Hey Rachel, what's Forge's mutation again?

He's a super genius inventor.

So a technopath like Madison Jeffries?

No, Forge just tinkers with machines.

He doesn't like talk to them or sex them up or anything.

So what about the magic stuff?

Oh, that's unrelated.

Forge learned most of that from Nase.

The old dude who fought the dire rates with Storm?

Well, kind of. See, in that issue, Nase actually got killed and replaced by a dire

rate off panel and then possessed by something called the adversary.

The adversary?

Nominally a Cheyenne trickster figure, although I can't find any actual mythical analog

for him. I mean, there are Cheyenne tricksters, but none of them really fit the adversary's

description, so I assume he's comics specific.

Super bad, kind of the incarnation of chaos.

Ouch! So how did the adversary get to him?

Well, Nasay had fought the adversary before, but he'd managed to lock it away.

But unfortunately, Forge had freed it when he was in Vietnam. How did he do that? Well, a bunch of soldiers... it What?

What?

What? Hi, I'm Rachel Eddidin.

I'm Miles Stokes.

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