first one to make that doctor who joke loses

[birdsbirdsbirds]

Who: Everyone! All of you!
Broadcast: Maybe!
Action: Definitely!
When: Anytime during the toxic moon event!

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[boy oh boy, isn't everyone just so excited to explore this... charming... place...?

this is a game-wide mingle and the timeframe isn't super-important, so throw in with whatever you want! play war games, go shopping for gas masks, get lost in the wilderness, hide up in the Iskaulit and refuse to set foot on the moon, anything goes.

here's the main event info post for reference! have fun!]

Comments

[unbearablynaive]

I wonder if she's from our future, then. There aren't enough of us to have a younger version as of yet.

[There's a secondary team, but they don't exactly have another name for themselves.]

[passingthrough]

Probably. Things should be as complicated as possible, right? I'm pretty sure she recognized your name when I said it. You should keep an eye out for her.

[unbearablynaive]

[Oh, very interesting indeed; when he'd first arrived, most of his friends from home didn't have any idea who he was.]

I will. Thank you, Kitty.

[passingthrough]

Sure. You know me, always bringing people together. So, who are the other Avengers here?

[unbearablynaive]

[Jim wasn't an Avenger in his own universe but it had been close enough that the Vision regrets his loss; he'd have named him, otherwise.]

Mr. Stark, though I've not heard from him recently. Clint Barton. Wanda Maximoff--that may be all of us who are left.

[passingthrough]

[That's a little sad, Vision, considering when she arrived you mentioned having nearly everyone around. She already knows Natasha was an Avenger and obviously one of the ones to leave. Kate mentioned the name Stark under not-so-pleasant terms and she's not familiar with Clint other than someone Kate mentioned under good terms. But the last name rings several bells.]

Wanda's [alive] here? [How is Kitty not stalking the crew manifests? So moments like this can happen.]

[unbearablynaive]

[Yeah, tell him about it. But his expression brightens at her recognition.]

Yes, she's on the Starstruck. I count her as one of my particular friends, and she does visit from time to time. May I ask how you know her?

[passingthrough]

I... [Hesitating, because there are things she should probably say or not say to Wanda before she says them to others.] I never actually met her. But I knew her brother and father. [Does Erik know? Would it even mean anything to the version of him here?]

[unbearablynaive]

I knew Pietro briefly, though I'm afraid in my timeline their parents were killed long before I was created.

[He looks fascinated, though; this is the first direct connection between their worlds despite other similarities.]

She joined us only recently but is a valuable ally.

[passingthrough]

[Killed...]

Wait, I thought you didn't have mutants in your world. [Did they get a different name there?]

[unbearablynaive]

That's right. They were born with their powers in yours?

[The Vision gestures toward the Mind Stone.]

In mine, they were volunteers for a rather unethical experiment to draw power off this stone and infuse people with it. I don't believe any of the other subjects survived.

[passingthrough]

Yes. [Well, probably at puberty, but the DNA is still there.] That... I guess it wouldn't be the strangest difference between realities. [The shifting age relationships between people makes no sense to her either.] Or maybe they survived because they were mutants and it activated latent powers.

[unbearablynaive]

I won't discount the possibility. There are individuals with various powers, but the term "mutant" isn't one that comes up outside of standard genetics research.

[passingthrough]

What kind of powers did they get? [Wanda's were kind of hard to explain and she never actually saw them in action, so...] My world's Pietro had super speed.

What gives the individuals with powers their powers?

[unbearablynaive]

Yes, super speed describes it as well as anything. Wanda has a combination of telepathy, telekinesis, and energy manipulation - it appears as scarlet bursts.

[He tilts his head, considering.] Various factors. Exposure to gamma rays, an Infinity Stone in close proximity, an elixir with a lost formula, contact with alien races. The causes are as varied as the people.

[passingthrough]

[His listing for Wanda didn't seem exactly right to her, but with a different vocabulary used for powers maybe they fit?]

Kind of hard to wrap my head around how some of these differences came up. Not that it matters much from here I guess.

[unbearablynaive]

[Her powers can be difficult to describe in any case - but at least as far as he knows, his Wanda doesn't have reality-altering abilities. Just as well.]

I must agree. Although I'm almost more intrigued by the similarities, if you must know.

[passingthrough]

[She nods. She hadn't expected him to list a name like Wanda's after all.] I wonder if there's a Kitty Pryde in your world or a Vision in mine.

[unbearablynaive]

I'll most certainly keep my eyes open.

[Because he does expect to return some day, even though he's in no rush.]

[passingthrough]

Good. Tell her some impossible stories about this place if you find her.

[unbearablynaive]

[That gets a very light laugh.]

Impossible stories that truly happened? I'd like that.

[passingthrough]

Are there any other kind? [Of course there are, but her life has been stranger than fiction for a long time. Fiction really needs to keep pace.]

So what do gamma rays do to a person? [He did mention it before as a thing that gives powers and she's the curious sort.]

[unbearablynaive]

They've been completely unable to duplicate the effect, naturally, but on Dr. Bruce Banner they caused him to undergo a profound change. Whenever he becomes angry or loses control of his anger, he grows to approximately six times his normal size in muscle, becomes green, and generally prefers ripping things apart and punching them to logical discourse. We call him "the Hulk" in that state.

[passingthrough]

That...sounds like a good reason to be very in control of your feelings. [It reminds her a little of Logan in his berserker state but without the dramatics of turning green or increasing in size. He's still extremely powerful even if he is shorter than her.]

[unbearablynaive]

Far moreso than the average person. It's a trial, and one prone to manipulation by outside forces.

[Which is really too bad. Dr. Banner's accomplishments are always overshadowed by the Hulk's violence.]