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The Xavier Institute Mod Journal ([personal profile] astonishing_xmods) wrote in [community profile] xavier_institute_logs2015-07-10 06:39 pm

The District

Who: Anyone and everyone
What: Another news update, coming to you live! 
Where: On any television, radio, or computer screen
When: All week
Warning(s): If a thread goes into warning label territory, either throw it in the subject line or take it to a separate log.

"...An explosion rocked a New York apartment complex today leaving 3 dead and 12 injured. Authorities are still investigating the cause of the blast which originated in a third story apartment. Survivors are reporting having seen a blinding light before the explosion leading to speculation that it could have been..."

"...Concert in central park was a rousing success as thousands of mutants and humans alike came together for the 2 hour spectacular. When asked what was next Dazzler said she'd be sticking in New York for a while to work on her new album before heading back on tour..."

"...First fatalities have been reported from the virus sweeping through the mutant population of District X. Heath officials are working alongside Dr. Henry McCoy on tracking the virus which still hasn't spread outside the Mutant population..."

"...Receiving reports of Claudine Renko through Canada and the United States. None of these reports have been corroborated and authorities are still asking people to report any sightings and..."

"...Repairs have completed at Xavier's Institute for Higher learning after the incident in May. Not much is known about what happened but proponents of the Mutant Registration Act have been using it as an example to push the legislation. When reached for comment Senator Graydon Creed responded stating a worry that if this was what happened in their own neighborhood that you should imagine what could happen in yours..."

[[ ooc: Anyone can feel free to start their own threads in this log in response to one or more of these news clips, or even to things related but not specifically posted here. Go forth and mingle!]]

long_live_the_queen: (did I mention she's irritable)

[personal profile] long_live_the_queen 2015-07-14 05:01 pm (UTC)(link)
"Don't touch me!" Kaede snapped, recoiling away reflexively. There was a strange presence with very loud thoughts too close to her that made him seem closer than he was. The thought of someone she didn't know touching her horns temporarily overrode the fact that he was trying to help. Too close. Too strange-

-ice? Why was he giving her ice?

Oh, right, Liir hit the deck. That was kind of important, wasn't it.

Her grumbles died down to indistinct muttering as she reached under Liir's arms to get him off of the ground.

"The hell happened to you?" Kaede's voice was quieter, but still just as tense. No need to attract more attention than they already did.
griot: (gasp)

[personal profile] griot 2015-07-14 08:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Viti had run from the scene. He didn't want to be close to the virus, and he certinly didn't want to be around Kaede when she was angry. She looked scary.

When he was done calling for help, he stopped running, and he hunched over gasping.

"Damit!" Viti said aloud to no one. "Liir was my best hope for combating the virus."

Viti took a moment to catch his breath, leaning against a wall for support. His heart beat started to slow, but then he had a horrible thought. His eyes bulged the color drained from his face, and his heart pounded again. He suddenly started pacing anxiously, for he had realized he did something foolish. Very foolish.

"Maybe the virus isn't that contagious," He told himself.

His heart rate only beat faster. He knew there was a reason Liir and others had the disease (or at least he felt sure he did)

"Maybe the district X virus is like many viruses. It's at its most contagious when there are no overt symptoms. Maybe Liir knew that so he had that mask on until symptoms showed."

Viti kept pacing and kept rationalizing.

"I was pretty far away from Liir. Unless that virus spreads like the measles I should be safe. I man most pathogens don't spread like the measles virus." Viti sighed. His stomach turned, with anxiety, but he realized he could not deny the frightening possibility. He lifted up his smart phone, and with cold sweat forming on his forehead, he dialed the number.

"Hello? I think I might need to be quarantined."
kinofwrath: (worried)

[personal profile] kinofwrath 2015-07-15 12:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Zancrow, back in from a run, is nearly knocked over by Viti, and turns the corner to see Kaede and Liir. He walks over to them. "Need help?"
long_live_the_queen: (slightly less of a scowl)

[personal profile] long_live_the_queen 2015-07-15 06:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Kaede turned to look after Zancrow's voice, to get her spatial awareness back under control again. He was at least familiar enough she didn't mind him getting closer, at least.

"Could you get his other arm?"

She was already lifting Liir up to her shoulder; she could just carry him all on her own, but she didn't want to expend more energy than she had to. Not now.
griot: (Pull on hair)

[personal profile] griot 2015-07-15 07:12 pm (UTC)(link)
(OOC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8t5f7y7LT6k)

Viti took a breather, but his eyes bulged one more time when he remembered something important.

"Zancrow!"

Viti ran back, pounding the floor with his sprint, and pounding his chest with his heart. Still far away, but within sight Viti stopped, and his jaw dropped.

"Zancrow! No!!" Viti's body quivered as he reflexively reached out. Viti's mouth was gaping, his eyes blood shot.

"...the virus...District X...Liir..." Viti collapsed to his knees, for after months of work, and arguing, and struggle, he was certain that he was seeing the one life he thought he saved slip away.

His mind was braking, his world crumbling, for a few seconds he was silent, then one last scream to the sky.

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!" Viti gripped his hair as his now empty eyes pointed to the light above. Finally, his arms and his head fell.

(ooc: I wonder what Viti's thoughts look like now.)
friendofdorothy: (wait when did he become hot?)

[personal profile] friendofdorothy 2015-07-15 08:49 pm (UTC)(link)
To tell the truth, Liir has been wearing the mask because he just assumed he would get the virus due to his natural pessimism.

His eyes open to a squint as he feels himself carried away. Someone is being very loud and it's not doing his head any favors.

"What is the Wizard-fucking racket about?" He quietly croaked. Just an ordinary quasi-public fainting here, no need to make a big deal about it.
kinofwrath: (worried)

[personal profile] kinofwrath 2015-07-17 02:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Nodding, Zancrow went over to Liir's other side and helped lift him.

"To the infirmary?" he asked Kaede. He then looked down at Liir. "Viti's being weird," he said quietly.
long_live_the_queen: (fucking stairs)

[personal profile] long_live_the_queen 2015-07-17 04:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Jagged blots of color lanced across her vision, the thoughts near her becoming more erratic, the voices louder. Shards of yellow and panicked red flickered in Kaede’s vision like so many terrified birds, discoloring the floor and walls and making it difficult to see properly whenever the ice-person raised his voice. Which was often.

"Before my head explodes," she muttered to Zancrow between grit teeth, covering one eye with her somewhat free hand in an attempt to block out some of the noisy thought-colors. She didn't snap at anyone to shut up--there were enough loud noises.
griot: (gasp)

[personal profile] griot 2015-07-17 05:26 pm (UTC)(link)
(OOC: FriendofDorithy, I can always delete it if it's a problem right?)

The 13 year old boy hated everything at that moment, so much so that he thought just running away, saving his own life to be away from others that didn't seem to want to live, but then a fact, arrived in Viti's head. Viti looked up and saw movement.

Viti was too far away to hear Liir's words, but he saw lips moving. He considered, but when he saw that Zancrow and Kaede were leaving with him, he knew his window was closing.

He quick grabbed piece of paper, wrote something, and griped it in his palm.

Viti rose. He marched, he picked up pace to a jog. He knew that Kaede and Zancrow were so vicious they might as well have been two lions guarding a cub, but humanity was at stake.

When he close enough he threw the piece or paper and said,

"Someone in the team has brought the virus back from district X. If not you then someone else. If everything falls apart your power might be our last resort!"

Viti hears the foot steps of the emergency workers he called, and he sees that Kaede is stressed and might be prone to do something drastic.

"I have to go explain! Call me if you can!"

Viti retreats, running to explain why he doesn't need to be quarantined after all, and running not to be torn apart.

(ooc note: Viti out.)
Edited 2015-07-17 19:03 (UTC)
friendofdorothy: (wait when did he become hot?)

[personal profile] friendofdorothy 2015-07-17 10:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Liir squinted after Viti as he left, way too feverish to understand what it was about. He made a half hearted grab at the paper but missed. It fluttered to the floor.

"My power? I can only...Only see the past. Not change it. Don't think I can talk to a virus either. What would we even talk about?" He chuckled weakly. "He's right though. Could give it to you. You should be wearing a suit."
kinofwrath: (worried)

[personal profile] kinofwrath 2015-07-18 03:46 am (UTC)(link)
"I will never understand that kid," Zancrow commented as he and Kaede began to take Liir to the infirmary. He shifted so that he was carrying most of Liir's weight, as it looked like Kaede was dealing with some issues as well.

"Don't worry about it," he told Liir. "We'll get checked out after we get you there."
long_live_the_queen: (another blank stare icon)

[personal profile] long_live_the_queen 2015-07-18 06:27 am (UTC)(link)
One of Kaede's vectors picked up the piece of paper Liir missed; as Viti got farther and farther away her vision started to clear of distracting thoughts. Walking was easier with each step, as the red cleared away to a translucent orange. It wasn't entirely gone, but it was much simpler to ignore now.

"I might say sorry if I sneeze on you," Kaede added, semi-helpfully.

The thought of being exposed hadn't fully occurred to her until now; it made her feel...well, she wasn't sure exactly. Nervous, frightened, angry, disgusted--none really fit. She just seemed grumpier than usual.

Which was, well, usual.

"How inconvenient."
friendofdorothy: (wait when did he become hot?)

[personal profile] friendofdorothy 2015-07-18 12:31 pm (UTC)(link)
That was the first time Liir had heard Kaede apologize, even hypothetically. Liir on the other hand....

"Sorry."

He slumped awkwardly into their support.
kinofwrath: (worried)

[personal profile] kinofwrath 2015-07-19 12:00 am (UTC)(link)
"Might be easier if we put him on my back," Zancrow offered, he may be look skinny, but he could carry Liir's weight. He was worried about Kaede too. Not really about her, but as a fellow team member and ally against the tree huggers.
long_live_the_queen: (guess she doesn't need a nose)

[personal profile] long_live_the_queen 2015-07-19 08:55 pm (UTC)(link)
"Fine." She would have shrugged, but there was a Liir there. Her voice was neither hostile nor friendly, she just had nothing else in particular to add.

Two more vectors appeared, clasping Liir's shoulders like hands to keep him from falling backwards while her physical arms did most of the work in transferring him to Zancrow. There were still a few stabs of fearful colors in her vision, but not so many now.
friendofdorothy: (wait when did he become hot?)

[personal profile] friendofdorothy 2015-07-19 10:28 pm (UTC)(link)
He couldn't effectively protest being shifted around like a sack so he didn't.

"Try'nto...not let my sec'ndary power...activate. Sorry if I...see something I shouldn't."

FFS Liir, quit apologizing.
kinofwrath: (curious)

[personal profile] kinofwrath 2015-07-20 03:20 am (UTC)(link)
"You, shut up, rest." Zancrow told Liir as he shifted the older boys weight into a comfortable position. He wasn't particularly loyal to Liir either, but Renko must have seen something in him, and that was enough for Zancrow. For now.

"What's his secondary power?" he asked Kaede.
long_live_the_queen: (another blank stare icon)

[personal profile] long_live_the_queen 2015-07-20 06:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Kaede kept walking next to Xancrow like she was still carrying Liir, steps more even now. The vector holding the folded up note tucked it into one of Liir's pockets as they moved.

"He'll see things you remember if he gets your hair stuck to him."

Her explanation was much more brief than Liir's own had been. She wasn't too worried, though...well, maybe a little. Kaede tended to shed absolutely everywhere all the time, but he'd never confronted her about anything in her memories before. Hopefully it would stay that way.

Her memories weren't nice ones to have.
friendofdorothy: (Default)

[personal profile] friendofdorothy 2015-07-20 07:52 pm (UTC)(link)
No elaboration from Liir. He's out cold.
kinofwrath: (Default)

[personal profile] kinofwrath 2015-07-21 12:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Frowning, Zancrow looked over his shoulder at Liir, and sighs in relief when he sees the other boy is asleep.

"Well, looks like we don't have to worry about that right now." He looked over to Kaede. "Which way to the infrimary? I haven't been there yet."
long_live_the_queen: (slightly less of a scowl)

wow self way to letters

[personal profile] long_live_the_queen 2015-07-22 07:26 pm (UTC)(link)
"Turn left up here. It's not far." The last time she'd been this way it was for another dose of painkillers for bruised ribs. The memory made her scowl.
kinofwrath: (worried)

Re: wow self way to letters

[personal profile] kinofwrath 2015-07-23 12:07 am (UTC)(link)
Turning around the corner, Zancrow spotted the infirmary and made a bee line for it. Once inside he set Liir down on the nearest bed and looked around for a nurse.

"We should be tested or whatever." He frowned down at Liir. "Whatever he's got doesn't look fun."