January 2016

Timeline

Jan 1 - Topaz posts about needing aspirin. Miles posts about not feeling well. Bobby posts about playing Black Eyed Pea’s songs for luck. Something Slender This Way Comes: A missing person’s alert for a child goes out.

Jan 2 - Gabriel posts about adults going out. Hope texts Topaz about needing some aspirin back.

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Jan 4 - Angel and Gabriel talk about Clint again, and this time it goes better. Rogue absorbs Maya to try to work out what her powers are and discovers Maya’s PTSD. Topaz and Jean-Paul find common ground when Stephen has a magical accident in the library; Topaz emails Stephen to let him know he’ll be helping reshelve the replacement books.

Jan 5 - Topaz emails Jean-Paul to thank him for his help. Rachel and Jean run into each other and make pancakes and New Year’s resolutions; Jean lets the mansion know there are pancakes available in the kitchen.

Jan 6 - Wade leaves Cecilia a birthday present; Cecilia emails Wade her thanks.

Jan 7 - Arthur leaves Cecilia a birthday present in the medlab; Cecilia thanks Arthur for his gift and for the luck. Something Slender This Way Comes: A ten year old goes missing in New York. Miles and Jean catch up and realise they have a lot in common - such as being huge nerds.

Jan 8 - Amadeus displays his latest experiment - flash-fried ballistic shrimp.

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Jan 10 - Something Slender This Way Comes: Two more children go missing, this time from Salem Center; Angelo is concerned about the missing children, but can’t find any common threads. Nica returns from vacation a week late due to the flu’.

Jan 11 - Clarice posts a W.H. Auden poem in honour of David Bowie’s passing. Warren makes good on his offer of a tropical vacation to Bobbi. Warren lets the X-Factor people know he’s going to be away, and to earn money in the meantime. Xavin thanks people for their birthday gifts for the day before. Artie and Topaz meet up for a sign language lesson.

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Jan 13 - Amanda makes a journal entry to announce she’s back, that magic classes will recommence shortly, and asking Kurt and Meggan for a family dinner on Friday. Amanda also posts to X-Force about leaving Cammie to set up contacts in Genosha, and that she’ll update their database shortly. Warren and Bobbi talk about their current trip together over dinner. Topaz e-mails Stephen about the arrival of new books and inquiring if he’s free to help with them on Sunday. Rachel stumbles upon a slightly inebriated Artie, and the two bond over their worldly wounds while awaiting pizza.

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Jan 15 - Charles announces that he’ll be away until late Sunday at a conference in Washington. Monica makes a journal entry asking for help in moving rooms. Bobbi lets loose with Warren down south, with some negative consequences.

Jan 16 - Maya makes a journal entry asking if anyone wants to build a snowman. Warren has some bad news for a hungover Bobbi the next morning. Amadeus makes a journal entry about the microwave suddenly making fart noises now. Something Slender This Way Comes: The news posts another missing person alert, this time for a Matias Perez. X-Men Mission: Fall of the Mutants: Do all the recent missing mutants indicate the government making a move against homeless, vulnerable mutants, or something else entirely?

Jan 17 - A Keller Foundation fundraiser Hope and Sue are attending goes horribly wrong when drama, intrigue, and betrayal all play out on the dance floor. Great Attractors: Topaz, Rachel, Jean, and Haller wake up to find themselves in a dark and lonely place; for Meggan, Hope, Emma, Quentin, and Fourteen, everything is literally puppy dogs and rainbows to an unbearable degree; as Topaz's mind becomes ever-more hostile, the group encounters a surprise visitor; Hope and Haller fail to escape, but make a different sort of headway; having determined the geography, the two groups destroy the communication barrier the only way they know how: mild violence; after a quick exchange of notes, the two senior psis come to a chilling conclusion; the psis lead the charge, but in the end it's the empaths who make the final stand; it was all a horrible, horrible dream, or at least that's what they'll be telling themselves from now on; Haller texts all the mansions telepaths and empaths to advise the Professor is coming home early, and to report to the medlab and/or himself or Jean if anything is acutely wrong; Haller makes a journal entry about the bizarre astral activity that happened, letting everyone know it’s been dealt with and that the Professor is coming back early. Topaz texts Stephen to take a raincheck on book stocking. Topaz leaves a sign on her door informing would-be visitors of her status and asking for rest. Cece texts Haller reminding him he owes her lunch. Quentin asks for assistance with a cake in an extremely awkward fashion. Bobbi and Warren make their way back home from their mini-vacation. Alex bakes a cake for a baked Quentin.

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Jan 19 - X-Men Mission: Fall of the Mutants The Morlocks meet up to discuss their missing people revealing a deep divide in how they want to approach the situation. Amanda plants a Louisiana Iris and an African Orchid in the greenhouse. Great Attractors: Haller sends an email to the impacted telepaths and empaths, updating them on the situation.

Jan 20 - Amanda leaves a wreath of English Ivy, Scarlet Poppies, Pink Sweet Peas, and Potato Vine Flowers at the M-Day memorial. Cecilia posts to the journals expressing her disbelief that it’s already been a year since M-day and inviting anyone who wants to join her and dog watching movies and eating junk food on the couch.

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Jan 22 - An especially excited Alex lets everyone know that it’s snowing outside, leading to snowmen and Frozen references.

Jan 23 - Haller send Cecelia an email asked her to move their lunch to the city due to the weather. Amadeus unveils his Snowdowser 3000X (the X is for Xtreme) to near-universal skepticism. Gabriel posts to the journals wishing he was still in the Caribbean. Alex leaves Tabitha a skateboard as a present. Illyana asks Amadeus if he should really be operating heavy machinery in the middle of the night. After his experience in Meggan and Topaz's minds Haller come to the realization that he no longer belongs at the mansion; Charles has other ideas. Tabitha got a present, and she loves it, bribes to Kyle and skateboard ramps might be involved.

Jan 24 - Kitty compares the snow outside to the best Danger Room session ever, except she doesn’t have to worry about walking through it. Later Kitty writes Jean Paul a poem about doing the dishes. Tabitha asks Amadeus to use science to make Kyle hamburgers. Something Slender This Way Comes The news reports on the case of 2 missing children, Jacklyn Smith and Jeremie Fletcher.

Plots

Something Slender This Way Comes

Great Attractors

X-Men Mission: Fall of the Mutants

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January 2016