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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...

( And now the fun part! )

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.