Return of the Weekly Update - Oct12th to 0ct18th

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OOC

⊗ Reserves expired on the 11th, however the Test Drive meme is still running!

⊗ Applications will be closing on the 15th!

⊗ NEW CHARACTERS! Please be sure your character is on the Directory and Taken lists, as well as on the housing list if you are playing a student!

⊗ The AU CR Meme is still up and running, so be sure to post to it, whether you're brand new or already in the game!

SCHOOL NEWS

⊗ Reimu is looking for potential recruits to his X-Team!

⊗ Amelia is interested in everyone's costume plans.

⊗ Kanji commiserates with the rest of the school on the ever present issues of parents and boarding schools. Of course it doesn't help we're all mutants, either.

⊗ Seniors! Palutena has a proposal for a study group!

⊗ And, of course, an open Newsreel Mingle for everyone to get caught up on the plot with!

⊗ GOSSIP TIME! Post your rumors for the week!

AROUND THE WORLD

⊗ National Coming Out Day came and went, but you're still allowed to backdate posts for it if you want to!

⊗ Political tension in the US over the Mutant Registration Act is feverish. It is THE issue leading to the mid-term elections. And even with the president saying he will veto a bill that goes across his desk, the proponents have made it their goal to make the MRA into law, one way or another, no matter what. At their lead is Senator Graydon Creed, a former community leader, ex-campaign manager of Kelly's, and a man with previous connections to anti-mutant hate group Friends of Humanity.

⊗ You can't even check out at the grocery store without seeing Dazzler's face everywhere. No other celebrities are coming out as mutant, given the massive increase in press on her is considered more a burden than a blessing.

⊗ October 17th is Wear Something Gaudy Day. One could easily argue most superhero tights are gaudy by default...

⊗ The mystery of the U-Men is getting deeper. Expect a major development sometime this week.

Comments

GOSSIP/RUMOR MILL

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[seduceme]

Heard from a friend's friend who was out on the town this weekend that apparently Bigby Wolf is dating some model, not Miss Desrosiers. I guess the boy toy collar story had no body to it after all?

[thirdarrow]

Oh, I suppose it's 'armless now.

(I'm sorry. This is not a 100% IC joke, but I had to make it.)

[turbedon]

Apparently Kurt Wagner isn't actually blue - he 'spray tans' himself that colour.

He also wears boxers in the same shade so he looks like a naked blue Ken doll.

[batteredbatter]

WHAT IS EVEYRONE'S INTEREST IN WHAT OTHER PEOPLE LOOK LIKE NAKED

...Koshi really hopes no one starts making drapes/carpet jokes or inquiries around him.

[turbedon]

... WELL, NOW THAT YOU'VE BROUGHT THAT UP...

[batteredbatter]

THAT IS OFF LIMITS, FOR SO MANY REASONS...

[turbedon]

SOMETHING TELLS ME GYM SHOWERS ARE ABOUT TO GET REALLY AWKWARD FOR YOU, BUD.

[batteredbatter]

Good thing Koshi has already long since mastered the "disappear to the dorms after gym" skill.

[tofudog]

Inspired, Beast Boy sets out in search of a pair of undies in the perfect shade of green.

[turbedon]

Beast Boy knows where it's at! Maybe he can get a thermals in the same colour for winter.

[denialism]

1. Hey, wouldn't you think this place would be the perfect target for those U-Men? All these young, healthy mutants all in one spot. It seems so obvious! They'd just need someone with the right kind of power... Maybe they're setting up something already. Maybe they're already here. If the government gave a shit about us, they'd probably be giving us some protection right about now.

2. I know for sure that this place is haunted. For one thing, with all the people who've died here, at least one had to have powers that let them stick around as a ghost? There's definitely one up on the second floor in the faculty quarters, but I don't know exactly which one. I heard if you go in that room and look in the mirror in the dark, you see the ghost over your shoulder. Too bad you can't get up there without a pass...

[whosafraidofthe]

Bigby Wolf was overheard talking to Officer Adachi - something about clawmarks, cigarette burns and bruises hidden under clothes. It seems one of Ms. Desrosiers' pets is straying.

[denialism]

ADACHI DOESN'T LIKE THIS RUMOR AT ALL.

How did this happen? He talked to one person!

That's it, he's never talking to anyone again.

[whosafraidofthe]

Bigby, meanwhile, thinks it's absolutely hilarious and keeps adding fuel to the flames whenever the opportunity arises.

[denialism]

WHY WOULD HE DO SUCH A HORRIBLE THING

[whosafraidofthe]

Some men just love to watch the world burn.

And also he knows Ms. Desrosiers thinks it's funny.

[denialism]

BUT HE'S NOT LIKE THAT AT ALL...

Though looking back, he sees how his comments could have been misconstrued.

You guys suck.

[seduceme]

... But she thought you were the one doing the sucking-

[denialism]

NO HE ISN'T!

He won't even drink through a straw!

[seduceme]

....... Does that mean there's just a whole lot of licking involved?

[denialism]

Ew, no. No one's licking anything, either.

Gross.

[niepokonany]

1. Gossip is circulating about what various people will wear for Halloween already. Speaking of which, do you guys remember how Fai and Feliks totally went as the main characters from Moulin Rouge last year? And spent like half the night slow dancing and looking into each other's eyes?

There is reason to suspect that they are either screwing with everyone, or freaking brain damaged to have not noticed yet.

Someone said they're actually secretly married. It's just, like, one of those open marriage things, right?

2. So rumor has it that the Kendo Club is going to put together one of those shirtless calenders for fundraising. You know, like firefighters do!

Or was that the X-men?

3. Beast Boy obviously has a type. The school gossip-mongers are undecided on whether or not Koshi fits the pattern. He's kinda short and cute, too, right? And the pink hair can't be discounted...

4. You've seen that Kanji guy, right? Totally built. I heard he was actually training as a professional dancer before his mutation developed -- like, one of those really acrobatic types, always lifting people up and doing flips and stuff!

[tofudog]

They're doing girl versions of those calendars, too, right? Asking for a friend.

[niepokonany]

This can be neither confirmed nor denied, so let's all assume it's true!

[ladyliberty]

WOW FELIKS stop creeping on her players or she'll beat you with a bat

[tofudog]

Amelia's the best mom
i mean coach

[ladyliberty]

she takes good care of her chicks

[niepokonany]

Please, Feliks would be way more obvious about it if he were creeping on anybody.

[ladyliberty]

shes watchin u ok

[totallystoned]

Reki went under due to trauma from the prank war between her and Feliks. She currently has PTSD about anything jolly or wacky.

[niepokonany]

Can confirm that this is 100% true.