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GAME UPDATE: Sunday November 22nd 2009

AT THE XAVIER INSTITUTE:
Professor Xavier announces that he will be speaking at the mutant registration conference due to be held on Wednesday – he requests of his staff that a few ex-X-Men (or other staff members with similar experience) accompany him to the conference, "if only in the hope that the presence of costumed super-heroes will serve to deter any petty acts of violence." This isn't made public to the students, of course – any kids who take the school up on the offer to attend as part of the audience will probably be the politically inclined sort who're actually keen to sit through what promises to be a few hours of people like Professor X having Serious Discussions ... or ones who want to be there to cause petty acts of violence.

Thanksgiving is November 26th, Thursday. While some people at the Institute will of course be going home to spend Thanksgiving with their families, enough of them are are either orphans or not from America that there'll still be plenty of people around, so expect some kind of big orphan Thanksgiving party.

Weather at the Xavier Institute this week is on the cold and windy side.


NEWS:
A school in New York City is destroyed on Tuesday, the 24th. A mutant student is found unharmed in the rubble; her name isn't made public but the school in question states it is planning to sue.

A conference is to be held in New York on Wednesday, November 25th, at which a variety of notable authorities on the matter will be speaking on the subject of the proposed mutant registration bill. Professor Charles Xavier confirms on Sunday that he will attend. Among other confirmed speakers are anti-mutant evangelist Reverend William Stryker.


WHAT WOLVERINE DID THIS WEEK:
Logan is sent back in time, and to Mars, by a spectral entity bearing an uncanny resemblance to Abraham Lincoln.


OOC NOTICES:
• NAG TIME: over eighty people didn't check themselves in for this month's activity check. That's as many as eight tens, and that's terrible. Admittedly some of those eight tens were mods –WE ARE ALL BAD PEOPLE let's try to do better in future 8( We have to tally that stuff up at the end of every activity check, and it's a right pain to have to go through that many people who didn't check in but were still active – so BE KIND TO YOUR MODS AND ACTIVITY CHECK. IT'S THE RIGHT THING TO DO. AND IT'S THE LAW.

• On a vaguely related note, DON'T MAKE PURA SAD. REMEMBER TO TAG YOUR CHARACTERS' NAMES ONTO THREADS YOU POST TO WITH THEM. Also, if you're going on or coming back from a hiatus, please don't forget to comment to the hiatus post!

• As ever, this post is open for talking about what's going down for classes and mentor groups this week. We do encourage people to thread classes and mentor group activities where possible rather than just handwaving all of them, but if you don't want to do a thread or you want to plan something or wevs, this is the place!

Re: Band, Mentor Group

[identity profile] listennlearn.livejournal.com 2010-02-21 10:59 pm (UTC)(link)
I am so up for this
seductress: (come hither smile)

[personal profile] seductress 2010-02-22 01:31 am (UTC)(link)
Lara suggests that Courfeyrac and Warren join her on the beach trip.

[identity profile] le-centre.livejournal.com 2010-02-22 01:33 am (UTC)(link)
Courfeyrac will bother Enjolras about it before making a decision, but will probably end up going anyways.
seductress: (Default)

[personal profile] seductress 2010-02-22 03:50 am (UTC)(link)
Lara... I'm not going to type that Lara that is obscene.

I'm sure Courfeyrac gets the picture.

[identity profile] dontholdthedoor.livejournal.com 2010-02-22 04:22 am (UTC)(link)
Defense is good too :3 Toph's fighting style balances both...and it's not like combat class is focused so much on a specific style.

[identity profile] dontholdthedoor.livejournal.com 2010-02-22 04:22 am (UTC)(link)
Since he's been gone for awhile, Toph probably won't make him take the test and will have him make it up after he's caught up or something.

Re: Combat

[identity profile] dontholdthedoor.livejournal.com 2010-02-22 04:24 am (UTC)(link)
Well, by technique I don't necessarily mean a specific fighting style. Really street fighting has its own technique. She's just making sure you're using the right parts of your body to put power behind your punches and making sure your stances are strong enough that you're not going to be knocked over very easy.

She let him go. She secretly likes Yusuke and, hell, the more people she can have screaming in the private box they had for the MMA tournament the better

[identity profile] dontholdthedoor.livejournal.com 2010-02-22 04:24 am (UTC)(link)
Good and Good XD
useddreameater: (can't keep singing these songs)

dfffffff I fail at seeing things. ILLUSIONS CLASS

[personal profile] useddreameater 2010-02-22 04:54 am (UTC)(link)
Itachi gained Terrible Debilitating Migraine Headache +1. Class is cancelled. Students are later emailed the assignment: read 1984 and discuss how the inhabitants of Orwell's dystopia are, effectively, willing participants in the illusion of their own happiness with the state of their society. Minimum one page, double-spaced, Times New Roman 12-pt font, by next class.


Ask about why class was cancelled (stated reason: teacher is indisposed) and get no response.

Combat

[identity profile] youbetter-run.livejournal.com 2010-02-22 05:51 am (UTC)(link)
Natalia has a lot of fun, though she may or may not be using...unorthodox technique.

Combat

[identity profile] mighty-molita.livejournal.com 2010-02-22 06:14 am (UTC)(link)
Toph doesn't so much care about style. When it says she's looking at technique it means she's making sure you're not fighting in a way that is just as harmful to you as it is to your opponent (not holding your fist right, poor alignment, etc).

[identity profile] le-centre.livejournal.com 2010-02-22 09:23 am (UTC)(link)
*dies* Depends on how tipsy Courfeyrac gets?

[identity profile] usedhypnosis.livejournal.com 2010-02-22 09:29 am (UTC)(link)
Itachi is a surprisingly good teacher.

This is unnerving.

Re: GEOGRAPHY and MENTOR GROUP

[identity profile] hexular.livejournal.com 2010-02-22 10:12 am (UTC)(link)
UPDATE: Wanda is going to spend all of every Geography period staring mournfully across the room at mad-at-her!Jolly. She might scribble down some nonsense answers on some of her quizzes. Maybe. But they will definitely be wrong, and most likely not actually be coherent.
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[personal profile] superspeeds 2010-02-22 02:02 pm (UTC)(link)
B|

Okay, now he's not so much mad, but annoyed with both Jolly and Wanda. Except Wanda gets a pass on it cause she's Wanda.

Why you gotta ruin his class when the little one is coming to town?

[identity profile] moneybagsiii.livejournal.com 2010-02-22 06:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Emma goes to the conference TO NO ONE'S SURPRISE and probably gives a speech or two as to what she would like to see on the bill. Storm talks a little about the international consequences and Warren spends most of the time updating Iggy on the strange faces Stryker makes whenever one of the X-Men starts to talk, kind of like he is constipated.

EMMA

ENGLISH: SENIORS continue reading 1984 and doing reading response journals, same for JUNIORS and Their Eyes Were Watching God. Lots of discussions.

ESL: Write a short narrative about Thanksgiving!

ADVANCED TELEPATHY: The practical applications of hallucinations and illusion, a couple danger room sessions.

MENTOR GROUP: go for apple cider and have a nice lil discussion about your Thanksgiving plans.

CHESS CLUB: plays chess

ROGUE

SERIOUSLY YOU GUYS THERE ARE STILL LIKE 20 ROLES LEFT BEFORE I CAN POST THE CAST LIST

NULL CLASS: like last week only more so. On Friday they go out for sandwiches!

MENTOR GROUP: go out for a nice dinner!!

STORM

MALI TRIP YOU GUYS!! Afterwards you will be expected to write a brief report. Then it's on to the ancient Ethiopian empire! There is also mathboxes and reading.

INTERNATIONAL CLUB: I will be posting about the Grand Feast shortly! In the meantime any suggestions would be most appreciated.

WARREN

is subbing for AERIAL COMBAT! The first part of the week is spent crashing into things at very high speeds. Students who cannot do this without hurting themselves are given protective gear. The second part of the week is spent sniping! You will be expected to hit targets from increasingly high altitudes with your BB guns. Students who choose instead to shoot at each other will have their BB guns confiscated and be forced to fly laps.

GEOGRAPHY

[identity profile] moneybagsiii.livejournal.com 2010-02-22 06:37 pm (UTC)(link)
Rictor gets all the questions right so long as they have to do with things like mountains and climates and whatever. Everything else gets ridiculous nonsense answers or doodles of rock formations or both.

Zach does decently well, although he spends an inappropriate amount of time texting Draco or gossiping with Tina or pestering Al or whatever it is he does

Warren will suggest he get her Little Big Planet or some other age appropriate videogame just to piss Pietro off

Earth Sci, Combat, Mentor Group, Marital Arts Club

[identity profile] moneybagsiii.livejournal.com 2010-02-22 06:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Rictor does really well on his desert test and enjoys the heck out of his turkey sandwich

he then gets his ass kicked by Toph in combat BUT HE TRIES

he will also give her a note that says like happy Thanksgiving in Braille, horribly misspelled but it is the thought that counts

[identity profile] a-whiter-shade.livejournal.com 2010-02-22 06:46 pm (UTC)(link)
OH COME ON SHE WAS ASCENDING TO GODHOOD

AERIAL COMBAT

[identity profile] firstlaugh.livejournal.com 2010-02-22 06:52 pm (UTC)(link)
OH HECK YES AERIAL COMBAT

Tina isn't a big fan of crashing into things as she's pretty good at being all nimble and evasive. And protective gear sounds rather unfashionable. :C

but YES SNIPING YES <3 She probably only needs to have her stuff confiscated three times before she gets the message.
seductress: (rare smiles)

[personal profile] seductress 2010-02-22 08:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Defensive much, Emma?
useddreameater: (forgot her name already)

[personal profile] useddreameater 2010-02-22 09:42 pm (UTC)(link)
Sasuke is an unsurprisingly good student.

This might be cause for quiet moments of smugness if he weren't so busy having a migraine.

[identity profile] gottasteelit.livejournal.com 2010-02-22 09:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Which reminds me, Yuffie's going to break in sometime this week and leave a large lava lamp on his desk.

[identity profile] gottasteelit.livejournal.com 2010-02-22 09:55 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh and it's glued there so don't go getting any ideas.
useddreameater: (nice work you did)

[personal profile] useddreameater 2010-02-22 09:57 pm (UTC)(link)
asdkdj :|

/leaves it there. it is strangely relaxing. even if it clashes with the rest of the classy decor.

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