The Art of Peace; Thursday, Third Period [09/01].

[sake_shinigami]

The students would enter the classroom to find that all the usual desks had been removed or simply moved over to the side, replaced instead with a ring of various cushions and pillows arranged in a circle at the center of the room. And already sitting on one of those cushions, of course, was a rather large man with a very pink kimono draped over his shoulders and a straw hat on his head, hunched over slightly as his sipped as a cup of tea. As they came into the room, he would look up with a crooked, sleepy sort of a smile and invite them in with a rumble of a voice that matched, gestures for them to come have a seat and offering a cup of the tea for themselves.

"And now I believe," he said, once it seemed anyone who was going to show up had, those who were going to get settled were settled, and it was probably a few minutes past the starting time by now, anyway, "it's time for us to begin ♥. Welcome, my ducklings, to the Art of Peace, wherein we shall, together, go on a journey through a gentler, more pacifist approach to life, especially when all signs may otherwise point toward war ♥. It's a rather broad topic, sometimes a rather difficult one, as well, and it will not all be just sitting around and waxing intellectual about such concepts. But that is, mostly," here he passed them all a grin, "what we will be doing today ♥.

"With it being toward the end of the week," he continued, "I've sure none of you will be surprise to hear that I would like to use today to get to know each other ♥. More importantly, though we may all indeed be sitting, I'd like to know where you stand on our topic at hand. Are you a staunch pacifist, much like myself? Do you tend to lean more warlike, but you're interested to see a different perspective? Are you here because someone out there clearly thinks they're very funny?" He chuckled softly. "Whatever the reason, it'll be good to understand where we're all coming from, to better see where it is we might be able to go ♥."

He took a slow sip of his tea, and then softly set it in front of him.

"I'll go first ♥," he said, and thus the class began in earnest.

Sexy Crimes, Thursday - 2nd Period

[ohvalleyofpenis]

Once the class arrived, they'd notice the phrase written on the board just waiting for them.

Be Hot, Do Crime

Because that was the kind of class you were rolling into here, folks. That's what you had coming.

"So apparently the school has decided that we are the most qualified people to teach you about being sexy while doing crime," Cara said. "Which, I can hardly blame them for." And that was the closest she'd ever come to commenting on how disturbingly toned Jaskier was.

Hence why Jaskier positively beamed next to her. "Now, the crime portion can be a little... iffy. But we can certainly give advice on how to look good whilst doing things of dubious legality."

There. Their asses were covered.

"As you've hopefully figured out by now, the first week is all about introductions, and who are we to mess with tradition like that?" Yes, it was all about tradition and not wanting to come up with an extra class. "So, name, class, experience with crimes, sexy or otherwise."

"You can use euphemisms for the crimes if you feel better about it," Jaskier suggested. "But we're no snitches."

Though Cara reserved the right to smack sense into anyone doing something stupid. "None of us are, right?"

Library, Thursday 9/1

[noonedecidesmyfate]

There were cats in the library today. More accurately, there were cats in the library ceiling.

"None of you are Five, are you?" Belle asked one tuxedo cat. It just stared in response which wasn't really an answer.

To go with the cats peering down at her there was a cart full of cat-themed books to be shelved. Or at least they had cat-themed titles. Some of them seemed to have nothing whatsoever to do with actual cats but this was a good way to see some different items in the collection.

Intro to Palaeontology - Thursday, 1st Period

[itsananomaly]

It had been a while since Cutter had actually taught a class and in what was perhaps a first he had actually turned up to the first class of a new semester.

“This is Introduction to Palaeontology,” Cutter began as he placed the cage he was holding on the desk, “I’m Professor Cutter and this little guy is Rex*” Cutter said fondly as he let Rex out of his cage and Rex hopped happily onto his desk and began chirping, “he’s a Coelurosauravus from the Permian period,” he paused as he surveyed his class and Rex chirped happily as he looked around the room, “this is actually a good learning point to talking about the Permian period, which is a good example of a mass extinction event.” he explained, “We will be learning more about mass extinction events later on in the semester but the Permian is the largest mass extinction event in Earth’s history …. "

Rex chose that moment to take off and fly around the class, luckily the windows and doors weren’t opened or Cutter was going to have to explain to Connor how he had managed to lose Rex on the first day of classes.

“Rex does that, don’t worry he's pretty harmless,” Cutter said and nodded to the first student, “so name, class and any previous experience with palaeontology or something that you would like to learn throughout the course this semester,”

*Rex modded and borrowed with permission!