January Alt Event [OPENish]

[blesstherains]

WHO: Any characters not specifically being used for the Hellfire Club Event
WHAT: Volunteering to help disadvantaged and underprivileged mutants in the cold harsh winter.
WHERE: District X (located in Alphabet City, Manhattan)
WHEN: Middle of the week
WARNING(S): With the FoH possibly jumping in, this could get rough.



At the very least, the snowfall wasn't blizzard strength today. But it was making the work of unloading the trucks at the community center difficult. But the kitchen was cooking, the fires were going, and up and down the block, families lined up to get blankets, to get food, and get some hope from a group many of them considered to be heroes for entirely different reasons than most did...

The X-Men.

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[eileaneathompson]

The clone bit it's lip, cutely, then smiled brightly again. "Actually, ma'am," she said cheerfully, "I work best as bait."

She stretched her arms over her head. "I've been doing that a lot. More since Christmas, though. I can lead them into traps, or just away from vulnerable people," she offered. "I don't have any fighting ability, but that? That I can do!"

And again that bright cheerful smile. She didn't look stupid, but the smile was incongruous with her words.

[totallystoned]

There was no way she was using this sweet young thing as bait, a sentiment she expressed: "There's no way I'm using you as bait."

[eileaneathompson]

"It's okay," she said cheerfully, "they can't kill me."

[totallystoned]

"Any particular reason why?"

She was still gonna need more convincing.

[eileaneathompson]

"Hmmmm? Oh," she said, realizing the woman might not know Eli's powers. "I'm not alive," she said happily. "I'm a clone. So if I die, Eli won't. She's handing out soup right now. She's actually given us more freedom than she usually does, because she was distracted when she spun us off. It's kind of fun. One of the other clones is talking to someone that last saw Eli fall on her butt. She is so going to kill us!" she said chipperly.

[totallystoned]

Not alive, huh?

Reki instinctively reached for a cigarette from her pocket. Forget setting a good example. It was too cold to try to contemplate ethical dilemnas like this without nicotine in her bloodstream.

"Alright, you can go scout them out. But don't throw yourself on any swords. I still want to know if they're here."

Posting from iPad, please excuse brevity and errors

[eileaneathompson]

"N...now?" She asked, startled. She hadn't realized there had been any altercations yet.