I swear-- I must have missed a whole lot that got posted somehow. Which I just don't get.

I can absolutely see everything you post to one another so this is just leaving be absolutely bewildered. If any of you all send a PM to each other, I can see it.

Because I haven't seen Cordelia do anything to try to harm any other PC. At most she has maybe come across as unhelpful and a bit antagonistic.

I feel like her first big betrayal here is having critical info and not sharing it and trying to run off with Jono because she feels rejected by the other two girls.

And well... it feels a bit odd to criticize her wanting to just absolutely ditch the other two girls for having failed to meet her personal expectations if ditching the adult supervision because he didn't step in and resolve the battle with the bad guy for you is somehow okay.

Furthermore, Emma was supposed to come off as the unreasonable one in her exchange with Cordelia. One should be wondering why she is trying to flex so much control over her own sister. But then she is also totally flexing control over the other students by giving them phones with tracking devices and such.

And, really, in terms of tactics the three of you did pretty much what you needed to against the bad guys. The brawler got in close and pinned down the dangerous members, the blaster hit those who were trying to advance and the sniper finished off one of the more dangerous enemies. So you should all be able to walk away from that feeling that you neatly swept up the bad guys and that you could go take his gang down again in future encounters. The only casualty was Monet's clothes.

So why is it in the face of a significant victory where you should be celebrating because you saved your target, took down the bad guy and got intel on where he is going to hit next-- two of you decided to throw a tantrum and make it a personal goal to just screw everything up for everyone?

I just want to move on to the next scene.

This was essentially related in the post which was removed due to complaints.
This message was last edited by the player at 00:27, Fri 17 Feb 2023.

She talked shit on Monet and we didn't see her do anything. Mostly because we were entirely focused on our own fight even if she was holding her head and glowing there's a good chance we would have missed her contribution because she was behind a pillar and we were focused on the fight. But she called Monet a showoff when Jubilee the hormonal teenager who was running on adrenaline fought along side Monet. You can imagine why that'd piss her off. especially with Banshee not doing anything to mentor his wards or having a plan to pick up Jono. He had the foresight of the McAllister family from home alone. So after seeing only herself and Monet on the front lines a teacher who wasn't teaching/a chaperone who wasn't chaperoning. Jubilee is not in a good mood. And Remember Jubilee worked with the Xmen. The X-Men are a three star Michelin restaurant Emma's school is looking like Burger King right now. If I had to imagine this is how the conversation with Xavier/Jean/whoever went.

Old professor: I'm sending you to Emma's school.
Jubilee: Why? I'm a valuable part of the team?!
Old professor: You are that's why I'm sending you. It's fuckin Hogwarts over there. OSHA would have a field day. I don't think the staff could fight a YouTuber at this point they need your help.

In reply to Jubilation Lee (msg # 199):

As you've worked with the Xmen how many hand to hand's did Xavier get involved in?

Xavier was always getting involved. Usually getting killed, kidnapped, possessed, put into a coma, etc so less powerful people could handle a problem he could fix in thirty seconds. Banshee was.... struggling with Taco bell in the restroom? Emma sent us out so she didn't need to get involved she was at the school she's absolved but all heroes at the airport should have been participating in the scuffle and only ninety percent was.

In reply to Jubilation Lee (msg # 201):

Ah.. that confirms Cordelia's view. He's not as smart ws he thinks he is. Should have more muscle guarding him...

What you said Cordelia about Prof X...

Now let's get back into working together :)

Whose turn is it to post?

Hello everyone.

Busy couple of days but will read up on what is happening when I get a moment and get to posting.

Hey jono currently I'm tight with Monet ooc and ic but there's bad blood between me and Cordelia in both and only ic might get resolved. I'd avoid siding with anyone and don't let yourself get drawn into drama just focus on the game and feel free to call everyone out. Monet tries to be balanced but I'm somewhat antagonistic.

Ah I am hoping that's past now.

Summary:

• We came to pick you up from the airport
• My borther decided to eat you and stuck his claw in your chest before we met up
• We (the three of us) managed to chase him away, although I imagine it hurt like hell
• He had super powered and seriously scary help that dimensionally ported in, and then they all exited via dimensional gate
• We decided to 'get the hell out of there' and hired a taxi to get home
• But the school sent it back to the Airport. And we're just arriving back there

Thank you both for the honest and neat summaries of both situations. Hopefully we can have some fun.

Actually, I imagine the reason Jubilee was encouraged to go to the new school was because she had literally no friends her own age, Wolverine was taking her out on missions against Weapon X psychos, Hydra and mystical ninja where she was being exposed to a ton of butchery, she saw the closest thing to a girl her age die of the legacy virus, and  then she and the others (Monet, Husk, Synch, Blink) got kidnapped by techno-aliens together so they could try to learn how to turn mutants into robots.

Then Xavier and Magneto died and left Cyclops in charge.

The staff here is quite capable, even if, outside Banshee, entirely composed of ex-villains. Which is not ideal, but at least it isn't just two people and they aren't villainous in the same way so its not like they are all going to go bad together.

Well let's get us all back to school where we find out Banshee was told to not interfere unless absolutely necessary because the school wanted to gauge our skills. and get Banshee out of hot water.

I don't think Banshee has superspeed or anything. I suspect it would all have been over by the time he could have got there: the whole think lasted less than a minute I think, and airports are quite big. We as players knew there would be 'a thing' there, but as Banshee I would regard an airport as one of the less likely places for bad things to happen: there is so much security

I didn't know Xavier had died by the way. I knew he wasn't involved anymore but didn't know why. Is that 'canon'?

He's died several times. In one universe mystique killed him because of the death of nightcrawler.

The whole Onslaught thing happened within months of Generation X launching, not all that long after Age of Apocalypse. I just moved it up a few months so that we didn't need to worry about it disrupting things and also kind of put the "new school" in sort of an uneasy position.

Honestly, by the time Banshee did get there, you all had the bad guy pinned down. Even after he summoned reinforcements, had he started screaming it would have disrupted your plan of action. None of you were ever in mortal danger, so he decided to let you all handle it.

As far as he was concerned-- this should be an easy thing. You have a boy coming from overseas, in the states for the first time, and probably feeling pretty low about himself after having blown off half his face-- have three pretty girls welcome him both to the school and to the U.S. in general.

But as the GM-- this was obviously going to be where your main baddie introduces himself and you get a minor win. Since you were all going to get a minor win no matter how badly you botched things, I didn't want authority figures involved.

Jubilee had time to get in fight grab jono go backdrop jono off go back again fight some more and get them to flee with Monet. Girl must have had rocket roller skates. Lol

What you said about Banshee. This was a simple 'pick up' in a 'safe place'. And by the time he got there it was over. I wonder if he knows what actually happened. Does he have 'super hearing?'.

Banshee: Huh wonder why everyone's rushing out the building? Probably a taco truck nearby mmmmm tacos *wanders off to look for tacos*

Monet brings up something else that I was trying to get at earlier.

If I set a scene at the school, that doesn't mean you can instantly transport yourself to literally anywhere on the school grounds to accomplish any task within the time it takes someone else to speak one sentence.

If the scene takes place at an airport that is roughly half a kilometer long-- where I said there are plenty of places where you can go shopping or get some food or otherwise express your character before getting to the gate where you are supposed to pick up the new student-- that is meant to be a large area.

Banshee was sitting out there in the parking lot waiting for you girls to escort the swooning Brit out of the building and drive you back to the school. By the time he saw people running out of the building and could start making his way against the crowd, you'd all arrived and were already winning.

I really don't get this idea that he should have caused hundreds of thousands of dollars of property damage to arrive any sooner than that-- so crashing through a ceiling or some shit.

Even Monet's choice of arriving by super speed flight was something I pointed out could potentially cause extreme damage and injury if used inconsiderately. And Banshee's flight ability directly relies on him using a sonic scream that would likely caused horrible damage to everyone in his path. So he could only make there, 500+ meters, against the crowd at foot speed. And by the time he got there, him screaming at things would have done more harm than good.

Seriously-- what is your issue with being determined to ascribe the worst possible explanations and motives to all NPCs not only OOC, but carrying that shit IC and having your character take the most unreasonable and radical actions in response?

How am I supposed to deal with someone who half the time wants me to hold their hand and walk them through the character development stuff and when it comes to the battle stuff wants me to have the GM NPC step in and just solve it for them without any danger or effort and if not served that will go out of their way to disrupt things as much as possible?

We've been dealing with the fall out of all this for weeks now and at this point and I am not enjoying it. I could be logging in every day, but I now dread it.

On one hand-- it is nice that the players are actually engaged as opposed to my previous experiences of key players just vanishing and leaving everything stuck in a rut. On the other hand, I feel like Monet is the only one aside from possibly our newest addition who actually wants this to succeed as opposed to just burning everything down.

Ok we want to resolve this. I'll say a simple answer. If we are being escorted to a location by someone like a teacher. When you're doing you're posts for the bad guys we're fighting, the tsa agents interfering, etc. Just let us know what the teacher is doing at the moment. By letting us know he's unaware of the conflict or that on his side of the building there isn't a panic we get a scale of both time and distance our fight felt like a full blown ten to twenty minute fight. With some more details it'd be clearer it was quicker. Like I as a player envisioned people rushing to get out and him seeing that and ignoring it. With a little more clarity like on out front he's chatting up some flight attendant off her shift we know the conflict isn't "loud" enough for people around him to notice. It's way too easy to use ooc reasons "he's not there cause the story isn't about him" when you can use IC reasons. Help up envision the scale of our conflicts. Because apparently this epic battle was more like a Karen that won't put her mask on in terms of how big a deal it is. Nobody out front was panicking there wasnt anything to go on. I just feel it'd be easier to paint a picture. Though maybe it's our responsibility as players to ask ooc what's going on with so and so not being in the scene so you can include an in game explanation.

In reply to Jubilation Lee (msg # 217):

Om... really Lee, what are you upto? First you complain about Cordellia now the GM. If you want to direct a game; you have option of starting one.
This message was last edited by the player at 00:54, Sun 19 Feb 2023.

I already did. Not a generation x one but I'm building a marvel multiverse as my DC Multiverse wraps up it's last big universal arc. The new marvel one is going to revolve around mutant Spiderman, Jubilee, Iceman, Kate Bishop, and Tony Stark's daughter Rescue in San Francisco

In reply to Jubilation Lee (msg # 219):

Good to read.

Let's move on! Banshee's an OK guy. Established in the comics, and here. Sure he could have done better: we all could. Monet is going to be having guilty dreams about how she messed up in that fight...

Now come and post with me IC and chat nicely in OOC.