GAME UPDATE: Sunday November 8th 2009
AT THE XAVIER INSTITUTE:
Since the information leak on Thursday, teachers will have been told to expect possible media fallout against the Institute. On the whole, the reporters who gathered like sharks after the Intrepid incident have dispersed. Occasionally students might be photographed unexpectedly on their way to Salem Center, but it seems to have died down.
The weather is unexpectedly chilly, with frost making the crossing to the main building from the dorms slightly treacherous.
NEWS:
On Sunday it's reported that an eleven-year-old boy at a hospital in Boston has rendered the entire children's ward comatose after being provided with treatment that failed to account for, and consequently triggered, his latent mutation. Including doctors, nurses and other medical staff, visitors, and the boy himself, fifty-two people are sent into psychically-induced comas, from which many will not recover.
Also on Sunday, Senator James Baelheit makes a stirring and controversial speech about the Institute, questioning its credentials and its validity as an educational institute. He somehow acquires a list of students enrolled at the school and noted the number of "dangerous" students attending the Institute, as well as raised concerns about whether the staff is actually training the students to be superheroes. His speech is seen as needless fear mongering by his detractors, but many people of New York are moved, and have started petitioning the Board of Education to look into the Xavier Institute.
The well-known teen idol who was admitted into intensive care after a suicide attempt last week, Mika Lillis, stabilises on Monday. The suicide note she'd left on her laptop is released publicly by her mother that afternoon; it explains that she manifested a very obvious mutation when she turned fourteen, and the stress of keeping it hidden was too much to handle. She issues a televised statement on Tuesday thanking the students of the Xavier Institute for their support, and pledges her support to the mutant cause, including donating a fair bit of money to charities for mutant children, and the Institute itself.
Since her re-election, commentators have been suggesting that President Henderson’s victory-speech promises regarding mutant rights will materialize in a grand gesture early on in the term. As a result, pundits have leaped on White House rumors that Henderson plans to propose a new mutant-related bill in the next month.
WHAT WOLVERINE DID THIS WEEK:
Travels to Iowa with Cyclops and Fantomex in a van, no one is entirely sure why and if there are repercussions of whatever it is they're supposed to have done, no one has heard of them. There are rumours of a hot-dog-eating contest.
OOC NOTICES:
• We know mentor groups are usually announced in game update, but the fact that apps were closed earlier today instead of several days ago means we need a few more days to get that stuff together - we should have the new groups posted by Tuesday and we'll post an announcement when they go up!
• On that note, yes, apps are now closed; we have quite a big queue of apps to read through, so please be patient with us while we get through them - if you haven't gotten a reply from us yet, you will.
• As ever, this post is open for talking about what's going down for classes and mentor groups this week. We do encourage people to thread classes and mentor group activities where possible rather than just handwaving all of them, but if you don't want to do a thread or you want to plan something or wevs, this is the place!
Since the information leak on Thursday, teachers will have been told to expect possible media fallout against the Institute. On the whole, the reporters who gathered like sharks after the Intrepid incident have dispersed. Occasionally students might be photographed unexpectedly on their way to Salem Center, but it seems to have died down.
The weather is unexpectedly chilly, with frost making the crossing to the main building from the dorms slightly treacherous.
NEWS:
On Sunday it's reported that an eleven-year-old boy at a hospital in Boston has rendered the entire children's ward comatose after being provided with treatment that failed to account for, and consequently triggered, his latent mutation. Including doctors, nurses and other medical staff, visitors, and the boy himself, fifty-two people are sent into psychically-induced comas, from which many will not recover.
Also on Sunday, Senator James Baelheit makes a stirring and controversial speech about the Institute, questioning its credentials and its validity as an educational institute. He somehow acquires a list of students enrolled at the school and noted the number of "dangerous" students attending the Institute, as well as raised concerns about whether the staff is actually training the students to be superheroes. His speech is seen as needless fear mongering by his detractors, but many people of New York are moved, and have started petitioning the Board of Education to look into the Xavier Institute.
The well-known teen idol who was admitted into intensive care after a suicide attempt last week, Mika Lillis, stabilises on Monday. The suicide note she'd left on her laptop is released publicly by her mother that afternoon; it explains that she manifested a very obvious mutation when she turned fourteen, and the stress of keeping it hidden was too much to handle. She issues a televised statement on Tuesday thanking the students of the Xavier Institute for their support, and pledges her support to the mutant cause, including donating a fair bit of money to charities for mutant children, and the Institute itself.
Since her re-election, commentators have been suggesting that President Henderson’s victory-speech promises regarding mutant rights will materialize in a grand gesture early on in the term. As a result, pundits have leaped on White House rumors that Henderson plans to propose a new mutant-related bill in the next month.
WHAT WOLVERINE DID THIS WEEK:
Travels to Iowa with Cyclops and Fantomex in a van, no one is entirely sure why and if there are repercussions of whatever it is they're supposed to have done, no one has heard of them. There are rumours of a hot-dog-eating contest.
OOC NOTICES:
• We know mentor groups are usually announced in game update, but the fact that apps were closed earlier today instead of several days ago means we need a few more days to get that stuff together - we should have the new groups posted by Tuesday and we'll post an announcement when they go up!
• On that note, yes, apps are now closed; we have quite a big queue of apps to read through, so please be patient with us while we get through them - if you haven't gotten a reply from us yet, you will.
• As ever, this post is open for talking about what's going down for classes and mentor groups this week. We do encourage people to thread classes and mentor group activities where possible rather than just handwaving all of them, but if you don't want to do a thread or you want to plan something or wevs, this is the place!