[OPEN] X-Mansion clean-up

[agoddessonce]

WHO: Storm and you!
WHEN: Late May-Early June
WHERE: Xavier Institute for Mutant Education and Outreach
WHAT: Come bother a lonely goddess in a blast from the past mansion!
NOTES\WARNINGS: N/A for now, but this is the X-Men - discussion of death, bigotry, and discrimination likely.

A new building has popped up in Etraya - easily visible from the Hospital and Apartment Complex on the main island. Ororo spends a few days flying back and forth from the main island and to the Institute, investigating its exterior and interior, before finally just taking one of the bedrooms in the main mansion.



⏵ i. indoors;

The gate and the doors are, actually, left unlocked for now. Ororo is alone, and isn't too worried about security just yet - it was just her in this large, lonely mansion and she could take on anyone who might feel like trespassing -- not that there was anyone like that here, she'd found. She can imagine people like Scott or Logan or even Hank berating her for being careless anyway, but... she isn't worried. She's more concerned about how much of the institute is even real - and thus, how safe everything actually is.

So, she goes through the entire building one room at a time - testing light switches, checking stoves or microwaves, looking through the computers in the old staff offices (they switch on, but there's nothing saved in them), turning beds so she can offer them to people who might be sick of the apartments... It's a large place, so this takes her a couple of days. It won't be hard to run into her walking through the halls with a little clipboard and a pen -- she'd had a brief moment of missing the modern conveniences of Henry and Forge's tablets -- and a smile for anyone who'd wandered in after her.

"Hello. Come to help me investigate?"

However, if she sees anyone approaching the main elevator, she calls out instead in a sharp warning -- "The sub-levels are restricted. If you'd like to go there, you'll need me to key in some biometrics to access them."

⏵ ii. pool;

The Olympic-size pool is easily seen from surrounding islands. It's dry and empty when Ororo first discovers the Institute, and not yet very clean. She considers putting up a message on the network to ask for help, but... perhaps that'd be better suited for when the pool is actually usable, instead?

So when she's done poking through the inside of the mansion, she figures it's time for a more mundane use of her powers. She blasts the tiles with wind and water to wash away any grime or dirt left between the crevices. Filling it up with clean water later was no trouble at all either, with a convenient cloud of fresh rain.

Maybe she should work on clearing out spaces for some tables and chairs next? But that'll involve more hands than she has, so it'll have to be a project for another day, maybe.

⏵ iii. rooftop;

Between self-imposed chores to make the mansion feel a little less shadowed and a little more lived-in, Ororo takes her breaks on the east wing's roof. She's taken a pool lounger and set it up here, and lies under the sun or the moon or in the shade of one of those odd, chrome structures in nothing but her underwear and a pair of sunglasses, sipping from an insulated tumbler she'd picked up at Kwiktrip and a paperback she'd taken from Corrine's (she'll return it! eventually!)

It's the last place she expects anyone to find her, really, but... people could always surprise her.

⏵ iv. wildcard;

Feel free to mix-and-match or tag in with something else completely, or use the X-Mansion as set dressing for other threads! ♥ If we have previous CR, you can also assume Ororo has messaged your character in some way to help her check the place out. Message me on almondlychee if you want something more specific.

Comments

[keepitgoing]

... I know.

[A solemn understanding, as much as he hates to admit it.]

It's wrong to just lose faith in people. Not trust anyone. I know that. It's just... hard, lately. Is all. [But despite his staggered response, he does seem to be made a little lighter from her words. His slumped shoulders straighten up, as if a just a little less weight hangs on them.] Being alone definitely sucks.

So if you ever need a hand or company or anything, you can always shout my name from the rooftops.

[agoddessonce]

[ She hopes her grin doesn't come off as too amused, but - that's a very strange offer. She has no idea if she'll ever do as he offers, but she nods anyway. ]

Will that really work, do you think? Etraya is a big place. Can I not contact you through the... [ She gestures to her ear, where she is indeed wearing the earpiece. ] comms devices?

[keepitgoing]

Heh. I don't know if 'Spider-Man' can reach out without the mask slipping.

[He's not completely sure, anyway. It seems like the comms don't have any obvious way of pretending to be two people off of one device. Maybe if he gets his own secondary earpiece for Spider-Man... that'd be a good idea.]

I'll work on it, though.

... Besides, I have a feeling you can handle yourself without Spidey pretty well.

[agoddessonce]

[ Ororo chuckles at the claim he makes. ]

Yes, I probably can. But I always appreciate having help. Something accomplished together with others is much more efficient, isn't it? And more fulfilling. [ Let it be known: Storm was a staunch advocate of teamwork makes the dream work. There's a lot she can do on her own - but she will always promote something that can be done collectively so that everyone can lift everyone else up together. ]

Let me know when you have found a way around the... mask slippage problem. But in the meantime, I will call you from the rooftops somehow. Yes?

🎀 and then ororo showed him the cool institute he'll be popping in on, on occasion✨

[keepitgoing]

Sounds like a deal.

[And hey, he'll probably get himself a second earpiece or something.

The Spidey Phone! Maybe too on the nose? He'll have to workshop it.]