X-Force Only - Rasputin

[xp_daytripper]

Just had a 'fun' meeting with Pyotr Rasputin, about his little sister, Illyana. I managed to get him calm enough to not try and throw me into orbit, but he's definitely on a crusade about Illyana and finding her. Including potentially getting to Limbo any way he can. Us dimensional "old timers" know how volatile things are with him about his family - that doesn't seem to have changed with the new version - and to avoid getting into the same sort of trouble we've had with the uneducated getting mixed up with the magical underworld and the types that will take advantage (cf: Warren, cf: Frankenberry Farouk), we probably should keep an eye on him.

Topaz, expect him to come your way next - you knew Illyana better than I did and he wants to know what sort of person she became. Sorry?

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[xp_artie]

Yeah, me either.

Strategically, someone like that, you take them when they're vulnerable. Sleeping, seeing a hooker, shitting.

Setting things up so someone might die leaves you as morally culpable as if you'd killed them directly, only with more loose ends.

To be honest, I'm more worried about what happens when he learns that we could have found him, because it's not our first time around.

You'd have liked OG Yana. She was a cute little kid before everything.

[xp_darcy]

Eh dude oughta be able to understand "sorry was told the world would end if we clued people in on the weird world mash shit." (Which like, I would ask questions but the universe couldn't handle two of me.)

I vaguely remember the Illyana that was here but we didn't have much cause for interaction and I was kinda living in the labs or in law school for most of that, I think. Answer unclear, don't ask Darcy about most of what happened between 2016 and 2019 because she does not remember.

Still don't like the idea of someone clueless and angry mucking about with magic.

[xp_jubilee]

If you want to see what happens when someone angry and clueless messes with Magic, go look up my file. Frankly, I’m tempted to send it to Pyotr with a nicely worded ‘Don’t be me.’

[xp_darcy]

I mean... if it would dissuade him not the worst idea, maybe.

[xp_jubilee]

Problem with that is that he doesn’t know me. People don’t usually listen to people they don’t know. (Well, unless you’re holding them off the side of a building. Then they usually listen very carefully)

[xp_darcy]

And given his known wariness of our lot, no guarantee he'd actually learn instead of assuming it was fabricated to discourage him.

This isn't actually dissuading me from the gas crater idea.

[xp_artie]

I'm not a fan of people playing with magic at all these days. I feel like every time something goes badly wrong, there's magic at the bottom of it.

As for understanding that the world might have ended? Look, I have never really had family in the classic sense of the world so I might underreact but I feel that he's not going to be the most forgiving about this, somehow.

[xp_darcy]

So are you sure I can't just drop him in a pit and save us the trouble?

[xp_artie]

Unfortunately. We don't have sufficient cause to start anything against him. Not really.

[xp_darcy]

Okay but when this blows up in our faces I'm reminding you of this moment.

[xp_artie]

I mean, that's fair. You should do that.

[xp_darcy]

This makes me want to rethink my stance on not drinking myself into oblivion.