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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!
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ENGLISH:
JUNIORS continue reading I Know Why the Caged Bird sings, with reading response journals as per usual. SENIORS start working on their satire paper.
ESL: Finishes up whatever tense they were working on last week, starts discussing future perfect tense. Vocabulary is assigned, it is about leisure activities.
ADVANCED TELEPATHY: learn about how to borrow actual physical skills via telepathy. Assume that if your student has an unusual power they will have individual assignments.
Mentor group: Go out to lunch on Saturday at a very classy cafe in Soho.
ROGUE:
REHEARSALS REHEARSALS REHEARSALS
Null class: danger room sessions involving nullifying/draining/borrowing the powers of multiple opponents. Students who borrow powers also practice utilizing multiple powers at once. On Friday they go out for Chinese.
Mentor group: Rogue brings in her guitar and they have a jam session. I'd also like to log out a shopping trip at some point before homecoming?
STORM:
Continue reading Tuck Everlasting. Pearl gets private reading lessons. They also start studying climates and do more mathboxes.
Emma English.
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ESL
And O HAY, Bakura shows up! He doesn't bother doing the work, though, but he absorbs some of the information.
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English, Telepathy, ESL, Mentor Group, Rehearsals, Null
English- does perfectly fine on the assignment.
Telepathy- has an individual assignment /shrugs. He's probably happy not to deal with the telepaths in the class.
Mentor group- Zexion is still very closed off about the mentor group, don't expect much socialization from him, but he does enjoy the cafe.
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Null- has been absent since the blackout but will return to class on Tuesday, don't expect a whole lot from him, since he'll probably fall asleep sometime during class. The Friday break is well appreciated, however. Food is, yet again, an awesome thing.
ESL- same thing with the absences, he'll probably tucker out on top of his work and get very little done all week.
Rehearsals- he'll show up, but don't expect anything stellar from him.
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rehearsals
Advanced Telepathy
Noted can be the fact that Sasuke is somehow more intent on learning than before. Somehow. They probably need to have The Talk About Your Brother soon.
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ESL: She's doing her work for the most part, though is drifting off into la-la land pretty frequently.
Rehearsal: Notable lack of attention is notable.
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rehearsals
Mentor Group
also shopping trip logs are good
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Advanced Telepathy: Harry works on his own individual project, and if Emma scans him she'll find he's distracted and debating asking her about something *The soulgaze if school stops eating me so I can write it*
Mentor Group: Harry enjoys the jam session very much, and after Monday I am totally up for logs.
Lucy
Her response journals continue to be insightful, examining the story structure and character development.
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English
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English
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-Miku continues working along with the journals and all that; they're B-ish in quality.
English 12
-Toris finishes his paper early.
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Re: mentor group
rehearsals!
However, this is offset by the fact that she is currently being rather mean to the Twins due to the whole Blackout incident. :
rehearsals!
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And yay reading lessons! \o/ This makes Pearl super happy and she tries her hardest during every lesson.
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ENGLISH, NULL
NULL: Quistis will struggle a bit with borrowing two powers at once- she's still shaky with just handling one, after all. She does love Chinese food, though!
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