Ultimate One Universe - Genesis: Sign-Up/OOC Thread

[Eddie Brock]

Sorry, hyenas. No meal for you.

 

[Carnage27]

Sorry, hyenas. No meal for you.

Superman and Batman posts will be up tomorrow, most likely.

 

[Carnage27]

Okay, Batman will be up tomorrow

 

[Eddie Brock]

Posts coming soon. I went home for the holidays this week, so it's been a lot of on-the-go.

 

[Carnage27]

Same. This weekend has been crazy. I should have something up tomorrow

 

[Carnage27]

Let's go people! POOOOOOOOOST

 

[Eddie Brock]

Well, that should've never taken so long to put together. Mea culpa. That means Flash and Cap (haven't forgotten about him; just struggling to find the road from Point A to Point B) will have to wait until after the holiday. Oh, and Merry Christmas, everyone!

 

[MST3K 4ever]

Sorry for the lack of posting...my eye infection is back and it has gotten to the point that periodically my eye swells shut. It is very frustrating.

 

[Morden Man]

I hope you feel better soon, MST3K.

Merry Christmas, everyone!

 

[Carnage27]

I'll have some stuff up tomorrow. Also, Byrd's told me he's unfortunately dropping out of the game.

I'm gonna do something weird and up the character limit to 4. I'm gonna put an app up for the X-Men and continue his story. Now that the Marvel game is basically dead, I have some more free time, and I am not letting this game slow down.

 

[Eddie Brock]

Byrd, noooooooooooo! We'll soldier on in his memory. Speaking of soldiers, I've begun writing my next Captain America post at long last. Got yet another family event today, but it's coming soon, I swear.

 

[Carnage27]

Ultimate One Universe
Character Application

Character Name: Charles Xavier

Alignment (Hero, Villain, Walking the Line): Hero

Character Speech Font and Color: Trebuchect MS Bold Grey

Powers and Abilities: Xavier is possibly the most powerful telepath in the world. He can read, control, and erase dozens of people's minds at the same time. Using his amazing telepathic ability, Xavier is able to use the machine Cerebro to find new students for his school. He is also a gifted academic mind and accomplished geneticist.

Character Origin/Backstory:

From Byrd Man:

Charles Xavier was born in England in 1970 to a nurse and a wealthy nuclear physicist. When he was eight, Charles moved with his parents to upstate New York, living in a mansion in Westchester County.

Charles was thirteen was when he started hearing voices. Voices all around him voices that made him scream in terror. His parents had him briefly committed. It was during his time at the mental hospital that he began to realize what the voices were. They were thoughts. Charles was hearing the thoughts of everyone around him. In a padded cell, his arms bound together, he taught himself to block those voices out, use his gift to turn his telepathy on and off at will. After a few months, he was released back into the care of his mother and father.

Charles went to Harvard and then Oxford where he studied genetics. It was there that he discovered the cause of his telepathy. Charles had a mutation in his genes. From studying, he discovered that he wasn't the only one with said mutations. At Oxford, he found records of Holocaust victims the Nazis had operated on. These people had genetic structures similar to them. He tracked down a descendant of one of the Holocaust victims in Poland. A man named Erik Lensherr. Charles discovered that Erik was a mutant as well. He could control and distort magnetic energies. In Erik, Charles discovered a deep seated anger at being a Jewish man who had been victimized in the past by antisemitic people. Together, the two men bonded on their common background as mutants and decided they would work together to find more mutants.

With Erik's help, Charles built a device that could amplify his psychic powers a thousand fold. He could reach out across the globe and touch every mind. With the device, he could identify mutants and where they were located. The device was built and dubbed Cerebro, the Spanish word for brain.

As they built Cerebro, Charles began noticing a disturbing trend with Erik. Whereas Charles wished to find mutants and educate them on their abilities, Erik was interested in cultivating an army. Finally, Cerebro was ready. Charles plugged in and his mind went out across the world. He could see millions of mutants in every country, millions of men, women, boys, and girls who were frightened and scared of what they were.

While Charles was in Cerebro, Erik began to whisper into his ear. He asked Charles to attempt to go into the minds of the humans. Make them suffer, make them bleed. Speed the progress of nature. Wipe Homo Sapien off the map to make way for Homo Superior. Charles refused and Erik attacked him while in Cerebro. The physic back lash from the fight caused the entire planet to black out for thirty seconds. Charles and Erik fought, Charles entering his mind just moments before he blacked out.

When Charles came to, he was in a hospital with government agents watching his every move. They had took notice of the global black out and tracked him down. Erik was in custody elsewhere, paralyzed from the waist down. During their fight, Charles had accidentally used his abilities portion of the brain that controlled walking. While in government custody, he heard that Erik had managed to use his powers escape.

Charles, suffering guilt over what he had done to his friend and the rest of humanity, did not attempt to argue or protest as the government forced him to work on the emerging race of mutants. After repairing Cerebro, Charles used the device again under armed guard and reached out to find five people he could use and they were recruited. On the island of Utopia off the coast of San Francisco, Charles trains the five young people to be agents of the government.

His students were:
16 year old Scott Summer
16 year old Jean Grey
18 year old Henry "Hank" McCoy
15 year old Jefferson Pierce
17 year old Rex Mason

Together they were the students of Xavier. His first class in the upcoming defense of humanity against the very mutants he wished to help.

Their first mission involved fighting Erik and his terrorist group the Brotherhood of Mutants at the San Diego Naval Yard. After defeating them, an incident involving the Navy led to a showdown between mutants and humans before Charles intervened and stopped the incident before it got out of hand.

Months passed and Charles began to feel the unease and distrust of the humans at Utopia. The commander of the project Vice Admiral William Stryker worked in secret with Dr. Nathaniel Essex to study and experiment on incarcerated mutants at Alcatraz. Stryker began to grow paranoid of Xavier and his team. Against congress's wishes Stryker ordered the arrest of Xavier's team. Using Sentinels, Navy SEALs and Marines with cybernetic upgrades to make them resistant to mutant powers, Stryker fled to a secret military base on Krakoa Island in the Pacific with Charles' team. His plan as to use Jean's psychic abilities to control a makeshift cerebro, finding all the mutants in the world and targeting them for extermination. Xavier managed to escape and sought out an uneasy ally named Logan. Using a makeshift cerebro they recruited a new team to rescue the old team. They were:

Ororo Munroe
Buddy Baker
Piotr Rasputin
Beatriz de Costa
Kurt Wagner

After a crash course Xavier and Logan headed to Krakoa with the new team. Meanwhile on Krakoa, Scott engineered a breakout. Leading Jefferson and Rex, Scott saved Hank and was on the way to rescuing Jean when the new team showed up. Mutants new and old teamed up to fight Stryker's forces. They arrived just in time to see Jean kill Stryker in self-defense. The mutants fled Krakoa with Xavier wiping everyone's memory and Hank using his computer skills to wipe Xavier and the mutants' records from any government database.

From his home in upstate New York Charles founded a school for mutants: Xavier's School for Higher Learning. He declared to the world that he was a mutant and that there was a new force in the world to help people, mutant and human, against any and all threats in the world. The X-Men, they work to protect a world that both fears and hates them.

Xavier and his X-Men now face threats from all sides as the world continues to react to the advent of the X-Men and the explosion in the mutant population. Xavier searches for Magneto while forces work in the shadows to undermine all the work he's done.

And in the dark corners of the world, something has awakened that could throw the world into chaos.

CAST

Xavier's School for the Gifted

Charles Xavier - Headmaster
Henry McCory - Deputy Headmaster
Logan - Head of Security,
Scott Summers - Teacher
Jean Grey - Teacher
Buddy Baker - Teacher
Jefferson Pierce - Teacher
Piotr Rasputin - Teacher
Katherine Pryde - Student
Kurt Wagner - Student

X-Men

Scott Summers aka Cyclops
Jean Grey aka Marvel Woman
Buddy Baker aka Animal Man
Jefferson Pierce aka Black Lighting
Piotr Rasputin aka Colossus
Beatriz de Costa aka Fire
Ororo Monroe aka Storm


Reserve:

Logan
Metamorpho
Beast
Shadowcat
Nightcrawler

Brotherhood of Mutants

Erik Lensherr aka Magneto
Pietro Maximoff aka Quicksilver
Louise Lincoln aka Killer Frost
Larry Bolatinsky aka Bolt
Sabretooth
King Shark
Plastique
Dr. Nemesis

What Makes This Version "Ultimate": As Byrd said, Xavier can walk, for one. There's also some things coming that will shake up the tried and true X-Men status quo.

What can you bring to the RPG: I have a few shakeups of classic X-Men storylines coming. Plus, I haven't seriously played the X-Men since my days as Nightcrawler.

Sample Post (provide a short post of at least 3 paragraphs and 1 line of dialogue for your character):

Charles Xavier smiled as he peered over the grounds of the school from the balcony in his office. Xavier was rarely a sentimental man, but this small parcel of land in rural New York was like his own personal Shangri-La. Green, rolling hills filled with happy, safe, mutant children in a place they could truly feel at home. He hoped one day that this could be the scene across the country, with mutant and human children playing side by side harmoniously. It was a naive goal, but he hoped he could help foster that friendship as far as he could.

"Ready to go, Professor?" Scott asked from the doorway.

As much as Xavier wanted peace, he knew there was a hard road until that time. As he stood here, his team was preparing for a mission against Erik and his Brotherhood. Xavier didn't know what his old friend was up to with Genosha, but he figured it wasn't of pure intention.

"I'll be down in a second, Scott," he responded to the X-Men's field leader. As he left, he opened a call on a private line. On the other end, Charles's former student picked up and the professor warned, "Genosha. That's where Erik is. I'm trusting you, Rex."

 

[Carnage27]

Superman ans Sue posts will be up tomorrow. Bats and Xavier by Friday

 

[Sentarous]

I'll be working on Helena again, (I know a month late), but time has been killer as has responsibilities.

 

[Carnage27]

I'll be working on Helena again, (I know a month late), but time has been killer as has responsibilities.

Glad to hear you're still around.

 

[MST3K 4ever]

Hey everyone. I could use my re-occurring eye infection and chest cold as an excuse. However creatively...I am at a stand still and a loss.

Rather than hold things up I am dropping out of this RP.

I wish you all well and peace.

 

[Carnage27]

 

[Carnage27]

Okay, Bats and Xavier will definitely be up tomorrow.

 

[Eddie Brock]

Ready the hyenas, boys. If I haven't posted as Captain America in 24 hours, unleash those suckers.

 

[Carnage27]

Same with me and Batman. Way behind with him

 

[Carnage27]

*sigh*

I'll finish my Batman post tomorrow as the hyenas are devouring me

 

[Eddie Brock]

It had been two nights since three nights since Austin had been arrested...

So... five nights, then?

Also, Carnage, the boys will be quite pleased to hear it...

 

[Morden Man]

I wrote that so long ago that I can't even remember what I meant.

Goddamn it.

 

[Morden Man]

Also, as is often the case with origin RPGs, this place feels a little interaction-light at the moment.

I'm half-tempted to pick up either Lex or (gulp...) The Joker to try to get something going around here. I've been saying I'd pick up another character for a while though, so I'm not committing to anything. Just putting some feelers out.

 

[Byrd Man]

I told Mr. C that I was out of the game, but I have an idea I've been toying with for a while and I may try out. It's a big maybe. I don't want to come off as a tease, but I'll work on it and see what I can do.