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The woman had arched a blonde brow as Jean Grey walked into the Grove, the scent of fall and freshly fallen rain mixing with the blonde’s perfume, Krakoa looming over them all, watching, leaves a brilliant reddish brown today. The metallic scent of the old man that stood behind her, watching as Jean approached, hit her last.

• --|A|-- •

Her mind instantly translated the Krakoan to what she had always known him as before: Apocalypse. That he was the first, the most notable, among so few mutants to change their names from what they had always been to a Krakoan language variant did not escape her, but there was time for curiosities between the blue giant and Jean.

“You’re going, I take it?”

Jean smiled a thin, bemused smile at Emma Frost. “What gave it away?”

Frost’s head tilted, as she took in the full view of the redhead, before blue eyes widened and her frosted lips looked to near gasp, “…my God, Jean Grey, is that a designer you’re wearing?”

The smile on Jean slipped, but the bemused look in her green eyes did not. It was a designer, though Jean refused to confirm that aloud, or even tell Emma which designer…not that Emma wouldn’t know it, already, knowing Emma Frost. She wore black; skinny black slacks, a thin black cotton V-neck sweater, her feet in black leather hiking boots with black steel tabs and black laces. The coat atop was a rich brown wool peacoat, her red hair long and straight, offering contrast between the black and rich brown.

”I would not recommend the Manhattan gates, Jean Grey.”

Jean blinked at Big Blue, surprised, “Surveillance?”

“Worse,” Frost sighed, a heavy, deflating thing that seemed to signal no end of annoyance within the White Queen, “those human cultists have only become more fervent. We’re concerned, well…”

”You are the Phoenix. You are the Mutant Alpha. They are fools, but they are not ignorant to who we are.”

Emma cringed, though otherwise ignored it, “Just…you’re going alone, we don’t want a scene…may I recommend the Capital District gate?”

“…there’s a gate in Albany?”

Emma smiled, and, once more, Jean was smiling back. Catty, playful, “Have fun, Jean.”

There was something Emma wasn’t telling her. Jean knew that because of her telepathy, but not because she was reading Emma. She knew from experience what Emma looked like when she was holding back, because she had seen the woman’s mind when she had done it before in the past to others. Shaw had “casually” asked Jean to explain the tell on Emma, but Jean could do nothing but disappoint Shaw. If you hadn’t seen Emma’s mind as an active observer, before, you just weren’t going to pick up any tells on the White Queen. Shaw had muttered something about telepaths before giving up.

Whatever it was, Jean was certain she could handle it. A nervous, anxious energy filled her as she left the Grove. It wasn’t whatever Emma kept to her chest; it wasn’t the Cult of X warning from Apocalypse. It was going home. She hadn’t been since the Phoenix held the entire area hostage, attempting to persuade Jean to stay in their union.

Instead, with Logan’s help, she ended the relationship as best she could and moved on. But that didn’t seem to count, to Jean. She had experienced it within the White Room, yet, still, the extermination of nearly her entire family; brothers, sisters, their little children haunted her. Going home meant experiencing it all anew, a feeling that pressed down on her as she let out a sigh and felt her booted feet leave Krakoa’s ground and her body slip into telekinetic flight, to expedite the trip to Carousel, where most of the gates to major population centers could be found. It was after clearing the canopy and descending that she saw the gate—and the figure next to it, awaiting her.

What are you playing at, Emma?

Her booted feet touched down just feet from the gate, and him. Green eyes regarded him softly, if curiously, “Hello, Max. You look dressed for a funeral.”

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_{Jean Grey
Location: House of M, Krakoa}

Worried about my plans? Jean felt like she was smirking, but managed to keep the emotion locked away and away from her outward expression. That remained perilously blank as she watched the man who used to try to kill her on the regular when she was a teenager, and most girls were worried about parties and having a life and school. Life was a crazy thing, and Jean had to try to keep a lid on just how much she enjoyed it all.

It was fun. Even the bad parts. It was still life, sometimes so mundane and agonizing in pace, sometimes so filled with anxiety or fear, sometimes heartwarming and thrilling. Perspectives had a way of changing when you experienced what she had, alive and ‘dead.’ It never seemed to matter. What mattered was timing. She was painfully aware of the timing at play here, now, and his request.

Also, he was worried about her PLANS. It was cute, and she re-doubled her efforts at holding her expression. When he was done, she finally broke, letting a smile slip past to her pink lips, “Sometimes I have to remind myself it’s the body of a forty-year-old, but the mind of a ‘get-the-hell-off-my-lawn’ man that is far, far older.” The way he summoned her, welcomed her in, then just stood right up on that soapbox and gave her the classic earful.

“So last time I was here you threw me on that table over there,” she said, twisting at the waist to turn and literally point to the exact large dining table in the adjacent room of the palatial House of M, “and ripped my clothes off.” Turning back to him and settling her hands back in her lap her smile had grown larger but seemed the kind of sharp not even the Master of Magnetism could control.

“Council, huh?” She really did try not to let the laughter bubble up as she spoke, but it became impossible at the end. Jean Grey all but giggled at Magneto. She was having way too much, and it was finally time to lift the veil and show Erik she was gently messing with him. Mostly. “Yes, Erik, I will take the offered seat next to Storm. I worry about Charles, too,” the sigh was almost out of place on the woman’s face in that moment, but fears existed in times good and bad, not just bad.

All of this, as she juggled multiple lines of communication. The first, Emma had contacted her about Wanda, and Jean had begun to lend her strength to the telepathic dragnet over the island. At the mention of Magneto, Jean revealed she was with him now, about the Council seat. A very Emma congratulations followed, ominous as anything Jean had heard all day, as well as a request to inform the man. On the other end was Sage about unusual data points from various levels of surveillance on the island and its systems. She tagged Logan and Quire, who was likewise occupied with the telepathic dragnet.

“Anyway, Emma wants you to know we can’t find Wanda, and her kids are in the Green Lagoon, one with a mighty attitude. Go figure, with that bloodline. Sage is reporting some weirdness, so I guess we’ll see how much fine-tuning we need on security measures and how fast X-Force responds. Scott and I were talking Treehouse with Forge. Business before pleasure, apparently a common theme around here.”

Her way out was the way in, just a take off with a wave his way instead of a landing.

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Star

S T A R

Ripley Mikayla Ryan ★ 26 Years Old ★ American ★ Human / Kree hybrid

★ _{H I S T O R Y} ★

Ripley Ryan has had two different lives. The public life is that of a pretty faced, Alpha girl who excelled in school and her social life growing up in the Texas country side. Star athlete in both cheer and basketball, as well as Editor and Columnist of her school’s newspaper; a gig that landed her becoming the ‘Millennial Voice’ columnist for her rural Texas county’s newspaper. This led to occasional spots on the local Fox affiliate weekend news.

The private life was torture and abuse. First was the trauma of her father’s sexual abuse when she was far too young to understand what was happening; this fact never did stop her mother from, privately, blaming the destruction of her marriage on her daughter for the rest of her life. Second came the broad spectrum of abuse inflicted on Ripley’s mother, a pageant and stage mom who did everything possible to make sure Ripley won crown after crown; be it starving the child, emotional abuse, or, on the rare occasion, actual physical abuse.

When Ripley started high school, her mother announced Ripley would be quitting pageant competition. Relief for Ripley was quickly lost as her mother’s next obsession became known; Ripley’s mother had ambitions to be a Reality TV star, and was convinced turning Ripley into a social media starlet was the path forward, becoming a demanding and cruel social media parent, officially acting as Ripley’s ‘manager.’

By the end of high school, Ripley would boast a total follower count across social media platforms of over a hundred thousand. It provided an income that her mother kept to herself, and sometimes at the cost of her mother setting Ripley up on ‘business meetings’ with men twice, or three times, her age. Ripley was able to siphon some of the money for herself when she started college and moved away, to Florida State University’s Broadcast Journalism school. After a few years in the program, her portfolio of on-air work, both before and in college, allowed her to become an intern at Fox News. Upon graduation, Fox News signed her to an on-air personality contract.

While college had provided Ripley some the first positive relationships of her life, Fox News provided a true mix; her Senior Producer was a good, conservative, man. Some of her Junior Producers were far less upstanding, and her fellow on-air personalities were outright viciously competitive. Despite this, Ripley became a favorite of her conservative audience, becoming a major field reporter for Fox News and Fox Sports, even being one of the main floor reporters for the Republic National Convention. She was well on her way to becoming a conservative media star.

It was on assignment for Fox News covering a metahuman situation in New York city that she was kidnapped by Nuclear Man and taken to Roosevelt Island. Ripley was only one of many human women kidnapped by Nuclear Man, paid in secret by Kree geneticists Dr. Minn-Erva for specimens to experiment on. Of the experiments, the only survivor left when heroes such as Captain Marvel, Spider-Man, and Echo arrived was Ripley.

Although Ripley believed the experiment had given her superpowers, in reality the experiment had infected her with an alien bio-engineered virus that was activated and fueled by her ‘mirroring’ the super-powers of the hero that showed up to control the situation a ‘super-powered’ Ripley Ryan was creating in Manhattan; Captain Marvel. With the virus fueled and activated, Captain Marvel had to act quickly to stop Ripley from spreading the virus to the island of Manhattan by stopping her before she got too charged.

However, Ripley would retain the ‘mirrored’ power-set from Captain Marvel for nearly a year. During this period of time, Ripley would be used as a puppet by Minn-Erva, hellbent on using both Ripley, now re-branded by the fanatical Kree cell under Minn-Erva as ‘Star’, and Captain Marvel in a fight for the Kree Empire against their Skrull invaders. When the truth become known to Ripley, she nearly killed Minn-Erva, with the Kree geneticist only surviving due to Ripley’s lack of experience.

Captain Marvel would save Minn-Erva’s life by getting her medical attention in the nick of time. In return, Minn-Erva admitted her plot, and her role behind her pawn, Ripley ‘Star’ Ryan. This led Captain Marvel to confront Star in Times Square. Although their fight would end with Captain Marvel talking Star down, the collateral damage and, worse, the recordings of the fight would lead Ripley in legal trouble with the government, and to being fired for ‘due cause’ by Fox.

Luckily, she was alive. This was one of the only ‘lucky’ parts for Ripley, as the incident marked the end of her career with Fox, despite Fox News using the incident as fuel on its ongoing attacks on the Avengers for leaving US authority with the move to Avengers Mountain in the Arctic Circle. It led to the complete loss of any super powers, leading Ripley with no other option than to return home in rural Texas, and the unholy wraith of a scorned, neglected, abusive mother.

A Glock pistol to her temple was Ripley Ryan’s answer. When the gun shot, the shell bounced off her. A confused Ripley suddenly appeared as ‘Star’ once more, just as powerful, perhaps more so, than she had ever been. Landing atop the Fox News building in Manhattan, Star felt on top of the world…until she was promptly knocked unconscious. When she came to, it was Loki standing over, cursing and sighing at her. He explained he had tried to extract it from her, and had no idea how she came into possession of it. It was, somehow, literally intertwined with her essence. When Ripley asked what he was talking about, he simply laughed, and told her: the Reality Stone. If she didn’t know what that was, and she didn’t, she’d find out soon as others came for her. With that, the Trickster God left her.

Star continued trying to do what she could to be both a hero and social media star. Though she did some real good, she was unknowingly damaging reality, a fact she did not learn until the Scarlet Witch showed up and told her. Captain Marvel responded to Wanda’s alert, and the two restrained Star while Wanda attempted to come up with a plan to extract the Infinity Gem. Before anything could be decided, the Black Order showed up and attacked, providing a window for Star to escape and disappear. As soon as Star was gone, the Black Order disappeared, leaving Captain Marvel and the Scarlet Witch with the dreadful realization that Star and the Black Order had, on some level, worked together.

Using her conservative media stardom, Ripley Ryan managed to secure a meeting with several high ranking Republican members of Congress. The deal struck was that all charges against Ripley would be wiped from the record, in return, Star would become a metahuman enforcer for a joint effort between the Department of Defense, and the National Security Agency.

★ _{P O W E R S} ★

On the surface, Star appears to have a very similar powerset to Captain Marvel. This includes flight, energy projection, as well as superhuman durability, strength, agility, reflexes, stamina, endurance, and regeneration.

She can fly at speeds comparable to Captain Marvel, though lacks a pilot’s training, let alone Captain Marvel’s experience with her powers. Likewise, while Star’s strength level is comparable to Captain Marvel’s, once again she lacks the training and experience to make full use of this strength.

While she is not capable of Captain Marvel’s Binary state and related powers/abilities, Star has one thing no other metahuman in the universe has: the Reality Gem literally bound to her. Although she seems totally oblivious how to control it, the Reality Gem seems to go where her subconscious thoughts point it. This alone has made Star one of the most dangerous, and powerful, metahumans on the planet…if not the universe.

★ _{S T O R Y A R C S} ★

Government Contractor — Star finds herself on the frontlines of the US government’s disagreements with the Avengers, Krakoa, and their primary ‘heavy hitter’ when one is required to respond to a metahuman situation.

Friends In Low Places — The Black Order and Star still communicate. They are teachers, they are guides, and they are bored out of their minds being stuck hiding on Earth. But, at least, with Star they have access to an Infinity Gem. What do they plan to do with that? Surely, nothing altruistic.

Project: Thunderbolts — Star has been given a governmental civilian paygrade (read: rank) of Senior Level Service, cleared for confidential briefings up to Top Secret. The first briefing she received was for the project of that joint Department of Defense / National Security Agency effort: Project Thunderolts.

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Magik

M A G I K

Illyana Rasputin ⭙ 26 Years Old ⭙ Russian/American/Krakoan ⭙ Great Captain of Krakoa ⭙ New Mutants

⭙ _{H I S T O R Y} ⭙

Illyana Rasputin’s story is a strange one for new young mutants to hear for the first time. From doe eyed sibling of an X-Men to the tormented and desperate child kidnapped to a hell dimension by a demonic sorcerer. From victim to survivor to member of the New Mutants, finding a new family. From veteran of the New Mutants to X-Men facing off against the Avengers, to a host of the Phoenix Force.

Raised on a collective farm in Siberia as a bright-eyed Russian girl with a loving family. She knew what her brother was, at least on some level. Living without him was harder, what with the big empty spot in the family’s life, but they got by. Getting kidnapped by an X-Men villain at age seven was anything but pleasant, but it did mean she could stay at New York with the X-Men for a while afterwards.

Illyana winds up kidnapped by a predatory demonic sorcerer named Belasco in the usual collateral that seems to go with being close with the X-Men. Yet this wasn’t some usual random death from a blow meant for your X-Men loved one; this kidnapping was very, very personal. In Illyana, Belasco had found the perfect resource to reclaim the favor of his dark “Old Gods.” He called her pure and perfect and unspoiled.

Illyana survived because of friendship, and teachings of those precious few allies she had during her time in Limbo as Belasco’s consort. She met others trapped in the hellscape of Limbo, alternate reality versions of Storm and Shadowdcat. While they were unable to defeat Belasco together, over their years together Storm would reveal Belasco’s obsession: Illyana had a greater natural affinity for magical energies than most other people.

Steal Illyana young, and he could turn her into an asset and tool. Shadowcat would see that Illyana was physically prepared, training her over time in every form of combat she knew, and some she had learned in the death pits of Limbo itself. After some time the trio decided to try their luck again with an assault on Belasco. The sorcerer saw it coming, and the result was brutal: Storm was apparently killed, and Shadowcut was twisted into a semi-feral pet of the demonic sorcerer. Belasco’s possession finally took full force of her life. What came next, what it turned Illyana into, is hard for the young woman to talk about sometimes.

There was the obvious abuse of a creature like Belasco. Abuse from demons who saw the young human girl as some sort of rival; beat her, torture her, and use their demonic power to regenerate her back to new so they could do it all over again. They broke her body, Belasco broke her mind. He would teach her so much, his attention intense, but coming and going, never consistent.

She hated him and loved him and wanted to please him and knew she should kill him. That bled into her feelings about herself. Illyana felt consumed by guilt and shame. The only hope, the only glimmer of light at all, came in the activation of her mutant power. With the ability to teleport, Illyana was able to sneak away, to sneak back, all without Belasco’s knowing. Outside of his sight she used the time to teach herself Storm’s form of natural magic energies, instead of the mostly dark or chaos magic energies Belasco typically stressed.

While unable to replicate Storm’s magic, Illyana unlocked her own version of magical manifestation when she first called upon the Soulsword. Magik used the weapon and her various magical and martial training to kill Shadowcat, freeing her soul from Belasco’s corruption, and bring Belasco to defeat and begging for her to end him, to unleash the power of what would be his Darkchilde. Though half-demonic in appearance herself at this point, Illyana decided the wiser course was to let him leave, to kick him from Limbo, and return to her life.

Belasco’s power over her was no more. She wouldn’t concern herself with killing him and was unafraid of the next time they would meet—knowing full well they would meet again. Illyana returned to the X-Men, her best guess was age 15, she’d been lost in the hell of Limbo so long. Yet the time differences between Limbo and other dimensions means while Illyana had aged years, it had barely been a few minutes at the X-Mansion.

The X-Men had trouble accepting her tale. Her parents turned their back on her, mocked her. She was determined to continue, reaching out to the normal universe version of Ororo and Kitty. Both would help guide her, Xavier suggested she join the New Mutants. In the New Mutants, Illyana found friends and family. Over time she would prove her skill and worth, she would gain a new friendship with Cyclops. Anything that had to do with tactics or strategy was fair game any time they got to talking.

She would spend time with the X-Men, she would spend brief time fighting Avengers and hosting the Phoenix Force. Magik would prove herself against the best, and she would do it time and time again, that she was a top-tier heavy among the mutant population, and beyond. She followed the other New Mutants to Krakoa, where things seemed to be different. Now the New Mutants were the young adults training the new generation, instead of the new generation of mutants.

⭙ _{P O W E R S / A B I L I T I E S} ⭙

_{P O W E R S}

Teleportation - Magik can teleport herself and others via circles of light dubbed stepping discs; though this is apparently an innate mutant power, her demonic corruption has seemingly inextricably tied the discs to limbo, so that they also appear there randomly without Magik summoning them, and so that the discs always travel via limbo. Possibly because limbo’s nexus status makes it close to all places and times, Magik can teleport across interstellar distances or transtemporally, and home in on specific people without knowing their exact location.

_{A B I L I T I E S}

Sorcery - Magik is the Sorceress Supreme of her Limbo dimension. The extent of her powers there are all-powerful and the demons of Limbo did not dare challenge her. Magik had access to Belasco's store of mystical knowledge. Magik's sorcery was a unique mix of black magic, that she learned from Belasco, and white magic, taught by an alternative-reality Ororo Munroe. She was considered as a possible Sorcerer Supreme of Earth, and as an adult has trained with Doctor Strange. Due to her magical prowess Magik also possesses exceptional psionic shields able to thwart Earth’s most powerful telepaths.

Armed/Unarmed Combat - Illyana is a skilled swordswoman and created the Soulsword from her own lifeforce when she was trapped in the immortal demonic sorcerer Belasco's limbo dimension. It begins as a simple sword but evolves with use, both in appearance and power. The Soulsword can disrupt most spells or slay magical beings, but which can pass through normal people without harming them. When using the Soulsword, or using her magic, Illyana’s body becomes covered in a mysterious mystic armor known as Eldritch armor. The longer and more intense the combat, the more of her body will be covered in the armor. A lifetime fighting demons in Limbo, along with extensive combat training from various sources, has made Illyana one of mutantkind's foremost combatants.

_{A R C S}

Oh Great Captain, my Captain - Former X-Men. Great Captain of Krakoa. As the New Mutants lose one of their own, it's clear dynamics are changing, and Magik finds herself at the center of it. Outside their door of ALPHA house in the Akademos Habitat, but just barely, the other problems begin to hit them as the enormous question of who teaches the mutant young on Krakoa, and what is the purpose of their education begin to present themselves.

Swords? I heard something about swords? - Illyana finds herself sucked into the drama of magic and swords in Otherworld. Well, a different kind of magic and swords than she's used to dealing with. To no one's surprise, Illyana finds herself right at home kicking and stabbing things.

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Jean Grey

JEAN GREY

30 Years Old ⭙ Krakoan/American ⭙ Quiet Council of Krakoa

⭙ _{H I S T O R Y} ⭙

She is the most recent field leader of the X-Men, a member of the original five, and a mutant leader that's become one of the faces of Krakoa to the wider world and mutants making their way to the island. All of that before a mention of a certain cosmic force. Perhaps more importantly for the future, Jean is one of the very few mutants Krakoans could trust to challenge any faction or member of leadership on the island should need arise. Her story starts as a girl, the car crash on an old two-line highway. She remembers more of it than she'd like, the heat and the concrete and the glass and the blood. The crash began the slow cascade of psychic episodes, culminating in terrified parents calling everyone from trusted clergy to pseudo-specialists out to the family's farmhouse on the Annadale-on-Hudson river. When Jean looks back, now, she understands. As a child, however, loss and death were insurmountable cliff faces she would have to climb each day. It's occurred to Jean recently that there's no telling when extra-dimensional forces might have been nudging her life in one direction, or another. She knows from experience from other timelines and time-travelers that her presence on the first team of X-Men made a difference in the vast multi-verse.

Her first meeting with Xavier was rather unspectacular. He won over her parents well before her won her over. There's no understating what Charles Xavier did to save Jean during the early years. Her drift towards the great void had already begun by the time he even met her, providing a small window of time to help bring Jean back to life. Experiencing death, and the full trauma of it from her own perspective, was enough to send Jean Grey running the ethereal and astral in search of anything, or anyone. She mostly found memories, psychic reflections of reality that burn like small stars, but after enough time she began to experience the echoes of others. Xavier states this is when he came to discover Jean Grey, the telepath. The best account is Xavier's, "the reason she was on the team, the reason she became so central, was because we didn't know the upper-limits of her ability. Yet few know the utility of that mutant gift such as I do." Regardless of intention, Jean spent most of the first few years ducking for cover and yelling for help. It was a disaster. Xavier insisted on having her focus on constant connection to him, to updates to team, to psychic defenses.

It was thankless work that no one but Xavier needed and it almost got her killed a few times. Despite their success, there was hope before Krakoa. The island will forever mean something a little different to Jean Grey. She spent the years in darkness combating the island. She was a main architect in expelling it from the planet. At one point, it had gotten personal with Krakoa and Jean Grey. Where that leaves them today is an unknown wrinkle. The team hit it's stride after Krakoa, new additions, and new dynamics in the Institute. Jean officially graduates Xavier's and begins at Bard College. She will finish a Bachelor's in Biology, all the while remaining a part time X-Men when the team needed her. She was a week from graduating when a mission in space to escape Sentinels sent to kidnap and kill them forced Jean to make a sacrifice and pilot an escape shuttle in extreme radiation conditions. Scott claims to watch her die, minutes before the Phoenix Force resurrects her and keeps her friends safe. The Phoenix Force lost itself in Jean, twisting Jean's darker aspects into the Dark Phoenix.

What started as an attempt at mind control ended in the destruction of a star system and the death of billions, all directly from actions taken by the Dark Phoenix. Logan claims to watch Jean sacrifice herself in order to rob the Phoenix Force of it's precocious 'host.' Jean Grey would disagree in that she died. According to her, she ascended upon her physical death, her interconnected nature with the Phoenix Force, at the time, making any true death an impossibility. She admits to those who have asked that it's hard to merge how people see time and space, and how she and time and space were during her time with the Phoenix Force, after her apparent death. She had died and returned more times than she could, she saw and experienced variations of reality that simply did not belong to the the normal timeline, or any parallel timeline she had seen before. She had been there for Scott when he needed her reassurances most. She appeared for Logan when there was no reason for him to want to keep going. In time, to a very small select few, it became a known secret that Jean Grey was dead, maybe forever.

But she wasn't gone. Even as other Phoenix hosts came to be and fell back, she was an absolution as the White Phoenix of the Crown.

Her return would come recently, in 2015. Her return would immediately get her friends and loves ones in danger, as the Shi'ar Empire would demand her arrest and trial for the deaths caused by the Dark Phoenix. After the many pleas of her close friends, Jean accepted trial-by-combat. X-Men, vs the Shi'Ar Imperial Guard. Though the X-Men are an amazing team of individuals with astonishing powers and more experience together than most, it wasn't enough to defeat the Imperial Guard. In the end it was Jean who challenged the Imperial Guard's leader in single combat. The amount of energy Jean Grey released in those moments was enough to shake the very foundations of the universe; she had done the impossible and won her freedom. Though she promised to continue being a hero and saving as many lives as she had caused the death of, the shadow of the Phoenix is a long, dark, thing. The finishes up the break with the Phoenix, working with the Cuckoos and Emma Frost to free Hope Summers of any possible Phoenix possession. The latest iteration of the X-Men was her team, resulting in success against a reality bending foe.

Jean died in 2019, a secret known only to Xavier and Magneto and Storm. She, along with all the other mutants who died destroying the Mother Mold being created by Orchis in their Forge, were resurrected later using Krakoan resurrection protocols. The mission is a partial success. The mutant circuit responsible for resurrection, the Five, do note unusual difficulty, at parts, and unusual ease, at other parts, in returning Jean Grey to life. Jean has recently been named a member of the Quiet Council, and spends most of her time helping Krakoan missions from X-Force to X-Factor to the Marauders. She has easily been one of the busiest, and most visible, mutants of the new age.

⭙ _{P O W E R S} ⭙

Jean is an Omega level telepath, and an Alpha level telekinetic of immense power.

⭙ _{S T O R Y A R C S} ⭙

The Immortal X-Men A mistake by X-Force costs a lot of innocent lives, and drives two original X-Men farther apart than their relationship has ever been as the very soul of Krakoa, the nation, is debated. Cerebra is discussed in greater detail, and an uninvited visitor attempts a lunar walk to access the real power behind what Cerebra has become. Scott and Jean question their place on the Krakoan Quiet Council, wondering if Krakoa, and mutants as a whole, need them doing something else. Something different.

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[Volume 01]................................[PROLOGUE]
[Volume 02]....................................[INVASION]

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She was the last to be told. She was not the last to know. The message was cryptic and guarded from both Scott and Xavier, Scott with his texting code words and Xavier with his arm’s-length-telepathic signal. There had been a short discussion about heading off to Westchester for the meeting, but the truth of it was the old mansion had seen far better days. Instead, they all opted for a property along the Massachusetts shore.

There was irony to a mutant nation being discussed in such early stages at the white beach shores of Cape Cod. It was all such a distant memory. Jean Grey walked into a room filled with family, and a few others. There were clearly those who had found out already, and those who either hadn’t or hadn’t cared to listen to what had been whispered in their ear weeks ago.

Xavier went one by one, around the room, as the X-Men, past and present, and had it out about his change of direction and ambitious new plan for mutantkind. Unsurprisingly to her, each of them focused more on the change in direction of Xavier’s ideology. Living together, united, had become just co-exist peacefully as possible on the same planet. Now that was just gone, and some of the people who had spent their lives fighting and dying for that dream were more than just a little surprised to hear it was no more.

That they were all just moving on.

The last person Xavier came to. Maybe it was fate, maybe it was just star-crossed destinies. As a room filled with X-Men stared on, there was absolute silence as two preeminent telepaths stared coldly at each other, their discussion between them. When Gambit protested that everyone else had heard everyone else’s words, Xavier replied that privacy would be respected. Jean was the one who linked everyone into the room into the conversation.

Into Jean Grey warning Charles Xavier. “I will uphold my values. I will keep us honest…Charles, I will keep YOU honest.” He feigned some level of outrage at the suggestion, but Jean hadn’t a single moment’s patience for it. She said precious little about the dream he was giving up. There was a sense of knowing something, of some second sense that Jean couldn’t shake regarding the direction they were taking.
And it was all focused on Xavier.

Half a year ago, now. Yet it was a memory that didn’t shake the red-head in green and gold bodysuit as she smiled and greeted those nearby, those who approached, as she made her way through the dense crowd, exiting the northern most giant tree within the vast valley of the Carousel; centrally located on Krakoa, the Carousel was an area used for lavish Krakoan festivities and celebrations. The giant trees lining the valley were used for a variety of functions, from residential to industrious, their lobbies holding numerous Krakoan gates that linked around the world.

Concussions burst in the sky as the night dazzled crimson hues, burnt oranges, brilliant blues, pale purples, vivid pinks, glowing greens, and seemingly to Jean every color in the spectrum of color. Scott was waiting for her, but her most pressing matter was the new Council: Magneto had taken the unusual step of asking for her directly, privately, regarding a Quiet Council matter. Given the Quiet Council ruled the mutant nation of Krakoa, Jean felt the appoint was pressing and meant braving the thick crowds of mutants celebrating the birth of their nation, the vote of the UN on the issue of Krakoan sovereignty now in the past, a much needed win for all of mutantkind.

Once she was outside and on the ramp she felt safe to focus her telekinesis and lift her frame from the ground, taking flight in a bright haze of dark pink. She saw the points, she heard what was said: “That’s her, one of the originals. Yeah. The one that killed trillions.” If it bothered her, Jean didn’t show it, the look on her face pleasant, taking in the sights and sounds of an event that changed world history, and an event Jean wasn’t sure she would ever see.

At least in this reality. The House of M was a tall, slender, palace of intricate, delicate, beauty woven into every room and corner of the home of Magneto. He had helped craft the large building with Krakoa, itself, a collaboration of earth and metal that left the Master of Magnetism content enough to call The House of M his new house on his new home. Jean Grey approached the structure with a familiarity, landing on an upper balcony and letting the psychic force of telekinesis open the glass doors for her, stepping in and catching sight of the man immediately.

She nodded, as his eyes stared into her’s, a meager greeting. “Erik. You wanted to see me?”

Marvel: Judgment Day

01.general.overview

[01][marvel.judgment-day]................................[GENERAL OVERVIEW]

The Avengers have moved their base to the body of a dead Celestial, the world calls it Avengers Mountain. Word has reached terrestrial governments of Earth that a new Empress has been crowned in the Shi’ar Empire, while the Kree/Skrull Alliance threatens the status-quo of the cosmic order. For the first time in a long time, all members of the Fantastic Four are alive, and back together. Thanos reigned as Eternal Prime until just recently, when the Uni-Mind elected Druig following Thanos’ mysterious demise. The mutants of the world have gathered on their living island of Krakoa, announcing to every mind on the planet the birth of a mutant nation, where all mutants are welcome.

Current planned ‘background’ events for everyone to jump in-or-out of will be: Cotati Invasion, Gameworld, and the First Annual Hellfire Gala. And, of course, the roleplay main plot will see the entire planet caught up in the Judgment Day of a single, untethered, Celestial as it passes judgment on each character, as well as the planet of Earth as a whole.

General RP Information

[*] This game is a re-launch. Why are we re-launching? To center the game around one big general Marvel event that, by nature of Judgment Day, allows every character and player to have their moment in the spotlight.
[*] This will be a hybrid MCU/comics timeline, with the rule of thumb that if the MCU didn’t cover it, defer to the comics history.
[*] This is a Marvel game. You are not restricted to Avengers, or mutants, or Eternals, or…anything. You are not restricted to heroes. Be a villain. Be the UK Prime Minister.
[*] Speaking of restrictions…you are not restricted to canon characters. Earth has a large metahuman population; make up your own character if you want. Pick an obscure character and re-imagine them. Multiversal fuckery? Sure. Street level, God level, everything in-between. Judgment Day comes for all.
[*] This is a sandbox game, with large events that you will be able to be part of or ignore. Likewise, bring your own stories and plots for others to bounce off of and interact with.
[*] Play entire teams, play multiple characters. We do not have a large number of players in mind for this. Join if you want to collaborate and build something for the long term.
[*] Game will be casual, accepting of both those who knows comics lore well, and those who've only seen some cartoons and MCU movies.
GM is myself, Co-GMs are Zeke and Fiber.

02.setting.overview

[02][marvel.judgment-day]................................[SETTING OVERVIEW]

As stated in the general overview, the setting will be a mix of MCU and comics. So long as you have some familiarity with the MCU, and don't mind doing some wiki reading on larger comic events, then you should be easily able to start making characters and stories for the setting without running into major roadblocks. Any questions or guidance needed the GMs are happy to answer and provide. Of course, should there be a character or event not covered by the MCU, so long as it doesn't conflict in major ways with setting continuinity the rule will be to defer to the comic books. This isn't a perfect solution, and there will be some holes to fill, but it should create a common foundation for players to begin collaborating without needing to be a 'well, actually...' level comicbook nerd.

Examples of large comic events that will factor into the game setting include House of M and Secret Wars (the recent one).

New York City, Avengers Mountain, and Krakoa will factor largely as IC locations, though given Marvel technology there's nowhere your characters and stories can't go. Much more information on Krakoa and Eternals locations will be given in the OOC, so if you're unfamiliar don't worry, we will have you covered on a detailed level (everything from geography, defense, housing, to economy). In the meantime, feel free to ask any question you might have, or do your own search—there's plenty of information out there.

2A.timeline.overview

[2A][marvel.judgment-day]................................[TIMELINE OVERVIEW]

MCU history; stopping at End Game/Phase 3.

House of M/Decimation (2005)
—Scarlet Witch uses her powers to create a world in which mutants are in charge. The world is a racist society, with mutants controlling governments, businesses, and culture; and humans are looked down on as inferior.
—"No more mutants." Scarlet Witch has stripped nearly all of the mutant population of their powers, thereby reducing a society of millions to one of scant hundreds.

Annihilation: Conquest (2007)
—In an effort to expand his empire, Annihilus leads an invasion army from the Negative Zone into the positive matter universe. He commands The Annihilation Wave, an immense armada of warships, bent on conquering the positive matter universe and adding its territory to his own. Galactus wipes out the majority of the Annihilation Wave, more than three star systems and even vaporizes a Watcher. Peter Quill and Nova manage to stop Annihilus on his flagship.

War of Kings (2009)
—Vulcan is rapidly expanding the Shi’ar Empire, while Black Bolt and the Inhumans become leaders of the Kree empire, and a cosmic war begins, drawing in Nova, Darkhawk, the Starjammers, and the Guardians of the Galaxy.

Avengers vs. X-Men (2012)
—The return of the Phoenix Force, the cosmic entity of death and rebirth, as it looks for its new host, believed to be the teenage mutant Hope Summers. Cyclops and the other X-Men want to protect her and prepare her as if she’s to be the mutant savior, while Captain America and the Avengers want her handed over to them so they can figure out what to do with her and keep the world safe from a potentially deadly fate. Tony Stark attempts to destroy the Phonie Force, leading to a five-way split of the cosmic entity with five different mutants as hosts. Cyclops ends up the last, and most powerful, of the hosts. He threatened greater conflict but would go on to stand down at the urging of an old friend.

Secret Wars (2015)
—As Doctor Doom, Doctor Strange, and Molecule Man confront the Beyonders in a last-ditch attempt to prevent the end of the Multiverse, the final Incursion of Earth-1610 and Earth-616 begins. Heroes from each universe confront one another. The world fades to white as the two Earths collide. Doctor Doom’s mask appears out of the white void, before the white turns to black. Battleworld and the Multiverse as Doom saw it were quickly broken down and reversed as Reed Richards recreates the multiverse.

Final Host of the Dark Celestials (2018)
—Four billion years ago, an Alpha Celestial known as The Progenitor crossed paths with a swarm of cosmic insects called the Horde. Becoming infected with these space bugs, the omnipotent space god grew ill and crash landed on the planet that would become Earth. The Progenitor died a slow and painful death, bleeding and vomiting its infected fluids all over the surface of a young Earth. The cosmic vomit mixed with the primordial stew, spawned more of the Horde, as well as creating life on Earth and turning the planet into a treasure trove of super-powered individuals.

Now a Final Host of Dark Celestials returned to Earth to finish the planet, to exterminate those unknowingly gifted by The Progenitor. The Avengers were able to unite with a Celestial Host in order to end the Dark Celestials, for once and for all. In thanks, the Celestial Host raised the body of the Progenitor to the surface of the Earth and gifted it as a new home for the Avengers, believing it a better way to honor their fallen fellow Celestial.

House/Powers of X (2019)
—"While you slept, the world changed." With those words, Professor X announces to the people of Earth the new mutant nation of Krakoa. It is a safe haven for all Homo superior, with its own rules and its own language. In return for international recognition, Xavier will offer humanity great scientific advancements, borne of Krakoa's unique flora. But the time for integration has ended. Xavier's old dream is dead—and now a new one begins.

2B.mutants.overview

[2B][marvel.judgment-day]................................[MUTANTS OVERVIEW]

Mutantkind has found itself going in a wide multitude of directions. To Rogue and Wolverine turning into Avengers to Jean's resurrection that resulted in her leading the most recent incarnation of the X-Men, even the quiet parties such as Magneto and the White Queen have been pre-occupied with plots the last year or so.

Being a mutant either meant living in secret among family or loved ones, being a resident of what was then called 'Mutant Town' under the protection of Mister M, or being of the rare lucky ones with the mutant ability to be something more or just having the right connections still.

This has all changed radically over the last month with the announcement of Krakoa. Some may require a little time, others need to believe it before they'll try it, while many more rush to a mutant homeland promised by a coalition of the strongest mutants alive. From Xavier to Apocalypse, Magneto to Storm to Kate Pryde, all mutants seem stirred by the Krakoan announcement.

2C.krakoa.overview

[2C][marvel.judgment-day]................................[KRAKOA OVERVIEW]

Professor X ultimately repurposed Krakoa into a sovereign nation state for mutants. Now donning a portable Cerebro, Xavier seemingly recruited and experimented on Krakoa with the help of Cypher and Warlock. Together they expanded Krakoa's consciousness and cultivated its biome to include exotic flowers used for various purposes, as such becoming the primary economic resource of the mutant nation.

These Flowers of Krakoa could grow Habitats, self-sufficient offshoots of Krakoa that served as embassies around the solar system, while remaining connected to its hive mind via Gateways, which provided ways to instantly travel from one part of Krakoa to another. Krakoa grows it's own food, it's own shelter. The island has even been known to change overnight.

[2C][marvel.judgment-day]................................[KRAKOA DEFENSE]

Krakoan defenses aren’t as obvious as they may be on other nations, but there’s very much an active effort at all times to ensure Krakoan security and defense. Krakoan defense is overseen by the Krakoan Great Captains and the Quiet Council. Monitoring falls to Black Tom and Sage, albeit each with their own very different method.
The island has early detection in terms of underwater growth in all directions and varying depths around the island.

Pollen and fungal spores are used as an early detection network for the air of Krakoa, and actively reports dangers through the island’s nervous system. All gate activity is documented and overseen by Sage from Control. There’s a telepathic observation network active at all times on the island, keeping track of any psychic warnings.

Great Captains have been conducting live action island defense war games, though nearly all parties agree Krakoa’s defense will only be able to prove. Its greatest weapon is still considered the mutants on the island, especially the Omega level mutants of the population.

Krakoa Locations

Akademos Habitat / The Sextant
ALPHA House
BETA House
DELTA House
The Fort
Kinney Residence
Lifedeath
OMEGA House
The Pod
SIGMA House
ZETA House

Arakkii Pillar
Arbor Magna / The Hatchery
Arena
The Armory
Bar Sinister
The Boneyard
The Bower
Broken Baths
Carousel
Data Analysis
Dead Mutant Cove
External Systems
Forked Towers
The Green Lagoon
The Grove
Quiet Council Chamber
Pit of Exile
The Grove of Theoretical Gates
Healing Gardens
Hellfire Bay
Blackstone
The Red Keep
The White Palace
Hellions Staging Theater / Purgatory
House of M
House of X
Cradle One
Moira's No-Space
Cradle Five
Nanny's Cove
"Nightcrawler’s Perch"
Observation
The Oracle
Port Genosha
Prison Grotto
“Psychic Rescue Room”
The Quarry
The Reservoir
Rosetta
Singing Falls
Storm’s Garden
Sunset Cliffs
Transit (Main)
Various Transit Hubs
Voltus Glade
Sanctus Sacrum
The Wild Hunt
The Crow's Nest
Shadow King's Cave

2D.avengers.overview

[2D][marvel.judgment-day]................................[AVENGERS OVERVIEW]

The Avengers have experienced an almost unheard of period of relative calm, at least relative to most of their history. The roster is in major flux, with the only known members currently being Captain America, Iron-Man, Captain Marvel, and Thor. They’ve fully embraced their new home and headquarters, Avengers Mountain, located in the Arctic Circle near the North Pole. Reserve members of the Avengers have been visiting to see the new location.

Most recently, the Avengers have been fielding questions and concerns from most of Earth’s various governments seeking re-assurance from the Avengers regarding the ‘new threat’ of the mutant nation of Krakoa. Captain America has visited with Cyclops, Iron-Man has met with the Fantastic Four’s Mr. Fantastic on the issue, but for the most part the Avengers have stayed true neutral, promising only to do what they’ve always done: protect the innocent and fight the good fight, whatever they deem that to be.

For some in those human governments, that was enough, but for many more it was not. The United Nations have begun discussing the issue of Krakoa, even as the issue of Krakoa’s entrance into the General Assembly is brought up. And behind closed doors, many governments have begun reaching out to Orchis regarding their Krakoan concerns, resulting in even more resources being funneled into the anti-mutant organization.

2Di.avengers.mountain.overview

2E.eternals.overview

[2E][marvel.judgment-day]................................[ETERNALS OVERVIEW]

The Eternals have had one of their most traumatic decades in their history. The Final Host of the Dark Celestials saw Eternals turn against each other, and mass suicides were committed across the Eternals population on Earth, as the dark secret of their true purpose on the planet finally became known to them. After the fall of the Dark Celestials, some Eternals began to resurrect.

The first resurrected was Phastos, and it he who uncovered the Machine’s greatest secret: that every time an Eternal resurrects, a human loses their life, as the Machine pays for life with life. Shocked and disturbed, Phastos enacts a plan to use Thanos in order to bring a final end to the Eternals, and make Earth uninhabitable to human life. Druig is the first to uncover Phastos’ treachery, and murders Phastos, while attempting to manipulate Thanos and his fellow Eternals for his own fanatical quest.

The Mad Titan proves too much to be controlled, especially after being made Prime Eternal by the Uni-Mind, and the resulting conflict sees Thanos’ defeat only due to a contingency plan of Phastos. Druig is able to manipulate events in order to appear the Eternals savior, thus resulting in his succeeding Thanos as Prime Eternal. Certain his time is limited until the truth is revealed, Druig begins looking for an external enemy to rally the Eternals behind him, and finds it:

The mutants of the newly created nation of Krakoa, whom he plans to announce as violating an excess of deviation from humanity, thus making mutants as Deviants in the eyes of all Eternals. Cooperating with Thanos’ grand-father, the immensely powerful Uranus, the two begin to plot their attack on Krakoa and mutantdom, in secret for now.

2Ei.eternals.society.breakdown

2F.orchis.overview

[2E][marvel.judgment-day]................................[ORCHIS OVERVIEW]

Orchis is a human-centric para-military organization focused on research, design, and solving what they, and it’s important to most in science to underscore the ‘they’ here as a minority in their fields, but what they consider the answer to the ‘mutant problem.’ They have near-future resources, some of the best and brightest minds in a generation, and have come to possess what had been Tony Stark’s Forge, along with several large spacecraft.

Though they have their own secrets and aces up the sleeve to play, Orchis rarely misses any opportunity to express their ideology and control the narrative around human/mutant relations. They come armed with a private army, a field research division that’s second to none, a marketing arm that effortlessly crosses national border and culture without losing its messaging, and enough A.I. assistant to nearly restart major Sentinel production on their own.

While both Krakoa and Orchis have clashed in recent weeks leaving Sentinel production practically zero, some Orchis analyst have been careful to rule out the notion the mutants swooped in, ruined their plans, and kicked their ass. Corpses have been found and cataloged. Orchis command is uncertain if any mutant survived the attack.

Whatever the case, this has been seen by both sides as merely an opening to wider escalation and confrontation.

03.rules.charactersheet

[03][marvel.judgment-day]................................[RULES/CHARACTERSHEET]

Right now we're keeping these rules relatively simple.

Don't violate site rules.

Don't metagame, or godmode.

GMs reserve the right of final say, and after a conversation's been had.

As for the Character sheet, the look/format is up to you. Just make sure the information is there.

character.sheet

Character Image.

Name.
Alias.
Age.
Place of Birth.

Powers.

History.

Story Arcs.

One or two overall plot arcs for your character, their group. They can be solo or shared.

Marvel: Judgment Day

[01]................................[GENERAL OVERVIEW]
[02]......................................................[SETTING]

Yes. There's a Discord for the game. We don't mind if you don't join it and just communicate on the forum.