GAME UPDATE: September 13th, 2009 (Sunday)

[xi_mods]

AT THE XAVIER INSTITUTE:
On Monday, after lessons, a post goes up on the school intranet announcing the introduction of mentor groups; several teachers will be given charge of four to six students each. The information is also pinned up in the dormitories and staff room, and each staff member to be given a team is given a list of their assigned students including their powers.

Staff are told to take whatever approach they feel appropriate with their group but advised to make time for a group meeting some time over the next week. Goofy group names are encouraged but not, at this stage, necessary.

Bobby Drake: Draco Malfoy, Haku, Holly J Sinclair Miku Hatsune, Tom Bronson

Cloud Strife: Axel Pyres, Larsa Solidor, Neku Sakuraba, Temari Subaku

Dick Grayson: Aang, Edym Raffles, Ino Yamanaka, Naoto Shirogane, Simon Digsby

Emma Frost: Amadeus Cho, Cassandra Cain, Celeste Cuckoo, Ienzo Schaduw, James Matthew

Jessica Jones: Eli Bradley, Robin Walker, Sakura Haruno, Teddy Altman, Wally West

Kamina Jiha: Billy Kaplan, Hinata Hyuuga, Hisako Ichiki, Temeraire, Tina Bell

Karen Starr: Alfred Jones, Milly Mintaka, Naruto Uzumaki, Tommy Shepherd, Virgil Hawkins

Lisa Patrescu: Kisara, Kurt Wagner, Sally Sparrow, Zabuza Momochi

Logan: Kitty Pryde, Jean Grey, Laura Kinney, Nia Teppelin

Sanae Hanekoma: Allen Walker, Naminé, Shikamaru Nara, Shino Aburame

Tifa Lockhart: Alexander Aaron, Matthew Williams, Sofia Mantega, Terrance Ward

Tony Stark: Edward Elric, Hiei Janagashi, Jim Hawkins, Ty Lee

Toph Bei-Fong: Azula, Elenra Rigby, Julio Richter, Santo Vaccarro, Yui Hirasawa

Tsunade: Lili Zanotto, Jamie Madrox, Marcus Wright, Tatsuki Arisawa, Joshua Kiryu

Wade Wilson: Alphonse Elric, Giselle Vanderhall, Grimmjow Jeagerjaques, Sasuke Uchiha

Yoko Ritona: Josh Newman, Kate Bishop, Minato Arisato, Wendy Darling

NEWS:
ON TUESDAY:
A group of youths in costume, mostly mutants, attempt to foil a bank robbery in Florida but wind up causing a fire. Nobody is seriously injured, but, although the youngest vigilante is 21 and none of them are involved with the Institute, the early days of the X-Men are recalled by a few news reporters and some point accusatory fingers at Xavier. Senator Thompson reiterates his desire to implement a mutant registration program if he is elected President in November.
ON FRIDAY:
A twelve-storey robot operated by a scientist with a grudge attacks Manhattan, but with the Fantastic Four battling Skrulls in space and the Avengers on a mission to the Antarctic, who will stop its rampage?
More information on this will go up in-game when the time comes.


WHAT WOLVERINE DID THIS WEEK:
Goes to New Zealand to fight a giant mutated Kakapo created by the Green Man, a deranged environmentalist aiming to restore endangered species through genetic engineering. Where putting laser guns onto massive ground parrots factors into the conservation aspect of his plans is unclear, but Wolverine wins anyway.


OOC NOTICES:
If, during the upcoming in-game week (two IRL weeks), you want a lesson one of your characters is teaching to go a certain way, or if your teacher character plans to be doing something specific and unusual with the lesson, but you don't want to actually log the thing out (which is reasonable), this is where you say so. Drop a comment on this post, other people can reply, fun for everyone. If you've got a new teacher character (ie. if this is their first game update), it's probably a good idea to leave a comment here to give everyone an idea of what their first classes will be like.

If anyone has any issues with the group assignments please let the mods know!

Comments

[paintedfeathers]

ART
Mr H will have graded the projects everyone turned in last week. As long as he saw you putting effort into it and not slacking off every class (and not blowing up his poor classroom more) you'll have a decent grade. He'll also have a talk with various students throughout the week about how they can improve. If your character turned in total crap, he'll sit down with them and ask if they actually are serious about this class or not.

For this week, he'll start with teaching Monday about One Point Perspective. The rest of Monday will be planning for the week's project: a simple One Point Perspective landscape, sketched in pencil, then inked once everything is finished.

"1. Draw a Horizontal Line (near middle of the paper)
2. Place Vanishing Point (near center of the line/paper)
3. Draw Ceiling and Floor lines (like an 'X' through the VP)
4. Begin placing other architectural elements (doors, arches, etc)"

It's a fairly simple project, he's hoping nothing will blow up this time.

If everyone is good he might try for a few classes outside (with clipboards but no chairs or tables) so students can look at the Institute's own architecture for inspiration.

He'll also have a few small kangaroos bouncing around during class time, offering pencils, erasers, and paper.


PSYCHOLOGY
Mr H will be going over ways of understand personality before he jumps into schools/perspectives of Psychology. Sometime throughout the week, he'll ask them to do a simplified Myers-Briggs test as a fun way to show how Trait/Behaviorist psychologists view personality types.

ooc note: You do not actually have to do the test for your characters, but it's sort of amusing, so I figured I'll throw it out if you wanted to give it a look.

He won't have any of his art creatures running about in this class, but the words on the whiteboard still might try to escape if he gets distracted enough.

[teloschain.livejournal.com]

Minato has been hand-waved out of Mr. H's class because the mun fails and forgot how many classes he was taking. He will be taking the class next year or when he gets the chance.

He also gets an ESFJ (http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/JTypes3.asp") personality.

[pagesofmemory.livejournal.com]

Putting art second is nothing to be ashamed of, but feel free to join the art claub whenever this idiotic mun actually gets that running...

Minato's ESFJ (http://www.typelogic.com/esfj.html)-ness (http://www.personalitypage.com/ESFJ.html) doesn't surprise Mr H either.

[teloschain.livejournal.com]

Oh, yes, Minato will. He's ridiculously social anyway.

It doesn't surprise him either, lack of showing most emotions on the outside aside. XD

[melodyofwater.livejournal.com]

Joshua is, to no one's surprise, INTJ (http://keirsey.com/handler.aspx?s=keirsey&f=fourtemps&tab=5&c=mastermind). What he probably did was take it completely wrong first, and if Mr. H gave him a B| face it took it properly.

[pagesofmemory.livejournal.com]

Mr H is not surprised by his INTJ (http://www.typelogic.com/intj.html)-ness (http://www.personalitypage.com/INTJ.html). However if Josh is too disgruntled by it, he'll try to explain that no personality type is a bad one--"It's not trying to insult you, Josh". He'll offer a list of possible careers (http://www.personalitypage.com/INTJ_car.html) for INTJs.

[melodyofwater.livejournal.com]

No, Joshua just thought it would be fun to mess up the test. =| He is totally cool with his personality type.

[pagesofmemory.livejournal.com]

Ah, lol. Mr H is amused by the attempt to cheat the test. He's your theorized 'adviser' after all, as a INFP (http://www.typelogic.com/infp.html).

[sundaysiesta.livejournal.com]

Yui's going to be pretty bad at art, not bad like "are you even trying wtf", just bad like...someone who's not very good at art but is enthusiastic about it anyway. when she's not half-failing at this project, she'll be trying to make friends with the kangaroos.

[paintedfeathers]

If you give it your best shot he'll give decent grades even if it's a pile of melted crayons. He tries not to grade on talent, because that's rather unfair.

Also, Mr H is confused of why everyone wants to make friends with creatures that are controlled by his own brain. However the kangaroos will happily accept pets and headscritches. They feel like touching a painting on canvas, but warm and breathing.

[sundaysiesta.livejournal.com]

everyone wants to be friends with them because they're ADORABLE

[paintedfeathers]

they are <3

Mr H is resigned to his art becoming practically plush toys for his art class, instead of the assistants he means them to be.

[5hirogane.livejournal.com]

Naoto is, predictably, an INTJ. What may frustrate Mr. H, for exactly the same reason I frustrated every math teacher forever, is that he correctly deduces this in his head, without showing his work. Along with the answers, Mr. H will get the paper back with an "INTJ?" written off to the side.

[paintedfeathers]

Mr H is not easily frustrated with INTJ types--and actually as an INFP himself, he's your personality type's theorized 'adviser'. :3

Since the personality test isn't graded (how could it be? NO U DID IT WRONG U GET BAD GRADE. XD) he won't mind the lack of showy work. He might approach Naoto after class to see why there's a question mark, however. Just to make sure nothing is confusing his students.

[valetudochamp.livejournal.com]

Because an educated guess is still a guess, mostly, and to Naoto, 99.99999999% sure still isn't 100.

[paintedfeathers]

Psh, Mr H is like "The tests I handed out aren't the real deal anyway--the real ones have to be given by trained professionals who usually charge for their time. Don't worry so much about exactness on this."

[maiiau]

Larxene is ENTJ. She seems interested in the class, and also in what other people got. She's trying to establish connections between the theory of these things and how to apply them in a useful manner.

[paintedfeathers]

If she wants he could offer her more information on ENTJ types like possible career paths. With a reminder of course, that these are theorized and generalized and may not fit everyone perfectly.

[phoneskillnoise.livejournal.com]

you'll probably notice that Neku's buildings have graffiti drawn on them as well

He doesn't say much, but you can tell he is enjoying the drawing in the class.

[paintedfeathers]

Mr H will encourage the graffiti-making. He might offer Neku one of his coffee-table books on graffiti styles for reference. <3

[phoneskillnoise.livejournal.com]

Neku would like that.

|D What are you charging for it Mr. H?

[knowyourfears.livejournal.com]

/throws characters at your classes

Terry is an ISFP (http://www.typelogic.com/isfp.html), where as Shino is, most likely unsurprisingly at all, an INTJ (http://www.typelogic.com/intj.html). Although I have no idea how, erm. Honest. With the test Terry will be the first time, so he may have to take it a second time and really think about his answers.

Also, as far as art goes, Terry will probably start off paying attention and doing the work but then get horribly distracted by the Kangaroos and start drawing them instead.

[paintedfeathers]

/lazily points to links given before. You can find more info there if you want it.

Shino's will surprise him. Why's there so many INTJs around him--it must be a conspiracy because he's a INFP, the INTJ's theorized 'adviser'. Also Shino is in his mentor group. He'll probably have a meeting sometime during the week so they can all get to know each other.

Mr H will try to nudge Terry back to the assignment, but will at least be happy he's drawing something.

/sliiiiiides in extremely late don't count me tardy mr h

[hawkeye-ii.livejournal.com]

to no one's surprise, Kate is ESFJ.

/patpat

[pagesofmemory.livejournal.com]

/points at the other replies if mun wants links to more information.

Mr H is amused by the range of people in his class.