[Intel: X-Force & X-Men - Troy Situation]

[xp_darcy]

Preface: Bitches got stitches and painkillers make me loopy oops I just had to take another dose you're sorry. I'm sorry? Everyone can be sorry.


So, Troy. You've all seen the news by now, entire fucking college city wiped out by nobody-knows-what but there's definite muttering surprise that it didn't happen at the pharm and chem labs of Auburn instead. Psh Auburn whatever we all know the real science horror comes out of the Culver labs. Right? RIGHT. Dr. Banner, come collect your idiot chemistry brethren. Or whatever.

ANYHOW.

We show up to get a coworker of mine out as a favor to the X-Ranch, and shocker of shocker the damn Marauders are there like stomach pain after a night of drinking and then indulging too hard at the Taco Bell. We had to split to keep the military and shield off our backs and ended up against those dipshits instead, including everyone's out of favor former resident, going by Malice and sporting a rather foxy set of upgrades.

Not in the sexy way, unfortunately.

In the someone grafted her with Kyle's DNA way. Essex. Second verse same as the first, right? Right. Just as terrible as all of you think it is, and right, someone remind me later about making those fucking hockey neck collars mandatory because they stopped her fucking teeth, okay? My neck's bruised to fuck and my voice is messy, but Nica didn't have to watch my throat get ripped out. Good job, past self.

Right, so. We all know Laurie liked being the smartest in the room and that has ZERO PERCENT changed now that she's playing house with Essex's kid and apparently been promoted to lead of the Marauders–actually that's definitely caused some resentment, and she seems about as well-tolerated with them as she was when she was being an asshole down in medical, so mostly grudgingly with a strong current of "Damn, stfu and let me do my job." This is very relatable.

Anyways, intel. The actual source of an entire fucking city being wiped was some Horseman, Famine? And apparently that En Sabah Nur dude only needs to wake his final horseman - Death, of all the emo goth kid things - to have the full set and go all whammy on our asses. And Death can wake up anywhere there are enough mutants or something?

And like, I'm no great religion scholar or anything but I did live through that shitty Left Behind series era so I'm seeing a picture with y'know, Africa and Spain earlier this year.

It's tied into that Akkaba cult shit too, so. If you were wanting to make the biggest scene to ever scene sort of arrival and needed mutant energy or life force to make it happen, what upcoming events would you try to trigger or take over and where are they?

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[xp_daytripper]

I've put all my research on Akkaba on the team servers, which means the leather brigade, the PIs and the wormhole gang can all access it too. Magical doomsday cult, believes they'll inherit the earth after the apocalypse. Or after Apocalypse, since that's how they're doing things.

Pre-Frankenberry the previous version of this bastard tried to annex NYC as a mutant state. Killed a lot of people. After seeing Kenya and Spain, it looks like we're getting the new-and-improved version.

[xp_darcy]

did all the world powers suddenly remember the nuke codes because i feel like that's a thing they'd consider to ride the world of a mutant state won by extreme bloodshed

or y'know, because it's a tuesday or whatever

[xp_daytripper]

Funny you should say that, there was a nuke. Hand-delivered by a SHIELD team to make sure they didn't wipe out the Eastern seaboard by accident. From what I remember of the reports, one of ours had to disarm it under fire.

Fun times.

[xp_darcy]

mmyeah nuke it now think about consequences later sounds about white. right. american politician.

[xp_wildchild]

Yeah, and they fucking sent Sabertooth to deliver it or find it or some shit.

[xp_darcy]

[xp_cypher]

Depending on how you class 'alternate reality mindscape that was used to incubate someone', this isn't even our SECOND rodeo with people appropriating the Horsemen imagery.

I'm putting all of the debriefs on the soi-disant 'Age of Apocalypse' up as well as my own notes on the events of Day Zero.

(fun fact, apparently in that alternate mindscape _I_ was the Horseman Pestilence, and in the frankenberry I got DIGESTED by Pestilence. Yay for third time lucky, I guess?)

Bottom line, the common thread on the Horsemen seems to be power amplification with a side of brainwashing. That's not to say there aren't True Believers in the mix, but there is the possibility that one or more of the current crop could be acting against their will.

Also there were other players in addition to the Horsemen - there was a guy acting as his Herald (capitalization intended, that one had totally bought into the rhetoric) and a tracker dubbed the Hellhound. More potential hostiles to keep an eye out for, though maybe these Clan Akkaba assholes are serving in that capacity this time.

Shit. SHIT. Okay, this really is a bit of a red-string moment, but I just remembered something about that 'Age of Apocalypse' mindscape of Rachel's. The end result of that particular go-round was Adam.

As in the teenager our 'former associate' Malice is sucking face with these days.

Fucking fuck. Imma go check on Darcy for her next round of meds.

[xp_tarot]

When you are done checking on Darcy, please come see me. I would like to compare notes.