SECOND CHANCES NET

It's May's birthday and she's not back yet and I just really hate this. Everyone else is getting cool powers and shit and I just get one less aunt again.

[Filtered 13+ in the evening]

May is in the afterlife right now. She was taken there by a poltergeist of some sort. The ghost just sort of seemed to abandon her once he grabbed her? I don't know. She has a few bumps and bruises but she's okay.

I couldn't figure out how to pull her out with me. She's not just a soul, like her body isn't here, so that complicated things a bit.

I just... This is a magic person sort of question, but if we could use my power and some magic.... We could maybe get a portal open long enough to pull her back out?

Hey there, I'm new,
this came out of the blue.

Eliot is my name
and it's a real shame

we're meeting this way
when each word that I say

comes out in rhyme.
Might become a mime.

Right. Hi! I'm Evan Buckley, but most people call me Buck. I have a question: I live in LA, can I just go home?

Also, did you know that Golden Gate Park is larger than Central Park?

school related question:

"Write about something that comes easily to you. What makes you so good at this particular thing?"

I'm super strong because that is my mutant power but i don't think that's what they mean. WHAT ARE YOU GOOD AT?

Wow, and here I was thinking, "a whole ass welcome wagon? In MY afterlife? Damn I really did do something right!" And then I realized that there's no way in hell (hell included) that the afterlife is San Francisco.

I did some preliminary research on the specs of this universe. Interesting timeline! Loving the fact that the general populace doesn't think mutants are terrorists. But I need the hot goss. Who is this universe's costumed power couple? Where are The Real Housewives of Avengers Tower??? Who are we rooting for on this season of The Superpowered Bachelor?!!

Hi. Bobby Drake here. Work name Iceman. I'm funny, charming, hot (but make it ice), and very happy to not be dead.

I owe many thanks to both Tony Starks and Captain Rogers. I regret the things I said and did while under that woman's influence. I'm eternally grateful to those who stepped in to take care of my boys. Thank you.

[Voice Message, unfiltered (sorry, boys)]

[feedback whine] It's Steve. If you... don't know... it's Ma... [long burst of static] ...warehouse... [another long moment of static] ...find him... node 361-a. [sound of Steve breathing quietly] ...knows I'm here... Vision, you have to stop him [garbled static, a sudden burst of sound, not unlike something heavy colliding with concrete, a few more seconds of static, then silence]

Audio Transcript

It's Steve. If you don't know, it's May. Warehouse. Find him. Node 361. A. Knows I'm here. Vision. You have to stop him.


( What Steve Actually Said )

_{[OOC: Steve won't be replying, but feel free to use this space to plot/plan!]}

Cereal. Is it actually soup?

Discuss.

~ fuck Screw ~ Marry ~ Kill ~

no notes.

go!

[Filtered to the adults, minus R. Hargreeves--- edited to add Molly]

It appears that Tommy has taken his dog and gone elsewhere ...

[Filtered against Billy & Tommy]

I am not a father. I am not a man. I am a robot. I should not have children. I think they would be better off with someone else. Pepper and Tony, perhaps.


[Vision is under mind control. Feel free to try to step in and help!]

[Filtered away from Vision]


This is like super important. Dad has been acting.... weird. Not bad just... I don't know. Can Dad get computer viruses? Grampa Tony, Grampa Bruce? Can that happen?

Quite a building you have here. It doesn't hold a candle to my Cortez, of course, and I can think of several improvements, but it will do nicely for a start.

James March. Humble hotelier, at your service. Nice to finally get my hands on one of these cellular phone devices, I'm afraid they were a little past my time, but I've seen them used enough to get the gist.

[Filtered to Super-Powered Kids (18 and younger) (this absolutely includes Lila)]
The adults are stressed, and I want to help.

We shouldn't do anything stupid like try to fight any of these new people who are giving everyone the creeps on our own, but maybe we can be spies. Like, we can use our seeming lack of attention span to our advantage and just sort of be in common places "on" our phones, but we're really watching people's movements and listening to their conversations and reporting back to a group chat.

Is that a stupid idea?
[end]

That rain was almost as bad as a Nor'easter back home. I'm glad we don't live at the bottom of one of the hills here.

This is not the dimensional space that I had intended to enter.

Fascinating.

I don't know whether to be insulted that nobody sent me cursed flowers or if I should just take the win. I don't know how long this curses thing is supposed to last, but I'm feeling pretty good about my chances right now. Even if I get them I just have to not smell them, right? Easy.

[edited 6 minutes later]

Yeah all of you can shut up in advance.

Fucking fairy.

I'm taking the day to spend time with my girls.

[Benny]

I know asking if you want to miss class is a bad move, but I know none of us are happy to lose Viktor, so if you need anything, I'm here for you. Always.

Seems about that time for the strange and unusual to happen. But sometimes odd can be good. Someone seemed to have sent me flowers. They're quite beautiful and lovely to smell. I'll wear one out today, I think. Marisa, dear, you didn't leave a card or even your name. You sent these, didn't you

Spring must be around the corner, however. My eyes have been stinging something awful all day. I think I might have to invest in... what did you all call them? Ah yes. Sunglasses.

Even with all the weirdness that happens around here, it's pretty rad to be able to paint my nails and only get like a few weird looks instead of a lot of weird looks. LA in the 90s was fine, but there were still some things you didn't do in case someone took it wrong. And I'm not saying things are perfect now, but it's still rad, you know? Things are better than they were. There's room to grow, but they're still better.

I just think that's cool.

Also, I think I might try accent nails next time. This girl, Staycee, in my math class, was telling me all about accent nails and fancy designs and how you can tell who's a millennial by the fact that they're getting almond shaped nails. I still don't know what that means. Nails are nails. Why do we have to bring geometry into this?

I didn't tell her that I'm technically Gen X. Like the tail end of it, but I was born before the older millennials. That might've made her stop talking to me.

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