The Occult | Period 1 | Tuesday

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Class was being held in the Danger Shop today. It would be made abundantly clear why momentarily. For now, Paige was standing at the front of the class, waiting for them to settle before starting in on the lecture.

"Today," she started, "we're going to talk about demonology. If the word doesn't give it away, demonology is the study of demons or beliefs about demons. It deals with both benevolent beings that have no circle of worshipers or a limited amount of worshipers in that they're still below the rank of gods. It also deals with malevolent beings of all kinds, which is how the majority of people see demons. They're bad guys, they're monsters and if you don't kill them, they're gonna kill you."

It wasn't always true but Paige could see why it was the typical belief. She had enough memories of the Emim to know that there was no way those monsters were benevolent in any way, shape or form.

"Demonology isn't something that can be defined simply though. Demonology is different in Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, Zoroastrianism, and Satanism. For the purposes of this class, we'll take a look at those who command demons to do their bidding. Not really such a good idea. Most often, when people are commanding demons, they're commanding the demons most often mentioned in Christian demonology. Real quick, demonology from a Christian point of view tends to deal with the Bible the interpretation of those scriptures, the scriptures of early Christian philosophers and hermits, traditions, and legends incorporated from other beliefs. Those who command these demons don't necessarily worship them but seek to use them to obtain their goals. Some people see that as smart, some people see it as disrespectful and probably a main reason why some demons get pissed and revolt. A lot of it depends on the practitioner of the magic that conjures the demon and the goals they're seeking to obtain."

Paige paused and crossed her arms. "Today, you're here in the Danger Shop to meet a demon or two. I'm sure most of you have dealt with this place before so you know it's not real but please be careful anyway. This is more an exercise on how you deal with different kinds of demons, since no two are the same. Scenario wise, you guys are those who have to deal with practitioners of demonology raising a demon for his or her own needs and then not being able to control the demon's power. These guys aren't all nice but we'll see which kind of methods you use to get past them. Ready? Let's go."

Handling Your Powers, Tuesday

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"Today, I wanted to talk about daily life applications of your powers," Kaidan said. "Some of you rely on them like that already, some of you don't... some of you might not have to. Still, it's a good exercise in restraint, if nothing else."

"So I've set up a... training course, I guess you could call it. You don't need to do everything - just touch on the stuff you know you can do. You're not getting graded on this either. Just use it for practice."

Library, Tuesday

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William had been expecting a quiet day- well, as quiet as shifts in the Fandom High Library were, at any rate.

He was just settled at the circulation desk when there was a rap on the doorframe and a bored-looking delivery man carting a crate waved at him.

William frowned a little, because he was fairly certain he would have been informed if the librarian was expecting any new books to arrive today. The delivery guy was very insistent, though, and finally William capitulated and just let him leave the crate, stamped with "OCME" in large block letters, behind. With no other identifying information, much less anything resembling a shipping label, William wasn't about to open said crate though. He was just going to... leave it in an out-of-the-way spot by the counter as he went about normal library business.

Except that several minutes later, while out in the stacks, he heard a muffled thud and then a chorus of tiny cheers. Immediately suspicious, he peeked out to where he'd left the crate, only to find it open and tipped on it's side, a horde of tiny plastic army men heading for the section where all the military history books were kept. Curious, William watched as they clambered up on each other's shoulders, forming a sort of tiny-plastic-men-ladder to reach a book on one of the top shelves.

Seemed harmless enough, so William just shrugged and went back to reshelving. Fandom, man.

How to Make Friends and Influence People [Tuesday, February 4 , 2014]

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"Depending on how you came into the classroom today," Anakin said, "you are passionately in favor of ordering either Chinese food or pizza for lunch right now. Your jobs today are twofold: get the other half of the class to agree with you on either your cuisine of choice or a compromise food, and then ordering and geting everyone to pay for their order."

He checked his watch. "And you only have ten minutes to do it."

Anakin was a big fan of practical applications of diplomacy. "You may begin...now."

Literature- Wednesday- 2nd period

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"All right, guys, time to pass up those book reports," Jess said when class began. She gave them just enough time to pass everything to the front, and said, "We're going to have an easy day today, where we get to watch the movie version of the meta for Moby Dick. And on your way out, don't forget to pick up your copies of the meta for Much Ado About Nothing for next week!"