>>28321943
>[ ] Check the backpack you found.

I'm gonna go take a shower, but I will be back to participate.

>>28321943
>[X] Check the backpack you found.
>[X] Take that food with you, that shit's yours.

On the upside, we now have some good pictures of our family to cry ov-...I mean, remind us of better times.

Search this guys shit while keeping an eye out for him. Heat visions gotta help with that if we could track his jumps via them.

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>[ ] Check the backpack you found.

>>28321943
Check out the backpack, stay we gotta see where this goes.

And don't move anything except the backpack.

>>28321943
>>[ ] Check the backpack you found.

>>28321943
>Take the backpack with you (priority)
>take the food with you (secondary)
>grab Laura and regroup somewhere else to get her take on this/get lunch.

Considering the multiple Marvel Universes, would you mind doing something like AzureEarth and write a few omakes of JJ in those universes? Nothing huge or anything, just like one or two paragraphs detailing what his life is like there.

What events or issues do the X-Men deal with in this Universe? Considering they're a secretive militaristic organization.

In the Quest Universe, does The Wire feature black people, mutants or both?

>[X] Check the backpack you found.

This feels immensely wrong. You can’t help but be a little thankful for having a picture of your dad – you don’t even remember you two getting your photo taken, to be honest – but something about the whole thing sits like an awkward, greasy stone in your stomach.

You tug open the backpack you found in the tent, hoping that it’ll render up something that connects all these uncomfortable little dots. Instead you mostly find… stuff. You can’t really describe it as anything else, collectively, other than ‘stuff’. There’s an old crucifix in there, for one – which you drop immediately, it being a little jarring when suddenly Jesus is staring at you with those big, opaque wooden eyes of his. Somewhat apologetically, you turn it face-up, and continue going through the bag.

A thermos (empty, unfortunately). A bunch of nail files. A CD player (holy shit, you haven’t seen one of those in ages). A bunch of actual CD’s – power ballad stuff, mostly. A notebook.

Now, a notebook, that’s interesting.

You feel a jolt of electricity wriggle along your fingertips as Laura’s shadow sweeps over you. You look up to see her edging through the tangled infrastructure of the building, breathing deeply from the dusty air.

“This place smells of wet fur.”

Oh. That’s what it is, huh?

>[ ] “Can you tell if anyone’s nearby?”
>[ ] Flip through that notebook.
>[ ] “I think we should get going.” You can sort this stuff out somewhere safe.
>[ ] Write in.

>>28322258
>[ ] “Can you tell if anyone’s nearby?”
>[ ] Flip through that notebook.

>>28322214
We should try to find out who this person is in the best way we know.

Stay hidden and wait.

>>28322258
>>[ ] “I think we should get going.” You can sort this stuff out somewhere safe.


Nightcrawler.

>>28322277
>Nightcrawler.

Oh shit.

Our Dad might have worked with Magneto or some shit.

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>>28322258
>>[ ] “Can you tell if anyone’s nearby?”
>>[ ] Flip through that notebook.

>>28322258
>[ ] “Can you tell if anyone’s nearby?”
>[ ] Flip through that notebook.

>>28322222
I wouldn't mind. Maybe one day you'll get the adventures of Radical JJ and his team of Exiles.

X-Men deal with the same things they often do, but they're more focused on shutting down anti-mutant manufacturers and stuff. In many ways they and the Brotherhood to a lot of the same things... the big difference is attitude, and to what extent they're willing to go. The X-Men routinely sabotage Sentinel manufacturing, but they'd never drop Asteroid M on Genosha like Mags did.

The Wire has no mutants.

>>28322310
>The Wire has no mutants.

Fuckin' racists.

>Maybe one day you'll get the adventures of Radical JJ and his team of Exiles.

I'm trying to get more into comics, so I have no clue what universe that is. Mind explaining it?

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>>28322343
An alteration of earth-616 I think.

>>28322388

That tells me nothing, to be honest.

>>28322258
Calling it now, we have a clone.

>>28322406
They're a gaggle of mutants that continuity forgot that go trotting through the Multiverse saving the day.

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>>28322450
Now neither of us shall be virgins

>>28322460
>They're a gaggle of mutants that continuity forgot that go trotting through the Multiverse saving the day.

Sounds interesting.

>>28322460
And buying donuts. Can't forget that.

>[X] “Can you tell if anyone’s nearby?”
>[X] Flip through that notebook.

Now that she mentions it, that stuff is… pretty omnipresent. You guess the smell just wasn’t a familiar one to you. One more for the catalogue.

“Hey.” You shuffle around to make a little room for Laura. How does anyone even live here, you can’t go like two steps without running into a girder or something. “Can you tell if anyone’s nearby?”

She nods, folding down into a low crouch.

“There is nobody here.”

“Cool.”

You crack open the notebook… and groan loudly, frustration overcoming the need for stealth.

It’s in Spanish. Or something that looks a lot like Spanish.

“What’s wrong?” Asks Laura, her eyes still roving over your immediate surroundings.

>[ ] “I just hit a dead end.”
>[ ] “Well… I don’t suppose you speak Spanish?”
>[ ] “Nothing. We should probably sift through all this elsewhere.”
>[ ] Write in.

>>28322487
>[ ] “Well… I don’t suppose you speak Spanish?”

"Or whatever this is."

>>28322487
>Hand it to her
>"Desafortunamente, no lo comprendo. Don't suppose you can read any of this?"

>>28322450
It's obviously Nightcrawler.

>“This place smells of wet fur.”

Nightcrawler has fur.

>"Here, the scent is accompanied by a heat signature – an angry, violet-red pulsing in the air beside one of the bookcases, and then again a few meters on, where the smell suddenly cuts out."

Nightcrawler is a teleporter who transports via some hell dimension.

>>28322539
seconded

>>28322487
>Dad had a secret Mexican family.

Fucking dads.

>>28322568

And Nightcrawler totally speaks Spanish!

(Though I don't doubt our uneducated mind would think German = Spanish.)

>>28322580
German certainly does not look like Spanish.

>>28322598

But JJ is an uneducated American teenager who never really went to High School.

I can completely see him looking at "Ich liebe Gott" or something and say "Fucking Spanish!"

>>28322580
>And Nightcrawler totally speaks Spanish!
Alternate universe. Spanish Nightcrawler.

>>28322639
Well, yeah that works.

>>28322580
JJ hasn't been in school since he was 14. He probably hasn't had a Spanish class in his life.

>>28322598
Plenty of German words look a bit like Spanish. It's a Indo-Aryan language using the Latin alphabet with words that look kind of like some English words if you squint.

Plus, >Or something that looks a lot like Spanish. Why say that if it's just Spanish? The law of conservation of detail.

>>28322688
>Kind of look like English
That's because many English words come from German.

>>28322688
Ok. Maybe it's Italian or (more likely) Latin (which cannon Kurt knows). Probably not Portuguese, but whatever.

Maybe Latverian?

Do we (as readers, not JJ) know what Latverian looks like?

Esperanto?

>>28322743
Ah fuck its a latin bible isn't it

>>28322748
Latverian is a dialect of Hungarian, I think.

>>28322813
Oh wait notebook right

Our father might be one of these guys: http://marvel.wikia.com/Enclave_%28Earth-616%29

>>28322813
I think we would notice the difference in size. Probably a diary as expected or a rosary book. Could be a number of other things, but I have no idea what they'd be if it's handwritten as implied.

>>28322823
I think DOOM might remind you that it's actually the other way around.

Care to argue with DOOM?

>>28322736
That's because English is half Germanic, 'cuz we were too busy looting it from the invading saxons in the UK way back when.

Then William the Conqueror got his french dick all up in hastings and now it's a fucking romance language.

>>28322862
Doom is a fictional character, and I hate him.

>[X] Write in.

You shrug that frustrated shrug that’s more about getting the world to let up off your back than demonstrating chillness. Letting the book hang open, you hand it over to her.

"Desafortunamente, no lo comprendo.” She stares… harder… than usual. “Don't suppose you can read any of this?"

Righting it in her grasp, she gives the first page a quick scan.

“My Spanish is… incomplete.” Still better than yours, you’d guess. “But…”

A moment of expectant silences passes as she flips through a few pages, her eyes crossing each one in long, measured sweeps.

“…This is a personal log.”

“Like a military log?” You interject, feeling the hairs on the back of your neck getting ready to panic.

“No.” She furrows her brow and looks up at you. “A personal log.”

“So, like… a diary?”

“Yes.” She pauses, and seems to consider the term a second. “A diary. It appears to be written a person named ‘Gaby’, who is clearly quite young as of the first instalments. The most common adjectives are ‘food’, ‘bird’, ‘doctor’, ‘train’. They use the name ‘Jesus’ twenty-three times in the first four pages.”

>[ ] “Are there… any other words/names that turn up a lot?” [insert specifics]
>[ ] “Maybe we should read over this elsewhere.”
>[ ] “Do they mention a second name?”
>[ ] “Maybe we should camp out nearby here.”
>[ ] “Maybe I should be waiting here alone. Invisibility an’ all.”
>[ ] Write in.

Next post'll be a little delayed.

>>28322891
>[ ] “Are there… any other words/names that turn up a lot?” [insert specifics]

Our dad's name, if we know it. Or John.

>>[ ] “Maybe I should be waiting here alone. Invisibility an’ all.”

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>Bird doctor
My god...

>>28322891
>>[ ] “Do they mention a second name?”
>>[ ] “Maybe we should camp out nearby here.”

>>28322891
>[ ] “Are there… any other words/names that turn up a lot?” [Creeper or our name]
If that name is in there, then we know his log has probably something about us.

>>28323063

Why Creeper?

>>28323073
Because a lot of our past was spent with this said individual.
If there's something about creeper, then it could be a log about us.

Chances are it's written in cryptic fashion or something though, so names won't pop up.

>>28322891
>[] "Maybe we should camp out nearby, I think I need to make contact with this guy. Then again you're guaranteed to lose a spooked teleporter."
>show her the pictures of us he had and tell her they aren't from our stash.

>>28322891
>>[] "Maybe we should camp out nearby, I think I need to make contact with this guy. Then again you're guaranteed to lose a spooked teleporter."
>>show her the pictures of us he had and tell her they aren't from our stash.

Wait, the diary doesn't necessarily have to be written by the person who currently has it.

It could be something he or she picked up along the way from their journey.

>>28322568
Admittedly this is a bit late to occur to me, but seriously Kurt Has fur? How the hell have I missed that all these years?

>>28322891
>[x] “Are there… any other words/names that turn up a lot?” [insert specifics]

John, Laura, Kevin, Noriko, Layla. Michigan, Joyce

>[x ] “Maybe we should read over this elsewhere.”

>>28323418

Seconded

>[X] “Are there… any other words/names that turn up a lot?”
>[X] “Maybe we should camp out nearby here.”
>[X] Write in.

That… didn’t help. At all.

“Huh. There… any other names that pop up?” You fidget a little, uncomfortable both physically and… something else-ily. “Creeper, maybe?”

Laura raises one eyebrow.

“No.” She eases the book shut and places it down beside her, eyeing you with an awkward level of rigour. “John, why would that be here?”

You sigh and hand her the photos. She turns them over in her fingers, sniffing them occasionally. Eventually, she hands them back.

“I see. Well, Creeper is not present.”

“Right. What about… what about Joshua? Does that turn up at all?”

She stares lengthily.

“No… no Joshua.”

You run your nasty scaly hand through your hair. Well, it was worth a try, you guess.

“Look… I feel like this person is connected to me somehow.” Alternatively, they could just be a seriously devoted stalker. Which is a connection of sorts, but not the kind you're thinking here. “I think we should be, I dunno, camping out nearby for a while.”

Wordlessly, she rises up, picking through the metallic tangle.

“If that is what you want.”

You two eke your way back a few yards, finding a sizable enough mound of rubble to hide behind. It’s not much, but it’s better than just sitting around in someone’s campsite, waiting for them to run right into you. You hunker down in the dim, cold grey of the complex, listening, watching, breathing carefully.

>[ ] Converse. [insert topic]
>[ ] Just wait.

>>28323595
>[ ] Converse. [insert topic]

Show her the photos.

"These aren't from my collection. You got any ideas for who this person might be?"

>>28323595
>>[ ] Just wait.

>>28323595


>>28323623 this

>>28323595
>[ ] Converse. [insert topic]
Full story of how we strangled a demon in an orphanage.

>>28323634

I think that's more fitting to tell everyone at the camp, rather than just Laura.

>>28323634
Oh, I like this

>>28323595
>Converse. [insert topic]
Literally anything.

>>28323595
>[ ] Converse. [insert topic]

Maybe we can explain why we didn't want her to come with us on Creeper's job?

>>28323595
We constantly wear a hoody and sunglasses, should probably explain who the two in those pictures are.

>>28323634

this

>>28323595
>[] Converse.

>First things first, thank Laura for sticking with us for this. We're probably being a little stupid but this feels like it could be important.
> Next see how she's doing and get her take on the group. Tell her we're pretty impressed with Kevin's progress, small though it is and kind of worried by Noriko's refusal to put any effort in. Also ask if, if we ever get any crisis free time again, she would mind helping us train? We need to be better at fighting and stealth if we're going to be successful taking any action against the Facility. And yes, we remember our promise to help her with that and we fully intend to make good on our word.

>>28323595
>So, Spanish, huh? maybe an immigrant mutant?

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Demon stories are best stories.

>>28323765

Seconded!

>>28323634
>>28323677
>>28323758

I don't think she'l believe us.

>>28323756
She'll recognize Dad and she has seen a pic of us as a child before

>>28323776
Only if you have a flashlight. Do you have a flashlight?

>>28323746
I think we're done that and move passed it in our relationship. It might be better to just included her more in our planning and share our concerns with her from this point forward. You know, instead of explaining again and again that we really do trust her and all that, we actually start trusting her in the little things and the big ones.

>>28323811

We should at least bring it up. I'd rather address it and be told that she understands instead of assuming she understands and it turns out she doesn't.

>>28323850
I think she gets the general idea of why Creeper is a jerk.

>>28323850
Fair enough. What exactly do you want to tell her?

>>28323876

That we didn't want her to get involved with our business with Creeper since she's already got shit of her own and we didn't want to pile onto that.

>>28323850
Didn't we apologize for putting her on the Creeper's radar despite trying not to and she responded with "I've known worse men."?

>>28323900
Can we not talk about our Ex-Boyfriend?

>>28323915

Maybe. If we have, then ignore my suggestion to bring it up again.

>>28323936
Sadly the man who "ruined" us is still in the picture. Laura should know he gets jealous and territorial. Then again, she has met the man so she probably gets the picture.

>>28323938
Oh we can apologies again of you want, but if we're just rehashing an old conversation we should probably have a disclaimer like "I'm sorry for bringing it up again" or "I know I already apologized for trying to keep you from coming alone last time, but I just wanted to thank you again for ignoring me. Seriously, if you think I'm doing something stupid talk to me about it and I promise you I'll listen, explain myself and keep an open mind". Or something like that.

>[X] Converse.

>[Note] There are few things suggested that I'll be working in via more side dialogue

The silence coils around you, nesting uncomfortably over your shoulders. You’re close. You can feel the racing, swarming heat of Laura’s blood radiating through her skin. Every time she breaths out – they’re long, deliberate breaths, perfectly measured, like nearly everything she does – the skin upon your cheek prickles with sudden, vague warmth. You can’t help but constantly want to move, your gaze straying across the broken shapes that litter the complex, etching out the details of everything but what’s right in front of you.

Eventually, you say the first thing to skim atop the surface of your brain. Probably should stop doing that.

“So…” Her eyes flicker up. Resorting to cliché to deal with awkwardness, you clear your throat. “Thanks for, you know, sticking around. Have I said that?”

She’s doing that thing where she watches your mouth rather than your eyes. Weird.

“You’ve mentioned it.”

“Um… yeah…” You grin nervously. “Hey, do you, maybe have any ideas? About this guy?”

Slowly, she shakes her head, keeping her eyes on you all the while. She watches you in silence for a moment, her gaze revealing nothing, before breathing in deeply.

“Do you believe this person is related to you?” She pauses, and seems to squint for a moment. “In a familial fashion, I mean.”

>[ ] “I kind of hope it’s my sister.”
>[ ] “I don’t know. Maybe?”
>[ ] “Well… I don’t think I have any relatives from Spain, so…”
>[ ] “I know it sounds… really, really stupid… but yeah, I’m sort of hoping it’s my dad. Or maybe a relative of his? At this point even a secret Mexican lovechild would fine by me.”
>[ ] Write in.

>>28324161
>>[ ] “I don’t know. Maybe?”

has she seen the pic we found ?

>>28324161
>>[ ] “I don’t know. Maybe?”
>[ ] “I kind of hope it’s my sister.”

>>28324161
>>[ ] “Well… I don’t think I have any relatives from Spain, so…”
Let's be realistic.

>>28324161
>[x] “Well… I don’t think I have any relatives from Spain, so…”
>"Maybe the mexican Greens?"
>"And the whole notebook, it seems like something more. a vocabulary, maybe?"

>>28324161
>[ ] “I kind of hope it’s my sister.”
>[ ] “I don’t know. Maybe?”
>[ ] “Well… I don’t think I have any relatives from Spain, so…”
>[ ] “I know it sounds… really, really stupid… but yeah, I’m sort of hoping it’s my dad. Or maybe a relative of his? At this point even a secret Mexican lovechild would fine by me.”

I like all of them

>>28324161
>>[ ] “I know it sounds… really, really stupid… but yeah, I’m sort of hoping it’s my dad. Or maybe a relative of his? At this point even a secret Mexican lovechild would fine by me.”

>>28324161
>"No...but I don't know how they could have gotten these pictures if they we're somehow connected. I mean, yes, they could have gotten those pictures somewhere else, but they should have been in photo albums at home and I remember watching that house burn...I guess I'm just hoping this is a lead on finding my sister."

I'm not going to pretend to have a perfect memory for if anything in that response egregiously violates what's been established as having happened then just ignore my post.

>>28324267
Jorge Julio Verde?

Guys, if Laura points out that our sister is probably dead can we just calmly,mbut firmly tell her that we know that's probably the case but since the last we saw of her was Joyce surviving an RPGS blast we're just not willing to give up hope yet. I still feel like an ass for us snapping at her last time.

>>28324434
"Probably is not definately."

>>28324161
"I don't know, but even if they aren't I still want to know why they have my picture."

>>28324534
That's a good one.

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We should at some point ask Laura if she has hearing problems, seeing that it looks like she is trying to read our lips or something.

>>28324697
Perhaps just habit, to see if the other person is lying?
Also, why did yopu post mah husbando?

>>28324697

Ooh, maybe. Let's mention it.

>>28324697
Oh? I assumed she was reading our lips so she could focus her hearing on her surroundings. That way no one's going to sneak up on her while she's having a conversation.

>>28324697
Thirding. We need her to talk more about her, I feel sort of like we are dominating these conversations and only talking about us.

Ask her about her father and if she found any leads.

>>28324744

True, and I second this though I'm not sure if this is the best place to talk about it.

>(1/2)

You must admit, you’ve thought about it. But how could that even be... how would that possibly work? Your mother and father have been dead for years. You were at your dad’s funeral. You scattered his ashes out over Lake Michigan. He’s gone – he’s the most gone there could ever be. You saw the casket close over your mother’s silent, marble face as they laid her down in the ground. And your sister? You saw a rocket explode in her face. But, still… it nags at you.

Is it a feeling? Or a hope? Both? You’re not sure.

“I don’t know.” You really don’t. “Maybe?”

You cringe at yourself, shifting awkwardly against the concrete. Laura doesn’t budge.

“I don’t think I have any relatives from Spain, so…” You trail off. So, it’s not likely. So, thinking anything of the sort would be wishful thinking. “I… I just don’t know how they could’ve gotten these pictures if we weren’t connected somehow. I just hope it’s some kind of lead, something that would help me find my sister.”

She seems to consider you for a moment. You can’t say what thoughts circulate behind those verdant green eyes, but, eventually, she closes them, as if drawing the curtains on an idea, and draws closer.

You feel your breath quicken as her shape nestles close to yours, her breath pooling in the air between you, her heart counting every other second, close enough that you can imagine each beat jumping out, like an arc of static, and burying itself in your chest.

“I hope so, too.”

Hey Crusty, something I've been wanting to ask for a while.
Is the whole "mutants are absolutely despised" thing because Sublime finally got his act together in this world?

>(2/2)

The moment stretches on. You talk about things – about Noriko and Kevin. When you tell her you’re concerned about Noriko, she tells you her charge must be building again; that it’s become more noticeable. Eventually you challenge her to another game of tag in the snow, sometime later, and she simply smiles.

Hours pass. Occasionally you glance at your watch, and each time you’re a little bit amazed at how long you’ve been waiting. Outside, between the tangle of concrete and metal, the flecks of grey that mark the sky gradually give way to reds and oranges, and a dim, creeping blue.

Eventually, a noise makes you start slightly. Laura breathes in sharply.

It was nearby, somewhere near the other side of the building. Kind of a… cracklepop, if you had to describe it as anything. Reminds you of a rubber band snapping.

While a firecracker goes off in the background.

>[ ] Get closer to the camp.
>[ ] Rely on your nose/ears.
>[ ] Look over the rubble.
>[ ] Write in.

>>28324863
>>[ ] Get closer to the camp.

>>28324863
>[ ] Rely on your nose/ears.

He/She/It might move too quickly for sight.

>>28324845
Nah, it's multiple reasons.

The failed but very public assassination of Senator Kelly. Magneto colony dropping Genosha into oblivion. Some other stuff.

>>28324863
>[x] Get closer to the camp.

>>28324863
>>[ ] Get closer to the camp.
Be sure to fade out first, though.

>>28324885
Man, I keep forgetting how much of a badass you're actually letting Magneto be in this world. Warms my heart it does.

>>28324863
Question, do we have a picture of Joyce in our stash?

>>28324863
>>[ ] Look over the rubble.
>>[ ] Write in.
fade before we do it

>>28325005
>>28324911

Seconded

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>>28324920
He might be a badass, but we know his weakness.
A WOODEN GUN?!?!

>>28325034
and then Reed Richards told him his powers still worked and then Magneto got taken away by the police with their metal cars and guns.

>>28325034
That assumes he doesn't deflect it with a denser piece of metal.

>>28325057
I know, it's the perfect plan.

>>28324885
Darn, nobody ever uses the canon reason why Marvel civilians are willing to throw rocks at the guy who just finished chucking trains at another guy who was leveling buildings.

>>28325211
>nobody ever uses the canon reason why Marvel civilians are willing to throw rocks at the guy who just finished chucking trains at another guy who was leveling buildings.

That they're fucking retarded?

>>28325223
That a elderitch abomination based in a bacteria hive mind thing infected every living thing near the start of life on earth and encourages humans to hate mutants and try to end them as they are the one thing immune to infection. Marvel canon is full of things like that.

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>>28325223
I blame the schools

>>28325283

Wait what?

>[X] Get closer to the camp.
>[X] Write in.

Right, this is it. Time for answers.

Deciding against pretending that you know military hand sign stuff (you did consider it for a second, but… no, no, that’s not a good idea), you lean in a little closer, whispering to Laura that you’re going to try to close in a bit. She nods, and you pull yourself up, fading out of visibility and creeping out around the rubble. Behind you, you hear a quiet, metallic SNIKT.

Huh.

You pad closer, moving slower than ever through the undergrowth of tattered metal out of need for silence. As you pull yourself between a pair of twisted supports, the silence is snapped open again, that same, sharp crackle sounding briefly before cutting out. In the same instant, as if by magic, or perhaps very advanced Science! of the kind present in Star Trek (or maybe Star Wars), a hunched silhouette pops into existence down beside the tent, a thin layer of dust shifting upwards as a wave of displaced air ebbs over you.

You freeze, watching in utter, painstaking silence.

The figure seems to immediately busy itself with opening a can of (your) food, leaning inwards heavily, probably applying most of its weight to the lid. Which can’t be much – he must be around Laura’s height, maybe a little shorter, and even under the baggy hoodie that covers his torso you can tell that there’s very little flab on the guy. Perhaps most notably, his hands appear to be covered in sleek, dark brown fur, fingers terminating as stubby little claws. Kinda like yours, actually.

He lets out one final grunt of exertion before giving up on prying the lid open, and, as if it’s painful to resort to, begins to push his claws further out…

>[ ] GET EVEN CLOSER SEE HIS FACE.
>[ ] Just watch.
>[ ] Birdsignals! Laura will surely respond to that.
>[ ] “Hey bro what’s up with my food being all up over here.”
>[ ] Write in.

>>28325312
>>[ ] GET EVEN CLOSER SEE HIS FACE.

>>28325312
>[ ] “Hey bro what’s up with my food being all up over here.”
>[ ] Write in.

"So... Why have you been stealing my food?"

>>28325312
>Invisibility
>GO FOR THE EYES!

>>28325293
Look up Sublime sometime. He did that, possessed someone to start the Weapon X program, and created energy drinks that gave mutant powers and sold them to the general public. But nobody. Remembers. About. Him. Ever.

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This Laura and JJ thing reminds me of a title of a certain movie.

>>28325312
>[ ] “Hey bro what’s up with my food being all up over here.”
>[ ] Write in.

"tastes better heated up"

>>28325312
Just watch for now.

>>28325388
a lot of Morrison's run got retconnned

>>28325211
>>28325283
>>28325388
Well... while he was fun, he kinda messes with the point of X-Men. A lot of Morrison creations are like that. They're great for self-contained universes but sort of wreck things for everyone else and get intentionally forgotten.

Morrison's run did a lot of things that other writings ignore. For example, he had way more 'ass ugly' mutants, but nobody else acknowledges them. It really is best to think of his stories as self-contained, almost alternate universes.

>>28325398
Seconded.

>>28325312
>>[x] GET EVEN CLOSER SEE HIS FACE.
>>[x] Birdsignals! Laura will surely respond to that.
>>[x] “Hey bro what’s up with my food being all up over here.”

>>28325422
He's in the latest Xmen comic from Marvel NOW. He wants them to stop his sister whose him but for technology. That came out, what, a month ago?

>>28325440
Alright, you have a point.
Out of curiosity, what is the point of X-Men?

>>28325536
but I assume they've downplayed his role in starting/creating anti mutant bigotry?

I don't read that book but I've heard mumbling of Sublime x Rachel?

Theory: Our father is Edward Buckman.

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>>28325689
ehhh, I doubt it.

pic is more likely

>>28325791

Eww. Get your sick fanfiction out of here!

>(1/2)
>[X] GET EVEN CLOSER SEE HIS FACE.
>[X] “Hey bro what’s up with my food being here.”
>[X] Write in.

You know what? Fuck it.

“That stuff tastes better if you heat it up.”

He (actually, is it a he? You’re assuming he, due to no discernible tits) jumps out of his skin. Or, while not exactly out of his skin, certainly off the floor. He then disappears, another sharp whiplash of interrupted air snapping at your ears.

He reappears in mid-air, at exactly the right time and place so as to fly face-first into one of the naked supports that dot the complex, his face smacking the metal with a loud, painful thud.

His mostly-prone form collapses into a heap. A sudden jolt of panic flashing through you – holy shit what if you killed him aaaaaaaa – you rush over, giving up any attempt at hiding your position. You reach him as he’s rolling over onto his back, a gurgling, incognisant groan rising from beneath his hood. Looking down at him, you see…

So where crusty?

>>28325870
C'MON THE WAIT IS KILLING ME YOU TEAMAN!

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>>28325906
>Teaman
whoa amigo slow down over the line wow

>(2/2)

…Not your sister, obviously (she was taller than this when she was thirteen). Or anyone you know. Probably not dad’s secret Mexican lovechild, either.

This guy must be around Laura’s age, maybe a little younger, sporting somewhat fey, androgynous features of Latino ethnicity. Most prominently, his nose culminates in a black, moist tip you’d generally associate with some other mammal – something about him kinda reminds you of an otter, actually.

His eyes creak open, and you can’t help but find your breath caught in your lungs. They’re a haze of undecided blues, speckled with hints of other, brighter shades, seeming more like a snapshot of some shifting, changing aurora than something truly still.

So… they’re just like yours.

And, as you think this, his tail smacks you upside your head.

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>THREAD 24: END

>Congratulations! You’ve earned an X-Point! Unfortunately you have no way of spending it!
>Congratulations! You met a new mutant!
>Congratulations! You had a meaningful conversation!

Had to call it a little early today. Should be back on Monday. As usual, check shitty twitter to keep updated https://twitter.com/

>>28325929
Is that nightcrawler?

>>28325929
Thanks Crusty! Also, are we unconscious or just mildly concussed?

>>28325941
Oh my God, our dad is Azazel.

>>28325941
I'm guessing not, just a mutant that has nightcrawler's powers.

>>28325941
What color is this guy? The mutant we've just met?

And what color is Nightcrawler?

>>28325941
Brown fur and black nose. No it is not.

Nightcrawler, in case you didnt know, is blue.

>>28325995
Could just be covered in shit/dirt. His eyes are the wrong color though.

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>>28325929
>Mexican Fairy Squirrel
AY DIOS MIO

>>28325989
He was a german guy originally, also his skin was blue.

>>28325941
Nope, it's not Kurt. Kurt looks like a devilman elf dude. This person looks like an... ottermode elf.

>>28325963
Probably not even concussed. Just humiliated at being knocked down in one hit by a tiny effeminate mutant kid.

>>28326031

I can't wait for Monday.

>>28326018
True. Though I think JJ would have noticed that Kurt was missing a few fingers. Also, Nightcrawler doesn't have any claws worthy of note. This dude did.

>>28326031
Hey! We were distracted! We were lost in his eyes

>>28326064

Fuckin' Rainbow Oasis.

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This son of a bitch just smacked upside the head!

>>28326031
>Embarrassed

Aside for Laura (and maybe the new kid?) poking fun at him every once in a while I think JJ's suffered enough humiliation to simply not care so long as he doesn't get himself or any of the gang seriously hurt. I'm sure you could easily surprise me, but I hope not.

>>28326064
And you just know he doesn't speak a word of English...

>>28326157
maybe he speaks broken english

What summary should I use for the archive?

>>28326192
Claro.

>>28326195
Waiting, meaningful discussions, and advising Otter elf on the proper way to enjoy beans

>>28326195
Don't worry, I just archived it.

Anyhow, I'll be around a little longer, so if anyone has any questions or whatever... go ahead.

I'm guessing this guy can't exactly hide the fact that he is a mutant.
With the fur, nose, tail and all.

>>28326245

Does the UCLA help mutants or do they try to stay away from that?

>>28326278
>UCLA
You mean the ACLU, right?

>>28326245
Otter lad doesn't speak a lick of English doesn't he?

and I know you said it already happened, but getting beamed up for Secret Wars would be a heckuva an addition to the random event chart (or just do something like BEYOND!)

>>28326303

Yeah, sorry

>>28326245
Ok, I've been meaning to ask this about adhesive touch but I admit it's probably me being dumb that I didn't figure it out until now. You said that as we level it we can make things adhere better right? So does that mean that we can stabilize the surfaces we're clinging too so that if we grab a loose brick or unsecured piece of building facade they'll be held to their surroundings?

Hopefully that made sense, also do heightened reflexes fall in the agility tree?

Thanks!

>>28326278
>>28326303
They do, actually. But there's internal resistance against it and they have to step incredibly lightly around the matter.

>>28326317
Oh, you'll have to find out yourself.

Random tournament of heroes could be fun. Hell, maybe you guys could fix the mess that was Avengers Arena.

>>28326376
Yes and yes.

Enhanced Strength also comes packaged with minor enhanced durability. Just enough that you won't be breaking your own bones when you hit stuff.

>>28326413
by the way, Crusty, how many xp do we have?

>>28326427
just the one we picked up in this thread

>>28326427
As if this thread, you have one X-Point.

>>28326469
Is learning magic a possibility? naturally the right things would have to happen (like meeting a wizard)

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What do you guys think we should do with the X-points next?

Invisibility: Level 4: Can bring another person into the invisibility effect. (cost 3)
Senses: Level 4: Another step higher all round. (cost 3)
Enhanced agility: Level 2: Toad. (cost 2)
Enhanced Strenght: Level 2: Lift about 10 tons. (cost 2)
Electrostatic Touch Level 2: Visible electrical arcs. Much stronger current, enough to cause people to smoke a bit after some touching. Will short out unarmoured electronics. (cost 2)
Claws: Level 2: Claws can now be altered in size (growing up to 10”) and may slice through steel. (cost 2)
Healing factor: Level 3: Can rapidly cuts, bruises, and wounds caused by small arms fire. May concentrate to heal broken or shattered bones quicker. Can regrow lost limbs… over the course of several days. (cost 3)
Adhesive touch Level 2: Your forearms, forelegs, elbows and knees can stick as well. (cost 2)

Rest of the powers are locked for now.
Still, having 8 different powers is pretty bitching.
I'm thinking electrostatic touch or strenght.

>>28326583
Well, we're demon marked (maybe) so we probably have a shot at it if we find a teacher willing to school a smelly mutie hobo with a seventh grade education.

I don't like our odds.

>>28326612
Save it for the senses.

Crusty, any teen/young heroes active? besides Peter?

like Avengers Academy kids or Arana (spider-girl?) Cloud 9? Coat of Arms? Melter? Young Avengers?


>>28326612
Strength sounds pretty good.

>>28326583
I guess it could happen.

>>28326683
Ultimate Spider-Girl is around. Cloud 9 is just flying free. I guess the YA and AA kids are probably doing some stuff. The Runaways are, of course, around. No Marvel universe can throw out dem Runaways.

>>28326612
I'd go invisibility so we can sneak Laura (or whoever) around with us, agility because that's all around useful or taser hands I case we run into, well, any hostile (so many to chose from).

Claws just got useful for b&e (cut through locks) but I'm willing to wait a while on that. Healing would be great but I think we're good for now... Damn, I really like every option in our build, this is a problem?

>>28326683
>Strength sounds pretty good.

I agree. I think our stealth levels are at a good point now and we need some offensive stuff for when we get into a fight.

>>28326683
Waaaiiiit.
Is Nyx active?

>>28326639
Yea, 5th level senses would be pretty bitching.

>>28326735
I think Crusty said we met Laura between Target X and NYX. Could be wrong.

>>28326735
You'll have to be more specific. Which Nyx?

>>28326760
pretty sure he said Nyx didn't happen

>>28326612
>10 tons
Jesus Christ how horrifying.

>>28326760
Oh, that NYX. Right.

They have been on an encounter chart. Or, some of them individually have.

>>28326748
Yah, but if we don't have the reflexes to dodge the sudden danger then the sense isn't worth that much...as usual it's a chicken/egg situation on what to by first, though I know we all agree that in reality the egg came long before the chicken.

>>28326730
No, that's a good thing.
This means nothing can go wrong.
I mean the worst we probably could pick is adhesive touch lvl 2, but even then it's not that bad as it grants us the ability to stalk better.

My top 3 are Senses>Invis>Electricity

>>28326837

I still think we should get Strength or Claws, at least so that we can have some good combat skills when shit hits the fan.

>>28326810
Yea, but even though spidersense isn't that amazing at first for us, but the senses by themselves can be quite incredible if used well.

>>28326879

I'd prefer Taserhand level two because we can actually hurt that uncuttable bitch that is after Laura that way.

>>28326890
Oh I agree, I just think we have at most about 10 x-points left to unlock this act (arc? However Crusty's breaking up the story) so I'm not sure doubling down on senses is really the best use of seven xp... I could be swayed, I just think we might as well get some of the lower hanging fruit available before the real lockout. You know?

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>>28326879
I really can't stress how useful strength 2 will be. ten tons think about it.

a sedan is just about 2 tons.

dropping spaghetti on a conceal powers check would hilarious/terrifying

>*CRASH!!!*
>"Oh damn. That was expensive wasn't it?"

>>28326879
To be honest, I don't think there's a wrong answer to this problem.
All of them are very useful.

Granted, the strenght probably is one of the biggest changes.

>>28326966
>>28326991

We should at least get some sort of combat training from Laura, if not Strength upgrade.

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>>28326966
I think we could probably fist fight Kimura and win with strength 2

Uh, I never actually said Strength 2 was ten tons.

I said it was like early Frenzy or Outlaw. So, probably about 2-3 tons. Most of these characters have lifted more, but usually in crossovers where nobody's paying attention to this stuff, or after years and years of powercreep.

Marvel Comics Database or whatever has never had accurate numbers. For a while they had Wolverine's strength ranked higher than Spidey's.

>>28326966
Yea, 2nd level strenght seems really bitching.
Not to mention adhesive touch allows us to prevent slipping as well.

>>28327018
Kimura has peak human strenght.
We'd straight out win in a pure strenght contest.
Problem is that we don't exactly have martial training, but hey, if she can't see where the hit is coming from, she can do little to react to it with pure martial arts.

>>28327063
oh... 2-3 tons is still pretty cool.

I'd like to see Kimura shrug off a 4 door sedan being chucked at her head

>>28327063
Oh, okay then, my bad.
2-3 tons is still pretty significant though.

>>28327099

Depends. Peak Human body + Top of the line fighting skills usually beat a small amount of superstrength and agility and no fighting skills in comic books.

Which is why i want the Taser. You only need to get your hands on her that way. Thats much easier than proper punching.

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Thanks for the quest Crusty

>>28327135

I say we roll for the choices, since they're all pretty fucking good.

>>28327099
>>28327135

fight dirty.

fade out
taser her.
poke her eyes again but with claws this time. (probably won't pierce her but it will hurt more than last time most likely)

I'm leaning towards strength but I'll probably be happy with whatever. Not a single power upgrade I dislike, even wall adhesion.

>>28327179
Well, we still need another X-point to get anything.
I'm cool with pretty much anything, except adhesive touch lvl 2.

>>28327199

Eh, even that's kinda useful.

>>28327233
True, it's useful, I won't deny that.
I'm just vastly in favour of everything else on the table.

>>28327261

I still think we should roll for it since it's all fucking awesome.

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Does JJ look something like this?

Crusty, are we immune to our own taser hands?

say we end up grappling with somebody, oh lets say the Owl, and fall in the river and use taser hands. Is everybody electrocuted or just the Owl?

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>>28327306
Still need a 2nd X-point to afford anything though.

>>28326273
You never know, he could be an inhuman.

>>28327392
he was bitten by a radioactive otter and gained all powers of an otter.

A tail, teleportation, and fluency in Spanish.

>>28327320
No hat.

>>28327372
Currently you can shock yourself if you really really try, but you're resistant to it.

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>>28327422
That must have been one awesome fucking otter.

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>>28327449
Si

>>28327320
six days MSpaint

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>>28327552
moot ur killing me m8

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>>28327552
Speculations of our mutant codename?

>>28327602
Didn't mean to link post, but whatever.

>>28327602
Spook
Menagerie
Camo
Wannabe
Emulator
The Outdoorsman

>>28327687
Lizard-Elf.

>>28327602
>Speculations of our mutant codename?

Spook

Gekko/Gecko/Geico/etc.

The Outdoorsman

Ghost

>>28327687
>Menagerie

I'm clueless about this name.

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>>28327719
since our powers a weird mix of shit. Thought it fitting

the name is already taken in DC but hey, Marvel has a villain called "Scarecrow" too.

>>28327794

Ah, well Menagerie sounds good.

I was just wondering what the definition was (I have an idea, but that's not the same as definitely knowing the answer)

>>28327794
I kinda like it
Another one that was suggested before was "Patchwork" once we started picking different powers left and right.

>>28327883

Patchwork is good. Plus it kinda references our homelessness.

>>28327929
>>28327883
Patchwork or Menagerie are good.

our group must be called the Outdoorsmen

>>28327970
>our group must be called the Outdoorsmen

Yeah, I never saw the Outdoorsman as much other than the group name.

>>28327929
I like it. Our unofficial moniker could be 'Uncle Patches'.

>>28327970
The Patchwork Kid

>>28327112
Catching up so sorry that this response is late, but hasn't she done that before.

>>28328010
>The Patchwork Kid
>Kid

We're 18. Uncle Patches like >>28328000
said or just Patches.

>>28328033
The Patchwork Kid could work if we added a cowboy theme.

>>28328064
That was kind of what I had in mind

Patchwork is more apropos given our destitution but Menagerie sounds fancier and more sounds more ... serious I want to say.

and not kid. We're too old and nobody respects kids.

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>>28328111
It's a fair point.

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>>28328130
Mfw you're stuck in kid as in an adolescent youngin'.

>>28328130
Nosferatu, Feystep and Bandersnatch have some serious class in them, but they were shot down by other anons.

>>28328064
The Michigan Gunman.

>>28328168
'cept we don't have any guns. yet.

>>28328168
We would need guns. So far we've just got electric finger-pistols.

>>28328194
Claws lvl 4. Think about it.

If we get any fire powers, we could be called the Salamander.

>>28328167
>Nosferatu
We have no vampire powers.

>Feystep
Let's not name ourselves after fairies. We get enough discrimination for being a mutant already.

>Bandersnatch
Hollywood and Television's recent boner for "srs grimderp fairy tales" is really poisoning me against the genre (are fairy tales a genre?)

>>28328226
We would also need to get over our fear of fire quicker.

>>28328232
Feystep sounds more appropriate if we looked the same and had teleportation powers instead.

>>28328232
Yes and
>grimderp fairy tales?
That shit's just old school son. Back when they were "scare your kids shitless so they don't wander in the woods and get eaten by whatever" instead of Disney crap.

>>28328167
Feystep sounds good for the new kid.

Hodgepodge
Collage
Piecemeal (taken already but to hell with that obscure Hulk villain)
Potpurri
Miscellaneous (think this would work better if we were a girl)
Jumble
Combo
Random

>>28328281
>grimderp's tales of fiendish fairies, wicked witches, ghoulish goblins and other horrors that prey on man
So, you want to name us after storybook monsters?

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>>28328281
I mean like they're marketing it towards adults.

>>28328232
>Nosferatu
We have fangs. FAAANGS!
>Feystep
We could use it ironically, I guess.
>>28328263
That was during the Phasing craze.
>Bandersnatch
An invisible monster who can just pop in behind you and rip out your spine? Maybe too edgy for our modus operandi.

>>28328307
Maybe Scrapper?

>>28328338
Nope, I'm just setting the record straight that it's not just "derp, we'z gotta make dese ferries be 2spooky4me", it's getting back to their folklore roots.

>>28328307
I still like Electric Elf Lizard (or the EEL for short) myself. But I'd rather have one of the other characters or the Bugle name us to be honest. You don't chose your own nickname, seems like this should be the same to me.

>>28328436
Good point.

Lets check the papers after a bit and see what they name us. When we've had more action thrown at us, I mean.

>>28328436
You are right. But, for the record.

1.- Nosferatu
2.- Electro Gecko
3.- Patchwork
4.- Bandersnatch
5.- Spook

>>28328479
If that's in order of quality, then you're fucked in the head.

>>28328385
Scraps

>>28328436
Same.

>>28328351
Never seen it, but Snow's (and her sister's) first run in with a dwarf wasn't nearly as nice as Disney who forgot the sister.

>>28328479
Jutheft the record, if we ever become a hit man I'll throw my support behind option 5.

>>28328436
Oh, I do like that

>>28328479
1) Patchwork
2) Electro Gecko
3) Spook
4) Bandersnatch
5) Nosferatu
FTFY

>>28328374
We also have Obfuscate. Wall climbing's vampiric, too.

>>28328601
>implying Patchwork is a good name at all.
Spook is the best one, then Menagerie.

Chameleon would also be pretty good.

>>28328601
1.) Patchwork
2.) Bandersnatch
3.) Spook
4.) Electro Gecko
5.) Nosferatu

We need something marketable, something that will sell action figures.

>>28328622
Chameleon is pretty over used though...I mean, I agree it's a good name, I just think multiple people keep claiming it.

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How about Skink?

>>28328669
>We have become dollar store X-Statix.

amusing and depressing at the same time

Maybe we should go the Luke Cage route and just Forego Codenames..

>>28328703
Yea, we've got to wear disguise when we go out in public anyway.

>>28328703
Or we could just make a new one up one the spot each time until one sticks or we get bored with the joke.

>>28328747
like Wasp and her costumes.....

me gusta

>>28328679
Well, they aren't lizard people with invisibility, claws and wall crawling. We could go more specific, or Latinate. Furcifer? Calumma?

>>28328747
Or we could start off as Patchwork and add onto the name each time we show up.

Patchwork-Nosferatu-Spook- ElectroGecko-etc.

>>28328791
If you run out of breath before finishing introducing yourself you lose, clearly we need to max our our endurance and healing.

We could try to keep up the joke from the orphanage running, saying to people that they're just imagining things when they see us because Lizard Elves do not exist.

>>28328834
Works for me.

>>28328834
Especially if we do this to a person by theirself, then fade out. Let's just start driving someone crazy by doing that.

>>28328892
Accept we sort of confirmed that we're real to a electronics shop full of customers?

>>28328892
Not hero-like at all.