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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!
ANTHROPLOGY, TELEPATHY, MENTOR GROUP
Telepathy: Those that have problems with shutting up voices still work on that under her care. She will also test you on whether or not you have the ability to mentally suggest others to do what you want them to do, as well as the strength of your ability.
And if you are able to do so, you will start working on how to control and make use of the 'control' aspect of mental 'suggestions', and exercises on doing little things. Nothing huge. Get a partner and with their consent, do the exercises on a list she will give you. There will be at least 5 different lists with 8 different tasks, so don't think that you'll do the same thing as your partner does. Don't worry, you can make an NPC partner. [Such things as "do X math problem on a paper" or "Use a red ink pen and write a sentence from a poem," etc. See? Small mental suggestions~]
MENTOR GROUP: New Saturday meeting to take place this week! Too bad it can't be held outside because it's on the chilly side, so we're going to settle for her classroom on Saturday, though she'll have
[on a suggestion from a certain FBI agent friend that knows how to deal with kids]you can have a choice between TWO things:A) Old school board games, such as Connect 4, Life, Battleship, Risk, Scrabble, Operation, Trouble, Sorry!, and other various such games. Not Monopoly, though. Not sure why, but not that.
B) Some video games that'll be hooked up to the overheard projector in her class. Just think Wii titles where multiplayer stuffs can be done, like: Super Mario Bros. Wii, Mario Kart Wii, Super Smash Bros. Brawl, Mario & Sonic at the Olympic games, Need for Speed Nitro, etc.
Choose either one of these two, kiddies, so you can have awesome bonding times~
Also, she'll have hot cocoa with marshmallows, cookies, chips and popcorn so you guys can munch on them, and she'll have some ambient music in the background so it won't sound so... odd when things can get quiet when you concentrate.
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Actually, would be appearing to ignore most everyone, having brought along her own SCIENCE books and has situated herself next to the food and is doing SCIENCE. She'd be notably closer to people in general than the last time, too, and not bitching anyone out (yet) because she can't sense any of their mutations atm.
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She respects the fact that you're reading science books. She doesn't know about what you did, but that's because she's trying not to let the thoughts filter through her mind~ She's glad she's being a bit more agreeable than the first time she came, so that's a plus.
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THE WII IS AMAZING. There are bright colors and stupidly cute graphics. It is both horrifying and impressive. Also, once Bucky figures his way around gaming, he'll totally main Fox and Captain Falcon. Totally. He still sucks compared to basically everyone though. Video games are hard, okay.
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And hey, don't worry, Dr. B is also sorta a little fail in the gaming department. She had been practicing for a looooong while in order to get reasonably well enough in the games before this meeting. She so goes for Samus, though.
MENTOR GROUP
That said, he sucks at them. And it pisses him off. He'll get fed up, broody, and go ignore everyone with Karin... and munch on snacks.
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That said, she would be inclined to offer him some time to play the games in her office [believe her, she is also sorta suck at them, and if they practice together, they might get better at those games. Besides, they're fun, aren't they? Also, more opportunity for her to attempt to bond with one of her students!], so it would be up to him if he wants to do so. Would be a great way to de-stress from a hard day at school?
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Well... he does kind of like her, being all law-enforcey and stuff. He might accept such an invitation, maybe, just once or twice. Unless he starts actually getting good, then it might be more regular.
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He challenges Dr. Brennann to Connect Four. He probably loses horribly.
He tries and sucks even more than Seifer at the video games. CURSE YOU TECHNOLOGY.
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Yay, someone else appreciates the board games aside from her and Bucky~!
He would most likely, yes. It doesn't help that she doesn't show much emotion aside from a vague sense of 'it's great that they're sorta getting along~' but also 'might have to work on them getting along even better...'
BUT TECHNOLOGY MAKES THINGS BETTER!!! She wouldn't be able to get into more technical things about those mystery deaths that she has to figure out with her team when she is asked to consult/work with the FBI/Jeffersonian if it weren't for technology~
She will also offer him some time to practice with the games in her office, so it'll be mutually beneficial, because she isn't a star player with them as well. Good to play for an hour or two after school lets out for the day, yeah? As long as you do your homework, though. She wants you all to do well in school. Education is important, after all, and she believes a LOT in it.
Also, more bonding times between mentor and student, hopefully? =Da
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