7540/Snake Rattle and Roll

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Snake Rattle and Roll
Date of Scene: 19 May 2019
Location: Gymnasium - The Triskelion
Synopsis: Good Agent in Training talk between Sibil and Sam
Cast of Characters: Sibilance, Nyx




Sibilance has posed:
    Sibil has decided she's not gonna leave the Triskelion for a while. It's not great that she was caught on social media trying to keep some lunatic from destroying an entire avenue just to steal an ATM, but her tail hurts, her teeth hurt, and she got a cup of coffee thrown at her by a mutant-hating idiot, so she's good with public appearances for now. She's decided to take out some of her frustration on the gym equipment.

    Sibil's currently using the leg press. The amount of weight on it is telling; she could probably do some damage with those deceptively lithe legs. She frowns while she's exercising, looking as grumpy as can be, and when she finishes with the leg press she slowly navigates to a bench to sit down and relax.

    She is, of course, the new girl. The agent-in-training. She hasn't been around for long, and word around the base is that she's a mutant, with the x-gene and everything. Don't get a lot of those in SHIELD.

Nyx has posed:
Samantha has been the new girl for some time now. The Agent-In-Training everyone was nervous about or staring at for months.

Though by god Sam is glad they are past the days of armed escorts in tactical armor at this point.

She is listening to.. well to be honest there is no visible earpods or earpieces but the young woman is definitely acting like she is rocking it to some sort of music as she comes into the gymnasium wearing some SHIELD fatigues.

Her plan had been to see if she could run the track and actually time how fast she can do a mile. Something that non of the science team had actually thought to do.

The Rattlesnake Girl though catches her attention. "Huh." and yeah that is from all the way across the room, good eyes on Sam.

With a shrug Sam meanders over to where Sibil is and leans against another piece of equipment and watches curious. Waiting for her to finish a set to offer a "Hey there."

Sibilance has posed:
    Sibil looks up at Sam, golden eyes fixated on her for a few seconds. She's silent, the rattlesnake almost perfectly still as she tries to assess this stranger's approach. Once she has done so, she says...

    "Hey."

    She demurely dips her head and stands up to inspect some of the machines, looking for what she should do next. She doesn't seem very social just at the moment. Actually, she seems like she's in a bad mood. Very tense. Exercise is a good way to fix a mood problem, though. Those reward chemicals do good work.

    She glances at Sam expectantly, waiting for her to spark a conversation. She doesn't know if she can do it herself. She'd probably say something rude.

Nyx has posed:
"Sorry for interrupting your workout.. I just hadn't seen you around here before." there is a light shrug, okay maybe even some shyness. "Which.. honestly I am pretty new truth be told. So I imagine there is a lot of people I haven't met..."

Samantha kind of trails off and rubs the back of her neck with a light blush. "Um.. well anyhow. I'm Sam, or Samantha... Agent in Training Twining I guess if you want the formal answer." a smile. "Are you with WAND or something?" unsure tone.

Sibilance has posed:
    "I'm even more new," the Latina-voiced rattlesnake replies, "Not with WAND, though." She finds somewhere to sit again, her legs still a bit sore. "I'm Ainsley Garcia, Agent-In-Training. Level One, they said." She flashes a smile with her strange snake-like features. "I go by Sibilance, or Sibil for short. My real name is..." she trails off. "I just don't use it."

    "You aren't interrupting," she adds.

Nyx has posed:
There is a nod from Sam and she settles to sit on another machine nearby, seeming to take the invitation to talk more since Sibil said she wasn't interrupting.

"Oh cool someone newer than me!" there is a pause as she tamps down on that enthusiasm. "I mean..." a smile, right look must have been joking.

"WAND is the supernatural division.. it is the one wheere the big guy who looks like a devil works... goes by Hellboy." a shrug from Sam "He is pretty nice though despite al of that. I report to Agent Johnson.. also nice. I mean really everyone here has been nice."

She looks.. what 18 if she is a day old, pretty damn young to work for SHIELD even as an AiT.

"Also it definitely beats prison."

Sibilance has posed:
    "Hellboy. Devil, you said? I'll keep an eye out. I have... questions." Sibilance doesn't elaborate, but she does smile about it, like it's funny to her. Sam's age doesn't seem to be a factor for Sibil, but the comment about prison gets her to knit her brow briefly. She sniffs and sighs for a second, and gives Sam a serious kind of look. Odd when coming from someone that isn't even five feet tall-- Sibil is very short. Compact, you could say.

    "Agent Skye Johnson, right? I think I've got the same commanding officer... I'd have to recheck my welcome package, though." She squints for a moment. "You were in prison?"

Nyx has posed:
To be honest Sam probably didn't mean to mention that part about prison.

"Oh um.. yeah Skye Johnson. Computer expert. Really good Supervising Officer though."

"Wait you got a welcome packet... all I got was tons of paperwork and security clearance forms to fill out."

"As for . prison.. not really. I mean I pretty much assumed if I hadn't accepted the job offer that my .. early mistakes with my powers might not have been scrubbed though."

Sibilance has posed:
    "Those were part of the welcome package," Sibilance answers, as if that's a completely normal thing. She gives a skeptical look at the mention of early mistakes. "Well." She sniffs in, her cheeks puffing out. Looks a bit silly. Then she puffs out again.

    "I'm a mutant. What about you?"

Nyx has posed:
"Cool. There is a mutant that consults here sometimes about technology issues. He examined me when I ended up here in medical quarantine actually. Very nice guy if a bit blunt and brutal." there is the slightest frown there.

"I'm an anomaly and the science folks like to say I defy our current understanding of physics." okay yeah Sam seems amused by that.

"I touched something I probably shouldn't have .. alien or time displaced nano-AI and now it shares my body." watching the reaction, though a snake may be hard to read. Honestly Sam isn't sure if the sniffs and cheek puffing is skeptical or normal.

Sibilance has posed:
    Sibil seems to be as readable as any human, probably a fluke of her being a mutant and not an alien or something. It just might take some time to get used to. She attentively listens to the explanation of what Sam's powers were caused by. "Sounds rough. Being a normal human, then... bam, your life gets knocked apart by weirdness." She seems genuinely sympathetic. "Anything you do to get your mind off of all of it? Hobbies?"

    Now that she's clearly talking to another superpowered person, it seems like she's warmed up. Odd, that.

Nyx has posed:
"It wasn't absolutely horrible really. I went from working at a Big Belly Burger in the Bronx to having super powers and working for SHIELD. The pay is amazingly better. I have some very weird friends here now but they are all really nice." she considers. "I mean for the most part, the powers have some very ugly side effects.. but it isn't boring."

On to the consideration of hobbies now. "I use to play video games ... and .. " trails off "You know I really don't have any hobbies and I live here now.. that is awkward."

Sibilance has posed:
    "Hmm."

    Sibil stands up, holding a finger in a 'hold on' gesture. She walks over to get her phone, and returns. Then she flips through some photos, and shows her a picture of an impressive garden, full of all manner of plants, in some kind of greenhouse or grow room-- no wait, is that Sibil's quarters? They let her turn it into a plant paradise, apparently. "I grow flowers and herbs and succulents sometimes..." She shows off a picture of a jewel cactus.

    "I can show you sometime, if you like." She looks pretty proud of it. "Maybe even get a flowerpot for you to tend to when you visit?"

Nyx has posed:
Sam leans over to peer at the photos that Sibil is flipping through on the phone. "Wow.. wait.. is that in your quarters here." pauses "I didn't even think to ask about super customizing the room. I really need to talk to Skye about getting some video game gear assigned as SHIELD aprpoved technology. They don't like me touching technology not on the approved list."

There is a grin "Well I mean.. that sounds cool. I'd love to see it. Though fair warning on the flower pot I am .. not very ..well I've never taken care of one before so I probably need a lot of hand holding for that."

Sibilance has posed:
    Sibil hears about an approved technology list and says, "Oh! Sorry..." and scurries over to put her phone back in her bag. She returns to Sam and sits down again, and smiles brightly at her. "That's a good excuse to visit. Tending to a plant has always been calming for me. I can teach you, I know all about it. I'm a self-taught herbalist."

Nyx has posed:
"I mean I figured out how to just tune into the Internet and Cellular frequencies without a phone though.. I think that is really skirting the rules though. Not sure." she frowns and should probably talk to Skye."

"That sounds like a plan... no idea if I wil like it or be any good at it but we won't know unless we try it right."

Sibilance has posed:
    "That's the spirit." Sibil stands up and gives a brief fistpump of approval. Then she steps over to the next exercise machine, and starts working out again. "I gotta focus, though, now. Good chat! Really helped."

Nyx has posed:
There is a bit of a chuckle and Sam pushes herself up to to her feet "Cool. I shoul do the running thing I was intending to do. Have a great work out and let me know when you want to get together."