fandomhigh | 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! ]]

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."

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!

Sign In -- 01/09.

Destroy the Desks! -- 01/09.

Introductions -- 01/09.

Discussion -- 01/09.

Talk to Minsc -- 01/09.

OOC -- 01/09.