Ok, so the other night I was thinking up plot ideas for Effigy. I knew that I wanted to bring back some NPCs from his history, and I knew that I wanted to set it in Australia. While pondering on possible plots, this came to mind. I'm not sure if it has been suggested before, but I figured it was worth mentioning to see what people think.

(For those not sure, the prelude to this plot idea is pretty much in my character's profile history. Brief summary: Trip was a homeless mutant who, upon realising that many of the homeless he met were mutant teens and runaways, started a mutant commune in an abandoned warehouse in Melbourne, Australia. The commune was self sufficient, run and maintained by the various powers that the mutants possessed, as well as whatever income could be brought in. However, anti-mutant sentiment led to the commune being burnt down, and many of it's inhabitants dying in the fire)

Genesis: After the burning of his beloved mutant commune, a mutant named Trip fled the city of Melbourne and began to travel Australia, moving from city to city. While wandering the country, Trip met with as many mutants as he was able, learning of all of their struggles and hardships. With the principles of the commune still at heart, now tempered with the consequences of not being prepared for the violence such a gathering can bring, Trip forumulated a plan to help his fellow mutants.

He, along with two of his companions (Pockets and Downpour), began recruiting all the homeless mutants he could to the cause, promising equality and salvation for mutantkind. As their numbers grew, Trip and his new found followers became a roaming band, travelling the country and raising awareness of the injustice mutants have to face. As they travelled the country and their numbers continued to grow, the wandering group began to drew attention from the media. This led to more mutants, those who kept their mutation secret, or felt they had no stake in mutant issues, flocking from all over Australia to join the wandering band. Trip soon became a figurehead for the group, seeing as he was the one that began it, but also due to his easy charisma and level head. The more fanatical of the group even began referring to Trip as a messiah for mutants, the one who would lead mutantkind to salvation. As the group became larger and larger, Trip turned his attention the nation's capital, Canberra, where he staged the 'Million Mutant March', in protest of the ill-treatment and bias mutants face. The government, refusing to negotiate with Trip, sent out the police to break up the march. With tensions growing, and hatred in both camps, Trip called off the march and set to work implementing the next phase of his plan.

Create a seperate, mutant-only state.

In the spirit of the commune, Trip led his followers to the Australian Outback and set to work doing what he had done with the commune. Using both the powers and the resources that his followers had brought to the group, Trip soon created his own 'Mutant Nation', a self sufficient community of mutants. His pacifistic ways having been disillusioned after the burning of his commune, Trip enforced a law that only mutants could enter his new nation. With the help of a trusted mutant he had found, who could sense an X-gene within a person, as well as what powers they possessed, this law is enforced above all others, and Trip decreed that any human found within his state's limits would be dealt with harshly.

With the 'mutant nation' solidified as a feasible thing, Trip soon implemented the final phase of his plan. An open invitation to the mutants of the world.

The Australian government, fearing a possible uprising, has decided that the nation needs to be disbanded. If negotiations cannot be met with the leader of the nation, Trip, then force may be necessary...

Civil war is brewing down under...


Possible Implications:

- Tensions between Trip's state and the Australian government have brought the country to a Cold War of sorts. If things aren't resolved, it is possible that Australia will break out into civil war.

- The Order and/or the Kabal may take an interest in the mutant nation, and look to either form an alliance, or look to take over.

- The X-Men may take an interest in playing the role of peace-keepers, working between Trip and the Australian government to try and find a peaceful resolution to the situation.

- Mutants within the various factions, as well as mutants in general, may be conflicted by what such a nation could mean for them. Either by enticing characters to join, or by making characters disagree with the extreme segregation.


Anyway, this idea is still very early in it's development, and probably couldn't happen for quite some time anyway, but I feel that it could be a fun, engaging and epic plot that pretty much everyone on the site could get involved with. Because I'm still fairly new, I'm not entirely sure how the big site-wide plots like Romania are worked, but I think it would be good for MRO to have another epic plot that everyone can jump on board with.

Feel free to make any suggestions, and let me know what you guys all think. Love it? Hate it? Indifferent?

I like it. I've been looking for something to get my characters back in and this seems like a good idea. It's a nice little twist to the whole registration thing trying to form a nation. But I'm definitely throwing Silver Streak in this if it gets the go ahead. He'd be with the Xmen but it sounds like fun to me.