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Post by Ushima911 on Aug 10, 2023 11:52:34 GMT -5
Sechs
Sechs went on to explain his side of his story and where he came from a bit. The group sat and listened while he spoke.
"Yeah, I guess it makes sense."
"Well I guess we could be like normal humans with no powers or 'gifts' as the professor calls them."
"If only we had it so easy.."
"Well, we don't. But it's sometimes nice to think. What if we weren't mutants. What would we be as normal humans?"
"Don't know. Probably be a normal middle schooler right now."
"Would probably be into sports, playing with regular kids. Would be nice, yeah?
"Hm. Do not like this conversation.." Bao stated.
"Why what's up? Wouldn't you be like, this super talented musician, Bao?"
"Would probably be dead. The professor saved me, so if not coming here, I wouldn't be alive."
"Harsh.."
"Well it's just a stupid day dream anyways. But now we've got these 'gifts' or whatever. Useless gifts. What a joke."
"Well. Good to make the best of what we have."
"What do you think, Sechs? You think it'd be better to just be normal?"
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Jake
Jake could not seem to locate the source of the strange phenomenon that occurred with him. Looking around some more, there was almost nothing to locate it seemed, so he decided to shrug it off for the time being and question it later. Deciding to deal with the important matter at hand, he headed towards the direction that Melissa, Robbie and Ishbel ran off to.
Still in the astral plane, he flew towards the area with good speed and got to the end of the lake, which wasn't too far off. A little ways away from where everyone was, but not extremely far off. As he went there, he saw Robbie cautiously walking towards the end of the lake where Melissa, Ishbel and surprisingly Manuel was. Robbie was not known for being a coward, or shy to butt in where he felt he needed to, so it was curious as to why he was being cautious, or not just rushing into the situation where it looked like Ishbel was talking with the two siblings.
From an above vantage point, Jake was able to catch the conversation they were having.
(OOC: Scroll below to Ishbel's section to see what happens)
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Ishbel
Melissa just sat there staring at Ishbel, despite her attempt at a calm plea.
"Who the hell does she think she even is?" She turned to her brother, ignoring Ishbel completely.
"Mel, let's just get it over with. Say what ya need to say and let's just go to our room." Her brother tried to plea with her as well. No reasoning with Melissa it seemed, as she just continued to stare at Ishbel.
"Now hold it right there, bro. I think the fire hoe just threatened me.." She stated, glaring back at Ishbel. Odd how Melissa came to that conclusion. How could anyone interpret what Ishbel said as a threat?
Knock it off! Just forget about it and-"
"I'm done talking! I'm SO done with this place! She said grabbing water from the lake and throwing it at Ishbel. Ishbel was thrown back by the water attack, knocking her to the ground.
"Aye! Ok this is where I step in, knock it off!" Robbie said stepping in. "Melissa, go on and get! Manuel, take your sister now."
"I have more water to play with than you have fat or she has fire. YOU leave!" she barked.
(OOC: Ishbel will take 1w of damage)
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Post by Janus on Aug 11, 2023 6:47:37 GMT -5
'All four of you, report to my office. Now!'
Jake tried to make his telepathic voice sound like the Professors. He had another trick up his sleeve but he'd save it for if this didn't work.
Just attacking outright wouldn't make his any friends and he didn't understand what was going on. Hopefully Melissa would be so wound up right now she wouldn't be thinking clearly, and if so she might not notice the difference between the two telepathic voices.
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Post by Gris on Aug 11, 2023 7:49:11 GMT -5
She had tried.
She had tried so hard.
Ishbel had gone to the extreme of sharing how she felt about the gangster she had killed when her father was murdered, how that accident lingered and yet Melissa didn't listen.
Melissa didn't care.
Flat on the ground, Ishbel was recovering her breath looking at the sky, after having been sucker punched by a lake water jet stream. Her back and ribs hurt, she didn't think she had broken anything but it was serious, another big bruise for her history of injuries fighting bullies. But this bully had powers, this bully could kill people without even meaning it, this bully had to be stopped.
Full of righteous fury, Ishbel was getting up, her hair flaming wild when she heard the Professor's voice. Robbie did try to stop them, but he wasn't getting any respect. Would Melissa listen to Professor Xavier?
Ishbel was too angry and injured to do so, a violent, barely channeled burst of fire surging from her towards Melissa. Normally she'd pull her punches, even when angry, but she had never been so mad or so hurt before.
Health: 2/3 ; Energy: 9/9 Fiery Aura 5 [STATUS]: Managed by device. Social Skills: 3 (Persuasion, Streetwise, Underworld) Action 1: Ranged Combat 3 + Fiery Aura 5, a barely controlled flame towards Melissa. Action 2: - Health: 2/3 ; Energy: 6/9
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Post by Mephistel on Aug 15, 2023 8:43:05 GMT -5
SECHS
Sechs listened in to the conversation. What would it be to be normal? He had no idea. He was still a normal kid when his parents got abducted and disapeared somewhere...just a child...his powers only started to show up much later. To him, this was the closest to a ''normal'' life he had ever had. He shook his head slowly.
-This...is the closest to a normal life I've ever had...to be honest...-
He said his tone feeling somewhat empty, thinking back to his country and the people he had left behind in his false death. He was dead to them...and there was no way to change that now. It was also probably best that way if he wanted to survive. And survival had always been his number one priority.
-I share in with Bao here...if it wasn't for the Professor...I'd most likely be dead by now as well...so I am grateful for this, I am still alive, I have a place to call home, I have food and even the chance to go to classes despite my...well all this...-
He said motioning to the tentacles on his head. His tone was genuine in what he said.
-So I want to make the most of it!-
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Post by Ushima911 on Aug 18, 2023 12:26:27 GMT -5
Ishbel and Jake
Ishbel was lying on the ground stewing in anger after she was hit with a water blast from Melissa. The anger didn't calm down at all when she heard a voice come into her head. It sounded like a bad imitation of what someone thought Professor Xavier sounded like, but in the heat of the moment, one could probably be fooled into confusion due to the telepathic voice being rung into one's head. It seemed to work in fooling Melissa, or at the very least threw her off for a brief moment.
"What?! What was-" Melissa questioned in confusion, looking around to confirm someone was there as if she had audibly heard the voice Jake threw out.
"Was that..?" Manuel questioned, doing the same thing his sister was doing looking around. Only, unlike his sister, he could eventually spot Jake in his astral form.
The attention to the voice was eliminated when Ishbel got up from the ground to attack in retaliation. Charging her energy from her anger, Ishbel created a burst of fire energy and was hurling it towards Melissa.
"Wait, no!" Manuel called out.
Ishbel had Melissa in her sight, ready to throw this channeled energy. Melissa was not too far away, so a blast from this range would make easy work of her. She hurled the attack towards Melissa, or in the direction of where Melissa was. Ishbel's sight had been confiscated from her it seemed. When she hurled her attack, her eyes took on a mind of their own, and she was forced to look as far to her left as her eyes would allow her. This threw off her aim by just a bit, but it was too late for Melissa as the attack had already been previously aimed.
Ishbel's fiery attack was thrown, and Melissa had prepared for an attack from Ishbel, but not perhaps at the level of attack. Melissa conjured some of the nearby water from the lake to defend herself. The fiery attack was met with a wall of water, but made quick work of the wall, shooting Melissa back.
Melissa screamed in pain as she was shot with burning fire, making Manuel jump quickly to her side to see if she was okay.
"Hey enough!" Robbie yelled seemingly getting serious. He reached his arm out, expanding it in to a long stretchy fatty arm and throwing it in between Melissa and Ishbel.
"You-..you bitch!" Melissa screamed while getting up, allowing everyone to see that her right side of her body had been damaged severely.
"Sis! Stop!" Manuel physically held back his sister.
Melissa was crying in anger, looked around, looking at everyone, and then grabbed her brother. She violently pulled him into the nearby lake where they both fell in. A large splash came crashing a little after they both went in, and it looked like Melissa swam off in a large jet-like manner away from the area. She was heading back towards where the party was. Before anyone could worry if she was going over there to cause a ruckus again, a large chunk of water flew into the air away from the entire area.
"She's heading back to the mansion. Hopefully to just stay in her damn room..ugh.." Robbie said taking back his extended fatty arm into a normal form. "Jake. I know you're there. That was your poor imitation of the professor I take it.." He shook his head. "Come get your friend over here before she causes another mess. I gotta go clean THIS ONE up.." He said as he started walking away, assuming Ishbel didn't have words for him.
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Sechs
"I think that can be said for the rest of us. Just sitting here chatting at some lake party, or whatever, wouldn't probably be possible had we not come here."
"Yeah, the tentacles are kinda funky." They said, and then getting elbow bumped by his peer next to them. "Er..in a cool way, of course.."
"Best outcome for most was to come here."
"So like..you going to join the Xmen or whatever? Going around saving the world? Or you kinda just here to see what happens? I'll be honest, I have no desire to be no Xman. Just want to learn how to live a normal life and then stay hidden in the world."
"I can understand that. Plus not everyone can be an Xman with their powers. So...yeah.."
"No Xman for me. Just want to live quietly." Bao said.
As they were talking, they noticed that in the lake there was a large crashing sound coming. A large body of water was heading towards their direction, but before it did it shot out of the water and into the sky in an extremely fast manner.
"Wonder what that's about.."
"Probably the outcome of Melissa Vs Ishbel. That Ishbel chick is scary."
"Yeah. I tried to talk to her once, but she gave me like a death glare or something..."
"She is in our class, Sechs. I do not think she's too bad. Just angry."
"Angry is dangerous here sometimes."
"Whatever, man. ..Sechs, you going to get us in that danger room someday soon? I'll be down to try it when you feel comfortable. Maybe scan around a few more days to crack the code or something." They asked him.
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Post by Gris on Aug 19, 2023 18:13:02 GMT -5
Ishbel could only see fury and fire, barely registering any interference between her and what she wanted to do.
What she had to do.
Fire roared, Melissa stopped being all talk, turning into screams of pain. As the fire faded slowly, as Melissa stopped being a threat... Ishbel's anger started to dissolve as well. In Melissa's eyes, between those tears and that fury... she could only see a reflection of herself. Perhaps not equal, maybe distorted, shifted. Or perhaps the one that was wrong was her, and not Melissa.
No, Melissa had been in the wrong, that was certain.
But did she deserve what Ishbel had done? And even if she deserved it... would that help matters at all? Ishbel started to feel like her fire brought no warmth, no cleanse. Same as the one that burned her family home, her fire brought only destruction.
"I'm sorry" Ishbel muttered. Too little, too late. Melissa was gone, Manuel was gone, even Robbie was walking away. Perhaps he heard her, perhaps he didn't.
Who were those apologies for? Ishbel didn't know, she just knew that she would have wanted to have the presence of mind to act differently. To be better. With the peace came the hurt from Melissa's blow, causing her to wheeze a bit when breathing, stumbling on her feet. Maybe she deserved that pain.
Health: 2/3 ; Energy: 9/9 Fiery Aura 5 [STATUS]: Managed by device. Social Skills: 3 (Persuasion, Streetwise, Underworld) Action 1: - Action 2: - Health: 2/3 ; Energy: 9/9
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Post by Mephistel on Aug 22, 2023 8:19:16 GMT -5
SECHS
Listening to them, Sechs felt more at ease then he was before, like they shared that same state of mind of just wanting to live quietly and in peace. Having lived in the streets most of his life, a peaceful quiet life was all he had ever dreamed of. At the mention of his tentacles, he shrugged.
-Es ist nichts Schlimmes passiert. No worries...-
He said. The tentacles on his head were just moving around on their own, sometimes floating, sometimes just resting on his shoulders. They had grown pretty long too.
-Nah...I'll learn how to defend myself but I don't think I'm cut for that kind of thing....My dream is to become a professional pianist...-
He said, motionning his hands on an invisible piano in front of him. And then the event at the lake seemed to have taken a bad turn as more noises reached their ears. Turning his head toward the commotion, he couldn't tell right away what was going on. Then turning his head back toward them, he nodded.
-Yeah, give me a few more days to figure it out properly and I'll try to get you in there..-
He said. He then got up.
-I'll go see if she's ok..-
He said, waving good-bye to them and heading toward the noises, looking for Ishbel. Looking around, he finally found her stumbling after what seemed to have been fighting, and from the looks of it, she needed some help. She reached out to her, offering his arm and shoulder to rest for a bit.
-You outta of it uh...you ok? Need a hand? Let's get you out of here and take a breather...-
He offered. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Offering help to Ishbel so she can lean on him if she needs to and help her walk away from the party if she wants to.
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Post by Janus on Aug 24, 2023 0:30:45 GMT -5
Jake appeared next to Ishbel.
"G'day, you look like you tool a knock, you need a lift to the infirmary?"
His mental voice was gentle, no accusation or anger there, his mental projection felt sad and sympathetic. There was a subtle anger there too, not directed at Ishbel but away, at another source. He apparently blamed someone else for this upset, and for some reason you don't think it is Melissa.
He held out a hand as an offer.
"Or we could go back to the party but if you're crook, someone is gonna notice eventually."
The teachers were going to notice burns and injuries to students so it was probably best to get the inevitable repercussions out of the way sooner rather than later. Ishbel could easily say she lost control if she went and explained now. Plus Melissa needed help, professional help by the looks of things and wasn't that the teachers job?
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Post by Gris on Aug 24, 2023 4:06:54 GMT -5
Ishbel was surprised to get a friendly offer of help, not one but two. Both Sechs and Jake were amiable to her injuries at least, despite what she had done, or so she thought.
"I'm fine" she winced, clearly a lie, a hand going to her abdomen. "Maybe not completely, but she got it worse-" Ishbel smiled wanting to play down the situation with some misplaced bravado, but even she realized that her words were yet another rude stumble the way she was talking and stopped herself. "Sorry, I didn't mean..." she shook her head, what did she really mean?
"I don't want to worry Sam by going missing, and Melissa is probably in the infirmary too and we don't need another round of this..." in her eyes it was clear that she was worrying over everyone else before herself, even if her hand still lingered in the chest area, clearly in pain.
Health: 2/3 ; Energy: 9/9 Fiery Aura 5 [STATUS]: Managed by device. Social Skills: 3 (Persuasion, Streetwise, Underworld) Action 1: - Action 2: - Health: 2/3 ; Energy: 9/9
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Post by Mephistel on Aug 24, 2023 6:10:22 GMT -5
SECHS
Sechs's hand was still held out for her to grab if she wanted. He wouldn't force her if she really didn't want his help.
-Sei nicht dumm, you are clearly injured, no need to downplay it...-
He said. He didn't see all that had happened, but he knew that Melissa chick had an attitude and did cause a ruckus on the beach, almost injuring everyone. So he wasn't about to feel pity for her, if anything, he thought she deserved it, but he kept that part to himself.
-You should worry about yourself first... doesn't matter if she is there or not, this place is meant for everyone, its not a freaking turf war you know...were not in the streets here...-
He said, his tone had gone down a little bit, an hint of sadness washed over it for a moment, but he shook his head.
-Well...If your so worried about Sam, I'm sure she'd be more worried if you didn't take care of your injuries first...-
He said.
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Social skills 2 : street wise
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Post by Janus on Aug 25, 2023 0:22:28 GMT -5
"More over if you hide something, you've got something to hide. If you arrive in the infirmary together, maybe there was nothing to hide. Your call." He said with shrug.
"The Prof says he doesn't peek. Dunno what Robbie is gonna say but honestly this place needs a kick up the arse. Teenagers with emotional problems with the equivalent of implanted assault rifles is just a recipe for disaster."
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Post by Ushima911 on Aug 25, 2023 17:31:16 GMT -5
SechsThe group took that answer and contemplated it to themselves, nodding their head in agreement that it would be nice. Bao nodded more persistently, as she too would probably like to be a professional musician. "Righteous. Would appreciate it, bud.""Good luck." They waived him off. --- Jake and Sechs came onto the scene to help Ishbel in any way they could. Seeing the young mutant on the ground, they both extended to help her up. Sechs ran by Robbie who was walking back towards the mansion. "Aye Sechs, it's-..ah, nevermind. Help her out if ya can." He sighed. Robbie then stopped walking and turned back around. "Ugh. Yeah, it's probably best you stay back for awhile, Ishbel. If Melissa went to the infirmary we don't need her blowing up on you again. You don't look too beat up, and I heard you were tough so you should be fine. Unless you REALLY need to go, we can go now and I'll physically have to hold her back.." He again sighed, offering to take Ishbel to the infirmary. "Let's go back to the lake area for now. Ishbel tell me how you're doing so we can monitor ya well. We have to pass by the lake to get to the mansion anyways, so might as well see how everyone else is holding off back there.." He said. Going back to the lake, the group of 4 was approached by some of the mutants. "Woah, did the two go at it after all?" "Ishbel clearly won if Melissa just dashed off like that earlier then.""Cmon, no need to speculate on any of that right now." Sam said stepping up to Ishbel. "First fight in school, huh? Took you a lot longer than I thought. You made me lose a bet." She laughed. "But you look pretty alright, doesn't look like she did a number on ya. You holdin' up well, friend?" Sam asked Ishbel. "Gonna see how she doin'. May take 'er to the infirmary if she's not feelin' it.""Hm she don't look too beat up, but how ya feelin' girl?""We should probably wrap things up here. It's gettin' dark soon. Sechs, could you tell that circle you were with that we're packin' it up? I'll get the ones in the lake. At least I'll get that little time to swim.." Robbie said. He looked at Jake like he wanted to say something, but then just went off to the lake area to tell the others to wrap it up. --- OOC: Go ahead and wrap your lake time up here fellas. Not the chapter, mind you! Just the time at the lake
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Post by Gris on Aug 26, 2023 17:03:15 GMT -5
"Robbie, I know you only mean well" Ishbel's tired voice recovered some of the edge. "But I already said I wasn't going, fuck you for worrying about another fight on your watch instead of my health" she stated, proceeding to ignore him. "You two" she paused, looking at Sechs and Jake in turn. "You two are great, I wish this would have gone diff-" she winced a bit, hurting. "Differently, but I appreciate it and I won't forget it. I got your backs if any of you needs me, hopefully at my best and not..." she shook her head. "Whatever that was, I'm not proud-" she sighed, another small frown at the pain, as people approached.
Sam among them.
"Not well, but holding up" she said, forcing a struggling smile. "It was kind of a sucker punch. Sucker... water whatever" she corrected. "And I lashed back" her eyes avoided Sam's. Ishbel was already feeling bad for what happened, but even if it had already sinking in, it wasn't a fully realized idea until she talked to Sam. "She's fine, or as bad as I am at most I guess?" Ishbel added. "I can't stand bullies but... I also don't want to become one, Sam. I promise-" she remembered Sam's fear about losing friends to the bad side of those powers.
"I promise I will do better" it hurt standing tall and looking at Sam's eyes in case Ishbel saw disappointment in them, but she still did so.
Health: 2/3 ; Energy: 9/9 Fiery Aura 5 [STATUS]: Managed by device. Social Skills: 3 (Persuasion, Streetwise, Underworld) Action 1: - Action 2: - Health: 2/3 ; Energy: 9/9
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Post by Mephistel on Aug 26, 2023 17:45:13 GMT -5
SECHS
Sechs looked at Robbie with the face of someone who wasn't appreciating been told what to do.
-Nein...How about you tell that to them yourself...as far as I know, they were still having fun without ''your'' sister little lash out..-
He snapped sharply. Robbie made no sense, that girl may have been her sister but if she was good enough to pick up another fight after what had happened, then she didn't need to be in the infirmary. As they were approached by other student, Sechs sighed.
-Ehh, don't worry about it...I'm not fond of people abusing their power either... Es hinterlässt einen schlechten Geschmack in meinem Mund...
He just said, shrugging.
-Sam, you know a place where she can rest for a bit...-
He asked the girl which seemed to be the closest friend of Ishbel at hand right now, while still helping Ishbel up if she needed.
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Post by Janus on Aug 29, 2023 14:09:18 GMT -5
“You know what we need?” Says Jake with consideration on his face.
“Cake. We need cake, lots of cake!”
Given the state of the school tonight had gone as well as one might expect but they needed to get back to decompressing.
Sechs had just come from a situation where he had been running for his life. From what he understood Ishbel had come from an equally bad situation. He had come from seeing his friends killed by his long lost father.
If other students were anything like them this place was an emotional powder-keg ready to blow. If you then considered that most of the students had enough power to destroy entire buildings he was standing at ground zero of a mutant nuclear bomb. They needed to decompress, to feel safe and that was what Jake would do come hell or high water.
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