Now it's Friday morning, and while you may have thought that the Danger Room was the most exciting prospect for your week the hallway of the girl's dorm is filled with excited peals and shrieks of laughter as the other students prepare for the class field trip... to Antarctica! Sam floats by your open doorway and pokes her head in, reminding you in her loud (but friendly) voice to be on time - a joke between the two of you ever since you came to the school to learn to control your strange power of temporal manipulation.

As she disappears down the hall, you take stock of the other students in the girls' wing and realize something - after a full week here there's still one student you haven't met, one door that you've never seen opened. You hadn't really thought about it until now, but the inhabitant of the room two doors down from you has (as far as you know) never been out of her room. In fact, you haven't heard anything about her since the day you arrived, when Ms. Grey casually answered your question about the electrical noises coming from the room as "just practicing her control".

Checking the time on your bedside alarm clock (the most accurate of the three clocks in your room, as the other two are used for practicing your power) you realize that you're supposed to be downstairs with the other students in five minutes. The black and yellow UMF suit you're wearing under your outfit (the same kind of suit that all your classmates wear, it seems) is like a second skin, and though you're originally from Finland and warm coats will be provided before you leave you still wonder if it will be enough.

What do, mutie scum?

YES! IT LIVES!

>>14603531
Check on the mysterious closed door student.

>>14603531
If we're to be provided with proper winter thermal gear, then just put on an extra pair of socks, and then go and knock on the door of the one girl we haven't seen. Tell her that she'll be late if she doesn't go now.

Actually, we'd better see if we have anything suitable for Antarctic weather. Better safe than sorry and all that...

Argh, I still have scenes to train!
I'll be back to contributing this quest once I am a free man.

Ha! Finnish people dont need Thick cloths to deal with cold!

>>14603583
inb4 hypothermia

I guess this issue gives the time freeze a whole new meaning, eh?

>>14603551
>>14603552

You pull on an extra pair of socks, and cushioned by the double layer and the thick carpet of the Mansion's hallway you bound down two doors, curiosity once again getting the better of you. Knocking on the door, you hear something that sounds like glass clinking, before a girl's voice says "Who is it?"

After a moment of confusion where you explain your status as the school's newest student, you open the door...

...and see a brown-haired girl standing in the middle of a glass cube that encloses nearly the whole of the room, with only a four-foot "antechamber" between the wooden door of the room and the high-tech glass door that separates the other girl from yourself. After you adjust to the scene you realize almost everything in the room is made from the same strange translucent material!

"Oh. Hello," she says, as an arc of white electricity leaps from her leg to the ground with a painful-sounding zap.

What now?

I propose we use this with UMF suit.

>>14603607
Introduce ourselves, but stay at the door. Those arcs look painful.

>>14603607
M'kay...

>>14603607
*Technically I suppose it's more of a box than a cube, since the rooms are 12 feet wide and probably not 12 feet high. So an 8x12x8 box.

>>14603607
Ask the girl if she's coming with us on the field trip.
If she is, she'll have to hurry since we're about to be late.

Also comment: "Static electricity?"

Introduce yourself, tell her that you are new and just wanted to know her.

>>14603618
>>14603622

"That's a pretty name," she says as you introduce yourself. "I'm Megan. Van Hollen," she adds. When she finds out that you're going to Antarctica as well as the others she looks a little down.

From the far end of the hallway Sam shouts "AIIIINOOOOO!", hard to hear at this distance even with her voice. Megan picks up a flat rectangular plate of glass off of a similar-materialed table and holds it up, displaying rows of tiny letters emblazoned on it. "Well, I have this to read, anyway. That'll take me all day!" she says, smiling. "You should probably go, you don't want to be late."

Wat do, Aino?

>>14603682
Excuse ourself, but ask if she'd mind talking later. Then hurry, making sure we haven't forgotten anything as we do so.

>>14603682
Excuse ourself, tell Megan that we'll talk with her when we get back.
Then run to meet Sam, and hope that we haven't forgotten anything.

Yes! I've been looking forward to the next part of this!

The limit of your control over the timestream is a bubble a hundred feet out from you - since the Mansion is considerably larger you rely only on your two feet to carry you there on time, and as you arrive you see all the other students are zipping up their parkas!

Dr. McCoy, Mr. Logan and Mr. Summers are standing in the main entry along with the students, and as Dr. McCoy pulls out a clipboard he calls each student's name in turn as they appear in their own panel, each striking a personality-appropriate expression:

* Ricardo (a hotheaded young man with the power of kinetic manipulation!)
* Clarissa (a chatty tomboy who can hear the secret language of machines!)
* Luke and Mary Ann (two young telepaths who share a common mind!)
* Caleb (a brooding young man whose powers are yet a mystery!)
* Noah (Caleb's older brother, whose touch transforms him into a duplicate of anyone!)

"Ah, there you are, Aino," McCoy says, flipping the paper on his clipboard back. As you slip into line Ricardo says "For somebody who controls time, you're late an awful lot."

Wat now?

>>14603763
Roll our eyes and put on our own parka. We don't need the approval of someone like Richard, anyway.

Where's Sam?

>>14603763
>mfw I forgot Sam
==========

Sam (your best friend at this place, whose singular power is her ability to fly!)

>>14603781
I suppose she was hovering above the others, eh?

Talk to Sam; ask her if she knows anything about the trip.

>>14603763
Hey, professor - does Noah still look like us?

Ignore Riccardo, he's a douche. Chat with Sam, Clarissa or Noah.

>>14603808
It should have worn off hours ago, right? Incidentally, we should chat with Noah, this time staying back a bit. No point in a repeat.

>>14603763
Roll eyes at Ricardo.
Ask Dr. McCoy about the particulars of this trip: where in Antarctica are we going? Will we be going to McMurdo Station?

Let's ask Sam first.

>>14603816
>>14603808
>>14603793
>>14603780
>>14603780
>>14603793

Clarissa elbows Ricardo, turning the grin he made at his own joke into a scowl. "What, it's true?" he protests from behind you.

Sam floats down next to you as Mr. Logan tosses you your own bright red parka, identical to everyone else's. "Hey. Took you long enough," she grins. "All I know about Antarctica is penguins and polar bears," she adds, before McCoy corrects her with a rather long-winded explanation of why large carnivores are not present on the surface. As you and Sam look at each other, regret over saying anything apparent in her eyes, you look back at Noah, long since back to his original form.

He notices you looking and smiles, as McCoy continues on. "First time to Antarctica?" he jokes.

>>14603864
Yeah, I guess it'll feel like home...
What are we doing there? Do you know?

"Do books count?"

Try to keep ourselves from grinning too much. Have to keep up appearances, after all, and don't want to give that idiot Ricardo more ammunition.

>>14603864
Tell him we've been to Antarctica lots of times. We even know a kind family of Polar Bears that love to drink Coke.

>>14603864

Impatient glare.

"Let's just go already."

>>14603908
Gratitude is not a crime. This is ANTARCTICA, PEOPLE. PENGUINS. ICE. MORE ICE. EVEN MORE ICE.

>>14603864
Yay!
The rehersials are over!
Also, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IjGNJPNyzU.

>>14603917

also, anti-penguins

Hm...

>>14603971
>My face when NGE was released on 1995.

>>14603848
>>14603875
>>14603879

"Yes, Aino?" McCoy asks as you raise your hand, politely interrupting his discourse. "Oh, yes, I suppose you weren't there when we first discussed it. We're going to East Antarctica, quite a distance from McMurdo Station, I'm afraid. We'll be taking some samples of bacteria to study once we return. There's also a chance we might see the aurora australis while we're there."

As you zip up your own parka, ensuring it fits properly, you realize that rather than heading for the garage to drive to an airport, the students are filing out of the room after the teachers, deeper into the Mansion! As Sam waves you along you follow, confused, as you enter a room you've never been in and see what looks like elevator doors - indeed, they are, as everyone steps inside and the the doors close.

Sam grins at you as the elevator descends, and just as the doors open she says "You'll like this."

Outside the doors waits a sleek, snub-nosed monorail, two mirror-image cars joined end to end, aimed at a metallic blue tunnel that stretches off into the distance! As the other students look around with varying degrees of wonder or feigned jadedness you all board it, and sitting inside its soft padded benches the tunnel begins to blur past!

A moment later it slows to a stop, and the doors slide open, revealing a large hangar with a high-tech jet plane waiting!

>>14603983
"WOOOOOAH!!!"
Our inner nerd must be going crazy.
"How fast does it go?"

>>14603983
"How does the government even permit you to fly this thing .... let alone own it?"

>>14603983
Gape in awe. Try not to drool.

And oh, I still have one spot left in MQ'ish PnP group so I'll promote it here as well.
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/gameview.html?id=272

>>14603983
Let our inner geek gape at the jet and then bother Dr. McCoy with questions.
"What's the maximum speed and ceiling? Does it use a pulse jet or a ramjet? I don't see a runway or other opening, so it goes straight up? It has a VTOL system?"

>>14603997
equally important to a burgeoning nerd: What's its flight ceiling?

>>14604045
See >>14604021.

in short, cool plane wat do

>>14604021
>>14604017
>>14604012
>>14603997

"Betcha didn't know they had a plane," Sam says, poking you in the side jokingly. "So what do you think?" It takes her a moment to realize that you're not next to her anymore, instead pressing McCoy for details!

"Er, it can reach Mach 2 at sea level, but at its maximum flight ceiling I believe it can edge just over Mach 4. The government, well... the Professor has a special relationship with the government. If you're interested Mr. Summers offers a piloting course for the third-year students."

As the others climb up the crew ladder into the fuselage McCoy assures you that there will be plenty of time for questions once they're in the air. Mr. Logan casts a critical eye over all the students as they find their seats, then growls "Listen up, half-pints. Where we're going is no place to joke around. You don't want to end up lost or dead, you do what we say. That means no horsing around and no leaving the group. Got it?"

"You ready, Slim?" he calls up to Mr. Summers, who begins prepping the plane from his place in the pilot's seat. "OK, I've said my piece, so uh... have fun," Mr. Logan adds before turning and finding his own seat nearer to the front, leaving you and the other students in the rear passenger compartment unchaperoned.

>>14604068
"This. Is. Awesome."

Look around the cabin, though I don't suppose there's much to see.

>>14604068
I strap up to my seat.
It's time to fly, LIKE AN EEEEEEEEAAAAGLEEEEEE!!!

Brace ourself!

>>14604068
Press Sam for more details and secrets about the Mansion we haven't been privy to yet. Ask her if she's been in this plane before, and what it's like.

>>14604100
I think we have been on a plane once before.
We did move from Finland to US after all.

>>14604116
This isn't just any old plane! Just look at those engines!

Oh hey it's mutie quest.
Oh lord and Time quest is on another page.
Now all we need is Bootleg Damacy.

And I guess we spend our flight talking girly stuff with Sam.

>>14604116
Bah, that was on a conventional Boeing 747 passenger plane. A commercial plane meant for plebians.
This! This is a Mach 4 capable ramjet-equipped jet! This is in a completely different league from the 747.

>>14604135
Oh, cheer up. It's a jet plane. En route to Antarctica. All we need now are cyborg penguins.

>>14604128
>>14604143
>>14604068
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_SR-71_Blackbird

>>14604095
>>14604096
>>14604097
>>14604100

The walls outside the plane begin to move, and you realize that the plane itself is on a giant turntable, slowly spinning to the side! After a moment it shudders and stops, and through the windows above its nose you can see an underground runway sloping upward!

Mr. Logan pokes his head back in just long enough to bark "Getcher belts on!" and make sure everyone straps themselves in before retreating to the front cabin again.

"Hold on to your butts," Sam grins as the jet lurches forward, speeding up the runway! As the shaft blurs past on either side the walls are suddenly illuminated, and a moment later the craft shoots into the bright sky!

As it climbs higher and higher into the air, Sam says "Oh, yeah, I've been in it twice before. Once when we went to Mozambique so Mary Ann could be in her sister's wedding, and once when we went to California."

"Other secrets, huh," she smiles. "Guess you'll have to find out!"

Caleb and Ricardo unbuckle their straps as soon as the plane levels, shucking off their parkas. "It's gonna be like three hours, you know," Ricardo says to you. "You gonna sit and sweat the whole time?"

>>14604202
Unzip our parka. Ignore Ricardo, the ass.

Hug Sam.
Say Hi to Clarissa.
Say Hi to Luke & Mary Ann
Ask them if they know any more Cool Stuff the mansion has - besides the danger room and this jet.
Say Hi to Noah.
Ask obvious non-CCA-approved questions OFF-PANEL about what he did while shapeshifted. Imply results in CCA approved manners.

>>14604202
"I-it is okay to move?"
With a puzzled look to some more experienced passangers I act accordingly.
Anyhow, I will mingle with students as much as I can, having some good time.

>>14604202
"Plenty of time. There's no hurry."

Smile, wish we had sunglasses, then say. "I suppose you could say...that I have time on my hands."

>>14604228
Noah is Clarissas' and we are not a man stealing bitch.
We can speak about it in friendly manner though.

>>14604234
YEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!!!

>>14604202
Are there any staff not actively involved in the piloting of the plane? We can ask them questions about what their job is, and what it's like, to work at Xavier's School.

>>14604202
Smile smugly at Riccardo. "Not necessarily. How long is the plane in total, nose to tail?"

>>14604228
this will make us look like a giant slowpoke

>>14604272
To be fair, they've been at the mansion about 100 times longer than we have.

>>14604263
If you are thinking of what I think that you are thinking, I advice that you ask the teachers first before doing anything.

>>14604289
duh. But how we phrase it...... that can make all the difference. After all, not only would it get us there faster, but it would save fuel, and provide a safe, non-combat oriented outlet for our powers, which the faculty is supposed to be all about.

>>14604289
I think so, Time, but where are we going to find a carnival float on a jet plane?

>>14604313
Let's not. We might be a bit of a stubborn show-off, but crashing an expensive plane would be an excellent way to get grounded. Again.

We wander about the plane, explore it for a bit, talk more with Sam?

>>14604313
McCoy would be happy about the (mad) scientific part of it.
Whomever is the pilot wouldn't be too happy piloting a Mach 10+ plane so that we don't hit anything with a force of a tactical nuke.

>>14604313
Uh, no, it wouldn't.
We would only end up stopping time on the Blackbird, and there's not telling how that would work when we're flying well above the maximum range of our powers. We could end up dropping like a rock out of the sky since the engines are frozen in time.

And if you're thinking about using a constrained tachyon bubble to accelerate the Blackbird's motion, we have no control over it and could result in us launching the plane into low-Earth orbit.

>>14604314
Don't they keep one in the back for heroic entries?

>>14604330
that depends on whether or not he'd like to technically break an air-speed record for a passenger-laden plane. And it's not like he wouldn't have plenty of Time to react to any of the slow-moving stuff outside.

>>14604256
>>14604247
>>14604231
>>14604228
>>14604224

"Oh, um," Noah say, putting one hand on the back of his head and looking away nervously. "Yeah, well, it could have been worse," he says, turning back and giving you a sheepish grin. "I could have looked like Ricardo."

At that moment Sam grabs your hand and pulls you away. "Come on, they've got soda in the galley dispenser." As she drags you past Clarissa talking with Luke and Mary Ann toward the front of the plane Dr. McCoy looks up from his book and uncrosses his legs. "Enjoying the flight, girls?"

"Oh, that's, well, where to start?" McCoy says when you ask him about the School. "I was actually in the first class at Xavier's, though no doubt my youth and vanity would deny that. Living there full-time is a strange mix - weeks with seemingly nothing amiss, followed by days or weeks of dealing with this or that oddity, then back to tranquility again. Of course, the chance to inspire the youth of today is its own reward," he finishes.

>>14604352
Just that the things are moving slow around us, doesn't make dodging any easier on those speeds.
I bet our radar would stop working too.

>>14604361
SODA!!!!
...
FRIENDS!!!!
...
SCIENCE!!!
...
><;;; 15-year-old-girl-on-sugar-drinks-ADHD-mode ACTIVATE!!!

>>14604361
"What kind of oddities?"

(The Blackbird will fit inside your bubble, but as said, it might cause trouble...)

>>14604382
Exploration time!

That, or talk with Sam about what she's been doing?

>>14604372
true, instruments would be off, so it's all be manual flying.... Better not to test it unless we have a REALLY good reason to.

>>14604382
I bet we accidentaly speak on hyperspeed when hopped on coffeine and/or sugar.

>>14604352
Only things INSIDE of our static tachyon field of effect are slowed down. Everything outside of it continues to move ahead at the regular rate of time.
So your idea won't work.

>>14604396
I second this. Also, it varies wildly from phrase to phrase.

>>14604393
I guess Sam would need some company, considering her mental state.

>>14604393
Good plan. Talk to Sam about her studies.
Ask McCoy exactly how he wants to inspire the youth - what feelings, or actions, he wants to inspire from them?

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Spam click NPCs and, for every word in {brackets}, reply "{bracketed word}?". Acquire quests.
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>>14604412
>Speaking with stupid sexy Bobby.
Ultraslow.
>Sharing a story with friends.
Ultraspeed.

>>14604400
we already proved last thread that we can speed things up as well as slow them down. We accelerated Sam in the fight in the danger room, didn't we?

>>14604396
I used to know teenaged girls that did that without time powers.

>>14604361
I wonder why we've never seen two Clarissas together, if Noah and she are a couple, and Noah morphs into whoever he touches.

>>14604438
Nope. We accelerated ourselves to make a KO punch.
Also our trick of throwing shit out to milkyway is about acceleration.

But anyhow, messing with time is one of the things you shouldn't do when in the Mile High Club.

>>14604445
Give it time. Also, a possible area for intervention on Sam's behalf? Something for later, perhaps?

Don't even THINK of using your powers in mid-flight

>>14604383
>>14604393

"Oh, masked crusaders on our front lawn, worrying about the situation in Genosha, trying to keep up with my peers in research - and teaching you on top of that. I don't know how Charles managed us those first years. I would have lost all my hair."

"And I had a lot less hair back then," he adds

You hear a burst of laughter from the rear cabin, and as you and Sam investigate, sodas in hand, you see that Clarissa has connected Ricardo's Game Boy to a large monitor, and the students are all clustered around watching her guide Super Mario through the level!

"They didn't design this think with kids in mind, so we've gotta make our own fun where we can," Sam says.

Any other plans for the rest of the flight, mutarino?

Awfully good sentence considering that we ARE dealing with mind-readers.

>>14604495
Actually, let's experiment. What happens if we activate our powers, just around ourselves...

FOR SCIENCE.

>>14604468
true. We keep our powers on standby until there's a solid piece of the planet in direct contact with our feet.

>>14604495
I think I have an idea. Gentlemen, take your pick.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1995_in_video_gaming

>>14604445
>I wonder why we've never seen two Clarissas together, if Noah and she are a couple, and Noah morphs into whoever he touches.

Noah and Clarissa aren't together; Sam has a crush on Noah, but that's the only relationship aspect you know of with him.

>>14604495
>Any other plans for the rest of the flight, mutarino?
Hug Sam.
Read books and/or play video games.
Land in the ANTARCTICA.

Time stop, remove SuperGameboy cart and insert Chrono Trigger for TEH EPIC LULZ

>>14604438
>We accelerated Sam in the fight in the danger room, didn't we?
No, we didn't. We only controlled the tachyon field so that she wasn't caught in it when we slowed time around us.

>>14604524
I think we just found out a way to help our bro with a skirt.

>>14604524
Oh.
...
Ask Sam how she'd deal with Noah as a boyfriend, if Noah turned into her every time she hugged him.
Trollface.jpg at the resulting conflicting emotions as they scrunch up Sam's face.

>>14604445
ahem, CCA sir this is a family comic quest.

>>14604561
Touching can be innocent you... You pervert!

>>14604561
Communist imposter detected.

>>14604548
Let's try and avoid setting Sam off again, at least for now. No need to risk ruining the trip for her.

>>14604572
I suppose you're right. We can do it on the flight home.
I hope we don't release any giant bactieria. And if we do, I hope we brought lots of Head & Shoulders.

>>14604580
I saw what you did there...

>>14604570
*Accidenly brush against person while turning around to talk to the person behind you in the queue*
"CREEPER!"

>>14604361
we could also ask Sam if she knows anything about Megan Van Hollen.

Urge...to make...anime...joke...rising.

I say we explore the jet. Plenty of time, right?

>>14604623
You can make it if you want to.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiPAt8P4-14

>>14604623
>oh yea baby, we have plenty o'time. In fact, all of it.
Don't mind me, just practicing our evil mode for when we derail this and join the Brotherhood.

>>14604572
Idea for when we get back to the mansion: Ask Noah to touch Sam and become her for a while. Let's see how far the transformation goes. If it's all the way down to the genetic, then he should be able to duplicate her powers while he's in that form. Then they can hit the danger room together and she an teach him how to fly in her body. They get a bonding experience, we get to satisfy our intellectual curiosity and adolescent urge to meddle in others' lives. If he doesn't get the powers along with the shape, have him hold her hand and then touch him lightly, to see if he can turn into a composite of two different people.

this whole hook sam up with noah thing is going to be a touchy and hyper complicated thing. too bad we cant ask anyone older than us. oh wait ask Dr. McCoy, watch him squirm like hell with the uncomfortable questions and weasel answers from noah of how he see sam, possibly then get gambit to teach Noah how to be a mack daddy of dey cajunman variety, have him awkwardly and stublingly try to woo sam. lulz ensue. equip trollface.

>>14604637
Would require Noah's consent.
He would not offer it, as he does not like transforming.

>>14604616
well that was too slow of me...

>>14604651
>>14604637
>>14604540
Just a question, but if we hook Noah up with Sam, then, um, who is going to be Aino's waifu and/or hasubando?
If there's one thing you can trust about women, is that they WILL try to secure a hasubando for themselves before helping anyone else.

"Go, go, go!" Sam shouts as you frantically mash the buttons over and over, tongue jutting out determinedly as Mario leaps across the chasm, trounces his foe, and - success!

"Yeah!" the others on your team shout, as that last move puts you ahead in the final round of this impromptu game of team-vs-team Super Mario Land! You and Sam hug each other tightly as Clarissa trash-talks the boys' team, to which Ricardo is happy to respond.

"Hey!" Mr. Logan says, sticking his head in the cabin again. "Quiet that racket down, we're about to land. And get yer belts back on."

A few minutes later you feel the plane begin to sink as the clouds below rise up to envelop you - and when they part the land beneath gleams with pristine white nothingness!

"OK, we're here," Mr. Logan says once the plane lands. Out the windows you can see a the top of a lone brown mountain peak jutting up out of the ice that rises up around it, and more towering crests of blue-white ice around it. As everyone pulls their parkas back on Dr. McCoy and Mr. Summers join the group.

"Now students, we're looking for samples of life that will most likely be embedded in ice. The best way to find it is to look for a discoloration or a dirty-looking section of the cliff wall," McCoy says as he hands out small racks of rubber-covered containers and hand chisels. "You'll each form teams of two and spread out along the cliff wall," he says, handing a set to you.

"And stay where we can see you," Mr. Summers adds.

>>14604637
>If he doesn't get the powers along with the shape, have him hold her hand and then touch him lightly, to see if he can turn into a composite of two different people.
>My face.

>>14604637
This can only end well.

>>14604665
you fool, Dr. BIG BLUE SEXY McCoy has been, is , and will always be our husbando.

Let's keep the mad science to ourselves for a while, shall we? Come on, we still have to understand our time control!

For now, prepare for our first steps on Antarctica. We're working with Sam, right?

>>14604666
Try to hook Noah with Sam or vice versa.
They can have some bonding experience while getting samples when we familiarize ourselves with other students further.

>>14604666
Ask for flares. Doesn't hurt to be safe.

>>14604687
we should ask if we can decide who to work with, or if the teams have already been made, first.

>Find archaic celluæ
>Reverse Tachyon field up this bitch.
>Jurassic Park 2: electric Boogaloo
FOR SCIENCE, ????->PROFIT!, etc.

>>14604665
Use SCIENCE! to solve excess zappy problems of Megan Van Lightning Cube, so she can go out in planes and shit.
Recieve gratitude.
???
Profit!

>>14604709
We relly shouldn't....
>Implying it wouldn't be a Skrull or something like that.

>>14604687
Anyone but ricardo anyone but ricardo anyone but ricardo

>>14604616
>>14604548

"Megan? Oh, right, her!" Sam says, seeming to have forgotten that the girl lives down the hall from her. "She can't really go out of that room unless she has this special suit on, but I think it's probably hard to walk around in. She starts fires and stuff just from being around something."

"I think her parents might have died when she, you know... turned into a mutant." Sam confides.

"Oh, God," she says when you turn the subject around to Noah. "He doesn't want to go out with me!" she whispers, a moment before Mr. Summers interrupts the two of you.

"Girls!" he shouts, and you notice he's wearing a pair of red-visored goggles with a thick strap around the back over his eyes. "Everyone else is already off the jet! Let's go."

"Sorry, Mr. Summers," Sam monotones as you and her clamber down the ladder and out onto the frozen Antarctic surface to where the six other students and the senior staff stand in a group.

What now?

>>14604666
Go with Sam and try to find some interesting samples.
Sam's ability to fly should really help us out here.
Mention that this reminds us of Finland.

>>14604726

Time for our first vote of the day!

Declare who you want paired together and roll a d100! The highest of three rolls will be the decider. To roll, put noko dice 1d100 in the email field.

Let's go with Caleb! Time's plan seems sound, maybe suggest to Noah that he go with Sam?

rolled 15 = 15

>>14604743
Aino x Sam
Luke x Mary Ann
Noah x Clarissa
Ricardo x Caleb

rolled 21 = 21

>>14604743
Clarissa
It's time Sam got some bonding with Noah.

Beast, and challenge him to a D-D-D-DUEL!!!!!

Ok, fine, get Ricardo and try to bury the hatchet. We don't want this Sam bitch to get too dependant on us bad for her.

rolled 13 = 13

Rolling for Caleb, I derped again.

>>14604743
Man, 4chan lagged for three full minutes before it posted that.

rolled 30 = 30

Sam + Clarissa
Noah + Roberto
Mary-Ann + Caleb
Luke + Us

>>14604757
Balls.

rolled 90 = 90

>>14604743
Go with Sam!

>>14604759
And I said Clarissa only because she was first to come in mind.
If people want to roll with Caleb then by all means, count me in.

rolled 19 = 19

>>14604761
Forgot to roll. Meh.

rolled 28, 4, 16, 6 = 54

>>14604757
>>14604759
>>14604763
>>14604765
My fucking face when.

>>14604759
Highest of three by the way.
Like I said. All that matters is that Noah gets Sam.

rolled 72 = 72

>>14604755
this we need to be find cracks in his armor and how to help Sam get some of that awkward confusing teenage boy attention from him

rolled 48 = 48

>>14604783
BUT GUYS, HOW IS SHAPEPHIFTER GUY CONNA DET A HJ!?
A Skin!? That's just beyond retarded.

rolled 85 = 85

Us paired with Roberto.

rolled 17 = 17

>>14604798
CCA! CCA!

Also, Noah and Sam. Make it happen.

"Huh?" Sam says as you press your supplies into her hands and push her sideways. "Oof!" she exclaims, colliding with another student and when she looks up and realizes the person in the other parka is Noah she looks at you in astonishment.

"Oh, hey," Clarissa says as you grab her gloved hand with your own. "Partners?" she asks holding up her own batch of supplies.

"All right, let's try some samples here, and we'll move down the face of the cliff as long as the weather remains so benevolent," McCoy says, demonstrating how to collect material and use the biological analyzer to determine its sterility. Across the bright white ice you can see Mr. Logan standing at the foot of the Blackbird's ladder smoking a cigar.

"You aced that science test on Thursday, didn't you?" Clarissa asks, smiling. "Lucky me!"

And with that, the groups spreads out and begin chipping away at the ice!

Anything else you want to do while you're here?

>>14604812
So does this mean Aino has to flirt with Clarissa? Or, are we flirting with Assassin's Creed 3?

>>14604820
Build igloo.

rolled 22 = 22

>>14604743
Noah x Sam
Clarissa x Aino
Ricardo x Caleb

I'm guessing Luke and Mary Ann will go together.

>>14604823
There is not time for love when there is SCIENCE to be done!

rolled 37 = 37

>>14604798 off topic
kinky latex body suits are standard for xmen sir. thats how.

>>14604820
Wish Sam luck
Then, time for DOUBLE SPEED BUBBLE of MAXIMUM SAMPLE OBTAINING for Clarissa and Aino.
Ask Clarissa if she is able to make the technological doohickies we've been given work more accurately, or faster (that's her mutant power)
We're going to be the COLLECT SAMPLEST TEAM EVER

rolled 14 = 14

>>14604820
Take a quick look around. We came all the way here, so we might as well enjoy the view...

>>14604835
Sounds neat.
>Captcha: the hembeee
I guess we find one of those in permafrost.

rolled 73 = 73

Ask Logan if he's got any cigs to spare. Then tell him Solid Snake>Rambo>>>>Him

>>14604871
But solid snake and rambo are fictional.
Think before you speak, mutie.

I took a few minutes to make this, to clear up any confusion people are having over exactly how Aino's power seems to work. The inner bubble of normal time can be altered in size, but the outer limit remains static.

rolled 23 = 23

>>14604820
>step 1 find penguin
>step 2 entice penguin with promises of anchovies and delicious snax
>step 3 ??????
>step 4 penguin acquired, now time to show how much better of a mutant girl than kitty pryde you are.

>>14604882
>He thinks Rambo is fictional.

Don't mock my religion boy.

>>14604884
So how'd we do that speed punch thing?

>>14604891
Itisamystery

>>14604820
Look for good samples.
Ask Clarissa why Ricardo has to be such an ass all the time.

rolled 29 = 29

>>14604885
This is now Penguin Quest. More specifically, our Quest to Find the Penguin Colony. (Now with Extra Caps.)

>>14604884
I still say build and igloo.

>>14604871
ahem its properly this
snake plisskin>Jack Burton>>>>>>>>>>>Solid Snake=Rambo> karl lagerfeild>>>>annette funicello>>>>> that gay guy from americas next top model>>>>aunt Jemima>> denise richards>>>>>>ricky martin>>>>>linetrap>>>>>>Him

>>14604885
Penguins, Ho!

More seriously, we warp time, get the samples, THEN get our penguin.

>>14604524

WAAAAAAIIIiiiiit a minute

Does that mean that Sam just want to make out with herself?

>>14604885
>A time controlling superhero with a penguin sidekick.
>My face when I have no face
Captcha: watsuji anctinc

>>14604937
No. Bad mutant. Bad. Mind, gutter, out!

Tachion field a colony of penguins up the next level.

inb4evolutiondoesn'tworklikethat!

>>14604919
>About to call out on Jack Burton because thinking Jack Bauer
>Remember Jack Burton
Alright... you can stay.

>>14604937
I'm sure there are easier ways for her to do that.

So, that's decided then.
We find samples
We find a penguin
Noah and Sam engage in off-screen plot
We fly home, and ask Sam what she thinks about making out with herself.

Fund it!

>>14604958
What about my damned igloo?

"Oh, wow, that's a great idea," Clarissa says, turning the sampling device over in her hands. "Let's see-"

The sampler beeps twice, and Clarissa looks up happily. "I think it's overclocking itself now. You wanna try over there?" she asks, gesturing at a smudge on the wall of ice. A few minutes later you are rewarded as the slushy pieces of dirt you chip off of the wall turn out to be rich with bacillus hembeeus, according to Clarissa's modified mechanism!

With four of your six sample containers filled, you find yourself outdistancing the other groups, and soon you and Clarissa can barely see the Blackbird. Dr. McCoy is some fifty yards back along the cliff wall with another group, seemingly engrossed in what they've found.

As Clarissa takes a moment to recalibrate the scanner you look out at the endless expanse of white that stretches away toward the ocean McCoy said was two hundred miles away, you see a glimmer of something darker than the ice - darker, yet still reflective. Squinting harder at it makes it no easier to see.

What do?

Fucking penguins, how do they work?

>>14604958
Actually, let's skip the last one. Don't want to ruin Sam's day after we went to so much effort, right?

>>14604937
its perfectly ok as long as its able to be confused for a clone.

>>14604962
We shouldn't...
We really shouldn't...
...

Oh well, plan "beer penguin" is go!

rolled 17 = 17

>>14604978
Codename:PEN_SQR

We investigate the ice! Time distortion should help us on that front, yes?

>>14604977
Didn't you post this up-thread :P

>>14604971
It better be a fucking penguin.
If not, we're building a goddamn igloo.

How far away is it? Also, do we have flares?
We might as well go investigate, but be prepared for a Random Encounter™ to happen.
If it's more than about 500 meters away, better inform the adults what we're doing FIRST, as they won't hear us scream any further away than that if shit hits the fan.

rolled 20 = 20

>>14605000
This. And keep an eye out for shoggoths.

>>14604971
"Clarissa, could you wait here a second? I'll go check something out."
After that I will activate some avarage form of self acceleration and proceed to investigate the black spot.

>>14604998
i cant help being a hypocrite. its in my genetics

>>14604975
... Lol huh
Collect every samples! No point sandbagging ourselves for the sake of someone that will NOT BE UPSET AT ALL. She's not jealous of our ability to sample rocks, brosef. She's jealous of Noah and the Danger Room.

>>14604971
Ask Dr. McCoy for a pair of binoculars.
If we go to check it out, let him know where we're going. Just because we're going to do something dangerous, doesn't mean we can't be responsible.

>>14605013
Mutant scum.

>>14605018
And the powers. Best keep this little adventure to ourself, mkay?

>>14604996
No, it won't. See >>14604884 for how our power works.

>>14605033
That means the wind will slow as it passes through the bubble. Less wind= less unpleasantless.

rolled 36 = 36

>>14604971

Don't go too far away

don't let the Blackbird out of your sight.

You wouldn't want to get lost in this place

>>14605053
That depends on if getting lost would lead to finding penguins or not...

>>14605053
That is exactly what I want.

RUN TO THE MYSTERY!

I mean Logan's dog nose will find us eventually anyway.

Worse comes to worse and we have time bubble to act as insulation from Antarctica's unbearable cold.

>>14605073
No, getting lost will not help you find a penguin. There's a million square km of antarctica and, like, 1000 penguin colonies. You probably won't find a penguin.

>>14604996
>>14605000
>>14605009
>>14605008

"Huh? Oh, yeah, OK," Clarissa says, seemingly deep in conversation with the scanner. You look back at the other team, see McCoy's back turned, and decide not to bother him, instead walking out across the icy ground toward the dark shape. It's not more than fifty feet from the cliff wall, but it still takes you a minute of real time to walk to it. As you approach, you concentrate and feel the tachyon field around you begin to slow as you dam the timestream with your mind.

On approach, the shape resolves itself into a smooth rounded hump of metal that rises up out of the ice at waist height, once reddish or purple in color, now streaked in black marks. In some places the painted surface has flecked off, revealing a shiny silver gleam underneath.

Puzzled, you walk around the far side of it and look down, where something lies buried only inches below the surface.

Your eyes trail across the ice, and take in the full form entombed just below your feet - a huge robotic humanoid twenty feet tall!

>>14605077
>Slows time down
>Molecules move slower
>Temperature proportional to energy of molecule
>Makes you even colder

Hahanope.jpg

We need professional help, as we're experiencing suicidal impulses.

Penguins good. Freezing to death bad. Investigate the black patch if possible, but if it's out of reach, our penguin friend will have to wait until another day.

>>14605090
"Hey McCoy! I found something!"
(We will NOT metagame this up.)

>>14605090
First reaction: it's not a Penguin.
Second reaction: Investigate, then go back, let the others know. This probably shouldn't be here.

>>14605090
Go and get McCoy!

>>14605090
>Suddenly:Sentinels!SENTINELS EVERYWHERE!

If possible, shout for Dr. McCoy, otherwise go back for him.

rolled 63 = 63

>>14605112
penguis good, giant robots are also good, however sentenels arent good. can we check to see if this giant robot is piloted by a penguin?

rolled 12 = 12

>>14605090
IT'S A TRAP!!!

Stop time.

Grab Clarissa and run back to the blackbird.

Inform of your find to McCoy and Logan.

>>14605097
But the immediate area around us is the same speed which means that energy cannot radiate into the field of slowed time therefore the heat will stay in the small bubble of normal speed around us.

>>14605138
inb4 Penguin Sentinel Mark I

>>14605149
The Penguin Army marches on Washington this night!

Seriously, investigate, then call out.

>>14605090
>Get Clarissa
>Make her fix robot
>???
>PROFIT!

>>14605090
This would be when we get Mr. Summers, Mr. McCoy and Mr Logan's attention by informing them that we have found a thing.
Deploy a flare. Heck, deploy TWO and throw one into the air like a rocket (lawnchair), call for them, and inform them that you have located a robot.

rolled 92 = 92

>>14605160
THIS, YES!!!!! OUR OWN GIANT ROBO. FUCK YES, I FUCKING LOVE MUTIE QUEST

>>14605160
Wasn't there this one guy who had a reprogrammed sentinel as his sidekick?

>>14605111
>>14605112
>>14605116
>>14605130

Dr. McCoy looks up from the distance and waves, then hands something to the students he's with and begins walking toward you . Clarissa, however, is much closer, having followed you out to where the huge robot's foot juts from the surface.

"What is it?" she asks in wonderment, looking at it. You see her eyes flutter in that way that you've seen her do around machines, and suddenly she gasps! As you look down, the robot's huge head, big enough for you to fit inside, seems to shudder and its eyes begin to glow!

Suddenly, the gigantic foot next to you shifts!

WAT DO?

>>14605189
"Ummm. A little help, Clarissa?"
TIme to get ourselves a private Sentinel.
Of course we will dodge any hostile action.

>>14605189

Call Clarissa foul names, slow time of giant killer robot.
Or, more realistically, stagger backwards and go "Duh?!"

>>14605189
Contract safe-time-bubble around us to just Aino and Clarissa. Slow down giant robot as much as possible until McCoy gets here. Grab ice pick and prepair to RKV it if necessary.

>>14605199

>TIme to get ourselves a private Sentinel.
>iseewhatyoudidthere.png

>>14605189
This would be a good time to Shout, Slow time on the robot, and ask Clarissa if the robot is hostile.

rolled 87 = 87

>>14605189
Slow time, pull Clarissa back. We dun goofed.

>>14605186
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentinel_%28comic_book%29

>>14605186
Lies, Bastilla was our sidekick!

rolled 85 = 85

>>14605189
"Did you do something, Clarissa?"

if she did not

then stop time and GTFO
or ask her if she can affect it

You turn and grab Clarissa, hurrying back across the ice toward Dr. McCoy, still a hundred yards away! Behind you the icy ground shatters as the robot forces itself up with squeals and clanking, before it booms out in a hollow mechanical voice "MUTANTS LOCATED, PROCEEDING WITH APPREHENSION."

As you flee across the ice it rises to its full height and thuds one giant foot down after the other, gaining on you with huge loping strides!

If you want to use your power or Clarissa's power (or both) roll 2d100! Highest of 3 decides!

>>14605265
We both run while using our power, Clarissa tries to shut it back down as we do a sir robin...

rolled 92, 5 = 97

>>14605265

Slow time to give Clarissa time to work her power without being shot at.

rolled 20, 85 = 105

>>14605265
Can we use our powers on only a section of the bubble? If so just slow time behind us, don't want to catch up to the group and get someone stuck in slow time.

rolled 98, 10 = 108

>>14605278
Roll. And RUN LIKE HELL.

rolled 18, 98 = 116

>>14605265
We slow time
Clarissa tries to affect the robot - making it slower, more passive, or deactivate it.
Dice btw

rolled 21, 83 = 104

Both, and hurry!

rolled 57, 90 = 147

>>14605265
"CLARISSA! DO IT!!!"
Of course I will keep her safe with my own power as well as I can.

rolled 66, 83 = 149

>>14605280
>>14605282
>>14605283
>>14605294

So, let me get this straight.
For 4 posts in a row, we've had one really high roll and one really shit one, and they've alternated.
The /tg/ dice are just plain fucking with us now.

>>14605308
Add in >>14605296 for 5 posts.

rolled 16, 54 = 70

>>14605265

Use both!

rolled 58 = 58

>>14605265
and i had such high hopes for tengen toppen gurren lagan featuring Aino and her sentinel.

rolled 50, 77 = 127

Use powers to slow it down, ask clarissa to shut it off or reformat its hard drive.

Suddenly you spin around, digging your boots into the ice and thrusting your hands outward with a cry! The air around you ripples and stills, and as the tachyon field stretches out and splashes over the huge robot it slows to a crawl, blaring "TEMPORAL DISTURBANCE DETEC-" in its harsh voice before freezing as motionless as it had been a moment ago - although now it hangs in mid-stride, seemingly off-balance and ready to topple over!

Clarissa looks up at it, then around at you, caught inside the bubble of realtime while the world around you pauses. "Look-" she points, and your concentration over the tachyon field is enought that you can turn, to where McCoy stands transfixed as well.

"Girls-" he shouts, before realizing that he is unstuck and the robot is still held fast. "Er, come away from there right now!"

"It's OK, Dr. McCoy," Clarissa says, staring intently at it. "It's not going to try to hurt us any more."

"Were I sure I could be sure of that," McCoy says, taking you both gently but firmly by the hand, before letting go of your own. "Er, Aino, I wonder if you wouldn't mind holding it in place a bit longer until Mr. Summers and Mr. Logan get here?" he asks, as other figures race across the ice toward you.

What now?

>>14605341
If we would make him our sidekick we could say that we are timetravellers from the future!

>>14605341
Who needs a Sentinel when we'll have A PENGUIN!!!1

>>14605349
Hold it in place, but keep back out of its reach. If it starts shouting "ALERT ALERT MUTANT DETECTED" or "EXTERMINATE", we'll probably need Clarissa to do her thing again.

>>14605349
I ask if Clarissa made it passive (or even allied) and then we eather let down the field or not, depending on the answer.
Field goes off if answer is positive.
Field stays up if answer is negative.

>>14605354

OR, just putting this out there, we could rebuild the Sentinel to look like a penguin.

>>14605349
Obviously hold it in place, Aino is allergic to being squished to paste. Also, ask Clarissa to clarify what she meant by not going to try to hurt us. Did she pacify it?

>>14605350
better yet, it can detect temporal disturbances. It just announced as much. We can use it as a training aid while Clarissa reverse-engineers it. Sentinel-tech power armor for everybody!

>>14605349
we hold it frozen until Summers and Logan arrive, then try to explain that Clarissa has subdued it.

>>14605354
You say that like we can only have one. Or like we couldn't use the Sentinel as a personal transport device for us and the penguin...
But that reminds me, we need to decide what type of penguin we're going for.

rolled 8 = 8

>>14605354
well the penguin would take the place of Boota

rolled 59 = 59

>>14605349
Do what McCoy says

>>14605397
King pingvin

>>14605397

Emperor, of course. All the other rad looking ones live elsewhere

rolled 92 = 92

>>14605349
While we are waiting for Logan and Summers ask McCoy if Clarissa could reprogram the robot with her Machine Powers.

Guys, I get that Aino probably thinks penguins are awesome, but she's a 15-year-old science geek who just found a GIANT FUCKING ROBOT embedded in ice. She's kind of distracted.

>>14605397
Fairy Penguin, of course.

Lower the field enough so that the robot starts moving - slowly. If it acts hostile, or announces anything hostile, shut the damn robot down completely.
Keep Clarissa nearby if possible, she probably knows how to calm it or at least disable it.

We will call the sentinel sidekick Penguin and possible penguin will be called Sentinel.

Yeah, talk to Clarissa fix the giant robot so it be our Penguin friend.

rolled 22 = 22

>>14605414
i had an image in my head of a penguin wearing corpse paint and holding an axe screaming into a microphone.

>>14605371
>>14605372

Mr. Summers and Mr. Logan arrive at last, and between the three adults they come up with a plan, still not trusting Clarissa's control over the thing, despite her protests to the contrary.

"Aino, I want you to try and move your bubble so its head is in normal time," Mr. Summers says, adjusting his red goggles. "I'm going to incapacitate it."

Reluctant to disobey a teacher, you do what he asks, nudging the bubble of realspace around you just far enough out for its head to poke through the tachyon field. As Mr. Summers begins to lift his visor the machine utters one more proclamation:

"NEW PARAMETERS ACKNOWLEDGED, PRINCESS CLARISSA."

"What?" she asks as you look at her. "It's what all the machines call me."

"Oh, my," McCoy says.

>>14605445
No, I'm not sure Sentinels are housebroken. Housebreakers, yes...

>>14605440
if we lower the field a little, have Clarissa test her control by having it sing 'I'm a little teapot'. (I'd rather 'I am the very model of a modern major general', but I think the classics are a bit out of Aino and Clarissa's fields of study so far.)

>>14605462
I put on my coolface.
"Is this counted as a specimen Mr.McCoy?"

>>14605462
Command that Clarissa sends the Sentinel to find us penguins!

>>14605462

YES! ADVENTURE AWAITS, FRIENDS! Now to convince Clarissa to make RoboPen recognize us as owners as well...

rolled 50 = 50

>>14605462
>PRINCESS CLARISSA

oh god i LOL`ed. this would have been the best x series in the 90`s

>>14605462
"Princess" Clarissa.
...
Giggle at her.
Also, this totally has to count as a specimen.

Giva Clarissa awesome hugs of awesome while declaring her the coolest thing since sam, bolters, and chainswords.

>>14605462
"Princess Clarissa, Activate 'I'm a Penguin' Protocall."

Tell her to get it to call us master.
Also, to call normal humans meatbags, and I think you can guess the rest.

rolled 40 = 40

>>14605462
Sweet

But we should still be careful.

These machines might have consistency protocols which activate just for these kind of situations.
Ask Clarissa to make a very thorough scan of it. Then turn it off so that McCoy can investigate it.
Then let the time-bubble drop

Wait a sec.
Don't we need to build an igloo -and- find penguins?

>>14605490
So, what did you find in the ice?
>Group 1: We found some grey snow...
>Group 2: We found a frozen fish!
>Group 3: We found a Sentinel that treats us as princesses.

>>14605501

Let the Sentinel build the igloo and scramble the Blackbird to find penguins. Multitasking, people.

rolled 49 = 49

>>14605501
"WE" dont have to do shit, "WE" have the GIANT-ROBO do it for us.

>>14605512
Ahh, /tg/!

>>Clarissas face

>>14605523
Shit, wrong image,

>>14605478

Dr. McCoy looks up at the robot's full height as you relax your grip on the timestream around it. "Oh, my stars and garters, Aino. I've heard of overachievers, but this really takes the cake."

"It says it's called a Sentinel," Clarissa says, as Mr. Summers eyes it warily, still keeping one hand on his goggles. "Can we keep i-" she begins, before both adults cut her off.

"NO."

>>14605536
"Why nooooooot?"
If they go all we-need-todestroy-it then we ask them to at least analyze the parts for SCIENCE!

>>14605536

Awww, we promise to walk it, wash it, and feed it delicious alternating current.

>>14605536
"You can keep me instead!"
Hug Clarissa.

Now where's that fucking Penguin.

rolled 45 = 45

>>14605536
"what do we do with it then?"

also this >>14605499

>>14605536

"Aww...please?"

Big puppydog eyes.

After proving that Sentinel is truly under her control, she obeys Dr. McCoy and deactivates it as you crawl out of the first igloo any of you have ever seen in the Southern Hemisphere. "This is really well-made!" Luke and Mary Ann say, crawling out behind you.

"I told you so," Clarissa says to everyone defiantly.

"Yes, well, I'm afraid we'll have to leave it here for the time being," McCoy cautions her. "Mr. Logan has called for some people to come pick it up, but they won't be here for several more hours and it's getting close to dark."

"Come on, everybody," Mr. Summers says to the chorus of "Awwws".

As you walk back toward the Blackbird from the slouched-over robot dwarfing the igloo it sits next to, you notice a line of penguins waddling around the corner of the cliff.

>>14605561

Do we have the hots for Clarissa now? She's as SCIENCE! as possible without having cybernetics.

rolled 46 = 46

>>14605561
that's just creepy

don't do this

>>14605596
THEY ARE COMING TO PAY THEIR RESPECTS TO THEIR MESSIAH!!!

>>14605596

PENGUINS! GOTTA CATH 'EM ALL!

>>14605596
Do want.
Must get.

Also, ask Sam about how her outing with Noah went.
Dispense appropriate amount of hugs to Sam and Clarissa.

>>14605601
>She's as SCIENCE! as possible without having cybernetics.
... IDEA!

>>14605596
>>14605596
Herd the penguins into the Blackbird!

rolled 38539 = 38539

>>14605596
Igloo AND Penguins! FUCK YES!
STOP TIME! TAKE PENGUIN!

rolled 46 = 46

>>14605596
PENGUINS!?

anyway lets continue

>>14605596

"Penguins!"

Make a run for the penquins!

(Clearly we must have a pet penguin and Clarissa a Sentinal. We could even convert it to the Sentinal model from Sentinal O.N.E)

>>14605601
>>14605609
Well, so much for Plan A. :P

>>14605621

Don't keep me in the dark man

>>14605601

I'm pretty sure out character is a subtexty as a Nanoha character. Though likely more 'Friendly and huggy and kinda flirty' than 'wants to do everyone'

More or less like a nanoha character.

>>14605641
I think the plan was to have Clarissa. but also ... HAVE A ROBOT THAT CLEANS FLOORS AND STUFF.
BOTH.

rolled 19 = 19

>>14605596
final-fuckingly some damned penguins. lets find the mutant superpowered genius penguin.

>>14605659
>You invade our homeland and then try to steal our machines! I have nothing to say to you lot...

>>14605653

Have a Clarissa robot who cleans and stuff? Man, I don't know what you're getting at.

>I'm pretty sure out character is a subtexty as a Nanoha character.
Actually she's been drifting all over the f*cking place like a teenage girl awash in a tsunami of hormones.
The result of pretty much every single result is "Don't have a crush on or flirt with anyone" which is understandable. Still, them teenage girls man.

>>14605682
All I have to say is stupid sexy Bobby.

"Now girls, the Antarctic ecosystem is a very delicate thing, and besides, these animals need to live in an environment they're suited fo-"

"Oh, all right, one more petting, but then you need to leave them alone," McCoy says, as you, Clarissa and Sam corner a trusting penguin and dispense a group cooing. "Up we go, time to head back."

As the three of you walk to the Blackbird, you in the middle with one arm around Sam's shoulder and the other around Clarissa's, Sam giggles.

"I think he might like me."

The Blackbird's hatch closes, and in the comparative heat of the jet's cabin everyone discards their parkas and straps in, leaving the dimming ice under them behind and rising up into the sunset.

Far below, left behind by their passing, the penguins flap and squawk as they investigate the igloo and the mute giant sitting next to it. The last rays of sun strike its head, sending up a cold glare before shadows overtake it.

[Next Issue: Big City Blues!]

>>14605698
Dr. Professor X

Why the fuck did they not steal a fucking penguin?

-Anonymous

rolled 13 = 13

>>14605673
http://youtu.be/YSuGs9w-IXk

Prof X, when's the next one?

rolled 15 = 15

>>14605698
i want the penguins to reverse engineer the sentinel and build a Big-O style robo army to counter the giant cat invasion from the savage land. and to slap magnetos shit when he walks around like hot shit in antarctica.

>>14605698
Dear X.

When will be the next issue?
Sadly, I can't buy it if it is published tomorrow allready.

Regards
Time

That's it for our fifth issue, so let's get right to the Mutie Mail mailbag! Our first letter is from a familiar name:

>Dr. Professor X

>Why the heck did they not steal a penguin?

>-Anonymous

Well Annie, as much as the girls would like to have a new pet around the Mansion, I'm not sure the Professor would go for it! After all, not everyone can fly, and if Mr. Logan stepped in something it might mean penguin shish-kebabs! Besides, as our friends at the ASPCA tell us, removing an animal from its natural habitat can lead to stress, illness, and even death! Think of the penguins!

Dear X,

Will Aino have a penguin sidekick in the future? They're so cute!

>Dear X.

>When will be the next issue? Sadly, I can't buy it if it is published tomorrow allready.

>Regards
>Time

Fret not, friend! The next issue will be out no earlier than Sunday, so you're free to spend Saturday doing whatever you want! I know where I'll be - with the rest of the Mutant Quest staff at the company bowling party! Let's see what Nicieza thinks of me once he sees my stuff! I hope they have lane bumpers there...

>>14605788
Monday?
Sweet.

>>14605757
>and if Mr. Logan stepped in something it might mean penguin shish-kebabs!
And if Mr. Logan wants to hurt the adorable penguin sidekick, Mr. Logan can find out just how Han felt to be carbonited.

>>14605788

NOOOO! Damn you X, I have a DH game on sunday. When will you start ? IF before 8 P.M. Greenwich, I will crush you like the idealistic, naive worm you are!

Love, Mr. Sinister

Dear X,

What is the comic-makers' stance on romance and sexuality in the comic?

Sincerely, Ken.

>Dear X,

>Will Aino have a penguin sidekick in the future? They're so cute!

It seems like our fans have a one-track mind when it comes to those tuxedo-trussed troopers! If you've ever seen The Chipmunk Adventure you know how well that might work out! Then again Kitty Pryde's pet is even more out-there!

>NOOOO! Damn you X, I have a DH game on sunday. When will you start ? IF before 8 P.M. Greenwich, I will crush you like the idealistic, naive worm you are!

>Love, Mr. Sinister

Don't fret, Nate! Like always, Mutant Quest should be on shelves around 13:00 board time, which by my calculations means you'll only be a little late to the party!

rolled 88 = 88

good game, OP

Yeah, we appreciate it, thanks

>Dear X,

>What is the comic-makers' stance on romance and sexuality in the comic?

>Sincerely, Ken.

Well, Ken, as you may know all issues of Mutant Quest are written to follow the Comics Code Authority's guidelines. However, we believe that true love, whether between a girl and her teammate or an editor and a delicious powdered donut, has a place in this story. Let's be frank, though: our girl's only been at the Mansion for a week, and she's already gotten herself involved in several relationships! Nobody knows what the future holds, but a kiss here and there wouldn't be too far-fetched. Hope that answers your question!

Will there be a Monday game too?

>>14605907
Fuck yeah, donuts.

>Will there be a Monday game too?

At this point, all I can give you for sure is a tentative "maybe"!

>>14605932
Prof X,

What year is it for the editors? Also, what is the comic-maker's stance on same sex relationships?

Anon

Wark wark wark wark wark wark wark wark wark wark wark wark.

This is the end, my friends! Five issues deep and we've already crossed oceans and continents! Next issue, Aino and Co. take on traffic jams, sidewalk vendors, and more as they go out on the town!

Missed an issue? All Mutant Quest backissues are available on the suptg archives:
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive.html?tags=mutant%20quest

I'm off the clock now, but I'll still be around to answer questions and take ideas/ feedback. Thanks to all the people that have stuck around and made this so fun for me! I hope you're enjoying it as much as I am!

>>14605948
>What year is it for the editors? Also, what is the comic-maker's stance on same sex relationships?

1995, and "the same as other relationships, as long as they stay at first base".

Just want to tell you this is the only quest thread I've ever bothered following and I'm having a blast! Keep up the good work, dear professor.

>>14606225
Thanks, anon! I'm having fun with it, and I'm glad the debate over our mutie protagonist has begun to reach accord.

Now I go to cut out some more reactionfaces.

rolled 53 = 53

>>14606225
seconded, i love this quest. i hated most other ones before, but this is so much fun, and im going to use this format in a live game with my friends during a smoking circle.