Post Mission
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xp_teamsThis isn't an easy post mission. We took a beating today. Enemy that knew us and was set up for an ambush. Best we got lucky and at worst, we're looking looking at time in the medlab. It's not the best of wins, but we'll take it. More importantly, we gained a bunch of intel we didn't even know we needed. That includes what happened to Laurie Collins.
The Clan Akkaba location was already overrun. The Clan had been slaughtered to the man. We found no survivors. The people responsible were sent by Dr. Essex. We know this because the leader of the team sent there was Laurie Collins. But not the same Laurie Collins.
Going back to a bit of ancient and dimensional history, years ago, the X-Men ran across the government of Genosha. They had a unique process developed by a man called the Genengineer where they were able to modify a mutant's powers to whatever they wanted it to be. Mutants who could only make weak light were suddenly able to cut through solid rock with heat beams. Alongside that was mental conditioning. Mutates were bounded to handlers, utterly subservient. Laurie had been put through this process. It made her stronger, faster and amplified her powers to the point that she nearly beat an entire team of X-Men on her own.
That was the Laurie I ran into today.
Laurie is now the leader of Essex' gang of shock troops. They all seem to be ex-military of some type and extremely well trained. We got out without a loss mostly through luck. Laurie herself has been augmented; claws, healing factor, enhanced physical abilities and now all purple. Non-passing at all. I don't know how much of the mutate conditioning is there, because she was obviously in charge and not passive at all. But my feel is that it's maybe more subtle. Regardless, she's gone, regardless of what anyone might think. This is her gone round the twist further than you can see.
Fortunately, her arrogance and desperation to be right is still there and she filled in a lot of gaps we didn't even know existed.
Essex has targeted some kind of super mutant called En Sabah Nur. He's apparently connected to Clan Akkaba and is capable of... I'm not sure. Doomsday figure. End of the world stuff. And only Essex' son and Collin's are going to be able to stop him. She also made it clear that she went over to Essex over a year ago and was actively working against us long before she officially defected. She wants revenge and we're the ones that wronged her in her mind. Essex's son isn't just her underaged sex toy. She loves him and sees him as some kind of savior.
It's grim. We need to dig into this En Sabah Nur figure, find out what Essex is really looking for if we want any chance of tracking Collins and her allies down and stopping them before they do... whatever. Whatever insanity they've convinced is worth breaking the world.
The Clan Akkaba location was already overrun. The Clan had been slaughtered to the man. We found no survivors. The people responsible were sent by Dr. Essex. We know this because the leader of the team sent there was Laurie Collins. But not the same Laurie Collins.
Going back to a bit of ancient and dimensional history, years ago, the X-Men ran across the government of Genosha. They had a unique process developed by a man called the Genengineer where they were able to modify a mutant's powers to whatever they wanted it to be. Mutants who could only make weak light were suddenly able to cut through solid rock with heat beams. Alongside that was mental conditioning. Mutates were bounded to handlers, utterly subservient. Laurie had been put through this process. It made her stronger, faster and amplified her powers to the point that she nearly beat an entire team of X-Men on her own.
That was the Laurie I ran into today.
Laurie is now the leader of Essex' gang of shock troops. They all seem to be ex-military of some type and extremely well trained. We got out without a loss mostly through luck. Laurie herself has been augmented; claws, healing factor, enhanced physical abilities and now all purple. Non-passing at all. I don't know how much of the mutate conditioning is there, because she was obviously in charge and not passive at all. But my feel is that it's maybe more subtle. Regardless, she's gone, regardless of what anyone might think. This is her gone round the twist further than you can see.
Fortunately, her arrogance and desperation to be right is still there and she filled in a lot of gaps we didn't even know existed.
Essex has targeted some kind of super mutant called En Sabah Nur. He's apparently connected to Clan Akkaba and is capable of... I'm not sure. Doomsday figure. End of the world stuff. And only Essex' son and Collin's are going to be able to stop him. She also made it clear that she went over to Essex over a year ago and was actively working against us long before she officially defected. She wants revenge and we're the ones that wronged her in her mind. Essex's son isn't just her underaged sex toy. She loves him and sees him as some kind of savior.
It's grim. We need to dig into this En Sabah Nur figure, find out what Essex is really looking for if we want any chance of tracking Collins and her allies down and stopping them before they do... whatever. Whatever insanity they've convinced is worth breaking the world.
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