Club Week! [OPEN]

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WHO: Everyone!
WHAT: Club Week is underway, and now we have booths set up for people to really recruit and get their ideas out there. Several NPC clubs have been set up as well. Plus, once again, if you want to get in on some X-Men team building, now's a great time for it.
WHERE: The school foyer
WHEN: Wednesday after classes
WARNING(S): None. If threads go into warning territory, please make a new post for their continuation


It's about halfway into the second week of school. People are already starting to form friendships, build social circles, and embrace student life on the Xavier campus. The faculty has set up several booths in the foyer after normal classes on Wednesday in order for students to centralize recruiting for their various interest groups. Some familiar names pop up, of course. "Anime Club", "Chess Club", "AV Club", "Soccer Club", "Glee Club", "GSA Club", "Bible Study Club" and others. It's a pretty inclusive school, after all, so why not have a broad representation of interests?

As classes let out, students are encouraged to look around, get involved, and otherwise put forth the foundation of their social lives for the school year. And of course, there's always people looking to put together teams for other purposes, too...

[[ ooc: Feel free to make top levels for your own groups, or just post open top levels with no specific group in mind ]]

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FOREIGN STUDENTS' UNION

[frigokinetic]

[There's a blonde college kid behind the desk, wearing a stoic expression to hide the fact that she's secretly mortified to be here. There had been a fair amount of interest in her stupid idea, but now she is standing here alone with her more-or-less empty table (there's a nice throw blanket over it to hide the cheap plasticness of the thing, but that's all), and the world looks completely different.]

[Oh, goodness... no one's coming. She can feel it.]

[friendofdorothy]

Liir, who's been told he needs to meet people and socialize, kindof shuffles up there, hands in pockets. His posture is straight from his time in the military, but his eyes are downcast.

Oh, it's her.

"Hello, Elsa."

Wait, did he ever even talk to her via voice chat, much less by video? He feels even more foolish than he did a moment ago.

"...It's me. Liir Ko."

sup

[thirdarrow]

[ Takakage comes by a while later. He had offered to help with sponsoring the club, so it's logical that he would at least check up on it. ]

Good afternoon, Elsa. How is it going?

[ He says this evenly, with a gentle smile. It feels a little to be so informal (compared to his native land), but culture is different here. It doesn't exactly help that he looks as old as the college students, either. ]

Re: FOREIGN STUDENTS' UNION

[knighterrantofthedragon]

Alric certainly comes by... just, not right away. He spends awhile poking around and sort of hovering about the room, making a good show of taking in all the opportunities.

Really, he's just extremely ambivalent about that one table. The last time he met Elsa, he definitely let his enthusiasm run completely amok get the better of him (something he'd promised himself he'd not do, but being stiff-backed and formal around American teenagers feels so out of place but excuses, excuses); conversely, she looks terrible lonely without people coming; conversely again, there are at least a couple of people who show interest, so there's not so much pressure; but conversely again, as a fellow monarch, even if she didn't particularly want him to get involved, it would be something of an insult to show no interest at all, considering the theme of her project.

He can only grimace slightly, realizing there are telepaths around here, so circling the room and looking friendly but slightly aloof isn't really as useful a skill as it would be at court.

Balls.

Okay, okay. Eventually, he makes his way over to the FSU table, and offers a well-practiced amiable but restrained, formal smile.

"Ah, good day..."

He really should have sorted out whether she wanted to be addressed formally or by first name alone or what by this point, but that first meeting had imploded a little more spectacularly than he'd been prepared for. He continues in a slightly hushed tone.

"...erh... my apologies, I.. failed to ascertain whether you'd prefer to be addressed... formally"--he was perhaps about to say 'properly'--"or.. in more American fashion. ...but, ah, I had come, actually, to express interest in this organization you're establishing."

Now he just has to cut off that instinct to offer to jump in and help... somehow-or-other.

[fuckuimametalbender]

[Toph is going around with Bender and asking every single booth what they're trying to get started. This is sort of thing, conventions and faires and stuff, is the only time she gets annoyed with the sighted world. She realizes people don't have to accommodate her if they're not a business or public area, but this is really freaking annoying.

She stops at Elsa's booth, letting Bender sniff around the edge]

What's this one?

[monkeythief]

[Sun stands there for a moment examining the sign before he comes closer.] What exactly is this Foreign Students' Union thingy?

[realmenknitplushies]

[Kanji's just looking around, really, but the sign catches his eye. Okay, so he's not exactly a new arrival in the country, but...]

Uh ... what's this about?

[niepokonany]

[During a lull, Feliks wanders over, still in his ridiculous steampunk outfit from the Costume Club table -- shorts, lacy half-skirt, tights, high-heeled boots and all. But at least it's not a miniskirt this time?]

[Also on the list of blessings Elsa can count is that, while he's not the most even-tempered when challenged, Feliks doesn't really hold grudges unless there's an extremely compelling reason to. He almost seems to not notice that she's someone he's talked to before.]

We like, have a union now?

[It's not an idea that's ever struck him as necessary, but he doesn't sound like he's really knocking it, either.]

[kickstart_my_heart]

Whoa... This is a bigger turnout than I expected. You really know how to draw people together, Elsa.

[seduceme]

[To be fair, most often when Christelle approaches, people would rather no one was coming.

Unfortunately, she is coming.

And she's pausing to glance over the table with a smile before asking:] 'ave you considered 'osting language exchange sessions?

[dreamingoftruelove]

[Giselle is not a foreign student, but she is browsing around and looking at all the clubs people have to offer. She stops by Elsa's table with a friendly smile on her face.]

Hello.

[jolie_aile]

[Somewhat later, that tall blonde beanstalk on the fourth floor flits over in the FSU's direction, still smiling from one of the other stalls. This was non-threatening, right? She wasn't showing her fangs at all! This one seemed much like a flighty little bird.]

Are you still open? There always seemed to be people here whenever I looked earlier.

[upatbat]

[Aki hadn't planned on coming to look at this particular club at first, mostly because she had only heard of it through rumors and barely knew what it'd mean. Really, she was just wandering around, a basket of snacks on hand that she'd been planning to drop at the baseball table, but it's kind of hard to ignore the terrified-looking girl sitting behind one of the sparser tables.

There couldn't be any harm in checking it out, right? So, she approaches with a smile and a wave.]

Hello! Is this the, uh... "Foreign Students" group?

[soccerwhisperer]

[Tenma's on his way back to the soccer booth with more glitter glue for his sign since there no such thing as too much glitter or too much glue, when there's something about this table that catches his eye.

Perhaps it was the prospect that he would no longer feel like the only one having a lot of difficulty in this country. Or maybe it was the girl whose nervousness came off in waves despite her poker face when he really got a look at her.

That was a very nice blanket though.]

Um, excuse me? What does this club do?

MARTIAL ARTS/WHATEVER YOU THINK TOPH MIGHT WANNA HELP WITH

[fuckuimametalbender]

[Toph's just wandering around, asking about the booths and seeing if there's any she's interested in helping out with either in a sponsor capacity or a monetary one (hey, she's loaded and if the club has a good idea but needs supplies Toph is more than happy to foot the bill so the school can focus on important stuff). So come bother her if you have an idea!

Just don't mind Bender. She'll sniff you to death.]

[kamiizumi]

[Leo does recall seeing Toph say somewhere on the intranet that she'd consider sponsoring martial arts clubs. And while he's definitely got kendo lined up, he'd rather get more practice in hand-to-hand than just the required combat classes are going to afford him, especially given his relative skill level compared to most of his classmates. (Life was so much easier with a bunch of similarly well-learned brothers around to practice on.)

Which just leaves the question of whether anyone else has actually gotten on this already, or whether he's going to have to do it himself.]

Can I have a moment, Sifu?

Student X-Team

[scorchedchivalry]

[As a senior, finding a group of students with X-Men interests was important to Arturia. This was the area that she occupied, a binder on the nearest table behind her that she was sharing with other prospective leaders.]

The odds are, at some point in your life, you wanted to be a hero. Perhaps it was the first time you heard of the X-Men and discovered your own mutant abilities. But being a hero is more than just showing off your powers. It is dedication, defending against injustice and, above all, sacrifice.

I am recruiting a team to prepare for my eventual addition to the X-Men. There is a preference for upperclassmen, but if you understand your own abilities and your limitations, I will consider high school underclassmen.

For those of you that do not know, I am Arturia Pendragon - a senior. I am also called Saber. I will answer to either name. If you are interested, please let me know. Allow me to be clear, that I will not be making any final decisions about the team today. Balance is necessary to be effective.

[And she'll repeat this several times throughout the day.]

[presto_turn]

[Even with Principal Munroe's announcement, Shindou hadn't actually expected there to be students out recruiting for X-Teams right in the middle of the hall, just down the way from the set-up for the Glee Club. It's a little strange, isn't it?

All the same, it catches his attention as he heads back towards the soccer team's table after a break, and he steps closer, looking rather uncertain with a little mug of black tea steeping in one hand. He hadn't intended to think about this today.]

Were you looking for teammates with specific types of powers? If you had something in mind for what its focus would be, I mean.

[He asks, once Arturia's finished her introduction. Some of the more cohesive teams he remembers from before stasis had that kind of established specialty, so it bears checking before he considers. Even if his own former trainee group had been more of a wild hodgepodge.]

Soccer Team

[soccerwhisperer]

[Perhaps you'll notice the brunet with the ridiculous wingy hair and flashy yellow shirt. He's juggling a soccer ball around with his feet like a giant hacky sack. It bounces off his knee, head, foot, whatever. Occasionally he'll kick it above his head and spin in place before resuming what he was doing before. If you happen to make eye contact with him, he will smile and suddenly a small, swirling wind will appear around the ball. Or it'll appear to be on fire.

Or perhaps it's that hideously tacky sign on the table behind him. The sign is adorned with the word "SOCCER" in giant, drooping gold glitter, followed by a strange shape in blue glitter which may have been the word "team" at one point. It's clear he used too much glue. Almost every empty space has been filled with an army of soccer ball stickers of various textures and shininess, except for a small corner filled with penguins. Someone, just someone, seemed to have ran out of those balls while making that monstrosity.]

[icy_heavens]

[Toushirou is pretty sure he should be ashamed even passing near that horrible sign. Who let Tenma do this? Who?

[... Oh, who is he kidding? Tenma probably got on this the day he'd come out of stasis. There would've been no time to stop him.]

You seriously overdid it on the sign. [This is probably the nicest way he can say that it's hideous. Be proud of him.]

Baseball Team

[batteredbatter]

[Koshi has never really seen himself as a captain or a leader. Being the pitcher was already about as much spotlight as he felt comfortable with. But some things you just had to do, for the love of the game.

He's in his ridiculously pastel baseball uniform from his middle school because he barely grew at all and has a bat, tossing a ball up and down. Unlike the soccer club though he can't go hitting it around, so it's just for show. He's got a table, though there's not much decorating - just a big banner saying "BASEBALL" hanging from it and some gloves and balls on it.]

Hey, so who wants to play the greatest sport ever invented? The, what was it, the "All American Pastime"? [Yeah someone taught him that phrase. One guess as to which eagle-winged teacher did.] We're taking players of all ages and skill levels. Never played and want to? Now's your big chance! Want to show off your skill? Well come on over!

[He's surprisingly loud for a shrimp]

[kickstart_my_heart]

-Bridget, on the other hand, was sporting what was very clearly a girl's uniform. Something he'd managed to find in the old supply closets. Apparently once upon a time the school had a girl's softball team, which Bridget thought was endlessly cool. He hadn't quite looked into who "LEE" was, the name on the back, but eh. It fit, that was all he cared about.-

Self-defence or weapons use or whatever else Chris might work for, approach for a sponsor!

[seduceme]

[Christelle is looking around with equal parts interest and amusement at the club tables set up. She doesn't remember anything of her school life (not realising she'd never actually been-) and finds the whole experience rather novel, stopping at a few tables to ask the students about the club they've set up.]

Kendo Club

[koukai_kirai]

[For all the grumbling, complaining, and overly-dire warnings that he dishes out to newcomers, seeing all these new faces has reminded him of something important.]

[However much they annoy him personally is basically irrelevant. The students are not in a world which will be kind to them, and the more of them he can prepare to defend themselves without blowing anyone up or getting hurt themselves the better.]

[So no one had to badger him into attending this event. He's got a little table set up, with a white tablecloth and a simple sign bearing the necessary information: Kendo Club, Tuesday-Thursday-Saturday, 7-9 PM. Staff Sponsor: Toshizou Hijikata ( hatamoto@xavier.edu ). Aside from that, there's little on the table - a book he's reading, and a mug that he occasionally drinks from. A couple of pieces of protective gear are there in case anyone wants to try them out, and two swords lean against the wall behind him. And now... now he waits.]

Re: Kendo Club

[knighterrantofthedragon]

"Ah, good afternoon, Mr. Hijikata."

Alric smiled as he approached. Probably during his busy circling of the room and finding excuses to not go by the Foreign Students' Union desk just yet.

"I thought I might drop by and see if there's any paperwork you needed from me, officially, to join--or, if not, to offer some moral support."

Costume Club - Seeking faculty adviser!

[niepokonany]

[Out in the world, Feliks has made something of a name for himself as a community organizer. He's worked with protest groups on two continents regularly, and is heavily involved with a foundation back in Poland that provides shelters and emergency services for mutant and LGBTQ children and teenagers whose parents won't provide for them, as well as an advocacy group seeking greater acceptance for gender and sexual minorities and mutants in the Catholic church, and the public awareness campaign he started during his high school days at the Institute.]

[So, what great venture has he got planned for his final year as a student?]

[~Join the Costume Club!~ proclaims a gaudy but actually rather professional-looking banner -- it helps when you can make something look precisely the way you imagined it ought to.]

[Feliks has gone all-out with his own clothes for his 'demonstration'. He's wearing a ruffly off-the-shoulder blouse, a strappy brown underbust corset (or, well, it would be underbust if there were any bust to speak of), and a combination of short shorts and loose, diaphonous half-skirt that would be right at home in a Final Fantasy game. He's got rust-orange stockings on under the shorts, high-heeled, over the knee boots with cream colored, Victorian-esque lace detailing, and his hair clipped back on one side with a hairpiece that looks like a bronze-colored, leather rose set on a base of lace and gears, with red and cream-colored feathers off to the side like the trail of a shooting star.]

[On the table, there are an assortment of fashion magazines, old and new, and some costuming-themed books from the library, accompanied with a little sign: See something you like? Ask to try it!]

[...It's his last year, all right? He wants to have some fun, too!]

[fuckuimametalbender]

[Bender yips to tell Toph that she's near someone Bender recognizes and Toph runs a hand over the stuff on the table.]

...I'm gonna guess and say this is Feliks?

GSD/LGBTQ+ Student Union Sponsor / Helper in all science-y things

[comparative_insanity]

[Well, no one who knows him is probably greatly surprised to see Fai taking on this role. Possibly the students might not be entirely surprised, what with the occasional skirt or dress, but then again he really just wears those because he thinks they're pretty.

At any rate Fai is perched on the side of a table covered in multicolored glitter and a rainbow flag in silk chiffon. You know, suitably tasteful as always. And if you have to talk about his clothes at all, you'd have to do it in terms of side-laced leather pants and a shirt which was probably spray-painted on. Oh, and he has peacock feathers in his hair, which looks white and pearlescent for today.

He also has a huge bowl full of different pins which are free for the taking, with just about any expression of gender, sexuality, personality that anyone can possibly want, along with a number of different mutant pins. Fai has two attached to his shirt, one with "Pan" and one of a stylized Phoenix, which to no one's great surprise has turned into a symbol of mutant defiance in some circles.

Approach him - or just stand still close to the table for long enough - and he'll happily chat your ears off.]

[fuckuimametalbender]

[Toph is coming over, slightly annoyed. A student told her that one of the booths was getting glitter all over everything.

Toph hates glitter]

You better be planning on cleaning all this glitter up!

School Defense Team

[anythingwithstrings]

*Unlike other students looking to make their own X-Team, Maya's plans didn't actually involve leaving the grounds for any world saving reasons. Because, from what she remembers, there was plenty of trouble that saved them the trouble of going out to look for it. Pretty much a sizable portion of the events happened on the school's grounds.*

*Maya was sitting on the table with her brightly colored (in marker) sign for the school defense team. Unlike the standard X-Team uniform colors, she choose a pale yellow and sky blue instead of the darker gold and blue of the uniforms when she started at the school. There were signs outlining several events in the past that would make a current student paranoid, as well as a small list of useful abilities and mutations to help with school defense. Primary to this was, of course, abilities to sense incoming danger (or training to simulate it). After that was being calm under pressure, and being able to get other students to listen to you when a crisis happens. Lead students to the sub-levels, keep students from running out into danger they aren't prepared for, all of that. Third, and this was more a bonus than it was a real requirement, is if you can fight it would be nice to have a few people that can rescue students she (or anyone else) finds trapped. Especially if the X-Men are off base.*

*She planned to do this on her own if she didn't get anyone to sign up, but the help would be appreciated. It'd save her from deputizing anyone while the school is attacked by robot-pirate-zombies-from-the-future looking for Wolverine (law of averages). But hopefully someone will inquire about the positions. Sadly she didn't think to write free cookies on any of the signs to help sell the club.*

Re: School Defense Team

[knighterrantofthedragon]

Alric does swing by at some point, at least, intrigued.

"...mm. A most sensible notion, Miss-... ..ah.. 'Maya.'"

...he's obviously not exactly used to speaking at least to her so informally.

"An especially defense-oriented team, that is. Seems like you've thought it out quite well already."

Crafts Club / Cooking Club / Possible sponsor

[the_saner_one]

[It has been whispered in Yuui's ear that there are students who might be interested in some kind of sewing or crafts club so about half of the table he's set up is dedicated to that. The other half is mostly covered by plates of finger food, along with some easy recipes, promoting the cooking club. He's done his best to keep things diverse but you can still see a slight leaning towards europe and the italian.

He left the sign making to his brother so they're a bit more flashy and glittery than one might expect, but at least they should be eye-catching enough. And while the glitter may be safe and edible Yuui has still taken great care to keep it away from the food. Well, most of it at least. There's one sign each for the two clubs being promoted and a third, slightly more discreet one, encouraging student to come and talk to him if they're in need of a faculty sponsor.

To pass the time between students stopping by Yuui busies himself with making simple macrame bracelets of different sizes, styles and colors which, like the food, are free for the taking even if there's no interest to join either of the clubs offered.]

Re: Crafts Club / Cooking Club / Possible sponsor

[realmenknitplushies]

[As Kanji approaches, he's trying his best to look more interested in the free snacks than anything else. Certainly going to be helping himself to a couple, but...
He's fooling absolutely no-one the second that he sees the crafts display.]