A jumpstart for Cullen's?

[Stern]

This isn't necessarily for me, but it did occur to me that there's nothing going on there. The place is dead.

The Redencion House is great, but what happens when people come along who actually want to have their character regularly exist at Cullen's?

Going West is great, and it's given me especially an opportunity to do amazing things with Feral, but I feel like we're just supplanting one thing with another, rather than providing another option.

Of course, all the educators and students enrolled at Cullen's are apparently nowhere to be seen. Is there any way around that? It kind of sucks to have to RP with yourself about a school day at Cullen's.

I'm more than willing to have Stern step up the plate as an Adjunct teacher, or create a new account entirely, but I think it would help if we did something about Cullen's foundationally speaking.

I don't really want to do anything too radical, but I am edging towards a total overhaul. The headmaster is nowhere to be seen, there are no teachers (at all) and no students either.

It also be helpful to have all the options open and viable. Any suggestions or thoughts?

[Spectre]

Tempest will still be with the X-men, she is just graduated from the school now. She'll probably wind up as a teacher or something. I'm just having a bit of non-Cullen's fun with her for a while, but she'll be back!

Spectre on the other hand, is busy with work.

[Ethan Evans]

I'm still available for Cullen's related shenanigans.

[Francoise Dupont]

..et moi aussi

[Anita Stern]

Me, as well.

[Jacob Foley]

I'm drained of the cycle of Cullen's, it being a school everything started to feel repetitive after a while, thus is the nature of day-to-day school life. It's not particularly conducive to new ideas, I found, and we were all restricted by the limitations on staff and needed an active hierarchy to lead the way. Dragon, for example, must've been filling in for the workload of five or six teachers at one point.

If you feel a new approach may help reinvigorate stories at the school, then I'm all in favour of it and wish you luck. If I feel I can offer any specifc advice, I will, but I doubt I'll be resurrecting any of my old students or teachers in the future.

[Stern]

Yeah, that's the exact problem. Reliance on teachers.

But I was thinking that maybe rather than have the lessons take place in a class room environment, why not have them happen as field trips or hands-on studies? Why teach a concept when you can show it in action?

Plus, I figure if the main point of the school was to create X-Men first and provide a quality classic education second, that would make things more interesting. It becomes a training ground for mutants, rather than your average high school.

[Chartis]

I'm afraid I've been woefully neglectful, but Clarity will be popping (quite literally) back and forth between NY and LA. I think she'll try to stay based at Cullen's because of her son, so I'll try to take a more active role in whatever goings-on there are.

[Jamie Morrigan]

She has to bring Ridley sometimes. Jamie needs someone to play make-believe with.

[Captain Untouchable]

Like I mentioned somewhere else, I'm thinking of bringing Untouchable over to Cullens as a teacher. Because of the kind of guy that he is, he'll be all for unorthadox teaching stuff like field trips; he'll probably focus on physics but try to teach it in a way that is fun, so there'll be wacky live-action experiments out on the basketball court, letting the kids stay up past midnight to do some astronomy, and stuff.

Also, because of his power he's a pretty good shot with a paper aeroplane, so he'll likely have a stash in a drawer that he fires at the students who aren't paying attention.

Oh, and he's Scottish. I seem to remember hearing that you wee lasses over on this side of the pond are quite fond of that particular accent.

Liz - since Clarity and Tom know each other (sort of) already, do you wanna get together and do a thread where she introduces him to Cullens? I'd rather have a little bit of a precedent for him starting work, but once he's actually been shown where the school is we can likely fudge the rest and start him teaching stuff.

I've also got the Mutant Crimes Unit that's being set up; one of their aims is to cut down on crimes by mutants, and crimes against mutants, so maybe we could arrange some outreach stuff where they come and talk to you about their various fields? We've got a cop, a lawyer, a computer whizz and a DNA guy, all of whom are mutants, so they can probably help teach the kids a little about how to cope with mutant abilities over the course of your daily lives.

One of them also turns into a purple giant, so he'd make one heck of a goalie if they join in with anything on the sports field.

[Ethan Daniels]

I'm around too, I just don't know what to do with myself

[Mandy with an I]

Banner will always be at Cullens, until she kidnaps Felix and flies away

I like the idea of doing something with our "original" characters, esp. since it makes no sense for Banner to be in LA. I could bring Sigmund in as teacher/mentor, since I've done nothing with him >_>

Maybe Oddity and Ricky could stop in NY on their way to LA too?

[Chartis]

Liz - since Clarity and Tom know each other (sort of) already, do you wanna get together and do a thread where she introduces him to Cullens? I'd rather have a little bit of a precedent for him starting work, but once he's actually been shown where the school is we can likely fudge the rest and start him teaching stuff.

Yes, absolutely. It'll be great fun, considering how they met in the first place.

[Lilaena De'Ville]

I'm around too, I just don't know what to do with myself

You're in charge! Do whatever you like!

[Miranda Tarkin]

that's not very helpful LD

[Maxine Flannery]

Max is still at Cullen's, and I'm trying to get her active again. Hoping Ethan makes an appearance in her current thread.

[Jacinda Blake]

I got something for you Professor Ion! -runs to chatter idea-

[Stern]

Well, the idea I had would be for some long lost brother of Founder Cullen to appear and re-orient the school to be a strike force builder first, high school second.

With his team of 5 or so mutants, he would start testing the kids. The ones that passed would be X-Men. The ones that didn't completed their educations and joined the world.

It sounds high-handed and even arrogant of me, since I would probably play that set of characters, but I couldn't think of anything better.

Of course, this man would work very closely with the current headmaster and all the faculty.

[Dasquian Belargic]

some long lost brother of Founder Cullen

Have you been browsing the wiki lately?

http://www.sw-fans.net/wiki/index.ph...=Joseph_Cullen

[Captain Untouchable]

With his team of 5 or so mutants, he would start testing the kids. The ones that passed would be X-Men. The ones that didn't completed their educations and joined the world.

Effectively establishing a neo X-Men team then, as was done often in the comics? That could work, and I'd definately be interested in having Untouchable as one of your 5 or so, if you're accepting volunteers. There might be a couple of the old staff / X-Men who might be willing to get involved with that small core of X-Men as well, if the prospect of regular activity is there.

Weren't you looking for something for Tess to do after she graduated, Liz?