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GAME UPDATE: October 18th 2009
AT THE XAVIER INSTITUTE:
IT'S SPIRIT WEEK!! A myriad exciting things will be going on all week, presumably, although your friendly neighbourhood mods aren't doing the organising for that – if your character is organising an event, feel free to either plan it in the comments to this post or in posts to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
xi_ooc. If not, keep an eye out for other people's updates!
The weather continues on the colder side. It rains on Wednesday and Friday.
NEWS:
On Sunday October 18th (that's today), news reports air of a large, unidentified object that appears to be a spacecraft, observed by several parties to plummet into the Atlantic Ocean. The stretch of ocean it supposedly crashed into is searched – there are signs of severe disruption on the seabed but nothing is actually found.
On Tuesday 20th, a group of three youths are caught graffiti-ing pro-mutant messages on the property of Allen Sherrdit, Harvey Thompson's running mate in the upcoming election. (In, like, two game weeks, guys, omg!) One of them, having previously been using her pyrokinetic abilities to let the group see what they were doing, panics when Sherrdit's security apprehends them and hurls a fireball at one of the guards, who is severely injured – the guards retaliate by shooting. The pyrokinetic mutant, Fiona Mackintosh, 21, is killed – the others, Cody Ziemba, 19, and Saundra Bahe, 24, are unharmed, but are arrested – whether they are mutants is not being publicised.
WHAT WOLVERINE DID THIS WEEK:
Battles the Slow Loris on the edge of a mile-high African cliff. A narrow victory.
OOC NOTICES:
• Applications open this coming Wednesday, December 16th. They'll stay open for a week, until December 23rd. Any app we get before we wake up on December 24th will be valid. On that note, we'd like to remind you about the recent post on character limits. To clarify: staff apps will be open this week, but not next app period. If you have any other questions about limits feel free to IM a mod.
• On a vaguely related note, from this app period onwards, the activity requirement for characters based outside the Institute is going to be lower than the one for those studying or working there. Whilst during an activity check all characters are currently required either to have tagged somewhere during the week before the check or to tag while the check is going on, from now on that will only go for characters at the Xavier Institute – others will only need to have tagged somewhere during the month before the check, and we'll be much more lenient in cases where they haven't depending on the individual character and what they're up to. This isn't to say that non-Institute characters can't be hecka active if you want them to be, but we do recognise that it's not as easy to get activity for a lone villain, for example, or for someone working in a shop in Salem Center, as for a student at Xavier's. This is also to remind you that characters like this are totally allowed and encouraged.
• Speaking of villains, we're starting to get back to people who've emailed us about this (very belatedly in some cases, we're afraid!) but we need some bad guys for a specific plot event in the near future and more can't hurt. Email us at xavierinstitutemods@gmail.com or IM a mod, if you're interested.
• As ever, this post is open for talking about what's going down for classes and mentor groups this week. Now that first-person action logs are permitted as well as prose, we'd encourage people to thread more classes and mentor group activities rather than just handwaving all of them, but if you don't want to do a thread or you want to plan something &c., this is the place!
IT'S SPIRIT WEEK!! A myriad exciting things will be going on all week, presumably, although your friendly neighbourhood mods aren't doing the organising for that – if your character is organising an event, feel free to either plan it in the comments to this post or in posts to
xi_ooc. If not, keep an eye out for other people's updates!The weather continues on the colder side. It rains on Wednesday and Friday.
NEWS:
On Sunday October 18th (that's today), news reports air of a large, unidentified object that appears to be a spacecraft, observed by several parties to plummet into the Atlantic Ocean. The stretch of ocean it supposedly crashed into is searched – there are signs of severe disruption on the seabed but nothing is actually found.
On Tuesday 20th, a group of three youths are caught graffiti-ing pro-mutant messages on the property of Allen Sherrdit, Harvey Thompson's running mate in the upcoming election. (In, like, two game weeks, guys, omg!) One of them, having previously been using her pyrokinetic abilities to let the group see what they were doing, panics when Sherrdit's security apprehends them and hurls a fireball at one of the guards, who is severely injured – the guards retaliate by shooting. The pyrokinetic mutant, Fiona Mackintosh, 21, is killed – the others, Cody Ziemba, 19, and Saundra Bahe, 24, are unharmed, but are arrested – whether they are mutants is not being publicised.
WHAT WOLVERINE DID THIS WEEK:
Battles the Slow Loris on the edge of a mile-high African cliff. A narrow victory.
OOC NOTICES:
• Applications open this coming Wednesday, December 16th. They'll stay open for a week, until December 23rd. Any app we get before we wake up on December 24th will be valid. On that note, we'd like to remind you about the recent post on character limits. To clarify: staff apps will be open this week, but not next app period. If you have any other questions about limits feel free to IM a mod.
• On a vaguely related note, from this app period onwards, the activity requirement for characters based outside the Institute is going to be lower than the one for those studying or working there. Whilst during an activity check all characters are currently required either to have tagged somewhere during the week before the check or to tag while the check is going on, from now on that will only go for characters at the Xavier Institute – others will only need to have tagged somewhere during the month before the check, and we'll be much more lenient in cases where they haven't depending on the individual character and what they're up to. This isn't to say that non-Institute characters can't be hecka active if you want them to be, but we do recognise that it's not as easy to get activity for a lone villain, for example, or for someone working in a shop in Salem Center, as for a student at Xavier's. This is also to remind you that characters like this are totally allowed and encouraged.
• Speaking of villains, we're starting to get back to people who've emailed us about this (very belatedly in some cases, we're afraid!) but we need some bad guys for a specific plot event in the near future and more can't hurt. Email us at xavierinstitutemods@gmail.com or IM a mod, if you're interested.
• As ever, this post is open for talking about what's going down for classes and mentor groups this week. Now that first-person action logs are permitted as well as prose, we'd encourage people to thread more classes and mentor group activities rather than just handwaving all of them, but if you don't want to do a thread or you want to plan something &c., this is the place!
MUTANT SPIRIT WEEK + Driver's Ed + Control + Kendo Club + Mentor Group
Next weekend real time (which is WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY early in game) I'll put up Mutant Homecoming. And people can start with their dancing and dates and pretty dresses.
Any and all Spirit Week events should be posted here although I don't think anyone really picked ones to run, the ones I'm just going to say happen are:
- Rock Band and DDR tournament, as well as other video games (IG Monday)
- Sponsored Teacher Danger Room shinnanigans (IG Tuesday)
- Mutant Talent Show (IG Wednesday)
- A very snazzy multicultural dinner for everyone. Where various staff and students cooked foods of various cultures (IG Thusday)
- Charity Pie Event Thingie (IG Friday)
- Mutant Homecoming (IG Friday)
All events ARE Optional, students can avoid them as they see fit. Although it will be hard to avoid the Thursday dinner as its dinner. You can just, I dunno, get pizza.
Driver's Education
Everyone gets to have nice drives through various famous cities in both the US and other countries. Still learning but pretty scenery.
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Godzilla shows up in Tokyo for this, but does not attack anything.
Control
Mia splits the class up based on your issues with control. She'll do her best to offer advice, but for the most part is leaving the kids to themselves and making sure nobody is hurt.
- Those with issues accessing their powers, they are asked to see how long they can keep their powers active in a constant duration. Mia asks to push yourself as hard as you can, but if you feel like you are goint to faint, stop, take a break, drink some water, etc.
- This with issues keeping their powers in check, they are given a situation where they would want to use their powers, but are told to do what they can to not access them.
- Those who can't seem to control their powers once activated are asked to access their powers, but only the tiniest bit active (light candle, do not torch drapery).
The week will be spent like this. Mia will probably contact other teachers with similar powers to yours if you have trouble.
Kendo Club and Mentor Group
Mia requests all the students interested in a Kendo club to meet at Noon Saturday. Incidentally Mia also requests her Mentor Group to meet in the same spot, at the same time, on Saturday. Hmm.
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She will also suggest he find Houshou, and talk to him if he would like to speak with a teacher that has more experience/understanding of this sort of power.
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And Tommy was having private sessions with Havoc to improve his atomic destablisation jazz hands, so he probably wont show up since Havoc is AWOL.
BB is in this class too, and he mostly has problems with maintaining bigger shapes for a long period of time.
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KAMINA. Due to similar powertypes, if Simon wants to.
Tommy: I'll go find Logan to deal with him.
BB: Mia will probably take note of this and wait patiently for someone to app a shapeshifting teacher. Also, suggest he try to take BIG SHAPES and hold them (except not T-Rex big). Just spend a little bit of time every day holding a shape he has trouble with.
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Nunnally is in the first category, and she just can't seem to find a way to activate her visions. :( :( :( Doesn't cause her any physical stress, just nothing happens.
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Nunnally... Mia has no idea, she'll contact a teacher better suited for this.
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In Control, Nakuru would probably go into the first group. Her task would be working on creating crystals for keeps (or possibly just creating a bunch of them at once without trying to lock them into place) without completely wiping herself out.
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After that it's just a matter of keeping them in control really. This is her big issue. Water and wind she can work with fine for the most part. Fire tends to... ignore her and blow up after a while. She doesn't really use it much for this reason. She's getting better with her wings thanks to flight class but still finds them vanishing on her from time to time.
Yeah, she's got quite a bit of work to do really. >>;
and this is ignoring that she hasn't realize she can work with more than those three yet. It's going to get worse.She's going to be a terror in the kendo club but she'll manage. It's a good reason for Giselle and her to become friends and the like. ^_^b
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Control- Len falls into the second group, as shown in last week's massive blackout. Although he's been absent since said blackout, he'll be back in class by Tuesday even though he still looks a bit off.
Zexion Schaduw
Control- Zexion honestly doesn't need the course, but he's in it for the lulz, basically. He can whip up illusions that are fairly detailed and consistent, even if he's only at half-strength without his Lexicon. Feel free to either throw Zexion out of the class, or stick him in any of the groups. If chucked in a group, he'll be willing to help out and patiently explain things to the other students even though he's an arse most of the time.
Kendo- Zexion will show up for this, even though he means to stand on the sidelines and simply watch.
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Lambo anxiously introduces himself at his first control lesson and successfully demonstrates that he is very adept as attracting disaster and not so adept at controlling his electrical powers, managing to give himself a static afro on the first attempt.
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Zachary has issues accessing his powers. It is more than he can affect objects (and animals) rather than people and sentient creatures. I'm not entirely sure how that would be handled, since he can't really keep his powers active as such? Perhaps just rapid-fire summoning.
All of my teachers will participate in the sponsored shenanigans, even Emma. Zach will be in the talent show, doing magic.
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-Miku will sing for the talent show.
-Toris will be happy to make Šakotis for the dinner.
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-Alfred falls into group three with his super strength. Expect broken things.
-Miku's group three, especially with her more emotional songs: Love is War causes riots, for example.
Mentor Group
Toris will show up and be nervous!
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....It's his first week, he was feeling a bit homesick, his mom used to make it sometimes AND HE WILL NEVER ADMIT ANY OF THIS EVER. Also, it's boiling stuff and letting it sit in the fridge, there's not much room for disaster and things lighting on fire. But he'll grunt and roll his eyes and act like he resents going through the trouble.
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