With story telling like that, why the **** don't you come back to the RPGs?
Time restraints. I actually really enjoyed the RPG. I wrote 3 long arcs in there and loved them all.
Madrox - Madrox ran X-Factor investigations back before the X-Factor book launched but after the Madrox mini (our time). He, Rahne, and Guido were hired by a woman who's husband was murdered, found encased in a room full of ice. Iceman was the main suspicion but Madrox knew better so he took the job. Ultimately the man was alive, faked his death trying to blame it on a high profile mutant, and was currently the head of the new Church of Humanity.
Simoultaneously, he had a dupe who went rogue but not evil... he just wanted to live his life. He went to Genosha, named himself Michael Madrox, and tried to live a peaceful life. However, differant form Jamie he had more of a backbone and as was needed he stepped it up and eventually, as Magneto was arrested for a world strike, he took charge of Genosha and rebuilt it. he wasn't looking for leadership but the people named him leader when he stood with them and went face to face with such mutants as Sabretooth, Nate Grey (gone bad I think), and Juggernaut. Basically, the Brotherhood barked and he barked back.
He brought Genosha to peace and was rebuilding it, found a love life, etc. Even converted Sabretooth by his example. But ultimately a sniper from the Church of Humanity, mistaking him for Jamie, shot and killed him just as Jamie saw what he was capable of himself if he really tried. Sabretooth killed the sniper and Jamie was left wondering what his new direction in life should be.
Man I loved that story.
After that I came in as the Shocker planning a small arc where he was tired of always being humiliated and finally came up with a plan that he couldn't lose at. However, I could never write the real story as he got pulled into a larger storyline, becoming a Horseman of Apocalypse, and eventually was defeated as a complete loser... fainting before an enraged Thor. He did manage to do a lot of damage before that though, including supposedly killing Iceman, who came back just before his defeat making him lose confidense despite his added abilities.
I had to stop writing but I was going to come back around to my story... which was that he was basically going to kill himself due to disgust in himself. He was going to let Spider-Man know and at the same time as the attempted suicide a bomb would go off in a school accross town. Spider-Man couldn't save both he and the school so his committing suicide would be his first victory and he'd finally go out having defeated Spider-Man. However, I planned it so that Spider-Man comes so close toa ctually doing both but he just missed Shocker firing the gun into his head by seconds. The bullet, however, doesn't kill him and he wakes up in the hospital, saved by the doctors, the bullet missing the vital portions of the brain. He failed once again.
The last story I wrote... and Byrd I think you were there for it... was with Madrox and then with Lifebird but there was no set story there. It just built as I went ultimately leading toward a new X-Factor being made, a bunch of Alternate Reality worlds folding into hours, and a bit tie-in with a superhuman hit list or something that ended up with the X-Men and the Green Goblin taking out the Red Sull. I don't even remember the details to that one. I was so interwoven with other people's stories that I didn't really get to focus on my own, which ended up shifted in the end t what it ultimately became.
