Adventures in Literature, Wednesday, Period Three [Class Twelve]

[carpe_demon]

Drake had something a little more elaborate planned for class today than usual, so he had left a note directing students to the Danger Shop. There was a limit on how much he could do by just snapping his fingers.

In the room, the students would find themselves in a dark countryside, and hovering in the distance was a strange craft.

"The War of the Worlds," Drake said, stepping out from behind a farmhouse. He was oddly dressed like a priest and carrying a bible. "Written in 1898 by H.G. Wells. The book takes place in Victorian England, but the versions most people are familiar with take place in Grover's Mill, New Jersey or California. Actually, with you kids the version you might be most familiar with could be that wacky one with Tom Cruise, wherein the world is destroyed except for Cambridge, Massachusetts. Don't ask me, ask Xenu.

"Moving on! So the book starts out with meteorites crashing into the earth in England. They're actually Martian spacecrafts, and soon they're up and moving and heading out to destroy London, because that's how aliens roll. London, Tokyo, and New York. Really not a good plan to live in any of those cities if you're paranoid about alien invasions. Los Angeles, too, but that's more of a disasterporn hot spot these days. But I digress.

"The Martians stomp through the countryside in their Tripods, just as fierce as any ANTM finalist. The army tries to blow them up as armies do, but the Martian tech is far superior. The narrator of the story runs around trying to survive. Just when all hope seems lost, the Martians all keel over and die. Seems they forgot to get their shots, and they weren't vaccinated against all of Earth's viruses and bacteria. Ooops.

"Your task for today?" Drake finished. "Survival. But I don't advise doing something like this." Drake held up the bible and walked toward the alien ship, which was lowering its neck and "eye" to look at him. "We come in peace," he said. "We come in --" The eye glowed red and released a heat ray at Drake, vaporizing him. Ooops. And now more ships appeared and started moving toward the students.


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Sign In [AiL: Class Twelve]

[carpe_demon]

Like you've got a Martian after you.

Listen to the Lecture [AiL: Class Twelve]

[carpe_demon]

And complain about the blatant Martian sterotyping or the virus ex machina ending. Or something like that.

Activity [AiL: Class Twelve]

[carpe_demon]

Run, hide, fight some aliens. Mod away!

Talk to Drake [Ail: Class Twelve]

[carpe_demon]

Don't worry, he got better.

TAs [Ail: Class Twelve]

[carpe_demon]

When they ping in.

OOC [Ail: Class Twelve]

[carpe_demon]

Seriously, Cambridge was PERFECTLY INTACT. The aliens must've been afraid of Aeryn.

Re: Sign In [AiL: Class Twelve]

[awakestheghosts]

Chloe Saunders

Re: Sign In [AiL: Class Twelve]

[thatsamilkshake]

Francine Peters

Re: Sign In [AiL: Class Twelve]

[icecoldfrost]

Emma Frost

Re: Sign In [AiL: Class Twelve]

[living_endless]

Didi

Re: Activity [AiL: Class Twelve]

[living_endless]

Didi wasn't in the mood to fight, and she didn't have anything against Martians. She climbed a tree to a sturdy branch well over the Martian's heads and sat, watching what would happen.

Re: OOC [Ail: Class Twelve]

[onlysmokesnics.livejournal.com]

BAHAHAHAHAHA.

I forgot about the Tom Cruise WotW. That makes Algren vs. The Tripods even more awesome, in hindsight.

Re: Sign In [AiL: Class Twelve]

[onlysmokesnics.livejournal.com]

Hayley Fitzpatrick

Re: Talk to Drake [Ail: Class Twelve]

[onlysmokesnics.livejournal.com]

Hayley raised her hand.

"Who's Xenu?"

Re: Talk to Drake [Ail: Class Twelve]

[carpe_demon]

"You don't want to know," Drake said. "But if anyone wants to give you a personality test, run like hell."

Re: Activity [AiL: Class Twelve]

[carpe_demon]

Drake shimmered in beside her. Good thing it was a really sturdy branch. "If you were another Death you could just call in a favor from Pestilence," he said with a grin.

Re: Sign In [AiL: Class Twelve]

[wantstodirect]

Tony Foster

Re: Activity [AiL: Class Twelve]

[living_endless]

Didi laughed. "I could probably call in a God who could do that if I really wanted to, but it seems kind of overkill for a class exercise."

Re: Activity [AiL: Class Twelve]

[carpe_demon]

"Not to mention the possibility of collateral damage," Drake said.

Re: Activity [AiL: Class Twelve]

[living_endless]

"Yeah, you don't need a pissed-off god making the students sick by mistake," Didi agreed. "Though you could send in virtual pestilence, couldn't you?"

Re: Sign In [AiL: Class Twelve]

[bad-nose-job.livejournal.com]

Penelope Wilhern

Re: Activity [AiL: Class Twelve]

[carpe_demon]

"I could," Drake said. "But it's more fun to watch them try to figure out what to do. I'll sneeze on the aliens by the end of the class to take 'em out if they haven't already."

Re: Activity [AiL: Class Twelve]

[living_endless]

"Very gentlemanly of you," Didi said, and looked down at the battlefield, such as it was. "Do I have to get down and fight?"

Re: Activity [AiL: Class Twelve]

[carpe_demon]

"Nah," Drake said with a dismissive wave. "The object is not to get hit by the red heat ray. How you want to do that is up to you."

Re: Sign In [AiL: Class Twelve]

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Alex Russo

Re: Sign In [AiL: Class Twelve]

[likethegun]

Sam Winchester

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Gabrielle

Re: Listen to the Lecture [AiL: Class Twelve]

[ancientbschamp.livejournal.com]

. . . none of this made any sense to Gabrielle whatsoever. Although if Martians had anything to do with Mars as in Ares, well, that could make sense. Should she worry now?

Re: TAs [Ail: Class Twelve]

[likethegun]

Sam was there, trying to decide between running and hitting things very hard.

Re: Sign In [AiL: Class Twelve]

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Ellie Bartowski

Re: Activity [AiL: Class Twelve]

[awesomebigsis.livejournal.com]

Ellie really wasn't the fighting type, even if they were in the Danger Shop. She chose to hide instead.

Re: Sign In [AiL: Class Twelve]

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Diana Hansen

Re: Activity [AiL: Class Twelve]

[oops-mbad.livejournal.com]

Diana decided to go for the hide option. She wasn't in the mood to really fight.

Re: Sign In [AiL: Class Twelve]

[glacial_queen]

Karla

Re: Activity [AiL: Class Twelve]

[glacial_queen]

Karla had been able to work through a lot of her Briarwood-induced feelings by taking them out on marauding vegetation, so she didn't really need to destroy aliens for theraputic reasons. However, they were dragging all of her 'protect the innocent' instincts to the fore, which meant that sitting this battle out wasn't going to be an option.

Besides, letting loose was kind of fun.

Karla ran up the air like a staircase and levied a Sapphire-strength bolt of Craft directly into the 'eye' that had vaporized Drake.

Re: Activity [AiL: Class Twelve]

[icecoldfrost]

On one hand, it was holograms. Her Gift didn't work on machines. On the other, Drake apparently programmed them to react to various types of stimuli, including powers.

Oh well, worth a try.

Emma's eyes misted over for a moment as she reached out with her powers, intent on shutting down whatever sort of nervous system the one closest to her had, if the simulation would allow it.

If not, well, Emma was very very good at running.

Re: Activity [AiL: Class Twelve]

[thatsamilkshake]

Francine would be taking both the running and hiding options! Thank you again, Hot Gym And Survival Teacher.

Re: Sign In [AiL: Class Twelve]

[ktarian-wildman.livejournal.com]

Naomi Wildman

Re: Sign In [AiL: Class Twelve]

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Hyuuga Hinata

Re: Talk to Drake [Ail: Class Twelve]

[onlysmokesnics.livejournal.com]

"But I have a great personality and do tests well..." Hayley said.

Re: Sign In [AiL: Class Twelve]

[yakkoyaks.livejournal.com]

Yakko Warner

No, really, that would be his reaction.

Re: Activity [AiL: Class Twelve]

[yakkoyaks.livejournal.com]

Yakko held up what looked like a stick of dynamite as he approached a tripod. "Oh Miiiiiister Maaaaaaaartiaaaaaaan!" he called out sweetly. "I have an Illudium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator here for you if you waaaaaaant it! And all you have to do is ask nicely for it!"

Because, really, what was the use of being a product of the same animation studio that created the Looney Tunes if you couldn't steal a prop from them now and again?

Yakko turned toward... well, where a camera would be if there were a camera present and dropped his voice to a stage whisper. "What he doesn't know is that I just had a cold and I coughed allllll over the Illudium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator. It's practically swimming in my germs!"

Re: Sign In [AiL: Class Twelve]

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Joolushko Tunai Fenta Hovalis

Re: Activity [AiL: Class Twelve]

[she-sheds.livejournal.com]

If asked later Joolushko would deny having been in any way startled or shocked by the Martian things.

She was screaming because it might be useful. Honestly. After all, the tripods did appear to be metal so screaming might actually do some good.

Re: Sign In [AiL: Class Twelve]

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Cordelia Chase