fandomhigh | Care for Magical Creatures; Friday, Period 2 [ 03/13 ].

"Good morning, class," Minsc's usual brusqueness was much more subdued today, although he still wore a smile on his face, greeting the students once they were all settled comfortably as usual. In front of him, as always, was the hamster, but also a small assortment of other items: scrolls, vials with bright coloured liquid, a few simple rings. "First off, I would like congratulate you all for clearly doing a fine job of surviving the attack earlier this week! Quite fun! I hope some of you got some good fighting in and those of you who aren't much for fighting managed to stay quite safe! In a bit, we shall celebrate as all great warriors should: by sharing our exploits with each other in great cheer! It is one of the best parts of an epic battle, and I could not dream of making you work when there is celebrating to be had!"

"But that is for later. This," he gestured toward the items, "is for now, as there is no work, but some very important business to cover."

"If any of you have been actually attempting to follow the syllabus, it gets a little messy at the end, but today, especially in the light of fighting something that is a fine but disgusting example of a half-creature, we are going to be talking about your final projects."

"You all remember my friend Jaheira, yes? Well, when she visited, as per request, she brought me some gifts from Faerûn. In front of me are various items for transformation. The scrolls will turn you into an animal for a week, the potions for about two to three days, and the rings are just a one-shot daily thing. I offer the three options to better suit your comfort. I will not hold it against you if you go for a shorter time period, but I will not lie. Those with the most experience are likely to have the better results. You have plenty of time before the end of the semester to make your transformation, so long as you can do it and have a report written about it before your final exam. This gives you the chance to better plan when to transform, to not interfere with other things. Which is more of an advantage than you'd like have elsewhere!"

"Now." Minsc cleared his throat. "I know that some of you are probably appalled at the idea of a transformation or very uncomfortable with the magic, or simply have reservations about the whole thing. I understand that, and if that is a problem, please come talk to me after class. Those not wanting to participate in this project who have very good reason not to will be given an alternate assignment at a later day. Those participating can also do this alternate assignment if they like, but for extra credit."

"Are there any questions? Let us go over those first and then let us begin in the storytelling!"

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Just to recap on the project:

-You have a choice of putting your character through a week transformation, a few days, or just one day.
-You can have this take place whenever you would like or whenever you feel it would be best for your student to be an animal for the chosen length of time, so long as it's before exam week. I think a week would be awesome and fun, but I'm not about to expect anyone to put their character in a compromising state like that for that long unless they wanted to.
-You can pick whatever animal you would like.
-You, always, can just handwave the whole damn thing.
-You can also have your character opt out and go for an alternate assignment. Minsc does pay attention; he knows that there might be some mega issues with some characters here. Also, he knows which students these are and which students might just try to get out of it, so you'd better be convincing.
-I'm willing to have Minsc be more or less able to be convinced depending on if your student is all "HELL NO" but you're all, "HELL YES."
-A Final Report about the Transformation is due at any time before exams.

I think that covers anything, but ask questions away here, as well.

Edited 2009-03-13 13:02 (UTC)

A question about the "whatever animal" bit, just for clarification. Are we aiming for real animals, or are animals from mythology or the character's own world alright, as well?

Inquiring minds want to know if there's any chance certain redheads might have to bunk down in the stables going "WARK" for a week.

"Whatever animal" is whatever animal, indeeeeeeed, so long as it's nothing that's going to cause mass hysteria or bad-assery (they're not powerful enough to say, turn you into a big giant dragon, as awesome as that would be).

Anything that might turn any certain redheads into anything that might go "WARK" is not only acceptable, it's half-expected. ;)

YAY. Thank you!

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