Since we have a couple players now, this would be a good place to chat.

Hey other player. Nice to chat with you!

Don't wait for me to post. There's no hooks for me to respond to, so I'll just wait in the background for a while

I think perhaps I hadn't correctly set where we are in terms of backstory there in that first post.

- The students met Cordelia two days ago.

- We met Mondo for the first time two hours ago. Part of retrieving him allowed him to display his powers (he could turn into/merge into concrete and water which helped win the battle).

- The students so far (M, Jubilee, Husk, Chamber, Skin, Synch and Blink) have been here for only a month. They should know the faculty.

- All the students except Cordelia, Mondo and Chamber were kidnapped by machine aliens called the Phalanx about a week before they came here.

Thanks. I actually guessed most of that from the IC stuff so it was fine.

This reads very much like the start of the comics with just enough difference to make it 'ours'.

I edited the last post to capture the fact we've seen him in a fight

I think I need to bring in a different teacher to this situation.

Maybe Banshee, Morph or Mimic?

I don't actually know Morph or Mimic. Banshee and Emma are the only ones in the early part of the school I think. (And I quite like Banshee)

Unless they are brought in to interact with PC's there's not much point

Well... how about doing some sort of lesson?

I don't think I'm going to be able to help Cordelia at all. Perhaps someother story arc?

In reply to Monet St. Croix (msg # 10):

Reads like Monet could use some help from Cordellia.

Grin

Can I ask why?

I've made my Moroccan tea and had a chat with the joint head-mistress. I don't think I currently have any stated goals other than to 'come to school and learn stuff'. I'm currently pondering whether to set some goals. None are leaping out at me from the comics, but I can always invent something

In reply to Monet St. Croix (msg # 12):

For the same reason that you thought Cordellia needed help.

I'm dense. I was in the kitchen getting a drink...

If you mean out of character reasons sure. But we need a goal. I'm traveling today so I'll post something this evening

The point of adding additional staff that weren't in the comic is to present a wider variety of NPCs for you to interact with.

That way your only teachers aren't a frigid and self-centered woman and a drunk disciplinarian.

You also have a clown, a bully, a playboy and a drug addict. And the nice doctor who hasn't done anything too unethical... yet.

We could run the Penance story or the Chamber story.

Got it. I don't know Chamber at all (other than he blew his face away) and the Penance story would be awkward I think.

I think I would prefer a 'your story'. Or perhaps 'A day in the life'. In the comics we only see the horrible bits. We rarely see a lesson in the school, or what people do in their 'not fighting bad guys'.

Sorry for not posting more: been traveling for 14 hours so I'm a bit blasted

Well, you both seemed to have no interest in talking to Mondo despite repeated prompts that it would be the best thing for both of you to do.

Serendipity seems to have missed that Cordelia wouldn't even have a room at the school yet and this scene was supposed to be for her to use her wiles to earn a permanent place in the school and thus get her own room and start forming her own clique within the students.

So this whole scene really kind of devolved and its obvious that this was a bad way to start things off. I should have just started us off past this point with the fourth change to the comic storyline-- that Cordelia wasn't told to never come back, but was installed into the students as an unstable element alongside Mondo.

So we have more teachers at the school, Blink didn't die and ended up going to the school, Cordelia joined along with Mondo and this all happened before we met Chamber and Penance.

Now-- the idea for Penance here is going to be different from the comics. She'll be a 100% entirely separate person from M. She'll be some deaf/mute girl from eastern Europe who happened to have diamond skin. Emplate picked her up because she had the power of diamond skin, which he needed because the people he slaughtered in his other dimension continue to exist as spirits between this plane and his and tear at his body when he moves to that other dimension.

There is 0 connection between Monet and Penance. Which might kind of still be true as "Hollow" continues to exist as her own separate entity and would just mean that Marius trapped Monet within Hollow's body in the original continuity and then Nicole and Claudette switched places and once released-- well-- that original girl still exist.

The one retcon I might have to insist on is moving Monet back to being born in Algeria and deleting the name "Yvette" from her middle names so that this Penance girl from... I guess Serbia? Maybe Bosnia? Yugoslavia no longer exists so...

Anyway, a defeat and mute girl from southeastern Europe with diamond skin who maybe didn't always live in diamond form, but who has been so abused and traumatized at the hands of Marius that she maintains the diamond form even when her environment is "safe" despite it causing muscle atrophication.

Chamber is much more straight-forward-- just go to the Boston airport to pick up the rich British bloke whose powers blew half his face off and crippled his girlfriend. And then fight off Emplate when he tries to attack the boy.

In reply to Cerebro (msg # 17):


Hum

A simple You don't have a room would have changed the posts.

Repeated prompts to a PC to converse with another NPC, whilst the PC was engaged in an unresolved disagreement with a different NPC. Until it was ended by the PC slamming the door in said NPC's face

I'm as happy talking to Mondo as anyone else :) I don't have a 'specific interest' in talking to him though

Presumably he will be there for breakfast. Why don't we do breakfast :)

Cordelia's plot
Just in general: Can I suggest that you don't follow the comic books. Make this story our own. I'm not so keen to follow in the railroads of the traditional plot.

This being derailed... Awkward. I only ever RP my character unless the GM says to me 'I want you to metagame to help making this thing happen' when of course I'll have a go! Example: 'I want to kidnap you, how will that happen' or similar.  Monet's view of Cordelia (based on her and Emma's RP) is that she's an untrustworthy spoiled moody teenager who will piss off Emma whenever they meet.. so Monet absolutely wouldn't do anything to help get her a room, but would totally be happy to help her get out of the school for instance (Take her to the nearest rail station and pay for a one way ticket and a night in a hotel at the far end...)

Teachers/Students
As I mentioned in a PM I am glad Blink didn't die!

Penance
All sounds great, although at the moment I think she can't talk... so we don't need to know the backstory.

Backstory
Why? I'd strongly rather you didn't. I can find you a name generator if you want. Or she by coincidence have the same one. It would also make a tiny connection (although there are probably a million Yvette's in the game: I am RPing with one in another game for example)

Selection
 I'd like you as the GM to make your own story arcs which might or might not be based on the comics (prefereably not). My vote is we go have breakfast. And at breakfast there will be people there to chat with

Well, the inclusion of "Yvette" among Monet's 5 middle names and her having been born during a period of like, maybe a week, that her parents were outside of their native country was a pretty obvious attempt to try to get the few establish facts that were ever said about Penance to match up with the idea that she was Monet all along.

Even though it made no sense for Emplate to address her by one of her many middle names or that her memories should reflect a bunch of soldiers and tanks in eastern Europe even if she was born there during a short time her family visited before returning to Algeria.

What shall we post IC? How about the breakfast post where we can take your subtle hints and chat with Mondo?