Power Training: New semester

[Elise Holdrust]

She straightened her suit a bit, giving a little bit of a wiggle. With a bit of a colorful flash, her wings manifested. Peeking over the edge of the cliff, she gives a low whistle.

Can I place bets?
I'm going to prove you wrong.
Keep telling yourself that.

With a deep breath she just...stepped off the edge.

[Miranda Weaver]

Miranda walked over to her section of the Danger Room and sat down in a grassy area opposite a female figure. The figure spread a row of strange cards face-down between them and then began, apparently randomly, reaching to flip over the cards while Miranda's hands moved to stop her. Miranda sighed as the simulation recorded several failures when she fell for feints, but she kept going.

[Kay Haddock]

Kay activates her program and runs off into the area that's now a sandy beach. She takes a running jump and dives into the waves with barely a splash.

[Jennifer Newgate]

Jennifer reads through her assignments and frowns at the 'Telepathy: Special Tutoring' line before slinking off into her section of the room that's essentially a glorified faucet with a beaker underneath it. She halfheartedly summons up a forcefield that lasts for all of a second before dispersing and letting water fill the beaker. Before to long the beaker is full and the whole thing beeps at her angrily and resets.

[Graham Jaeger]

Graham's program loaded a small patch of forest and he sighed before shifting into a half ton of bull Elk. He vanished into the treeline as wolves howled within.

[Maya Mills]

Maya's program was a series of grates that she was supposed to try shifting through. Unfortunately, she was having difficulty shifting since everyone around her seemed to be in some sort of imminent danger.

Deep breath. They're fine. They wouldn't let anyone get hurt.

[Jean-Louise Murphy]

Murphy was set on a platform surrounded by a moat. Walls came at her, attempting to knock her off unless she phased through them.

"Cheese and crackers!" Murphy squeaked as her arm got stuck in a wall and she ended up falling into the water. Again.

[Elise Holdrust]

Her flying wasn't working out too well, and she was likely freaking out at this point. The fact that the pit was a bottomless pit is what was freaking her out the most. Her panicked yelps echoed a bit as she struggles to get a hold of herself again, wings flapping rapidly. "NOT STELLAR. NOT AT ALL."

Hahahahaha! Bet you don't want to know what's down there. I'll let you in on a secret. I know!
Notlisteningnotlisteningnotlistening...

[Winifred Winters]

Winn's test was simple: a display showing how much energy she was emitting. Her goal was to get the number to go up.

"This is fucking stupid," Winn grumbles.

[Ryan Gabriel]

Ryan looked over at Steph. "Time to do our rounds, looks like."

He started by heading toward the cliff, since that was one that Steph couldn't handle.

[Gary Kelsey]

Gary's training consisted of trying to perform one of his boosts while running without breaking his stride. He clearly wasn't very good at this stumbling around and even once falling on this face.

I hope no one saw that.

[Blaine Slinger]

Blaine's room featured a work bench, a pack of bubble gum, some rubber bands, a selection of cogs and gears, and some triple A batteries as a starting point. A chalkboard lit up one 'wall'

Code: Select all

GIVEN: A human being of 60kg, preparing to jump off of a four-story building.
CREATE: A device to allow the jump to be completed without significant injury

Blaine scratched his head, and picked up the some of the rubber bands. "Hrmmmmmm..."

[Barbara Kirby]

Meanwhile, Barbara kind of sat in front of HER simulation, which was just essentially a punching bag attached to a forcemeter. A bowl of olives sat next to her.

She touched neither.

[Stephanie Kaltiera]

Steph walked over to Barbara. "You know, class goes a lot faster when you actually do things," she smiled reassuringly

[Barbara Kirby]

"I can't do that in front of all of these people," she whispered.

[Stephanie Kaltiera]

"Why not?" she whispered back, trying to stay as friendly as possible.

[Barbara Kirby]

"Because, it's...embarrassing. And I might hurt someone."

[Stephanie Kaltiera]

"This room--and both Ryan and I--wouldn't let you hurt yourself or anyone else. And your training outfit shifts with you," she smiled. "See, watch..."

Steph's eyes shifted to a feral yellow and her muscles bulged underneath her training uniform, growing several inches without fully shifting into her hybrid form (which tended to be a bit more intimidating that she was going for right now)

[Barbara Kirby]

"I'm not concerned about modesty...I get....angry."

[Stephanie Kaltiera]

"And so do many others. I certainly do. It's a battle every day to live with the beast that's inside me. Ever seen a werewolf flick? The movies aren't too far off from the truth for a feral shifter," she said reassuringly.

"This room can take a lot of punishment, and no matter how angry you get, I'm positive we can keep you and everyone else safe. Would you feel better if I put up a force field around us and this bag?"

[Barbara Kirby]

"I'd be happier if I was in private," she muttered, a bit louder than she intended to.

[Stephanie Kaltiera]

Steph gave her a sympathetic smile. "Barbara, you're surrounded by people who are all pretty busy with their own work, and more importantly, everyone in this room has had control issues, and if they haven't yet, then they probably will."

She looked around the room briefly, adding conspiratorially, "And if anyone makes fun of you, I'll make sure they never do it again."

[Eric Osgood]

Eric's area was a familiar running track, set up around the perimeter of the room, at a steep angle.

He took a few deep breaths and took off, quickly becoming a blur against the ring.

A few moments later, a distinctive smell of burning oil became apparent, as the lubricant within his implants began heating off.

[Elise Holdrust]

Don't look down.

Of course, she did and squealed. At this point she ended up managing to smack herself face first into the side of the cliff.

You did that on purpose!
So sue me.

[Graham Jaeger]

The sound of an Elk bugling a challenge emerged from just inside the virtual forest. Then, a wolf flew out as if thrown. It slammed into the ground before de-rezzing. A triumphant sound followed, then a somehow smug sound.

[Barbara Kirby]

Steph gave her a sympathetic smile. "Barbara, you're surrounded by people who are all pretty busy with their own work, and more importantly, everyone in this room has had control issues, and if they haven't yet, then they probably will."

She looked around the room briefly, adding conspiratorially, "And if anyone makes fun of you, I'll make sure they never do it again."

"If anyone makes fun of me, they're liable to end up with a broken arm."

[Stephanie Kaltiera]

"No. But I'll make sure that they spend a week cleaning the toilets or the grounds." she smirked.

[Barbara Kirby]

"Alright..." she said, hesitantly, eyeing the olives suspiciously.

[Eric Osgood]

"DamndamnDAMNIT!!"

Eric took a bad tumble, cascading to a stop, his feet smoking.

[Christine Bowen]

Christie was in her area, her mood starting to improve as she picked up cars and threw them at a wall.

[Alex Carpenter]

"You okay over there, Irish?" Alex called, smirking as he stood under the increasing weight in a titanium body.

[Ryan Gabriel]

Ryan peered down at Elise and decided he'd give her a few more minutes to level out before he went down there to her. It was the first class, no need to make a new kid feel like she couldn't work it out herself.

[Haley Crusek]

Haley had a mostly blank section of room with about ten cubes of different sizes ranging from about the size of a large die to a large old-school wooden shipping crate. Her instructions were simple: levitate herself six inches above the ground and do the same to as many cubes as possible. Currently, she had about five aloft with her, and she was sweating profusely.

[Jean-Louise Murphy]

Another wall came at Murphy and she shifted density quickly, this time smashing through it.

"Oh! Sorry! That's no -- AGH!" Murphy was hit by a much thicker wall from the opposite direction and thrown back into the moat.

[Graham Jaeger]

Elk-Graham quickly found himself surrounded by a half-dozen snarling wolves.

Stay calm... stay calm...

A wolf lunged and he kicked it into a tree with his hind legs. Then the rest came at him.

He lost his cool and bolted through a gap before blindly charging out of the trees. It might be best not to be in his path.

[Eric Osgood]

"You okay over there, Irish?" Alex called, smirking as he stood under the increasing weight in a titanium body.

"Kiss me Blarney ass!"

Eric pulled up a danger room console, making wireless adjustments to the configuration of his implants.

[Stephanie Kaltiera]

"Language, Mr. Osgood!" Steph cautioned

[Eric Osgood]

"Yes, sorry."

Eric gave alex a final glare before going over his acceleration profile, looking to find a way to improve his performance.

[Barbara Kirby]

Barbara looked down at the olives and, seeing as how everyone else was busy, took a few and swallowed them.

Her unstable-molecule clothes contained her, as she grew up several inches and increased in muscle mass proportionally.

Growling, she slammed a fist into the punching bag, measuring at 4,000 newtons of force!

[Alex Carpenter]

Alex, meanwhile, was discovering that unlike the other forms, when he hit his strength limit with a lead form, he didn't just drop the weight... his body actually deformed. "What? No! Ahhhh shiiiiiiiittttt..." he said, as the weight fell off the left side as his shoulder started stretching down under it. "Pause! Pause program!"