"Incredible!" Professor Xavier says as he leans back in his wheelchair, holding his chin thoughtfully. "You claim to be a student of mine from the future, a future in which my students Scott, Henry, Robert and Jean are teachers here at the Xavier School for Gifted Youngsters! As astounding as that may seem, you furthermore claim that you were cast into this time through a rift created by mutant-hunting robots - and those same machines had just slain a time-traveling Reed Richards of the Fantastic Four!*"

"Aw, she must be lying, Professor!" the brown-haired teenage boy - youngest of the other teenagers present - proclaims, crossing his arms over his chest. "That story's too far-out to be real!"

"No, Bobby, I fear she is indeed telling the truth!" he responds as he raises a hand to silence the boy. The Professor looks at you and says, "No doubt this is why you allowed me to mentally scan your mind to verify what you said! You are a mutant like us, though according to what I see in your mind, before his death Richards used a device that nullified your powers, as he feared that if left unchecked they would create chaos throughout time itself!"

"If I may interject, Professor," a broad-shouldered young man asks, raising one thick finger, "perhaps I might offer a suggestion?"

"Of course, Hank, though it must wait until after I have formally introduced our guest." As the Professor gestures, his students stand at attention, allowing you all to observe each other! "Aino Virta, codename Tachyon, this is Hank McCoy, known to us as the Beast! Bobby Drake, nicknamed Iceman! Slim Summers, our human Cyclops! Warren Worthington the Third, who is called the Angel! And Miss Jean Grey, known as Marvel Girl!"


[*It's true! All that and more happened last ish! -Prof]

>TIMELOST
It's almost like you're making a reference here...

"Now, Hank, what was it you wished to say?" Professor Xavier asks, and as he does so you realize that the student speaking to him is a young Dr. McCoy - though lacking the blue fur and fangs you've come to associate with him, instead possessing only abnormally large hands and feet!

"It was just idle speculation, but perhaps Dr. Reed Richards, that is, the Reed Richards of *our* time, might have something to add to this discussion?" Hank asks. "After all, if what Aino says is true - and I have no reason to doubt the veracity of your mental assessment, Professor - Dr. Richards may be the only one who fully understands what has taken place."

"Perhaps," the Professor says, lighting a pipe and drawing on it. "Reed Richards is well-known as the finest scientific mind of our day. However, Miss Aino may not wish to visit him, considering the nature of their last encounter."

"Hmph!" Jean says, folding her arms. "All this trouble for a grade-school stowaway!"

"Grade-school?" Bobby retorts. "She's almost as old as I am!"

"That isn't saying much," Jean replies, turning her head to the side. "You *are* the youngest out of the five of us - the only one who's not at least seventeen!"

<<"Enough!>> the Professor says telepathically. <<We will let Aino decide her next course of action. You are of course welcome to stay here at the School for as long as you wish,>> he directs to you.


So, you chronologically maladjusted mutie, what's the plan?

>>14969829

I can't imagine what. It just sounded like a good title for the next few issues. If you've got a link, though...

>>14969876
Almost all the Homestuck spin-offs/parodies use that format. Housetrapped, or tsunamistuck, or spacesealed or whatever.

>>14969891
Oh, OK. Never read Homestuck, only the one with Pickle Inspector.

Oh God, it's 60s X-Men! AHHHHHHHHH

>>14969832
Go see Mr. Fantastic. We need one thing before we can go back: Our powers. If he made the device that took them away, maybe he can create one that brings it back? Damnit, we should have grabbed the gun from him first!

You have been sent to the past for a reason... to kill Gary Gigax so Chainmail doesn't catch on, the Lord of the Rings movie never gets made and /tg/ doesn't exist in the Future so neither Mutie Quest nor Aino had ever existed in the First place, therefore nullifying any Temporal Disruptions! Get to work.
Do we have photos of our family, our friends and the X-tatic team so we don't accidentally them out of existance?

>>14969913
>Do we have photos of our family, our friends and the X-tatic team so we don't accidentally them out of existance?

No you do not. The only thing you have is your 1995 street clothes and your UMF suit underneath them.

>>14969829
[could be worse. I've had random Quantum Leap puns bouncing in my head since last issue]

>>14969832
"I would very much like to speak with Doctor Richards, and Professor McCoy... I'm sorry, Mister McCoy. I would very much like to regain the use of my powers before doing anything else. Now, we know mutant powers can be nullified or disabled. Anything that can be done can be undone, and anything that can be broken can also be fixed. We just need to figure out HOW my powers were disabled in the first place, and do the opposite. Don't worry, for the sake of the Time Stream, I'll try to avoid telling anyone too much about the future, or about future technologies. Time travel is a popular subject for Science Fiction in the 1990's, and I think I know enough not to accidentally prevent myself from being born."

>>14969832
We are a woman of SCIENCE, we have no ill will against Mr. Fantastic of this time, might as well meet him.

Oh, and get some dirt on the current students for when we get back to our own time.

>60s
waitaminute, is this before or after the Cuban Missile Crisis?
thiscan'tendwell.jpg

>>14969913
I dunno if it works that way. We aren't neccessarily in OUR past, just A past. What we do here shouldn't affect our timestream, or else all Future Reed Richards would have had to do is go back and tell himself not to hire Aino.

This is why I love Mutie Quest.

Also...yes, we need to speak with Dr. Richards...the unraveling time might still be coming.

Also...I may need less conspicuous clothes...this is certainly not an attempt to obtain some vintage clothing to wear in thirty years when I get back.

these sorts of situations always intrigue me, what will happen in the time that we left, is it impossible to go back? would it be a seperate but identicle universe?

lost worlds, forsaken dimensions, and extraplanar travel, this is our theme song

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuAGGZNfUkU&feature=related

Try to avoid doing anything that will affect the timeline too drastically. We don't know yet how resilient the timeline is to change.
Watch out for anyone that might come through Time after us - there was a rift, so someone else might go through it.
Tall to Mr. Fantastic.

A question for the internal monologue: What is most ethical in this situation:
To alter this timeline as little as possible, and go back to our original place as soon as is practical
-or-
To abandon our original timeline, and use our knowledge of the future to make the world we've been sent to a better place?

>>14969998
Abandon our friends? Did you really just suggest that Aino would do that?
You. Out. Now.

>>14970007
We sort of already DID.

Also, we did just pass through the time stream unprotected...that has a habit of doing bad things to people. Also, being of Nordic Heritage...always putting this out there, Kirby's Asgard may be where we find the answers to our questions and needs.

>>14970018
No, we took a longshot to save them, we thought we might get empowered in the rift...and if we work fast and get back into raw time stream, we may yet be. We will save them at the very moment of our previous disapearance, Odin willing.

Apparently, if we worked for Reed Richards, we would accidentally Reality.
How do you accidentally Reality?
If you even -tried-, wouldn't Silver Surfer show up and tell you to stop being a cockbag?

See if we can get a chalkboard or a white board and order our thoughts on it.

OK, what do we know about the device that took our powers?
1: Man portable. pistol sized. But that doesn't mean much when dealing with Fantastitech.
2: Yellow energy beam. Induced extreme pain and nausea.
3: Power loss was instantaneous, not gradual, so it did not introduce any form of chemical, virus, or nanotechnology into our body. So we can rule those out.
4: It's not a persistent energy field that's countering our powers, as there's nothing to maintain it, so it has to have been a static alteration to part of our body.

We're going to need a DNA test on ourselves, and compare it to other X-gene-active individuals to figure out how we were changed. Given the pain, dizziness and nausea from the discharge, I think we're going to need to look at our brain. There's a good chance that whatever was done to us was a type of brain damage to prevent us from accessing our power. It's still there, but we can't trigger it, like a paraplegic.

>>14969998
We. Are. Going. Back.

Aino is not the sort to give up once she gets an idea in her head, practicality and even possibility be damned, and given that things were approaching a Bad End last time we were in the present, she's probably a bit focused on getting back.

On the other hand, when she realizes she has as much time as she needs to get back...

>>14970018
That;s the thing about time. We just have to return a few seconds after we left.

>>14969913
>>14969906
>>14969935
>>14969936

" *Doctor*, you say?" Hank smiles, leaping up onto a banister to pose as Rodin's 'The Thinker' while balancing on one enormous toe. "I rather like the sound of that."

"They certainly dress oddly in the future," Warren comments, tilting his nose up to look at your clothing. "And what's that underneath? It almost looks like-"

"Wow, dig that get-up!" Bobby says in amazement when you show them your UMF suit. "It's like a science-fiction version of our uniforms!"

"I think that's exactly what it is," Slim says, opening his mouth for the first time since you arrived.

"I'll stick with my current uniform, thank you," Jean says as she wheels the Professor back into the room.

"Hey Jean, Aino was just telling us about grungy music!" Bobby says excitedly.

"I believe that's *grunge* music," Hank corrects him.

"I telephoned Dr. Richards, Aino" the Professor tells you. "He is interested to meet you, although I omitted much of what you told me, as you may wish to tell him yourself."

Anything you wish to do before you take a trip into New York City?

>>14970007
so baseball bat to the kneecaps or the dewalt drill to the knee caps? I`ll do the dirty work, you just hold them down.

>>14970050
Or before we get back, waving to ourself from behind bullet as we were going face first into the time steam and then saying "Hi!" to bullet as he readies himself to punch a sentinel.

barrel roll, for good luck

>>14970075
We won't make it back before, or we would have seen ourselves before we left.

>>14970055
Warn them that there may be others coming through the rift - some of whom may be hostile.
If any giant robots show up, assume they are hostile.

>>14970075

if we observe ourselves that might unleash all sorts of quantum dickery though

>>14970098
We just have to stay out of sight.

First order: pen, pencil, journal. We're recording our actions as best we can, to avoid any paradoxes. Second order, find Reed Richards. Best to bring back-up, though, after that last incident.

rolled 3343 = 3343

>>14970098
Totally worth it. Ask them...
-So, is this before the Sentinels?
-The Sentiwhats?"
- Nothing *cutesy smile*

>>14970098
That's fine. It's only if your future self also looks back at you, that the dickery stars.

>>14970055
If possible, obtain some clothing to better fit into this era besides my UMF suit, also.

"Ms. Grey. Listen...you're one of my teachers in my time and I know my being here is a shock to you...but...but...I don't know if I've done anything other than arriving here to make you upset with me. You were one of the first people I met when I joined the school, you and Mr. Summers...and is it just my being here, being a girl, and being a sudden center of attention? I get why you might be upset, I spent some time reading sociology books and...I don't want to be the center of attention right now, I just want to go home; please just take a look at my surface thoughts if you don't believe me,"

(completely unaware that Jean doesn't know she can do that...at all...and was in fact given mental blocks by the Prof to prevent it)

>>14970055
New clothes. We kinda stick out.

Forget sticking out, we GET BACK NOW. SOMEHOW.

Other than the fact that we shouldn't exist yet, our friends need our help, single-minded, all that and a penguin plushie.

>>14970055
Steer the conversation away from future pop culture, and their future selves. We've said too much already.

When we talk to Reed, if we have to mention that it was a future-him that did this to us, play up the fact that it was a POSSIBLE future him, and that he was very erratic, emotionally unstable, and rambled incoherently.

Wait...think think think...did any species of Penguins go extinct between now and the nineties...WE MUST WARN THEM!

rolled 6370 = 6370

>>14970135
Afterwards *borrow* her best suit(a IOU note MAY be involved...) and return to her inn the future when her body frame has changed so much she can't no longer wear it! or terribly outdated and unable to be seen without maximum anachronistic lolz. Either way MAXIMUM TROLLFACE!

Seriously, try to get her to lend you something appropriate, this is to girls what playing vydya is to us guys.

>>14970164
Hippies only started giving a shit about extinction later. They were all about Radioactive Waste at this time, before moving onto the Ozone hole and Deforestation.

rolled 6355 = 6355

>>14970179
So Nam was before of after this? Also, fuck dolphins.

>>14970168
I was going to disagree, but
>Arguing endlessly over small details about what is best and worst
>Fanboyism
>An unhealthy obsession, where you spend more time arguing about it than actually using it

... Yep

>>14970055
Agreeing with everyone else about the need for less conspicuous clothes. We need something understated and that will let us fit in.

>>14970164
Hm...Penguins...

>>14970159
We go see Reed Richards for help, but we should be very, very careful. Maybe ask for help from the Professor?

>>14970192
Well, what about the uniform? It definitely shouldn't be here...

>>14970159
>play up the fact that it was a POSSIBLE future him, and that he was very erratic, emotionally unstable, and rambled incoherently.
Agreed.
Also, considering who this is we're talking with, I think some of the gloves can come off when talking SCIENCE! with him. We might have to, in order to get him to either build something that will give us our powers back, or that can create the temporal rift we need to get back to our time.

>>14970198
We can still wear the uniform under whatever other clothes we put on.

>>14970223
Also, considering who this is we're talking with, we should keep an escape plan in mind.

>>14970168
well jean would probably want it back and give you a stern "I`m VERY disappointed to you Aino" talk. then take the outfit, dress up in it trying to get cyclops back from Emma Frost. jean is such a slut. also she is a massive attention whore, with being jealous of the hot Finnish girl.

>>14970198
Oh man, Reed Richards so much as looks at second Generation UMF and things can go all screwy with ease.

>>14970231
CAUTION! TIMELINE DICKERY DETECTED

>>14970198
Keep it with us at all times. We DON;T want bullet-proof, shape-shifting Unstable Molecule Fabric falling into the hands of anyone in this time period. What we're wearing is an incredibly advanced version of the suits that Richards invented for the FF. Which begs the question.... Are they the FF yet? Ask the Professor if Reed Richards has taken his historic trip into space yet. He might not even be Mister Fantastic yet. We have to tread very carefully.

>>14970247
X Men are formed and in costume...we may not personally know the timeline of events, but this should be after the FF were in costume.

>>14970247
Agreed. Just imagine the implications of someone revere-engineering even a single aspect...

Also, we keep an eye out for anything that might have followed us through/police boxes/anachronistic cars.

>>14970247
reed invented the unstable molecule suits. maybe we give him SCIENTIFIC INSPIRATION!!!

>>14970123
>>14970124
>>14970135
>>14970097

"Oh, dear!" Jean says when you get her alone for a second, covering her reddened face. "You're right, I've been terribly mean to you! And here you are, lost, and all I can do is bicker!"

"Come on, I know what you need," she says, leading you to her room. "There was a sale at Macy's last weekend."

"Wow, Aino, you look totally mod!" Bobby says, whistling as you and Jean rejoin the others.

"Ignore him, please," Hank says, picking the younger boy up and causing him to shout and cover the burly Hank with ice!

"The Professor wasn't exaggerating, was he?" Slim asks as you climb inside the long, sleek Rolls-Royce for the drive into the city. "There really are mutant-hunting robots in our future."

"Perhaps not *our* future," Hank says, adjusting his glasses. "According to Dr. Richards there may be many futures occurring at the same time."

Outside the car, buildings pass by as you enter New York City, and though it's only been a few weeks since the last time you were here the architecture is decades out of date! Traffic is sparse compared to last time, and as you pull up in front of Four Freedoms-

"Four Freedoms? Never heard of it!" Warren says. "This is the Baxter Building!"

As you look out the car's window and up at the building, you see in place of the gleaming skyscraper where you first met Reed Richards stands an ordinary looking apartment building, thirty-odd stories high and capped with a five-story ultra-modern facade!

(cont. on next page)

>>14970247
>>14970259

>As astounding as that may seem, you furthermore claim that you were cast into this time through a rift created by mutant-hunting robots - and those same machines had just slain a time-traveling Reed Richards of the Fantastic Four!

The people of this era already know about the Fantastic Four.

>>14970269
Tell them that Mutant-hunting robots are no different to Mutant-hunting PEOPLE. It's just someone using new technology, to pursue the same old hatreds.

Maybe...suggest telling the professor to hire a Public Relations guy...this is one of the golden ages of marketing...

Mutants...Superhumans who were just born that way. Some will be Avengers, some will be the Whirlwind. Just...just think about it.

>>14970303
agreed. The mutant-hunting robots are still built by the same types of people who, a hundred years ago, sold guns to the KKK, or the IRA. Humans have always hated what is different, and they've always been opportunistic enough to exploit any advantage they can for their own purposes. Technology just provided better advantages.

>>14970346
Why don't we go and kill our parents while we're at it? No sense in going halfway, after all...

"Wow, look at that," Bobby says as you roll the sleeves of your UMF suit up, the fabric barely increasing in thickness thanks to its remarkable properties. "You can't even tell you're wearing it!"

The six of you walk toward the building, and as you approach the others step aside while Warren opens the door to allow Slim and the Professor to enter. After he pushes the Professor's chair inside Bobby pops back up and says "I wonder if we'll get to meet the Human Torch! He's almost as young as me!"

Instead of the chrome and steel lobby of 1995, the Baxter Building's interior is a simple apartment lobby with a pair of elevators! Another elevator stands apart from the others, but it does not appear to have a control panel, but as you walk past it the doors open and a tall, lanky man emerges!

"Ah, Professor Xavier! Welcome to the Baxter Building! And these must be your students. Please, step inside! This is the express elevator to our headquarters atop the building, usable only by myself and my companions."

As the elevator quickly rises to the top floors, the Professor again contacts you telepathically! <<Aino, if you wish to speak to Dr. Richards alone, you may do so.>>


So... just what are you going to say to Richards anyway?

>>14970368
sigh, you're right. I forgot my place. We must preserve as much as we can, FOR SCIENCE!

Actually, there is an image floating around from the Future Foundation with Reed, Spiderman, and Black Panther in a future/alien ship looking at stuff to solve a mystery, and Peter says just seeing this is inspiring him in new ways, then Reed goes "No BITCH, WE CANNOT LET WHAT WE KNOW FROM THIS INTERACTION INTERFERE WITH THE NATURAL SCIENTIFIC PROGRESS OF MANKIND, BITCH!"

>>14970398
Give him the facts, while omitting any specific mentions of who was responsible for the power-drain or his reasoning for doing so. If we trust any Reed Richards with that information, it'll be the one who we knew in the present day.

Yes, we're being silly, but since the last time we saw the Dr, he was trying to kill us...

rolled 27 = 27

-Hello, Mr. Richards? We seem to have a problem... with the Spatio-Temporal stream?
Then try to explain, in LAYMAN terms, the sort of time-fuckery shit we are on. We don't now how much this Richards knows about this.

>>14970398
Dr. Richards, I was wondering if you could critic this theory on temporal physics. (Share a simplified version of one of our extrapolations from our paper what mystified Dr. McCoy & his future self...we need to give him proof of our intelligence and that we are from the future...this should initially suffice as evidence for both as we further explain ourselves after his answer).

>>14970445
WARNING! TIMELINE FUCKERY DETECTED

Tell him the truth, tell him what he said to us, and that removing us & our powers as a variable in the development of the event he was trying to prevent did not work, and that it may still be coming. We cannot prevent it from happening in the traditional sense, but we might be able to stop it before it reaches this time, and that reweave the fabric that has so far come unwoven.

>>14970445
>>14970398
If we're to get Richards' help in reversing the effects of our power-neutralization and in creating a device that will allow us to create the temporal rifts needed to return to the future, then we have to talk with him about some of the advanced elements of applied temporal mechanics.

rolled 7338 = 7338

>>14970524
Yeah, what was done in the future is already....being....will be done?

>>14970398
I don't know how much Proffessor Xavier explained to you, Doctor Richards, so I'll start from scratch. My name is Aino. I will be born in 1979. I am a mutant. My power was to temporarily alter the flow of tachyons in a limited area around myself, 'slowing time' from my perspective. In 1995 I will attend Xavier's School for the Gifted. The day I was scheduled to begin my summer internship, with you, incidentally, a time traveler appeared, claiming I would cause great harm to the future, and proceeded to shoot me with a device I believe you developed, or will develop. It has removed my powers, or my ability to access them. The traveler himself was subsequently killed by a time-traveling automaton designed to execute any individual who damaged the time stream [the sentinel proclaimed that [sycho-reed was 'wanted for causality violations' so this isn't a stretch] or possessed dangerous abilities. I was attempting to reconnect to the source of my powers when the time-rift transported e to this time period, into Professor Xavier's study.I would very much like to regain my powers and return to my original time-line, so I do not upset my past or your future unduly. I have a variety of hypotheses that need testing, and since you are the foremost expert on this type of quantum physics, I have come to ask for your help. The Professor can vouch for me and confirm my story."

[On a side note, see if we can get an autographed teenaged-Johnny-storm pic for Clarissa when we get back.]

>>14970445
>>14970439
>>14970435

"I see," Dr. Richards says, as you finish describing your ideas worked out with the future Dr. McCoy on the nature of tachyons. "Despite your age and the outlandishness of your story I believe that you are indeed from the future. I have recently begun work in the field, and what you say confirms my experiments."

With that he turns, stretching an arm across the room to retrieve a device - and your heart leaps for a second before you realize it bears no resemblance to the pistol-like machine that stripped you of your powers. "Fascinating," he says, waving it at you and monitoring the results. "You say you are a mutant with the power to manipulate time particles. I believe I understand why your strange power no longer works!"

He stretches his free hand out to pluck a spare piece of chalk from the tray below the board and quickly begins writing his own formulas! "It appears that the timestream surrounding you is somehow out of synchronization with everything around you. This may be the cause for your headaches and fainting spells when you attempt to control it - almost as if you were trying to receive one radio station while tuned to another."

"I may be able to create a device that will reorder the timestream around you, thus enabling you to use your mutant power again, but I will need your aid..."

Let's see how this goes... roll a d100 to determine the effectiveness of this machine! To roll, put noko dice 1d100 in the email field! Highest of three rolls decides!

>>14970551
>this isn't a stretch

>>14970551
That is the truth, also, Seconding the autograph

rolled 89 = 89

>>14970555
Here goes!

rolled 91 = 91

>>14970555
SCIENCE GO!

rolled 70 = 70

Let's go!

rolled 57 = 57

Rollan' but, if the device affects our resonance with the timestream, if we slow down time doesn't that also slow down our perception about time(not speed or reflexes but the very space of the phenomenological!) so we can't really know how much time is slowed down unless we compare to the outside of our Tychon field? Don't we lose some of our skill with this power?

rolled 16 = 16

>>14970555
"Thank you Dr. Richards...but knowing my powers can be returned is only the first of a long list of questions that need to be answered before we prevent the unraveling of all space & time"

Now we need to hope certain techno organic virus infected, cyborg armed, guys with white hair drawn by Rob Liefeld show up.

>>14970579
>>14970578
>>14970573

Oh wow. inb4 we make our powers stronger than ever (attaching a bigger antenna to the radio in the aforementioned analogy)

>>14970555
Thank you, Dr. Richards. For everything. Hope to see you again...

I'm pretty sure that we have two powers. The time manipulation and SCIENCE! How else could you explain our awesome rolls? Or maybe we're just that awesome.

>>14970641
Science is our primary power.

Time manipulation is a secondary mutation.

>>14970641
Obviously we use our time powers to read research papers before they are published!

>>14970578
How are you so good at science, Aino? Are you just filled with science? When they were handing out science did you somehow swipe the portions intended for all the other children? Are the poor standardized test scores of America's children due to you sucking all the science out of them and stuffing it into your head?

>>14970618
I think we should contact Stark tech to create us a super powered armor that is fueled by tachyons and SCIENCE!
Heh.

>>14970667
OH GOD YES.
Have Clarissa help him make it.
Oh... that could be amazing.

Oh boy. Let's try not to explode the timeline for another few years, yeah?

>>14970664
She is from Finland. Suck it.

>>14970679

>>14970565

>>14970679
Nah, knowing the bastard he's probably gonna stick a few overrides, "safety" measures, GPS localization, AudioVisual recorder 4laterblackmail and make us dependent on him. On the plus side at least he's honest ... sometimes.

rolled 41 = 41

>>14970700
Hey, no Cybermen shenanigans until tha-...come to think of it, Who are we waiting for anyway?

>>14970728
That's why we get Clarissa to help us find and disaple those unwanted features. Tony is arrogant enough that he won't believe we can disable them.

>>14970578
science go indeed.

So, how many science fair judges did little Aino cause to have heart attacks as a child?

>>14970573
>>14970578
>>14970579
>>14970567
>>14970551

"Professor, if they're going to be here for a while, could we go see a movie?" Bobby asks as you and Dr. Richards design a rough sketch of what he has in mind.

"Go ahead, folks," Dr. Richards tells them. "It will take at least two more hours to complete this."

"Bye, Aino," Jean waves as they leave, Bobby hooting and leading the others out of the lab. Only a few minutes after they leave more people enter the lab - this time a giant with rough orange skin and a blonde teenage boy!"

"Hey Stretch, who's the kid?" the big one asks.

"Ah, Ben and Johnny. This is Aino, a... student here visiting."

"Got her workin' on her summer vacation, Stretch? What a crumb-bum of a teacher you'd make!" he bellows jokingly.

"So you're from Finland, huh?" Johnny says as the two of you talk while Reed welds another piece onto the device. "Wow, you want my autograph? I'm still not used to people asking for it! Reed, do you have a cam-"

"Second drawer on the left, Johnny," Dr. Richards says, not looking up from his work. A moment later he takes the camera from your hands and stretches his arm away, saying "I'll put this in our automated dark room to develop."

"Looks good, kid! You oughta send that picture ta Hollywood," Ben Grimm says as he looks at the picture of Johnny from over your shoulder.

"Hey, Ben, it's almost time for the game! We're going to see a Yankees game!" he tells you. "It was nice to meet you!"

"Dem bums from Philly are gonna get clobbered!" Grimm announces as the two of them leave.

"I understand that you cannot say too much about what you have witnessed in the future," Dr. Richards says as the two of you finish assembling the device - a prototype tachyon accelerator mounted inside a shielded room. "But from what you have told me, I shall be extra-vigilant in working to ensure a brighter tomorrow."

(cont. on next page)

>>14970748
"extra-vigilant in working to ensure a brighter tomorrow."

We dun goofed. Tell him that despite everything that happens, things do work out for the best. (At least until time travelling Sentinels show up.)

This is an example of the sort of changes we wanted to avoid.

sorry guys,
but you need to take this to the correct board
>>>/co/

>>14970767
No /co/, YOU move.

By the way X. Did that new character portrait thing go ahead at all?

>>14970748
"I know you will, Doctor Richards. You're the man that inspired me to study science in the first place."

>>14970398

nothing is more eloquent then the truth, so give him the strait poop.


"according to an interdimensional traveling other richards, at an indeterminate point in the future, me and other richards began a partnership in reaserch. with my help great strides were made advancements in the understanding of natural law, but unfortunately we accidentaly the whole spacetime continuum, causing presently an unravveling multiple relatities at an exponential rate. with that story he proceeded to zap me with a hand held energy projector to appears to have disrupted my tachyon control somehow, at which point a massive sentinel appeared through its own portal loudly proclaiming its intent to discourage mr richards with extreem predujice, on grouds of causality violations, and was promptly vaporised."

"now, details, always importaint as im sure you know. other richards appeared before me on the masion lawn, emerging from a rift glowing with blinding light, he speculated over wheather this was his destination, indicating he had traveled to other universes previously, his belt was festooned with mechanisms which i assume were involved in his travel method, without speculation i know that while fiddling with them he referenced 'chronological sensors' confirming his present location as his intended timeline. which gives a clue as to its function"

cont...

>>14970767
Quest threads are a collective game. Solid /tg/ territory. Sorry, chief, but they're here to stay.

>>14970787
I don't think we'd talk like that. For one thing, our mutation doesn't include a respiratory bypass...

>>14970787

fuck, i lost the rest of it because of flood detection, ohwell, lets just assume she fills him in on the particulars

>>14970767
No, quest games belong here. And this thread has been here for over 12 incarnation. Also, we of /tg/ love it.

>>14970758
"We do what we must to move science forward, though given our already altered states...do we change the world in sweeping gestures or do so gradually, allowing a more organic pace to take over. What futurists and visionaries and science fiction writers predict as our great advancements and revolutions aren't always so accurate...the world bares the wait of social, economic, and political upheavals that both hamper and prop up the advancement of mankind...all we do is for a better tomorrow...for SCIENCE!"

>>14970794

we may be young, but its different when talking SCIENCE.

>>14970773
We fixed the speech. It needed to be realistic for once.

>>14970787
>>14970777
>>14970758

As you step into the room, you see Dr. Richards through the shielded glass wall while he begins to operate the tachyon accelerator.

"As much as it pleases me to hear that my career extends into the future and has an impact on young minds such as yourself, I cannot help but wonder about this knowledge, and what it may mean for my own future."

At that moment, the Professor and the others re-enter, surprised to find you behind the glass enclosure!

"Oh," Jean says, "Are you going to start it now?"

"Yes, we've only just completed it," Dr. Richards says, stretching his arm out to pull down a thick lever. "When I activate this device, the timestream around Aino will reconfigure itself to match the time around it!"

The teenage students clutch each other as a humming fills the room, and with a jolt of energy a glow surrounds you, bombarding you with strange rays! You feel the sting of being cut off from the timestream begin to lift, as awareness of the tachyons around you begins to seep back into your mind, when suddenly the glow surrounding you flares and shatters the containing glass!

"No!" Dr. Richards shouts! "We've made a terrible error! The timestream surrounding you wasn't merely scrambled - it was attuned to the time in which the scrambler was made!"

"What does that mean?" Slim shouts.

"It means - Aino is being pulled through time to some other when!" Dr. Richards says as he struggles to shut the machine down, but too late, for his vision is eclipsed by the bright electric-blue gap in reality that you've seen before - that brought you here! This time, however, the choice to enter it is not yours, as you are pulled into it and disappear!

"She's gone!"

>>14970809
Somehow that reminded me of Still Alive.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6ljFaKRTrI

rolled 38 = 38

>>14970887
Here we go again! Keep our fingers crossed and try not to scream!

>>14970887
At least we got our powers back, right? Right?

>>14970894
OCRemix? Same here.
WE DO WHAT WE MUST... BECAUSE WE CAN!

>>14970887
curl up and cannon-ball through time. Try to land as comfortably as we can. Incidentally, try to reach out and feel the tachyons as we slip through time. Probe them as best we can with our newly returned powers.

>>14970912
Sorry, was thinking about this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtUH80ZLqEM

>>14970920
Let's not do anything that might set it off.

>>14970905

Yes, I wonder where we will wind up next. Hoping it isn't Marvel 1602...that would just be weird.

The future? The past? The 1980's?

Asgard, THE REALM ETERNAL!?

>>14970929
I wonder what kind of crazy overpowered shit our Ultimate self can do.

I think we should try out the idea of a "time grid" I mentioned last time at some point.
If we succeed, it would be pretty deadly against Sentinels and bad guys in general.

>>14970944

>>14970929
The Whoniverse?

rolled 48 = 48

>>14970943

Hmm...while we tumble through time, let us extend our temporal senses, let them soak in the time stream.

rolled 92 = 92

>>14970956
Gallifray?

Britain in the 70s?

Atlantis?

2099?

Further along with certain older Rachel Summers raising cables?

>>14970959
>My face when we come out as a time focused version of Dr. Manhattan.

>>14970959
agreed. We should be overly sensitive to them at the moment, like a person who has had their eyes covered in bandages for a few days.

>>14970887
This feels awfully familiar... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6c6Ekc9TYVk

>>14970975
Making looking a very, very Bad Idea.

this is akin to the entity emerging from platos cave, who knows what revelations await us if we only dare to look...

>>14971004
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C125ZmVOvEA&

>>14971020
How about http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8have_5bnI ?

>>14971004
No, it isn't, we aren't going back to Athens and be sacrificed in the name of the weakened polis institution and the corruption from within.

rolled 90 = 90

wait...while we're fluttering through time, can we use our power? Can we slow down the uncertain chaos through which we tumble?

Again you are hurled end over end, as reality falls apart around you, plunging you into the confusing realm of nothingness! For what seems like an eternity you drift, as strange flashes shapes flash past, and then -

*THUD*

You land with a loud impact onto a pile of cardboard boxes, in a trash-filled alley. Even though it's dark outside, you can see lights from tall buildings that rise above the walls on either side of you. A moment later your eyes adjust to the darkness and you begin to notice ... strange things. That piece of scrap metal next to the trash bin almost looks like a robot of some kind, and the ripped and faded poster affixed to the wall is for a band you've never heard of. There's an empty box next to you that says "Synthia Home Plastic Surgery Kit" emblazoned with a picture of a smiling woman, and underneath it is an empty plastic bag of something called Soy Chow.

When you look back up, you catch sight of a familiar building, and your spirits rise as you realize you're back in your own time!

But then you notice the buildings that surround and dwarf Four Freedoms Plaza, and the giant billboards with holograms that jut out into the air, and the steady drone of car-sized vehicles flying overhead in long three-dimensional lanes.

A closer look at the poster for the "Cyber Slaughter" concert claims they'll be playing at the Alchemax Stadium on January 1, 2099, and you realize you're not out of the woods yet.

As you pull the picture of the teenage Johnny Storm out of your back pocket and stand there in your vintage - moreso now than ever - clothing, you think to yourself, What now?"

Aino Virta has become...UNSTUCK IN TIME!

>>14971037

>>14971060
Penguins don't go "po-tweet". Hopefully.

>>14971058
Well, we know the drill. Find the Professor, say hello, explain the situation.

And consider investing in a souvenir bag.

>>14971058
Timestop, steal clothes. Leave IT'S FOR A GOOD CAUSE I SWEAR REALLY! note. inb4backtracedfingerprints

>>14971071
>Implying the professor will still be alive in 2099

>>14971058
"Oh man oh man oh man oh man..."
I start to scuttle towards Four Freedoms while testing my powers if they work.
Not in large scale but rather just to check if they are there.
>Captcha: timing iongui
I guess you could phrase it like that.

>>14971058
Test our power, just a little. Toss a piece of cardboard into the air and see if we can slow it a little. Then got knock on the front door of the 4 Freedoms, see if anyone is home. If not, ask for directions to the nearest Public Library (gotta catch up on our history, find out who is who in this time).

>>14971060
"each time hoping the next leap, will be the leap home."

>>14971058
First, Power Test. Second, KEEP THAT PICTURE SAFE! Third...Lets go see Richards?

>>14971058
>go to seattle
>do some shadowruns

we should probably try to make contact with the professor/reed.

rolled 76 = 76

>>14971058

sigh, loudly. Begin walking toward the 4 Freedoms plaza to get our barings. Do the tachyons around us feel unstable, like me might tumble again? Not sure...if the plaza still stands, it does so as either a museum or a base of operations, maybe the FF of today can still help, and if not, we can freeze time long enough to get the stuff we need out of such a museum to get out of trouble.

We need a newspaper, or a TV that isn't riddled with ads. Intelligence is important if we are going to continue operation "Get home, save friends, obtain penguin".

>>14971075
Of course, that naturally assumes our Fingerprints are still sticking around and were not discarded 50 years ago for being "obsolete" unless...ZOMBIE CIVILIANS!

On an unrelated note thank you for not dropping us in the Marvel Zombie apocalypse! Shit's scary yo.

>>14971086
He's the Professor! He can't be dead!

>>14971108
>>14971075
We're not a thief. Not unless we have to, anyway.

rolled 54 = 54

>>14971117
like, for SCIENCE!

>>14971099
Doubly happy not to be in the Marvel Zombies verse either.

>>14971117
I agree. And besides, using clothing from the 90's is sooooo ironic.

>>14971091
If we need a fake name, lets go with Ziggy.

rolled 6, 4, 5 = 15

There is no other place to go.
Go to F4 Tower

>>14971133
nah, we should go by Captain Yesterday.

>>14971144
Marty. You can call us 'Marty'.

>>14971144
>>14971133
I say Martha McFly.

rolled 99 = 99

>>14971144
Captain Yesterday is fast, also she is from the past.
Is real fast, from the past, Captain Yesterday!

>>14971058
Test our abilities in the privacy of the alleyway, then go towards Freedoms Plaza.

>>14971164
>Name idea is corny as fuck.
>Rolled 99.
>My face.

go to the four freedoms tower.

rolled 60 = 60

>>14971179
because we may have to form, THE NEW JUSTICE TEAM!

>>14971186
I'm game with this as long as we get a SuperKing dude. Also, this is the perfect opportunity to hijack a Pinguinel X!

rolled 89 = 89

So, putting on our UMF mask, wearing the clothes from the sixties, and "obtaining" a cape if we see one. Captain Yesterday strides, hopefully powered, toward 4 freedom plaza.

>>14971186
>THE NEW JUSTICE TEAM!
>NEW
>Captain Yesterday
>NEW

>>14971161
Ah, no Quantum Leap references? Ziggy McFly?

>>14971206
Futurama yo.

>>14971075
>>14971090
>>14971091

You pick up the Synthia box and toss it into the air, thankfully alone in the alley, and as it reaches the height of its arc you squeeze your fist and concentrate -

- and with no hesitation, the box halts its descent, remaining motionless in the air!

"Hey, what the shock?" the man says a minute later, realizing he's standing in an alley bereft of everything but his one-piece neck-to-toe underwear. Across the street, blending in with the crowd, you make your way to the doors of the strangely altered Four Freedoms building, clad in a concealing overcoat that matches most of the people forcing their way through the walkway around you. Luckily air-filter masks seem to be in fashion, and yours pulls double duty as a way to obscure your features!

"Get lost, kid," one of the seven-foot tall guards outside the front entrance of Four Freedoms says, as a bubbling fluid flows up the tube protruding from his partly machine neck. "This ain't no directory." You notice that above the heads of the pair of gigantic guards a sign is mounted with 'Stark-Fujikawa' written on it.

"A library?" asks a bewildered old man at the base of the building when you approach him. "You mean one of those places with books? Why would you want to read those?"

"Oh!" he says a moment later, as you explain just enough more, "You mean like a data terminal. Sure, there's one right over there!"

He directs you to a large, squat device mounted against the side of a building, with a glowing screen and a large, imposing control panel. The screen simply reads "Present card to begin" and as you approach a voice from inside the speaker says "Please present your card to begin."

What do?

I think various time travel problems, insane future richards, watching a man vaporized in front of us, meeting younger versions of adults we trust, and falling twice through time might have caused San damage, and we may be in a mild delirium if not outright silly. Besides, 2099 is grimdark, we need to bring the light hearted.

>>14971215
Say we've lost our card?

>>14971215
Check our pockets for a card of some kind.

"Card lost, any temporaries available to print?"

>>14971215
SEARCH pockets.

>>14971215
Curses! I guess we should look for a news reel from some monitor in a window or a hologram or a blip or whatever.

>>14971224
Crap. Even if we say we lost our card, it'll ask for some kind of biometric verification. Who knows what kind of trouble that will bring down on our head.

"Princess Clarissa has given us access."

Oh -god- let that work!

>>14971224
>>14971225
>>14971230

"Scanning for biometric identification. No records found." On the screen, the pleasant message suddenly changes to warning red and yellow letters displaying "SUBJECT NOT ON FILE" and the pleasant voice says "You are not listed in our files. Please remain where you are and a member of the Public Eye will be with you to assist you shortly."

Hearing this, the people around you take one look at the screen's message and quickly leave the area! As they do so, you hear one man remark "I don't care if my subscription's paid up, I don't want to be around when they get here!" while another looks back at you and shouts "Shockin' downtowners, why'd you even think you could get away with that?"

Meanwhile, the loud noises from the flying cars, the 3-D advertisements and everything else around you make it nearly impossible to get your bearings!

What now?

rolled 83 = 83

>>14971277
And dice, if needed.

>>14971215
freeze time go past guards, find someone to help, perhaps mister stark. skip the terminal we wont be able to access it, and even if we present the card that is likely in our pocket it may be accompanied with a retinal scan or some other variety of identification.

>>14971280
I guess running around like a maniac wouldn't do any good.
I say we wait for this "Public Eye" things and resist them if they get violent or something. Once they are neutralized or cooperative we could get some information from them.

rolled 89 = 89

Stop time

Get away from this place

rolled 48 = 48

>>14971280
Make like a twig and make a break for it!

rolled 57 = 57

>>14971280

Can we please try >>14971277 and if that doesn't work, leg it!

depending on what the organisational enviorment the executive branch has here, hooking up with the government might be a good idea

>>14971308
Nah, go with this. We are an Alpha level mutant; they are probably geared up for hobos and hippie dissidents. If shit goes down we should be able to outroll them. FuckitI'maPC.jpg

>>14971344
We're tired, far from home, and things are going to get worse if this is how they greet newcomers. Run for it!

>>14971344

>>14971308
Actually, since one person mentioned that their subscription has been paid up, this sounds like a privatized police force or citizenship and rights require the payment of a subscription fee.

In other words, sticking around is the last thing we want to do.

>>14971342
Or a very poor idea when dealing with corrupt Totalitarianisms.Still up to it! Try the Clarissa bit first though 4tehlulz.

>>14971376
If that doesn't work, "Penguin". After that, we'd best start running.

>>14971369
True dat; then Clarissa bit then make like trees and leave!
>Assuming Trees haven't gone extinct.

>>14971277
>>14971317
>>14971321
>>14971328

"Command 'Princess Clarissa' not recognized. Please remain where you are," the machine says to your back. As you turn to flee you reach out to the timestream around you and pull it to a halt, and the ease with which you do so comes as a swell of relief after being separated from your powers. While everyone and everything around you slows to a stop you quickly leave the scene, but not before glancing at the imposing doors beyond the two giants who guard Four Freedoms. The guards stand motionless, oblivious to you as you pass by in your bubble of realtime to hide in the shadow of the tower.

A moment later a small open vehicle that looks a bit like a motorcycle with fan-driven wings descends from the cloudy and polluted sky, arriving at the computer terminal and allowing you to see what this 'Public Eye' looks like.

He steps off, wearing what looks like brown-toned riot armor, and a large red A that matches the insignia on his hovering skycycle. Looking around at the vanished crowd for a moment, hand on his truncheon, he waves his hand in front of the screen and activates the computer terminal.

Do you want to stick around and watch, take off, or do something else, Aino? Time to vote! Roll a d100 - highest of three votes decides what happens next!

>>14971384
Or Princess Remote.

rolled 68 = 68

>>14971428
We wait and spy on what he does.

>>14971428
We stick around. We want inside Four Freedoms, we're getting inside.

Besides, the last thing they'd expect is for the fugitive to stay at the scene of the crime.

rolled 27 = 27

stay and watch

rolled 67 = 67

>>14971428
Ok, as much as I wanna watch, Leg It!

>>14971463
>>14971449
So close yet shofar.

>>14971480
Rather glad you beat me.

rolled 31 = 31

>>14971428
HMMMMMMMMM... A FOR APOCALYPSE!? BUT THEN STARK INHERITED THE BAXTER BUILDING... POSSIBLE FALLOUT ON THE FANTASTIC 4 FOR A DERANGED RICHARDS WHO WAS PARALYZED WITH INDECISION LEST HE THE WHOLE REALITY? THE TONY PROTECTIONISM-PRIVATE POLICE HOLDS ON THOUGHT(GIVEN HIS PERFORMANCE IN CIVIL WAR) BUT THEN THE A DOESN'T MAKE MUCH SENSE UNLESS...AVENGERS! NEW AVENGER ENFORCERS!

Try to get in contact with the Avengers most sworn Enemy! Dunno who that is but let's say Doom. ALSO ALL CAPS GUYS!

>>14971480

rolled 53 = 53

GO AWAY!

Shit, we should consider stealing other clothing

rolled 64 = 64

>>14971511
THE ROOM....THE ROOM IS LAUGHING AT ME!
moar like cackling a smile but still, shit's creepy.

rolled 96 = 96

>>14971506
No. We're not going to go and ask a murderous madman for help unless we absolutely have to. Even then, how would we?

>>14971512
Or just ditch the 90s wear and wear our original clothing.

>>14971449
>>14971460
>>14971463

From your vantage point, peering out around the corner of the Four Freedoms tower, you watch the Public Eye officer as he triggers the computer to display an image of yourself at the terminal and fleeing from it! Reflexively you touch the air filter over your face and remember that your features are obscured at least in part.

He turns and jogs across the street in your direction, but just as you reach out to freeze time around him he stops and touches the side of his helmet!

"Yes, sir!" he says to the empty air. "Yes, sir, I understand." he finishes, and after a moment you hear the sound of his skycycle as he boards it and flies up to disappear in the haze above the street!

What now?

rolled 65 = 65

>>14971541
We wait. The next person to go through into Four Freedoms is going to have someone follow them through during a timestop.

rolled 10 = 10

>>14971531
I think Lavteria is a pretty cool guy; eh pwnz the Fantastic 4, escapes from hell(moar of freak chance though), was the most successful nation leader in Zombies and doesn't afraid of anything except of course Squirrel Girl.

>privatized law enforcement

>>14971541
The place is clear of people now, right?
We should enter Four Freedoms now when we have a chance.
If we can't get in softly, we may as well go with some good old breaking and entering.

rolled 90 = 90

Shit was that a cutaway panel!? I think it was a cutaway panel GETTHEFUCKOUTTAHERENOW! Possible Superpower tracker, GETOUTTATHERENOW!

>>14971576
That's a bad idea.

rolled 74 = 74

we still need to find someone who can help us go back in time, look for heroes, find out if any of the geniuses from our time are still alive.

>>14971554
>>14971576
>>14971587
>>14971609

Are you going to FF or getting out of here? Time to roll and vote! Roll a d100 and choose - highest of three calls it!

rolled 41 = 41

>>14971613
So we have to go to Four Towers!

rolled 60 = 60

>>14971587
Rollan for this, just to make it official.

rolled 94 = 94

>>14971621
go to FF, use time fuckery to not get caught.

rolled 84 = 84

>>14971621
To the Four Freedoms!
It will free us from these timeline schenadigans!

>>14971587
>Rolled 90.
>>14971634
>I better roll again offically this time.
>Rolls 60.
>My face.

Even thought is risky and they may have SuperPOWAR receptors, the 4Freedoms is the only lead we have now. Still against this plan, too dangerous. I *don't* like risks.

>>14971659
Aino is not the cautious type, and once she has an idea...

>>14971659
And yet we flung ourselves to a temporal rift for saving our friends and loved ones.
For Aino, the smallest precentage of succeeding is enough for any challenge.

>>14971679
So Aino's Super Powers are Slowing Down Time and Hot Blooded Heroics and Super Science?

>forinati purposely
Damn right, Captcha! WHO THE HELL DO YOU THINK WE ARE!

>>14971624
>>14971634
>>14971637

Once more you reach out and impose your will on the timestream around you, feeling its oceanic weight much more bearable now than before you came here, and in an instant the scene of the street and air around you slows to a halt, leaving you alone with the luckily sparse crowd.

At the fringe of it you think someone might have noticed everyone to in front of them stop moving before he was caught in your tachyon bubble, but instead of sticking around you duck in under the arm of a thirty-something woman wearing what must be this year's version of the power suit, past the two gorilla-sized cyborgs holding the door for her and into the lobby of Four Freedoms!

Inside, the lobby is unfamiliar, but somehow strangely similar to the one you first saw in 1995, with an amazingly futuristic decor and a wide desk in the middle of the open space, ringed at the perimeter by a succession of transparent tube elevators!

The receptionist looks at you and asks "May I help you?"

rolled 30 = 30

>>14971699
Bluff time!

I'd like to see Dr. Richards, please.

rolled 17 = 17

>>14971710
Seconding! With hopefully a higher dice roll.

rolled 9 = 9

>>14971699
I agree with >>14971710.
But I would phrase it in a way that "Is Dr. Richards still here and if so, may I meet him? I have urgent information about my research."
Rolling for bluff as well.

>>14971699
SHIT THIS PLACE IS WARDED AGAINST OUR POWERS!
No way in hell we can Diplomacy our way to Stark right? (who may or may not be Tony's descendant), so, just ask if we can see him, get told 'appointment only', try to see if she could squeeze some time, get told 'How did you get past the guards', make a run for it DISARMING THE GUARDS, we need some firepowah up this shit.
>Implying the Guns aren'r RealID'd

rolled 88 = 88

>>14971739
AND rollan'.

>>14971710
>>14971727
>>14971738

rolled 87 = 87

>>14971710
>>14971727
>>14971738


Nope, they have quality receptionists in future.

>>14971746
THE DIE! IT MOCKS US!

>>14971739
Guns? Why'd we want guns? Have we even held a gun before?

rolled 86 = 86

>>14971710
>>14971727
>>14971738
>Implying Richards is still alive, in 2099
mfw

>>14971710
>>14971727
>>14971738
>>14971739

"Of course," the receptionist says, gesturing with one hand to an elevator tube that gently glows with an upward-pointing arrow. "I'll send you directly up."

As you look around, you see a few other people in what seems to be businesswear, though you don't see any security guards, either Public Eye or anyone else.

What do?

well, aino may diamond mind, but she has a tongue of lead

>>14971769
Science must have evolved to quite heights so he could be alive.
And besides, I wouldn't doubt that he has made Four Freedoms a family controlled enterprise.

rolled 1 = 1

>>14971773
this is totally a trap, but up through the tubes.

>>14971773
Off to the elevators and impending doom!

>>14971773
Up the tubes with us!

rolled 66 = 66

>>14971760
aS fLIES aRT wE tO tHE gODS, tHEY tROLL uS fOR tHEIR sPORT.
>>14971773
Wait, the hell!? Did we end up in a society where the concept of Bluffing is so alien they didn't put any point in Motive Sense!? Oh God I came just thinking of the ways we can exploit this!


Or were they...expecting us? More likely this, ask them to explain what this A-ssociation really is. Where we are, stuff like that, inreturn for the promise of revealing our sikrit power.

rolled 32 = 32

I smell a trap! I don't care!

ONWARDS!

You know, I think we should learn the Time Cube Attack around now. Just in case.

>>14971795
>1
Way to jinx it bro.

>>14971827
When we get back, we need to meet the Doctor. Doctor Strange, of Course.

>>14971847
You want to use magic instead of SCIENCE!?
BLASPHEMY!

>>14971855
Magic, spatiotemporal manipulation in higher dimensions...

>>14971855
The man is awesome and is a medical Doctor!

>>14971785
>>14971795
>>14971802
>>14971807
>>14971814

You step into the tube and it seals closed, the round platform under you rises into the air and quickly lifts you high up, through the lobby ceiling and higher still, as the floors outside the tube flicker by around you before stopping, releasing you into a well-appointed room with two low red couches and a short table between them. Outside the window the view of a futuristic New York at night stretches away through the haze of clouds.

"Hello there, young lady!" the room's sole occupant says, tilting his hat up enough for you to see his features.

"Now I've got some bad news for you, but according to what the high-ups here tell me you've got a way of expressing yourself that might be dangerous. That's why they sent me to talk with you. Name's Venture."

"Mister Richards is long dead. This place is owned by Stark-Fujikawa. Public Eye flyboy, huh?" he asks when you inquire about the man with the A on his armor. "Owned by Alchemax, like most of Nueva York. Believe it or not, this place is one of the underdogs. That's why they were interested in meeting you."

What now?

>>14971933
"Is there any chances of meeting this Stark-Fujikawa? I have urgent business with... People."

rolled 67 = 67

>>14971933
Nod, and introduce myself. "My name's Martha. Why are you interested in meeting me?"

Best play the fool until we have more information.

rolled 78 = 78

>>14971933
>Sombrero
>Nueva York
HOLYSHIT THE NARCS STROKE BACK!
Ask for a succinct summary of the latest 80 years and how Nueva York stands in the current political struggle. Call him a Beaner and laugh at his puzzlement! Be Evil!

rolled 38 = 38

If Reed isn't here then I need to find someone else who can help me, and given that it seems that it will be hard enough just walking around town, what do you want?

>>14971970
How about no?

rolled 24 = 24

Also ask about this Stark-Fujiyama-sama dude, son of Tony? What's he like, is he cute? Then ask him what would he want us to do to improve Nueva York's pr.

rolled 87 = 87

>>14971960
Let's be careful.

>>14971933
Who sent you?

And if Richard's is dead, can you help me?

>>14971933

>but according to what the high-ups here tell me you've got a way of expressing yourself that might be dangerous.

"non-sense, im only dangerous to bad guys, though the fact that people here know of me raises some unfortunate implications."

>>14971949
>>14971960

"Well, Martha," he says, nodding his head, "first off, Stark-Fuji ain't a person, it's a board of directors. They're the people that're paying me to talk to you and make sure you aren't gonna pull another stunt like that one down on the street."

"See, I'm not prejudiced against muties, I think they've got just as much right to citizenship as anybody else. But the boys upstairs think you might know something that can really help them out. What that is I have no idea - they don't ever tell me anything, but if you'd be willing to join up with them they'd make it worth your while."

"So what do you say, Martha?"

rolled 33 = 33

>>14972021
"Sure."

We may or may not be lying, but saying no is idiotic when they're holding all the cards.

"What's in it for me?"

You do realize that Stark-Fujikawa is the name of the company. I very much doubt that there is a single person named Stark-Fujikawa, but you might find Mr. Stark and Mr. Fujikawa.

>>14972021
There isn't pretty much anything else we could do. Sure, let's meet with them.
But let's be careful m'kay?

rolled 26 = 26

>>14972021
>Stark-Fuji ain't a person,
>>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rumiko_Fujikawa
Please tell me this is intentional. Naturally, agree, but ask a debiççbriefing of the last 110 years, 'from their perspective'-

>>14972021
"Get me home."

Other then that, look scared, lost and worried. Dr. Tachyon is scared and lonely and having a lot of internal monologues about how lonely future is and how she needs to get back to Sam.

>>14972032
>>14972039

"For starters, you'd get citizenship so you wouldn't have to be a downramper anymore. Get some cred in the bank, get some clothes that don't look like they came from a history vid."

"Anyway, kid, welcome aboard," he says, rising to his feet.

"That will be all, Mr. Venture. Thank you," a voice says from across the room. Behind you an Asian man in a futuristic business suit enters. "I am Hikaru-Sama, head of Stark-Fujikawa. Welcome to our employ, miss."


[Next issue: TIMELOST part 2!]

>>14972021
"I'm not exactly in the greatest of position, am I, Venture? Alright. Let's have a chat with them."

rolled 13 = 13

>>14972091
This, but only as an ex abrupto, a small slip, a whisper, almost gibberish, but still there, in minuscules, pt 6 fineletters. THEN get the show on the road. We need to show the readers that aino is still a teenager with feelings and shit.

>>14972100
This whole thing smells pretty Faustian to me... But we will prevail!
When will be the next session?

>>14972120
And a very, very poor bluffer.

Also, how long before the inevitable betrayal? This place is happy (relatively) without us and there's a minor Sentinel problem back home.

Great issue as ever, Prof! When can we expect the next one? (Have you tried using oracle bones to predict it?)

Hoo doggies! Suddenly Aino is in the employ of Stark-Fujikawa, a turn no one here at the Mutant Quest office saw coming until it was too late!

Who knows what kind of fun our heroine will get into in the far future of 2099? Who knows what sites she'll see or who'll she'll meet?

Anyway, let's open things up to the Mighty Mutie Mailbag!

>>14972155
dear professor,

why not make a thread on /co/ at the same time as this one, so people from there will come here?
-a /co/mrade

>>14972155
Dear Marvel!

So, What changes has Aino caused on the Old Fashion time stream she just left?

-Doc Brown

rolled 65 = 65

Hypothetical Question: If Aino were to find herself(through time travel, holes-in-reality or one-too-many-a-margarita-on-the-chief-editor) in the Civil War series, which side would she choose; Cap'n America and the pro-heroes or Tony Stark and the government? Assume that Tony CAN'T give Aino a Mechanized Ultimate Pinguinel to win her over. Furthermore, would her friends from the X Institute follow her or would she have to face them in dire battle?
Your faithful reader:
>Faggot-who-spells-Magick-with-a-K-like-a-hipster

Dear Prof X
will Aino ever go back to her original timeline or is she destined to travel between dimensions forever?

>>14972240
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be a wanderer in the fourth dimension?

>>14972240
"Aino Virta never returned home."

>>14972240
>>14972256
>>14972277
I'm still saying that WHEN she gets back she will be like Dr. Manhattan.
A being that is one with tachyons, existing within their ebb and flow.

Boldly going where no mutant has ever gone before!

>>14972151
>Great issue as ever, Prof! When can we expect the next one? (Have you tried using oracle bones to predict it?)

Thanks, reader! We might see more of Aino's misadventures tomorrow, otherwise Monday is the soonest we can get the next issue out!

Check here for relatively up to date information on the series:

http://tinyurl.com/MutantQuest

>>14972277
>>14972311
Oh Hell no! If it comes to that, we're hijacking the Exiles time machine if we have to.

>>14972204
>dear professor,

>why not make a thread on /co/ at the same time as this one, so people from there will come here?
>-a /co/mrade

We're still a little leery of that whole cross-border business. It would be a shame to find ourselves banned from business on account of a mis-mailed thread!

>>14972211
>Dear Marvel!

>So, What changes has Aino caused on the Old Fashion time stream she just left?

>-Doc Brown

The full extent of Aino's effects on the timestream remain to be seen, but what you've seen so far is just the tip of the iceberg!

We'll be back to answer more Mutie Mail after a short power outage.

Dear Wonderful Marvel Head Office!

I see you're seem to be sending Aino through the great stops in Marvel history. Any hints about where she'll go next?

And will you be rehiring old artists and writers for those copies?

Fred and Dennis

>Hypothetical Question: If Aino were to find herself(through time travel, holes-in-reality or one-too-many-a-margarita-on-the-chief-editor) in the Civil War series, which side would she choose; Cap'n America and the pro-heroes or Tony Stark and the government? Assume that Tony CAN'T give Aino a Mechanized Ultimate Pinguinel to win her over. Furthermore, would her friends from the X Institute follow her or would she have to face them in dire battle?
>Your faithful reader:
>>Guy-who-spells-Magick-with-a-K-like-a-hipster

Registration acts and mutants go together like kerosene and lit matches, Guy! Though what's to say a rational girl like Aino couldn't argue the pros of such a list, and who knows - she might be able to bring the rest of the crew over to his side!

>>14972240
>Dear Prof X
>will Aino ever go back to her original timeline or is she destined to travel between dimensions forever?

It might take some work, but out plucky heroine has never been one to give up on a challenge! Perhaps a hundred-plus years of technological advancement will be enough to give her that fine-tuned ride back home!

>>14972777
>Dear Wonderful Marvel Head Office!

>I see you're seem to be sending Aino through the great stops in Marvel history. Any hints about where she'll go next? And will you be rehiring old artists and writers for those copies?

>Fred and Dennis

Well fellows, our writers originally thought about sending Aino to 2020 and teaming up with Machine Man, but then we realized that 2099 is where it's at here in the '90s! Where she goes from here is anybody's guess!

As for your question about guest artists, we asked our editor and he replied by throwing an old copy of The New Mutants at us and shouting "Just trace 'em from this!

It looks like we've gotten to the bottom of the mailbag - the long delay was the result of our typewriter suddenly going on strike!

Don't forget that a full catalog of back issues can be found at the suptg archive:
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive.html?tags=mutant quest

You can keep up to date with our over-the-top publication schedule here:
http://tinyurl.com/MutantQuest

Until next time, thanks for reading, True Believers!