Library, Monday (11/15)

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By some strange, twisted, and quite frankly a little bit mean coincidence, there was a book about the history of Stonehenge in the returns dropoff today, full-color panoramic photo of the standing stones in prominent display on the cover.

Gabrielle took one look at it and flinched, immediately deciding she should put it away as soon as possible . . . but she couldn't help looking at it, instead.

Half a chapter into the discussion of the possible history of the monument, she was frowning in a but that's not how it happened way, and rather than putting the book away, she'd gone to get more for cross-referencing purposes. It was sort of like picking a scab. A very perplexing one.

It did nothing for her mood, but that was something she wouldn't be taking out on anyone. And anyway, there was coffee; that might be the important thing.

Kappa Kappa Gremlin Meeting, After Classes, Monday [ 11/15].

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When the guys came into the classroom for the week fraternity meeting, they would find a considerable plethora of pie and ice cream available on the snack table. Plenty of much needed pie and ice cream....and video games.

“I’m sure everyone has had a very interesting week,” Alexander said, looking slightly pained over that fact. “I know I have. So today, Zack and I figured we’d take it easy, have some pie,and play some...video games.” Having only just heard of them a little bit ago when they were preparing for the meeting, he couldn’t help saying it without a certain tone of reverence and fascination.

Zack grinned and gave a nod of his head. He was in a pretty decent mood, considering he and Ino had taken off partway through the week in order to avoid the worst of it.

“We’ve got a couple of titles to choose from, like Swarthy Italian Plumber Racing and Car Larceny Ring, but if any of you have your own games, we’ll probably just chill out here for longer than usual to wind down, so you have plenty of time to run and grab them if you want to play against people!”

Zack liked the fighter games the most, but wasn’t opposed to settling for throwing tortoise shells at people on the WII if need be, really.

“We’ve also got charts to set up a tournament,” Alexander offered. “To add a slightly more interesting twist on things. Winners get a free pie.”

He personally had his eye on the custard. You never knew when you might need a pie to battle a yeti.

Shhh. “So just have fun, guys.”

And that was that.

Food Appreciation [Week 11, Period 4, Mon. 11/15]

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The classroom was filled with the most wonderful smells this afternoon. John stood at the front of the room, table loaded up with fresh to-go orders of honey-fried chicken, golden waffles, and crispy bacon among other moddable brunch delights. Oh, and a tub of sweet maple syrup.

"Morning, er, uh afternoon! Today we're having brunch. I know, I know, Fandom does this for you guys at every event. I also know that sometimes things go down in such a way that you miss the food part for all the talking. Also, I spent some time yesterday reminiscing with an old friend about the great food here. And fights. We had issues back then, it was a good time." As had been Sunday. Oh nostalgia and how it made quick portal trips to Texas seem easy. "So, mix your lunch favorites with breakfast and see if you end up with lufast or brunch!"

Introduction to Personal Weaponry [Monday, second period]

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"Today we're talking about the last of the four major category of ranged weapon," Max announced even though he figured most of his students had already figured that part out from the assortment of weird ray guns and things he had out today. "Some of these use alternative forms of energy to fire standard projectiles like bullets and things, but you can treat those essentially like modern guns, only faster and more powerful."

"The interesting ones are these." Max held up a phaser. "This is called a phaser. It fires energy directly in a beam rather than using energy to push or throw some sort of physical projectile. One of the reasons it makes for such a good weapon is that once you've solved the problems of projecting energy directly you can do a lot with it. A phaser can be used to kill or stun opponents depending on the needs of the situation. It can also be used as a cutting or a welding tool."

"Many weapons of this type are multi-purpose like this," Max continued, putting down the phaser and picking up a blaster pistol. "This tends to be true no matter what technological path lead to the development of the weapon. There are exceptions, of course, but they tend to be relatively rare."

"However, despite the many advantages to this type of energy-projectile weapon, there are some disadvantages as well. One of the big ones is visibility. While a bullet is small and moving fast enough that it's difficult to see, a lot of energy weapon fire is highly visible. If you're trying to shoot someone from cover and don't want them to know where you are... well, some of these are very bad choices since all anyone has to do to find you is trace the path of your shot back to your position."

"By this point I figure most of you understand how guns work as guns, so while there are the usual targets this week, there are a lot of other things to play around with." Big metal plates, random locked doors, and just about anything else that might be interesting to try one of the weapons on were scattered around the room. "So today's activity involves finding a couple of these weapons and seeing if you can get familiar with their less combat-oriented uses. Start fires, break into things, perhaps try making something. Feel free to experiment."

Macro-Tactics, Monday

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"I can understand if after the past few weeks, you might have questions," Kerrigan said, from the front of a very conventional-looking classroom. She had her arms crossed. "Matters you'd like to discuss, or see discussed in the remaining weeks of this semester. And because I am kind, today, you can ask me anything you'd like."

Also because she had a feeling she'd be able to figure out a lot about how these children's brains worked by virtue of what they asked and why they were asking, but... shhh.

"Suggestions, questions, remarks. Nothing smart aleccy, or you're target practice next class. Shoot. If you have nothing to say, I suggest you pick through the reading matter accorded to you over the past few months."

Spaceships 101- 1st period- Week #11

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It was so much better to be teaching a class while entirely normal. For one, there was no water pistol today. Surely everyone could be glad about that.

"Today we're going to be tackling another starfighter," Jaina began, activating the projection to show them the ship. "This is an E-wing. One thing you'll find with most starfighters where I'm from is that they pale in comparison in some way or another to the X-wing, so they get less use and fanfare. This also goes for the E-wing. You'll mainly see them in use in more elite squadrons, because they really are good ships. They're heavily armed with laser cannons and proton torpedoes, their shielding is good, and if they weren't so expensive they'd be set.

"Your scenario for today is this: you're going to be part of a squadron escorting a diplomatic transport. You'll also have some TIE fighters on your tail. Your job is to protect the transport. If it gets hit, you're in trouble, if it gets shot down, you lose this one. Oh, and if you get shot down, that's bad, too. And if there are no questions, let's get started."