BlueSky44

X-Men: Cosmic Crusades 👽

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@Morose@Nallore@KazAlkemi@Kirah@PatientBean@Master EffeX@Trainerblue192

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The Mansion

"Wasn't saying I didn't believe you or anything, it has just been a really really long day, and we're trying to figure out what we're doing after most people in this room got beaten in fights and attacks from the Brotherhood, much like he did," Lance said towards Bonnie, unsure what else to say with regards to that. Though he didn't say anything to explain that he and Guin actually hadn't lost, they had chosen to forfeit their fights in order to help the speedster who was dying.

Pietro was very confused as to how the conversation took off in this direction. This was certainly an interesting conversation to be having. "Well now, people honestly probably would expect me to be surprised upon hearing that and all, but honestly I'm not. How many kids, well known kids anyway, does that make now? 5 or so at this point? Something like that, me and Wanda, Lorna, a sibling who died years before I was born, and now this Flynn guy. Though he gets to deal with dad at this point since fairly certain he wants me dead or something considering earlier I got crucified and nearly killed in this whole fighting thing so that's just my thoughts on it."

"Wait, if he's his son too, what happened with that? Like if Magneto knew he was his son, why try to talk to him now or something like that? Why not before? I mean Magneto does seem to put a bit of focus of knowing or meeting his kids. So what happened with that?" That was the question in his mind right now with regards to that. It was a bit strange.

"That would be because up until 9 months ago Erik didn't even know that he existed, since he doesn't remember the reality Wanda created," she ended up responding without even really thinking of what it was that she was saying, but she didn't exactly say it super loudly either. After a moment though, she very much realized what had happened and what exactly she had said. Though she was sort of hoping no one would catch on to how that was a thing. However knowing her luck that wouldn't be the case.

"I mean to be fair he didn't exactly know about any of us at first. Think Wanda and I are the only ones he actually met as kids, and even then he wasn't exactly around for the first part even then. So as stated, not surprising. Got to love the family drama, honestly almost like a soap opera or something. Mostly estranged and even another id no one knew about, that just tends to be how things work around here anyway."

"...Well odds are he's probably on the asteroid we're wanting to head for anyway, so we should be able to find him while we're there. We probably should maybe see about going there before too much more time passes. Who knows now what's even going on up there." They did really need to get going to actually attempt to get everyone else back to Earth, since they still had to go about locating the asteroid. Which they still didn't know where it was.

Asteroid M

Well this was certainly interesting, since it seemed like more then a few members of there group seemed to really just want to punch the guy. Mary wasn't entirely sure that would be a good idea given their current situation, and as of this moment, this guy is the only one who seems to be able to give them any sort of information on where they were and why. "Maybe we don't openly attack the person we just met considering."

"Oh, now see Magneto doesn't actually know about that whole thing. See the idea of the pods were to essentially send out the Brotherhood members to more or less "earn" their spot here. There wasn't any instructions on who you had to fight, but more or less just fight with another power individual if you will. But apparently the egos of some members of the group seemed to think they could beat all of you. Which obviously is very much not the case. Though did at least overhear Exodus seemingly happy with what happened during his fight but he hasn't exactly stated what happened quite yet." he responded with a bit of a shrug, before turning his attention more towards Perry as she spoke to him, and he laughed a little.

"Thought it would have been obvious? There aren't actually really any specific ships so to speak. Only really those pod aircrafts and you might have to potentially program them in order for you to get off the asteroid. At least for now, the idea is that eventually there will be ships that can more easily come and go, everything still is a bit of a work in progress with the logistics of course.

Now he was actually explaining things that made more sense. Several members of the Brotherhood, at least in her mind, thought they were the best thing ever and can beat anyone, so of course their egos would get in the way. Though Annie did bring up a decent point, protect the asteroid from what? "So what exactly would the asteroid need protecting from? Lie Annie said, not sure what you'd be doing since didn't Genosha fall from someone who was already on the island from what I heard?"

"Yes, that is true, hence why we are being much more careful this time around as to who all is allowed on the asteroid, at least to begin with. Who might attack? Well that's pretty self explanatory, humans of course, they still don't very much like mutants and never have, so of course they might see us as a threat," he added, before looking at Neil. "The Acolytes are followers of Magneto, and at least when it comes to the construction of this place we play more of a background role, all in service of Magneto."

"I thought the Brotherhood seemed like a cult at times. Definitely sounds lie your group would fit into that category way better. This doesn't fully explain everything of how this place works."

"Well you are free to roam about as you see fit. The station here is rather large, you should be able to find most any sort of facility you could possibly ask for," Fabian commented, before moving to walk away, but he stopped and turned back around. "The only one of you that Magneto actively sent someone to go fight was him," he added, pointing towards Flynn for a moment, "He only learned of your existence right before Genosha's fall, so he does want to meet you, so keep an eye out he might come and try to find you," he added as he left the group and started walking down the hallway.

"...Ok, what was that about now?" Mira asked, now looking at Flynn for a moment.

"Not entirely sure what he's going on about, pretty sure he might be a bit crazy," Flynn responded, though truthfully he did figure it out, and it was not a great thing in his mind to dwell on.

🌠 Once Upon A Time 🌠(Concluded)

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Rosalia Rider

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Location: Maleficent's Castle
Skills: N/A

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Well things could definitely be going better, but there wasn't much they could do about it at this point really. They were still stuck in the castle and really needed to get out of it. They were running around trying to figure out where best to really go, but there wasn't any place obvious. Her attention turned towards Flynn though as he basically led her along back towards the direction they were heading for the exit. Hopefully this wouldn't end too badly for them, maybe.

Rosalia was a bit unsure of where exactly they were going still, but there was a loud explosion that seemed to be fairly helpful in distracting the guards, or at least some of the guards in general. That still left a group of them that were there and around where they wanted to go, at least from what she could tell. She was very much not really wanting to have to get into much of a fight or anything, so she remained quiet as others shot and attacked some of the guys.

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Jack Gold

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Location: Rapunzel's Tower
Skills: N/A

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He shook his head still with regards to the men who were heading out to go hunting or on patrol or something like that. Jack wasn't super sure about what to do at this point since Megan was still talking to her family members or something, so he glanced around the area, wondering what the others were doing. Seeing Willow and Sierra over to the side, and getting a bit bored, Jack decided to wander over to see what it was they were doing or talking about.

Walking over, he gave a slight wave, "Hey there," he said to Sierra and Willow as he walked over to the pair. "What are you two up to?" Jack asked, looking at the two of them. He wasn't exactly sure what it was that they had been talking about. But considering he wasn't sure how long Megan would be, plus he didn't really know Willow and figured this might be a chance to maybe get to know her or something like that.

Avengers Academy: X of Swords ⚔️

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Zelda Flynn

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Location: Carnival - Spaceship
Skills: Emphatic Creation

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The bees were still an issue for everyone. Though Zelda sort of took a few steps back away from the explosion that Danni had caused when attempting to at least somewhat extinguish the flames. There were so many bees swarming around the area still though, and they were definitely not something you can easily get rid of. Not unless you had some insecticide or something like that handy. Which most people didn't tend to carry something like that around. April was basically yelling (and begging) at her to get rid of them when she wasn't sure she'd even be able to do that.

Zelda closed her eyes for a moment, sort of imagining that the bees were gone just going poof out of existence. The buzzing for a moment got louder in her ears, before it stopped altogether. Opening her eyes again, and the bees were gone, leaving the entire group there still afterwards. "I-I-I'm s-s-sorry... I'll just go now... Don't want to ruin anything else for people by accident o-o-or anything..." she said, before she turned around and took off running away from the group. Right now she was questioning why she even was at the school. She can't even really interact with too many people without her screwing something up.

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Zarina Raynordattir

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Location: Carnival - Agatha's Tent
Skills: N/A
First Day Outfit

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"I think you are confusing the two. The armor is basically something that protects you. Actually I have a ring that basically forms it around me. A gift my aunt gave me. I can use that to easily shift into it so it is easier if I get taken by surprise while wandering around wearing normal clothes. As for the weapon, my sword kind of pops back up for me if I do lose it. I don't exactly have to summon it... It is magic though and its name is Glowstick, it can actually hide in plain sight pretty easily, makes it so that I don't have people wondering why I've got a sword randomly."

As if to prove her point, like earlier, she unhooked the flashlight from her belt, held it out, and a few seconds later it shifted into it's full size as a sword. "See? Never really tried to summon it, most people don't think to pay much attention to someone carrying a flashlight or something like that. I've always just held it with me when wandering around. Though the magic stuff I get is interesting. The helmet here that Agatha gave me is a crown for the Valkyrie, the ring that allows my armor to form around me, and then I've got my horn that when I blow on it Mr. Sparkles my Pegasus pops up. Thinks that's all the fancy things I've got when it comes to things..." she added, before lowering her sword a bit as her attention turned towards Andy as she described that machine that she had seen earlier. "Oooooooooh that sounds so cool!"

X-Men: Cosmic Crusades 👽

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@Morose@Nallore@KazAlkemi@Kirah@PatientBean@Master EffeX@Trainerblue192

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The Mansion

Wonder who this lady is, considering the fact that she's acting like her just stating her name and that she's a SHIELD agent is supposed to explain everything. Pietro couldn't help but comment to Guin, not entirely sure who the person was. And if she needed help why was she dragging a baby along.

Miranda looked over at Bonnie when she walked in, and a sense of slight dread filled her head. Despite no one else in the room seemingly knowing who she was, Miranda actually did. But the reason why she knew who Bonnie was was a bit complicated to say the least. Though that was going to be a bit complicated to explain, and her attention shifted towards the baby that Bonnie was holding, as well as Max making a small stuffed animal to appear, and she walked over. "I think she's a bit too young for that sort of thing... At least to play with it or anything like that at the moment." she commented walking over. "Usually you need to rock them a bit to try and soothe them, stuffed animals work when they are a few months old. Newborns are a bit different on how you try and calm them." Despite not seeing her own children grow up, she actually did know more then a few things about newborns.

Lance was a bit curious as to why Bonnie seemed to think that they'd be able to help her out in finding her husband, though Max was seemingly going off on a bit of a tangent without any sort of evidence to determine otherwise why she was there. It didn't make much sense in general that he lept to that immediate conclusion considering there wasn't any evidence that whoever Bonnie's husband was had any sort of connection to the issues they were dealing with. "There currently isn't much evidence that this has anything to do with what happened with us. Though now I'm wondering... Can you tell us who he is and what happened as far as you know?" Lance asked her. There was a chance that it was connected, but he'd prefer to hear some info as to what happened as far as Bonnie knew about everything.

"Yeah, you actually caught us not too long before we went off to see about finding where half our team ended up disappearing too, know what we're looking for, and idea of where roughly the place is, still have to go off and find it," Pietro ended up saying with a shrug, since they had been needing to go figure out their own problems at the moment.

Miranda didn't say anything else about that matter. She knew exactly how this whole situation was likely connected, but she didn't want to risk openly saying it to anyone out loud right now. In the very small chance that she was wrong about it. Which odds were she wasn't wrong, so she remained quiet having turned her attention towards the baby in general, figuring that the questions would all be answered soon.

Elsewhere (somewhere in space)

"Don't attack, we don't know who they are, but we might be able to figure out a little bit more about this place if they don't attack us first..." she said slowly, thinking a moment about how best to deal with the current situation. There were a few people farther along that were starting to come towards them, and they had to be careful with how they potentially interacted with them.

Flynn wasn't too surprised by the eventual answer that Ed gave him about where he was from, he sort of expected that. Well this was awkward, since he knew the full situation as to what exactly had happened in Cardiff, he'd been there. He had seen the carnage that Thanos had caused trying to get to Oliver, who was a member of his SHIELD team and all. So to say this was a bit of an awkward exchange now with regards to it in general was an understatement. "...Sorry about what happened there," he ended up responding, not exactly wanting to fully continue that conversation, before his attention turned towards Neil, "Wasn't entirely planning on it, I prefer to not use my powers in a fight anyway, not the best with them still anyway..."

The footsteps were getting even closer to where they were. Eventually, a man walked into view, looking over at the group now as he did so. "Well now, didn't know that you all were awake yet. This is an interesting thing," he commented with a slight shrug, looking at the group with a bit of interest.

"...Ok, no offense, but who are you?" Mary asked him, thoroughly confused considering it was not someone that she recognized. He had to be a newer member of the Brotherhood or something like that. Or maybe even a different group entirely, she wasn't entirely sure.

"Apologies, I am Fabian Cortez, a member of the Acolytes, and one of Magneto's followers," he explained simply with a slight wave of his hand, as if that was supposed to just magically explain everything.

"Yeah like that explains anything," Mira responded with a bit of an eye roll, her attention on him now, "I mean if you can actually explain where we are or what the hell is going on that would be fantastic."

"Of course, you are on Asteroid M, it is a bit of a work in progress to ensure there is enough room for everyone. Currently only the strongest mutants are allowed here to ensure it is properly fortified in the event we're attacked. So there isn't a repeat of the whole Genosha incident. Some of the Brotherhood members seemed very hellbent on preventing your team from here, hence they decided to go down and challenge the lot of you for a spot here."

"Well we didn't exactly know about that whole thing or what was going on and were more in self defense."

"Yeah, pretty sure that was the point, to ensure you all didn't know they were coming so they had the element of surprise. Though that didn't seem to help them at all," he answered with a laugh. "No need for introductions for most of you though, I know who just about all of you are, except for maybe one or two or something, kind of hard to not know. Especially considering many who are here who were on Genosha, don't care much for you."

Avengers Academy: X of Swords ⚔️

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Zelda Flynn

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Location: Carnival - Spaceship
Skills: Emphatic Creation

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There were waaaaaaaaay too many people over in this little area. It probably didn't overly seem to help that her sister was there and not seemingly being any sort of helpful and actually seemed to be annoyed that she had been backing away. Zelda hated crowds, sure she could go running around conventions in costume, but she did everything that she possibly could to ensure that no one could actually see or recognize her face during that. She never was very confident in herself, her being April's complete opposite was a bit of an understatement.

Her mind was racing as she was trying to remain calm and see about getting away and calming down from the decent sized crowd of people but well... That didn't overly end well, she closed her eyes for a moment, trying to remain calm, but what she saw when she opened her eyes again made her really wish that she wasn't there anymore. There was a swarm of bees suddenly appearing out of nowhere as they started zipping around everyone and the swarm was clearly unhappy. That wasn't the worse thing though, no, the worst part was that the bees seemed to be on fire. And not dying from it or anything at all. Her eyes went a bit wide and now she was starting to back up a bit more. "I-I-I'm s-s-sorry," she managed to stammer out, unsure of what to do or how to fix the situation.

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Zarina Raynordattir

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Location: Carnival - Agatha's Tent
Skills: N/A
First Day Outfit

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"Maybe, I think it will go well with my armor though already so hooray, don't have to worry about it at all," she said cheerfully to Percy with regards to his comment about the helmet. "Have fun with your fortune!" she added, figuring he'd enjoy hearing about the future or something. Though she wasn't entirely sure what sort of question he was going to ask Agatha or anything like that. If he wanted to talk about the fortunes and all later, she happily would, plus she still wanted to tell him the full extent of her adventures and how she met Andy, since he was one of the very few people who probably wouldn't be super weirded out or anything with the whole "time travel" part of the adventure since that was his powers.

Her attention snapped towards Andy again now as she mentioned something that might be interesting to go see later. "Huh? What sort of thing? And let's wait for Percy, I wanna hang around with him for a little while anyway cause it's been a while since I last saw him. But sure, some weird sort of thing sounds cool I'm all for going to go see that thing after this. Haven't gotten around to fully exploring everything around this place or anything like that yet, so I'm kind of curious as to what's there or what you want me to see."

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

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Janelle Gauger

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Location: Burger King
Skills: N/A

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She wasn't entirely sure what was going on with the conversation, but she managed to find the spot that Kristin had made for her to sit down at. The conversation was strange to say the least, not only because they were for some reason discussing taking a party bus or something like that. Which was beyond strange, but nope, the weirdest thing was the addition of a new voice that she had no idea who it belonged to. Janelle wasn't entirely certain what to think of there suddenly being another person joining them on their quest.

"If no one mends me askin... Whose de ahther persahn 'ere? I dahn't recahgnize de voice..." she commented, unsure what to really think. The whole situation was weird, as for the party bus thing, she very much wasn't sure about taking that sort of thing or anything. "I'd 'ahnestly prefer ridin de train," she then added, not really sure what else to say to the rest of the group aside from those two comments.

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Jason Gauger

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Location: The Hotel
Skills: Battle Precognition

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He hadn't really been doing much aside from dozing, a bit too tired to really fall asleep or anything like that. So he heard the whole thing with the person at the door not long into their attempts to sleep or anything like that. He didn't say anything though as he instantly started moving carefully towards the door, picking up his sword as he went. This situation was a bit odd, it didn't make a whole lot of sense to him as to what was going on.

Jason didn't say anything as he moved over by the door, and he glanced through the hole to see who or what was at the door. Turns out there was a cyclops at the door, who was probably going to try and kill them honestly. A vision crossed his mind, of a potential outcome that could happen with this fight, he honestly forgot he could do that sort of thing truthfully. Backing away from the door, he glanced towards the other two, "Dahn't ahpen de door ahr go near it and brace yourself fahr a fight, it's a cyclops," Jason said to the pair, as he prepared himself for the fight that was going to happen. Since in his vision there was a decent chance he was going to get thrown around or something if they did that. This way they at least could get somewhat prepared for the fight.

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Marygold Isley

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Location: The Labyrinth
Skills: N/A

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"Yeah, loads of fun," she responded to Madalyne, unsure of what to really do at this point with the horses. Of course, that's when the horses decided to go on the attack and charge at the door to the cabin. Eventually one of them was poking its head through as it was loudly hissing at the group of them in general. Well this was just a great situation to be in, she wasn't honestly sure where they should go in general. Mary picked up her sword, and backed away from the door.

Her attention turned towards Damon as he instantly started moving towards the backdoor, and she started moving that direction. "Only ten doesn't mean anything, just because that's how many you see, doesn't mean that there aren't there," she said instantly towards the others. They needed to race out of there and get as far away from the cabin as possible, and hopefully they wouldn't get caught by the monsters. Since they definitely couldn't outrun a horse.

Star Crossed: a Star Wars Story (BlueSky44 & Morose)

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Shakka Ven

15 pts (Neutral)

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She was very confused as to what he could possibly mean by that. The entire situation that they were in was not something that she'd call the ideal situation, just about anything would be better then this sort of thing. However the fact that he said that after she had mentioned the main thing being the windows being the only actual exit aside from the way into the hallway was more then a bit concerning. There were so many things wrong with what was going on. Shakka didn't really have time to ask, because the next thing she knew, Raynor had grabbed her and broke through the window.

The urge to let out a scream was very real, however she managed to stop herself from that since she figured they were probably going to end up dead anyway. By sheer dumb luck they had managed to get onto a car, though she doubted this would last very long. When Raynor essentially yelled at her to get in, she did so, and now she was wondering what the hell they were going to do. "...If you don't mind me asking, what are we supposed to do now?" she asked Raynor rather bluntly.

🌠 Once Upon A Time 🌠(Concluded)

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Rosalia Rider

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Location: Maleficent's Castle
Skills: N/A

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Well the whole escaping thing was not going to really go well, nothing ever ended well for the group, and with the chaos going on around them though, she wasn't entirely sure what to do. Obviously the idea of taking off and running elsewhere would probably be a good idea, but she still wasn't entirely sure where they were supposed to go. She didn't know exactly how the group had gotten into the castle, only how she had ended up getting in, and that was basically through the equivalent of the front door or something like that.

Before she could do much of anything, one of the guards attacked her, tackling her to the ground and the guy was starting to try and strangle her. Rosalia went to see about reaching for the knife, having a hard time breathing, next thing she knew, Rose had knocked the guard off of her and told her to get going. Of course usually you didn't need to tell her twice, but as she got up with the knife in her hand, she saw that Flynn was still dealing with the guard that had tackled him. It took her a few swings (as she was not much of a fighter or anything), but she eventually managed to land a decent hit on the guy with the blade, enough to knock him off of him. Though now she was fine with the idea of getting the hell out of there, and started seeing about heading back the way they had seemingly come from. Figuring it best now to stay out of the way of all of the fighting.

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Jack Gold

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Location: Rapunzel's Tower
Skills: N/A

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He was a bit curious as to what it was that Megan was talking about with Lancelot and her parents. Though he stayed out of it, figuring that they needed some time alone to more or less discuss everything that had happened in her life since she had truly last spoken to them. Must be nice to seemingly have a group of people who actually overall gave a damn about you. Then again, her family for the most part were the heroes of their story (aside from the messy drama with regards to Guinevere and Lancelot and all) while his father was very clearly a villain.

Actually that was the main thing that made his whole thing different, where everyone else had parents that were considered heroes, aside from his mother, his father was considered the villain. That definitely was a bit weird all things considering. His attention was pulled away for a brief moment as a few of Robin Hood's men were asking if anyone wanted to go hunting or something like that, and Jack just sort of shook his head. That wasn't exactly something he'd be interested in doing, or probably be very good at.

Avengers Academy: X of Swords ⚔️

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Zelda Flynn

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Location: Carnival - Spaceship
Skills: N/A

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Zelda wasn't too sure about the chaos and the more people that seemed to be joining the group. There were quite a few people there, and now she was starting to panic a little bit with how many people were around. It wasn't typically a secret of any sort that she was more of a loner, that she wasn't great with any sort of social situations, preferring to kind of be by herself a bit. The group was starting to get to be a bit much as more and more people seemingly started to show up.

Including clearly her sister and her friends.

This was definitely not going to end well, as others were seemingly continuing to talk. Diana was trying to sort of explain what she had been saying, but at this point Zelda wasn't fully paying attention to that sort of thing. She actively was sort of starting to take a few steps back from the group, despite the fact that Danni was seemingly talking directly to her. April was the complete opposite of her, and Zelda personally preferred being away from large crowds. She hadn't expected this sort of thing, and was clearly starting to panic a bit at this point.

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Zarina Raynordattir

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Location: Carnival - Agatha's Tent
Skills: Technopathy
First Day Outfit

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As Zari barreled into the tent, she would find herself transported into a quintessentially witchy space. It was bigger on the inside than the outside, a cozy little area where Agatha might conduct her magical studies. Books and relics were littered about, and a small ebony cat was currently playing with what looked like a small statue of Frigga. Crystals and candles and tarot cards floated through the hair, one of the candles almost singing the ends of Zari's hair a bit as she came close.

But more importantly, Mr. Eyeball began to short circuit.

"Mm, technology does not work well in a space like this," Agatha mused. "Odin's granddaughter."

"I mean probably depends on the magic sort of space," Zari responded with a bit of a shrug, though she was a little bit annoyed with the fact that this might damage Mr. Eyeball with him just being here. Her attention then turned to the other comment that Agatha said about her relation to Odin. "I mean if you want to get technical I'm actually his great granddaughter. As my dad is the son of Baldur who is the son of Odin. Though doesn't matter much to me never actually met him anyway."

"When you get to be as old as I am, you stop worrying about how many 'greats' go in front of a title," Agatha mused. Mr. Eyeball then fell to the ground, hitting the rug with a soft thud. He didn't look like he had taken any damage, it just seemed all of the concentrated magic and whatnot here was causing him to cease functioning. "Now, you have journeyed to see a witch - what question burns in your heart, Zarina Raynordattir?"

She instantly walked over and picked up the robot, checking to ensure he didn't take any actual damage as she thought of what sort of question to ask Agatha. This sort of thing was something she really should have paid more attention to. Since after all, she knew that when someone was foretelling the future, it was best to listen. That's how her last adventure had occurred, and it was how she met Andy after all. "What's my next adventure going to be like? Or I guess what is it or something like that. I don't know, I'm not the best at wording things like that to make sense, usually people tend to get confused by the millions of questions I ask or something," and there she went sort of rambling again.

"I see, you're looking for a quest - or perhaps one is looking for you," Agatha mused. Ebony shifted into her panther form and began to paw curiously at Mr. Eyeball, thinking that he was some sort of a toy to play with. He was better than the last toy that had come into the tent - Ebony did not like that creepy doll. Agatha snapped her fingers and the cards began to dance through the air, as she concentrated on Zarina's question. Three cards then flew out and hit the table, one after the other, each with a heavy thud despite being simply made of paper... or something of its like.

Agatha raised an eyebrow, seeing that Zari had drawn two cards of the Major Arcana - two cards indicating major spiritual forces at work. When doing a reading for a demigod, Agatha assumed that these higher powers may be literal. Perhaps some of them were even Zarina's family from a certain point of view. "It begins with Judgment, Reversed. The universe is calling to you, and you do not answer. Perhaps you wish to run and hide from this grave duty, to ignore this call, but you will not be able to escape it for long."

Agatha then put a bony finger on the next card - the Five of Wands. "I see chaos and infighting, a pointless and futile struggle. Brother will slay brother. Violence will breed more and more violence. And it will all amount to nothing, in the end. Blood will be spilled as carelessly as a child knocks over a glass of milk."

"To end this threat, I see a grave cost you must pay - the Magician, Reversed. By manipulation or trickery, someone will gain power over you. A Faustian pact will be formed. And you, my dear Valkyrie, will never be the same again."

That was certainly an interesting thing to listen to. This whole reading was certainly a bit different from when she got her initial quest from the Norns. Zari wasn't entirely sure what to make of this whole thing. Since how things were worded, she had absolutely no idea what it meant. Her potentially ignoring some sort of calling or something and her not answering? That was not something she expected or something like that. "...I wonder what all of that could mean, and it doesn't sound like a good thing hmm..." she was clearly trying to figure out what it meant.

"Only you can truly know. The universe speaks through the Cards, and while I can offer guidance, only you can tell the tale."

"Sometimes prophecies and fortune telling can be hard to interpret. It took me forever to figure out the last one... The first thing I figured out was kind of the where and when I had to go, everything else was just kind of a blur... I probably should write this down though, since that helped last time, to keep a reminder to ensure I don't forget things, and help me keep an eye out for everything that might happen or something like that..." She then instantly reached into her usual bag and pulled out a notebook, before writing in it, basically writing down the words, though she was working a little slower since she was encrypting it. Sure, Percy would be able to read it, but she didn't really want to risk a whole bunch of other people to potentially read it without her saying anything about it.

Agatha chuckled slightly. "You are the first one to take notes today, child. I do not know if I should be impressed with you or disappointed with the others. Perhaps both." She studied Zari for a moment, before getting up and opening up one of the chests. She retrieved an intricate box, about the size of a basketball, and set it down in front of Zari. "I acquired this some time ago. Perhaps it is time that it returned to its people," Agatha said, before opening up the box to reveal a winged crown. Zari would recognize it as the headpiece of the Valkyrie.

"Well taking notes is helpful! Especially because of this sort of thing... I don't know about what others think, but I know that you should pay attention to what fortune tellers or those who can see the future say. Especially since it can help prepare you for what's to come... Plus I want to be able to understand it and all... It helped me out last time anyway..." she commented, after writing everything down and putting her notebook away as her attention shifted towards what Agatha pulled out a box. Zari leaned forward to look inside the box when she opened it, and she gasped a bit seeing the headpiece. She knew of them, but she never actually had one of her own, well, not a real one anyway. She's made replicas of the headpiece before just so she could try it on and imagine things, but she never thought she'd actually get one. Zari instantly picked it up out of the box, holding it in her hands with a smile. "Where did you get this? And are you sure it's okay to give it to me? I mean I never thought I'd ever get one or anything like that since I'm still learning and all..."

"Oh, it is a long story. Perhaps for another time. And it is perfectly alright to take it, Zarina," Agatha said. "To be completely candid, I have acquired thousands of magical items over the millennia... I need to downsize for my move to New Orleans." She chuckled slightly. She hadn't intended on telling any of the students that, but oh well. That was fine.

"Well thank you!" she said happily, before taking the crown and immediately putting it on her head, "Maybe we'll eventually talk again, but I hope you have fun in New Orleans," she added, before taking Mr. Eyeball with her and leaving the tent. It didn't take long for Mr. Eyeball to jump right back to being his old self. Well almost anyway, before he switches back to being completely normal his words are a bit jumbled in runes, so it's hard for her to fully understand him for a moment. Though her attention turns towards Percy and Andy now, "You won't believe what my fortune was! And also I got this crown which is the headpiece for the Valkyrie! It was so coooooooooooooool!" she said instantly to the pair. It seems she wasn't really paying attention to the fact that Madalyne was there.

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The Mansion

"...That island hasn't been used as a base in years!" Pietro instantly blurted out when Max mentioned it. He knew exactly what island Max was referring to. The island had more of been a base for the Brotherhood when he was younger, but eventually they moved along, as usual. They basically abandoned the island when it started to become apparent that it was at risk of discovery. Actually it had served as their base for a long time especially when in comparison to some of their other bases.

"The island was abandoned years ago, there likely wouldn't be any sort of back up to those plans there. The idea of the asteroid wasn't fully created until only a few years ago, by then the base had already been deserted," Miranda responded to Max rather calmly. Erik had only ever really had one island that had served as a base, aside from Genosha itself of course, so she knew what it was that he was referring to.

"So we know what sort of thing we're looking for, an asteroid within Earth's orbit. It sounds like Magneto likely would have a way to protect it from scanners and sensors, otherwise it'd be pretty well known... And those pods seemed fairly short ranged, so the asteroid while in Earth's orbit, likely isn't all the way to the outer edge of that orbit because of the pods... So we wouldn't have to go very far... Plus the Blackbird can travel pretty quickly, it wouldn't be too difficult... Probably anyway. And if we get up there, trying to find it might not be too difficult..."

"So, we've got essentially the secondary Genosha and all, except this time it's in space, and then we've got the fact that they basically were attacking us... I actually agree with her," Pietro said, nodding his head towards Jaclyn, "As to maybe the reason why everything is going on. Especially since the Brotherhood guys, with the exception of a few of them, namely Exodus who was straight going for murder or something, were mainly just trying to focus on beating us, so maybe it was also as a way to stop us from potentially going there? I don't know, but I'd think if there was meant to be this weird contest thing and I didn't want to deal with a certain group, I'd try to send some of the stronger members to potentially prevent that group from going. Especially if there was a chance of those sort of fights to get there of happening by accident. And if there were others I'd want there, I'd send the weaker ones to go against them. But that's just me."

Guina this is weird the fact that I'm basically able to get into the heads of the Brotherhood group. It is really weird. But also based on that sort of idea they really didn't want me anywhere near that asteroid considering Exodus straight up was trying to kill me over it... he then added mentally to Guin.

"That is a bit of an idea of how things went, but who fully knows the motivations. The only one who probably knows all of that is Magneto, and he's on that asteroid."

"Be prepared when trying to approach it though, since Erik likely would have created more defense systems for the asteroid. Based on what happened to Genosha, he likely would do whatever it took to ensure that no outsiders could easily reach it or get there to cause issues. That likely would be harder then finding it. Getting there without getting blasted out of the sky or something like that."

"Basically we need to be careful no matter what we end up deciding to do..."

Elsewhere (somewhere in space)

Even though he didn't recognize most of the group there, he was glad to at least see a few members that he had met. Since only three people actually knew him and had at least vaguely met him before, he thought it might be a smart idea to introduce himself to the others, considering the fact that they were all stuck in this situation together. "For the half of you who don't know me, my name is Frederick Flynn, though usually I tend to just go by my last name, that being Flynn. I also tend to set things on fire... But I'm still not exactly the best at it, getting better over time, but well, it's interesting to say the least."

He wasn't entirely sure what it was that the guy who said he was a healer, and something struck him a bit with the way the guy spoke. It actually reminded him a bit of someone else he knew who was from Wales. "Uh, yeah sure, if you want go ahead, I will not hide the fact I understand basically nothing about magic, but sure a hair or whatever," he said, before he handed one to Ed, "If you don't mind me asking, are you from Wales or somewhere around there or something? I just used to work with someone else who was from that sort of area, accent, the way you talk and all kind of stands out a little bit..." he figured that it might seem like a bit of an odd question, but he figured it might at least distract slightly from the fact that they were fully expecting a fight, so he was trying to make some conversation.

"Waiting around for something, yeah doesn't sound like the best idea to me, hence let's get going... It might be quicker to explore by splitting up, however considering the fact that we're in an unknown place... Well that likely would not be the best thing. Here's the thing though... If we were going to get attacked or something, well that's the thing... They had no reason to just let us wake up here. If they wanted us dead they could have just sent us out to go die in space... So why are we here..." this wasn't entirely a straight forward scenario. Exploring made the most sense, but the whole situation of what seemingly was going on was just... Strange.

"I mean if they wanted us dead they could have used those pod things to just shoot us off into the sun or something, and based on what we're seeing right now, I'm not entirely sure that this is meant to be more fighting or anything like that..."

Mary started heading off towards the left out in the hallway, figuring to keep moving around to try and figure out what was going on, and to maybe see if they could find anyone. The hallway seemed to stretch out for a while, however, they'd eventually curve around somewhat down the pathway, and come across a window that allowed for a view outside.

The group would definitely see that they seemed to be on an asteroid as first thought, though it was what appeared to be a full sized station of sorts on its surface. They'd be able to see out into the rest of space, and at least on the part of the station they were currently on, it didn't seem like there was a view of where Earth was. It certainly made it a little easier to figure out more about where they were. But there was the whole fact that the station they were on seemed really big.

"...Huh, well this had to have been getting built for a long time. This whole station with that size, not to mention creating artificial gravity, or finding a place with natural gravity, and a full life support system? This place had to have been built over a long time. Makes you wonder more about this place," Mira commented.

That was when Guin's message eventually reached Mary, though still sounding like it was through a badly tuned radio. She turned towards the others, "It isn't a tournament of fighting or anything. Apparently this was meant to be a second sort of Genosha thing. Why we ended up getting dragged here, I have no idea still..." she responded to everyone else now. Further along the walkway, there was the sound of footsteps and a few voices that seemed to be heading their way.