2Paint2Ball, Monday, August 8, 2022

[heroic_jawline]

The first clue that class wasn't going to be entirely right was the two teachers perched on the ceiling, waving and looking far too pleased with themselves. "Hello, everyone!" Steve said. "We turned off the gravity today."

"You won't float away completely," Tony promised. "Just enough to really make it interesting. Especially with the force of shooting your paintball gun scooting you around."

"It's going to be fun!" Steve said enthusiastically. "There are, as you can see, a bunch of giant balls to hide behind and jump over throughout the space."

"Just have fun with it," Tony suggested like it was possible for some of the hyper-competitive students. It was not.

British History, Monday

[intheeyeofthebeholding]

Jon hadn't bothered looking professional today. His clothes were well-put-together but rumpled, his hair looked like he'd been running his fingers through it repeatedly, and he was very obviously tired.

He was almost smiling, though, his face softer than it usually got. This could probably be explained by the...guest speakers? interactive exhibit?

Kittens and cats. There were enough for every student to have several, and until the students settled, Jon was perfectly happy being a jungle gym and furniture for all of them.

"It's believed that humans domesticated cats at least four millennia ago, possibly as long ago as ten or twelve. The first evidence of cats in Britain comes with the Romans around two millennia ago, and the cats mercifully stayed longer than the Romans did. Since then they've had an occasionally rocky history, at times being blamed for witchcraft or plague, but mostly growing up alongside civilisation, being mousers and vermin-hunters and companions. There are currently over 8.5 million pet cats in the UK. And today is International Cat Day, so we're going to learn and experience what makes them so wonderful, and give some of them the praise and worship they deserve."

Treasure! [Monday, Period One]

[jedigrammarians]

"So if you've been following along the steps we've been teaching you." In completely the opposite order they were given. "Then by now you should have a treasure worth having."

"Yes, you should," Isabela agreed, pointedly not looking at certain people in particular.

"Which means that assuming you have fellow treasure hunters." Since the treasure was the friends you'd made along the way, you definitely had at least one person like that, right? "It's time to divvy it up. Because you have figured out how you're going to divvy it up already, haven't you?

"If not it's probably a good idea to start talking."

There was maybe a reason why it tended to be enemies she'd made along the way for Aphra...