Here Comes Tomorrow
| New Mutants: Here Comes Tomorrow | |
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| Dates run: | October 17-19, 2008 |
| Run By: | Rossi |
| Read the logs: | Here Comes Tomorrow |
"~Team togetherness. These stupid girls may be classmates, but they're not my group.~"
The newly created student team, the New Mutants, has their first field trip.
Contents
Cast
Angelica Jones, Catseye, Cessily Kincaid, Inez Temple, Karolina Dean, Noriko Kikuchi, Tatiana Caban, Yvette Petrovic, Garrison Kane, Cain Marko
Professor Charles Xavier (in flashback), Archie Wilson
Timing
Plot Summary
Following Garrison's discussions with Xavier after the events of both Razor's Edge and Community Service, Charles officially sets up the New Mutants program; a program modeled on both Canada's Beta Flight, and more traditional youth programs like the Scouts, designed to teach the students at the school how to work together as a team, build their identity as a community, and expand the current powers training and self defense training into partnered and group activities.
While a number of the staff are developing new training programs for the Danger Room and putting together a curriculum for the program, Xavier, anxious to get the students started, invites Garrison to begin some basic team building programs straight from his own Beta Flight training while the rest of the programs catch up. Kane agrees and settles on a weekend camping trip with a number of activities as the best starting point while the weather is still good.
Needing someone who knows the area, Kane tracks down Cain for advice, since the older man grew up and did his own camping years in the region. Marko suggests Livingston Lake up in Adirondack Park as the perfect choice. Remote enough that they don't have to worry about people watching they, but still close enough to the highway to get in and out reasonably well.
The students are driven up to the Park, but before leaving, are handed their uniform for the program. Arriving at the camp, it is explained that over the weekend, they will be moving from Livingston Lake to Sand Lake, where they will be picked up, and there is a series of activities.
The first activity is setting up their camp. All the tents are two men tents that can't be set up by one person, so they have to find a partner and work together with them and the instructions.
Other tests include a team lighting the camp fire with only matches while the other gathers firewood. A test across Hall's Creek in two teams to each build a footbridge with assembled materials, using a rough sketch of the instructions, etc. The idea will be that each test is something that has to be done as a team, and each person at one point or another is responsible for taking charge off their team to complete it.
Meanwhile, Kane and Cain get in a lot of fishing while the kids argue.
Once they finally reach Sand Lake, they find that the rains earlier in the week have caused a mudslide, and two hundred meters of the road has been buried. The small local community knows that it will take weeks to clear properly from the other side, and they'll likely have to temporarily evacuate their homes. However, Marko eyes the damage and figures that with the combined powers of the kids, if they work together, they can temporarily clear and shore up a path through that will stay stable until the authorities properly clear the slide, opening the road enough that evacuation isn't necessary.
With Kane and Cain doing the heavy lifting, the New Mutants work together to clear a path, to the thanks of the locals, and get picked up as planned to return to the school, exhausted but also successful for the first time as a team.
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Trivia and Meta
Trivia
Karolina attended under extreme protest and refused to wear the uniform or participate in any of the activities.
Meggan Szardos was too newly arrived to take part, and Callie Betto developed chicken pox the day before they left.
Meta
Plotrunner: Rossi
The plot was written by Dex in order to establish the New Mutants group ahead of Day Zero.
