Weekly Update - Feb15th to Feb21st

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OOC

⊗ APPS ARE CLOSED! Thank you to everyone who applied this cycle, and to those who gave them a warm welcome on the Test Drive Meme.

⊗ The brand-new Wanted List is live! Come post what characters you'd like to see around the Institute.

⊗ As a reminder, because February is a bit wonky length-wise, AC will start on the 23rd to ensure that it's still the same length as usual.

⊗ Thanks to everyone who made the Valentine's Date Auction a success! Feel free to keep backtagging, though we're looking to wrap up the bidding itself in the next day or so.

⊗ For anyone who missed it, there's a new AU CR Meme up. It's a great opportunity to plot and let people know what kind of things you're interested in playing!

SCHOOL NEWS

⊗ A few new faces have appeared (and a couple sort-of-newish ones)! Come and say hello to Skaar, Eddie, Mona Lisa, and Catherine!

⊗ Okuu is communicating about some friendship issues in the Internet generation's native language: pictures of cats.

⊗ Reki, marking the end of a (ridiculous and frustrating) era, tells it like it is.

⊗ Last week's news mingle is still fair game!

⊗ With the Date Auction wrapping up, we're sure there are plenty of things for the RUMOR MILL! What is the 4-1-1?

AROUND THE WORLD

⊗ While the final tally has yet to be released, the staff and students of the Xavier Institute raised quite a great deal of money for District X's relief fund. The district's representative has sent a personal letter of thanks for the school's help.

⊗ Dazzler dropped a new single on Valentine's Day; it's at the top of the charts, and probably stuck in your head right now.

⊗ Several mutant groups are planning to participate in New Orleans' famous Mardi Gras parade. The Friends of Humanity and others have complained, but parade organizers show no signs of changing their minds about allowing them to participate for the time being.

⊗ President Kelly, in an open letter published and speculated on by news media the world over, has made another attempt to reach out to Genosha, reiterating his and his administration's dedication to improving human-mutant relations and preventing the Mutant Registration bill from becoming law. As of now, there has been no official response.

⊗ Rumors are swirling about plans for a big Mutant Liberation Front rally in District X in the coming weeks...

⊗ The National Film Board of Canada sent a representative to Salem for the Date Auction, hoping to bid on Logan. They were turned away at the gates.

Comments

GOSSIP / RUMOR MILL

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[batteredbatter]

Rumor of a ghost that stalks the dormitory in the wee hours of the night. Unknown form, only that it is short. Surprisingly, witnesses are NOT members of the occult club.

[niepokonany]

That's ridiculous. Everyone knows the boys' dorm ghost is tall!

And watches you pee.

[batteredbatter]

welp, that's it.

Koshi's only using the main building bathrooms from now on.

[niepokonany]

Probably for the best.

[batteredbatter]

no one needs to see koshi pee, it doesn't matter if they're dead

[seduceme]

So Koshi doesn't know about the peeping female ghost in the main buildings?

[batteredbatter]

IS NOWHERE SAFE!?

[stardustreverie]

After the auction and seeing how the bids went, there are rumors of romantic tension between the members for Team Reimu.

[jolie_aile]

no one tell her sister

[primordialbeat]

Can confirm (But won't, who do you think she is.)

Reimu was a little too protective with those bids on Marisa.

[koukai_kirai]

There's no evidence that Hijikata has had a threesome with Miss Frost and Madamoiselle Desrosiers.

But there's no evidence he hasn't, either.

On another front, rumor has it that Yuui recently put in a down payment on a modest summer home in the Caribbean with all the money he won in the Fai/Feliks betting pool. Betting on how long the engagement stage is going to last is currently open, talk to Reki or Madeline.

[thirdarrow]

Is anyone surprised by Zian winning Takakage's auction? Speaking of which, the teacher also apparently had his name put in by someone anonymous...

[endurancepoint]

Alex Rider got into a blue Prius Friday afternoon, kissed the brunette driving it, and was not seen for the rest of the weekend. No one seems to have noticed him arrive back at campus Sunday night, but he was in classes Monday morning as usual. Doing his part toward friendly mutant-human relations, amirite?

[presto_turn]

So, did you hear that Shindou and the soccer club's wingy-haired captain are totally an item?

Sources closer to the team may insist that the two are just close friends, but he was awfully quick to trump any bid on Tenma...

[soccerwhisperer]

Let's not forget they hail from the same hometown...

[totallystoned]

Get ready for a lecture about how you'd better not break his heart