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Avengers Academy: X of Swords ⚔️

Leah Jordan

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Location: The Carnival
Skills: Punching things and throwing rocks
First Day Fit

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”Cool it, Sparky.” She halfway barked at Danny when he started yapping like dog who hadn’t gotten a treat yet. Dorian just disappeared, and then so did the new kid. Fantastic. Wait- There they were. Did Dorian just accidentally yank the kid with his powers in some kind of gay panic? Leah wouldn’t have been surprised. Not one bit. ”Get back here, Dorian.” She couldn’t see him, so he probably went- Wait a damn minute.

”You have a brother? Huh.” Leah didn’t really pay enough attention to Diana in any fashion to know much about her. ”Okay- Well. Cool. You should tell your sister to get a personality sometime. No one else has had any luck with that so far.” She told Percy in an attempt to lighten the mood. Did a mood need to be lightened after a kid almost got incinerated? Probably.

”Name’s Leah. You’re probably kind of okay if April likes you. Don’t worry, we only light people on fire to initiate them.” She was very clearly joking, but her tone wasn’t really the joking type. Maybe she was serious. Maybe she wasn’t… The world may never know. Leah walked over and threw a big, muscled arm over April’s shoulder. ”You never told me you were planning on burning a freshie alive on day one. You turning evil or something?”

This would be a weird friend group dynamic, Leah thought. April was arguably Leah’s closest friend, and she apparently knew Diana’s younger brother. If Leah and the kid got along, maybe Diana would quit being so cocky? No… Probably not, actually. Then again, the kid did seem like he had a bit of her attitude. It was almost funny seeing him bark like a chihuahua when Big Sister Novikova worried about protecting him, and when Leah just asked who he was.

𝚃𝚑𝚒𝚜 𝚃𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝙾𝚏 𝙾𝚞𝚛𝚜

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"I'm gonna be working late tonight. Two of the editors quit last week so we're getting swamped." The voice over the phone said.

"That's okay. I don't know when I'll be home, either." Marie held the phone in one hand, and loaded bullets into an empty magazine with the other.

"Today's the day, huh?"

"Yeah. I've got to do this, it's personal."

"I know. It's okay, really. As long as you come home to me safe, I trust."

She smiled on her end of the call. "I know I never talk about him, but he was important. The closest thing to a father I had."

"That's really sweet, Marie. I hope you'll tell me more when we both get home. He sounds like he was nice."

"He was..." There was a loud clicking noise as Marie slid the magazine into a pistol. "I need to go, I'll see you in the morning, Nat."

"Be careful for me, okay?" Natalie asked in her usual worrying tone.

"Always."

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Conveniently enough, Marie's office wasn't far from the police station. It was only 5 minutes away by car, and Marie quickly made her way inside. In her pocket was the note she somehow received at her door recently. Fraud cases were a common thing she dealt with, but this just didn't add up. Situations that escalated far enough for these accusations to be true tended to result in actual police officers arriving on the scene. Marie believed she would be able to remember something like that happening, especially if she was there. And yet, despite going through all of her records dating back to the start of her career, she found nothing. Either it was fake, or something else was in play here. The odds of her crossing paths with the Morse Code Killer, years before their appearances, and allegedly knew their father? They were slim odds, and the safer bet was that this was just a trick to fool her and her new coworkers.

But still, if it was true... Why was he there unarmed?

Marie eventually found her way to the place she needed to go. The room wasn't exactly inviting, but nothing showed on her face when she took a seat. She crossed her arms and waited for others to arrive.

𝚃𝚑𝚒𝚜 𝚃𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝙾𝚏 𝙾𝚞𝚛𝚜

I may try to post later today or tomorrow, we’ll see. I’ve been busy lately so I might be slow

The Faraway Land: Dragonbound (CLOSED, non-starter)

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I had this archived and didn't know it was still going

lol

The Misfit Crew

I haven’t been able to do much posting lately but I’ll try to get something out tonight or tomorrow.

If I can’t I’ll let you know and you guys might need to go on without me. I don’t wanna lag people behind.

@Blizz

Sorry, y’all. No dice. Ain’t got the brainpower to come up with anything and I don’t wanna hinder the vibe so I’m gonna have to respectfully step out.

The Misfit Crew

I haven’t been able to do much posting lately but I’ll try to get something out tonight or tomorrow.

If I can’t I’ll let you know and you guys might need to go on without me. I don’t wanna lag people behind.

Avengers Academy: X of Swords ⚔️

Leah Jordan

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Location: The Carnival
Skills: Punching things and throwing rocks
First Day Fit

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While most people left for the summer, Leah stayed in her dorm for the last few months alone. Over the summer, she trained with her powers constantly, learning new ways to make them apply to additional use cases. And now, she'd be doing the same thing around a lot of other people. The entire building was almost always dead silent when she woke up, so it would certainly be jarring when she suddenly had roommates. Luckily for Leah, she woke up hours before she had the privilege of being reunited with Sabine fucking Bassard. While others were getting ready to hit the books again, Leah was hitting a reinforced punching bag in her room. It was reinforced because she once punched a hole clean through her last one without even trying to. Warmups like that kept her sharp, even when it was technically "breaktime," but Leah considered herself something of a superhero already. This was simply her. She found comfort in it. That, and it was easy for someone to underestimate an absurd level strength when they weren't intimately familiar with it.

She knew it was time to actually start the day like a normal person when the sun finally came up. Leah grabbed a shower and threw on her favorite Carhartt jacket, and a water bottle from her firdge before heading out. She really didn't feel like running into Sabine right now after she had just gotten herself properly awake. Time to go and eat something.

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Leah eventually made her way to the line that was quickly forming outside at a food truck. Whatever they had there didn't really matter to her, because she spotted April among the group. Leah enjoyed being around April, more than she did a lot of people. It was always nice having friends she could chill with. She also saw Dorian, who she didn't really have a problem with. He was cool. What wasn't as cool however, was that some tiny shortstack-looking kid seemed to teleport out of thin air... And then Danny appeared. Yay. Leah didn't dislike Danny Kingston, she just had a hard time dealing with that guy's energy. Still, she knew them so she may as well try to interact with people.

Leah strolled over to them, just in time to see someone was on fire. Really, Danny? Well, at least they got it under control just in time for Leah to say something.

"Nice way to welcome new people, Danny. Welcome back, guys. Who's the new kid?" The "new kid" was roughly three inches shorter than Leah, and looked absolutely tiny in both size and just general mass. This kid looked like Leah could kick him for a field goal if she really felt bored. What are they feeding people these days?

The Eye of the Needle (where Fantasy and Sci-fi collide)

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When Shirik said they'd bring the heavens down on the bug, they were serious.

It stopped moving, and Shirik ran over to the battered Glen with Kareet. He was alive, by the gods. "I am Shirik. And you are very luck to be alive, J'eon of Mythadia." The Glen would be treated to a very strange sight, and Iriad suffused with fire beneath their bark. "If you can stand, we will take you to Ertiseda where this Life mage can tend to you as Kareet says." Shirik looked over to the wretched mess they left behind after striking it down. "I am a thousand years old, and I have not seen such a beast before." They said flatly. "Regardless, our new friend requires assistance, so let us be on our way, yes?" Shirik bent down to help the Glen onto his feet. When J'eon touched Shirik, he wouldn't feel burned by the Iriad's hands. Rather, he would simply feel the sensation of dried bark against skin.

"I am certain the Sages would be interested to know what that beast is. Or perhaps they do. But we can return for its remains later, Kareet." They said, seeing that Kareet was taking an interest in studying the insect-like monster they just brought down.

Ice Inside The Furnace [A Demonic Pandemic Adventure]

Moral of the story: Get your vaccine