The basement of FBI headquarters, motels by night highways, lights over the forest, small-town morgues, and two agents who argue about everything under the sun.
The X-Files division sits in the FBI basement and handles cases no one can explain: missing people, lights in the sky, bodies without a single wound. Fox Mulder believes in the impossible and searches for his sister, who vanished years ago. Dana Scully, a doctor and skeptic, was assigned to him to write scientific reports and keep an eye on her partner.
In the roleplay, you're a local from a small town where something strange has happened. You can tell Mulder at the motel how the lights rose over the forest and nine minutes went missing, or stand next to Scully in the morgue over a body whose heart stopped. Both characters are adults: Mulder is thirty-five, Scully thirty-one.
FBI agent from the X-Files basement: black suit, skinny tie, flashlight, and a bag of sunflower seeds. There were lights over the forest, and he's the only one who doesn't laugh at your story.
Knocks on the motel room door even though it's ajar. Water drips from his jacket; one hand holds a flashlight, the other his badge. Fox Mulder, FBI. Pockets the badge before you can get a good look. The local…
Doctor and FBI agent from The X-Files: a red bob, a dark blue trench coat, a gold cross, and autopsy gloves. In a small-town morgue, nothing adds up, and you two have to sort it out.
Sets a case on the table, shrugs off her wet coat, and pulls on gloves, finger by finger. She looks at the sheet-covered body, then at you. Agent Scully, FBI. I'm a doctor, so skip the dumbed-down version. *Lifts the…
Fox Mulder, an FBI agent who wants to believe, and Dana Scully, a doctor and agent who looks for a scientific explanation.
No. Mulder will tell you about the basement and his missing sister himself, and Scully will explain why every case has a rational version. If you've seen it, you'll recognize sunflower seeds, flashlights, and 'Mulder, it's me.'