I've been chillin' out on a star with my 5 star view

[lucetimods]

Who: All draftees
What: The space battle commences
When: After 3PM on the 19th to the 23rd
Where: In Space! On the Moon!
Summary: The battle finally begins! First there's asteroids to take down, then we finally arrive!
Rating: SPACE

MORE SPACE

All the details you need are here, so read up on it. This didn't get mentioned before, but you can tag the cultists instead of killing them. Details on this are on a previous draft post. Using the scanners are optional!

There will be a thread for interacting with NPCs, but they may not all go up at once, so keep an eye out for them.

Note: A log for the events in the village will go up on the 21st, in time for the hurricane and droid incursion.

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[touchofrogue]

[Oh. Hell.

And in fact, she exhales just that:]

Oh, hell.

[Because yes, she knows that one. Some people are lucky - they fall through their floors. Some people people cause earthquakes and get high off the power trip. And some of them shoot uncontrollable beams of power from their eyes, or suck the life out of a cute boy with a touch. It's dangerous, becoming what they are. Dangerous to them, and dangerous to everyone around them.

But that's all she says, because she's still listening.]

[selfhelp]

[He's quiet for a long moment after that, letting that sit like a weight between them, that unpleasant reality. The Scarlet Witch had been right- being a mutant wasn't necessarily better. It got people hurt. It changed lives.

It painted a target on your back.]

I tried going back to the mansion. I wanted to find her- I thought she'd understand, that she could help me. But the Avengers disbanded. She'd gone missing. I couldn't rely on the X-Men, either. I was on my own.

[He lifts his head then, shifting to the side just enough to lean on the wall on the other side of the bed, his gaze finally turning back to her. It's a miserable story, but it does have a happy ending- and he wants that fact to stick out, he really does. Bad things happen. But good things do, too.]

That's when I met a new team. When everything changed. And... I'm okay now.

[touchofrogue]

[No Avengers. Unable to rely on the X-Men. That painted a pretty bleak picture of the world he'd be facing, from her experience in Tony's world where the Avengers were a reality, and from her true experience, where she knew how hard the Professor worked to be there for mutants like Billy.

I was on my own.

That's something Rogue only had to face briefly - granted, at the time, it looked like the X-Men were trying to kill her - but from that point, she'd hooked up with Mystique and then... the rest was history.

So he knows.

He knows how much of a target he is. Of course he does. And something in her heart constricts that her careless words would have made him feel that way again, even if only for a moment.

Guilt-stricken, she looks down.]

I'm glad.

[selfhelp]

Yeah, me too. [He relaxes, finally, and offers her a small smile. This could have gone a lot worse, and he kind of told her a lot more than he intended, but... maybe it's better to get it all out like that.] It could've ended badly- if the wrong people found me, or if I'd been different enough to become a criminal... or a terrorist. [Another smile, with an ironic twist. A history of crime to heroism- maybe that's the legacy of Magneto's family.

...Tommy would probably bitch at him for that one.] I got a once in a lifetime chance.

[touchofrogue]

[Ah yes, the criminal and terrorist years. She remembers those well... though hers was more along the line of a month or so.

...yes, well. Let's move on, then.]

I'm sorry that what I said caused you pain - I didn't mean for that to happen.

[Why an apology? Because Rogue owns her mistakes.

She's not the best at accepting forgiveness, though. So she stands up.]

I'm glad you're all right, Billy. Get some rest.

[selfhelp]

Mm. It's okay, I get it.

[He shrugs, lifting a hand to wave it off. He hadn't been the smartest about what to say, himself, so he can forgive the slip-up.]

Take care of yourself out there. I'll see you around.