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Topic Started: Jan 1 2012, 10:35 AM (373 Views)
GreedoShotFirst
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There has been loads of different storyline's across multiple Mutant and Xi roleplays, some of which were great, others.. not so much.
I always thought that the main reason the storyline ends up failing, along with the actual roleplay itself, is due to a few reasons.

1) It's usually the same storyline
2) It's not interesting, and gets boring really easily.
3) Not enough community involvement, which means some people might like it (Including the writer), and most people hate it.
4) It's based around canons, and little to none involvement with customs

Although reason number 4 only really applies to canon-only roleplays, it's still something to keep in mind, seeing as a lot of people now are playing customs, sometimes more than main characters.

All of this is going to change, and the way I plan on doing this is to get everyone involved.. well, everyone who can be arsed using the forum.. which I hope is most people.. anyway.

What I would like everyone to do (if you're willing to participate) is write up a suggestion on what YOU Think the storyline should be about, or based upon.
It can be anything as long as it's relevant to the X-Men universe and makes sense. Your imagination is the limit, but I have a few loose rules that I would like people to follow, these rules are NOT final, and can be changed if the majority of people don't like them, these are just things I would like to keep OUT, and things I would like to keep IN, but in the end the decision is up to the roleplayers.

The not so serious rules:

I would prefer it if the story was not based around main characters too much, I understand that in some cases they are NEEDED which is why I'm not ruling them out completely, all I'm saying is that I think the story should be based around EVERYONE, and not just the people that are main characters.

Something that everyone, or most people can agree on. A majority vote seems like the most realistic option, because let's face it you can't, and never will, please everyone.
Although if most people like the story, it should get them to stay In character more, and they should be willing to roleplay, and not forcing themselves too because someone told them too.

Some sort of divide either inside the academy or outside. Whichever story we pick should drastically change the roleplay environment, good guys turning bad due to finding greater interest in something that happens to be wrong, people turning on the academy and their own kind, you know something to keep everyone from being the same, start some groups, rebellions, whatever.

That's basically it, post your ideas down below and when it hits enough posts I will read through ALL of them, and then take them to a vote for people to decide what they would like to roleplay.

Remember, the only limitation is your imagination.
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Rebellions ftw, i believe we should have weapons, not like huge torturing ones. But you know swords, basic shit. Especially for rebels and fighting type.
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TylerSr
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But that's the thing tho josh, you don't really see x-men etc running around with swords or anything like that. They tend to just rely on their powers and normal combat skills if anything. So it just really doesn't seem logical to be running around with a sword or something going at someone who is just going to use their powers to pretty much destroy you before you even get close enough to hit them with it.
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Gore
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I've always liked the idea of something to do with an actual human uprising. Like, instead of having full on mutants, we could have human applicants too. Agent Zero for example is a fucking awesome human character, just had deadly fucking accuracy.
Sentinels and shit like that is a good story.. theoretically. It would need a few more rooms as it could be something to do with the military forces of the world conspiring against mutant kind!
Most story lines contain something to do with Xavier versus the Brotherhood which is kinda boring, however awesome the Brotherhood are..
This would mean having someone excellent playing Magneto, not just an every day person that applies for a canon.

That brings me onto another topic but I'll post that separately..

However, I stick by my first choice and say something to do with humans on the up rise could be a good start for a story line.. :)
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Oh yea, good turning bad is good.
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TylerSr
Jan 1 2012, 10:40 AM
But that's the thing tho josh, you don't really see x-men etc running around with swords or anything like that. They tend to just rely on their powers and normal combat skills if anything. So it just really doesn't seem logical to be running around with a sword or something going at someone who is just going to use their powers to pretty much destroy you before you even get close enough to hit them with it.
Also, humans in the x-men universe are technologically advanced. The Military have like.. anti-power equipment and shit like that.
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TylerSr
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Dave had a good point with the upbringing of humans, would be a rather intresting start. But the problem with that is,
who would actually want to apply an app for a human instead of a mutant. I see that just kinda being a bit of a downfall.
But who knows it could actually work if done right.

But along with the upbringing of the Sisterhood or brotherhood, not really sure which one is in the lead with votes at the moment would also be a good start of people finding out a true nature instead of just being normal students and actually creating subgroups of mutants that could pretty much end up spinning off into some sort of war between the two groups. Good Vs. Evil pretty much.
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Rakis
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The X-Men are heroes, I'm a thief.
But I'm pretty sure not alot of people would volunteer to be humans , am I right ? Hence it's a mutant rp.
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GreedoShotFirst
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It doesn't really need to be "humans" it could be say.. human influence, stuff the humans have done that have effected the mutants in the roleplay, that way people wouldn't need to roleplay humans.
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And Tyler beat me to it.


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