1465/Chilling At The Rec Room

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Chilling At The Rec Room
Date of Scene: 14 July 2017
Location: Xavier Institute - Rec Room
Synopsis: Ellie meets Lexi, everyone got a sob story at Xavier's.
Cast of Characters: Negasonic Teenage Warhead, Tendril




Negasonic Teenage Warhead has posed:
On any giving day one could ask Ellie what she thinks of the Xavier School, and no matter the time of day or occasion, the reply would usually be that it's lame. There are many places where Ellie likes to complain about the lameness of Xavier School. Sometimes it's by the pool, albeit less so since Havok nearly killed her phone. Sometimes it's in the foyer, by the dorms. Today it seems the room of choice is the Rec Room, where sometimes she can luck out into having the tv free to play her own movies and music. But fat chance, it's mostly occupied by douches that hoard the playstation.

Sure enough, today wasn't a lucky day, the moment Ellie steps into the Rec Room she can see the small crowd of douches by the playstation. Flavor of the day seems to be a stupid fighting game, and a contest of egos. She snorts loudly to express her disappointment, and calls out, "yo douchefaces, let me know if the virtual dick measuring contest ever ends," this gets her a few middle fingers and some retorts, but she just counters with a middle finger of her own, before moving to crash into a beanbag.

Tendril has posed:
    Occupying one of the beanbags is a curious looking girl, which is saying something in a school like that. Mostly, it's that she's mauve, with weird thin purple stripes running over her skin here and there, and has fairly striking silver hair bound in braids behind her. The gold eyes don't help either.

    Also the tendril currently sprouting out of her shoulder that's holding a soda can as she types on one of the mansion student use laptops. Which, unlike others who like to bend the rules, is actually on her lap! Though realy it looks more like websurfing.

    She glances up at Ellie's comment, cocking her head slightly as she walks over then drops on the bag. "...hey." she says. "Ya gotta get here in the morning, they snag it every time. All fighting game tournament stuff."

Negasonic Teenage Warhead has posed:
Ellie looks at Alexia very briefly, before noting, "dig the hair and the eyes," as if it was some fashionable contacts and dyejob that Alexia was experimenting with.

She nods along with Alexia's tip, "there should be a rule, they have it everytime, all day long...and there's never a winner either, they always break out fighting over who cheated who, bunch of idiots..."

Tendril has posed:
    Alexia's lips curve up slighty at Ellie's comment on her hair and eyes. She doesn't get compliments often, but it's nice when it happens. "Or make it all macho shit and decide they're go full college bro on it." she says wryly. "Should at least be a signup sheet or something like that, so people get a chance. What were ya gonna play, anyway?"

Negasonic Teenage Warhead has posed:
"Game doesn't even prove anything, I could probably kick all of their asses in real life," clearly Ellie isn't even going to suggest she has a sporting chance in the game itself, it seems boring to her and beyond one time she tried it out of boredom, she doesn't really have any experience with it. Nor does she care to have it. "So...what's your poison?" Ellie asks, tilting her head to peek at Alexia's laptop. She shrugs at the question, muttering, "something less stupid than what they're playing."

Tendril has posed:
    "Me?" the other girl says, then tilts the laptop so Ellie can see, looking a bit sheepish. "Just, um, research and crap..."

    It's open to a story that reads "The Real Yamatai" with all sorts of inset pictures of what look like weird Asian looking ruins. All Japanese. Or they used to be, because at least one shot is of a palace that looks like it recently burned down. There's an inset picture of a young woman with brown hair who looks like she's being helped off a chopper along with a larger group; the camera has caught her when she's looking off to the side, her eyes a bit distant. She looks beat to hell too, little scratches and marks running over her forehead and cheek.

    "It's kinda my thing..." Alexia says. "I like this sorta stuff, old ruins and artifacts and things like that." She pauses, then offers a hand. "I'm Lex."

Negasonic Teenage Warhead has posed:
"Oh...so boring school stuff?" Ellie asks in surprise, staring at what is obvious entirely foreign to her, "what's a Yamatai?" She asks if only because she has no clue whatsoever, "not a band, huh?" Well, the images are a dead giveaway that it's not a band, but she's not going to bother even skimming the text.

Ellie is intrigued enough to entertain the gesture of a handshake, shaking hands with Alexia, her grip rather strong, at least for a 15 year old, "I'm Ellie."

Tendril has posed:
    Alexia's grip is firm as well, suprisingly because she doesn't look majorly muscular. But definitely toned. At least there are some benefits to a mutant power at times! "Cool." she offers, then she laughs. "Oh, hell no! Not school crap. They haven't figured out where to put me yet, anyway. And they're still smoothing stuff out with the cops and social services and shit.' She waves it off. "Nah, this is just cool. Yamatai is this island they found in the Pacific, right? Like a mystery island that had a huge storm around it so no one got on or off. There's, like, shipwrecks from all over there, for hundreds of years, and this weird cult on the island that believed their queen was this immortal goddess..." She taps the picture of the brown haired woman. "Her name's Croft, she was looking for it, making like a documentary thing or something, and they got shipwrecked there. All with the crazy cult shit, and she actually got them back off. The storm even died, no one knows why." There's a definite tone of excitement and passion in her voice as she explains, though she catches herself. "I mean, it's...cool. Like, adventures and stuff." She pauses as the tendril holding the can brings up to her mouth so she can take a sip.

Negasonic Teenage Warhead has posed:
"Cops? You been to jail?" Ellie asks, all of a sudden truly interested in Lex. Cops involvement was a rarity for students at the school, at least those Ellie met so far. Listening, Ellie snorts at the notion of an immortal goddess Queen, simply offering, "easy test, she still alive or dead? I mean, not much of an immortal goddess if she died, right?" Looking Lex over while she speaks about it, Ellie gets how into it the girl really is and then asks, "ever tried to contact this Croft lady? Bet she'd be happy to tell you all about it. Send her an email or something. Fuck, ask her to give a lecture at the school, you might even get extra credit for that kind of shit."

Tendril has posed:
    Those golden eyes sharpen over the can a bit, before it's held back to the side, as she absently close the laptop, her eyes lighting up a bit. "I did! Professor Xavier said he'd look into it, that he knew she did lectures occasionally and she might come here too!" She's >< close to squeeing like a fangirl again, before she recovers, coughing. 'Um, and that'd be major cool, to talk to her and stuff. I like that sorta thing, finding cool old stuff, things that are...important. Like, finding stories about people that no one knows, but that are great stories they should know."

    She leans back on her hands, cocking her head at Ellie at the question about cops. There's a thoughful look in her eyes now. "...came close." She rubs the back of her neck. "....apparently I had a little too much of 'you're not legal enough for that' brand booze, and, ah, borrowed a police interceptor...." she says slowly.

Negasonic Teenage Warhead has posed:
"Ha! I'm a genius...barely even here, already can call out decisions the Prof would make. Damn I'm smart," Ellie grins to herself, happy to hear she made a spot on suggestion. "Hey, I got a story no one knows, life in Genosha sucks, and I'm glad to be out of there. How's that for a story nobody knows?" Ellie smirks. Laughing, Ellie quips, "no way the cops would jail you just for stupid alcohol. They just give you a talk."

Tendril has posed:
    Lex grins. 'Well, the officer who's car it was kinda did that before...I think it was the whole crashing into the parked SWAT van that annoyed them.' she notes, rolling her eyes. "And, um, the totally baseless previous charges that were never proven oh my god so wy bring them up. But! The officer was kinda cool...he told me he could arrest me and send me to juvie, since I didn't have family, or he could get me fostered here to get me off the street and crap, because of my.." and she air quotes "..special situation." Her shoulders shrug a bit. "Kinda easy choice. And it's been cool. There's lots of food, nice room, and no one annoys me that much her, y'know?"

    She looks interested. 'A story nobody knows from Genosha? I'd like to know that.' she notes, leaning forward curiously. "That's where you're from?

Negasonic Teenage Warhead has posed:
"You can drive...?" Ellie's eyes seem to light up at the thought, driving would be cool, not having to wait on buses and trains that take forever and a day. Snorting at the 'special situation' reference, Ellie notes, "I kinda wound up here because my family died, so I guess that's common, this place being a solution."

Ellie nods about the Genosha question, "yeah, totally from there shithole, don't plan your vacation there. It sucks ass. Honest. Just...stick to the USA, it's awesome. You can do anything. You'd probably be in jail in Genosha."

Tendril has posed:
    Alexia raises a hand and waggles it. "Eh. Drive...' There was a reason she hit the SWAT van, after all. She nods, turning more solemn as she watches Ellie, her golden eyes on hers. "Sorry about your folks." she says, a bit softer. "It sucks, doesn't it?" Her tone is someone who has had a similar loss; there's genuine understanding there, with the sympathy.

    She inhales, then lets it out. "Yeah, I only heard stories. I grew up in Mutant Town, though, I dunno if it was better or worse. Well, under Mutant Town, really...but...yeah." She smiles a little. 'Totally taking Genosha off my bucket list then."

Negasonic Teenage Warhead has posed:
"It happened," Ellie snaps, and looks away from Alexia, clearly not wanting to get all emotional about having killed her own parents. "It just happened, nothing I can do about it," she stresses slightly more aggressively at the follow up. "Smart move," Ellie says, giving another glance at Lex, "I'm going to grab a bite, we'll catch up later, Lex," she makes a hurried retreat at that. Perhaps she is more emotional about her parents then she lets out.