The Demutanator

[frost_queen]

The Demutanator

What's Up?

The residents of the Xavier Institute for Gifted Youngsters wake up one morning to find that their powers don't seem to be working. Like, at all. Though this initially leads to some distress (even though everyone is safe and healthy!), within a day they track down the source of the problem and get to work fixing it! They'll just have to deal with being normal humans for a few days whenever they're at the school. It's fiiiiine.

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February 21st: Jean Grey, unsure of what else to do, decides to head out for some outdoors time, and finds that about a mile away from the school, their powers suddenly start working again. Well, at least it seems to be localized.

Manuel de la Rocha is minding their own business in their room when they hear a loud bang outside. Almost like someone running into a door or a wall... They go out to find Kitty, and any others who have witnessed her mistake.

February 23rd: Scott Summers runs a game of tug-of-war (classic mud puddle included) with the kids since it's the only time they can truly play powerless. It's actually kind of a hit, and the students beg them to run more games in the future.

February 21st

On a bright, sunny day, the residents of Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters awaken to a strange and somewhat troubling situation - all of their powers are gone, though otherwise everything is painfully normal. Kurt Wagner is the first to notice, and does some quick research and discovers nothing in the news about this phenomenon at all. In fact, no other mutants anywhere seem to be affected, leaving them even more baffled.

February 22nd

The team pinpoints a child's clubhouse in a nearby park, and inside they find twelve year old Buster McKeever and a strange contraption. He tells them that he built this because his best friend, Opal Owens, was struggling with her powers (the ability to possess inanimate objects for short periods of time), and he wanted to make her life easier. He was able to achieve this because of his powers, which give him super intelligence, but once he turned the thing on... well, he's got no idea how to turn it off since he's back to a regular twelve year old's IQ. Notes he wrote suggest that simply turning it off isn't an option, and while it will run out of power within a month, the X-men aren't willing to wait that long. But at least they know the cause! Kitty Pryde updates everyone on their findings.

February 23rd/24th

With the problem sorted out and anyone who wants to helping with disabling the machine, there's nothing to do but just go about life as much as they can.

February 25th

After a few days of work they're able to safely turn off and dismantle the machine, which used a piece of extra-dimensional technology to make it all work. Luckily, after that's destroyed, there's no chance of replicating it or its effects, a relief to everyone. After talks with Buster and Opal's parents, the two agree to join Xavier's to hone their abilities, and maybe be a little bit more careful with mysterious tech.

FEB 21 | FEB 22 | FEB 23 | FEB 24 | FEB 25 | OOC

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SUNDAY: Kitty & Emma, early evening

[passingthru KITTY PRYDE]

Kitty nods, and makes the first of those moves, smirking. "Good learning. But check."

She taps her newly won piece on the table, and considers that next piece of information. "Why didn't you want to? Leaning too hard into your brand?" White Queen and all.

SUNDAY: Kitty & Emma, early evening

[frost_queen Emma Frost ♕ White Queen]

Emma sighs, making a move to put her king futilely out of check for the moment, as is required.

"Initially it was because my father wanted me to play, and I was resistant to anything he wanted. And then after that it felt too on the nose at the Hellfire Club. Tacky almost." Says the woman in a dramatic dressing gown covered in feathers. "When did you learn?"

SUNDAY: Kitty & Emma, early evening

[passingthru KITTY PRYDE]

Kitty doesn't move again, because she's too busy scrunching her face into something more apologetic, which is a little painful with her face arranged the way it currently is.

"Don't let me remind you of your dad. Ew." Kitty doesn't know Emma's dad, but doesn't want to be associated with terrible parents, in general. She's graceful enough to not ask Emma since when being tacky was a problem, but does think it in her head, and is kind of sad to remember that this jab couldn't be psychically heard.

"Professor Xavier taught me. It's how I started trusting him, when I first got here. Recent enough I thought it'd go away with things I learned, if that was connected to my powers."

SUNDAY: Kitty & Emma, early evening

[frost_queen Emma Frost ♕ White Queen]

"Darling, don't hurt yourself grimacing on his account. I've more than made up for everything he's done and he's absolutely miserable now." Emma can say this easily because it is true. She hates her father, and hasn't let go of the harm he's done to her, but it doesn't ache or cause distress. It is simply another piece of who she is.

"That's very sweet." And she means it - she's glad that most of the others can have that sort of relationship with Xavier. It seems nice. "Do you play with anyone else, ever? Anyone who can't cheat?"