>>30873440
>>[ ] “What’s going on?”

"And why am I naked?"

>>30873440
>[ ] “Why am I here?”
>[ ] “Why did he wish me a Merry Christmas?”
>[ ] “What’s going on?”

But along the way, while we're walking.

>>30873451
>"And why am I naked?"

He's got clothes on. He's not naked.

>>30873440

Since JJ's electrical resistance is higher than normal due to Taserhands, will Dragon Breath give him fire resistance?

JJ's theme song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzUEL7vw60U

Is Creeper a purple lizard man wearing a human costume?

JJ should check the photo he has of Joshua at the dinner party and see of Typhon is there.

>>30873488
You currently don't have that stuff on you.

>>30873524

I meant for later.

>>30873440
>[ ] “Why am I here?”
>[ ] “What’s going on?”
>[ ] “Why did he wish me a Merry Christmas?”
>"Where are my pants?"
In that order

>>30873475
>>30873451

pardon me, "why was I naked?"

>>30873440
>>[ ] “Why did he wish me a Merry Christmas?”
because Barracuda got mad respect for JC

lets just get the fuck out of here

>[ ] Say nothing. You just want to get home. You can ask questions later.

>>30873440
http://pastebin.com/UuVeJFig
By the way, this thing is horribly outdated.
Just ought to remind you that it exists.

>>30873549
Also call Cuda our mugga, he can use that now because he's got a mugga friend.

>>30873440
>[ ] “Why am I here?”
>[ ] “Why did he wish me a Merry Christmas?”
>[ ] “What’s going on?”

>>30873617

No, don't do that.

And I think he left anyway.

>>30873440
"I think I need a hug. Then I need you to tell me what the hell is going on and why I'm naked...ok, the hug should probably wait til I have pants, but I still need to know what happened. And thank you, again, for finding me."

>Congratulations! JJ's retaltionship debt to Laura has increased 1 point! He is still is no where near repaying her for continually saving his ass!

>>30873686

We don't need a hug.

And those priorities are in terrible order.

Rolled 16

>>30873440
Heh, how about we tell Peter We're Back(And maybe learn from Laura that he's Spiderman) as a bonus to the most popular option. When we get clothes, of course.

>>30873732
I think our phone is lost.

we'll have to buy a new one...

>>30873732
>how about we tell Peter We're Back
>We're back

And better than ever! We're back!

>[x] Say nothing. You just want to get home. You can ask questions later.
We should probably get Laura to a safe location so she can heal properly.

>>30873440
>>[ ] “Why did he wish me a Merry Christmas?”
>>[ ] “What’s going on?”
>[ ] "Why am I naked?"

>[X] “Why am I here?”
>[X] “What’s going on?”
>[X] “Why did he wish me a Merry Christmas?”

“…Why am I here?”

She looks up at you, eyes gleaming in the dark. She seems to consider for a moment, before finally opening her mouth:

“I don’t know.”

Okay. Okay then. You shiver, wishing that that dead gangster guy had been born the good sense to wear something a little more thermally binding. The snow glimmers through the night around you and you can’t help but feel momentarily out of time, in some far-removed, frozen place. The old industrial buildings all around are silent, and streets are all but empty, and then there’s you, standing at the centre of all this, unsure of where you are or how you came to be there, knowing only that life must be continuing somewhere elsewhere, without you.

“What’s going on?”

She breathes in deeply, her eyes staying on you.

“You…” She pauses. You feel the breath still in her chest. “…were inside that cocoon. You emerged with the man from the Facility.”

…Joseph?

“…Do you not recall anything of this?”

You shake your head.

She watches you in silence, as if scrutinizing your expression, before turning away.

“Come.”

You follow after her, conceding to the strangeness of the situation. There is one more thing you want to know, though.

“Why did he just do that?” You ask. Laura glances back at you questioningly, and you quickly add: “The Merry Christmas thing?”

She blinks a little uncertainty, and fixes her gaze ahead.

“You’ve been missing for a week. It is Christmas Day.”

>Current Funds: £0.00
>Hunger Level: 8
>Present Time: ???

>[ ] Go home.
>[ ] Go get food.
>[ ] Write in.
>no matter what the choice, the conversation will continue

>>30873859
>>[x] Go home.

its Christmas and like 2am. nothing is open

>>30873859
>[ ] Go home.
>[ ] Write in

Thank her for trying to find us.

>>30873871
Damn you, nice catch.

>>30873859

>[ ] Go get food.
on way home

>>30873859
>[ ] Go home.
We can get food once the gang is all together.

>>30873859
New York now deals in pounds? I've been gone a long time
>[x] Go get food.
We'll have to steal from a 7/11, but we'll pay them back someday if we are in the area.
>>30873871
Break and enter?

>>30873889
and you used the pound symbol instead $

>Go Get Food
Find out what we've missed while we eat. Then send texts/calls to everyone so they know we're alive.

>>30873859
>Acquire Pants
>Head Home
>Thank Laura for finding us.

>>30873859
Write in "thank you, for finding me"

>>30873859
We should probably go invisible rather than wander around naked.

>>30873908
Haha, damn. I guess I haven't updated your general status in ages.

>>30873576
It's not outdated. Except for the funds bit.

>>30873940
were walking around in dead mans cloths.

>>30873940
We're not naked you fucktard

>>30873901
My god...
The british have taken back the colonies!

>>30873946
and the appearance

>>30873956

Don't be rude, anon.

>>30873901
>Break and enter?

No, we can eat later. And we most likely have stuff at the camp.

>>30873967
Hip hip old chaps.

Time for some limey light on this blighted land.

>>30873859
>[ ] Go home.
Food will be there.

>>30873946
What happened to the hellions?

>>30873901
fuck that go to wall mart invisible fill invisible cart, just pick it up before the scanners

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>>30874007
>Walmart
>New York city

>>30874007

JJ's too good for Wal-Mart

>>30874043
>Walmart
https://www.google.com/maps/search/walmart+new+york+city/@40.7056308,-73.9780035,10z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!2m4!3m3!1swalmart!2sNew+York,+NY!3s0x89c24fa5d33f083b:0xc80b8f06e177fe62

>>30874078
>disgusting
I thought you were better than this NYC...

and none of them are in Queens

>>30874066
There are actually no Walmarts in NYC at all, mate.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/28/business/28retail.html?ex=1332734400&en=b30c447b539f3b45&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&_r=0

7-11 or some 24-hour brick'n'mortar market are the best bets.

>>30874119

Quoted the wrong guy, I think.

>>30874119
Oh whoops, didn't even look at the link in >>30874078
I guess there are Walmarts?
>>30874137
And yeah, I did. Meant to quote >>30874007

>[X] Go home.

Your stomach growls as you move through the snow-swept streets of New York.

Christmas? Christmas Day? That means you’ve been gone for… you count under your breath… just a little over a week! You’ve lost a week of your life! Were you in that cocoon thing the whole time? Where else could you have been? What… what even happened when that singular, euphoric moment took you, when the work seemed to drag you out of your borders? You find yourself quietly panicking, the thistles of rough flesh upon your arm now more apparent to you than ever.

“Are you alright?”

Laura’s voice pierces the fugue, her stare angled back over her shoulder at you. You collect yourself, planting your feet back into the here & now.

“Y-yeah, I’ll be fine…” You swallow. Sure, you’ll be fine. “I’m just a little… surprised.”

As you make your way through the falling snow, Laura explains the events of last week from her perspective. Apparently, you seemed to burn up from the inside-out, a storm of searing light tearing through you. The force of the blast took the building down on top of everyone, and by the time she’d freed herself from the debris there was no sign of your or Typhon.

>[ ] Ask what happened to Noriko.
>[ ] Ask what happened to Kimura.
>[ ] Ask what happened to the mystery helper.
>[ ] Ask what happened to the clones.
>[ ] Ask what she’s been doing.

>>30874165
>>[ ] Ask what she’s been doing.

>>30874165
>[ ] Ask what happened to Noriko.
>[ ] Ask what happened to the mystery helper.
>[ ] Ask what she’s been doing.

The other questions can wait.

>>30874165
>[x] Ask what happened to Noriko.
>[x] Ask what happened to Kimura.
oh who am I kidding, we are gonna ask all of them again

>>30874165
>>[ ] Ask what happened to Noriko.
>>[ ] Ask what happened to Kimura.
>>[ ] Ask what happened to the mystery helper.
>>[ ] Ask what happened to the clones.
>>[ ] Ask what she’s been doing

"Did I lose the Tabby cat job?"

sorry Crusty but JJ's head is full of fuck atm.

>>30874165

>[ ] Ask what happened to Noriko.

>[ ] Ask what happened to the mystery helper.


>[ ] Ask what she’s been doing.

>>30874165
>[ ] Ask what happened to Noriko.
>[ ] Ask what happened to the mystery helper.
>[ ] Ask what she’s been doing.

>>30874200

Seconded.

>>30874165
>[X] Ask what she’s been doing.

>>30874165
>euphoric moment

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_vmOvfbg90

Sorry, I had to

>>30874165
>[ ] Ask what she’s been doing.

>>30874165
>[ ] Ask what happened to Noriko
>[ ] Ask what happened to the mystery helper
>[ ] Ask what she’s been doing.

so confused

>30874165
"Thank you, for finding me."
>[ ] Ask what happened to Noriko
.>[ ] Ask what happened to Kimura
.>[ ] Ask what happened to the mystery helper.
>[ ] Ask what happened to the clones.>[ ] Ask what she’s been doing.

>>30874002
Laura re-prioritized. She'll probably get a pissed-off phone call from them at some point.

>writan'

>>30874165
>[ ] Ask if there are any Walmarts in New York

>>30874398
That's like a Canadian asking someone from the US if there's syrup in Canada.

>>30874398

No, why would he care? And 7/11 is easier to get to, plus he knows where they are.

And right now getting to a safe place is better.

>>30874427
>>30874426
>>30874398
>>30874152
>>30874137
>>30874119
>>30874098
>>30874078
>>30874066
>>30874043
are you motherfuckers arguing about a fictional homeless guy would rather steal from ?

fuck no wounder power votes turn into a shit storm.

>[X] Ask what happened to Noriko
>[X] Ask what happened to the mystery helper
>[X] Ask what she’s been doing.

Wait a minute. Noriko was there that night.

“What happened to Noriko?” You ask, dreading the answer. “Is she alright?”

“She sustained minor burns. Nothing life-threatening.” Laura pauses, glancing back at you again, and adds: “She will, most likely, be scarred for the rest of her natural life. But she is very much alive.”

“Christ…” You knead your fingers along your brow, trying to… put this all in place. “What about the guy, uh, the guy in the snow mask?”

“Peter.” Laura states bluntly. “He’s fine.”

“…Seriously?”

She nods.

Damn. Peter has better moves than you gave him credit for.

You find yourself clinging to familiar things, the world seeming to slowly gain definition – gain realness – as you pass by more and more places you recognize. The closer you get to home, the closer you feel yourself coming to accepting that the events flowing by you are real, that this is not simply some illusion brought on by death or worse.

“What, uh…. What about you?”

Laura glances back, not seeming to quite follow you.

“What’ve you been up to?”

So, she tells you about the Tabbycat job (urk, you guess you screwed that all the way up), the gang war, the slow migration of refugees from the populated streets of NY to the scar. You listen in numb, disbelieving quiet, the night seeming to snatch all meaning from any of this. It’s all just so… ridiculous.

>[ ] Ask her more about the gang war.
>[ ] Ask her more about the mutants entering the scar.
>[ ] Ask her more about the Tabbycat thing.
>you have time for ONE before you reach home

>>30874577
>are you motherfuckers arguing about a fictional homeless guy would rather steal from ?

Not really.

>>30874583
>[ ] Ask her more about the mutants entering the scar.

>>30874583
>[ ] Ask her more about the gang war.

"How does it look for Creeper?"

>>30874583
>>[ ] Ask her more about the mutants entering the scar.

neighbors?

>>30874583
>[ ] Ask her more about the mutants entering the scar.

>>30874583
>>[ ] Ask her more about the mutants entering the scar.
we should leave spread out it sounds like a sentinel/ mutant hunter wet dream target.


>[ ] Ask her more about the gang war.


>[ ] Ask her more about the Tabbycat thing.
think they would give us another chance?

>>30874583
>[ ] Ask her more about the mutants entering the scar.

They are the ones we shall be interacting with most for a while, better get a heads up on them.

>>30874583
>[ ] Ask her more about the mutants entering the scar.
JJ seems like he'd care more about people in his same situation and the welfare of his friends due to these new residents.

>>30874583
>you said my eyes are different... how?
d-did we lose our dreamy nebulous blue eyes?

>>30874583
>>[ ] Ask her more about the Tabbycat thing.

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>>30874673
oh dear...

>>30874583
>>[ ] Ask her more about the Tabbycat thing.
JJ has his priorities in order. Details of the plinky-plink-plonk variety are required.

>>30874583
>ask about the Tabby cat thing

>>30874583
>Ask her what she meant when she said our eyes are different

>>30874583
>[ ] Ask her more about the mutants entering the scar.

Seems the most important honestly

>>30874673
We have transient secondary lids now, so our noxious breath doesn't blind us.

>>30874583
>[ ] Ask her more about the mutants entering the scar.

>>30874782
hrm...

Those second lids should be retractable, just like normal eyelids.

The bright side is they will help with seeing underwater, and will make allot of normally eye watering concoctions thrown in our face have no or delayed effect.

>>30874810
>>30874782
when was this confirmed?

>(1/2)
>[X] Ask her more about the mutants entering the scar.

“We think it started shortly before your disappearance.” Laura explains, her eyes narrowing in recollection. “None of us noticed until somewhat later, but there must be a large number of mutants spread out through the Exclusion Zone.”

Exclusion Zone. For a moment, it doesn’t mean anything to you, before you realize that that would be the official name for the huge, desolate tract of land you’ve come to refer to as the scar. ‘Exclusion Zone’. Sounds… weird. Not quite right, somehow.

“If I were to estimate a figure, it would be somewhere in the triple digits.”

You almost trip up over yourself. That many!?

>(2/2)

Laura goes on to explain that most of the mutants have settled in small groups. For the most part, they keep to themselves, but a few of them have been vaguely confrontational. Your heart sinks a little when you learn that the Hellions have managed to recruit at least two further members. Apparently, greaser-out-of-time Julian has been asserting that someone – and, of course, that someone is him – should be ‘in charge’ somehow.

You can’t help but snort derisively. In charge of what, exactly? A kingdom of lepers? You’ll readily admit to some stints of self-delusion over the course of your career as a professional down-an’-out, but you’ve never had the gall to fancy yourself as any kind of mutant Clopin.

According to Laura, there are two primary groups with which the Hellions have nearly come to blows – the ‘Corsair’s and the ‘Young X-Men’. No relation to the actual X-Men, apparently.

Eventually you make your past the borders of the scar. The change is immediately apparent – not too far from the station you call home, there’s a fire burning amidst the debris of some broken apartment complex. You’re vaguely reminded of early man, homo stupidus notools, desperately eking out an existence of haggard desperation across the lengths of some ancient tundra.

You descend into the station in silence, unsure of what you could be walking into.

As it happens, you walk into a bunch of snoring mutant kids. Everyone’s asleep, wrapped up in heavy blankets and clustered together along the floor of the platform.

>[ ] Wake everyone up.
>[ ] Just eat.
>[ ] Let them sleep, it’s Christmas.
>[ ] Write in.

>>30874972
>>[ ] Just eat.
>>[ ] Let them sleep, it’s Christmas.


JJ is there Christmas present

>>30874972
>[ ] Just eat.

>>30874988

Seconded

>>30874972
>[ ] Just eat.
>[ ] Let them sleep, it’s Christmas.

>>30874988
The gift that keeps on giving

>>30874972
>[ ] Just eat.
>[ ] Let them sleep, it’s Christmas.

The couch better be open still.
That is our sleeping spot

>>30874972
>>[ ] Just eat.
>>[ ] Let them sleep, it’s Christmas.

>>30874972
>Just eat

>>30874972
>>[ ] Just eat.
>>[ ] Let them sleep, it’s Christmas.

>>30875011
speaking of which has JJ ever taken hard drugs?other than crack made up from dice

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>Unite the mutant tribes

>>30874972
>Young X-Men’. No relation to the actual X-Men,
I though the X-men weren't that well known in this universe?

>>30875075
>speaking of which has JJ ever taken hard drugs?

I doubt it. But if we were a heroin addict, we'd be the Bubbles to Peter's Kima.

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Pretty obvious we need to coordinate some kinda of homeless mutant tribe senate thing.

ain't nobody going kneel to just one guy.

>>30875097
the reference is lost on me.

>>30875101

Seconded.

>>30875116

The Wire.

Bubbles is a heroin addicted homeless person who gives police officer Kima Greggs information on the drug dealers after a group of them beat his friend Johnny to shit.

>>30875101
I rather not turn this into a civ, but i do think 5 things are gonna happen soon.
1.Magneto is gonna come recruiting
2. Sentinals will be saying hi
3.X-men recruiting
4.marvel citizens are gonna say hi
5.Bad guys are gonna be recruiting.

>>30875101
Could probably go about meeting and greeting.
talk to people, let folks know you'll have their back if they'll have yours. Any fucker who just walks in and puts a claim down is going to be sneered at.

>>30875147
>Could probably go about meeting and greeting.
Nah you forget that we have a pissed off creaper and facility after our asses right?

>>30875157
speaking of which doesn't creaper know our fear of fire?

>>30875145
just setting ground rules anon.

mutie roommate agreement

>>30875188
don't mention the fire phobia since it will get the sonic bitches to come out.

>>30875157
Indeed. But ide rather know who the hell our neighbors are, right now were in a populated area with people who could be very, very dangerous. I would rather get some on side and promote an air of fuck with one of us and you fuck with all of us, which will make the place allot safer.

Were going to be noticed sooner or later, our friends cant invisible like us, even if they are out of sight.

>>30875188
I would assume so.
He does however also know that JJ dragged a box full of people out of a fire, so there's always that.

>>30875157
The likelihood of that being an issue is slim, as the facility tends to make their own monsters, and dont really care about JJ, and theres probably not going to be a lot of mutants sticking up for creeper what with the whole, trafficking and dead mutants in crates thing. and if there are, they wouldnt need to be living here.

>>30875200
I know, but what i'm saying is the scar won't be a safe area for long, and i doubt that many mutants can be there safely, so we need to go to the sewers or find a place to stay at.

>>30875225
all creaper needs to do is send in a spy, they don't even need to announce himself.

>>30875227
Unless we can nail down a steady job, an apartment or place to stay is out of the question.

Again, right now we need to go meet and greet and establish the ground rules with our neighbors.

The bright side is it'll expose us to more powers.

>[X] Just eat.
>[X] Let them sleep, it’s Christmas.

“Better no wake them.” You note. Laura regards you, a questioning look in your eye, and you shrug. “It’s Christmas. They’re not getting anything in the morning, so they might as well get a good night’s rest.”

That’s been your Christmas mantra for the better part of the last four years. Christmas is the day everyone takes it easy. The day of not thinking about anything and just drifting. You get a good bit of sleep on the night before and wake up refreshed and early, ready to spend the day pretending it’s not Christmas.

You root through the collection of plastic bags they’ve left at the base of the stairs, searching for something edible. You’re too tired to cook, but there’s ham and bread, and you’re certainly not too tired to shove that’s stuff down your throat. You eat without tasting, your mouth working with automated, monotonous vigour. You can feel the world gently closing around you, your eyelids fluttering, leaving blurry shadows in the corners of your vision. You’d think that a whole week spent just… you’re not even sure, just floating?... around in some giant cocoon would freshen a man up a bit, but you’re tired as hell.

Warm down here. Warm-ish.

Slowly, you feel yourself drifting toward sleep, the image of the waking world gradually thinning into mist and smoke. Laura’s warmth nestles in close, spreading through your shoulder, loosening you grip on the universe. You close your eyes, and the last thing you’re aware of before slumber takes you is the sound of your heart beating beside hers.

Yours is moving a little too slow, isn’t it?

>>30875227
Its not safe now and its not really safe anywhere for a mugga.

>>30875101
Would be pretty fucking hilarious if JJ became some kind of a messianic figure while he was out.
I mean, he saved the vast majority of them and the newspaper kept writing his praise. Then he immediately disappeared giving people time to make up grander and grander stories about him.

Our group simply missed all this because they don't interact much with others.

>>30875254
please stop trying to needlessly expose our selves when we have 2 very dangerous organizations after our ass.
>>30875269
I can see the writing on the walls, in that this place is on the verge of having some one come to the place.

>>30875288
Needless exposure is not the thing.

We are exposed right now, we weren't before because people were not around the scar, they are now. The rest is a matter of time.

Either skulk in the shadows with no friends until someone comes for us, or make friends while you can.

>>30875269
yeah, so we might as well try. i's not like creepers not going to come find us eventually anyway, we got more to gain then to lose.

>>30875334
This guy gets it.

>>30875361
>>30875334
How about asking our friends opinion on this then?

>>30875380
>How about asking our friends opinion on this then?

Agreed.

>>30875380
doing some homework on our neighbors before we meet and greet? I can dig it

>>30875380
Fine by me.

Hgurf. Gfgg.

You feel yourself sway under the breeze, your flesh twisting and contorting. Oh, God, the wind, it’s –

Someone’s shaking you awake.

You open your eyes, and are welcomed into the world of the awake by a close-up of Layla’s huge, teary grin. For a moment you just sputter and flounder, before the events of the night before catch up with you, and you feel yourself slipping back into reality.

Reality is heavier than it looks. The moment your eyes open, Layla throws herself at you, wrapping her arms around your shoulders. A little winded and somewhat weirded out, you slump back onto the stairs, and glance up at the assembled figures before you.

Well, they’re surprised. Judging from the sleep infesting their eyes, they just woke up, and there you were. Lucas looks vaguely apprehensive, maybe, as though he’s seeing a mirage or a ghost, his eyes wide in shock. Gaby and Kevin are just staring, open-mouthed, while beside them Noriko rubs her eyes and blinks slowly.

“You came back!” You can feel tears spreading through your stolen sweater. Layla can’t seem to decide whether she’s laughing or sobbing.

“Y-yeah….”

>[ ] Insert Dialogue.

>>30875510
"Can't get rid of me that easily?"

>>30875510
"All I know is I woke up a week later, butt naked in a pod. Sorry worrying you guys."

>>30875510
>[ ] Insert Dialogue.

"Noriko... I'm sorry. I don't know why I exploded or how it all happened, but I really really didn't mean to hurt you. Hopefully you'll forgive me, but I can understand if you don't."

THe last bit might be a bit shit, but you get what I mean."

>>30875510
"Course I did. I have adorable midgets to hug."
Hug the adorable midget.

>>30875548
Nah man, well get to the personalized stuff when we have our one on one chats.

Although a joking apology not to explode in future might be a good idea.

>>30875535
>>30875555
Totally supporting these.

>>30875510
>"You came back!"
"Kinda owe Laura for finding me."

We need to apologize to Nori for her getting hurt on our behalf.

>>30875566
>Although a joking apology not to explode in future might be a good idea.

I dunno, that might make Noriko think we're belittling the situation or something. Like we don't care as much or that we see it as being not that serious.

But I agree, we can save it for one-on-one stuff.

>>30875510
"y-you too..."

>>30875510
"Worst christmas special ever."

>>30875597
>Belittiling the situation

Nigga we blew up
I think she understands the gravitas

>>30875510
"Merry Christmas. Santa sent me. not sure if that means you've been a good or bad girl."

>>30875555
Of course we hug.

just throwing this out here, If we really really want to make Noriko's scars gone.

>HEALING VITAE
>Requires: Level 2 Healing Factor
>Cost: 3
>This ability bestows curative properties upon JJ’s blood. Imbibing his blood cells can temporarily boost the capability for healing in a person up to one level below his current Healing Factor level.


again, not saying we should, just saying we can

"Can't get rid of me that easily?"
>>30875510

Rolled 11

>>30875637
This.

>>30875615
Pffffft

>"So I g-guess Santa forgot to wrap me"
>"Or to put me under a tree"
>"Well, I guess we'd need a tree for that"

>>30875645
As like a christmas present?

>"hey i can get rid of your scars for you? all you need to is drink deeply from the healing vitae of my blood!"

I'd rather we store some blood somewhere and use it as an emergency stash in case someone gets hurt or something.

Time to become mutant hobo Moses Jesus and take a few pages from dr. King and lead our people in passive resistance.

>>30875645
>Cost: 3
You know, I really wouldn't mind getting it, but I sort of want agility and/or Geointuitive vision first.

>>30875637
>"Merry Christmas. Santa sent me. not sure if that means you've been a good or bad girl."

Ha! I like this.

>>30875615
this

>>30875698
If we do get that, we should bottle the stuff and never tell anyone what actually is in those small vials, add some flavouring and just refer to them as "health potions."

>>30875701
all solid choices, but we could totally bottle some of JJ's blood and have bizarre first aid kits for the crew (still fond of the name "the Outdoorsmen")

>>30875749
Because, you know, otherwise somebody might be extremely keen on bleeding us for profit.

>>30875615
Thirded.

>>30875749
Even watered down and with added flavor, I'd imagine you'd be able to taste the nickle flavor of the blood.

>>30875548
cheesy as fuck, I don't think this needs to be said as the first thing, maybe later

>>30875510
"Hi guys... uh, how have you been doing?"

>>30875813
>cheesy as fuck,

Yeah, my autism doesn't make for good dialogue.

>>30875773
>Implying we won't become the league of extraordinary hobos

>>30875688
this so funny!

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Well, if we are gonna be staying in the scar (which we totally shouldn't, a place with that many mutants is going to be highly visible. Then again, I imagine this event will increase security around other squattable areas out of paranoia) we are gonna be needing a name for our group...

>>30875839
Eh, I've been diagnosed with Autism and I can tell you'll get better with stuff like that if you have more interaction with people.
Though if you've never had any rolemodels to show you how to normally interact with other people, it's going to be a bumpy road.

>>30875924
I know.

Just haven't been around people other than family much since I moved. But it'll get better.

>>30875913
Kakarot

“Can’t get rid of me that easy.” You chuckle it out, resting your arms over Layla’s shoulders. You’re a little surprised when she doesn’t look up or let go, but decide to just go with it. Apparently she missed you, or something.

You vanished and people actually missed you. That takes a moment to process. A small part of you is still somewhat surprised that everyone didn’t just… flitter way. That any of them gave you more than a passing thought as they got on with the rest of their lives. If, a week ago, you’d been asked what this situation would look like, you’d be describing a Layla sheepishly re-entering the grind of the foster system, a Laura skipping town, a Noriko and a Lucas and Gaby and a Kevin just… tumbling off into the future without you. You wouldn’t have described this.

“Dude.” Kevin grins weakly. “I’d totally hug you too, if, y’know…”

“Yeah.” You know. If it wouldn’t totally kill the shit out of you.

You glance around the platform, soaking the place back in.

“You guys look…” What do you say here? Great? Chirpy? Alive? “…like you’ve been taking care of yourselves. I've been in a cocoon.”

That gets you some puzzled stares.

>[ ] Apologize to Noriko about her arm.
>[ ] “So, it’s Christmas. You guys wanna see a movie or something?”
>[ ] “So, I hear we have neighbors.”
>[ ] Write in.

>>30875942
You're family doesn't talk like that, do they?

>>30875963
>>[x] “So, I hear we have neighbors.”

>>30875963
>[ ] “So, I hear we have neighbors.”

>>30875971
>You're family doesn't talk like that, do they?

No. Why?

>>30875963
>[ ] Apologize to Noriko about her arm.

>>30875701
I very much support this, though I'd sub adhesive touch for geoint on the priority list. I'm sick if failing wall climbs.

>>30875963
....
"Yeah i don't remember any of it, so don't ask, anyway"
>[ ] “So, I hear we have neighbors.”

>>30875963
>[ ] Apologize to Noriko about her arm.
>[ ] “So, I hear we have neighbors.”

>>30875963
First things first
>[x] Apologize to Noriko about her arm.

>[x] “So, it’s Christmas. You guys wanna see a movie or something?”
Maybe there is some money inside our newly acquired clothes? We could always sneak in, too.

>>30875987
Because then you'd be an anime.

>>30875913
How about Sanctuary?
Almost everybody in the group came running from something.
Gaby, Lucas and the silent child are the only ones that don't have targets painted on them.

>>30875963
>>[ ] “So, I hear we have neighbors.”

>>30875963
>Apologize to Noriko
>"So I hear we have neighbors."

If we are apologizing to Noriko, please don't go over the top about it. Shit happens.

>>30875963
>[ ] “So, it’s Christmas. You guys wanna see a movie or something?”
>[ ] “So, I hear we have neighbors.”
>[ ] Write in. "Lets invite them also, if they are friendly of course."

>>30875987
Because mimicing the interaction between real people is the first step to writing believable character developement.

Crusty, weren't you supposed to refer to Noriko as The Noriko?

Rolled 16

>>30876146
No. They probably have visible mutations.

>>30876146
No.

>>30876154

You don't say.

>>30876146

No, we don't know them yet.

>>30876146
ain't nothing good out and we can't sneak ALL of them into the theater

>>30876146
I would be up for trying to stage some big dinner/get together with all the mutants to figure out what we're all gonna do.

But that's a future thing.

>>30876003
this

>[X] Apologize to Noriko about her arm.
>[X] “So, I hear we have neighbours.”

You just talk about things for a while. Just little things. You slowly feel yourself acclimating yourself back into the dialect of things, the anxiousness and the tension of your first moments of wakefulness wearing off. Lucas puts on the stove and you wish one another a Merry Christmas. Layla tells you that Peter’s friends eventually tracked down that kid from the boat’s parents – apparently his name was Steve Somethingorother. Kevin makes a brief show of disintegrating one of iron rebars you notice lying around, something that would’ve been impossible for him before.

As you sit beside the stove, inhaling the gentle touch of the herbs bubbling in the pot, you finally excavate the courage to broach the subject of Noriko’s arm.

“Hey… I’m sorry, you know?” You nod at her arm. “About that. I mean, you were just trying to help an’ all…”

It doesn’t look great. The tank-top Noriko wears does little to hide that her right arm is almost entirely draped in light, rippling scar tissue.

“It’s okay…” She glances down at it, grimacing sadly, but eventually she just shrugs. “I’m alive.”

And that’s that. She doesn’t seem to want to say any more on the subject, and you’re not going to prod her any further about it. Instead, you change the subject.

“So, I hear we have neighbours now?”

The glance over at one another. Eventually, Gaby speaks up:

“Y-yes, that’s right…”

“They okay?”

She considers the question for a moment, one of her long, pointed canines resting on her lower lip.

“…Well, mostly. I mean, they are fine enough, most just keep to themselves…”

>[ ] Ask about the ‘New X-Men’.
>[ ] Ask about the ‘Corsairs’.
>[ ] Ask what the Hellions have been doing.
>[ ] Write in.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ur9Ps5lqmc
Is angel a member of the X-Men in here?

>>30876382
>>[ ] Ask about the ‘New X-Men’.
>>[ ] Ask about the ‘Corsairs’.
>>[ ] Ask what the Hellions have been doing.

>>30876392
Brotherhood.

>>30876382
>[ ] Ask about the ‘New X-Men’.
>[ ] Ask about the ‘Corsairs’.

>>30876382
>[x] Ask about the ‘New X-Men’.

>>30876382
I thought it was Young X-Men?
But regardless,
>[ ] Ask about the ‘New X-Men’.
>[ ] Ask about the ‘Corsairs’.
Seems like an easy enough thing to combine.

Why are you people trying to make this hobo into a leader of some mutant community? having our little group is not good enough for you?

>>30876392
no
he's Brotherhood

>[x] Ask what the Hellions have been doing.

>>30876418
I guess that's what happens when you shit on Xavier's car.

>>30876382
>[ ] Ask about the ‘New X-Men’.
>[ ] Ask about the ‘Corsairs’.
>[ ] Ask what the Hellions have been doing.

>>30876434
no clue all i know is i'm gonna try and keep a low profile.

>>30876434
Don't want to lead anyone.

Knowing who your sharing your neighborhood with is a good idea.

>>30876434
>Why are you people trying to make this hobo into a leader of some mutant community?

Julian would suck as a leader, I think. If not now, then later on.

Plus as >>30876462
said, we should at least know our neighbors.

>>30876462
better to be an unknown in my book.

>>30876434
Well, it's going to happen anyway. The 'being dragged into bigger politics' thing, not the leading one necessarily. Any of those groups would LOVE to have the guy who started it all, the one who freed all the prisoners as a figurehead for their cause.

Huh, funny thing about the Corsairs and the Young X-Men is that Cyclops headed both teams of young mutants. Corsairs was named after his father's alter-ego. Though Young X-Men has a fake Cyclops as a leader.

>>30876434
I think it could be an option.
Because it's interesting. And i'd rather not have a ton more mutant backed gangs running around.

Keeping a low profile is good, but at some point we're going to need more pull.

>>30876382
>>[ ] Ask about the ‘New X-Men’.
>>[ ] Ask about the ‘Corsairs’.

>>30876434
Oh, we'd be an awful leader. We should avoid it if at all possible.
On the other hand, Julian'd be worse.

>>30876486
were already damn well known.
staying anonymous is kind of impossible for any length of time if we stay here. Even less likely if we go wandering the city for new digs.

>>30876462
this

>>30876416
this

>>30876434
Nobody wants to be king of mutie shit hill.

we gotta learn to live with our neighbors.

personally, I'm for a senate/council thing, made up of group leaders from the respective groups

>>30876580
>personally, I'm for a senate/council thing, made up of group leaders from the respective groups

That's what I'm for.

>>30876519
We could also try and set somebody up to lead the community. Somebody with a better sense of head than us.

I don't know who'd that be, but still.

>>30876543
I honestly JJ has the right stuff to be a leader. A begrudging one, but a leader nonetheless. Makes sense if he wouldn't wanna be one though.

Frankly if we manage to stay here without mutant genocide, then the group integrating into NYC's government structure is the only way to go forward, but that is going to take one hell of a smooth operator, not our spaghetti prone ass

>>30876605
He can do a pretty good DOOM impression. That's more than most leaders in the world can say.

>>30876674
Group as in: the mutants in the scar as a whole.

>>30876674
>then the group integrating into NYC's government structure is the only way to go forward

The New York City Association of Genetically Alternative Transient Peoples

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reminder of the allegiances in Crusty Verse

from thread #37

>>30876726
>Genetically Alternative
that sound so stupid and meaningless that it would make a perfect political buzzword. politicians and civil rights people would be all over it

>>30876870
Check ur gene privalege, mutant scum.

>>30876870

I can't remember where I got it, but I don't think it's original. It might be, but I doubt it.

>[X] Ask about the ‘Young X-Men’.
>[X] Ask about the ‘Corsairs’.

“What about these ‘Corsairs’ guys? I mean…” You shrug a little lamely. “That’s not exactly a name that instils a great deal of confidence.”

This time Kevin pitches in.

“Right, yeah… them.” He scratches his head. “They’re further east, I think. Nobody really sees much of them. They’ve been doing a lot – and I mean, I mean a lot, here – of stealing. One of the other guys told me that’s how they stay fed, they just break into places near the scar and take everything not nailed down. A few peeps've even been buying stuff from them.”

“Basically, they’re trouble.” States Noriko, her tone far less diplomatic. “The papers are already calling the surge of people like us a ‘plague’. If someone figures out that we’re stealing people’s shit…”

Kevin waves her down a bit, smiling weakly.

“Y-yeah, I agree, but, like, I’m sure you get their situation…”

Well, you do. You definitely understand having to steal to survive. Of course, Noriko has a point. A single mutie cleaning out registers in his spare time is one thing. A whole gang of them – that’s something else entirely.

“What about the…” You can’t help but cringe. “…Young X-Men?”

Lucas looks up from the stove, clearing his throat.

“They’re okay. They live some way south of here. We’ve run into ‘em a few times, just hanging around the place.” He rubs his nose and sniffs at the meal, before motioning for someone to pass him the plates. “Basically, some girl called Hisako got ‘em together, and they say they’re gonna protect everyone. That’s all we know, really.”

>[ ] Maybe you should meet some of them.
>[ ] Whatever, you’ll figure them out later. You need to check up on Peter.
>[ ] Or find a new job.
>[ ] Or [insert].

>>30877044
>[x] Whatever, you’ll figure them out later. You need to check up on Peter.

ask how Ben's doing

>>30877044
>[ ] Whatever, you’ll figure them out later. You need to check up on Peter.

>>30877044
>[ ] Whatever, you’ll figure them out later. You need to check up on Peter.
>[ ] Or find a new job.

"How did Ms. Hardy react to me not showing up?"

>>30877044
>[ ] Whatever, you’ll figure them out later. You need to check up on Peter.
Lets check on peter.

>>30877044
>[ ] Whatever, you’ll figure them out later. You need to check up on Peter.

>>30877092
This.

We can find a way to deal with other things later.

>>30877044
>[ ] Whatever, you’ll figure them out later. You need to check up on Peter.
>[ ] Or find a new job.
>[ ] Or [insert].
Whatever happened to Urich?

>>30877044
>>[ ] Whatever, you’ll figure them out later. You need to check up on Peter.
New job, new people - it's Christmas.
This is time for friends, and family. Everything else can wait.

>>30877073
>ask how Ben's doing

OOC knowledge.

>>30877092
seconded.

>>30877044
>[X] Whatever, you’ll figure them out later. You need to check up on Peter.

Knowledge is power, and Peter Probably knows.

>>30877044
>[ ] Whatever, you’ll figure them out later. You need to check up on Peter.

>>30877044
>[ x ] Whatever, you’ll figure them out later. You need to check up on Peter.

also, this place turned into a complete shithole. too many people around. we should find a new home.

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Here's how we undercut the Corsairs' black market and establish good will between our clique and the rest of the scar.

FLORAL AFFINITY
Requires: Level 2 Animal Affinity, Level 2 Photosynthetic Biology
Cost: 1
JJ may speak to and get responses from plants. Their perspective is difficult to understand, but can offer a certain amount of insight.

GREEN FINGER
Requires: Floral Affinity
Cost: 1
JJ may coax plants to grow in unnatural ways or with unheard of speed. For example, he could make seeds sprout into fully grown plants in a matter of hours, convince weeds to limit their grown or kill themselves, or redirect and accelerate the growth of a tangle of creepers. With additional practice he could make certain crops exceptionally nourishing or control their exact nutritional contents.


and just give em out for free. naturally we keep some for ourselves.

>>30877215
me here

switch to
>>30877092

>>30877177
What are you talking about?
JJ doesn't know shit about what happened to Ben after he himself got kidnapped. It's a vote to find out what's happened to him.

>>30877242

I thought he meant Uncle Ben as sort of an asshole joke.

My bad.

>>30877232

I'd rather we just go and talk to them.

>>30877232
Frankly with that, we could turn the scar into a venerable forest and grow food for the entire community.
Take allot of x points though, would need to wait a while down the line for it.

>>30877232
We could seriously make a self-sufficient mutant community

>>30877232
Oh, I'd love that, but we'd need 6 X-points in order to get there and there are couple of more urgent acquisitions to make, like agility lvl 2

Oh yea, reporter Ben, I can get behind that. Lets ask about him then.

>>30877281
>but we'd need 6 X-points in order to get there

8 X-Points for all of them.

3 points for Level 2 Genetic Mimicry and another 3 for Level 2 Animal Affinity

Then 2 points for each of the exploratives.

>>30877232
With that, JJ could create a selfsufficient ecosystem to almost anywhere because he can talk to animals AND plants.

>>30877303
>Then 2 points for each of the exploratives.

Two ponits for the exploratives.

My bad.

>>30877303
>>30877318
It'd take time, but yeah. Useful stuff, especially if we throw in healing Vitae.

>>30877318
>With that, JJ could create a selfsufficient ecosystem to almost anywhere because he can talk to animals AND plants.

Or he could just buy food and preserve it well, and we save 8 X-Points for better choices.

>>30877333

10 or 11 points then, that we could spend on better things.

>>30877303
Think you mean photosynthesis there man.

One of the main reasons it would be a good idea to get that utility is that even if we end up in the wild, always have food so long as we have some seeds on us.

>>30877333
Full Raptor Jesus at that point.
I would be okay with that.

>>30877341
we build goodwill, get powerful allies with powers that ain't even on the list of options.

>>30877341
Err... you do realize that the point isn't to feed yourself. The point is to solve hunger for like everyone.

>>30877341
>for better choices.
yeah we have powergaming to do and fights to fight and shitty tourblesome communities to manage.

>>30877341
Like what?

Because that collective power cluster is really strong

>>30877341
If we can stop the corsairs and everyone else from starting up a mutant purge, it'd be worth it.

>>30877357
We are such a terrible stealth build. I love it!

>>30877399
>The point is to solve hunger for like everyone.

Again, just buy food for others. Get money by putting people to work, earn a decent living and all that commune stuff.

>>30877420
>Like what?

Agility 2, Enhanced Senses 5, Invisibility 5, Adhesive Touch 2, etc.

>>30877357
And then start working on Fire Breath, BECAUSE JJ MAKES SMART DECISIONS.

>>30877455
stop bitching sonic fag.

>>30877448
>Again, just buy food for others

We're poor motherfucker

Again, you're not seeing the implications of a totally free, easily constructed, and wide spread food source.

All of those other powers help us personally, but this power has long reaching effects.

>>30877455
And his name was godzilla....

>people are trying to make a socialist community in america of all places
I just find that funny.we already have that retarded insurance

>>30877448
>How to solve world hunger?
We should print more money so everybody can afford food.

>>30877455
>>30877470
lets leave it alone for now anons, we can talk about our fire breath when JJ discovers it and go from there.

>>30877448
>List of powers
Hmm, I think we can put Invisibility on the back burner for now,mbut I desperately want the other three you suggested.

>>30877475
you have to have the fertile ground, last time i checked the scar is a concrete jungle.

>>30877475
>We're poor motherfucker

We can work.

>but this power has long reaching effects.

I'd rather look to the future and bigger things than making a hobo garden that'll get raided and have everybody arrested. People will notice all the fruit.

>>30877484
>we already have that retarded insurance

I don't recall what you're referring to.

>>30877498
Invisibility lets us do a group of people, and small building.
>>30877511
Afortable care act, i'm hoping that shit dies.

>>30877503
Rip up the concrete and you'll find earth.
JJ has claws and strength, digging aint gonna be hard.

>>30877532
>Afortable care act, i'm hoping that shit dies.

Not available to mutants.

And please keep real life politics out of this. I'd rather not have everyone arguing over that.

>>30877539
do you not know what fertile earth means?

>>30877503
super strength, tear away some asphalt...

>>30877532
>political discussion
power arguing is enough already, lets not open that can of worms

>[X] Whatever, you’ll figure them out later. You need to check up on Peter.

You eat slowly, considering, for a moment, the future of the scar.

You wonder if anyone knows just how many mutants escaped from that accursed ship, and just how many of them are even on the streets anymore. Whole load of ‘em must’ve been scooped up right off the bat by Mutant Control, either deported or sent to stew in one of the camps. In a way, you’re a little bit glad that the muties seem to be forming little gangs of their own, rather than throwing in with Creeper and whoever else is fighting over this turf. But more mutants will definitely make the scar more visible.

You don’t like being visible. Hell, not being visible is your whole thing.

“Well… we’ll have to talk to these people eventually.” You conclude, setting your plate aside. “For now, I need to go check up on Peter.”

“Peter Parker?” Layla asks, bobbing up enthusiastically. She grabs you sleeve. “I’m coming!”

Uh… right.

Okay.

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

>HMQ 59: END

>Congratulations! You’ve received an X-Point!
>Congratulations! Everyone’s back together!

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>>30877494

>>30877511
If we're building an ecosystem, we're not going to run low on guards.
Did you forget? The one of requirements for those powers is animal affinity.

>>30877511
>Have everybody arrested

Last time I checked growing fruits and vegetables wasn't illegal, chief.

>Bigger things

Solving hunger, even in an isolated community, is a big fucking thing. More combative abilities, is not.
>>30877503
It isn't that hard to till land with superstrength.

>>30877532
I know, but I'd rather invest in a few of the extrapolatives before throwing 4xp into invis. It's a good investment and I'm not going to complain if it happpens first, I'm just saying it doesn't crack the top five on my list.

>>30877558
Green Finger lets us fully grow plants in a matter hours.

I think science takes a backseat here for the most part

>>30877584
>Last time I checked growing fruits and vegetables wasn't illegal, chief.

Being a mutant is.

>Solving hunger, even in an isolated community, is a big fucking thing. More combative abilities, is not.

Once the Mutant Control people find out, they'll burn it all and arrest everyone. Freaky mutant fruit? Eww.

>>30877572
>Congratulations! You’ve received an X-Point!

Enhanced Agility 2, please.

>>30877558
We can talk to ALL plants.

That includes the ones necessary to enrich the soil.

Though JJ would need to go read a book on farming to know about this.

>>30877572
D'aww...

Bank the point!

>>30877606
>Enhanced Agility 2, please.

That would require two X-Points.

>>30877565
>>30877584
>>30877586
concrete is bad for the earth, we would need to clean it up after taking up that shit out, and you people act like its weight like nothing(we have super strength but that still makes it back breaking work.)

>>30877470
Sorry, I was trying to make light of our hilarious stupidity. I'm actually looking forwards to the RP it gives us.

>>30877617
>That would require two X-Points.

Ah right, we spent on Wings.

Bank, then.

Photosynthesis 1

>>30877558
Animal affinity comes with the deal.
We're not running low on fertilizer.

>>30877584
>Last time I checked growing fruits and vegetables wasn't illegal
It is actually you need a permit for the scale your talking about and being a mugga is the icing on top.

>they will notice if we grow crops and trees.
>they will not notice mutant gangs stealing and extorting and shit.
great logic.

>>30877646
>they will not notice mutant gangs stealing and extorting and shit.

I never said that.

>>30877606
>Freaky mutant fruit

For all purposes, it would be normal. Just grown by mutant power.

And nobody is going to launch a full fledged investigate because somebody's growing watermelons.

>>30877597
the way people are talking they want long lasting plants, they could force a plant to grow, but it won't survive.(that is assuming the plant won't need its nourishment for initial growth)

>>30877654
>For all purposes, it would be normal. Just grown by mutant power.

The Mutant Control people don't know that. Nor do the public.

>And nobody is going to launch a full fledged investigate because somebody's growing watermelons.

No, but they will since there are at least 100 mutants now in the Exclusion Zone.