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[nimbi]

[ To say that it is taking some effort to adjust to the new reality Ororo has suddenly found herself in would be quite an understatement, but she still manages to look perfectly calm and composed as she offers the network a polite smile.

Would she like to maybe have herself a minor little breakdown? Sure. But she has absolutely no idea what sort of consequences that might have considering the quite substantial storm that is already going on outside the Ingress Complex, and there really just isn't time to fall apart right now. Maybe at some later point she can allow herself to fully absorb the shock of what has happened, but for now she has to keep moving forward. ]

Hello. My name is Ororo Munroe, and I'm a relatively new arrival here. Where I'm from I'm a teacher, mostly ancient history which isn't really going to be too useful around here unless some of you are dying to know about the Roman Empire, even if that was never a thing on your planet or in your timeline.

What I also am, is a mutant, which in my case means I have the ability to control the weather. I can survive in just about any climate, and I can get all sorts of information about what is going on in the environment around me because I am basically wired into it, which is a gross oversimplification but you didn't come here for a lecture.

[ Damn, but it feels pretty good to not hide what she can do. Screw anonymity, she's nowhere near Earth and its mutant registration act, and she is going to be completely and unashamedly herself. ]

I'm mentioning these things because I'm going to be needing a job pretty soon, so I figured I should put myself out there. Thank you for listening.

[ Her expression shifts into something a bit more amused, and at the same time sort of sad. ]

Oh, and if you have any good hangover remedies? Feel free to share them.

[ She's asking for a friend.

No, seriously, she is. ]

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[shadowblends]

[What kind of fresh hell is this?

She's not the Ororo that he knows, but that's not going to deter him any.]

Hallo, Storm.

[For a few moments, that's all he offers - nothing of his name or questions about how she came to Thisavrou, considering he knows how the Ingress simply pulls people through on a whim. He can't help wishing that Charles was here now, giving them advice on how to handle all of these new arrivals.

He's not sure what compels him to do so, but hey, he might as well help with the hangover stuff, since he knows some remedies.]

Lots of fluids. Greasy food tends to help because it soaks up the remaining alcohol and ginger helps settle nausea. My best advice?

[Pause.]

Go back to sleep.

from a cutie

[nimbi]

[ Kurt actually isn't the first friend she has met here who is a different age than she thinks they should be, so it isn't a complete shock, but she still needs a moment of just sort of squinting at him in disbelief before she responds. ]

Kurt?

[ It has to be, right? Even in a world where, shall we say extravagant mutation is a thing, there can't be that many people who look like him. Especially not that many people who know her.

But... she didn't know Kurt when he was that young... ]

[warandpeace]

Water is the most reliable bet, in my opinion.

And I'm always interested in talking about the Roman Empire, but probably not while you're concerned about hangovers.

[He's wondering about how the "wired into the climate" thing works but simultaneously he feels like he's become desensitized.]

[nimbi]

It's not my hangover.

[ She offers him a wry smile. ]

So Romans are still on the table.

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[el_paso]

[ Logan's first day in the Complex-- that he's been aware of, at least, who knows how long it took them to patch him up --had been...difficult. To put it mildly.

In a way, Storm had made something of the past couple of days...not better, but less sharp somehow, not as unbearable. She hadn't been his confidant for some time, but they settled back into it like things hadn't changed, when irrevocably they had.

How he'd found the liquor was a mystery he wasn't keen on sharing, but he was well on his way to shitfaced by the time Ororo pulled him away. That was fine, actually, he did what he'd set out to do: put some distance between a whole lotta fucked-up upheaval and forget everything again for a little while longer.

This morning he's paying for it in spades.

His mouth tastes sour on waking, his tongue sandpaper-dry, a pounding headache competing with the heaviness in his limbs. His pillow smells like 'Ro, summer breezes and spring lightning, tied to too many memories- had she stayed to keep an eye on him? ...What if she had, did it even fucking matter?

Awareness comes on the same time he realizes she's indeed there with him, and she's talking to...someone else, someone over the phone. TAB. Whatever the shit those things were. Annoyed and enormously crabby, Logan growls beneath his breath, and turns to sulkily press his face into the pillow. ]

[nimbi]

[ For Storm it wasn't settling into something familiar so much as it was discovering something new that felt as if it was the way things had always been. The relationship she is used to having with Logan is a lot less intimate, tense and guarded as they are both still trying to figure out what part to play in each other's lives.

She's glad that he let her peel him off the bar counter and drag him back to her room so that she could pour him into her bed to keep an eye on him. She did get some sleep on the sliver of bed that remained, though his boozy company didn't exactly create a good foundation for peacful dreams.

She has no pity to spare for him when she hears that he is waking up, but as she finishes off her recording with a drily amused request for hangover remedies, she does gently ruffle his hair a little as if he is a disgruntled old dog or something. A most flattering comparison, to be sure. ]

Good morning.

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[modelsixtythree]

My hangover cure was usually more drinking. I wouldn't recommend it. [Such a dry smile, though she can't help but be pleased at another sort-of familiar face. Possibly familiar, anyway.]

I don't know if you'll know me, but my name is Natasha Stark. I'm an Avenger.

[nimbi]

I'm sorry if that would mean something to some other version of me.

[ If she thinks to much about what she's saying when she talks about this, it makes her feel a little like her brain might implode, so she's kind of just going with the flow here. ]

But I'm afraid I don't know you.

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[brokeassgoing]

You still interested in being a teacher or are you wantin' to expand your career horizon or whatever? And more booze would be your best bet to cancel out the hangover. Or raw eggs.

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[nimbi]

"More booze" is definitely not a recommendation I'll be passing along.

[ Logan is frustratingly aware of that one already. ]

As for teaching, I like it. If I could continue doing it, I would.

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[redshitlord]

... your name is Oreo?

[SIDESWIPE, NO.]

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[nimbi]

[ If only this was the first time she's heard that one. ]

Ororo.

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[gentlemenpreferblondes]

Well, this is one way to sell yourself to job market. Though normally people don't advertise their drunk problems at the same time.

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[nimbi]

The only drunk problem I have is the one who has spent the last few hours snoring into my lap.

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[heisenbitch]

The weather's been kinda batshit insane recently. Pretty sure the climatologist dudes monitoring the whole weather pattern situation could use someone handy like you. Not sure if there's a job in that for you, but... can't hurt to check it out, right?

As for hangover cures: pot, yo.

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[nimbi]

That does sound like a situation where my particular skill set would be relevant. Thank you.

Pot, really?

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[soldiergenes]

[ There's a lot to unpack here, and that's coming from someone who usually doesn't pay much attention to what comes across his TAB. Well, Snake listens to all the messages, but it isn't often that he responds. Ororo here has given him plenty to be curious about, though.

For one thing, most people don't come out and announce their abilities like that, but it makes sense when she's got one that's so pertinent to their situation here on Thisavrou. Controlling and understanding the weather is going to be a handy skill when they're at the whims of that storm.

Snake's transmitting from his house in Region 1, so he's in a fairly nondescript office space. There's the sound of a collar jingling behind him, though the animal it belongs to isn't in frame. ]

You're going to have plenty to do around here, if you can really predict and control the weather. Guessing you've already noticed that storm, right?

[ It's been acting up even more than usual lately, which can't be good. ]

And when it comes to a hangover? Greasy food always works for me.

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[nimbi]

I have, yes. It's... fascinating.

[ That's putting it mildly, to be honest. She can feel that storm calling to her almost constantly. ]

Seems like I'll have to go on the hunt for some pizza.

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[polyphobic]

How strong is the hangover?

( Whilst a lot of the rest of the message is very curious Claire has no idea what to do with it. Powers are as new to her as space is, and whilst she'd like find out more she doesn't know how questions are taken. Even if someone is advertising it. So she'll go with the one thing she can offer -- medical advice )

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[nimbi]

I'm actually not sure, I'm not the one who's been drinking.

[ And she's not entirely sure how Logan's body processes alcohol. ]

[frankensteinian]

[He still doesn't pay much attention to the network -- his current anti-social desires extend to virtual conversations as much as in-person ones -- but there's one word in this transmission that catches his attention.

That word, of course, since he is still Erik, is "mutant". She's not one that he knows, though. Must be from after his time, then, which he knows most of them are.]

There are a few others of us here.

There's no school, yet, but I'm sure that's what Charles had planned for the house when he got it.

[nimbi]

[ There is something eerily familiar about this man, but Ororo can't quite place him, and his words leave her quite thoroughly distracted on top of that. Charles? A mutant school? Surely he can't be talking about... ]

Charles... Xavier?

[ The hope that blooms within her is painful, could it be possible that she might get to see him again? ]

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[prespangled]

My friend used to suggest hair of the dog that bit ya, but I never really understood it.

And I always liked reading about the Roman Empire myself.

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[nimbi]

I have a feeling that my friend is already well aware of that one. I wasn't really asking for my own sake.

What was it you liked about it? The Roman Empire, I mean.

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[sketchycharacter]

If you can control the weather I'm pretty sure you can get as much freelance work as you want.

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[nimbi]

Until I tell people that I can't give rain to their crops because that would take it away from somewhere else. People tend to drop trivial things such as concern for ecological balance when there is money involved.

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[tearsinajar]

[ Xavier had talked to her about mutants. ]

I hope it helps but you aren't alone here.

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[nimbi]

It does, even if it comes with its own... complications.

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[greyate]

[ Jean can't seem to turn the feed on fast enough, ]

Ororo? That's...

[ Her voice trails off before she finds it again. ]

That's you.

[ Storm in the future. Damn. Grew out of the mohawk, apparently. ]

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[nimbi]

[ She grew out of it, and then after a while started working her way back toward it. One day it will probably make a full comeback. ]

Jean?

[ She can't quite believe it, even if the proof is right there in front of her eyes on the screen. Jean, alive.

It doesn't matter that she is too young to remember most of their friendship, it doesn't matter that maybe she is from an entirely different timeline where they might even hate each other for all Ororo knows.

She is alive. ]

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[justonetouch]

[She's been mopey, to put it mildly, although she would likely deny it. Logan's left, and while Rogue knows that it is for the best in the long run, she still misses him. The others are nice, but they are all so young and don't know her at all, even if she does know them.

It is a while later that Rogue does respond, and there is a flare of relief in her. Although, she realizes, there is always a change that she doesn't know her, or knows a younger her, or an older her, and it can get very confusing.]

The school is here. [And a pause.] Kinda. A copy of the building, and some mutants, but- that's a bit of a story.

[And another pause, before a soft but sad smile is given.]

it's nice to see you though, even if it means you're here.

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[nimbi]

Rogue!

[ Would you look at that, someone who actually looks the same as they did the last time she saw them. 'Ro was actually starting to resign herself to not meeting a single person who is the age she actually expects them to be at this point. ]

If that story goes something like "people I expect to be in their thirties are teenagers and also remember things differently than I do" then yeah, I've kind of started to pick up on that already.

[ She gives Marie a small smile full of dry humour. ]

I don't know if it would be very appropriate of me as your teacher to say that it's nice to see that you've been abducted to the same dimension as me.

[ Storm's general demeanor should make it fairly obvious that it is good to see Rogue, though. ]

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[takeitslow]

It's like mutant flood nowadays. I go months flying solo and then you all finally show up to the party all fashionably late. So. I'm guessing from the scrambling around the mansion you're an X-Men kind of mutant?

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[nimbi]

Good guess. I guess I'll counter with guessing that you're not?

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[nicearsenal]

[Oh boy, hangovers. That's a subject she's pretty good on.]

So for the hangover you're going to want a chip butty followed by a lager, and if you can find it: bacon. And you'd be surprised how many history buffs you'd find around these parts.

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[nimbi]

I would prefer keeping my friend with the hangover away from booze for a bit. But maybe I can track down some... space bacon.

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[seeingscarlet]

I think I am starting to see why we need a mansion. [At this rate, maybe they will need all those extra rooms.] Do you know the X-Men?

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[nimbi]

I'm one of them.