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X-Men: Cosmic Crusades 👽

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The world as you know it has changed, nothing seems to be right. Everyone you knew, is living entirely different lives, one in which instead of mutants being the minority, they are now the majority. In the year 1984, there was an attack over the city of New York, involving large robots, whose origins were unknown, at least at first. Magneto fended off the attack, and in the process revealed a large international anti-mutant conspiracy led by the President of the United States at the time, Ronald Reagan.

This was just the beginning of Magneto's rise to power, and by the present day, he'd become a king, the ruler of the entire world, and there was nothing anyone could do to stop him.

No one has the power to oppose him, and now, humans are being oppressed, and anyone without powers is seen as a lesser being. Even some of those who do have abilities are seen as lesser powers than mutants, with Inhumans and other mutates not having the best of time.

This is the world in which we all live in. The World of today, and who knows if the old world will ever resurface again.

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All of the members of New York's elite are expected to attend just the first of the King's extravagant parties. He throws several around this time of year, though not because of Christmas as many would think, but in celebration of Hanukkah. There were going to be parties all week in celebration, and it was expected that anyone who had an invitation was going to attend. If they didn't odds were one of the princes would show up on their doorstep, and not for a social call.

The king and queen are currently nowhere in sight, however, all four of their children were there at the moment. Prince Pietro was currently somewhat off to the side with his fiancee, Wanda was being a sort of loner, as was Lorna. Flynn actually was making a conscious effort to converse with the guests, since he was probably going to be the king one day.

"...So how are you Allison?" Oshea asked Allison as the pair were sort of in the middle of the ballroom surrounded by people. He figured he might as well make some conversation with her.

"...These parties are so boring, I kind of wish that I could just run off and not have to deal with this sort of thing..." Pietro muttered under his breath to Guin.

"How much longer do you think this'll take, love? I've got a body on ice," October whispered to Carolina with a pleasant smile. She was wearing a rather old fashioned blue dress and had a vibrant flower in her hair. Carolina's pyrokinetic wife worked in a morgue - she wasn't a serial killer or anything, just very calm around corpses.

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Down in the basement of the Thieves' Guild, a meeting was set to start. There was a red head sitting in one of the chairs at the end, leaning back in her chair and her feet propped up onto the table. She didn't really seem to care too much that her feet were on the table or anything. Chrysi was incredibly bored at the moment and hoped that the meeting or whatever would start soon. That way she could move on to better things to do, like threatening people who were being idiots and didn't listen.

"Hey Remy, you seen little Ms. Goody Two Shoes anywhere? Fairly certain she's going to be late at this point..." she said with an eye roll at her brother as he walked into the room.

Just about everyone who was a member of the guild were there by that point, but one person didn't seem to be there quite yet. Mary was usually the twin who was on time, as opposed to her sister who usually was late. It was a bit on the strange side to say the least.

"Nah, can't say i have mon amie. But don't worry, she'll turn up."

"You say that now, but watch, she's not going to show up on time like she usually does. It would definitely be a first."

"Well maybe she finally got laid Chrysi, if ya are so worried about it, go and find her will ya?"

"Nah, there would be no fun in doing that at all, besides, she's way too boring and nice to be helpful."

There was a six year old girl, her gleaming blonde hair done up in French braids, sitting at the table in her father's lap as she colored. The box of 128 different crayons was tipped over on its side, with all of the different shades of pink in her hand at once as she colored with about ten crayons at a time. Her coloring book was all about dinosaurs and she was giggling happily. "Voilà, Papa! Un petit dinosaure rose!" she exclaimed.

"C'est génial Lexi, ça a l'air incroyable," Jack said with a smile at her.

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Currently, the Red Guard were en-route to Sydney, Australia. They had been flying in the Quinjet for most of the night, or is it day? Timezone differences make things confusing, but nevertheless it is morning now for them. Their mission is to track down Dr. Banner and bring him back to SHIELD, as they wish to learn the secret to the Hulk and how to potentially recreate him. This could prove useful in the research to potentially give normal humans abilities of some sort.

Agent Howlett was pacing back and forth somewhat, thinking about something, that much was obvious. Mystique was in a seat as well, looking over at him. "Something the matter?" she asked him simply, watching as he kept pacing back and forth it seemed.

"Just wondering when we'll get there."

"Well stop pacing, we'll be there in another half an hour or so, we're almost there, and we've been careful to ensure that they don't know we're coming, so this should be rather simple."

"You ever been punched by the Hulk? There ain't many around who can describe what it feels like to get hit by the Hulk. Simple fact bein' there ain't many around who can survive to tell the tale. There ain't no pain at first. It's like he hits ya so damn hard ya actually leave yer own body. It's when ya come back that ya feel the pain. An' ya realize yer goin' toe-to-toe with a walkin' earthquake. So forgive me for being a bit skeptical that this will be a walk in the park."

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Darke Magyk - Concluded

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Bruce Banner

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Location: Asgard

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He wasn't going to lie, it was nice to be back home on Asgard again, he'd been gone for quite a while now, and he was glad to be back now. Wished it hadn't been quite like the way it was in order for him to really return, but there wasn't much he could really do about it. Asgard always would be his home, and he wanted Myth to go there at some point anyway, so this just was more of an excuse to go. Despite the fact that they were mainly there because his son needed Asgardian medical care at the moment.

Bruce went to go check on the baby, to see how he was doing at the moment. His spirits were lifted when he heard Halley say that another week and he'd be able to be alright without any sort of help, which was definitely a good thing. He didn't know where Myth was, though he wouldn't be too surprised if she came to check on their son while he was there. It definitely made some sense for her to do that, so he figured he might as well wait and see when she'd show up.

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Queen Valda

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Location:The Palace - Dining Hall

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Valda was eating her food in the dining hall fairly quietly. She wasn't really wanting to be a part of any major sort of conversation, at least not at the moment when there was a very real threat that likely would be heading their way. Fleur and her witches were not ones to be messed with, that much was for certain, especially after the scene that they had caused at the coronation. She was worried about her sister, worried that they'd try to make her one of their own once more. The fact that her siblings safety was at risk was what concerned her, not her own since if Fleur had her way she knew that she'd be dead.

Hearing Myrus' words, Valda turned to look over at him, having known that the conversation likely was going to happen at some point no matter what. It had been put off far too long, so maybe now was the time to discuss it. She gave her brother a smile, thinking somewhat of what it was that she was going to say. "I'm all ready to hear what you have planned Myrus, let me know how I can help you and I'll do the best that I can."

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Neil was having a hard time staying calm, fidgeting a bit with his hearing aids. He knew that they would be fine - they had the majority of the old X-Men with them and they had a few other heavy hitters, like Allison, there as well. They'd be mostly fighting civilians too, meaning that it was unlikely that they'd be going up against anyone with powers or experience. But after the disasters from yesterday... he was just scared that Mesmero would get back inside of their heads. What if he killed someone this time? His hands shook slightly and he glanced at his teammates. He wished Sara had been with him - someone he knew - but he wasn't that lucky. "... What's the plan?" Neil asked softly.

Shelly massaged her forehead. They were in charge of crowd control when everyone else was completing objectives we were preventing them getting swamped in hordes of bodies, some of which had to be mutants. But we didn't know anything, where they were stood relative to other objectives, how many there were, what they could use to their advantage.

"To start, we need to know what we're fucking with exactly," Shelly suggested in a hushed tone, "and then we need to make our mind up quick before another team get their attention instead. Who wants to take a peek?"

Allison wasn't too keen on the team she was assigned. She barely knew Neil, Richard was more of an annoying older brother, and she couldn't stand Shelly. This was going to be an interesting mission. Granted, it was important. Mesmero will have a lot of people under his control and they were innocent. "The plan is no killing. These people, like we saw already, have no control of their actions. I know Jean is the expert on breaking it, but I could try my hand at it provided they are knocked out."

Richard gave a slightly annoyed sigh. He was already done with Mesmero and mutants who could and, for the sake of excluding the Professor, would screw with someone's mind. Ayita had practically taken off his head when he suggested she not go after Mesmero. Privately, but she still had tried verbally. "What we are 'fucking with exactly'," The Adder stated in a cold tone, Shelly was still not in his good books by any measure. "Is a bunch of pedestrians we can't exactly hurt too badly. They most likely don't have any extensive training in combat and this should be easy. The problem will lie with the fact they won't have the sense to stay down, and their superior numbers." Nodding to himself, the Adder gave a quick look about. Hoping to spot a lone civilian on their own. "But let's get on with this so that way the others will have a clear shot towards the two-point-oh version of giant world ending computer and the poor sod who riled my sister."

"No killing, only disarming and knocking out. That's it, clearing the way for just about anyone else. You kill anyone, even on accident, you have ta deal with me," Wolverine growled at the group, before heading into the Warehouse now. That was when the group was in for a bit of a surprise. There had to be over 500 people or so, just in the main area that they ended up in.

"Holy shit, that is a lot of civilians.... Guess that's what ya get when your villains are all based in NYC!"

"Keep it down Swamp Rat, they haven't seemed to notice us yet."

Neil took a deep breath, trying to imagine the civilians they were facing as nothing more than roaming monsters in Dungeons and Dragons. Whenever there was a mob this big, he'd toss aside the figures to represent them and put out pieces of candy instead. People got to eat the candy when they took out a monster. If he imagined all of these people as just Hershey Kisses, it was a little less terrifying. He looked at Allison, hoping to take some sort of cue from her as to how to use the telekinesis with these people, though his telekinesis tended to manifest mostly in terms of ripping things apart.

Fortunately, he had watched plenty of movies and shows with his cousin. He was scared to use his powers on the civilian themselves, but he spotted some pipes running up above them. Twisting his hands slightly, he caused the pipe to burst, sending down a large volume of smoke at the civilians. It would hopefully scatter them, but also might provide them with some cover of sorts.

Shelly rolled her eyes quietly, like she was the one that needed to be told "no killing", and followed in behind the guys. Shelly thought they were being hasty even if they were a lot more experienced and time was of the essence. Shelly caught a glimpse of the crowd just as the fog decended, it was terrifyingly huge. Could she really disable her fair share of the horde of civilians with just her bare hands? Shelly imagined knocking out the umpteenth innocent with a simple choke hold for their own good, whispering apologies as they strained and writhed, their body desperately fighting her grip for a gasp of oxygen. She wouldn't be able to sleep after doing it that many times, she'd still do it for them and the safety of her team if thats what it came to, but Shelly knew it would be tough to soothe the soul after that.

She had to think smarter than that, smart like bursting the pipe. Perhaps there was more stuff in the Warehouse they could use to their advantage. Obscured from sight by the smoke and footsteps shrouded by the noise of work that echoed from deeper in the warehouse, she began her hunt for something, anything.

Taking a cue from her chat with Bobbi before, Allison paused and attempted to get a vision. She managed to latch on to something, seeing them get inside the building just fine. However, she noted some cops there and a large group of civilians. And then she saw and heard a gunshot. She came back and followed the others. "All right, just had a vision. We can make it inside easily, but there are a lot of people inside and Mesmero isn't afraid to lose any of them. I saw cops there and I think they may have shot one of the controlled civilians. So we need to get them out and helped as fast as possible."

Richard studied the crowd as Neil's little pipe dream came down to earth. It was a rather splendid idea and something he could use on a few people, but on this many? He was an assassin that generally targeted people based in far smaller numbers than this. "It'd be worse if he got the brilliant idea to do it down in New Orleans during Mardi Gras." Richard retorted to Remy with a groan of amusement. "Though there is an idea. Could just get a rave going. Til then... I need to find a cardboard box. The perfect camouflage." The Adder noted as he slipped into the cloud and slowly worked to get close to some poor outlying fool. Quick as a flash he wrapped an arm about the man's neck after plucking the weapon from the man's hands. Shoving it into his belt, Richard covered the man's mouth and slowly lowered him to the floor as the civilian lost consciousness.

"Ya stay the hell out of my city, Snake Man," Gambit said, shaking his head. He threw a hand of cards at the fire alarm, intending to trigger it to add to the chaos on this floor. It would at least make it so that way Mesmero would have a harder time directing his minions and figuring out what was going on. His aim was a bit off, but he did succeed in activating the blaring fire alarm. However there was the slight problem of a few of the civilians being in the blast radius of the explosions and it injured several of them now.

"Damn it Remy, thought we were trying not to injure everyone else!" Rogue said, managing to be heard over the blaring fire alarm.

Nodding a bit at Allison's description of her vision, Neil started looking for cops amongst the crowd. He was able to spot a few of them and he focused on the barrels of their guns, using his powers to twist and bend them out of shape, preventing them from being fired. That would hopefully at least prevent the future Allison had seen of people getting shot - he didn't want to think about anyone getting seriously hurt or dying. There had been way more than enough tragedy the day before. "Few of the cops I spotted are disarmed," Neil told his teammates. He hoped that Sara was alright. He really hoped that she was.

Shelly was losing her patience, she had to start releasing people soon. Thats how she had to think about it, I was taking them out of danger by doing it. Shelly commited to taking down the next person she found.

A young girl, might have only just started middle school. Her parents must have been worried sick, unless they were in the crowd as well. Shelly was more disgusted than she could put in words, her Diary entry would be unusally distant and objective tonight. Shelly steeled herself, she was vulnerable and most in need of saving from Mesmero. She breathed before, wrapping her right arm round, braced it with the other and tightened. "You've been so brave, well done super star," Shelly whispered, trying (and failing) not to cry herself. The girl was out like a light, it was precise, clinical. Shelly lifted her unconcious body, carrying the limp, defenceless creature back out to safety.

Allison had talked to Jean before this and asked her how she broke them out of control. They had little time to crash course it, so Allison figured it was now or never. She closed her eyes and let her conscious go out of her body, entering the minds of the few civilians in front of her. Once inside, she fought the mental cage that surrounded their minds and broke it. She had only gotten through three of them before she felt weak and came back. Still, three of them were out of danger. She quickly ran over to them. "You were being controlled by a powerful mutant but you're free now. Quickly! Get out of here. The exit is that way." She pointed and directed them towards the exit before she followed the others forward.

It seemed things were getting a little messy, no thanks to Remy. While he did enjoy the man, and honestly wanted to see how well a man who could blow a card up could play poker, it was a bit irritating to have an explosion go off. It was positively aggravating to have the fire alarm blare out, though Richard had to admit it was adding to the confusion. Slipping up behind another figure, his hand covered the woman's mouth as his arm wrapped around her throat and he slowly lowered her to the ground. Two down, and far too many more to go.

"We need ta hurry up, none of this taking down a few at a time, there too many!" Rogue said, before an idea crossed her mind, and she noticed the large doors of the warehouse. "Hey Wolverine, mind gettin' one of those doors open for me?" she asked before she flew outside. Wolverine proceeded to pull one of the larger doors open, and finding a way to prop the door open so he didn't have to stand there. A moment later she came flying back inside carrying a very large shipping container and proceeded to scoop up about 20 people before she flew the container back out and locked it so they wouldn't wander off to try and stop them. She had been nice though and had found a drill to poke holes in it so that there was air able to circulate within the container.

"That's my wife!" Gambit called out with a cheer. "She really knows how ta fill a hole!" He proceeded to pull out his his bo staff and charged in, knocking out several other civilians.

"We aren't actually married first of all!"

"Well, what do ya say we change that chère?" Gambit asked, stopping for a moment, jumping back over to where she was holding out a diamond ring.

"Now is not the time for that sort of thing Swamp Rat!" Rogue said with a slight eye roll before she knocked out 2 more civilians.

Trying his very best to aid with the entire idea of getting more civilians out sooner rather than later, Neil got a bit of an idea once more. He used his telekinesis to suspend one civilian into the air, before he started moving them around through the air like a bowling ball taking down pins, managing to knock ten civilians unconscious before his "weapon" lost consciousness as well and he had to set him back down. He was sweating from the exertion that had took and Neil wiped his brow, hoping that the group fighting Mesmero would hurry up and take him out. He didn't know how long they'd be able to last here. There seemed to be an endless tidal wave of foes to go up against.

Allison tried again to break more people free, but she could feel herself getting weaker. She managed to latch on to one person's mind and shatter the cage. She moved them onwards towards the exit. There was still a lot of them to go and she didn't know if she could go on.

"Speaking of propositions..." Richard called out to Remy as he attempted to put another civillian in a sleeper hold. "Remy, was it?, can you happen to play cards without making them explode? I wouldn't mind another smart-assed bastard at the table. Call it an olive branch if you will." He chuckled and tried to leg sweep another civilian.

"I ain't always a good man, Snake, but I ain't stupid. I play cards with my friends. And that ain't you," Gambit responded, and Richard would be able to knock another civilian out. However, something else strange seemed to happen, as if the spell was broken and now several of them looked really confused.

"Looks like ol' Mesmero's down for the count," Rogue commented, landing on the ground once more, befor Gambit turned to look at her.

"So mon amie, what do ya say? Wanna be Mrs. Rogue?"

Rogue seemed to think about it for a moment, before she took the ring from him, covered his mouth with her hand and kissed the back of her hand, stepping back again. "Does that answer ya question swamp rat? Though next time, pick a better time for asking these sort of questions."

"Ya really think I'm gonna need to propose to ya again, Mrs. X?" he asked with a smirk.

Rogue smacked him over the head with an eye roll. "Let's get everyone outta here."

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October 16, 2020

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She had blacked out, again. Appearing somewhere that she hadn't remembered going to, and it was starting to terrify her. There wasn't anything she could do about it, one minute she'd be in her room, next thing she knew she'd be in a tree in the garden or in the parlor on a couch. None of it was making sense to her, and it didn't help that she was hearing a voice in her mind, one that wasn't going away. Some of the things it was saying made her worry, not for herself, but for everyone else around her. She went to Xavier's office to speak with him, about to knock on the door, but she found that she didn't need to as the instant she reached the door a voice came from the otherside. "Enter Marygold."

"So you were expecting me then?" she asked as she walked into the room, taking a seat in the chair that was right across from where Xavier sat at his desk.

"Yes, I've been expecting you to come by for quite some time now actually..."

"...So you know why I'm here?"

"Yes I do."

"...I think there is something seriously wrong with me. There's this voice in my head that sounds like my own... But it's saying things that I don't think and I don't know what to do about it... Then there are the blackouts... Professor I don't even remember us knocking out Mesmero. I remember Ayita charging at him, and the next thing I know we were back at the mansion and he'd been handed over to SHIELD... Nothing is making sense to me anymore... I got really angry with Ayita for not listening to me, and then nothing. Now she hates me more than before, and I don't even know what I had said to her! I don't know what to do anymore..."

"I can understand your fear Marygold, adapting to any sort of new situation is not exactly a situation one would want to find themselves in. It is your choice how you want things to go from here, but we can talk about what might be the best options..."

"Please Professor, I need to know... What do you think, or likely know, is wrong with me?"

"It is a bit complicated..."

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Player Characters

Name: Marygold Célèste LeBeau Location: New Orleans, Louisiana Powers: Poison Touch and Plant Manipulation Background: The younger sister of Thieves' Guild King Remy LeBeau, and the younger of a pair of twins, Mary is set to take over the Guild once her older brother steps down. She is the calmer and quieter one of the twins and tends to be more level headed than her sister. Roleplayer: @BlueSky44 Primary Roleplay: X-Men: Darkness Rising	Name: Guinevere Victoria Stark Location: New York City Powers: Telepathy Background: The daughter of Tony Stark and Pepper Potts, the Stark Industries Heiress is engaged to Prince Pietro. Guin discovered her powers when she was 12 years old, switching with someone by accident, and she still helps her father out with various projects, despite Pietro's protests. A chance meeting at a casino in New Orleans caused her to become best friends with Mary LeBeau. Roleplayer: @Morose Primary Roleplay: X-Men: Darkness Rising
Name: Chrysanthemum "Chrysi" LeBeau Location: New Orleans, Louisiana Powers: Poison Touch and Plant Manipulation Background: The younger sister of Thieves' Guild King Remy LeBeau, and the older of a pair of twins, Chrysi is considered to be more psychotic than her sister. Rumors swirl around of several murders that have gone unsolved, but many believe that she was the one responsible. She doesn't care too much for her siblings and find them to be a bit annoying. Roleplayer: @BlueSky44 Primary Roleplay: N/A	Name: Lance Richard Banner Location: Sydney, Australia Powers: Light Manipulation Background: The son of Bruce Banner, Lance has never known about his father's past as the Hulk, having lived his entire life in Australia. He is rather close to his father, and helps him in his research and work. He is currently dating an astronomy student named Runa Blake, a few years his younger. Roleplayer: @BlueSky44 Primary Roleplay: X-Men: Darkness Rising
Name: Prince Flynn Location: New York City Powers: Fire Manipulation Background: Flynn is born as the eldest son of Queen Miranda and King Erik. His father has always been a little harder on him than on his other siblings, as he is set to take the throne once the king steps down. Though he does tend to do quite a bit of the dirty work, like his brother Pietro, taking out enemies of his father's. Generally he is considered to be more soft-hearted than his siblings, and currently he is dating a member of the Red Guard, Demetria Clarke. Roleplayer: @BlueSky44 Primary Roleplay: Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.	Name: Demetria Marissa Clarke Location: Red Guard Mobile Unit Powers: Cryokinesis and Thermokinesis Background: A member of the elite SHIELD team the Red Guard, Sapphire is constantly working to break down any sort of human resistance groups against the king or SHIELD. Currently she is dating Prince Frederick Flynn, with the tabloids nicknaming the two of them Fire and Ice due to the combination of their abilities. There are some rumors that she will eventually become the Crown Princess. Roleplayer: @BlueSky44 Primary Roleplay: The Gifted
Name: Antoinette Clara McCarthy Location: New York City Powers: Illusion Casting and Enhanced Intuition Background: Annie grew up with both her mother and her father being around. Even though her mother was a human and not a mutant, that didn't seem to cause any sort of problems for them when they moved from Ireland and over to the United States where there were better opportunities for Annie. While at an art school, Annie met and befriended Carolina Reed, and now the two own an art studio together. Roleplayer: @KazAlkemi Primary Roleplay: X-Men: Darkness Rising	Name: Niah Bautista Location: Red Guard Mobile Unit Powers: Psychometry, Sense Enhancement, and Blind Sense Background: Niah Bautista had a relatively stable childhood and a good relationship with her sister. The two of them still talk daily. In high school, her biology teacher showed them a Forensic Files episode on an early release day and she fell in love with forensic science. Her excellence in the field had caused her to become the forensics expert for the Red Guard, assisting their elite team however she can. Roleplayer: @Kirah Primary Roleplay: Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
Name: Carolina Regina Reed Location: New York City Powers: Astral Projection Background: When she was younger, her family moved over to the US. She eventually earned a scholarship to go to a prestigious art school, where she eventually met and befriended Antoinette McCarthy. Eventually, the two opened up an art studio together, and Carolina then went on to meet her sweetheart October Crypt, who works in a morgue, and the two eventually married. Roleplayer: @Nallore Primary Roleplay: X-Men: Darkness Rising	Name: Maria Sarah Smith Location: Red Guard Mobile Unit Powers: Life Force and Power Absorption, Regenerative Healing Background: Maria has won several gold medals in the Olympics over the years, when she was recruited by SHIELD to be a part of the elite mutant squad the Red Guard. During the off season, she works for SHIELD, and is currently dating one of her fellow Red Guard members Novikova, and she has control over her powers enough to not have to worry about accidentally putting someone in a coma and she can have physical human contact without any problems. Roleplayer: @Nallore Primary Roleplay: Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
Name: Cassandra Elena Reed Location: Red Guard Mobile Unit Powers: Dermal Armor, Enhanced Condition, and Season Manipulation Background: Cassandra moved to the US with her family when she was younger, and her mutant powers revealed themselves when she was a teenager. She started working for SHIELD, and eventually became one of the leaders of the elite mutant group the Red Guard. With her sister fairly well off and running an art studio, she doesn't have to worry too much about her. Roleplayer: @Nallore Primary Roleplay: Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.	Name: Dominika Feliksovna Novikova Location: Red Guard Mobile Unit Powers: Dimensional Energy Perception and Earth Manipulation Background: Born to a Russian scientist and an American woman from Connecticut, Novikova's life has been quite fortunate. She was sent to an elite all mutant STEM school and earned her PhD in Nuclear Physics at the age of 16. From there, she entered SHIELD's science division and was assigned to the Red Guard. She is currently dating the olympic athlete and fellow Red Guard operative Maria Smith. Roleplayer: @Morose Primary Roleplay: Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
Name: Tinley Abercrombie Location: Red Guard Mobile Unit Powers: Mind Control and Force Field Generation (Inhuman) Background: Compared to other people of the lesser groups, she's actually fairly well off. Even though she's just an Inhuman, as opposed to a mutant, Tinley moved up through the ranks of SHIELD, and managed to land a spot in the elite mutant group the Red Guard. The fact that she isn't a mutant causes some problems, and when it comes to the chain of command of the group, she is the lowest on the totem pole. Tinley also tends to get bullied around by some of the other group members as well as other members of SHIELD. Roleplayer: @FantasyChic Primary Roleplay: Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.	Name: Anastasia Felicity Reinhardt Location: New Orleans, Louisiana Powers: Morality Manipulation and Telekinesis Background: Born to wealth and riches, Anastasia's family is a prominent member of the Thieves Guild. She resides in a mansion in New Orleans, staffed with bodyguards and servants. Of course, her family's wealth comes from illegal activities and she has now been deemed old enough herself to participate fully in heists. Roleplayer: @FantasyChic Primary Roleplay: The Gifted
Name: Allison Andrews Location: New York City Powers: Accelerated Probability/Precognition and Telekinesis Background: She is a member of the social elite in New York City. Allison has always had everything she could ever have wanted when it comes to things in life. Not to mention she is currently engaged to the love of her life, who she had met when they were in high school, the professional athlete Oshea Jackson. She has become a go between, an ambassador of sorts, between the royal family and the other governments of the world, traveling around the world a lot for the job, but still spending plenty of time in New York City. Roleplayer: @FantasyChic Primary Roleplay: X-Men: Darkness Rising	Name: Barbara Leigh-Anne Hobbes Location: New Orleans, Louisiana Powers: Dimensional Reach and Psychometry Background: Although her early childhood was unhappy, filled with neglect and her mother's substance abuse, Bobbie ended up joining the Thieves Guild after running away at age 15. Her beau, Happy, had a connection there. The Thieves Guild took her in, giving her a place to live and more importantly, keeping her off of the streets and away from drugs. She learned to hustle, to manipulate her powers, and finally has something close to family Roleplayer: @eclecticwitch Primary Roleplay: X-Men: Darkness Rising
Name: Casper Theriot Location: New Orleans, Louisiana Powers: Mediumship Background: Casper grew up in New Orleans with his two brothers and sister, and all of them had the same father, so there was no problems with that. Xavier had been dead for a year or two by the time Casper was born, so he has never really heard much about him. The family stayed in New Orleans, and a few of them ended up joining the Thieves' Guild once it was known that their cousins were the ones running it. He still sees ghosts and most notably his friend Ben, who died in a sort of freak accident when he was a teenager. He is also still somewhat reliant on his younger brother Jack for support. Roleplayer: @Morose Primary Roleplay: The Gifted	Name: Richard Dyrkin Location: New Orleans, Louisiana Powers: Reptilian Shifting Background: Born as the middle child of the Laine family, Richard is the oldest surviving sibling in the family. After his sister Bethany died, his parents hit a rough patch in their marriage which all came to an end when his parents also died, leaving him to take care of his younger sister Ayita. The pair moved to New Orleans and changed their surname, and eventually joined the ranks of the Thieves' Guild. Richard owns a nightclub by the casino that serves as the headquarters for the Guild, and the Guild helps to keep the nightclub running as well, but it is easily one of the most popular clubs in New Orleans. Roleplayer: @LadyRunic Primary Roleplay: X-Men: Darkness Rising
Name: Ayita Dykrin Location: New Orleans, Louisiana Powers: Mammalian/Avian Shifting and Telepathic Communication Background: The youngest of the Laine siblings, when her parents died she moved down south with her brother, ending up in New Orleans and with the new name of Ayita Dyrkin. She, like her brother, joined up with the Thieves' Guild but she does do other things outside of that. Ayita met someone named Damon Fawkes, a park ranger in the bayou area around New Orleans, helping to protect the wildlife and nature there. The two started a relationship and are currently engaged to be married. Roleplayer: @LadyRunic Primary Roleplay: X-Men: Darkness Rising	Name: Michelle Diggby Location: Red Guard Mobile Unit Powers: Identity Obscuration Background: Shelly grew up a pretty simple life, and she was fairly close with her parents. In a world of mutants being considered the majority and superior to humans, once it was discovered that Shelly had powers, she was doing fairly well for both her and her family. Eventually, as an adult, and because of what her powers were, Shelly was recruited to be a member of the Red Guard, SHIELD's elite squad. Shelly is doing well for herself there and easily is one of the best agents for stealth missions. Roleplayer: @ColouredCyan Primary Roleplay: X-Men: Darkness Rising
Name: Maximillian Gray Location: New York City Powers: Magick/Conjuration Background: Max's life wasn't too difficult growing up. However, a nice thing being that he discovered his abilities at a young age, and because of that he was able to explore his abilities completely, not to mention he wasn't without several people who were willing to teach him how to fully use his abilities. Now, he is a famous archaeologist, discovering relics all over the world but always returning to New York. He also has a sort of side job in between digs where he does a few modeling gigs every now and then. Roleplayer: @Trainerblue192 Primary Roleplay: The Gifted	Name: James Kingston Location: Red Guard Mobile Unit Powers: Accelerated Healing Factor (Temporarily Transmissible) Background: James grew up in Washington DC, and his life was pretty unremarkable until he discovered that he had mutant abilities. Once his healing factor was discovered, his life became more of extraordinary. He moved up somewhat on the social totem pole so to speak, and was living a good life, owning a store of sorts in the city. This was where he was approached to be a member of the elite SHIELD team the Red Guard, and was able to also still keep his store up and running, only going on missions every so often in order to be able to keep the store going. Roleplayer: @Achronum Primary Roleplay: The Gifted
Name: Jacques Theriot Location: New Orleans, Louisiana Powers: Elasticity/Morphing Background: Jack is the youngest of the kids in the family, and he still is the fairly responsible one. He generally is closer to his older brother Casper than with the others, but that never mattered to him. Learning to be a con man, Jack thrived as a member of the Thieves' Guild, and still helps them out. When he was 21, he met a woman and they ended up having a child together named Alexis Theriot. Though after only a few months together, Alexis' mother was killed in a car accident, leaving Jack to raise his daughter alone. With what he made with the Guild as well as his more of day job as a private investigator, Jack bought a large house for the two of them, and generally his brother Casper spends his days there too. Roleplayer: @BlueSky44 Primary Roleplay: The Gifted	Name: Location: Powers: Background: Roleplayer: Primary Roleplay:

Important NPCs

Name: King Erik Magnus Location: New York City Powers: Magnetokinesis and Ferrokinesis Occupation: King (of the Entire World) Notable Information: Rising to power in the late '80s, King Erik rules the world with gentle but ever present force. He is married to Queen Miranda and his heir is Prince Flynn. Although he will never say it openly, he despises humans.	Name: Prince Pietro Location: New York City Powers: Superhuman Speed Occupation: Prince Notable Information: The younger of King Erik's two sons, Prince Pietro is the twin brother of Princess Wanda. He acts as an enforcer for his father, killing those who would dare to oppose him. He is currently engaged to the Stark Industries heiress.
Name: Princess Wanda Location: New York City Powers: Psionics, Probability Manipulation, and Chaos Magic Reality Warping Occupation: Princess Notable Information: The twin sister of Prince Pietro and the youngest daughter of King Erik, it is no secret that she is his favorite child. She often assists her father in matters of diplomacy and can be seen at state functions.	Name: Princess Lorna Location: New York City Powers: Magnetokinesis and Ferrokinesis Occupation: Princess Notable Information: The only child of King Erik to not be born to Queen Miranda, she is also the oldest of his children. She has some mental instability, suffering from bipolar disorder, and spends most of her time working on research for her doctorate degree in geophysics.
Name: Runa Phoebe Blake Location: Sydney, Australia Powers: Eldritch Magic (Human) Occupation: Astronomy Student Notable Information: Studying astronomy at the University of Sydney, Runa Blake moved to Australia from Norway to pursue her passions. At the college, she met Lance Banner and the two of them began a relationship. She also has been teaching herself to manipulate Eldritch Magic, which can come in handy given the treatment of humans by the mutant majority.	Name: Dr. Robert Bruce Banner Location: Sydney, Australia Powers: the Hulk (Mutate) Occupation: Radio-physicist Notable Information: Once a prominent radio-physicist, Dr. Banner was working on a project involving gamma radiation for the military, only for a disaster to turn him into a raging green monster. He has been on the run from the Red Guard and King Erik for over a decade, currently living in Australia with his son, Lance.
Name: Oshea Jackson Location: New York City Powers: Superhuman Speed Occupation: Professional Athlete Notable Information: Engaged to socialite Allison Andrews, Oshea is one of the world's top professional athletes. His speed is a natural asset and has won him adoring fans across the nation - but of course, he only ever has eyes for his fiancé.	Name: October Morning Crypt Location: New York City Powers: Pyrokinesis Occupation: Mortician Notable Information: October is one of the more cheerful people you will see in a morgue, thoroughly enjoying her work. She is happily married to artist Carolina Reed as well and hopes to start a family with her.
Name: Remy LeBeau Location: New Orleans, Louisiana Powers: Molecular Acceleration and Hypnotic Charm Occupation: King of the Thieves Guild Notable Information: LeBeau, commonly called Gambit, joined the Thieves Guild at a young age. He legally adopted his younger sisters and brought them into the fold, rising through the ranks to become the leader of the Thieves Guild. He is married to Anna-Maria (Rogue).	Name: Anna-Marie LeBeau Location: New Orleans, Louisiana Powers: Power Absorption, Superhuman Strength, Superhuman Agility, and Flight Occupation: Queen of the Thieves Guild Notable Information: Her mother was one of King Erik's closest allies as he took over the world, eventually becoming a member of the Elite Red Guard. However, this caused Anna-Marie to become more and more of a rebel, eventually joining the Thieves Guild under the name Rogue. She eventually married its leader, Remy LeBeau.
Name: Alexis Theriot Location: New Orleans, Louisiana Powers: Unknown (Mutant? Inhuman? Human?) Occupation: First Grade Student Notable Information: The six year old daughter of Jacques Theriot, Alexis hasn't developed any powers yet - but given that she is so little, that is to be expected. She likes finger painting and throwing things at people.	Name: Queen Miranda Location: New York City Powers: Retrocognition and Holographic Projection Occupation: Queen Notable Information: The wife of King Erik, she is the mother of Princes Flynn and Pietro, as well as Princess Wanda. An engineer by trade, she is a key advisor to her husband and often helps him to understand scientific policy.
Name: James Howlett Location: Red Guard Mobile Unit Powers: Regenerative Healing Factor and Adamantium Claws Occupation: Red Guard Agent Notable Information: Prior to the Mutant-Human War, James Howlett was a key member of SHIELD. His superiors knew of his mutant nature, but kept that hidden and planned to brainwash him into defeating the Mutants, but by then the war was already lost. Wolverine was placed in charge of the Red Guard by the new Director of SHIELD Sebastian Shaw and is in a relationship with Mystique. He's an alcoholic.	Name: Raven Darkholme Location: Red Guard Mobile Unit Powers: Metamorph Occupation: Red Guard Agent Notable Information: Once Magneto came into power, Mystique was recruited by Sebastian Shaw to join SHIELD and became a member of the Red Guard. More recently she has begun a relationship with one of her commanding officers, Wolverine.

Ω Heroes of Olympus: The Next Age of Heroes Ω Officially Done

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Marygold Isley

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Location: Granite Falls, North Carolina, Outside of Crystal River School For Troubled Youth, Parking Lot

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"How about less talking and more flying! And also, he can be a snail too, perfectly fine with calling him that," Mary said with a laugh, hearing what everyone else was saying. Comparing someone else to a snail or something was better than herself being compared to that, especially considering she'd been the last one to the chariots in the first place. Though she knew about the sort of strained relation of sorts between Leda and Ezekiel, so she was more of on the side of picking on him somewhat. Not to mention he was currently the only guy in the group.

She saw Kirsten start shooting off suddenly at a much higher speed, and she was wondering how the hell she had done that. Glancing down at the buttons, she started messing around with the different buttons, eventually hitting the large one that activated the jets on the chariot, the ones that she had forgotten were even there, and shot off, following along after Kirsten. Mary did not want to be the last one there at all, and kind of hoped to have Ezekiel be last. Since that would be kind of funny too. She followed after Kirsten down towards the parking lot, not sure where else to really go.

Agents of SHIELD - Concluded

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Frederick Flynn

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Location: The Playground - Bio Tech -> the Hangar
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Flynn nodded slightly at Niah, giving her a bit of a smile. "I think I can handle them, they aren't too heavy... But thanks for the offer anyway," he said as he went into the Bio-Tech area and set Maria and Novikova down. He heard Tinley getting mad but rolled his eyes slightly at it, her own dang fault for wanting to literally do nothing which was literally the worst thing ever. Though odds were things would have ended badly for them anyway all things considering no matter what he had done or something. That's when he heard the second part of what she was saying, the part about Dixon and Wu being HYDRA. That changed the game somewhat.

After setting Novikova and Maria down, he bolted out of the Bio Tech area and caught a glimpse of what was going on and Dixon going into the hangar. He didn't care really what Tinley was saying very much, but Bonnie's words about there being fuel in there was not a promising start. Flynn went into the room and saw Dixon heading for the fuel tanks, and saw that he was essentially on fire. Well two could play at that game, and he tried to catch on fire too, but that didn't seem to be happening anytime soon. "Of course I can't catch on fire when I want to," he muttered, before he just thought screw it and tackled Dixon to the ground.

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Goose started purring at Bonnie when she picked him up. This here was a nice hooman who was a kind one to him unlike that mean evil one that was yelling at him or trying to shove him out of the way! In his opinion Tinley deserved it if she got her ass kicked because she wouldn't feed him! "Meow?" he said, looking up at Bonnie and trying to look pathetic, hoping that maybe this was a good hooman who would feed him and give him attention. Since to him the other one was not a good person!

Then he noticed the commotion going on around him, and he glanced over at Tinley and Agent Wu. He tilted his head to the side, almost like he was thinking about something. "Meow!" he sort of hissed out at Wu, and unfortunately because of where Tinley was he didn't have the best shot, but he still had a pretty good aim. Goose was glaring at Wu before he opened his mouth and tentacles shot out of his mouth and wrapped around Agent Wu, he then proceeded to start flinging him around the room, banging into the walls of the hallway. After a moment he let him go, having him drop to the ground and the tentacles went back into his mouth and disappeared. Now he was looking perfectly normal. "Meow?" he said to Bonnie, still a bit on the hungry side.

The Gifted - Concluded

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"...How about I prefer not to answer the rest of the questions? Honestly, with how much you are giggling Veil you'd think we were high schoolers!" she said with a slight laugh at her friend. The fact that they were making light of the sort of situation they were in was kind of fun. Sure, things were pretty bad for them and could get worse at any moment, but right now she wasn't finding it too hard to put all of that aside and talk with Veil. Not like they could usually do stuff like this around the others, especially with Havok around.

"Besides, I was not that type of person back in school anyway! I never really played those silly sort of games... Then again didn't really have much of a high school life. But that's beside the point, I don't feel the need to answer your question!" she said, though she was still thoroughly blushing. She knew that she was, but it wasn't like she could just stop herself from blushing. It was a little annoying.

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Jack Theriot

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Location: Outside the National Zoo -> Coldstones
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Jack chuckled slightly, seeing Max's entire get up. That wasn't exactly the best outfit to be wearing, especially out in public, and especially when basically doing a job that you wanted to be more of unseen for. "Usually the only thing that makes people like me special is that we don't sleep much and we live on coffee 24/7, spending most of the waking hours working or something," Jack said with a shrug as Max took off back down into the tunnels. "As to where Casper is, I know what store he went to... Shouldn't be too hard to find him hopefully..." Though Jack's now slightly lightened mood was dampened pretty quickly.

Anyone who has had to deal with being on the run or helping out people who kind of were on the run knew better than to use their powers in public. That probably was the biggest mistake anyone could make, and hearing the chaos around him, it didn't give him much time to think about what to do. Luckily he did know some of the area that they were in, generally walking by all the time, and he could only think of one place nearby. Without thinking much of it, he instantly grabbed Leighton's arm and dragged her with him as he took off, using the crowd to their advantage, he managed to get them to the Coldstones Ice Cream shop, and he slowed down as they approached, before leading her inside. "Well, that could have gone better..."

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Theresa Sparks

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Sparky was panicking, she wasn't sure what else to do, since Raynor wasn't waking up or anything. They lucked out a bit too, with the spider things following that bit of electricity that she had shot off. None of this was preventing her from calming down though. Yes, her worst nightmare was the mob of spiders that had been there, but now she was panicking over Raynor not waking up, that was scaring her. The things he had said before, it almost sounded like to her that he wasn't planning on waking up at all.

"...I'm just scared that he won't end up waking up again..." she said softly, looking at Janet. That was currently the only thought running through her mind, and the thought wouldn't go away no matter what she did. It was not a happy thought, and she didn't know if she'd be able to get any sort of sleep with that running through her head. "...I don't think I'm going to be able to sleep at all..."

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Frederick Flynn

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Location: The Playground -> Outside
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Alright, Flynn was more than slightly annoyed with the concept at being basically on stand by to do absolutely nothing. Why was he asked to stay back and wait for them to do whatever when he had the most experience with people who were like the Purifiers? From what he knew the Purifiers basically had taken in a lot of ex-OMEN agents to add to their membership. So why did she ask him to stay back or whatever? What sort of idiot does that? It didn't matter, once he heard over the comms that everyone outside was knocked out or dead, he didn't see any reason to actually listen to what Tinley had told him to do and went out of the Playground.

It wasn't too hard to locate Novikova and Smith, they weren't exactly too far away from the entrance. He glanced out at the group of people who were basically all just about dead. Though he didn't have much sympathy for them, and it also was not the first time he'd witnessed this sort of thing happening. Flynn picked up both Novikova and Smith rather easily, before he headed back inside of the Playground. He grabbed his radio and spoke on the general frequency to everyone, "Since you all were deciding to take your sweet time doing anything, I decided to go grab Novikova and Smith and bring them inside again, bringing them down to biotech," was all he said as he headed that way carrying the two.

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Goose the Cat

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Now Goose was getting more than slightly annoyed by Tinley. Why on Earth was she ignoring him? That was incredibly rude! Not to mention he was feeling incredibly hungry! "MEOW!!!!!!" he yowled at Tinley, racing around her legs, trying to get her to pay attention to him. Some hoomans never learned, they never learned that they were privileged to be in the presence of a cat! But no, they take it for granted and only think of trying to pet them or something when they find it convenient!

He was practically starving to death here and they didn't care! Now he was getting a bit tired and decided to screw the hooman who was being mean to him, and he flopped over right in front of her so she'd likely have to step over him. "MEOW!!!!!!!" he yowled at her again, doing the best that he could to look really pathetic. She had to get him food or he was going to die of starvation in the next half an hour! This hooman need to learn how things worked!

Avatar: Out of the Ashes 🔥

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BOOK ONE: WATER

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@Polaris North@FantasyChic@Morose@Nallore

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Hikaru and Ryuu

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"You need to learn that not all people are alike, you cannot just put all of one group in a simple category. Like I could just make an assumption based on what I know about you that all benders are full of themselves and think they are better than everyone else. However unlike you I am not a stuck up prick and know that not to be the case even though I clearly have met one who does fit into that category," Ryuu said with a slight smirk at Yumiko. The woman really needed to learn not to be incredibly rude to everyone else, especially those who she is traveling with as that likely will end badly for her.

Hikaru was just listening in on the conversation, and she couldn't help but giggle slightly at Ryuu's words. From what she had been hearing, it seemed like Yumiko might have deserved that sort of thing, no matter what she might think. Though they were all just sitting there talking, not really going anywhere yet, and from what she could tell this was a slight problem that was for sure. "Hate to interrupt or anything... But don't you think we really should get moving? I mean more than we have been..." Hikaru asked softly.

Ryuu nodded his head, leading the way down the path a little way. After about an hour or two, they'd eventually be out of sight of the village entrance that they had been leaving, and quite a bit a ways from there now. He knew that odds were they'd need to leave the path now and cut across fields. With injuries that likely was going to be difficult, so he turned to look at the others. It was also starting to get a little bit dark now as well. "Any sort of healing you want to do I'd recommend doing it now, we can't see the village anymore, and now it likely will be better for us if we end up cutting across fields as opposed to just following the road, it will help us to remain hidden from the Fire Nation more easily, as the armies do tend to use the roads more often then not."

She nodded her head slightly, leaning up against the crutch she had when they stopped. Her leg was still throbbing in pain, and she was unsure of what to really do now. It wasn't like her own bending capabilities could heal in anyway, not to mention it likely would result in her drawing attention to herself. Sure, she could likely make it so that her leg wasn't really touching the ground and she didn't have to lean on it, but she'd effectively be gliding in a way. That likely would result in someone questioning what the hell was going on.

🦄 Machiavellian Masquerade - Chapter 1

Sister Penance

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She could understand Moss's question, but she wasn't so sure that now was the time for it. It likely was to help break the tensions in the group, but that didn't matter at the moment. Odds in her mind of that happen was next to impossible no matter what anyone else might think. Tensions were likely going to be running high no matter what, now all that mattered really was what was going to happen now, especially since it seemed like everyone was gathering all together in one place. That question still bugged her as to who would want them all to be at the manor and for what sort of purpose. It was definitely an interesting sort of puzzle to think about that was for sure, but she was unsure of what else to say to the others.

Penance noticed that she was one of the stragglers of sorts, one of the last ones to leave the ballroom for the next room over, but that did not matter much to her. As long as she followed along and could hear what was going on, that was the main thing that mattered. She heard something else mentioned really, but wasn't close enough to hear what it was. Curse her for being slow! As she noticed that she missed things that might be important to know later on. This is what she got for being the slow person after all. She was curious as to what exactly had happened, but decided not to ask. Maybe if she was lucky they'd stop from wanting to leave the next room over for a moment so that she may more easily catch up.