The Full Story

(Warning: Contains spoilers from all three X-men movies!)

“Once upon a time, there was a beautiful maiden named Pandora. She was so beautiful that everybody loved her. And then one day, a man came to marry her. They had a wedding with all the gifts that anyone could ever want. A mysterious man gave her a box and warned her never to open it or else mankind would suffer. Pandora promised she would never open it. Days passed and the urge to open the box grew and grew. Finally, her curiosity won, and she opened the box. All the evils in the world came out. Sickness, greed, hatred, envy, lust, old age, and death poured out of the box and spread to humanity. By the time Pandora was able to close it, only one thing inside remained: hope.”
In the aftermath of the Golden Gate Bridge incident, Ororo Monroe returned to become the headmaster of Xavier’s School for Gifted Youngsters. Despite being in mourning for Professor Charles Xavier, Scott Summers, and Jean Grey, the student body was determined to stand and strong united. With the delegation of Ambassador Hank McCoy, there seemed to be hope for the acceptance of the mutant community. As time passed, things began to settle and wounds to heal.
However, the tranquility was not to last. The cure of the X-gene mutation, once hailed as the scientific breakthough of the century, became known as an epidemiological nightmare. A mysterious disease called Rapid Frontal Lobe Deterioration Syndrome or Inhumanity Syndrome (IS for short) began to spread among those homo sapiens who frequently spent time with mutants who had taken the cure. The mutants themselves were apparently immune. This disease caused a sudden breakdown of the frontal lobe of the brain, which controls morality and inhibitions. People infected with the disease because increasingly immoral, reckless, insane, and vicious until finally they died. The second great Mutant Scare was on the rise.
In addition, the cure appeared to create only a temporary loss of mutant powers. During this dormant time, it was actually causing the X-gene to mutate further. Thus, all the mutants who took the cure actually became supermutants.
One of the mutants to take the cure was a troubled young girl named Alice MacKaye. Her reality bending mutant powers manifested days after the brutal killings of her parents, who died while their house was being robbed. She unintentionally caused a infestation of killer bees in her town until Xavier took her into the school. It was there that she got the nickname Pandora because she was able to control her power by putting it into a box like her favorite story when she was young. After taking the cure, she became a supermutant. Her box opened, and like the line in her story, sickness escaped, taking the form of Inhumanity Syndrome. Now every 168 hours (one week), the box opens, bringing with it the destruction of the next word in the line. And last word is “death.”
The world’s only hope lies in the child who was the source of the mutant cure. However, he was abducted by a wealthy mutant businesswoman named Francesca Rivera, CEO of Rivera Enterprises. He is believed to be somewhere in Columbia.

Our RPG is a continuation of the X-men movies. The characters should be as close as possible to how they were represented in the X-men movies. However, you can add some more history from the comics, since there is a lot of history that is unknown. Therefore, I give you a certain amount of license when it comes to your character's history. Still, remember this is based on the movies. If you find something in the comics that contradicts the movies (for example, the comics say that Kurt the Nightcrawler is Mystique's son when I'm pretty sure he couldn't be in these movies), then go with the movie's version. In addition, I've noticed that the comics' backstory on characters tend to be excruciatingly long and complicated. Try to add what you think is necessary and don't get too complicated. You can play a character who was in the comics but not the movies. I notice that some of the X-men characters are from different groups like the Morlocks and the Externals. You can include those characters, but they can't be part of those groups. Right now, we really need important original characters like Rogue and Bobby Drake, so please try to fill those positions before making made-ups or minor X-men characters. Also, if you do take an important character who was mentioned in the movies, make sure that you're willing to be active. Otherwise, you may drag the site down with your inactivity and eventually force me to delete you, also causing me to have to find someone else to play the character. It's OK to be an original character who was important but not mentioned or focused on in the movies if you're not sure you'll be active.

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