Earth Zoology, Wednesday

[livingartifact]

There was no cunning reveal as to the topic of today's zoology class. When the students arrived, they would find the classroom already teeming with animals, small, jumping amphibians in a wide variety of shapes that went leaping this way and that, chirping and croaking and making noises like plucked rubberbands all the while.

"Ah, yes, class," Jenkins said, sounding rather distracted. "Welcome. My apologies for the state of the classroom, it would seem Fandom has rather decided what our topic for the week will be for us."

A frog jumped from the table and landed squarely on Jenkins' forehead. He sighed, but otherwise didn't bother to disturb it.

"May I introduce you all to the noble frog. As you can see, they come in a wide variety of sizes, colors, and behavior patterns, though the base shape of them remains pretty constant. Frogs are amphibians, which means they are equally at home on land or in the water —" The frog on his head crawled up into his hair. Jenkins pulled out a handkerchief and dabbed at the spot it had been on his forehead. "— Or, apparently, in hair. Though they're largely carnivorous creatures, feeding on insects and other small animals, they should be rather harmless to beings of our size. There are a number of poisonous species, but they are all very brightly colored, and I haven't spotted any of them in here." Wasn't that reassuring?

"Though they are perfectly natural creatures well known to science, there are a few . . . otherworldly stories about frogs as well. It has been known, on occasion, to actually rain frogs, for instance. Popular theory for this is that the precipitating frogs get picked up by particularly strong winds, which then deposits them at high velocity into populated areas. There are stories of royalty getting turned into frogs — or rather, frogs turning into royalty — but I rather suspect those rumors were started thanks to the occasionally hallucinogenic properties of the toxic species' secretions. And, perhaps most famously on Earth, there is the second of ten plagues visited upon the ancient Egyptians by the Hebrew God in the Bible. Fun fact, there is some scholarly debate as to whether the term is best translated into 'frogs' or 'frog', and as such, whether the Pharoah had to deal with a swarm of regular sized frogs, or one extremely large one.

"Now, as for today's activity, I invite you to observe these frogs at your leisure. And — if you would be so kind as to gather them, I rather suspect Principal Washburn would rather they didn't get out and plague the entire school."

Don't Do the Thing: Decision Making For Dummies [Tues, 3rd Period]

[jedigrammarians]

Aphra wasn't even there this week. Just an empty classroom all set up with desks.

Was this a test to see what they'd do? Would there be an ambush? Was this a deliberate attempt to instil paranoia?

Had Aphra just forgotten what day it was and that she was supposed to be teaching?

Let's face it, it was probably the last one.

The Cryptozoologist's Field Guide, Wednesday, Per 1

[arboreal_priestess]

Class was back in the normal classroom today, not the Danger Shop. And if that didn't clue everyone into what the day was going to be, the TV at the front of the room probably did. There was a note attached to the TV screen:

I'm sick and rather than risk spreading the germs, I'm going to set this video up and trust you all can handle it from there. The Mongolian deathworm is a poisonous cousin to the bloodworms we discussed last week, but, shh, nobody tell him.

Practical Diplomacy, Wednesday, February 7, 2018

[sith_happened]

Do you know what's a fun thing to do when it's freezing cold and snowing outside? Paintball.

Well, at least if you're Anakin.

"Welcome to aggressive negotiations," he said with a grin. "This is paintball, a game on this planet where you shoot paint pellets at each other while shouting mocking things."

The shouting part was not optional, as far as Anakin knew.

"Sometimes your negotiations will disintegrate into chaos, and while running away and issueing a blistering press release is an option, shooting people with paint is so much more fun," Anakin concluded. "Suit up, choose your weapon, and attack!"

He coughed.

"I mean. Negotiate. With weapons."

Library, Wednesday

[era_two_triangle]

It was just a normal day in the library. No book shenanigans. No gremlin shenanigans. No missing ladders. No anything.

Just Peridot, putting books back on the shelves, organizing things, cleaning up. Like a nice, normal library shift.

It was really, really weird.

[OOC: Open, with possible SP because I have picked up some manner of sick.]