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"well I think its about time
we jumpstart the competition"
-Brennan Mulwray, 'Interface'
Welcome to Underground, I'm guessing your either a fan of the show MutantX or an
IMC chatter who has stumbled across our webpage it doesn't matter why your
here, it just great we've got your attention. Brennan Mulwray is
just one of the characters I play in Underground, a Role-playing chat room on
Illusionary Minds Chat. If you haven't been able to tell by all the
modest hints, this website is for a MutantX RPG, as a resource to giving
people a way to play their favorite New Mutants as they'd like to see them
played. Keep in mind we are currently trying to finish up the first
version of the website. So there might still be a few links that are
still inactive. In the pages of this website you will find a lot of
information about what we generically refer to as the "MutantX Universe" or
MXU. Please remember that this is Science fiction, telling the story
of a "possible" near-future. By alienating the material
herein, you will find the task of separating Fantasy from reality a bit more
easily. For the number one rule in Role-playing is-- that is just a
game.
As I've mentioned already
once, the Underground takes place in the MXU, and features the exploits of
MutantX. Though Underground is not just about the MutantX team.
On the contrary, and what separates the Underground from many of the other
MutantX RPGs, is that we don't simply Role-play Adam's crack team of new
Mutants, we also work on creating the world they live in. This
Website's purpose is to better define that world. More specifically we
focus on the City of Toronto. In the Show it's hard to pin point the
city where most of the action seems to take place at, but for purposes of a
Role-playing environment we chose to use Toronto as our City of choice.
Though this website takes on the world as a whole and tries to help you
understand the Possible future that is the MXU, the role playing mostly
evolves around the city of Toronto. Though the MutantX team, the GSA,
and the Tabloid News Paper The Midnight Express, and even the Toronto
Safehouse members do travel around the world, most of the episode plots we
create revolve around the city of Toronto. For more information on the
city and the environment in which we Role-play please look at The
Environment Link.
As you can tell by now,
most of the Role-playing in this room, does not in fact move around the
MutantX team, though they do have a vital role in the room. Though we
chose to target most of the Role-playing, around characters as a whole.
MutantX is the Flagship of the room, and do dictate episodial plots we come
up with, or focus is mostly on the New Mutants who don't have a mountain to
hide in. When creating this environment we chose to try to focus on
the New Mutants who affected by what the GSA do. The New Mutants who
have to deal with day to day life scared if the Genetic Security Agency is
going to catch them. This is also why we chose one city. The
Basis of the room is not who has the "coolest" powers, and we actually frown
upon players who want to create new mutants who have "super-hero" styled
powers. The room is about the human element. That is why we named the
Room and Website "Underground" It is about the New Mutant Underground.
The environment is based around everyday new mutants who's lives are a
struggle, running from men with trench coats and sunglasses.
I should also, mention..
you don't necessarily have to know anything about MutantX the TV show to
play in this environment. When Jen and myself looked into building
this website we felt that it would be important to model this website with
those not all the way familiar with MutantX of their world. You hear
words like GSA, and Safehouse and I know you are probably a little over
drawn. But don't worry, there's a lot of information here that will
make it all very clear. If your unfamiliar with the show MutantX I'd
suggest hitting the TV series Links which are designed to teach you a bit
about the background of new mutants, the who's who of the MXU and the
factions that populate the environment (TV show and our original factions).
For those new to the room, I'd suggest continuing onto the
Getting Started
Pages which will, help you get familiar with IMC,
getting that first character together and just familiarizing oneself with
the environment, of IMC, the RPG system, and the show.
I know for some the idea of
play a new mutant who isn't part of MutantX, or who can't blow up buildings
with a thought might be a turn off. Though when we came up with the
idea of the room, Jen and I saw and environment that could be fun to play
in. A dark future where the government has been eroded by corporate
America. When normal men and women are imbued with extraordinary
gifts, and these gifts are why they are perused. Scared to tell
anyone, they do what all scared people do. They Run, desperately
seeking their own sanctuary against those who want to hunt them down and use
them for their own Gain.
"Welcome to the
Underground, don't worry your safe here." |
