Xaviers!

Posted: **Thu Dec 14, 2017 8:15 pm**

"See, I was hoping to be a rock star before that happened. But here I am, not even with a band."

Posted: **Thu Dec 14, 2017 8:18 pm**

Code: Select all: A lot of people here keep talking about it. No one takes the next step and DOES it.

Posted: **Fri Dec 15, 2017 8:13 pm**

"There's a limited pool of possible band members and what ones I know of don't quite share my tastes. Admittedly, I've been too preoccupied to look very hard."

Posted: **Fri Dec 15, 2017 8:23 pm**

Code: Select all: What ARE your tastes?

Posted: **Fri Dec 15, 2017 8:40 pm**

"I'm a big fan of classic Hard Rock and throwbacks like Wolfmother. Also blues rock groups like The Black Keys."

Posted: **Fri Dec 15, 2017 8:44 pm**

Code: Select all: Yes, I'm sure it's difficult to find blues rock in the country that gave us Led Zeppelin, Eric Clapton and the Rolling Stones

Will joked.

Posted: **Fri Dec 15, 2017 8:47 pm**

He smirked.

"Well, I meant on campus. I could broaden my pool though."

Posted: **Fri Dec 15, 2017 9:24 pm**

Code: Select all: Oh, being a rock star is a new life's ambition, then? Happened when you came to the university?

Will teased.

Posted: **Sat Dec 16, 2017 1:03 am**

"Yes, yes, I'm a lazy tit. Happy now, old man?" he remarked.

Posted: **Sat Dec 16, 2017 1:28 am**

Code: Select all: I think, around Christmas time, the word is 'jolly'

Posted: **Mon Dec 18, 2017 8:35 pm**

"So... anything for yours truly under those boughs?"

"That... sounded oddly dirty..."

Posted: **Mon Dec 18, 2017 8:56 pm**

Code: Select all: You'd be surprised at how many people can't refrain from making innuendos. And there may be something for you under there, if you were good this past year.

Posted: **Tue Dec 19, 2017 7:59 pm**

"Nice might be a stretch, but I believe I've worked my way off of the naughty list."

Posted: **Wed Dec 20, 2017 7:30 am**

Code: Select all: Well, don't worry if it's close. I'm informed that he checks the list twice to avoid issues.

Posted: **Wed Dec 20, 2017 8:04 pm**

"Good thing, that. Nobody should lose a gift to a clerical error. He should probably have a computer do that though."

Posted: **Wed Dec 20, 2017 11:22 pm**

Code: Select all: With all those viruses flying around? I think not. I caught one once, I couldn't breathe through my nose for three weeks and I kept blurting out private information.

Posted: **Fri Dec 22, 2017 3:22 pm**

He smirked. "I'm no expert, but I'm pretty sure that isn't how computer viruses work."

Posted: **Fri Dec 22, 2017 7:36 pm**

Code: Select all: They are when you catch one and then shift back to human. You'd be surprised how some of these things translate from form to form. Some of it is fairly one-to-one , but a lot of it works on a more metaphorical level. Very interesting stuff.

Posted: **Sun Dec 24, 2017 8:00 pm**

"Did you eat some antivirus software then? Is that how you work?"

Posted: **Sun Dec 24, 2017 8:09 pm**

Code: Select all: I work in surprisingly unusual ways. That time, actually, I ended up going to get steam-cleaned. A little bit of an extravagance, I know, but sometimes, you've just got to splurge to take care of yourself, you know?

Posted: **Mon Dec 25, 2017 1:05 am**

"Steam... cleaned? Alright, you're going to have to walk me through how getting yourself laundered cures a computer virus you silly cartoon man."

Posted: **Mon Dec 25, 2017 4:09 am**

Code: Select all: Oh, it's quite simple. A problem which shows up as a technical virus on a computer is really just damage, right? That damage gets translated along with the rest of me as I shift. That's why it shows up as a cold when I'm a human, and a large stain as a pair of shorts. It might be a misfiring piston in an engine, or a dead limb on a tree or a burnt edge of a steak. It's the ~problem~ that translates, not necessarily the specifics. Same reason why I won't be starving to death when I shift back. I'm drinking up the water in the pot, and that nourishes me. It would also, like, be the level of gas I had if I shifted into a sportscar. Once you understand the metaphors behind things, the specifics follow surprisingly logically.

Posted: **Mon Dec 25, 2017 7:58 pm**

"So you just heal by taking a more easily repairable form? That's got to be really bloody handy. Meanwhile, I've got all the plant diseases to worry about. Good thing I regenerate because you have to amputate much of that shite."

Posted: **Mon Dec 25, 2017 8:03 pm**

Code: Select all: At the same time, you CAN regenerate. And like we discussed that one time, maybe one day you'll be able to do more. Heck, penicillin came from a spore, right? Maybe you'll develop the cure for the common everything. And don't think I have an easy out for everything -- that stuff can get wedged in pretty deep, on a psychological level. There's no end to the complications that can happen, and shifting sometimes just makes it worse. You may remember when I was all chromed up earlier this year, and I barely managed to get back to the dorms after we took down the alien at your father's shindig. Had I been a little slower, or not been found, I might have just been an unidentifiable stain on the ground.

Posted: **Tue Dec 26, 2017 12:54 am**

"Okay, that's less beneficial. Like my creeping dread of getting stuck as, well, a tree. Not the kind with text capability either. Just wood. Standing there. Housing a family of squirrels."

Posted: **Tue Dec 26, 2017 1:29 am**

Code: Select all: Not a bad vacation, but not something you want to get stuck in, no. Helps to know a friendly neighborhood telepath who might check in now and again to make sure you're not getting too wooden. I've got more horror stories than you can shake a stick at. These aren't the sorts of things I talk about in day one of "so you think you're a shifter

Posted: **Tue Dec 26, 2017 8:05 pm**

"You should actually teach that class. I would definitely sign up for a guide to this life as a shifter nonsense."

Posted: **Tue Dec 26, 2017 8:06 pm**

Code: Select all: It'd be mostly what I talked to you about that day in the danger room, but maybe I'll poke ASHLIE about it. I don't think every shifter thinks about things the same way I do, though.

Posted: **Thu Dec 28, 2017 12:55 am**

"Pretty sure nobody thinks about things the same way you do mate," he teased.

Posted: **Thu Dec 28, 2017 2:59 am**

Code: Select all: Well, maybe that's why I'm the best shifter in the world, and everyone else is number two. Or lower.

Will joked.

Posted: **Sun Dec 31, 2017 8:03 pm**

"Sounds like tempting fate to me Mister Humble," he teased, "Now a better shifter is obligated to show up to fight you."

Posted: **Sun Dec 31, 2017 8:28 pm**

Code: Select all: If you find one, send 'em to me. I've got the experience factor and the edge; ain't no one gonna beat me in a shifting competition.

Xaviers!

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