Chemistry, Period 1, 11/21

[tyler_gone]

The circles under Tyler's eyes were dark as kohl, and he held himself stiffly as he plopped Smoochy's head on his desk, then turned to face the class.

"Gunpowder," he announced, changing the class topic because he knew he couldn't do nitroglycerin if he was less than at his best. "We're making it. We aren't in the Danger Shop today, so put your lab coats, goggles and gloves on, and, ladies, pull your hair back." He waited for his instructions to be followed before talking again.

"What you're going to do is combine sulfur, saltpeter and carbon. You're going to grind them all up, then mix them, four parts saltpeter to one of carbon -- your carbon is in charcoal briquettes -- and one of sulfur." He turned to scrawl 2 KNO3 + S + 3 C → K2S + N2 + 3 CO2 on the board. "That is the reaction behind it," he said, going on to explain the equation. "Once you've got the powder fine enough, show me and, if it looks okay, we can go outside and set off model rockets with it."

"This is the real stuff. People get hurt doing this. Any questions, comments, anything looks funny, please talk to me before you blow your hand off."

Comments

Sign in [11/21]

[tyler_gone]

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Re: Sign in [11/21]

[intraspective]

Yamanaka Ino

Re: Sign in [11/21]

[saltandammo.livejournal.com]

Dean Winchester

General Class Stuff [11/21]

[tyler_gone]

Listen to the lecture, chat, pass notes, or wonder what happened to poor Smooch.

Re: General Class Stuff [11/21]

[intraspective]

Ino blinked at Smoochy's head.

And dissolved into (mostly) silent giggles.

Re: General Class Stuff [11/21]

[raspberryturk]

Reno was making a very studious sort of effort to avoid making direct eye-contact with Smoochy.

And every single time he'd fail at doing so, he'd break into a shit-eating smirk.

Re: General Class Stuff [11/21]

[inthereflexes.livejournal.com]

Jack was staring at this head thing on the desk trying to figure out what in the hell it was.

Re: General Class Stuff [11/21]

[the_merriest]

Rikku was taking detailed notes. And trying not to be distracted by the weird disembodied Smoochy head.

Experiment! [11/21]

[tyler_gone]

Make gunpowder, then take it outside to launch your rockets.

Re: Experiment! [11/21]

[saltandammo.livejournal.com]

Dean had never actually made his own gunpowder but could see where that could be a handy skill to have. Also, y'know, making things blow up was never not cool.

Re: Experiment! [11/21]

[inthereflexes.livejournal.com]

Jack was being as careful as he could be to mix everything together and make gunpowder. This was so keen! Also, careful. Really.

Re: Experiment! [11/21]

[raspberryturk]

Reno was the very image of concentration while he worked with the gunpowder. It really wasn't the sort of explosive substance that he was used to making from scratch, and blowing himself up once already was more than enough for this semester.

Re: Experiment! [11/21]

[the_merriest]

Rikku had actually managed to clip most of her hair out of her face, for once, and was very, very carefully mixing ingredients.

Talk to Tyler [11/21]

[tyler_gone]

He looks like crap, but he's there.

Re: Talk to Tyler [11/21]

[saltandammo.livejournal.com]

Dean eyed Tyler. "You okay?"

Re: Talk to Tyler [11/21]

[tyler_gone]

Dean got a thin smile. "Yesterday sucked. But I'll be fine."

Re: Talk to Tyler [11/21]

[intraspective]

Ino wrinkled her nose at him. "Does the other guy look worse?"

Because, seriously...

Re: Talk to Tyler [11/21]

[tyler_gone]

"The other guy was a helicopter," Tyler said. "Crash. But it's scrap metal now. So ... yes."

Re: Talk to Tyler [11/21]

[the_merriest]

Rikku frowned. "You could have asked us to run class, if you were .... not feeling okay."

Sick didn't quite seem the right word.

Re: Talk to Tyler [11/21]

[tyler_gone]

Tyler rubbed an eye, hard, before answering. "I could have," he agreed. "Figured it was better for me to keep myself busy."

Talk to the TAs [11/21]

[tyler_gone]

Assuming they're still there.

Re: Talk to the TAs [11/21]

[intraspective]

Ino was here! And she'd be a lot grumpier, but it was hard to be grumpy when every time you looked at the desk there was Smoochy's head there and...

Well. Then she was giggling again.

Re: Talk to the TAs [11/21]

[the_merriest]

Rikku was here. Wondering if there was a safe way to keep bits of gunpowder in her leg-pouch.

OOC [11/21]

[tyler_gone]

Annnnnd we're done, yay.

Re: OOC [11/21]

[likes-chicken.livejournal.com]

Can I just say I found it eerie (and amusing) that the day I was home sick and watched 'Death to Smoochy' was when the suit got massacred.