Rookiehood 101, Tuesday, Period 4

[raspberryturk]

Today, the students would find themselves filing into the classroom only to find a note on the board, being stared at thoughtfully by a rather ugly, hairy creature.

Yo class! Meet me Behind the Skool! - Reno

... And if they were so inclined to do so, they'd find another note there, complete with requisite Alot, directing them to head back inside to the Danger Shop. Unfortunately, their teacher wasn't there, either. There was, however, a note! This time, pointing them in the direction of the cabins, to the main campfire, where Reno was waiting. He'd pulled up a place to sit by the the firepit, and was grinning when the students finally made their way there.

In spite of the small herd of Alots that had gathered around him, yes. Reno had the sneaking suspicion that he was going to have to get used to these guys.

"Yo, Rookies!" He shot off a half-assed little salute as he pulled himself to his feet. "I ain't gonna bother gettin' introductions outta you. You'll be sick like hell of 'em by the end of the week, and if I don't know who the hell you are, I'll just call you 'Rookie' anyhow. Deal, yo."

A few more Alots wandered in, to make themselves comfortable by the firepit.

"In case you ain't figured it out yet, today's lesson is on hazing, yo. I figure I'll get the first problem most Rookies'll see outta the way here and now. Think of the screw-around I gave you all from the classroom to here as a rite of passage, yo. Before you can be part of the group, you gotta deal with the shit that it takes to get you in in the first place. It's like a bondin' ritual. Somethin' you do to prove that you got what it takes to make the group run right later on. And I ain't done with you yet, yo." He wrinkled his nose, as if trying to concentrate really hard on what he was about to say, next. "I've gone ahead and set up an obstacle course for you, behind these strange animals."

Speaking with proper grammar was hard, damn it. But at least the Alots were clearing out, and the course in question was now in plain view.

"Lucky you, you'll all get to run the course, yo." Reno bit his tongue as the last of the creatures glanced back, and was silent until it gave a little shrug of its hairy shoulders, and wandered away. "And when you're done, because I ain't a total monster? Cake. On another note, I got one Rookie, Elena over there, playin' TA for me already, but I'm interested in takin' on another if any of you want the added perks of not only bein' my Rookie, but bein' picked on by me a little less than the rest, and helpin' me give your classmates a hard time. Come see me once you run the course if you're interested, yo."

[OCD on the way up! Welcome to Rookiehood 101!]

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[raspberryturk]

Messily!

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[awakestheghosts]

Chloe Saunders

Lecture!

[raspberryturk]

Eye the obstacle course, eye the Alots, give Reno the stinkeye for making you wander all over hell's half-acre. All that good stuff. Take notes at your own peril.

Re: Lecture!

[awakestheghosts]

Chloe was beginning to wonder if Reno was insane as she looked around at everything.

Re: Lecture!

[intraspective]

Ino? Was mostly amused.

What? She knew Reno. She'd been half expecting something like this.

Re: Lecture!

[weetuskenraider]

Out of both a sense of humor and a certain appreciation for deviousness, Tahiri mostly looked amused at the machinations it'd taken them to get there; she was more interested in the Alots than giving him some kind of look of doom.

Although the obstacle course . . . was kind of special. Wow.

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[gorka-wolf.livejournal.com]

Makita was going to eye the obstacle course, try to pet an Alot, and glare at Reno. She wasn't a rookie anything.

Re: Lecture!

[momslilassassin]

The Alots were certainly new, but Ben was more concerned with the obstacle course.

Specifically with making sure Reno never, ever met his father because this was so up Luke's alley.

Re: Lecture!

[cutsthestrings.livejournal.com]

Fiona had actually been glad that the notes were at least plain English... of a sort. No riddles or special tricks they had to perform. According to her brother, certain buildings of his school would occasionally pretend not to be there.

Re: Lecture!

[heromaniac]

Well, it certainly seemed like the same Reno she knew, Momoko rolled her eyes. She wasn't sure why he had so many of the weird monsters, though, but she eyed the obstacle course with slight fear...

Could she call in a 'little sister' favour, maybe? She pondered that idea as she listened.

Re: Lecture!

[ashockingbitch]

Jenny was contemplating getting Reno for this. She didn't need a hike before she even got to class. Good grief.

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[whateverknight.livejournal.com]

Squall glared at Reno. And at the alots. And at the obstacle course. And...

He was just generally glare-y.

Obstacle course!

[raspberryturk]

Yeah, there's no way you're going to get through this one without needing a towel. The layout is as follows:

- One kiddie pool, filled with lime Jell-o. At the bottom of which is a hula hoop, which you have to fish out.
- Run through the tires, which Reno has so very helpfully lined with sawdust. To help your footing once you've been wading through the Jell-o, of course.
- Now, throw the hula hoop over that barrel, there! Inside the barrel is a pointy stick. Just a pointy stick. Dig it out and walk over to the portable monkey bars that Reno has set up. Stand underneath it, and pop the balloons that are hanging from it! Inside? Is a very lovely helping of corn syrup which will rain down over you. Because Reno cares!
- And now that you're all sticky, there's another kiddie pool! This one is filled with yellow feathers. Don't ask how many dollar stores on the mainland Reno had to pillage to be able to fill it up. At the bottom of this pool? Your plate. The one you'll get your cake on. Get it!

Re: Obstacle course!

[awakestheghosts]

Chloe wasn't one of those people that were afraid of getting their hands dirty, but she thought this was a little excessive.

However, she went through the course, only cursing sometimes. The syrup and the feathers were what caused the loudest curses from her. That was saying a lot.

When she managed to retrieve a plate, she held onto it tightly.

It wasn't that she was all that caring about getting cake, you see. It was the principle of the thing.

Re: Obstacle course!

[intraspective]

Ino was well aware that showing distaste and being a baby about the course would only net her more mocking from him. (She had so much faith in him, you see.)

Which would be why she was taking the course with every inch of dignity she could. The Jell-o wasn't so bad, exactly, and she claimed her hula hoop with little difficulty. The sawdust was, ew. Her footing was fine (because Ino was a ninja, come on) but ewwww sawdust and Jell-o and sandals were not the best of mixes.

A toss of the hula hoop, thrown only a little harder than she might've (it was a way of getting her 'ewwww gross' reaction out), right over that barrel. And... then a pointy stick.

Ino eyed the balloons for a long long moment before sighing and accepting the corn syrup shower that came with breaking the balloons. Maybe she'd kill him anyway. Ewwwww.

And... feathers. Great. Joyous.

On the good end of things? She had her plate.

Re: Obstacle course!

[weetuskenraider]

No need to recap some of the utterly disgusting (and frequently biologically secreted) things Tahiri had been drenched in before. Jell-o was at least edible (not that she was actively eating it after other people's feet had been in it, she knew how gross those could get, thanks) and didn't try to eat your skin off slowly or anything like that.

The same went for the corn syrup once she got to that point, closing her eyes and grimacing with tolerant amusement when the stuff ran down the back of her jumpsuit collar and into her ears and . . .

. . . and then there were feathers. But there was a plate, too.

Tahiri felt a little bit stupid (it was mostly the feathers) by the time she was done, but she chose to look at the whole thing in the guise of 'well, all my extremities are intact and none of these substances are trying to dissolve my clothes or equipment.'

Mostly.

Because -- feathers . . . ?

Re: Obstacle course!

[momslilassassin]

Ben couldn't read Tahiri's narrative, but he would agree that this was better than sneaking through sewers or diving down garbage chutes or hiding in swamps.

...barely, he'd amended by the time he got to the end of the obstacle course and resembled a cranky yellow bird.

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[cutsthestrings.livejournal.com]

...this was like cleaning up after a children's birthday party, which she was familiar with. That didn't mean she liked it.

Also, while she did it all and came out with her plate and everything, it was mostly out of spite. She didn't really want the cake so much as having gotten it.

Especially when her hair would not recover from the corn syrup until at least three showers later.

Re: Obstacle course!

[heromaniac]

Momoko pouted a moment as her turn approached. If it wasn't her Reno, she had no leverage and he'd totally make her do the whole course. If it was her Reno, she didn't want him to think she was chicken spoiled taking his course lightly.

So she removed her shoes, put her hair up in a bun, and started for the jello. It took a moment to find the hula hoop, and her hair loosened as she ran through the tires. It fell completely down by the time she got to the corn syrup, of course. She was so glad this was her only class today; she was going to be spending hours pulling feathers from her hair again.

Re: Obstacle course!

[glacial_queen]

Karla eyed the obstacle course with a bit of speculation. The hardest part right now was figuring out how Reno would respond to her using Craft. On the one hand, this was supposed to be about hazing and using Craft might be considered 'cheating.' On the other hand, from what little Karla had gleaned about the Turks, using creative techniques to get the job done--especially if you got it done with the odds stacked against you--was kind of what they did.

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[whateverknight.livejournal.com]

Squall glared at Reno. And then slowly removed his leather gloves and leather jacket and put them neatly on the ground, glaring at Reno the whole time.

(What kind of teacher is this? What kind of CLASS is this?)

And then he did the obstacle course.

When he finished, covered in gunk, he did his best to look like he didn't care.

Cake!

[raspberryturk]

It is not a lie! And you're not getting any unless you've been Jell-o'd, sawdusted, syruped, and feathered, and you have a plate in your hot little hands. At least Reno is giving you the option between chocolate and vanilla? And there are sprinkles! Eat, mutter obscenities about the teacher, try to find a way to clean off, and visit with one another if you feel so inclined.

Re: Cake!

[intraspective]

Ino had chocolate cake!

Ino was also covered in a sticky mess of gunk and torn between being grumpy and snickering.

When a feather tried to stick to her cake, snickering won over.

Talk to The TA!

[raspberryturk]

Who has been equipped with a towel. The only towel in sight, actually. For herself, though, not for you. And you'll probably have to pry it out of her cold, dead hands, because Reno has also given her a video recorder, and this is excellent blackmail material, isn't it? Once she pings in, of course!

Re: Talk to The TA!

[findingelena.livejournal.com]

See Elena! See Elena record all of your misery and laugh like a crazy person! Record, Elena, Record!

Elena also had a big, fluffy towel. She didn't need it, because she sure as hell wasn't doing that obstacle course.

But she might be amenable to bribes, for it. You'd better make the offer good, though.

Talk to Reno!

[raspberryturk]

If you're interested in the TA job, or if you just want to attempt to kick him in the shins! You'll have to clear a few of the returning Alots out of the way first, mind.

Re: Talk to Reno!

[intraspective]

"You spelt school wrong in your first note," Ino informed him, while pretending she wasn't covered in gunk.

All. His. Fault.

OOC!

[raspberryturk]

Welcome to Rookiehood 101! Reno's excuse to give you all hell for seven weeks this summer!

If you're interested in the student TA position, ping to Reno, and I'll carry on a thread with you quite happily once I'm home from work. If there's more than one taker, I'll RNG to pick one lucky peon TA before the next class.

Re: OOC!

[weetuskenraider]

Bestest obstacle course evarrrrrrrrrrrrr. <3 <3 <3 <3 <3