How to Make a Radchaai Entertainment, Friday

[1000yearstoolate]

To say that this was going to be interesting felt like a gross understatement, but Amaya was definitely intrigued to see exactly which sort of direction that 'interesting' was about to take.

"Hello, everyone," she said, greeting the students (and the very attentive and shamelessly modded TA) with a nod, "and welcome to 'How to Make a Radchaai Entertainment.' Odds are, if you know what that is already, you know exactly what you're about to be in for, but there's a good chance you have no idea what that means, in which case, I'm going to leave explaining that to one of the two Radchaai in this room to do the actual explaining. Seivarden?"

Seivarden agreed with the interesting.

"You might be familiar with Earth movies. They are similar to Radchaai entertainments, although they usually make less sense, and are occasionally disturbing. A Radchaai entertainment includes drama, political intrigue, romance, adventure." She made a gesture with her hand. "Characters that you love or hate. Epic spaceship battles."

Here she glanced at Amaya to make sure she had noticed that last bit, and to see if she had anything to add to that description.

Oh, she'd noticed, as was indicated on the big grin on her face (which had appeared just in time to swipe away a less pleased expression at a certain other part of the description).

"The spaceship battles," she added, in a sort of whisper toward the students that was obviously intended to not be much of a whisper at all, "are the best parts."

"Depending on your taste," Seivarden added. "As we're going to make a whole entertainment, we're going to need the other parts too."

"Of course," Amaya agreed with a nod. "And those boring parts just make the good parts that much better! You'll see what we mean; today, we're going to watch a good example, one that has a little bit of everything you'd expect from a good Radchaai entertainment. And, in the following classes, we'll be slowly putting together our own: characters, plot, costuming and sets, and special effects, before we put it all together for the final project."

With two people who had never made a movie before in their lives. One of whom only even knew of movies once she got here. But they were very, very passionate about movies. For some reason.

"Also," Amaya added, with a nod and a statement that was about to unintentionally kill their TA before they even got things started, "we're lucky to have another Radchaai on hand as our TA to help with the finer details, being Radchaai herself, so hopefully Tisarwat's expertise can be put to good use, as well."

Seivarden smiled at Tisarwat, and was a little relieved to have someone else on board whom she was sure didn't mind things that weren't explosions.

"We have a few exciting weeks ahead of us," she said. "So let's get started with watching a good example."

Magical Theory and Practice, Friday, Period 3

[tellmehowstuffworks]

Today's workshop was being held in a classroom. There was a hot Renaissance Faire goth standing at the front of the classroom when the students arrived, and when they sat down they would notice that each of them had a flower and a rock sitting on their desk. "Good afternoon," Yennefer said to her students. "I am Yennefer of Vengerberg, and this is..." She glanced at her notes, and then looked again. "Magical Theory and Practice. Bit of a joke in the class description, I see." Or was it? "Well, we might get to that. We'll see how it goes. For now, I will tell you that while I am new to instruction, I am a sorceress trained in the school of Aretuza, and have been an advisor to the king of Aedirn for thirty years." Yep, she was older than she looked.

"Being as we all come from different realities here, I expect we also come from different magical traditions, and that sticking too closely to what I was taught might be completely useless to you, but I believe that in broad strokes much of that information continues to be true, based on the fact that I have been able to do magic since I got here, so I will teach you starting from that foundation. First, I would like to know what I am working with. Everyone will please tell me their name, so I can check them off this list, and what their experience level is with magic, and a little of how they know it to work, and then we're going to do a little exercise. Any questions so far? No? Good."

Arts and Crafts, Friday, May 15, 2020

[heroic_jawline]

Now, to just start out, the teachers honestly did try to keep the glitter away, but somehow it just showed up once the word 'crafts' was uttered. So. Sorry for that, folks.

"It's in my coffee," Tony sighed, looking into his cup before reluctantly beginning. "Welcome to Arts and Crafts. My name for anyone new here is Tony Stark..."

"And I'm Steve Rogers," Steve said, smiling. "We didn't bring the glitter, it just appears, apparently, along with the crafts supplies we actually brought. Today we're going to make bird houses out of popsicle sticks."

Steve's example was a little more elaborate than strictly necessary.

"We could try making one's that those Porgs can fit in, but I have concerns about inviting them closer," Tony admitted. "Concept is simple, a box with a hole in it big enough for the bird, but not any predators. The art side is how you go from there."

"And then the other animals will protest like at graduation and we'll spend the summer trying to make a popsicle house that an alot can fit in," Steve said, "and no one wants that."

"So, lets get started and... maybe be careful of the glitter?" IT WAS IN HIS COFFEE.