[PBEM News] X-Men: All or Nothing

From: marvel_phoenix@yahoo-dot-com.no-spam.invalid (marvel_phoenix)

Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 22:05:25 +0000

�Mutants, since the discovery of their existence, they have been
regarded with fear, suspicion, and hatred. Across the plane, debate
rages: Are mutants the next link in the evolutionary chain? Or simply
a new species of humanity fighting for their share of the world?
Either way, it is a historical fact: sharing the world has never been
humanities defining attribute.�

The times have changed, and the earth is no longer how it was. The
efforts of Xavier and his X-Men are a pipedream so long forgotten.
Magneto's cause was destroyed, his followers scattered to the four
winds and hunted down. All of the time sliders are gone, and not even
Apocalypse stands in the way.

The long feared war between humans and mutants was waged, the decades
long blood bath seeing both sides brought to their knees. There was
no clear winner by the time the hostilities dies down, and both sides
had suffered numerous casualties. Savarious, one of the generals of
the mutant army, was eager to see an end to the war, met with the
human leaders to hammer out an agreement. It wasn't clear whether
Savarious, one of our people's greatest generals, willingly betrayed
us or not, but what was clear, was the suffering that followed. Not
long after the agreement was struck, Savarious disappeared,
presumably killed.

The humans swept through, calling upon the hundreds of super sentinels
they had in reserve. Our people, being long tired of the fighting,
surrendered our freedom, our dignity, and our powers. When we were
marched through the gates of the slave camps, we were stripped of
everything, our one and only possession being the collars snapped
around our necks.

Our human masters then used us for their labor and their sport. We did
their most dangerous and repulsive jobs, our powers being exploited.
We cared for their children, putting up with the sort of abuse only
children were capable of. They gawked at our physical appearances,
establishing traveling freak shows. We were their sex slaves, their
pit fighters, and their guinea pigs. But worst of all, they used the
power of our telepaths to control us.

In each camp, there are a circle of telepaths, in a perpetual comatose
state, keeping each other and the rest of the camp, inline. I used to
be one of those telepaths, until I was transferred to the 'harem' of
the camp's overseer, a more powerful mutant taking my place in the
Elite. They thought that their hold on me was strong enough to crush
my will and break my spirit. But in truth, it only made me stronger.
Over time, the commands and the subconscious suggestions meant less
and less, until it became nothing but background noise. My physical
chains then became my weapons and my tools, setting my body free.

I am Jessalyn Tate, born in the mutant slave camps, raised on stories
of the days before and during the war. I have tasted freedom and will
not leave my fellows to suffer. One by one I will set them free. The
mutant race will not be left to this fate, not as long as my body
still holds breath. However, I can not do it on my own, I need some
help�

All or Nothing is a game for mature players only. There will be
violence, there will be foul language, and there will be some sexual
situations. As such, I will only be excepting mature, adult players.
Also, you must be capable of some quality of writing and be
proficient in past-tense novel style writing. I don't want script
style, I don't want chat room short hand, and I don't want
one-liners.

Character wise, I need figures who are well rounded with plenty of
attributes and faults. I don't want innocents who have never been in
any type of a conflict complete with no knowledge of how their powers
work. Nor do I want those who have been in every battle ever fought
and come out of it without a scratch while their opponents are left
as twitching piles of goo, so what I'm saying here is, no power
players! I also don't want to see characters who are strictly good or
bad. Leave the Right and Left crap to the Real World.

For human characters, you can be on the side of mutants, fighting for
their ethical and humane treatment, you can be against the mutants
and stand by as they�re used and abused to make your life easier. Or
you could be one of the poor human retches barely making a life for
yourself in the bad lands who just happens to get caught up in
things.

We currently have all the mutants that we're going to need for the
X-men, but we need human members of the Mutant Freedom Militia, and
hunters to oppose both factions.

The game is run on Yahoo groups and has mature content. It is required
that you read over info on the Guidelines page and on the Character
sheet page. That way you won't have to worry so much about possible
changes to your bio.

Website: http://www.geocities.com/marvel_phoenix/X-Men.html
Yahoo! Group: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/xmenallornothing

Emails:
aria_lancaster@hotmail.com
marvel_phoenix@yahoo.com

MSN: aria_lancaster@hotmail.com
Y!M: marvel_phoenix
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