The Syndicate

X-Men Mafia

Whereas Masters of the Universe took us all over a planet, X-Men will keep us...in one room.

Expect heavy manipulation.

X-Men
Must defeat The Brotherhood, The Sentinels, and Apocalypse


Cyclops
Optic blasts make his vote worth three. As the leader of the X-Men, he determines the outcome of all ties.


Storm
Alters the weather. *Secrets*


Wolverine
His healing factor reduces his received votes by 4. If he is targeted, he can one time choose to take revenge and kill the targeting person the next Night using his adamantium claws.


Gambit
On three occasions, whenever Gambit decides to draw, a card is drawn from a standard deck of playing cards. Blackjack values (Aces count as ones) determine what Gambit’s vote that Day is worth. Face cards and tens mean his vote is worthless. Gambit will not know what his vote is worth. Luck of the draw…


Rogue
Steals the power of her target to use that same Night.


Iceman
Freezes his target; that person cannot speak nor vote the next Day.


Beast
Using his scientific skill, Beast may analyze someone at Night and learn how that individual’s vote / received vote is manipulated for the next Day. Alternatively, using his agility, Beast may forgo the report and rescue someone from death.


Colossus
Turns into steel each Night. Cannot be Night killed.


Nightcrawler
Teleports if he ends up with the highest number of votes. Cannot be lynched.


Bishop
For every five votes Bishop receives, he can perform a Night kill.


Psylocke
A psionic assassin, she has two Night kills.


Forge
A genius inventor, Forge designs new technologies to help his allies. Each Night, he selects someone to receive his invention.


Jubilee
Blinding two targets with fireworks, she switches their targets.


Archangel
Removes someone from the lynch poll each Day.


Jean Grey
Using telekinesis, she will redirect someone's Night target.


Professor X
Telepathically searches the minds of three individuals each Night, seeking his X-Men. He must think of three X-Men roles and target one person. If his hypothesis is correct, he gains permanent BTSC with that individual. Additionally, Professor X will provide his guidance to the thread nightly.


The Brotherhood
Has BTSC
Wins as a team by eliminating the X-Men, The Sentinels, and Apocalypse.


Magneto
The master of magnetism, Magneto targets one person at Night. On odd Nights, that person will receive the votes of two other selected targets the following Day. On even Nights, that person’s received votes may be halved and distributed evenly to two other selected targets.


Pyro
Anyone who targets Pyro takes 2 received votes the next Day.


Toad
Silences and prevents a person from voting each Night.


Blob
Blocks his target on odd Nights.


Juggernaut
Blocks his target on even Nights.


Mystique
*Secrets*


Sabretooth
Kills on odd Nights.


Independents


The Sentinels
Anti-Mutant technicians hacked the Danger Room so that it can develop Sentinels. This program may construct a sentinel if it receives no votes during the Day. While the program’s initial vote is worthless, each constructed sentinel will increase the program’s vote by one. *Secrets*


Omega Red
Receives three votes after each Night due to his deadly pheromones, which are cumulative. Each Night, Omega Red may choose to wrap his carbonadium coils around two people and drain them for two votes each. His targets will have 2 received votes the next Day, and Omega Red’s received vote total is reduced by 4 (Omega Red's benefit is cumulative). If he chooses not to do this, he can opt to kill that Night. Arkady Gregorovich must eliminate four specific roles he will select in the beginning and then survive.


Apocalypse
Believer in the Survival of the Fittest. Cannot be lynched. Cannot be Night killed. *Secrets*

Please Read

1. No BTSC (behind the scenes conversation) with anyone unless you have explicit permission from the Host.
2. No editing or deleting of posts.
3. No role outing of yourself or anyone else. No avatar outing (even in BTSC).
4. No double-targeting (targeting the same individual with a Night power twice in a row).
5. Be respectful to other participants. If you have an issue, please contact the Mod, MovingPictures07.
6. Dead players should not post on-topic and should be in dead red. There is a "dead" button when posting for this function.
7. Off-topic posts should be in off-topic green. There is an "OT" button when posting for this function.
8. Posts from non-players should be in non-player blue. There is a "np" button when posting for this function.
9. This is the host color. Please do not use it.
10. No revealing the contents of private messages from the Host into the thread.

Other Issues:

*Read the roles again once Day 0 begins. Something may have changed.
*Votes you start out with cannot be transferred; only votes cast may be manipulated.
*There is no penalty for not voting / missing a PM. Inactivity may result in replacement.
*Your PMs need to have the relevant period in the subject line.
*You may change your vote in all polls prior to the deadline.

*Prepare to be pleasantly surprised and brutally disappointed.

Log Data:
Day 0
Day 0
Day 1 - Deathlok has been destroyed. Bishop.
Night 1
Day 2 - Thunderbird has been destroyed. Forge.
Night 2
Night 2 - Scarlet Witch has been killed by Psylocke.
Day 3 - Quicksilver has been destroyed. Psylocke
Night 3
Night 3 - Dazzler has been killed by Sabretooth and The Sentinels.
Day 4 - Exodus has been destroyed. Gambit
Night 4
Night 4 - No one has been killed.
Day 5.1 - Domino has been destroyed. Gambit
Day 5.2 - Sunfire has been destroyed. Rogue
Night 5
Night 5 - Mojo has been killed by Pryo. Cable has been killed by Omega Red. Bastion has been killed by The Sentinels.
Day 6 - No one has been destroyed.
Night 6
Night 6 - No one has been killed.
Day 7 - No one has been destroyed.
Night 7
Night 7 - Avalanche has been killed by The Sentinels. Elohcin has been brought back. Bullzeye has been brought back.
Day 8 - Marrow has been destroyed. Blob
Night 8
Night 8 - Phoenix has been killed by The Sentinels.
Day 9 - Hawkeye has been destroyed. The Sentinels
Night 9
Night 9 - The Vision has been killed by Pyro. Avalanche has been resurrected.
Day 10 - Polaris has been destroyed. Toad
Night 10
Night 10 - No one has been killed.
Day 11 - Bullzeye has been destroyed ... Iceman
Night 11
Night 11 - Elohcin has been killed by Pyro. Banshee has been killed by Apocalypse. Deadpool has been killed by Apocalypse. Bullzeye has been resurrected.
Day 12 - Longshot has been destroyed ... Jubilee
Night 12
Night 12 - No one has been killed.

Participants in this Exercise:

Avalanche Link - Killed Night 7 by The Sentinels. Resurrected Night 9.
Banshee Link - Killed Night 11 by Apocalypse.
Bastion Link - Killed Night 5 by The Sentinels
Cable Link - Killed Night 5 by Omega Red
Dazzler Link - Killed Night 3 by Sabretooth and The Sentinels
Deadpool Link - Killed Night 11 by Apocalypse.
Deathlok Link - Destroyed Day 1 ... Bishop
Domino Link - Destroyed Day 5.1 ... Gambit
Exodus Link - Destroyed Day 4 ... Gambit
Havok Link
Hawkeye Link - Destroyed Day 9 ... The Sentinels
Longshot Link - Destroyed Day 12 ... Jubilee
Marrow Link - Destroyed Day 8 ... Blob
Mikhail Rasputin Link
Mojo Link - Killed Night 5 by Pyro
Phoenix Link - Killed Night 8 by The Sentinels
Polaris Link - Destroyed Day 10 ... Toad
Quicksilver Link - Destroyed Day 3 ... Psylocke
Scarlet Witch Link - Assassinated Night 2 by Psylocke
Sebastian Shaw Link - Struck by lightning Night 13.1.
Shadowcat Link - Killed Night 13.1 by Apocalypse.
Spiral Link
Sunfire Link - Destroyed Day 5.2 ... Rogue
Thunderbird Link - Destroyed Day 2 ... Forge
The Vision Link - Killed Night 9 by Pyro.
White Queen Link
Bullzeye - Brought back Night 7. Destroyed Day 11 ... Iceman. Resurrected Night 11. Destroyed Day 11 ... Iceman.
Elohcin- Brought back Night 7. - Killed Night 11 by Pyro.

Alive: 5
Dead: 21

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Initiating Danger Room Protocol: X.9101963-SLJK

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Critical error detected. Code 12281922

The presence of hostile mutants identified.

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Critical error detected. Code 08281917

Initiating identity transmutation:

XXXXX is now Deadpool.
XXXXX is now Exodus.
XXXXX is now Sunfire.
XXXXX is now Hawkeye.
XXXXX is now White Queen.
XXXXX is now Longshot.
XXXXX is now Banshee.
XXXXX is now Scarlet Witch.
XXXXX is now Spiral.
XXXXX is now Havok.
XXXXX is now Bastion.
XXXXX is now Shadowcat.
XXXXX is now Marrow.
XXXXX is now Quicksilver.
XXXXX is now Cable.
XXXXX is now Dazzler.
XXXXX is now Polaris.
XXXXX is now Deathlok.
XXXXX is now Sebastian Shaw.
XXXXX is now The Vision.
XXXXX is now Thunderbird.
XXXXX is now Domino.
XXXXX is now Mojo.
XXXXX is now Mikhail Rasputin
XXXXX is now Phoenix
XXXXX is now Avalanche

Identity transmutation complete.

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Critical error detected. Code 02061994

Roster incomplete.

24 of 26 positions occupied.

2 of 26 positions vacant.

Retry? <Y/N>

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Y

…

All positions occupied.

This game will be so epic!

So where should be begin our training? My first thought looking over the places and remembering watching the show, most of the options was where they encountered a major villain arch, so I kind of want to start at Xavier School for Learning to maybe help find other X-men team mates?

I'm not sure what any of those options are so I randomized and got the first one!

I don't know much (anything) about the Xmen, and I have no idea about the options in the poll so I'm going to have to go on what other people say about each option. I only played because this is an Epignosis game.

Longshot wrote:I don't know much (anything) about the Xmen, and I have no idea about the options in the poll so I'm going to have to go on what other people say about each option. I only played because this is an Epignosis game.

Same here

I agree, the School makes tons of sense. We can learn what we need to know, and meet who we need to meet.

Mr Gnosis; does anyone have any information about this poll?

I'm going with NYC because I love NYC.

White Queen wrote:Mr Gnosis; does anyone have any information about this poll?

The Danger Room has all of the information.

I'm not a particularly huge X-Men fan, I've followed stories every now and then but I can't say I'm familiar with most of the poll options so I'll look a few of them up before I vote but I do agree the Xavier Institute would seem like a pretty good starting point.

Also - Yay, new game!

game onnnnnn

Identity transmutation complete.

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Critical error detected. Code 02061994

Roster incomplete.

24 of 26 positions occupied.

2 of 26 positions vacant.

Retry? <Y/N>

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Y

…

All positions occupied.

any ideas what this part means?

Epignosis wrote:

White Queen wrote:Mr Gnosis; does anyone have any information about this poll?

The Danger Room has all of the information.

The start of a new game is always exciting. I am going with Xavier Institute for Higher Learning. I seem to remember that is where the Danger Room is.

Banshee wrote:game onnnnnn

Identity transmutation complete.

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Critical error detected. Code 02061994

Roster incomplete.

24 of 26 positions occupied.

2 of 26 positions vacant.

Retry? <Y/N>

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Y

…

All positions occupied.

any ideas what this part means?

Sounds to me like the host is having fun with the theme.

i just mean the 2 positions vacant part... idk it just seems odd.

does anyone know what these locations are?

All I know is the danger room is a room in the Xavier Institute for Higher Learning where the x men train.

Banshee wrote:i just mean the 2 positions vacant part... idk it just seems odd.

does anyone know what these locations are?

The 2 positions part was there before the game filled up as like a countdown from whatever number of spots were free when Epig first wrote that post. I'm guessing after the last two signed up it was just kept in to look cool or something.

Bastion wrote:All I know is the danger room is a room in the Xavier Institute for Higher Learning where the x men train.

Sounds like the way to go, then. I don't know much about being an X person, so a training institute makes sense. Plus that is apparently where the Danger Room is located.

I'm going with the spaceship, it seems the most practical.

I love X-men! As much as I would love to go to the Shi'ar, the Institute sounds like the best option! So I'm gonna go with that.

i agree we gotta start at the school and get more training

Avalanche is here: coming down the mountain when she comes, like a ton of bricks. I'm voting for Morlock Tunnels, because I like to live dangerously.

Time to bring your A-game now.

I have some degree of knowledge about the X-men universe, and I think that "Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters" is the best place to start. Since the program got the name wrong.... :P

Unless it's referring to the period of time in which the school was renamed to the option in the poll. In which case, I might have to bone up on a specific period of X-men lore.

yeah, i agree, the school seems like the best place to start, considering it's the place we're already most familiar with, it'd be the easiest place to do simulation training in.

Woo-hoo, game is ON!

Xavier's School is definitely a safe start. I have to wonder about this poll. It is asking for an order of events, so whatever order they go in terms of votes, maybe that will be the day 1 theme, followed by the day 2 theme etc?

As such, I'd suggest that we definitely keep Xavier's School front and centre, but come up with a list of other positive choices to get second and third place etc.

Or would it make more sense to mix and match? If this will influence each day one at a time, it would stink to run into a whole pile of bad days in a row.

Anyway, as someone who read the X-Men comics religiously in the '80s and early '90s (and still have a continuous run of about 225 issuesin a box somewhere), I'll break down the choices as much as I can for people.

Asteroid M_ - Magneto's base orbiting the Earth.

Cape Citadel_ this was a missile base Magneto attacked in early comics. I'm not sure how it would play here.

Genosha_ - an island where mutants are enslaved. Not a very good place.

M-Day_ I had to look this one up on wikipedia, but I think its purpose in this game is fairly evident: "The storyline focuses on the ramifications of the Scarlet Witch stripping nearly all of the mutant population of their powers, thereby reducing a society of millions to one of scant hundreds. "

The Morlock Tunnels_ - where the Morlocks live (durp). They are bad, the their tunnel is bad.

Muir Island_ home of Dr. Moira MacTaggert, a friend of Prof. X. It has a research lab and is generally a positive place for the X-Men.

New York City (During the Evacuation)_ - not sure about this one at all.

The Savage Land_ - this was a poplar Marvel Comic locale for the X-Men and my second-fave Spider-Man. It's a land of dines and things like that in Antarctica (of course). I don't know of any particularly bad thing about the place, so I see this as a neutral choice.

The Shi'ar Empire Starship_ - I believe this was where the Brood came from. they look ilk the aliens from the movie Aliens essentially, are vicious killers, and have a lot of nasty run-ins with the X-men. This is a bad news option.

Xavier Institute for Higher Learning_ - Home of the X-Men in traditional stories, i.e. not using big Apocalyptic story lines where their whereabouts are scattered etc.

So there you go.

If I'm right and order of settings = order of events in the game, I'd suggest voting up Xavier's School, Muir Island second and maybeThe Savage Land third? The rest are wither unknowns to me, or seem like they are bad news. As such, I'm voting Muir Island since the school has a lot of votes.

No mojo-world?

In that case I will follow the vision and vote for muir island

John Muir was an awesome person, so I went with Muir Island as well.

Yay new game!

I voted for the school it seems like the best place to start.

I can't believe how many people are taking the "safe" option. I thought you people were supposed to be superheroes!

New York stinks! So we must go there.

Mojo wrote:No mojo-world?

Marrow wrote:I'm going with the spaceship, it seems the most practical.

Can you be more specific?

Avalanche wrote:I can't believe how many people are taking the "safe" option. I thought you people were supposed to be superheroes!

Safe or smart? I think smart.

The question/statement for the poll does say "confirm the order..." so I agree with the thought that says we should vote in an order we want. Since I know nothing I'm going to take the suggestion to vote for Muir Island.

Avalanche wrote:I can't believe how many people are taking the "safe" option. I thought you people were supposed to be superheroes!

I don't see much of an issue with it, honestly. I think picking a "safe" option for Day 1 seems like a wise thing to do. And it sounds like we might have good options for our first 3 figured out. Sounds logical to me.

Linki: I bet I know why they call you Longshot...

Longshot wrote:The question/statement for the poll does say "confirm the order..." so I agree with the thought that says we should vote in an order we want. Since I know nothing I'm going to take the suggestion to vote for Muir Island.

Going by this option, I think I'm going to switch my vote to Savage Land. It doesn't have any votes yet and sounds like it might be a good third option.

Epignosis wrote:

It is now Day 0.

You have 48 hours to confirm the Danger Room sequence.

Avalanche, The host says we need to accomplish a specific goal, confirm the Danger Room sequence. Not take a chance or pick our favorite place, etc. We need to do something involving the Danger Room, which apparently is located at the school.

White Queen wrote:

Epignosis wrote:

It is now Day 0.

You have 48 hours to confirm the Danger Room sequence.

Avalanche, The host says we need to accomplish a specific goal, confirm the Danger Room sequence. Not take a chance or pick our favorite place, etc. We need to do something involving the Danger Room, which apparently is located at the school.

That's fine... if you're a coward!

Goal oriented =\= cowardly

White Queen wrote:Goal oriented =\= cowardly

I'm goal oriented. My goal is to go to the Morlock Tunnels and kill Morlocks. What are you, some kind of Morlock sympathizer?

Just to clarify to everyone:
Fight Morlocks:


Go to stupid school:


Which looks cooler to you guys?

Why are you trying to make people choosing the school look bad? If you don't like that choice, don't vote for it. But why imply that people making that choice are weak or traitors?

Do you have a motive for wanting people to not go to the school?

I think trying to do the school will help find other X-Men and/or give some of the X-Men a boost. I also re-read the roles and saw Xavier is looking for them to gain BTSC, so there or Muir Island that has a giant cerebro machine would probably be best for our first adventure team. Just a thought.

White Queen wrote: Do you have a motive for wanting people to not go to the school?

Yes. My motive is that I don't want to go there. I want to fight Morlocks.

i wanna fight morlocks too but i'd rather do it in the simulation room in the comfort of our school..... so after the fight i can watch tv or take a shower..... so i guess that means im a coward lol

Avalanche wrote:Just to clarify to everyone:
Fight Morlocks:


Go to stupid school:


Which looks cooler to you guys?

Morlocks look disgusting, dirty and mean. I like the second picture better.

You seem to have an ulterior motive for wanting to fight the Morlocks