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[Lexaeus]

Ari was quite absorbed in his book, so when Kim came back and started talking he was a bit startled. He quickly composed himself and replied, "It was terrible, I only hope it wasn't as bad for you as it was for me." When she told him not to laugh he gave a quite audible "hmmmmm". He looked at the mugs, the first one was a mug that claimed to love his father, while the second one was clearly a more memory based item with a hand painted snowman, the lovable Frosty in peculiar. He gave another "hmm" after he set his book down and rested his chin on his working hand. He then decided, "My dad tends to be pretty awesome, so I guess I can proclaim my love for him to the world via mug."

[Secret Igshar]

"Awright, cool." She handed him the daddy mug and then sat down on the edge of his bed, pushing his legs aside a bit to make room. She pulled the sleeves of her coat down to cover all but her fingers as she gripped the mug with both her hands, blew off the smoke, and took a sip. She smirked.

"You know, I've never met anyone else who likes hot cocoa in the springtime." She flashed her eyes to him and asked, "Or did you just agree to placate me?" People tended to do that. It was part of why she didn't much like people. She looked back down to the little marshmallows floating in her mug. "I think I might have put too many marshmallows in that one. I hope you don't mind." She took another sip and hunched over a bit, sliding her knees together as her feet turned inward.

The freshmen weren't very often interested in the trophy room. It was mostly stuff that the seniors would go check out and gawk at for a few hours every now and again, saying how they wished they had been around when such and such villain was attacking the city. They'd go off on what they'd do. How they'd "save the day." What did freshmen care? She scrunched up her face and took another sip of her cocoa.

[Lexaeus]

Ari took the mug and dipped his index finger in the cocoa to get its temperature. Not a very classy thing to do, but he felt it was good company to do it in. Judging it wasn't too hot to burn him he quickly took a sip, enjoying the flavor, heat, and the feeling and sweetness of the marshmallow in his mouth before swallowing. Ari smiled at Kim's remark and question, his response was almost instinctive, though he waited a second to make sure he worded it right and then he spoke, "I come from tea-lovers and coffee-drinkers, so hot drinks were aplenty growing up, I learned to be fond of them. Though I hope the rumor of caffeine stunting your growth isn't true. I need every inch I can get." She then asked another question, more-so to create small talk. He replied, "Not at all, extra mini marshmallows are more than welcome in my hot cocoa." Ari examined Kim's changing body language as he took a larger sip of hot cocoa; she looked like she was in contemplation. He didn't want to bother her mid-thought but wanted to see if she wanted to make conversation of it. He asked her after she took another sip, which told him she was approachable, "Something on your mind, Kim? Want to talk about it?"

[The Dream]

While Jack and Rose got busy fighting the boss of the whole operation Shine made decided to dispose of the rabble he was with. While he was rubbing his sore back Shine sent a punch to the side of his head and thought to herself "sorry". The man was a robber, but taking down an already damaged man felt like a sad move. Shine would have another fist right behind it in case the bank thief would manage to dodge the attack. From there Shine would continued to go down the stairs and would run over to the vault door to see if anyone was hiding in there. She looked back to the fight Jack and Rose were having. She had enough faith in the two to believe they could handle themselves just fine in that fight but she stayed vigilant in case they needed her support. At the same time Shine would keep an eye on the vault behind her.

Edited by The Dream, 16 November 2012 - 06:30 AM.

[Valor]

The lights in Ellie's room dimmed and a blue Loading... popped up before her. From the shadows stepped a rather short figure. In the dim lighting it appeared as if she was a young girl. She had short, cropped black hair, light brown skin, and was wearing a tanktop and give-up-on-life pants. She put a hand on her hip and looked Ellie up and down, shaking her head.

"This'll hardly be a challenge." the girl said.

A countdown hovered in front of Ellie's face before she could really process what she had just gotten herself into.

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[Secret Igshar]

"Hm?" Kim glanced to Ari and grumbled, "I dunno, it's probably nothing. Just a couple freshmen hanging somewhere weird. You know a big hulking brute and his little stony sidekick? I think they're in your class, since I've never seen either of them before."


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The sphere's shape would re-appear around Nate as both thugs vanished into squares the same way as they had come.

[spoiler=SPOILS]
Nathaniel Simmons has successfully reached Level 2!

Nathaniel has earned:
+1 Skill Point
+1 Power Point[/spoiler]

[Kingroy]

Axel felt exhausted after his victory. All sweaty and bruised and just a bit learned, he left the SMART rooms heading towards his room.

Once he settled down in his room and picked up a set of lounge wear, he headed to the showers to scrub himself thoroughly.

After the shower he would end up back in his room, napping.

[Ralor]

Zoey watched as Rose quickly eliminated the robber that was still standing. Seeing the exposed safety deposit box, something made her want to examine it- they were being paid to rob a bank, so maybe they weren't just stealing money- but first, they'd have to deal with this clown. Zoey took a fighting pose, took a quick swig of her potion, and tossed four mushrooms at the foe.

[Valor]

Chris' Angels:

Jack slid to safety, only getting clipped by the boss' boot before slipping away. He looked up at her as she called him out and scowled. "Hardly. Me and my man are enough to take you little girls out!" he hollered beneath his ski mask.

Just then, Rose got up and slammed her foot into the henchman's nards. He whimpered and fell over, hard. He didn't get back up. The boss dropped his hands. Slowly he dropped to his knees and covered his head. "A-alright. You win. J-just don't hurt me..."

Just then, out of nowhere, four mushrooms slammed into his face. He covered his head and pressed his forehead against the ground. "I said I give up! Why are you throwing mushrooms at me!?"

The simulation around the girls faded away. They were back in the metallic room, and Christine was walking slowly towards them. She clapped her hands slowly as they would each realize they were back in their normal clothing.

"Not bad, not bad. Miss Lomadia over there is a little bit of a loose cannon, though. Still, because of her quick-thinking you were able to get out of a few tight jams. I do have to confess that I ran the simulation a teensy bit longer just to see him get smacked with those mushrooms." she said with a grin.

"Not a bad first day," Chris continued. "I hope you all feel a bit better now having used your abilities in a productive and proactive way. Hopefully you don't think it's going to stay this simple. We have some pretty high expectations of you girls, and I'm gonna do my damnedess to keep you all on the top of your game."

She looked around the group and nodded. "If any of you want more evaluation or pointers, just ask. Other than that, you're all free to go. I wanted to be the first to welcome you all to Praesent Academy for the Exceptionally Gifted. It's gonna be a wild ride."

The door slid open and Chris returned to the console to check over the data collected from the training mission. The group was free to leave.

[spoiler=SPOILS]
Jack Fross, Shine Willet, and Rose Hallfield reached level 2 and gained 1 Skill Point and 1 Power Point each.

In addition, each member of the team would find themselves 75 C richer![/spoiler]

Edited by Valor, 16 November 2012 - 06:59 PM.

[Secret Igshar]

Jack smirked when he gave up. "Yeah that's right." She marched up to him, ready to cuff him, when the mushrooms slapped him and the simulation ended. She looked around quickly and then down at Arnold staring up at her and said, "Whoa, what?" She had forgotten it was a simulation.

Suddenly, she ached all over. "Awh, shit."

The mission was declared a success and they were all dismissed. Jack leaped up and cheered, "WAHOO!" She then clapped her hands quickly and rushed back out to the central hubs to look for the other teams. The boys' SMART Room was powered down and the one Professor Hendricks had opened was just wide open, like hers was. She peered in, but didn't catch sight of Ellie.

A bit distressed at missing her friend, she instead stuffed her hands into her pockets and trudged off out of the SMART Hub, heading for the elevators and went up.

She stopped, however, in the trophy room. She hadn't really noticed it was there, before, since they rode right on past it. It was just a wide, square room that connected the elevators, the staff rooms (including the headmaster's office), and the gym and workout spaces. Nothing special, outside of the seven tubes that lined the walls. Three along the northern wall, and four along the southern wall.

They were large, blue tubes with glass between two circles of metal. In each, an artifact was suspended, as if by magic. She followed them along and examined each of the objects along the northern wall, in turn.

First came a peculiar, blue helmet. It looked cool and all, but really she thought it was lame. The second tube had this really cool red cape that was singed and burnt at the bottom and torn in some places. It looked like it had been to hell and back, literally. The symbol of the academy was plastered in yellow on the cape, of course. Must have belonged to one of the old Headmasters. She made a mental note to ask the current one for the story on that cape sometime later.

The third tube held a long, silver staff which was hooked on one end, almost like a shephard's staff. It looked to be in pristine condition, and when she touched the glass, a shockwave of some kind pushed her off. That hadn't happened at the others, even when she smooshed her cheek against the cape's tube in an effort to see it as close as she could.

She looked across the room to the other tubes but quickly grew bored of looking at random shit. She didn't feel like going back up, yet, so she just went back to the cape again to look at it more closely.

Edited by Rumbleroar, 16 November 2012 - 11:03 PM.

[Midnight]

Rose set down the weapon as the Boss gave up. She pumped her fists up in the air as the simulation ended. "Woohoo!" She ran out of the room once their teacher was done addressing them. She wasn't sure what to do. She ran back in the room and hugged Shine. "Hey! Hey! You busy? Wanna hang out?"

[The Dream]

Shine looked around and went back to her usual self. When the simulation had ended she smiled and crossed her arms. The team had done a pretty nice job if she had to comment on it. Maybe not the best job like the effortless way superheroes in movie would do it, but good enough for a few kids. "...Yay.." Shine's voice immediately went back to a quiet shy tone like when had to introduce herself before.

She sighed and smiled watching two of her teammates run out off the room celebrating. I'd like to do that....oh but then what would people think of me? I'm too hyper when I let myself relax, gotta restrain myself. She crossed her arms, closed her eyes and nodded at her thoughts. Shine expected to waltz out of there once she opened them again but instead she was 'attacked' by her teammate with a hug and then asked if she'd want to hang out with her. It seemed the training wasn't over for the day.

"Uh..uh um...W-well I'm free for the day I guess. Um...what would you like to do?" underneath her hoodie Shines abnormal eyes would be darting to Roses face a few second before wandering around the room, then looking back at her. Dang, where to people look when you're talking to someone without looking like a creep staring at different parts of their face?. She fiddled with her fingers and smiled. She had planned to stick to herself throughout her time in the academy but Rose seemed friendly enough.

[Ralor]

Following her training, Zoey went into her room for a little bit. She wanted to at least stock up on her potions after the battle, putting them in her sack, but ended up playing around with them a little bit as well. She popped a few mushrooms into reality and planted them in her small chest of soil. "Today was pretty eventful, to be honest. I'll go back down here in a bit, but first I'll have a bit of a swim." Zoey grabbed her bathing suit and went out to the pool.

[Lexaeus]

Ari thought about the people he had meant and the first congregation of his full class this morning. There were a lot of people that didn't show up, even with the whole mind announcement. But no like that was there, no hulks or stonies. Ari answered to Kim, "Well even if they are, they didn't show for orientation, no one like that was there." He then asked, a with a hit of curiosity, "What weird place? I've taken some time to browse through most of the school." He took a sip of hot cocoa.

[Valor]

Ludovic would see the door to the training room open silently. His session was over, and sadly ended in near victory, but not quite.

[spoiler=SPOILS]
Ludovic Shoultz reached level 2 and gained 1 SP and 1 PP in doing so O:![/spoiler]

Nate exhaled and pulled off his mask. He stuffed it into his pocket and stretched out a little before leaving the training room. As he was leaving, he saw other students bursting forth from Christine's training room. They seem happy. They probably ended up doing well. They'd probably have been smacked down as hard as Desmond did to us if I was in their class, he thought bitterly. Regardless, he would take the elevator up to the level above.

One of the girls was admiring a ratty old cape in a display case. Nate felt something weird inside of him. It was telling him to go talk to her. No, I don't want to bother her. She seems way too interested in that rag, anyway. I'll come and check out that sword some other time, he thought while eying a long, beautiful silver sword in a display case. He took a step towards the locker rooms to shower off, but stopped mid-stride, frozen like a statue.

Nate, I don't think that's some place you want to go. You have nearly private showering facilities on your floor! He turned around abruptly and headed back to the elevator, taking it to the main floor lobby

[Secret Igshar]

Kim shrugged. "The trophy room. I'm probably reading too much into it. Some of the stuff in there is pretty neat. There's this silver staff that I personally find to be really interesting. It's supposedly from the first century CE. People claim it was Jesus' own shepherd's staff. Would be cool if that were the case, don't you think?" Kim wasn't the religious sort, but the myths about Jesus and his powers over life, death, and alcohol struck her as being just so cool. So she believed he existed. She just didn't buy the stuff about omnipotent invisible men in the sky. Didn't seem kosher to her. Omnipotence and yet the dude takes no responsibility in caring for this mess of a world? Either that's a jackass unworthy of respect, or there's just no one there. And that was Kim's opinion on the matter.

"Well, I think it would be cool, anyway." She sipped from her mug again and shook her head. "They were probably just checking the things out. Ignore me and my conspiracy theories."

Kim then sighed and looked to Alessandro. "I think I should come clean, by the way. You really don't have to stay here overnight. You should be good enough to get up and walk around by now."


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Jack pulled her face off the glass and cringed at the mess she made. Hmm. Oops? She wiped the glass off and then turned around and watched the peculiar kid walk down toward the locker rooms only to turn around and scurry to an elevator. Nate, she remembered. What a weird kid.

Whistling, Jack took an elevator up to the ground floor and went to go look into the fountain. She didn't really have anywhere to be or have anything to do outside of getting cleaned up, and she absolutely irrevocably did not like taking showers. She sniffed an armpit and cringed. But she also understood their necessity. It just was no fun having to be drenched in boiling hot water for fifteen to twenty minutes. If the water was even remotely on the cold side, it would just freeze and stick to her and would just be an overwhelming pain in the ass, so she was stuck being completely uncomfortable and hating it so bad. She sometimes wished she hadn't been born with these powers. They were just so inconvenient.

She trudged off up the stairs to her floor and stumbled into her room. Thankfully, Ellie had let her have the bottom bunk, but unfortunately Jack smelled like yesterday's old turds, and she didn't want to spread that funk to her bed, so she just gathered up her towel and junk she needed and scurried off to the bathroom to get washed up, grumbling and mumbling the whole way as she dragged her feet and swore under her breath.

What she wouldn't give to, at least, be a normal mutant. One who didn't have to deal with these stupid restrictions. Zoey had said she would go to the pool before she left. Jack hadn't been swimming since her powers activated. She was afraid of what would happen if she dove under and the water froze around her. Her whole body shuddered. Not a pleasant thought.

[Dexel Hydagara]

Ludo smiled bittersweetly as the hologram he had been fighting faded away. That battle would be a highlight of his time here to himself, his only regret being it couldn't last longer. To be honest, he hoped he would get to see that wolf-man again. Maybe he'd even give it a name. Ludo would have to work on getting stronger, though. The wolf had acted like he was simply trying to swat flies the whole time.

The door of the room opened, and Ludo reluctantly walked out. Pulling out his credit card, Ludo flipped it over to the interface and ordered some gloves. He was a bit surprised to have any currency at all, but hey, who was he to complain? If it was up to Desmond, he would probably be knee deep in debt that would take the rest of his time here to work off. Speaking of teachers, Christine's class seemed to just be finishing up.

At any rate, a shower was in order, he thought. Besides feeling sore all over, Ludo was just noticing how much he had sweat. Fearing just how bad it would smell, Ludo resisted to urge to smell himself, and took one of the elevators up to the ground floor. Considering his soreness, Ludo simply took his time making his way up to his room. He tried to turn the knob only to remember it was actually locked this time. Good. If it had unlocked again, he would be pretty damn paranoid. Either that, or conclude that one of his roomies was pretty absent-minded.

Grabbing a towel, Ludo left the room, leaving it unlocked since the showers were just around the corner. He would be back soon anyways.

[Midnight]

Rose shrugged when Shine asked what she wanted to do. "I dunno. Wanna blow something up?" She waited to see Shine's reaction, then laughed. "Kidding! I'm kidding." She put an arm around Shine's shoulders. "Well, we're room mates. Let's walk, talk, see where that takes us. Sound good?"

[The Dream]

Shine was grinning inside at the thought of blowing things up. She wouldn't mind some trouble making excitement, but then again people would know her as a trouble maker. She pretended to act shocked by stepping back when Rose brought up the idea before chuckling when she said she was joking. Then she mentioned walking an talking. Eh.....t-t-talking!? What about? What, oh geez I can just smell the soon to come awkward silences. Shine nodded and looked up to Rose.

"Sure. Um...lead the way..." Shine stretched her arm out to the exit and would follow Rose when she would start walking. She had no idea where they would go or what they would talk about, though. Shine wasn't sure just what you would talk about with people. Truthfully she had an idea on what to say, she was just to shy to start conversations.