Hunting 101, Thursday

[likethegun]

"So, I'm hoping you guys took a look at the moon on Sunday, since it wasn't your typical full moon," Sam said, once everyone was settled. "I figured, with that in mind, this would be a good week to talk about shapeshifters, namely werewolves."

( Grr argh! Oh wait, that's zombies. )

Library, Thursday (10/1)

[wildandbrave]

Perhaps Cosette's clearly good mood today had something to do with the walk she'd gone on before coming in -- and that had been a good, long walk if the leaves she was unabashedly picking out of her hair as she arrived at the library were any indication. Perhaps it had something to do with the chocolate muffin and coffee she'd picked up between the walk and her arrival at the library, both of which were set down on the desk with something approaching reverent care to wait until she finished her initial round of duties. (As quickly as possible, since it would be awful to let her coffee get cold, wouldn't it?)

All right, both of those things completely had to do with it.

And the books. Always the books.

[OOC: OCD-free, open!]

Adulting With Cars, Thursday, Third Period

[10secondcar]

"I know some of you will be having your parents or other relatives come this weekend," Brian opened this class with, "so you might want to not tell them about what we did last week." Although who knew? Maybe some of them would be thrilled to know their kids were learning how to break into cars at boarding school. "This week's lesson might be a safer bet, though. Say you get in your car, and it won't start. Now, there are a lot of reasons that might happen, and for some of them you're going to need a tow truck, but the first possibility is always that it's your battery, and you just need to jump start the car. And for that you need...a second car." Brian pushed a button and said second car appeared in front of his demonstration car. "You'll also need jumper cables." He opened the trunk of the demo car and took them out. "Here's what you do." He walked them through the process of jump starting a car, then pushed another button on the remote and watched a line of cars appear in front of his students' cars. "Get your cars started, race the course, get back here. Anyone attempting to just jump in the second car and drive off will find that it will not move. One, two, three, GO!"

How To Get By In A Hostile World, Thursday

[suitably_heroic]

A sheet of paper sat on every desk today; otherwise, the classroom was normal.

"So," Atton said, "I'm what my universe likes to refer to as a 'Jedi Knight'. Beyond blah blah religious stuff ugh that's the least fun part, what Jedi are famous for is having a connection to the universe that lets us do all kinds of weird stuff. One of the things we can do is read people's emotions, and sometimes even their thoughts. Most Jedi stack shield upon shield to make sure they don't do that all over the place, because it's really not as much fun as it sounds."

He gestured at his head.

"But some stuff always slips through, even in the most well-trained Jedi." Which wasn't him. A couple of months with an actual Jedi didn't really prepare you for this stuff the way years of training did, though Mical and Anakin had helped. "Now, this island has known people with similar mental powers. Some of them have more control than that, some of them less. Back when I hadn't been trained in my powers yet, I thought of this as kind of a pain in the ass. Like, who wants a stranger poking around their head, right?"

He pulled a face. "Actually, I still think of that as a pain in the ass, which is why I try to avoid doing it from the other end. Harder than it looks, though. What the point is, is that I taught myself techniques to keep people out of my head. It's both easier and harder than you might think." He nodded at the paper on the nearest desk. "What you need to do is fool people. Take advantage of the fact they usually don't really want to be in your head. And the way you do that is with detail. Pointless detail. You want to walk into a room with a telepath with nothing in your head other than the fact you think you hear something whistling in the next room, and nothing in your heart but the thought that the telepath is looking pretty good in that skirt."

Not thinking of any telepath in particular. Really. "It's easy, because the principle is easy. It's hard, because it's easy to slip into thinking 'I have to think this or she'll know', and then hey, she knows. So I want you to practice today. Write down every inconsequential detail you can find in this class. Every emotion you could be feeling about something in this class, too. Then see where your head's at."