Opening Day [OPEN]

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WHO: EVERYONE
WHAT: Mingle/Figure out Room Assignments/Meet old friends again
WHERE: The whole campus.
WHEN: September 1st, 2018
WARNING(S): None. If anything goes into warning territory, please create a new log for it.




For all of the newcomers, welcome to Professor Xavier’s Institute of Higher Learning! For all of our returning students and staff, welcome back! Once Professor Xavier’s welcome speech wraps up, it’s time for everyone to get themselves situated in their dorms and, more importantly, get to know your fellow mutants! Even if you’re not sharing rooms, you’ll still be sharing the same campus with each other, so don’t be afraid to get used to all of those new faces! Or even catch up on old ones! You have options; don’t be afraid to use them.

[[ ooc: This is the general mingling post for all of our characters to get settled into their rooms, get to know each other, reminisce with old friends, all that jazz. The log will be split into multiple locations. ]]

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COURTYARD/GENERAL GROUNDS

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FOYER/LOBBY

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BOY'S DORMITORY

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GIRL'S DORMITORY

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FACULTY HOUSING

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OTHER LOCATIONS

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OUTSIDE because Toph

[fuckuimametalbender]

[Toph is once again exploring the grounds of the school. It feels like only yesterday she was doing it with Badger. Now, of course, she's doing it with Bender and this time it's to get a better mental map of the area outside the building. The inside's pretty straightforward, but outside? A little less so.

Come say hi!]

[frigokinetic]

[Welp. Elsa's somehow scored herself a single room on the top floor of the girls' dorm. She was under the impression that there would be multiple people to a dorm room, but frankly, she is not complaining.]

[According to sources on the Internet, leaving your door open is an invitation for others to come inside. Her first instinct is to shut it and shut it tight while she sets up -- but that wouldn't be very social, now would it? And so, against her better judgement, she leaves the door open and swallows the lingering feeling of unease. It will go away in time, hopefully.]

[Care to interrupt the young lady while she organizes her books?]

Re: FOYER/LOBBY

[knighterrantofthedragon]

Alric had done most of his moving in the day prior, and taken a look around the grounds. So, now that it was the general moving-in day for new students, while he was hardly an expert, he's at least gotten a sense of the place, and he put that to good work, strolling about in search of anyone seeming to be lost or otherwise troubled amid the chaos of settling in. It's the noble thing to do.

[knowitallgoddess]

Helloooooooo~!

[One person was taking any reason to peek her head into rooms that were open. An open door was clearly an open heart!]

I hope I'm not interrupting.

[frigokinetic]

Well this is a lobby. If Alric is paying attention, he may notice a young woman sitting by herself in the corner, just watching students pass. With all of their varying looks, styles and powers, it's all a bit much for the queen who spent most of her life locked in castles, so she's taking things one step at a time.

First, she plans to sit among the people of Xavier Institute until she can get her nerves in order, then maybe she'll approach someone... maybe. Or perhaps she will leave that for tomorrow. Best not to get ahead of herself. Either way, the plan was foolproof (she hoped); all it depended on was no one doing anything peculiar like, say, recognizing her...

[tactlesstactician]

[ Second floor, room one. There really isn't much moving in for Soren to do, other than to move from one room to the one he's been assigned. But even then, once he has his clothing put away and his books lined neatly on his desk, he is pretty much done. No decorations, nothing to make it feel homey. He leaves the door cracked open more so that he can hear what's going on outside than anything else, but really he seems content to eschew being social.

Instead, he's flopped on his stomach on the bed he's claimed, with his nose buried in a book. Lame, right? Who spends move-in day reading?

Of course, the fact that he's left the door unlatched means he really has no business complaining if he's disturbed, right? (spoilers: he will anyway.) ]

[frigokinetic]

Oh-- no! Welcome.

[She gives the green-haired girl an awkward smile. Is that dyed? That has to be dyed.]

The room doesn't look its best right now. I am sorry.

[knowitallgoddess]

It's always like that while you're getting settled in so I can't fault you for anything. Do you need any help?

OTA

[thirdarrow]

If anyone looks closely around the staff lounge or faculty housing common lobby, they might notice a certain young man seated and reading a book. There is a slim conductor's baton held loosely in his free hand, and he seems a little too young to be here - at most twenty years of age.

There is a table next to the chair he is in, and on top of that said table is an open large thermos flask and a collection of various cups and glassware. Some are filled, some are not.

Perhaps you wanted some of whatever was in the glasses, or was just curious about this guy and why is he here (isn't he supposed to be in the students's dorm?). Either way, you happen to stop somewhere in his vicinity for a few seconds, and he notices you. Looking up from his book, he addresses you with a surprisingly calm and fluid voice.

"Would you like some tea?"

[whosafraidofthe]

[He's been a bit worried about Elsa since their first meeting. As far as he can tell unease is part of her scent, and since he's been sniffing around for something to do today... he ends up popping in to check on her.]

Do you need some help with that? [He leans on the doorframe, playing with his eternally present carton of cigarettes but unsure if she wants him stinking up the place with them.] I mean, four arms are better than two and all. Might help it go a little faster...

[knighterrantofthedragon]

...despite her cunning plan, there is one small but significant flaw: it involves being the only person sitting around looking pensive and stressed out while everyone else is filing past and trying to get somewhere. Once it's clear she's not just waiting for someone, or catching her breath, Alric steps forward to approach from the side, and coughs lightly into his hand to make her away of his presence if she's as wrapped up in her thoughts as she seemed from across the room.

Ahem.

"Pardon the interruption, Miss, but, ah.. you seemed... troubled. Is there anything I can do to help?"

He speaks in a soft tone to avoid drawing others' attention to them, and smiles amiably and reassuringly... but also tilts his head slightly, contemplative. She certainly is familiar, somehow. Perhaps they'd met at some point, or perhaps he knew her in some other context...?

[kamiizumi]

[Room 1, first floor, conveniently in one of the most likely spots for everyone to walk past on the way to their own rooms. How unstealthy can a room assignment get?

He can already hear some activity in his room by the time he approaches the door; it sounds like his roommate's beaten him here. On the one hand, maybe said roomie will find it easier to not walk into home and be confronted by an oversized turtle boy. On the other hand, maybe that's not much better than having an oversized turtle boy walk in on him?

...on the other hand, aren't people supposed to be used to this kind of thing here, anyway?

He almost knocks, for the sake of politeness - then stops, because that seems backwards. This is going to be home for the foreseeable future, even if he can't really wrap his mind around calling anywhere "home" where his father and brothers aren't. But he's not going to make it feel any less weird by acting like a guest in what's supposed to be his place now, too.

Finally, he compromises - knocking lightly on the door, but then pushing it open before he hears an answer, and poking his head in.]

Hello?

[Or at least, he'll do that if he's left to his own devices, but it's perfectly possible that someone else might walk past and interrupt him before he gets that far.]

garden, ota

[thirdarrow]

The school garden is something he frequents quite often - after all, he was the one who had revitalized it after a few months of neglect. In preparation for opening, the small garden has been revamped - the plants rescued to the best of his ability, the pond cleaned and new fish swimming in its clear waters, and a small pavilion repaired and given a fresh coat of paint.

As the students are streaming in, he gives the garden another final check before he is satisfied that it is in proper shape. Though he does not go out to meet the new folks just yet - if anyone decides to explore the garden, they would see him by the edge of the pond, baton in hand. And if they watch for a few minutes, they will see that he seems to be... conducting the water?

He does move as if conducting an orchestra, slim baton in hand and eyes closed in concentration. Streams of water emerge from the pond's surface and weave themselves in the air, forming intricate patterns and loops. Most are geometric patterns, some simple fractals here and there, but occasionally the ribbons come together and briefly manifest as familiar small animals before dispersing again.

After a while he lets the water fall back into the pond, sighing deeply. If you had been watching, now would be a good time to talk to him.

[kamiizumi]

[After checking out his room, meeting his roommate, and putting away the very few things he actually bothered to bring, Leonardo's next order of business is to get working on that first rule of Getting Crap Done, Ninja Style: know the territory.

Which means a long walk around the courtyard and the grounds.

Which also means a lot of hopping into trees and looking at it from above, because the more angles the better, and a perfectly good hiding place is always worth looking into ahead of time. Just in case.

You might catch him while he's on the ground and wandering like a normal person. You might just as likely catch him jumping into a tree, jumping out of a tree, jumping between trees, or otherwise taking the least orthodox route to "taking a walk around the grounds."

(You're only catching him because right now, he isn't trying. Meeting people...is still a thing he knows he ought to be doing, after all.)]

Open

[icy_heavens]

Toushirou still wasn't sure whether he should have missed being outside or not. It had been five years, but those hadn't passed for him. It didn't feel like such a long time, and yet it had been. His sense of time was all messed up and it was frankly ticking him off.

The heat didn't help. In fact, it helped so little that he decided to flex his power a bit to the point where anyone who got within a fifteen foot radius would feel a sudden, wintry chill. He was just making sure he still knew what he was doing, really. No ice, no frost, just cold. He still had control. This was good.

He didn't bother sitting in one place for long; skewed time perception or not, he just had the urge to move. Nothing hurried or playful about his movement. He was simply . . . refamiliarizing himself with the grounds. That was all. Things changed after five years. New buildings, new paths, new gardens, new people . . . Old people, too.

But not him. No, he was still who he was five years ago. And even if he wouldn't say it, there was something deeply unsettling about all that.

Re: OUTSIDE because Toph

[knighterrantofthedragon]

Later in the day, once people are mostly settled in and there's not much helping left to be done, Alric will be out walking the grounds, himself--in part looking for a good tree to lounge in, like he'd do back home. He pauses a moment on spotting someone seemingly wandering aimlessly with a dog... then approaches, and pauses again when he starts to get at least an inkling of what's going on.

Ahem.

"...ah... pardon the interruption, Miss, but were you trying to find something..?"

At least he didn't say 'looking for something,' but he's a bit new to this. He smiles a bit, reflexively, even though he's got a strong suspicion she won't particularly notice. Maybe the dog will, who knows.

[fuckuimametalbender]

"Nope."

Toph stops, turning towards the voice but not really facing him. "I'm trying to memorize the grounds again. They're not the same as five years ago and if I'm teaching the newbies I should know the layout, yeah?"

[knighterrantofthedragon]

Really? At a glance, she couldn't be older than him, but...

"Ah. Ahh, you're an instructor. My apologies, then, for the misunderstanding. Ah.. I'm Alric, Alric Caelegart... I just arrived yesterday, myself."

He smiled, as much to himself as anything; his curiosity piqued, but he figured it was best to keep it in check.

Third Floor - Room 4

[nobodysweapon]

Laura casually dumped her backpack in the corner and started unpacking her suitcases. She now had enough personal belongings she couldn't carry them all and effectively evade capture without a vehicle. She would need to work on procuring one (legally). Still, her back pack was ready for her to run at any moment it was better for her to leave than stay. She couldn't break that habit yet.

Clothes of multiple styles were carefully put away as she became re-acquainted with her previous selves, the people she pretended to be for these past few years. Things people would call slutty, or prudish, or freaky... she's been all sorts as she tried to avoid Weapon X-23, and all the people that wanted her.

Laura left her door open while she unpacked. Nothing she owned embarrassed her, and her weapons were already checked into the armory for safety reasons. Plus the openness would maybe invite conversation, and she could become better aware of her classmates while she's here.