[IC] Heroes of Beacon - the Next Chapter

[Eklispe]

Krysthane took a step back as some guy rounded the corner the same time she did and bumped into her. She quickly attempted to utter an apology but he beat her to it. Her face light up when he said something about bowling. That was a perfect idea, she had been wondering what to do, she could take her team on a bowling trip. She had never tried it before but from all accounts it was a fun time.

"No no I'm fine, thoooooough if you're going bowling, perhaps you'd um, show me the way? As soon as I get my team that is. I was planning on doing something teambuilding-y, but I didn't really have any ideas until you said something about bowling so know I'm planning on doing that. So ya?" Krysthane asked gathering speed as she talked and ending with what she hoped counted as a friendly smile. A quick survey noted the guy in question had eyes a remarkably pleasant shade of blue and an equally pleasantly developed body.

[SevenStormStyle]

Sepia was having a strange dream. In it, a bee kept buzzing around her face and trying to land on her nose. No matter how many times she shooed it way, the annoying little insect just kept coming back. Growing more and more frustrated, Sepia eventually gave in and just swatted the thing when it landed on her for the millionth time.

As soon as she touched it, she woke up and her mistake became apparent. Her right hand and nose were now connected via sewing needle. Trying not to jostle it, she spoke to the people who were currently in her dorm.

"Guys...I'm a little...stuck."

[Lugubrious]

Abel Fulgurate

For a moment, the guardian was taken completely aback. This girl wants me to show her to the bowling place? Abel dared to hope that he might have a chance after all, but internally he shook his head. This wasn't like all the animated shows he'd watched back in Pallisade; in real life, the chances of stumbling into a relationship were laughably low. That didn't mean, of course, that Abel wasn't willing to help her out. Plus, not many girls smiled at him for no reason.

“Yeah, sure. Looking for my team as well. Big boar faunus in green, and a white-haired tiger faunus with a talking ferret. Bowling place's called Drury Lanes. About a block north of the general airship landing zone. Hopefully...or, you know, if the situation provides, our teams might meet at the airship dock in ten minutes-ish.” He offered a craggy smile in response. It wasn't an expression his face often hosted, he knew, which either meant that it'd be horrible due to lack of practice, or good due to saving it up. Mentally, he bemoaned himself for thinking about such things. Stop concentrating on your face and work on something cool to say. The guardian crossed his arms. “Sound like a plan?”

[Forsythe]

Blinking a few times at Emmy's hasty change of mind and even hastier exit, the thief shrugged it off. Something she better get used to, she supposed. Now though she was at a loss of what to do. Breakfast sounded like a good idea. Reaching into her pocket though, she realized there was no wallet, probably forgotten among the morning shenanigans. Cursing under her breath, she shook her head hard. This didn’t happen to her!

Making a quick exit out of the gym, she headed back to the dorms to locate the missing accessory. In a hurry over the stress of missing the important item, she nearly forgot the cause of her other worries until she walked past BAST’s dorm room. Flooring it to get to a different part of the building before she could have an encounter he really didn’t want to right now, she didn’t stop until MODE’s door clicked shut behind her.

She heard the shower running, suggesting that would be the last place to look for the wallet. She snickered as she spotted a mass of bed sheets with kitty ears trying to sort itself out and went to look for the wallet in the closet, but it wasn’t there. “Damn it, damnitdamnit! where is it? I hope I didn’t leave it in the cab!” she hissed under her breath.

[shadowkiller912]

Vega Venetia – VGNB – Vale – By Gratia side

Vega heard Venetia’s voice while she was on her phone. She then let out a deep sigh and she placed her phone back in her bag and caught up to her. “It would have been nice if you sit with me. I’m so tired right now. Anyway how was your exploration of Vale been so far?”

The streets were a lot less busy which Vega relished in her mind. She got tired and annoyed by the fact she had to walk through crowds of people in the other districts the amount of flirtatious remarks she both got from both sexes, mainly students.

[Crimmy]

Gratia Mindaro - Vale Streets/Front of Armour Store

"Shitty," was her short reply, one tinged with the annoyance of a person who had gone into the world expected something slightly above mediocre, but had those expectations dashed by how less-than-stellar everything was, "I'm not sitting with you. Get some exercise and don't be a fatass."

Being constantly connected to the Net had always seemed like such a bother to Gratia; one couldn't do anything without being distracted by whatever random crap that popped up on their phones and devices, and she'd seen a large number of people frequently go through their day to day lives with their eyes plastered to their glowing screens. What a waste of time and productivity; they were wasting opportunities to do actual meaningful shit by watching cat porn or whatever floated their boat. She didn't really care for what people watched anyway (nor was she particularly familiar); her own phone was some old dinky thing that could call, send texts (limited by the amount of credit she had), play that Snakes game and browse the inbuilt news application. It was something the huntress barely used anyway, so that was one avenue of procrastination just gone.

Besides, a Scroll was a lot fucking easier to use and she could actually do work on the fucking thing (having an attachable keyboard was a real boon) as well as dick around when she felt like it.

"You need a jacket," she added after a second. "It's a relatively windy day today."

[HereComesTheSnow]

Luke Schwarz -- Reunited

Hm?

"Oh, hey guys!" he replied jovially, raising a hand in greeting. "Doing good, just got my new bike. Rides like a dream." he answered, beaming with satisfaction.

"What are you guys up to in here? I figured I'd just browse." he asked, casually walking up to the pair. Had to wonder just what the heck all those bags on Jack's arms were...

Were those from the local arcade?

Oh, yeah. They are. Hell of a lot of prizes.

I never beat that claw game...

I swear, that thing is rigged.

Anyways...

[Abillioncats]

IC: Emerald

Speaking of the thief, Diamond had now returned, though she seemed rather distressed about something, as she was looking around the room frantically. Emmy watched her curiously for a few moments, staring at her with her wide eyes as her tail flicked around absently. She wasn't sure if she should say anything, as Diamond seemed to be pretty focused on her search. It was kind of fun just to watch her anyway.

After a while though she figured she should at least ask what she was looking for, maybe help her find it. "What's wrong Diamond? You lose something? Oh, and Oswald said he was going into town with Sapphire, maybe we should ask him if we can come along! Could be fun." She figured she might as well ask while she was at it, see if Diamond liked the idea or not.

[Sho Minazuki]

Jack Orpheus | Vale - Armour Store

"Ahhh, I was just helping little Cian here get some new battle gear", he responded. Luke mentioned a new bike, he peeked out the side and behind Luke and did indeed see a bike. It looked pretty nice.

"Oh I didn't know you rode a bike, personally I never really needed anything like that, my semblance is usually all I need", he commented. Knowing first hand, he probably really didn't need a vehicle to get by to most places... In any case, he seemed pretty impressed with the bike.

"By the way, has anyone seen Mokuren? It's a day off and she's the only one of us that I haven't seen today", he mentioned.

[MULTI_MEDIA_MAN]

Oswald Connolly- Team MODE Dorm -> Airdocks

His shower finished, Oswald strode into the team's dorm room again, looking between Emerald and Diamond before shrugging. "Don't think I didn't hear that, kitty!" Feigning an angry look at the sheer audacity required to invite yourself along to someone else's plans, Oswald giggled and walked to his bed, making sure he wasn't leaving anything behind. "Could actually be a decent idea. Make it a....kinda....part of...our team...thing. Seriously, what the hell has Marcus been up to? It feels like he spends all his time with that damned tank. And that's coming from me."

Deciding to ignore his team leader's seemingly perpetual absence, Oswald pulled out a simple brown leather belt and slowly weaved it through his pants' belt loops. It wouldn't do to have his pants fall off, as unlikely as that was. "Well, I'm gonna get on my way to the airdocks, hope you lazy bums are about ready!"

[harinezumikouken]

Kuhaku Shiro - Airship Docks

Shiro stood amongst the crowd of students awaiting a bird to take them to the city proper. As he waited, Scoot excitedly ran around him in circles. Curiously sniffing and looking at each student but never ventured too far from Shiro's side. Bandaged hands stuffed into his pockets, Shiro sighed. He was bored. Remembering that in some uncontrollable fit that he had shattered his brand-new Scroll caused him to groan and shake his head. Palming his forehead, he severely regretted having done so. Questioning what could have possibly caused him to do such a stupid thing in the first place or why the thought even crossed his mind. If he had his Scroll, he could easily just plaster his face to its glowing screen to play a mobile game, surf the Internet, listen to music or something other than just standing around waiting in a line. He hated waiting for anything, being terribly impatient.

Ears and tail perking, a new idea struck him. Distracting him from his self-loathing.
"That's what I can do while I'm out! I can get a cheap little music player and some earphones!"
Checking his pockets for his wallet, he opened it to see exactly how much Lien he had. The disheartening reality of it was, he didn't have much.
"Aww, man. I don't think I even have enough for one. Much less be able to put some songs onto it. And custom Faunus-fitted earbuds can get pricey..."

Sighing again, he closed his wallet and pocketed it. Maybe he could ask to borrow some money from Abel or Gren, surely they wouldn't mind as long as he paid them back. Speaking of Gren, maybe it would more prudent to just have his comrade make him a makeshift Scroll or media device. Hell, the two of them could probably work on it together. As Shiro pondered on his financial situation, Scoot's excitement came to a head as the adorable little rodent relegated himself to just sprinting around Shiro in a fervor. Telepathically exclaiming "Fun! Fun!" repeatedly, granting Shiro some odd looks and whispers. Scratching the back of his head, Shiro nervously chuckled.

"H-he's my friend. Don't mind him."
Shiro tried his best to shoot a glare at the ferret. As if to tell the creature to tone it down. It wasn't Shiro's intention to stick out like a sore thumb today, he merely wanted peace. The ferret replied with a momentary pause and head tilt before resuming his activities. Causing Shiro to sigh once again and shake his head.

[Guess Who]

Robert Fallson - Beacon

Robert waved goodbye to the helpful school janitor as he walked down the hallway to continue his janitorial duties. The man had used his keys to open Robert's, now unlocked, dorm and allow him to finally change into real clothes and grab his wallet, Scroll, etc. "Ah, feels good to be able blend in with the normal people, again. Now that that fiasco has been taken care of, what to do next?" he said to himself out loud. Looking down at his Scroll to check the time, Robert expression brightened as he said, "Plenty of time to head toward the city and do... whatever other teenagers do. What do kids my age do anyway?"

When Robert finally reached his destination at the docks, he was still lost in thought, obviously counting something on his fingers. "... There's video games but I don't own any system to play them on. I've never been good at sports. Ooh comic books! Or are those only for nerdy teenagers. Ah whatever, it's still a thing some teenagers do," he said as he added another finger to the count on his hand. "Okay, how 'bout-" Robert's thoughts were suddenly interrupted by the repetition of a single word in his head: "Fun!" "What is that? It's like... it's playing in my head, but it's not my actually my thought. This is kinda weird, but cool at the same time. Where's it coming from?" Robert looked from student, trying to see if any of them gave a hint to whether they were the culprit for the voice inside his head. Even the oftentimes oblivious Robert could see that everyone was looking at Shiro and Scoot and that it was most likely because one of the two were the culprits.

"Hey there. I'm Robert," he introduced himself to the pair, hand held forward for a handshake. "Wait a minute, tiger-faunus, hyperactive ferret. You're Shiro right?! Abel's teammate!" Robert shouted, finally realizing the identity of the student in front of him. He then reached for the ferret that sat at the fellow student's feet. "And you must be Scoot," he said as he tried to scratch behind the small mammal's ears.

[Eklispe]

Krysthane grinned happily, it sounded like it was all going to work out. "Okay, I'll see if I can get my team and be there. Sounds like a date." She said and hurriedly made her way to her dorm to gather her teammates mentally rebuking herself. Did she actually just say "Sounds like a date?" To an actual person? For something that was happening in 10 minutes. Gawds that was stupid for a number of reasons. She came to the dorm just in time to see someone leave, looking inside she found that luckily her whole team was there.

"Awesome, guess what we get to doooo?" Krysthane asked excitedly and then contiuned without waiting for an answer, "We get to go bowling with another team!" Upon closer inspection it appeared Sepia had somehow managed to impale herself upon a sewing needle. "How dear however did you do that." Krysthane said worriedly as she hurried over to help carefully attempting to extract the needle from Sepia's nose. "So are you all ready to go?" Krysthane asked looking at her team expectantly, "Cause if so we need to get a move on, we're expected to be airship dock in 10 minutes."

[Forsythe]

"I can't find my wallet!" Diamond whined, diving under her bed to check there before checking under the sheets. Fortunately it was in the 'safe place' right under her pillow. Plus one point for drunk me, knowing where to put important stuff. she thought for herself with a relieved smile as she sat on the bed and dug a picture from the accessory, looking at it for a second before clutching it over her chest and putting it back.

Stuffing the wallet into proper pocket in her coat, she looked up and shrugged. "Sure thing, nothing else to do with the evening anyhow. And come on, that monstrosity must take a lot of maintenance. and if it breaks down, we're all walking." she shrugged off Marcus' absence, disturbingly used to it by now.

[Abillioncats]

IC: Emerald

Emerald leaped out of the bed, but seeing as she was still tangled up in sheets she tripped and crashed onto the floor all clumsy like. "I'll be ready in a minute I just need to change real quick!" She said hastily as she untangled herself from her sheets and got off the floor. She still hadn't managed to actually get out of her pajamas. She quickly went through her things to pick out an outfit for their venture into the town.

"Say Diamond...do you think if I asked nicely, Marcus would let me drive the tank?" She wondered curiously as she grabbed a green shirt along with a skirt. Since she was in a rush she didn't wait for an answer as she went into the bathroom and closed the door to get changed. She came out a minute later, playing with her hair. "I wonder if he needs a license to drive that thing..." She wondered.

"And hey! Don't call me a bum!" She said, pointing at Oswald accusingly. "Or I'll...tickle you!" It hadn't come out quite as threatening as she'd hoped.

[Ookawa]

All the time that had past, Skyra was lying in her bed reading... well, except for a little gym session on the floor of the dorm which she was just about doing at the moment when Sepia complained about a needle in her nose. Or well... she would have noticed if she weren't showering right that moment. And when Krys entered the room, Skyra just exited the shower, more or less fully dressed in pretty sporty clothes.

"Bowling? And I don't have time to dress for a casual outing? Oh, come on!, Skyra moaned, her hair barely dry. "Can I at least have the time to not have to go out in gym clothes? Makes me look even more like a dude.", she laughed.

[SevenStormStyle]

"I...left it on my bed." Sepia laughed nervously as the needle came loose from her palm and nose with Krysthane's assistance. "Thanks." Reaching over to an open drawer in the top of her dresser, her ears pricked up as she pulled out a small bottle of rubbing alcohol and a cotton swab.

"More like a dude? You look very...feminine." She was about to say 'cute', but realized that it could come off as condescending, especially since Skyra was probably a year older than herself.

After carefully cleaning the wounds on her palm and the left of her nose, Sepia slid a small silver stud into the accidental 'piercing'.

"Almost." she replied to Krysthane's question. "I just need to change clothes first."

[Ookawa]

A slight blush formed on Skyra's cheeks which she shook off quickly enough. She quickly dashed to her dresser and pulled out a casual t-shirt and put on a plaid, absolutely not very feminine-looking, skirt over her gym shorts, so that they peeked out from underneath her skirt.

"That should make it look less like I just came back from gym."
Nevertheless, she still wondered why she cared about her outfit so much lately. Luckily nobody had pressured her to put on make-up so far. She preferred to go mostly natural, except maybe for some light foundation and slight eye liner.
Gods... her thoughts were deviating again...

She gave a quiet thumbs up to Krys and waited for the rest of the group to finish their preperations.

[Ryonara]

After Skyra's talk with the faunas was over Ebon just went to bed. Eventually Krysthane came in to take them all out bowling. It wasn't like Ebon really had anything planned, so he figured he might as well join. Though he needed to wash up first. Unlike most of the girls, it only took him about five minutes to take a cold shower and dress in some very loud clothing: A white tiger stripe t-shirt, long yellow pants with streaks of random colors, shoes to match, and and a comparatively plain black cabbie hat. Ebon decided that he wasn't going to take his shield since today was suppose to be a day where he gets to relax, and he did enough fighting this morning for his taste.

"Who's team are we going with anyways?"

[Pannette]

Clair Carnelian

The warmth of the morning sun turned to an oppressive heat. A heavy silence descended on the garden as though the world were waiting for her response. Whatever rules of social conventions that had existed seemed to be slipping away.

Where is it okay to invite someone to breakfast before introducing yourself? This isn't some romantic comedy or the start of a novel - sure, it's the start of my morning, but this isn't a fantasy I want to be living out at 7 AM.

She closed her eyes and sighed. I was hoping that Beacon's guys were better than this.

"Look," she began. "I don't know what kind of joke you're playing, but that's not going to work on me." She let out a long yawn. "I haven't even had any coffee yet," she mumbled.

She turned to walk back to her dorm.