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You have the advantages of ,
>INVISIBILITY: Lvl1 (chameleonic). Highly effective in darkness or when still. Less effective in motion or against careful eyes. No heat-masking, retains shadow.
>ENHANCED SENSES: Lvl1. You have perfect nightvision. Your hearing, smell, and touch are just above peak human.

You have the disadvantages of,
>MULTISPECTRAL EYES
>POINTED EARS
>PSEUDOSCALES AT JOINTS, HANDS, AND COLLAR

>>26958510
Welp.
Lets wake up Laura.

>wake up Laura

GENTLY BE VERY GENTLY

>>26958491
>[ ] Wake up Laura.

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>[X] Wake up Laura.

“Hey.” You stoop down and tap lightly on her shoulder. “You awake?”

Her eyes edge open, startlingly green against the mottled greys and whites of NY’s Christmastime. She nods very slightly, shrugging off the languor of sleep surprisingly quickly. You can’t really be certain, but you get the vague impression that she might have been awake long before you ever were. Just… powered down, sort of. Waiting.

“Hey there. Well, I need to, y’know, go in…”

She doesn’t respond.

>[X] “Want to get a quick bite?”
>[X] “Anywhere in particular you want to meet up?”
>[X] Any previous option.
>[X] Write in.

>>26958700
>[X] “Want to get a quick bite?”

>>26958700
>>[X] “Want to get a quick bite?”

>[X] “Want to get a quick bite?”

“Want to get a quick bite? There’s a falafel stall nearby.” You’re a little hungry, and she should be too – and you’re kinda not sure if she actually has any money of her own.

She stares for a moment, and answers with a curt: “Yes, thank you.”

You two wander out into the streets and stroll toward one of the nearby stalls. You drop $4.00 on a pair of meatball falafels and munch them on the sidewalk. Yours is over almost as soon as it drops into your hands, but she talks small, measures bites. You’re not sure you’ve ever seen anyone eat a falafel so damn slowly.

>Current Funds: $12.50
>Hunger Level: 3

>[ ] Hnnng so kawaii uguu.
>[ ] “Say, how old are you anyways?”
>[ ] “Why’d you choose to run to NY? It’s shit here?”
>[ ] “This your first Christmas on the streets?”
>[ ] Any previous option.
>[ ] Write in.

>>26958912
Damn trip on the fritz.

>>26958700
>This your First Christmas on the streets?

>>26958912
>>[ ] “This your first Christmas on the streets?”

>[X] “This your first Christmas on the streets?”

"This your first Christmas on the streets?" You ask, as she barely makes her way towards the centre of her falafel.

She pauses in mid-bite and nods. You suspected as much. Her clothes look sort of new, or at least well looked-after. And you can't quite get a bead on her age, but she must be at least a year or two younger than you.

"You?"

You shake your head. No, this is certainly not your first Christmas on the streets.

"Welp, let's hope it's also your last, eh?" You add, standing up. As you toss the wrapper, she keeps her eyes on you, and eventually asks, in a flat tone:

"What about you?"

>[ ] Don't answer. Oh look, gotta go, Bugle's waiting.
>[ ] "Well, I've got a job now. Things are looking up."
>[ ] Tell her you can't imagine celebrating Christmas without your family anyway. (Will check, DC 15)
>[ ] Any previous option.
>[ ] Write in.

Rolled 12

>>26959158
>>[ ] Tell her you can't imagine celebrating Christmas without your family anyway. (Will check, DC 15)

Rolled 4

>>26959158
compassion points!

Rolled 16

>>26959158
whoops, forgot to put in my choice

Heads' up - next entry will take a little longer than usual. People are being annoying.

>>26959258
>>26959241
>>26959158

>[ ] Tell her you can't imagine celebrating Christmas without your family anyway. (Will check, DC 15)

>>26959258
>Success!

>[X] Tell her you can't imagine celebrating Christmas without your family anyway.

That’s a question, that. You know the answer, but it’s been wrapped up in your head for so long, and the wrappings are made of fire. You glance about uneasily, as if you’re expecting someone to be listening in. They’re not, of course – nobody cares about two deadbeats on the side of the road, not when there’s shopping to be done and lights to go up. But you just can’t help it.

“Well, it’s not Christmas without family.”

That’d be the first time you’ve mentioned them in… what? Three years? You don’t even know anymore.

You cough pointedly, as if to close the topic.

“Listen, I’ve gotta be off. You gonna be alright?”

She nods. “I can wait in this area. There are three workable vantage points.”

“…Right.”

>[ ] Hop on the underground to the Bugle. Get there early.
>[ ] Take the streets to the Bugle. You can still get there on time.
>[ ] Write in.

>>26959649
>Your Fellowship with Laura Kinney has improved!

She must be Military. That would also explain the crazy dart launcher-some kind of experiment? And with our mutations...fuck the streets. And the cold. And the light. Head belowground like the mutant we are.

You know, we're a fairly decent streetdweller. Why haven't we become a vigilante before now?

>Take the subway.

>>26959649
>[ ] Hop on the underground to the Bugle. Get there early.

>>26959725
she's wolverine's female clone. x-23

>[X] Hop on the underground to the Bugle. Get there early.

You book it into the nearest subway station. The Bugle’s only two stops from here – assuming no incredibly ill-timed delays, you should be there all bright an’ early. Which probably won’t do anything miraculous to your pay or your hours, but as of yesterday morning you’re the new JJ Green. You try.

As you filter in around the early-morning crowd waiting for their train, you notice a pair of officers wearing bright yellow bands around their arms. They’re moving through the crowd, checking ID and pulling back hoods. A chill patters down your spine and you remember the notice you saw over the subway yesterday – the one declaring that mutants found utilizing the public transport services would be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.

>[ ] Try to leave the way you came.
>[ ] You’re at the edge of the crowd. Maybe, if you’re careful, you can go invisible without anyone noticing.
>[ ] Just fucking run.
>[ ] Write in.

>>26959976
>>[ ] Try to leave the way you came.

>>26959976
>>26960025
and go invisible while you're at it.

>>26960036
>>26960036
Gimme a D20 for fading without notice.
>DC14.
>+1 bonus, due to crowding.

As usual, fist three rolls count.

>>26959976

Invisibleness FTW

Rolled 18

>>26960122

>>26960122
>>26960172
I trust that'll do?

Rolled 8 + 1

>>26960122
ookie-dook

>>26960172
i think we're done here, NEXT

Rolled 2 + 1

>>26960122
we already have a winner but what the hey

>>26960218
......

well that was close

>>26960172
>Dayumn boi. You slick.

>[X] Try to leave the way you came.
>[X] Invisible!

You begin to detach yourself from the crowd as nonchalantly as possible. Your train comes barrelling out of the tunnel, and that’s your window of opportunity.

The cold strangeness of invisibility washes over you. For a moment you freeze, certain that someone must have seen your quick trip beyond the standard laws of physics, but nobody bats an eye. You make your way out of the station, chiding yourself inwardly for being so stupid and forgetful. You just saw the goddamn sign yesterday.

Well, that was a waste of time.

>[ ] Run to the Bugle. You can still make it.
>[ ] Just walk. It’s not a big deal anyways.
>[ ] Write in.

>>26960313
>>[ ] Run to the Bugle. You can still make it.
Run like the wind!

>>26960313
>[x] Run to the Bugle. You can still make it.

first impressions

>>26960327
>>26960313
Also, sing a song, too, since you're finally happy to get a job!

>>26960337
>>26960313
"La donna è mobile"
this one, to be exact

>>26960384
>>26960313
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDRqYidDLFw
for further clarification. Hey, maybe we can meet Frank later?

>[X] Run.

Fuck it, running’s good for you. You run.

It’s not too far, but you’re breathing pretty hard when you get there. You humming select bites from the Rocky soundtrack for the first half of the way, plus something Italian that everyone kinda knows, but the run took that out of you soon enough. Winter’s been tough and you’ve mostly been making a point to conserve energy. You shed your invisibility and slow down into a jog as you approach the threshold. The lady at the counter recognizes you and quickly cups her palm around the she’s talking into, pointing towards one of the doors to the side.

You smile and head on through. Inside is a thin corridor, made thinner still by the stacks of warm papers folded in haphazard piles along one wall. Somewhere in the distance, printers hum in steady, arterial unison.

And there’s this scrawny kid heading towards you with the biggest damn stack of papers you’ve ever seen.

>Hunger Level: 4

>[ ] Lend a hand, jeez, he looks like he’s gonna cartwheel over.
>[ ] “Hey, uh, I’m supposed to be picking up a bunch of papers...?”
>[ ] Write in.

>>26960552
lend him a hand.

>>26960393
Meeting Frank is certainly a possibility. I would be a liar if I said he wasn't on that Random Event chart yesterday.

>>26960552
>>[ ] Lend a hand, jeez, he looks like he’s gonna cartwheel over.

>>26960552
>>26960584
I bet it's Peter Parker! Damn, I wish Peter Parker quest was up, too.

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>[X] Lend a hand.

You stoop in to help before the kid does some kind of irreparable damage to himself. For a moment you’re surprised at how much weight he’s actually pulling, but you’ve committed now, and you’d look like a total ass if you just decided that actually he could probably handle it after all.

You manoeuvre the leaning tower of Bugles off to the side and set it down. The kid sights heavily and rubs his back, grinning lamely at you.

“Thanks for that. I’m not exactly in my element here.” He stands up straight and looks you over.

Hey, you know this guy. Sort of. He gave you a bit of a stare on your way out yesterday. You’re not sure that he recognizes you at all, but it’s definitely him.

“You’re picking up, right?”

>[ ] “Is it that obvious?”
>[ ] “You didn’t seem to be doing too badly back there.”
>[ ] “Yeah, I should be down as John Green.”
>[ ] Write in.

>>26960589
I wish Peter Parker Quest was always up...

>>26960760
>>[ ] “Yeah, I should be down as John Green.”

>>26960760
>[ ] “Yeah, I should be down as John Green.”

>>26960760
>Yup, John Green. Nice to meet you, Mr. [...]?
>Kinda understaffed in here. Is it always this hectic?

>[X] “Yeah.”
>[X] Written in stuff.

“Yeah, I should be down as John Green. Nice to meet you, Mr...”

"Parker. Peter. Nice to meet you too." He replies, shuffling past you, picking between the piles of waiting papers, and consults a board pinned to one of the walls.

"It always this hectic around here?" You ask.

“Yeah, kinda. Some days are worse than others. This isn't usually my beat at all. John James Green, right?”

“That’s me.”

“Alright then, you’re pretty much good to go. You can pick up any one of these stacks.” He motions vaguely with his hands to the accumulating paper-bulwark. “You’ve got an alright spot. Prince Street Station. You know your way, right?”

>[ ] “Yep, I know it.”
>[ ] Try to get somewhere closer. You really don’t want to risk the subway. (Persuasion, DC15)
>[ ] Write in.

Rolled 2

>>26961072
>>[ ] Try to get somewhere closer. You really don’t want to risk the subway. (Persuasion, DC15)

Rolled 3

>>26961072
>>26961089
wow, that sucks.

Well, rolling for Persuasion anyways.

Rolled 14

>>26961072

>[ ] Try to get somewhere closer. You really don’t want to risk the subway. (Persuasion, DC15)

Rolled 2

>>26961072
>>[x] Try to get somewhere closer. You really don’t want to risk the subway. (Persuasion, DC15)

Rolled 12

>>26961072
>>[ ] Try to get somewhere closer. You really don’t want to risk the subway. (Persuasion, DC15)

>[X] Try to get somewhere closer.
>FAILURE

Crap. That's not good.

“Well, actually, I was kinda wondering if maybe you could switch me around a bit?” Christ, this is awkward. You feel like a schoolboy without an excuse for some nonspecific tardiness. “I mean, I know the way, I just… kind of need to be put somewhere a bit closer.”

Parker grimaces and gives you a vaguely apologetic look. You know this look well – it’s the “Sorry, dude, no spare change” look. He kinda seems like he actually means it, though. Maybe.

“I don’t know… JJ can be pretty weird about these things. I’m kinda a glorified intern, so he can kick me out over pretty much whatever.”

>[ ] “Don’t worry about it, I understand.”
>[ ] Pull your hood/take off your shades. Come clean. Maybe he’ll understand. (Will check, DC15)
>[ ] Dammit, it’s not worth the risk. Call the whole thing off.
>[ ] Write in.

Rolled 4

>>26961322
>>[ ] Pull your hood/take off your shades. Come clean. Maybe he’ll understand. (Will check, DC15)

>>26961322
>[x] “Don’t worry about it, I understand.

lets not tempt fate

Rolled 13

>>26961322

>[ ] Pull your hood/take off your shades. Come clean. Maybe he’ll understand. (Will check, DC15)

Rolled 1

>>26961322
here goes nothing!

Will Save!

Rolled 2

>>26961401
sunnovabitch!

>>26961401
fuck damn it

karma point time!

>>26961418
not worth it, man, not worth it.

>>26961401
Ha ha ouch.

Delicious mutant tears.

As >>26961418
states, you have a karma point. Is this where you want to spend it?

>>26961401
inb4sentinels
Let's just brave the subway.

>>26961442
Nah, let's just go with it

>>26961442
Nah, it was a will save to pull our hood back right? This should just mean we hilariously fuck up pulling our hood back. By, like, turning invisible instead or something.

>>26961441
>>26961442

we're exposing ourselves as mutant
Nat 1
Parker drops spaghetti all the time

We can fucking get arrested for trying to get on the subway

>>26961442
Yes Karma point

>>26961441
>>26961472
>>26961507
>CRITICAL FAIL
>no karma

There’s sweat on your palms. You’re gonna do this. You’re gonna… take your hood off. You open your mouth to say something and suddenly there’s this great, black, void in your chest – this lump of nauseating nothing. When was the last time you did this? You lick your lips. That dark lump just gets bigger and bigger and bigger, pushing down into your stomach, into your lungs, into everything. You feel your own heart stuttering.

“...Hey? Mr. Green?” You blink. Parker's talking. You’re just standing there. Your hands haven’t even moved. Shit. “You’re kinda spacing out here…”

“Igottago.” You mumble. And you turn, and you walk, and you walk, and you walk straight out. He shouts after you but you don’t even hear it right. You just walk right out of the Bugle and into the street and onto the sidewalk. You bury your face in your hands and you let that hot sensation of holding back tears just eat up your skull.

God dammit. Fuck. You were supposed to get paid today. Fuck everything. Fuck everyone.

>[ ] …
>[ ] …
>[ ] Write in.

>>26961749
Go back, we need to get paid

>>26961749
>[x] Write in.

make up some BS about how were mugged or something there once. bad memories

>>26961814
I like this.

>>26961785
seconded

>>26961749
Go back in and tell him you had a traumatic experience, but that if you really have to you could try to deal with it

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>>26961749
OK, OK. We need green. I say we go hunting for bank heists and the like. When the supers show up, we yoink an unattended bag and pawn it's contents.
That or stealing from the Avenger's or Stephen Strange mansion, get caught, be shown empathy and get recruited into their teams. But that sorta screams C-list, it'd be like asking to be murdered by the newest baddie,

>>26961960
lets wait for power upgrades before we pull any cape bullshit.

You suck in the cold air. Need to get your head clear. You could say something about getting mugged there, or – or whatever. Christ, you can’t believe you’re almost fucking crying. You’re not a child. You’re eighteen. Ish. You’re not a goddamned child.

You stand up, going over a list of possible excuses in your head. None of them are too great, but you really, really need that money –

Peter comes out the door. He’s coming towards you. Aw, shit…

You make sure your glasses are in place and try to look vaguely alright.

“H-hey, sorry.” You begin. “That was just, well, something that happened at that station sort of”–

“Don’t worry about it.” He interjects. “Look, I’ll talk to Vanessa, and get you a spot nearby tomorrow? That okay?”

>[ ] “…Yeah.”
>[ ] “I can still make it today. I’m fine now.” (Bluff, DC15)
>[ ] Write in.

Rolled 15

>>26962202
>>[ ] “I can still make it today. I’m fine now.” (Bluff, DC15)
what I wouldn't give for bonuses...

>>26962202

I'm okay now, we need cash

Rolled 7

>>26962202
>[x] “I can still make it today. I’m fine now.” (Bluff, DC15)

thanks kid, but I kinda need the money. Gotta confront your fears and all that BS

Rolled 13

>>26962202
>[x] “I can still make it today. I’m fine now.” (Bluff, DC15)

>>26962227
Good job

>>26962227
>Success!
>[X] “I can still make it today."

“I can still make it today. I’m fine now.”

He doesn’t look too convinced. You suppose your little nervous breakdown might have had something to do with that. But, fortunately for you, he seems to decide that he doesn’t need all too much convincing.

“You sure?”

“Yeah.” Yeah. You’ve gotta do this.

“Well… alright.”

You blush red hot with embarrassment as you trundle back in with him, take your stack, and head out. You make sure to thank him on your way out. He tells you the job is $7.50 an hour, and you’re going from seven till three. That’s sixty bucks when you get back to the Bugle. Okay. Worth all the shit. Definitely worth all the shit.

>[ ] Try to board the subway like a regular person.
>[ ] Fade out and jump the ticket machines.
>[ ] Write in.

>>26962477
>>[ ] Fade out and jump the ticket machines.
Fade out first. If it fails, the just walk the hell back.

>>26962477
>[x] Fade out and jump the ticket machines.
deep breaths

>>26962477
>[ ] Fade out and jump the ticket machines.

>>26962508
>>26962550
>>26962575
Stealth check, DC13.
>+5 bonus, for being fucking invisible

Rolled 15

>>26962604

Rolled 8

>>26962604
My first roll better be a good one.

>>26962623
passes, at least

Rolled 10 + 5

>>26962604

>>26962650
It's something.

>>26962609
I love you

>>26962609
>Smooth.
>[X] Fade out and jump the ticket machines.

You fade out of sight and make your way to the closest station. Jumping the ticket stands is laughably easy – the moment you’re over them you find yourself wondering why the hell you didn’t just do this before. There aren’t even any of those Special Inspectors with the yellow armbands around.

You catch your train, managing to get one of the less crowded carriages. You hunker up in one corner and stay perfectly still, which works for a while. But it’s a few stations before Prince Street, and you’re starting to feel that dull, quizzical ache in the back of your head that seems to generally tell you that you’ve been ghosting a little too long.

>[ ] There’s only four other people in the carriage. Try to go visible without being noticed.
>[ ] Bite your lip and concentrate. You’ve just gotta keep this up a little longer.
>[ ] Write in.

>>26962822
concentrate
4 suddenly turning 5 would be noticed

>>26962822
>[X] Bite your lip and concentrate.

If anybody sees it a shitstorm would be likely.

>>26962822
>>[ ] Write in.
take the next stop and walk home

>>26962822
>>[x] There’s only four other people in the carriage. Try to go visible without being noticed.
Go into a corner, sit there and look miserable. That'll be a clue as to why you didn't register a moment ago.

>>26962822
is there a bathroom?

>>26962904
On a subway carriage? Not likely.

>>26962904
there's never a bathroom

>>26962927
>>26962929
ah, never lived in city big enough for a subway

>>26962965
beijing

>>26962891
Second this

>>26962965
>>26962990
it's a wonderful little place where the tram lines are filled with people and crap and no Bathrooms onboard. The bathrooms at the stations? Don't even ask, it's just horrible.

>>26962870
Actually change my vote to this. We should be close enough by now.

>>26962822
Can we like, excuse ourselves to a bathroom and go visible there? I remember the metro in chicago had bathrooms in every car.

>>26962822
wait for the next stop and then drop invisibility when more people come on

>[X] Bite your lip and concentrate.
>[X] Just long enough to get off at the next stop and walk.

You shut your eyes, bite your lip, and concentrate on staying invisible. At least until the next stop.

It works. By the time you reach the next station, the buzzing in your head is a drowsy inferno and you feel like someone’s been slowly but surely adding little weights to the hem of your coat. But you got there, unseen and unprosecuted.

>Hunger Level: 5

You shed your invisibility as you step out the station mouth. You walk a short way to Prince Street…

And… you get to work.

>oh gee roll a D20
>rearranging all these Random Event charts is probably gonna get tiresome after a while
>oh well

>>26963157
>oh gee roll a D20

Rolled 11

>>26963157

Rolled 8

>>26963157
kay

Rolled 20

>>26963157

Rolled 20

>>26963178
retry, first time rolling xD

>>26963197
>>26963202
What is happening?

Rolled 11

>>26963197
>>26963202
oh, this is going to be good.

Rolled 2

>>26963249
>>26963239
muh luck :D

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>>26963239
>00, reroll and combine

>>26963289
>>26963275
>>26963239
Something Epic This Way Comes!

>>26963311
Hopefully!

this gun be good

>>26963181
>Nothing.
>Lucky mutant scum.
>I should probably note, for newcomers, that Random Event rolls use the first roll only. As they’re not high-to-low-good-to-bad. They’re just random.
>Bet you wish you hadn't rolled those twenties, mutie scum.

Eight hours is a long time to be handing out papers. You kinda forget how tiring it can be just standing up – especially on a cold day. Still, it sort of feels good to be doing something legit for once. You’re JJ Green, and you sell newspapers. Much like JJ Jameson, actually, just… on a much smaller scale. You’re not fancy, but you do something and in exchange people give you money. And the money doesn’t go towards getting you away from whatever you did to get it. It goes towards keeping you alive.

Which is pretty nice.

You finish up at three and take a seat on the curb. You’re hungry, your legs ache, but you’ve done your job.

>Hunger Level: 6

>[ ] Head back to the Bugle immediately.
>[ ] Take a break, get some food.
>[ ] You’ve got a paper left. Might as well read it.

>>26963458
>[x] You’ve got a paper left. Might as well read it.

Spider-man: Menace or THE menace?

>>26963458
>>[ ] Take a break, get some food.
>>[ ] You’ve got a paper left. Might as well read it.

>>26963458
>[x] You've got a paper left. Might as well read it.

>>26963495
Get that 7 Dollar menu. Get something for Laura as well I suppose?

>>26963523
>>26963458
yeah, that sounds nice.

>>26963495
I like that

>[X] Take a break, get some food.
>[X] You’ve got a paper left. Might as well read it.

You decide to grab something to eat before you head back. Laura’s gotta be hungry by now, too.

After walking a short distance you manage to track down an IHOP. It’s got one of those cunty “BEWARE, MUTANTS, YOU AIN’T WANTED” signs up, but fuck it. You’re legit now and you ain’t got anything to worry about so long as you think you don’t.

You stroll in and order $7 of delicious bagged foodstuffs. While you wait you read your leftover paper.

Surprisingly, there’s no Spider-Man on page one. He’s been pushed back to page 3. You sort of expected your exploits of yesterday to show up, but you probably shouldn’t have. This is New York, home of the Avengers. Mad is mundane. Instead, the front page is a story about a drug-fuelled mutant nova at a restaurant upperstate. Kinda disturbing. You know the score with this stuff – people generally call it Jack. It’s a feel-good pill that just so happens to grant mutants stints of unusual control over their abilities. Problem is, every so often, you lose control completely. It’s been around for a while, but you’ve never heard of a meltdown this public. Really not good news.

You get your food and head out.

>Current Funds: $5.5
>$60 in the wings.

>[ ] Get back on the subway. You think you can fade again, at least part way.
>[ ] Walk back to Laura’s ‘vantage point’.
>[ ] Walk back to the Bugle.

>>26963932
>[ ] Walk back to the Bugle.

time for $60

we could splurge a little and maybe take a bus!

>>26963932
>>[ ] Walk back to the Bugle.

>>26963932
>[X] Money money money
>Then Laura

>>26963932
and maybe dance to the tune of Guile's Theme

>>26963932
>[ ] Walk back to the Bugle.

Okay now guys next time we get fast food we should order 4 dollard worth of value menu shit
i cost less and feeds more

>>26963932
Walk back to the bugle
>>26963965
I'd prefer not spending money if we can avoid it...
Don't want to suddenly need it and not have it because we spent it on something we could avoid.

We might want to think about getting a second job. How long did we take to deliver those papers?

>>26963965
No bus, we can't just spend it when we get it, it's important to know the value of a dollar.

A bike might be an okay investment eventually though

>>26964045
8 hours.

>[X] Walk back to the Bugle.


You ran to the Bugle this morning. Now you’ll walk back there this afternoon. It’s the new improved you, or something. Light on your feet and… not afraid to do some exercise.

Of course, it takes just over an hour. Luckily IHOP as supplied you with all you need to get from A to B without collapsing out of sheer exhaustion. By the time you make it all the way back, your portion is mostly gone, and Laura’s is looking awful pretty, but you abstain in the name of basic human decency.

>Hunger Level: 4

You check in at the lobby with Vanessa, you get your $60, and you get the option to sign on for early tomorrow too.

>[ ] Do it. More money!
>[ ] Don’t do it for some reason.
>[ ] Track down Laura.
>[ ] Write in.

>>26964256
>[X] Sign up for tomorrow
Then track down Laura

>>26964256
>[ ] Do it. More money!
>[ ] Track down Laura.

>>26964256
>>[ ] Do it. More money!

>>26964256
and find Laura

>>26964256
>[x] Do it. More money!
>[x] Track down Laura.

it all about the benjamins.... okay fine lincolns and washingtons

and laura's french toast will get cold(er)

>>26964307
Actually, it might just be a Grant and a Jefferson.

>>26964370
Fuck, I meant Hamilton not Jefferson.

>>26964370
>>26964377
Ah, American currency... To quote from America the Book:

"Jefferson, you're on the two. Hamilton? You get the ten. I'm calling dibs on the one. That's all me, baby. What's that, Adams? You wanted the one? All right, that's it: You don't get to be on anything. That's right, I'm taking back the quarter. Anyone else want to complain? I didn't think so." - George Washington, 1789.

>[X] Do it. More money!
>[X] Track down Laura.

You get your name jotted down for early morning tomorrow and head out. While you’re at it, you make a note to ask if Parker happens to be around, seeing as you figure you kinda owe him, but apparently he had to take off on some kind of emergency. Bummer, you hope it’s not serious.

Heading back out, you walk back towards your meeting point with Laura. It strikes you that you didn’t actually ask her where, exactly, her workable vantage points were. That could be a bit of a problem.

You sweep past the alley you slept in last night. Nobody.

You’re actually getting a little worried when someone whistles several stories above you. You look up, and a scrunched-up falafel wrapper hits you squarely in the face.

You can’t help but smile.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2X_2IdybTV0

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>THREAD: 02 END

>You’ve gained $60!
>You’ve gained self-worth!
>You’ve given your powers something of a workout, and have one point to spend on X-Gene development! Stick around a bit to have fun with that!

>>26964561
Nice. Thus continues the rise of the hobo!

>>26964561
Sweet! So, what shall we develop?

>>26964561
What kind of upgrades can we get?

>>26964561
You should make a char sheet on pastebin with our abilities, dice modifiers and possible upgrades, it wil make it easier to keep track of everything.

>>26964561
we should improve out invisiblity
we should also begin work on attending a suit of unstable molecules

There are three types of powers you can purchase in Homeless Mutant Quest! CORE POWERS, which are the bread and butter of your powerset, SECONDARY POWERS, which are additional abilities or powers from other sets that are also appropriate to yours, and TERTIARY POWERS, which are powers only tangentially related to yours. All can be purchased and levelled, but Tertiary Powers can never be maxed out. Powers have five levels… except when they don’t.

The powers currently available to you are:

CORE POWERS:
>Invisibility Lvl2
>Enhanced Senses Lvl2

SECONDARY POWERS:
>Enhanced Agility Lvl1
>Claws & Fangs Lvl1
>Adhesive Touch Lvl1
>Pheromone Manipulation Lvl1
>Envenomed Touch Lvl1
>Paralytic Touch Lvl1
>Vampiric Touch Lvl1
>Electrostatic Touch Lvl1
>Light Armour (scales) Lvl1
>Phasing Lvl1

TERTIARY POWERS:
>Enhanced Strength Lvl1
>Healing Factor Lvl1
>Medium Armour (carapace) Lvl1

You have one point to spent. First level powers cost one point, second level powers cost two, and so on. The exceptions are your Core Powers, which cost one less than usual.

>>26964711
>Invisibility Lvl2
Lets bump invisibility.

>>26964665
That is a good idea.

>>26964711
>>Phasing Lvl1
what does phasing do?

>>26964711
What does Invisibility lvl2 does?
Does it decrease the DC or gives the ability to move while invisible or something else?

>>26964711
Invisibility level 2 please. Gotta stealth mode our way through this.

Incidentally, will we gain a cardboard box upon maxing out Invisibility?

>>26964561
>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2X_2IdybTV0
The perfect way to end anything.

>>26964711
Definitely Phasing Lvl 1

>>26964711
Healling factor are you kidding me?
that

>>26964829
We don't know how good it is. Also we still have to learn how efficient phasing is.

>>26964845
true but look at the abuse even minor healing factor can put up, look at fantomex

>>26964711
We need for you to give us a rundown on certain abilities and how well the perform under current levels.

>>26964874
He can also do fancy mind manipulation though.

Of course I agree with you that we should get healing sooner or later, though I'm just not certain if it is so beneficial looking at our current state.

>>26964829
Lvl 1 is probably less than .1 snikt bub. Healing a broken leg in a day isn't that great if we can just phase that shit .

>>26964893
The fancy mind manipulation isn't what saved his two primary brains when they got spear though, that was all the healing factor. and his is canoninly pretty weak

>>26964773
Invisibility lvl2 is still chameleonic. It can be maintained for longer, however, and is more useful in motion. In addition, it negates thermal imaging.

>>26964771
Lvl1 Phasing allows you to very briefly turn intangible. It should be noted that it cannot be used as the same time as invisibility.

>>26964829
Lvl1 Healing Factor can quickly heal minor wounds and help mitigate blood loss. You can over ever reach Lvl3 Healing Factor, as it is a Tertiary Power.

>>26964959
given the information... I will go with Invisibility.

>>26964890
Tell me which ones you want explained, and I'm here.

>>26964959
At what point of healing power starts the ridiculous Deadpool like immortality? What is level three?

>>26964986
Could we rip someone's face with adhesive touch?

>>26964986
What does Electrostatic touch do? Just give a jolt of electricity to someone?

As for enhanced agility, how will that improve our rolls?

additionally, if vampiric touch regains lost hp, how much is restored?

>>26965026
I like the way you think even if it is kinda stupid

>>26964997
>At what point of healing power starts the ridiculous Deadpool like immortality?

Never. Deadpool cannot die because Death loves him too much.

Lvl3 Healing Factor allows you to heal severed limbs over the course of several days. You can shrug off small arms relatively quickly and devote effort to quickly healing shattered or broken bones. You cannot heal from headshots, and are unlikely to heal from damage to the heart.

>>26965026
Yes, though that would take some force.

>>26965042
>What does Electrostatic touch do? Just give a jolt of electricity to someone?

At Lvl1, yes. It can also be conducted through the appropriate materials. It becomes more and more lethal at higher levels and eventually does not require touch, rather than near-contact.

>As for enhanced agility, how will that improve our rolls?

You'll gain a bonus to all tumbling, acrobatic checks, or balance. At later levels it also enhances basic dexterity.

>additionally, if vampiric touch regains lost hp, how much is restored?

At lvl1, it simply renews your stamina and vitality. At lvl2 it becomes capable of healing wounds.

>>26965148
alright, thanks for the info. I'm still going with Invisibility, but I think I have a good idea of what to take, next.

>>26965148
When you say stamina and vitality, would that also restore our hunger level?

>>26965196
Yes.

>>26965148
I think we could save a bit on food bills with vampiric touch, just sap a little bit from random people on the street, it'd be a great combo with invisibility too

>>26965148
I guess I'll vote for Invisibility 2 first then for vampiric the next time.

>>26965229
I am not comfortable with the whole "Draining people's life energy" idea, simply because that's a dick move and we might run afoul of other heroes if we get found out.

>>26965255
I second this idea.

How obvious is using vampiric touch? How noticable would relieving one hunger point per person be? Could we shut it off?

>>26965229
You do remember we have X23 as a friend right?
We will never be hungry again once we find out about that shit.

>>26965148
So with Phasing does it work like Kitty Prides? like going through walls and shit. because If so, then yes. I vote that

>>26965269
At level one, reducing a hunger point via one person would drain them greatly, but not kill them.. This becomes substantially more efficient as the ability levels up.

It's quite obvious in that it clearly causes folk to feel fatigues, but you could conceivably move through a crowd touching numerous people.

>>26965210
that sounds tempting except the part where we would be "praying" on people esencialy which wouldnt realy fit with our "boy, thing are realy looking up for JJ, from here on Im going to be 2 legit 2 quit" it just seems too much like mugging someone mutie style, and i expect it would feel like "jesus fuck my flesh is on fire" so not realy chamelionic-ish

Why, on earth, would we want to use vampiric touch to steal foods when we can go invisible and steal food?
Which is more likely to get us killed.
Also, which would you be more willing to accidentally lose control over, invisibility, or death jazz hands?

>>26965300
Yes. At first it can only be active for seconds at a time, however.

>>26965327
>folk to feel fatigues

Fatigue.They could feel fatigues is that's what they're wearing, I guess.

>>26965365
A couple of seconds is enough to go through a wall. It seems like way more bang for our buck than vamp touch, my vote is for the first level of phasing first then branching into other things

>>26965365
>feel fatigues is what they're wearing
Uhhh
Crusty, you might want to hit the sack

>>26965327
>Phase through shop wall
>Take food
>Phase out

Replace the food with money from a store or bank and we're good.
Fucking invinicble while phasing means those dart gun can fuck themselves
Phase is OP

>>26965365
are fangs and claws retractable so that we dont have another point in "look theres a mutie, get yer pitchforks n' torches boys"

Get Invisibility lvl 2
next point goes to Enhanced senses so we can have Spidey sense and not get cornered by assholes in a subway.
After that, healing lvl 1.

>>26965428
of course, this doesn't quite take into account how horrible our rolls will be. Best not to risk it until we have enough point to boost it to level 2 in one go.

>>26965365
when will new thread be?

Invisibility so we can use the train more effectively, then go into phasing

My vote's for Phasing.
By far the most useful thing we can pick up for a point, even in limited shitty form.
Can't bag what you can't grab, more invisibility later will be good also.

Invisible 2

gotta strengthen our bread and butter

and Crusty, consider getting a Pastebin account. should help keep track of stats,points, xp, and powers

>>26965456
Still gives a way to dodge bullets. Rolling not to eat lead is better than just eating lead

>>26965442
>no phasing or vampiric touch
It's like you want to be useless and boring.
That's just my oppinion though.

>>26965421
Probably, yeah.

>>26965428
It's a good power. It switches off invisibility while you use it, however, and you need to level it before you can phase through EVERYTHING. Lasers, for example, will still touch you at lvl1. And you'll still feel heat and cold and such.

>>26965432
Yep.

>>26965492
>>26965487
it's called concentrating on a skill and not branching out into a Master of None where we suck equally at all things.

>>26965365
I gota admit phaseing sounds prety boss, we could become a spookie ghost

>>26965463
Within four days. Lame, I know.

>>26965483
Imma pick one up before the next thread.

>>26965513
Phasing is hard out of the way, we go invisible, going incorporeal is just another branch of the same tree. We do need to level cloak, although it can take a back seat next to a life saving power of Phase

Rolled 43

>>26965538
You got a twitter to post the thread?
Also invisibility is too useful to ignore when we are homeless.

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>>26965515
Phasing is cool and a solid choice but I kinda want to more original with powers.

Vampiric or paralytic touch sound more interesting when coupled with invisibility.

I already voted for invisiblity 2 btw

we should probably pick a mutant name in case we become join X-men or Brotherhood or something.


I'll get the ball rolling

Camo

What if we take phasing but then when we phase we phase through the ground of the earth then we run out of phase while we're falling through the earth and unphase.
Would we explode?

What happens if we unphase when we're going through a wall or something.

>>26965566
We should level of Invisibility, get rid of heat signature so if someone does come after us, we can hide out. Phasing will come in handy, sure, but one bad roll and we'd get stuck in a wall or we flub it and smack ourselves into a truck we were suppose to pass through. Until we have enough to get up to level 2 in Phase in one go (where hopefully the ability is more stable), Phase isn't something I want to touch

>>26965575
I... do not.

It's very very likely that the next thread will be late Thursday. Britbong time.

Also, it seems we're torn between Phasing and Invisibility. Can I get a quick, straight-up show of hands for each?

>>26965648
I vote invisibility

>>26965648
Invisiblity

>>26965648
invisibility

>>26965637
>What if we take phasing but then when we phase we phase through the ground of the earth then we run out of phase while we're falling through the earth and unphase.
Would we explode?

You'd merge horrifically with the Earth. Instadeath.

>What happens if we unphase when we're going through a wall or something.

At lower levels? You merge horrifically. At high levels the not-you substance is displaced.

>>26965648
Phasing

>>26965648
phasing

>>26965686
fucking called it!

Rolled 47

>>26965648
Invisibility here, and its a good idea to have a twitter or a set date/time for these threads in my opnion.

>>26965513
I can understand your point but a 100% increase in available powers is just a way better deal than slightly better hiding. You have to remember this is our first skill point. There isn't really much specialisation here to begin with and it fits the stealth tactics.

>>26965631
Camo sounds like a good name. I'll vote for it.

>>26965686
Just to get a lid on this, let's pick invisibility because it's our home power.

>captcha James

>>26965686
>>26965700
well then we better not phase through the ground oe unphase while in something then, problem solved

>>26965631
I was thinking more along the lines of Feywalker or Bendersnatch.

>>26965716
never heard of Critfails before?

>>26965736
what? for our hobo asses? that's too classy.

>>26965648
Phasing

>>26965736
why not something simple like spook

>>26965716
Wrenchie has a point, the chance of instant DEATH at a rate of 1/20 is a little too high for my liking.

Rolled 16

>>26965768
I like Spook, it goes with my KISS motto.

>>26965648
Invisibility

Invisibility wins with five votes to Phasing's three.

Be proud, you have gained the power to be more invisible.

>>26965701
I agree. I'll see about becoming more of a social media person. That said, late Thursday -most likely- 17:00-18:00. Roar Britannia time. That's what I can give you guys right now.

And... I'm off. There are silly informational books to edit and they won't edit themselves.

Pashing
>>26965768
I like this

Rolled 40

>>26965686
Hey crusty can you give us a hint on what the other levels of invisibility will give us since at level two it seems like its already pretty useful and won't be upgraded past it.

>>26965749
>>26965785
its not like we plan on going through things that would take more than at most 2 steps, were talking about walls here not entire buildings made of solid concrete all the way through guys, we wouldnt need to have phasing on for more than a full second so its not nearly as dangerous as your making it out to be theres always regeneration if we do fuck up

>>26965855
Maybe it'll start erasing our presence entirely, removing the smell, no footprints, muffled sounds and whatnot, or maybe we can make other things we touch invisible as well

>>26965902
never underestimate the dice gods.

>>26965902
I don't like that option mostly because we'd have to turn off stealth mode to use it

Like that other anon, I wanna get real good at invisible before we try branching off

>>26965924
probably heat signature, smell, and make other stuff invisible. not sure what order we'd get them though.

>>26965929
i would imagine if we did crit fail we wouldnt go through at all and not be killed buy going half way and cuting it off early and dead, thats not something a good DM would do, you realy need to not think its going to kill us unless we as a playerbase do something stupid like phase out a wall into the air 4 stories from the ground, that wouldnt be the powers fault it would be the players. and if you still say you dont want it we could always get it and not use it untill we get it to LVL 2 which doesnt dismember us if it would make you happy because walking through everything is fucking invalueable

>>26966055
This gave me an idea. 4 story building with an inaccesible basement. We jump from the roof to be fast enough to reach the basement while holding our breath.

We need to find a spot this could work and do it!

>>26966027
it could be our last resort fuck everything and run button if we got in a situation where invisibility doesnt help us, it doesnt hurt to have it for just such an ocasion

>>26966055
depends on certain definitions of a Good DM. In any case, I'd suggest saving up 3 points to boost us directly to level 2 in Phasing.

>>26966102
Im all for team phase but how would we get out if we need that kind of momentum too get in, and how would we build it at all and it seems rather unnessessary.

>>26966190
Of course it's unnecessary. The point is just doing it! Getting out... well that might get awkward.

Hobo first aid supply drop team for people buried under rubble?

>>26966155
i honestly dont think he would fuck us over and end the quest over one fuck up, plus we have karma as backup. and we probably wouldnt need a roll for every time we phase aswell so its not realy a big deal

>>26966271
Trust me, not all DM's are nice guys. We've only been here for two threads, not nearly enough to gauge him or the seriousness of the game. As for Karma, don't rely on it too much. It's an emergency thing, after all.

>>26966240
what we could do is a street-level safehouse that has 1 way in that can be baricaded and locked with alot of locks which will always be on lockdown that we just phase through and unlock if we want to let some buddies in

>>26966376
better yet, maybe at higher levels we could phase them in with us

Crusty forgot to archive the thread.

I got your back homie

vote suckas

>>26966327
death by wallification (which has a slim chance itself ) is an emergecy, which is the situation we are most likely to want to use phase, an emergency get the fuck out now button to be used in an emergency, im not seeing the down side to having it on standby. and i doubt he would make one critfail fatal and game ending.

>>26966408
we could call it ghost town

>>26966494
I'd rather have enough invisibility that we didn't get stuck in that kind of situation.
I'd rather become a master of invisibility instead of a shitty invisible and a shitty phaser.

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>>26966522
>>26966376

>talking about getting a base/safehouse

Its good to have ambitions but we can blow our lifesavings on cab fare