Logs:Technological Difficulties

Technological Difficulties
Dramatis Personae Gaétan, Spencer, Tomas Ferris (Old)
In Absentia	2020-09-06 "Walking's so slow."
Location <XAV> Foyer - Xs First Floor
September, 4 2020. <XAV> Grounds - Xs Grounds Xavier's School is situated on grounds as luxurious as the mansion itself. The tree-lined drive brings you up to the lush green sweep of front lawn and the wide front porch with its bench swing, often frequented by students studying in pleasant weather. The large oak tree in the front yard is home to a tire swing, installed long ago beneath the sturdy old treehouse. The lawn rolls out all the way down to the thin rocky pier at the edge of the glittering lake. The water stretches huge and wide off into the distance, the boathouse a small blip at its shore. Along its bank, forest stretches dense and shady to one side; to the other cliffs start to rise, high and rocky, providing trails for hiking or climbing, for the adventurous. A white sedan pulls up to the front door of the school. Out of the driver’s seat comes a middle aged women dressed in jeans and a tshirt reading “im not gay but my kid is” in rainbow writing. Out of the passenger seat walks a young man he stands about 5 foot 7, though his nervous posture makes him seem shorter. He wears a black flag t shirt that is too long for him, black jeans and black boots, and a single earbud in. He sighs, the woman opens the back and sets out a few bags onto the ground, the young man walks over and puts the backpack and satchel bag on and stands next to the suitcase, extending the handle and fiddling with it. The women grins at the man and says to him “hey bud, you’re are going to be okay, this is a great school” He nods a bit and nervously rubs his arm, he looks back at the women and Fidles his hands a bit before signing “i know that, i am just nervous” “I know you are nervous but ill facetime with you every night, and remember you can text me anytime” she signs back grinning the whole time. “ I am not sure i can do this” he signs back a tear falling from his eye She smiles lovely before kneeling down to his level “Tommy this is a prestigious school, and it's full of fantastic programs, and it's not like public school, im sure youll make a lot of friends” She says aloud hugging him “it's going to be okay” He nods and wipes away his tears; he then walks over and grabs the suitcase and starts wheeling it towards the door. “ I love you” the woman says , she then walks back into the car, she looks out the window as he enters the school smiling as her nephew takes the next step in his life, as he enters the school he looks back and signs “ I love you” back to her. She then smiles and drives off. <XAV> Foyer - Xs First Floor Xavier's foyer provides a suitable introduction to the opulent mansion. Teak-paneled, wood floors immaculately polished, vaulted ceiling ribbed with dark wood boning, there is no doubt this school was built with no expense spared. The hallways branch off to the separate wings, with the grand staircase spiraling upwards to the residential dorms above. Once the car is out of view Tomas closes the door and walks into the school. He looks around at the Foyer and nervously shuffles his feet, he is clearly nervous and in his nervousness the lights in the Foyer flicker a bit, he sighs at this. He sets his suitcase down and looks around then pulls out his phone. He makes his way to new student orientation. September 6, 2020 It had been a few days since Tomas had gotten to school, he had gotten settled into his room a bit. He was still quite nervous about this big mansion looking school, it was very different then the public school he was used to and a little confusing. he wandered around the hallway, looking at his phone clearly confused. There are footsteps approaching, vaguely from the general direction of the kitchen -- much though the mansion might just be a confusing maze of corridors, still, at this juncture. Gaétan, blandly dressed in faded old jeans, a blue v-neck tee, looks considerably less confused; he's grabbed two plastic flavor ice pops and is ripping the top off one (pink) while the other (blue) dangles from his fist. He stops, shreds of plastic still between his teeth, and looks up at Tomas. "You lost?" Tomas continues to wander towards Gaetan nearly running into him but he stops right before he does. He looks up from his phone. He pauses a second before nodding. Perhaps Spencer was supposed to be waiting for Gaétan somewhere. Perhaps he had been waiting, before he got bored or distracted. Wherever he was though, he's abruptly here now -- one moment there was no one beside Gaétan, and the next there's a scrawny young teen in a red Mulan t-shirt (old-school, animated!), black cargo shorts, and red canvas sneakers, all visibly just a bit loose on him. He wears a black kippah streaked with rainbow lightning bolts and he looks tired and a bit pale despite the grin plastered on his face. "Oh right ice!" he says brightly. Only seems to notice Tomas -- right in front of them -- at a slight delay, forgetting the ice pops entirely. "Hello welcome to Xavier's!" tumbles out of him all at once. Gaétan backs up quick, his eyes narrowing sharply when Tomas nearly bumps into him. Even after this he takes another -- smaller -- sidestep closer to Spence (away from Tomas), his shoulders a little tighter than they were before. Wordlessly he mooshes the end of the blue ice pop (plastic wrap and all) into Spence's mouth. "Oookay," he says, and then, "where are you trying to get to?" Tomas sheepishly waves at Spence before turning back to Gaetan. He takes out his phone and pulls up the map of the school and points to the kitchen. "Ohhankyou," Spence says around the ice pop, then takes it out of his mouth and tears the end open. The scrap of plastic vanishes from his hand without a trace. He peers over at the map Tomas indicates. "The kitchen's --" He points down the corridor the way the way Gaétan had just come. "-- that way and then you take a left, and then kind of a right but not immediately uh...sorry I suck at directions. What's your name?" Gaétan's own tiny plastic scrap only vanishes the conventional way -- spat out from his mouth into his palm and then tucked into his pocket. "We're here." He points to the foyer on the map. "And, uh, that's a map. Probably better than trying to take directions from someone whose forgotten how to walk anywhere." He pushes at the bottom of his plastic tubing, sucking on the end of his ice pop. "You talk?" Tomas gives Spence a slightly confused look as he stumbles around trying to find directions. He smiles a bit at Gaetan's map comment. He then turns his phone to another app. He types on the phone the phone dictating as he types " TOMAS FERRIS AND NO I DO NOT" the phone says for him. He rubs the back of his neck and lowers his head a bit, seemingly ashamed. Spence pulls the ice pop out of his mouth. "Walking's so slow," he tells Gaétan, as if this explained everything. His gray eyes go wide-wide when Tomas switches to AAC. "Oh! Sorry -- I mean, maybe sorry? Is it ok if we talk?" "You miss a lot of the world." Gaétan sucks again at his ice lolly. His eyes cut slightly to the side when Spencer starts apologizing, but soon return to Tomas. "Why not?" He gives Spence a shrug and puts his hand up a bit as if to say" i dont care". He turns to Gaetan and shuffles his feet a bit and puts the gold ring that is around his necklace into his mouth sucking on it. He types more on his phone, the phone emits static instead of dictating and shuts off. He lets out an annoyed grunt, then pulls out a notebook and pen. He starts writing on the notepad "I just cant talk. " he writes showing it to the two rubbing his arm as he sucks on the ring. Spence also shrugs. "That's fine, I mean -- uh, sorry you're having technical difficulties, though. Anyway, we could like, show you the way to the kitchen?" He glances sideways at Gaétan, but doesn't bother waiting for confirmation from either of the other boys before waving Tomas along. "It's not far, just a little confusing to say." Sticks the ice pop back into his mouth. Gaétan's lips twitch slightly when Tomas begins chewing on his necklace. "'kay," is all he says to Tomas's written answer. His teeth scrape against his ice pop, and he's starting to head towards the front door again when Spence -- turns towards the kitchen. His shoulders tighten again, and there's a definite pause before he trudges after. Tomas Writes in his notebook "Tech difficulties have been happening a lot lately. Something with my abilities" he sighs and shows Spence the notebook. He then grins a bit and nods at Spence and follows him still rubbing his arm nervously and sucking the necklace. "That's the elevator in case you ever need it," Spence says, pointing out what looks like an entirely ordinary antique wooden double door, save for the buttons beside it. Then, down a hallway, "Oh, the library's that's way." He doesn't notice that Tomas is writing at first but when he sees it his eyes light up. "Oh, what --" He breaks off suddenly, looking dubious as he glances back at Gaétan. Stuffs the ice pop back in his mouth and sucks on it. "That's um -- yeah, that's. Rough -- oh, cafeteria there, and here's the kitchen." He stops at the door he indicates last, leaning on shoulder against the wall as if that brief walk has exhausted him. Unable to see the notebook from behind, Gaétan just drifts along in the others' wake, hanging back from the kitchen door. "Dinner won't be for hours, but there's usually some kind of snacks." His lips compress when Spence leans on the wall, and he crunches the end off his ice pop. "Maybe we should play an inside game, actually," he suggests to Spencer. "I hear Spiritfarer's great." Tomas walks into the kitchen past the two boys and opens the fridge and starts digging thru it, after a moment he pulls out a pudding cup and a soda. He spits out the ring, and begins digging thru the drawers, not paying attention to Gaetan's comments, he's focused on trying to find a spoon. "Nice meeting you, Tomas Ferris. We'll see you around!" Spence pushes himself off the wall with more bravado than actual energy, his smile just a little forced. "I mean it's nice outside, but -- wait, what's Spiritfarer like again? It's got a cool name, so basically I'm down." "See-ya." Gaétan still has not followed into the kitchen; his farewell, probably, can be heard well enough as the door swings back closed. What follows, a little more muffled through the heavy wood as his footsteps recede down the hall: "Perfect this-year kinda game, it's about death. But, like, in a cute way. C'mon." Tomas waves at Spence as he leaves. As he continues very intently looking thru the drawers a bit of static can be heard thru the PA speaker in the kitchen, very fainly thru the static the word "spoon, where is it" can be heard, Tomas doesn't seem to notice this, thou eventually he finds a spoon and walks off eating his pudding smiling.