AT THE XAVIER INSTITUTE:
New mentor groups are assigned on Sunday morning; teachers given new students are emailed with details of their new charges and new lists of groups are posted up in various public places. Mentor group assignments can be found here – remember to check any group/s with your character/s in for new people! (We have nearly forty groups now, so ctrl+f is your friend.) As usual, please let us know if we've made any mistakes, like leaving people out, putting the same person in two groups, or putting two characters played by the same person in the same group.

Not much goes on at the Institute this week except for Halloween, which is this in-game Saturday (that'll be January 7th/8th) – staff and students alike, feel free to orchestrate plans for this. (Professor X pointedly makes himself absent for the weekend with the quiet request – or, perhaps, hope – that he might come back to an intact mansion. BREAK OUT THE PING PONG AND BOTTLED WATER, GUYS)


NEWS:
On Sunday 25th, Hollywood superstar and Academy Award nominee Daniel McInnery is ‘outed’ by a prominent gossip tabloid magazine as being a mutant with telepathic abilities. This story is picked up by every entertainment news channel, blog and magazine with most of the coverage questioning whether or not he had used his powers to gain important casting roles or even influence the Academy panel in to nominating him for awards. Rather than step forward immediately to deny or confirm the allegations McInnery refuses to comment and is hounded by the press for the rest of the week.

On Tuesday 27th, Prominent insurance company Oursco, who are known to be backing Thompson in the coming election, issues an official statement speaking in favour of mutant registration; their spokesperson reiterates some of Thompson's arguments about personal and public safety in relation to the registration of mutants.


WHAT WOLVERINE DID THIS WEEK:
Prevented the theft of a priceless, arcane artifact from the Louvre by notorious thief Carmen Sandiego. The artifact was recovered, but Sandiego and her bobble-hatted accomplice got away, and, as ever, their whereabouts are unknown.


OOC NOTICES:
• Now that the app period is over and we're more or less done getting new people in, we'd like to recommend that everyone take another look over the most recent CR post to make sure there's no one on there you're missing!

• On a similar note, there are still a few stragglers on the feedback meme who'd probably appreciate a little attention over there.

• On a srs note, when things are a little more calm and everyone is a little less busy, the modhead is planning to get together, discuss some stuff up, and iron out a few things in the rules, FAQ and general setting information to try to make a few things clearer – some of the stuff that's been going on lately has, as some of you are doubtless aware, kind of made it apparent that not all of our stuff is 100% easy to comprehend. So, yes, we are sorry about that and we have plans to unconfusion things up as soon as we've got the time.

• 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!

• Finally, we hope you're all having a good winter holiday period!