fandomhigh | Internet for Dummies, Wednesday 9/20, 3rd Period

The danger room is set up like a Japanese garden, complete with low benches, soothing waterfall sounds and the scent of flowers. The only thing out of place is the large red mat with a white circle on it, and the goth chick holding a gong.

GONNNGGGG

"I love doing that." Abby grinned over the fading echo of the gong. "As you can see, we're doing today's class in a slightly different environment. I'll get to that point in a minute."

"Last week you learned how to use ISP's to sign onto the internet, this week we're going to learn how to look at it. We're talking about browsers today. They're a program that you use to access text, images and information on the web." Abby said, giving a very informative lecture.

"Ask most any geek and they'll tell you why their browser is the best. Some of us even have multiple browsers that we use for different tasks." Abby smiled and pointed to a pile of flesh colored plastic. "Today, we'll discover which browser is the best by a totally scientific experiment."

"Fake sumo wrestling."

Abby banged the gong again loudly. "Grab a suit and let's get our sumo on!"

[ooc:~~please wait for ocd threads~~ Up! Go and play!]
[son of ooc: Just in case people aren't aware of the inflatable sumo wrestling phenomenon, here's a couple of pictures of the suits]

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"Or like the thing at the end of Spookkillers," Angela agreed.

Experimentally, she poked herself in the arm. "I can't even feel anything."

"I'd say considering you're supposed to be trying to squish someone while wearing it, that's probably a good thing." Mac wriggled in an attempt to get more comfortable. "Okay, so who's supposed to be what browser here?"

"I've never heard of either of them," Angela admitted. "I'll be Viola and you be Mosaic?"

"Sounds good to me," Mac agreed. She paused in thought, "Do you actually know how one of us is supposed to win this? or do we just waddle and flail at each other and hope for the best?"

"I've seen this on TV a little," Angela mused. "I think we're supposed to try to knock each other down." She took a wobbly step forward. "I guess the suits keep it from hurting."

"Uh, okay then. Here goes," and with that she tottered over towards Angela.

Angela tottered toward Mac and, very very very cautiously, poked for her stomach with one hand.

Mac just kinda wibbled, and nothing really happened. "I think you might have to poke a little bit harder than that," she informed Angela.

"But you need to poke back," Angela pointed out, tapping at Mac a weetiny bit harder.

"Right, poking." Finding she couldn't really move her arms enough to poke effectively Mac decided that it was time this stomach suit came into it's own. So she just stepped forward into Angela bumping her a little.

Angela staggered backwards than stepped forward, bumping into Mac.

She thoought. It was hard to tell.

Mac was almost knocked off balance and tried to grab at Angela shoulders to stop herself falling over. It's probably called cheating, but nevermind. "Okay, officially really really bad at this."

And of coourse Mac's grab throws Angela off-balance too."Me too," she said, leaning heavily on one leg. "And the suit's heavy."

"and it sticks to itself in a really off-putting way. Eugh." Mac managed to right herself, so she was standing on her own, and looking relatively stable. "How long do you think we have to keep this up?"

Angela looked relieved. "Want to call it a draw?"

"Perfect," Mac said, grinning and extending a hand towards Angela as best she could considering the suit's hinderance. "Good fight."

"Good fight," Angela agreed, quickly shaking the hand and reaching to get the suit off.

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