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==Plot Summary==
 
==Plot Summary==
  
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Jan 9 - Operation: Teenage Wasteland: An unexpected and unwelcome visitor arrives at the Snow Valley offices, completely disrupting a staff meeting and generally making a giant nuisance of himself; Wade e-mails Marie-Ange about the recent visitor at Snow Valley; Amanda posts on the Snow Valley journal about Glorian being stashed in a safehouse.
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Since the events of [[When It All Goes Wrong Again]], Thomas Glorian has
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been trying to keep to the straight and narrow.  Or at least as
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straight and narrow as a former carnie and habitual con man can be.
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After things were resolved with the strange interaction of Glorian and
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[[David Haller|Haller’s]] powers, [[Pete Wisdom]] remained concerned about how much of the
 +
shared hallucination Glorian would remember, and how it might affect
 +
the operational security of X-Force.  As a result, he elected to
 +
pursue the option that would not lead to a clash with Xavier and the
 +
X-Men about the morality of killing: he made Glorian one of his
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intelligence assets, and tasked him with keeping an eye on the shadier
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parts of New York City.
  
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Operation: Teenage Wasteland: Remy wakes up in bed with his wife, who doesn't know who he is; Doug wakes up almost naked, in bed with a woman who he knows, but doesn't know him; Remy goes looking for the other members of X-Force, the first stop being Cammie; Remy finally finds someone who doesn't think they're sixteen; Remy checks in on Sarah, who is also affected, and she's really really not happy with Remy; Marie-Ange and Amanda wake up amnesic and confused, and so does Wade; Wanda wakes up with one Doctor Stephen Strange, who has no better luck trying to find out what went wrong; Nico arrives and sort of explains X-Force to the three not-quite-teens, and gets them moving to the office; On her way out the fire escape, Wanda encounters Christophe Nord, and they both encounter Remy; Dr. Stephen Strange finds himself in Alberta, Canada; Emma wakes up with a stabbing pain in her head before Remy finds her; Remy posts to x_journal announcing there's an urgent situation and that X-Force will be under radio silence for the next several days, and that Wade is with them; Remy and Nico drag all of X-Force to the offices and they attempt to figure out exactly what the hell is going on; Remy tries to find Glorian, trying to get access to the systems, and Doug finds out he has an extensive stash of porn; Remy finds himself counseling Wanda as she struggles to come to terms with what's going on; While waiting for something to happen, Amanda and Marie-Ange catch up on two entirely different lives; When Remy stops by what is/will be Marie-Ange's office, she has questions for him; Doug and Wade decide that hiding from the girls is the better part of valor; Doug goes seeking out Marie-Ange as one of the few people he remembers that remembers him, and finds out something he was truly not expecting.  
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Since Pete Wisdom left to recover at Muir Island, responsibility for
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handling Glorian has fallen to Amanda Sefton.  Most recently, she has
 +
had him investigating Kick distribution in NYC.  In the course of his
 +
digging, he comes across a new gang, particularly vicious, run by a
 +
criminal named Billy Russo. Russo wants to control the Kick market in
 +
New York, and his method of doing so is direct: either killing or
 +
acquiring any group that competes with him.
  
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Jan 11 - Operation: Teenage Wasteland: Wanda, Jubilee, Ororo and Amanda pick up some street-level gossip and discuss it over tacos; Marie-Ange posts to Snow Valley's journal saying if anyone has any updates on Glorian's location that they should share it there; Remy checks in on the very quiet Sofia to see if she's ready for this; After Wade and David do some unsuccessful scouting of hospitals and police stations for any word of Glorian, they shop, and Wade returns to Snow Valley with a present for Marie-Ange, and to show off his new pants; David and Wade find one of David's guns and Wade ends up getting shot; Remy's plan to find Thomas Glorian and restore X-Force back to what they call normal begins with a break-in; Sofia and Marie-Ange do their best to be mice that roar, or, in this case, mice that block off alleys and create hurricane winds, but they're just a little better at their powers than they expected; Doug and North and Nico... start a commotion; While the boys + Nico are wrecking fuses and making a lot of sound and noise, Wanda and Amanda get their hands in Russo's gang's pants; Ororo, Remy and Sarah break into the building where Russo has Glorian stashed. Remy and Ororo come in through the window, Sarah comes in through the door... and then Russo goes out through the window, several stories up; Once Glorian is out of the building, Wade is tasked with getting him from the building to the office safely; Glorian has been brought to the office, and now it's Emma's job - untrained, sixteen year old Emma Frost - to fix everything.  
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While sneaking into a warehouse to try and get more information on
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Russo to pass along to X-Force, Glorian gets caught red-handed and
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flees the scene, with Russo's men in pursuit.  He manages to shake his
 +
pursuers, and panicked, goes directly to the Snow Valley Centre to get
 +
help.  Amanda does her best to calm him and stashes him in one of
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X-Force's safehouses while they plan how to deal with Russo.
  
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Jan 12 - Operation: Teenage Wasteland: Wade takes a drugged up Marie-Ange back to the Brownstone. Remy makes an entry on Snow Valley's journal to announce he's taking the rest of the week off after everything that went down.
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Unbeknownst to Glorian, before coming to X-Force's office, he was
 +
exposed to some of the supply of Kick in the warehouse (either powder
 +
in the air or a malfunctioning aerosol delivery system).  The sharp
 +
boost in his powers, combined with the number of abnormal psyches in
 +
the office (Marie-Ange, Wanda, etc.), shows its results later that
 +
night - an episode of psionic amnesia affecting everyone that was in
 +
the office at the time - including Glorian himself.  All of them
 +
revert to the mental age of approximately sixteen - in some cases
 +
'forgetting' over twenty years of personal memories, and waking up
 +
next to people that, in their minds, they might have never met before
 +
in their lives.
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While all of their memories have reverted, the members of X-Force are
 +
still their current ages, both physically and in terms of powers
 +
development.
 +
 
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Remy, the only adult member of X-Force left unaffected (since he was
 +
fortuitously out of the office when Glorian came by), must
 +
simultaneously deal with the teenage mood swings of his subordinates
 +
(including his weather goddess wife with a casual attitude toward
 +
clothing) and find Glorian, who has left the safehouse and pulled a
 +
panicked runner, before he is found by Russo.  This is because if the
 +
effects of Glorian's power aren't reversed in a relatively short time
 +
frame, they could wind up being permanent.
 +
 
 +
The various groups get some leads on Glorian (a burner phone that he
 +
left in the safehouse, uses of a cash card that they gave him, etc.)
 +
when Remy discovers that Russo’s gang has found Glorian and taken him
 +
to their warehouse where he will be interrogated, killed, and disposed
 +
of.  Remy takes some of the team to recover
 +
him.  Thugs are maimed/poisoned, Russo is tossed out a window, and
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X-Force escapes with Glorian and takes him back to the brownstone.  At
 +
which point they run into a problem.
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Glorian himself believes he is 16, and doesn’t realize that he is a
 +
mutant, and is convinced that he can’t possibly be the cause of all of
 +
this wackiness.  So he can’t reverse the effects.  Finally, after some
 +
panic ensues, Emma (who is still convinced that this is all one of her
 +
hallucinations) goes into Glorian’s mind and convinces -him- that the
 +
whole situation is a hallucination and not real.  This causes such a
 +
strong sense of cognitive dissonance for him that his power and mind
 +
‘reset’ themselves, returning everyone to their proper mental age, and
 +
everything is settled...
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Y'know, except for the therapy bills.
  
 
==Related Links==
 
==Related Links==

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PHASE 1


Operation: Teenage Wasteland
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Dates run: January 9-11, 2012
Run By: Frito
Read the logs: Operation: Teenage Wasteland


When Remy was relying on Nico to help him plan an investigation, it had to be a sign of the Mayan Apocalypse. Didn't jaguers come to eat the Earth this year or something? Remy could only hope.

When a minor X-Force asset is accidentally exposed to Kick the affect on his mutation regresses the X-Force folks back a few years, so to speak.


Cast

Amanda Sefton, Carmilla Black, David North, Doug Ramsey, Emma Frost, Jubilation Lee, Marie-Ange Colbert, Nico Minoru, Ororo Munroe, Sarah Morlocke, Remy LeBeau, Sofia Mantega-Barret, Wanda Maximoff, Wade Wilson

Thomas Glorian, Billy Russo, Dr. Stephen Strange


Timing

January 9-11, 2012


Plot Summary

Since the events of When It All Goes Wrong Again, Thomas Glorian has been trying to keep to the straight and narrow. Or at least as straight and narrow as a former carnie and habitual con man can be. After things were resolved with the strange interaction of Glorian and Haller’s powers, Pete Wisdom remained concerned about how much of the shared hallucination Glorian would remember, and how it might affect the operational security of X-Force. As a result, he elected to pursue the option that would not lead to a clash with Xavier and the X-Men about the morality of killing: he made Glorian one of his intelligence assets, and tasked him with keeping an eye on the shadier parts of New York City.

Since Pete Wisdom left to recover at Muir Island, responsibility for handling Glorian has fallen to Amanda Sefton. Most recently, she has had him investigating Kick distribution in NYC. In the course of his digging, he comes across a new gang, particularly vicious, run by a criminal named Billy Russo. Russo wants to control the Kick market in New York, and his method of doing so is direct: either killing or acquiring any group that competes with him.

While sneaking into a warehouse to try and get more information on Russo to pass along to X-Force, Glorian gets caught red-handed and flees the scene, with Russo's men in pursuit. He manages to shake his pursuers, and panicked, goes directly to the Snow Valley Centre to get help. Amanda does her best to calm him and stashes him in one of X-Force's safehouses while they plan how to deal with Russo.

Unbeknownst to Glorian, before coming to X-Force's office, he was exposed to some of the supply of Kick in the warehouse (either powder in the air or a malfunctioning aerosol delivery system). The sharp boost in his powers, combined with the number of abnormal psyches in the office (Marie-Ange, Wanda, etc.), shows its results later that night - an episode of psionic amnesia affecting everyone that was in the office at the time - including Glorian himself. All of them revert to the mental age of approximately sixteen - in some cases 'forgetting' over twenty years of personal memories, and waking up next to people that, in their minds, they might have never met before in their lives.

While all of their memories have reverted, the members of X-Force are still their current ages, both physically and in terms of powers development.

Remy, the only adult member of X-Force left unaffected (since he was fortuitously out of the office when Glorian came by), must simultaneously deal with the teenage mood swings of his subordinates (including his weather goddess wife with a casual attitude toward clothing) and find Glorian, who has left the safehouse and pulled a panicked runner, before he is found by Russo. This is because if the effects of Glorian's power aren't reversed in a relatively short time frame, they could wind up being permanent.

The various groups get some leads on Glorian (a burner phone that he left in the safehouse, uses of a cash card that they gave him, etc.) when Remy discovers that Russo’s gang has found Glorian and taken him to their warehouse where he will be interrogated, killed, and disposed of. Remy takes some of the team to recover him. Thugs are maimed/poisoned, Russo is tossed out a window, and X-Force escapes with Glorian and takes him back to the brownstone. At which point they run into a problem.

Glorian himself believes he is 16, and doesn’t realize that he is a mutant, and is convinced that he can’t possibly be the cause of all of this wackiness. So he can’t reverse the effects. Finally, after some panic ensues, Emma (who is still convinced that this is all one of her hallucinations) goes into Glorian’s mind and convinces -him- that the whole situation is a hallucination and not real. This causes such a strong sense of cognitive dissonance for him that his power and mind ‘reset’ themselves, returning everyone to their proper mental age, and everything is settled...

Y'know, except for the therapy bills.

Related Links

Love Potion Number Nine

Kick

When It All Goes Wrong Again

External Links

Operation: Teenage Wasteland

x_journal post

x_snowvalley posts

Trivia and Meta

Trivia

As a result of this plot, Remy had The Talk with Nico about remaining with X-Force, impressed by her level-headedness.

As the eldest of the group, Wade and David bonded over bad 70's fashion in a thrift store. David also accidentally shot Wade.

Meta

Plotrunner: Frito

This plot was based on this news story which Rossi found and shared with Frito.

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