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Interactive Religion [Tuesday, March 4]

Biff walked into the Danger Room and sang out, "Midterrrrrrrrrrrrm!"

Then blinked.

Because he had actually sung out that word. Weird.

"Today we are having a midterm," he continued as the music swelled around him ~~in a distinctly West-Side Story kind of way~~.
"and suddenly you'll see
how miserable a man I be...

He frowned, but grammar must give way for the lyrics.

Midterm, say it once and it sooooooooounds like dying
Say it soft and you'll feel like crying.
Midterm: you'll never stop failing this midtermmmmmmmmmmm.

He shrugged. Fortunately, he'd printed out instructions for the actual test.

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Theatrically!

Jamie Madrox!

TAAAA-DAAAAH!

Rikku of the Al Bhed. Diva.

Reno. Of the Turks.

Karrarrarrallll of Karrarrarrarrse.

See-ly Boooooooooth!

Rooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooomeo Rooooooooooooooooooooooooomeo!

Ami Mizuno

Kataaaaaaaaara of the Benders!

Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeere's Billy Kessler!

Saaaam Winchester!

In front of each student, there is a pile of objects: a tea cup, a jug of water, a pot of blue paint, a pole, a yellow robe, a tiny stone Apollo, an olive branch, a scroll with hieroglyphs, a cup of coffee, a stuffed camel, three feathers and a sombrero.

There are also four boxes: one labeled "Roman Gods", one labeled "Judaism", one labeled "Taoism" and one labeled "Buddhism."

Put an object in each of the boxes that represented the lesson you learned about those religions. There are way more objects than there are boxes, and more than one object can represent each religion.

You also have five minutes to do this.

Mod how long it took and what objects you put where.

Jamie was about to take his mid-term but suddenly he started hearing music. He opened his mouth to say something but instead...

That's me in the corner
That's me in the spotlight
Losing my re-

At which point Jamie shut his mouth and laid down on the floor until the music went away. Sure he flunked his midterm but at least he didn't torture anyone with his singing.

Rikku stared at the objects for a good thirty seconds, trying to decide if their professor was just messing with them.

Then she started to see it. Maybe. Sort of.

She put the tea cup and the pot of blue paint in the box labeled "Taoism." The jug of water and the stuffed camel went in "Judaism." The tiny stone Apollo went for "Roman Gods." And the pole and yellow robe went to "Buddhism," although she remembered them being orange, so she chewed her lip over whether that was a trick question.

And then Rikku put the sombrero on her own head. Because otherwise she was going to set it on the floor and start doing the Mexican Hat Dance around it, and that was probably a bad idea. She was humming it, anyway.

She had about a minute and a half left. She resisted the urge to dig the camel out of the box and make it take a walk ~~to Candy Mountain, Charlie~~ around the classroom.

Right. Teacup went with the blue paint, which Reno opened up and used to write nasty words regarding the color blue all over that Taoism box.

The pole and the yellow robe went right into the Buddhism box.

He drank the cup of coffee. Carefully. Figured that was just the best place it could possibly go.

The water, scroll, and camel were stuffed into the box marked Judaism, and the olive branch and the stone Apollo found their way into the Roman Gods box.

For the life of him, he didn't know what to do with the feathers, so he just made an "M" out of them (which required bending one in the middle) and arranging them over the sombrero. "Mexico."

All in all, it took him about four and a half minutes.

Since he had to crane his head to the side to even see what was in front of him, and he only had teeth to pick things up with, it took Karal quite a bit longer than five minutes.

Hopefully Biff would take unexpected equineity with equanimity, and grade accordingly.

Apollo went into the Roman box, along with half an olive branch (he was eating the other half - horsie instincts had gotten the better of him) and the scroll.

The camel, the sombrero, the water, the coffee and a feather went into Judaism.

The pole and a feather went into Buddhism.

A feather and the cup of tea went into the Taoism box.

Karal tried to put the blue paint in there, as well, but all he had were teeth and hooves. When it popped open and fell off the table, it splashed all over his chest and dripped down his front legs.

Looking guilty, he dragged the robes off the desk and carefully dropped them over the puddle on the floor.

Maybe no one would notice.

Seely was doing fine with his mid-term until he got to the Buddhism box.

The he started singing.

The wise men told Maya
You're gonna bear the Buddha-Buddha
The wise men told Maya
You're gonna bear the Buddha-Buddha
He will teach men about Dharma-Dharma
Under the Bodhi tree

Four Noble Truths
And the Eightfold Pathy-Pathy
Four Noble Truths
And the Eightfold Pathy-Pathy
Mean Nirvana and no more wrathy-wrathy
Under the bodhi tree...

Ami put the olive branch in the box of Judaism. She then contemplated the scroll, decided it went there too and added it in. She was really not very good with this whole religion thing.

She distributed the rest of the objects more or less evenly, and sorta correctly. but she did finish on time

Romeo inspected the items for a long moment, only a little distracted by the song he was humming under his breath. I heard there was a secret chord, that David played and it pleased the lord...

Shaking it off, he put the stone Apollo in the Roman Gods box, the scroll and the camel in the Judaism box (the scroll looked lonely on its own, and there were camels in the desert, right?), the blue paint and tea cup in the Taoism box, and the pole and yellow robe in the boxes. At the last minute, he stuck the olive branch in with Apollo.

Billy started pondering, and putting objects in the boxes. It took about four and half minutes. Both for pondering, and:

"Peter pumpkinhead came to town
Spreading wisdom and cash around
Fed the starving and housed the poor
Showed the vatican what golds for
But he made too many enemies
Of the people who would keep us on our knees
Hooray for peter pumpkin
Wholl pray for peter pumpkinhead?"

The objects might have been slightly eccentric in their interpretations, but they did make sense.

Sam had his mouth firmly shut as he tried to keep from singing and rushed through the midterm, putting everything in what seemed to be the right spot based on their classes. Except for the coffee, which went in his stomach. He hoped that wouldn't make him fail.

If a horse could make it to class, naturally.

Karal was there, nosing at the desk and trying not to knock anything over.

To entertain himself, he was prancing a little in place and snorting under his breath. It might just sound a little like a tune with quiet, percussive accompaniment.

Biff stared. "Um."

Karal hung his head, ears drooping, and rolled one shoulder in a shrug.

"...Karal?"

He nodded, ears tilted towards Biff, looking apologetic.

Biff burst out laughing. "I love this place."

Just not too loudly. Two days after coming back from Mexico and he's still a little hungover.

All power and glory to Sondheim!

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