video; un: goo

[mightymorphin]

[It's a rare video post from Morph, starting with a selfie-style shot of their smiling face, and a distant view of trees behind them.]

I still can't believe it happened, but my home showed up? And it's not a half-burnt, demolished ruin like the last time I saw it. Here, take a look.

[Then they turn the camera to show that they're standing on a driveway that leads up to a literal mansion which is as promised, intact and very non-destroyed looking.]

This is Xavier's School for 'Gifted' Youngsters. A full tour would be pretty boring, but there is something here that you absolutely have to see.

[The video feed cuts off and then restarts in a metal hallway, right outside a set of doors that promptly open up into... a big metal room. Other than an observation platform at the top of the room that's lined in glass, there's nothing all that notable about it.]

This is what we call the Danger Room! Long story short, the Professor has this alien squeeze that gave us access to some awesome technology. Talk about side benefits, right?

Computer, let's run simulation Juggernaut 24-A.

[With a shimmer of light, there's suddenly an entirely new landscape around Morph - they're now standing in a construction yard, with stacks of steel beams and construction equipment visible behind them, along with the slightly more distant buildings of a city.

There's also a huge armored guy standing in the construction yard, who's distinctly confused expression is still visible despite the helmet. "Hey, whuzzat?"]

This is where the X-Men do a lot of our training! It's all fancy holograms set up to put us through our paces. Using the Danger Room, we can plug info about our opponents into the computer and practice fighting them like it's... nearly the real thing. It's not perfect.

[Morph is paying no mind whatsoever to the holographic Juggernaut approaching behind them, who's looking angrier and angrier.]

Stop by sometime if you want to check it out! You don't have to load up a program with enemies in it, that's just what we use it for-

[At that moment the Juggernaut bellows out, "STOP IGNORING ME!", swinging a huge fist at Morph. They promptly drop their device, leaving the view tilted up at a grey, clouded sky as there's the SLAM of an impact that makes the device rattle.]

Whoops! I'm okay! Computer, end program!

[There's another shimmer of light before the view changes to a metal ceiling, the feed cut off shortly after.]



(OOC: The X-Mansion now exists in-game! Here is the info page, and a log for checking out the mansion will be going up a little later.)

Comments

video, un: junpei

[coolerjunpei]

[Oh good, someone else already made the simulation inside a simulation joke--]

What else does your holo-training thing do? Ultimate Movie Night?

voice; un: goo

[mightymorphin]

That's a fun idea, but it'd be a big project to turn a whole movie into a Danger Room program.

You can load up a location with the enemies turned off! There's already some places in the computer the rest of the team designed. Like a few beaches, a meditation garden, things like that.

[coolerjunpei]

Damn, you've got a whole Matrix and you can't even run the movie, that kinda sucks.

[He squeezes in the simulation in a simulation joke regardless, ten points-!!]

But it's pretty cool... The whole house just showed up?

[mightymorphin]

Kurt told me about that one! That movie is after my time, I'm pretty sure.

[Yes, after. There's a lot of things that don't exist yet in 1997.]

The whole house minus the security system and a lot of our computer equipment. I'm not sure why the Danger Room is here when the rest isn't, but I'm not looking a gift horse in the mouth.

[coolerjunpei]

Oh yeah? It was way before mine...

[Other than the people who are explicitly from The Future and Outer Space, Junpei has yet to meet anyone who's got him beat on the year. One day he'll get a Matrix DVD and show all the people from the past...!]

But uh, maybe the system cares more about us having fun now that it's been reset. I dunno, it could be something like that.

[mightymorphin]

I guess the simulation must've been programmed to have motives of some kind.

But if it is... the Danger Room isn't for fun. I mean, training can be fun, but that's not the point.

[coolerjunpei]

Well, it's a simulation room. Maybe that's easier for a literal simulation to get in here, compared to the other stuff. Or— our new robot is just as confused as our old robot.

[mightymorphin]

It could easily be either of those, yeah. I'm good with taking it as a happy coincidence, unless someone really does have evidence that these things are on purpose.

[coolerjunpei]

Dunno about that... literally. I didn't go out to any of those terminals, I'd have gotten my ass kicked. As long as no one's getting a torture basement put in their house at random, I won't complain.

[mightymorphin]

No torture basements here! ... Though if someone did get one, how do we know they wouldn't keep it to themselves?

[coolerjunpei]

People would probably start going missing... It'd be a big clue.

[mightymorphin]

Oh, you think they'd use it? ...

... Yeah, let's hope that doesn't happen.

[coolerjunpei]

I just think the kind of guy who'd have a torture basement is the same kind of guy who'd use one, yeah. But, uh, never mind that, I guess.

[he's being a bummer!!!]

Who was that guy that took a swing at you, anyway?

[mightymorphin]

[Yeah Morph is just. Gonna hope that one doesn't happen.]

Oh, him? That's the Juggernaut. He's super strong and practically invulnerable thanks to a magical gem he bonded with. We have a few training programs using him just because he's such a pain in the butt to fight.

[coolerjunpei]

[A magical gem... just like a real sci-fi fantasy.......]

Right. And who decided he should still talk? Like, that would freak me out.

[mightymorphin]

Hey, villains love to talk, and you use your ears in a fight just as often as the rest of your senses. The Danger Room won't dream up any long speeches, but it's trying to be realistic, so the opponents still have some personality in there.

[coolerjunpei]

Guess a villain lite setting is better than a total copy.

[This would still freak him out, which he figures is actually the point, so great job? At scary concepts? Sure.]

What's your cool power, then?

[mightymorphin]

[Morph is pretty used to it by now... plus it helps that they get to punch the holograms.]

Me? I'm a shapeshifter. In fact I've used the Juggernaut's form in a few fights. I get the physical benefits of whoever I'm copying, so big muscles are pretty useful.