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December 16th

PHASE 2

2015: Maya makes a journal entry asking about people’s plans for Christmas. Little Paper Dolls: A few members of X-Force (and guest Jean Grey for medical and psi-support) gather to discuss a plan for extracting Emma Frost's clones from a scary secret Canadian mountaintop base. Xavin posts in xp_generation_x asking who wants to go skiing in BC with Jean-Paul after Christmas. Quentin posts a poem by Langston Hughes to his journal.

2016: Doug continues the graduation test for Hope, the pair walk away after stealing several items of jewelry. Sharon F.encounters Daredevil when out in Hell’s Kitchen as they both rescue a young waitress from a pair of thugs.

2017: Felicia posts an instagram picture of herself out shopping for Christmas trees. Cecilia asks for help putting together some pasteles she made using her mother’s recipe. Topaz tells people not to panic if they see an animated textbook flapping around the mansion, Stephen unleashes a swarm of bookmarks to herd it back home. Jean and Sooraya go shopping for presents for the children of the Mutant Underground.

2018: The Danger Room Paradox: Garrison, Everett and Team!Science get down to upgrading the Danger Room with new tech on a quiet Sunday afternoon, which doesn't go as expected; having worked out the extent of the disaster, plans are made to fix things; in the Harry Potter Universe, group of newly de-aged mansionites - Angelo, Alex, Hope, Marie-Ange, Jean-Phillipe and Stephen - find themselves a little… wrapped up; in The Last of Us, Laurie, Xavin, and Felicia have been dropped into an unknown location in what appears to be the middle of winter and will have to determine what's going on and who else is there, while in another spot nearby, Jean, Rahne, and Natasha are going through the same thing; in Welcome to Night Vale, it’s ...not that welcoming for Topaz, Nica, Miles, Jubilee and Warren; in Minecraft, Kyle and Terry arrive in a strange place that appears to be made of the color orange and cubes, and incidentally they are also made of cubes; Darcy and Bobby are also in a world of cubes, although theirs is more floral and forested, and Bobby identifies the world as Minecraft; Star Wars: A long time ago in a galaxy far away... Kevin, Bobbi, Wanda, Sooraya, Maya and Amanda are a group of Rebels infiltrating an Empire prison planet, with no idea of their true identities or that this is all a fiction; and in The Illiad, Meggan, Sharon, Ty, Kurt, Clea, and Logan have been dropped into the middle of the Greek camp and have to quickly take stock of the situation without being discovered; Harry Potter: No matter where you go, there’s always a troll; The Last of Us: the group now seeks shelter, clues to what has happened to the world, and where exactly they are, amd another question that looms large is why Natasha has a note indicating they need to go to Baltimore; Welcome to Night Vale:the local library serves as a good place to hide, minus the librarians; Minecraft: Terry and Kyle explore, offer commentary on the weirdness of their environment, and accidentally discover they can make things; they also discover that they can not only talk to people nearby, but to each other - which is a surprise since they're scattered all over what seems to be an infinitely large world; Star Wars: after their ‘crash landing’, the group follows former-slave-convict-now-thief Aola’Toor into the prison; The Illiad: after questioning a hapless soldier who stumbled out of his tent, the group now knows they've somehow ended up on the beaches below the city of Troy during the Trojan War, and the question now becomes how do they get back to their own reality; Harry Potter: say hello to the a-maze-ing flying Angelo as he solves the second riddle; The Last of Us: food must be found, no matter how unpleasant the job is and after narrowly escaping a zombie ambush where Rahne is bitten, the group establishes camp in an abandoned house and have split up to find transportation and supplies; Welcome to Night Vale: the group’s various issues, along with an Angel tagalong, help them get through town and find Cecil’s boyfriend; Minecraft: Bobby has set the others to making things, and nobody but him likes it, and Clarice is especially displeased; Darcy discovers that when you die, you lose your stuff - but not your life - and that she might be able to hack Minecraft with her powers, maybe, if Bobby could just remember any of the in game cheat commands; Star Wars: so far, so good - the group manage to get to the strong room and retrieve their prize, before things go horribly wrong; The Illiad: after coming up with their plan of action, the group splits into two smaller groups with Sharon F.and Logan off to cause the biggest distraction they can while the others work on getting to the walls of Troy; Harry Potter: Death is only temporary, uuuuuuuuuuuh right? Hope is 'killed' for the sake of solving the next riddle; The Last of Us: after a restless night in the abandoned house, the group leaves in the large SUV they've managed to start up and provision, as the faster the progress they make to Baltimore the better; Welcome to Night Vale: Cecil has been taken by a Librarian, so our heroes go in to save him; Minecraft: Bobby is the only one who knows anything about this game, but he has a theory about how they might get to go home; It turns out Bobby's plan involves more of the same - digging, farming, building; Star Wars: the traitor is double-crossed, the former Sith is dead and the rest of the group are in a cell - has the mission completely failed?; The Illiad: Meggan and Clea have split off from Kurt and Ty to face off against Aetenor and Dolon, respectively; The Last of Us: as it gets toward sundown, the group decides to seek shelter again for the night, as they don't know the hunting patterns of the zombies and they need to look for more supplies for Rahne and for themselves.; Minecraft: Kyle and Terry and Darcy make food - and Darcy reports that she can't cheat them home by command-killing the dragon; poor Clarice - she's gotten all the teleporting of a Minecraft Enderman and all the downsides too, like not wanting to be looked at, and Terry and Clarice make armor and conversation; Star Wars: Tara’s body is hauled away to be transported back to her Inquisitor father; The Illiad: in the open plains below the city of Troy, Sharon F.and Logan dressed in the battle gear they had stumbled upon earlier cause a ruckus and face off against Hector and Aeneas, heroes of legend; The Last of Us:Rachel has joined their group amidst their escape, and the consensus had been to get this place in Baltimore as fast as possible to save Rahne, who's stuck in an between state of werewolf and not, and avoid any more close calls; Minecraft: Bobby explains enchanting weapons to Kyle, and Kyle does not turn himself into a parrot; it turns out some of their powers do work in this weird Minecraft world, they just have to be clever about it; Star Wars: meeting up near the hangers after their escape, the Rebels fight their way out to a shuttle, and off the planet; The Illiad: Kurt and Ty breach the walls of Troy in whatever shape or form they can then go back for the others; the walls of Troy have been breached and in the ensuing chaos everyone has to find each other again because their chance of survival is better in larger numbers, and no one wants to get accidentally left behind; Harry Potter: the final showdown, where, spoiler alert: Marie-Ange gets to stab someone; Team!Science manage to haul back the group from The Illiad, but it's not the gentlest ride, and Garrison and Ev come up with the solution of going to fetch each group themselves; Star Wars: mission accomplished, the Rebels are on their way back to base, and two strangers turn up in the shuttle while they’re in hyperspace; Minecraft: having found what they need, the group is sent down to dig obsidian and build a portal; the team goes through their portal - and finds the way home; The Last of Us: while the group debates what to do for Rahne, a solution arrives from an unexpected place; everyone retrieved, Team!Science gets down to shutting things down for good; Cecilia makes a journal entry saying I told you so.

2019:

2020:

2021: Kurt and Meggan take each other out for birthday movies. Marie-Ange and Darcy explore a restaurant at the base of the new X-Force office and are pleased with the results.

2022: Case File: The Underbelly Project: Alex goes out for a coffee run, and finds something much more interesting; Alex and Inez return to the XFI office, where Inez delivers some unsettling news about the Mutant Underground; Alex shares some information on the xp_teams forum locked to XFI only; Alex then emails Terry, Sooraya and Angelo separately about the possibility that the Underground has been compromised; while XFI dives into investigating, Arthur brings Inez to the mansion for a tour.

2023: Clint and Matt enjoy a family brunch with their dads. Madin moves into a suite shared by Illyana. Collective Soul: Various residents of the mansion - who all have a connection to Haller - experience psychic hallucinations, which Benji is able to trace back to Haller; Arthur emails Jean and Scott about the encounter he and Shatterstar had; Charles calls a meeting with Quentin, Hope A. and Jean to decide what to do; Hope A. and Quentin go into the astral plane to find all the pieces of Haller’s psyche for Jean and Charles to put back together; separated from Quentin, Hope A. decides to use something other than force to deal with the situation; Quentin goes his own way and faces a judgment, of sorts, for his recent actions; Jean puts the pieces back together in Haller, with some help.

PHASE 1

2003:

2004: Scott tells Alex their grandparents are alive. Amanda visits Manuel's dreams and they start a slow rebuilding. Jubilee gets dragged into Nathan's nightmares.

2005: Haroun runs into Nathan after one of his exams and finds out about the previous day's encounter with Gideon Faraday. He then gives Nate a piece of his mind about how he's handling things these days. Turnabout is fair play. Lorna wanders off to taunt Alison with cookies and finds out about something she hadn't been told about. This means Alison is in trouble.

2006: Living Pele: Amanda makes suggestions as to what the Snow Valley members can do to help with the eruption in Hawaii; the Red X volunteers have various encounters doing their jobs. Some of the staff play poker with Pietro to distract themselves. Ororo goes to the brownstone to see Remy, and is disconcerted to find he is still in France. Mark's roach woes turn out to be due to his mutant landlord, and he moves into the brownstone. Doug takes Julio out for Mexican food.

2007: V=IR: Forge and Doug examine Milan's machine and finds a) Milan is strangely absent, b) the machine doesn't work and c) that Milan has had access to coded documents written by Nikola Tesla.

2008: Catseye finds a new sleeping buddy in the form of Lil. Angel realises she missed her birthday. Adrienne emails Morgan about the gorgeous man she saw coming home with Jean-Paul the night before. Manuel emails Zanne about the gallery trip Morgan arranged. Julian emails Karo about appropriate birthday gifts for Angel. Paige asks for people to stop telling her there's hope of Jay's survival. Haller tackles the task of explaining privacy to Catseye. Jean-Paul emails Nathan asking for discretion about his drunken night; Morgan emails Jean-Paul teasing him about his 'hot date'. Laurie emails Morgan about finding Bishop on the couch.

2009: During a shooting lesson with Bishop, Adrienne accidentally Reads an old pair of his gloves and sees an incident from his police past he's not comfortable with her knowing. This Devil's Workday: Cammie leaves work unexpectedly and Adrienne tracks her down to find her trying to get to Chicago, where an old friend of hers has turned up dead; Adrienne insists on going with Cammie to identify the body and makes arrangements to fly; Cammie tells Kurt what's happened; Cammie identifies her friend and discovers the police aren't going to do very much investigation into Amy's death and asks Adrienne to Read a letter found on Amy's body. Eamon shows up by surprise to visit Laurie.

2010: Jubilee notices Marie-Ange has recently used her passport to go to France, which Doug explains as a holiday visit. Laurie asks that people not describe her powers as being smelly, which results in banter with Kyle, to which she responds by nerfing him in the ear. Garrison and Jean have an amusing Danger Room session involving an Incan pyramid in a jungle.

2011: Jean decides to run a Secret Santa for the New Mutants and asks for help; Jean tells the New Mutants to contact Yvette and Clarice as the Secret Santa elves with their gifts for their gift-ee. Jean-Paul invites Warren to a District X business owners meeting. Sooraya and Matt meet in the kitchen and she makes lunch for them as they talk.

2012: Warren announces his return to New York. Sooraya gives Angel a plushie calf, in memory of a discussion they once had. Tandy invites people to join her watching a favourite Christmas movie. Betsy appears in Haller’s office and startles him; Haller posts to x_journal to announce Betsy is staying at the mansion for a time.

2013: Adrienne posts cancelling Monday due to the deaths of Peter O'Toole and Joan Fontaine over the weekend. Operation: One Night In Madripoor: In Madripoor looking for Illyana's bloodstones, an X-Force team infiltrates the Mandarin's penthouse; a second team encounters mystical monks, and comes off a little worse for wear; a third team gets into a fight at the docks, and are forced to get creative. Maddie texts Clint begging him to save her from cheerleading practice. Deal With The Devil: Professor Xavier alerts the mansion to an incoming invasion; Meggan, Fred, Angelo, Callisto, Jean-Phillipe, and Megan are taken by the invading forces; Marie-Ange texts Scott saying Amanda's wards pinged and asking what happened; Angel and Lorna fight off demons in their suite; Laurie's and Sooraya's dinner plans are ruined by the invasion; Molly's and Tandy's Mario Kart game is interrupted, and they escape into the tunnels; Molly texts Tandy to make sure she's okay; Jean and Kurt encounter demons while wandering the grounds; Sue and Topaz struggle to stay safe when their suite is invaded; Tabitha and Kyle try to defend the library - it doesn't go well; Johnny, Matt, and Rachel team up to fight off the invasion; Amanda emails Scott, Jean, Xavier, and X-Force letting them know it was Belasco behind the invasion, and she thinks she knows why and how to handle it; after meeting with the X-Men, Amanda goes to Belasco to try and barter with him, and becomes a captive herself when Pixie reveals herself as Belasco's new protegee. Blessed Are The Pure Of Heart: Doctor Strange recruits Topaz to help him open a portal to the demon dimension; the cavalry goes into Belasco's demon dimension to rescue the taken (who have been warped and changed by their time in the dimension), and Billy, while guarding the portal, encounters Pixie; Firestar uses Angelo's fear of fire to scare him back home; Angel and Meggan duke it out in an aerial battle; Catseye and Pinball go against Jean-Phillipe; Cannonball and Nevermore team up to bring down Fred; Firestar tries to take down Callisto, and Blink steps in for round two when she fails; Pixie and Billy face off, and a familiar face returns to deal with Belasco.

2014: Rogue leaves Arthur a care package of different types of clothing from his early posts about having the lack of clothing available. Arthur texts Rogue with his thanks of the amount of clothing she had gotten him.