#this would be my second time dming a campaign and I'm doing two... bless me...

[fell-maverick]

I gotta hunker down and actually work on those E20 Mega Man Zero/ Mega Man X Command Mission games I wanna run with my friends (two of whom won't touch video games with a 10 foot pole, and one who isn't as heavy a gamer as I am, and another who runs in a different gaming circle than I, so they know NOTHING of the lore which means I can curate it to my whims Mwahahahahaa!!!) ... The Zero timeline I can't do much with till I have their characters for that bc I'm literally just doing a what-if Zero 2

But the Command Missing timeline takes place after the Giga city incident, X and Zero getting transferred from Central back to the 17th, and Gate's (assumed alive for this) shenanigans from X6 coming back to haunt them. It's an original plot... I HAVE the basic down.

A corporation named Blue Fairy Corp. Has been innovating for Reploids for a long time now, their current project, called Project Pinocchio, offers Reploids a chance to be... More human. Real tears, an easier time adapting empathy, advanced taste buds and enhanced nutrient converters so they can consume human food over energen for the energy they need.

And they're even promising that in the near future, thanks to the advances of Project Pinocchio they can offer humanity immortality and Reploids mortality.

X has been BEGGING to investigate Blue Fairy ever since ads for Project Pinocchio started cropping up. He doesn't like it, not one bit, but without probable cause the Maverick Hunters can't do Jack. Not even when Humans and reploids start disappearing off the streets. Nothing links back to Blue Fairy... Until, one day... Alia gets a call from Gate.

This is where the player characters come in. For both timelines the players are Reploids created by Gate during the events of X6, an expirament to replicate X and Zero, different from what he's already done, sealing them for 100 years. Depending on the timeline (I'm making the split who goes to face off against Gate and Sigma) one set of the player characters are dead due to the destruction of Gate's base in Area Zero. (The games have two different sets of players, one is playing in both and we've talked about their characters being twins who never got to meet bc whichever twin is alive in one timeline the other is dead...and who are capable of combining like Bit and Byte could *CACKLE*)

In the Zero timeline it's X who wakes them up and they're chased out of Area Zero by one of the four guardians (probably Harpuia) and X leads them to the resistance.

In the Command Timeline X, Zero and Axl are sent to retrieve them and claim that as Maverick Hunter assets because part of Gate's arrest was that he had to give all of his stuff up to the Maverick Hunters, or allow it to be bought and sold. There was quite a bit left in Area Zero and somehow not only does the CEO of Blue Fairy know those experimental Reploids exist, but they've purchased all remaining assets in Area Zero just to get them. Gate can't let that happen, if they survived he won't let them become corporate toys. He's not exactly happy to make them MH assets either, but lesser of two evils and despite it all, he trusts Alia and knows X will do right. It's on this retrieval that X finally gets the probably cause to start looking into Blue Fairy and then the 8 stages open up.

I have the Maverick names too (two of which are courtesy of two of my friends. They really helped me out @_@)