Saturday 2/22 afternoon

[passingthru]

Okay I have some news about our situation, but the first thing you all have to agree on is that Buster McKeever is a good friend and genius boy who we're not ever going to say bad things about.

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[seeingred scott summers ⊗ cyclops]

He's a kid. None of us will be mean. Except

[passingthru KITTY PRYDE]

He's only twelve isn't that wild. I didn't even have powers at twelve.

[seeingred scott summers ⊗ cyclops]

Not much time just to be a child. Until right now, I guess.

[frost_queen Emma Frost ♕ White Queen]

No one will say anything in public, I'm certain.

[passingthru KITTY PRYDE]

Or in private!

[frost_queen Emma Frost ♕ White Queen]

I think that's asking for quite a bit. But I'm certainly going to be very kind to him.

Are you having fun scolding us before anything has happened?

[empata Manuel de la Rocha (Empath)]

I'm not making any promises.

[passingthru KITTY PRYDE]

Well start promising. You have to be nice.

[blauerdamon kurt wagner ⚔️ nightcrawler]

I'm genuinely impressed by him. Maybe it wasn't the wisest application of his talents, but his heart was in the right place.

[passingthru KITTY PRYDE]

I know.
But I'm sad he had to go there at all.
We should ask both of them to join the school when this is all over so maybe we shouldn't tell the kids about this part either.

[totalities marvel girl]

If you go a mile or two out from the school you'll get your powers back by the way.

[passingthru KITTY PRYDE]

That makes sense. It's a machine. Won't transmit far. [...] How far out did you go yesterday?

[totalities marvel girl]

Like two hours.

[frost_queen Emma Frost ♕ White Queen]

[...] Did you figure this out yesterday?

[totalities marvel girl]

Yes.

[seeingred scott summers ⊗ cyclops]

Were you able to astral project back to the school?

[totalities marvel girl]

No. It's like a bubble.

[passingthru KITTY PRYDE]

Okay so what we found is that Buster, the hero, made a machine that could switch off mutant powers, to help his friend Opal. She can possess inanimate objects but her powers weren't very controlled. It worked, but in a true hoisting on his own petard situation, he turned on the device and therefore turned off his own superintelligence. He can't figure out how he's meant to shut it off.

His notes seem to suggest that it can't be shut off, but will power down by itself in about a month. I'm looking for alternate ways. Very frustrated personally I can't just phase through this, but no use worrying about that. Notes are in my office if you want to help.

Our morals of this story are twelve year olds should be supervised around machinery, always put in a killswitch, and friendship is forever.

[frost_queen Emma Frost ♕ White Queen]

How likely do you think it is that you'll get something sorted out before a month?

[passingthru KITTY PRYDE]

I'm going to be optimistic and say it's usually a little easier to shut something down than get it up and running in the first place. We can't go a whole month.

[totalities marvel girl]

How big is it?

[passingthru KITTY PRYDE]

Like air conditioner size but I'm afraid to move it or touch it that much. Really unstable.

[seeingred scott summers ⊗ cyclops]

What would happen if we did just try to destroy it?

[passingthru KITTY PRYDE]

Not sure exactly. Hypothesizing that either it would blow up and possibly hurt us and bystanders and stop, or my bigger fear, whatever it's emitting would keep emitting and we'd have to deal with no powers for even longer with no way to stop it.

[totalities marvel girl]

Maybe we can build some kind of containment around it?