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Howdy y'all. Names Joss Possible, and I'm a new recruit. I'm here to learn to help people, and become an X-Man. Speakin of which, if anyone's got trouble with math or science, they needn't worry none. I provide tutoring services free of charge.

[Greg grinned and matched her accent for accent.]

"Well howdy and welcome to our school, Ms. Possible. Lookin forward ta meetin ya in person. If ya need anythin, just call on me, a'right?"

[Okay, so maybe his was a bit thick on the drawl....]

Thanks a bunch, but I think I'll be a'right fer now.

Wow. Ma accent ain't that thick is it?

[She knows Greg is faking.]

[He grinned.]

"Is fun."

Well I'm glad somebody appreciates it. Back at Miss Frost's school for girls ma accent was the big joke for the first few days. To be truthful, they were kind a snooty.

"Well, ah think tha it all comes on down to how you see it. If ya choose to see it as funny then it is a joke, but it is the best joke eveh, because then yer laughin too. If it bugs ya somthin feirce, then it is the worst joke cause all it does is hurtcha."

"But the best thing evah, really, is when you learn ta see more and more of tha world as a joke, cause then ya can spend more time smilin."

Now that's what I call sage advice, mister. It's always good to smile. Wha did ya say yer name was again?

(ooc. This is really helping)

Edited (Still experimenting with the icons. ) 2015-08-07 19:40 (UTC)

"Gregory, Gregory Deegan. Yes, that Gregory Deegan."

(I'm glad!)

Joss chuckled. "Well pleasure to meet ya, 'that Gregory Deegan.' Can't say I heard of ya, but I'm guessin yer an X-man."

"Workin my way twords it," he said with a laugh. "But I'm also... ah, never mind, ye'll find in time."

Joss' eyes brightened. "Maybe we'll be workin twords it together. I wanna be an X-Man too! Or X-Woman. Ya know what I mean."

"Accorse I do, an I think ye'll be great at it."

"Well thank ya so much. That means alot ta me. Maybe we'll end up bein on the same team, and I can share some of ma tech."

Joss waved over a levitating robot. In front of her web cam it opened its guts, and revealed a collection of gas mask, communicators, first aid kits and a bunch of other devises.

"I always got enough for tha team! It's what bein an X-man is all about right?"

"Well you go on get settled in an if ya wanna join up with Angel Rescue, talk ta the other members of tha team an see if ya fit and of ya wanna work with um. But right now, some of us are under quarantine, so it might take ya a while."

"I'm Xat-Cerxis! My friend tells me you are really good with machines. Can you fix a calculator? I broke it...." Cerxis looked sad.

Edited 2015-08-09 00:26 (UTC)

Joss was hammering through code on her laptop with her room door open when Xat spoke to her.

"Sure can, Miss Cerxis." She spun a screw driver in her hand like it were a pistol. She ran up to Xat. "So what seems to be tha problem?"

Cerxis pouted. "I folded the lid too roughly and it snapped. Then I tried to put the lid on and the calculator snapped. I have the pieces, see?" Xat-Ceris sprinkled a bunch of broken electronic guts onto a table for Josh to see. "Would you like a starburst candy?" she said taking one out of the package and offering it to Josh before munching one herself. "Calculators are delicate, see?" Xercis explained. "They break." She showed Josh her really fierce looking nails (almost like claws) and her wrist that was stout like a boxers.

"Thanks a bunch." Joss tossed the candy candy down her mouth.

Joss' eyes bulged when she looked at the broken cirkets, and case. Her eyes swiveled down to the cat woman's claws and wrist. She imagined those claws could rip her neck out and that an ax would brake on those wrist.

"We'll I'll be. Truth is I ain't fixen this thang twnight. It's too broken But do ya gotta laptop or sometun? Ya can use micrasoft excel to do ya calculaten ya know?"

Xat-Cerxis looked awkward. "Well, my friend Viti told me not to touch it. Not until a new keyboard is made by teacher. It has metal buttons!" She explained. "Besides," Xat-Cerxis said. "I am learning how to write! See!" she said picking up a loose pencil and drawing on a paper scrap. She colored it in with bright colored pencils. Lifting it up, she showed it was a llama with her name 'Cerxis' below it. Every letter of her name was a different shade. Then she bit her lip and looked thoughtful. "My grandfather had a counting-spindle. With knots," she said hoping to be helpful. "If you have rope and sticks, I can make one of those!"

Joss raised her brow. She stood there silently, stiff, as though paralyzed staring as though Cerxis was the strangest thing she had ever seen.

Then suddenly, she laughed.

"Now that's that the funnies thang i've heard in a long time. Miss Cerxis you're all right. Come on have a seat. I'm gonna get ya'll fixed up."

Edited (accent stuff) 2015-08-10 17:31 (UTC)

"Okay!" said Xat-Cerxis. She shuffled over to Josh Possible's table to make a knotting-calculator. She looked over to Josh's smiling face and smiled in return. END.

(ooc note. The word END is not needed)

Joss jumped in the chair before her computer, typed the word "spindle" in a google search engine.

"Wow. It don't get much lower tech than that. But I got this."

At the snap of her fingers a diamond shaped object in the corner suddenly stood up on its bottom point and levitated into the air. The object floated to Joss' side and opened its self up, from the bottom like it were a living tool box. The robot was full of items ranging from first aid kits, to gas mask, to tear gas.

She put her hands in the equipment. Her hand went over her lasso and came down on a roll of wire. "I can't spare none of my rope, but this here wire ain't too hard to tie." She turned back to Cerxis "Can you hand me those pencils? Cause then all we need is sometin like a disk and we're good to go."

Joss rubbed her chin in thought. "But what do I got that's circular?"

Xat-Cerxis stared. She did not have any materials that would be useful. She watched the energetic girl bound around the room looking for things to build with. Then, since she did not know what to do, she found and couch and curled up against one of the sides and stared at Josh Possible as she worked busily. Then she got up and stretched. "Um, I do not know that it is as easy to make as gathering the materials. For this 'Quipu', the knots must be tied in patterns taught by my people. So if you can make the holder for the threads, I will tie this 'wire'. I can count with the quipu. Thank you."

Edited 2015-08-11 00:23 (UTC)

Joss lifted her head out of the box of tools. "You just need a holder? Why didn't ya say so?"

Joss offered wire to the levitating robot, and it opened its four fingered clamp of a hand. The robot floated to Cerxis.

"Now don't be afraid of old tornado. She's a friendly robot. She'll hold your wire nice an tight, why ya work. Just be sure to untie that wire when your done with your calculaltin, ok?"

"Thank you, kindly!" said Xercis emulating Josh. She began to tie all the wires into complicated knots. From her pocket she took out a piece of paper. On it were simple middle school math problems. Cerxis tied lots of knots in the wires until it looked like she was making bracelets. But instead, she unwove the wire when she was done. "I am finished!" she said at last. "Can you look?" she asked holding up the piece of paper. "This is... 'multiplication'? This is 'division'?"

Joss had pulled the calculator pieces closer to herself, wondering what, if anything, she could do with them, but then she noticed the integrate work of wire that Cerxis created.

She stood with a blank stare. It was a world apart from the sophisticated technology she grew up with, and yet she could not call it primitive.

When she was handed the piece of paper it crumpled slightly in her grip as her eyes darted over it.

"Sorry hun, but these here problem with the Xs are multiplication, and these here with lines are division. Ya got um mixed up but..."

Joss' eyes darted over the paper again, stopping to look up into her mind. Several times she whipped out her smart phone and tapped buttons, duplicating the problems on her calculator app.

"For what ya were doin, ya gotta um all right, cept..."

Joss looked over the wires again. "What were ya doin?"

"The knots make the numbers," said Xat-Cerxis. "It is something like an abacus. An abacus has beads to represent numbers. But we do not have beads. We have knots in different patterns. The largest and most beautiful knots are larger numbers. I can use the knots to count sets. Five and five and five and five is "5 times 4". One and one and one and one is "1 times 4". See?" Xat-Cerxis explained. "In my tribe of the Xat, we do not have 'electricity'. We do not have many machines for servants. We do what we can with what we have- what is simple. Teacher has said we live with nature but I do not see it that way. We are one of nature. We do not understand the ways of other men. But there are many ideas... many words and songs. So many it is difficult to know which ones to learn. There are bad teachers, and good teachers in this world."

When Cerxis' explanation first began, Joss imagined a circle of pre-Colombian Sioux women around a fire knitting their way through calculations, even though she didn't know for sure that Sioux women did so. When it was done she felt disconnected like she had gone back one thousand years in the past, yet connected to something else.

She shook her head a little so she could speak again.

"Wow. That's mighty sophisticated fer somethin that's got no electricity.I guess tech comes in all forms." Joss looked up to Cerxis.

"Can ya show me more?"

"You can learn," agreed Xat-Cerxis. "Hold some string! Watch my fingers. Watch shape. I will tie and you will follow." Slowly, Xat-Cerxis made some loops and then tightened them up by pulling on the edge of the thread. They made a simple knot. "One, two, three, four, five!" she counted as more tiny knots appeared. "Imagine every knot is a llama! We have five llamas! It is good to keep track," she said as if that explained everything about her counting system.

"Dam right it's good ta keep track of them llamas. There always tryin ta get out of their fence and cause all sorts a rucks. Dang those thangs bite."

Joss smiled after her statement to show she ment no offence. She then brought her gaze back to Cerxis' work.

"Can I try now?"

In the computer lab at Xavier Academy, a girl with brown hair and cat-like-ears enters the door. Xat-Cerxis signs a clipboard sitting on a steel office desk. She then takes out a piece of paper with a "four" number on it from a plastic cup. After twenty paces, she sits down in front a computer with a plastic number "four" stuck just above the computer screen. Carefully, she types in her password. Her email loads up. "Dear Viti," Xat Xercis types. "Can I eat the last slice of mushroom and pineapple and olive pizza?" Warily, she sends it over the internet connection and waits for an answer.

[(ooc note. When we describe actions with network post, we put all things in brackets like so)]

[Viti logged on and saw the e-mail he had been waiting for.]

[ooc note. When we talk we don't use quotes. this is because quotes are the real writing in network post]

Yeah that pizza is all yours. If you're still looking at the screen look for a bright glowing box at the bottom of the screen, and click on it.

[Xat-Cerxis' ears perked up. She was happy about the pizza. She knew it would be tasty. But she could not help but be curious. She found the computer mouse and whirled it on its keypad. Since it was fun, she did it again. Then she found the glowing box on the screen and clicked on it.]

Um, Viti I clicked the glow. [Xat-Cerxis typed carefully, then waited.]

[Viti's face suddenly appeared on the screen, though a crack bisected his lens so it looked like a crack ran over his face.]

Congratulations. You just learned how to respond to people's video messages. I figured this would be easier for you than typing, though you should practice that later. Anyways, how are you adjusting? Have you made any friends?

[Xat-Cerxis gasped at the computer screen, startled.]

You're inside the computer! How did you fit in there?

[Viti chuckled.]

Oh I don't fit in here. The computer your using is only showing you an image of me. I'm really back in my room. Basically my computer has an eye, called a camera lens, and an ear, called a microphone, that watches what I do and listens to what I say. What it sees and hears is then sent to your computer so you can see and hear it.

Well it's a little more complicated than that, but that's the basic idea.

What do you think? Pretty neat huh?

[Xat-Cerxis placed her eye against the camera on top of her computer to get a closer look.]

Yes, that's neat. I can see and hear. But it's really, really loud. Are you shouting?

[Viti shook his head.]

No, no. If you look at the bottom-right corner you should see a little icon that looks like a bowl on its side. Double click on it, and a bar will appear. Click towards the bottom of the bar to lower the volume. Does that help?

[Xercis pressed the volume control button as instructed but in the wrong direction. It made such a loud noise she covered her ears as she fixed it by turning it again. Finally, it was soft enough for her to hear. Then she typed.]

Yup, that's better.

Why are you typing? Just talk and I will hear you. Your computer is also watching and listening, you see?

Um, hello?

[Cerxis waved enthusiastically at the computer. She thought longingly of pizza, yummy delicious, doughy pizza waiting in the fridge. So simple, so uncomplicated, so.... concrete. Not ethereal like the strange powers inside the box they called a computer. She sighed.]

I am okay, Viti. Just tired. The teacher gives me extra lessons. I must catch up before I am able to leave the "elementary school" lessons. I am better now.

Edited 2015-08-24 14:36 (UTC)

Well it sounds like you're making progress at least. I guessing adding and subtracting shouldn't be too hard for you, but what about reading and writing. How are you doing with that?

Edited 2015-08-24 18:21 (UTC)

So so. I have learned to write many words. But the books are strange still. There are many things I do not understand. I have not seen such strange things. Teacher must point to objects I do not know. We do not have such things in my tribe. We do not have toasters. Why burn bread in a silver box when there is a good oven to warm it?

Ummmmm. [Viti scratched his head. He had never thought of it.]

Well the toaster is more direct. It's faster. Not sure if it's more cost effective, with electrical heating in and all. Well I think it's cheaper overall, but I get your point. There's alot of new things here. All we can do is keep working at this.

Are there any objects right now you would like to know about?

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