#60: Those Awkward Moments of Silence

[Desperado]

Gah! *is glomped*

Okay. Never doing this on my iPhone again. Darn thing autocorrects too much.

So, anyone have any ideas on how to liven the place up?

[Reyna]

It would be nice if we could get a mod or two back for a mass-email.

And, yeah, iPhone autocorrect can be really annoying. Particularly if you have to type weird names of places.

[Desperado]

Well, if we don't have anything to keep them here, I somehow doubt that they'll stay. That and I'm almost positive that many of our former members have probably developed a case of the real life. To be fair, I'm now married and have a child on the way, but other than that and work my free time is pretty much free.

The major question is...what would we do if they did come back? I'd hate doing another reboot and letting all that juicy, juicy drama/angst/character building from House of M to go to waste.

[Reyna]

Congrats on the child!

I'm engaged, but it looks like it'll be a while before we get married, and I'm not even thinking of kids at this point.

I've seen a few other members peek in, so who knows. We may be able to lure a few more back in.

[Desperado]

The last I saw peek in was Jubilee, and Guido before her, I think. If only we could lure that one person who was asking about last week or so to come back...

[Desperado]

Well, we seem to have gotten a new member since I was last here. Feel free to poke your head into the chat room anytime, good person.

So, I was milling things about in my head and I think I've come up with something vaguely resembling a storyline. Whether or not it's any good I'll leave up to everyone who reads it:

It's been a year since the house Magneto built fell apart. Christine MacTaggert, with the M'Kraan Crystal so close, was able to place everyone near her in a dream world of her making, in the hope that she could avert the potentially deadly conflict she knew would happen upon her friends and enemies awaking from Magneto's Nightmare. She even removed her own memories of events, sealed them away from her dream self to prevent any interference.

Even with so much power at her disposal, it wasn't enough. Jacob resisted her telepathic intrusion so hard he disappeared from the dream entirely, and the world was forced to compensate for his lack. It was the beginning of the end. Others still retained memories of the Nightmare, were drawn to them as moths to a flame. It was only a matter of time before everything fell apart.

And when it did, it did so spectacularly. In the waking moments of not one, but two remembered dreams friend turned on former friend, enemy allied himself with enemy, and in general chaos ensued. If not for the Summers brothers, the Xavier Mansion would have been turned into a bloody battlefield. Alex and Scott managed to restrain their anger and see the larger picture. After Alex temporarily incapacitated those present, Scott managed to talk everyone into a temporary truce. For one year, the X-men and the Brotherhood would disband, as it was clear that neither team could stand together at the moment. In that time, each mutant would do as they willed, with no interference from any other mutant present. Each person would be allowed to cope with the other world as they saw fit. But at the end of the year, the lines would be redrawn. The Dreams of Xavier and Magneto would still be fought for, by whoever wanted to fight for them.

During that year, the mansion was rebuilt. Alex, Forge, Des, and others remained behind to oversee the construction. Once it was rebuilt, Alex left to go find Scott and help his brother, who had taken the other world a bit harder than his brother had. Forge and Jacob remained behind, as neither had any real place to go.

But just because the major players weren't in the game didn't mean the game stopped going. Anti-mutant sentiment only increased after the "Week of Nightmares." And as it grew, a new and heinous crime went unpunished: mutant trafficking. Mutants all across the world were being taken as soon as they developed their powers and sold off, for a myriad of purposes, from being soldiers, assassins, and thieves to performing other, less savory acts.

The year is almost at an end, and soon the lines will be redrawn. But by then, will it be too late for Dreams to come true? Or will only Nightmares reign?

Well, that was a lot more prose-ey than I was initially going for. Thoughts? Comments? Complaints?

[Reyna]

It sounds pretty good to me.

I think I may end up reviving Taela after all. I've been rping on WoW a lot more and I keep finding little scraps of stuff I'd thought up for her.

I really wish we could get at least one mod back, though. A restart won't be easy if we can't do any of the admin functions.

[Desperado]

Yeah...while I guess it's possible to send out mass e-mails by doing it the hard way, doing things like approving characters and modifying the board would be kinda difficult.

What would be nice is if we could have guests post in this particular board without having to register. I seem to see quite a few more guests these days. Although I guess they could be bots.

[Reyna]

I see people peeking in...

Come back y'all! I miss ya!

[Jubilee]

Damn I miss this game...

But there's a plot afoot? Sounds promising.

[Kurt Wagner]

Come on in. The water is....gone....

Actually, I'm not entirely sure what is going on. I only know enough to be the first one in the pool.

But I am not the only one waiting to find out.

[Kitty Pryde]

OMG, EEEE! *tackles everyone*

Is that IC posting I see? *bounces* I am so in.

[Jubilee]

This game doesn't actually die. It's kinda Jean-like that way!

[Kitty Pryde]

It totally is! Just when you least expect it... life!

So excited!

[Reyna]

PEOPLE! *glomps everyone*

*squees*


I hope y'all remember the Dragonfox!