Childhood Games, Class #1, Thursday

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E-mails had handwavily been sent out to let the students know to meet in the Danger Shop, which was set up today to look like a playground. Lily was standing inside, smiling and waving them in, always glad to have a new class. Even if this one was a lot taller than what she was used to.

"Hi," Lily greeted them. "Welcome to Childhood Games. I'm Lily Aldrin, and I'll be your teacher for this workshop. Now, I do teach for a living, but it tends to be towards kindergartners. Which, okay, may be who I geared this class towards, but I figure, why can't you guys have some fun, right? Normally I want to meet outside by the campgrounds, because it's more fun, but that doesn't really work so well when you're in Antarctica. At least not if you don't want it to end in a clinic visit, which is not happening on day one. Also, one last note before we start, I don't have a TA yet, and this is the easiest class ever. If you want in, see me afterwards.

"For our first class, I want everyone to stand up and tell the class your name and something interesting about yourself. And then we're going to start off simple, playing a game called Telephone. If you're new to this planet, the telephone is a thing you use to talk to people when you're not in the same room with them that's not yelling. How you play is that one person starts off by whispering something in the next person's ear. Anything. It could be silly or serious, just please keep it clean. This is a playground today, you know. The one who heard it whispers what they heard to the next person, who whispers it to the next person, and at the end we see what we end up with. Any questions?

"All right, introductions first. Let's start with... you," she said, nodding at someone at random.

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Sign In!

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With childlike glee!

Re: Sign In!

[cheminthehead.livejournal.com]

Gladys

During the "lecture"

[slapbetcommish.livejournal.com]

Talk if you want, but at least pretend you're whispering.

Introductions

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State your name and something interesting. It's Fandom. Everyone has something interesting. If you have a question, you can also ask it now.

Re: Introductions

[cheminthehead.livejournal.com]

"My Name Is Gladys," she intoned, then stopped. She wasn't sure what about her was interesting. "And I Am One Thousand And Fifty Four Years Old," she finally said.

Re: Introductions

[ktarian-wildman.livejournal.com]

"I'm Naomi Wildman," Naomi introduced herself, "and I spent the majority of my childhood growing up on a starship,"

Re: Introductions

[weefeetbigboots.livejournal.com]

"I'm Kaylee!" she said exuberantly. "I'm sixteen an' I'm from 'nother galaxy. An' 500 years in the future!"

Okay, she thought it was still interesting.

Re: Introductions

[x5-alec.livejournal.com]

"I'm Alec, and I'm the result of a government program to make the perfect soldier," he said. "As a bonus, I also enjoy long walks on the beach and meeting new people."

Re: Introductions

[thatsamilkshake]

"I'm Francine, and--" And here she had to pause, because there was nothing interesting about her. Well, nothing she wanted to repeat, and anyway that was a thing that had happened to her, and she'd call it more humiliating than in... Oh - wait. "--and that one weekend we all turned into ponies? I was a pony with wings. And they worked. It was awesome."

Re: Introductions

[minnesota-teen.livejournal.com]

"Hi, I'm Amber Atkins. I tap dance and I used to make dead people pretty for funeral services. Y'know, frosty, clownish, whatever the family requested, I did it." She smiled wide. "And let me tell you - Mount Rose, Minnesota had a lot of dead people." Pause. "Just not all at once, mind you."

Re: Introductions

[wanna-be-lucas.livejournal.com]

"I'm Lucas," he said, pausing to think of something interesting. "Um, and I was in a coma two weeks ago?"

Re: Introductions

[sonofmogh.livejournal.com]

"I am Worf," he said standing at attention with his arms behind his back. "I am a Klingon adopted by human parents."

Re: Introductions

[armybrat-lois.livejournal.com]

"I'm Lois Lane and I grew up living on military bases," Lois figured that would be the safest answer. The other kids seemed to have weirded Lily out enough.

Re: Introductions

[futureclone]

"I'm Alex," said Alex, and, because temporality seemed to be shot here, "and I'm from a thousand years in the future."

Re: Introductions

[blinkandsneeze.livejournal.com]

"Hi! My name is Viki and I'm a teleportation specialist." She beamed.

Re: Introductions

[death-of-hope.livejournal.com]

"I'm Anemone," she said, bouncing slightly. "And yes, this is my natural hair color."

Re: Introductions

[new-to-liirness.livejournal.com]

"My name is Liir and I like cooking," he said with a shrug. Anything else, he felt, would almost sound like complaining.

Re: Introductions

[stocksgrrl.livejournal.com]

"I'm Turtle Wexler," she said, standing up proudly, "and I won my first official court case when I was only fifteen years old."

Sure, she'd used that one before, but it always impressed Mister Petrelli a lot, and, hey, it was a classic. An oldie, but a goodie.

Re: Introductions

[lordofthecats.livejournal.com]

"My name is Lion-o and I'm from another planet called Thundera," he said. "Oh, and I have no idea why they call it Thundera. We don't get a lot of thunder and lightning, but we have volcanoes."

Re: Introductions

[saltandammo.livejournal.com]

"I'm Dean Winchester, and despite what it might look like, my good looks are not the result of a government program to make the perfect solider," Dean said with a smirk, glancing in Alec's direction. "To enjoying long walks on the beach and meeting new people, I'll add kicking evil butt."

Re: Introductions

[key-of-heart.livejournal.com]

"I'm Sora!" He smiled brightly. "I'm sixteen and I uhmm... have a collection of magic keychains?"

Telephone!

[slapbetcommish.livejournal.com]

"All right, I'll start," said Lily, and leaned over to whisper in the first person's ear, "Ted's beard is really starting to scare me."

And then it was the next person's turn to tell someone. Whee!

[I so don't expect this to end up neat. Ping off each other (there shouldn't be any back and forth between two people in this thread at all), but if the thread doesn't end up branching off at some point, I'll be shocked. Which is fine; no one has to be sitting in a circle, so feel free to go without an order and just have fun with it. The crackier the better. That's Telephone for you.]

Re: Telephone!

[minnesota-teen.livejournal.com]

Amber leaned over to the next person and whispered, "Ed's ear is really freakin' hairy."

End of Class

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Unless you've gotten detention somehow, or made pushed someone over and made them cry or something, everyone gets a shiny gold star on the way out. Yay!

Talk to Lily

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She's here if you need her.

Re: Talk to Lily

[canadianpopstar.livejournal.com]

Robin had tried to catch up on radio podcasts from the past couple days, which was why, when she heard Saturday's broadcast and Barney's insane yelling at her (she was so not touring with NKOTB, thanks), the first thing she'd done was call Lily. Her Lily, anyway, to check that she was in New York.

Having done that, she decided to start up at the school and see if she could locate Marshall, at least. When she found the Danger Shop and peeked to see who was in it, she contained her glee. At least, until Lily noticed who'd stopped by. She'd interrupted enough kindergarten classes to know that it wasn't hard to distract Ms. Aldrin from teaching under normal circumstances.

OOC

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My hours are as such: I'm on PST, I'll be posting the night before (earlier than I did today) and work 8-5. I will get on at lunch if I can to answer any pings, but this can be interactive mindless fun for you guys to have. Should anyone want to coordinate, which I encourage but know it can be difficult on weekdays, feel free to go into the chat childhoodgames.

Any questions, comments or concerns, feel free to ping me at chickwithemo.