6545/Kite, sans tree

Kite, sans tree
Date of Scene:	17 February 2019
Location:	Xavier's School, Westchester, New York
Synopsis:	Erika tries to find help with the Eldritch Kite from Sam. Heart to heart with Ellie.
Cast of Characters:	Cannonball, Souvenir, Shadowcat, Negasonic Teenage Warhead

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Cannonball has posed:
Samuel Guthrie is in the Rec room watching an old DVD of Magnum PI

Souvenir has posed:
Erika Kristasdottir comes wandering in looking one part confused, one part flustered, one part tired because long jog, one part alarmed, carefully holding a green square paper kite that looks like the kind eaten by the tree in Charlie Brown. It has a demented symbol painted on top. She veeery caaaarefully maneuvers it around with far more caution than seems justified by a makeshift paper toy, looking in various rooms.

"Hey.. Um.. I need some help." She looks down at the kite with some fear.

Cannonball has posed:
Samuel Guthrie 's brow raises a bit as he looks over at the girl. He motions for her to have a seat and asks "Whats wrong?'

Souvenir has posed:
Erika Kristasdottir gestures at the kite. "Okay, so like, if I turn this so it faces down? Stuff falls out of it. We kind of found it up in a tree in the park, and Doctor Strange sent the... Uh... Being? That fell out yesterday? Home. Um. Except he left us with the kite. I don't know what to do with it." She looks at the kite very warily.

Cannonball has posed:
Samuel Guthrie 's brow raises and says "Stuff falls out of and a being? like what type of being do ya mean? and can ya sitit down long as it is face up?

Souvenir has posed:
Erika Kristasdottir nods and puts it down carefully, symbol up. "Sure, it didn't look like it hurt the tree any.." She eyes it anyways.

"It was big and jointy and snakey and it had eyes and mouths and tentacles everywhere and it glowed." She frowns.

Cannonball has posed:
Samuel Guthrie hmms and nods not asking if she is sure it was not Doogie, that would be rude. "Ok, have ya seen if anythign covering the thing will keep stuff from falling out?" He will ask, looking at the kite. Did the Doc say anything about destroying it or such?

Souvenir has posed:
Erika Kristasdottir sighs exasperatedly. "No, I was out and about I just got here and no? So rude. He just left! I'm not really sure what that means? And Miss Marvel doesn't have anyplace to put it, so I came here because I figured somebody would know?" She looks around nervously. "But rock things kept falling out on the way home and they're freaking me out."

Cannonball has posed:
Samuel Guthrie hmms and nods "Wish Illyana was here to look at it but without her, here I would suggest we sandwitch it betweent wo pieces of metal or something and what kind of rock things?

Souvenir has posed:
Erika Kristasdottir digs in her pocket, and pulls out a pebble, which she holds up for you to see. It has a spongy texture to it and it's blue. No, yellow, no really, that's blue. Well, maybe somewhere in between. Definitely not green, though. She turns it in her fingers, and hands it to you. It looks smooth, not the least bit spongy, and definitely kind of an orange color. She crosses her arms and watches you.

Cannonball has posed:
Samuel Guthrie says, "You getting any vibes of it?" He will ask her as he hmms softly to himself. He will walk over grabbing two record albums that have been on the shelves for years."

Souvenir has posed:
Erika Kristasdottir raises an eyebrow. "Dude. I've read enough Lovecraft to know not to do that. I figure the rock is just a really creepy rock. I'm not messing with the evil kite without backup."

Cannonball has posed:
Samuel Guthrie nods and puts an album under and then one on top of the kite to make a kite sandwich and says "Lets hit the garage to get somethign a bit sturdier than this.

Souvenir has posed:
Erika Kristasdottir nods. follows after, eyeing the kite warily. "Does Illy have an inbox or something? Or should we like, shove it in her room?"

Cannonball has posed:
Samuel Guthrie is carrying two older albums with something green sticking out between them. He walks over carefully putting it on one of the work benches while looking around to see what materials he has to work with.

Souvenir has posed:
Erika Kristasdottir follows after, looking like a fairly intense mixture of anxious types of emotions, being VERY CAREFUL to open the door WIDE and let Sam through. She looks around a bit, awkward, and decides not to talk to Sam. Doesn't want to surprise him or anything.

Shadowcat has posed:
Two more people enter the garage. The door doesn't open for them. They just walk through the wall, Kitty leading the Negastonic Teenage Warhead in by the hand. She makes sure they are both through the wall and then phases them back into reality and lets Ellie's hand go. The expression on Erika's face catches Kitty's attention, and she looks over curiously to what Samuel is doing. Uh oh, is surprising him a bad thing?

Negasonic Teenage Warhead has posed:
Ellie steps away from Kitty once they are through the door. "That.. is still yeah I don't even know. Watching the wood and then .. bam to the other side. Less destructive then blowing up doors though." maybe they are practicing getting Ellie use to phasing for some reason.

"Hey Snoops, you okay?" she doesn't care if it startles Kentucky, or at least she doesn't stop to think.

Cannonball has posed:
Samuel Guthrie seems to being carefull but not bomb tech carefull. He will look around and grab two pieces of sheet metal that could be used for fixing body work, and starts writing on one of them with a sharpie. At seeing the other two he will give a wave.

Souvenir has posed:
Erika Kristasdottir takes a pebble out of her pocket and wordlessly tosses it to Ellie. It's green.. no, purple.. no, blue.. no silvery.. wait, no, it's orange, depending on what way it's turned, which also makes it twist and warp a bit.

"We found a kite in a tree. And a Lovecraftian non-euclidean horrorterror that was turned around lost. And a bunch of these. They all came from the kite. I figured somebody here might know what to do with it? M.M. didn't, and Doctor Strange just vanished and left us with it after he sent the... um... Entity home."

Shadowcat has posed:
Kitty Pryde tells Ellie, "Just remember it's best to hold your breath while we're passing through things," as they emerge into the garage. Kitty gives an up-nod towards Samuel and Erika. "Anything going on?" Kitty asks of the pair as she starts to walk over a little nearer.

The pebble tossed to her is caught deftly. Kitty looking at it curiously. Upon hearing this, Kitty says, "And, Doctor Strange didn't think the glowy rocks of destiny were anything to worry about? Or did he know about them?" she asks.

Negasonic Teenage Warhead has posed:
Well Ellie was about to catch it but wasn't nearly as fast as Kitty. "What the what.... hell no now.." she squints at the thing that Kitty is holding andthen rubs the bridge of her nose "Okay that thing is like staring at doing acid I think."

Ellie will peer at Snoops "Anything bad happen when you touched these things?"

Cannonball has posed:
Samuel Guthrie will let Erika answer the question as he moves the album aside, and between them was a freen charlie brown kite with some strange symbols on it. Sam will move it to one of the pieces of shet metal making sure to keep the symbols upard, before putting the other piece of metal atop it.

Souvenir has posed:
Erika Kristasdottir sighs some, "Okay, I guess he didn't seem worried but still! They're WEIRD and stuff falls through it. And like, they just seem like really creepy rocks and dirt, so like, who cares? They just keep falling out. And like, that... whatever! fell out of it too! I just don't want anything else creepy to fall out of it. And who flies a kite with an insano brain melting magic glyph on it, anyways?"

Shadowcat has posed:
Kitty Pryde passes the pebble over to Ellie after having walked in front of the toss. "And they keep falling out of it? That... doesn't sound good. I mean, they are probably falling from somewhere. So what if another... thing falls through?" she comments. "We probably need to post a guard on it at the very least?"

Negasonic Teenage Warhead has posed:
To be fair Ellie doesn't look entirely sure she wants a super creepy eldritch pebble. She takes it though when it is passed over to her. "What Kitty said. Are these horrid things still pouring out and is there any chance another monster will... one would think the guy who sent the monster away no matter how strange a Doctor he is would do something about it if he has that kind of power."

Then Ellie looks at Sam "Ack.... uh.. should I blow that thing to bits?"

Cannonball has posed:
Samuel Guthrie says, "Ah aint sure if blowing it up will destroy it or open the gate wider. Ah am hoping this will block t, wanted to have Illyana look at it but she seems to be away, so figures secure it till we can get ahold of her."

Souvenir has posed:
Erika Kristasdottir nods, "What he said. I mean, stuff just falls out. And the whatever seemed harmless enough. I just don't like it being, you know. Open and just sitting somewhere."

Shadowcat has posed:
Kitty Pryde nods to what Samuel is doing. "I'll go ahead and let the others know," she says. "If one of you can stand guard on it until someone else comes?" Assuming she gets affirmative nods, Kitty turns and runs off, taking the most direct path up and through the walls as needed to head towards Jean's office. Avoiding any electronics that she can.

Negasonic Teenage Warhead has posed:
Ellie will peer at what Sam is doing and then walk over with the pebble. "Are you going to encase it in lead, maybe that would be a good idea like radiation shielding... it could be giving you a bad case of the tentacles right now." she sets the pebble near Sam and steps away. "Where did this happen Snoops?"

Cannonball has posed:
Samuel Guthrie says, "Ah aint sure where to get any lead, about the only thing I could think of is maybe pour salt around it, aint that supposed to stop bad mojo or something?"

Souvenir has posed:
"Hashtag ghost sword Z, in Twin Lakes Park. I know some boy jumped the fence, then there was a scuffle, and it was inside of a wadded up piece of paper that was.. Look, it's kind of complicated and weird, okay?" Erika Kristasdottir blushes and crosses her arms. "And then I came back here, because fancy hero stuff."

Negasonic Teenage Warhead has posed:
"Right you are a fancy hero Snoops." she means it though as she looks over the work Sam is doing. "I have no damn clue.." Negasonic pulls her phone out and starts googling "Right salt... maybe some holy water... uh church property... but yeah Salt seems to be a big trick to it all according to Sorcerer Google." which is just like Doctor Google. Absolutely no certifications.

Cannonball has posed:
Samuel Guthrie hmms and nods a bit to this and says "Maybe we can put the rocks in a box with salt or something. I don't know much to anythign about magic. I would think maybe Illyana or Megan might be able to destroy this but without either of them makes it a bit more difficult.

Souvenir has posed:
Erika Kristasdottir spins and points with about twice as much drama as is necessary at Ellie at that comment. "DAMN Straight I am!"

She turns again to face Sam, "Yeah, but like, I assume we can just leave it for them? I mean, it was a kite. in a tree. And Doctor Strange blew it off. It can't be THAT dangerous, right? Just... creepy."

Negasonic Teenage Warhead has posed:
"Who the hell is this Doctor Strange guy and why are we taking spooky medical advice from him....." Ellie has not met this Doctor. She also distrusts older people anyways. Doctors by definition have to be older.

"Also .. yeah Kentucky lets make a metal box.. put it in it and fill it with salt."

Cannonball has posed:
Samuel Guthrie says, "Doctor Strange is like the mega magic man, the one ya talk to about most any magoc stuff." He will look around to see if there is a box around they can use, and finding one starts filling it with salt from the bags used to salt the walks."

Souvenir has posed:
Erika Kristasdottir blinks and stares at Ellie for a moment. "He's, like, basically Elminster and the Doctor rolled into one. He's like.. THE Wizard." She looks around for how to help. But Sam has a plan, apparently.

Negasonic Teenage Warhead has posed:
"We should put all the spooky pebbles in the salt as well. Can't be too safe when it comes to horrible eldritch artifacts.. and pebbles..." Ellie the pragmatist.

"Then to be extra safe we should put the box under FrostedFlakes bed." Ellie the jerk.

Cannonball has posed:
Samuel Guthrie says, "I am thining more keeping it somwhere that might be more climate controlled than there, but I do agree witht he rocks." He tells the ladies"

Souvenir has posed:
Erika Kristasdottir takes a few more out of her pocket and tosses them in. "Some of them just got lost, but like.. Doc didn't act like they were a big deal. He probably sees lots of them." Awkward.

"Anyway. Like, anything else been up?"

Negasonic Teenage Warhead has posed:
"Well Kitkat and I had Andrea run us through some workouts this morning." she looks to Sam when she says that. "I think she logged her notes and you can replay things, we did pretty good and I am good to go on the stuff we talked about. I imagine you will want to see for yourself but yeah there it is."

Cannonball has posed:
Samuel Guthrie hmms and nods his head a bit to this and says "Ah will look through the notes, and see if anything Ah think there needs ot be anything else.

Souvenir has posed:
Erika Kristasdottir nods. "Coool. heck, I'd want to see the replay. I mean, like, I.." She bites her lip a bit. "I dunno, I just really get into the whole tactics thing sometimes. Total gamer chick. Thank you, Sam! I super appreciate this? Like, I just don't know what I'm supposed to do when this kind of thing happens." She smiles sheepishly. "Maybe we need, like, a manual or something. I don't know."

Negasonic Teenage Warhead has posed:
"We totally have a manual for everything... well okay not everything... but like the usual stuff. Under magic bullshit it says talk to Meggan or talk to Illyana." there is a smirk at that from Ellie.

She walks over and pushes up planting her ass on the workbench and looks everything over. "I don't mind if you review Snoops, no idea if they gave you access though."

Cannonball has posed:
Samuel Guthrie will lock the box once done and put a note on it Bad Mojo inside, give to Illyana, signed Sam. "So, what have you two been up to for fun lately?"

Souvenir has posed:
Erika Kristasdottir uhs. And looks totally caught flat-footed. She opens her mouth to say something.. wait... no.. can't talk about that... that either... um.. How about..? Oh hell no.

"Uh.... ...Reading...?"

Negasonic Teenage Warhead has posed:
Nega gives Snoops a deep penetrating look. Liars know Lying. She may have to corner Erika later and find out what she has been up to. Probably with the new suit Rachel cooked up if Ellie has any thuoghts on it.

Turning to Sam though "Mostly getting caught up on the classes I missed this semester and prepping to test out of last semester." ... right prepping.

Cannonball has posed:
Samuel Guthrie 's brow raises looking at both of them. "Well if there is anything Ah can help with let me know, Ah know what i feels like trying to catch up."

Souvenir has posed:
Erika Kristasdottir hmmms, "Can I get the manual for the Danger Room? I won't have anything shoot at me or anything, I promise.." Almost giddy at the thought of running sims in an actual sim room! "I can even do it all with just soft light, even."

She avoids Ellie's look. Not discussing it. Nope. Nope nope nope. Guilty as charged.

Negasonic Teenage Warhead has posed:
Well Ellie isn't about to ask Snoops about the whole thing in front of the Southern Boyscout. That would be like asking in front of Scott. She isn't going to do that to someone she tolerates. It isn't like it is Bobby lying.

"I think Kentucky or one of the teachers is in charge of your access Snoops." amusement.

Cannonball has posed:
Samuel Guthrie says, "Ah will check into it and see what I can find out. We are a bit more staff heavy than most of the time when Ah was first going through things, so even Ah am still learning some of Jeans rules.""

Souvenir has posed:
Erika Kristasdottir nods. "Thank you, Sam. I, um, kind of need it so I can practice some of the stuff we, um. Talked about. Without pissing everybody off." She scuffs at the floor a bit, awkwardly. "It'd be nice if you stopped by and checked in on that sometime, too. Like, I assume I can talk to you, anyway."

Negasonic Teenage Warhead has posed:
"I assume we can talk openly in front of Snoops.. or is that off base Sam.. I mean she is having like strange occult adventures right?" Negasonic just looks between the two of them now.

Cannonball has posed:
Samuel Guthrie nods to the two and says "Ah don't think Ah have any secrets that Ah am trying to hide from anyone off the top of my head

Souvenir has posed:
Erika Kristasdottir glares at Sam a bit, then shakes her head. "Whatever. Anyways. Kitty stopped by and talked too. That was nice. You haven't seen my room before either."

Negasonic Teenage Warhead has posed:
There is a head tilt there as Erika actually glares. Huh that is new. Anyhow Ellie looks between the both of you. "I was referring to the training business and getting the squad back together doing training wheel stuff."

Cannonball has posed:
Samuel Guthrie nods, and says "Ah want to get all through their basics, then going to start group sessions (If my player can think of some decent things). I want to make sure your all ready for anything you incounter.

Cannonball has posed:
Samuel Guthrie 's phone beeps, and he looks at it "Going to stash this box somewhere it is safe, and then need to handle this sorry to run ladies.

Souvenir has posed:
Erika Kristasdottir nods.. "Yeah, totally. I want to learn all the tactics stuff too if I can? Like if I can get some extra help on how to sort all that stuff out? I mean, I WANT to learn it. I, um..." She blushes. "I like actually set up a couple things on a minis board in my room a couple times."

Negasonic Teenage Warhead has posed:
"Well it sounds like you should be in the danger room in no time Snoops and we can practice some of the squad stuff." it seems Ellie is already allowed. "Minis?"5r

Souvenir has posed:
Erika Kristasdottir sighs a bit. Her embarrasing nerdery is probably safe. Ish. "Like.. Okay, you know about D&D and stuff, right? And like, the wargames with miniatures. Um. I'm into those."

She looks off to the side in some embarrasment. "I made miniatures of all of us. And like, every time some jackhole takes a shot at one of us? I like.. get a map of the place and try to run through it a few times. So I can figure out what happened."

Negasonic Teenage Warhead has posed:
Ellie doesn't look, interested, per say in the idea of wargrames and minatures. She was definitely curious though.

The idea of tactical maps though and little minatures of the New Mutants or X-Men, well that has her quite curious "Can I see them sometime?" and maybe interested.

Souvenir has posed:
Erika Kristasdottir frowns. "Then I try to put myself in, but like... my stats SUCK. Pretty much no matter how I stat myself out. That's part of why I've been working out so much. And like, working on other stuff. Uhm.. sure! Kitty thought they were cool." She blushes a little. "I dunno, I just worry that people are going to think I'm weird. They already have lots of reasons to think I'm weird, and like, probably more soon."

Negasonic Teenage Warhead has posed:
"Well. You are weird Snoops. I'm weird too. I think there is honestly no such thing as normal and all the normies are just faking it. Sometimes faking it pretty badly." and Ellie shrugs.

Souvenir has posed:
Erika Kristasdottir frowns. "Well, like, sure. But I mean oh, you know. Weird in ways that people are going to kind of not want to like me very much? Maybe?"

She chews her lip a bit. "They already act like I'm trying to spy on them or something. I don't really want to know their stuff. I mean if I was some sort of evil genius plot spider thing or something, maybe I would, but I'm not. Just, like, I get the same sort of sideways glances that the telepaths get?"

Negasonic Teenage Warhead has posed:
"I'm not sure that will ever go away... I mean you are sort of a telepath. Just psychometry instead of telepathy. Still mind woodge and all that." still sitting on the work bench Ellie studies Snoops. "I'm starting to give telepaths less side eye. I gotta figure none of them actually wants to see in everyones heads. I mean people are generally shitty and self centered monkeys.. why would you want to bath in that all the time."

Souvenir has posed:
Erika Kristasdottir sighs. "I KNOW! And there's so much stuff that I can't even get at. Not without some really crazy coincidences. And like yeah, you spend a lot of time with one. Rachel is really sweet. I'm super glad you can talk to each other. Kind of jealous; she can actually hug me without me having to worry about getting a face full of senses."

She frowns and looks off to the side a bit, cheeks going faintly pink at some random thought. "I don't think I could deal with her all the time though. She seems like she gets way too intense for me."

Negasonic Teenage Warhead has posed:
At that whole honesty from her classmate Negasonic actually blushes just a touch and looks concerned. Erika probably wins some sort of prize for getting the SullenBrat to actually blush.

"She is .. a lot.. but our pain is the same and our fears. Not sure it is healthy at all but .. we understand each other in a way I'm not sure other people ever could. I might just be full of shit though... but yeah. I can talk to her and I just can't normally talk to anyone."

Deep Ellie. Deep.

Souvenir has posed:
Erika Kristasdottir nods. "Yeah. I'm just.. I don't have that connection. I'm glad you two do. I don't even know what I'm going to do..." She frowns a bit. "And if I do, like.. that whole sheets and clothes thing is going to suck so hard."

Small flash of pink, a frown, looking at the floor. "Plus, if anybody hears Sam wants me to work on dipping again? Like.. any hope of having people trust me is SO gone."

Negasonic Teenage Warhead has posed:
That gets a curious look from Ellie "Dipping?" she evidently is not sure what this might be about but she is curious none the less. "What is dipping?"

Also... if you have a connection with someone I am pretty sure the sheets and clothes and stuff won't really matter at that point right?"

Souvenir has posed:
Erika Kristasdottir looks at you with laser focus. "Don't tell anyone I told you that, either. Except to get Rachel to not say anything. If Scott finds out, like... He's going to break a world record in shit flipping. Um. Sam wants me to get better at, uhm... Picking pockets."

So awkward. "So I can take souvenirs off of people and stuff." So, so awkward. "I feel like I'm letting my parents down. Which is super ironic since they're crooks."

Negasonic Teenage Warhead has posed:
At this revelation Negasonic grins "Hot shit. Actually that makes total sense Snoops. I mean yeah Dorkmeister may flip his lid but I bet Firebirb would just nod and let Kentucky keep teaching you to be more effective." there is this slow roll of a shrug. "I think it's a good idea." which oughta make someone wonder.

Souvenir has posed:
Erika Kristasdottir nods, "Yeah, I think it's a great idea, tactics wise. He wants me learning forensics too. And how to pick a lock, stuff like that. But like... The tactics aren't making me forget how much my parents wanted me to be a good little girl. While they were laundering a bunch of money and fencing the shit pickpockets grab. I'm such a mess." She scuffs the floor a little more, looking off to the side.

Negasonic Teenage Warhead has posed:
"At least you didn't blow them up on a family roadtrip Erika." yeah no nickname there. Then Nega looks down reminding herself no one wins in the whose childhood was worse contest. It is no contest at all.

"Uh... still you're not doing it to hurt innocent people.. your maximizing your skills to help the rest of us when we try to help people right?" bright side where is the bright side Ellie.

Souvenir has posed:
Erika Kristasdottir winces hard. "Yeah.." She points at her head. "I know all that stuff up here. It makes total sense."

She points at her heart. "That part keeps whining and complaining. It makes no sense at all, but I don't know how to get it to shut up."

"Oh, and the collars bit is still annoying no matter what."

Negasonic Teenage Warhead has posed:
"I have no sage yoda like advice for you on this." and Ellie points to her heart. "Also fuck me.. I should be the last person giving advice up here." tapping the side of her shaved head. "Then again.. I'm brilliant... so listen to me it will be fine." she hops down off the work bench. "Totally fine or some shit..." as she walks towards the inside door. "I'll stop by tomorrow maybe check out these battle maps?"