Log:Introducing Quinn

2012/12/21 	 Anthony Quinn Pleiades Rae Toby Victory Sasha Kun 1

CBSU is one of the better state schools, especially strong on the science and in the fields of xenobiology and alien culture second to none. The new dorms, lecture halls and library speak of generous benefactors.

The campus is arranged in an broadly circular pattern. In the midst of campus is the college or student square, an open area where the students can hang out when the weather's nice. Surrounding the square are the rest of campus facilities, starting with the dorms, then moving out to the classroom buildings. By the campus stores two elevated MagLev lines cross. There is no stadium: that's off the campus proper, to the north of Courtland Way.

Pleiades skates along, slowly, through campus.

Pleiades is about 170cm tall, with an athletic build, a heart-shaped face, big expressive green eyes, and neck length somewhat unkempt black hair. She wears a long strip of white cloth tied around her head knotted in a bow at the back.

She wears a long sleeved white half-jacket with blue piping, and with blue and gold bars on the cuffs, over a midriff baring tight black crop top with white piping zipped up the front with a large hoop zipper tab at the top.

Around her waist she wears an open front white knee-length skirt with white piping, with gray steel armor plates over her hips, over plain light blue shorts. She wears black knee braces with gray steel armor plates on the front.

On her left hand she wears a fingerless black glove with steel reinforcement over the knuckles. On her right hand, she wears Panzerfaust, a heavy gray steel technomagic gauntlet with a pair of heavy counter-rotating bands around the wrist portion. On her feet, she wears Blitzraeder, a pair of technomagic heavy steel reinforced inline skates

Tony walks through the campus, heading toward the high energy physics lab. Given his current state of dress he could easily pass as one of the students at school.

Pleiades keeps glancing at rooftops as she skates, and keeps from approaching groups of students too closely.

As Tony spies Pleiades a broad grin breaks across his face. "Hey there," he says. "Your one of the local heroes, aren't you? Perseus or something like that?"

Pleiades rolls to a halt and waves hesitantly, "Um, my call-sign is actually Pleiades, but I guess that is something like that."

Pleiades she smiles uncertainly.

Tony nods his head. "Pleiades, right," he says with a smile. "Sorry. Greek studies weren't one of my strong suits. Nice to meet you." He extends a hand to you.

Pleiades shakes Tony's hand with her left (non-gauntlet) hand, "Um, Nice to meet you..? It's, um, well, I just know it as a star cluster."

Tony flashes a quick grin. "Most of the star clusters are named after Greeks." He pauses to think for a moment. "Or maybe that's Romans. No. It's Greeks. I'm pretty sure. We name the planets after Romans."

Pleiades nods, "Oh, um, that's right." She backs up slightly, "I don't even know what the Pleiades are like, actually."

"Some kind of sisters," Tony says. "That's all I can remember about them, and that's because the stars are also called 'the sisters'."

Pleiades grins, "Really? That's kind of cool." She keeps glancing at the rooftops as she talks.

Tony turns his own attention to the roofs as you keep glancing at them. "Is there something up there?" he asks.

Pleiades starts to nod, then shakes her head, "Um, not that I can see. It's just, um, there's a chance I might get shot by a sniper, so I'm just trying to stay alert."

Tony blinks and turns to look at the rooftops, more curious than concerned. "Really?" he asks. "Does this sort of thing happen to you a lot around here?"

Toby enters from MagLev System.

Pleiades thinks for a moment, "Er, not exactly. It's just that my partner, Sagittarius, um, has been reprogrammed by a Rogue Mage, and um, is now working for her, and she's a Ranged Combat and Stealth specialist."

Tony nods as he listens to Pleiades. "And she's been shooting at you?" he asks.

Pleiades nods, and backs away from Tony a little, "Um, well, once, when I didn't have my Shield Jacket on."

Rae comes walking along humming to herself, looking like she is dressed for tennis or something. She does have long white gloves on her hands though. She seems to be in a fairly good mood.

This young woman looks to be in her late teens. She has lightly tanned skin that shows off her lithe muscles. She stands just over five and a half feet in height. Long blonde hair reaches down to the middle of her back, a few silvery white streaks run through it as well. Two pale blue eyes dart about to take in her surroundings. Her curves are sharp and angular giving her a carved like beauty.

She is wearing a white blouse and matching skirt, almost looks like a tennis outfit, or something similar, there are running shoes on her feet.

"Shield Jacket?" Tony asks. "Is that what you're wearing right now?"

Toby comes in floating with her tail wrapped around a coffee cup, with a pink aura-like light surrounding her. Toby-spotting Rae-heads over in that direction, "Hey! Rae! It's been a while." Toby smiles.

Pleiades tugs at her jacket with her gauntleted hand, "Um, yes. It's my combat uniform. Um, it protects me from direct damage and environmental hazards."

Tony nods and peers a bit closer at Pleiades jacket. "What is it?" he asks. "Synthetic polyaramid? Or...you said it protects you from environmental hazards, so a force field induction unit?"

Pleiades shakes her head, "Um, actually, its a pure Magic construct, powered by my Yggdrasil Core."

Tony cocks his head to one side. "What's an Yggradil core?" he asks.

Pleiades blinks, "Ah! Sorry, I keep forgetting. Um, I think you call it a 'soul'?"

Rae smiles to Toby and nods, "Yeah, I got pulled away for some things." she shakes her head a bit, "Its good to be back though." she smiles, "How are you?" she asks softly.

"Soul?" Tony says. "You mean like your bioelectrical field or something?"

Pleiades shrugs helplessly, "I don't really know. I was always terrible at the theoretical classes. Um, it's the core of myself that I draw magic power from."

Tony gives a short chuckle and a grin. "Oh, that I can kind of understand," he says.

Pleiades grins, "Oh? You prefer applied classes too?"

Tony shakes his head and smiles. "No," he says. "I mean having an implanted power core." He taps the center of his chest which produces a more solid thunk than the normal percussion against a person's chest. "Had an accident a couple of months back and ended up with a quantum drive embedded in my chest."

Pleiades blinks, "Oh... Um, well, my Yggdrasil Core is natural. Um, well, mostly natural, I was genetically engineered to have a high magic potential. Um, and I have power amplifiers installed in my frame."

Pleiades adds, "What's a Quantum Drive?"

"Power source I was working on," Tony says. "It draws zero point energy through a Calib-Yau manifold to create clean energy."

Pleiades stares blankly at Tony, "Uh... OK? Is that good?"

Rae was looking a bit distracted but after a moment turns and looks at Toby again and blinks, "Um, everything ok?" she asks, not sure how to just come out and ask about the changes. She glances around for a moment and then back to her.

Tony chuckles once more and grins. "Well, if I can solve the problem of sudden thoraxal implementation then yeah, a virtually limitless clean energy source? A lot of people would find it to be a good thing."

Pleiades grins, "Oh, that would be a good thing. Um, can you do anything with it? Er, I mean, is just stuck in you, or is it actually integrated?"

Toby giggles, "Everything's fine. I've been transforming for a while now...it just finally finished happening, thus, here I am." Toby smiles, "How have you been?"

Rae nods and smiles a little, "As long as you are fine." she says and cocks her head to the side, "Anyone giving you hard times?" she asks and then shrugs, "I am doing alright I think, glad to be back at school want to work on my sculpting a bit."

Tony blinks in surprise. "Oh. No," he says. "Yeah, I use it to power a variety of things like the suits I'm working on, my undermesh. I can access it's power core, but really when I get all the kinks worked out then it should be usable for lots of things. There's no reason it needs to be embedded in anyone, so q-drives can be used to power vehicles, homes... You name it."

"Hard times? Not really." Toby shrugs, "If anything, my life has gotten better since I've been fully transformed into what friend dubbed: A holomorph. I'm still learning all of the little kinks that game with being this way but...meh."

Pleiades nods slowly, "Ah, um, that's cool. So you can power your own version of a Shield Jacket with it? And other things?"

Rae nods her head a little and then smiles and glances around for a moment and then back to Toby, "That is good, well if you need help with anything let me know, while my changes aren't as visible, it took me a bit to get used to mine know help would have been nice."

Tony laughs and nods. "Yeah. Actually I'm doing that right now," he says to Pleiades. He lifts up the bottom inch or so of his shirt revealing a second layer of what appears to be a thin skintight fabric with circuitry woven throughout it.

Pleiades grins, "Awesome. That makes me feel better. Now if I get shot, I don't have to worry about you being collateral damage."

Tony flashes a quick grin. "Unless your friend is armed with a 120mm cannon I doubt the could penetrate my armor," he says.

Pleiades hmms and looks thoughtful, "Um, her Sniper Shot can penetrate a bit of solid armor, but I don't know how that compares to a 120mm cannon."

Toby nods, "I'll let you know if I need help with anything. Oh! But there's this one place that's been helping me deal with my er-changes. So I'd probably talk to them first. But hey, I still appreciate the offer. We er...physical different people should stick together right?"

Tony shakes his head. "The undermesh is actually generating a micro-localized quantum field," he says, "rather than solid armor. It affords me the same level of protection as my general purpose combat suit but unfortunately causes system problems that require me to shut it down when I'm in my full armor."

Rae nods her head and smiles a bit, "A place that has been helping you?" she asks a bit curiously. That does sound just a bit interesting.

Pleiades nods, "Oh. I guess that would work. Her Sniper Shot isn't that dangerous to protected targets anyway, and I doubt there's enough ambient magic at the moment for her to use Galactic Shatter."

"Yeah, it's this place called 'Prometheus Labs'-a transhumanism research and development place. They're the ones behind Rebbeca Clark's cybernetic upgrades, and they also have taken an interest to the fact that I used to be human so...in exchange for providing them data to help them figure out how I was transformed they help me deal with any problems that I face."

Rae nods, "Just be careful, want me to check them out, I can get into their files and make sure they are on the up and up." she is concerned for her friend it seems.

Tony smiles. "If worse comes to worse," he says, "the main function of my undermesh is as a localizer for my general purpose suit which is kept in a nearby pocket of q-space, so I could always get suited up if I had to."

Pleiades grins, "That's handy. Um, what's your call-sign, by the way?"

"It's fine, I mean, if they wanted to do terrible things to me, they probably already would've." Toby smiles, "And besides, I live with Rebbeca, and if anything would go wrong she'd probably know."

"Oh, just Tony," Tony replies. "Tony Quinn. Or Q if you prefer. I was thinking of calling myself Quanta, but my marketing people said it didn't test well, even though it is actually the correct form and Quantum would cause some confusion with one of the local heroes who hasn't been seen for a while."

Pleiades smiles, "Nice to meet you, Q."

Tony nods to Pleiades. "Nice to meet you as well," he says. He turns his attention over to Rae and Toby as they talk. "Did you just mention Prometheus Labs?" he asks them.

Pleiades notices the other two, and waves with her gauntlet.

Rae nods, "Okay, just be careful." she says with a bit of concern, She does jump a bit Tony turns to them and speaks. The air around her seems to get misty for a moment before she sighs and it fades.

Toby looks back, and offers a wave to Pleiades, and nods to Tony, "Yeah, I have an interesting relationship with them." Toby seems to realize that she's probably already said too much about stuff involving her and Prometheus Labs.

Tony nods to the short pink girl-like creature. "Interesting?" he asks. "Is that a euphemism for something else?"

"Well, basically, there's something about my biology that they think they can make useful, and in turn for me letting them run experiments and such on me to figure out how my biology works, they help me deal with any quirks that I encounter." Toby explains.

Tony gives a slow nod. "But you don't think there's doing anything shady or taking advantage of you or anything?" he asks.

Rae cocks her head to the side and looks around at both for a moment and has gotten just a little quiet.

Pleiades skates over and just listens for now.

"I don't think so, on either case. That said, personally, I don't really care what they do to my body as long as they don't change anything about it without me knowing..." Toby notes. "As for the shady side...well, I haven't seen anything to suggest it. And they already can do a bunch of awesome stuff just using their cybernetic technology so...I think it's fine."

Tony nods once more. "Ok," he says, then turns to Rae. "What about you?" he asks. "You seemed like you had some misgivings about them, or is that just a sort of general distrust of people who poke and prod other people?"

Rae shrugs, "A little of the distrust of those that poke and prod." she fidgets a little rubbing her gloved hands together for a moment and then looks at Toby, "And concern for a friend." she says softly.

Tony nods and looks between Toby and Rae for a minute. "You're sure?" he asks. "I'm just wondering because I was thinking about sub-contracting some work to them, but if they've got a bad reputation around town then I'll need to check it out."

Toby shakes her head, "I haven't heard anything bad about them, they seem decent enough."

Pleiades offers. "Um, I've never heard of them at all. But, um, that doesn't really mean anything one way or the other."

Rae shakes her head, "I don't really know their reputation, was going to go check out their files and such, but it was mostly just concern for Toby. I know there are some that would like to.." she breaks off and shakes her head.

Tony nods and gives a reassuring smile to Rae. "I know," he says. "Its all right. I just wanted to be sure I wasn't going to be throwing in with anyone nefarious or anything."

Pleiades nods, "That's good. There can be a lot of nasty secret research projects out there."

Toby goes to mention something, but then shakes her head.

Tony nods to Pleiades. "Well, sure," he says, "but they're easier to avoid since they are all secretive and everything. Never sign a contract with an organization that is busy hiding from the government."

Wade enters from Alien District.

This man is definitely built like an athlete. He's a couple inches taller than six feet, and looks quite muscular. He's also incredibly handsome looking, despite dressing casually in a synth-leather jacket, a button-down shirt, jeans, and hiking boots. His brown hair looks a little unkempt, but in a stylish way. All it does is add a hint of 'rogue-ish-ness' to his appearance. And the smile that he usually has on his face makes him appear easy to approach and talk to, despite his model-quality good looks. He appears to be in either his late teens or early 20s. Hard to say for sure.

Rae cocks her head to the side and looks at Toby curiously for a moment and then back to the other two before she looks back to Toby again. "So things are going well?"

Wade comes walking onto campus with a backpack over his shoulder.

"Yeah, things are great now, actually. I never realized how much I'd love being fully transformed like I am now."

Toby smiles.

Pleiades nods to Tony, "True, though some are government funded."

Rae smiles and seems to fully relax with Toby's enthusiasm and then nods, "I know what you mean, love when I am playing and dancing with..." she glances towards the other two and bites her lip for a moment.

Tony glances over toward Wade for a moment and then does a short double take. "Isn't that Victory?" he asks Pleiades.

Toby is floating, suspended by her pink kinetic light, with her tail wrapped around a coffee cup. "Hey." Toby smiles, looking toward Wade.

Wade notices the group, and waves, since he knows at least a couple of them.

Pleiades nods to Tony, "Yep! I think he's a student here."

Pleiades waves cheerfully to Wade.

Rae looks up and waves back to Wade and smiles a little bit then looks back down shyly.

Tony raises a hand to Wade as well, even though he doesn't know him because, well, everyone else is.

Sasha enters from Student Quarter.

This youth stands about 5'10" tall and has a wiry, gymnast's build. His hair is raven black with a burst of red in the front. He has a warm clear complexion with a slight scar on his upper lip under the center of his nose. His eyes are a pale glacial blue. Overall, his physical attributes make him as pleasing to the eye as most professional models.

He is dressed in a black A-line shirt with black jeans tucked over a pair of engineer's boots. He has multiple tattoos on his left arm as well as his back (see +finger for image file). His fingernails are painted black and two thin leather bands circle his left wrist.

He seems very self-possessed for someone his age, but smiles easily as he meets people's gaze. His gaze is intense, but does not linger long on anyone or anything.

Wade walks over toward the group, and as he gets closer he finally speaks. "Hey there. How's it going?"

Kun enters from MagLev System.

At 6'1" tall when standing he's on the tall side, appearing all the taller due to the lack of a heavy robust build. While broad shouldered and strong his build is athletic and lean instead of layered in thick heavy muscle. A man of two cultures it's easy to mistake him as pure anglo-saxon due to his height, lightly tanned skin, and hair so dark red it appears almost black. His hair that is worn loose in a wild mop that goes every which way that doesn't hurt his appearance only adding to his roguish good looks. Brown eyes are almondine in shape with epicanthal folds at the corners, his cheekbones slightly more angular than round, and his nose is straight and angular thankfully. His jaw is squared and sharp but his chin is on the thin side making his expressive lips all the more full in comparison. It all comes together quite well and he has easy movie star looks without even trying.

Continuing his mix of cultures he dresses in a conglomeration of east and west. A black button up dress shirt is worn loose and open, none of the buttons done to display a tight white tank-top beneath that leaves nothing to the imagination. Each muscle defined and visible even when relaxed, and scultped sharply when flexed. His athletic musculature fits him well giving him a lean graceful look like a predators. On his legs he wears loose but straight cut black cloth pants and on his feet are a pair of simple black cloth shoes with white soles, the kind worn for casual footwear the world over in asian countries.

He doesn't wear any jewelry at all and nor does he have any tattoos. He does however have strapped around his waist a knapsack securely closed.

Sasha pumps and glides into the campus on this coll day with a trail from a cigarette in one hand and a paper bag covered bottle in the other.

Pleiades grins, "Hi Wade!"

"I'm pretty good." Toby nods, looking to Wade, "How about yourself?" Toby chugs some of the coffee from the cup of which is held using her tail. Toby floats, remaining about eye level with the group despite her small size.

Kun definitely doesn't arrive while smoking, or on fire, he's not carrying a paper bag covered bottle either. Nope, he is simply coming up out of the Maglev system and onto the campus. He takes a look around with a low whistle and then starts over towards the administration building.

Tony gives a short nod of his head to Wade as he gets close enough though he doesn't answer his query, having not been introduced yet.

Wade looks to Tony, "I think you're the only one here I haven't met before." He then offers his hand to Tony to shake. "I'm Wade."

Tony flashes a quick grin to Wade and extends a hand. "Tony," he says. "Tony Quinn. Pleased to meet you."

Wade nods and smiles. "Likewise."

Rae is standing in a tennis outfit with dress gloves, but doesn't seem to be cold at all. She smiles to Wade and then glances around a moment.

Tony turns to Pleiades momentarily. "So is like everyone in this school a superhero?" he asks.

Wade looks to Rae, "How have you been? I haven't seen you around in a while."

Kun takes in the gathering, his gaze falling more on Pleiades and Rae than the guys though and it's a nice enough view. When he spots Toby though he rolls his eyes and any shift in direction towards the gathering stops and he instead turns back for the administration building again.

Pleiades grins and shrugs in response to Tony, "I have no idea! I'm not a student here."

Tony seems surprised at that. "Oh," he says. "When I saw you skating by like that I just assumed that you were."

Rae blushes a bit and then stares at Tony for a moment and then looks back to Wade, "I am doing alright I think. Getting back into things, got some sculpture electives to take." she grins a bit.

[To Tony] Pleiades says, "Nope! I was just on patrol.""

Sasha skates over to the fountain where he dismounts from his skateboard. He settles on the edge of the fountain to peoplewatch it seems, quietly smoking and drinking as his gaze moves from one person to another.

[To Tony] Pleiades says, "I graduated 5 years ago, not from here obviously."

Toby stretches, and finishes her coffee. "I should probably get going, I have a few errands to run." Toby notes, "Nice seeing all of you!" The light surrounding Toby's body starts to glow brighter.

Tony nods to Pleiades and then turns his attention in the direction of Wade and Rae. He hasn't really noticed Kun or Sasha, lost as they are among the other students.

Wade waves to Toby as she prepares to leave. "Seeya."

Pleiades waves to Toby.

Sasha watches the glowing little figure for a few moments then turns his gaze to a sorority girl walking by.

Kun heads into the building and comes out a few minutes later carrying the paperwork for spring semester enrollment, virtually of course, PDA's right? He is 'flipping' through the pages on the display, looking at what is offered before he moves to find a place to sit at a nearby tree. Or rather, in the tree. With a leap, one armed grab, and a spin he pulls himself up onto a tall branch thick enough to hold his weight and rests his back against the trunk of the tree.

Wade nods to Rae, "Glad to hear it. What kinds of sculpting classes are they?"

Rae waves to Toby, "Be well see you soon." she says and then looks over at Wade and shrugs a bit, "Just this and that, its to help with my ice sculptures." maybe she makes them for parties or something.

Sasha smiles as he takes another swig from his bottle, his attention coming back to the group of striking appearance. He sets the bottle down as his attention seems to be caught by something.

And with that, Toby jets away leaving a bright streak of pink light as she moves, the streak fading seconds after Toby leaves.

A pale brown flying monkey dressed in a classic bellboy's outfit enters over the square from the south. It seems to be clutching a letter in one hand and checking it with a bit of worry on its simian features.

Wade nods. "Gotcha." He notices the monkey gliding over the square. "Huh. Well...that's odd."

Pleiades follows Wade's gaze and blinks, "Er. What is that?"

Kun is in a tree, reading from his PDA screen, so the flying monkey of all things doesn't get noticed for now at least.

Tony likewise follows Wade's gaze toward the flying simian. "This kind of thing happens often around here?" he asks.

Rae is a bit distracted as everyone talks about the what is that as she hands her hands cupped in front of her. She pulls one hand a way and mutters to herself and drops what might be a clump of ice if anyone is paying attention. She looks around "Huh?"

Wade narrows his eyes. "It's an image or an illusion, I think. Or just a hologram." He looks around the square, getting a feel for whoever might be paying enough attention to be the originator of the monkey's appearance.

Pleiades pales, "Ah! It's an illusion! Take cover!" She dives behind a bench.

Tony peers a bit closer at the winged monkey as Wade says that. "Ah," he says. "Yeah. Makes sense. Not sure why anyone would bother with something like that, though."

Sasha picks up his bottle adn take another drink as he watches the monkey. His attention is drawn to Pleiades diving for cover. He cocks his head then shakes it before turning his attention back to the flying simian.

Wade raises a brow at Pleiades' reaction. "Afraid it's that sniper again?"

The flying monkey flies behind a clocktower and out of line of sight for a moment. It does appear from behind the building.

Pleiades nods to Wade, "Y-yes. I mean, illusions are Sagittarius' specialty."

Tony frowns a bit. "Do they usually take the form of flying monkeys?" he asks Pleiades.

Sasha sighs softly as he turns his attention back to his bottle and cigarette.

Pleiades shakes her head, "Um. Well, no. Not that I can ever recall."

Rae just watches and looks around for a moment but mostly is focusing on the others.

Tony smiles what is meant to be a reassuring smile to Pleiades. "Well, even if it's her specialty I'm sure there's plenty of others around who can create them as well. I mean, I've got the ability to create some pretty realistic looking illusions, so if its an illusion that isn't in her style I'd guess that it's someone else's.

Wade takes note of Sasha, and looks to Pleiades, "I...don't think it's Sagittarius. I'm not sure, but I think it's the guy by the fountain over there."

A group of students goes by dressed in robes with one carrying a sign with 'Blessings of the Solstice' handwritten on it.

Pleiades stands up, a bit sheepishly, "Oh. Uh, hehe. Sorry, sorry. I guess I'm just a little jumpy."

Tony grins a little. "Don't be," he says. "I'm sure if I had people out there taking potshots at me I'd be jumpy as well."

Pleiades nods, "Um, I guess. But I should be more professional about it."

Sasha takes another swig from his bottle tilting it almost vertical. He then takes the almost burned out fag from his mouth and drops it down the bottle's neck.

Tony looks to Pleiades, Wade, and Rae. "Anyway," he says, "it was nice to meet all of you but I'm afraid I have to get going."

Rae cocks her head to the side and then dips it and nods, "Be well." she says softly.

Pleiades smiles, "Likewise. See you around, Q."