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This time, about the Ryuhana school grounds.

( Map! )

It isn't a very large campus, and my crude map is not to scale.

The grey area above the sports center contains outdoor things, like the track and tennis court(s); inside there's a fitness center/weight room and a general gymnasium. It is very benign and unsuspicious.

The building housing the classrooms has three above-ground floors, which for all intents and purposes look like a very ordinary high school. There are classrooms, science labs, an art studio, a music room, etc, etc. The basement contains the special training room (ie, Danger Room, but not as high-tech).

The medical center is just that.

The building marked "primary offices" also contains the headmistresses' apartments and the Cerebro-like computer used to find mutants, along with department offices and campus security. Other faculty live off-campus.

The library is also fairly standard.

The cafeteria is attached to the dormitory building, and is, predictably enough, on the boys' side. The dorm building is split down the center, with boys' rooms on the south side and girls' on the north. The west side of the building is the new wing. The original building is two floors; the new wing is technically four, with the lower level of the new wing devoted to a state-of-the-art kitchen for student use and a general rec room / den. (So the 'third floor' of the new wing is actually the fourth.) All of the rooms in the original building are singles, though the rooms along the narrower sides of the new wing are doubles.

The campus is fairly heavily wooded near the south entrance, with a driveway (not pictured, because I'm a dork) leading to the primary offices, where new students are dealt with and paperwork is filled out, blah, blah, blah. There is also a security gate at the entrance, with a fence around the campus perimeter.

Any other questions, just ask, and I'll do my best to answer.


I really hope I'm not forgetting something this time.

So, there's going to be a party.

Although real parties are usually very fun, logging parties is really very difficult and time-consuming and generally winds up being a lot less than fun. General concensus, I believe, is to not actually log the party, as a whole, but rather to make references to any events that happened in the character journals.

There also seems to be a lot of plotting and planning about events that might take place during the party, especially since it's common knowledge among the students of both factions, thanks to the journals.

Therefore, let this post serve as a placemarker to discuss any events that we'd like to have happen at the party. Feel free to note what your character(s) will be doing, how they'll be dressed (it is a costume party, after all!); any discussions that might want to happen, that kind of thing. This is not a place to do logs, but rather, just give a generalized view of events that'll happen so we're all on the same page. We've got no problem if you decide to do a log based on anything you discuss here, though.

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I suppose my only questions are whether a location and date have been decided on?

As far as I understand it, the Brotherhood are planning on crashing and also bringing alcohol. May want to make note of when that occurs (and how -- remember security is still pretty tight at Ryuhana) and what the residual effects might be. I might recommend making it an outdoor party, because that would facilitate the crashing, and also not require rebuilding the dorms again should any drunk teenage mutants get their powers out of control (pointed looks at Ohtori and An-chan).

Hi, everyone!

This is Jen, one of your friendly neighborhood moderators, with some handy information regarding the backgrounds of both of our factions. We've tried to put at least something on the main information page for the community, but we also know that there's a lot of really tiny text there and it's easy to miss information -- or to even remember it once you've read it. We also know that not everyone here has a background in comics -- we're all coming from Tenipuri backgrounds, for the most part, so a lot of what's known about the X-Men universe comes from either the movies or the cartoons. And for those of you who do have a background in comics, here's a few reminders. ^_^


The Brotherhood
The Brotherhood is a secret terrorist organization whose belief is mutant supremacy. The characters that are involved in the Brotherhood should be aware of this information -- even if they are going to classes, and say that they're at a school, their goals should be congruent with the Brotherhood's. While they do employ recruitment methods among mutants -- especially powerful ones who can aid in their terrorist attacks -- they do not tolerate resistance, and seek to spread the ideal of mutants as a superior race. (Feel free to plot some mayhem! It makes life interesting. ^_^)

Ryuhana
Ryuhana, on the other hand, actually is a legitimate, accredited scholastic institution. It does have a public face as a school for the gifted, but not as a school for mutants -- much like Xavier's in the comics. Parents are not able to seek out Ryuhana as a "drop-off point" for their students; instead, the school's staff approaches the family to inform them of their child's special talents and needs. Ryuhana's ideals are that of integration and understanding -- they want to promote tolerance and acceptance rather than blind fear or supremacy. They believe that humans and mutants can live and work together.


Thank you!