Well, my news is not nearly as interesting as Pete's

[x-cypher.livejournal.com]

Gang-

My news isn't nearly as interesting as Pete's, but in my usual morning take from the usual tabloids and urban legends sites, I found something that looks like it might have some meat to it. A story about a trucker who claims to have run over a -werewolf- just outside of a small town in Tennessee. The 'interview' said he saw a human shape on the road ahead of him and didn't have time to swerve or slow down, except that an instant before contact he swears he saw a wolf-like shape made of 'liquid mercury' running into the woods. He stopped, but there wasn't a body, just a skin, apparantly human.

The article in the 'paper' (I use that term loosely) said that the local medical examiner said that there was no damage to the skin.

Now, that wouldn't be the strange thing, except that there's also a missing person's report, actually, five of them, from the same place. Local high school students, and since I can't find any report of them being found, they've been missing at least a week.

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[x-pete.livejournal.com]

As much as I appreciate the weird and mad, we have other things to look at today. Five missing kids is sad but I'm not sure how they tie into a sleep deprived truck driver's hallucinations, and we don't have the time to chase down fables right now, squire.

[xp_daytripper]

Well, it could be the 'werewolf' is a new manifestation - has someone given the X geezer a bell? I call not it.

Otherwise... maybe our mates with the mutant kidnapping ring have popped up again. And how much good are us Junior Trenches with the buckethead thing any way? Angie's not gotten any pings off her pre-cog, and Doug's gone through all the media stuff we've got. And unless you can bring me his toothbrush or something, I've got nothing - at least you lot have that world-wide network of contacts to check with, yeah? Most of who don't want to deal with anyone else, but especially 'kids'.

I think maybe we should check it out, if it's not a new mutant. Wouldn't take more than a day or two.

[x-scarletwitch.livejournal.com]

Well, if you lot want to go check it out, I will certainly tag along with you. I agree with Pete a little bit but I need to...get some fresh air, as it were.

[x-pete.livejournal.com]

Alright. I still think it's a complete waste of time, but I said that people should bring shit they want us look at to everyone's attention. This qualifies, I suppose.

A few days, tops - like you say, a couple of days fresh air might be a good idea, at the least. If you haven't found anything more than some missing persons pretty quickly, then we leave for local law enforcement to pick up.

[x-tarot.livejournal.com]

It isn't like you to just give us random weird articles out of the thin air. What about this one stood out?

We should talk about this over the lunch I nearly missed due to spending the last two hours with a deck of tarot cards and every news article on Magneto I could find. I hate that man.

[x-pressive.livejournal.com]

I think the part where there are werewolves (which I'm told actually exist) and a bunch of missing kids is what stands out.

[x-cypher.livejournal.com]

Give the man a Kewpie doll. That was pretty much the size of it. That and the fact that you have a very high weird-shit-to-population ratio, all in the same area. And it just seemed a little too...un-hoax-y.

Yes, that's a scientific term.

[x-pressive.livejournal.com]

So, it shouldn't be too hard to get last minute plane tickets to fucking Tennessee (which I can't believe I'm even suggesting).

Ooh, can we stop by Dollywood on the way home?

[xp_daytripper]

We'd need someone to go talk to the missing kids' friends, someone not official, since there's that whole 'keep secrets from authority' thing that goes on.

Oh, I've just had a fucking brilliant idea. Fancy going back to school, Mark?

[x-pressive.livejournal.com]

. . . You owe me so much. *sigh* The things I do for the good of humanity.

[x-marrow.livejournal.com]

You know, there's a crazy little word called "no", that I hear works perfectly in this kind of situation. You can even add "Fuck" or "Hell" to it.

[xp_daytripper]

Does this mean you're staying in New York? With all the paperwork and the going through old files on buckethead?

And Mark, one more word for you: "Cheerleaders".

[x-marrow.livejournal.com]

Nope, I'm all for going and doing something interesting that doesn't involve sorting papers from the Evil Archive.

Of course, I'm not the one you're sending back to school.