fandomhigh | Culture Shock, Thursday, 6/18, Period 2

Algren had left a ~~handwavey~~ note for his class to meet him out my the main campfire again. No particular reason, really. He just liked the fresh air. And possibly watching kids suffer in cloudy, sometimes soggy weather.

"In the last few classes," he said, pulling up a stump and having a seat, "we've covered the stages of culture shock, and we've discussed how they pertain to life here on Fandom Island. Today, we're going to focus less on the 'shock,' and more on the 'Fandom,' because you never know when it's going to strike."

He nodded down to a bowl he had placed nearby.

"In this bowl, there are some scraps of paper. On those scraps are written a few different afflictions that this place might hit you with at some point during your stay here. Pull out one, read it, keep it a secret. And then mingle with the rest of your class, acting out your unfortunate symptom. As your classmates guess what the matter is, you'll find yourself transformed back to normal. When that happens, take a cookie and get out of my hair."

Yes, he'd stopped by J,GoB on his way to work today and picked up some ~~moddable~~ cookies. Just so that he could excuse chasing the wee children away early. It was a lazy sort of day.

[~~Please wait for OCD!~~ Class is up! Enjoy!]

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~~Himura Kenshin~~

緋村剣心

((who sadly doesn't have any weird icons.))

Karla di Glacia

Ellie Bartowski

Francine Peters

Edmund Pevensie

Morgana

Chie Satonaka

Elspeth of Valdemar

Listen to the lecture, swat at mosquitoes, take refuge from the random bouts of rain that Algren doesn't seem to care about because he's a cold, heartless jerk sometimes.

And he is ever-amused at your misfortune.

And again, Karla was glad she had Craft. She used her shield as a shelter the same way she had during the drill. She also kept walking on air about a foot off the ground. She didn't want her pretty dress to get all wet and muddy.

The bad weather and bugs didn't bother Kenshin as much as they might some others; Shishou had made him sit out in worse. The lecture had him staring a bit though.

More acting?

Francine huddled under her umbrella and gave a decent approximation of listening, but her mind, like the two culture-shockiest people she knew and the one who never seemed to be shocked by anything, was elsewhere.

Pull a misfortune out of the bowl! Act it out among your classmates, who are also similarly afflicted! There are duplicates of some of these, so feel free to take one that someone else has grabbed already. Why not?

Gremlin Bitten and you think you're a rockstar
Transformed into a monkey
Recently abducted by squirrels
You're now one-foot tall!
Sudden amnesia
Gender-swapped!
You've become your own evil twin
Everybody else in the class is now a zombie
You can't stop singing everything you want to say
You're being followed by a weetiny herd of tapdancing cows
Your clothing keeps vanishing. (Please refrain from removing actual clothing.)
Everything you say is a lie.
Second childhood! You're now five. Enjoy.
You weren't expecting parenthood quite this early. Your classmates are all five.

And then take a cookie and get out of the rain.

Edited 2009-06-18 11:30 (UTC)

Second childhood! You're now five. Enjoy.

Karla grinned at this one! "Wheeee!!!" she yelled, running around the other students. "I'm playin' dress-up!" she announced, looking very proud of herself.

"You sound very grown-up," Francine said with a small smile.

"I is very growed up!" Karla pouted, fists balled on her fists. "Gimme a cookie!"

Whether this was what Karla thought most children behaved like, or was just reliving being five was anyone's guess.

"Sorry, I don't have any cookies!" That statement, if anything, should have clued Karla in to what Francine's Fandom-induced problem was. "I don't like them anymore."

Karla wibbled. "No cookies?" she asked, plaintively. "Don't you like me any more?"

Oh, that was mean and unfair. "Nope! Cookies are stinky and so is anybody who likes them."

"LIAR!" Karla yelled, pointing at Francine. "Big, mean, nasty liar!" She was having trouble keeping her mouth from twitching, but she tried for all the childish rage she could summon.

Francine failed utterly at the not-twitching, what with the guffaw and all. "As a matter of fact, yes." She peered at Karla. "I'm not sure if you're five or just a rockstar, though."

"Rockstar?" Karla asked. "I'm afraid to ask if you can't tell the difference."

"Well, there'll be a bunch of them in town this weekend," Francine, who could tell the difference but just thought she was funny, said. "So you may get to see first-hand and make the call for yourself."

"Mother Night," Karla muttered, picturing a group of children wielding rocks. "Maybe I'll stay in my room, instead."

"Oh, but then you won't get to hear the music," Francine said, shaking her head. "Plus some of them are really cute."

"...Music?" Now she was picturing adorable child protegees making music. With rocks. "If you say so," she said dubiously.

The teacher was nice enough to leave an umbrella for her, at least.

And Peyton greatly appreciated the umbrella.

Though she did wonder if any of the students would try and join her under it to stay dry.

Complain about the weather. Go ahead. He'll shove another cookie at you and tell you to suck it up.

I have a day off.

It is a lazy day off.

But I am here, woo!

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