Folklore and Fact: Mystical Artifacts, Week 8

[blossomsofice.livejournal.com]

If Sakura noticed anything amiss about some of her students today, she didn't bat an eye, instead directing their attention to the display screens, which featured a small ornamented mallet and a round board covered with Chinese trigrams. Not, perhaps, coincidentally, there were two lockboxes on the table.

"It's been my experience," she noted dryly, "that teenagers are even less inclined than usual to devote attention to their studies the week after a holiday. It would be a less than efficient use of my time to try and make you all pay attention today. So instead, you'll be examining a relatively harmless artifact: Uchide's Mallet, or the Mallet of Luck. It's the basis for the tale of the One-Inch Boy, and is said to grant its holder's wishes when swung, although its more common and obvious feature is the ability to make its wielder grow."

"Why is this dangerous?" asked Sakura, shrugging one shoulder. "You shouldn't have too much trouble imagining the kind of damage a rampaging fifty-foot creature can do."

She passed a stack of handouts around the room and continued, "The other object you'll be examining today is the Dragon Eye Compass Board, which uses the Chinese practice of Feng Shui to alter the luck of the people around you for good or ill. Please take a moment to read the handout and write a brief essay listing three ways you could use something like this to change your own fortunes. Once you've turned that in, you may come up and examine the Mallet."

[OOC: Speaking of less than efficient, that would be the way my brain is working this week, augh. Thus the incredibly short class post. OCD is up, and further details in the appropriate subthreads. Class Info Post here.]

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Turn In Your Essay [FaF, Week 8]

[blossomsofice.livejournal.com]

Handwavey is, of course, perfectly fine, but I'd love to see the crack y'all can come up with.

Re: Turn In Your Essay [FaF, Week 8]

[dark_slippy_thing]

Valentine's essay might have had something to do with ensuring that he never, ever turned into anything that he wasn't supposed to be, ever again. The three ways? Were more like three things that he never again wanted to be. Faceless guys named Jason, weetiny chickens, and girls were those three things.
There might have been massive underline abuse in reference to never again wanting to be female.

Re: Turn In Your Essay [FaF, Week 8]

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

Pippi reads over the instructions on Feng Shui and writes a short essay about three ways to make changes to create a zone of serenity, peace, and joy. That way, when the island is attacked, people could just go there and relax. And if she could extend it over the whole island when activated then so much the better, as invading forces would have no choice but to "chill the frack out".

Or something.

But she wouldn't want the whole island to be covered by this the whole time, as that might have some sort of adverse effect.

Re: Turn In Your Essay [FaF, Week 8]

[sensethevisions]

Phoebe examined the board very carefully and then started writing her own essay.

"First, I would use it to make sure that my soulmate and I never again woke up with the wrong person in bed, unless it was a threesome agreed upon before hand -- which I would not be adverse to. I would use the board first to change the fortunes of those that are having a hard time making it in the day to day world around us. I would also use such a thing to help protect those here at Fandom that are not able to protect themselves including some of the guys here. For myself, I would use it to help me get better at my powers holding my alcohol not accidentally sleeping with my male friends who have also slept with my soulmate my martial arts and fighting skills so I can better help people."

Re: Turn In Your Essay [FaF, Week 8]

[blessed_twice]

Wyatt wrote his essay about using luck to increase his powers, learn to control them, and to bend reality to bring his parents back to life.

Re: Turn In Your Essay [FaF, Week 8]

[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

Dawn wrote her essay, more than a little tongue-in-cheek, about wishing for good, supportive bras for all her newly female classmates, trying to get an advance schedule from Fandom about when it was going to do weird things to the boys so she could make sure she had film in her camera and chocolate in the room, and using the Feng Shui-o-meter to make sure Isabel came back to Fandom safely.

Hey, all the wishes couldn't be obnoxious.

Re: Turn In Your Essay [FaF, Week 8]

[stykera]

Stark's essay wasn't entirely coherent, but he had a tendency towards that at the best of times and right now was certainly not the best of times.

The first thing, naturally, was something about how he wanted to stay himself and not any female versions of himself or any other versions of himself but really himself and he would probably have to do something to ensure that this would be the case from now on. Except this was written with a little more textual flailing.

The second, slightly more serious but still flaily, portion of the essay was about how he'd change the luck of the people on Moya so they could stop being chased by half the universe. This, unfortunately, ended up rather rambly on the topic of whether or not this counted since Moya and everyone on her weren't technically around him right now but rather somewhere out in the UTs.

And then, since his poor abused brain was trying to shut down at this point, he wrote something about ensuring there were never any brownies around ever again. Yes, he'd noticed there were more girls in the class than there were people eating brownies last night, but he was still blaming the brownies because there had been something off about them anyway.

Re: Turn In Your Essay [FaF, Week 8]

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

Walter turned in his essay which will be totally handwaved because his mun really shouldn't be doing this much RPing at work today.

Re: Turn In Your Essay [FaF, Week 8]

[water-wonder.livejournal.com]

Tori handwavily wrote her essay because her mun can't come up with anything, since her brain is pretty broken from midterms.

Re: Turn In Your Essay [FaF, Week 8]

[bookyeve.livejournal.com]

Evie's essay covered changing her luck in tripping over things, her luck in finding golden doubloons on the beach, and her luck in avoiding certain Fandom weirdness, like trolls and identity loss, and yes please, no genderswapping ever, thank you.

Re: Turn In Your Essay [FaF, Week 8]

[indebttocrazies.livejournal.com]

Haruhi wrote her handwavey essay, though the contents of it focused on more mundane, normal things instead of the usual wierdness that tended to occur around the school.

Re: Turn In Your Essay [FaF, Week 8]

[multiplez]

Z could think of a lot of ways her fortune could be better, and turned in a handwavy because mun is ded from midterms essay detailing them.