October 2021

Timeline

Nov 1 - Monster Mash: Darcy vents her feelings about magic books. Felicia thanks Kevin for her birthday gift.

Nov 2 - Laurie texts Kyle to say she owes him an apology. Monster Mash/The Color of Horror: Topaz posts to xp_teams to explain what happened on Halloween - a magic book brought in by Darcy appears to have been booby-trapped but the spell was warped by the magic of Avalon; the book is no longer there and ripped a hole in the pocket dimension in the process of leaving; Avalon is collapsing and Topaz will work at retrieving what artifacts she can. Doug and Darcy go out for mini-golf and Darcy loses a wager.

Nov 3 - Arise, X-Man: In a much better frame of mind after her retreat, Laurie talks to Doug about their break up, with Darcy mediating.

Nov 4 - The Color of Horror: Topaz updates the Avalon situation, asking for volunteers to help clear out the books and artifacts as the dimension is collapsing faster than she anticipated; the magic users pack while the volunteers carry, with appropriate safety measures; Avalon is attacked by mysterious (and highly creepy) creatures with the same aim as theirs, plunder Avalon as much as possible; the mutants fight back, but are overwhelmed by numbers and Topaz sounds the retreat; holding the attackers back so the rest of the mansionites can escape, Topaz is trapped in Avalon when the dimension closes completely; Darcy notifies Maya about Topaz; Marie-Ange notifies X-Force; somewhere in the dark and cold, Topaz wakes up and decides to try and find her way home; Darcy notifies the mansion at large what happened; Darcy lets the rest of the magic users who weren’t there know what happened; Doug texts Darcy to let her know Marie-Ange’s ‘quick and dirty’ reading shows Topaz has a future still; Betsy asks Hope to catch her up on recent events with Topaz; Doug takes Amanda to Marie-Ange and the witch has an idea about what to do, although she needs to talk to the other magic users first. Arise, X-Man: Laurie meets Essex’ son Adam (or Nate, as he prefers) and while helping him, she gets some telepathic feedback typical of a teenage boy and they talk about it.

Nov 5 - The Color of Horror: Laurie asks Darcy what she needs; Alani announces she’ll be keeping the library open; Gabriel suggests not going anywhere for a while; Kevin checks in on Darcy and gives her the task of setting up a new system of drops since the old one appears to have been compromised by whoever sent the book; Alex checks in on Kyle and Alani.

Nov 6 - The Color of Horror: Marie-Ange announces that her readings show Topaz has a future and that they’re working on a way to bring her back; Gabriel texts Felicia and is sceptical of Marie-Ange’s method of determining Topaz is alive.

Nov 7 - Maya asks for suggestions on non-lethal weapons as her knives are too deadly for her comfort in a mission; Kyle agrees to get back to training her in Garrison’s absence. Namor emails Kyle to let him know his concerns about OHSA procedures not being applied during the Avalon job.

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Nov 9 - Artie provides a run down on concussions and self-defence. The Color of Horror: Wanda emails Arthur and Felicia about trying something with their combined powers to get Topaz back; Marie-Ange asks Doug to hack into Topaz’ student accounts and submit her final project. Darcy checks up on Terry. Arise, X-Man: - When Darcy asks for details about her treatments, Laurie uses her powers on her to make her forget.

Nov 10 - Gabriel offers to take up the slack in X-Force work while everyone is occupied. The Color of Horror: Megan asks for everyone to bring their ragoni supplies to the chapel so the spell can be cast.

Nov 11 - Kevin and Jubilee talk about setting up new milk runs with Darcy and address Jubilee’s reluctance to do certain parts of the job.

Nov 12 - Namor emails Wanda to ask about a common challenge. Darcy shares a Taylor Swift video. Doug and Darcy talk about his lack of consideration for her own feelings of loss for Topaz.

Nov 13 - Wideawake: Amanda emails Marie-Ange about receiving a tip about another Sentinel project and an asset inside who needs extracting before the Brotherhood turn up; Marie-Ange alerts the team they have a job. Arise, X-Man: Laurie takes Nate to a movie to test his powers and uses an unorthodox technique to calm him down when he panics.

Nov 14 - Wideawake: The first team - Kevin, Darcy, Gabriel and Doug - get in to bypass security, but Kevin hits an EM field which scrambles his powers and he has to be pulled out; North and Natasha take over the security station while Jubilee and Felicia retrieve the asset, who turns out to be Clint Barton; before the other two teams can get out, the Brotherhood arrives, leaving the third team - Amanda, Marie-Ange, Artie, Wanda and Emma - to use illusions, chaos and telepathy to confuse them long enough for everyone to get out. Back home, Gabriel posts a “I told you so” to the mission having issues.

Plots

Monster Mash

The Color of Horror

Operation: Wideawake

External Links

November 2021