NEWS:
⊗ Vice President Basil Dopes is revealed to be a Skrull by experimental superhuman screening procedures at a meeting on Wednesday. When security tries to apprehend him, Skrull Dopes pulls out a ray gun; several people are injured. Eventually he is brought into custody by the Fantastic Four, but he refuses to talk about his mission objectives. The real Dopes is later found tied up in a cupboard in the White House.

⊗ Following the Skrull Dopes fiasco, Senator Nero Verus goes out of his way to openly speculate that his fellow New York Senator James Baelheit may also be a Skrull, drawing criticism from political commentators over the fact that his political campaign lately seems to consist soley of slandering Baelheit.

⊗ Although Genosha remains a hot topic in most news programs, there have been no new developments reported from the country itself.


THE XAVIER INSTITUTE:
⊗ It's winter break! Also a whole bunch of students have been kidnapped by Albert Wesker and/or are involved in rescuing the ones who have, so things are probably going to be a bit of a hectic relief party once they all get back this week. You know, presuming everyone gets back alive. School counselors, we hope you weren't planning any major festive goings-on, because fighting zombies is pretty traumatic.

⊗ There's still snow this week. :'|


THE BROTHERHOOD OF MUTANTS:
⊗ A report from Rune this week is likely to cause a fair deal of outrage on the Bromarine (keep your eyes peeled), but Magneto is planning something ...

⊗ No big missions are going on, but if you've got a Brotherhood member who you want a fighty thread for, feel free to ask one of us and we'll swing you something. We're working on getting a post up for requesting that sort of thing, but in the meantime you'll have to contact us – no worries, we're pretty nice. Mostly.


WHAT WOLVERINE DID THIS WEEK:
Participates as a celebrity guest on popular British reality TV show Come Dine With Me, wowing his guests with a surprisingly zingy Italian-inspired meal of seafood penne with home-made ice cream for dessert and a particularly remarked-upon starter of goats' cheese and parma ham, garnished stylishly with two purple grapes and a green one.
However, the night is cut short when one of the other guests turns out to be a robot.


OOC NOTICES:
⊗ PLEASE BEAR IN MIND that this week, one game week = one IRL week. The next game update (December 27th) will be on April 24th, next Saturday, rather than the Saturday after. Same goes for the week after that! This is so that people with characters who'd ICly be home for winter break don't have to suffer too much for it.

⊗ The Activity check is still goin' on! You have until April 21st to respond. ALSO REMINDER AGAIN: If you have a Xavier Institute character who's away for winter break and not in any threads, just indicate that they're on break when you check your characters in. THANKS GUYS! <3

⊗ Lara Raith's deal with Rune to guide potentially interested students to the Brotherhood is still goin' on. More on that here if you want in.

⊗ Obviously there are no classes this week because it's winter break, but if you want to use this thread to talk about what mentor groups are doing with those students still present, if anything, general school goings-on, Brotherhood training sessions, etc. We do encourage people to thread stuff where possible rather than just handwaving all of it, but if you don't want to do a thread or you want to plan something or wevs, this is the place!

EXCELSIOR!