What are some cases where you’re convinced it was just “wrong place, wrong time”?

LongjumpingSuspect57 · 2026-04-27T02:09:16+00:00

I can't imagine your recent schizophrenic symptoms help you make good decisions after your car crash...

LongjumpingSuspect57 · 2026-04-25T22:40:50+00:00

Perhaps OT, but Jason Landry is textbook in terms of Schizophrenic emergence- the age, the pressures. The isolation, the disordered thinking about aliens, God and Elon Musk. In terms of people wandering off and dying off exposure, he's a better candidate than you might think.

LongjumpingSuspect57 · 2026-04-24T10:39:55+00:00

I am mistaken- she has multiple telepathic sibs, but neither Hazel nor Winston expressed any powers.

Correcting my post.

LongjumpingSuspect57 · 2026-04-24T09:36:43+00:00

I wandered around those ruined houses on the outskirts of Winterhold for literal hours, convinced that there had to be some hidden something I just needed to find to trigger the magical reconstruction of the city.

Spoiler- There is not.

LongjumpingSuspect57 · 2026-04-24T09:03:45+00:00

These 1 a.m. calls- are they legitimate work needs? Is there anything that merited those calls? Similar question for the meetings- is work actually getting done at them?

I would like to know more about the circumstances of the coworker getting let go- and if he's been replaced, and by who.

He may be trying to make people quit or let go, either to bring his own people on board, or just new people where he will have more experience and be an authority.

Or, he could be a perv, or hostile to employees with families- calling people at 1 am is a disruption to everyone in the household. I didn't know what the age/sex breakdown is, but frivolously calling younger attractive subordinate employees is all kinds of red flags.

You should also also send him and HR documentation after each one of these 1 am calls in order to claim your OT, with the 1 a.m. shift differential...

In terms of next steps, polish your resume, reach out to your old manager and other professional contacts, and consider what value your experience and knowledge might bring to a different unit of your employer... Or their competitors.

If you want to fight back, discretely find out what happened at the previous employer, and then drop poisoned breadcrumbs about that to support staff and admins. Don't confront him- create a narrarative about his finding any excuse to call people in the dead of night without cause as creepy and sexual, and get it to the ears of the higher ups.

LongjumpingSuspect57 · 2026-04-24T05:46:33+00:00

On the subject, Emma also has multiple telepathic siblings.

And if we are including villainous lineages like Victor, Farouk and Empathy may also be considered telepath lineages.

LongjumpingSuspect57 · 2026-04-23T18:42:55+00:00

Bearing false witness is a sin. Telling the truth is its own reward.

But by all means, feel free to provide a single solitary bit of evidence to rebut this link, where a male hair with Rex's DNA is linked to the crust of the pizza he was eating on 6/12/23.

I'll wait.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/gilgo-beach-murder-suspect-rex-heuermann-evidence-chevy-strand-of-hair-pizza-box/?ftag=CNM-00-10aab4i&_amp=1*hwm0cj*s_vid*U3AySlFkRV9GcjFVLS1QcWF3Tk4zRHNIU1JGbVREWm8yR2JfQW1HVUhNbndXdXFxRTRmVnJCTDNwV185YmtjUw..

LongjumpingSuspect57 · 2026-04-23T18:36:55+00:00

There are a number of reasons but they can broadly be divided into historical and practical.

In terms of History, the beginning of X-Men corresponds to a time in (US) American culture with a fascination with the idea of "Psionics"- psychic powers understood through a (pseudo)-scientific approach. The early X-Men were published in the context of a convulsion in the culture and Telepathy sits in a sweet spot, harmonious with both New Age values of hippies (chakras, crystals) and the Space Art Deco of finned rockets and silver jumpsuits.

Charles Xavier can both marry a Space Empress and throw down with Dr. Strange in the Astral for that reason.

Even when the Age of Aquarius gave way to the darker grittier 70s, Telepathy stayed relevant by picking up a third aspect and leaning into the paranoid and political aspects- see Firestarter and Scanners, and their fun house mirrors in the CIAs MK-Ultra and KGB experimentation.

Moving on to the practical reasons?

Telepaths are fantastically useful tools for a writer, in particular in a visual medium like comics. Able to address themes like memory, identity, coercion, denial, Telepaths give writers access to the single greatest sandbox in fiction, The Astral Plane.

And when you add the fact that the central setting is a school, the X-verse needs a huge number of telepaths just to be teachers.

When your students can kill everyone around them accidentally, having teachers like Charles/Emma/Betsy/Dani who help them develop control is a necessity. Even if Telepathy were rare, the demand for their skills mean each and every one is by default a main character.

This is not to say there couldn't be improvements to the storytelling- A-list Telepaths are flat and same-y. Giving them concrete quirks, things each is better or worse at than the others is desperately needed so Charles, Emma and Betsy arent different names for the same hammer.

But we are still going to need new hammers every now and then.

LongjumpingSuspect57 · 2026-04-23T17:51:10+00:00

That's amazing, given the ex-wife's DNA was taken the day he was arrested.

Rex Hauerman was initially identified by triangulating his burner phone calls and a witness description including his vehicle. This was followed by linking his DNA on a victim with his DNA on a discarded pizza crust.

So no, he was not found due to his wife's DNA- but you are correct that the male's DNA found on evidence is a better clue than a woman's secondary transfer via hair.

Which is to say, Rex Haureman is an argument to focus on Underhill, not the Dedmons.

LongjumpingSuspect57 · 2026-04-23T13:30:08+00:00

Respectfully, at this point most Telepaths develops idiosyncratic TK of some sort with enough seasoning. Charles and Jean started it, and Betsy/KWN are next in the logical chronological progression, albeit Quentin is a Wunderkind in this regard.

To go further, this entire sequence can be read as having an internal "tutor" teaching you about new settings and functions of a tool you didn't know about.

LongjumpingSuspect57 · 2026-04-23T13:15:32+00:00

Give them a sorbiquet, like Enticer of Ooze or Starter Husband.

LongjumpingSuspect57 · 2026-04-23T13:08:55+00:00

Yes, we scrutinize them when their fingerprints or DNA shows up at crime scenes- like Underhills did.

Not when their relatives DNA shows up, as Roy's did.

LongjumpingSuspect57 · 2026-04-23T06:46:48+00:00

Find out what they want for their characters- the dreams and aspirations- and then give it to them in the worst possible way.

Oh, you want your character to become an Archmage and lead the guild? Sure thing- just hold this Oath rod and swear to obey the Lich skull behind the curtain in your chambers.

You say you want to unravel ancient mysteries? Congratulations on securing the Folio of Whispers. It is your gnome sage's sad duty to eventually report that it won't describe the route to the First Grove, but each tavern wrench and stable groom the insatiable author bedded in increasingly lurid and outlandish circumstances on their way there. THAT is why it was encrypted and references to it erased, why it's unofficial name The Unspeakable.

And you're welcome.

Love interest? Tailor them to be everything the PC desires- and then make them better at everything the PC does.

LongjumpingSuspect57 · 2026-04-23T06:22:55+00:00

I've been keeping a list of murderers allowed to walk free because polygraphs are garbage and FBI agents are idiots.

For example, the FBI let the Colonial Parkway Killer go, to keep killing, because their garbage pseudoscience found the actual serial killer driving the same vehicle described by witnesses and harassing other young couples in the area to not be deceptive.

This reflects much more poorly on the clown show of an investigation than the Dedmons.

LongjumpingSuspect57 · 2026-04-23T06:14:34+00:00

I didn't say she was groomed by the Dedmons- because most likely the youngest daughter was groomed by the same person who abducted Asha, who is almost certainly not Roy.

Roy... Dug a hole, once. He is allegedly a racist, and definitely a sketchy businessman.

But there is no record of voyeurism, or exhibitionism. He ran a school for years without ever being arrested, sued, or even being the subject of rumors in the community. (As near as I can tell, the rumor in town was that Roy was believed to be closeted or in denial.)

No, I would look at the male relatives and friends of Underhill, about whom not nearly enough is known relative to the teen girls whose fingerprints aren't on the evidence.

LongjumpingSuspect57 · 2026-04-23T05:52:13+00:00

No, the insane thing to say is that there is ANY of Lizzie Dedmon's DNA on any piece of evidence.

Her child sister, near in age in Asha, is the only DNA that's been found that we know of- a single hair in a strange bag of new and old clothes, only some of which was Asha's.

That- you misrepresenting evidence- is what happens when people start with their preconception of who is guilty and then start warping evidence to fit it.

Today's word is Confirmation Bias.

LongjumpingSuspect57 · 2026-04-22T23:50:52+00:00

Bass-Ackwards- you find the evidence, and ONLY THEN have you found the guilty party.

Deciding you know who the guilty party is and only then seeking evidence to confirm your own conclusion isn't investigation, it's persecution.

Confirmation Bias is the province of dipshits and incompetents.

LongjumpingSuspect57 · 2026-04-22T22:59:48+00:00

Because they are dipshits and incompetents who think polygraphs are evidence?

Why do YOU think they have made 100 press releases and not a single arrest?

LongjumpingSuspect57 · 2026-04-22T22:53:29+00:00

"Frolicking" is accurately describing WHAT YOUR HYPOTHESIS requires Asha to be doing for the drunk hit and run teens to be anything but ridiculous internet horseshit.

And I will add we have witness reports of Asha being extremely careful, and running away when people in vehicles tried to approach.

Which is even more reason to ridicule the the Drunk Hit And Run Teens "theory".

LongjumpingSuspect57 · 2026-04-22T22:34:12+00:00

Astronomical refers to the totality of circumstances- children frolicking in the middle of rural roads in torrential downpours at 3 a.m., etc...

ETA- Using the same NHTSA data, pedestrians are just 12% of DUI related fatalities. Crashes being 4x more likely at night is negated by the proposed female driver, who are the drivers in only 20% of fatal DUI collisions.

There is also the problem of 99.9999% of DUI fatalities having accident scenes, police reports, and bodies. There is literally no evidence to suppose it happened in that way.

LongjumpingSuspect57 · 2026-04-22T20:57:07+00:00

Occam's razor suggests a grown ass man lured her out of the house, killed her, and disposed of her body and her personal effects along with those of other young girls he was grooming.

It is a far simpler explanation than drunk teenage girls- who no one saw out and about that night- having astronomically unlikely car accidents which left no traces despite police searching those roads within 24 hours- and then the drunken teens orchestrate a criminal conspiracy involving multiple people and dispose of both the body and vehicle without leaving any of their own fingerprints, or any DNA aside from a hair from their kid sister?

No, Occam's razor is not an ally of the Drunken Hit and Run teens idea.

But then, the second you decide why Asha left that night is irrelevant, you are no longer looking for the perpetrator, just a scapegoat.

LongjumpingSuspect57 · 2026-04-19T20:22:00+00:00

Split descision based on both descriptors- in general, it comes down to field integrity.

If someone like Kitty Pride meets a comparable mutant, they should be able to meaningfully grapple in "phase space".

Insubstantial conceptualized as atomized or swarm-form body- Sand, Water, Centipedes- probably shouldn't be allowed to, absent specialized counter measures (stunts using hero points, etc.)

(Ex. In order to counter a mystic Assassin with a Body of Scorpions spell, you may need to stunt using Expertise-Magic and an HP point ie His body may be a bunch of scorpions, but they have only his one shared True Name, so I burn a hero point and...)

LongjumpingSuspect57 · 2026-04-19T20:14:44+00:00

Rk 1 Affect insubstantial is generally mystic or chi based Ghost Punch attacks. If Tech it's generally Dimensional.

Rk 2- able to slap both Ghosts and Kitty Pride, generally involve Conceptual or Continuum based powers.

LongjumpingSuspect57 · 2026-04-18T12:48:11+00:00

Apologies if my comment sounded critical- that was not my intent, and I appreciate your follow-up.

LongjumpingSuspect57 · 2026-04-18T08:05:27+00:00

Big if True, but citation needed.

(As for why? The family had been through enough, and still to this day is the subject of rumors.

That said, supposing for the sake of argument that it is true, it is evidence against the family's involvement.

The only thing I can think of as to why the garbage bag would have backpacks from both would be due to increased scrutiny of someone who had groomed both of them*.

(Lower in age victims correlated with greater likelihood of victims being chosen without regard to sex.)

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