Weekly Update - Sep 14th to Sep 20th

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OOC

⊗ If you still haven't posted to the lists, a pox on your house.

⊗ The app template has been updated slightly with a note about AU history length: "HOWEVER it should be noted that there is such a thing as too much information as well. Please do not make your history overly long or bogged down in ultimately unimportant information. Be kind to the mods reviewing your app."

⊗ There will be a News Post Mingle on Wednesday. For an example of what these are like, here is one from the old game. We will offer up plot tidpits in this post, so be sure you at least give it a look when it goes up, even if your character has no reaction at the time!

SCHOOL NEWS

⊗ Considering Fashion Week, there's a Shopping Trip log in the big city! Come get into a New York State of Mind.

⊗ Since student delinquency is pretty much expected, our boy Bigby is on top of that.

⊗ The Club Week event is still open for tagging and plotting! Plus there have been several posts about clubs: bonsai and Gaming clubs, martial art clubs, craft clubs, a kendo team, music clubs, STEM clubs, a Library Society, and a Baseball team!

⊗ The Daily Bugle of New York is sending a team to the Institute to cover its re-opening. Students may be interviewed and photographed for the article. Overall, the Bugle is expected to put a positive spin on the school, given their amicable relationship with Professor Xavier.

⊗ GOSSIP TIME! Feel free to post to this thread and let people know what's the hot buzz around campus!

AROUND THE WORLD

⊗ As you might have already noticed on the game calendar, President Robert Kelly is planning to address the nation on Sept 22nd. As for his talking points, odds are on Genosha and the Mutant Registration Act are chief among the issues to be discussed.

⊗ John Sublime, author of "The Third Species" and the spiritual leader of the TransSpecies movement, will be giving an open seminar at a pro-mutant and pro-TransSpecies gathering in Central Park on Friday.

⊗ Erik Lehnsherr, aka Magneto, and leader of Genosha is having a meeting with UN officials sometime this week to facilitate better trade relationships with major world powers.

⊗ The Mutant Registration Act is gaining ground once more as a grass roots movement supported by a bipartisan effort in the US House of Representatives. Just like its last go around five years ago, this proposed law would require all mutants to be registered to federal and state level databases detailing their identity and mutant abilities.

Comments

GOSSIP/RUMOR MILL

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what's happenin'?

[kamiizumi]

Rumor has it that some kid who reads way too much Neverending Ninja Adventures manga got punched in the face for calling Leonardo "chūnin."

(If you try and figure out who it is, you will probably not manage to figure out who supposedly got punched, but you will find at least a couple people who can vouch for the fact that he looks very displeased if you do it.)

[koukai_kirai]

Rumor has it Hijikata once graded a paper so low, it rewrote reality and made them fail every assignment they'd ever had since kindergarten.

[spes_phthisica]

Does it make Hijikata a "sugar daddy" if he's buying copious amounts of candy for a student?

Or just a creepy old man?

[seduceme]

Why not both?

[koukai_kirai]

[seduceme]

[koukai_kirai]

You should probably know that the last student who said things like that is still in the hospital for mysterious reasons.

[thirdarrow]

Rumour has it that the reason no one's ever seen Takakage angry is because those who do don't survive.

After all, even the most mild-mannered teacher has to have some sort of breaking point, right? And he's a skilled doctor, or so they say. Maybe he can rearrange your organs without even having to lay a finger on you. A human's 65% water, after all...

[kickstart_my_heart]

Most people assume Bridget's a girl, that's not really the rumor.

The rumor is about WHY he's a crossdresser. There are dozens. The one people seem to believe the most is that the home he ran away from was abusive, even if he's said otherwise.

[batteredbatter]

Cue Tanaka being oddly sensitive and careful around Bridget for a few days and trying not to bring up the skirt thing despite obviously wanting to, like when it flips up at practice or something.

[tactlesstactician]

If questioned, Bridge's roommate just glares at the one asking the question until they go away because wow that is so totally not anyone's business.

[comparative_insanity]

The fact that Fai Flourite and Christelle Desrosiers hooked up isn't really a rumor as such, since they planned it openly on the network. Professionalism at its best, kids.

Oh, and cue Feliks drunk-texting the the entire school the same night. If you think this is a coincidence, you're wrong.

[icy_heavens]

What kind of idiot would think that's a coincidence?

[seduceme]

Feliks and Fai.

[niepokonany]

Just Fai, really.

[seduceme]

Feliks is just in denial.

[niepokonany]

No, he isn't. That's why he needs the vodka.

[seduceme]

Yeah - bottled denial.

[niepokonany]

It's a complete coincidence and he just happened to feel like drinking quantities of wódka a man twice his size would regret deeply, ok??

[spes_phthisica]

Fai.

[seduceme]

Apparently Christelle's entire face is a mask.

[friendofdorothy]

You pull off the mask and there's another mask. It's masks all the way down.

[seduceme]

In the end there is no head. Just layer after layer of masks.

Like a mask onion.

Re: GOSSIP/RUMOR MILL

[tactlesstactician]

Rumor has it that Soren is actually a vampire because of pale skin + red eyes + generally avoiding people.

The rumor is only further "proven" when someone catches sight of his "bat" wings.

[niepokonany]

I heard he's terrified of buckets.

[tactlesstactician]

a bucket killed his parents

[friendofdorothy]

that actually did happen to liir

[tactlesstactician]

that's rough buddy

[friendofdorothy]

well ok just one of them

'that's rough buddy' was probably a draft title for Son Of A Witch

[tactlesstactician]

Pretty much....

Ding dong the witch is dead~

[jolie_aile]

THREE

THREE VAMPIRES ON CAMPUS

[tactlesstactician]

SO MUCH VAMPIRE

watch your necks, guys

[friendofdorothy]

AH AH AH AH AH AH AH

[aile_noire]

Vampires are infiltrating the school! Quickly, before they start turning others!

[tactlesstactician]

Suddenly an uptick in garlic dishes served at mealtimes...