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Some threads sort of petered off, but the results are ultimately the same. Here they are as follows:

- The Brotherhood attacked the National Guard relief efforts in District X in the name of Genosha. Genosha has accepted this claim, and all of the Brotherhood were wearing variations on Genoshan uniforms.
- In spite of this, it was obvious to the X-kids helping out in District X that the National Guard wasn't just there for relief efforts, but seem to be actively keeping people inside the area. This is happening in mutant ghettos all over the country.
- The Brotherhood (some rather gleefully) pointed this out during the fight, nothing that the X-Men were also considered potential threats to national security
- The X-kids were temporarily taken into military custody, had their wounds treated, and were released into Xavier's care shortly thereafter
- Due to all of this, getting out of the country through official means for a mutant is damn near impossible, so the Institute has been more crowded than usual during the holidays.

We'll be bringing in the New Year with another Newsreel Mingle when it happens, but for now, look forward to a special announcement from Emma Frost with regards to...

Hello True Believers.

This is the final stretch of the Sinister Legacy event! Through research, interrogation, and help from Professor Xavier, the location of Sinister's lab has been found—a live, active one.

There's just a slight problem: it's in the Savage Lands.

In Antarctica.

Now, while you'll have access to the Blackbird, that's still a considerable distance—and there will most likely be a fight at the end. Volunteers will be needed for the mission, once again.

You can sign up as a team or individually for this event.

And as always, if you have any questions, feel free to ask.

Hello True Believers.

I hope you're ready for some events because boy have we got a set for you. Beginning on Saturday and lasting a good while there will be a few games to play for those who are sick, those who are on teams, and those who are stuck back on campus.

-For those who are sick, congratulations, you're going to have a jailbreak. That's right, Nightcrawler is going to bamf you out to the safety of a large boat while the medical staff and doctors are kept distracted by a violent fight between Zancrow and Flik. Nightcrawler's condition has been getting worse and worse and the roguish imp that he is is going to take you to London by boat, to Sinister's first lab where there could be clues to the origins and maybe even a way to hold back the virus.

-Once this event has occurred, a period of a 5 days will pass before the next events start. The first and main event will be one of the X-teams having been specifically sent out after the people who escaped the quarantine. This will put the two groups in direct conflict, there will be a fight as the sick refuse to be trapped when there could be a cure or something they can find to stem the tide and save their own lives. If they are interested, characters who show an aptitude for healing will be allowed to go with the X-team.

-At the same time, the other X-teams will be given individual missions tied into the main plot as well in both combat and non-combat events if your team doesn't feel up to it.

-If your team is interested in a mission, comment under the sign-up post and specify whether you want combat or non-combat. If there is a storyline reason you think your team would chase after the sick, specify in your combat sign up and the mods will decide which team to send adding that factor in to how we choose.

-If you want to be involved, comment under the Individual sign-up comment under sign ups and we'll see about sorting you into a team on a temporary basis for the event.

-As always, if you have any questions, please comment in the appropriate area.

Things will be ramping up over the next couple of months and they start here so get out there and have fun!

Boy things have been pretty stressful lately haven't they? Looks like a good time for the kids to have a break. Don't worry, there is still serious work to do for those of you who want it.

1. Dazzler! Live in Concert at the Central Park Summer Stage. Hang out with your classmates and teachers and take in the concert from wherever you want. There are merchandise and food vendors all throughout in the large grassy expanse so relax and have a picnic as you take in the show. After the show is over the building behind the stage opens up to you for a private VIP party for you to hang out with Dazzler herself. That's right, you get full access to a genuine music superstar in a fully catered party just for you and the people of District X.

2. Those who don't want to go have the option of joining Hank McCoy and Logan in an investigation into the recent outbreak in District X. How far has it spread? How is it spreading? What are the symptoms thus far? Are they getting worse? Track the infection alongside The Beast and Wolverine and discover the extent of it's danger as it spreads through the neighborhood.

Use this post to plot out what you want to do. We'll be setting up the OPEN event log shortly with a reminder of everything going on. So it's up to you whether your characters want to have a relaxing day at a concert or work to help the sick in District X.

As President Kelly said in his address the day after the incident, March 1st 2019 is a day that will live in infamy. Mass Media has taken to calling it the "X-Day Riots" or "March Xth". The death count during the riots were incredible, and the National Guard now actively occupies District X and it has been made priority to bring all Friends of Humanity AND Mutant Liberation Front domestic activities in the US to an immediate end. The MLF has been driven from Mutant Town West, and several FoH strongholds have been raided and group leaders arrested. The immediate, game relevant results of the event are thus:

All Quiet on the Homefront: Due to crackdowns, violence and rioting have quelled significantly. The FoH and MLF have both gone quiet in the US. President Kelly has called this "national gang war" and seeks to end it as soon as possible. Very are few are seemingly satisfied with this solution on either side of the fence...

Claudine Renko: Is currently in the X-Men's custody, along with her two bodyguards Forearm and Reaper. All three are in holding cells in the sub-levels, but no visitation is allowed. Renko is not actually a prisoner, as she herself committed no crimes, and is free to leave whenever she wishes, but has wisely taken Xavier's advice and is using the Institute as temporary asylum. After all, someone clearly wants her dead out there.

X-Teams: There will be significantly more emphasis put on this as we move forward. Right now only a few teams exist, but we hope to have several as we go along. More on this as it develops, and of course we will touch on this again in the Weekly Update.

It's time to deal with the oft mentioned MLF with our latest plot. When the Friends of Humanity backed off after the loss of Sebastian Shaw as their primary weapons provider, the Mutant Liberation Front stepped up their own activity. They have been 'taking over' mutant ghettos across the country, most notable Mutant Town West in San Francisco and District X in New York City.

If you read the log between Xavier and Emma, you'll know that they've discovered a few interesting things. The first is that Claudine Renko is the identity of the Mutant Liberation Front's founder and alleged highest ranking member. They also discovered that she was the one acting as the go-between from Shaw Industries to the Friends of Humanity, selling them weapons in an apparent attempt to escalate tensions between the two factions.

So it's time to get some answers, and in true X-Men style, they're going right to the source. That alleged MLF rally in District X is definitely happening and Emma has it on good authority that Claudine Renko will be making a personal appearance.

Obviously not every character could, or even still will, participate in the Hellfire Club event. However, we have an alternative event available for everyone else, plus all of our new characters!

As has hopefully been made obvious over the last few news posts and updates, WINTER IS HERE and it sucks. Probably the coldest on record for the Northeastern region of the US in many many years. The weather has left many people in District X without proper power or heating, and reasonably priced food is getting harder to come by as well as the weather forces prices to rise to account for the cost of getting food into Manhattan. This has created a big strain on volunteer forces there, in addition to the socio-political climate being terrible as well. Breakouts of violence, both between the FoH and residents and even residents fighting among themselves, are common.

So what are the X-Men going to do about it? They're going to help. As much as they can anyways. While Nightcrawler leads the missions into the Hellfire Club, Storm will gather a group of students and faculty to help in District X.

This can include anything from working the soup lines, to giving out donations of clothing, to helping repair non-electric furnaces, and using their powers in creative ways to help with any of these tasks. Unfortunately, they'll need muscle and security as well, given the Friends of Humanity are bound to come out the woodwork once word of the X-Men helping out in District X comes out...


SO! If you want to have your character help out the needy or get into a scuffle with highly armed bigots, feel free to sign up here!

Hello True Believers! As promised (sort of) this is the write-up/sign-up for the upcoming January event involving the Hellfire Club.

For those that don't know, the Hellfire Club is a super elite social club for the biggest movers and shakers in the world. Their leader is the Black King, Sebastian Shaw, who has had his fingers in a lot of plot pots lately. Shaw Industries funded Project Wideawake, the government program that brought the Senitnels that destroyed the school five years ago. He busted Bolivar Trask out of federal prison to work on even more anti-mutant technology. The powersuits worn by the U-Men were from Shaw Industries. And the high tech weapons used by the Friends of Humanity in the mall log? All came from him. And he's a vocal proponent of Mutant Registration.

So it's high time the X-Men got to the bottom of this Shaw guy. What game is he playing? What are his plans? His goals? Is he trying to start a war he can profit from? We're going to find out with this upcoming event.