Dogma: Fuck It! | Wednesday | Period 1

[flipped-god-off.livejournal.com]

There was something oddly appropriate about having a class on giving the finger to every rule and principle you know first thing in the fucking morning. Sure, it meant Loki had to get up ass early but it also meant he got first crack at the students and they'd remember him during their other classes.

Today's class was meeting in the Danger Shop. It was all well and good to tell people how to go against their rules and guidelines but it was much more fucking fun to put it to practical use.

"Welcome to class," Loki said before he got the simulation started. "Authority's a real fucking thorn in the side, isn't it? Someone's always telling you what to do and what not to do. Someone's always trying to ruin your fucking fun because they don't want you to get hurt or maimed or pregnant or some shit like that. Fuck that shit. Not today."

Loki finally got the simulation going to reveal what looked like a regular shopping mall complete with moddable stores and food establishments, random NPC shoppers, benches, fountains, a merry go round, elevators, escalators and other mundane things you would find in a mall. Right now, the mall was busy as hell.

"We're in a mall," Loki said, arms spread. "It's a typical hangout for teenagers who don't have shit better to do so that's what you're going to do today. Hang out. Get into fucking trouble while hanging out. Don't be pansies and just sit and eat ice cream. Cause fucking mayhem! Make trouble! Live a fucking little. But, there's security wandering around this mall and ever since they failed out of the police academy, they've been dying to prove their worth. They want to bust you. So, watch out for that and be prepared if that happens. Have a fucking backup plan. Good? Go."

With that, Loki disappeared and set the students loose in the mall.

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Class Activity | Authority [D!FI 05/19]

[flipped-god-off.livejournal.com]

There's a two story mall in front of you, go fucking wild. Mod your stores, your NPC's (within reason, of course) and your trouble. Don't hurt anyone else, don't set fires, la la la, within reason of course.

I'll be tossing security at random people when I can but, until then, feel free to have fun with each other, alone, or anything else you'd like!

Re: Class Activity | Authority [D!FI 05/19]

[abitlegless.livejournal.com]

"Why are the stairs moving?" He wasn't actually talking to anyone. Which was good, because it meant he wasn't disappointed when the people pushing past him (necessary, what with him standing right in the way and all) and glaring (also necessary, what with him standing right in the way and all) didn't answer.

He barely noticed; compared to a crowd of vikings, these guys were amateurs.

Hiccup stepped onto the moving stairs, then stopped, causing a pile up of people behind him who obviously thought moving stairs were for walking up.

"We have got to get some of these for the village." Cue the weird looks. "And now I'm talking to myself, and all these people are staring at me." Cue the weirder looks. Hiccup didn't care, he was too busy hanging off the side and staring down at everything.

And that would be why he didn't notice the stairs were disappearing into the floor until it was almost too late. And that would be why he was left scrabbling for balance as he tried to hop off, inadvertently kicking the big red button with his metal foot as he made it to safety.

It was a textbook perfect example of the domino effect, innocent escalator-goers tumbling back down the no-longer-moving stairs, unhurt but pissed off. "Oops." He smiled uncertainly and started to back away. Quickly. "Viking, sorry. We're known for causing mayhem. It's an occupational hazard."

It wasn't breaking the rules, at least not on purpose, but then Hiccup had never needed to try to cause rule-breaking and resultant havoc. It just seemed to happen.

Re: Class Activity | Authority [D!FI 05/19]

[trigons_child]

Raven had been at a mall before when Joan had taken her shopping, so she wasn't entirely overwhelmed. But she had no idea what to do.

But she did spy a Hot Topic and decided to browse. Shhhh.

Re: Class Activity | Authority [D!FI 05/19]

[flipped-god-off.livejournal.com]

"Ain't you supposed to be in school?" a burly security guard asked her as he ambled up. "That's truancy, Miss."

Re: Class Activity | Authority [D!FI 05/19]

[trigons_child]

"This is a school trip," Raven answered. It was the truth, sort of. "I am supposed to be here."

Re: Class Activity | Authority [D!FI 05/19]

[not_tylerdurden]

Calvin wasn't going to just sit and eat ice cream, but he was going to eat ice cream first. He needed sugar for real mayhem.

Re: Class Activity | Authority [D!FI 05/19]

[flipped-god-off.livejournal.com]

The security guard thought maybe Calvin had a look about him but he was just eating ice cream so he kept walking on, just making a note of that face in his head.

That wasn't nearly as dirty as it sounded.

Re: Class Activity | Authority [D!FI 05/19]

[not_tylerdurden]

Calvin was perfectly innocent, thank you. So innocent in fact that last spoonful of ice cream that mysteriously launched itself in the direction of the guard's back must have done so of its own accord.

Re: Class Activity | Authority [D!FI 05/19]

[living_endless]

After a quick flick through the sales racks at Hot Topic, Didi wandered over to the food court. She got lemonade and a soft pretzel and sat on the edge of the fountain, picking at the pretzel and people-watching.

She wasn't exactly making trouble, but it wasn't like she was the five-fingered discount type to start with.

Re: Class Activity | Authority [D!FI 05/19]

[flipped-god-off.livejournal.com]

"Good day, Miss," a totally different rilly security guard said as he passed Didi. See, no rule breaking, no mean authority man.

Re: Class Activity | Authority [D!FI 05/19]

[living_endless]

Didi smiled and waved, thinking the security guard looked like a perfectly wonderful person. "You too."

Re: Class Activity | Authority [D!FI 05/19]

[hrodberxtas.livejournal.com]

Robin stared at the mall around him, and then cackled gleefully.

The first thing he did was find a clothing shop and slipped inside. After making sure no one was looking, he pulled out a black marker and started marking down prices.

Re: Class Activity | Authority [D!FI 05/19]

[flipped-god-off.livejournal.com]

No one might have been looking at the time but you can't escape mall security. There was one of those helpful security guards glancing over at Robin from the corner of the store every so often.

Eventually, he started making his way over.

Re: Class Activity | Authority [D!FI 05/19]

[hrodberxtas.livejournal.com]

As soon as he saw the security guard moving in his general direction, Robin was out of there, the marker disappearing into his backpack. He played it cool, and would only hightail it if the guard came after him.

Assuming he could find a decent hiding spot, out would come his phone. His phone of tricks. "Now what is the frequency of the pa system I wonder?"

Re: Class Activity | Authority [D!FI 05/19]

[ancientbschamp.livejournal.com]

This was going to go badly one way or another. It wasn't that Gabrielle ever went looking for trouble, of course -- she just kept blundering right into it with her eyes open. Today, trouble was lurking in the food court (it reminded her of a much larger, noisier, gaudier village tavern in a way, so she was in Village Tavern Defensive Mindset here) when she headed that way and . . . right into a teenaged boy gesticulating wildly in front of him with both hands and not looking where he was going, being too busy talking to his friend.

His hand gestures just so happened to put him in contact with Gabrielle's, er, bilious green sports bra. As for his spiked bracelets and piercings, could she help it if she knew a lot of warlords and wannabe warlords who dressed that way too?

"Hey, hey!" Gabrielle barked, swatting at his hands with her (luckily still empty) tray. "Not the merchandise, pal! What does this look like to you, huh? Huh? A food court, or a brothel?"

Re: Class Activity | Authority [D!FI 05/19]

[flipped-god-off.livejournal.com]

One of the mall cops had been partaking in a pretzel from the local Pretzel Palace when he heard the commotion. After eating half his pretzel (yes, he was dedicated), he did make his way over to see if everything was all right.

Re: Class Activity | Authority [D!FI 05/19]

[ancientbschamp.livejournal.com]

Gabrielle smacked at the poor unsuspecting kid's knuckles one more time for good measure and gave the mall cop a look that she thought was confident and in control but probably came off looking a lot goofier than that.

"Everything's under control here," she assured him sweetly, then in a lower tone (this would be Gabrielle attempting to sound like Xena, key word attempting), "I can handle one guy trying to be fresh with me."

Re: Class Activity | Authority [D!FI 05/19]

[provostsdog.livejournal.com]

Even if it weren't real - and twas hard for her to remember, - the mall proved interesting and Beka wandered through past the stores. It did not come close to Nightmarket, but twas somewhat akin.

She was watching folk as much as the stores and it didn't take long afore she noticed a gixie in one of the clothes stores shoving a shawl in her purse. Mayhap 't wasn't what Loki had meant with causing mayhem, but a Dog'll be a Dog and when the gixie tried to run past the blaring alarm, Beka tripped her up.

Re: Class Activity | Authority [D!FI 05/19]

[flipped-god-off.livejournal.com]

The mall cop wasn't quite as fast as Beka was and when he finally got to where the alarm was (he'd been...eating again), he was out of breath.

"What's the trouble here?" he asked panting.

Re: Class Activity | Authority [D!FI 05/19]

[puppy_fair]

Zack was going to facepalm an epic sort of facepalm as he was set loose in the mall. SOLDIER was supposed to stop the people who were causing public mayhem, not be the root of it themselves.

... And truth be told, he kind of did just want to sit around eating ice cream like a pansy. He liked ice cream.

And so his idea of causing trouble was pulling the puppy face in hopes of scoring extra sprinkles from the cute girl with the ice cream scoop.

Re: Class Activity | Authority [D!FI 05/19]

[flipped-god-off.livejournal.com]

The mall cop was not a cute girl (at all AT ALL) but he did give Zack a friendly smile when he passed. Friendly and cautious. Teenagers were the ruffians around these parts.

Re: Class Activity | Authority [D!FI 05/19]

[justwantsquiet.livejournal.com]

Sookie was still irritable that she hadn't been able to come up with an acceptable rule to break last week. So, this week, she figured she'd kill two birds with one stone, and get in trouble while breaking a rule. A law even.

That's right. Sookie was going to sit at the edge of a fountain and steal pennies out of it. Just try and stop her. She couldn't even keep a lookout telepathically, since she could only read real brains and not fake simulation ones.

So daring.

Re: Class Activity | Authority [D!FI 05/19]

[flipped-god-off.livejournal.com]

The mall cop didn't know about telepathy but he could see stealing from a distance so that would be why he was stalking towards Sookie, looking angry at what he was pretty sure she was doing.

Re: Class Activity | Authority [D!FI 05/19]

[elephantgadget.livejournal.com]

It wasn't real, so why not have some fun?

Helen set Kianah free to slip her way into places and steal away small objects and bring them back to her stealthily.

Re: Class Activity | Authority [D!FI 05/19]

[bamf-tastic.livejournal.com]

Kurt crept through the mall until he found the security office.

Then he started visiting stores, stealing expensive-looking things, and dropping them off via teleport onto the security guards' desks. When they weren't looking, of course.