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OPEN MIC STUDENT COUNCIL QUORUM

((OOC: let the games begin. GO! (edit: Bingo Cards are done! Yay! Now go play.)) (second edit: This will be open for discussion until 10pm US CST, Friday, 10/7. If you want to chime in, do it before then. After that time, comments will be locked.)

"Hello and welcome to the Open Mic Student Council Quorum. This is going to be a cross between a Crossfire event, a debate, and a party. We want you to get to know your Student Council candidates - all of them - better. A lot better. To that purpose, we've invited all of them here tonight. However, as this was not a mandatory event, we don't have a roster yet of who will show up. Feel free to write your questions in, we'll make sure they all get them whether they show tonight or not.

Here's how tonight is going to work:

1) Each Student Council Candidate will be asked 5 questions from the quorum directors (that's us), and they will have 1 minute to answer the question to the best of their ability. We'll be keeping score and awarding points for how accurately each question is answered, as well as style and delivery. At the end of the night, the representative with the most points will win a prize.

2) When the 5 questions have been answered, the floor will be opened to the audience for the Crossfire section - to ask the Candidates anything they want. HOWEVER, the questions must be on topic. Questions phrased with vulgar or offensive language, or questions about personal lifestyle choices or habits will be striken - and the asker will be asked to leave. So phrase your questions carefully. We're here to learn things and have fun.

3) The Candidates may ask each other questions in the Crossfire section. Feel free to go head to head over your issues. Well, verbally, anyway.

4) I mentioned fun, and to that effect, we have Buzzword Bingo going. Each of you was handed a set of Buzzword Bingo Cards and a pencil as you entered. Here's how it works: Each card has the name of a Candidate on it, and many, many buzzwords pulled directly from the debate last night. When you note any Candidate using a buzzword in any of their answers, tick it off on their Bingo Card. The first player to declare a Bingo wins a doorprize. The first player to get Bingos on more than five cards gets the grand prize.

The Prizes:
Single Card Bingo: First 12 people will each win 1lb boxes of chocolates from Wonka's Sweet Shop
Two Card Bingo: First person to get one wins a $15 gift certificate to Deb's Diner and Retro Store
Three Card Bingo: First person to get one wins a $30 gift certificate to Deb's Diner and Retro Store
Four Card Bingo: First person to get one wins a $50 gift certificate to The Emporium
Grand Prize: a $100 gift certificate to Red's Tattoos

((OOC NOTE: For the sake of our sanity, here's how it's going to run.

The "(Candidate name) Questions" threads will be locked to only the Candidates - please, no ooc comments or non-Candidate posting in them.

The "(Candidate name) Crossfire" section will be open to any IC comments. Please direct your questions to the Candidates in their threads.

Please keep all OOC comments in the "OOC" thread" - we ask because we'll be cutting and pasting from the other threads as the night goes on.

This post will remain the same - a secondary post will be linked for people who want to catch up without scanning a billion comments.

If you have questions for the moderator - and for right now, that's me - there will be a seperate post in my non-comm journal and you can ask them there. I am turning email notification for this thread off.))

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Anakin furrowed his brow. "I'm a member of the Junior Achievers, and as far as I remember, there was never anything put out that would say that the beings from JA were running as a group. They are in JA because they are ambitious. They are running for office because they are ambitious. I don't see the two being connected in any other way."

He looked at Angela. "And if you were trying to run a candidate as merely being separate from the parties, why didn't you include Batsh*t Insane? Or refer to Parker's group by their formal name of the Hottest Ticket in Town?"

Maia sighs audibly and turns away from the boy who seemed to be pushing her into an argument she did not have the time for.

Anakin watched Maia turn away and wondered why she wouldn't respond to his perfectly reasonable questions.

He shrugged and turned his attention back to Angela.

"Well yeah, that's true too," Angela says. "Maybe it's supposed to be obvious Phoebe isn't Batshit Insane, or something." She's relaxing. She hasn't gotten to talk to Anakin much, but she doesn't get the creepy vibe from him she gets from some of the other JA members.

"Oh, and you have to tell me about where you're from sometime. I don't even know what a Padawan is."

Anakin smiled at Angela. "Padawan's our version of student." He pulled at his braid. "It explains the stupid haircut."

Angela appraises the braid. "Oh. I thought you were, like, a refugee from a New Wave band, or something. I mean, not that it looks awful or anything, just kind of ... " Angela isn't sure how to finish that sentence, so she settles on smiling and hoping it's clear she didn't mean to insult him.

"What were you studying? Beka told me you like to fly."

"Well, at home I'm not the only one with the haircut, but I'm not sure it improves matters when there's 200 beings with the same silly ponytail-braid combination."

He turned his full attention to her. "I'm studying to be a Jedi. They're very pretigious warrior-diplomats in my galaxy." He looked at her, wondered where she stood on the whole magic issue, and decided to tell her anyway. "With, um, special powers. Telekinetics, mostly."

Angela tries to picture 200 people with Anakin's haircut, a whole school full of them.

Yep, they'd all look like missing members of Kajagoogoo.

But then, her sense of style might look pretty silly to someone from another galaxy too, and she doesn't even have the excuse of prestige.

"Telekinetic," she says. "So you can move things with your mind? I think Paige Matthews can do that, but she's just from Earth."

He nodded. "Yeah, like that. I can pick up on emotions, too, but I can't read minds or anything."

[OOC: Bwahah. Stupid Jedi hair.]

Angela blinks. Her experiences with psychics at the school have been a little unsettling, but it sounds like what Anakin can do is a different and hopefully less freaky.

"I'm not going to ask you to read me," she says, putting a little hint of laughter in her voice. "But if you wanted to, like, telekinet some drinks from the bar for us, I so would not hate you."

Anakin grinned. "Anything you'd like in particular?" He looked over at the bar. "Or whatever looks closest?"

Angela cranes her head to look at the bar. "Um, a bottle of Heinekin would be fine," she says. "I don't wanna make you try and mix a drink with your mind."

Anakin closed his eyes and concentrated. Two bottles of beer came floating across the room and into his hands. "My old teacher would kill me to see me using my powers this lightly," he said with a laugh. "But it was a long walk."

He thought about what she had said. "I don't know if I'm good enough to mix drinks from this far away, either. Might have to work on it--it'd be a heck of a party trick."

"Everyone at this school would worship you," Angela says, accepting the bottle of beer. "Especially if you could add little umbrellas."

She sips on her drink. "And it does taste much better because nobody had to walk to get it."

"It just wouldn't be the same without the little umbrellas," Anakin said.

"I'm Anakin, by the way. I don't believe I've introduced myself."

Angela holds out the hand not holdng the beer for Anakin to shake.

"I'm Angela Chase. I'm sorry, I must have just heard your name around, so I forgot the introductions thing."

"People know who I am?" Anakin tried not to look too paranoid. "Huh."

He smiled. "So, Angela Chase, aside from politics what do you do for fun at Fandom High?"

Angela sips on her beer. "It's funny, when the elections started I was totally planning to ignore them. But then my boyfriend Marty started running, then my friend Rory started running, and then I just got sucked into things like this."

"And ... I don't know, I don't do anything too exciting. I helped Parker paint the dorm roof last weekend."

"What about you?"

Anakin took a drink from his beer as well. Angela was right--they did taste better when he didn't have to walk for them.

"I'm getting the flight club started again. Other than that? Going to classes, avoiding yearbook food, trying to remember not to get into a drinking contest with Rogue ever again, getting ready for the dance tomorrow." He smiled. "You know, the usual."

Angela gives Anakin a sympathetic look. "Yearbook food got to you, too? I know it wasn't fun for Rory or Logan. Or for Angelus, I guess." She doesn't quite keep the disgust out of her voice on the last name, but her tone is still pretty light. "Who are you going to the dance with?"

Anakin shudders. "Yeah. Yearbook food bad. Bad, bad, bad." He brightened up when Angela asked who his date was. "I'm going with Padme. Um, Senator, Professor, Amidala. We've known each other for years."

Angela smiles. She doesn't really like the idea of teachers dating students -- it's too big a taboo in her world -- but Ms. Amidala seems only a few years older than her students, and she suspects Anakin can handle himself.

"Oh, I have her for Intro to Political Science. She's a good teacher, and really pretty," Angela says. "It's neat that you came here knowing someone."

[OOC: I should go to bed. We can end here or pick it up tomorrow if you want. I don't have any special plotty plans for the conversation.]

Anakin smiled. "It was really good to see a familiar face this far from home, yeah."

[OOC: Here is fine to end on. He's just excited to know someone who's not ~~slightly evil~~ ~~morally gray~~ ~~Padme~~ like his other friends.]

Angela nods. "My neighbor Brian from hme was here the first week, but he dropped out. I don't exactly miss him, but ... it was nice to see him, y'know?"

[OOC: And Angela is happy to have found a guy she can talk to who isn't Marty. So it's all good.]

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