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

[whatsupcroc]

"Of course we will!" Collette continued her search for a trash bin. "But in the off chance we couldn't, we'd be set. You know, to talk about impossible situations."

In her opinion it was a step up from normal small talk.

Tossing her gloves in the trash, she moved back around toward the tables. "What'd you end up bringing?" she asked once she was close to the guy she didn't know.

[punk_cute]

"Well the food would be nice while we were diggin' out. Gotta keep our energy up."

The fact that he mentioned digging out of a collapsed building as if it was no thing probably said something about him, but his attention was on setting up the food he'd brought.

"Curry, hot chocolate an' croquettes. You know, the real easy to make stuff. Figured the hot chocolate would be good for warming up a bit."

[whatsupcroc]

"Did you say curry?" Collette's full attention was suddenly focused on Kanji. His confidence of them getting out of a cave in fit in as natural in the face of intense curiosity. "Which kind?"

[punk_cute]

"I did! I made it kinda on the sweet side, 'cause I didn't know how many people would like the spice, you know?" He starts scooping up a bowl as he talks, and adding some rice. It's Japanese style, but looks and smells really good. He holds out the bowl with a big smile.

"Here! Try some."

[whatsupcroc]

She accepts the bowl with an answering smile, intrigued at the smell right off the bat. "Some people have no stomach for spice," she agrees, "Though sweet's not normally what I hear people go for instead. More mild!"

Collette digs in, holding off on any answer until the second bite. Settling the bowl down into her lap, she shoots Kanji a smile and says with full sincerity, "That's amazing! You made this? It's sweeter than what I usually have, and I love it!"

[punk_cute]

"It makes a good balance--I added some honey and applesauce 'cause I couldn't get at fresh apples. Kinda like ginger candy's got sugar on it, you know? Still got a kick like ginger should have, but the sugar smooths it out."

He beams when she says she likes it though, glad to have the approval, and secretly relieved it doesn't come with questions about why a boy would cook. He's not entirely gotten over his issues with gender stereotypes.

[whatsupcroc]

If he could sew and march in formation, it'd almost be like talking with her brother when he was in the JROTC. "Is that what does that? I'm next to clueless in the kitchen. You'd really use apples in this normally? That's crazy!"

She grins. "The best kind, like speeding down the moguls on fresh powder!"

[punk_cute]

Ironically, sewing is one of Kanji's greatest talents. Marching in formation, well, he's never tried that. "Sometimes! There's lots of different ways to balance out tastes. Coconut milk really works too, but I didn't have any of that. And sometimes! I usually don't make it quite so sweet, 'cause I like spicy things, but like I said, I didn't know what people would like, an' I figured more people would like it sweeter than spicier."

He laughs at her second comment. "You gotta live a little! Never know what's comin' next."

[whatsupcroc]

"Oh! Not coconut milk, exactly, but I found a pretty good substitute! Less fattening weirdly enough, and the flavor's off, but it's... actually called coco-sub." She didn't understand why that name was considered worth anything, but it worked, and it came in a can.

Which might have explained some of the differences she tasted. "You're right about the whole living thing! The future's full of surprises, and a good number of them are probably even good. In case they aren't, take advantage of what you can now!"

Thus as soon as she figured out a parachute and an appropriately tall building, she was going to figure out base jumping.

For reasons.

[punk_cute]

"Really?" He looks excited and eager at her description. "If the taste's a little off that ain't no problem. It can be fixed. Where did you find it?"

He smiles, looking just a little world-weary for a moment. Fighting to save the world can do that to a kid--so it's probably a look she recognizes. "I get you on that. Gotta live, an' gotta be true to your own self. Ain't no other way to be. Life is too precious to waste."

[whatsupcroc]

It's a look she can identify. It's surprising to see it on his face. What kind of fighting was he doing? "I agree with you 110%! As for the coconut milk, I found it at one of the weird little grocery stores -- a two person kind of store a few blocks away from the Hold. I'm happy to show you sometime!"

[punk_cute]

He was helping to save the world from the goddess of death and the risk of people everywhere getting turned into mindless monsters. It involved a lot of facing hard truths, fighting against the odds, and the power of friendship. Literally. "Great! I'm always lookin' for places to get things. An' I thought living where I did made things hard to find!"

He laughs a little, but there's a wistful quality. He's homesick and can't quite hide it.

[whatsupcroc]

"Where were you living? You make it sound like you were in the middle of nowhere." Talking about home was bittersweet... but curiosu making, in hearing about other people's homes. Presumably they were all part of the life people were working to reclaim.

[punk_cute]

"That's pretty much it. Little town called Inaba." After a little pause, he adds, "In Japan. Not many people, an' the only reason people really visit is 'cause the local inn is kinda famous."

[whatsupcroc]

"What's the inn famous for?" She vaguely knew Tokyo was in Japan, but outside of that, Collette wasn't very world wise when things didn't relate to her interests.

[punk_cute]

"Bein' really old fashioned an' pretty, I think. An' the hotsprings!" Kanji was mostly just guessing and it showed. His one visit had been plagued by...shenanigans that had really dampened the enjoyment of the place.