Care for Magical Creatures; Friday, Period 2 [ 01/09 ].

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When the students arrived for their class today, they'd find themselves in just a regular old classroom. But not for long.

"Good morning, younglings!" Minsc, the very large fellow with the scars and the armour and the tattoos and...the hamster...greeted the students boisterously, pounding a fist down on the large desk in front of the blackboard. "Welcome to Care for Magical Creatures! I am your teacher, Minsc, and this is my companion, Boo! In a moment, we shall get started, but at the moment, there is something very important we must do first! These desks! They are evil! They are restrictive! Up! Up out of the desk and quickly, children, we must destroy them entirely and make some proper space in this room!"

"Up, up!" Minsc waved his arms to encourage his students to his feet and, with a great, guttural sort of battlecry, he lifted his foot and kicked it straight into one of the desks. It went flying from the impressive blow, toward the front of the room, smashing into a thousand pieces against the blackboard and settling in a small pile of broken legs and pieces.

"Well? What are you waiting for? Vanquish these desks!"

[[ please wait for the OCD is ready for battle! ]]

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Discussion -- 01/09.

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After the final person introduced him or herself, Minsc clapped his hands loudly together. "Excellent! A very impressive class for great goodness! Now!"

With more grace than his bulking body might suggest, Minsc stood up, going to the blackboard. He brushed off some sawdust from a few flying chairs, and wrote in big, bold letters: ANIMALS THAT WOULD BE COOL TO TURN INTO. Then he turned back to the class.

"Today," he said, "we will have a discussion on animals that would be cool to turn into and why. Don't just pick any animal! Think about it first! For example, I might immediately think, well! Don't I want to be a giant miniature space hamster like Boo? They are smart, strong, clever and cute! But they also contain fathomless knowledge that would make my weak human brain explode from their power! Not a good transformation!"

"So let us talk! Animals that would be cool to turn into and why! And it is a discussion so feel free to agree and argue and discuss with each other as well! I will just scribble on a list."

Discussion : Blackboard -- 01/09.

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ANIMALS THAT WOULD BE COOL TO TURN INTO

--Tycoon or Chocobo

Re: Discussion -- 01/09.

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Discuss at will! Magical and normal creatures alike! Interactions with each other are greatly encouraged.

Re: Discussion -- 01/09.

[raspberryturk]

Oh. This one was easy.

"Keepin' up with the bird theme I already got goin' here, there's a kinda creature where I'm from called a Tycoon. Sorta a cousin of the gryphon and hippogriff, you know? It can run, it can fly, it's got resistance to the elements and poisons, that kinda thing." Reno crossed his arms over his chest, making himself comfortable in the cushions. "I wouldn't mind if Fandom decided it wanted to turn me into somethin' like that, yo."

Re: Discussion -- 01/09.

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Latching onto the one he got, Merlin went with it.

"Gryphons are unkillable by weapons made by man." Unless enchanted. "...where I'm from. But they seem to like to eat people. I don't think that would be very good here."

Re: Discussion -- 01/09.

[raspberryturk]

Reno blinked and considered for a moment. Guy had a point, here.

"Well, maybe not here. Though even somethin' like a Gryphon or a Tycoon won't typically go out huntin' for people to eat, where I'm from. It's usually the nosy explorer types who go trippin' through their nests that set 'em off, you know?" A pause. "If I turned into one of them here, I'd probably eat my ferret. That'd kinda suck."

Re: Discussion -- 01/09.

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Merlin nodded in agreement with that. "Eating your pet would be bad, yes. Maybe you could turn into something less destructive?"

Re: Discussion -- 01/09.

[raspberryturk]

"Probably a good idea." Reno mulled it over for a moment more. "A chocobo again, maybe. A different kind, though. They're big birds, made for runnin', and they eat greens instead of meat. There's a start. We got a real rare sort, they're gold-colored. Supposed to be able to fly or somethin', too."

At least, he was pretty sure they could fly. He wouldn't expect a chocobo to swim across an ocean.

Re: Discussion -- 01/09.

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Large green birds.

Merlin was just going to go with that. "Like large chickens?"

Re: Discussion -- 01/09.

[raspberryturk]

"... More or less, yeah, actually." Reno pulled his phone from his pocket and flipped through until he found a picture of one from the wrong game, but ignore that. "People saddle 'em up and ride 'em. Right now, they're the most reliable form of transportation Gaia's got, since most of our energy sources crashed and burned, yo."

Re: Discussion -- 01/09.

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"Those are common?!" And that was a very tiny painting too. Which Merlin was reaching out to touch to see if it was like the Tee Vee.

Re: Discussion -- 01/09.

[raspberryturk]

"Well, yeah, kinda, if you know where to look." Reno blinked and held the phone out for the guy to get a better looksee. "I got more pictures of 'em on here, too, but they're mostly of baby ones. Uh. Blue baby ones. You breed 'em right, they hatch different colors."

Gaia was a wealth of weirdness, really.

Re: Discussion -- 01/09.

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Gaia and Albion both.

"But there are none here?" Merlin almost sounded sad he couldn't actually see one. Even if, with his luck, it would try to eat him.

Re: Discussion -- 01/09.

[raspberryturk]

"Not unless Fandom turns me into one again," Reno mused, and then shrugged. "Been wonderin' if the stables here can handle somethin' like that, though. I got me an' my girl each one over break, they're bein' taken care of by the breeder until we grad this summer."

Because that was just what Fandom needed, really. A giant blue riding turkey or two.

Re: Discussion -- 01/09.

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"For the sake of the stables, we can always hope they do should you turn into one," Merlin said. Seriously. Really.

Re: Discussion -- 01/09.

[raspberryturk]

"Yeah, that'd be real gr-" Heeeeey.

...

That wasn't a pout, dammit.

"Gryphons are still cooler, yo."

Re: Discussion -- 01/09.

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Merlin offered him a sympathetic look for that. "Knowing my luck, I'd just turn into a merlin."

Re: Discussion -- 01/09.

[raspberryturk]

"The fish? Here's hopin' you're at least somewhere near the water for that one, man. That'd suck, yo."

It possibly said a great deal about Fandom that Reno didn't think this was terribly unlikely.

Re: Discussion -- 01/09.

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"It's a fish here?" Merlin asked, frowning and making a note to look that up in the dictionary. "Back home it's a hunting bird."

Re: Discussion -- 01/09.

[raspberryturk]

Reno scratched his head at that.

"Or maybe I'm thinkin' of a marlin. I dunno. The animals from this place always confuse the heck outta me. Unless it's somethin' normal, like a cat, yo."

Re: Discussion -- 01/09.

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Minsc listened to the description, scratching it out on the board, and then let Reno and Merlin discuss it out a little before offering, in general for them all to consider, "But do you think, just because you're turning into one, Tycoon or Chocobo or anything, really, you'd still retain all the same properties?"

Re: Discussion -- 01/09.

[raspberryturk]

Huh. That was a good point.

"Hard to say really, ain't it? We got reports back where I'm from about a guy actually merging with a bunch'a monsters once, and other reports about monsters that were part clone of the same guy, too. And, I mean, they were still Gryphons or Arimahn or Sahagins, but they were that guy, too. Last time I turned into a Chocobo here, I was kinda different from normal ones- they're usually yellow, I was red. So, I mean, I was still me, but I was a Chocobo, too, yo."

A wee ball of wiggly baby Chocobo Reno puff.

"I figure I'd probably have the wings and claws and beak still, yeah? Maybe not so much the resistance to poison. Probably not somethin' I'd want to test out, I guess."

Re: Discussion -- 01/09.

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Sir Reno really took all the points right out of Minsc's mouth, so he smiled and nodded in approval. "Exactly. Best something to not take the risk on, unless you've got a friend particularly well versed in antidotes."

Re: Discussion -- 01/09.

[raspberryturk]

"Eh, where I come from, you can buy antidotes for like, 80 gil, no problem." Reno shrugged. Cheap, really. "I'd be more worried about how many of my friends would be willin' to try an' shove one of those things down the throat of a carnivorous monster, really."

Re: Discussion -- 01/09.

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This Reno fellow had a good head on his shoulders, Minsc had to give him that. He grinned a little again, nodding. "Such a deed would truly be a sign of good friendship! But, on the other hand, there's always that question of how much is the monster and how much is still you." A topic Minsc knew much more about than he'd ever let on, really. "That's something we'll hope to get a better grip on throughout the semester."