Welcome To Beacon! Beacon-2 Server RP

It was the day many young people were waiting for. It was the first day of the school year. Now, this was not usually a cause for celebration, but here in the Kingdom of Vale, this particular school was something....different.

Beacon Academy, the legendary school famed for producing mighty Huntsmen and Huntresses.

One of the Academy's airships, carrying this year's Hunter Initiates, flew above the city of Vale, giving everyone a magnificent view of the scenery below.

Meanwhile, the holographic projector in the ship's viewing gallery was currently playing today's VNN news broadcast.

"....and that's the latest on the recent robbery of a Schnee Dust Carrier, assumed to be the work of the terrorist organization, The White Fang. Back to you, Cyril." Lisa Lavender was saying.

"Thank you, Lisa. And on other news, a dog Faunus was found dead in an alleyway today in downtown Vale. There are no suspects at this time, but it is believed to be a racial hate crime..."

Feel free to socialize!

Alexia stood on the corner of the ship, nervously looking around. The princess was disguised with a hat, thick sunglasses and an oversized sweater. She sighed. Those hate crimes....she hated things like that. When she was Queen she would change things. She swore that to herself a long time ago. But first......

How the Dust was she going to get through a boarding school?!

Charisse stood by the window on uncertain feet. She had never been on an airship before, but it was an educational experience to be sure. She didn't feel sick, in fact, she felt rather light and buoyant. The terrain around her looked marvelous from the top; she had never seen a city look this pristine. It might have been her country roots but everything just seemed so much more grand here, everything reached up toward the heavens as if grasping for the sun.

Upon hearing the news of the murder of the dog faunus, she gasped slightly. Everything here seemed so much better than back home and, it might've been naïve, but she had kind of assumed that everything was alright between people and fauni. She patted the ruffled acceptance papers through her pockets to reassure herself. "Everything'll be fine, Charisse, iremíso.." she muttered to herself quietly.

edited 9th Apr '14 8:10:32 PM by amporiusrex

"Ugh." Leah D'Avvenicci, engineer extraordinaire, Huntress in training, scion of D'Argento and bearer of The Regalia... stared out the window, irritated. The waistcoat configuration that her Weapon normally sat in flared out and back between the compact clothing form and a pair of gleaming wings with a regular metallic shing! She slammed them shut with a violent finality and turned away from the window, plopping down into a chair.

"And what's with this hate-crime crap?" She asked to the general room at large, totally not making a play to demonstrate how educated she was or anything. "Just because they're a minority doesn't make it racially motivated. But of course, the news doesn't care about that, it makes a better story for there to be racism!"

Glen was always taught never to show fear, no matter the situation or foe. However, this was Glen's first time aboard an airship, he was absolutely terrified and anyone that took a look at him would be able to see it. If I'd known this damn thing was gonna fly so high, I'd have chosen to walk to Beacon instead. Glen said to himself as he sat with his back against a wall, idly sharpening his sword as he waited for the Airship to finally land.

edited 9th Apr '14 10:28:15 PM by Eachiunn

"Heeey, guys!~"

Chloe, the Ultimate Cheerleading Huntress allows her voice to carry out to the whole airship, so that everyone could hear her. She did a little pose and a wink, mostly directed at any cute boys. She has tan skin, and close-to-bleach blonde hair. The sunglasses helped with her look too. "I hope everyone's ready for a kick-ass first year! ❤"

She already had her Pomp and Circumstance in her hands, so the fact that she was a cheerleader would be pretty much obvious to anyone who noticed. They probably would think they were just regular Pom-Poms. She was about to say something else when she heard a voice, and gasped out almost instantly, followed by a little squeal.

"Is that who I think it is? Uhyeahittotallyis!" Chloe strutted right over to Leah. They went to Academy together, but weren't friends of course. That would be ridiculous. Chloe was a year her senior, which made sense, because Chloe didn't try to enroll in Beacon immediately after graduating. "You went to Torch, right? So we're like basically sisters!"

"Eeep!" Alexia had bumped into someone as she was nervously pacing the corner. Oh, no! Not even in Beacon and she was already messing up this whole socializing thing!

"Um....er...I'm sorry!" she told Glen nervously.

As the news reporter prattled on about the many problems in the world, Johann idly turned another page in his book and glanced around the ship at the other people. His permanently stuck smile hid his resignation at traveling to this academy by airship. While at least he wasn't the only one who felt a bit nervous about their first day, why couldn't they have gone by boat? At least there he knew he could swim adequately...oh well. At least reading about the effects of falling and hitting the ground from so high up is more soothing than thinking about it.

edited 9th Apr '14 8:33:25 PM by Raidouthe21st

"Hhhnnnh!" Leah grunted as Chloe approched her, reflexively jerking back and deploying The Regalia. The blades hung in place for a moment before sliding back into place on Leah's body. Her feathers stayed pricked up, however.

"Oh, uh, Chloe, right?" she said flatly. "Yeah, uh, well Torch was a little while ago. Went to work for Schnee in the off-year I had... what'd you do with your life while I was gone? Last I saw you you were with that one guy, you were, like, 16, already star of the cheer team..." Leah made a show of giving Chloe the elevator eyes. "No big surprise there."

edited 9th Apr '14 8:48:51 PM by Taco

Chloe scoffed, and did an exaggerated brush of her hair. "Well, duuh. I mean, look what I gots to be workin' with." Chloe gestured to her body.

"But yeah, that guy was a huge A-Hole. I had a couple boyfriends after that but nothing too serious. I spent most of my time in the circuit, you know. I was TOTALLY ALMOST gonna go professional, but I got contacted by some lady who asked if I wanted to be a Huntress. At first, I was kinda sketch on the idea, but then I was actually like 'uh hell yeah!', so here I am!"

Chloe giggled and bent down, still standing and smiled at Chloe. "Totally cool that you're here, ya know?"

"You, uh, didn't need to elaborate. I already implied that." Leah replied. "And what you mean to tell me is that you decided to be a huntress..." She pinched the bridge of her nose, flaring out The Regalia a little. She needed a moment. "You decided to be a huntress on a whim, is that what I am hearing here?"

Now, that had definitely been the sound of something happening. Charisse managed to peel herself away from the window for a moment, taking her hand off the glass, and peered down the length of the ship. She scratched one of her horns idily.

After a couple seconds of searching, she finally found the source of the noise. A rambunctious girl and her faunus friend. She wondered for a second what the metallic noises earlier were, but quickly lost interest.

"I guess some faunus and people get along here. That's great!"

Charisse grinned happily, and spun her finger casually in the air. The air visibly dragged behind her finger's path, a passive manifestation of her semblance. She took another glance out the window, hoping to catch a glimpse of what Beacon might look like. The scholar, Myrin, had told her with vivid description of what it looked like, but she knew she had to experience it herself.

edited 9th Apr '14 8:59:53 PM by amporiusrex

"Uh, like, yeah." Chloe looked out the window at the pretty view. "I mean, Hunting is cool and all. Monsters totally suck ass, you know? But I wanted to keep going forward with my Cheerleading! I could have joined a National Team, dude! HUGE deal. Then maybe I could go full-time into dancing. But I figured, Hunting would be really good for my credentials. Oh, and Hunter boys are totally f'n HOT."

Chloe sat on Leah's lap. "What about you? Any BF's?"

"I'm not—" Leah caught herself as the girl referred to her with the improper nomenclature. Her feathers stiffened again. Back to the task at hand.

"No." Leah replied. If she didn't let Chloe faze her, the girl would bug off. "It was a small internship; I worked with an older gentleman in R&D with Schnee, which realistically means that you've probably seen a cop or fifty carrying a pistol that I designed, but never got credit or payment for." She bristled at that last statement, and paused to chill for a moment. "Though seeing as that's not interesting, of course what actually happened was a whirlwind May-December romance between me and a silver fox of a scientist, even though we could never truly be together."

Leah suddenly realized that she had just given Chloe a very clear opportunity to just completely misinterpret all that sarcasm and start spreading that shit around the school. She tensed up a little, waiting for the girl's reply. Had to make plays off of this. Couldn't afford to just engage in casual conversation, each sentence was a maneuver here.

"Ohmigod, that's so freaking hot! I didn't take you for the type, but it's always the quiet ones that are the freakiest right? I bet he was like, super rich. It's just like that book, you know, 32 Shades of Brown? I'll definitely have to keep an eye on you, so you don't screw any of the teachers. At least, not before I get a chance to first."

Chloe giggled and flipped her sunglasses down so the covered her eyes.

"JK!"

On the other side of the window, a certain mustang faunus popped into Charisse's view. Looking through the window for a moment, then noticing the faun-faunus, he smiled, and pounded on the glass, causing a very feint, muffled bumping noise. After that, he mouthed something loudly (at least it looked like he was saying something loudly - the wind in the background and the glass panel made it impossible to hear clearly) and pointed at something along the edge of the window. Up in the corner, right by his fingers, but on the inside of the ship, there was the latch for opening the window.

Alexia blushed furiously as she heard the conversation the two girls were having. She was sheltered and...well, she found these topics quite scandalous.

Granted, she was sheltered by choice.

"Umm, excuse me? That..um..conversation is....um...making me quite uncomfortable....would...um...you mind?"

Wide-eyed, Charisse stared back at the faunus. The wind had to be extraordinarily fast, and cold, out there. She mouthed back "What kind of idiot are you?" before noticing his hand motions. She hesitated for a second, before reaching up to the window handle. She grasped it roughly, and easily pried open the heavy reinforced window. She had lifted heavier things before in her life.

She'd have to keep an eye on this guy for the rest of the flight. He might be trouble if he was the kind of person who hangs outside an airship's window.

"The name's Charisse. Couldn't you have just entered through the door like the rest of us?"

Leah glared back at the girl, puffing up a little. "Don't police me, please. It's shitty to do that. So yes, I would mind. Plebian."

She turned her head back to the girl... still on her lap. Who did exactly what she predicted, taking the opportunity to strike. Damn. "Anyway, and I can't believe that I'm actually taking an opportunity to talk to you more, but that was a joke. You know, because—oh. Uh. Shit."

Leah closed her eyes. "I was going to say something about staffing criteria not being primarily determined by physical attractiveness, or something," she stiffened up a little, "but then I remembered that a thirteen year old girl is the heiress, so that's entirely possible. Eh-heh. That's a little embarrassing, I yield on that part."

Everett sat at the wall opposite the expandsive windows, a large book laid out in front of him. He tapped his pen against his face, trying to think of how he would start this story. The rolling hills and vast forests around them were perfect scenery for writing, and nobody was shouting in his face, so nothing was stopping him from creating the prefect opening. Only, he couldn't. He just couldn't. He was racking his brain, reading through the extensive back log of stories for inspiration, writing plans but his ink was stagnant and his page was blank. He had attempted to start several conversations with the air beside him, only to realize that he was alone, left to account the epic adventures he was about to experience. He rubbed his forehead and slammed his pen down in frustration, before looking around at the gathered students.

edited 9th Apr '14 10:03:03 PM by GravityNonsense

"Well that's incredibly rude! There is no need to call me such names! Um...miss..." And she was doing so well, too.

Alexia sighed. She really did not do socializing well.

Chloe giggled. "Awww, sorry Hun. We can—" She was about to give Alexis an apology when Leah decided to be a bitch. Woah, didn't expect that.

"Awww, it's so cute!"

She quickly stretched out her arm at Alexis and pulled her in. She wrapped the other around Leah and pulled the two girls in close to her. "Fighting just like old friends! Come on, we need to all stick together, riiight? Girl power, right? Or, you two can go back to the catfighting, and I'll take all the boy-related attention for myself!"

Chloe left out that that was pretty much what she was going to do regardless.

"Oh man, thanks for that, I was thinking I would be stuck there the whole flight," Mack said, crawling inside through the window, rubbing his arms for warmth. "I did use the door. Then I wanted to look at the engines and used a different door, accidentally jettisoned myself, and then you can guess the rest of that story."

"Anyway... nice to meet you, Charisse," he added, holding out his hand. "Name's Mack."

Oh. Oh dear. She was getting squished. It was a terribly uncomfortable feeling. Eeeep!

"P-please! Can you please let go?!" her voice came out as more of a squeak.

Smooth, Lexi. Future Queen of Vale, right here.

"Try to be more careful alright?" Charisse smiled, and went to reach for his hand. Instinctively, she began the secret handshake of her friends back home before stopping midway. She coughed, then grasped his hand in a firm handshake, slightly embarrassed.

She closed the heavy window effortlessly behind Mack. That air was incredibly chill. Charisse guessed it had something to do with how fast they were moving or how high they were. She didn't know how any of this worked. It took her several days to figure out how her scroll worked, but she was pretty sure she knew everything about how it worked by this point. She'd probably spend a couple sleepless nights studying the schematics of the airship she was in, just to figure out why it was cold outside. That was just the kind of person Charisse Scyllata was.

edited 9th Apr '14 10:18:17 PM by amporiusrex

"Sure thing," Mack replied, trying to keep up with the weird handshake until she stopped it. He was really going to have to figure out how things worked around here - if people in Vale even shook hands differently, what else was. Well, at least he spoke the language well enough, so that was one thing. He'd hate to have to be some sort of culturally-inept foreigner piecing together half-assed sentences with barely any semblance of fluency.

"So..." he added, trying to think of something to fill the dead air. "Come here often? Wait, fuck, hell, no, hold on. I mean, uh, you excited about heading to Beacon? Being hunters and cool shit like that?"