Xavier Institute Renovation ❨ OPEN TO ALL ❩

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Date & Time: Takes place from September 1st until September 15th—roughly 2 weeks!
Location: This building, which is a few major city blocks away from the Initiative Hold and only slightly tucked away behind some flora.
Characters: Everyone who's interested!
Summary: After Charles' post here, he's recruited everyone that he can to help refurbish this building that he received permission to kind of "take over" from the Initiative. Using all of their combined skills, they will become Captain Planet! restore this building into a functioning school!
Warnings: None!

Charles had wondered to himself whether or not it would take a great deal of convincing to get the Initiative to agree to his building of a school. He was surprised at their level of lenience, but they themselves had admitted that it was due only to the amount of work he'd been doing for them in exchange. With the established requirements that Charles continue to assist the Initiative in their archiving work, they agreed to help finance his institute and allow him free reign of this abandoned school building—however, they offered only two inspections and short classifications with which to make the building safe for renovation, and then vehemently left the rest of it to him.

Not minding one bit about that, Charles had the utmost confidence in those that he'd recruited both to help refurbish and to help teach. It was enough to bring him more optimism, in fact, in this horror of a world where he'd begun to believe there could be no such thing. Plenty of individuals with plenty of splendid and certainly outstanding powers had offered their assistance, and now Charles waited. With Adam's help, he'd managed to locate and successfully navigate the Private Messaging system on the network—and he'd sent a message to everyone who'd showed interest two days ago with their whereabouts and their plans.

Hello, this is Charles Xavier. I've received word that the building has been deemed safe for refurbishment and renovation, and clearance has been granted to me by the Initiative. Work will begin on September 1st, and shall carry on as long as it is necessary. There will be food and refreshments available during the renovation, and as much compensation for your time as I am able to offer will be given.

Thank you again for your support, and I hope to see you there.

Address enclosed, Charles now had himself seated on a—thankfully dusted—chair at a desk near the entrance of the school building. He was writing up his own itinerary, as well as preparing a book to keep track of those who'd come to help in the interest of said compensation. Each individual would be greeted with a friendly grin and hearty handshake, and Charles would jot down their name and tell them where they could begin.

❨ NOTE: The way this is set up is meant to be kind of like our mission logs, so everyone can reply to the comments on this entry with their own open posts to tag into based on what they want their character to be doing! Also, if you just want to make your own open post without the guidance of one of the comments left, or in reference to this overall post, that is perfectly fine too! Just leave your comment to the entry directly, in that case. ❩

Comments

fuck the cafeteria he's in the auditorium okay

[fe_male]

Because that's where the speakers are. Right? It's an auditorium, it ought to have speakers and screens and shit. Although honestly he's working all throughout the building, he's just got stuff mostly in this room in particular. Like an HQ. This would all be a lot easier if he had his suit but hey, beggars and choosers, right?

Like he knows about beggars or choosers. Please, he's Tony Stark.

And right now he is doing his best to Tony Stark the shit out of this auditorium, okay, it's a matter of personal pride and the very integrity of his name. That and he doesn't have anything better to do, and, auditoriums need to be tricked out. You need to do whatever you can to make sure the kids are paying attention, because he sure as hell knows he didn't pay attention to things if they weren't interesting when he was one. (For that matter he still... doesn't.)

BUT, he's in the kitchen a little bit too. He likes appliances. So many extra parts they don't need. Easy parts. Effectively he's going to the kitchen, fixing one of the appliances, and then taking the leftovers to the auditorium to work on things there. Whatever's leftover from that is going home with him tonight.

[danno_williams]

Danny wanders the hallways for a bit, trying to get his bearings and just figure out exactly what he can do. He'd done some DIY type projects in his time but this? This was way out of his league.

And just maybe he was looking for a familiar face.

He wandered into the Auditorium and there was Stark, balanced precariously on some random junk doing something...complicated with the wiring.

Well, maybe he could play spotter for awhile. "Whatcha doin' there Stark?"

(OOC: Let me know if that was to much godmodding and I'll readjust)

[fe_male]

'Wiring.' It's not wrong.

'What're you doing down there, Danny? I know I have a fine ass but surely you can find something to drag around this dump - be a little more useful than ogling me.'

[danno_williams]

He should be used to Stark's half ass truths by now. As it is it only makes him smirk, "Oh I was, but then I noticed your sorry ass perched oh so precariously on top of that pile of rubble and became worried for your continued health."

As if on cue, the pile Stark was standing on shifted under his weight. "See?" Danny added perhaps a bit unnecessarily.

[fe_male]

Excuse you, he doesn't half-ass anything, he just occasionally decides that brevity is the soul of boredom and decides to cut his losses and move on.

'Hey you can leave now if you're gonna start karmically fucking up my physics, or whatever divine narrative intervention just took place. This was structurally sound before you came over.'

[punk_cute]

Kanji should probably be doing something. Lugging around heavy objects or painting, or other simple tasks. And he probably had been on his way to doing one of those things, but, that's really cool right there.

He has no idea what he's looking at, but it's cool, and so he's still looking. And hovering a bit, like he wants to ask what he's seeing but isn't sure that's a good idea. He wouldn't want to startle somebody working on something delicate, after all.

[fe_male]

Tony Stark is used to being looked at. He's used to being stared at, watched, followed, and occasionally involuntarily having his personal space infringed upon - all jokes consisting of variants of 'what personal space' kindly take a step to the left and shoot yourself in the foot.

So it takes him a little while to notice that there's someone actually hovering nearby. Hovering. That's a throwback. He doesn't think someone's actually hovered around him since the last time he decided to take Pepper to a museum just because it was there and she could use the quiet, and half the staff had all but Scooby-Doo-portait-eyed them the whole way through the building. It had been fun, but ultimately the living room had been way less exhausting.

'What's up?'

[punk_cute]

"Just wonderin' what you were doing, man. Looks cool!" But to Kanji, a lot of things would look cool. He's very much an end-user of most things that have anything to do with electronics and doesn't know the inner workings from a hole in the wall. He looks awkward, but eager and curious--there is a fair bit of interest there, but a reluctance to pursue finding out more for reasons that have more to do with insecurity than potential lack of skill.

[fe_male]

'Science. It's what all the cool kids do. Aside from other cool kids.'

He'll probably keep on working then. He's pretty good at multi-tasking, on the whole. Well, no, he isn't, like at all, but he switches back and forth often enough to make it seem like he is. Sort of. Sometimes. Not really. But still. Regardless, still working. And talking too.

'What are you doing?'

[punk_cute]

"Science is always cool. Hard as hell though."

He sounds kind of wistful and very impressed when he says that, and does pause to watch quietly. And then he seems to remember the question.

"Just cleanin' mostly. Cleaning and painting is something I can do without screwing it up."

[fe_male]

'That's what makes it cool.'

Hard things are cool. Cool like ice. But so are easy things, because, just look at him. This is a horrible pair of puns. They don't even deserve to be called puns.

'You sound like you have a pretty healthy self-image problem. You going to this school once it's all finished up?'

[punk_cute]

"Yeah, I guess you're right. An' I'm planning on it. I know I gotta, even if school is real hard. I don't wanna be behind when we go home."

His mother would be upset, and as awkward as he is about things with her, making her upset is really the last thing he wants.

"An' it ain't an image problem. I know what I'm good at! It's just not really useful here."

Whoops, that made somebody go just a little defensive.