un: HELLION | video

[vexant]

Is anyone going to explain who the hell dropped in Xavier's Institute but forgot to bring along - what, literally any mutant?

( most people might start with a hello. julian just starts with a finger pointing back at the manor off behind him. )

Or, fine, anyone but Jean. ( because he's only half counting her as is. )

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un: fungus | video

[hyphanated]

Mutant? ...For research?

[He looks a little worried about that idea...]

[vexant]

No. Mutants. Evolved humans.

No research allowed outside of Beast's lab and shit kind of mutant institute.

Video | UN: laura

[shoplifter]

[The girl in the video instantly perks up. Sorry, she's in the middle of eating an entire plate of pancakes in one sitting at the diner, but she can't not respond.]

I'm a mutant.

[... But she should probably help him out a little more:]

There were many more mutants before; a lot of them left.

[vexant]

( abandoning a job without finishing it is just like most the original x-men crew, so julian isn't surprised.

still an asshole move though. )

Yeah? You don't look like any mutant I know. ( laura's a common name, and it's - been a minute, since he's seen her. ) But it's not like I hang out with the kindergarten classes anyway.

[hyphanated]

[Isn't that the same word...]

Oh. But then, what is a mutant institute? If it isn't a research institute.

[shoplifter]

Maybe you don't know every mutant.

What is 'kindergarten'?

[Nice try! She can't be offended at being coupled with five-year-olds if she doesn't know what that is.]

[vexant]

A school. Obviously?

[vexant]

Class for little tikes.

( it'd be a little difficult to know every mutant. julian isn't stupid enough to claim that, especially now that they've all moved to krakoa and the five have started bringing everyone back - )

What can you do?

un: guthri3

[waxen_wings]

[ There's a redheaded teen trying to get a better view of the school. No one would explain what's happened to the school to him. ]

Someone brought the whole school here?? Is everyone all right?

[hyphanated]

To teach them...to read?

Text; un: hound

[cantilevers]

What does the Institute do to make it so important to need a particular kind of person to inhabit it?

[vexant]

School's empty, Jay. It's just you, me, and -

( laura, shoving her face full of pancakes. he'll get back to that later. )

The tike. There's no more sign of a fight than there usually is around school, so I doubt everyone was offed in the process of bringing it here.

[vexant]

What's it to you?

[vexant]

Read, write, fight, defend oneself. You know, all the important crap. And the boring shit needed to pass the SATs.

un: steelchains / video

[codicies]

Sounds to me like the school belongs to you now.

[cantilevers]

Curiosity mostly. I don't know what it is.

[shoplifter]

[He has no clue what a tike is, either. This is very rude.

She wipes at her face demurely (kinda) with a napkin, then sets it down before holding up both hands and snatching them into fists. You know how it goes: the moment her forearms flex, twin blades burst out of her knuckles, shining in the sliver of sunlight that enters from the diner window.]

Stab things.

[.......... among other skillsets, but that's the primary one.]

[vexant]

It's got the Danger Room fully equipped, if you want to fuck around.

[waxen_wings]

[ Is that X-23?? Looks kinda like her, but Jay's not sure. He doesn't know the new girl well.

Jay jerks at the suggestion, suddenly moving past how the school got her. ]

Julian! I don't know what's going on, but Stryker's sending Nimrod to attack the school. Maybe it doesn't matter anymore, but someone else needs to know before - before it happens.

[vexant]

it's a school built for kids that flatlines were too scared to let into "normie" spaces
which is something we could ONLY get at Xavier's
so, yeah, its important a particular kind of person
mutants
have it

[hyphanated]

I understand the rest, but. What are SATs?

[codicies]

Oh, hell yeah. And the school is just unlocked?

UN: definecat | Video

[definecat]

No.

[The cat is just staring at the video like they can make eye contact through the screen.]

Do not let Dylan play with anything with a name like that. He causes enough trouble with his penchant for high explosives.

[cantilevers]

Follow up questions:
1) What are flatlines?
2) What's considered 'normie'?
3) Is a mutant an affliction?

un: ultramar

[thecodexabides]

what is the

problem
with having
no
mutants
??

[No mutants is good. No mutants means no Chaos corruption or heresy.]