Home Ec is Outrageous!; Monday, Period Five [ 07/26 ].

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The class was meeting in the danger shop today, set up to resemble just your every day, average house.

Well, perhaps your everyday, regular fraternity house on a big party campus on a Sunday morning...It was not a pretty sign. It was darn near apocolyptic.

( Cleaning House! )

"Any questions?" he asked. "If not, have at it! Defeat that dirt! Go on your germ genocide! Banish that bacteria! You've got until the end of class to do these rooms proud! It might not be the kind of cleaning house some of you might be familiar with--" And, yes, that was a wink toward Gunn "--but it's still pretty important!"

[[ OCD is coming came in and made a mess! Time to clean it up! ]]

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Adventure Games, Monday, Period 3

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Ziva had instructed the students to come to the Danger Shop again today for class. This week, the students would find themselves standing by a wooden platform, with an identical platform about ten feet away, and on the ground between the platforms was a thick bed of fresh mud.

"Over the past few weeks, you have all proven yourselves to be quite capable of straightforward physical challenges," Ziva said, sounding quite pleased about that. "Today, I thought we would try something a little more difficult. It can be quite easy to walk a shaky path or climb a tall structure when the path you must take is clear and right in front of you. But what if your path is not clear? What if you do not know exactly what is at your destination? What if you must rely on something like instinct?"

Taking hold of the rope that was tied firmly above them, Ziva swung herself across the mud to the other platform, and then threw the rope back. "See if you can make it across and land here safely, without falling. Sometimes, what seems simple might not be." In this case, that would be because from where they were standing, it would be difficult to see the grease that Ziva had spread along the first foot of the platform. If they wanted to land without slipping, they were going to have to make it to where she did.

They were all a bunch of physical geniuses. Surely they'd be fine!

Keeping Your Advantage: Terrain and You, Week IV [Monday, Period 1]

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"Good morning," Ghanima said as everyone arrived in the Danger Shop. "Today, we are going somewhere slightly warmer than last week."

( At first I thought I was fighting to save rubber trees, then I thought I was fighting to save the Amazon rainforest. Now I realise I am fighting for humanity - Chico Mendes )

"Today you have two options. You can wander around the ground level, looking for medicinals and various creatures and plants, or you can climb the trees"


[OOC: OCD UP!]

The Day After Doomsday: Getting By In a Post-Apocalyptic World - Period 2

[raspberryturk]

"Yo, class!" Reno stepped into the Danger Shop today with a small, twitchy grin on his lips. "Hands-on class today, I bet you're all thrilled, zoto."

( He gestured around to a Danger Shop re-creation of a place that looked inhospitable, pure and simple. )

[Open!]

Art of Adaptation [Monday, Period Six]

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Everyone got word that they were meeting inside today where it was cooler. There was no Bond in sight, but his intrepid TAs were on hand to cover for him while he was being a spy attending to important business. Rose and Kyle didn't actually know where Bond was though. Chances were he'd fallen down a hole and couldn't get out.

"Mr. Bond couldn't make it," Kyle said once it was time to start. "The syllabus says we're supposed to cover Blending In versus Standing Out." How convenient that one TA was good at blending in while the other was better at standing out. "When you're trying to adapt your surroundings, for a lot of people it's natural to want to blend in so you don't get noticed. If you lay low, you can do what you need to do without anyone even knowing you're there or that you're doing anything you're not supposed to."

Rose smirked a little at Kyle as he finished. "Or sometimes it's good to make people look at you. Especially if you're not too good at the whole sneaking around thing. But if they look at you and then just dismiss you cause you're obviously too young to be a threat or too pretty or whatever, well, then you're free to go off and do what you need to without worrying about getting caught sneaking." Or you have a friend use compulsion and then you can go about without worrying anyway. "I'm just saying. If they're staring at your tits, they probably don't think you're capable of actually doing anything important. And then you have 'em where you want 'em."

"So let's turn it over to the class. When do you think it's a good time to blend in? Or a good time to stand out?"

Library, Monday, 7/26

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Henry was frowning a bit in the library today.

A lot, really.

He hadn't heard anything about Anders making it out of Special Collections. He also hadn't heard any complaints or unusual noises from back there to suggest he was still trapped.

Should he risk going back to save him? Maybe just toss a sandwich and some water in, just in case?

These were not routine library problems. Henry sucked in his breath and went back to work.

[OOC: Open library, OCD also got sucked into SC.]

Advanced Sneakiness [Tuesday, July 27]

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"Master Skywalker is indisposed," Anemone stated as the students arrived in the Danger Shop. "Which happens with alarming frequency, if you’re someone who’s paid to be sneaky. Get used to your contacts being unavailable when you want them. If they were convenient people, they wouldn’t be in this line of work."

( Sometimes, contacts even have candy! )

"So start making your lists, and checking them twice," Anemone chirped. "Because today, the contact fairy wants to see if you’ve been a good child or a bad one."

[OOC: Class up early due to Fry-mergency! OCD is up up and awaaaaaaaaaaaay!!!]