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.

[frost_queen Emma Frost ♕ White Queen]

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

[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]

Or in private!

[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.

[seeingred scott summers ⊗ cyclops]

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

[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?

[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]

Yeah, for real. I hope he just sits back and plays video games or whatever through all this.

[passingthru KITTY PRYDE]

Lots of fun.
Sorry. I do trust you all. Okay I'll say the whole thing one sec.

[passingthru KITTY PRYDE]

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

[seeingred scott summers ⊗ cyclops]

Does he seem worried?

[totalities marvel girl]

Like two hours.

[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.

[passingthru KITTY PRYDE]

You were gone for longer than that.

[passingthru KITTY PRYDE]

That he's in trouble, mostly.

[frost_queen Emma Frost ♕ White Queen]

My patience is thin, so it's much appreciated.

[...]

Thank you for your hard work though, darling.

[frost_queen Emma Frost ♕ White Queen]

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

[seeingred scott summers ⊗ cyclops]

Right. We should tell him this is far from the worst thing that's ever happened to us.

[frost_queen Emma Frost ♕ White Queen]

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

[totalities marvel girl]

Yes.

[totalities marvel girl]

I wasn't driving the entire time.

[frost_queen Emma Frost ♕ White Queen]

Lovely. Great sleuthing.

[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.