fandomhigh | School Assembly, Friday Afternoon, The Auditorium

After watching the crowd gather and encouraging them to settle down long enough to listen to people talk, The Tick began to speak.

"Welcome, students and faculty, to our first assembly of the year! We'll be doing these to help impart something to our students. Give them advice, entertainment, and something worthwhile to do on a Friday afternoon!"

"Today you'll be getting advice from several speakers. They are motivational speakers, people who speak and give advice to help you better yourself! They are the tops in their individual fields, respective Everests, and this assemply is your sherpa, helping you scale that mountain to a better you!"

"Some of today's speakers are professional motivational speakers! Some are fellow students with some special advice! And one is a local business owner just looking to help out!"

"I think it's about time to let them do their jobs now. Please give the speakers your undivided attention and have some fun!"

[OOC: Each speaker will have their own thread, plus there will be a Q&A thread at the end of the post for them to ping into. Please wait to ask the speakers questions until the speakers have pinged in.

There are also a couple of general conversation threads for people who don't want to give their undivided attention. :)

Big thanks to all of the speakers!]

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Find your seats and mingle!

"First up, we have a dedicated student who would like to talk to you about the things he does and how you too can do those things like him! Please welcome Blair Sandburg!"

"Next we have two students who have a special presentation for you! Please welcome Pip Bernadette and Walter Dornez!"

"Now we have a local business owner who would like to have a few words with you about how your life can change for the better without you even expecting it! Please welcome GOB Bluth!"

"And now for the first of our two special guests! This speaker has hosted his own cable access show where he tried to help people help themselves! Additionally, according to his press materials, he 'is a caring nurturer, a member of several 12-step programs, but not a licensed therapist.' Please give a warm Fandom High welcome to Stuart Smalley!"

"Our final speaker today is an experienced motivational speaker, both in terms of speaking a lot and having plenty of life experiences! He's been backstage, drinking coffee for a couple of hours, and he should be ready to go! Please welcome Matt Foley to Fandom!"

During the assembly, there is plenty of time to talk amongst yourselves. Please do so here.

"All of our speakers are done now. If you have any questions for them, please step up and ask!"

[OOC: Please don't ask a question of a speaker until they have pinged into this thread. Thank you.]

"Thank you all for your time! I hope everyone here learned something important today!"

To show that I'm done.

Stuart! Matt!! EEEEE!!!!

"Hey, kids. My name is GOB Bluth. You probably know me as the guy who runs Caritas, or the guy who coached basketball, or the greatest illusionist this town has ever seen! But I wasn't always so successful. It was only a couple years ago that my entire life was messed up. My father was in jail for light treason, my brother was a jackass, my sister was married to a gay guy who painted himself blue, my youngest brother was a one-handed weirdo, and I was blacklisted from the Alliance of Magicians, a group that I founded to blacklist other people! And I'll tell you what, that life wasn't all it was cracked up to be."

"So I packed up and moved here. Sure, I got lucky a few times. My former boss at Caritas had to leave suddenly, so I ended up with a good deal on a busy bar. I own a freaking business! And sure, when I got here, I spent a lot of money on hookers, but I don't have to do that anymore. Hell, now I have some friends! Friends who like me! Sure my family is still messed up, but they're all the way across the country. If you had told me two years ago that any other this would have happened, I would have stared you in the eye, laughed at you for telling me those lies, and brought the thunder right to your face." GOB held up a closed fist that was clearly supposed to be "the thunder."

"So what am I getting at? If things suck, do something big to change them. You can move across the country. Stop dating high schoolers. Drop out of school. Finally punch that jerk who keeps making your life miserable. Stop doing drugs. Start doing drugs. It doesn't matter, just do whatever you need to do to start a change and, if you're anything like me, everything else will fall into place without you even having to try very hard."

"Enjoy the rest of your assembly, kids."

Can we reply to individual motivational speeches?

GOB waited for any questions thrown his way.

Reactions in those threads are fine, yes. :)

Marty's reaction to GOB's speech could be summed up in the letter "WTF" with a question mark at the end of it.

Marty grabs a seat already looking bored.

Hawkeye was here, as was to be expected. He was wearing his standard bright Hawaiian shirt and pants. Oddly, he was carrying an umbrella.

He took his seat and waited for the assembly to start.

Conner was here, looking skeptical in the extreme, but here nonetheless.

"Hey, everyone. I'm here to talk to you about how you can make a difference in the world around you! Have you ever seen something that really sucked? A company that tested it's product on animals? A restaurant that sold baby seal burgers? A class that focused on kill....uh...a corporation that didn't recycle?"

"When you see injustice, it's natural to want to stop it, to change it. You can do that by protesting. Protesting allows your opinion to be heard in a public forum. You can mobilize the public around you, and hopefully influence the people in power to modify their behavior. There are a lot of different ways to protest, sit-in's, marches, public nudity, flag burning. Some are more likely to get you in trouble with The Man than others. I want to talk about two forms of protesting you can do."

"Petitioning is a way for a lot of people to request someone in power to make a change. You write up a statement or request and then have people sign who agree. Angela Chase used this form of protest earlier in the year to combat the gremlin massacre. Another way you can protest is to picket. You stand in front of where you don't want people to go and try to dissuade them from going in by using signs or chanting. A lot of union workers use this type of protest and it's very effective. First of all, not a lot of people want to cross picket lines and secondly, it's very visible so usually the people in charge have to respond."

"So, the next time you face injustice, remember that you can make a change..." Blair grinned and bounced. "...through protesting!"

Blair bounced excitedly while he waited for questions.

Mac slipped into a seat to one side of the auditorium. Fandom high school assembly? Could be interesting, or weird, or more likely both actually.

Naomi came in and found a seat, looking very happy because her mother was coming home tomorrow evening. She didn't actually mind the fact that there was an assembly because she had never been to one before.

Angela took a seat next to Marty. "Yay, assembly," she said, with not much enthusiasm.

Tyler found a seat and sat looking skeptical.

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School Assembly, Friday Afternoon, The Auditorium

Before the Assembly

Speaker 1: Blair Sandburg

Speaker 2: Pip and Walter

Speaker 3: GOB Bluth

Speaker 4: Stuart Smalley

Speaker 5: Matt Foley

General Audience Conversation

Speakers Q&A

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