Welcome to the Red Rock Academy, a collaborative X-Men writing game
"No matter who one is, one always gets the choice on what kind of person one is going to be. Always." - Dr. Winston Sinclair
Red Rock Academy for the Gifted was founded in the early 90's by psychiatrist and CIA asset Dr. Winston Sinclair to train young mutants to be productive, responsible, and compassionate members of society. Sitting in seclusion on an expensive estate twenty minutes outside the town of Sedona, Arizona, twenty-four classes of seniors have graduated from this prestigious institution. It seems, however, that its shady origins and the past sins of its founder are coming back to haunt the faculty and students who live there.
The Mutant Intelligence Agency, a covert organization founded by the US Department of Mutant Affairs, has forced the hand of the Headmaster, and now teachers at Red Rock Academy use their special abilities to complete covert operations for the US government when not shepherding their students. Each member of this small community of mutants will eventually have to answer a difficult question: Do the ends justify the means?
The Premise
We all know and love X-Men, a comic book, movie, and television franchise about people who have been outcast from society joining together to stand for what is right. In this game, however, they don't have a choice. Operation Vanguard uses the mutants on the faculty of Red Rock Academy for purposes of national security and, in some cases, for less moral ends. Their missions range from saving people from a natural disaster to government espionage, and the moral grayness of these missions weighs heavily on the conscience of the heroes. The most interesting part for the members of The Vanguard, is that their mission and their existence as a unit is very highly classified, so they can't even get help sorting out their doubts.
This sim explores the possibilities for a team of mutant superheroes who are completely under the thumb of the spooks and spies who seem to really run the country, and who use sometimes even them as their personal secret weapon.
If you’re a creative and active writer who would like to write an overworked teacher who balances spy missions with science lessons, go to our discord server and let us help you create a character today!
Latest Mission Posts
» Here Kitty Kitty
Mission: Summer's Fading Light
Posted on Sun Oct 6th, 2024 @ 6:50am by Solveig Kallestad & Jada Zovko
The previous day had been interesting to say the least. Going out to buy a car and ending with being questioned by the police hadn’t exactly been how Solveig had pictured the day going. Even with that slight black spot though, she had found it overall enjoyable. Jon had been…
» New Ride
Mission: Summer's Fading Light
Posted on Sun Oct 6th, 2024 @ 6:49am by Solveig Kallestad & Jonathan Sinclair
A week had passed and after a visit to town and a little help from one of the maintenance staff, Solveig had made the groundskeeper cottage quite comfortable for herself and for Hati. The thousand dollar stipend had really been nothing, but she knew better than to complain. She did…
» The Choice
Mission: Summer's Fading Light
Posted on Sun Oct 6th, 2024 @ 6:45am by Solveig Kallestad & Cornelius Sinclair
It had been three days since Solveig had arrived and settled in at Red Rock. She had kept mostly to herself and focused on situating her cottage to her liking and making a list of things she would need to buy that were not there. Outside of a few passing…
» Low Blow
Mission: San Francisco
Posted on Sun Oct 6th, 2024 @ 6:42am by Solveig Kallestad & Ransom Sinclair
Some people said that prison was easy. The great irony of the rehabilitation culture was that prison was less daunting for a hardened criminal than the streets; to some, prison was a break. Ransom wasn’t that kind of hardened criminal. He wanted to be free.
A distant father, a working…
» Secrets Behind the Wall
Mission: Summer's Fading Light
Posted on Sat Jun 15th, 2024 @ 9:43pm by Shelly Foster & Joseph Alo
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The drive down to the front gate was smooth and taken in silence while Shelly worked from her tablet in the back seat. The attack in Seattle had of course resulted in nothing but headaches, not the least of which was this one. Agents from the DMA weren’t an…