Brunch with a Sorceress

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What's Up?

Jimaine Szardos, Kurt's foster sister and sorceress in training, arrives at the institute late on Friday evening. After spending some time catching up with her brother, she goes to bed with the promise to meet with everyone the following day and provide her expertise.

The next morning, that meeting comes with a private brunch in a small sunroom, during which the team recounts everything that's happened. Charles falling into an inexplicable coma, his mind seemingly untethered from his physical body. The marks appearing on his eight original students several weeks later. The strange occurrences that followed them all coming together again. The inconclusive analysis of the marks.

While polite and amiable throughout the discussion, the sorceress is focused and scribbles notes into a leather-bound book in between bites of breakfast potatoes and sips of coffee. Once she's up to speed and everyone's had their fill, she examines each of their marks (if she's permitted) in turn with thoughtful intensity and a tiny bit of prodding.

After the examination, she agrees that there's something distinctly mystical about the marks. Much to her dismay, though, she can't put a name or an origin to them. But she promises to find out more! Even if she has to talk to her mother.

As everything is beginning to wrap up, the marks start to glow again, lighting up one by one just like last time. Unlike the last time, however, the glow remains and they all begin to feel the mark pulsing within their skin. Within moments, they're all unconscious.

The group awakens to a lightly panicking Jimaine and the brunch comes to an awkward close.

Volunteer Slots

Bobby Drake and Manuel de la Rocha offered to prepare brunch and so are up and at work in the kitchen before the others come down. While preparing [dish of choice], Bobby finds themselves falling into what feels like an old habit, only to realize after that they've prepared the dish in a way they never have before. It turns out delicious, but unfamiliar. That was....strange?

During the brunch, Kitty Pryde spots a pair of students seemingly trying to eavesdrop by the door to the sunroom. Get out of here, you snoops! How they handle that is, of course, up to them.

As the event nears its end, Kurt Wagner's mark begins to glow, setting off the cascade that eventually leads to the entire group passing out. Before his consciousness slips away, he begins to feel detached from himself, almost as if he's being pulled out of his body. The feeling has passed when everyone begins to come back around, though. According to Jimaine, they were unconscious for just a few minutes, but in that time she erected a magical barrier in an attempt to interrupt any outside influences, the remnants of which can be seen in the form of bright light still shimmering around the edges of the room.

As the group recovers, they realize that Emma Frost's mark has changed and taken on a similar but distinctly different shape. A follow-up examination from Jimaine doesn't yield anything new, though.

Before Jimaine returns to her room, she subtly pulls Scott Summers off to the side and gives them her phone number, explaining only that she has a sense that she can't shake. That they'll need it in the future. She then returns to her room with Kurt. Was she...serious? Is this how sorceresses flirt? Who knows.

BEFORE BRUNCH ⮾ DURING BRUNCH ⮾ AFTER BRUNCH ⮾ OOC

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BEFORE BRUNCH

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Any arrivals or other pre-brunch scenes can go here.

DURING BRUNCH

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Any scenes or conversations that take place during brunch, including the examinations and the strange happenings, can go here.

AFTER BRUNCH

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Any scenes after brunch, in the sunroom or elsewhere, can go here.

OOC - QUESTIONS, COMMENTS, CONCERNS!

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You know the drill. ♥

VOLUNTEER

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Grab a volunteer slot if you want to!

Re: OOC - QUESTIONS, COMMENTS, CONCERNS!

[frost_queen Emma Frost ♕ White Queen]

Thanks Emma hates it 😌 She's going to go check on Xavier's mark after this~

Re: OOC - QUESTIONS, COMMENTS, CONCERNS!

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When Emma checks, Xavier's mark hasn't changed.

😌 Does this make her feel better or worse?

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[frost_queen Emma Frost ♕ White Queen]

😌 honestly............ both??? lmfaooooo

Re: VOLUNTEER

[blauerdamon kurt wagner ⚔️ nightcrawler]

D for Kurt? He can kick off the glowing streak again.

Re: VOLUNTEER

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Added! You gotta stop kicking these things off, Kurt...

Re: VOLUNTEER

[blauerdamon kurt wagner ⚔️ nightcrawler]

He's the leader ☺️

Re: VOLUNTEER

[passingthru KITTY PRYDE]

C for Kitty who’s gonna phase them straight to the danger room and be like, “ok now don’t come out of here til you’re actually sneaky” in a very disappointed way

Re: VOLUNTEER

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Added! Amazing approach to discipline~

Re: VOLUNTEER

[empata Manuel de la Rocha (Empath)]

The way this made me lol.

Re: OOC - QUESTIONS, COMMENTS, CONCERNS!

[blauerdamon kurt wagner ⚔️ nightcrawler]

THANK YOU KASEY

I'd love to do some threads with people this weekend :>

Re: VOLUNTEER

[passingthru KITTY PRYDE]

It's a Teachable Moment. (THANK YOU!)

Re: VOLUNTEER

[empata Manuel de la Rocha (Empath)]

I'm going to grab B for Manuel. 😌 Let's make brunch!

Re: VOLUNTEER

[seeingred scott summers ⊗ cyclops]

i was resisting taking Character E because Scott would just think it's 100% normal for Jimaine to be paranoid that will something will happen and plan for it lmao. but E for Scott please and anyone can feel free to spot Jimaine giving him her number

Re: VOLUNTEER

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Added! Just totally normal behavior here, obviously.

AFTER BRUNCH: Kurt & Open+

[blauerdamon kurt wagner ⚔️ nightcrawler]

Some time passes before Kurt reappears in the sunroom in his typical fashion: an audible BAMF and a swirl of colorful smoke. Talking to Jimaine one-on-one in her guest room hadn't revealed much more than she told the group, but the diagnosis is concerningly vague. Some flavor of occult that's mysterious to Jimaine and the Winding Way... or at least beyond her current understanding of it.

Then they wasted time talking about work, friends, and family. Catching up, small talk. Both pretending like it's not uncomfortable that Kurt has a new brother.

Kurt quickly starts stacking dishes on the end of his tail, curled into a "C" shape, which balances them artfully. It feels good to practice this kind of control after having briefly lost himself to that mental undertow. "She's going to do more research," he explains, the tower of dishes on his tail becoming slightly unreasonable. "Ask her mother."

AFTER BRUNCH: Kurt & Scott

[seeingred scott summers ⊗ cyclops]

When Kurt reappears, Scott is standing at the window, brooding on worst case scenarios as usual. And speak of the devil... Scott keeps his hands to himself, but moves himself slightly behind Kurt, ready to grab any falling tableware just in case.

"Do you trust her?" Meaning Margali, not Jimaine.

Re: VOLUNTEER

[hotfrosty bobby drake ❄️ has a perfect attendance rate.]

can bobby please have A so the "thing he's never done before" can be "make food edible"

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Added!

And here Manuel thought he was going to have to watch Bobby like a hawk. 😌 He's so impressed.

AFTER BRUNCH: Kurt & Scott

[blauerdamon kurt wagner ⚔️ nightcrawler]

The tower of dishes is as stable as can be expected, rattling slightly as Kurt gathers the silverware. He doesn't look up at Scott, but his presence is anchoring.

"When things are either serious or fascinating... yes." The unfortunate circumstances of Kurt leaving her home aside, Margali is committed to her craft. He hardly realized it as a child, thinking she simply had an eccentric love of tarot and the occult. "Especially if Jimaine is the one to explain it to her. Thinking that we're only one nap away from our minds being pulled away to wherever Charles is... ach."

Re: OOC - QUESTIONS, COMMENTS, CONCERNS!

[totalities marvel girl]

Just leaving an OOC note that Jean was conspicuously absent from everything that happened this weekend. Sorry gang!!

Re: OOC - QUESTIONS, COMMENTS, CONCERNS!

[hotfrosty bobby drake ❄️ has a perfect attendance rate.]

bobby texting the group chat "Jean's conspicuously absent from everything that happened this weekend 👀👀👀"

Re: OOC - QUESTIONS, COMMENTS, CONCERNS!

[empata Manuel de la Rocha (Empath)]

Very! Conspicuous! 👀

Re: OOC - QUESTIONS, COMMENTS, CONCERNS!

[blauerdamon kurt wagner ⚔️ nightcrawler]

"Do we think Jean has a boyfriend or is she doom scrolling other realities again 👀👀👀"

Re: OOC - QUESTIONS, COMMENTS, CONCERNS!

[totalities marvel girl]

she was experiencing the movie Fant4stic in realtime and couldn't force quit for some reason

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[seeingred scott summers ⊗ cyclops]

for posterity: after the whole group has their marks glow and they passed out for a bit, scott would've texted jean to see if she's ok. but she can ignore him lol

Re: OOC - QUESTIONS, COMMENTS, CONCERNS!

[blauerdamon kurt wagner ⚔️ nightcrawler]

Someone free her from this hell

Re: OOC - QUESTIONS, COMMENTS, CONCERNS!

[frost_queen Emma Frost ♕ White Queen]

Truly hell!!

Re: OOC - QUESTIONS, COMMENTS, CONCERNS!

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Just realizing that I should weigh in here briefly as a mod.

For the record, Jean would've experienced the same mark glowing and falling unconscious as everyone else even up in her room. That said, if she was astral projecting at that time, she may've experienced it differently. So would you be able to confirm for me on that front?

Also: always happy to chat and help catch you up quick if that'd be helpful. ♥ Not too much has happened, really! Lots of unknowns, lots of conjecture, not a lot of answers. But not necessary, just an offer if wanted!

Re: OOC - QUESTIONS, COMMENTS, CONCERNS!

[totalities marvel girl]

She did also pass out and experienced it in the same way everyone else did, but from her perspective she was astral projecting the entire time and woke up back in the astral projection. If it makes sense with the plot, whatever Jimaine was doing while they were out could've trapped her outside her body/in the astral projection of the other universe for a day or so. If not she was just like involuntarily hyperfixating on the astral projection and didn't realize how long she was gone, and this is a direct consequence of how much time she's been spending astral projecting since Xavier fell unconscious. I'm good either way on this so just let me know which works better for everyone.

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Sounds good. 👍

Nothing Jimaine did would have an impact on Jean, so hyperfixating it is! :') Poor Jean.