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Wednesday, March 14, Period One

Once the students were all assembled, M stood in front of her desk, the screen behind her projecting the current absence list. She surveyed the group before her, looking stern.

UNEXCUSED ABSENCES
D'Anna Beirs (Class Eight)
JC Broots (Class Eight)
Jim Ellison (Class Eight)
Barbara Gordon (Class Seven, Class Eight)
Alex Krycek (Class Eight)
Ranma Saotome (Class Eight)

"Before we begin, I want to call attention to the names on the screen. I will need excuses for your absence by the end of the week. Written excuses are preferable, and ones that actually provide a legitimate reason for missing class would be ideal." Her expression suggested that she didn't expect to achieve that 'ideal'.

"Now, we will begin our lecture."

Then M did something rather unexpected.

She reached up, grabbed the skin of her neck beneath her collar, and pulled her face off.

Revealing Nadia Santos underneath.

"Right!" Nadia said brightly. "Today we're talking about masks. The technology behind the creation and maintenance of highly detailed and realistic latex masks, such as this one," she held up the M mask with a Home Shopping Network sort of flair, "has been greatly improved in the last several years. These masks are now light-weight, skin-tight, breathable, and comfortable, and most importantly, very realistic. Facial recognition software won't see through them without x-ray capabilities. The human eye doesn't stand a chance."

Nadia set down the mask and grinned. "They can even be layered." And she reached up for her collar.

And pulled off a second mask. The man beneath the mask smirked at the students, and moved behind the desk to produce a box, which he set up on M's desk and opened to reveal a high-tech-looking machine.

"This is the Facemaker. When an image such a photograph or video footage is fed into it, the Facemaker produces this highly realistic three-dimensional latex mask, just as 'Nadia' showed you. Since the material is breathable enough to be comfortable for long periods, and sturdy enough to stand up to physical exertion, it's a popular resource for our field agents. Coupled with the voice changer technology you've already studied, this is the most effective method of disguise we've developed to date."

The man stepped away from the machine. "Which should serve to remind you once again, that you can't always believe everything you see."

And then the man pulled off a third mask. Oh look. It's Marty.

"Your mission, which you have no choice but to accept, is to pair off with another student and create masks of each other," Marty instructed. "However one should always remember that just because you have a mask it doesn't mean you can pass yourself off as that person. It also takes a good deal of acting talent and mimicry to pass yourself off as your subject. So also take the time to get to know your partner and watch their habits. And before you have any questions I just have one more thing to add."

Marty reached up for his collar and...

Yes, removed one last mask, to reveal M’s face.

"Perhaps the cardinal rule in espionage, is to always have a healthy suspicion of what others are trying to pass off as the truth, and to keep in mind that your own senses can be fooled as well. A good spy knows this, and can use it to his advantage, in both the act of disguising himself and detecting it in others." She looked around the room. "Your homework assignment for is to use the masks you create in class today to convince one person outside of this class that you are in fact the person whose identity you duplicate today. So choose your partners wisely, and make certain that you know enough about them that you can successfully mimic their behavior and actions. I believe one of you already had some recent practice at this."

M looked at Annette. "We have a test next week, so you’ll have two weeks to complete this assignment. I then expect you to report back on your success or failure. And yes, I will know whether or not you’re telling me the truth."

[About the Assignment: Just to be sure that it’s clear – pair up with someone in the class, and essentially switch identities with them. You only need to convince one other person outside the class that you are in fact the person whose face you’re wearing. You can RP it or handwave it, just check OOCly with your “target” in advance to make sure you get the reaction you want from it. Keep it fun and angst-free too, please. And despite what M says, you can make completely inappropriate choices for your partner if you like. And many thanks to Nadia and Marty ~~and John Voight~~ for their help!]

[ooc: ~~Please wait for the~~ OCD is now up!.]

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Hikaru's eyes shifted over to Setsuna. Oh how fun that would be..

Yes, Setsuna rather did fail to considered what she was doing by unleashing the permission for Hikaru to try to be her, but, when their eyes met, she grinned at him. "Well?" she offered, feeling she probably didn't have to say more.

He smirked back and nodded once firmly, "I've only been waiting for this day to happen all semester." He added quite sarcastically, coming over to sit on the desk next to her's.

Setsuna snorted a slight laugh. "Is that so?" she asked idly as she looked over their mask-making materials.

"Of course. Who doesn't want to be a flying Japanese girl with crazy sword skills? I know I do." He laughed a little, feeling kind of ridiculous speaking like that, and shifted to look over the materials with her. "I've got to say, this is one of the neater things we've gotten to work with.."

Setsuna couldn't help laughing a little. "I can't wait to see how you plan to do with wings," she commented, and then agreed, "This certainly is cool. WHat do you think the odds are that I could get Kaoru to help me out? I was thinking of maybe trying to pull this on Ranma, but, as he's in the class, I'm not sure that would work."

Actually, part of her still felt that, even with knowledge of the assignment, Ranma'd still be pretty damn easy to fool.

"Kaoru'd help you out, no problem. You might wanna practice some double speak if you wanna be really authentic though." He winked a little. He wanted to somehow get documentation of this event. "And the Ranma problem... is probably less of a problem than we think."

"Oh, yeah, that double speak would be pretty important....How do you two do that, anyway? Are you really just on such a familiar field with each other that it just...happens?" Grinning at him a little for a second, Setsuna ended up dropping her eyes a bit as she blushingly admitted, "And I'm glad I'm not the only one who that that. I feel bad, but, yeah...sometimes he's not too terribly observant."

"You can say we're on a really familiar field," He grinned, "But you never know, with all those rumors about twins being psychic..."
He had to shake his head a little for Ranma, "Unfortunate for him, lucky for us."

"It'll be interesting," Setsuna decided, "I should try to track Kaoru down soon, though, so I can get some practise. And you? Being me? Think you can hack that? Although you are a little tall for me..."

He tapped his chin in thought, "True. Perhaps if you'd let me steal your room for a while I could get someone to come by and talk while I meditate. The height difference won't be as noticable in a sitting position." He grinned.

"Very clever," Setsuna smiled a bit admiringly. "I would offer bonus points if you were able to fool my roommate, but he's almost more oblivious than Ranma sometimes, so, no. Ooh! Extra points maybe if you could fool Alphonse or Jude. They'd be the tough ones."

"You're on." He nodded enthusiastically, "Extra points if you have the time to fool Matilda."

The excitement for this project was certainly growing. "Deal."

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