you how they work. If you don't like them let me know. Thankies.
Quote:Kitty nodded as John drug her away, "Hey look. If the whole 'getting high' thing don't work anymore. Feel free to cause a SMALL distraction. Nothing to big Pyro." she grinned as she eyed the stage.
"Hmm ok, I can phase through here through the stage and walk through. I can hold my breath up to 2 minutes now." she beamed.
"But I'll have to reach those amps quickly, two minutes is my limit. Unless I can sneak around back and just disrupt the WHOLE power supply."
John was only half listening, his eyes roaming the area, his mind suddenly clicking that what Kitty suggested to do wasn’t really a good idea. “Hey, you know, something like this would have, like, media coverage, right?”
Okay, so out of the blue he had thought of that… how odd. Well, not really, considering the many concerts he had been to in his teenage years nearly always had the press in tow.
“I’m thinking a more subtle approach to…”
Quote:"So... Wot now?" Betsy asked. "Those bloody idiots up there think that God's talking to them or something... How can we get them to leave?"
Pyro looked around as Betsy interrupted what he was about to offer as a plan, “Was just about to tell Kitty my thoughts,” he told the telepathic ninja. “These guys thought your telepathic words were from God, so, how bout we do a little improvising, using Psylocke’s powers, and mine, to make them think God wants them to leave. Maybe they will… you know, I think, believe it is him, if we display some power mimicking his displeasure,” John shrugged, “and while we have everyone distracted, you can work your through some of the electrical equipment…” he paused, “Actually, might be best to take out the media coverage first. You’re the phaser, wanna come up with an idea as how to do that?” he asked, looking pointedly at Shadowcat.
Quote:“Actually, might be best to take out the media coverage first. You’re the phaser, wanna come up with an idea as how to do that?” he asked, looking pointedly at Shadowcat.
Kitty looked around, "THAT may prove difficult. The ones on the tripods will be no problem. Hmm you said something about the whole God thing? OOO Idea! Milk the thought that an 'angel' is coming to distrubute His wrath or something, I guess." she shrugged.
Turning to Psylocke, "Hey it seems to work well for you. Think you can use your powers to make people think I'm flying or appear to be 'angelic?' Maybe 'hide' my face or something? Make it appear as a bright light, or just ME as a bright light for that matter?"
Re: Mansion:Concert /Pyro/Tags: Shadowcat/Psylocke
Elisabeth wasn't quite sure what John meant by them using their powers together to try to get this scuzzy band to leave.
However, she had a pretty good idea of what he meant for Kitty to do.
"Err... What did you have in mind?" she asked him, game for whatever. "Just fill me in on your plan..."
Then, Kitty spoke to her: "Hey it seems to work well for you. Think you can use your powers to make people think I'm flying or appear to be 'angelic?' Maybe 'hide' my face or something? Make it appear as a bright light, or just ME as a bright light for that matter?"
Betsy smiled. "I think that can be arranged..." she said, beginning to get into their little scheme.
Re: Mansion: Concert /Illyana/ Tags: Colossus
Illyana, having been running blindly with her hands covering her ears, was quite suprised when she ran into what felt like a brick wall. It was, in fact, a human. A very tall human.
Illyana had fallen backwards onto the ground after running into this colossus, and she then looked up at what, rather who, she'd hit. She was quite suprised to find that it was her brother, Pitor.
"Oh! Pitor! It's you!" she cried out happily, tears falling from her eyes out of relief. She slowly picked herself up and stood in front of him. "I've missed you so much, ìîé áðàò*!" she cried out expectantly.
Re: Mansion: Concert /Illyana/ Tags: Colossus
Skepticism threatened to overwhelm Piotr, but he fought it back with the strength of his heart, which honesty new that this older, more mature girl was indeed the sister she claimed to be.
Words eluded the Russion at first, and instead he merely hugged her to his chest very softly, in a protective manner as he had done often as a young teenager on the farm back home. This was Illyana. He knew it. What he didn't know..was how.
"Little Sister....." he murmured, in Russian, into her ear before letting her go. Her voice was almost exactly how he remembered it, but more mature and experienced. "How? How have you come back to me?"
Just a little note to let you know a JP has been set up in the Player to Player forum between Pyro, Kitty, and Psylocke. Betsy has been tagged too. Go there to add her bit to the post. If you have trouble editing in your bit please let either April or me know.
Re: Mansion: Concert (OOC)
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Who: Fox (jackpot)
Where: the concert
with: anyone whos there
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Among the cofusion and hustle and bustle (not to mention the noise) of the concert something else was afoot, something that people would call illegal and immoral. This immoral thing was actually an 17 year old hidden in a hooded jacket hiding a pale, drugged, and under fed face. This person had manged to infiltrate the crowd and fit into it as if he was not there.
To his own view, Fox was not doing anything wrong since he was only taking what he needed. After all, if he could score big from the concert, he could lay low for a very long time and, looking at the clients of the concert, they all seemed to be snobbish rich kids who wouldn't miss the money or even notice it was gone.
By the time the targets would of noticed their money was gone, Fox would of disappeared into the crowd again as if he was never there. He had been working on this operation for quite a long time now. He had noticed the crowds odd behavior but he had put that down to the music that was being played. But, hey, if the crowd was occupied they wouldnt seem to notice his work in progess.
Shrugging he manoeuvred though the crowd; he had two major concerns now, not getting caught, and finding a certain man who had a delivery for him.
Re: Mansion: MagikTags: Colossus"Little Sister....." he murmured, in Russian, into her ear before letting her go. Her voice was almost exactly how he remembered it, but more mature and experienced. "How? How have you come back to me?"
Illyana was so happy that Pitor had accepted her as herself. He hadn't turned her away! She held him close as he asked her how she'd come back.
Illyana pulled back from him just enough to look him in the eyes. She took a deep breath then said, "I'm not sure where to begin..."
There was a lot to tell him. A lot had happened while she'd been in Limbo: she'd grown, learned spells and how to control her stepping discs, and she'd become queen of the strange realm.
"Perhaps we could go indoors and talk in private?" she suggested.
Re: Mansion: MagikTags: Colossus
His eyes, identical to hers, were soft as he watched her contemplate her answer, and at that point he knew that he was very lucky toi see her again, for a reason not yet known to him. She seemed surprised that he had accepted her..but far stranger things had happened before this, it was one of the things to be accepted as an X-man.
"Private..yes." he nodded, the pause only in contemplation of where they would go to discuss the matter. Releasing Illyana carefully, he began to walk alongside her back towards the mansion, making sure she was following.
Background: Many, many years ago, Charles Francis Xavier established Xavier's School for the Gifted. Also, seeing other Mutants misusing and abusing their powers, he created the first generation of the X-Men.This original team was trained and lead by an old friend of his...Logan, aka Wolverine. Logan's co-leader was a young woman and student named Ororo Munroe, aka Storm. Once the team was trained and fielded on active missions, they took on the additional responsibility of teaching and helping new Mutants deal with their powers.On one horrible night, the X-Men were fielded to stop a particularly powerful Mutant and his 'gang'. The 'intelligence' received on this Mutant and his cohorts was sketchy and actually turned out to be a set-up to entrap the X-Men and take them captive. In the ensuing melee', 'things' happened and a number of the team were killed outright or severely injured.After making sure his remaining team-mates were going to be okay, Logan left. Xavier has not, to current time, explained his absence or even whether or not he survived.Current Time/Game Time: Almost seven years later, as Human/Mutant incidents are on the rise, Xavier once again sees a need for a Mutant 'police force'. He sees this new X-Men team as a force for good and a way to help peacefully integrate the rapidly emerging Mutant society with the established Human society. To this end, he has contacted Logan and asked him to 'come home' and train his 'new' team.
Logan has reluctantly agreed.Can shadows from their past be put aside for the good of the new X-Men? How will the surviving members of the original team react and what will they do as 'truths' are learned about that disastrous night?Note: We want the new X-Men to include younger versions of the old familiar characters such as Scott, Jean, Beast etc...as well as many of the OCC’s and other Canon characters that are available.Please ask the Staff BEFORE stating or establishing that your character was one of the old, now disbanded, original X-Men.
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