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. ]]

Comments

[tactlesstactician]

[ There is a long moment of silence during which Soren just -- blinks at Bridget. Then he lets out his breath in something of a snort and shakes his head, looking back down at his book. ]

... any powers I should know about?

[ Obviously Bridget has to have some, but not all mutations are really necessary to know about. ]

[kickstart_my_heart]

-Bridget raised his finger, signaling for Soren to watch before he quickly unholstered the yoyo hanging off of his hip. With a flick of the wrist, he tossed it into the air, without looping the string on his finger and then just reach out to poke it...

... stopping it completely in place. No movement whatsoever. Even the loose string was suspended in the air.-

Pretty neat, right?

[tactlesstactician]

[ The demonstration does pull him away from his book again to watch.

That - that actually is pretty cool. Soren can see right away how being able to stop things would be useful. ]

Mm. [ He nods, though he wonders... ]

Just stopping things?

[kickstart_my_heart]

Dr. McCoy said something about "kinetic vectors" or whatever. I'm not super up on my physics so I can't say I really knew what he was talking about or how all this works.

[tactlesstactician]

[ That -- is actually something Soren has read about and understands, and he looks a bit more interested now. He's quiet for a moment as he thinks about the best way to explain it. ]

If you were to graph the movement of an object over time, at each moment you could break down its movements into up to three directions in the X, Y and Z planes and the rate of its movement in that particular direction at that moment. That combination of direction and magnitude of movement is a vector. Kinetic refers to the energy of motion. So basically you can control the motion of things.

[ tl;dr congratulations, Bridget, your roommate is an antisocial nerd. ]

[kickstart_my_heart]

Whoa... That... Huh. I can actually make sense of that. -Beast's way of explaining it was significantly more wordy.-

[tactlesstactician]

[ Soren sits up and rolls off his bed to go over to his desk. He plucks an introductory physics textbook off and then holds it out for Bridget to take. ]

... this might help.

[kickstart_my_heart]

-Bridget's eyes lit up, gleefully taking the book. He was only in biology this semester. This would go a long way in helping understand how his powers worked.-

Thank you so much!

[tactlesstactician]

... [ Soren makes a noise of acknowledgement and then sits down on his bed again, pulling a leg up and wrapping his arms around it as he rests his chin on his knee. ]

If you haven't learned the math for it, I have math books too...

[kickstart_my_heart]

Oh no, lad, MATHS I've got. Dad was an engineer, right? He made sure my brother and I were well up on our maths. I woulda started on Algebra early but... well. Homeless for a year and all.

[tactlesstactician]

Ah. . . . for a year? Something happen to your father?

[kickstart_my_heart]

W-well, no, he's fine... I just ran away.

[tactlesstactician]

[ Soren just kind of stares at Bridget for a moment. ]

Why? Didn't like mutants?

[kickstart_my_heart]

... Didn't like the feeling of being a bird in a cage. I can't watch everything from home. I can't be locked away forever, no matter how much dad said it was for my own good...

I want to find my own path in life.

[tactlesstactician]

I see.

[ Soren heaves a sigh. ]

But you brought the robot bear with you.

[kickstart_my_heart]

Well... I like having something to cuddle with at night, if I'm gonna be honest. I've had Roger since I was little.

[tactlesstactician]

[ Envy sparks briefly in Soren's expression, but he quickly stifles it. ]

... will you ever go back?

[kickstart_my_heart]

... Don't know. I love my dad... and I know he loves me... but right now, I gotta be my own person. Dunno where that's gonna take me.

[tactlesstactician]

[ He nods and remains in pensive silence for a time after that.

Who knows where time and this place will take any of them, really...?

Eventually, if Bridget doesn't have anything further to say, Soren will flop back on his stomach (careful not to roll onto his back) to resume reading his book. ]

[kickstart_my_heart]

-Bridget set the book aside, laying on his own bed and letting out a sigh.-

So, uh... Whatcha readin'?

I went and stared at my bookshelf and then just picked a high school textbook at random

[tactlesstactician]

[ Turns a page. ]

The Unfinished Nation. . . . it's one of the history textbooks.

[kickstart_my_heart]

... Oh bugger. American history. My dad only briefly touched on it, and usually only in the context of advancements in science and engineering.

[tactlesstactician]

Mm. I didn't attend school most of my life, so I'm mostly just trying to get caught up on things I would have learned here. [ here being America. ]

[kickstart_my_heart]

Mm... Do you think we could study together, then?

[tactlesstactician]

... [ Soren hesitates, chewing on his lip. ]

What do you do when you study together?

[ What does one do? He's used to just reading and taking notes. ]