New Generation Legacy, Issue 1: Back to School

[Sollir Furryfoot]

"Don't worry, I was really doubtful at first too. When I mean 'angel' I mean she can do everything you'd think an angel could do...heal people, fly, even shoot blasts of light. She doesn't seem to have any special connection to God, but she does want to do the right thing..." Cody tries to further explain so he doesn't look like he's crazy, but he feels a little exasperated doing so.

"Excuse me a second." he says after Manjit leaves, following her as quickly as he can.

"Hey, wait up there a second!" he shouts.

 

[Hammerhead]

Emmet frowns, taking a step to follow the departing Manjit, then stops as he watches Cody follow her.Maybe she just needs space. It is unlikely that I would know what words to say in any case. I just hope that Cody assists her. Turning to Professor Lankowski, he asks "It is not my attention to pry into the personal affairs of Manjit, but her reaction seemed extreme. Manjit still seems scarred by whatever incident you might have been informed of; it seems that if her gifts are dangerous enough to warrant special mention, the general student body might benefit from a similar caution, for both their sakes and that of Manjit. Given her strict concepts of personal space, does she cause some debilative effect upon physical contact, or does she simply possess some form of uncontrolled destructive power," Emmet asks, concern on his face.

"Amy's centralization and capabilities might be overengineered to serve as an operating system for this school, even given the extreme needs of the student population. I suppose Amy's most important feature would be the Monitoring component of its name. Given that this school likely possesses the largest single concentration of Elites, many of whom are still developing their abilities..." Emmet shrugs. "It would provide a surplus of research data to help understand the Elite phenomenon, which might just be the most important scientific question of our time. Raph also poses many interesting questions."

"In addition to research into the Elite phenomenon, the creation of a true AI would be a major milestone of human achievement. One of my goals is to help create one, although I worry that future regulatory actions may make such an action impossible," Emmet adds, biting his lip uncomfortably.

 

[Agamon]

Emmet:

The professor nods. "It's quite sad, actually. Many elites' powers can manifest in ways that can become deadly. Manjit's are directly so. It seems that anything touching her dies...well, not immediately, at least not anymore, she's acquired a bit of control over it, apparently, in that if someone were to accidentally touch her, the result wouldn't be life threatening. Her abilities broke out at her previous school, three students and a teacher died." Emmet recalls something about this on the news a few months ago, though her name never rang a bell.

"That poor girl. I remember this, they needed to lock her up for nearly a month. When her abilities manifested, people would die just going near her. That's terrible," Dr. Stockov replies.

"I'm just glad we got to her before Pantheon did. They would probably be getting her to think she was a goddess of death or some such nonsense," Lankowski says, shaking his head.

"From what I understand, Emmet, I would not be surprised if you were able to crack this AI problem. We could discuss a sharing of notes, perhaps," Stockov tells the boy. "As for regulatory issues, they may become problematic in the future, but as of now, bureaucrats are having a hard enough time keeping up with the elite phenomenon."


Cody:

Manjit slows and stops in the hall, but doesn't turn around in a failed attempt to disguise her tears. "Cody...you need to stay away from me..."


Jerry:

As Jerry swims to the poolside, the three teens can hear some noise from the hallway. Some other students are checking out the gym and weight room. They spot you through the glass doors and saunter in. It's Yoshi with a couple of other students, one a large Asian kid, the other, a wiry black teen. "Hey, if it isn't darkman and spaz...and Natasha, too!" he calls out with a smirk.

Kiyana frowns and James sighs.

 

[Samnell]

As Jerry swims to the poolside, the three teens can hear some noise from the hallway. Some other students are checking out the gym and weight room. They spot you through the glass doors and saunter in. It's Yoshi with a couple of other students, one a large Asian kid, the other, a wiry black teen. "Hey, if it isn't darkman and spaz...and Natasha, too!" he calls out with a smirk.

Jerry hoisted himself out of the pool with an easy, well-practiced heave. He walked right up to the group, entirely unconcerned about being so little clothed in comparison.

"G'day. I'm Jerry," he said to the two new people, with a smile. "But I'll answer to Natasha or Spaz if the mood strikes. Or Tao if you like."

 

[Mimic]

"No need to lay it on so thick, I'm sure that her ladyship will charmed without going all country boy on her."

"Just saying the truth is all," he replies with a shrug. "My paw told me never to lie to a lady, he said they would sniff out the truth faster then a hound dog."

Stacy and Layla both stare at the newcomer, neither of the stares overly pleasant. Stacy, all 5' 5" of her, looks at Clover and Trilly and then back at John with a bit of a glare that says, "What am I, chopped liver?" Instead she just lets out a small "Hmmph" before looking back to the group of boys she originally set her sites on.

"No need to get mad Ms. Stacy, your right pretty too. In fact you would be the prettiest girl in my school back home. Probably in the whole county..."

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The look on Layla's face makes one wonder if she isn't contemplating just that. "I'm sorry, John. I...was reading your mind without your knowledge. I won't do it again."

"That's for sure," Jun Min says. "This isn't baseball. One more strike and you're out. Understand?"

Layla nods her affirmation. Jun Min motions for her to follow. "Come with me, this is not over." Layla does as she's told, looking like she'd rather crawl into a hole and die.

"Whoa..." Stacy says in a lowered voice.

John scowls as he watches the two ladies leave, once again running his hand through his hair. "Now that aint right, a person's thoughts aught to be their own. Makes me wonder what she was doing rootin through my brain."

"You can call me Clover love, no need for all the miss and such. One of the benifits of being here and not home is that this place doesn't have to be so stuffy and formal." Clover told John, brushing off the title, even if it was kinda charming in a way that he called all girls miss.

"Its okay to be bent...if you are I mean. No one here is going to be mean to you just because of who you want to slip between the sheets with. Its nothing to be embaressed about. I'm a bit of AC/DC myself, so believe me, there would be nothing wrong with you liking the fellas." Clover said, having misread the frustration for embarresment and would have continued on with her reassurances, but just then Jun Min arrived and blew up on Layla. It was an utterly mucked up sensation to know there was something of a conversation going on and not be able to hear it, like Layla was whispring at the table and the teacher(?) wasn't bothering with it.

Wait, she was in his head? Wonder what she was looking for, I know she and Stacy definitely weren't chuffed with John about ignoring them when he said that me and Trilly were pretty. Maybe she wanted to know if he really was a beaver leaver.

"Well...uh that was something, wasn't it?" she asks after Jun Min takes Layla away.

"I beg your pardon Ms. Clover... Clover, I rightly said I wasn't one of them gays and I think that this conversation ain't right to be havin in mixed company." It looks like he wants to say more but for what ever reason he doesn't say anything.

"Now if you all will pardon me, its been a right long day." He nods and tips his hat to each of the remaining girls and heads off to find his dorm room.

 

[Shalimar]

"I rather think the boy is put off with me." Clover said mildly when John stalked off. "Was not my intent to offend him." she says sullenly. "Do you reckon he was just put out with me for saying it was okay if he was gay, or do you figure it was what I said about batting for both teams?"

"We'll if it was the latter that got his Alans in a twist he can just sod off." the red-head said with a rather vexed looking frown. Shaking her head, she looks around for someone to distract her. "Looks like Yoshi and his mates have scampered. Looks like the reception is breaking up too for that matter." Shaking her head angrily she turns to Stacy, she thought that Trilly was ok wth what she had said, but it was only belatedly that she thought it might not have been the best topic to bring up right off on the first day. "Stacy, how do you feel about what I said. I hope it doesn't toss you or nothing. I probably shouldn't have brought it up, but it didn't seem like it was such a big thing before. I know that the US is a bit behind the rest of us though when it comes to certain things."

 

[Agamon]

"Now if you all will pardon me, its been a right long day." He nods and tips his hat to each of the remaining girls and heads off to find his dorm room.

Stacy looks diappointed as the boys she had her eye on leave, but smiles again at John with the compliment. She sighs though when John also leaves. She turns to Clover. "Aw, you went and scared him off. Just so you know, the American midwest ain't San Francisco, 'kay?"

"That Korean chick's a real bitch, hey? Teachers, they suck no matter what country you're in." Another girl joins the group, the previously anti-social student Jun Min went to talk to. Her ethnicity is difficult to place, but her accent is northwestern. You can see she's also quite tall now that she's standing.

 

[KaintheSeeker]

"I think it was you inferring that HE was gay. As for the latter.. well I know who'd I'd like for a room mate." Trilly says with a grin as she watches John leave. In a lot of ways they were alike, she'd guess, in that they hadn't seen a lot of the wide world before getting their abilities, but she figured that her upbringing was a little more open and modern than John's.

She just hoped that he was able to move past it and grow into someone who could handle the bigger world that he'd been dropped into. A lot of the 'oh shucks' guys she knew were good folks able to adapt their upbringing to a wider world. Brought a bit of common sense with that that some folks could use.

The other types. They were the ones you had to worry about. She had a good feeling about John though. He was like an old fashioned boy scout she figured.

"So, your ladyship, whose world view you going to short out next?" She asked with a teasing smile.

 

[Shalimar]

"I'll keep it in mind Stacy." Clover promises, though she isn't sure what San Francisco had to do with the rest of America and being gay, she did sort of recall some stories about gay marriage bieng ok there, so that was probably what the cheerleader was talking about.

"Well if it was for simply inferring he was gay, it probably means he has a problem with folks like me, or others with more discriminating tastes that don't quite lockstep with his. If thats the case I really don't think I'll be getting on well with him at all, whih is a bloody shame since he seems so polite otherwise. I'll let it be though, maybe it was just a bit of a shock from me announcing my preferences." she adds generously, though from her tone she doubts it.

Clover eyes Trilly speculatively at her comment about roommates, wondering if that was the southern girls way of announing her preferences much more suavely then Clover had managed to do, then again it could have meant the exact opposite too, it was hard to tell with the Bloody way yanks butchered the language. "At least you guys are more accepting then he is, it must be absobloodylutely hell being gay in the mid-west if you have to hide it from all your family and suck, drive you fair to the funny farm." there, that seemed a more neutral way of asking than she had with John, maybe if she had led with that she wouldn't be trying to pull her big clodhoppers out of her mouth.

"I don't know," Clover says when the other girl joins the group and the comment is made about Jun Min. "I think she seems nice enough, it was kinda mean how she went about it, but going into people's thoughts is a pretty scarey thing to be able to do without them even knowing about it. I wouldn't mind it so much if I knew and I said it was ok, but it was like he didn't even know she was doing it."

"I'm Clover, nice to meet you." she tells the new girl sounding a little tired from the conversation she had just had. Turning to Trilly she says, "you really don't need to call me ladyship, my Dad's the Baron and that makes my mom a Lady. My formal styling is just 'The Honourable Clover Hughes', and I'd really rather avoid it while I'm here if I can."

 

[KaintheSeeker]

"I'm Trilly Gardener, nice to meet you." Trilly says to the new girl with a wave of fingers from where she's leaning against the tree.