So I'm still reading old mission reports now and then . . .

[x-crowdofone.livejournal.com]

What's all this about a coatrack? Are there any other unusual, um, projectiles, I should make a note to watch out for, on missions?

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[x-juggernaut.livejournal.com]

It's one of those unwritten rules - any mission I ain't on, Nate winds up getting clobbered by an inanimate object, like a coatrack or Wolverine.

[x-crowdofone.livejournal.com]

Oh, so it's just a Nathan thing? That's reassuring.

[x-cable.livejournal.com]

"Just a Nathan thing"? I don't think I like that phrasing, Jamie... it implies things.

[x-tarot.livejournal.com]

Well, you are unusually prone to attracting coatracks, Nathan...

[x-cable.livejournal.com]

You went in the lake once, Colbert. Just keep it up.

[x-tarot.livejournal.com]

So I suppose that Rachel would not be entertained by dancing animated coatracks?

[x-cable.livejournal.com]

Rachel would be thoroughly entertained. Rachel's mother would probably be thoroughly entertained. Her father, however, would be plotting a terrible revenge.

[x-tarot.livejournal.com]

Would this be the same father that I have to have training with this evening, because if so, I think I will just put my sketchbook ... somewhere... else.

[x-cable.livejournal.com]

Compromise? You can create the dancing coatracks so long as they don't follow me around.

[x-tarot.livejournal.com]

Now where is the fun in that?

[x-crowdofone.livejournal.com]

Hey, I'm not the one who got hit by a coatrack, here.

But if we ever get attacked by somebody wearing inflatable water wings, I'll be first in line. Promise.

(seriously, though, that sounds like it would hurt. Do we on average run into more people who improvise like that or more people who have the, y'know, actual tools for the job, would you say?)

[x-cable.livejournal.com]

Hit by a coatrack that someone threw by hand from across the street and several floors belong me. That wasn't a coatrack, it was a missile.

Fortunately, Shiro is also a very good catch.

Improvisation... well, he needed to be able to strike from a distance to take me out, since I was on the roof of the building across the street playing switchboard. He gave Scott, Haroun, and Kylun some considerable difficulty hand-to-hand inside the building, too. So in a way he had both options covered there.

[x-crowdofone.livejournal.com]

. . . Ow. Hook-end or base-end?

[x-cable.livejournal.com]

... I honestly don't remember. I was switchboarding at the time, and telepaths don't generally do well when they're knocked out of deep concentration like that.

I don't remember falling off the building, either. I seem to recall Shiro doing the 'how many fingers am I holding up?' thing...

[x-crowdofone.livejournal.com]

Well, on the whole, I'd kinda prefer not to remember falling off buildings if I can get away with it.

Definitely putting that down on my list of Reasons To Keep People From Beating On The Switchboard, though.

[x-cable.livejournal.com]

So what does that tell you? Other than I need a minder?

[x-wolverine.livejournal.com]

And any one you _are_ on you wind up chin-deep in muck.

Hey now!

[x-juggernaut.livejournal.com]

There was no muck in Vladivostok!

Re: Hey now!

[x-wolverine.livejournal.com]

No?

That the one where you got your ass beat by a little girl?

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[x-juggernaut.livejournal.com]

I put that little girl halfway into orbit, thank you very much. Of course, she showed up again when we were dealing with Nate's family reunion, so obviously I didn't chuck her far enough.

You know, I wonder if I could put something into orbit...

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[x-wolverine.livejournal.com]

You want to do us all a favor?

Try it with some of the crap the kids call music. Just aim for the sun and see if you can hit it.