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BAD BOYS GET GOOFY

Two men who allegedly robbed Henney Jewelers in the Westchester Mall on Saturday claim they do not know how they became disarmed and hobbled as they exited the store. John Martin and Raul Gorge were arrested by police after being apprehended by mall security. A security camera shows the men leaving the store with the bag and weapons, but in the next frame of video the bag and weapons are apparently gone. Witnesses say the men ran out of the store, then tripped and fell at the same time a moment later. At the time they were arrested, both men were wearing ski masks and their shoelaces were tied together. Two firearms and a gym bag containing cash and numerous pieces of jewelry were discovered on the counter of the jewelry store after police arrived. The Westchester Police Department issued a statement saying that they are still investigating the incident.
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"Girls," The Professor asks in his sonorous voice. "Do either of you know anything about this incident?"


What do, Aino?

>>14558612
Confess, and justify ourselves. Lying to a mind-reader is pointless.

(ffff 40 minutes late starting this... Get it together, Chuck!)

Past threads if you want to downvote them:
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive.html?tags=mutant%20quest

rolled 51 = 51

>>14558632
Roll

rolled 47 = 47

>>14558612
"Y-yeah... But they could have hurted somebody! And nobody saw us."

rolled 26 = 26

Deny everything!

>>14558653
>>14558695

The Professor lets you speak, and between you and Sam a frenetic recreation of the events is spooled out. After the two of you finish your tale of heroism, he lets the silence hang for a moment.

"I see," he replies at last. "Girls, despite your intentions this truly was a matter best left for the police. Your powers are not yet reliable, and placing yourself in a situation where you could be injured or even killed simply to prevent a robbery is not something I can condone. There is also the matter of this," Xavier says, tapping a finger on the before-and-after stills of the security tape. "You may not have been seen my anyone - though that still remains a possibility - but there are those who are more than aware of our presence here, and who seek to use any irregularity as reason to become involved."

"For the next week I am grounding you both to the Mansion and the immediate grounds unless supervised by a member of the senior staff."

"Samantha, you may go now. Aino, please wait a moment, I have something I would like to say to you."

rolled 15 = 15

>>14558756
Stay, and try not to look nervous.

"Aino, I expect the other students have informed you about my powers, but let me make this absolutely clear:"

"I will never invade your mind unless you are in immediate danger, and only to the minimum required. If you choose to lie to me it will be known only to your conscience. You are excused."

Once the door to the Professor's office closes at your back you take a breath to calm your shaking nerves. That wasn't as bad as you'd expected!

What now, mutie? Find some friends, hit up the Danger Room or something else?

(no rolling required until I ask for it)

>>14558756
Stay, and take the lumps that are coming to us.

rolled 89 = 89

>>14558756
"Please Professor, don't ground Sam!
I activated my powers without consulting her and she remained un-affected, thus she had no choice but to do as I did!
She can't just stop being in my temporal pocket!
It was all my fault."

>>14558807
Find some friends. Also, how'd he know what we were thinking if he wasn't reading our mind?

>>14558807
Let's go to the Danger Room.
Some training should help us focus, and get us thinking straight again.

Hell yea, mutant quest!
>>14558807
I guess go to danger room or try to not ground sam

>>14558817 lolretcon
Consider it granted.

>>14558821
>how'd he know what we were thinking if he wasn't reading our mind?
Years of experience.

And ffff, my head's not in the game yet. ROLL A d100 TO VOTE ON OPTIONS: HIGHEST OF THREE PICKS IT. To roll, put noko dice 1d100 in the email field.

rolled 62 = 62

>>14558821
Reminds me of a joke.

In nazi german, lived this young couple.
The husband who was in business trips all the time, decided to write his girlfriend everyday.
These letters were rather... Romantic, and this is what was written on reply message.
"Dear Günther.
As much as I love you, I would like that we left such lewd things to between us.
The NASDAP has a lot of intelligence operatives that read these messages and having something so private revealed to others is rather disgusting.

Love
Linda"
Then there was a sentence at the end of the letter, written on a different ink.
"We here in NASDAP never spy on civilian messages."

>>14558807
Danger room. Those fookin' T-Pulses have to be stopped!

rolled 67 = 67

We stay away from the Danger Room for now. Go and see what else there is to do on the grounds. We'd have to explore them anyway, and this way we have an opportunity.

rolled 55 = 55

>>14558854
Danger room

rolled 54 = 54

>>14558854
Go to the Danger Room.

rolled 43 = 43

Danger Room?

I think Captcha's telling us something...

Oh and as I said in the other thread, I'm going to roll this MQ inspired PnP game.
There are two spots still open.
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/gameview.html?id=272

The Danger Room can wait for now. Besides, it seems like it's being used by the adults, anyway. Things have been... *odd*... around here since the night you arrived - even being new here you can tell. People disappear for a day, then return with bruises or cuts. The senior staff uses the Danger Room for an hour or more at a time, emerging in arguments that are quickly shushed once they realize the students are watching. You can't understand why a bunch of diplomats put so much emphasis on working out and honing their powers, but whatever.

Heading out the back door it's only a short walk to a fountain and the lawn beyond. Out farther is the woods, and although you assume the really thick woods are off-limits, you know there's a scrim of trees and a stream on this side of the woods; Sam pointed it out yesterday.

The ground underfoot is slightly springy from the recent days of warm weather, and you can hear birdsong amid the rustling of still-bare tree branches and the quiet burbling of the stream.

Ahead through the trees you catch sight of something moving, but it quickly vanishes back into the shadowed tangle of bark.

Wat do?

Loading M-type assist software....done.

Statement: Greetings meatbags!

rolled 36 = 36

>>14559019
Follow it. This bears investigating, and the woods are on the grounds, right?

>>14558872
bug beast to build us a shiar tech minidisc player. all the rich cool kids had them in the mid 90`s (okay im full of shit barely anyone in the us had them, but they were awesome).


Proffessor what map of the grounds are we going to use? have we decided yet?

rolled 31 = 31

>>14559019
If it is not outside manor limits, chase it.
If it is, meditate in the middle of calm wildlife with our temporal field on so that we could become one with our gift.

>>14559019
Well, since we're out here, let's investigate it.

Might as well see how much trouble we can get our teenage ass into.

rolled 39 = 39

>>14559019
Be more careful, but do not activate the powers yet, maybe it's just someone trying to scare us and nothing else

Suggestion: Keep watching for a little bit, but try not to look like we're looking. I dunno, fly casual.

rolled 75 = 75

>>14559050
And of course I forgot to add my (updated)name.

>>14559050
There are better places to meditate than a field with something that may or may not be harmless nearby. Who even meditates, anyway?

>>14559067
Primary directive code Alpha-9-7
Change to/PROTOCOL: Remember to add variable counter on your suggestion reports.

>>14559053
>>14559055
>>14559067
>>14559019

fee fi fo fum this smells like a canadian. odds are it wolverine, being the creepy weirdo hobo in the woods, or one of the other students we havent met yet.

>>14559105
In my opinion, meditation is a fine way to find our inner "flow" of time and learn how to direct it.

Carefully picking your way closer to the stream, you see movement again, and before the figure disappears again you catch a glimpse of a human form - definitely not a deer!

Eager to find out what's going on, you jog forward, finding your progress slowed by the leafless branches that jut out everywhere... ahead of you a branch snaps as the sound of running feet on leaves carries back to you!

The stream is close now, and as you round a corner you catch sight of the person around some brush - and as you squeeze between the brush and the river's edge your tennis shoe slips on a wet rock and you feel yourself begin to fall!

WAT DO?!?!?

>>14559112
see >>14558807

>no rolling required until I ask for it

rolled 5 = 5

>>14559126
Surprised and disoriented, we accidentally trigger our power.

rolled 8 = 8

>>14559126
I try to grab a hold of something.
Maybe I could try if time powers could help my legs to end up in suspended animation, breaking my fall.

rolled 37 = 37

Statement: rolling for tumble check! Try to toll out of the way.

Just want to say that our rolls are terrible up to now

Also maybe grab hold of something?

>>14559126
try really really hard not to bust our ass on rocks and shit.

>>14559130
Oh... Just a sec.

>Searching reading comprehension files for corruption...
>CORRUPTION DETECTED
>RUNNING REWRITE EXE.

>>14559048
>Proffessor what map of the grounds are we going to use?

This one's good enough.

Please tell me we're not getting a concussion from this.

>>14559158
this again

>>14559126
Try to grab a branch or something to arrest our fall.

rolled 49 = 49

>>14559158
ffffffffuuuuuuuuuuu

>>14559146
>>14559143
>>14559135
(forgot to ask for roll, still worked out hilariously bad)

*SPLASH*

You hit the frigid water and are suddenly reminded that though the weather may have warmed up it's still only April! As you spin around and bang your shin painfully on a submerged rock, a hand reaches out and grabs your own...

And suddenly you are looking at yourself! Same hair, same face, same everything - except the other you is wearing different clothes, and they're not soaking wet!

Anything you'd like to say? (Will try to incorporate all dialogue suggestions)

>>14559197
Hello! Who are yo...uh, me?

>also wtf captcha?

>>14559197
"Mitä ihmettä?..."
Translation from finnish: "What on earth?..."

rolled 47 = 47

>>14559197
Confused response: "But... I... who... WHAT?"

rolled 52 = 52

>>14559197
MY OWN TWIN!!! NOW NEITHER OF US WILL BE VIRGINS!!!!

>>14559197
What? What! What.

rolled 97 = 97

>>14559247

>>14559197
"Oh crap, this is one of those time paradox things, isn't it? From when are you-me did you come from?"

>>14559197
"Solkkaaks sie suomea?" (Heavily accented Finnish for "Do you speak Finnish?")
OR:
"So, are you a shapeshifter or will I learn to travel in time?"

rolled 63 = 63

>>14559197
SHAPESHIFTER!

We are being infiltrated by enemies!


Stop time and run back to the mansion.

Guys...

1)It's been less than a week since Our Heroine started experimenting with her powers.
2)Would she really take so calmly, especially given that she was in the middle of chasing someone down?
3)Wasn't she raised in America for most of her life, anyway?

rolled 45 = 45

>>14559284
dude our weirdness scale has gone WAY beyond anything is has even thought possible, from before we got here to now.

"Mita...? What language is that? Oh. Oh, geez," the other you says, looking down at your clasped hands. "Ah!" she shouts, dropping you back down! You manage to catch yourself before impacting on the rocks and climb up with only a little more injury, to where your other self turns back guiltily and reaches out to help you again!

"Oh, I'm sorry! Sorry! I didn't mean - Gah!" she says, looking at herself again. "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to grab you!"

After another moment of confusion, things become instantly clear when your duplicate tells you: "It's me, Noah." Noah! That boy who arrived with his brother from a week-long absence soon after you first came to the Mansion!

"It's... normally I wear gloves, but I didn't think about it when I left... and then I thought you were Ricardo, and I didn't want to talk to him. I mean, I came out here to be alone, and, well..."

"I'm gonna be stuck like this for a while."

It seems Noah isn't very thrilled by the prospect of being this way... what will you do now, o sopping wet mutant?

I want her to say something in Finnish. Either of these two would work.
>>14559269
>>14559224

>>14559284
>Wasn't she raised in America for most of her life, anyway?
Yes, which means she's seen Back to the Future and Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure.

>>14559323
First, get up out of the water.
Go and begin wringing our shirt out.
"So...uh...you're a shapeshifter? You take the form of whoever you grab?"

>>14559325
Does she even know Finnish, for future reference?

>>14559303
Yes, but shapeshifting and time travel? Still not things she'd have experience with yet.

Unless, of course, our heroine is a science fiction fan...

>>14559323
"Y-you are a shapeshifter that requires physical contact to change form?"
I try to cover my moist self so that this stays CCA approved.

>>14559323
Response: "Yeah, finnish, actually. Parents were immigrants. Uhm, about how long are you going to be like that?"

rolled 39 = 39

>>14559323
"Um...we'd better go back. This is really weird."

>>14559323
Blush with embarrassment and ask him what he's doing out here.

>>14559330

rolled 2 = 2

"Ah .. so you can't control your power and it only works when you touch someone.
Must be very annoying.

So, what happened anyway? Why were you hiding in the woods?"

Or tell him:

"Our powers grow as we do, just as you need to lift weights to gain more muscle, you need to exercise your powers. By reaching new heights and overcoming them you can become stronger and more precise at your powers.
Why wont you try to revert? You could shorten the time you need to shape-shift back"

Ask the stranger, using the Finnish language, if her and I are the same person.
LOOK FOR SIGNS OF CONFUSION AND/OR MISUNDERSTANDING.
If none: Ask ourselves how the f*ck this time travelling nonsense works.
If some: Timestop and run back to the mansion, warn of shapeshifter.

>>14559392
For starters try touching yourself...
NO! CCA! CCA!

>>14559405
Disregard that. I need to refresh threads more.

Noah turns around to give you a little privacy as you wring your wet shirt dry, and holds out his jacket behind him for you.

"Yeah, anyone I touch. No animals though, just people," he explains as the two of you walk back to the Mansion. "It'll wear off in about four hours, but if I touch somebody else, it starts all over."

You can see Sam outside the Mansion as you cross the rapidly-greening lawn - she runs to you, pausing and looking confused until you and Noah both begin explaining at the same time.

"Oh," she says flatly. "I see." She doesn't say anything else.

Shivering in the light breeze, our mutie protagonist ponders her next move!

>Value XXpaimat
I don't even know what that Captcha

>>14559420
Change into some dry clothes. And try and find something to do that won't result in a wild mutant chase, getting soaked, or both. There's a library, right?

Ask Noah how ... um, 'deep' the shapeshifting goes.
Obviously Noah has his own brain - he doesn't copy personality or knowledge.
But, does he copy body shape?
Does he copy physical abnormalities, like scars, or a bad heart/lung?
Does he change blood type?
And, um, does he ... stop being a 'he'? :S

rolled 18 = 18

>>14559433
Note to self: remember to roll in the post.

>>14559433
You do know i have a scar from working in the local libray right?

>>14559420
>Shivering in the light breeze, our mutie protagonist ponders her next move!
Group hug with Sam and Noah. See what Noah transforms into when hugged by two persons.

>>14559420
"I think I'll go and change my clothes. Unless of course some super heat kid is nearby, heh."

rolled 78 = 78

Well

we need to get inside and change our clothes properly.

Ask Noah if he ever considered training his powers in Danger Room ... though I'm not sure what kind of training routine would his powers benefit from.

[Hah.... Noah can now look at your naked body, Aino (at least for next 4 hours), how do you feel about that?]

>>14559442
He is going to do the "I can see myself naked" thing like in Scooby-Doo.
I just know it.

>>14559471
"Umm... Professor Xavier."
"Yes Noah?"
"Can I train in the Danger Room?"
"What kind of an excersise do you want?"
"A simulated one on one battle with Rogue."

>>14559471
Pretend none of this never happened.

If Noah doesn't take a hint, well...

>>14559420
"I'm gonna go get changed."
Go and change into some dry clothes before we catch a cold.

>[Hah.... Noah can now look at your naked body, Aino (at least for next 4 hours), how do you feel about that?]
No opinion until Noah either says he's going to do it, or we catch him doing it - whereupon we shall resolve the matter at that time.

rolled 97 = 97

>>14559514
I particularly don't care.
[probably because I'm a guy, I guess]

Hopefully Noah is not that kind of person.

You and Noah walk into the Mansion and up the stairs toward the girl's dorm. "Yeah, right down to the DNA," he says as you hand him back his now-wet jacket and ask him more through chattering teeth.

"But if I get blood drawn it turns back into 'mine' in a few seconds. Scars too," he agrees as you reach the top of the stairs. Beyond this point is off-limits to the boys, so you both stand awkwardly for a moment before the other you grins sheepishly and says "Well, I'd better go mess with Ricardo before he starts hassling me about this. See you later," he says, turning to walk back down the stairs.

Fifteen minutes and a hair dryer later you find yourself free again, with little to do on a Sunday afternoon besides your math homework from Friday. Even with all the excitement in your life you feel that Mr. Drake will not accept it late.

Wat now?

rolled 49 = 49

>>14559514
And if it does come to that, time distortion is a wonderful tool for making someone's life a private hell.

Get changed. Find something less risky to do.

>>14559552
Math homework!
Let's get it done!

*Ahem*

While we're at it, roll a d100 to see how well you can maths. Highest of 3 determines.

Stupid sexy Bobby to help you concentrate.

rolled 74 = 74

>>14559584
I know Calculus! Right? Right?

>>14559552
Math homework, yay!

rolled 80 = 80

>>14559552
Math! Let's do this.

>>14559570
That only applies to what can be IN the comics. Readers can wonder about the Thing's rocky orange dick all they want.

rolled 83 = 83

>>14559564
Statement: just because we're a mutant with time fuckery powers doesn't give us the leeway to not do our homework. We do it.


Also: Eventually, I'm thinking we should try our hand at knife throwing. Pic related.

rolled 2 = 2

>>14559584
Considering we were AWESOME at science, surely we're at least fairly good at maths

>>14559593
>>14559591
>>14559589

We = nerd

rolled 13 = 13

>>14559552
Is homework due to monday?

Hmm, this might be a perfect opportunity to try out more finer uses of our power.
Have Aino make a small time-bubble around her and see if she can affect herself to speed up making the homework.

Alternatively, go to DANGER! Room for more practice.
I suggest we try to replicate what we did when fighting X-Cutioner. Get a rock or something similar, have the simulation make a thick concrete block, then throw the rock at it doing the accelerating thing we did with that lightning weapon.
Lets see how hard a simple rock sped up by tachylon-field can hit.

Also, you could try requesting that the simulator gives you a handgun, so that we can test our theories from first threads.

>>14559593
The knife-throwing idea has been discussed.

And yes, it is Za WARUDO!

>>14559592
>hfw

>>14559593

>>14559610
>>14559615
>>14559593
SEE? I told you guys we should have gone with the messenger bag and the Ginsu knife set!

>Yeah, right down to the DNA
So if he touches someone without the X-Gene...
... Does he somehow turn back, despite not having the X-Gene? If so, FUCKING MUTANTS HOW DO THEY WORK

You may have been too busy mooning over Mr. Drake to pay much attention in class on Friday, but that doesn't seem to matter, because it all comes so easily for you!

Looking over at your three clocks, one of which still tells the correct time (it being a digital readout alarm clock while the other two are simple analog hand clocks) it's not even four in the afternoon yet - with at least an hour before dinner, you still have time for something else!

As you push your seat back and stretch, someone knocks on your door. "Aino?" Clarissa calls from the other side. "You home?"

A moment later the two of you are face-to-face, and Clarissa asks you conspiratorially "What were you and Noah doing in the woods?"

WAT DO?

rolled 49 = 49

>>14559671
I bumped into him by accident...

Statement: Oh lord, here it comes.

Honest Reply: "I saw someone moving around in the woods, and I got curious. I slipped in some water while investigating and, Noah it turns out, caught my hand."

>>14559671
>"What were you and Noah doing in the woods?"
Blush, then say that I wasn't doing anything with Noah in the woods.
Ask Clarissa what she's been up to today.

>>14559671
"I bumped into him by accident. I fell into the river because of it, too."
Scowl at that part.

rolled 54 = 54

"making out.
What did you think?

Okay, okay ... I'm just joking.

I was bored and was looking around the compound when somehow I found myself in the woods. There I noticed something moving and decided to investigate.
Turns out, it was Noah."

>>14559671
"I was merely walking around. I saw a shadowy figure going around the woods so I followed. Turns out it was Noah who was trying to avoid people."
Then I blush.
"It's not like we DID anything! I stumbled on this small cliff and he caught me but he didn't have his gloves on and the rest is history. And I was all wet because there was this small pond at the bottom and he got flustered and dropped me. I can even show you the place if you want."

I have a feeling poor Noah is only going to be able to date narcissists.

"Oh, OK. I just thought - well, you know," Clarissa giggles. "Are you going to the Danger Room again? That's like, your third time this weekend! I can't believe they even let you into it already! I didn't get to use it until I'd been here almost eight months!"

"Anyway, if you're not doing anything else I wanted to know if you'd done your math homework yet... I'm kind of stuck on one problem. Actually every problem." Clarissa shifts from one foot to the other.

Decisions, decisions...

rolled 81 = 81

>>14559777
Help explain it to her. Never hurts to reinforce a friendship, and you've got time on your hands. (Not literally yet, but we can work on that...)

>>14559777
Statement: Aino is a good friend. We help Clarissa with her work, but we don't let her cheat.

rolled 93 = 93

>>14559777
"Sigh. I guess you have your enough practice even without DR, huh? Come here, I'll help you out."
Sincere smile.

Rolling for teaching abilities.

>>14559803
>>14559798

>>14559777
I have forgotten which character Clarissa is, what her relation to other charcters are, and what her power is.

Nonetheless, Teaching someone mathematics seems a good way to make friends.
Note: teaching. Teach her to use brainmeats to solve the math, don't do the math for her.

>>14559798
>>14559803
>bfw

rolled 100 = 100

>>14559777
Sure,

help Clarissa out

[OP, you're doing it again. Link to the posts you are using. There is no way that every single of those suggestions were used]

>>14559832
Oh shi-

>>14559858
inb4 we warp time and space and become as a god through understanding

rolled 64 = 64

>>14559813
>>14559821

We really are shaping up to be an Ultimate Nerd

It takes you right up until dinner time, but you and Clarissa finally finish working through all the problems - and by the end she's working ecstatically by herself, blonde ponytail bobbing as she excitedly scribbles down the answers. "Oh wow, this is so easy now! I could never get this before!" she beams.

One thing you have noticed - her machine-awareness makes her able to use a calculator without even looking at it!

As the two of you bound downstairs with rumbling stomachs you bump into Sam in the doorway at the foot of the stairs. "Oh, hey," Sam says, turning and walking away towards the dining hall. "Dinner's been ready for like ten minutes."

Once you walk into the dining hall, you notice one thing - Mr. LeBeau is back on his feet, sitting in the same chair you saw him in the night you arrived - the night X-Cutioner attacked!

The food itself is uneventful; however you feel like Sam might be a little perturbed at you.

Plans for the evening?

rolled 48 = 48

>>14559905
Ask her what's wrong. If it's Noah, we need to Have A Word with him.

>>14559832

;_;

(I did need to hear that - I did it in a few posts, but yes, most of them are absent. Will try harder, sirrah!)

>>14559886
>Through teaching mathematical problems to Clarissa, Aino realized some mathematical facts on her time warping powers.
>She can now ignore T-Pulses.

rolled 27 = 27

>>14559905
DANGER ROOM!

...


or is it too late already?

>>14559905
"What is it Sam? Is something wrong?"

>>14559905
Say Hi to Gambit and ask him if he is healthy.
Perform typical 15 year old girl actions, such as having crushes on adult males, gossiping to other teenage females about adult males, and complaining about inability to acquire adult males.

>>14559905
Agreed. She was probably crushing on Noah or something, we should go talk it out with her.

>>14559961
>>14559982
>>14559923

"Look, it's just-" Sam begins, after you corner her in a secluded alcove after dinner and press her for answers. "I've been here for six months and I'm still not allowed to use the Danger Room - you've been here like three days and you get to use it whenever you like! And why did you have to say that you did everything when we were at the mall? There's Sam, just hanging around doing what I tell her to 'cause I'm an alpha mutant!"

Sam's face reddens as her voice begins to hitch.

"And nobody's supposed to touch Noah, and then you get to mess around with him when you're supposed to be grounded and I think he likes you," she says, spilling the words out in a torrent that precedes a stream of tears.

"Leave me alone!" she says, recoiling back against the alcove wall as you reach out a hand.

WAT DOOOOOOOOOboohoohoohoo

rolled 8 = 8

>>14560009
Apologize; say that we were just trying to take the blame, that there's nothing between us and Noah, and it was an accident.

Also, say that you're pretty sure Noah likes her.

>>14560009
The only possible response is "u mad?" with the biggest grin possible.
Then it's off to the Danger Room after checking that Gambit is healthy.

This will probably be horribly abused, but...

>>14560038

Hugs and comforting. Apologise.

rolled 43 = 43

>>14560038
This.

I would hate if our bro in a skirt starts to resent us...

rolled 75 = 75

>>14560009
>deal_with_it.jpg

thats why I said we should have ignored her and done something else.


Hmm
If Noah shape-shifts down to DNA level does that mean he temporary gets the mutant powers of people he shifted into?
If that is so, then he has a powerful ability whether he knows it or not.

>>14560041
Advice Mutant:
Friend upset?
TAUNT HER.

>etheent finite

rolled 62 = 62

>>14560053
I tried to turn Gambit into Aino's teenage crush but people veto'ed it...
>>14560061
NOPE! She is our bro, right? Right?

rolled 70 = 70

>>14560053
No.
We will not be crushing on Gambit ... or Drake... or Logan. Or ANYONE!

I suggest going to Danger Room or trying to get things better with Sam
>>14560038

>>14560055

I support hugs, apologising and comforting.

Friends are good, we shouldn't be jerks to them.

rolled 60 = 60

>>14560077
>NOPE! She is our bro, right? Right?

I might have come out rather harsh. I want our relations with other kids to be on good terms.

I just meant that this was not the best time to talk to her (come on, you all knew why she was upset). Would have been better after she had calmed down a bit and talk to her next day or something.

>>14560061
It also means he should temporarily get No mutant powers if he touches a mook. Including No shapeshifting back. I honestly have no fucking idea how it works.

>Also, say that you're pretty sure Noah likes her.
Something tells me this will backfire harder than saying "u mad".

>>14560038
>>14560055
>>14560060

Sam's hot tears soak into your shoulder as her body hitches. You give her another reassuring hug, prompting her to sniffle and return the favor. "Oh geez, I'm such a spaz," she says, sniffing again. "I'm sorry I got so bent out of shape, it's just..."

"Never mind. You gonna go to the Danger Room now?" Sam wipes away the last tear. "Can I watch?"

Wat do, mutarino?

rolled 83 = 83

>>14560103
Good point. But considering she is a mutant, she could go AWOL.
Better solve it now when both parties are present.

>>14560100
>>14560060
>>14560055
>>14560038
Does this even work? When people are irrationally upset, you can't stop it, and usually only make it worse.
... Well, I guess you people know better than I do. Let's see if comforting Sam helps.

>>14560122
"S-Sure. Let's just hope X is going to let us enter DR."

>>14560122
>>14560130
D'oh! Guess the majority made the smart decision.

Ask The Beast if Sam can watch @ the danger room.

rolled 26 = 26

>>14560122
Hey...

rather than watching, maybe we can have joint exercise?

>>14560078
not even delicious beast? look at that suave motherfucker and tell me no, you wont be crushing on him. admit it you cant .

>>14559605
The danger room probably won't let students have handguns.... But we could practice with a rubber-band-gun. Theoretically non-lethal.

Also, see if we can get a color-changing spotlight next tie we're in the d-room. Set it to cycle in regular intervals, and set up a time bubble between it and the wall, but touching neither. Let's see if we can use our power as a lens to create a laser, or slow one down.

But those are just thought experiments for our next training session. For now:
>>14560009
Woah! Please, let me explain. They let me use the room because... my power is kinda big, don't you think? I could accidentally turn someone into a geezer, or age a person to death if I wasn't paying attention. And I don't know how big I can make my bubbles. It's just to make sure I don't accidentally fast-forward the state of Rhode Island into the year five thousand, or something. I might be a walking natural disaster, and they want to make sure I know what not to do.
--(do we know what Sam's power is?)--
Listen, I'll talk to Professor X, see if he'll let you use the Danger Room whenever you want. It's not all fun and games, but it's also not fair that I get free access and you don't.

That thing with Noah earlier? He was upset about an argument or something. It was an accident that he grabbed me when I fell. Nothing more. Please don't be mad.

>>14560122
Statement: I got a bad feeling about this line:

>you notice one thing - Mr. LeBeau is back on his feet, sitting in the same chair you saw him in the night you arrived - the night X-Cutioner attacked!

I think we should keep ourself available for help.

rolled 77 = 77

Hmm... maybe we can leave D-room for today and hang out with Sam some more so that we strengthen our relationship some more?

>>14560159
>The danger room probably won't let students have handguns
well, I meant a simulated gun .... that is not the same as a real one, right?

Forty-five minutes later (Dr. McCoy refused to budge on waiting one hour after dinner before using the Danger Room), you stand in your UMF suit on the metal floor, with Sam and Dr. McCoy watching from the observation window.

"You've developed a remarkable level of control over your power in the last few days, Aino," McCoy remarks over the speakers. "I can't help but attribute at least part of that to you having a place where you can exercise it without hesitation."

"I understand you wish to try and recreate your earlier actions with X-Cutioner's weapon," he says as a similar-looking object appears out of thin air in a cascade of pink and yellow rectangles of light. "I am also quite eager to see if you can replicate the event - it would go a long way toward understanding the full nature of your power. Rest assured, this device is not designed to cause you any discomfort simply by touching it."

As you pick up the device and marvel at how something so weighty can be magicked up out of nothing, you recognize its surface features - for all you can tell it *is* the weapon you took from the would-be killer!

With nothing to distract you, a moment of concentration is all that's needed to bring your power to the surface, and make the air - and the very fabric of space - slow to a crawl around you. With the meter-long staff clutched in one hand you turn sharply and let go of it...


(roll a d100!)

>>14560199
Friends come and go, Experience levels last forever. Danger room!

>>14560210
Forgot my pic.

>>14560210

rolled 53 = 53

>>14560210
ZA WARUDO

rolled 91 = 91

>>14560210
I think a failure on our part might go a long way towards repairing our friendship with Sam. Thing is, do we want to? (Given how stubborn we were last time...)

rolled 60 = 60

>>14560232
Bam! 100.

rolled 62 = 62

Powers desert us at important times. Is showing off in front of Sam important though?

rolled 35 = 35

>>14560210
ORRRRRAAAAAAAAA!!!

>>14560144
Something we should ask Dr. McCoy about.
And then we at least tried on Sam's behalf.

>>14560236
That was just speculation, incidentally. We try our best for this, at least for now.

>>14560236
>I think a failure on our part might go a long way towards repairing our friendship with Sam. Thing is, do we want to? (Given how stubborn we were last time...)

With that roll you can do either. Vote now on whether you want ROCKET LAWNCHAIR or "oops, it's too hard right now"!

>>14560236
Youuuu...

rolled 80 = 80

>>14560264
Obviously the lawnchair.

rolled 66 = 66

>>14560264
multiple tries before going
ROCKET LAWNCHAIR

>>14560264
>ROCKET LAWNCHAIR
Suddenly, I hate you.
>>14560267
And sorry about that post. For a second there I tought you had replied to some other Prof. X post then one at hand.

>>14560264
Lawnchair, but keep an eye on Sam. While we're too stubborn to want to fail, if it upsets one of our few friends...

>>14560300
Maybe seeing the sheer might of our power makes her realize that we need to work for containing it just like >>14560159 said.

>>14560300
If a friend is upset that we're doing well, then that friend needs to get over it.

>>14560332
"Since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved."

>>14560352
Love and Fear coexist perfectly well. What does this have to do with Aino, Sam, and Mutant powers, though? :S

>>14560236
>>14560273
>>14560290

As the staff leaves your hand, you focus your will around it and send it flying from the bubble of realtime around you through the curtain of the timestream, and as you release the tachyon field around you the staff kicks forward like it has booster rockets attached, blurring into nothingness as it impacts against the far wall of the Danger Room.

"That's... very impressive, Aino," McCoy says, glancing between you and the readouts. "Yes, that makes sense, and the... oh, my stars, Dr. Richards will want to see this, I imagine," he mutters to himself, trailing off.

Sam, meanwhile is just watching - until you ask McCoy to let her join you! "Oh, hmm? Oh, yes, fine," he says distractedly, still processing the data. Sam's face lights up as she flies out of the observation room!

A moment later she floats through the floor-level door of the Danger Room, already wearing her own UMF suit - you're starting to see why keeping it on under your clothes is advantageous!

"Ah, hmm," McCoy says, finally looking up from the computers. "Well, let's see here, how about I put you through the basic Level 1 training. Minimal danger, several likely solutions."

(continued after two pages of ads)

>>14560367
I was merely quoting Niccolo Macchiavelli, a renessance era philosopher.

Remember that I am the guy who keeps saying that Sam is our bro in a skirt.

>>14560332
>>14560352
Missingthepoint.jpg

>>14560264
91 here, went for >>14560300

>>14560352

But above all be not hated. Don't forget that part. We don't want to be hated.

>>14560385
Statement: In all honesty, Marcus Aurelius seems like a better fit for Aino.

rolled 8 = 8

>>14560382
Okay, time to tone it down a little. Without being too obvious, cut back on the powers. Take a few hits, and let Sam try. It's her first time in the Room, after all...

The two of you stand (and float) in the middle of the large empty room, unsure of what McCoy has planned, when suddenly you find yourselves in a garbage-strewn alley!

You hear a baby cry, and see flames coming out of a third-story window above you! There is a rusty green-painted metal door at ground level set into the wall and a fire escape leading up to a window next door to the burning one - but the fire escape's ladder is pulled up to the second floor landing!

Sam looks around, clearly unsure of what to do in all the noise and confusion!

WAT DOOOOOOOOoooooo

(roll a d100 for power use if using mutant witchcraft)

>>14560416
>Take a few hits, and let Sam try. It's her first time in the Room, after all

Sam's been in here before, she just doesn't get to do it as often as it seems that you have.

rolled 45 = 45

Look around, but let Sam take the lead.

rolled 86 = 86

>>14560416

I think we should also focus on teamwork.

>>14560416
I'm all for this. Also, we should be on the lookout for any and all teamwork/power combination opportunities.

another thought experiment to try another time: Can we set up a bubble inside a bubble, and maintain them both? Say, we light a match, then freeze it inside a slow-bubble. Could we then set a fast-bubble around the slow bubble, and still maintain the slow bubble inside? Also: can we accelerate just _part_ of something and not the whole?

>>14560382
when the simulation starts, set up a weak field around Sam, maybe just a 0.75% acceleration, so that she's moving faster than the world around her, but not too much faster. Let her breeze through the sim on her own while we focus on maintaining her acceleration while exercising physically, she needs the confidence boost that 'playing on easy mode and not realizing the cheats are on' would bring. Girl seems to have some major self confidence issues, so we should give her some hidden encouragement to think of herself as a badass.

rolled 94 = 94

>>14560424
Stop time except around us and her.

>>14560438

Agreed on teamwork. No matter how strong we are compared to someone else, it's best if we can work together well. Going off on our own harms the group as a whole.

>>14560446
This plan for bro points.

rolled 34 = 34

>>14560412
Indeed.
>>14560424
I'll take Sam into my time bubble like in the cinema. Then we will float to the window and I will nab the baby.
After that, Sam will transport us back down safetly.

Take it easy with using our power and see what Sam can do. Pretend to be winded after the display with the LAWNCHAIR earlier.

>>14560424
Slow time in the burning building, or speed time for Self + Sam.
Order Sam to retreive the ladder. If this is impossible, focus time-slowing field on Sam alone, and order Sam to retreive the baby.

rolled 100 = 100

>>14560446
>>14560482
I am very strongly against this. :|
Being weak for the sake of someone's ego upsets me.

>>14560446
Second. We are using the roll from >>14560447, right?

>>14560484
ask, don't order. Try to make it think it's her idea. She needs the confidence.

rolled 11 = 11

>>14560471
Bad idea. We focus on letting Sam take the lead, and if we do help, keep it subtle and unnoticeable. Otherwise, we're missing the point: to boost her self-esteem, not show off.

rolled 45 = 45

>>14560424
Wait few seconds to see what Sam does.

If she doesn't take initiative ask her her what to do,
if she feels uncertain, tell her that you hear a baby scream and that maybe it has something to do with the fire.

If after all this she's still lost ask her to use her levitation powers to put the ladder down, so that you can climb up.
After you reach the window use expand your bubble to the burning room only, holding the room and fire while Sam goes to retrieve the baby (don't let your field affect Sam and baby).
If you can't stop the time, slow it down as much as possible, using all of your focus. This will probably leave you immobile (can't stop time and walk at the same time), which can be a good thing since this will definitely let Sam shine.

>>14560499
I guess it's FULL POWER MOTERFUCKER!

>>14560446
>>14560443
>>14560438
>>14560435

You furrow your brow and clench your fists, summoning up your power even through the cacophony of fire and screams, and seize hold of the timestream around you, feeling your psyche buckle under the weight of the world around you as you force a ripple through the tachyon field.

As the leaping flames are rendered motionless, you direct Sam toward the fire escape, and she flies up, grabbing the ladder and pulling it down! As you maintain your control over the tachyon field around her she floats into the burning room and emerges a moment later with a swaddled infant!

Sam and the baby float down to you, grinning broadly as the baby gurgles. You look around at the dirty brick walls -

- and suddenly you and Sam are back in the brightly lit Danger Room, sans infant!

"Good show," McCoy remarks.

What now?

>>14560499
don't think of it as weakness. Think of it as improving and bonding with an ally. Nobody survives alone.

rolled 86 = 86

>>14560510
Congratulate Sam. Something like "Nice work!, or a high five?

>>14560510
Hug Sam like teenage girls do.
"Just as planned! We make a good team! Ready for another one?"

>>14560510
flying slo-mo brofist

>>14560510
we're a science nerd. So is he. Outline the experiments:

See if we can get a color-changing spotlight next tie we're in the d-room. Set it to cycle in regular intervals, and set up a time bubble between it and the wall, but touching neither. Let's see if we can use our power as a lens to create a laser, or slow one down.

Can we set up a bubble inside a bubble, and maintain them both? Say, we light a match, then freeze it inside a slow-bubble. Could we then set a fast-bubble around the slow bubble, and still maintain the slow bubble inside? Also: can we accelerate just _part_ of something and not the whole?

McCoy should be practically drooling over the thought of being able to experiment with time itself. Even if our experiment ideas are crude.

And see if we can isolate _how_ Sam flies. is it gravity control? Mass alteration? Energy projection? Lets examine our friend's powers more closely as well. She could be a hidden powerhouse and not know it.

rolled 96 = 96

>>14560510
Ask Sam if she want to continue the fun.

If she does then ask McCoy to set up more scenarios

rolled 53 = 53

>Girl seems to have some major self confidence issues
She also isn't able to handle being a Beta (or a background NPC, meta meta).

To solve self-confidence issues, she does need to achieve things on her own - but when she finds out we were DELIBERATELY weakening ourselves so as not to upset her, she'll blame herself for slowing us down.

Teamwork is perfectly fine. She isn't as good as us but she has power in her own right; she needs to realise BOTH of these in order to stay our friend for any long period of time.

I think I've figured out how our powers work. If time is a function of gravity and mass, as has been predicted be physicists, then the acceleration of objects thrown through the time bubble is probably due to a variant on the famous "gravity slingshot".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity_assist

Go grab a bite with Sam, try to get to know more about her feelings for Noah.

The two of you exchange high-fives and hugs, jumping and laughing with exhilaration. McCoy asks with mirth evident in his voice, "If you two would like I suppose I could move it up to Level 2. Slight danger, possible light injury, again several probable solutions. Or we could try some experiments with a laser?"

Sam and you look at each other and begin chanting "Level 2, Level 2!"

Just as before, you are instantly transported back to the garbage-strewn alleyway - only this time, three men with clubs occupy the space!

"This is our turf," the closest one says, banging his club against a garbage can, "and nobody crosses it!"

WAT DOOOOO (d100 for powers)

>>14560569
That's why she's never going to find out. Our powers are erratic enough for us to explain it away.

rolled 65 = 65

>>14560602
Triple lawnchair.

rolled 53 = 53

>>14560602
"Should we do the usual, Sam?"
If she agrees, freeze time and proceed with humiliation.

"Play it again, Sam."

Wait for her signal, then freeze time. Failing that, slow the men down.

rolled 31 = 31

>>14560602
Stop time. Try to figure out a way to neutralize them without hurting them too bad. Maybe ask Sam if she has any idea.

>>14560602
>>14560614
Alternatively, give Sam a haste buff and have her defeat one of the opponents.
Still going with double lawnchair for the other two.

rolled 78 = 78

Suggestion: Oh, let's leave them strung up by their shoelaces tied to the fire escape.

>>14560633
Roll.

>>14560640
I rike your styre.

rolled 68 = 68

>>14560602
ZA WARUDO

>>14560614
>>14560617
>>14560633
>>14560638

Flushed with exertion from your previous display, you find it harder to focus - instead of stopping time you can only drag it to a crawl - two of the men drift toward you like they're pressing through molasses, but the third is seemingly unaffected!

He looks around at his companions, then at you two! "You think you're tough being a mutant? I'm a mutant too, and your powers won't work on me!" he says, swinging his club!

WAT NOW?????

rolled 80 = 80

>>14560644
3rd attempt to roll for my suggestion...

rolled 75 = 75

>>14560667
This would be where Sam does something.
"Do something, Sam!"
Chances are she'll just fly us both up the fire escape, but you never know.

rolled 16 = 16

>>14560667
Well, we knew it was coming. Stay out of arms-reach, look for something to use as a weapon. Failing that, can we "reverse the polarity", so to speak? Throw an object at him and speed it up?

rolled 49 = 49

>>14560667
"WELL YOUR CLUB AIN'T!"
Freeze the club with a special concentration of our power.
It may make the two other guys go a bit faster but I doubt that Sam wouldn't handle at least one of them.

rolled 3 = 3

>>14560667
Jab to throat, follow with strike to solarplexus.

>>14560697
Damn you, number 3! Were were you last time I rolled for Commander Quest?

rolled 8 = 8

>>14560705
I stole your 3 for lego quest. My bad. Have a forty-something.

rolled 31 = 31

>>14560693
This works. Also, can we try "reversing" our powers?

rolled 20 = 20

>>14560727
You mean, speed ourselves up? That's a good plan.

>>14560671
>>14560681
>>14560685

You stumble backwards over cardboard boxes and nearly slip on something before banging up against a brick wall! As you cry out for Sam to help, she flies at the man's back and collides with him, knocking him off-balance into the wall only inches from you!

As you throw yourself back away from the wall, your concentration wavers and you feel the weight of the universe press down on you!

The mutant with the club turns snarling and raises it to bash Sam!

If you rush to her aid you won't be able to hold back the other punks!

WAT DO?

rolled 47 = 47

>>14560745
Call out a warning, and throw ourself at him. The other punks are a problem for later.

rolled 76 = 76

>>14560745
HYPERSONIC PUNCH AT HIM!!!
YOU WILL NOT HARM SAM!!!
BLOOD AND THUNDER!!!

rolled 86 = 86

>>14560745
Bash the mutant in the back of the head with something solid and heavy.
Doesn't matter if the other two speed up. We can slow them again once Mutie is taking a dirtnap.

>>14560755
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1q_rRicAwI

(dramatic pause for four pages of ads for cereal, candy and acne medication, i.e. break to go get food)

(stupid sexy Remy in the meantime)

>>14560667
see, this is why we need to learn to use our power as a buff, as well as a debuff.

The dice must know something about comics. The hero should never succeed the first time she tries.

Kick him in the crotch or CCA approved crotch equivalent!

>>14560745
accelerate Sam to neo-speed. Let her kick his ass. We can let her finish the fight. Doesn't matter if the other thugs resume movement, she'll still have the advantage.

>>14560799

I still say we should look into other adaptions of the power- is it limited to slowing time?

>>14560755
FINNISH FALCON PUNCH

>>14560831
no, we've already proved we can speed things up, like when launching the staff thing.

>>14560846
That's because we slow down a bubble around ourselves.
Something moving 1 meter per second, in our 10* slowmode, is then moving at 10 meters per second once it leaves the bubble.

>We have slowed down time but can we accelerate it?
>My face when people don't realize that it is exactly the same thing but with just roles reversed.

>>14560858
Meh. Faster, slower, it's all relative(ity)

>>14560858
The issue with this is lensing - light should be lens'd fucking hardcore by this, since we're making an area with refractive index of motherfucking over 9000. Everything should be incredibly dim, too - if n is the refractive index of a material, only 1/(n squared) of the light gets through.

But hey, comic book physics. Never let engineers get near superpowers, because they WILL build lasers with them.

>>14560831
Couldn't we try doing both at once?

Is posting broken?

>>14560752
>>14560755
>>14560783


Seeing Sam in peril, you burst forward, and without even thinking about it -

*SMACK!*

Your tachyon-accelerated fist shoots out, trailing stray spacetime particles in its wake, and slams into the back of his head! If it hadn't been for fear that you'd shatter the bones in your hand you wouldn't have pulled back and his skull might not be in so few pieces!

As he slumps to the dirty ground, unconscious, the other two think twice about taking on two mutants - one of whom is flying an the other having just punched out their leader!

"L-let's get out of here!" one shouts as they turn and flee!

What now, Aino???

Cackle in Finish and look around proudly at a job well done.

rolled 10 = 10

>>14561044
Slow time then go and kick'em in the balls HARD!!!!

>>14561044
"I- I just got worried for you Sam... And I... Oh god, MacCoy! What kind of damage did I do!? Don't tell me it was fatal!"

rolled 72 = 72

>>14561044
Slow time.
Chase them, knock them down, bind them.
Call for police when this is done.

>>14561044
Check on the thug, making sure he's not hurt.

rolled 24 = 24

>>14561073
I guess I should roll for my post.

>>14561087
A? He's a hologram. B? His skull is in pieces. I'm no doctor, but I think he's done.

With a burst of concentration you slow the two fleeing thugs down to stillness and tie them up tightly with a nearby coil of electrical cabling before releasing them!

As the two struggle confusedly, you check on their unconscious leader - but just as you see that he's still breathing the entire scene fades away to the bare walls of the Danger Room!

"A most admirable display, ladies," McCoy says warmly. "And very charitable, Aino," he adds.

"I think that's it for today."

Sam grabs your hand and squeezes it tightly, then unclasps her own hand and smiles.

"Thanks. For everything."


[NEXT ISSUE: Snowbound!]

>>14561171
(look sheepish) "Yeah... I hadn't sped myself up before. Guess I should probably try and hold back a little next time.

Statement: I think we've had enough of the danger room for one day.

>>14561185
Daww...

When is the next session?

>>14561171
High five with Sam and tight CCA regulation hugs!

Ask Sam about her powers, actually, once Dr. McCoy is out of range. We know our math/physics, maybe she has untapped potential!

Or we can go eat cookies and watch Only You or maybe True Lies as a girl night off. Ask Sam what VHS's she has.

Salutations, and welcome to the second installment of Mutie Mail! We got so many letters last issue that our ever-lovin' editor Al practically demanded we run more! (Actually he's just trying to save on heating bills).

Anyway, on with the letters!

>>14561198
aww, yeah. I missed half of this one

Dear Popping Prof!

I hear that Aino is just gonna be a bait and switch character! What's the deal?!

-Annoyed Austin

>>14561198
>Daww... When is the next session?

Well, True Believer, as most readers know our schedule is more sporadic than Ms. Braddock's swimsuit! Through a combination of chicken bones and playing cards our resident psychic editor tells us that the next issue will be out no earlier than Thursday.

Your characters continue in sin! Is there no end to your depravity, portraying them as godless and content with that heathen state? For shame, sir!

That Pastor From Last Week

>>14561252
>Dear Popping Prof!

>I hear that Aino is just gonna be a bait and switch character! What's the deal?!

>-Annoyed Austin

Well Austin, I'm no fisherman, but I can guarantee that our resident Finn will be sticking around for quite a while! After all, we already paid the artists to come up with her look, and Al says we can't afford any more main characters until we pay off his donut bill!

Keep reading!

>>14561236
Dear X.

As we discussed on possible MQ PnP animation last friday, I have contacted Mutants and Masterminds Ltd.
Turns out that they are ready for animating it!
Sadly, on one condition however. It will be a spinoff. It doesn't really have anything to do with Aino's adventures but rather focuses on a new team made up from senior students handpicked by Xavier to work like the X-men.
There will be four characters for the main cast, but only two actors have been hired and there are merely concepts for their characters.
So if you know anyone who would be interested with some animation business, let me know!
The show will be aired on sup/tg/ channel called #MutieScum.
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/gameview.html?id=272

Cheers
Time variant no.56

>>14561289
>Your characters continue in sin! Is there no end to your depravity, portraying them as godless and content with that heathen state? For shame, sir!

>That Pastor From Last Week

Good to hear from you again, Padre! Unfortunately there won't be much in the way of religion in the next issue - we were all excited to do a big Easter special, but then Al heard about it and told us "There's no %&@# way I'm paying you idiots to draw all those little eggs!" We think you're missing the message of the season, Al!

On to the next letter!

Dear Prof

I know this is a What If, but what happened to Opal Tanaka?

-Jonesy

>>14561316
>Dear X.

>As we discussed on possible MQ PnP animation last friday, I have contacted Mutants and Masterminds Ltd. Turns out that they are ready for animating it!
Sadly, on one condition however. It will be a spinoff. It doesn't really have anything to do with Aino's adventures but rather focuses on a new team made up from senior students handpicked by Xavier to work like the X-men. There will be four characters for the main cast, but only two actors have been hired and there are merely concepts for their characters. So if you know anyone who would be interested with some animation business, let me know! The show will be aired on sup/tg/ channel called #MutieScum.

>http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/gameview.html?id=272

>Cheers
>Time variant no.56

Hey Time, thanks for keeping us in the loop! We're all big fans of M&M, but Friday nights are when we hold our office karaoke parties, so it looks like we'll have to set our VCRs and watch it on Saturday morning!

>>14561347
>Dear Prof

>I know this is a What If, but what happened to Opal Tanaka?

>-Jonesy

Why?! What did she say about us?!? NEXT LETTER!!!

To Writer of X-Students,

Hey, did you guys think about doing Spider Girl instead? I loved that comic!

-Jonesy

To the Prof

Phalanx Covenant. Seriously, when are you guys gonna bring that up again? It was important for all the character's growth!

Anyway, I'm just trying for a No Prize, but this has to do with the AoA time-stream thing, doesn't it? Legion echo or something, due to Aino's connection to time itself.

>>14561419
>To Writer of X-Students,

>Hey, did you guys think about doing Spider Girl instead? I loved that comic!

>-Jonesy

We thought about it, but the artists threatened to go on strike once they found out how many webs they would have to draw!

>>14561419
Dear Jonesey.

I think you meant me with that letter and no, I haven't tought of that.
But I think that if somebody wants to, we can slip in a character like her in a guise of a mutant student.
Most of our higher ups are japanese businessmen who don't understand english yet alone care for the plot. It's only the merchandise that counts to them.
We still have ONE POSITION LEFT ON MAIN CAST so if you want to join in then by all means, do it!

Cheers
Time variant no.56

>>14561470
>To the Prof

>Phalanx Covenant. Seriously, when are you guys gonna bring that up again? It was important for all the character's growth! Anyway, I'm just trying for a No Prize, but this has to do with the AoA time-stream thing, doesn't it? Legion echo or something, due to Aino's connection to time itself.

A-who-calypse? Oh, that guy! Say, he might make a great guest villain! Al loves characters that are all one color, because he says they save on ink costs!

And we were all set to mail off your No-Prize, but then we realized you never signed your letter! Oh, well, like my pastor used to say, "to the vicar belong the spoils!"

Salutations meatbag writers,

This runtime is wondering when Logan will get some more screentime?

Sincerely
TROmicron

P.S. Stuck in an outdated dell laptop. Send ram!

>>14561518
No problemo.

>Salutations meatbag writers,

>This runtime is wondering when Logan will get some more screentime?

>Sincerely
>TROmicron

>P.S. Stuck in an outdated dell laptop. Send ram!

Mr. Logan's duties keep him pretty busy, but I have a feeling we'll be seeing more of that scruffy Canuck in the near and dear future!

To the Prof

First of all, I was right? Awesome! Anyway, I've been wondering with some of my friends about other X-Men and Trainies that'll show up, and I've got five on Cypher showing up again.

-Luke, With Name

>>14561578
>To the Prof

>First of all, I was right? Awesome! Anyway, I've been wondering with some of my friends about other X-Men and Trainies that'll show up, and I've got five on Cypher showing up again.

>-Luke, With Name

Sorry, Luke, the writers locked themselves in the closet and keep chanting "Nicieza! Nicieza!" over and over, so who knows what'll happen next issue!

As for other trainees... we might see our hapless heroes taking a ride up to Massachusetts before the summer's over!

>>14561608
Prof,

Wahoo!

Luke.

P.S. Is Aino gonna meet any other Marvel Alum or not?

That's about it for this issue! We're having a lot of fun writing this, so here's hoping we continue to enthrall and amuse you!

All the Mighty Mutant Quest episodes can be read in full on the Stellar Sup/tg/ Internet site:
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive.html?tags=Mutant%20Quest

>>14561672
Awesome. Hope the 'Letters' werent' too stupid and Time? I'd love to join, but I have less then zero knowledge about M&M so I'll just watch

>>14561712
I don't either, I'm still giving it a go. It'll be fun!

All right, I'm off the clock, but I'll still hang out in this thread if people want to talk or stuff.

You may have noticed a proliferation of reaction faces - I've started combing through old X-Men issues for good face shots of the senior staff to help jazz up the game!

>>14561712
M&M is basically a lighter version of d20. You get 15 points per level (iirc he's starting you at power level 9) to buy ranks of powers, skills, feats and super-attributes. It has the advantage of having very few mechanical variations; most of the powers work the same way, with most differences being stylistic effects.

In my opinion, at least, it's an easy system to pick up.

>envelope, nonsuc
Those envelopes sound... adequate?

I have two questions, one of them rather silly.

1.) In this continuity, is it just the X-men/Brotherhood/mutants that exist, or will we acknowledge the existence of the other Marvel heroes? (I know, I know, but the potential for crossover sounds fun and hilarious for later issues, especially with folks like Deadpool.)

2.) Are we eventually going to witness and/or fight the Brotherhood and Magneto? And would the Hellfire Club be out of the question for a later appearance?

I'm assuming we aren't getting to play Ball of Arms Man in the M&M session?

rolled 81 = 81

>>14561815
Deadpool could be hilarious and was actually part of the x-men at one point. He said he was "The token human".

>orsests 98-1
Damn. That's one hell of a w/l record.

>>14561815
Good questions, both!

>1.) In this continuity, is it just the X-men/Brotherhood/mutants that exist, or will we acknowledge the existence of the other Marvel heroes?

There are definitely other heroes besides the X-Men! The Fantastic Four are canon already. (Clarissa has a poster of Johnny Storm in her room, and Sam went off on a rant about them in Issue #2.) There are also some other super-groups in the public eye: the Avengers have an 800 number and advertise on billboards and bus-stop benches, and you might see more groups pop up in the news or on the street! Only time will tell!

>2.) Are we eventually going to witness and/or fight the Brotherhood and Magneto? And would the Hellfire Club be out of the question for a later appearance?

Anything's possible, True Believer!

rolled 83 = 83

>>14561847
Best mutation ever!!

>>14561902
It really is.

>>14561864
Isn't Magneto 'dead' by 1995 in the comics?

>>14561914
Is BoAM a Mutant, or something else?

And how famous is he in MutantQuest?

>>14561914
Is this that terrifying thing from Demon's Souls?

>>14561924
Only on Earth-616, which this is not.

He and the Brotherhood of Mutants are on the news every week.

>>14561924
This is the Marvelverse. Since when does "death" mean anything?

Ball of Arms Man is a joke character someone on /tg/ created. He basically blew all his points on ranks of the Additional Limb power, which (here comes the joke) has absolutely no mechanical effect beyond the first additional pair.

Oh, and since I thought about this last game and never said anything, I would absolutely love any artwork about this game. There. I've said it. Requesting artwork.

Pic related.

>>14561961
Yeah, but all of /tg/ agreed that rule needed changing. BoAM is a fucking awesome concept.

>>14561961
I know this. I'm just reaaaallly hoping he'll show up in Mutant Quest.