The time has come...

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A Sinister Legacy [EPILOGUE]

While the threads didn't finish, in the interest of moving things along at a healthy pace, we've decided to go ahead and post the results of the Sinister Legacy plotline!

Here they are as follows:

- Sinister himself is now in SHIELD custody, beaten by the team and arrested when SHIELD arrived on site to close the deal. Sinister himself didn't seem particularly broken up about this, saying it was but a temporary setback, and he's already done enough damage as it is.
- Sinister has the same "En Sabah Nur" tattoo that Shaw had.
- Renko was saved, and her DNA was used to create an actual cure for the Legacy Virus, and is being mass produced and distributed immediately.
- Renko, however, carrying the burden of her own mutation being used to perfect the virus' second strain in the first place, how she might have been used to create a third, and the general "you're great grandpa was a psycho corrupted darwinist who tried to kill millions of people, including other 'weak' mutants" thing is weighing heavily on her. Publicly, Claudine Renko is now dead, and she's relocating to Japan to live under a new identity, and try to get some meaning back to her life. She didn't name a successor, and mentally can't handle the responsibility of doing so.

So, with all that wrapped up, expect a Newsreel Mingle up soon... however we have an even bigger announcement to make...

And then...

True Believers, we've had an excellent run, but the writing is definitely on the wall, and the mods have all agreed... It's time to kick this sucker into overdrive and speed headlong towards the finish! That's right it's...

E N D G A M E

Here's how it's going to work, for now, and we'll release more plot details as it goes along, but if you've been paying attention (and are at least somewhat X-Men savvy) from the beginning of Institute's second run, we've been leading the game along towards one of the X-Men's biggest and baddest, APOCALYPSE, and Sebastian Shaw and Sinister were serving as two of his Horsemen (War and Pestilence) respectively. The end game plot will not only reveal the other two horsemen, but also the big blue lips himself will arrive and try to do what he does best; ending the world as we know it.

As part of this, and this is the part you wanna pay attention to, ALL CHARACTERS PAST AND PRESENT AND EVEN FROM THE FIRST RUN OF THE GAME ARE WELCOME TO RETURN!!! No apps will be taken (we'll be closing applications and reserves outright) and AC will just be check-ins from here on. This will be a no pressure, hopefully super fun, final event for the game so that we can go out in style instead of with a whimper.

Tell your friends! Tell your neighbors! Tell your weird uncle! Anyone that has played in the Institute is welcome back to get this thing rolling! And we do mean RIGHT NOW! As soon as the Newsreel Mingle goes up, characters from the game's past can start commenting and posting (just remember to rejoin the game if you left the comms)! Let's have fun, True Believers!

As always, if you have questions, feel free to post them below. We'll also put up a subthread for returning characters to announce they're back, and where they've been!