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[img]https://fontmeme.com/permalink/220906/45d171115fb412c0373a6246af17f4e7.png[/img][/center][hr][center][@Nallore][@BlueSky44][@Achronum][@Trainerblue192][@Kirah][/center][hr][hr][center][color=f7941d][b]Genosha: August 22nd, 2021 - 10:10 PM [/b][/color][/center][hr][center]The Quiet Council of Genosha

Autumn Table: 
Magneto - [color=f7941d]Omega Level Mutant[/color], Master of Magnetism 
Reeva Payge - Disorienting, Hallucinatory Sonic Scream 
SELENE! - Psychic Vampire-Witch, Dark Priestess of Rome, Demonic Huntress, Goddess of the Moon, the First One, Mother of All Mutants

Summer Table: 
Veil - Invisibility and Force Fields 
Caduceus - [color=f7941d]Omega Level Mutant[/color], Healing and Adaptation 
Spark Plug - Electrokinesis, Empathy, Weather Manipulation 

Spring Table: 
Esme Frost - Telepathy, Psychic Host of Emma Frost & the Dead Cuckoos 
Polaris - Mistress of Magnetism 
Moneta - Retrocognition and Holographic Projection 

Winter Table: 
Mr. Sinister* - All
Mystique - Shapeshifting 
Destiny - Prophecy [/center]

* not actually a mutant[hr][center][h3][b][color=935DB8]Veil[/color] & [color=DBA1DE]Casper[/color] & [color=#DAF7A6]Sunshine[/color][/b][/h3][hr][hr][b]Location:[/b] the Carousel 
[b]Skills:[/b] [color=DBA1DE]Mediumship[/color][/center][hr]	There was mass panic and hysteria, as people found themselves rapidly sobering up out of sheer terror. Everyone felt in their bones that this was about to be a massacre. A dozen of the world's most powerful mutants were hellbent on slaughter, all to see SELENE become a dark goddess. Reeva's screams were shutting off the powers of groups of mutants in waves, and sending some abilities dangerously out of control. Magneto and Polaris were slowly making the magnetic force fields smaller and smaller, forcing everyone into tighter and closer quarters. Esme Frost was attacking telepathically, sending mutants dropping to the ground motionlessly. Mister Sinister was cackling, stealing people's capes and strangling them with them. Destiny horrifyingly was firing blind into crowds with a crossbow. 

	And yet, things could have been oh so much worse. Our heroes weren't the only ones fighting back. No, others were rising up to protect themselves and their community everywhere within the Carousel. Some might have argued that Selene made a mistake, assuming that she only needed the Quiet Council to destroy Genosha. 

	After all, Genosha was a people - not a place. A people who were shouting [i]NO MORE[/i]. 

[color=f7941d]Mutant Underground Table - [/color]
	
	[color=DBA1DE]"James? James!"[/color] Casper shouted, broken hearted as James left him behind. Casper's shoulders slumped. There were screams all around. Was this the lot of mutants, to always be hunted, even by one of their own? All he could be thankful for was that his mother had little baby Danny with her and that she wasn't here - that if they all died, at least his son would make it out okay. 

	But Casper wasn't going to accept this. His head started pounding for a second, something that he vaguely recognized was some sort of telepathic attack. He wrote it off as being one of the Quiet Council people - a few of them were telepaths and all of them were apparently evil now, per Hocus Pocus rules. [color=DBA1DE]"I'm going after James!"[/color] Casper shouted, before taking off at a run in the direction James had gone. If true love's kiss didn't work, then maybe true love's punch would. 

	"'Fraid I can't do that," Jack Wayne said, nodding at Echo. "Lil Davie doesn't want to be out right now. But don't you fret, ole' Jack here has a few tricks up his sleeves," he added. He made a lassoing motion and telekinetically yanked the hard light spear out of Max's leg, the spear flying into Jack Wayne's hand. "Huh, now what's a nice lil lady like you doing throwin' around somethin' like this?" Jack Wayne asked Moneta, before throwing the spear back at her, aiming for her stomach. 

	Sunshine knew that they couldn't all just stay in one location here, concentrating their efforts on Moneta. There were other members of the Quiet Council that needed to be dealt with. And while other mutants were fighting, Sunshine wouldn't be able to live with herself if she stayed here in her battle tested group. [color=#DAF7A6]"I'm going to go get these fields down,"[/color] Sunshine said, not offering a moment for anyone to object before she took off at a run in the direction of Magneto and Polaris. 

	Marrow's eyes flashed. "Not without me you aren't!" she shouted at her wife, before running off after her. 

	"Watch out!" Ben shouted, snaring a tentacle around Andy and quickly lifting her up and out of the way. The small child had rushed up to Andy, seemingly going in for a hug, but Ben had noticed the knife the kid was holding behind her back. 

	[color=5997A9]"Way to ruin the fun,"[/color] the little kid complained, before shifting into her true form - that of a blue skinned woman with red hair and a belt of real skulls. Mystique. [color=5997A9]"But we can do things this way, too,"[/color] she offered, before feinting and punching [i]Zari[/i] in the throat, hard. 

[color=f7941d]Shi'Ar Bartender Set-Up[/color]

	Max teleporting Ben away had forced Ben to release his tentacle'd grip on Veil. Veil fell to the ground unceremoniously, clad in a Christmas-y sweater with her initial on it. Somehow, Selene's spell allowed Veil to recognize that the sweater did [i]not[/i] go with her suit, so she removed it quickly and threw it aside. Then again, that was exactly the sort of thing Selene would add into a spell - not only would her entranced minions kill for her, no, they would [i]slay[/i] for her. Ugly outfits were simply unacceptable. 

	[color=935DB8]"Spark Plug, can you make the weather a living hell in here? Whatever the worst you can do is,"[/color] Veil requested. [color=935DB8]"If we perish as well for goddess' ascension, so be it. That price is worth it."[/color] She then looked at Caduceus, contemplating what to ask him to do. Even now, Veil fell naturally into a leadership role. Moneta had already charged off towards the table the Mutant Underground was chasing at. [color=935DB8]"Caduceus, you need a more useful ability."[/color]

	And then, without another word, Veil attacked her enchanted ally. She sent a sharp force field disc at James, aiming for a kill shot. But rather than beheading him, his reactive adaption kicked in. James' skin turned to metal - more precisely, adamantium, one of the strongest metals in the world. [color=935DB8]"There. Now you can better serve our goddess."[/color]