strangetrip | GP: April Fools!

It didn't take any sort of precognitive abilities to predict some kind of shenanigans on the first of April. Many of the people stuck in the bubble world of the Madonna Inn were from times and places where April Fools' Day pranks were normal, expected... (in many cases) minor annoyances. And then there were the residents who remembered the strange egg hunt from a year ago, and the sometimes confusing explanations of the two holidays falling on the same day and how that related.

Also, life at the inn could be interminable. After a while, people started hoping for some kind of strangeness to happen, just to break up the monotony of being trapped in a kitschy no-snow globe.

So, no. You didn't have to be a mutant fortune teller to expect some kind of joke being pulled. But Emma was, and even she had no idea what was coming, other than it was going to be frustrating and topsy-turny, and the visions she'd been getting from the tarot – and way more reversals than was usual or healthy in her experience – were even less clear than usual.

She definitely didn't foresee waking up without the powers that were as much a part of her as her heart. Or just as suddenly having powers she had no idea how to control. But she did, and she had*, and she was far from the only one. The same thing was happening to people all around the inn.

(*Not to worry. The singe marks should be gone in a day or so. Right?)

[Powers swap GP! Tag in. Tag around. It's a time for out and about at the inn coping (or not) with powers gained (or lost).]

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"Before I blow up something the inn won't fix, you mean?" Of course it would be tied to her emotions. Emma should have figured that out for herself. And she should have been able to get a handle on that part of it too. If she'd been able focus on any of the Askani forms.

Emma let out a slow breath, and found a smile for Regina. "I'd appreciate that. If it was anything but fire... Emotions are complicated."

"If you want to put it that way, yes," Regina replied as levelly as she could. It didn't matter that her magic had left her for now. She still needed to practice patience and kindness. "I was more thinking before you hurt yourself or someone you care about."

She smiled then. "Either way, I'm happy to help. If you tell me a little about your usual abilities, I may be able to find a way to bridge them. I often have to translate my magic into Corbie's system or hers to mine, so it's a familiar process."

Someone, whether herself, someone she cared about, or anyone else around the inn, had been what Emma meant mostly with her 'something the inn won't fix,' but she didn't point that out to Regina. Her intentions didn't matter, when they were talking about the same thing, and Regina could help her get a handle on what was, obviously and why hadn't Emma realized earlier, Regina's own powers.

"I'm a mutant. I can see the future, and the past, and I can project and manipulate tangible psi energy in the form of images, specifically from the tarot, but that could be because those are most meaningful and familiar to me. I'm also friends with people who can create or manipulate fire, or teleport – and a bunch of other things I haven't done myself today – but all I know about magic is what I've seen since getting stuck here. Well, and Illyana, but no version of Illyana is very chatty about magic."

"It's not my experience that Ms. Rasputin is particularly 'chatty' about anything," Regina replied wryly.

"Anyhow, yes, I think I can see a way to teach you." She moved to gather up her magic and tele-- Her arms dropped and she shook her head. "We'll have to do this the old-fashioned way." In her voice, there was something that sounded very like she was teasing someone, herself, perhaps.

"Join me? We'll have to walk to somewhere more congenial for target practice."

"Normally I'd fly, but..." Emma commiserated. "I did teleport once today, but since I didn't exactly mean to and I'm not sure how I did it, I definitely wouldn't trust trying it again with someone else. A walk will have to do."

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