# \#hot-mess

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## [226 - Yours, Mine, and Hours](https://forum.menagerie.team/t/226-yours-mine-and-hours/1115)

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**Author:** [@garrett](https://forum.menagerie.team/u/garrett)\
**Replies:** 10\
**Last updated:** [February 6, 2023, 1:14am UTC](https://forum.menagerie.team/t/226-yours-mine-and-hours/1115 "2023-02-06T01:14:03Z")

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Alycia expediently solves the problem of getting out of Cairo by just stealing a plane. It’s a small luxury jet, rented to the rich but not wealthy of Egypt who can’t yet afford their own but want to arrive…

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## [230 - A New Hope](https://forum.menagerie.team/t/230-a-new-hope/1141)

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**Author:** [@garrett](https://forum.menagerie.team/u/garrett)\
**Replies:** 16\
**Last updated:** [November 24, 2022, 8:03pm UTC](https://forum.menagerie.team/t/230-a-new-hope/1141 "2022-11-24T20:03:40Z")

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Exiting the funicular chamber reveals a new part of the city entirely different from the previous one. While the lower chambers were relatively small, made of interconnected chambers, this one is a single colossal cave. …

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## [229 - The Hidden Fortress](https://forum.menagerie.team/t/229-the-hidden-fortress/1131)

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**Author:** [@garrett](https://forum.menagerie.team/u/garrett)\
**Replies:** 14\
**Last updated:** [September 3, 2022, 9:10am UTC](https://forum.menagerie.team/t/229-the-hidden-fortress/1131 "2022-09-03T09:10:05Z")

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What saves Jason and Alycia is their relationship. Both of them concluded the same thing. If Pyrrhus is based on their minds, he’ll know how they act. He’ll predict them to act as themselves. So, having be…

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## [218 - Arachnophobia](https://forum.menagerie.team/t/218-arachnophobia/1092)

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**Author:** [@garrett](https://forum.menagerie.team/u/garrett)\
**Replies:** 14\
**Last updated:** [March 18, 2022, 2:07am UTC](https://forum.menagerie.team/t/218-arachnophobia/1092 "2022-03-18T02:07:31Z")

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Cairo is how Alycia remembers it. Twenty million people sit at this hub of the Arabic world, at the doorway between past and future. It inherited the crown of power from Alexandria during Egypt’s conquest i…

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## [214 - Love is the Drug](https://forum.menagerie.team/t/214-love-is-the-drug/1081)

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**Author:** [@garrett](https://forum.menagerie.team/u/garrett)\
**Replies:** 8\
**Last updated:** [March 4, 2022, 1:28am UTC](https://forum.menagerie.team/t/214-love-is-the-drug/1081 "2022-03-04T01:28:01Z")

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Alycia Chin has been hard at work. She and SNOWMAN booked a pair of hotel rooms in Khartoum. Agent 1337 is working out of some kind of van, which they drive around the neighborhood to pirate good wi-fi. Nobody knows wher…

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## [209 - Human Resources](https://forum.menagerie.team/t/209-human-resources/1065)

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**Author:** [@garrett](https://forum.menagerie.team/u/garrett)\
**Replies:** 10\
**Last updated:** [February 1, 2022, 2:14am UTC](https://forum.menagerie.team/t/209-human-resources/1065 "2022-02-01T02:14:45Z")

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“You know, an operator like Achilles Chin could probably infiltrate AEGIS.” Alex Gemini Shelby looks up from their computer and peers at Emma Agney, aka “Hot Mess”. The two are hanging out in Hermosillo, conveniently ne…

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## [202 - A Cold Trail](https://forum.menagerie.team/t/202-a-cold-trail/1039)

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**Author:** [@garrett](https://forum.menagerie.team/u/garrett)\
**Replies:** 18\
**Last updated:** [August 16, 2021, 6:51pm UTC](https://forum.menagerie.team/t/202-a-cold-trail/1039 "2021-08-16T18:51:27Z")

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Continued from here It’s remarkable how much intel there is on public websites. For example, when Alycia had split up from the group to “look for more enemy soldiers”, she was already pulling up the marine vessel trac…

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## [201 - First Mission, Mission First](https://forum.menagerie.team/t/201-first-mission-mission-first/1034)

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**Author:** [@garrett](https://forum.menagerie.team/u/garrett)\
**Replies:** 12\
**Last updated:** [August 2, 2021, 11:41pm UTC](https://forum.menagerie.team/t/201-first-mission-mission-first/1034 "2021-08-02T23:41:52Z")

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Alycia Chin sits in an office at AEGIS HQ. Agent Parker is across the table from her. Parker does not look pleased. That much is normal, but Parker’s displeasure comes in a variety of flavors, and Alycia is learning thei…

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## [07.1 - Fanning the Flame](https://forum.menagerie.team/t/07-1-fanning-the-flame/885)

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**Author:** [@garrett](https://forum.menagerie.team/u/garrett)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [May 7, 2020, 9:20pm UTC](https://forum.menagerie.team/t/07-1-fanning-the-flame/885 "2020-05-07T21:20:49Z")

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This whole “villain undercover” schtick is cute and all but it’s so first season. Where are the dashing heroes just begging to be taken down by the cunning and charming pyrokinetic? Where are the shocking swerves that u…

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## [Dinosaur Island](https://forum.menagerie.team/t/dinosaur-island/693)

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**Author:** [@garrett](https://forum.menagerie.team/u/garrett)\
**Replies:** 54\
**Last updated:** [June 19, 2019, 6:10am UTC](https://forum.menagerie.team/t/dinosaur-island/693 "2019-06-19T06:10:14Z")

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Following this comic, Emma is going to try and make it up to Nono. More on the way. Edit: missed one comic, there we go. Should be two strips visible now.

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## [Alycia's Mess](https://forum.menagerie.team/t/alycias-mess/687)

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**Author:** [@garrett](https://forum.menagerie.team/u/garrett)\
**Replies:** 32\
**Last updated:** [May 25, 2019, 3:31am UTC](https://forum.menagerie.team/t/alycias-mess/687 "2019-05-25T03:31:52Z")

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The showdown everyone was hoping for, and nobody was expecting?

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## [Play Hostage...?](https://forum.menagerie.team/t/play-hostage/59)

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**Author:** [@garrett](https://forum.menagerie.team/u/garrett)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [December 1, 2018, 12:59am UTC](https://forum.menagerie.team/t/play-hostage/59 "2018-12-01T00:59:15Z")

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I feel like their relationship will be a constant source of tension of all kinds. Hey, it kept Moonlighting alive for five seasons.

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## [59.4 - Mess Effect](https://forum.menagerie.team/t/59-4-mess-effect/640)

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**Author:** [@garrett](https://forum.menagerie.team/u/garrett)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [November 13, 2018, 6:42am UTC](https://forum.menagerie.team/t/59-4-mess-effect/640 "2018-11-13T06:42:04Z")

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Trace (it’s never “Stingray” when he’s on the lacrosse field) sees an unexpected visitor. The rest of the team is breaking up. Daphne Palin. Me. Leo Snow. Shit, how many fucking supers do we have in this sport anyway? K…

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## [56.2 - Mess Hall](https://forum.menagerie.team/t/56-2-mess-hall/620)

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**Author:** [@garrett](https://forum.menagerie.team/u/garrett)\
**Replies:** 17\
**Last updated:** [October 22, 2018, 2:51pm UTC](https://forum.menagerie.team/t/56-2-mess-hall/620 "2018-10-22T14:51:47Z")

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It sucks being a pyromaniac. Wait, no. Being a pyromaniac is amazing. It sucks being a pyrokinetic. Hot Mess reflects on the boss’s powers. They’re so amazingly versatile, and he’s done some pretty kickass things with …

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## [44.7 - Messy Business](https://forum.menagerie.team/t/44-7-messy-business/541)

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**Author:** [@garrett](https://forum.menagerie.team/u/garrett)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [July 4, 2018, 11:20am UTC](https://forum.menagerie.team/t/44-7-messy-business/541 "2018-07-04T11:20:15Z")

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The restaurant is fully under control. People have stopped screaming, anyway. Henchmen, posing as customers, visited earlier, sussed out the silent alarm system. They expertly disabled it with an EMP vortex rifle as Hot …

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## [42.4 - Messing Persons](https://forum.menagerie.team/t/42-4-messing-persons/528)

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**Author:** [@garrett](https://forum.menagerie.team/u/garrett)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [June 11, 2018, 1:12pm UTC](https://forum.menagerie.team/t/42-4-messing-persons/528 "2018-06-11T13:12:39Z")

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This whole “going to school” thing isn’t too hard. Gardner Academy, for all its vaunted high-tech amenities and security apparatus, is actually quite lenient toward the students themselves. The perks of privilege, Hot Me…

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## [40.4 - The Young Mess](https://forum.menagerie.team/t/40-4-the-young-mess/518)

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**Author:** [@garrett](https://forum.menagerie.team/u/garrett)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [May 28, 2018, 5:46am UTC](https://forum.menagerie.team/t/40-4-the-young-mess/518 "2018-05-28T05:46:02Z")

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Listen, newbie. I don’t care what she told you. When she’s not giving orders, you listen to me. And right now, I’m going to give you some free advice. So listen up. I don’t care if you’re ex-cop, ex-military, ex-whateve…

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## [39.2 - Messed Up](https://forum.menagerie.team/t/39-2-messed-up/512)

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**Author:** [@garrett](https://forum.menagerie.team/u/garrett)\
**Replies:** 6\
**Last updated:** [May 22, 2018, 6:52pm UTC](https://forum.menagerie.team/t/39-2-messed-up/512 "2018-05-22T18:52:31Z")

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Consumer Science is the only class that Nono Rodriguez shares with the hero known only as Kid Kelvin. Well, he has a name, and the class knows it, but this is still privately how she thinks of him. She has a note. She’s…

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## [38.4 - A Bigger Mess](https://forum.menagerie.team/t/38-4-a-bigger-mess/507)

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**Author:** [@garrett](https://forum.menagerie.team/u/garrett)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [May 9, 2018, 4:24am UTC](https://forum.menagerie.team/t/38-4-a-bigger-mess/507 "2018-05-09T04:24:08Z")

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She’s got a classroom all to herself, since apparently it’s P.E. time or something. She remembers school, but nothing as fancy as Gardner Academy. Back then it was all cramped classes and recycled rooms and over-stressed…

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## [Masks 37.2 - Hot Mess \[Cutscene\]](https://forum.menagerie.team/t/masks-37-2-hot-mess-cutscene/500)

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**Author:** [@garrett](https://forum.menagerie.team/u/garrett)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [May 1, 2018, 11:38pm UTC](https://forum.menagerie.team/t/masks-37-2-hot-mess-cutscene/500 "2018-05-01T23:38:19Z")

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Today’s villain is someone who’s trying really, really hard… “Hot Mess”. It’s a good name for a pyrokinetic. It’s a better name for someone in her mental state. At first she hated it, but it’s growing on her. Her mun…
