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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Calinon" data-source="post: 1425473" data-attributes="member: 13737">War Room"Who you were before has no bearing on the person you are, or the man you will become," Merlin says. "Having someone root about your brain is about as good an idea as shoving a weed whacker up your nose at full throttle," Mendez says. "I have to agree with Mendez there," Thunder replies.  "Psychic surgery is about as developed as medicine was in the 19th century.  It's probably better for you to let your memories return naturally, or use something less dangerous like hypnosis." "I too believe you should re-evaluate your desire to have a stranger delve through your thoughts, instead of Empath or Grandmother.  At least here, you can trust the people involved.  While neither are true telepaths, it would be safer for you," Merlin says.  "And you don't have to worry about someone hiring the outside telepath for a nefarious purpose, like seems to be happening so often to you with the blood sampling." "He's right, kid," Mendez says, putting his feet up on the table and leaning back in his chair, watching the screen.  He hits a button and it shows the system tracking Kevin.  "Looks like your boy is stuck in trafic on the Johnson Turnpike." "At any rate," Thunder says, ignoring Mendez.  "What you told me now tells me that whoever is behind this may have something to do with you and your powers.  And now you say Majors may have some shared history with you."  He punches up a database, filtering through M-Tac records to find Captain Alexis Majors.  "Pretty highly decorated lady," Thunder says.  "A mutant too, but it doesn't go into detail.  Her history files are sealed." Merlin sighs, "Oh here we go.  Enter the great hacker, to whom the whole internet is a stage." "Hey, I live for this." "Login is 0RM3I\ID3Z98.  Password is n01havI\Itga1I\I3D\/\/31ght." Merlin starts laughing.  "You seem to be a bit wider around the middle.  Are you sure?" "Bah, ruin my fun," Thunder grumbles, typing in the login and password.  "There you go, X.  Anything look familiar?  Whoah... lots of blanks."Name: Alexis Carmella Majors Rank:  Captain, M-Tac special ops Birthdate:  Classified by M-Tac Special Ops Birthplace:  Classified by M-Tac Special Ops Mutant:  Yes Powers:  Classified by M-Tac Special Ops Residence:  Apartment 9, 1290 Queen Street, Helava Community Apartments, New York Contact:  Classified by M-Tac Special Ops The record goes on to list a pile of decorations.  No mention is made of her cybornetic eye implant. "Jeeze, she's been with M-Tac for just 3 years.  That's a bit longer than you've been in the news X." Mess HallRandall casts globes of light about and the room pretty much is lit as well as before, though it's kind of eerie with no power to anything.  Dara has succeeded in wrapping John's stretched arms up and is now pressed up against him. "Hullo," she says into his chest with a giggle.  "I didn't know your dad was here.  Hi dad!" she says, but isn't looking the right way. "Darn right I will!"  After what I did for him in that meat shop and in the alley.  Should'a just let him go off alone.  Then he pulls a gun on me?  I'll bust him up good!  She is struggling to get away from John again.  Damnit! É mais forte que olha! (Translation:  Damnit!  He's stronger than he looks!).  "You're pretty good at this huggy thing, John, but maybe just let me... no, that's not working... how about... nope.  Dang, just loosen over here and I can get him... You know I don't usually let guys get this grabby on a first date.  Jeeze, leggo of my arm Dara," she complains. John is easily able to hold onto her. "Jeeze, hope she doesn't remember she can womp people with a mental blast," Cosmo says with a wry grin.  He's got the cooing attention of a pair of young girls. Dara's eyes open up.  "Hey, I can do that," she says, looking up at John with a devilish grin.  "Better let me go, buster." "That's quite enough!" Titan shouts.  "Someone better start explaining things.  NOW!"  The entire room goes quite quiet.  Just quiet enough to hear a loud ROOOOAR! from somewhere in the halls, followed by a small explosive sound. "Jackal?" Cosmo says, head turning towards the sound.  "Crap!  Where did goat-boy go?!" The PoolJackal makes sure there's no way for Vince to get by him.  It's not hard; he seems... bigger than you've seen him before.  His head is very close to the twelve foot high ceiling, and the five foot wide entryway is filled by his shaggy form. "I'm sick of your mockery," he rumbles in a low growl.  "Let's teach you some manners." He steps closer swing his left hand at you.  It's super slow, so slow and ponderous its like it was just designed to toy with you.  PAIN!  You realize it was, as his right comes in so fast and hard, you didn't catch the move with your all around vision.  It slams you against the tiled wall, and you leave a small imprint, bouncing off to stand in front of him again.  He growls and his jowels twist into a feral grin. "Just a taste." He hits, even with your super-speed (yes it's active, yes it counts to defense and saves).  You take a stun hit but otherwise are fine.  You also get lucky on your listen check and are successful in your sense motive against his weak taunt <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> You also see Jun Po through the window in the door.  She isn't slowing down, and is shouting something that faintly sounds like "Get down!"</blockquote>

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