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[oldsoldiersneverdie]

Is anyone else starting to feel a little disturbed by how quiet things have been lately? Maybe it's just an old soldier's paranoia talking.

[He sighs and then continues]

I'm taking a group out to the outer lands on the island. Part training, part working out the geography a little better so we know where the dangers are. Leaving Saturday morning, back when I say so, but probably not more than a few days - only so far you can go in direction on an island. Let me know if you're interested.


[Filtered to spec ops team]

Unless you have something more immediately pressing, I expect you to be there. We'll meet by the hold at six am.


[OOC: Outline post here! Please leave a comment there if you're interested in a character coming along.]

Comments

[oldsoldiersneverdie]

Ah - got a few of those in my world, too. Though a lot of them would settle for just genocide. Doesn't help that my family seems to have a tendency towards channeling cosmic forces of rebirth, either.

[getoffmyearth]

[...oh no.]

What kind of cosmic forces of rebirth are we talking about here, exactly?

[oldsoldiersneverdie]

The Phoenix Force - it's... both sides of the coin. Elemental creation - but also elemental destruction, so that the new can be born.

[getoffmyearth]

Oh, fuck.

[This seems like an appropriate thing to say to that.]

[oldsoldiersneverdie]

...Yeah, that's the usual reaction.

[getoffmyearth]

I want to say "at least I know what it is" but I don't think that's much to take any kind of comfort or consolation from.

[oldsoldiersneverdie]

You do? [He sounds genuinely surprised] I always thought it was mostly, well... a mutant thing.

[getoffmyearth]

If it's cosmic, I've usually at least heard of it. And we get news from Earth, from time to time. Never saw it in person, though, or had to do anything about it.

[oldsoldiersneverdie]

Better than some of the intergalatic reactions - fucking Shi'ar.

But my mother, sister, and daughter have all been stable Phoenix-hosts. Jean and Rachel for a number of years, at that.

[getoffmyearth]

Yeah, the Shi'ar- well, they're. Shi'ar, about things. [Really what else is there to say about that. It's like the Kree. They're just gonna be Kree about everything.]

Sooooo- [Does he want to talk about Phoenix hosts? Not really. What if that'd just be poking the wounds of a guy who sounds like he might be a great ally?] Who does that make you?

[oldsoldiersneverdie]

A mutant? Part of a really strange family? [He actually sounds fairly relaxed - he didn't know his mother's family, so the Shi'ar killing them is more principle than personal. He'll leave that revenge-quest for Rachel]

[getoffmyearth]

Works for me.

[He can respect somebody not wanting to go into detail. Do they even talk about Peter's father, anymore? No they do not. We do not mention him.}