August 2006

The Elpis crew has just arrived back at the mansion and the various participants in Sooraya’s rescue share their experiences with the rest of the residents. In addition to this, various people who participated in the events in San Diego are dealing with the repercussions, most notably Scott, Logan, Lorna and Haller. Marie receives a cryptically-lettered missive from her hometown containing several strange predictions about the mansion’s residents and decides to go home to investigate. Logan goes with her for support. When she arrives, her family gives her even stranger news: she was adopted. She also meets Destiny, whose prophesies were sent to her, and receives a diary containing many more.

Shiro’s addiction to Kick continues to spiral unchecked. Several mansion residents notice something strange about his behavior, but no one can figure out exactly what the problem is. Amanda and Doug travel around Europe together on X-Force-related business and even go on a date, but they return home as just good friends. A club out in Los Angeles has trouble with some of its mutant clientele and the LAPD requests some help from the X-Men. Bobby, Lorna, Paige and Clarice go out to investigate undercover.

Angelica Jones manifests her mutation in the car with her mother one Sunday. After some initial (and understandable) worries, it is finally decided that she will attend Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters. Sam acts as liaison, and she quickly meets Kyle, Julio, and many other mansion residents. Meanwhile, strange activity in South America draws the attention of the Snow Valley team. Dr. Stephen Strange investigates the rumors of cultists and then requests for Snow Valley to join him, as things are far more serious than originally suspected. In the jungle city of Nova Roma, several local girls are to be sacrificed to Selene, and once Remy realizes the scope of the problem, he makes a call to the mansion to ask for even more help, this time from the X-Men. Disaster is narrowly averted when Amara, one of the girls, calls up a volcano during the sacrifice – the X-Men rescue the girls and deal with the volcano while X-Force rounds up the cultists. In the end, Amara is invited to come back to the mansion and accepts.

The strange activity at the mutant club in Los Angeles is concluded just as some comes to the attention of Snow Valley in New York. They meet another mutant, Mark Sheppard, and investigate the rumors of people disappearing. At the mansion, Ororo makes a phone call to Jennie’s father and discovers that the girl is not where she said she was, prompting much concern among the residents. In Las Vegas, Terry and Bobby accidentally get married.

Crystal’s sister Medusa is informed by her mother that she will be going to New York to look out for her sister, much to her chagrin. Meanwhile, somewhere in Europe, Jennie, Marius and Manuel clubhop, finding someone new for Marius to feed from almost every night. In Paris he purchases a comatose mutant girl to feed from whom he calls Penny. Forge and Amanda try to locate Jennie with a spell, but it is to no avail. Shiro finally snaps and flies into a rage, trying to kill the man who got him hooked on Kick. Scott, Logan, Marie and Ororo manage to subdue him and bring him back to the mansion, but there is a long road to recovery ahead of him.

Two breakups occur at the end of the month: Clarice and Shiro, Lorna and Remy.

Timeline

Aug. 1 – Marie and Sooraya meet. Scott adopts a kitten. Haller apologizes to Lorna for what happened in San Diego.

Aug. 2 – Libri Veritatum: Marie gets a strange letter. Scott deals with the aftermath of his torture and Jean’s departure.

Aug. 3 – Libri Veritatum: Marie travels home and finds out she was adopted.

Aug. 5 – Kick It Up: Shiro has a difficult time in the Danger Room until he uses Kick.

Aug. 8 – Race Around The World: Amanda and Doug arrive in Madrid.

Aug. 9 – Race Around The World: Amanda and Doug arrive in Paris. Lorna drags Marie out to Harry’s.

Aug. 11 – Forge and Julio concoct an ice cream-a-pault.

Aug. 12- Believing Is Seeing: Ororo talks with the LAPD about sending several people out to help with a case. Scott and Haller have a confrontation; things are broken.

Aug. 13 – Angelica Jones manifests in the car on the way home from church. Julio moves into his new room and meets his roommate. Julio meets Lorna in the kitchen.

Aug. 14 – Angelica’s mother contacts the school. Julio meets Crystal outside. Believing Is Seeing: Paige goes undercover in LA. Bleeding: Marius, Jennie, and Manuel all attend a club.

Aug. 15 – Angelica makes the decision to attend Xavier’s.

Aug. 16 – Worlds On Fire: Snow Valley meets Stephen Strange in Rio. Kyle and Angelica meet at the mansion.

Aug. 17 – Angelica meets Forge, then Julio. Worlds On Fire: The Snow Valley team investigates strange happenings in South America.

Aug. 18 – Worlds On Fire: The cultist activity in South America comes to a head; Snow Valley and the X-Men are there to save the day, and Xavier’s ends up with a new student – Amara. Scott meets Angelica.

Aug. 20 – Amanda plans to start the weekend van run to New York City again.

Aug. 21 – Marie and Doug ‘break up’. Believing Is Seeing: The X-team in Los Angeles finally discover what is happening at the club.

Aug. 22 – Amara meets Scott at the mansion.

Aug. 23 – Operation: Body Snatchers: Amanda and Wanda go to a club to investigate mutant disappearances and meet Mark Sheppard.

Aug. 24 – Lorna visits her family in California. Mondo invites Crystal on the outing to the city. Sooraya meets Clarice at the mansion. Bleeding: Ororo telephones Jennie’s father and learns that she is not staying with him like she claimed.

Aug. 25 – "Operations: Body Snatchers: Snow Valley takes down the mutant smuggling ring but lose the ringleaders.

Aug. 26 – Terry and Bobby get married in Las Vegas. Clarice leaves for school.

Aug. 27 – Medusa is told she will be leaving Attilan for New York. Bleeding: Jennie and Marius have an encounter on a rooftop.

Aug. 28 – "'Bleeding: Forge and Amanda try to locate Jennie using magic. Kick It Up: Shiro snaps and tries to kill the drug dealer that gave him the Kick; the X-Men are there to stop him. Bleeding: Marius makes an unconventional purchase in France.

Aug. 30 – Mark Sheppard joins Snow Valley. Clarice and Shiro break up.

Aug. 31 – Remy and Lorna break up.