<div align="center"><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: impact;"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 24pt;"><span class="bbc_u"><strong>-  GM UPDATE #16!!! -</strong></span></span></span></div><br/><hr/><hr/><br/>I wanted to go into a bit more detail for recently added and prospective players about the setting and theme of the game; particularly as it relates to character selection, biography creation, and in-character knowledge. Not targeting anyone specific - I just feel like I've had to go into detail about these things a few times recently and I must not have covered it clearly enough in the recruitment thread or other GM Updates that are mandatory for ALL PLAYERS to read - as stated in the rules for participating in this game. So here it is:<br/><br/><hr/><hr/><br/>An important note about this game (that MaiMizzu mentioned in the thread), any previous encounters with Apocalypse are nix. This is an alternate universe - so nobody has heard of who he is or anything about him beyond what has been revealed in the story. He's made appearances before, but never confronted any current superhumans. He is a new and strange enemy and the current four horsemen are the first horsemen he's ever appointed in the modern era.<br/><br/>He tried one other time to take over the world - back in early Egypt, and succeeded in becoming their "God" but the world wasn't ready for what he had to offer. They just feared and awed him, and didn't understand the next stage of evolution Apocalypse had in mind. So he abandoned that attempt (he was never defeated back then, and he didn't go by the name Apocalypse).<br/><br/>Also past relationships (unless related to character origin or extremely important to the core facet of the character - ala Peter Parker and Mary Jane) are also very brief. Group affiliations are more traditional (not every single side-story event in a character's past has happened). So think of this game as a completely different step in the Marvel Universe, alternate and separate from the current canon. This is an extremely important thing when it comes to interacting with other heroes and villains in the story.<br/><br/>Unless you've PMed to confirm with another player - you've never battled with their character before or fought alongside them (traditional team's aside - such as the original Avengers, X-Men, Fantastic Four, etc). Anything else (new avengers, secret avengers, new X-men, etc) are not canon for the purposes of this story - although you are more than welcome to include commonly known relationships from those teams with another player's character IF they are okay with it!<br/><br/>Hope that clarifies things!