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Heroism, Humanism & Hijinks: Literature in Action - Week 15, Period 5 (Final)

The class was in the Danger Shop today for their final piece of assessment.

"Good afternoon. Inside you'll find Dickensian London. Namely, the London of A Christmas Carol. Something, however, had gone wrong. Despite being visited by the ghosts of Christmas past, present and future, Ebenezer Scrooge has not discovered the true meaning of Christmas and thus has not gone to Christmas dinner with the Cratchett family. Fix it."

[OOC: Thank you all for a wonderful semester and for hanging on with me while I tested the waters with Lit. You've been a great class. Hope to see you back next semester for a more organised Lit class!]

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For the last time.

Talk amongst yourselves or freak out (yes Hermione I'm looking at you).

You're in a mock-up of the book. You can talk to characters and find out what they know about Scrooge going off track, tweak the environment and even smack some sense into good ol' Ebenezer. Feel free to ping me in the OOC thread for character interaction (available after 4pm PST), play out your own interactions with the characters or sum up your solution in a paragraph or two. Completely up to you.

Or if you need to handwave your guts out, here's the place to do it.

She's lurking and watching.

Ping me here with a link to the thread if you want character interaction to play scenes out.

Still in need of an OOC icon. Hmm.

Lana Lang

Lana did a marvelous ~~handwavey~~ job!

(Just in case the Mun gets slammed and can't get back here today.]

Zack Addy

Zack rubbed at his forehead while he waited for the test to start.

Stupid ballpoints.

Jude Lizowski

Door

If there was one thing Jude was good at, it was being mellow. Clearly Scrooge was just totally harshed and needed to find his holiday mellow. Jude only wished that he wasn't hobbling almost as badly as Tiny Tim at the moment.

Jude limped away from a garland-stringing Scrooge with a mellow smile. "Dude, I totally rock."

[[Just as little of an idea as to if I'll get back today.]]

"At least yours didn't think it had a sense of humour," Door says with a bit of a grumble. The writing across her forehead says "WINDOW."

"At least it's not nun porn?" Zack suggested.

Zack's solution involved creative use of lung fungus.

Don't ask.

Door grins. "They're all flapping around our ceiling now. Like penguins that can actually fly."

Zack blinked at the mental image. "I imagine Seely is quite upset."

Conner McKnight

"I'm not sure; he wasn't there when I woke up. At least the porn-birds are just flying about up there and not writing on people, though." Door rolls her eyes. "And they're staying up high enough that you can't really see anything except bits of black and white and pink."

"I think that's why he might be upset."

Conner ~~would have actually played it out more thoroughly if he had a copy of the book on hand for reference~~ took a long time to figure out what was going on, given that tact and constructive verbal exchanges were not exactly his strong point. It took a lengthy session of commiserating with Scrooge's nephew Fred over the pain of getting constantly stood up, and an unusually adept application of the "ol' McKnight charm" in a conversation with Scrooge's former fiancée Belle.

Which was a lot of talking for Conner.

So after stopping off at a pub to, ahem, refresh his dry throat, he somehow tracked Scrooge down at Big Ben of all places, and wheedled him into going to dinner with the Cratchits.

. . . Conner, who appreciated food in all its forms, was not in any way above describing Christmas dinner in all its glorious detail. That seemed to work well enough as far as softening Scrooge up enough to subject him to a slightly hokey (okay, very hokey) speech about the meaning of Christmas, and hustle him off to the Cratchits' place.

"It's Fandom; they'll come down eventually, I'm sure." Door shrugs, then giggles. "I suspect he might be more afraid that when they do, they'll land on my bed instead of his."

"Do get photos of his face if they do, I imagine the yearbook people would be most interested."

[...it was too long for the comment box. *facepalm*]

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