Schools For New Mutants

[Angelus]

Joseph looked at the water and then at Martin and wondered what the hell was taking Vincent so long to rise to the water. He knew that he couldn't wait any long and he had to help Vincent. With another look at Martin he said, "To hell with this. I am going down there to get him!"

He then disappeared under the water and began to swim down to where Vincent would be. He continued to swin down, everything going slightly darker as he tried to find where Vincent was. Just when he thought that he wouldn't find where his team mate was he saw a human shape laying on the floor and swam towards it. He touched the shape with his finger and smiled when he saw Vincent look at him.

Joseph pointed up to the surface but got a shake of the head from Vincent as a reply. Joseph looked at Vincent with a look of shock and annoyance before grabbing Vincent and pulling him up off the bottom of the pool. It was then that he felt like his lungs were going to burst and knew that he need to get to the surface and much need air quickly but he also had to get Vincent to the surface.

With a somewhat violent pull he grabbed Vincent and began to pull him up to the surface, hoping that he would make it to there soon. Joseph then smiled when he saw that it was getting gradually lighter and that he was nearing the surface. Suddenly his head broke the surface and Joseph took a great gulp of air then looked at Vincent who was trying to struggle free. Joseph pulled Vincent closer and swam to the edge of the pool then pushed him up over to the side of the pool.

He then looked at Vincent who lay there looking straight into his eyes and said, "What the hell do you think you were doing!"

 

[Inkubus]

Vincent

Vincent trembled for a second and then expelled the water in his lungs as his body adjusted. He slowly regained composure and looked into Josephs eyes. "Sooner or later Im going to have to turn my back on you. Sooner or later Im going to have to fight something bigger and stronger than me and I have to know not to run, because my teammates are behind me. I dont know anything about being in a 'team' or friends or a family. But I do know I would have hesitated at those crucial moments, I would have doubted you guys. I watched two members leave already and its only been one day. I needed to do this and I needed to know not just that I could trust you, but That I was capable of trust when it counted. Now you guys know one of my deepest darkest fears, you also know a critical weakness and I gave that to you for free. what you do with that will dictate what we become." Vincent gingerly stood up and reached for his dry clothes. "Now I have three things to say one ,martin do you think you teach me to swim sometime? two,Joseph thanks for saving me,that must have been hard to do without your powers. three, do you guys want to go for a drink I know I could use one."

 

[Neale]

OOC: Sorry, guys, hectic weekend... Thanks for holding down the fort!

Professor X:

Xavier sent out a mental call for everyone to assemble in the main foyer, "Students, I understand that not all of you had an opportunity to obtain clothing and personal items before coming here. You are all on full scholarship here, and your needs will be met, whatever they are. We are going to town now, to pick up those things you need."

Emma Frost:

Emma sent out a mental call to all the other students, "Everyone, please meet me out front. We are taking a trip to town, where we will go shopping. Everything on me, of course!" The students 'felt' her smile warmly at them. "And, gentlemen, I am VERY proud of your actions by the pool."


OOC: Yes, the two groups will meet in town... As if things weren't confusing enough already! If everyone could send me a reminder message of who you are and which school you are in, I'd really appreciate it! Without Isolde's help, this thread is a definite challenge to keep straight

 

[TrippingBilly]

OOC:
Name: Brad
Mutant Name: Fallout
Powers: Uncontrollable rage, I grow to about 7'8, 420 lbs of pure muscle. And I can gather energy and use it as a projectile.
I hope that helps?

IC: I heard the Professor's voice in my head, it was so soothing and sort of echoed, it almost put me to sleep.

"Town, again...Oh boy..." I thought.

 

[Inkubus]

Vincent

OOC Vincent/Parasite
Dark black hair violet eyes
Vincent is a leech on Human synapse and Mutant powers. Vincent can temporarily cancel out mutant abilities in his 'field' the energy gained can sustain him but gives him no power. Vincent is a living parasite or amoeba. he feeds on his enviroment and for some reason he is invulnerable. However without enhanced strength or reflexes he is pretty useless in a fight.

Vincent is an ex slave,ex hound and current member of the Massachusetts Academy.


IC***

"looks like that drink will have to wait, unless you think we can sneak away from a telepath"
Vincent smiled and started to get dressed.

 

[mfucker]

IC: Angel, with no apparent powers except to have a really strong telepathic sense that is only in its beginning stages. Will find out more about herself as the thread continues.

Angel:

I broke out of my little trance and turned back to Tara. I smiled.

"It's not you, listen, the Professor's calling us," I said cheerfully as I pulled her by her hands. As our hands touched I could feel a connection with her that I have never felt before. Tilting my head, I smiled, knowing probably she had felt the same sensation as I had.

 

[Angelus]

OOC: Joseph has the ability to heal himself and he also has advanced senses and reflexes. When angry he becomes a feral creature and is trying to learn control. He also has the strength of a person twice his size.

Joseph is 5'7" and 185lbs, has black, shoulder length hair and green eyes.

Is currently a member of the Masachusetts Academy.

IC: Joseph looked at Vincent with a smile on his face and said, "I wonder if that is even possible. But I would love to try and get a drink but first I think that I should get changed, we all should."

With a laugh he ran from the large room, through the hallways to his room where he quickly got changed then ran through the hallways to the front entrance to see everyone standing there waiting for him.

"Oh whoops.... sorry all."

 

[Gaea]

Sorry for disrupting the flow of the... ah, the thing, here... but is it too late to join in?

 

[Serah]

Rachel

Rachel watched the guys by the pool appreciatively. "Yup definetly the boys mama warned me about...I like it" Suddenly she heard Emma's summons and practically flew out the doors to wait for the others.

OOC Rachel has black hair and blue eyes.
Rachel is a cheap knock off of Rogue back when she was a merc and doing favors for 'mom' . Does anyone rember when Rogue was a villian fighting the avengers? Her touch steals energy and emotion not powers. she has Enhanced strength and Invulnerability.

 

[BadForm]

OOC: Hmm... thought it was still evening, sorry guys, I'd left Cai/Changeling Chans in bed, sleeping. Can someone confirm time of day before I post?

Changeling Chans: Multiple Personality Disordered young woman with the distinction that her different personalities have different abilities.

1: Cai
Cai is the core personality, the original person. She is 5feet 4inch tall, thin, bespectacled, 18, shy and insecure, reasonably skilled at first aid and running, no superpowers. She is present most of the time. Chinese-American, as with all the Changeling Chans.

2: Anh-Dao
Anh-Dao is a being of air, with control over air. She is a wise being in the system, who comes out in moments of confusion, she is, however, somewhat unemotional. She is tall (6'7") and slender. Being air, she has no coloration, per se, and rather takes the color of dust in the area which is swept up about the winds which make her body. If she wishes to, she can calm those winds, making her invisible. She is intangible - and so cannot touch or be touched by any physical effect. She can pass through cracks large enough to permit a draught, making it seems she is almost able to walk through walls. Her voice is soft, like the breeze - she cannot raise her voice. Her only way of interacting with the physical environment is control of air currents - this gives her potentially strong (localised force 5 tornado) power, able to affect a reasonably large area (full tornado/hurricane), but having absolutely no fine manipulation - even when it comes to moving small objects winds will interact with other things around them. As air, she can, of course, fly.

3: Ee-Wei
The earthen element of the Changeling Chans system is a short (4'8"), fat woman. She has very dark (almost obsidian) skin, and tufty hair. Her eyes are drab brown. This is a passive protective alter which comes out when Cai (or one of the others) feels deep fear. She is as hard as the earth, and able regenerate almost any damage she takes (can regenerate limbs, but not a fatal wound). She is slow, and clumsy, but incredibly strong. Ee-wei is like a young mother-figure, caring and sensitive and relatively reserved. She relatively unintelligent, and defers to others in decision making. She also has control over earth - not fine control/ability to animate it, but she can cause earth tremors/earthquakes, lava flows etc.


4: Wei-Fong
Wei-Fong is the water element of the Chans. She is of average height and build, and fairly beautiful - if you can ignore her blue-green skin and foam-white hair. Being a water-controlled person she is emotional, and can sense and control emotions in others. Indeed, it is high positive emotions (eg passion, love, hope), which Cai has denied herself that brings Wei-Fong out. Aside from her abilities with emotion, she is able to control water, any major water: in pipes, in puddles and lakes, in clouds, in oceans. This does extend to other water based liquids (ie she cannot control liquid mercury etc, as its not water), but does not allow her to control water such as in the blood vessels (not enough in one area to focus on). Relatively athletic, her most potent movement ability is, of course, swimming - she can swim better than any fish.

5: Fu

Fu is the only male alter in the system. He is an aggressive protector, built for speed and aggression. He has reddish-yellow skin and orange, is 6'2" and powerfully built. Fast, agile and strong, he is a great combatant, and more so as he is able to control fire. This translates to being able to cause anything flammable to combust, extinguishing flames, directing fire, and shooting fireballs. He can also project a flaming shield all around his body that moves with him - he is not, of course, harmed by flame. He appears when one of the Chans is enraged. He might be intelligent, but as he never stops during his berzerker rage, it's really quite hard to know. He cannot fly, but as with flame, can leap sometimes surprising distances from one thing to another with speed and agility.

6: Shen

The final alter, Shen, is, like Anh-Dao, made of the element she controls: in this case spirit. She has no physical, or visible form, and exists almost as a dream, able to pass through and interact with the minds of others as thoughts. She has the expected parapsychological abilities: telepathy, clairsentience, mind control, mind location etc. It should be noted that Shen, though the most powerful being in the Chan system acts as an inner self helper, and has so far only come forward when the Chan system is asleep.

Finally, it should be noted that in true dissosciative identity form, memory when switching between alters is highly flawed. While an alter will frequently come in with knowledge of why they came forward - other things to do with what they alter they replaced will generally be lost. Cai is trying to work on this by getting them to write in a diary, but they are only part way willing to do so.

 

[Neale]

Setting/info

Time of day: Early afternoon, we will be in town by early evening.
Gaea: Please read the OOC: School for New Mutants thread, then join in! Welcome!

Thanks for the reminder posts, everyone. I'm cutting and pasting them to a document which I'll keep on my desktop!

 

[BadForm]

Cai Chan: Arriving

Emma's call woke Cai in the most peaceful way she had risen for many years. The school was going shopping? Cai was nervous. To her shopping had always been a matter of stealing whatever she needed and could get away with: the odd apple or piece of clothing from a display, enough to get by. Somehow she suspected Ms. Frost had more in mind than that. That meant she would be mixing with other people, and people were scary. Nonetheless, if she was going to stay at this academy, she would have to do it. She got up and dressed quickly.

When she arrived outside there were only two people present: Ms. Frost and a new girl. Cai presumed she was a student too, but as she had never met her, Cai was too shy to introduce herself. Instead she stood off to one side, her gaze downcast, and waited.

 

[Vivid]

Martin

"A drink? You mean, like, alcohol?" I was 19, I'd never drank alcohol before. "Umm... I mean, yeah, that would be cool." I tried to sound non-chalant and 'cool'. I think I failed.

I towelled off quickly and changed just as fast. I was quite a few minutes later than Joseph in arriving at the front hall.

I noticed more that I hadn't met yet.

Well, best face forward. I reassured myself. I unconsciously patted the pocket where my anti-narcolepsy drug was stored in case I felt an episode coming on. Please God, no. I like these people. I don't want to scare them away.

I smiled and joined the others.

 

[Vivid]

OOC:

Martin Brumels

Nitemare

Age: 19, Sandy blond hair, brown eyes. Medium to slight build. Freckles

ability to join people's dreams though this often brings out nightmares. He also sometimes puts others to sleep when he has a narcoleptic episode (also involes shared dreaming). The worst part is he can make nightmares (his or other's) manifest in the waking world. No active control. Though meds help his Narcolepsy.

 

[Angelus]

Joseph walked over to Martin and looked at him with a smile then whispered, "Thank god I wasn't the last person here."

He then slapped Martin on the back, making him take a few steps forward then looked at him. Joseph walked to where Martin stood and said, "Oh man, I'm sorry. Didn't mean to do that."

He then looked to see the other people standing there and with a smile and a bow said, "Hello there people. My name is Joseph and I would love to join you all in town, now if we are all ready shouldn't we get going?"

 

[Inkubus]

Vincent/Parasite

Vincent watched Joseph make his introductions and he watched the students get to know each other. This whole 'team' stuff was hard work. He trusted Martin and Joseph but doing the 'pal' thing was new to him. He fitted his sunglasses over his violet eyes and hung by the edge of the group. listening politely and waiting patiently.

 

[Gaea]

Zoe - Discord

The building was simply beautiful. Far more elegant than anything she'd ever seen back in Russet, Arizona... but then, her hometown wasn't exactly what one could call a bustling metropolis.

The cab pulled up slowly to the Massachusetts Academy, giving Zoe ample time to stare in awe at the archetecture. The ride was over just a bit too soon in her opinion, and she found herself standing on the walkway before the doors of the institute, clutching her tattered duffel in too-thin hands as the cabby pulled away.

"Well... what now?" her voice drifted slightly, like the ephemeral sound of chimes. She adjusted her bulky black turtleneck slightly, making certain the neck was pulled up all the way, concealing as much of her face as possible, then dusted off the hip of her long, black skirt.

Looking up, she noticed a few people gathered near the entrance to the Academy, and waved sheepishly toward them...

"Ummm... hullo..."

 

[Serah]

Rachel

Rachel hopped about impatiently. She moved near Vincent but her powers seemed to disapear on her and she thought better of it.'creepy' she thought to herself. She did her best Valley Girl Impression and answered Joseph "Hi my name is Rachel and Im a Mutant...." She giggled "Is this your first AA meeting or is it that you cant admit you have a problem? " As she spun around she noticed Zoe introduce herself. Happy to not be the only female she walked up to her . "Hi Im Rache these are the guys, lets hurry up and get you unpacked, Ms.Frost's taking us shopping"

 

[TygerEyez]

Tara

I stared at our joined hands quizically. It was strange... I'd never felt anything like that before. There was a warm tingle when we touched... almost like a lost friend coming back to visit. Or the sensation I felt when my Da would be cooking cabbage and corned beef.

Like home.

That's what it felt like. I was surprised by it, but my eyes slowly rose to hers, smiling. She felt it too! I could see that much in her eyes. My hands squeezed hers softly.

"Alright."

 

[Vivid]

Martin

My breath catches at Joseph's friendly blow. I cough somewhat to refill my lungs. I shoot him an "I'm Okay" glance and go back to slowly dying. "Aw man!" is all I manage.
So one of the new faces is Rachel. Her mannerisms make me think of my younger sister, in to clothes and shoes and stuff.

She said the funniest thing then. She was a mutant. It wasn't, like, funny strange, and not even really funny ha-ha, it was just so ... basic. It was honest and refreshing. I felt so much better after she just casually admitted that she was a mutant, like it was the most natural thing.

She wasn't talking to me directly but I thought I should introduce myself anyway. "Hi, I'm Martin." I said for everyone to hear.

 

[mfucker]

Angel:

As we both headed towards the long corridor, Tara suddenly pulled me back. She had a frightened look on her face, and for a moment I had no idea what was wrong with her.

"Are you...." before I could complete the sentence, I saw the corridor in front of me narrowing, as if the walls and the ceilings could move, as the space got smaller and smaller.

 

[Angelus]

I turn and look at everyone and say, "Well seeming as everyone is introducing themselves I might as well. Hi, my name's Joseph and I am a mutant. I know it has already been said but I thought that I would say that everyone here is. I would hate to push this along but are we going to go into town or what because I am personally looking forward to it."

It was then that he saw the new girl that had just arrived and walked up to her, took a bow which got a slight laugh from everyone and said, "Hi there.... welcome to this place of mirth, merriment and all out weirdness."

 

[Gaea]

Zoe

Zoe took a step back reflexively. Rachel was certainly... peppy.

"... Okay." She looked around, perhaps a little nervous in her new surroundings. Something she'd just have to get used to, though. It was strange, having people around... stranger still to have people around that knew -at least in part- what she was going through.

She waved again, before starting toward the doors. "I'm... Zoe."

 

[Inkubus]

Vincent

If a doctor takes a mallet and strikes your knee it causes a jerk we call reflex. If A peppy young mutant comes too close to me and drains a bit of my pain my powers jerk in something I call a reflex. I cant help it, ever since I was a kid everything from telepathy to energy projection just caused me to absorb and dissapate. I tell you though, if looks could kill than this little cheerleader would have left me a distant memory with that scathing glance. No one caught it though just like no one seemed to catch her Alcohlics Anonymous refrence or was it a Simpsons joke its hard to tell. I wince as I realise that Joseph and Martin are doing the intro thing and now everyone is gonna feel obligated, I hate these social things I never quite joined the ann landers set and etiquite is a painful subject for me.I figure Ill skip to the chase and take a marker from my pocket and write 'Hello my name is Vincent' on my shirt. I figure when we leave I can put my jacket over it and when we reach town and I can buy a shirt. As Rachel brings Zoe toward the flock, I gamble and try my Barney Gumble voice... "Dont cry for me I'm already dead..." The irony of that cartoon line doesnt escape me, will it escape them?

 

[sojournerwolf]

Lucas

OOC: about the character...
age 18. Race, Native American. 5', 11", 170 lbs. Yellow eyes. Long, dark hair streaked with shades of brown and white. His body from the neck down is also covered with a short, soft fur of similar color, a bit thicker along the spine from the nape of his neck downwards. His features are strongly reminiscent of a wolf, including pointed ears, long tongue, and sharp teeth. His hands and feet are fully functional but do not quite look human, having an extra join in them and longer end segments than usual. His fingernails and toenails are retractable against the tips of fingers and toes, able to extend into half inch sharply pointed and slightly curved talons. His singing voice is very good and he has a strong talent for music. His mutation includes great strength, speed, agility, endurance and incredible regenerative capabilities as well as highly developed senses of hearing, sight, smell, taste, and touch, an affinity for hunting and tracking.

Xavier is interested in his mutation as it seems part of a strand that includes Sabretooth, Wolverine and a few others. These possess similarities in mutation re: strength, regenerative factor, enhanced physical senses, etc. Yet at the same time each has unique strengths/features and personality traits related to the particular predator for which each has affinity. There is speculation that this group of mutants may represent an evolutionary strand that is at the beginnings of developing into its own sub species of humanity as opposed to many other mutants whose powers and mutations are more spontaneous and unique.

IC: Eyes watch from the shadows. Tired eyes, wary eyes, yellow eyes. It has been two years of running, hiding, alone and in that peculiar mutant underground that has developed of those whose mutations are too obvious to hide, who have become outcasts. Two years since the day Special Agent J. R. Fenniman and his group belonging to a black hole government agency whose sole purpose is dealing with the "mutant situation" outside the normal channels of legality cannot be far behind. Has never been far behind. Not since the day he led a strike force to the reservation and--

Lucas shakes his head. He cannot think of that now. For in the last six months of those two years of running and hiding, he has been haunted by the shadowy figure he calls, the Shaman, who has urged him to this place. The Xavier school they called it in the hills of North Carolina, Mutant U. in that small Iowa town that is populated by nothing but mutants, Haven whispered about by those who dwell in the sewers of New York City. A hundred different names in a hundred different places, yet all have one thing in common. It is a place where a mutant can be safe.

Lucas could stand a bit of safe for a while. He has already ended up in Feniman's hands twice and barely escaped both times. He is not ready to face that again, not yet. Though he knows, someday, he must, for Feniman will have to die. Lucas decided that the day Feniman blew his licorice smelling breath in the boy's face and described in agonizing detail how Lucas' grandparents and those who had wanted to defend him had died.

He stands, stretches. He is not sure why he is here, only that the past six months have seemed to have been something of a vision quest and this is where it led. He has no idea what awaits him, as he watches.

He sees the gate open. From the cover of a low roll in the ground where he has hid himself for nearly a day, he springs forward and starts running. Thought weakened by lack of food for the past week and lack of sleep for almost two days in his growing urgency to find this place, his legs do not fail him and he moves swiftly, silently towards what he hopes, at least for now, will be sanctuary.