...A moment in which you perceive a tree falling straight down on you.

The next thing you know, you’re in the snow. Your shoulder burns – you think it took the brunt of it. There’s blood seeping through your teeth. Must’ve bitten your lip.

Did you bring that tree down? Must have. Must have… punched through it, or something. It’s still on you, pinning you to the earth.

You can’t breathe.

>Present Time: 6:24 PM
>Current Funds: $147.80

>[ ] Try to push it off.
>[ ] Try wriggle out from under it.
>[ ] Cry for help.
>[ ] Write in.

>>28717027
>>[ ] Try to push it off.
>>[ ] Try wriggle out from under it.

With my dying breath I curse Geldof!

>>28717027
>>[ ] Try to push it off.
>>[ ] Try wriggle out from under it.

>>28717027
>[ ] Try to push it off.
>[ ] Try wriggle out from under it.
>[ ] Cry for help.
>Panic as well, because birds.

>>28717027
>[x] Try wriggle out from under it.
Gotta run. Gotta get our shit together.

>>28717051
>seconded

Also:

>TREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
>TREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
>"FROM HELL'S HEART, I CLAW AT THEE!"

>>28717027
>>"This....this is not my day. Also owww"
>>try to push it off

>>28717107
That last bit was a joke, not an actual suggestion, mind you.

>>28717051
>>28717062
>>28717090
>>28717112

Strength Check.

>DC12
>+2 modifier

Rolled 13 + 2

>>28717137
Rolling

Rolled 16

>>28717137

Rolled 18 + 2

>>28717137
Oh boy.

Rolled 6 + 2

>>28717137

>>28717160
time to shine

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>>28717150
>>28717159
>>28717160

JJ STRONGEST THERE IS

Rolled 6 + 2

>>28717161
Holly shit what am i doing

>>28717176
And then I never roll that well again.

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On this episode, JJ learns to cast fist.

Rolled 12 + 2

None of this will draw attention to us what so ever.

>>28717183
>JJ STRONGEST THERE IS

JJ SMASH!

JJ STRONK!

JJ WILL BREAK YOU

>>28717294
It's a good thing we've got invisibility, wallclimbing and enough strenght to jump like a goddamn freak.

>>28717314
>It's a good thing we've got invisibility, wallclimbing and enough strenght to jump like a goddamn freak.

We're like Spider-Man, kinda.

Chameleon Man.

>>28717160
>[X] The liftwriggle manoeuvre.
>20
>success!

Gotta get up. Can’t breathe. Chest screaming.

You feel your fingers, seeming apart from yourself, scrabble at the wood. It’s not a huge tree. Not some old, gnarled oak – it’s probably just over a ton, maybe. You can do that, right? You can lift it? You punched through it, so you should be able to lift it.

You push. Your lungs burn. A moment of seething, roaring tension blisters through your body, and you feel the weight receding, the breath returning to you.

You lap greedily at the cold winter air, and roll out from under the tree, letting it slam back down in your place.

A short, pained squeak snaps at your ears. You look up.

Your follower is crumpled against the snow, the top half of the tree pinning their leg to the ground. Fast, panicked breaths rise like puffs of smoke from under their hood.

>[ ] Try to lift the tree off them.
>[ ] Try to pull them out from beneath it.
>[ ] Cry for help.
>[ ] Run away!
>[ ] Write in.

>>28717343
>>[x] Try to lift the tree off them.

>[ ] Write in.

"...You okay?"

>>28717343
>>[ ] Try to lift the tree off them.

>>28717343
>[X] Try to lift the tree off them.
I bet this is going to be on youtube.

>>28717364
Seconded.

>>28717343
>[ ] Try to lift the tree off them.
"Birds? Seriously? Are you an Alfred Hitchcock fan or something?"

>>28717343
>[x] Write in.
>Wipe the blood off your face
>growl 'Who are you!?'

>>28717343
>[ ] Try to lift the tree off them.
>"Why were you following us?"

>>28717364
>>28717377
>>28717380
>>28717381
>>28717395

Test your strength. Again.

>DC13
>+2 modifier

>>28717343
"Calm down I'll get you out of there, are you ok?"
>>Try to lift the tree off them.

>>28717343
>[ ] Try to lift the tree off them.
>[ ] "Oh shit-shit-shit i'm sorry... shit-shit-shit-shit..."

Rolled 2 + 2

>>28717413
pls dice gods

>>28717343
>Write in
"Oh geez, hold on. Try to steady your breathing, don't freak out and please don't run away or make a scene, I'll get you out of there."

>Try to lift the tree off them
>Try to pull them out from beneath it
Try to lift it just enough to yank them out from under it by the back of their clothes. Maybe push it off?

Rolled 11 + 2

>>28717413
JJ DIPLOMACY STRONK!

Rolled 9 + 2

>>28717413
We STRONK!
Time to fail.

Rolled 17 + 2

>>28717413
Rolling

Rolled 13

>>28717413

>>28717432
>Rolled 11 + 2

Oh thank god.

>>28717432
barely.

>>28717432
>>28717437
>>28717438
Look at all these PERFECTLY ACCEPTABLE ROLLS

>>28717432
At least we passed?

>>28717432
Just right.

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>>28717432
Wooo

JJ stronk

>>28717423
>>28717432
That was close.

new personal rule for rolling for myself

roll under ten
skip the next roll

>>28717432
>[X] LIFT
>[X] Write in
>13
>perfectly acceptable

Oh, man. You really weren’t planning on putting someone in hospital. Maybe some kind of amorphous gibbering swarm thing – that you could send to the ER with few grievances. But a real person could mean real Mutated Assault charges. Which are bad things for someone with no lawyer and nothing to invest in one.

You stagger over, your shoulder complaining all the way. You think something’s broken in there.

As you get closer, your shadow starts tugging harder at their leg, but quickly gives up when something in that area makes a very undesirable sort of popping sound. Euuch, this is looking like dislocation at the very least.

You stoop down and dig your claws into the bark. Blood and adrenaline dance under your nose – it’s almost all you can smell. Yours, theirs… you think you can actually tell the two apart, just about.

You heave, feeling the muscles in your back tighten. The tree shifts and rises in your grasp, leaving a smattering of branches frayed about in the snow, like severed fingers. With surprising ease you lift the whole wooden mass and toss it aside. It wobbles through the air and comes down on one of its fellows, coming to rest at an awkward, tattered angle.

“…You oka”–

The air explodes from your lungs. Something hits you flat in the ribs and sends you sailing off your feet. You tumble down into the snow and feel yourself rasp involuntarily, your lungs fluttering in and out of shock.

You glance up.

Peter Parker is crouched over your visitor, his face contorted in a worry approaching panic.

>[ ] Run away, this was clearly a mistake.
>[ ] Just rest a moment. This hurts.
>[ ] Tell him you weren’t gonna hurt them.
>[ ] Write in.

>>28717803
>>[ ] Just rest a moment. This hurts.
>>[ ] Tell him you weren’t gonna hurt them.

>>28717803
>>[ ] Tell him you weren’t gonna hurt them.
"Dude, don't be a dick."

>>28717823
>>28717827
Seconded.

"..The fuck, Parker?"

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Do you have enough powers King of Mutants?

>>28717803
>[ ] Just rest a moment. This hurts.
>[ ] Tell him you weren’t gonna hurt them.
>Explain that we had to lift TWO trees.

>>28717803
>[x] Write in.
>You had backup!? I had you pegged as a well-off teenage mutie. Who are you, Peter?

>>28717803
>>[ ] Just rest a moment. This hurts.
>>[ ] Tell him you weren’t gonna hurt them.
where's Laura at?

>>28717833
Thirded
"Seriously, did you completely overlook me picking the fucking thing off of them? Also, christ, you hit like a mack truck."

>>28717874
right behind him or webbed to the ground

>>28717803
ask if there ok

>>28717803
What the fuck Peter.

>>28717882
This quote entirely.

>>28717882
I love this quote

>>28717994
With a dash if the fuck thrown in

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So Pete most likely had chat tailing us/ watching over.....

Pete don't trust us

>>28718059
Why would he, we were part of a crew robbing mr. Negative

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>>28718059
Yea, he clearly didn't do the math there.
Elven ears = Good hearing
Everybody knows that.

>>28718059
She seems kinda forceful. I think she insisted on coming.

>>28717803
"I just lost a fight to a flock of birds, a tree, and a scrawny nerd......today cannot get worse."

>>28718212
Then the sentinel lands behind us.........

>[X] Just rest a moment. This hurts.
>[X] Tell him you weren’t gonna hurt them.

“Ow.”

You roll over onto your back. You didn’t see what exactly Peter hit you with, but it felt more like sledgehammer than an arm or a leg. Guess you can check ‘circus freak strength’ right alongside that aggressively noticeable (seriously, how has nobody at the Bugle noticed this?) healing on Parker’s list of mutant weirdness.

“Christ, man.” A cough rattles up through your chest. More like a wheeze, really. “I wasn’t gonna hurt him. The tree was an accident.”

It’s quiet for a moment. You can hear him murmuring to the injured whoever, and them trying not to whimper. Your lip isn’t bleeding anymore.

“Sorry.” He sighs. You roll your head back. In the upside-down world your vantage paints for you, Peter is carrying your tail to her feet – yep, her. It’s some short, mousy girl with long dark bangs and bright eyes. There are pigeons crowding round her shoulders, surrounding the two of them in a cloud of warbling babble.

Laura kneels nearby, beside the shattered stump that marks your flash of anger.

“Look… I’m really sorry, I just reacted.”

They plod over the snow toward you. Her left foot doesn’t touch the ground. She’s biting down hard on her lip and fighting back tears.

“Um, this is Sophia. My girlfriend.”

>[ ] “…I think I broke your girlfriend’s leg.”
>[ ] “She should probably be at a hospital.”
>[ ] “Is she a mutant too? With the birds and stuff?”
>[ ] Write in.

>>28718222
and then Kimura shoots some tranq darts into our back

>>28718222
"I stand....er lay helplessly on the ground corrected"

>>28718234
>>[ ] “…I think I broke your girlfriend’s leg.”

>>28718240
While the demon returns and starts to burn us.

>>28718234
>[ ] “…I think I broke your girlfriend’s leg.”
>[ ] “She should probably be at a hospital.”
>[ ] “Is she a mutant too? With the birds and stuff?”

>>28718234
>[x] “She should probably be at a hospital.”
>[x] Write in.
>'Oh, that's right. They don serve 'our' kind.'

>>28718234
>>[ ] “She should probably be at a hospital.”
>>[ ] “Is she a mutant too? With the birds and stuff?”


>[ ] Write in.

"Does she have any mutie identifying traits? like a fin on her back or spock ears or webbed feet? people tend to notice that shit.

>>28718234
>[ ] “…I think I broke your girlfriend’s leg.”
>[ ] “She should probably be at a hospital.”
>[ ] “Is she a mutant too? With the birds and stuff?”

>>28718234
>She needs a hospital
>She a mutant too then
So she's like us then? Doesn't matter she should go to the hospital to get her leg checked

>>28718254
And creep touches us and says "boyo" a hole bunch

>>28718234
>[ ] Write in.
"I'm sorry for maybe breaking your girlfriend's leg."
"In my defense, I had absolutely no idea I could bisect trees by punching them."

>>28718271
>>28718277

nah, she's one of the lucky ones, looks totally normal. except for the animals hanging off her constantly.

>>28718234
>Write in

We caused a huge uproar, take her to our hideout to figure out what to do.

>>28718305
and it turns out he led Mr Negative to you and you're now also surrounded by his minions.

>>28718314
I thought the park was kinda empty

>>28718234
"crap that doesn't look good. We should probably get her checked out"

>>28718314
The homeless mutant association is no longer accepting members at this point in time.

>>28718329
while Wolverine and Gambit double team our sister in the background

>>28718314
Considering we just knocked out a tre, and her doing a rendition of the movie 'the birds'.

Let's not take any chances.

>>28718358
...yeah this day could get worse

>>28718358
and then it starts raining. Sideways.

>>28718373
Laura tells us she's pregnant and Hellion is the father

>>28718396
Then Hellion says he is pregnant and JJ is the father.
Also, he demands child support.

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>>28718396

>>28718406
All the while Noriko, Kevin, Layla and Gaby are snorting Jack with creeper's thugs on our homecamp.

>>28718432
and then things go downhill.

>>28718458
JJ starts getting drawn by Rob Liefeld

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>>28718471

>>28718471
>JJ starts getting drawn by Rob Liefeld

Grimdark 90's JJ needs to be a thing. At least for a short omake.

>>28718471
What Hell have we entered...

>>28718471
And ends up being written by Jeph Loeb with Joe Quesada doing the editing.

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>>28718494
one of Shoulderpads and pouches

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>>28718484
I'd rather a Noir JJ who goes by the name of 'Spook'. A FBI agent who goes undercover as a Hobo to infiltrate the Kingpin's drug distribution system.
Our foil would naturally be a Scottish ex-laborer highly skilled with blades.

After this I don't want to deal with Peter anymore.

>>28718610
nah, JJ Noir is like Wolverine Noir. PI story, with Laura as the girl in need.

Noriko and Kevin as their CIs. Layla is someone who gets caught in the crossfire.

>>28718624
Yea, the Parker curse is a bitch.

>[X] “She should probably be at a hospital.”
>[X] “Is she a mutant too? With the birds and stuff?”

You drag yourself up. There’s this buzz, like static, bouncing along your ribs. You think that’s what it feels like when you heal really, really fast. Still hurts for now, though.

“Man…” You stutter a little. All that adrenaline has you pretty wired. Still can’t push your claws in – something that Peter’s girlfriend hasn’t failed to noticed, judging by the direction of her stare. “She should probably be at a hospital. Can, uh…” You glance at her. No fins, no pointy teeth, no weird eyes. No slime. “…can you do that? I mean, is she like us? With the birds and everything?”

She stares at him a little incredulously. He coughs artificially, and parades out the kind of smile that looks suspended on stilts. “…Yeah. Don’t worry, Chat.” Chat is the dumbest nickname ever. You hope he didn’t think of that. “He knows. He knows I’m a mutant.”

They exchange a stare that goes on far too long, before turning back to you. Something was said in silence there. You can feel it. It just… buzzes around them, in the air.

You're starting to think that secrets have some tangible element to them. Some taste, or scent.

“Hospital should be fine. I, uh…” His eyes dart at the fringes of his vision. You know that look. Escape. Away. Now. “…I’m pretty fast, so I can run her there.”

>[ ] Ask if he needs help.
>[ ] Get his number.
>[ ] Say goodbye.
>[ ] Write in.

>>28718624
Why? Having a super-hero on our side doesn't seem to bad.

Then again Parker luck.

>>28718653
No, I mean he is kind of a shit in this.

>>28718663
>>[ ] Ask if he needs help.
>>[ ] Get his number.

>>28718663
>[ ] Ask if he needs help.
>[ ] Get his number.

But if he says no then

>[ ] Say goodbye.

>>28718663
>>[ ] Ask if he needs help.
>>[ ] Get his number.

>>28718663
>[ ] Say goodbye.
>[ ] Write in.

"I think its safe to say nothing went anybody's way tonight. We just have no luck huh? Oh um.. get well soon."

>>28718663
>[ ] Get his number.
Exchange numbers

>>28718663
>[ ] Ask if he needs help.
>[ ] Get his number.
If no help is needed:
>[ ] Say goodbye.

>>28718663
at least give him our drop phone number

Popping out briefly. Next post'll take a few minutes longer than usual.

>>28718663
>[x]Write in.
>'Can't blame you, for bringing backup and everything. For all you know, I could be turning you in to the authorities for a hot platter'.
>'Despite all that happened today, listen. I got your back. I don't think you'd need help with bullies with that arm of yours, but if you ever need anything, don't be a stranger. After all, we are all in this together, right?'

>>28718768
Seconded

>>28718663
"chat was it? Really really sorry about the tree and your leg. Honestly wasn't my intention. Today kinda went sideways on me."
>[ ] Ask if he needs help.
>[ ] Get his number.

>>28718663
"Sorry about the leg, kinda panic'd when I got swarmed...guess we both lashed out unintentionally. I didn't know I had super strength, that's another new one on me," glance at claws, "yeah...these kinda stay out when I'm on edge."

yeah, he's really gonna wanna exchange numbers while his GF has broken leg.

"I know that hurts bad sweetie, but I gotta exchange numbers with the dude who kinda broke your leg."

>>28718833
But we did know we were strong, just .not that strong.

>>28718768
Vetoing

We brought back up but didn't keep them a secret.

>>28718885
Yea, I'd say like
"Sorry, I didn't know I could bisect trees with my fists."

>>28718909
>We brought back up

Laura isn't back up. She jsut wanted to come along.

>>28718909
Where is she anyway?

>>28719086
>Where is she anyway?

Learn to read.

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>>28718663
Holy shit, we can taste secrets
Does this mean we've met Bruno Bucellati?

Chat might be the first person to acquire hater status

>>28719123
Fuckin' nat 1s. We gotta make it up to them somehow. Like a hobo 'get well' card or something.

>>28718968
Bringing another person is back up.

>[X] Ask if he needs help.
>[X] Get his number.

Well, you don’t blame him for wanting to split. Even had his girlfriend’s leg not been in need of medical attention, today has been quite the unmitigated disaster. You guess you brought some of that atrocious Green Luck with you, and Parker doesn’t exactly need it.

Man, you wish you had Parker Luck. House, job, school, girlfriend... and not even a single scale or claw to balance it out.

“Look, I can’t blame you for bringing backup…” You glance over at Chat. Hah, backup. She’s almost as tiny as Laura. “…And I’m sorry about what happened. I didn’t know I could do that.”

“You didn’t know you could cut a tree down with your hand?” Interjects Sophia. She appears to be dealing with the no doubt terrific pain with a stiff upper lip.

You shrug. “I don’t get into many fights.”

Strangest thing about enhanced hearing? The sound of your own heart fluttering just a little when you lie.

“…Anyway, if you need any help… I’m here.”

Peter pauses. Thoughts flicker through his eyes. Finally, he shakes his head, and tells you it’s no trouble – he can get her to help on his own. You stitch a smile up over your face and he does the same. Before they leave, his girlfriend insists that you exchange numbers, and the two of you awkwardly comply.

Eventually, it’s just you beside the icy path, beneath the shadow of the trees. You and Laura.

>[ ] “Well, that went well.”
>[ ] “Let’s go home.”
>[ ] “Wanna get something to eat?”
>[ ] Write in.

>>28719284
>>[ ] “Well, that went well.”
>[ ] “Wanna get something to eat?”

>>28719284
>[ ] “Let’s go home.”
>[ ] “Wanna get something to eat?”

"I can punch trees now. That's a thing."

>>28719284
>>[ ] “Well, that went well.”
>>[ ] “Wanna get something to eat?”
>>[ ] Write in.
I saw you noticed something, so what did you noticed?

>>28719284
>>[ ] “Well, that went well.”
>>[ ] “Let’s go home.”
>>[ ] “Wanna get something to eat?”

>>28719284
>[ ] “Well, that went well.”
>[ ] “Wanna get something to eat?”
>[ ] Write in.
"Turns out I can bisect trees with my bare hands now."

>>28719284
"What are your thoughts on the two? You talk about anything interesting with Peter?"

>>28719342
this works since we did see her act more paranoid then usual.
>>28719367
Also this since we felt peters strength first hand.

>>28719284
Well that went well...are you hungry? I'm hungry. What was that you said last week about statistical anomalies, because it is clear that this is another one.

>>28719284
>[ ] “Well, that went well.”
>[ ] “Wanna get something to eat?”

>>28719332
Every time we discover a power, we should just summarize it and say "that's a thing."

>>28719310
>>28719332
>>28719342
We are a mess right now. We got blood all over our elf face and I think a crow pecked one of our eyes. I don't think any dinner would service us. Let's just head home.

Sending Laura solo might work, though.

>>28719400
>Sending Laura solo might work, though.

Oh yeah, send the girl wanted by a secret military organization alone in the city.

Nice idea.

>>28719400
we are healing pretty fast this should clear up in a n hour.(the outside that is)

>>28719400
We could probably hit a restroom to wash the blood off, the cut should heal by the time we get to one.

>[X] “Well, that went well.”
>[X] “Wanna get something to eat?”

“Well, that went well.”

You wince your way over to where Laura is crouched at the feet of the downed tree, taking a moment to swab a great deal of blood off your shades. You dab at the sore flesh just above your eye, and find that that’s all it is – sore. No incision, no scab. It still stings to touch, but there’s no beak-print up there.

For a moment, she seems to almost ignore you, running her fingers along the old, scarred bark. Her eyes are still, fixed in thought.

“This tree weighs at least a ton.” She notes, quietly. “You’ve gotten stronger.”

You shiver a little – you think something clawed a nasty hole in your coat – and grin weakly. “I’m not complaining. Wanna get something to eat?”

She glances up at you, and nods.

>[ ] Go back the way you came.
>[ ] Go through the rest of the park.

>>28719652
>[ ] Go through the rest of the park.

>>28719652
>[x] Go through the rest of the park.

>>28719652
>Go through the rest of the park.

I mean, we're already here. It'd be a waste if we just left.

>>28719652
>[ ] Go through the rest of the park.
what could possibly go wrong

>>28719652
>[ ] Go through the rest of the park.

>>28719652
>>[ ] Go through the rest of the park.

>>28719688
>[ ] Go through the rest of the park.

>>28719652
>[ ] Go through the rest of the park.

which ever one is faster

>>28719652
>[ ] Go through the rest of the park.
>"You mean a figurative ton, right?"

>>28719750
shes always been literal with us.
So what can we upgrade again?

>>28719652
> Go through the rest of the park.
Walk and talk with Laura.

Maybe while we are strolling, JJ and Laura could even possibly hold hands.

>>28719764
Powersets
http://pastebin.com/zFvxDsKi
What we have
http://pastebin.com/UuVeJFig

>>28719750
>>28719764

a 2,000 lbs tree fell on Chat's leg... I'm pretty dumb but wouldn't it get a lot worse than a broken leg?

talk about how we need more practice with our powers, ask Laura if she'd like to help out sometime

>>28719859
There's a fair amount of snow coverage. Shit would sink and settle, it's not like being trapped between it and cement.

Also mutant. And fictional.

>>28719652
>>[ ] Go through the rest of the park.

>>28719764
Mostly it's just small talk material. Get her to talk about how STRONK we are.
>>28719842
I like the way you think.

>>28719888
true

>>28719859
Could have squished, but the bodies a bit more resilient than you think. plus she didn't have the whole weight on her.

>>28719652
Go through rest of park.

Funderful

>>28719849
thanks
CORE POWERS
>INVISIBILITY (LVL3):
4 so that we can make ourr friends invisible.
>ENHANCED SENSES (LVL3)
Level 5, just becuase spider senses are broken.
SECONDARY/TERTIARY POWERS
>HEALING FACTOR (LVL2)
up to 3 is good for this one.
>ELECTROSTATIC TOUCH (LVL1)
level 3 just for its rendering most electronics useless and fucking people up more.
>ENHANCED AGILITY (LVL1)
up to level 3 is good for us.
>CLAWS & FANGS (LVL1)
Only gonna get upgraded after power shift.
>ENHANCED STRENGTH (LVL2)
I'm good with where its at.
>ADHESIVE TOUCH (LVL1)
I want to try to get this to level 2 just for use of ease.

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nice relaxing walk through the park during winter

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gmiSPMHrWQ

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>all this park replies

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Suddenly you're surrounded by these guys.
What do?

>>28720042
What's the worst that could possibly happen?

Rolled 1

>>28720155
roll a 1

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>>28720040
All we need is some good hot Chocolate.

>>28720170
Did... Did you genuinely roll that out of 20?

Rolled 1

>>28720219
hover the cursor above "Anonyomous

>>28720219
Are... Are you really that stupid?

Read the email.

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Still waiting for the consequences from that Demon encounter to kick in.

>>28720170
Fucker, don't use 1d1

>[X] Go through the rest of the park.
>a little reward for fighting through all the crack bitch

You decide to take the scenic route. If you recall correctly – and you really should, considering how long the streets of NY have been your home sweet home – cutting through the park should be just as fast as heading back the way you came.

The evening stretches on. What was grey and yellow droops into roaring, defiant red, scattered like flecks of stained glass through the treetops. A great dark veil is descending on its heels, clear and cold, the wind that marches under its banner a harsher, crueller one. It will be a cold night tonight. No snow, and no rain. Just the cold.

As you pass beneath the thickening branches, something stammers through the air, your ears perking up. Soft, warm, elusive. Familiar. You breath in sharply as the sound patters down your spine, slipping under your coat, beneath your hood, through your skin and flesh and bone.

The trees part into open snow and you stop. You remember where you are now.

Just off the path, the ground slops into a gentle bowl, a set of long stone benches impressed upon the earth, descending conically, hypnotically, downward. At the bottom, a broad slab of stone stands as a stage, flanked by two long, curved arches. It’s an amphitheatre (just barely). You remember it being erected two or three years back, right after some giant super disaster.

There’s a few folks huddled around the central stage, all wrapped up in warm clothing. Students, probably. In the middle, under the reddening light, sits a piano.

Someone’s playing. Beethoven, it sounds like.

>[ ] Go down and listen.
>[ ] Just keep going.
>[ ] See if you can have a go.
>[ ] Write in.

>>28720219
>>>28720240
Or have 4Chan X

>>28720258
>>[ ] Go down and listen.
>See if you can have a go

Rolled 1

>>28720240
>>28720239
I'm using a phone here. But yeah, I know how to always get a 1.

>>28720258
>>[ ] Go down and listen.

>>28720258
>[ ] Go down and listen.

no need to attract attention to ourselves... but a bit of nostalgia won't hurt

>>28720258
>>[ ] Go down and listen.
>>[ ] See if you can have a go.
>>[ ] Write in.
"You know i used to play.

>>28720285
>But yeah, I know how to always get a 1.

You're not fucking special.

>>28720276
Seconding this. Make sure we are ably disguised.

>>28720258
>[ ] Go down and listen.

>>28720258
>[ ] Go down and listen.
>[ ] See if you can have a go.

>>28720258
>[ ] Go down and listen.
then
>[ ] See if you can have a go.

>>28720298
This, get some hot cocoa and enjoy the music.

>>28720258
>[ ] Go down and listen.
>[ ] See if you can have a go.
would our agility help us out here?

>>28720258
>[ ] Go down and listen.
>Think about having a go, but worry too much about dropping spaghetti everywhere.

>>28720258
>>[ ] Go down and listen.
>>[ ] See if you can have a go.
>>28720326
I would think that our enhanced senses and agility would help out here.

>>28720326
Certainly wouldn't hurt.

Damn Beethoven and his siren song...

do we really need the attention? Do we have our new found super strength under control? cuz pianos are expensive

>>28720410
nat 1 incoming

>>28720363
>>28720356
>>28720326
Well looking at
http://www.wikihow.com/Improve-Your-Piano-Playing-Skills
Shows that it takes a lot of hand coordination, and maybe enhanced hearing could help.
>>28720410
the better question is what do we play.

>>28720410
Won't draw much attention just listening and feeling nostalgia.

>>>[ ] Go down and listen.

>>28720429
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xz7usUEPWsc&hd=1

>>28720258
we got super hearing we can be pretty far away

>>28720491
i was thinking
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-4wUfZD6oc
or
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1l0NYQUGHU
but your is pretty good as well.

>>28720491
>>28720570

Crusty said we know Chopin.

>>28720300
Calm down anon, I don't think it was meant like that.

>>28720624
doesn't stop us from learning other songs.

>>28720655
>>28720664
No shit.

Just saying one thing that the QM did tell us that we knew.

>>28720570
I'd say Ordinary People from the title's irony when performed by a mutie.

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>>28720624
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-XhROuRDBY&hd=1

Hey a bit off topic, but does anyone know what happened to the circuit board we took from the junkyard?

>(1/2)
>[X] Go down and listen.
>[X] See if you can have a go.

“Is something wrong?” Laura’s voice scatters the notes.

You blink, and feel reality momentarily slip back in around the music. You can feel your own pulse all askew. You wonder if Laura can feel it too.

“Uh, no…” It tiptoes through your veins. You can’t help but swallow a sigh, or a something. “No, I was just listening. Do you mind if we go down? Just for a little while.”

She holds you in her gaze for a moment, before nodding very slightly.

You two make your way down the stone slabs, the notes lightening your footsteps. The huddled shapes come into focus – definitely students, maybe a music society or something. Big glasses and anachronistically colourful scarves. Sporty beards, piercings. You smile a little smugly. Would you be like this if you stayed at school? If you went to university?

You can’t even imagine what you’d study.

You hang toward the back of the crowd. They’re not particularly great, really. But you just enjoy the notes – the individual notes – perhaps the same way a workman loves his tools. Each one is a familiar spark of something close to you. Something that has remained. Little bits and pieces that you can assemble in your head, that worm their way into your memories, that lift you, just very slightly, out of New York.

>>28720734
which is why i chose it.

>(2/2)

The piece comes to an end. A few people clap, someone cheers. There’s some awkward laughing.

“Excuse me…” They look at you. A few of them jumped a little – something you’re used to. You feel their eyes bore into you, feel them make a story for you. For your greasy blonde hair, for your sunglasses at night, for your ratty hood and your torn coat and your jeans that could have been worn by several generations of Greens. “Do you mind if I have a go?”

They glance around at each other. Eventually, someone with the distinct scent of pot clinging to their breath speaks up:

“Uh… sure, dude.”

You nod, and step up onto the stage. You feel yourself tighten up, your shoulders crawling inwards. The player – some ratty teenage chick with bright blonde white girl dreads and thick glasses – slides off the seat. You take her place.

You lick your lips. Mouth’s dry.

>[ ] Play.
>[ ] Don’t play.

>>28720845
>>[ ] Play.

>>28720845
We've come this far, of course we'll
>[]Play

Rolled 1

>>28720845
>>[ ] Play.

>>28720845
>>[ ] Play

fuck it, we're already here

in coming failure

>>28720845
This is it. This is our moment.
>[x] Play.

>>28720845
>>[ ] Play.

Don't be a crack bitch, don't be a crack bitch

>>28720845
preferably, the Siege of Madrigal. maybe this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lko7b7mZCk&feature=related

>>28720845
> Play
God, please don't tell me >>28720875 is a valid roll, we've escaped the crack bitching thus far.

>>28720845
>>[ ] Play.

>>28720845
>[ ] Play.

>>28720845
Play you glorious Lizard-Elf, play!
Spaghetti better not be dropped. Oh god, we're still bloody and shit.

Rolled 18

>>28720875
Hulk smash

You have chosen to put yourself out in front of these people and [X] PLAY.

What do you think of when doing so? ONE thought or memory or person. Bear in mind, this will determine what piece you perform and the modifier you receive.

>>28720972

Joyce

>>28720901
I'd rather this one.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQVTf1cLcv8&hd=1

>>28720972
Our mother teaching us to play.

(I don't think we're resentful of the lessons, given our seeming love or admiration for it)

>>28720972
of our family back then and our new one now.(i'm hoping this nets us ordinary people.)

>>28720972
think of lake Michigan vacation

>>28720972
Struggling to rise above our hobo fate

>>28721018
I'm okay with that. If it is possible. If not, >>28720999

>>28720972
Family.
Think of family, new and old.
Our mother who taught us to play, raised us and loved us.
Our big strong sister who sacrificed and saved us.
Our friends now under our wing, looking to us as a figure of guidance as we looked to our mother.

Family.

>>28721018
this works

>>28720972
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rg-fxzpk1Gg Maybe?
Or just family, our old one and the one we've made recently.

>>28721074
>>28721018
These!

It's touching.

>familly

Roll a D20.

Rolled 15

>>28721141

Rolled 9

>>28721141
Rolling

Rolled 17

>>28721141
...gulp

Rolled 2

>>28721141
dice don;t fail me now

Rolled 17

>>28721141
Oh boy.

Rolled 15

>>28721141
For family.

>>28721161
>>28721151
>>28721156
17 sweet.

>>28721191
>17 sweet.

Or 15. Either way, pretty good.

At least we're not a crack bitch when it really counts.

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>>28721161
Niiice.

>>28721141
>Family
You guys are so corny.

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>>28721415
what's wrong with corn?

>>28721415
I don't know how 'not' to be corny when given this prompt.
>>28720972

I guess we could have gone for humor, but we've had lots of that already.

>>28721415
It is the most important thing to JJ, the family he has lost and the family he has built for himself.

>>28721415
I think this song suits JJ's run with Creeper .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bn5tiuZU4JI&hd=1

>>28721449
Slammin keys for his mama would have been better, just concepts don't really boost us any, would have been better to be more specific.

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>>28721434
Let me share a kernel of truth with you. Navigating through that pun was a maize like I've never seen before. I suggest you shuck your cob before all that is left of your pun legacy is a husk.

>>28721569
So much pun.

It's like you've taken corn and made a meal of it.

>>28721569
I don't have a pic suicidal enough for how that made me feel.

>>28721569
damn, I got creamed

>>28721605
You've been canned.

>>28721569
That was a thing of beauty anon, if I could give a Medal, I would..

>>28721569
What an earful.

to help pass the time till Crusty finishes and I find it sorta relevant, an anon on /co/ is storytiming X-23 the target right now

>>>/co/56746641

>>28721569
Man, why you gotta be so cheesy? It's that kinda airy-dairy thinking that makes the other countries think that Amoorica is fill of pale-skinned, weak-chested, milk-drinking momma's boys.

>>28721702
Fuck yeah.

>>28721702
>X-23: The Target

Is that a good one?

>>28721773
I liked it. but why not see for yourself?

>(1/2)
>17
>+3
>20

The silence waits politely, hanging over the night in a hundred vying shades.

The shape in front of you sits like a huge, haughty shadow, lounging in that orbital space between what is comfortable and what is strange. Slowly, tentatively, you slide the barest touch of your fingertip along the keys. It courses up your arm like an electrical arc, coiling up in your chest, fuming there, crackling and spitting and pressing at the borders of what you are. It has to be released. It has to be a complete circuit. It needs you to be its conduit.

You pull off your gloves. Your hands are shaking. It’s taking every inch of willpower to keep your claws sheathed. How can you play like this? How? How can you –

Your breath shudders in and out. You remember these nerves. You remember being nervous before a performance, being attacked by that sudden, inexplicable surge of unbecoming. That seeking for some excuse, some reason to be elsewhere, some reason why the piano is faulty or you don’t have the right type of seat or anything. You remember tucking it away in that pit beneath your gut, that steadfast place that has fallen for so, so long into decrepitude.

You hear a note.

You’re realize that you’re playing. You seethe in your skin, behind your eyes, in your heart. You can’t do this. The space between notes stretches out into a dark, cold lightyear of time and space and screaming. You hear the second quiver of sound, and the third, and the fourth, and the cosmic expanse between them gradually shrinks, gradually brightens, swimming around you, through you, from your fingertips.

>(2/2)

>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OFHXmiZP38

You feel your mother’s hands an inch from yours, their thin, fragile warmth rising from the bedrock of your memory. Her nails occasionally brush at your knuckles, and she smiles. She tells you that you’re not just anyone and she holds you tight, she burns into nothing from the inside out, from that searing globule in her head, but every day that you visit her she holds your hand, and even when her mind begins to slip and her thoughts seem to splinter at the walls of her mind, she still knows your face, still knows your name. The day she died you sat with your sister all night.

You slam your fingers down on the keys. The notes leap into crashing heights and fall like hammers. Your sister becomes a porcelain giant and hurls you across the glimmering, night-time infinity. The fire blots out the stars and there is nothing but raging dark.

You walk. The notes walk you away into the horizon, far, far from home. You envelop yourself in green eyes and walk along a tightrope of searing, electric blue. You feel yourself breathe and it comes out cold, winding, stretching, and you sketch in the air everything that makes the scar home.

Those are the last notes. Those are the end. You fall away into a final spiral and let yourself drift toward the finality of things, let yourself sail, let yourself go.

You take your hands off the piano and feel yourself sigh. There is an applause of long, sacred silence.

You feel the cold cloak all of you, the far and the wide, the living and the dead.

--------------------------------------------------------------------

>THREAD 30: END

>Congratulations! X-Point!
>Congratulations! You broke Chat’s leg!
>Congratulations! You were perfect.

I’d like HMQ to return on Monday. The end of Chapter 1 looms. Keep up via twitter: https://twitter.com/CrustyJay

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>>28721591
>>28721596
>>28721605
>>28721625
>>28721642
>>28721643
>>28721703
I take it back anon, I am proud of you. You've really grown as a comic. Take my word for it, puns are my stalk and trade.

Holy shit man, are you Alan Moo- nah scratch that, are you Neil Fucking Gaiman?

>>28722020
how many x-points do we have and how many threads away are we to the end of chapter 1?

Now the question
Do we want to save for a 3 cost power or do we want to spend it for a 2 cost one.

Personally, I'm vouching for banking

>>28722105
We got two now apparently.

>>28722105
>how many x-points do we have and how many threads away are we to the end of chapter 1?

Dude, thread one ended a long while ago.

Honestly, I dunno. But we do have one X-point.

>>28722115
yup. banking

I think we should save up for Invisibility 4.

making somebody else invisible feels like a better decision atm

I want Spidey level senses too but we can't ignore the bread and butter of our core set

>>28722105
2 as of this thread

>>28722117

Guess I was wrong.

>>28722115
>Personally, I'm vouching for banking

I agree. Let's save it for Enhanced Senses or Invisibility 4.

>>28722085
Ahhhh, that's a warm glowy feeling.

>>28722105
You have two now. Imma post the list of powers momentarily.

How many threads till chapter 1 ends depends on the choices you make. Things are about to shift in gear, though.

>>28722105
We currently have 2x points.
This means we could get one of the following.
ELECTROSTATIC TOUCH (LVL2)
ENHANCED AGILITY (LVL2)
CLAWS & FANGS (LVL2)
ADHESIVE TOUCH (LVL2)
Or we could bank it and get Sense or invis 4

>>28722161
I'd say bank, because senses.

There are three types of powers you can purchase in Homeless Mutant Quest! CORE POWERS, which are the bread and butter of your powerset, SECONDARY POWERS, which are additional abilities or powers from other sets that are also appropriate to yours, and TERTIARY POWERS, which are powers only tangentially related to yours. All can be purchased and levelled, but Tertiary Powers can never be maxed out. Powers have five levels… except when they don’t.

The powers currently available to you are:

CORE POWERS:
>Invisibility Lvl4
>Enhanced Senses Lvl4

SECONDARY POWERS:
>Enhanced Agility Lvl2
>Claws & Fangs Lvl2
>Adhesive Touch Lvl2
>Electrostatic Touch Lvl2

TERTIARY POWERS:
>Enhanced Strength Lvl3
>Healing Factor Lvl3

You have two points to spend. First level powers cost one point, second level powers cost two, and so on. The exceptions are your Core Powers, which cost one less than usual.

Holy shit, that was good.

>>28722161
bank
invis 4

think of the potential of SURPRISE X-23 !!!!

and we could sneak Layla into the thor movie as a christmas present as an orphan and we don't have to spend any money!

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>>28722178
It's the sensible thing to do.

>>28722214
>bank please

>>28722214
Bwank it please

>>28722221
This so much. It's hardly stealing when you see the prices at the concession stand.

Yea, I'm for banking or enhanced agility

>>28722214
Bank

>>28722214
b-b-b-b-b-b-b-bank