fandomhigh | Through a Glass Darkly: Spies and Spying; Week 9

Aly was having a staring contest with three of the tiny trolls when the class arrived. They had their clubs raised but hadn't, yet, attacked. She stroked the beaded necklace at her throat, looking amused, and then consciously turned her attention to the class. The trolls grunted at each other a few times before forming a huddle. They looked like football players trying to call a play without a quarterback in charge.

"Morning all," Aly said with a grin. "I hope you had a good break and an enjoyable Halloween. Today we're going to take a cue from Halloween and practice dressing up for a role." She gestured towards the back of the classroom where there were clothes of all varieties and sorts, makeups, brushes, wigs, skull caps, props, pretty much anything that could be used to costume or disguise a person.

"The general goal when choosing a disguise is to be unnoticeable in the company you're going to be keeping. Whether it's a Court ball or a back alley den, you want to fit into the place without comment or question. If that means using makeup to roughen your skin, a wig to disguise an obvious hair color - or dye for a longer term mission, or simply different clothing to appear a diplomat, thief, or simple, everyday politician, then that's what you're going to want to do."

"Today, your job is to dress up - use the makeup, wigs, clothing - as someone other than who you are. Next week, we'll talk about how to put together the rest of your cover, how to move, how to enter situations, how to be convincing in the role. But for today, just put together a disguise for yourself. Help each other figure out who you are and why you're dressing and making yourself up the way to are, and at the end of the class, I'd like everyone to give a short presentation on who you are and where you're going dressed like that. And I don't want to see anyone dress up like a 'student' unless it's something very, very different from your everyday student wear."

[OOC: OCD ~~coming up~~ is up! And do feel free to mod the costumes, makeup, and props. Be creative! Also, there's an unexpected visitor to the class...]

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About three-quarters of the way through the class period as the class was busy costuming and making each other up, there may have been an unexpected and sneaky visitor.

This was the moment the blue spirit had been waiting for. As everyone was busy, he snuck into the back of the room, making no sound whatsoever. Hiding behind the desk, he waited a moment to make sure no one had seen him. When everyone remained busy, he started looking around for the smoke detector.

Locating one right above him, he tilted his head back. Smoke rose up out of the nostril holes of his mask and went up to the detector. There was a beep and then the sprinklers at the back of the class went off.

The blue spirit however was gone before he could get too wet. He disappeared into the hall and out of the school without anyone ever seeing a trace of him.

Just as there was a second between when the water hit her and when she actually transformed, there was a moment of "Oh, shit" running through Setsuna's pained head as she realized her skin was now wet with cold water from the sprinklers.

She was a bird before she could even vocalize it, flapping her wings to get out from underneath a bunny suit.

...Well. No one could say her disguise wasn't good enough now...

They water was actually quite fun, until they looked around to survay the class and found that Setsuna had turned into a rather unfortunate small bundle of feathers again.

Aly's attention was directed from the sprinklers and the sneaky to the disappearing student. Interesting. She didn't think other crows transformed into people. And Setsuna didn't seem to pay allegiance to the Trickster.

Raising an eyebrow, she asked, in Crow, "You okay?"

Setsuna had remembered from the two lies and a truth class that Alianne-sensei, for some absurd reason, seemed to know Crow. Fluttering her wings a little, hopping out from the discarded bunny suit (Great, Setsuna thought in her head, a naked transformation in the middle of class, wouldn't it figure?), her response, in Crow, sounded a little disturbed. //"I'm sorry, I can't actually understand Crow..."//

Trying really hard not to laugh because Setsuna didn't sound amused at all, Aly nodded. "Sounds like something you should learn. Even if only to tell the other crows you're not an invader," she said quietly.

Setsuna sneered. Or she would, if crows could sneer, so it just resulted in a narrowing of her little red eyes. Ha. Tell other crows she wasn't an invader, as if the albinism didn't already ostricise her from them. She would most likely be the invader, though. Damn crows. Her sudden ruffle of feathers was a lot like a shiver.

//"Um, maybe...."// She looked up at her teacher. //"Do you suppose you could get some hot water for me? That's the only way I can change back."//

Aly would have had something to say about the invader issue, but she only spoke Crow. She didn't read their minds. "How hot?" she asked, still quietly.

//"Hot enough to tolerate,"// Setsuna nodded her bird head. //"Hot shower...ish?"//

"-ish" was difficult to vocalize in Crow, Setsuna discovered.

Oooh. It was raining on the inside now. How nice.

The water actually had a nice, soothing effect on their headaches, so standing under the spray was exactly what they did.

Teddy was glad to have been in the front of the class when the sprinklers went off. It would have ruined the makeup job that Molly did for him.

Molly got a little wet, but was able to get out from under the sprinklers pretty quickly. After checking herself in the mirror, she decided that it added to the disguise she'd chosen.

Aly frowned as the sprinklers turned on. She whipped her head around immediately, narrowing her eyes at the smoke detector and then looking out the door. Her lips twitched in a smothered smile before she looked around at the rest of the class, making sure no one was too soaked.

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