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

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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Collapse it! Like a Desk!

Everyone knows that those desks have been asking for it!

Throw them, kick them, body slam them, beat them with pieces of other desks.

Or just gawk. But where is the fun in that?

"Ah!" Minsc looked with pride on the ~~eventual~~ destruction of the desks, and the space in the room it had cleared, beaming. "Much better. Hold on."

He took a moment, went to get some big comfortable floor pillows, tossing them about to make nice places for himself and the students to sit and recline. He perched on his own with his legs folded in front of him, his hamster on his knee. "This," he explained, "is much more like how we learned things back where I'm from, a place called Rashemi. Now that we are more comfortable, we can introduce each other! As you know, I am Minsc! This is Boo! I have never transformed into a creature before, but Minsc had turned human before! That was quite an experience! Please make sure to grab a sylabus (http://berserkerminsc.livejournal.com/10990.html#cutid1); there are important class rules on it! But, for now, at first, I'd like to just go around and know who some of you are! You are all such new faces! So, if you could, tell us your name, a little about where you're from, and if you have any experience transforming into creatures! Go!"

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."

ANIMALS THAT WOULD BE COOL TO TURN INTO

--Tycoon or Chocobo

Edited 2009-01-09 23:20 (UTC)

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

After the discussion, Minsc has applauded all the students on their insights and dismissed them, but he is around to chat afterwards!

YAAAAAAAAY CLASS!

I'm around saving for a blip in the afternoon to evening for a short work shift.

And now I get coffee!

John Sheppard

This teacher was insane, but how could John argue with someone who wanted them to destroy school property? He flipped his desk over and worked to forcibly remove one of its legs which he would then work on beating it with.

Oh dear. "I'm John Sheppard, from an apparently normal version of Earth," he began slowly, as if trying to avoid talk of transformations. "There've been other versions of me around, but as far as I understand, I'm the only one of me who seems to turn into a rabbit regularly." Maybe if he looked at his hands no one would hear?

Minsc was a ranger; his hearing was excellent. But he wouldn't laugh! He wanted to, just a little, but he wouldn't! Rabbits were very noble (and tasty) creatures!

"How regularly?" he asked; he might have let it go, but it was important information for the class. "Is it an acquired skill, Sir John, or more of a oh, goblin spit, I'm a bunny again thing?"

Arthur Pendragon

Well. As far as madness went, at least this one had picked something that could fall under the header of good fun.

Arthur kicked his over.

About thirty seconds later, he had gleefully dismantled the desk and was looking for something else to break.

"I am Prince Arthur Pendragon," Arthur said. He'd grown used to a pinch of madness in his instructors here. By now, it was barely a surprise. "Of Camelot. Which is in England, I've been told. I have never been touched by magic as to turn into a magical creature." He paused before adding, cheerfully, "But I've fought a fair deal of them."

Some of which also fell under the 'good fun' header.

"Not ones that used to be people," he finished, more seriously.

Noting the serious tone at the end of all that, Minsc nodded and held back his chuckle. "That's very good," he said. "Although sometimes fighting some that have been people is necessary," and great fun, but after having the class destroy desks, he'd figured he'd done enough rabble rousing for one class. "What kinds of creatures have you fought, Prince Arthur?"

"In recent years, the kingdom has suffered something of a plague of them," Arthur offered, "They've grown more fanciful. We're facing gryffins and Questing Beasts now." And unicorns, but he'd really rather not go into that. "A sorceress also sent an avanc to pollute the water, but we got rid of that."

"Ahhhh, yes!" Minsc nodded. "I remember speaking of your Questing Beast on the radio! Tell me, your highness, do the have good loot?"

"In my kingdom, monsters do not carry loot," he muttered. It remained a ridiculous idea. "Just... entrails."

"Which," Minsc pointed out, "can be good loot to the right person. Many apothacarists where I come from pay good money for beast entrails to make potions and salves."

There was a slight pause.

"I'm still waiting to discover a beast that has entrails to make that stuff taste better, blech."

"You might as well start eating rat for all the good it'll do," Arthur said. He made a good show of not looking at a certain rat-stew-serving idiot in the class. "But the point's hardly in the loot, is it?" That was protecting your people.

And, well, having fun. But shhh.

Hey, rat wasn't bad in a pinch, although Minsc had to admit he wasn't much of a fan. Rat was too much like hamster.

Besides, he was more interested in something else Prince Arthur had said, tilting his head in interest.

"Then what is the point?" he asked, in a way that clearly didn't disagree with the boy; it was proposed as more of a test for a look into his perspective.

"Keeping the people safe from harm at a creature's hands," Arthur said, authoritatively. Without a doubt in his mind. "Many of those who roam the land devour livestock or even the farmers themselves. They must be kept safe."

Desk destroying? Now I'm sorry I didn't throw Chewie into this class. *g*

The only thing that Arthur's answer lacked to make it perfect was missing the use of the words buttkicking and goodness. Minsc couldn't help a smile.

"You've got your head and your heart in the right place," he said proudly; he couldn't help being proud at any sign of goodness in a person, "especially for a noble.."

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

Sign In -- 01/09.

Destroy the Desks! -- 01/09.

Introductions -- 01/09.

Discussion -- 01/09.

Discussion : Blackboard -- 01/09.

Re: Discussion -- 01/09.

Talk to Minsc -- 01/09.

OOC -- 01/09.

Re: Sign In -- 01/09.

Re: Destroy the Desks! -- 01/09.

Re: Introductions -- 01/09.

Re: Introductions -- 01/09.

Re: Sign In -- 01/09.

Re: Destroy the Desks! -- 01/09.

Re: Introductions -- 01/09.

Re: Introductions -- 01/09.

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Re: OOC -- 01/09.

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